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ELUDES GUARDS OF WHITE HOUSE.

With a cast headed by a dozen

Washington, Mar. 20. popular screen, favourites and includ

An unknown man, who is now Ing 200 of the most beautiful girls in the world, "Footlight Parado," Warner undergoing medical examination Bros gigantle, musical successor to at the police hospital here, gained #42nd Street," and "Gold Diggers of entrance Into the White House 1033," will arrive on the seroons of to-day while President Roosevelt the Queen's and Alhambra Theatres

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ovaded the White Houso guards and slipped into the Presidential section of the man- alon.

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to-morrow. This now and mammoth and ment of the Secret Service spectacle is said to far surpass its mon wore absent at the National predecessors in the originality and Press Club Dinner. beauty of its ensembles, in its hilari oua comedy drama, plot, its songs and ita romantle love interest. The screen play by Manuel Seff and James Sey- mour is a story of back stage life, but from anything entirely different

Ho encountered Mrs. Roosevelt before screened. It deals with a. young musical comedy director who on the second floor, ceremoniously, lores his job when talking pictures presented her with a letter, bow- Hupplant musicnia the stage and ed and then walked into the arms turns to making prologues for motion picture theatres on a wholesale scale. of the guards on duty, There is a definite and well knit plot with riotously funny situations and sparkling comedy. Two teams of players furnish the love interest play- ed by James Cagney and Joan Bin dell and Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell with Clairo Dodd and Renee Whitney As the gold digging, dangerous dam scis. A quartet of famous comedians furnish a large part of the hilarity They are Frank McHugh as the dance director, Guy. Kibboe, the theatrical his wife magnate, Ruth Donnelly and Hugh Herbert the company's milkrop censor. Others in the cast Include such noted players as Gordon Westcott, Arthur Hohl, Philip Favera ham, Barbara Rogora, Jullet Ware, and Paul Forcast. Two of the big surprises in this vast production are the singing and dancing of Cagney, who really started his stage carcer na n hoofer. Four gigantic musical numbers which he states surpass any thing he has yeb done are staged by and Busby Berkeley who created staged the ensembles for both 42ml Street" and "Gold Diggers of 1919" They include a most unique cat nam. ber in which scores of beautiful giris feline and chorus men dressed in costumes frolic in the moonlight and make love on the backyard fence.

"Bitter Sweet"

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brating her return to the screen, has the kirsable rola of the baby's nurse, while auch glamorous femmes Adrienne Ames and Gertrude Michael give Cheveller, and you, plenty of allurement. Chovaller is the Vicomte ftene back in Paris after a year's big-game hunting in Africa. Here's a Chevalier who lives up to all his old traditions of rollicking fun, glorious songs and beautiful women. And here's something now in "Monsier Bab-ee," the cute kid who changes Chevallor from a man-about-town to a gloating, bedtime story-telling papa.

"Chance at Heaven"

A novoi situation involving wearing apparel la introduced in Vina Delmar's whaso story. "Chanco at Heaven", RKO-Radio Picturo version will be seen at the King's Theatre on Wednes day with Joel McCrea and Andy Dovino. Miss Nixon, the siren of the story, wears all of the beautiful while Miss Rogers. the clothes, heroine, has to hold her own in tho love battle with simple Bttle frocks. The explanation is contained in the story wherein Miss Nixon portrays a rich society girl who comes to a small town and dazzles the eyes and mind of handsome McCrea, until Ble snatches him from Ginger's romantic hold. Ginger's small town ways can not re-capture McCrea before the elopement, and the city girl and the country boy marry. But, in conclud- ing her gripping story of young love and marriage, Miss Delmar affixes a William surprizo happy ending. Selter directed "Chance at Heaven" with a strong supporting cast includ ing Lucien Littlehold. Virginia Ham- mond, George Meeker and Ann shoc-

With that romance of poignant memories, "Bitter Sweet! revived in the form of an elaborately beautiful film production; current at the King's Theatre, what more appropriate me ment to dwell sentimentally on its American entrepreneur, Flo Ziegfeld It has been but little more than year since the great glorifier passed on to realms of greater mystery, "Bitter Sweet" is the first thing scen on Broadway since then that has bome hla name. Undoubtedly Ziegfeld's showmanship was the inspiration for the elegance given the screen produc- maker. tion of this Noel Coward operattla. Whether the getting is in a mansion of crystal chandeliers, a safe of gilt and glitter or an attic of romantle poverty, thard is an aura of glamour. The Ziegfeld.stamp of glorification gave a girl added beauty, but Anna Neagle, playing the heroine, needs no Ziegfeldian touch to make her more ravishing, her loveliness has quality of exquisite enchantment:

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The problem of reconstructing the earth after its demolition by an earth- quake and tidal wave challenges the the three hundred survivors of "Deluge,"InRKO-Radio-Pictures Aimization of the S. Fowler Wright novel with. Sidney Blackmer, Peggy Shannon and Lois Wilson at the Oriental to-day. With only a memory of the destroyed wonders of Twentieth-Century civilination. survivors begin to re-build for future generations. Each of then receives otie hundred dollars of credit, and an Auction is started for nervices and materials salvaged from the world- wide upheaval To build up the population, one of the first laws. im- posed stipulates that every woman of this age must marry' man. To colony com Martin and Claire, whose meeting on a lone island nearby developed into a love which Martin wile and accepted believing his children dead. Here, however, they find the wife alive, resulting in an un- usual renunciation by one of the trio. Martin's role is interpreted by Sidney Blackmer, and Claire and the wife aro portrayed by Peggy Shannon and Lois Wilson respectively, in "Delage." Felix Felst, Jr..directed. Blatt Moore, Fred Kohler and Half Hareide in the Bupporting cast.

"Bedtime Story"

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