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THE GAZETTE. MONTREAL: SATURDAY. OCTOBER 4: 101. ORSON WELLES FILM PROVES HIGHLY ORIGINAL PRODUCTION VOL'. CLXX.

No. 238 IN STREAMLINED MOVIE 'CITIZEN KANE' ARRIVES AT LOEW'S Guide to Theatres 'Citizen Kane' Sets New Style In Biographies on the Screen; 'When Ladies Meet' Is At Palace Saturday Schedules Only. ON THE SCREEN LOEW'S "Citizen Kane." at 10.30. 1.15, 4.00, 6.45, 9.30. PALACE "When Ladies Meet." at 10.50, 1.35, 4.20, 7.05, 9.45.

CAPITOL "Parachute Battalion." at 9.45, 12.35, 3.20, 6.05, 8.50; "Father Takes a Wife," at 11.15, 2.00. 4.45. 7.30, 10.15. III? Isf" -w- WHEN LADIES MEET AT THE PALACE. Metro-Goldwyn Mayer picture produced and directed by Hobrt Z.

Leonard. Screen play by S. K. Lauren and Anita Loos from the play by Rachel Crothers. Photography by Robert Planck.

Characters Players Mary Howard. Crawford Jimmy Lee Robert Taylor Clare Woodruff Greer Garson Roners Woodruff Herbert Marshall Bridget Drake Sprlntf BvlnRton Walter Del Canto. Rafael Storm Mabel Guineas Mona Barrle PRINCESS "Flying Blind." at 10.05, 12.45, 3.25, 6.05. 8.45: "Buy Me if That Town," at 11.35, 2.15, 4.55, 7.35, 10.20. Ar.

4 ORPHEUM "Niagara Falls," at 10.40. 12.55, 3.10, 4.25, 7.40, 10.00; "Tanks A Million," at 11.20, 1.36, 3.55, 6.10, 8.25, 10.40. SNOWDON "Missing Peonle." ThLj new screen version of 1.45. 5.25, 9.05; "Meet John Doe" 3.05. 6.45.

10.25. IMPERIAL "Life Becins for Andy Hardy" and "The Get-Away." YORK Bride Came C.O.D." ml and "Dance Hall." is i A i' WESTMOUNT "Manpower and "Wild Man of Borneo." MONKLAND "Love Crazy" and "Cowboy and the Blonde." KENT "The Sea Hawk" and Tom Brown shares a telephone with Marjorie Woodsworth in Niagara Falls, one of two streamlined Hal Roach comedies now on view at the Orpheum. "Time Out For Rhythmn," Rachel Crothers witty comedy about an authoress who has considerable trouble in launching herself on the right road to matrimonial bliss, is smartly produced and directed by Robert Z. Leonard and reflects further honor on Joan Crawford and Robert Taylor whwe histrionic abilities, once so sadly lacking, now seem to be growing with each new picture. If ycj know the Crothers play, which ha been done in Montreal by both professional and amateur groups, you will recognize It almost as is in the script of Lauren and Anita Loos.

These able screen playwrights have done little to it except to add a few incidents neceK-sary to the screen medium. Perhaps that lead the picture to be a littia too talky and rather lacking in action. But it Is ao smoothly done and has such intelligent dialogue that there should be little complaint on that score. When Ladies Meet Is adult entertainment. It Is a oleasant and moral little THEATRE ICS MAJESTY'S Orieinal Bal Steinbeck Scripting John Steinbeck will make his let Russe; "Swan Lake," "Coq d'Or" debut as a screen writer when he adapts his own story.

Red Pony, to the screen for RKO Radio Pictures. agreement Just signed with the studio. Lewis Milestone will direct Steinbeck, who haj previously refused all offers to serve as a script writer, wrote two novels which subsequently were made into outstanding cinema offerings. They were Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men. Red Pony, the story of a boy's love for a little horse, will be the first big feature to be filmed by William Hawks under the terms of a new Dorothy Comingore is the central figure in thli dramatically-photographed scene from Orson Welles' film.

Citizen Kane, now at Loew's. Mr. Welles himself is over answering the door, through which can be glimpsed Ruth Warrick and Ray Collins. "Cimarosiana," "Paganini" and "Graduation Ball," at 8.45 p.m. CABARET TIC TOO Two shows nightly.

THE SAMOVAR Two shows nightly. AU LUTIN QUI BOUFFE Open air garden restaurant ASTOK Three shows nightly ESQUIRE Two shows nightly EDGEWATER Dancing nightly homily. Miss Crawford as the auth ed plenty of opportunity for their HIS MAJESTY'S NEXT WEEK MATS. ping provide Just enough story to carry the 50 minutes. Best thing in the picture is Wil special Dranas or comeay, wnn Dekker in particular scoring as the liam Tracy's performance as the lormer heavyweight lighter.

Shel don Leonard Is a smooth mean man memory expert Tracy, who came 1,000,000 Persons and $2,000,000 MUST BI RICHTI Thar Many People already have paid that Much Money to see LIFE WITH FATHER as an unreformed crime czar. On the side of the angels are Constance- Moore and Richard Carle. Barbara Jo Allen, the Vera Vague of the radio, inserts some comedy from the stage cast of Brother Rat to the screen version, has scored in a number of kid roles, such as the one he had in The Shop Around The Corner. In the recent Tillie the at Victoriaville, the Blue Bell Bullets will leave here by bus en route to that centre shortly after noon wAirrt "PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT N0.1" WINCHIlfc of a different pattern a a spinster Toiler he graduated to adult roles today. Tonights performance follows that presented by these Montreal telephone workers last Mon as Mac.

Here he practically carries Oicor Strlin Cfarenct Day't the picture. He is an excellent day evening when their show scor wno wants to De a gun-mon. The picture is lively for the most part with occasional sleepy spots. H. W.

W. ed heavily with the troops at Joh comedian who will probably continue to enliven picture for years eue during the nrst anniversary and years. ceiooranons oi mat training en campment James Gleason is cast as the ex "TANKS A MILLION." AT THE ORPHEUM. plosive colonel and handles it com Mod Into a ploy bf HOWARD UNDSAY tnd RUSSEL CXOUSZ Directed Hal Roach production, by petently and the young Noah Beery is good for some more Elyse Knox, whose face has DOROTHY GISH LOUIS'CALHEIW tmucut wmoixt Stttint tGr(smib urea uutoi. Characters.

Players. Dodo Tracjn launched plenty of campaigns in Tr SEAT SALE SEAT SALE picture by picture and like Miss Crawford rose from legs to Sadie Thompson. In any other industry there'd probably be a statue to Miss Swanson and she'd be wheeled on to the platform on founders' day. But 'in the motion pictures she can have done all these things and still be an attractive woman. She can have done all those things and still be only as good as her last picture.

Father Takes A Wife is no world-beater, but is a light-weight comedy of marriage which you might find a relief after too much slapstick with your movie marriages. Helen Broderick and Desi Arnaz have the best lines and come out of it best in the cast, with Miss Swanson a good runner-up. Flor ence Rice and John Howard play the stodgy young married coupli with the right degree of stodgi-ness. Adolphe Menjou, an old-timer who never left the screen, turns in one of his less effective performances. The main appeal of the picture Is for oldsters who remember La Swanson from 'way back.

Thev won't be disappointed. The ladies will find Miss Swanson has lasted very well, though not unnaturally so. A greater change than that of years is that wrought by the cameraman, who used to concentrate on making the star look as tall and statuesque as possible and now is content to let her appear her natural five-foot-one or so. H.W.W. "BUY ME THAT TOWN." AT THE PRINCESS.

Paramount olctura directed hv Eu. MONDAY Berkley James Gleason Charlie Noah Beery, Jr. Sergeant Ames Joe Sawyer advertisements, flashes briefly and beautifully across the screen in the very minor role of heroine.H.W.W. 4UWART CHANtr Jeanne Elyse Knox Seat Reservations Phone WI. 1215 'CITIZEN KANE." AT LOEWS THEATRE.

KKO-Radlo picture produced. dl-rected and written by Orion Welles. Music bv Bernard Herrmann. by Gregg Toland. Cnaracters Players Kn Orion Welles Kane, art Buddy Swan Kane lit Sonny Bupp Kane's Harry Shannon Jedeian Joseph Cotten Susei Comingore Mr.

Bernstein Sloane James W. Gettyt Collins Walter P. Thatcher. Coulourls Mrs. Kane (Mother) Agnes Moorehead Raymond Paul Stewart f.mily Norton Warrick Herbert Carter Erskme Sanford Thompson Alland Anderson Georf ia Backus Mr.

Rawlaton van Zsndt )radwaiter Gui Schilling Mat itie Fortunio Bonanova Br THOMAS ARCHER. Critic have been practically unan.moui that Citizen Kane it one ot the most original pictures to come out of Hollywood. It is all that and a great deal more. It sets a new style in screen biography and jt also confirms the genius of Or Welles as representative of the modern theatre. It was a foregone conclusion Nvhen the boy wonder went to Hollywood that he would do aomethtn; different from the efforts of other.

He had Introduced novelty to the theatre and the radio. It was ex rectd that he would do something different in the movies. Citizen Kane Is the biography of( a man who loved the world but loved himself better. It is told witfl a technique that comes from the March of Time series, but a teen-nique that Welles has developed into something tnat is peculiarly hi own. We are shown the life of Kane as he was seen by those who knew him.

The picture opens with a conventional new reel. But the cine-matojtraphers are not content with trat They want to have it personalized. So they send out their spy to interview everyone who knew Kane Intimately, hi second wife, a dipsomaniac working in a night tlub, hi business associates, nu only friend now old, sick and a bit childish. The stories of the people are told on the screen in recapitulation. You trace Kane's career from the time he left a middle western log cabin unt.i his death In the great empty spaces of the preposterous castle he tuilt himself by the sea.

And although that story Is told and retold there 1 never once a feeling r-f repetition. The unscrupulous newspaper publisher's life is tooab-sorbing. his innate and utter selfishness and megalomania too pointedly human ever to let the interest flag I a moment. It is a portrait done with a steel pen and corrosive ink. Tne man who toe out to get the facts has one ultimate? clue.

Kane d.ed with the word, on his lips. That, the reporter feels, would be the key to the deepest i-erret of the life of the great magnate. never discovers what it p-esris. But th audience does, and. of course, it is the mnat obvious f.ut in the film, its moral, its lessen.

What make- the character of Krne so penetrating Is that he Is in ha way a repreentatlve of every nsn in whole or in part His eager-reus for doing good, hi success and it fatal consequences, his selling cut for power and money, all these are features which are common in a higher or lower degree to all men, more particularly those who are born, live and die on this enterprise's continent. The cast is new to pictures. Welles brought his Mercury Theatre people to Hollywood with him. There Is Joseph Cotten as Jedeiah, Kane's lon-suffering friend who ouits him in the end. There is Fvertft Sloane as Bernstein, another faithful follower who actually sticks Kane to the bitter end.

There is a rjperb performance by Dorothy Comingore as the pathetic Susan Alexander, Kane's second wife whom he tried to make over into a great opera star. No more tragic picture ha been given on the screen than Susan's debut In the $3,. 00.000 opera house her obstinate and cruel husfband built for her. The rest of the cast are equally good. They are chosen for character as much as for appearance.

This is r.o Cecil B. De Mllle job of beauty rod color. It is realism carried to the limit And, In consequence, it is high trsgedy. The settings are' superb and new um are made of sound and photo-crsphy. In relation to sound, It will hard to forget the hollow echo of Kane' and Susan's voices as they converse In the vast ball of the cit.tle by the sea.

Here is an example fif the real genius that Is the prerogative of Orson Welles. Following Gloria Swanson' come-hark is that of Aileen Prlngle, to arresr in the new Charles Boyer-Margaret Sullavan comedy. Solid Tears In New York TODAY and TOMORROW Mickey Rooney 'Life Begins for Andy Hardy" 2nd Feature "The Gr-Away" capt. ftossmead Fowley Radio Announcer Knox Manning Skivlc Frank Faylen Blue Bell Bullets oress is captivated intellectually and otherwise by her New York publisher (Herbert Marshall). Robert Taylor as the man who really loves her, gets the assistance of the publisher' wife In order to teach the authoress a lesson.

The ladles meet in a boudoir and have a heart to heart talk on the ethics of the matter. The authoress and the publisher are duly awakened to realities and duly contrite as well. Miss Crawford gives an' admirable performance as the authoress. It is a role which follows hard upon her memorable effort In A Woman' Face and shows that she can maintain the high standard she set herself in that picture, even though her role here 1 a much lighter one. Greer Garson wins major honors, however, as the publisher' wife.

Hers is a beautiful bit of acting, gracious, subtle and witty. Taylor does a snlendld Job as the commonsense fellow In love with the authoress and Herbert Marshall fits neatly Into the part of the erring publisher. Spring Bylngton, a member of the cast which took part In the first production of the play on Broadway in 1032. adds comedv as Bridget Drake, the mat-ron who sails through the mixuD not knowing quite what It 1s all about T.A. FATHER TAKES A WIFE AT THE CAPITOL.

RKO plrture directed by Jack Hlvely. Screenplay by Dorothy and Herbert fields. Characters Players Senior Adolphe Meniou Leslie Collier Gloria Swanson Junior Howard Carlos Deal Arnaz Aunt Julie Broderlck Enid Florence Rica Vincent Stewart Nell Hamilton Tailor Grady Sutton Georre Mador Secretary Mary Treen Misa Ruth Dietrich Movie comebacks are apt to be sad affairs, with neople whose Monkman Dick Wessel 8 Consecutive Weeks In Chlcaxa 44 Weeks in Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit EVES. Orch. $2.94, 1st Bal.

$2.35, 2nd Bal. $1.11. WED. SAT. MATS Orch.

$2.35, 1st Bat 2nd Bat fl.lt, SSe. THESE PRICES INCLUDE ALL TAXES Cleary Frank Melton Lieut. Harold Goodwin Major Green William Gould Ready to give the R.C.A.F. men in training, and their mends, an all- out performance to mark the first appearance of their revue Major Norman Kerry With an eye to the day when something -will be done about double bills Hal Roach has been experimenting with shorter films. The first of them to hit Montreal are Tanks A Million and Niagara Falls, which last 60 and 43 minutes respectively.

Roach's idea evidently Is to turn out a brisk concise picture that can be coupled with a full-length movie WHAT Qbs WHAT JqZs afee a show! and shorts and not leave the audi ence in a state of paralysis at the 5ena porde. Screenplay by Gordon Story bv Harry A. Gourfaln. encu "urry oiunon ana martin Rachln. Of the two Tanks A Million Is the better entertainment It is a timely well-handled comedy about the U.S.

draft army, built around a aeries of Incident rather than plot development There's a good idea behind this one. A youngster with a photographic memory goes into the army. In a day he becomes a sergeant, having previously memorized the 'fH names were once household by words anxiously striving to recap ture a position denied them by fleeting youth and changing tastes. regulations before-hand. His recep But such is not the case with Fa tion at camp ana tne exrorts ol an old-style sergeant to catch him nap ther Takes A Wife, which serves as a comeback vehicle for Gloria HIS MAJESTY'S TODAY AND TOMORROW ARMAND VINCENT Presents fDOMT FILM THIS LOVE STORY1 THEY SAID, "IT'S DYNAMITE!" Critic hail it 1 the greatest il0JX ever made! tht biflinning for CjsWfy mkii its thrill! A 3 MA characters Players ckey Lloyd Nolan Virginia Constance Moore Albert Dekker Chink- Moran Sheldon Leonard Henrietta Barbara Allen 'Ky Ed Brophy Crusher Warren Hvmer Fingers Horace MacMahon Constable Sam Smedley.

Olin Howland Judge Paradise Richard Carle Gerard Cameron Tom Jack Chapln Harry Keith Richards George Trevor Bardette First Heckler John Harmon Second Heckler St Jenks Woman Jane Keckley Carlton Williams Richard Lane Norton Guy Usher Moffett Broderick O'Farrell Buckley J. w. Johnston Nancy Lillian Yarbo Malcolm (F'BI Hicks The gangsters come In for another round of kidding in Buy Me That Town. Here the mobsters and racketeers who used to blast at each other and at the police in what seemed liable to be an endless game of cops-and-robbers on our screen are themselves taken for a ride. If this keeps up we'll have laughed the gangster off the screen.

There's a bright thought behind Buy Me That Town. The thought there's esy pickings for a "mob" in. a bankrupt town. Such a town is bought up by a gang and they proceed to use it for their own purposes. Comes love and the gangsters turn honest.

All this is brought to the screen by some of the motion picture's best gangster-types. Lloyd Nolan is the big shot, with Albert Dekker. Edward Brophy and Warren Hymer as lieutenants. They are all allow BALLET RUSSE Swanson. Miss Swanson return with no wistful strings attached.

Here she Is playing the role of a woman about the age that she doesn't look today, taking the leading part in a comedy almost as sprightly as herself. And when you catch a glimpse of the sweeping nose line, the thin lips drawn back over long white teeth, it's lust as if Miss Swanson ha never been away, if you remember the days back when Miss Swanson was one of the first sophisticates of the screen. She grew up with the industry. She was in a Mack Sennett bathing suit when the motion pictures were in short pants. She was In there vamping when vamps were the thing, boomed with the society drama (picture without horses) and sparkled her way through endless smart subtitles.

I suppose the star that today most closely parallels the position of Miss Swanson when she was at the height of her fame would be Joan Crawford. Like Mis Crawford hers was a vivid personality. Like Miss Crawford the clothes angle was always an important one. She learned her great-lady manners Company of 125 Symphony Orch. Now Balltls David Llchina Choreographer Bronislava Nijinska Maitrasse da Ballet BtPf HToiwe Ottubfr lit 9th I iIIABSLIAII SF1IIC ITIICTII Saturday matin.

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if MR. ft a ,1 4 if 1 i tat i i i-1 1- BLAKE SEWELIP HERE'S GMMOUR Ohf -oi THE SC4EEV 3 CAUSE yr NOW SHOWING switched "our A ijpl i I I I 0 1 tho thrill of Vt Richard Arlen- Jean Parker AND HIS ORCHESTRA very Saturday Night la the RITZ-CARITON HOTEL COMMENCING THIS SATURDAY Dancing 9 to 1 Cabaret Style Admission $2.00 per coapla (AU Taxes Included) RESERVATIONS PL. 4212 JWSh Albert Dekker, Richard Lne and Lloyd Nolan exchange funds In a shady deal for Buy Me That Town, the comedy about gangster which 1 being shown at the Prince..