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Evening star., 1937-08-15
'Drunkard" at Sylvan.

THE DRUNKARD," most famous of
all the old-time melodramas, will
be the next item on the Summer
festival program. presented Tuesday
night at the Sylvan Theater by the
Langley Lambs Club.
The cast, directed by M. Forney
Reese. will be headed by Kathryn
Dengler. Mary Evelyn Fuqua, Joanna
Anderson. Jane Lawrence, Paul Tay-
lor, Larry Lawrence, Ben Smart,
Enoch Chase, jr: Frank Anderson,
Robert Burdette. Robert Fain, William
Draper and Albert Sauer
This will be the tenth Summer
festival program.
Evening star., 1937-08-15

IOLLYWOOD-A pale cast Of
. incredibility lies over most Of
1 the things you see in this
Evening star., 1937-08-15
Talkies' First Decade
Ends and Recalls Panic
'"The Jazz Singer" Started It. flights of New
York" Sounded Death Knell of Sients,
and Hollywood Went Mad
BY Harold Hefernan.

HOLLYWOOD NANA)-The talking Its tenth
niversary this
l | immediate Of the family
For not rather forget
wild
1t Bros
Evening star., 1937-08-15
Movies Give War-B0und|
Natives Their Excitement
Madrids Residents Remain Unshaken
Through Bombardment, Then Watch
Action Photoplays for Thrills.
By Richard Watts, J.

ADR1D-There type Of personal journalism that this department
objected with
thing which the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-28
To Have
Helen Hayes

Washington's own Helen Hayes,
in company of Robert Montgom-
cry, is returning to the Little The
alter, starting Sunday, May 2, in
the screen version of novel by
Hugh Walpole, "Vanessa: Her
Love Story"
The stars of Another Lam
guage" will be here, supported by
a notable cast, including Otto
Kruger, May Robson, Lewis S.
Stone, Henry Stephenson, Violet
Kemble- Cooper, Donald Crisp and
Jessie Ralph.
Admirers of the story, Van
esSa," which was adapted to the
screen by Mr.. Walpole in collabo-
ration with Lenore Coffee, will
welcome this return visit of the
HarrieS family, whose activities in
the Cumberland district of Eng
land were engroSsingly dramatic.
Besides being a story of note,
"VaneSSa: Her Love Story also
recreateS on the screen many a
famous character of the last cen
fury, including Lord Kitchener,
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, oscar
Wilde and Kaiser Frederick.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-28
Harlow ToyIor
Due Friday

At Loew's Capitol Theater next
Friday Jean Harlow and Robert
Taylor, M.-G.-M.'s prize stars, who
visited washington in person for
the Presidents Birthday Ball, will
be seen on the screen in their new
est comedy drama, Personal Prop
erty." On the stage Art Shaw and
his orchestra will head a parade
of acts.
Personal Property" directed by
w. S. Van Dyke I'd, who just last
week concluded a vacation in the
Nations Capital, is filled with just
the kind of entertainment that
WashingtonianS are said to be on
the lookout for.
A supporting cast backs up Har-
low and Taylor in Personal Pro
perty" These include Reginald
Owen, Una O'Connor, Henrietta
Crosman, E. E. Give, Cora With.
erspoon, and Maria Shelton.
Art Shaw and his orchestra
need no introduction to radio
listeners, for he is one of the ace
bands of the air. Other acts in
clude A. Robins, clown star of
Jumbo" and also known as the
musical clown; Helen Charleston,
late star of Earl Carroll "Vani-
ties" and the NeiSs Troups, aero
bats.
Phil Lampkin, the Capitol's
young maestro" has arranged a
novelty overture and the show
will be rounded out with the
Movietone News.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-28
AII-GirI Movie
For BeIosco

The dramatic author, Jacques
Deval who, from "Une Fable
Femme a Tovaritch," has given
the theater so many remarkable
works, in his turn, has come to
motion pictures and has just pre-
sented his first production entitled
Club de Femmes."
jacques Deval has already
shown his interest in motion pic
lures. Many of his plays were
adapted for the screen; this time,
he not only wrote an original
scenario for the picture but he
directed it himself with the col
liberation of jacques Kruger,
first-class cameraman.
The scenario of Girls Club" is
of an absolutely new theme. 1t
has this particularly of being
composed of only feminine charac-
tiers. with the exception of per-
sonage who asSuredly, has a great
part in the action, but who makes
only episode appearances on the
screen.
After so many "men" pictures,
the weaker sex had to have its
revenge! Jacques Deval, who
knows and analyses so well the
feminine soul, owed it to himself
to be the defender.
However, if man does not ap-
pear much, he. nevertheless, re-
mains the thought of every one
of the heroines; although invisible,
he pulls the thread of three or four
intrigues; he remains the pivot of
all the aspirations, of all the hopes,
of all the dramas with which the
young girls are animated. The en-
tire action takes place in a sort
of shelter for young girls in Paris:
Club for Women" founded by a
good-hearted soul with legacy Of
a rich American woman.
To help this subject of such a
novel formula, Jacques Deval has
called first-class collaborators and
especially young and pretty women,
some of them stars like Valentine
Tester, Danielle Darrieux, Betty
Stockfeld, Josette Day: the others,
unknown, but who will be revela-
tions-Elsie Argal and JUNE AStor.
It opens at the Belasco Theater
beginning April 30.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-28
National Gets
Ruth Draper

Pantomime has long been con-
sidered the greatest art in the
theatre, but probably no one in
the contemporary theatre has
raised this art to the pinnacle
which Ruth Draper has in her
famous Character Sketches"
Ruth Draper comes to Washing
ton for the first time in several
years at the National Theater for
one week, beginning Monday
night, May 3.
This versatile performer, who,
as everyone knows, writes her
own material, completely changes
her personality and her counter
ance in the flash of an eye right
before her audience.
In Three Generations in a
Court of Domestic Relations" one
of the most searching and tender
Iy tragic of all Miss Diapers
sketches, she plays an old grand
mother, her daughter, and her
pert, pleasure loving grand
daughter, merely by dropping the
grandmother's shawl from her
head to her shoulders for the
mothers part and eliminating it
entirely to portray the girl OF
eighteen. And, miraculouSly, she
actually looks the ages of the
three women without resorti1g to
makeup,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-28

Claudette Colbert, winner of the
Academy Award for best acting in
1884, comes to the Rialto Theater
starting Sunday in private
Worlds"
Miss Colbert is supported by a
cast headed by Charles Boyer,
Joan Bennett, Helen Vinson and
Joel McCrea. Gregory LaCava
directed the picture, which was
produced by Walter Wanger for
Paramount.
Private Worlds" is adapted
from the beSt-selling novel by
Phyllis Bottome.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-28
RiOIto Lists Two New Features

Combining the talents of more
than a dozen stars, II scenario
writer's. and seven directors, Para
mounts IF had a Million" is
also to play a revival engagement
at the Rialto Theater starting
Sunday. In the star-studded cast
are Gary Cooper, George Raft,
May Robson, Richard Bennett,
Alison Skipworth, w. C. Fields,
Charles Ruggles. Jack Oakie,
Charles Laughton and many
others.
Pearl HauerS twice nightly
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-28
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-28
Trouble Assured

Airplanes, hand grenades, sub.
machine guns and dynamite were
some of the unusual props" or.
dered for George OBrien'S new
Western thriller for RKO Radio,
Looking for Trouble" a George A.
Hirliman production.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-28

organ recitalettes Of requested
selections continues as an added
attraction.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-09-16
STAGE FEATURES
Will COME HERE
NIGHT LIKELY
TO BE REVIVED IN
NEAR FUTURE

"We're going to make a lot of
use of our stage" says the man.
agement of the Falls theatre in
announcing that they will procure
as many stage features as possible
to supplement their moving pic
ture features.
Cal Shrum, radios singing
sheriff and his Colorado Hill Bill
les will have the honor of being
the first troupe to appear there.
They will be here Sunday and
Monday, October 3 and 4, giving
five shows Sunday and two Mon
day. Shrum is honorary deputy
sheriff in 70 Minnesota counties.
The stage is 20 by go feet,
curbed at the front with red,
white and blue footlights and
other lighting arrangements at the
top and sides. The curtain is of
brown velvet with high lights in
lighter shades.
Two pilasters curving into the
auditorium of the theatre and en-
tering onto the stage wings will
provide four dressing rooms for
actors appearing there.
The screen and speaker are
being built on a portable rack so
that they may be moved for stage
performances.
The management is seriously
considering a revival of amateur
night, stage presentations which
were popular when put on at the
Redwood theatre several years
ago.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-09-16
Elaborate Lounge Room
Feature of Neev Shoevhouse

be scattered about the room
The color scheme, which E. J..
Stephany of Forsters helped plan,
is unusually interesting. There
will be two feature chairs" with
barrel backs in rust and two
"swir1 chairs, those with backs
swirling up from the seat grad
ually to regular chair back height,
in yellow.
The radio is black and chrome
in modernistic design and two
chrome chairs will be placed be-
side it.
Claret, a deep red, is the color
of the quarter-round davenports
which will be placed toward the
center of the room. They may be
pushed together to form a semi
circular seat and two other chairs,
to be used in other parts of the
room may be added to make an
even larger davenport. A smok-
ing stand will be placed in the
center.
A love-seat will be used near
the door of the powder-puff
room. A large mirror at the back
of the room will be faced by three
chairs with ivory colored seats
and blue leather easy chair will
also be in the room for the con-
venience of those waiting for
powder puff users. Some of the
pieces will be displayed at For
sters, who furnished them, prior
to the opening.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-09-16
SUITABLE PROPERTY FOR
SITE is AVAILABLE,
BRAND SAYS

The Lions club committee in
vestigating chances of getting an
airport for Redwood Falls was
instructed to go ahead with its
study of the question after club
members heard the report of DR..
w. A. Brand on the project Mon
day noon.
He reported that one tract
north of Ramsey park owned by
Lee Neuschwander could be
secured on reasonable terms and
improved at a minimum expense.
It would be self-supporting to a
large extent, he said, through
crops raised on land used for
other than runways and through
rental of a house on the tract
which includes 131 acres.
More accessible property has
been investigated, he said, but
the terms on which it could be
secured are prohibitive.
George A. Barnes reported on
the effort to get highway II i'm
proved, stating the letting of a
bridge at Sanborn indicates the
route may soon be developed.
A missionary from Korea will
speak at the club meeting Sep
TENDER 81, at which all ministers
of the city will be guests of the
club.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-09-16
Modern Coffee
Shop Planned
MATZENER WILL OCCUPY
WEST SHOP IN NEW
BUILDING

Harvey's Coffee Shop, operated
by Harvey Matzener, will occupy
the shop in the west front of the
Falls building.
A Kitchen engineer" laid out
the plans to insure the best poss-
IDLE utilization of space.
There will be a horseshoe
counter and II stools, the counter
having a black top with a silver
stripe trim and a natural elm
base and the stools covered with
red leather.
A modern pastry case with a
slanting mirror at the back so
that customers may get a full
view of the food will be a part of
the cupboard equipment which is
entirely built-in.
New equipment will include a
root-beer barrel and a popcorn
machine. There will be new
sink with two compartments with
a swinging faucet and new
electric range in the shop proper.
There will be no kitchen or work
room at the back.
Another device, not yet in use
in Redwood Falls, will be a four
unit coffee maker.
Red will be carried out in the
color scheme. Wainscoting will
be a deep red, flesh color will be
used on the upper part of the
walls and the ceiling will be in
ivory. The floor will be of colored
cement.
The other shop IN the building
has not yet been rented.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-09-16
Theatre Finds
Many Articles
MONEY SELDOM AMONG
SWEEPINGS, GUS
CONTENDS

Every morning the janitor at
the Falls theatre will find six or
seven women's handkerchiefs, a
few children'S purses and count
less empty popcorn bags, if pat
rons there run true to course.
According to Gus Englund of
the Redwood theatre, handker-
chiefs are first in the list of
lost items at the theatre.
Next are children'S purses and
third the belts to Wsmen's coats
and dresses.
E. A. johnson found when he
managed the theatre at Olivia
that countless coats and caps
were left in the theatre by chill
dren during the first cold wealth
er when they were not accuStom-
ed to wearing them.
Once Mr.. Johnson found a set
of false teeth there.
Mr.. Englund says that people
aren't very careless with their
money, the most ever having
been found being a one dollar
bill. Even nickels and dimes are
scarce on the theatre floors.
The theatre is a place where
parents invariably look for lost
children. But none ever get lost
there as a careful tour of the
place is made each night to
awaken any sleeping youngsters
and send them home.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-09-16
ADVERTISEMENTS
BIG FACTOR FOR
THEATRE SUCCESS
EXTENSIVE PROGRAM is
CARRIED ON SUMMER
AND WINTER

In the first hard days of his
operation of a. theatre at Fairfax,
every extra dollar D. w. Buckley
made went into advertising.
The Falls and Redwood thea
tres have no such haphazard ad-
vertising program.
Donald J. Peterson, manager of
the Redwood theatre spends two
days each week visiting % towns
in Redwood, Renville and Brown
counties on an advertising route
about $50 miles in length. He dis
tributes window cards and pro-
grams and arrangeS for weekly
advertising in IL newspapers.
Last winter, although he had to
shovel his way through snow
drifts day after day, he never
missed a day on the route.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-09-16
STARTED IN FAIRFAX AT
%; INTRODUCED SOUND
IN NORTHWEST

The opening of the Falls thea
tire will present a remarkable
contrast to the opening of D. w.
Buckley'S first theatre, The Topic
in Fairfax.
He was % years old and only
recently married when he first
ventured into the business indie
pendently and his hopes for succ-
eSS there were high.
Mrs. Buckley, who saw the
theatre after he purchased it, re-
members hoping she would never
see it again. 1t was dirty and the
windows broken, but shortly after
their wedding trip they set to
work to improve it.
They bought second hand red
roses, only a little faded from
being displayed in Donaldson's
window in Minneapolis, and pin
ned them on the walls.
Buckley, the Painter
Some of the flowers were ar
ranged in baskets with Christmas
tree bulbs in their centers. Mr..
Buckley painted the place him.
self and when he was through the
young couple considered it one of
the most pretentious in the north
west.
"It seated 100 people and any
one of them could have jumped
through the floor at any point"
Mr.. Buckley says.
He was not surprised when the
state fire marshal condemned it.
1t was there, in 1925, that he
held his first opening show. His
attractions were a movie called
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-09-16
Finish Plans
ForGreatFair
BIG GRANDSTAND ACTS
BOOKED FOR SHOW
SEPTEMBER 27-3O

Two days of horse racing and
Thrill day" which closes the
program are features of the Red
wood county fair which opens
September 27 and continues four
days.
Captain Bob Ward who just
completed a successful show at
the Minnesota state fair, where
he had complete charge of the
program, will be here Thursday,
September 30, and the entire pro-
gram before the grandstand that
day will be under his direction.
Hair raising stunts never before
offered county fair crowds in this
state will be run off in rapid
succession.
The horse racing program for
Tuesday, September %, includes
the 2:20 pace and the 2:22 trot
while Wednesdays program lists
the free-for-all trot or pace and
the PA trot. Purses of $500 are
offered for each race and because
the fair comes when most fairs
are over, all the best horses in the
northwest will be here, insuring
fast, close races.
The fair board also has arran-
ged full program of grandstand
acts for afternoon and evening
programs Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday. Ernie Young's
musical revue the Passing Par
ade" is featured while the list of
stars includes some of the best
aerialists, acrobats, hand-balan-
GERS, trick cyclists, perch pole
artists, contortionists, barrel
jumpers, clowns and musical en-
tertainerS.
Early demand for exhibit space
indicates the barns and grounds
will be filled with animals, pro-
duce and handicraft competing
for prizes and industrial displays
of every kind. Bands will be pre-
sent every day, besides a huge
midway and numerous other at
fractions.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-09-16
KITTENBALL TOURNEY
FEATURE OF SPORT
PROGRAM

While other villages of the
county rest up after strenuous
celebrations repeated year after
year, Lucan will introduce
s'Bumper Crop Day" September
81, ambitiously hoping that the
day may be repeated in future
years without its name ever be-
ing a misnomer.
Needless to say Lucan, which
boasts of its kittenball success
es, has arranged a softball tourn-
ament for its feature attraction.
The Ford V-8's of Redwood Falls,
Wanda, Vesta and Lucan will en-
gage in tournament which will
get underway at p. m.
The final game, for SIS purse,
will be played under lights at
7::30 with SIS going to the run
nerup team and SIS to each of the
first round losers.
The street sports program Of
fers another $50 in prizes and
includes a horseshoe tourney,
boys and girls bicycle and foot
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-09-16
OPENING PICTURE
HAS NEWS THEME
LIKE REDWOOD OPENER,
ACTION TAKES PLACE
IN NEWS OFFICE

October 2, 1881, the Redwood
theatre opened with a newspaper
picture, Five Star Final.
September %, the Falls will
open with another newspaper
melodrama, Back In Circula-
tom.
The movie is a semi-mystery,
relieved with comedy of charac-
ter and situation.
Pat O'Brien plays Bill Morgan,
newspaper editor whose policy is
to get the news and print it, no
matter what the means.
Timmmy Blake, his star gul
reporter is Joan Blondell while
Margaret Lindsey takes the part
of Airline Wade, accused of a
seeming murder.
The picture is described by re-
viewers as vigorous entertain
ment."
The showing here will be the
first to other than review aud
fences.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-09-16
CRYING ROOM TO
BE MOTHERS JOY

When baby bowls during the
most romantic or thrilling part
of a picture, it won't be nec-
essary for mother to dash out
of the building and stand jog
Cling him in the foyer of the
Falls theatre nor will other
patrons be subject to the an
nOyance of crying infants.
A "crying room" has been
installed next to the projection
booth. 1t is enclosed with plate
glass and a speaker has been
put in SO that mothers may en-
joy the movie while their chill
dren cry. There are seats there
for IL persons.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-09-16
Offices Above
Theatre Taken
LAUDON AND MORTEN,
ANDERSON TO OCCUPY
SECOND FLOOR

DR.. J. w. Anderson will occupy
a suite of five offices on the Sc
cond floor of the Falls theatre. He
will have a waiting room, X-ray
room, treatment rooms and a
shower bath.
A. r. A. Laudon and Julian E.
Morten, attorneys, will also have
rooms on the second floor. All
offices will be air conditioned,
like the rest of the theatre.
D. w. Buckley and E. A. john
son will have their office off the
lounge room in the basement
Donald J. Peterson will sit in SOL
itary splendor in the Redwood
theatre office.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-09-16
Introduces
Bumper Crop Day

races, mems and women's races,
a hog calling contest, a tug-of-
war between the north and the
south and a creased pig-catching
contest.
The Lucan and Schel's bands
will give concerts and there will
be a dance in the evening, be-
sides the inevitable shows, rides
and concessions.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-09-16
EVEN NEAR DEAF
CAN HEAR SHOWS

With utmost thOughtfulness,
the Falls theatre management
has provided six audiphone
sets for the hard Of hearing
The system receivers are at
tached to the arms of certain
theatre seats and connected by
wires to light sets of ear
phones. A small volume con-
troll unit is held on the lap and
volume of sound may be easily
regulated by turning a knob.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-09-16

" { erhaps the most elaborate
part of the Falls theatre is the
inviting lounge room in the base
ment, reached by stairs from both
sides of the foyer.
Onto it open the mems dress
ing room and the women's pow
der puff room, chrome and mir
rored place that will probably
prove as popular as the lounge
room itself.
Seal brown concrete is the floor
of the place which will be lighted
with torchieres, modernistic floor
lamps, with bowl-shaped tops for
indirect lighting.
There will be three davenports
along the south wall, one green
and two rust colored. End tables
with lamps apparently growing
right out of them will flank the
davenports and other tables will