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By W. E. McKenney

MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1934.

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THE THEATRES

Enchanting dances, brilliant mod. ernistic settings of the old world cafes, the gay social whirl of Europe The lee-way principle-a theory Paris thrilled are shown in "Boloro", and the furore of carly war fever in Introduced to contract by P. Hal George Raft's intost starring picture, Sims-is one of the most valuable at the King's Theatre. Based on the Instruments of the game. It is savage rhythms of Ravel's "Bolero" well employed in to-day's hand, Carey Wilson, Kubec Glasmon and which was played recently by Paul Horace Jackson have_constructed"a! de Vries of New York City.

wellnigh fool-proof plat which has When Mr. de Vries in the Southed by Director Wesley Ruggies, been adeptly and convincingly develop- bid a spade, and North bid three George Raft who, to date has played spades, North was telling his part-tough "mospre rules, has been keep- nor that the hand was safe at four ling something from his public. Few spades. However, it gave South of any, ball room dancers con equal | a chance to go to three no trump, his rhythmle technique and stage

If he desired.

presence. Is "Bolero" performance Now when South elected to show as the famous Raoul, idei of London a now feature of his hand with his Bally Band with that flamboyant fun and Paris, in superb Then there's which startled half the world during the Chicago World's Fair and return- ed her to her first love, the movies. She has an exciting screen presence and is a competent actress. Carole Lombard, who wears slinky gowns as no other blonde siren of the screen, reveals a technique equal to the other two. In two numbrs, she does with George Raft, "Bolero" and "Raftéro", she introduces an entirely new Lou

ard, one we hope to see more often.

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bid of four hearts, he was really making a mild slam try. And when North bid five diamonds he was saying that the hand was safe at aix, as he also had a new feature

In his hand.

When South went 10 five no trump he was practically telling North that he held the king of clubs, because he was stating that there would be some advantage in having the hand led up to; there fore, he must have at least the king and x of clubs.

The Play

*Riptide"

Norma Shearer offers another of her magnetic and fascinating par formances as a modern woman with ultra-modern deals in "Riptido" her nowest photoply which opened yester. day at the Queen's. Lavishly pro duced, brilliantly enacted by its star and an Impressive supporting cast and bearing the directorial stamp of that nee director, Edmund Goolding, who also wrote the story, the Sheurer vehicle stands out as one of the finest productions to come from

the

new

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios and provides an entertainment of dis- tinction in every phase of motion pic-

ture artistry. An Lady Rexford, in this daringly triangular Continental romance, Miss Shearer is regally superb. Never has she appeared so beautifully photographed

Or hand- somely costumed. Her performance is nothing less than magnificent even more superb than her "Divorcee," station Picture Arts and Sciences which won her the

award in 1929.

Academy of

more

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pay. "Wille I was looking around the jungle, your idol was stolen. I sball art out now and find the thief." DeMille in still waiting to hear if the watchman found the Idol in the new location. "Four Frighten- ed People" is from the novel of the ABIS. name by E. Armot-Robertson. people have the veneer of civilization It is the story of how four self-loving stripped from them when they are forced to fight for life and love in a denso, dangerous Malay junglo.

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With the customary When North showed the ace of flair attached to a Shearer film the clubs with a bld of six clubs, and star is provided with not one leading

"Ever in My Heart" when South re-bid spades, Northman but two. Robert Montgomery

Romance of unusual strength and was justified in going to seven. ennets the play-boy friend and Her-

interest is sold to mark the plot of bert Marshall is seen

Warner Barbara Stanwyck's latest the AR sober-minded husband. Ench

Dros, picture, "Ever in My Heart." Writish Steamers: de- Ilvers

which opens on Thursday at the a superb performance. Ed. A spade opening might have demund Goulding performed gallant

Alhambra. In the character of a feated the contract. However, service as both author and director

New England girl a strong friend- when the hand was played, the and achieves a screen product of un

ship exists between her and a cousin queen of clubs was opened, and usual merit in entertainment values.

and their families take it for grantest) Alr. de Vries in the South won There is all the box office in the world

that they will marry. But when the with the king. South then fed the crowded into his story and develop-

cousin returns from abroad with a ten of hearts and trumped in ment, with Miss Shearer's characteri dummy with the deuce of spades.zation giving both the women, and men in the audiences something to A small spade was returned and

thrill about. Mrs. Patrick Campbell, with the see. Won

The jack of noted British actress, heads the Im hearts was led and trumped with pressive supporting cast the the jack of spades. The seven of eccentric dowager. Other Important spaces was returned, East discard.rales are in the capable hands of such ing a club, and Mr. de Vries won sterling players as Skeets Gallagher, with the king,

Italph Forbes, Arthur Jarrett, Euri Oxford, Helen Jerome Eddy, George K. Arthur, Baby Marilyn Spinnert, Phyllis Cochlan, Howard Chaldecott and Halliwell Hobbes,

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Declarer then cashed Sept. 25king of hearts, discarding--club Oct. 9 und a diamond from dummy.

the last heart, East was aqueezed. If he let go a diamond, all the de- clarer's diamonds would be good, so he dropped the ten of clubs,

Declarer then played the three

He then picked up the two out. standing spades and discarded two diamonds from dummy, East let go his two hearts.

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Today's Contract Problem

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of clubs and won in dummy with the nee, which caught East's jack.

An

"Feur Frightened People"

There is one witchnian who will ever again fall down on a job after the scare he got while working for Cecil B. DeMille in Jawali, during the filming of his latest Paramount aic- ture,

"Four, Frightened Peoplo", which cames on Thursday to the King's Theatre. A huge Malaysian idol, forty feet in height and weighing several thousand pounds, was erected in a jungle location for exterior Before the troupe, including kuches, Claudette Colbort, Herbert Marshall, | Mary Boland and Wiliam Gargan, wax discovered that Blaing would be almost impossible there due to almost incessant rainfall in that vicinity. DeMille ordered the bulky image: moved to another and dryer location, which was accomplished during the hours that the watchman was sneak-

came ing some sleep. When it

to paying off all the native help at the end of the picture, the watchman Inlled to show ap for his money. He was finally located, but refused to accept pay without a great deal of arging. T have 'confession to |unke", he sald after he had pocketed

The nine of clubs was played and the declarer discarded his losing diamond.

The last two tricks were won with the ace and king of diamonds,

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

German professor she Immediately falls in love with the professer and weds him in defiance of her Puritan relatives. Their love runs smoothly und beautifully until the outbreak of the World War when friends and re- latives turn on the husband and later on the girl herself because she will not give him up. But they are eventually torn apart when her hus band is driven to return to Germany to join the army by the snubs and cruelties heaped upon himself and wife by their friends. Later Stan- wyck as a canteen worker In France nicole hur husband, as he is spying on the Allied forces. It is here that the pictoru turns into one of intense dran.n as she is torn between her love for her husband and her duty toward her own country. Otto Kruger, noted stage star, has the lending inosculine role opposite Miss Stan wyck, while the remaining members of the cast are all noted on stage and screen. They include Ralph Bellamy, Ruth Donnelly, Laura Hope Crews, Frank Albertson, Donald Meek, Clura Blandick, Elizabeth Patterson and Harry Beresford. Areble Maya slirected the picture from a screen play by Bertram Milhauser which is based on the story by himself and Ialah Alarie Dix.

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