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Lili Danita, who plays the femining load opposite Warron William in the First National picture. "The,Biatch King, which opens today at the Queen's Theatre was chance as the one actress who could sultably inter pret the rale, after a careful wolghing of the possibilities of all Hollywood's talent. The sølection of just the right actress was sifted down to two_play- ers, Lili Damite and Greta Garbo, The latter being unavailable, sho had returned to her native Sweden for an extended stay, the plum was award- ed to Lila Damita. The cholce. 'of Damita has proved a most happy ona for according to reports sho gives the somewhat exotic role of a beautiful Continental actress an ingenuous twist that makes her characterization most

fascinating. The character in the acroca play is tho confidant of princes and political potentates, and the be loved of a financial génius, a part played by Warren William, Damita in horaolt a somewhat musterious person- age, who numbers royally among her closest admirera. She know the late Ivan Kreuger, the Match King. Der sonally at the time he was one of the most powerful figures in Europe, and when the herself was the darling of opers. the Continental stage and Among her friends wus Prince George of England, ex-King Alfonse of Spain and Louls Ferdinand, grandson the former Kaizer. The screen play, which was adopted by Houston Branch the and Sidney Sutherland from popular novel by Einar Thorvaldson, In a dramatic story of the greatest financial and political Intrigue known, coupled with the personal love affairs of a financial genius' who ruthicasly made uso of beautiful and socially prominent women to further his schemes for world control. An ex- ceptional cast in support of William and Damite includes Glenda Farroll, Harold Huber, Spencer Charters, John Wray, and Murray Kinnell. The pic- ture was directed by Howard Brether- Lon. William Keighley acted as dia- logue director.

"Guilty As Hell"

The third time's not always the charm. Edmund Lowe works and Intiles with Victor McLaglen for the fourth time in "Guilty as Hell," a screen adaptation of the successful. murder farce which enjoyed a long run on Broadway last season and which opens on Friday at the King's Theatre. In "What Price Glory," "The Cockeyed World," and "Women of All Nations," the pair fought and battled as soldiers in Uncle Sam's armies. But though they pal around and battle with each other still, it's not as doughboys. Lowe In in the role of a police reporter and McLaglen is cast as a detective. Richard Arlen is also starred in the picture. The film opens with a murder being committed. The audience learns who is guilty of the crime, but the policeman and the reporter bungle their way through many amusing in. cidents before they finally get the real murderer. Arlen is cast as ons of the suspects, surrounded by a mass of circumstantial evidence, convicted for the crime, and saved from death by hanging only at the last moment.

"Murders in the Zoo"

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"Three Cornered Moon" Claudette Colbert, Richard Arlen) and Mary Boland are starred in Para mount's story of America's "looniest" family, "Three-Cornered Moon," pro- duced by B, P. Schulberg, which opens to-day at the King's Theatre. It is Adapted from the famous New. York play by Gertrude Tonkonogy which had such a sensational success. on Broadway. The screen play features Wallace Ford, Lydu Roberti, Tom Brown, Joan March, Hardte Albright and Willian Bakewell. "Three- Cornered Moon" is the story of the Rimplegur family of Brooklyn, headed by the addle-headed Mary Boland, mother of the dock, who manages to lose the family fortune in the stock market. Hor self-centred brood have paid no attention to her stories into

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