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NOTES FROM THE THEATRES

Somewhere in the world, la private collection, or on the dusty shelves of a second-hand book store, there is a book that Allson Skipworth would pay a lot of money to own once more. In fact, after thirty yours, the Paramount actress now

featured in "Tillla and Gus" with That Heavy Feeling! W. Z. Fields and "Baby Leroy,

coming on Sunday to the King's For that heavy feeling after meals, Theatre is still scarching for it, and to aid digestion try Pinkettes, Tho volume I Oscar Wilde's "The the dainty little liver and intestinal Happy Prince," with an Opigram regulators. As gently as nature across the fly loaf penned by the author himself. to the actress forty years ago. The epigram, as. Mise Skipworth remembers it, reads: "Ad-

PINKETTES

attacks,

vice to a bride: Never worry over dispel constipation, billour trifica

and still less over serious verishness, sick headaches, gloom. matters. It is impossible to exagger. Then, used occasionally when need- ate the unimportanes of everything." ed, they ensure daily regularity, In her latest picture, "Tille and pure breath, a clear skin and the Gus, Miss Skipworth returns to the bright oyen of health.

company of W. C. Fields with whom Chemists everywhere Bell Pinkettes, she scored such brilliant success in

the "Road-Hog" episode in the pic-

ture, "If I Had a Million." This time

she

of

**Treasure Island"

"Hollywood Speaks"

and Fields play the roles of Ayres and Alice Faye. Alice Faye, Tillio and Gus Winterbottom, a pair beautiful blonde, playing the role of psalm-singing, nimble-fingered a smart girl who sing in a night cardsharps.

club in an Asiatic Oriental scaport Low Ayres, the champion heart- breaker of the. U.S. Navy, who takes The generations of people both shere leave and fall like a ton of young and old who have been thrill Mitchell and Jack Durant, America's bricks for the fair Faye, Frank ed by "Treasure Island," Robert Louis greatest knockabout vaudeville fune- Stevenson's famous story

pirate adventure, will find the vivid story They take it

tors, portraying Lew's sailor buddies. book experience of

upon themselves to their youth regulate and straighten out the latter's created on the screen that opens to-morrow at the Queen's thereby causing no end of ludicrous the picture romantic tangles with Alice Faye, Theatre with Wallace Beory Jack Cooper in co-starring roles, film is ono of the fastest, funniest and complications. That's the set-up, the Full power

of the most wide-read and gayest films to be released from fiction book about pirates over written Hollywood. To add to the hilarious has been retained in the adaptation comedy of the story, the film is tinged of it by John Lee Mahin. Scenes with spicy and zestfal song numbers have been reproduced exactly a that promise to be real hita. described in the book with much of Faye sings "Here's the Key to My Alico Stevenson's own dialogue between feart," the characters followed to the word, With Beery as Long John Silver and Jackie Cooper as Jim Hawkins, boy adventurer, a cast has been assembled

The feature showing 'at the to bring cach rover of the Spanish Alhambra Theatre to-day in "Holly. Mali to the screen with living wood Speaks," Columbia picture built reality, Lionel Barrymore's bluster-around the inside workings of the Ing Billy Bongs is one of the most motion pleturo industry. Genevieve entertaining characters he has ever Tobin and Pat O'Brien head a large played: Otto Kruger is forceful as cnet, which includes Rita La Roy, Dr. Livesy: Lewis Stone's personal Leni Stengel, Lucien Prival and Ralf knowledge of sailing ships given Haralde. It was directed by the convincing background to his role of erstwhile musical comedy star, Eddic -Captain Smollett: Nigel Bruce is a Buzzell, from a story by Norman

ruddy and typically English Squiro Krasno and Jo Swerling. Trelawney: touches of quaint humour are put lato the characterisation of

"The Black Cat" Ben Gunn, marooned pirate, by Chie Sale. Every minor role was evident Puo's masterful tale, "The Black Everyone remembers Edgar Allan By east with extremo care

an such Cat It well known character players as terror and certainly not the kind of was full of horror and William, V. Mong, Charles McNaugh a story one would like to hear on ton, Douglas Dumbrille, Edmund Brecas, Olin Howland, Charles Erwin, Universal has come

a dark And stormy night. But Jainen

Burks and Bttle Cora Sue own version of "The Black Cat," out with its Collins contribute notable perform- ances Every pictorial beauty

now showing at the King's Theatre. action value in the story has been who

and It was writton by Peter Ruric, brought aut by the direction

took his inspiration from Victor Fleming, who has filmed auch grace, there is "Frankenstein"

01 Poe tlirler. And for a coupe-de- adventure stories as "Rendezvous" "Dracula" together for the and "Around the World in Minutes."

80 time, in other words, Karloff and Lugosi. The supporting cast nk David Manners and Jacqueline Well supplying the love Interest, and Egon Brecher, Anna Dunean, Herman Bing, Lucille Lund and many others. The (Continued-an-Page 12.)

"She Learned About Yailors" "She Learned About Sailors" is showing at the Oriental Theatre to day and to-morrow,starring-Lew

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