Brownsville herald. [volume], July 30, 1933, FINAL SUNDAY EDITION, Page TEN, Image 10

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With 8 Brownsville a and ■ Valley 8 Theaters
MARY HEADS
LARGE CAST
IN “SECRETS’
Leslie Howard Plays
Lead in Rivoli
Picture
Surrounded by one of the largest
casts In her long career and di
rected by Frank Borzage, two-time
Academy winner, Mary Pickford
comes to the Rivoli theatre Sun
day in “Secrets," an adaptation of
the celebrated stage play by Rudolf
Besier and May Edgington. And
thus, according to all advance re
ports, motion picture fans will see
the star in one of the best pictures
she has made.
“Secrets” gives Miss Pickford
what she believes is an ideal vehi
cle. In the first place, it is “motion
picture” from beginning to end,
and in the second place the story
is a simple one of love and elemen
tal emotions, with no wise-crack
ing and no sophistication. It is Miss
Pickford’s sincere b$?t»f that simple
tales, simply told, will be the salva
tion of the screen, just as they are
bound to be in literature.
Prepared for Months
Months of preparatory work went
Into the picturization of “Secrets”.
In every branch, Miss Pickford
spared no expense and time in
procuring the best material and the
best personnel, as will be borne out
by a glance at the production staff
and the cast of playes. Both before
and behind the camera were
“names” known throughout the
world.
In the latter category were Fran
ces Marion, scenarist, and Frank
Borzage, director, who recently
were awarded their second trophies
by the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences, thus joining
the very small army of two-time
winners in Hollywood. Also behind
the cameras were Ray June, cam
eraman, and Richard Day, art di
rector, who were recent runner
up in Academy awards. And. both
before and behind those cameras,
was Miss Pickford herself, who won
an Academy award for her “Co
quette.”
In front of the cameras was an
all-star cast in every sense of the
word. Leslie Howard, English star,
was Miss Pickford’s leading man,
and Mona Maris is the “other wo
man.” Then there are C. Aubrey
Smith, Blanche Frederici, Doris
Lloyd, Herbert Evans, Ned Sparks
and Jerry Stewart.
In spite of the wide spread of
his front legs, the English bulldog
passes his hind legs outside of
ithem when running.
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No finer role
could have been
given any actress
to play!
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RIVOLI
SAN BENITO
DIPLOMANIACS MEET A BLONDE
Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey run the gamut of high-powered
tnusical comedy nonsense in •‘Diplomaniacs,’’ RKO-Radio Picture.
Marjorie White, Louis Calhern, Phyllis Barry,_ Hugh Herbert, Edgar
Kennedy and Richard Carle, funmakers all. are in support of the
comedian stars. The picture is showing Sunday and Monday at the
Capitol, Brownsville.
BEAUTIFUL ELISSA!
Elissa Landi is said to add new glamor to her personality with her
role in “I Loved You Wednesday,” the new Pox romance in which she
plays opposite Warner Baxter, showing Tuesday and Wednesday at
the Capitol, Brownsville.
DAD MARRIES SISTERS
DENVER—It was strictly a fam
ily affair when the Scott sisters
were married here. Marjorie Scott
married William Spears, and Flor
ence Scott married George Duncan
in a double wedding. *The knots
were tied by the girls’ father. Rev.
W. T. Scott, pastor of the Cameron
church.
A BLESSING NOW'
‘ What do you suppose makes
your apartment so cool these hot
days?”
“Our radiators haven't thawed
out from last winter.”—Pathfinder.
diSrnam
— TODAY —
“THREE WISE
GIRLS”
with MAE CLARK
JEAN HARLOW7
MARIE PREVOST
RKO Pathe Comedy
Summer Price, 10c
DON’T BET
Snappy Ginger Rogers who plays
the feminine lead in “Don’t Bet
On Love,” starring Lew Ayres in
his latest hit at the Capitol
I theatre, Brownsville, Tuesday and
Wednesday.
DANCING
EVERY
NIGHT
Except Monday
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PIXIE BLUE BOYS’
ORCHESTRA
ROMANCE IN “EMERGENCY CALL’’
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Bill Boyd as the battling hospital interne and Betty Furness as his
sweetheart in "Emergency Call," RKO-Radio's melodrama of the am
bulance service. Showing Sunday and Monday at the Queen. First
time in Brownsville.
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Mary Picklord in “Secrets’’ with Leslie Howard showing Sunday and
Monday at the Rivoli Theatre, San Benito.
Fans Fair Fans
To Fine Frenzy
What’s a World’s Fair without a
row over daring dancing? In
’93 it was Little Egypt. In '33
it’s the Fan Dance. Sally Rand,
above, who danced with no at
tire but two fans, roused the
envy of. other World’s Fair
dancers by getting arrested. But
the Chicago judge, told all the
lurid details, merely said,
“Well, what of it? The human
form is a beautiful thing.”
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Absentee Ballots
May Be Obtained
Those who wish to obtain bal
lots for absentee voting in the elec
j tions to be held Aug. 26 may do so
beginning Monday. Aug. 7. ac
cording to H. D. Seago, county
clerk.
Voting will take place at that
time on constitutional amend
ments, statewide prohibition re
peal and probably local option in
the San enito independent school
district. A previously filed appli
cation for a local option election
was held unconstitutional and new
petitions have not been placed in
circulation as yet.
The Savannah, built at New
York, was the first steamship to
cross the Atlantic. She went from
Savannah, Ga., to Liverpool in 26
days.
" ON AND OFF '
THE SCREEN
m-Janet Gaynor-■
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POLKS, meet Janet Gaynor.
petite motion picture star,
whose demure smile seems just
as constant off the screen as it
is on it. Above is Janet as she
appears in one of her latest and
most successful films, below, is
Janet—sans movie make-up
as she appeared recently at an
airport near Hollywood when a
cameraman snapped her as she
watched flyers cut didoes in
the air
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'Beautiful Babies’
Winners Announced
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO. July 29.—Beauti
ful babies held the limelight at
the Rivoli Theater Thursday night
when Doris Louise (Corky) Dodson
won first place in the girl’s division
and Jimmie Goolsby in the boys’
division.
The former is a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Ezra Dodson and the
latter a son of J. A. Goolsby.
Lynette Brown, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W. R. Brown was second.
The contest was held in connec
tion with a vaudeville program un
der direction of H. F. Springfield.
A bloc is a group of legislators
organized to influence legislation;
a lobby is a group of persons not
members of a legislative body who
try to influence legislation.
TOPAZE DISCOVERS SEX APPEAL
John Barrymore finds Myrna Loy's love entrancing in this flirtatious
sequence from RKO-Radio Pictures’ dramatic comedy “Topaze.”
Showing Thursday only at the Capitol, Brownsville.
Uproariously Funny Comedy
Team Comes tn Capitol On
Sunday in 'Diplomaniacs’
Wheeler and Woolsey, who start
ed as ‘‘The Cuckoos” a few years
ago and were swept to fame as one
of the leading musical comedy
teams of talking pictures, are again
In RKO-Radio pictures. Laughter
is dished out in hey-nonny, boop
boop-adocp tempo by these whim
sical and chatter comics in their
latest production. ‘‘Diplomaniacs,”
which plays at the Capitol today
and tomorow.
The cast certainly is nonny-non
ny-boop, with Marjorie White,
Phyllis Barry and Hugh Herbert
in principal roles, and Larry Ceba
llos’ trained beauties supplying the
chorus numbers.
Miss White, giggling little blonde
comedienne, the current “hey-non
ny-nonny girl” of the Gay White
Way, appears first wrapped in' cel
lophane, like a cigar. She is deliv
ered as a “blonde vamp, guaranteed
untouched by human hands.” She
goes for Wheeler in a big way.
Woolsey is beset by Miss Barry,
“the best heart crusher in all
Paris.” When she kisses men, they
stay kissed—smoke pours from
their collars and they swoon.
The plot of “Diplomaniacs” Is
meaty and snappy, a frolic of fun
which pokes inspired gags at the
Geneva Peace Conference and
practically everything of current
interest.
Beautiful girls, snappy music,
clever dancing and punchy wise
cracks pepper the piece to unusual
flavor. “Diplomaniacs” is one of
the best Wheeler and Woolsey ve
hicles—and certainly their most
up-to-date one. It’s the best pana
cea for all-around blues that has
come this way in some months.
"I Loved You Wednesday”
“I Loved You Wednesday,” the
Fox romance which we take pride
in announcing as one of the most
interesting films to be shown in
the Capitol theatre, comes to this
theatre for a two-day engagement.
The cast, fitting the magnitude of
the picture, is a prominent one,
with Warner Baxter, Elissa Landi.
Victor Jory, Miriam Jordan and
Laura Hope Crews in the featured
roles.
Here is something new1 in motion
pictures—a flood tide of emotion
pounding against the rawness of
nature in the process of being
tamed. The love an orchid of the
footlights for a man who has pit
ted himself against nature, haunt
ed by a former infatuation, harass
ed by the presence of another wo
man.
The screen outdoes itself with a
dramatization of man’s work at
Boulder Dam, and the presentation
of the Dance of the Maidens, one
of the most elaborate spectacles
ever seen in motion pictures. The
direction of Henry King .who has
such other successes as “State Fair’’
to his credit, is superb.
“Topaze"
John Barrymore is playing in
“Topaze” for one day only at the
Capitol, Thursday. The title comes
from the name of the leading
character, Auguste Topaze. He is
first seen as a too meek school
master in a French school for boys,
teaching that honesty is the best
First Brownsville Showing
Love gave this ambul
an ce surgeon courage
to buck the hospital
racketeers . . .
Bill BOYD
“EMERGENCY”
CALL”
with
Wynne Gibson
William Gargan
George E. Stone
TODAY
and Monday
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policy. But his scrupulous code
Isoes hitm his job, and he blunders
into a better one with a Baron.
What happens to the ego of Topaze
when he finds all his adages about
truth given the lie, makes the
story of “Topaze” not only delicious
modern comedy, but a field for in
teresting characterization.
The cast is headed by Myrna Loy
as the pretty coquette whose rela
tions with the Baron first shock
Topaze and then inspire him to
steal her for himself.
“Don’t Bet On Love”
Not since “All Quiet on the
Western Front” has Lew Ayres had
a role which fitted him so perfect
ly as that accorded him in his la
test screen drama, “Don’t Bet on
Love,” which plays at the Capitol
theatre Friday and Saturday.
And in addition to Ayres, there is
the vivacious, peppy Ginger Rogers
as feminine lead—Ginger, straight
from her success in “42nd Street.”
playing opposite Ayres in absolute
harmony—a perfect team of young
lovers.
In this exciting screen story race
horses provide much of the color
and thrills of the moving picture.
The camera journeys to Saratoga,
famous eastern racing center, and
the fortunes of the ponies have
much to do with the weaving of the
drama.
THE WORM TURNS
LOS ANGELES—Isaac Alhaceff,
florist, did a “turning worm” act
when a bandit entered his store,
and is now money ahead. The ban
dit robbed Isaac of $20. Isaac then
got mad. He chased the bandit,
pinned him against the wall, and
then, went through his pockets to
extract his own $20 and a few be
sides. The bandit begged for his
money back and Isaac gave him a
dime for carfare.
Over 300 years ago a crude sub
marine, to be propelled by oars,
was constructed in England under
the reign of James I; it proved of
no value except as a curiosity.
SPEEDY PACE
SET BY FILM
HERE SUNDAY
A swift-paced picture, red-blood
ed drama of the heroism of the
hospital ambulance service, RKO
Radio pictures’ “Emergency Call”
shows today and Monday at the
Queen theatre, Brownsville, with
Bill Boyd, Wynne Gibson and Wil
liam Gargan.
Moving with the speed of an ex
press train and teeming with
thrills and suspense, “Emergency
Call” is a strikingly human docu
ment of the colorful careers of a
young ambulance dcotor and his
driver. Bill Boyd, as Joe Bradley,
is the idelaistic and courageous
interne. William Gargan, as Steve
Brennan, is a wise-cracking devil
may- care driver. Their dangerous
and exciting adventures in oppos
ing a gang of ambulance chasing
racketeers provide the action.
Trapped in an abandoned ware
house, where they have been lured
by a fake emergency call, Brad
ly and Brennan engage in a sav
age hand-to-hand fight with mur
derous ruffians. Police come to
their aid, but not before Brennan
has been stabbed in the encoun
ter and an operation is necessary
to save his life. Bradley performs
the delicate surgery.
The action races to a sensation
al climax when Bradley, thirsting
to avence his buddy, tracks down
and comers the racketeering chief.
The climax of this pulse-stirring
drama picture is the death of the
gangster at the hands of Bren
nan’s sweetheart-nurse, superbly
portrayed by Wynne Gibson.
Boyd, who may always be count
ed upon for a superlative charac
terization as a rugged hero, gar
ners additional laurels by his role
in “Emergency Call.” Gargan
makes a bid for stardom with his
remarkable performance as the
recklessly gallant ambulance dri
ver. Miss Gibson displays unusual
Versatility, that up-and-coming
starlet, Betty Furness, is good In
a brief but important part.
WARNING!
This Show Is Loaded
With
SEXPLOSIVES!
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In
"Whoopee
Party”
Metro Sport
“Desert
Regatta’’
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DELEGATES • . . .
From the Land of the Spree,
and the Home of the Rave.
The world hung on their
words . . , Hie femmes hung
on their necks ....
The Rest Is History!
bert Wheeler
robt. Woolsey
DIPLOMANIACS’
A Girlie Riot Full
of Tunes . . .
with
PHYLLIS BARRY
MARJORIE WHITE
EDGAR KENNEDY
TODAY Monday
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