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Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-20
Famous LancerS
Troop Will Give
Exhibitions Here

El Centre will be treated to a
flashing spectacle Wednesday after
noon and evening in connection
with the opening of the new United
Artists theatre, with the appearance
of the California LancerS. This
statewide famous organization of
uniformed troopers and band will
strut their stuff for El Centro We'd
nesday afternoon at 4 o'clock in
front of the United Artists at 7:30
o'clock that evening.
Gov. James Rolph, Jr., who is
sending 1t. Col. Carlos w. Hunt
ington here as his personal repre-
sentative at the United Artists op-
ening, also arranged for the ap-
pearance of the California Lancers.
The Lancers, 40 strong, will arrive
in FL Centro Wednesday afternoon
by special bus. After resting at the
Barbara Worth hotel, the Lancers
will don their gorgeous and multi
colored uniforms to parade Ell Gen.
tro streets beginning at 4:30 in
the afternoon.
A band concert will be given by
the Lancers in front of the United
Artists prior to the opening per-
formance, beginning at 7:30 o'clock.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-20
CHAMP GROUNDING TRAPPER

TAZEWELL, Va.-U.P)- James
Peery, Tazewell county, claims to
be the champion grounding trap
per of the world. He caught 162
this season and 882 in the past
three years.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-20
Local People On
Theatres Staff

Twelve positions were created
through the opening of the new
United Artists theatre for Ell Gen.
tro residents, thus increasing the
weekly payroll distributed in the
city.
Manager John De Paoli will have
for his staff the following:
Lloyd Miller, doorman; Louise
McKeighan, cashier; Imogene En-
mons, Hilda Reynolds, Lima Collins
and Edithye and Ethel Young, ush-
erettes; Edward Raymond, engineer
in charge of the Carrier Refriger-
alton system; Rex Thomas, janitor,
and George Abrams and Archie
Burden, projectionists.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-20
ANOTHER ARLISS
film COMING TO
FL CENTRIC SOON

A new George Arliss picture is
the motion picture public and "a
Successful Calamity" his latest
Warner Bros. triumph, coming soon
to the United Artists promises to
excel all of its excellent predecessors
in popularity.
The story deals with an Amer
ican family of great wealth; a
great financier, his young and love-
ly wife and his two grown children;
all of whom find themselves so busy
with the pleasure and duties i'm
posed upon them by their money and
position that no time is left for
the enjoyment of real family life.
In an attempt to remedy this un-
happy situation the father an
nounces suddenly that he is ruined.
Amazing and far reaching COM
plications which he little expects,
result Immediately. The delightful
comedy unfolds against the most
luxurious settings ever devised for
a picture of this type. 1t is pre-
sented with a cast SO excellent that
every bit part is played by an actor
or actress of considerable note.
War Stage Success
"a Successful Calamity" is adapt
ed from mighty successful stage
play of some seasons back, written
by Glare Hummer. John Adolf,
who directed George Arliss in 1.-The
Millionaire" Alexander Hamilton"
and "The Man Who Played God"
is credited with the direction OF
this new Arliss picture.
Although the entire program is
dominated by the character por-
trayed by Arliss, the supporting cast
is even more noteworthy than prev
ious ones seen in Arliss pictures.
Mary Astor, one of the lowell
est and most capable of the screens
leading women, plays the part of
the young and susceptible wife of
the financier. Evalyn Knapp, who
played with Arliss in 1.-THE Million
aire," is seen again as his daughter
in this picture. William Janney,
promising youthful screen and stage
actor, is the son. Grant Mitchell,
himself the featured player in
many lesser productions, has the
important role of the Wilton but
Ter. David Terrence, Hardie AL
bright, Hale Hamilton, Fortunio
Bonanova, Randolph Scott and
Murray Kinnell are featured play
erS.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-20
KEMP FORMERLY
USED AS MODEL
FOR COLLAR AID

Two of the juvenile leads in the
opening picture for the new Uni
ted Artists Theatre will appear in
person at the gala opening per-
formance Wednesday evening,
Sept. 81. They are Matty Kemp,
who portrays viii Rogers son in
Down to Earth" and Mary Carl
isle, sophisticated ingenue and
vamp of the picture.
Asked for a biography on Matty
Kemp. the Fox Film Corporation,
who placed him under contract,
sends the following information:
Born in New York City, Septem-
ber 10, 1908. Father was vice-pre-
sident of the Remington Typewrit-
er Co. No theatrical talent in the
family or especially noted rela-
tives. Attended New York city
schools, high school at Rockville
Center, Long Island, and st. Pauls
Preparatory school at Hampstead,
Long Island.
Intended to become a civil en-
gineer, and had no particular in
tentions of a theatrical life. Only
stage experience in school plays.
During vacation was persuaded to
pose as a model for a New York
advertising agency. Accepted more
as joke than for any other rea-
son. The agency held the Arrow
Collar account, and he was soon
portrayed in collar ads. Carl Laem-
nile of Universal Pictures was at
tracted by his appearance in the
ads, and sought an interview. Re-
suit was a contract and a trip to
Hollywood, where a'Uncle Carl"
planned to use him in a series of
Booth Harrington pictures.
The series fell through and
Kemp played his first role in an
Art Accord Western, in 1926. Spent
Is months with Universal, playing
in a number of comedies and col
lege shorts" Mack Sennett bor-
rowed him for comedy, and sub
sequently Kemp sued and obtain
ed his release from Sennett and be-
gan to free-lance.
Played with Constance Bennett
and Lew Ayres in Common Clay"
and in "Air Eagles" Signed to
play Will Rogers son in Down to
Earth" and won a Fox Films con-
tract shortly after the picture
went into production. Has never
married and lives in Beverly Hills
with his mother.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-20
POOR MAILMAN in
HOLLYWOOD GETS
PLENTY OF WORK

Hollywood postmen, those on the
studio routes, deliver their letters
in bundles and bales, and by the
truck load rather than the sack
full. Film stars as a whole receive
more mail than any other group of
persons in the world. The Holly
wood postoffice, unlike any other
anywhere, handles during each
twenty-four hours correspondence
from every country, territory, pro-
vince and crossroads on earth.
Players such as Will Rogers, ia
net Gaynor, Charles Farrell or
Warner Baxter, 1ong-established
and of great popularity, individ-
ually receive as many as 10000 let
ters a month. Newer favorites, such
as ELISA Landi or James Dunn,
receive amounts almost as large.
To handle this immense CORES
pondence every star in the film
capital has a private secretary.
Several, in fact, maintain business
offices. Will Rogers, one of the
busiest men in Hollywood, has an
office force and an operating
schedule that almost establishes
him as corporation rather than
an individual.
Movietone City, many-acred stu
dio of the Fox Film Corporation
in Hollywood, has a postoffice all
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-20
Did You Know
OF These Facts?

Will Rogers has flown more than
100000 miles by plane-but yet has
to handle the controls of ship?
Irene Rich owes her real start
in pictures to Rogers, who made
her his leading woman in series
of silent films more than ten years
ago?
Dorothy Jordan has the most
perfect profile of all the screens
ingenues?
Theodore Lodi was once gen.
eral in the Imperial Russian Ar
my2
Will Rogers was the first film
celebrity to take up polo a game
that now numbers dozens of screen
luminaries among its players?
Brandon Hurst and Theodore
Lodi, between them, have appeared
in nearly every Rogers talkie-but
this is the first picture in which
they have played together?
Will Rogers started his theatri-
cal career with a small circus in
South Africa?
Will Rogers as boy went ad-
venturing to South America, de-
termined to become a gaucho.
Will Rogers is really making a
serious effort to master the Span
ish language.
When VIII Rogers was with the
Follies in New York, many per-
sons bought season tickets to the
show because Rogers changed his
act every night?
Will Rogers, Jr., a freshman at
Stanford, got his name in the pa
per recently for breaking a fresh
man swimming record?
Will Rogers calls Mrs Rogers
Mother when he speaks Of her?
Will Rogers usually wears chaps
when he plays polo?
A noted portrait painter last
year appealed to Mrs Rogers for
her help in inducing Will to pose
for a painting-he had come all
the way from New York under
assignment? Rogers offered to re-
fund the amount of the fare but
still declined TO pose.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-20
Rogers Wrecks
Auto In Film

Will Rogers has encountered
plenty of thrills in his colorful
career, but few of them, he ad-
mits, equalled the sensations he
experienced in wrecking costly
foreign car for a scene in his new
est offering Down to Earth"
The scene called for the come
dian to take the wheel of the ma
chine and, supposedly unfamiliar
with the gear-shift, to crash into
a nearby scaffolding, bringing a
shower of miscellaneous bricks,
upon himself and the car. When
Director David Butler was ready
to "shoot" Rogers let the clutch
in with jerk, bounded forward
into the supporting timbers, and
ducked smartly under the wheel
as the rain of building materials
came down.
How did it feel, Bill?" asked
Butler as the comedian clambered
from the machine. Rogers tilted
his hat over his forehead and
grinned.
Here I've been thinkin' that po-
10 held about all the thrills there
are" he drawled, "but reckon 1
was mistaken"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-20
SOUTHERN GIRLS
PLENTY SCARCE
IN FILM LEADS

Southern girls, for some reason,
are rarities in Hollywood film cir
cles. Whether this is due to the
numerical superiority of Northern
maidens, or whether the Southern
gentleman refuses to allow his fe-
minnie compatriot to visit the cap
ital of screenland, no one seems to
know. But the fact remains that
only a handful of leading ladies
hail from below the Mason-Dixon
line.
Dorothy Jordan, whose appeal
ing personality has brought her
swiftly up the ladder of film fame,
is one of the most noted OF this
handful. She was born in Clarkes-
vile. Tennessee, and received most
of her education in the South. In
tending to become an actress, she
went to New York to study dra-
mates, and while there. she en-
tered musical comedy.
She soon went from chorus to
featured roles, and while appear
ing on Broadway in Treasure
Girr' was signed to a contract by
Fox Film executives and went to
Hollywood. There she played In
BLACK Magic" and Fox Movie
tone Follies," later going to M-G-
M for series of films that includ-
ed Devil May Care" Singer of
Seville" Min and Bill'' and Hell
Divers"
Her latest role, for which she
returned to Fox, is in Down to
Earth, viii Rogers newest laugh
hi
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-20
Chapter vi
THE SKY TRAIL

ct WAS inevitable that Will Rogers
and Charles Lindbergh should ult-
= imately come together, and there
was no more logical medium than that
they should meet in the air.
Casey Jones, veteran air pilot and
president of the CurtiSS Flying Serv-
ice. who has flown Will Rogers over
many a long aerial trip one declared:
After Lindbergh, Will Rogers is
aviation's best press agent. The indus
try owes him more than he is ever
likely TO collect. His wit, his extra
ordinary publicity resources and his gen
unine enthusiasm entitle him to the
nomination as patron saint of aviation" "
They are two of a kind, Lindbergh
and Rogers, according to the aviation
industry.
We can always count on Colonel
Lindbergh to do the right thing at the
right time and on Will Rogers to say
the right thing at the right time"
Some time ago when Lindbergh had
a mishap in Mexico City, injuring his
arm and damaging his plane. and i'm
mediately taking to the air again, Will
Rogers remarked:
L was just laying a wager that the
minute Lindberghs arm was usable he
would take Mrs. Lindbergh and fly
again, when along came the paper say
ing ne did that very thing this morn
ing. | knew he would. Flying is
Lindbergh's business. He spent years
perfecting himself at it. Because he
tips over on his nose once out of a
million times, a lot of editorial writers
start bowling about it.
This thing of talking about some
body's life being too valuable to risk in
an airplane, is not only the bunk, it's
an insult to the men we ask to do our
flying. Where does anybodys life come
in to be any more valuable than anyone
else's? Amt life just as precious TO one
as another? We have heard that can {
spare you altitude till we got lot of
men in this country believing it now.
Say, get over that old ego. This country
will replace you before the folks get
home from your funeral"
Keeping abreast of the times in every
conceivable way Rogers no longer trav-
els on the ground but wherever pos
sible, takes to the air. His interest in
aviation was first evinced in 1925, when
he made his first fight in an army plane
in Washington.
Since then he has flown approxim-
ately $4,000 miles a year. Like Lind
bergh he never travels by train or motor
if it is possible to go by air.
He first started travelling by air when
there was room for only one passenger
and the pilot. Both of them sat out
in an open cockpit, and sometimes it
got pretty cold. But nowadays, he finds
nothing to it. He believes it is just as
comfortable and safe in the modern
cabin planes as it is in Pullman car.
The humorist in addition 10 enjoying
flying thoroughly, sticks to that form of
transportation almost exclusively be-
cause of its great saving in time
He can get to New York from Holly
wood in one day, according to his way
of thinking. The best time he could
make by train is three days and athalf.
He argues a man can do lot in two
days and half.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-20
Highlights In Life OF Rogers
Continued from Page a

from Page ~
Despite his enthusiasm for aviation
Rogers seldom flies at night His
tours are arranged so that he can reach
his objective according TO schedule with
a full days fight and full nights
sleep in a hotel.
Last winter. 1931-1932, before begin
ming Down To Earth" Rogers made
4 complete circuit of the world, by the
air route, which took him from the
Sino- Japanese battlefront in Manchuria.
to the Peace Conference at Geneva,
Switzerland.
Distance and daring have marked
many of Will Rogers flights. He made
the Rome to Paris flight in 1926. and
from London to Berlin twice, once
via Paris and another time via Amster-
dam From Berlin he made another
flight to Moscow.
1t was following his aerial tour of
Europe that he returned to America
to campaign for modernization of
American Airports. 1t was in 1927
that Rogers few from Mexico City to
Los Angeles with no less a pilot than
Col. Lindbergh, and it was during this
flight that Lindy permitted Rogers to
hold the control stick part of the way.
Rogers carried his enthusiasm for fly
ing to some extreme as it is demon
strated when plane in which he was
flying turned a Somersault and landed
fiat on its back when it came down for
gasoline at Las Vegas, New Mexico.
Rogers jumped out of the plane and
merrily exclaimed: This serves the
right for not going to the Democratic
convention instead"
Later the same day at Cherokee,
Wyoming, another plane in which he
WAS travelling, spilled him out when
the landing gear collapsed. This gave
rise to another pleasantly rather than
to a criticism.
Once in a while I've. had horse
throw me where I've been underneath
him and him top-most, but I've never
been thrown like | was today They're
getting easier, however The first spill
wasn't SO bad. and the second was al
most pleasure"
Another time at Hadley Field, New
Jersey, Rogers was anxious to return
home to his family in Los Angeles,
and in spite of the bad weather tried
to induce his pilot William c. Hopson,
an ex-army flyer, to take off. As soon
as the weather reports became more
encouraging they took off and came
through without untoward accident. A
year later when flying the mail eastward
'Hoppie," the pilot was killed in a
fog when he crashed into a Pennsyl-
vania mountain side. The next morn
ing, Rogers published the following
tribute:
1T was a dark, rainy, cloudy, day on
the New York end of the transcon-
tinental air mail No planes came
through in two days. | wanted to get
home to my family in California.
insisted on going. 1t was not bravery
but dumb ignorance and unlimited con-
fdence in all airmail pilots.
Il kinder feel like his skill saved
my life that day. So "Hoppy," old boy,
here's hoping you are plotting the best
cloud the Boss has got in His hangar
up there. and that you don't have to
worry about low ceiling, engine miss
ing head winds, or even if the old rip
cord will pull in case
Yours,
Will Rogers.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-20
Bargain Matinee
Day For Women

Ladies' bargain matinee day at
the new United Artists theatre, to
be held every Wednesday after
noon at 2:30 o'clock, beginning with
Wednesday, September %, is sure
to prove a popular feature with the
women, Manager De Paoli believes.
The picture selected to inaugur-
ate this bargin matinee policy for
ladies is Blessed Event" one OF
the biggest hits of the season. Ladies
will be admitted to any seat in
the house at the United Artists on
Wednesday afternoons for 25 cents.
OF course, gentlemen are invited,
too, but regular prices prevail for
them, the bargain being for ladies
only.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-20
Junior Matinees
Start October |

The weekly Junior matinees, held
every Saturday afternoon during
fall and winter months at the Fox
Imperial theatre, will be continued
a that theatre this season, it was
announced today by Manager Stew
art.
Arrangements have been made to
hold the first Junior matinee on
Saturday, october l. The first
chapter of a popular serial story,
Last of the Mohicans," starring
Harry Carey, will be shown in ad-
dition to the feature picture and
the comedy short subjects.
Junior matinees will begin at 2
o'clock on Saturday afternoons.
These shows always have been un-
der the sponsorship of the Wom-
ans Ten Thousand club.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-20
WITH LLOYD FOR
LAST FIFTEEN YEARS

Cameramen may skip about a
lot, from this movie company to
that-but Walter Lundin has stayed
where he is for Is years-the ex-
ception that breaks the rule.
Lundin is a member of the Har-
old Lloyd Corporation, Lloyd's own
company, which produced Movie
Crazy" with Constance Cummings,
coming soon to the U. A. theatre.
He started with the specialized
comedian in 1917.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-20

of its own, complete with postmas-
ter and clerks. Figures reveal that
it handles as much mail daily as
the office of an average American
city of 25,0OO inhabitants.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1932-07-01
EQUITY COMPANY
ANNUAL MEETING

The Equity Cooperative associa-
ton held its annual meeting at the
Coliseum last Saturday to elect
directors and head reports on the
business of the past year.
Al Huber, Harry Kirkpatrick and
Henry Sethre were reelected to
the board of directors each for
a term Of three years. The bust
ness of the year was summarized
and A. o. Opgrande of the Security
Auditing company made a financial
report the t showed a profit of
1900. A dividend of s per cent on
the capital stock will be paid; a
cent and a half a gallon on distil-
late; ten cents per gallon on lubri-
eating oil and five cents per pound
on grease. The company has a good
financial rating, no debts to men
ton and a fair surplus.
Harry Stebbins was made mana
ger of the oil department. and also
secretary of the board. Herman
Dethman was again employed as
of the elevator and grain
department.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1932-07-01
BOARD CUTS GOOD SUM
OFF COUNTY'S DEBT

The Last State Examiners Re
port, State Of Montana issued on
June gath, 1882, in the
The Examiners Notes
Say: There has been a decrease
in the net indebtedness Of the
county since our last examination
of sG6, 390.78, a decrease in the out
standing warrants Of 29,39O.78, a
decrease in the outstanding Road
Fund Warrants of S39,696.15."
This is good news to the taXpay-
ers and is certainly the best sort
of evidence of economical manage
ment by the county commissioners
including Commissioner w. G. Ad-
ans who was appointed to the
board a year ago, to fill q vacancy,
and who is a now candidate for
the Republican nomination for the
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1932-07-01
1ST BALLOT
DEMOCRATIC
CONVENTION

The democrats at Chicago had
a wild afternoon and night of nom
mating speeches and lurid dem
onstrations. Long after midnight
the convention voted down a mo-
ton to adjourn. About 800 a. m.
Friday, the first ballot was be-
gun. At 3:45 (mountain time)
radio service ceased leaving the
battling forces jangling over the
New York vote. The delegates
were being polled. AT that time
over half of the LOO delegates
had voted. Ignoring fractions, the
partial ballot stood:
Roosevelt 375, Garner A, Smith
So, Traitor Al, Baker s, Ritchey 20,
Byrd 1, Reed SO.
The indications were that there
would be no nomination on the
ballot. A two-thirds vote is
required.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1932-07-01
FACTS ABOUT Web
WORMS; HOW TO FIGHT THEM

Damage from the sugar beet
webworm may be expected during
July, and farmers are warned to
be prepared with spray materials
to fight the insects. Sugar beets,
garden crops, peas and alfalfa are
favorite foods of the insect, says
DR.. A. l.. Strand, entomologist at
Montana State college.
DR.. Strand issues the warning be-
cause of the presence in many
parts of the state of unusually
large numbers of moths. These
moths lay the eggs from which
the webworms hatch. The first
brood of worms will appear in
greatest numbers early in July. A
second brood will appear around
the first part of August but ordi-
are not so damaging as the
earlier brood. The moths have a
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1932-07-01

Widespread of about one inch and
are grayish brown in color.
Gardens may be protected with
a spray made with two pounds of
lead arsenate to so gallons of wat
er. Running water around the gar
den also will keep the worms out
This year the first brood of web
worms was delayed and this is
particularly fortunate for the al
falfa growers. Alfalfa is SO far a.
long now that the older fields can
be cut and damage stopped and
Strand suggests that this be done
Immediately.
One peculiar feature of the web
worms is that they do not eat
grains. They have been known to
enter grain fields and entirely
clean out the Russian thistles and
leave the grain untouched.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1932-07-01
''HUDDLE" SMASH
FOOTBALL DRAMA
RAMON NOVARRO AS STEEL
WORKER WHO BECOMES
GRIDIRON HERO

Ramon Novarro attempts a rad
ically different type of role in his
new starring picture, "Huddle"
which will play at the Liberty
Theatre, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday.
His portrayal as Tony Amatto,
tough italian mill hand who enters
Yale University, gives him an op-
~portunity for some of the most ag-
gressive and virile action of his
career. He spent weeks with a
coach to learn football technique.
In scenes of varsity games, No
varro plays in a lineup with many
famous All-American and noted
stars, including Ernie Pinckert,
Jess Hibbs, Dale Van Sickel, Don
Hill and others.
"Derby Day" Depicted
Many actual campus scenes at
Yale university we're used as an
authentic background for the pro
duction which contains many of
the old traditions of this famous
institution. The celebrated Derby
Day and various class activities
are used as atmospheric details of
the story.