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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-11-19

Chicago Excursion On Way--An ex-
cursion or 80 persons from Chicago
will be here early next week 70 look
into the possibilities Of Point Isabel,
officials of the Point Isabel company
said Saturday. re will mark the larE-
est excursion brought here BY the
company since it took ever the sales
Of the project.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-11-19

County Official Away. J. Fox
county tax collector, Is out OF the
city on business. it was stated at his
office in the court house Friday. he
il spending much tine In the upper
section Of the county Of late, II was
said.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-11-19
KING nYERWnRKEn

CAIRO.-King Fund. who has over
worked for several months, has been
ordered 20 take a complete rest.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-11-19

DUNDALK, Scotland. - Joseph
Parks, who was tarred and feathered
BY neighbors, has sued the city for
s 5000.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-11-19

When Yoa Think Of good eats and
drinks you think Of the Star Pharm-
acy, opposite hospital. McAllen, Tex
as 2 Advertisement.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-11-19

Meeting Changed-Kiwanis lun-
cheon will be held Monday at 1915
o'clock instead of on Thanksgiving
Day, according to announcement.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-11-19

Canaries for Sale, British and Ger
man Rollers; also Hartz Mountain, in
full song. Mrs. w. B. Sudlow,
Phone 500 W.-Adv. 20.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-11-19

III It's a Typewriter you are think
ing OF. Just think Davenport" We
sell. We repair. 1112 Elizabeth St
Phone 1105-19-Adv.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-11-19

Turn to the right az the sign on
Highway, Just south Of Country Club
Resaca and travel on Gravel road ID
entrance Of Media Luna Farms sub
division.-Adv. 10.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-11-19

why Pay Renff Finance a home
or your own. your very own Easy
payment plan. We also lean N bus
mess and farm property. Insurance
Of all kinds. Todd a Underwood.
State National Bank Building. Phone
TR2-Adw 80
The Washington times., 1927-10-29

difficult now to repress clawning
instincts as it was in her school
days In England. She went to
England to be educated when
she was seven years old and at.
tended a boarding school, in
which the Victorian traditions of
what a lady should be fell across
her natural tom-boy years. Her
first theatrical experiences We're
In London where actors and act
resses took on a degree of dignity
beyond that in this country. Then
she came hack to America to
appear first in mannerly comedy
with the late John Drew.
Maybe, in some reincarnation,
Miss Burke will crafty that in.
born instinct to be a clown.
There is something wistful in
those blue eyes when she salks
about the hilarious days she
happened to be girl. 1t would
do no good to come back as
girl, even in these free-and. easy
times. she says. II a man thinks
he likes a female clown, it Is
only the synthetic gin speaking.
Men simply do not like a lady
clown. "
The Washington times., 1927-10-29

II Billie Burke's sex had
matched her name, she probably
would have spent the years,
which, being girl, she has spent
on the stage, doing nip-ups and
lay-backs with the Greatest Show
on Earth. Billie Burke, you per-
haps recall. was born in Wash.
ington, was christened Ethelbert
Burke by the father. William
Ethelbert Burke. who had been a
clown in the old one-ring circuses,
and who finished his show days
with the Barnum & Bailey circus.
He gave his daughter the name
of the SON which he wanted and
did not have, and she reciprocated
by inheriting his clown instances.
But Billie Burke never could
be a clown! Why? Because people
and particularly men-do not
admire clowning or even broad
comedy in woman. Not more
than twice in the past generation
has woman come to the stage
who could indulge her Glowing
instincts and retain her feminine
charms. Not more than half
dozen times In the generation has
the stage developed a woman who
could Withstand the ravages OF
broad comedy.
Miss Burke says It ID not 20
The Washington times., 1927-10-29
my Face" Tops A Full and Ample Week
RKED so
SHE SOUGHT
SURCEASE

June Collyer, the lovely blonde
Josephine Van Horn Of East
Side, West Side" the film attrac.
ton at the Fox Theater next
week. can be counted as another
Allan Dwan discovery" for this
Is her first part in pictures.
The role required a society girl
Of the fragile. aristocratic type to
contrast sharply with the dark.
eyed Becka from the Ghetto.
played by Virginia Vally. Miss
Collyer was chosen from among
many experienced actresses who
were tested, because she looked
the part so thoroughly.
Jike JosepAine Van Horn Of
the story, Miss ColIyer comes
froH old Dutch stock, ana is a
''betn and bred" New Yorker.
She made her debut three years
ago, but, after a season in so.
ciety, she felt the urge to do
something more constructive than
dancing and more interesting
than drinking tea in smart sa-
Ions.
From her maternal grandfather
she inherited a desire for a stage
career, for Dan Collyer was an
actor for so years. This desire
was somewhat inhibited, however,
by the instincts derived from a
long line of conservative ances.
tors dating back to the Revolu.
ton on her fathers side. She
compromised by occasionally
working as a fashion model for
the higher class magazines, and
continuing with her social life
at the same time.
The role in East Side, West
Side is an important one, and is
the first definite step in the di.
rection Of a career.
The Washington times., 1927-10-29
SISTERS UNDER
THE SKIN, AT
LEAST

The same problem which face
the real college coed are perth
nent to the screen coed!
Girls who play the roles Of col.
lege girls before the camera are
much like those found on the real
campus.
In Marion Davies newest star
ring vehicle, THE Fair Coed"
film based on college life, to be
presented shortly at the Palace
Theater, some 25 or 80 girls were
kept under contract throughout
the filming Of the picture.
The problem Of living as eco
nomically as possible Is uppermost
in the mind Of the average college
girl. It is also a vital question
to the screen coed. Strangely
enough their budgets are almost
parallel. Food and shelter run
practically the same. The college
coed puts aside a certain allow
ance for text books, notebooks,
paper, pencils. etc.
The screen coed spends about
the same amount for grease paint,
lipstick. eye darkening, and other
film makeup.
In many Of the colleges, facul-
ties are advocating simplicity in
the costumes Of girl students. At
the film studios directors ara be.
coming prejudiced in favor of the
extra girls who dress simply and
neatly. They are almost COM
pletely out of sympathy with the
girls who dress in exotic, bizarre,
and theatrical styles.
The Washington times., 1927-10-29

Though he's closer to the
canvas than most, a fellow who
still preserves the illusion of
distance, is Gilbert Miller, in
heritor of the House of Froh-
man, and, since being prescribed
because of his production of
"The Captive" a producer in
his own identity and a compe-
tent one. His first production
of the season here was "Inter-
ference" His second is 1.-THE
Plays the Thing" now at the
Belasco with Holbrook Blinn
and others.
On Tuesday two reviewers
one being our own Jim Ring
attributed a funny line in the
play to the adapter, Pelham
Granville Wodehouse. In re-
print, the gag would be mega
tive. The show should be seen
and the two characters placed,
to develop the fertility of the
line, uttered by the butler, 81
sleep in the winter, sir, thank
you'll"
Mr.. Miller received the clip
pings by mail late Tuesday
night in New York. At 2:3O
Wednesday morning, his per-
sonal representative, Mr.. Nc
Kay Cor, was it McCabe?)
was awakened at the Lee House
by his boss voice.
The line, it seems was Ferenc
Molnar's and not Mr.. Wode-
houses. 1t seemed much ado
about nothing, and particularly
The Washington times., 1927-10-29
GRINS AWAITING
YOU AT THE
RIALTO

Burlesque prize fights have for
years been amusing audiences of
the motion picture and vaudeville
theaters. and more recently they
have appeared on the legitimate
stage.
Fred Karno. English producer,
is credited with being the first
man to picture q pair of comic
boxers In the ring before an
American audience. Karno Is the
man whose Might in a London
Music Hall" first brought Charlie
Chaplin. then an unknown de.
lineator Of drunk" roles. to this
country.
After Karno's success with the
idea. the makers of film farces
carried on, and for years theater
audiences have been watching
matches with the same ideas
being used.
Charlie Chaplin put on q great
fight in 1.-THE Champion" but
there are only a certain number
of funny twists that can be got
out of fight. 1t is always just
q matter Of repetition.
However, 1t took La CaVa,
whose latest megaphone work,
TELL 1t to Sweeney" which il
being shown at the Ratio. to
figure out a new idea for the
squared ring; a burlesque wres-
ting match, because 1t Is hard to
put laughs into such a match.
1t Is predicted the wrestling
scenes in Tell 1t to Sweeney"
will be the hit Of the picture. La
Cava states that the comedy men
worked for weeks figuring differ.
ent stunts. While the scenes
were being taken. the onlookers
howled with laughter.
The burlesque match Is q
contest between the mighty
George Bancroft and his little
comedy team-mate. Chester Con.
kiln, he of the walrus mustache
fame. 1t takes place during a
picnic of railroad engineers, Ban
croft and Conklin each playing
throttle pushers In Tell 1t to
Sweeney"
The Washington times., 1927-10-29

revolutionary move, mayhap spon.
sored by the Chinese troupers. to
pay the actors an additional Is
cents for each worthwhile hand
clapping ELECTED from the house.
With proper brotherly. co-opera.
ton out in front, the salary en-.
velopes may even approach those
of the American performer.
1.-TWO things we do not have
in China. women's matinees and
vaudeville.
'Our drama is chiefly tradi.
tional. We still play our classics
which have been handed down
from generation to generation.
These are listened to with positive
reverence. The majority of our
playrights were poets and philos-
ophers.
The wire Snowman In China
those who know their groceries,
programs the meat OF his offering
between and IL p. M, although
our plays run continuously from
until midnight. The spectator
comes and goes at will throughout
the performance, having a door
check for Identification. Men and
women sit apart. Our orchestra
seats are wooden benches.
Yes. we have boxes for the
wealthy or distinguished, curtained
to hide the occupants, with
benches and a couch--the latter to
permit of nap when one is bored
or tired. An attendant is always
at hand to serve tea.
Gum and peanuts are un.
known quantities to the Chinese
playgoer. but melon seeds. lychee
nuts and dried kumquats take
the place of American candy.
''In the Flowery Kingdom we.
enjoy melodrama, but served with
a much lighter touch than over
here, even gorgeously tinseled.
And, always, good must triumph
over evil, otherwise the show is
a certain flop.
I'VE use practically a bare
stage. One chair may represent
many things. In China we say,
y lima gination is as big as you can
paint it, Our property man is
virtually a master OF ceremonies.
All entrances are made through
one door at the left. An exits
through one at the right. And this
rule is never violated, whether
one be exiting for Singapore or
a garden party.
above the musicians In a
square box representing heaven,
from which the image of a be-
whiskered old man, the actors
God of the Theater, looks down
encouragingly. To it the actors
burn much incense and to it they
climb on frequently unsteady lad
ders when death scene is in
The Washington times., 1927-10-29
Movie Doubles Who
Later Became
Stars

The most famous movie
double" of all is Ramon
NOvarrO. Ramon started
doubling for Rudy Valentino
and when Rex Ingram had his
first quarrel with Rudy back
I'm the old Metro days he
threatened to make a star Of
Ramon, and succeeded bril-
Iiantly, says PhOtOplay Maya
zine.
But naught was said Of
RamOn's double until this sea.
son when he stepped forward
to take a" bow as Gilbert
Roland, the ilashing lover Of
Camille. Gilbert also spent some
time doubling for another Gil.
bert. first name John.
Then came a third-DOn
AlvaradO stepping from the
ranks Of the long shots to the
cIOseups and better nav checks.
Don has doubled for nearly all
the great LOVERS" Roland Col.
man included.
The newest Of the boys Is
Charles Delaney. DE Mile has
Just nut Charlie under a long
time contract and his first mic.
ture win be "The Main Event"
Charlie has heen a lot If stars
I'm the dangerous distance.
The Washington times., 1927-10-29
Club Lido

Horton. the Club Lido head
waiter. has his troubles.
With the big Halloween celebra.
ton at the new night club in the
Hamilton Hotel, Fourteenth and
K Streets N. W., many hours off.
reservations alone have virtually
exhausted the normal table space.
Horton, however, profoundly OBJ.
serves with the sages: The more
the merrier." and il hearers sur.
vive, continues: There's always
room for one more"
Halloween decorations and
favors will mark the season for
the Monday night party. No ad-
mission card is necessary and a
variety of dress is expected mas
much as costumed revelers are
to be welcomed.
The Washington times., 1927-10-29

so. because Mr.. Mckay (or Nc
Cabe) is not a subscriber to
late hours.
The transgressing papers
were to be Immediately told
that Mr.. Molnar, lately, and at
all times previous, of Buda-
pesth, fashioned this line, and
that, as uttered here, the edi-
ton was unexpurgated. Mr..
Wodehouse, comical elf that he
is, had nothing to do with it.
Try as / would, l couldn't in
terest the managing editor in
a stop press" order, and so the
palpitant universe waits until
this minute to have it's records
Strengthened.
The Washington times., 1927-10-29
HIS GAG SOURCE
EXPOSED BY
M'LEAN

Discovered-a book that contains
the sources of all preSent-day mo.
ton picture gags"
According to Douglas MacLean,
it's the arabian Nights" and the
comprehensive scope while con-
Quoting his researches preparatory
to filming soft Cushions" the
modern comedy tale with An cara
bian Nights" setting, which Para.
mount now is presenting a" Loew's
Palace Theater.
"Humor changes its form with
the age, but the fundamental thing
that makes a given incident funny
hasn't changed since somebody
dropped the first banana peel"
MacLean claims. THE proof of it
Is that the ARABIAN Nights" tales
contain the basis for every comedy
gag developed by our funniest
modern humorists.
The late George Randolph Ches-
ter. who wrote the original screen
story OF Soft Cushions realized
this fact. That is why II was pos.
sible for him to evolve an absolute.
~ modern comedy-one that could
he played just as we'll in twentieth
century clothes and settings
against the more colorful back.
ground of the Orient a thousand
years ago.
Chester wrote a fast-moving
story, with plenty of screen gags
and our staff writers added some
Of their own. Despite the ancient
background, everything in the
story Is modern. Yet a thorough
reading OF the Arabian Nights
will prove that they were all un.
conscious plagiarists; every funny
thought suggested has IT'S roots in
this Older record Of contemporary
humor."
The Washington times., 1927-10-29
Swanee

Mardi-gras parties will provide
plentiful color at Swanee next
week. A Halloween bali is booked
for Monday, October 81. while a
costume ball is scheduled just
four days later on Friday,
November 4.
The Halloween ball will be
deliberately staged. with souvenirs,
fun-makers, special entertainment
and everything that adds to the
jollity of a proper celebration.
A special flip will be added
to the costume ball on next Fri.
day evening by the offer of $50
in gold as prizes for the most
beautiful and most comic
costumes.
Roland Young, tenor soloist,
Is the newest addition to the
Swanee roster of entertainment.
His ballad numbers are supple.
>mented by the amusing specialties
OF AL Norton, banjoist and AL
Sokol, saxaphonist.g
The Washington times., 1927-10-29
LIE Paradis

Variety is the life of entertain.
ment. So poppy bits of vaude.
vile are being used to high
light the dance music programs
at LIE Paradis.
A team of bright young
MISREPRESENTATION are respon-
sible for the introduction Of
these songs and skits that so
effectively fill in the intermission
between dances. Dorm Francis,
drummer, and Matt Walker, ban.
joist. both step out of their
places in the lineup Of LIE Para.
dis band every night in order to
stage special numbers.
Though every night at lie Para.
dis may be said to be a bright
one, the amusement peak Of the
week is reached on Theatrical
Night" on Thursday, when the
leading visiting theatrical people
are presented by the suave Har.
Gle Meakin.
The Washington times., 1927-10-29
STILL MIDST HER
TEENS, BUT WHAT
A DANCER!

Playing the Palace Theater in
New York, the foremost music
hall In America, Is to the vaude-
vile performer what singing a
leading role at the Metropolitan
Opera House is to a grand opera
iaspirant. 1t signifies to the pro-
fession at large that one has
arrived" In show business. It
is what playing the Palace means.
And when one Is recalled to the
Palace just one week after play
ing there-well-there is nothing
further to be said. One Is es.
tablished.
Sometimes two are: For in.
stance, Harriet Hector and Will.
lam Holbrook, coming to Keith's
Theater this new week, have
long been suspected OF being the
most accomplished dancers in
vaudeville, but 1t was their recent
achievement of playing two en-
gagements at the Palace just one
week apart, that proved It. Such
finished and beautiful dancing
whether ballet or modern, for
they are adept at both--would be
hard to find upon any stage.
Miss Hector is one of Ameri-
cas- youngest ballerinas. She in
not yet 20, and yet her perfect
toe dancing puts her in line for
the mantle of the still incompar.
able Pavlowa. She Is a young
ster Of unusual charm; serious,
brown-eyed child, whose Dutch.
cut brown hair cut with a bang
across her forehead, makes her
look about Is years old. Her
imagination asserts itself In more
ways than dancing. Her invaria-
bly, delightful dancing costumes
are designed by her and made
by her aunt, who travels with
her. This aunt, by the way, who
has brought Harriet up, is her
guardian and companion, and Ii
just as ingenious as her talented
niece. The ways and means
those two employ to get secure
desired effects in costumes are
both amazing and amusing.
Happily teamed with the good
looking and light-footed Mr.. Hol-
brook. the lovely Harriet is by
way OF being a sensation.
The Washington times., 1927-10-29

Imagine what would happen to
the man who pulled the beard Of
the King of England.
Douglas MacLean is called upon
to perform just as hazardous a
stunt in soft Cushions" his I'M
ique comedy which Is now show
ing at Loew's Palace Theater.
Doug doesn't trifle with the dig.
nifty Of the ruler Of the British
Empire but the comedian does
make a rash promise that he will
yank the whiskers of the Sultan
on the day the girl he loves be-
comes the Sultan's slave.
The Washington times., 1927-10-29
THIS IDEA WILL
BE EASY ON
THE EYES

William Kent, who whips up
the wheels of mirth in Funny
Face" has appointed himself q
mascot to chorus girls. Specific
ally to the young ladies' who fur
nish the terpsichorean background
for the new musical hit which
comes to Polls this week, he has
assumed the role of beautician.
To Mr.. Kent's supersensitive
eye, the sight OF flesh bunting
by the merest shade 4 fetching
contour. is grievous thing. All
OF Thursday night the comedian
sat up, sleepless, bordering the
problem of the chorus. BY MORN
ing he felt he had mastered It.
Mentally he organized a bicycle
club by which he would lure his
dancing proteges to circle with
taut spines and rotating knees the
highways and byways of the
nearby countryside. He saw him
self gyrating at their head, Sc
rene in the confidence that he
was nipping embonpoint even be-
fore it had a chance to bud.
Boisterously and with no hint of
his purpose he preached the idea
Of reviving the bicycling craze to
the young ladies. and enlisted six
charter members. He is planning
to take the girls on a cross
country run through Mount Ver-
non and other nearby points of
interest, starting with a round
trip of a mere so miles or so.
Almost any day soon, people
who keep commuters hours may
see along the roads a troupe of
1.-the and rudy young women,
glorified in knickers and pumping
their legs in the fashion of q
quarter of a century ago. These
will be William Kent's Funny
Face Riders" The aesthetic OBJ
server will doubtless detect the
dwindling ankles and calves and
thighs that Mr.. Kent already
beams to contemplate.
The six Funny Face" pioneers
he has enlisted are Peggy Quinn,
Marie Otto. Dorothy Jordan Elsie
Neal. Polly Williams and Ethel
Maye.
The Washington times., 1927-10-29
THE GATE-POsT
By Harold Phillips;

If any solac the discouraged
ST. Pat Players be borne mind that ported
when bigger game hand. than not
target be badge of honor The the sublime and the
always with sofshoeng its md glad to
be let alone and to be alive Enterprise follow the
gudeposs of mediocrty than the h wing with the kyark
It the opinion of this observer that enterprise and tendency
breadth built the that the Players oblivion
And prejudice of the gauge finished the job
The parish enteranmenof whatever denomination
swndle coated form of pyramdng the Sunday collection
plate and goadng the faithful into further does These
always with and the presumption natural that long
continue to hew to the line of qualification they will be allowed
to increase the worlds harvest of pain and boredom
believe the circumscribed Christian intellect
that there profitable new in organization that graduate
of professionals the hand and
%bn nfhnr
The Washington times., 1927-10-29
Safe and Sane

Despite the dangerous nature
OF the many stunts in THE
Magic Flame" the latest Ronald
Colman-Vilma Banky picture now
at I1oew's Columbia, the picture
was filmed without single cas-.
ualty. This was in spite of the
fact that there are more than 50
stunts in the picture in which
someone easily might have been
injured and that there were somc
1000 people employed in the cast.
The Washington times., 1927-10-29
Denie d
Her Billie S Sad

Life has been good to Billie Burke She blessed with red
hair, blue and Irish She
she than through her and under the Frohman
of it's time
PLY for than decade to Florenz zgfeld the eminent
Gorer. She haired daughter aegs-
andarms STAGE but she has She got
The Washington times., 1927-10-29
Old Associates

Henry King, who directed Ron.
aid Colman and Wilma Banky in
The Magic Flame" now showing
at Loew's Columbia, had previ.
ously directed them in THE Win.
ming Of Barbara WORTH"
The Washington times., 1927-10-29
Who Did EN-

George Marion, jr., and Nellie
Ravell, famous woman editor and
former theatrical press representa-
tive. wrote the titles for 1.-THE
Magic Flame" new Ronald Col
man-Vilma Banky film now
showing at Loew's Columbia.
The Washington times., 1927-10-29
Vital Data on the
Chinese Theater

The Honorable WI who is playing at Loews Palace Thear
with his entitled The Feast of Lanterns gives much umi
mating data relative theatrical conditions in his native land
The Washington times., 1927-10-29

"One of the first things to which
a performer from China has to &C.
custom himself in this country is
applause" says the Honorable WI,
adding. whimsically, although l
believe 1t is a tribute highly valued
by the actors on the American
stage"
However" he goes. on to say,
with the wearing away of old
political traditions has come q