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Ever have a tractor rear up and fall over backward on you? Figura- tively, Joy E. Brown did. That Joe is still alive to tell the story is due to his friend and director, Raymond Enright. It was for a scene of the comedian's current. First Nationa! Allen, "Earthworm Tractors" now

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The the King's Theatre, showing

Hito the was made on motor-cycle hill-climb Brown, as Lu demon salesman Alexander Bolts of the William Hazlett Upson lories, was to demos- teate the climbing ablilty of a trac tor. By moving the course up the hitlaide to the left of the regular hill-climb track, increasing degrees of steepness could be secured right Joe gat up to the top, a sheer cilft,

Course.

in the driver's seat, and sent the web-driven machine churning up the alope. But it was decided to make another seene in which the tractor would travel faster. "Hold on!" cried Enright, as Joe was about to shove off, "Try it empty again first, I think if you go faster up there it'll fall over backward!' They tried it

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and ure enough, over went. "Earthworm Tractors" is Joc

F. Brown's latest comedy. Others in the cast include: June Travin, Guy Kibbre, Dick Foran, Carol Huglics, Gene Lockhart and Olin Howland. The screen piny is by Richard Ma- Traub cauley, Jon Cummin

tick Hugh

Robert Cummings and Elcan- nore Whitney, sweethearts of "Three Cheers for Love," which opens to-day at the Alhambra

Theatre.

THE

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ROLLED IN AGONY THROUGH INDIGESTION

A Nurse's Experience

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to:- Banker & Co., Ltd, P. O. Box 536, difficulty in obtaining write

situations, and he receives magnifi-Hong Kong. "Three Cheers Tor Love"

A bright, fast, fun-filled musical, Biled with swingable, singable tunes and featuring some of the most out- standing dance talent on the screen

la presented to-day at the Alliam-

ounce of fun from the many comical cent support from Mnbel Constan- ducos as his wife, and Leslie Sarony

a brother-in-law.

Settings

"Flash Gordon"

O fantastic that they

bra Theatre, where "Three Cheers starte the imagination form the for Love" gives "swing - music" Its | background for the Universal flim first screen glorification. A gay story offering, "Flash Gordon," which is with its emphasis on youth, it moves showing

in a tempo built for summer enter-Theatre, with Buster Crabbe in the tainment.

Eleanore Whitney, called tile the owner of the fastest feet in the the mythical

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"William Frawley, Roscoe Priscilla Lawson

Important Karns, John Halliday. Elizabeth roles. A city suspended in the sky, Patterson, Grace

Bradley,

Veda Anna kingdom held below the sea, a Borg and Billy Lec. "Threc

tee Cheers rocket ship that shools through space for Love" introduces a number of and rays that melt huge steel struc- songs which moved to the hit class-tures provided technical problems tention as soon as the show was for the studio experis, Strange cos released. The ballroom dance tumes and wehd make-up, which staged by Miss Whitney and Cum- logs in one sequence, the "Swing- Along", provides a big sensation."

"Where's, George?"

produce realistic shark-men, hawk- men and llon-men, were evolved

after weeks of planning and ex-

periment. On the screen the result is both awe inspiring and grotesque. Packed with action and suspense in Walter Greenwood, the Lancashire | every vital moment, this screen author of the London stage success achievement contains situations "Love on the Dole," has written the which have never been attempted

Howard's latest flim before in motion pictures.

story corge?" which is at the

"Where's

Star Theatre to-day, This

Yorkshire talent

of Lancashire pris-

ond

Jardine, Matheson and Co., Ltd.,

ing combination was resulted in the send a desk calendar advertising thei funniest comedy yet made by Sydney Canton Testirance Ofee and long- Howard or anyone

else!

Sydney kong Fire Insurance Co., of which Howard Is typically

as Alf they gormless

ure general agents and Scodger a henpecked husband and mangers. The local office of the the most timid man in the Yorkshire Nanufacturers Life Insurance Co., village where he is blacksmith. | senda wall calendar with a Sidney Howard extracts the last coloured map of the world.

Transmission 1

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4pm. Big Ben, Norres' and 'Anniver

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5 p.m. Food for Though,

5.20 p.m. Variety.

0.40 0.m. The News and Announcements.

Greenwich_Timu Bignal at 6.45 p.m. Transmission 2

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7pm. gen. 'Cos for Adventure."

· 7,21 pim. Dance Music.

1.45 pm. Harold Coumba, at the Organ of the Capital Cinema, Aberdeen.

8.15 .. A Short Planaforte Recital. A.15 pm. Food for Thought." 8.45 p.m. The B.11,€. Blagers,

• p.m. The News and Announcements, Greenwich Time Signal at 9.15 p.m. 9.20 p.m. Variety,

9.46 p.hr. Eavel.

"Transmission 3

(0.9.R., C.S.F., G.SILI

10 p.m. Big Bar. Tom Jenkins, at the Bryan of the Plaza Cinema,

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10.75 .. Variety.

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10,80 p.m. !Nerver" and “Anniversity,"

1.35 p.m. Gall-Corri (Soprano). $1.30 p.m. 'A Countryman's Dingy." 11. The Central Iland of

Majsaly's Royal Air Force. 12.29 a.m. The News and Annonserments. Greenwich Time Bignal at 13.05.m, 12.64 .m. Dance Music: Quick-Steps,

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