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Brownsville a and ® Valley 13 Theaters
L1 AT HARLINGEN
Monday Program Will
Be Broadcast For
Session
CHICAGO, nu Feb. 16,-For the
first time in history, radio will be
used in conducting a national bus
iness meeting next Monday evening,
February 18.
The Independent Grocers’ Alliance
of America, a national organization
of independent wholesale and retail
grocers, has grown so rapidly and
extensively since its origin three
>«*r« ego, that a national radio
hookup was the only method by
wh ch Mr. J. Frank Grimes, its
founder, could address all the thou
eands of members scattered across
the continent at one and the same
time.
In thirty-two states of the union,
there will be local territorial mass
meetings of all of the wholesale
and retail members of the L G. A.
on Monday night and these meet
ings will be directed from the New
i ork studio of the Columbia Na
tional Broadcasting chain.
From the-Great Lakes to the Gulf,
from the Atlantic seaboard to the
Rockie mountains, these members
will be gathered together Monday
night at the great mass meeting in
their local areas, for the first na
tional radio conversation of its kind
on record.
“In addition to the novelty of the
occasion,” said Mr. Grimes today,
“we have arranged a program that
will keenly interest the general pub
lic- We have a message that every
thinking American will want to
hear, and that will be topped off
by music by the big L G. A. sym
phony orchestra.”
The I. G. A. program will begin at
£>:30 p. m. central atandard time,
and thirty-three stations through
out the country will relay it.
The big local I. G. A. mass meeting
In thia territory will be held at Har
lingen and retail members, their
wives, business associates and store
employees are coming from many
miles around. It is to be one of the
most unusual meetings of its kind
ever Held in this part of the coun
try.
Train Is Missed By
Musicians To Play
For Man Who is III
By ARTHUR JONES
In truth, this is not a story, but a
tribute to our gallant gentlemen,
Uttoknr Cadck, Jaroslav .Siskovsky,
Ludvik Schwab and Bedrick Yaska,
the New York String Quartet. •
It is the tale ot a moment in which
they gave of their art, freely, to
bring joy to the soul of a brother
artist, carrying their music to his
bedside, while he, for the first time
in several years, drank to his heart's
content from the brimming bowl of
melody.
Joseph Morrison, student of the
violin, studying under Frans Coer
former director of the Pittsburgh
Symphony orchestra, was the friend
of Ottokar Cadek. They were not
only closely associated, but found a
common ground in their love of the
instrument they played. That was a
number of years ago and since they
had not met, Morrison, however, fol
lowed the work of his friend through
the periodicals of the musical world
and near his bedside in his home a
phonograph played the records made
by Cadek and the other mmbers of
the quartet.
Then the quartet came to Tucson
as ona half of the program being £i\
en by the Saturday Morning Musical
club. Morrison had waited for the
date, each day planning with hia
mother on attending the concert, each
day assuring her that he would be
streng enough lor that one night.
But it'was not to be. The quartet
came, but Morrison was not of the
audience.
Cadek, hearing of his friend in the
city, sought him out, and on dis
covering that his illness had pre
vented his attendance at the concert,
at once gathered bis fellow artists
about him. To them he told i-he
snery of the sick youth—of his love
of the violin which he can no longer
play, of his desire to hear again the
melodies of the strings, touched by
the hands of artists and not as re
corded on the diaks of the phono
graph.
Train 8rhedulea Forgotten
To hear, with the trio, was to
agree. It was decided at once that
Morrison was to have hia concert.
Train schedules interfered, but they
were changed. Arrangements were
made and yesterday morning without
warning to their impromptu audi
ence, the quartet, accompanied by
Mrs. Sinron Ileineman, went to the
little house on Euclid Avenue.
Morrison, from his bed, answered
tb" ring at the door—calling “Come
in”—then stared almost speechless
with surprise as the quartet with its
eased instruments, crowded into tne
little room. Slowly he realized what
his frnnd was doing for him, then
in his tear wet eyes and his smile the
artists received their accolade.
His deep set eyes alight and bis
face, betaring the pallor of the sie'e
roem and a soft brown beard, all but
hiding the sensitive lips, beaming
with haprines*, Morrison attempted
to thiink his viritors, but they would
Lave rone of it Jokingly thev talked
with the sick youth, comparing notes
of the murie«il world in which all
find their interests, unpacking their
instruments, preparing for the un
scheduled concert to an audience of
one.
Holds Fine Violin
From under the soft, enfolding
cloths in the cases can* the violin
and the cello—years old, all of them,
made by the hands of pupils of the
school of Amati, instruments of old
Iatly. two of the workmanship of
Stradivarius, the master.
“Here, Joe.” snid Cadek, “would
you like to hold a good fiddle again.”
and he handed across to the sick man
the mellow tones bronzed brown j
Stradivarius.
The thin waited bands of the
stricken artist clasped the instru
ment lovingly. He caressed it with
sof: touches, petting its smooth
rubbed woods as he would have ca
ressed s child. His eyes tried to say
what his lips would not utter.
Schwab, also at the bedside, held
j over his own violin for inspection as
did Siskovsky—Vaska. in the door- !
way, unswathed his cello.
Continuing their laughing conver- |
|/etion with the boy in the sick-room. J
j’tho members of the quartet seated
j themselves. Cadek first violin, cl< sc
I to the doorwav of his friend's room.
: norched on the edge of n small rook
rig chair; Siskovsky. second violin,
i faced him with bis coat off. seated in
j a "ane armchair; Schwab, viola, otru
*'*cd a divan in a corner while Vaska.
j hi* bristling black muataehios helv- ;
, T» his graying hair end benign eyes
r —nged h:s cello in front of th»
Mttfe fireplace. Then the loneert
I began.
Sick Mart TTolds Score
Morrison*score in band, lay quietly
i rs the quartet s igned softly into the
| *»rst movement of Smetana's “From t
My Life." They were painting with
: their music the early years of the
! "omposer, of his love of music, hi* i
"'iMintieism. and toned the swe»n of j
‘he haunting melody to the confines
>'r the small room in which they
• >yed.
As the soft, sweet minors o? the
'• ^position filed every ersnv of the ;
"•use, a canary, perched on its cage
’ the corner of the living room,
-•t into ron, its rippling soaring
‘rings banging a dulcet overton to
' music from the bowswept string*.
Aovsky, seated almost beneath the
—ed yorgster smiled with mist filled
as the little artist with rolling
‘rilU and tremulous cadenzas nreom
*,rpied the violins, at the moment
-mn'ering a hundred such feathered
musician*.
Next the second movement fn the
life story of the composer, painted
the joys of youth as written by Smet
ana, a quasi-Polke. breathing the
love of the dance. The third was a
nieture of happiness, of love fulfilled.
The fourth movement of the number,
with its pathos as the composer met
bis affliction, deafness, drawn into
•bn melody near its climax with the
high, piping E, which in 1878 an
"-Mtnced to him the arrival of his loss
of bearing.
No thundering applause to fill a
'■rowd-jammed hall as the artists fin
ished, nothing but the words of the
irk man and the praise of his moth
er. who had slipped into the Toom
luring the opening number—tut the
irtiris seemed satisfied.
Then Haydn's Quartette In G minor
with its charm and melody and its
*iery, brilliant finish, followed by a j
'ittie Spanish dance, lilting, sleepily ■
provocative, by Albenix, were fiver.
Morrison, from his bed. emiled at
his friend who had brought him this.
“Like Living in Dreams”
‘Cadek, it is like living in a dream."
he said, and then in answer to the
query, “What will you have now ?” he
answered, “Anything by anybody, it's
all wonderful.”
Siskovsky. sorting through his
music brought forth the next number,
explaining they would have to omit
Ravel as Vaska did not have all of
his musle. The selection was "By
the Tarn" by Eugene Goosens.
As the softened, melting melody,
rich with the suggestion of hidden
bagpipes, brought a touch of Scotland
to the room, the canary once more
added hia voice to the tones of the
violins and swept into throat swelling
song as the musicians, with light
drawn bows, draw forth from the
hearts of the instruments a picture
of woodland lake and whispering
trees.
A glance at a watch and s com
parison of his times and Cadek an
nounced that one more number, a
happy. j<Aly one, would, of necessity
complete the program. Then be
picked from the portfolio at his feet,
“Molly on the Shore.”
The laughing, lilting Caltle danca,
filled with the unbounded optimism
of the Gael, made a fitting ending for
the little concert, clearing the air of
any touch of pathos. leaving in its
place happiness for all concerned.
Goodbye* were said, wishes hur
ried away to catch the stare for their
Jong ride to Phoenix where thev will
resume their broken train schedule
which is to take them to Paszdena.
Joe Morrison, violinist, hogs to bf*
heart the memory of a joy filled
morning whfle fonr gallant gentle
men. OtteVar Cadek. Jaroalav Sis
bossky, Ludvik Schwab end Bedrieh
Vaska. resume their tour, to pltv
again to larger halls, but for much
smalelr pay. ... T. „ ,
Fannie Brice To
Sing At 8 P M.
iliiiaiiili
Fannie Brice is on th« air Sunday
night, Feb. 17, 8 to 9 o’clock, as
the headliner of another star pro
gram to be broadcast by Majestic
Radio over the Columbia Chain.
She will sing **My Man’’ at thia
time. Imitators galore have tried to
croo nand moan "My Man,” but thia
song hit remains the property of
Fannie Brice.
This colorful comedienne has held
American music lovers captive for
many years, so many of them that
she makes fun of her "youth” in
parodied gesture and caroled song.
Fannie Brice has been an Ameri
can institution since she first
“knocked them off their seats” at
Keeney’s Theater in Brooklyn when,
at the age of thirteen, she captivat
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ed the mein floor and thrilled the
gallery by piping “When Yoa Know
You’re Not Forgotten by the Girl
You Cen t Forget.”
The Majestic program each Sun
day night will inclde Kedferne Hol
linshead, the famed Canadian tenor,
and Arnold Johnson'a Majestic or
chestra in musical numbers that fur
nish the utmost in pleasure and en
tertainment.
Making Camera
Untruthful Job
C. I. A. Students
DENTON, Tex., Feb. 16.-{flV-Thfc
trials of making beauty where there
is none are those of a number of stu
dents at the College of Industrial
Arts—for one of the saddest lessons
experience teaches ’ photographers,
amateur or professional, is said to be
the dissatisfaction of the average hu
man with a portrait that is too frank.
Dozens of heads bend over nega
tives in C. I. A. photography classes
every day, and dozens of pencils are
given vengeful jabs as snub noses are
made to look straight, drooping
mouths are lifted into cupid's bows,
and highlights are put into eyes that
were meant to be demure. Hours of
reconstruction and doctoring of pro
files and dimples are rewarded with
satisfaction of fellow students, rs
Miss C. I. A., satisfied with the pic
ture that she avers “looks just like
me” packs up the photo and sends it
to the boy friend at A. A M.—utterly
unconscious of the hours of toil that
have transfererd her from a grinning
spparation with numerous freckles
snd wrinkles to a devilish-looking
cherub with a dimple.
$123,000 FOR GRATITUDE
LONDON.—Out of gratitude for
his escape from death in an auto
wreck. Lord Beaverbrook has given
$125.000 to charity.
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: Movie Calendar j
SUNDAY-MONDAY
CAPITOL—'‘The Last Warning"
Laura La Plante. Pathe News, Top
ics, Technicolor.
QUEEN — “Behind the German
Lines.” Official German war rec
ord. MGM News, Christie comedy
and Aesops Fables. Runs Tuesday.
TEXAS—“Four Walls” with John
Gilbert, Joan Crawford. Oswald in “A
Horse Tail” and International News.
DITTMANN—“The Mgsked Angel”
with Betty Compson. Educational
comedy. Also Tuesday.
TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY
CAPITOL—"His Captive Woman”
wiht Milton Sills and Dorothy Mac
kail!. .MGM comedy and Pathe Re
view.
QUEEN—Tuc,day. “Behind the
German Line--.” Wednesday, ‘ The
White Sister,” Lillian Gish and Ron
ald Colman. Comedy, “Newlyweds
Unwelcome” and Paramount News.
TEXAS—“Forgotten Faces” with
Clive Brook. William Powell. Mary
Brian. Comedy, ‘Halfback Hanna”
and Western.
DITTMANN Tuesday, “Ihe Mask
ed A-tgel.” Wednesday, “The Look
out Girl” with .Jacqueline Logan.
“The Sakywavman” Ru s Farrel avi
ation story.
THURSDAY-FRIDAY
CAPITOL -Thursday. “Hi* Captive
Woman.” Friday, “The Loves of
Casanova,” special pmduetion with
i an all-star cast. Collegian.;, Pathe
News and MGM Oddities.
QUEEN—“The W hite Sister” with
Lillian Gish. Ronald Colman. Friday,
“Telling the W*ot*ld” with William
Haines.
TEXAS—Not announced.
DITTMANN —“The Lookout Girl”
with Jacqueline Logan. “The Sky
, wayman,” Russ Farrell aviaton story.
SATURDAY
CAPITOL—“Loves of Casanova.”
PALACE ML
HAVE TALKIES
Vitaphone, Movietone
To Be Presented
On Feb, 23
McAllen joins the list of Valley
towns having talkie equipment in
their theaters Feb. 23, when the
Palace. located in that eitjr hold* Hi
j formal opening with the Vitaphone
and Movietone which are now being
installed.
‘We take great pride in being able
j to offer theater-goers of McAllen an
opportunity to enjoy this wonderful
[ advance in the presentation of mo
| ‘ion pictures,” declared L. J. Mason,
in announcing the innovation.
‘The installation of Vitaphone and
, Movietone mean* that the people 0/
McAllen ran have the pleasure of
henring a* well as seeing such well
known st-.r* and pictures as A! Jcl*
■ on in “The Singing* Fool,” Milton
Sills in “The Barker.” Fannie Brice in
“My Man” ‘The Terror." Interfer
ence." "Abie’s Irish Bose." and the
hundted* of others which are now
j coming front the best studios.” 1
The first talking picture to be
screened at the Palace has not been
announced.
Collegiate, I’athe News and MUM
Oddities.
QUEEN-“Telling the World.”
William Haines. Comedy, “Near
Dear.” and Paramount News.
TEXAS—“Beauty and Bullets" with
Pcx, the wonder horse. “Mysterious
Rider" and “Kokn Heaves Ho.”
DITTMANN—"Hearts of Men” with
Mildred Harris. Educational comedy.
' You’ll
Chill
You’ll
Quiver
SOUTH POLE DISCOVERED! I
A stirring drama set
in the sky at the Pole - r
__________ on the Sea and on Is
the land. f
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Gasp
You’ll
Thrill
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I H.B'WARNER —, , , i
I LOISWILSON 100% Talk- I
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1 Vaud.
I 4 Miller A Lyles
S “Broadway’s Favorites”
I Movietone New. Harlingen
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-EMPIRE— 11 — -RITZ
I Mercedes Weslaco
I D. W. Griffith’s Colleen Moore
T “Drums tf Love” “Happiness Ahead”
Comedy — News Comedy — News
Byron Price*
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NEARLY two,score.Associated Press reporters
will cover the great..stirring event for this
paper. They will bring you the most , accurate,
colorful.and complete• word picture of the cere*
monies. Byron Price, chief of the Washington
staff, will write the principal story. James L. West,
L. A. Brophy,.Richard L. Turner, A. R. George,
Martha Dalrymple, D. Harold Oliver and
Raymond Z. Henle are among others whose
signed. stories will appear.' Advance angles • are
being covered daily id the illustrated features
of The Associated Press Feature Service.
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