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Highland Park Press, 5 Nov 1931, p. 38

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«/ #1 CHA hous] the p entai THIRTYâ€"8IX NOW SHOWING SATURDAY SUNDAYâ€"MONDAY THURSDAYâ€"FRIDAY ___ TUESDAY.â€"WEDNESDAY MAY ROBSON | 4 ol . s James Hall LAUGHS ROMANCE comoâ€"~~>~~~ Newseâ€"Rvents>â€" Cartoon â€"â€">Curiosity "THE LONE STARYVED RANGER" with ROSCO ATES BARTHELMESS Lawrence Gray _ in a picture of _ "~ Te LAST R ICH A R D Francis Dade â€"LORETTA YOUNG * Cartoon â€" News Events Bargain Matinee at 2:00 BENNY RUBIN in "*JULIUS SIZZER" THRILLS DRAMA wer t hn + STAR WITNESS TODAY AND FRIDAY NOVEMBER 10â€"11 NOVEMBER 1#â€"13 NOVEMBER 8â€"9 NOVEMBER 7 THEâ€"PEES8 "Atar Witness" Is _ _"The . Star . Wimcsa"”ufictm which is unique in being both meloâ€" drama and heartâ€"warming human comedy which has as its grim theme â€"theâ€"danger which we all incure of innocently falling prey to the evil characters who lurk in every town, big and littleâ€"is made less grim by the characters to whom we are inâ€" troduced, and whichwe feel we have always known and always want to Ehow. 00000 00 00â€" The highâ€"speed action begins when Granâ€"pa Summerill, the Man WhoKnew Lincoln (you must have seen Chic Sale play this part in vaudeville) gets a 48â€"hour leave for the Soldiers‘ Home, to visit his marâ€" ried dauchter and her family, in town. The family, including jPa Leeds and Ma, the pert young daughter, the grown sons, the two small boys and, of course, Granâ€"pa â€"are at supper when they are called to the window by shots, just in time to see a man shoot another. The thues rush through the Leeds house, followed by policeâ€"and escape. _ tion~of being the only ones who saw the shooting. The gangsters beat up Pa Leeds, and intimidate the rost of the family= to prevent their testifying before the district :t;omey.- Finally the little boy is kidnapped. Tt is ~Gran‘paâ€" Summeriit. in â€"his Grand Army blue, with his> shrill fife in action. who wanders about tips to the copsâ€"and finally acts as ing things that happen along the wayâ€"the thrillsâ€"the fun and the pathos which makes "The Star Witâ€" ness" so compelling. P raree B trict â€"attorney:â€"Chicâ€"Saleâ€"â€"is, â€"of course, inimitable as Gran‘pa Sumâ€" merill, star witness, Frances Starr is fine as gran‘pa‘s daughter and mother of the kidnapped boy. ~Othâ€" ers in the capable cast. are Sally Blane, Grant Mitchell, Edward J. Nugent, . Dicky _Moore, Ralph Ince, Tom Dugan, Russell Honton, Fletâ€" char Norton, Robert Elliott, Guy D‘Ennery, George Ernst, Mike Donâ€" Vin. Nael Madison, Ed Deering and Walter Huston is up to his high standard in his portrayal of the disâ€" Nat Pendleton. "Wings" and recently did "The Pubâ€" lic Enemy" and "Night Nurse," has beenâ€"eminently â€"successful in â€"hisâ€"diâ€" rection.~This is apictureâ€"thatâ€"no one should miss. Take the whole family for an evening of grand and glorious‘ entertainment. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. second starring vehicleâ€"Among his many successes are "The Forward Pass," oA 2 54 30LE â€" WB h tsintctactytentit6i nc uim ccan.â€" Aliinnan o mtc 4 successes are "Theâ€" Forward P:’u,"l George Ernst â€" Famous child dent," "One N at Susie‘s" "Outâ€" 4 imny Sideâ€"Up; Re whrd Bound,* © "Little ~Caesar," â€"ny," "Ajonqgâ€"Came Youth" and "The "Chances" and "I Like Your Nerve.", Star Witness"‘ Born in Pittsfield, Born in New York. llhn. * heate se pha William A. Wellman, who directed Acclaimed Here as Powerful Melodrama Fine Cast Supports â€"Richard Barthelmess has been more than Iucky in his choice of a starring vehicle in "The Last Flight." f The story is by John Monk Saunâ€" ders, who, if we are not mistaken, did both "The Dawn Patrol"> and "The Firger Points" for the same. star. "The Last Flight" is known to many as "Nikki and Her War Birds" which.ran serially in Liberty Magazine and was later published as a novel under the title of "Single Lady." . * $ ~â€" Mr,. Barthelmess nlays Cary Lock. .. _Mr. Barthelmess plays Cary Lock. wood, chief ‘of préetty Nikki‘s warâ€" birds. He is an exâ€"flier who crashes into the picture from a flaming plane, and proceeds to paint Paris red in an effort to provide thrills equal to those of the days before the Armistice. Right here it should be said that "The Last Flight" is not a fiying picture, but d romance â€" hilarious, though touchedâ€" withâ€"traâ€" themselves to the humdrum of peace other birds of the same feather, Broncho Bill Talbot, onée of Monâ€" tana who is a giant exâ€"gunner, Shep Lambert, also of the fiying brotherâ€" hood,"* and Washout, once the best shot of the squadron, but now a nervous wreckâ€"and the buddies hit a capital D, when Nikki, the girl who says she can walk faster in with the group on their madcap wanderings. > __â€"_iâ€"â€"iâ€"~ . Then there is the outsider, a medâ€" dlesome newspaper correspondent from America, who tries to steal Nikkiâ€"andâ€"but that is telling the story. It is enough to say that "The Last Flight" is a romance of unique andâ€"semiâ€"tragicâ€"beautyâ€"livedâ€"inâ€"a glittering panorama of life â€" in Paris, Portugalâ€"and in Neverâ€"Nevâ€" erâ€"Land. (It is a story you won‘t be able to forget. "The Last Flight" is too good to be missed. : Tarceur; Henry Kolker, veteran of the American stage; Boris Karloff, inal Code"; ~Edmund â€"Breon, â€"Ivan Simpson and others are prominently featured. _ Lovely .Loretta Young plays lead. Thé picture was directed by William McGann, oneâ€"time camâ€" eraman for Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. A cast of extraordinary talent plays in support of Douglas Fairâ€" banks Jr. in "L Like Your Nerve," the First National. picture now showing at the Alcyon theatre. Claude Allister, the monocled Engâ€" lishman: â€"Andre Cheron, ~French Cick Barthelmess in â€""The Last Flight" Torth Uniqu and fro den, wWAs stage at for filmi As fa concerne nected â€"£ drivewa and _ ent with sta rooms _ with the around and in lead ~to bedroon the gro structed the sta; of the garden flowers ing bee setting. 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