At 9.5 p.m. the skirl of pipes and the martial sounds of drums echọed through the theatre as the Seaforth Highlanders marched in two ranks down the centre aisles and on to the Here, under the direction of No matier how brilliant the background of a picture may be, the ultimate success of the production" rests on the shoulders of those actors and actresses who move in front of the audience to portray the story round which the is built. In "Alexander's Ragtime Band" great care had to be taken in the choice of players and all credit is due to the producers] for their excellent selective ability. The three leading players in the film are no strangers to Shanghai audiences or, for that matter, to cinemagoers in any part of the world after their! sterling histrionic efforts in "In Old Chicago," which placed them in the front rank of Hollywood stars, Mejor D. Wilkie and Pipe-A. I. Forbes, the following ion was played: Slow March, 'Marching on the Cold Ground, March, "The Siege of Delhi"; Strath-spay, "The Market Place of Inverness' Reel, "The Piper of Drummond"; March, "All the Blue Bonnets are over the Border"; Slow March, "The Road to the Isles"; March, "Colonel Craig Brown"; Strathspey, "The Marquis of Reel, "The Ale is Dear"; ch, "Cebar Feidh' As they out of the theatre thunderous applause greeted them and the lights went out for the screening of "Movietone News" and the main feature.
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