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The Illustrated London News 1928 (2)
The new Mary Pickford film - "My Best Girl": Miss Pickford as a store assistant
and Mr. Charles Rogers as her millionaire employer's son who is masquerading
as a fellow worker
(also-Sons of the Sea etc.) January 7th 1928
(L. col) From the film "The Black Journey" : A White negro of the Songo race
(C. col) Froma film whose gala presentation the Prince of Wales promised to attend: The Sultan Barmou outside his house
at Tessaqua - From "The Black Journey" A record of an expedition from Algiers to the Cape
(R. col)
From the film "The Black Journey" : A Hazena witch doctor.- January 21st 1928
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(L. col) "Sunrise" at the Marble Arch , Pavilion: Mis Janet Gaynor as the wife- with the dog,
which with an uncanny sense of impending tragedy, seeks to warn her
(L. col) Mr. Anthony Asquith's film drama with a film studio setting
Mae's husband Julian Gordon (Mr. Brian Aherne) finds a
ball-cartridge among his wife's lip-sticks in "shooting stars" at the Plaza Theatre - Februay 18th 1928
A German beauty competition for "Film Struck" women that attracted three thousand applicants:
The ordeal of being photographed under arc lights, in the Alberhalle at Leipzig, converted into a film studio for the occasion - March 3rd 1928
(L. col) Charlie Chaplin as the chivalrous tramp: A scene from his new
film the "Circus" at the New Gallery cinema-
The circus owner's daughter, having run away from her brutal father
appeals to the diminished clown for protection March 17th 1928
( L. col) "The last command" at the Plaza: Mr. Emil Jannings as the
Russian General Dolgrucki in the days of his soldiering
before the Revolution - March 31st 1928
(C. col) Charlie Chaplin in the Lion's den, in wich he has sought refuge from a militant mule! A scene from "The Circus" April 4th 1928
(R. col) A "Kaleidoscope" of life in a modern Metropolis:
A scene from the new German film "Berli" at the
Capitol. with suggestions of pet dogs, the Tiergarten
dancers, and "colossal machinery" April 28th 1928
(C. col) Filming "Verdun" under real war conditions on the actual
battlefields: French cinematographers ensconced with their cameras
in a protected shelter May 2th 1928
(C.col) "Show boat" at Drury Lane: Outside Captain Andy Hawks " Cotton Blossom floating palace theatre"
on the Mississippi in the late Eighteen-Eighties- The wedding of Magnolia and Gaylord Ravenal
The "chorus" of "Show Boat": Mr. Paul Robeson as Joe, the singer of "Old Man River" May 26th 1928
A famous detective of fiction come to life on the stage:
Hercule Poirot (Mr. Charles Laughton), right investigates the
murder of Roger Ackroyd Mr. V. Norman, centre) with
Dr. Shepherd (Mr. J. H. Roberts) in "Alibi" at the prince of Wales's theatre - June 9th 1928
A study in the macabre: A picture taken during the production
of "The three Passions" at Nice June 23rd 1928
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