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'Palm Springs' Hit Picture Was Filmed at of Millionaires and Stars • • • Playground not THE STAR AND A SCENE FROM THE HIT ‘PALM SPRINGS’ AT CAPITOL ‘FOLLOW THE FLEET AT is neither too ty>t in summer QUEEN too cold in winter. Like the soup of the baby bear, It is just right. A SINGING never fail to locate STAR visitor could the resort, because from twenty- five miles away one may sight a giant arrowhead, symbol of the HAS LEAD IN hewed into the woody springs, mountainside. The hotel named for the springs has stood for years, majestically NEKOMEDY windows staring through eye-like over the rich valleys and the town of San Bernardino, railroad cen- Frances Langford In ter. For the past decade, this hotel has drawn and re-drawn steady ‘Palm Springs’ To patronage from Hollywood. Ronald Colman, Warner Baxter, Joe E. Show At Capitol Brown, Edward G. Robinson, Mae West and dozens more, principally Sunday those who care little for the gayer resorts, are regular visitors to Ar- “Palm Springs,” Paramount’s ro- rowhead Springs as much to enjoy mantic comedy set in the playspot the fine mineral baths as to rest of West Coast millionaires and from the strife of studio life. Thanks movie stars, shows Sunday and to the better class of patrons to be Monday at the Capitol Theater, found at this spa, stars may go there Brownsville. and remain undisturbed by the Set in a glamorous locale where usual crowds. On my last visit I smart society seeks abandon under saw Alice Faye, Joe E. Brown and the sun, and love and romance un- Robert Taylor enter the dining der the moon, “Palm Springs,” is room without interrupting so much the sprightly story of a young lady as a soup sip. On the faces of blue-blood who starts out to win a these stars were registered com- millionaire, and falls in love with plete relaxation and peace. Arrow- a guitar-punching cowboy with a head Springs is to Hollywood as Easter is voice as alluring as Crosby’s and a % Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in their Supreme Musical Hit. Follow morning to Fourth of face as inviting as Gary Cooper’s. The Fleet,” showing Sunday and Monday at the Queen Theatre, July. The new star, Frances Langford of Screen and Radio Fame, in her fi rst starring picture, “Palm Springs,” with Sir Guy Standing, David Prances Langford is the young Brownsville. Smith and at the Capitol Theater, Brownsville. deb who feels she must sacrifice Niven, Ballew, showing Sunday Monday Lot talk picked up at random. herself by marrying the millionaire, Joan Blondell: “I met Robert Tay- and Sir Guy Standing is the de- whose whole yearning is for a real lor for the first time yesterday. He voted but penniless parent who HIT TEAM OF HIT FILM romance and the love of the one is pretty.” This exchange between doesn’t agree with her. Kansas Farmers Claim RIV0L1 SHOWS man in the world for her. a girl and a man from the public- To complicate matters. Ernest ity department: She: “A1 day long Cossart, Sir Guy’s butler and ***** ***** Kay Francis has been saying no to friend, starts a rumor that Pran- Fidler everything I ask. Can’t she say any- ces is really “Lady Dustin” incog- Jimmy Says thing but no?” He: “Hell yes? She BETTE DAVIS — nito, and when Spring Byington, ‘Put It Over’ On HOLLYWOOD A popular year- can say ‘Hell no!’ too.” Mrs. Jason’a aunt to David Niven ,the wealthy They round resort to which Hollywoodians remark: “Sybil went to 20th Cen- to work in his tury-Fox studios and met young playboy, goes ***** ***** Blonde Star Cast With retreat is Arrowhead Springs. An Shirley behalf, the engagement of the pair Temple yesterday. Sybil was so ex- hour’s drive from the studios, it is soon announced. George Brent In cited she couldn’t sleep a wink last bmith Ballew, the crooning cow- ‘Golden Arrow* attracts more than a fair share of night.” A studio visitor of female screen star boy, has a way all his own. how- Old patronage from New sex asked very young Patrick Party Manipulators Years to December 31. Situated Frances cannot fall- Knowles where ever, and help Bette Davis, with George Brent he was during the ing in love with him. Sir Guy, half-way up the San Bernardino World War. “Madam.” Knowles re- playing opposite her in the mascu- mountain to see his 13. the name of one man told range, the same tower- qxmded “I was wanting daughter happy, CLEVELAND. June (ff)—'There who, they line lead, comes to the Rivoli thea- gravely, three years'^ in ing heap that shadows Palm I denounces her for an imposter tell now that themselves, would be typical of them, Springs old; was a member of the wet is a Kansas story to tre unday in the fast moving First further the hope that Miss Byington will a man whose political stature was south. Arrowhead Springs forces.” the tumult and the shouting have National comedy drama, “The stop the impending wedding and big enough to command notice whose Golden Arrow.” died and Kansas editors and Prances will marry the man she the record would cause them little diffi- * Miss Davis appears in a role quite » loves. home backed really grass roots farmers have gone culty. They Alf Landon, gov- different from those which won her The situations that follow pro- from the Cleveland convention. ernor of Kansas. the award of the Academy of voke amusing complications. The be A group of editors, many of them Motion Picture Arts and Sciences cast is admirable and the acting Those editors and farmers will jJljj^^TuESDAYONL^^" proud to be called small town and as the best film actress of 1935. In unusually good. Others in support repeating to their grandchildren the Hawkers and Mug- country editors, got together and “The Gilden Arrow” she gives a of the principals are E. E. Clive how Jay launched a publicity drive, tracing light comedy portrayal with a ro- and Holloway. wumps from the prairie once captur- “The Sterling their candidate’s pioneer lineage, ex- mantic twist, which involves also Five in the add ed the reins of national political BIG songs picture NITE” from mani- tolling his economies in office, capi- some dramatic moments. to the entertainment. The songs leadership experienced » __ pulators—and sometimes wondered talizing his political reticence and Brent's role is also largely comedy, his Attend the Matinee at what to do with them. home habits. he being a shy young reporter, 'there was nothing, so the story whose chief interest is a book he is Some of it can be told now and Announcement Either Theatre... to assure them would catch but who finds time to fall was told by a number of the partici- goes, he writing At Attendant* 6 MISSION pants themselves. the imagination of the party so in love with the blonde Bette after Here Till P. M. j They told howr. months and months quickly as he did. But they said they a series of misunderstandings and Both THEATRE felt sure he -would flirtatious which AVOID NIGHT CROWDS! ago. a group of men from the banks appeal widely, entanglements that he would make a good presi- break the course of true love. Theatres SUNDAY and MONDAY of the Kaw, from the blue-stem nearly wheat dent. Other hilarious complications are country of Kansas, from the Tuesday CAPITOL effort on. of a QUEEN Preview Saturday plains of the west and the corn The caught Promises, caused by the attempt newly Bette Davis. 1935’s greatest film actress, is teamed with George Brent, Herbert Marshall lands of the Missouri valley, decided pledges and news of instructed dele- rich oil heiress to break up the love Edmund Lowe the screen’s romantic leading man. in the First National produc- in. affair and her rival’s lover 8:30 they had as good a right as anyone gations poured They gathered up steal “T£I We Meet “The Great tion "The Golden Arrow”, Michael Arlen’s story of love in high society, their friends and after her retinue to nominate a man to return the neighbors, pinned of foreign princes, Again” Impersonation” and at the Rivoli Theatre, San Benito. on sunflower fortune seekers showing Sunday Monday government to republican hands. the badge, and swarm- nobles and other ed to her for They expected there would be pow- Cleveland. have deserted the lovely -BOTH THEATRES- old That was where the fun began. blonde, who also is presumed to be DONNA are “I Don’t Want to Make His- erful candidacies. They expected had not war horses would hear the alarm They been particularly fabulously wealthy. — — tory, I just Want to Make Love,” WED. and THURS. unified. They were not disciplined The picture moves in swift tempo “Will I Ever Know “In the Hills bells and come, pawing and rearing, each politically. They were not even used to the hilarious and surprising cli- of Old Wyomin',” “Dreaming Out to be harnessed. That, they told to being political bedfellows. max in which the blonde Loud.” and “Palm Springs.”. Fran- other, would be their opportunity. young of in a It became evident that these un- beauty proves not to be wealthy at ces Langford sings these songs with There was a chance slipping tried (nationally manipul- all, but a simple American Smith Ballew. candidate. spe3king> girl • Out of their hot stove conferences ators. had been given the making of a -1-'- roller.
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