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EDDIE QUILLAN FAY TEMPLETON MAY ROBSON RUSSELL HARDIE

ALBERTINA RASCI Dancing Girlt

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directed by. WILLARD MACK

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY

CINEMA SCREENINGS

NOTES SUPPLIED BY THE THEATRES

1934

THE PRIZEFIGHTER & THE LADY

(Continued from Page 3.)

Ing for the first time. "If you can hear him when he starts to count!"

The worst scaro.that can be caused In a screen audience in a reaction brought on by Imagination. Se de claros Lionel Atwill, who has startled"; Stevo cocked his flat. "Say, lis- the pictura-going pubile in such proton, you big- ductions as "Doctor X," The Silent Witness, “The Bong of

"or

..

"Cut it out!" said Dempsey, stem despite his laugh. "I'm buy

recently, "The Wax Mou" and all the contrivances used by menaces' on the screen to cause audience reac-ing this fight, and I don't want it tions there is

is nothing so effective as put on here! You'll have me in it a horrible idea," explained. Atwill on All right, I'll reforco the fight. the "Solitaire Man," his latest, Any kicks about that? That suit- plecture for the Metro-Goldwyn- ed everybody, and Dempsey con- to tinued: Steve, stick around. I I have

Mayer studios and comment.ugh i want to talk to you.”.

day at the Queen's Theatre, my villainles on the screen found that suggestion reaching: the mind' is a thousandfold moro, nower ful than any make-up or weird sat ting. In

This Solitaire Man," the greatest dramatic

"After Dempsey, Prime and the others had left the offler, Stevo went quickly to the telephone and

tion picture The called a Riverside number. Tho

of the story is an under Professor returned, grabbed the

•

"Who says so?". Steve's volco had turned ugly.

of fear that disturbs each phone from his hands and slammed character. The spectro is in their it up. minds and when revealed in action Is

to

"You're going to stop calling the transmitted immediately tra

the fear is impressed numbers like that for a while, Audienco. strongly enough the spectator will Stephon."

that something became convinced awful is really about to happen, and not that some actors trying to con- vince him that he is a villain trying to do some dastardly deed!" Tha Chat, of the tense drama written by Bella and Samuel Spewack is headed by Herbert Marshall, and also fea- gures Mary Boland, May Robson. Elizabeth Allan, Ralph Forbes, Lucille Gleason and Robert MeWade.

"I say so." The Professor's voice remained oven, but it had be come stern. "You and I are get- ting up to Gus Martin's to-night. You've got two months ahead of you of the hardest training you've ever done in your life."

"I should get in a swent over that big rush-over!".

"Gold Diggers of 1933" Enough stars. featured players and Hollywood beautios to make up in-

"I doubt if you could get in a feature films went into the making of sweat," said the Professor, scorn teresting casts for at least six other Warner Bros, picture, "Gald. Diggers for Steve showing in his tone. of 1933", which has been specially Bolected

for the opening of the "You're as soft us mush. You've Alhambra Theatre. Considered one got liquor in your veins instead of of the most important Alma on the blood! Boy, boy, get hold of your-

of the self!" His alernness year's production schedule

vanished. Warner Studios, no exponse was spared in making it outstanding from He spoko gently and put his hands not the on Steve's shoulder. "We've got every angle and cast was least of these angles. The name of the championship to win." Warren Willam alone, or of Joan

"We? We? I suppose you'll oflice Blondell, contains

Chruch box appeal in itself. But added to these get in there and swap punches. I two names in this picture are such suppose you've fought all my players as Aline MacMahon, Ruby fights!" Keeler, Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee. Ned

"Stephen, your nerves Sparks, Ginger Rogers, Clarenco Nordstrom and Robert Agnew. Add-edge. You've been on an awful ed to this is the list of two hundred tear." Hollywood beauties who make up

are on

in the enacnibles

musical

"Yes, and I'm keeping on it for numbora which form an important part in the a while, too." story. These beauties were picked Steve reached again for the tele. by Busby Berkeley, who also directed phone, but the Professor, with sur- the ensembles, after interviewing prising strength, threw Steve back several, thousand applicants in var

lous Southern California elties, and against the wall.

"You poor, blind mutton-head!

making a

final choice after a series

of Hunerous sareen tests, The col-You've lot the finest little girl that lection of two hundred beautica ever lived slip out of your fingers! which resulted from these tests con- Are you going to do the same thing stitute a complete category of what with the championship?"

is considered fint. pulchritude "We don't need that pipe dream

from overy,

of

the

Street."

hits

Morvyn to make me win." Stévé slapped

"Broadway to Hollywood"

and

LeRoy, who is responsible for some the Professor across the face as he

in mid- most cutstanding tien pleture history of the past few tried to keep him from the "phone, years, handled the direction of this looring the old man. musical-comedy-drama seng writers

(To be Continued) A battery, of high-powered story

day. The picture marks an innova- went into its creation. The play on

tion in motion picture musical pro- which the picture was based was written by Avery Hopwood, and ductions, according to director Mark adapted for the screen by Erwin Sandrich. Parading chorines, wall- lugrublous crooners, Gelsey and James Seymour, with din- ing sopranos

believed the bane of the former mua- -and cal written by David Boehm

films, are absent Ben Markson. The music and lyrics

In "Melody Cruise

'In their atend aro thirty- are from the pens of Harry Warren Cru and Al Dubin, who wrote all of the six

and incidental Bongs which Hong hiir for the successful and shy hittering beauties in assembled weace easily into the continuity. The thirty-six girls who provide the bril- j. liant background of feminine pul- chritude actually have bit roles A veritable "Who, Who" of the

the picture, and are not introduced as stage and screen appears in "Broad-

an interruption. By newer dovicos way to Hollywood," dazzling pagcant

the songs are made part of the of half-a-century in the theatre in story; musical dialogue supplants which the great names of Hollywood and Broadway, unite The great effects were created to achlove har- spoken dialogue. Trick photographic Metro-Guldwyn-Mayer spectacle, in monic novelties in "Melody Cruise," which a story drumming with the Fish are shown dancing on the waves. heart-beats of human dramu is sur

Stars from music bars and shimmer- rounded by the pageantry of theatre-

ring notes in the skies. Steamship dom from the days of Tony Pastor to

whistles of varied tonca unite in + the modern talking-flint era, comes on Saturday to the Queen's. Its bril symphony. An oconn liner waltzos liant aggregation of state includes on its stern in the harbour. A cast of comedy favourites was selected to Allco

Frank Morgan, Madge the story. Charlie Ruggles heads Evans, Eddio Quillan, Fay Temple-

the group, which includes Phil Har- ton, May Robson and Russell Hardic. The story starts in the first dawn of ris, celebrated radio crooner and or-

chostra'

at the Coconnut Grove Icedor It then goes down time in Los Angeles; Grota Nissen, Helen, to the reign of Lillian Russell with Mack, June Brewster, Shirley Cham- "Diamond" Jim Brady gleaming from hers, Chick

Durandy, Inckie Ocoper. Jimmy enact the sophisticated frivollty of

vaudeville.

Gateson. Mark

AFCBUR directed the picture, and co-

a theatre box, and shows three gon-berts and ler, Florence Ro- crations of "troupers" marching Sandrich the story with Hen Holmes.] F. G. Wolfson and Allon Rivkin con-

proudly down the years.

"Stage Mother

Dance steps that cannot be followed by the human eye without the aid of camera are to be seen in "Stage Mother," theatrical' drama

featuring the terpalchorean artistry of the Albertina Rasch ballet allmed by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios to be shown for the last times to-day at the Queen's Theatre. The girls in the ensemble are all expert toe dan- cers and during the several manoou- vres they "utter" their feet in uni Bon with such rapidity that their legs Heem blurred to the eye with the de- finite outline obtained with a camera. In addition to tho intricalú

steps, overhead anglés Avore pliotographed to show views of the dancers that could not be obtained in a theatre. Trucking shots with moving plat forma covered the, dizzy gyrations of the girls as they, move from ono nido, of the screen to another. Which will bring them to the sereon-in, "visual rellof" for the spectator, Maureen O'Sullivan lends several of the dances. and is supported during ramatic scenes by achtrong east including Alles Brady, Franchot Tone. Russell Hardlo, O. Henry Gordon, Phillipa Holmes, Ted: Healy and

Alan Edwards.

"""Melody Cruise” "Melody Cruise", which is not in. nusical comedy in the accopted sense of the word, but the first musical movio conforming to screen ideas. opens at the King's Theatre on Thurs.

and

tributed the additional dialogue, four songs were cepecially written. for the production by Val Burton and Will Jason.

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