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
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! 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.
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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.
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Mrs Everates. former teacher In
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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!”
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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.
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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
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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 <•.
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service, promo4’ ■
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SINGING — TALKING — DANCING
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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
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