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from $3,10 to $2.50. Flesh," "Sins of the Fathers," "The Last Command," "The Patriot," "go.| leave at mid-day on Saturdays and trayal Jannings returned to Gor-Sundays, have been discontinued. many about a year ago and again be- The reduced service will remain TO SEATTLE, VICTORIA canio associated with UFA, the lead-effective

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The Blue Angel' The German- dialogue version became a sensation over, they will run on every day Sole Agents:- with German audiences. Critics in of the week, instead of on Satur- Germany holled the play ne an ople daya and Sundays. of acting and direction. Shortly The rallway authorities have afterward the English-dialogue version also decided to speed up the was released in England. It was even morning and evening trains to more of a sensation there. Critics enable the through journey to be, showered it with the most lavish tri-accomplished in under three hours. butes. Jannings as an English-spoak- ing star, in an English-dialogue.pic- ture, had captured the same leadership in talkies which no one had ever been able to challenge in the old silents Jannings had arrived, in one glorious performance. Paramount secured the American distribution rights for this astonishing box-office attraction when It became apparent that "The Biuo Angel" was ""in," as an English- dialogue Aucers. Josef Von Stern- racketeering. Gargan and Wynną Gib. berg, nne of Paramount's greatest son, as an ambulance driver and hos-, slirectors went to Germany to make pital nurse, respectively, form # the first Jarmings talkie for UFA, the comedy team with dramatic oppor. The Steamship,

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An audience laughhig uproariously at nothing, and laughing according to instructional Such was the night to be seen one day at the British and Dominions Stuilos during the filming of "Up to the Neck," Halph Lynn's latest farce, which is coming to the King's Theatre on Wednesday. During the development of "Up to the Neck" a theatre audience is shown in various Atagos of mirth, and director Jack Raymond alot all these sequences "in one," from the time when n single member of the audience laughed until the whole assembly was rocking with Inughter. They were supposed to be watching the antics of Ralph Lyan, on the stage, and in order to regulate] the direction of their eyes Mr. Ray- non Liect a handkerchief to the end of a stick and moved it from aide to side. Ben Travers, author of "Up to the Neck," watched the process with interest and was heard to complain that getting laughs in a real theatre Was not so easy na gotting them in o film studio.

"Should Ladies chave"

Lionel Barrymore the Inscrutable- Lionel Barrymore the constant enigmo Such is the report you will hear where- ever in the vast Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios you may go. But the mon who believed enough in films to join. them when they were scorned by the artistic world, who has proved himself as great an actor as he is a director, is anything but inscrutable or engima- tie. Lionel Darrymore, like most genuine artista, la simply quiet and he is quiet because his mind is too busy working. He has the reserve of dignity, yet when interested he is the most "regular" talkative person in the world, with a wealth of ideas to offer. His most recent charneteriza tion

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"Emergency Call"

Two love stories, one idealistic and the other of heart-throbbing power, Intersperse the story enacted by Dili Boyd and William Gargen in. “Esner- gency Call" showing at the Oriental Theatre on Teaday and Wednesday, is RKO-Radio Pictures' fast-stepping drama of the hospital ambulance ser. vicu. Boyd is teamed with Betly Farness, who enacts the daughter of his hospital chief. Even when he dis-1 covers his superior involved Banj endless chain of graft and corruption within the institution, he continues, I willing to sacrifice love to mnash the

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