The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-19
Promising Pictures Feature Programs Of Local 7heaters
STATE CONTINUES
 FILM HIT PARADE
"The Texans" Headlines COlOrfuI Twin Bill Start.
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Two of the ninety-four Movie Quiz contest pictures make their de- but this afternoon at the healthful- ly air conditioned Warner Brothers State theater with The Texans, the third of the States new season hit parade, headlining the program.
 Both pictures are an important part of the $250,000 National Movie Quiz Contest which begins officially September 1st and ends October 81st. A cash award of $50,000 will constitute the first prize while over 5000 other cash awards will be made to other contestants.
 Local theater-goers who intend to enter this contest by submitting the correct answers to 30 out of 94 pie lures should start by seeing this show. Upon entering the State the ater, patrons will receive booklets called The Movie Quiz Booklets which will contain pictures, ques- tions and possible clues to the ans wers. It is advisable for the theater- going public to see as many pictures 0o pOoOiDlC III OI dti lO lIdVt d DtLbtj chance when answering the ques- tions.
 Randolph Scott Joan Bennett and May Robson play the title roles in The Texans" heading cast of thousands, in this mighty romance of the great southwest which was made by the producers who gave tFTha rrunraI Wells Fargo.
 It is "big" motion picture in every respect-big in it's sweeping frontier theme, big in it's lavish pro- duction and big in it's all-star cast.
 The prostrate post-bellum South provides the setting for the story. Defeated in war and weakened by four years of back-breaking sacri- flee, 1t is prevented from getting back on it's feet by gang of the most miserable men ever to appear on the American scene the car pet-baggers, Northern adventurers who descended on the South after the peace and took advantage of the turbulent conditions to make fortunes for themselves at the ex- pense of the impoverished natives. Hated by the Southerners and des- pissed by all decent Northerners, their hfe-and-death struggle with the Texans makes a screen story that will not be quickly forgotten.
 AS the temptestuous Dixie belle, lovely Joan Bennett goes the "Jeze- hnlpD HGnnrlatt t,Jb better and actually instigates a re- volt against the crooked officials who are running her state into the ground. She is only turned from her plan by handsome Southern off, c0, Scott, who insists that "the great cause" is lost and that the Texans should devote their energies to building up the empire of the Southwest. Under his leadership, Miss Bennett undertakes to drive her cattle a thousand miles across the plains, to Kansas, where a mar ket awaits them.
 It is in these scenes that May Robson, the grand old lady of the screen" is at her grandest, as the Qh4lLlC6S OIu 4chdIl WIIOot llbIILlIlB pioneer spirit never weakens.
 Other top performers in the cast include Walter Brennan, Robert Cummings, Raymond Hatton and Harvey Stephens
 The second big movie quiz con- test picture of the program is rouSing laugh-hit I'm from the fvxb l, NfL int, favorite funman Joe Penner in the leading role. Penner, star of radios ~The Park Avenue Pcnners", is cast as a shyly timid circus performer who is scared to death of horses, but rides like WhirlWind when he has been hypnotized. Supporting Joe are Richard Lane. Lorraine Krueger, Paul Guilfoyle and Kay Sutton.