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sprightly experiences of a singing ship stoker who becomes a waterfront night-club bouncer, then a singing

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rich countons gigolo, "Ship becomes one of the most amusing comedy romances, with music to date. Presenting Carl Brisson in an entirely Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler aro

new role, the marry proceedings begin again co-starred in the new Cosmo-

at once when an a singing and fight poiltan drama-with-music, "Shipmate ship and landa in jail in Anserien. ing stoker he gota into a fight on a Forever" commencing to-day at the Upon his release ho necepta, William Queen's Theatre. The famous screen lovers who made their first hit in Frawley's offer of a job as bouncer in

following it with

a wharf dive. When ddie Davis, "Gold Diggers of 1933," "Flirtation the club entertainer, is unable to go Walk" and other serven

successes, and becomes the enfo's singing nenal- Brisson Jumps Into the breach appear in their first pretentious piction. He makes the place still more llos, Me, W. it Bell, Hon. 157. J. J. Paterson, BOMBAY

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tun, "Shipmates Forever," a thrilling rama of midshipman life at the Naval Academy at Annapolla, Dick sings a number of catchy songs which fall naturally into the plot, he being #crooner at New York park casino before becoming a naval cadet. Alise Keeler, who plays the

part of orphanel daughter of a naval officer, compelled to earn her living dancing in a night club, gives an exhibition of fancy tan-dancing with the famous Merlin Kilies. Glamorous sequences inve been taken with the Academy as

Imckground, the film company hav ing Apent more than a month at An- napolis to get the real setting. Other dramatic sequences were shot aboard the U.S.S. Pennsylvania, Angship of the Pacifle Fleet, under the technlexi direction of naval officers. More than a thousand cadets take part

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the Annapolis scenes while as many more officers and men of the Navy work

O with the screen players nboard the Pennsylvania. The traditional cus cus toms of the Naval Academy are all woven into the romantic and excit- ing plot which sours in

suspense to the breath-taking climax then Powell dashes through flame and scalding steam to rescue a shipmate, and there- by winning a bride. There is talented supporting cast in the pic ture, which in a Warner Bros. re- lease, including Lewis Stone, Ross Alexandra,

Dick Foran,

Johnny Arledge, Joseph Crrhan,

Robert Light, Martha Merrill and Mary Treen. Special songs were written for the production by the famous team of Warren and Dubin. Frank Borzage directed it from the screen play by Delmer Daves.

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now flavour in his classic. studion, but none stranger than thated down to the present with a vast a result they have march- which occurred under the Big Top and ever increasing army of enthrall- erected for "O'Shaughnessy's Boy" co-starring Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper, which opens on Sunday at the King's Theatre. First to greet Beery on the set was Joe Metenif, teran elephant trainer, for many years with the Al G. Barnes circus, who learned the business with Deery when they travelled, as youngsters, Others featured in the cast are Mar- with the Forepaugh-Sella circus, got Grahame, as Milady de Winter, Their expressions of mutual pleasure | Heather Angel as Constance, Roan- over meeting again were interrupted mond Pinchot, Ian Keith as de by the shrill trumpeting of un ele-Rechefort, Nigel de Brutier, John phant. "Why", exclaimed Beery, Qualen and Ralph Forbes.

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