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rownsville B and B Valley 13 Theaters"* I Grant Wither* Ha* Awkward Moment In Comedy Attraction Probably the last word in em barrassing moments for a well-bred young man is that especial one when he hears an irate husband vig orously pounding the locked door of a room in which he believes he , has heard the voices of the young man and his wife. "Be nonchalent. Light a what you-may-call-lt." says the cigarette ads regarding situations like this —but Grant Withers, leading man of ‘The Time, the Place mid the Girl” is without the prescribed brand of smokes when this situation occurs in Warner Bros.’ Vita phone all-talking and singing ver.lo.i of Houpn, Adams and Howard's fa mous musical comedy success which comes to the Arcadia fhcater on June 30. July 1. 2. 3. Instead of lighting a cigarette he opens the door as per the angry husband's request arid the husband fJnhn Davidson) doesn't find hi* wife «Betty Comrson) as he ex pected. Her place has suddenly been taken by a girl who risks her own good name to save * he man she loves. Gertrude Olm^ d plays the sacrific ing girl and i e remainder of the cast of this alt.-talking picture from the stage success includes James R. Kirkwood, Vivian Oakland. Gretchen Hartman. Ttfene Haismnn. Bert Roach, Geralfl King and others. The vehieUe ts a gav comedy of x collegiate life, he adventures of a football stair turned bond salesman with a bc/y of flirtatious wives The tunest songs, choruses and dances of/ the original are to be found in /the screen Vitaphor.e ver sion of ‘TThe Time, the Place and the Oirl.T / HA-RGILi: rERSfisj%i,s Rev/ o. C Crow of Brownsville, presiding elder for this district, conducted services at the First Methfodist church here Sunday aft t'fjjfoon. ’frhe revival meeting that was be»d in Harglll by Rev. T. H. Qeowdrr. pastor of the First «fethodist church closed Sunday y-Tiight. f Mrs. B. C. Peebles is visiting friends and relatives at Kenedy this week. Mr. and Mrs K W. Bonham .■■■■■■nniMniwwnBiF* ! Film Star Has Varied Career >£i f Although he was twelve years of age before he ever set foot on a stage, Maurice Chevalier, interna tional entertainer and star of "Innocents of Paris,” his first American-made picture, was liter ally born to the stage. From the age of six he was strongly attached to the world of make-believe and was expelled from school because he sang and imitated actors instead of learning his lessons. After making several false at tempts at acquiring erudition, •Maurice turned to athletics but a broken ankle and later other in juries .sent him hurtling into the varieties at the age of 12 years. • He was "kidded-’ at his first ap-1 pcarance but managed to hold on at the princely salary of $2.40 per »wock. But even this engagement, like that which befalls so many ac tors, soon resulted in a period when he was "at liberty.” Finally he secured small engagement? which parried him through several years p.nd then he returned to Paris, a sea-oned trouper. i His immediate success took him to the Follies Bcrgere where he was given a dance opposite Mistin guette. Greater success followed and in 1913 Chevalier broke the partner hip to enter military train ing. Then one day the hounds of Mars were unleashed and Cheva “rr found himself in the trenches. Bursting shrapnel left him in the mud wounded, and he was made a German prisoner. It was during vis 26 months incarceration that he , acquired mastery of the English language. Escaping by disguising himself ~s a Re:! < ros~ worker. Chevalier. vnade his way back to Paris and I MAURICE CHEVALIER soon again was featured with Mis ti nguette. Later they were book ed at the Femina. which was fol lowed by & successful season at the Palace in London, where Chevalier appeared with Elsie Janis. Despite hi? unprecedented suc cess during the past few years, ( hevalier has retained his carefree good nature and lovable personal ity. He fought shy of movie con tracts for a long time despite fab ulous figures mentioned by the movie magnates. It was not until talking pictures were perfected that Chevalier consented to come to America and appear in the pic ture which already insures to him the remarkable popularity which is his on the continent. and children were Harlingen visl ! tors Friday night. Rev. T. H. Crowder and wife and son T. H. Jr., Mrs. Chas. Lancas ter and children were outing on Salt Lake Thursday. Mrs. St. Clare Thompson of La sara, was a visitor w’ith Mrs. Jack Holt Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. F. T. Linder. Mrs Dunn and a friend visiting Mrs. Linder were outing at Salt Lake Tuesday aft ernoon. J. A. Haley was a business visi tor in Raymondville Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lobe and ! children were supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. K. W. Bonham Thurs day night. • • » METHODIST W. M. S. The Methodist W M. S. held the regular meeting all day at the home of Mrs. K. W. Bonham Tues day. five members being present. Mrs. S. M. McCutchen was a very welcome visitor as she brought with her a freezer of fine ice cream. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lobe of Lasara and children were also present as visitors. A bountiful dinner was served at the noon hour. • • • Mrs Everates. former teacher In , IIw in■ ITW■ I■ —ga I Now Now #111 Showing Showing ■ Opens Today for Four Days l ■ • I Itefuxt might hap pen to any college athlete trho imag ines he is on the way to fortune. | but is really on the way to jail! See and hear its joyous Us youthful |jj —and song. ■ ■ - _ Talking Show* Movietone New* Event ■ * 3 • 5 % 7 Vaudeville Act* * ^ I Hollywood Gossip j HOLLYWOOD. — Guy Bolton,, with 20 plays and 30 musical com edies already to his credit individ ually or collaboratively, wouid like to be again at the beginning of his career—provided he could start j now and "grow up” with the new medium of the talking, musical screen. He just has completed the lib retto of the first original screen operetta. 'The Love Parade.” and for all hi-, previous experience In writing for the stage, declares he undertook the task with a stu dent’s humility. Approaching a new story-telling medium, he has realized that a new technic, of neither screen nor stage, would be required in the telling. "More liberty to the librettist” is what the musical screen has meant to Bolton. The stage musical com edy. limited within backdrops and stage props, was perforce artificial in effect; on the screen, uncon fined. now more natural results can be obtained. That gives added lib erties to the man who inapt out the method in which the tale shall be told in words and music. Eut it also adds to his work. • • • NATURE, THE GODDESS Always Boltoir has tried to com bat stage artificiality, of the sort, for instance, that draw's a chorus of 60 dancing girls into what pur ports to be a sedate drawing room or sun parlor. Usually such things pass, or are accepted without ques tion, on the stage, but Bolton fought them even there. In a movie they would be un thinkable. grotesque. To eliminate such effects. Bolton and I*— .st Lubltsch, director, have conferred often curing the writing. Bolton as a scre.en novice seeking the wisdom of Lubitsch. Their aim Bolton expresses thus* "If we do something that cannot be done on the stRge. then we shall have achieved originality.” • • • A PICTURE MIN’D The librettist has been writing sine? he was 19. first short stories, leter mus'eal com-dfcs and plavs. Put in deterrence to family in sistence that he "do something." te .ook tip architecture and practicet it until 1914. when he was an esVb ! ILshed literary success. But architecture, the studv he j "dirliked least.” has proved helpful nevertheless in his writing career. ; It made him "picture-minded.” so : he could visuclize settings for dra mas. He hopes it will prove doubly u-eful in the movies. • • • Lenore Ulrlc. small, vital, all a-quiver, it seems, with nervous energy and eagerness to launch forthwith into her first talkK he.x rem*» to HolMvood in stvl» befit t ng a much-heralded star of th s*eg". She has taken un her shod- fn ‘h? Beverlv Hills residence vacated , bv Marv Lewis, operatic star. Besides the brrwn mon of th*» "hi bnh which shields her dark ' -own eves and wave* like a wild ••-a shout her bead the delectable -oora has brought with her a all routine of servants and a ” from the east She Is not ■‘ting on style" to impress tbn mnft of whom ar*> old ' -ds of hers. Lenore just i* that IV. • I love permanent thine*.” sh" \j3. "I get. accustomed to one '.e Hargill schools, was visiting • -»rng friends Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Dorche and daught er of Edinburg and Mr. Perkins " -re afternoon callers at the home of Mr and Mrs G. W. Bury north of Hargill Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. I/>tt are visiting friends near Kenedy. Texes, their old home Mr. Lott will be con tacted with a gin company there. S. M. Edwards who has been In Kennedy for the past few weeks is home for a visit. Chas. Lancaster was a business visitor in Edinburg Friday. R. F. Brown of Driscoll and own er of the Brown gin at Hargill is here for the ginning season. Rev. and Mrs. T. H Crowder and -on T. H.. Jr., returned to their home at Primera Friday. Misses Alice Lancaster and Corlnne Bon hnm accompanied them. Mr. Terrel and daughter of Okla homa have been visiting in Hargill for the past few days. Mrs. Davis has as her guest her mother from Oklahoma maid, to one chauffeur, to one car to one cook—and oh! I know this is frightfully unromantic. but *hls cook does prepare the most deli cious sauerkraut!” * • • OFF IN A HURRY M'ss Uulric’s play. "Mima.” scarcely had closed in New York before the star was enroute west. And in something of the same spirit with which she undertook the role of this fantastic siren In the Be5asco spectacle, she ap proaches her first talkie. “Mima” was gorgeous fantasy. In no way resembling her ”Kiki” or "Lulu Belle.” But she reasoned then as she does now: “If I do the same sort of thing over and over. I can never learn anything new.” And she Is eager to learn about talkies. BEAUTY TEAM I If not quite a "sextet of sex ap peal.” as no doubt the billboards would love to proclaim, at least a I quintet of exotic beauty has been i assembled to intrigue Frank F/v, stage comedian, in his romantic essays in “Under a Texas Moon,” another all-color-a!l-talkie. Mona Maris. Raquel Torres and Armida are the genuine Latins of the five, while Betty Boyd and j Myrna lav must look exotic in j spite of American birth. Color photography, by the way. ! is causing strange phenomena Fav has had to dye his hair black for his Latin role in this picture and rioubtles other artors and actress's in the future will have to follow suit. Then, too, the same cameras may solve a problem which long has ! i’-keri many fans. Colleen Mco’-c constant’y recedes inquiries such as: "Is it true veil have one brown eye and one blue?" Well. Colleen’s new picture. "Fcot i lights and Fools.” has a color ce nucncc. and Colleen is in it—verv 1 much. The fans mav see Ifr > themselves—eh* really has! \l\-lovie Calendar}' CAPITOL Sunday - Wednesday, Maurice Chevalier in “Innocents Of Paris;" and Paramount News. Thursday-Saturday, Richard Dix in “Nothing But the Truth.” Talk ing comedy. “Apartment Hunting" { with Florence White, and Para mount News. QUEEN Sundav-Wcdnesday. Corinnc Grif fith in Saturday's Children" and Topic?. Curiosities News, and Fables Thursday-Saturday, to be an nounced later. DITTM ANN Sundav. Monday. "Riley the Cop"! with J. Farrel McDonald and Louise Fazenda. Education Comedy. Tuesday. Benefit Mexican Meth odist church, Mexican vaudeville company. “Iios Pirrins ” 1 Wrdnesday-Friday. "The Circus' *Ctd" with Helene Costello and Frankie Darro PKO comedy. Saturday. A1 Hoxie in "Roaring Guns.” Educational comedy. TEXAS Sunday. Monday. William Haines id "Allas Jimmy Valentine.” Com i ody. "Lumber Jacks" novelty and news. Tuesday. Wednesday. Alice White n “Naughty Babv.” Christie com t edy. “Nifty Numbers" and Universal Western. Thursday. Friday. Doroles Del Rio Rivoli 8AN BENITO Starting Wednesday America’s Grea test beauty corps passes in revue in the most lux urious amusement ever devised for stage or screen! NEW MAJESTIC IS RECEIVED! I In Model 91 II In Model 92 ] $137.50 $167^0 Cabinet in early Eng- I Cabinet in Jacobean lish design of American II design of American ; walnut, with instrument 11 walnut, doors and pan r panels in Australian I els in Australian Lace L Lacewood .... silver I wood . . . silver dials '|! dials and other inlays. I and inlays. || S f f j Greater Sensitivity and Selectivity — Buzz and Humm eliminated — Static practically I overcome. Let Us Demonstrate Now! Lanier Radio Parlor MAJESTIC RADIOS Mighty Monarch* of the Air Seabury George and Taylor Building Brownsville — Telephone 1387 FAMOUS DIVA RETURNS TO U. S. r trn i . wnen Amenta Oaiti-C Ir tous Italian songstress, armaj in Los Angeles recently, Irom Australia, ship reporters almost overlooked her because she was modestly registered as "Mrs. Ameltta Samuels." She poses above with her accompanist husband. Homer Samuels, above, who made the voyage with her ' . ri" .. ".1 1 "" ' J'1" . 1 1 " .1111,1 111 I . .. rn rn I. Ill- HI ... "Ill—I Edinburg League Gives Patriotic Program Saturday (Special to The Herald; EDINBURG. June 29—The Wom en's Good Government league of Edinburg gave a patriotic program Saturday evening on the Kloaanet Roof, under the direction of Mr Jennie Dickinson. The program in cluded music, by a chorus; a readm; by Mrs Carl Bishop; song. "Ok Gang of Mine." reading by Mr Oscar W. Curry; an tUmUrsti* number called a Scenic Readinc * recitation. “At Country’s Call.** bj Miss Pauline Skinner; a flag drill b» Misses Elizabeth Sherman. Lir Stunt*. He t tie Skinner. *w«rl To Hansen. Gladys Smith and M Parmer. The entertainment domed with \ unique tableau. Ice cream and cafe were served by the ladies for tl benefit of the League army kicks peer oi t LONDON —The Earl of A»!e ,, ford. who had resigned his armr post, was removed Instead. I A. TAMM | I Blue Printing and Supplies fl Harlingen, Texas } and Ralph Forbes in “The Trail of; 98.'’ Hal Roach comedy and In- j temational News. %iturday, Rex. the wild horse In •Plunging Hoofs.” Chapter 1 of "The Final Reckoning” and Pa the Corned <•. , iw— ■ y i ir ..i-. + I It’s Clean and Cool I At the I | oustonCafe I E BROWNSVILLE I You like lo dine where everything is "spick and I span"—where it's cool .... You’ll find all that H | here, and more. The food is excellent — the ■ service, promo4’ ■ Eat Here Today! I | Cqql A, S.n Benito COOL A. . the Gulf NOW PLAYING the Gulf Rivoli Br*ez* Fir,t VaU,y Rivoli Bre"* _ Showing -... SINGING — TALKING — DANCING RpjC€p i | I n ; fi an# I ■ Joe E. Biowru, t! ^_j fi \ Can the Clown's Wife Always Laugh? \ Can she always he his partner, his foil, his audience, his \ best critic? Can she stand aside and sec him rise to \ fame with another partner—stand in the wings \ and hear the applause they once shared thunder ^B^^ for him and for that young, slim thing who is '■raLcjy r A stealing her man’s love? Bk SEE and HEAR Belle Bennett, Joe E Brown, with WyL Alberta Vaughn, aing and talk. Belle Bennett ■ m in tinsel and tighta—a new characterization1 f \ f \ 1°* Brown of the big mouth, big laugh* big heart tug* Alberta Vaughn peppy, tricky, cute! Directed by Albert Ray I In " ■ — 1 ■ “■ . I Ialking ...-.. . ^ „ | e