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had approprl- « Sheila Barrett’s Favorite Athlete ated the loin-cloth. Nears Obtaining a contract with Colum- bia studio, Brix changed his name Is Her Heroine but not his luck. All he could get Tragic His Goal of were bit roles. But at last he's been made a leading man, In “March Character Sketch Best Liked by of Crime.” Stardom Sports Writer Grantland Rice once Its Performer the One About called Brix America’s greatest ath- By the Associated Press. lete. Now the actor is playing love The Girl With the Sorrow HOLLYWOOD. scenes with the Journalist’s daugh- Herman Brix, thte famous athlete, By JAY CARMODY. ter, Florence Rice. finally has become Bruce Bennett, In that gallery of dames, dizzy, tragic and otherwise, with which Any romantic possibilities there? the movie leading man—almost Both Bennett Sheila Barrett has made the world a gayer one in which to live, it occurred Hardly. and Miss Rice within sight of his goal of film star- are to us that Miss Barrett have a favorite. married—and not to each other. might dom. Well, it turns out that Miss Barrett does have a favorite. It is the It’s taken mm eight years, twice heroine of that sketch of hers called "Speakeasy,” one you may never the time he in col- have seen, but something to break the heart when Miss Barrett lets spent achieving AMUSEMENTS. fly fame -——-—- legiate in football, crew, wiui me feii i, evil vvcioieic uai fly who is drinking herself to death hockey, swimming and track. finds a satisfaction in the "It's a I because she has a sorrow that’s a peculiar good thing learned to take heroine of secret, even from “Speakeasy.” She likes It, In sports competition, or I might to see the sudden on the have herself, is one of dawning given up by now,” Bennett ob- faces of her more the portraits in smug listeners served. that the female is not H iss Barrett’s barfly a A star athlete at the University but a collection. And, funny, tragic figure. of Washington, Brix broke records The no matter how sketch, incidentally, has the In the Javeline throw and shotput, old Miss Barrett interesting history of being ad competed in the 1928 Olympic * libbed. Miss gets, she thinks Barrett just got up and Games, and played with his football | did it one night, out of a sense that team in the Pasadena she will never Rose Bowl. 4 get tired of that psychopathic messes like that par- After graduating, he sold M-G-M. ticular heroine deserved a better sketch, nor fail the idea of athletic film shorts. Para- to derive satis- fate than the heartless mirth which mount saw him in these and put him faction from do- so often is their portion. In a football picture. Then some- It is the sort of ing it. thing that makes one decided he’d be the ideal . like her as a Miss Barrett's you person even more At this point, Brix broke his than you do as an artist. sense of irony, shoulder. By the time it was healed, BRENT "Biff, y * * * * which has done boom Jay Speaking of Barrett material, I Jang, I some Oarmody. savage ^tfBRUCE A Summery Revue wrtti which is on display in wide array _AMUSEMENTS. w dnmi mings to types ior wmcn ner ad- Warner Brw Cw^edy at the Theater this ^yde Hager lohn Gala miration is not high, and merely Capitol week, sLEmunnKa Miss Barrett creates it all herself. 'Man Who Talked Four Franks humorous things to those toward And, although she has enough to Garfield Swift which she is indifferent or better, Too Much" create a of characters that CAmIm BOYER parade (a* PE PE l£ MOKO) in _ irwia MARSHALL And Addition would take days to pass a given point, she keeps on adding to the ^a,

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