People Appreciate Their Re-opening The response of the Grand and Cathay theatres to the popular demand that they re-open is meeting with its due reward and both houses are playing to good business. The confidence of Chinese patrons is returning and they are now rolling up in satisfactory numbers. It is the aim of both managements to screen programmes that will take people's minds off their present troubles and war films, for the moment at any rate, are taboo.
Fortunately, the film companies have quite a number of good pictures on hand of the kind that it is desired to show. Warner Bros announce as their next release a fast-moving farce-comedy, "Ever Since Eve," starring Robert Montgomery and Marion Davis, with Patsy Kelly. Frank McHugh, Allen Jenkins and Louise Fazenda in support. Marion is a stenographer who cannot keep a job because she resents her employers' amorous advances; Robert is a popular novelist who goes dizzy at the sight of a blonde. When she decides on a sleek black wig and smoked. glasses, she is promptly wished on to Robert by his publisher who strongly suspects that " faires clu cacur are holding up a long promised story. There is also Patsy Kelly's love affair with Allen Jenkins to dovetail in nicely with the main story Reports from the States tell of excellent business everywhere, It should prove a popular offering Fox Feature Twentieth Century Fox are wild! enthusiastic about "Wake Up and Live." which features Walter Winchell, America's No. 1. columnist as himself. The story is a battle of wits with no holds barred between that expert snooper and Ben Bernie, which forms an apt background for numerous catchy song numbers, peppy dances and innumerable wise-crack: with any amount of "dirty work" by both the principals.. There is a brilliant cast in support, headed by Alice Faye, Ned Sparks, Jack Haley, Patsy Kelly. Grace Bradley and Walter Catlett.
From Paramount comes "Exclusive," a swift, punch-packed newspaper yarn that might equally well be described as the season's biggest gangster thriller. When Lloyd Nolan, despite overwhelming evidence of his guilt, is acquitted of robbing the cil o $2,000,000, assistant city editor Fred McMurray starts out on a trail that leads to the death of his sweetheart's father and the bankrupting of his Paper, but finally lands the big shot menace behind the bars. In admit to the two players already mentioned. the cast of 50 speaking parts includes Charles Ruggles, Frances Farmer.
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