THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1936 TORRANCE HERALD, Torranoe, CaJiiornia D ram a V Art March of Tractor Slays 6000 Cinema * Music
MALAYS MAKE IS HE, OR HE IS NOT, NONCHALANT? * DEMANDS Hellcat Club It took the Malay native SHIRLEY TEMPLE IN HI-DE-HO ROLE IN "EARTHWORM TRACTORS" Wins Member to tell the directors at Para . Alice Faye to hl-de-ho with! Jack Haley to tap-a-toe Ross Alexander took the mo$t mount studios and get awa with! Gloria Stuart to laugh and cry to! Michael Whalen thrilling ride In his life during with It. to make love to! the filming of the Warner Bros, Fresh from the jungles, th 'Add to these Sara Haden, Jano Darwell, Claude Gll- picture, "Boulder Dam," which comes to the Torrance Theatre Malay n'atives being used a lingwater and Henry Armetta and you have the reason why Shlrloy Temple is literally "sur-f on Sunday, Monday and Tues extras in the scenes of "Th rounded by stars" In "The Poor I i day. Jungle Princess," Paramoun Little Rich Girl," her brilliant1 Perched on a small platform new thriller, demanded "rice' on the end of a 70-foot boom, the actor was swung from the fish and coconuts or no wor STAR DUST ground 65 feet up the side of a for white man." vertical rock wall. There he took They got their change o MR. PELICAN LOSES his place on a ledge with a, HIS SHIRT group of daredevil workmen, diet. formerly employed at Boulder The Pelican, pompous bird dam, to make the scene. .comedian of the -Antarctic, WALT LINCH Although one of the real work broke intp pictures with his men had previously been made comical face—but now Mr. up and dressed as Alexander's Pelican, must >give his hide double, the actor decided he for the cause. wanted to scale the'wall himself. The newly perfected pro Alexander was later made an cess of color photography honorary member of the "Hell used by MGM necessitates cat Crew" by members of that •Woe E. Brown hit* the high tfpots as Alexander Botts, super organization who had appeared the use of pelican skin in the salesman hero of the famous Saturday Evening Post stories, who in the scene with him. The camera^. More than 500 dozen' fresh eggs were violently scram Is to be seen at the' Plaza. Theatre, Hawthorne,' this week, with bled and n-sarly 200 gallons of milk spilled in an exciting Carol Hughes, pictured above. "Hellcat Crew" ' Is composed of Discovered and developed and laughable sequence of the new First National Joe E. the most daring of the workmen by'Eddie Johnson and Harry Brown picture, "Earthworm Tractors," which comes to the who helped In the construction Hull, photographers front Sleepwalking of Boulder dam. Torrance theatre tonight, Friday and Saturday. "Boulder Dam" is a drama of starting Wednesday ne"xt wee Chicago,, the new process is When all the shooting wasf ; : Actresses In the first to give a true nat Husband love and heroism based on the :o the Torrance Theatre. over, Joe E. Brown scrambled the get-away. Her scream was story by Dan M. Teraplin. Be To Make a Long Darijyl F. Zanuck, chieftain o ural color photograph. down from what had> been his Joe Brown Film Charlie Ruggles appears as a sides Alexander, the cast In They discovered that when lost In the roar of the mighty TaleShort the Twentieth-Century-Fox stu motor. sleepwalking husband, suspected cludes Patricia Bills, "Lyle Tal- The first six months of dios, so enthused over the stor; a piece of pelican skin 1 of a 17-ton "Earthworm Trac bot, Henry O'Nelll, Eddie Acuff, married: life, wifey usually of "The Poor Little Rich Girl silvered it acts as a selec tor," calmly dusted his trousers; But the danger was Immedi Appear Twins .hat he determined to make i grinned at the interblended mess ately over. Joe E. Brown swung "Tiger Man" In his latest up does the talking and hubby live mirror -and reflects on< For the first, time in recem listens; the second six months he greatest Shlrley Temple pi part of the image onto on of eggs and milk, and remarked: the gigantic machine about and roarious farce with Mary Bo: when she learns they are headed .ure ever to hit the screen. "The .^world's biggest omelet!" jnovle history, .the rival sweet land, "Early to Bed," coming hubby'talks and wifey listens; plate and allows anothe ground up enough eggs to feed hearts' of a film hero arc so not for Niagara Falls, but for a after that they-both, talk 'and In the picture, Michael Whale . Guy Kibbee, who had sat none Sunday, Monday and Tuesday to rest-home, where Charlie hopes part to pass through onto a too calmly beside the irrepressi a small town. With another nearly identical hr appearance the Torrance Theatre., the neighbors listen. Now >lays Shirley Temple's immense- that one might easily be'mis to land a big-.glass eye order. "listen" to, this: We have re Iy wealthy father who is to se'coml plate. ble Brown during the dangerous The story, unique In both plot Her second' comes with dis By combining this principle stunt of riding an apparent loco taken for the other. They could and treatment, Introduces the cently taken in several used iusy to pay much attention t almost be twins. . . covery of husband Charlie's cars that run like new prac his little girl. with a specially prepared tractor on a motorized stam crumpled tin. ' screen's funniest pair as ah en somnambulism. tically ne^r tires, good paint make-up which erases from pede, got down with far less The picture in which they ap gaged couple who have deferred Shirley runs away. and,, afte Then Director Enright waved pear. Is Joe E. Brown's latest and upholstery. : series of highly entertainin, the actors' faces all shadqwi celerity. his arms for the cut. Joe stop their marriage, for 20 years at the sanitorium, with Ruggles "Gosh!" said kibbee, and First' National comedy, "Earth while Mary dreams of Niagara suspected as the thief and mur HERE ABE TWO OF THE1H: dventurcs, is finally "adopted that would photograph blue ped his motor. The sudden worm Tractors," which comes to iy Miss Faye and Haley, a pai the two men were able to de wiped his perspiring brow. "I'l! derer, lead to riotous develop; 1929 Dodge DA bet I lost 10 pounds on that .silence was broken only by the the Plaza Theatre, Hawthorne clerk in a glass-eye firm, dreams ments. With the stars appear if out-of-work vaudeville per sound of dripping milk. The Thursday, AUg. 27. The girls ormers hoping for a break on scene!" of future success. Geargo Barbier, Gall Patrick, Spt. Rdst. fill method. eggs, of course, had nothing to are June Travis and Carol They marry and leave on their Lucien Littlefield, Robert Mc- 6- Wheels . . . French Top he radio. ' • • "Swell acting, Guy," compli say. Hughes. ' ' r ." " ^ . How Shirley brings success ti mented Director Raymond En- honeymoon in an antiquated Wade and-a hpst of other fine Mfotor Bebored STILL A right. "You certainly played the "A smashing success!" came Brown, as the demon sales auto. Mary's first jolt comes ie team and romance to he: the stcntorldn tones of Brown. man Alexander Botts of the Wil addy and Gloria Stuart, make: SOLDIER part of a frightened old gent to perfection." Ham Hazlett Upson stories , on le brightest, most modern, am Lewis Stone throughout his "Bfocfc Croofe" which "Earthworn .'.Tractors" is 1929 Dodge DA most deeply human story th entire career before the cam "Acting nothing!" snapped based, starts the picture ttle Temple miss has ever had eras has never lost his com Klbbee. "I was a frightened old At the Mayan gent!" gaged to Miss Hughes. Sedan Irving Cummings d i r e c t e c mission in the Army Reserve He finishes lit about to be New Bladk Finish The Poor Little Rich Girl" with Every summer he trains Alongside the rickety platform federal Theatres executives married to I/lias Travis. .;, Mohair Upholstery G. DeS^lva associate pro as the tractor action was start and players' arc completing ucer. with the boys at Old ,Bar- ed, as though ready for ship , June has '.dark hauv bluish acks, Monterey, Calif. ment, was a total of 18 large portant theatrical events of the green eyes; is five feet four, and .,• •-' - •• •-• •••7""' .' weighs 116 pounds. LWTH0BNE, cases -of eggs. .-Nearby were current season. The..,.Mayan Telephone '299 r*"r"-«1'*"'*^ "The Friendly. Finally Theatre" TO BE CONTINUEP EACH taming Events ~At BUYS SEATS many large cans of milk. Theatre, Hill and--11th streets, Carol has dark hair, bluish THURSDAY CityParh •fiPR 1940 The script called for the scene of many scintillating pre green eyes; is five feet four, and mieres 'in bygone months, is weighs 114 pounds. . Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Aug. 27-28-29 Harold Lloyd is the firs' September. 13 milk by the huge tractor.' Joe scheduled for another colorful They are both athletic, healthy WALTER C. LINCH Homestead, Pa., former resl customer for the 1940 Olym drove the tractor, with Klbbee opening- next Saturday night, outdoor girls, .very feminine but fa "EARTHWORM TRACTORS" (South Bay's Oldest and ents all day picnic and bal pic Games. registering fright, right squarely Aug. 29, when Uncle Sam's 1936 far from the old-fashioned hot This week he bought the version of 'The Black Crook," house varietyof womanly and GLORIA Largest Dealer) ame. dramatic musical extravaganza STUART In 'THECRIME"OF DR:FORBES" Open Evening and Sundays September 20 first block of seats to be Is of the depot. ' . . flower. sued through the Los An Even a first-class depot, with of 1862, has a spectacular Los There is no trick in the script Friday Evening—Magic' Screen—You Play, We Pay Masonic picnic and ball game Angeles 'revival. 312 S. Carolina September 27 gles Japanese Consulate. by which one is supposed to be REDONDO BEACH Football game. ,' . • • • • away, would do a certain "The Black Crook" was the mistaken for the other, or any Sunday, Monday, Aug. 30-31 amount of sagging. This one, sensation of Broadway back in :hing which calls for the similar CHESTER "fflUNTKRFpIT" PLATE GLASS being only a flimsy affair, began the 60's and created a furore ly. Director Raymond Enright CHEAP to collapse. Five thousand .square feet Joe threw the big caterpillar as the first musical show to pre a blonde for one part of the rA^£T^n"EDUCATING FATHER" :n reverse. Then' looking, around sent "ladles of the ensemble" in other. of heavy plate glass, a good > LATEST ISSUE OF THE MARCH OF TIME supply of brickbats, Bar- to spot his real objective1— the tights. Federal Theatres -'an "But I didn't," Enright ex- eggs and itillk he steered the nounce that Frankie Bailey, ilains, "because I believe in this Monday- Evening—Magic Screen—You Play, We Pay >ara Stanwyck, and a mob of rack-laying monster straight