Brownsville herald. [volume], November 06, 1932, FINAL SUNDAY EDITION, Page TWELVE, Image 12

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"With B Brownsville 18 and 51 Valley B Theaters
FOOTBALL IN
PRISON BASIC
IDEAFOR HIT
"Hie thought of a prison football
team is funny enough to begin
with. But when it is carried out
to the extreme in absurd equations,
when the entire prison is given a
collegiate atmosphere with bands,
cheering sections and an enthus
iastic alumn: with quaint and ori
ginal methods of obtaining new
gridiron talent, the basic idea
easily becomes a laugh riot.
Just how funny the whole non
sensical whim can be made is de
monstrated by the RKO-Radio pic
ture, “Hold ‘Em Jail ’, now at the
The Book That
'nirilled
Millions . .
Now It’s
on the
Screen
“THE
OLD
DARK
HOUSE"
with
KARLOFF
Melvyn
Douglas
Charles
Laughton
and
Manv Others
Karloff
in
His Greatest
Role
Now Showing
At the
QUEEN
Brownsville
FIRST FILM TOGETHER
Rulrert Montgomery and Tallulah Bankhead In "Faithless” showing
Sunday and Monday at the Rivoli Theatre, San Benito,
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LAUGH MAKERS
‘ *• ****• 'U>« •
Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey as the comic football duo in
‘ Hold 'Em Jail”. RKO-Radio picture at the Capitol, Brownsville, Sun
day and Monday. __
—
Capitol theatre, with Bert Wheeler.
Robert Woolsey. Edna May Oliver
and Roscoe Ates in the leading
roles.
Many famous all-American foot
ball stars appear in the lineups of
the prison teams, but whether they
can be recognized made up as
•■tough muggs" is another matter.
There never was and never will
be a prison like Bidemore peniten
tiary. which is where Wheeler and
Woolsey land wl n they boast of
their imaginary football prowess in
a tough dive where the “scouts" for
Bidemore are looking for talent.
Also, there never was a warden
like Edgar Kennedy, who had a
sister like Edna May Oliver, who
had a nietfe like pretty Betty Ora
ble, who supplies the necessary
“live interest' in collaboration with
Wheeler.
Wheeler is presented as the
“world's greatest athlete, the man
who invented athlete's foot.”
The stuttering Roscoe Ates is the
Bidemore quarterback who heart
lessly accepts a parole at a critical
moment of the "big game” and
nearly wrecks Bidemore's chances
for the “Penitentiary Conference
championship.”
Wheeler and Woolsey win for
Bidemore but not until they have
resorted to every device of the
alert gag writers' minds.
The average full-grown grizzly ,
bear is rune feet long.
‘FAITHLESS’
IS TALE OF
NOUVEAU POOR
With Tallulah Bankhead and Ro
bert Montgomery co-starred in
their first appearance together,
“Faithless," an incisive study of the
problems of the penniless rich,
heads the program at the Rivoli,
theatre San Benito, Sunday and
Monday.
It was filmed with all the con
trast In lavish gaiety and drab
poverty needed to accurately mir
ror the fall from financial grace of
gilded youth accustomed to Park
Avenue mansions, flocks of serv
ants. European Jaunts and all the
other signs and symbols of wealth.
Mildred Cram, who wrote the
story on which the film is Jjased.
has lifted the curtain on the sham
I of daughters of the rich who fifht
against social oblivion by living
on their more fortunate friends
until, unable to keep up the pre
tense. they are relentlessly carried
downstream by adverse currents.
Miss Bankhead is the girl who
plunges from the dizzy heights of
wealth to the depths of poverty.
Montgomery plays the man who
proves to her that poverty is no
obstacle to happiness. 'Other im
portant roles are played by Hugh
Herbert. Maurice Murphy. Louise
Cloeser Hale, Anna Appel. Law
rence Grant and Henry Kolker.
Drama Of Strange
Situations Shows
At Queen Sunday
Certainly the most fascinatingly
weird drama of strange situations
and characters to be seen in
Brownsville for a long time is Unl
sersal’s -The Old Dark House”
which has its local premiere Sun
day at the Queen Theatre and left
the audience there in a stage of
frightened enjoyment after hold
ing them on edge throughout its
Swept downstream from
wealth to disaster, she clung
to the one thing she held
precious .... his love!
No Sacrifice Too Great
. Will You Call Her
Sinner?
7 Tallulah
BANKHEAD
Robert
MONTGOMERY
» *
First
Valley
Showing
Tuesday
and
Wednesday
To the lov
ers of the
world, a
picture has
come you
will treas
ure forever!
— ALSO —
PATHE SOUND NEWS
:harley chase comedy
“NICKEL NURSER**
PATHE REVIEW
SAN B1NIT0
Amrrican Legion Frolic "O. V. TONY”
Election Returns
Screen—Marelene Dietrich "Blonde Venus”
rapid succession of exciting se
quences.
Hus unusual picture tells the
story of storm driven travelers who
seek the night's lodging in a bleak,
forbidden gold house in the lonely
Welsh mountains, only to discover
Is inhabitants are dangerously in
sane and under the spell of a malig
nant giant servant. As the storm
Increases so does the evil brute's
ferocity, and a series of terrifying
events occur which give this picture
an absolutely unequalled dramatic
punch—especially when a murder
mad maniac Is loosed
Boris Karloff, in the role of the
hulking giant, is easily twice as ter
rifying as In Frankenstein,'' and
his sensational makeup Is something
to see. Melvyn Douglas and Lilian
Bond are romantic through It all
Charles Laughton. Ernest Tseslger.
Eva Moore. Raymond Massey.
Brember wills—the British stage's
mo6t Illustrious names, and Gloria
Stuart, charming screen debutante,
give masterly performances In parts
which give full play to their ex
ceptional talents.
Legion Stage Frolic
Packed With Laughs
The American Legion Frolic “O.
U. Tony." to be staged at the Ri
voli theatre. San Benito. Tuesday
and Wednesday nights, is rapidly
reaching the point of the thea
trical perfection, persons who have
witnessed re rehear Is declare
The performance will be without
exaggeration, the funnier, stage j
entertainment ever presented in j
this community, several have de
clared
In connection with this stage
show will be the regular picture
program. Merlene Dietrich In "The
Blonde Venus."
Arrangements have tlso be \
made to announce election returns
from the stage as fast as they
come. Make up an election party
and com* to the Rivoli and cele
brate election night.
The only stakeshow in the Val
ley Tuesday night plus Marlen*
Dietrich in ‘ Blonde Venus'* plus
election returns.
Bittmaiw
HOY — TRES DIAS
“PRO P ATRIA”
con GHLLERMO CAELES
Esta pc lie ula cumbre de la
produccion Mexicans
Toda Hablada en Espanol
Comedia Universal
Precios — 25c -10c
ipfKWiiS
Brownxvlllr yC/'L.'/
Now Showing
The All-American Half-Wit*. Foot
ball's Greatest Drawbacks Turn
H g j| rp the Big House Into a Bug House.
WHEELER
The Cuckoo Birds are
DART. Jail Birds Now
WOOLS EY
llll JS V \
Today's
Admission
Lower Floor
35c
Balcony . 35c
Children. 10c
with
Edgar Kennedy
Rotroe Ate*
(Stuttering i
Edna May Oliver
Add their funny in
tics to this comic
riot.
T
— ALSO —
Tom and
Jerry
Cartoon
Vasa bond
Adventure
Series
ParaMund
News
A LETTER TO A BLIND
DATE
Dear Laura:
I do hope you had a good
time at House parties. 1 am so
glad your brother suggested
that I have you up. Please
don't worry about getting
mixed up and coming up a day
early. I probably would have
used those cuts doing some
foolish thing like going on a
week-end. I am glad you agree
with me that it's terrible to
drink. I am afraid that some
of the boys gave you a very
bad impression of Williams.
Sorry I was so sleepy Sat unlay
night that I had to desert you
for such a long time, but my
roommate says that he's very
glad I did because he so en
joyed that long talk with you
aboat the Russian situation. I
im certainly dad that yonr
father and mother were able to
come up with you. Wish I
could have seen more of them.
' 1 am just beginning to realize
how foolish it would have been
to have gone ‘way lip to the
top of the Taeonic Trail to see
the sunrise. You know. I have
•always admired girls who ai
rways know just what is the
•right thing to do. I think it is
grand that you thought that
the sermon Sunday morning
•wm the best thing about the
parties. You are such a change
from most of the girls I know.
I am awfully sorry that I can t
have you up to parties in the
fall but I have just decided
that I will try for Phi Beta
Kappa. Some of the boys are
having a spread downstairs, so
I think I’d better go down be
fore they drink up all the milk.
Love,
JOE.
P. S.—I hope that when you
have your teeth straightened,
the dentist doesn’t hurt you
too mueh- _
I 1
BIG SHOT
He's the life of the party.
He's always the last to ar
rive. Things never have started
when he comes. He asks loud
ly, “Whose funeral?” and
everyone does his or her best
to seem peppy.
He breaks into yonr conver
sation with your pi Hfnend,
changes the subject immediate
ly to some current event, tells
the latest slightly off-color
stories wui then gets to the
point with the question “Got a
cigarette?”
He’s the best dancer in the
crowd. If he stands in the
stag-line for a minute, the best
looking girls give him a wink
as a signal for eutting in.
He knows all the latest wise
cracks He has a “line.’’ He
keeps the partyers in constant
laughter. He holds the floor
most of the time—anyone who
tnes to break in he scorns or
the others hiss. He loves to
pun. but assumes a look of in
tense agony when anyone else
does.
He does card tricks.
There’s some one like him at
every party. The hostess when
making up her list of guests
always saw. “Ill ask some one
with lots of life. Let's see —
I think I’ll ask — ” and he
comes.
He’s the life of the party.
I bate him.
—Western Resrrrt Red Cm.
Sig Alph i Who invented
work, anywayt
Sig Chi: Yon should worry;
you 11 never infringe on his
patent.
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THE BEST COMEDY IN AMERICA
Copyright. 1932. by The Collegiate Publishing Co. (College Humor) Through Bell Syndicate.
«
Professor: I would bte a
preparation of pbenytnothio
cyanaie.
Drni? Clerk: Do you mean
mustard oil?
Professor: Yes, I can never
think of that name.
—Cat Ztf H Tamt
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4* t *
“Are you a clock watchrrt”
asked the business man of the
hazard graduate who had just
applied for a job.
“No,” replied the average
(but honest) student, “I’m a
bell listener."
—CWcraie P*<»
INNOCENT MAIDEN
By Estelle Bethea Marlowe
I have never been kissed but
tirtee, she said,
Flo dim, blonde and frail,
The first time was by Ear
vard—
The seexmd trrme bp Yale.
Mterfm; The r*fct teg ai tb>
potent te tevr than the teft
which earns him to hmp. Non
what wouki you do m i cast
of this kmdt
Vtacc (from rear of ctesa
rxtcmt) i Doc, I’d hmp, too.
RO ' *jp- a 1 KILLJOY COLLLOE
AT COLLEGE, EH ?
v/ LEARNING- YOUR
J£X\ABC',S
r
WO - OLD TIMET* —
TESTIMONIAL
Editor,
Conner 7W*
TyW, Texas.
A hne to oomph mnnl you on
your paper as an advertising
medium- I advert*cd for mj
Vast dog recently and offered a
reward. Piftan minutes after
the paper was off the pnm the
hoond raad the ad, stock the
bone to tan thi rmtri
)
r GRAVEYARD ITEMS
Be loti a dome hf the rmkrmd
track.
Ren l tie, frm from KM—
A chorus girl k*t wee welh #
Gideon hilift.
%
Thu it t loo,U my M,
Guess whet
Died from Oid Rmg.
Don't teU me foe sunk thu
lew.
Thu is on me.
Asleep alone at last. .
Oner mg dead body!
’dm I burnt up?
Dumb IVmt: I drm\ urn bow
football players ewer get dean!
Ditto: Silly, what do you
sr* m
DEFINITIONS
To help the uninitiated un
derstand words connected with
Musical Comedy:
Acts—Instrument for ratting
wood.
Bmtlet — Slip of paper and in
▼oting.
Call Sows -Warn ships at
by ringing beUa
Coat — Made of plaster to kutp
port broken arms.
Chorus A plot at land, m a
golf-chorus.
enter.
T>amoo~- Thiek. stupid.
Herons — Dangenw, Mhft.
forming drug.
/spciwc —- Name of Preach
press who wore dippy h»tv.
Prmespal — Borrowed money
on which you pay mterwtt
Qsuuirrmsglj*—An argument on N
the quad.
te»«-N<teaiiBdtoMtriiMi.
THE T~J
A kiss is a peculiar proposi
tion. Of no use to one, yet ab
solute bliss to two. The small
boy gets it for nothing, the
young man has to he for it and
the old man has to buy ft. Tho
baby's right, the lover’s priv
ilege and the hypocrite’s m—fc
To a young girl, faith; to a
married woman, bops; awj to
an old maid, chanty.
—♦'.ft. L Sktfr*.
Nctine in Local Newspaper:—
GENTLEMAN WHO GETS
PAID ON THURSDAY AND
WHO IS USUALLY BROKE
BY SATURDAY WILL EX
CHANGE SMALL LOANS
WITH PERSON WHO IS 4
PAID ON SATURDAY AND
IS NOT BROKE UNTIL
THURSDAY. REFERENCES
ASKED AND GIVEN. AP
PLY BOX OO. TIMES.
uwhat win it oast me to haw
wj car fixed f” *
44 What’s the matter with itf*
“I don’t know.”
44 Fifty-two dollars and fifty
ante.”