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A dizxy melange of stars, beauti-
Washington, Sopt. 17. ful girls, catchy tunes and gorgeous The United States Treasury an settings hit the TCON of the nounces that the holders of tho Queen's Theatre on Sunday, when 85,140,260,000 worth of Treasury "Hollywood Party," Metro-Goldwyn Certificates and the $580,000,000 of Mayor's much-heralded joy-fost on Liberty Bonds have converted their celluloid, opened its engagement. j holdings at the rate of 8 per cent. "Hollywood Party" is a fast-moving on notes maturing in four yearA......+ syncopation-filled portrayal of life Reuter,
In the mansions of the screen capital,
uned in
and Hollywood's foibles and folk are Cosmopolitan Magasine. Featured In a hilarious story through the supporting cast aro Jameson which runs a romance. Thrills of Thomas, Waiter Connolly, Roscoe escaped wild animals blend with the Karns, Blanche Frederici, Alan Hale, comedy anties of Laurel and Hardy Ward Bond and George Breakston- Jimmy Durante, Polly Moran, Charles Butterworth and others. The rivalry between two "Jungle Stars," cach try- ing to cheat the other out of a car
"Wonder Bar"
Has There Been a Thrill Drama of the appearance of Mickey existed between Al Jolson. and Dick
to Equal This! :
TARZAN TO THE RESCUE
Nerves of steel; muscles of Iron,... against the feroci. ty of the mighty monarch of
*jungle!
Tarzan and hie, bridn swim for their first"
the
Make way for a Giant Thrill picturel Screeching thrills ,zoom across the screen! Never before-se many blood-ting- ..ling scenes... never before- such primitive passion...pack- ed into one marvelous picture!
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Even good friends can be koon rivals. This was the situation that Mouse, Walt Disney's cartoon, actual Powell at the First National Studios ly working with human player during the production of the gleantic these are a few of the striding
musical and dramatic spectacle, novelties in the picture. The "Musical "Wonder Bar," which will be present- Wall" a great orchestra mounted oned at The Alhambra Theatro a perpendicular wall, the side-split- Saturday, next. Both were working ting "Reincarnation". of Jimmy
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Durante, and other elaborate detall, and singing in the same pleture. It for laughing purposes only, grace the was all set originally for Jolson to different opisodes of the fast-moving sing three songs in that pleture and for Dick to sing three. Iti recent piny. Song numbers, interpolated in-
to the picture as integral parts of the nths, however, Dick Powell's volco plot, includo "Hello" sung by Jimmy has been more often in the public's Durante, Jack Pear! and dancing cara than that of his predecessor, chorus; a duet sung by Durante and They met months ago, during the Polly Moran; "I've Had My Moments" filming of the picture 42nd Street," A love duet with June Clyde and Eddie in which Ruby Keeler, Jolson's wife, firat flashed toward stardom. But Quilian; Mickey Mouse's "Hot Choco when both were assigned to leading Inte Soldier": "Hollywood Party" and roles in "Wonder Bar" and the public "I'm feelin' iiigh." A stollar aggro- gation scores in the picture, including was. told that each would sing in that Laurel and Hardy, Jimmy Durante, pleture, a keon rivalry between them Charles Butterworth, Polly Moran, naturally developed. What made the Frances Williams, Jack Pearl and Ted rivalry oven keoner was that half way through the picturo the assignment of Ilenly and his stoogen.
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Jolson had changed. 18 "Tarzan and His Mate"
already sung the "Wonder Bur" An underwater battle between a number and Dick had made a record- mun and a crocodile at a depth of Ing of the waltz song. It was decided tore than thirty feet will be shown then that the waltz number would be on the screen for the first time in better suited to Jolson, his personality "Tarzan and His Mate", thrilling ad- as well as his voice and that Dick venture story apening on Thursday at should sing the lively tuneful "Wonder the Queen's Theatre.. Johnny Welss- Bar" theme song. It might have been muller is one of the combatants. In the end of a beautiful friendship. the new pieluro, directed by Cedric Bacon took no such chances. He junt Gibbons, the swimming champion was had versions of the two songs put required to plunge into a river with away in the studio vaults to await a man-eating "eroe" for a scene in his later judgment. And Jolson and which he saves the life of Maureen Dick Powell remained keen rivale but O'Sullivan. To photograph the stranga good friends to the end of the picture. battle a special camera device was "Wonder Bar" is a dramatic musical constructed to penetrate water depths. romance of night club entertainers in The resulting action will provide many Parisian cafe with spectacular gasps in addition to the thrills of elephant charges, rhinoceros charges, giant apes, and other Jungle denizens bo included in the picture, Appearing in the cast with Weles- muller and Miss O'Sullivan are Neil Hamilton, Paul Cavanaugh, Forrester Harvey, William Stack, Deamond Roberts, and Nathan Curry. The story is based on the famous fictional character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
"It Happened One Night" Claudette Colbert doesn't believe that honesty is necessarily the best polley. If she did, she might still be
numbers created and staged by Busby Berkeley, in which 300 beautiful girls take part. There is an all star cast and which includes besides Jolson Dick Powell, Kay Francis, Dolores Del Rio, Ricardo Cortez and Hal Lelloy. Others are Guy Kibbee, Ruth Donnelly, Hugh Herbert, Louise Fazenda, Fifi d'Orsay, and Merna Kennedy.
"Little Man, What Now?" At last DeWitt Jennings has come out, Into the open. For 42 years this noted character actor had appeared on stage and screen, but it was not until recently that he was ever called upon to shave ble head for a role. But he a struggling artist in Greenwich did it for the part of Kleinholz in Village, but thanks to a few white "Little Man, What Now?", Frank iles', she is now recognized as one of Borzage's romantic Universal drama the most important feminine screen which stars Margaret Sullavan will personalities. So important, fact, Douglass Montgomery. There were that she was selected from hundreds compensations, because Jennings ro- of applicants for the co-starring role ceived three weeks' salary after the with Clark Gable in "It Happened One completion of the picture, the actor Night the Columbia production not being able to accept another which comes is the King's Theatre engagement antit bis hair had again on Wednesday. Mien Colbert owes begun to appear on his shaven pate. lier stage debut to a wager mado at "Little Man, What Now?" is now a tea party, The guests were dis- playing at the King's Theatre, telling cussing the difficulties of getting a a powerfully affecting story of the The captivating struggles of a young couple against Claudette bet that she could get the cruelties of the depression. The part just like that! Someone took east appearing in support of fis her up on it and Miss Colbert, who Sullavan and Montgomery includes hadn't any histrionic ambitions at all, many other favourite screen players. was forced to explain her predicament
"An the Earth Turn" to her friend, Anne Morrison, who
you've If
believed that nevor had just written "The Wild West. cotts". Misa Morrison saved the simplicity in some particular form is situation by offering Miss Colbert the the most dimeult thing in the world role of a maid who did nothing but to attain, you will after you see "As
"Warner Bros open a door or two. And Claudette The Earth Turns," played it, for what girl would tarn homely-life drama of rural New down a dazen poir of sheer chiffon England, at The Alhambra to-morrow. hose, a five-pound box of her favourite The simplicity of a Maine form sec- chocolates and a now hat? But the tion-its wood and stone fences, pro- Joke was on Claudette herself, for vincial dwellings, cornfields, school she immediately succumbed to the houses, beautiful summers and snow- Jure of the theatre. Other parts bound winters becomes lavish and a for the Alm weren't so easy to get So she resort gigantie undertaking
Broadway role.
that she WAS
ed to thoso "white lies" and convinced producer. Robert Haas, Warner Bros, Brock Pemberton that she had been art director, and the assistants turned starred in stock companies avory- the trick. Production began, with where,
the most Jean Muir, Donald Woods, Russell promising actress the stage had over Hardie, Emily Lowry, Arthur Hohl seen and that his forthcoming play, and Dorothy Peterson in the featured "The Marionette Man", would fali roles.
mado real Snowdrifts avere lamentably unless she was given the snowdrifts by the production and art leading feminine role, Her bluff staffs. The beauty, almost brenth- worked. She became a Broadway star taking, of a setting seldom seen in within six months of her debut as a motion pictures since D. W. Griffith'■ of maid. Frank Capra directed. "It"Way Down East." The beauty Happened One Night" from the Robert "As The Earth Turns", a simple, Riskin adaptation of the Samuel symbolic type of grandeur, cannot be Hopkins Adams novelette, "Night surpassed in the opinion Bus", which recently appeared in the directors.
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