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PLAZA THEATRE :Vinegar Pt Y ' THURSDAY. JULY 12, 1934 Hollywood Party Tim McCoy Thrills Are Offers 1000 Laughs Free Gifts To In Film of Daring Louisa May Alcott's Classic At Many Ponies Friday and Saturday, July 13-14 O f f e r I n B moro dlvertlBBorrtcnt Highway Cop Deeds Torrance Tonight. Fri. and Sat Entered In Two than a three-ring circus fltuddod Ice Box Owners with laughs, starB, beautiful RlrlB, I'lcnty of fn«t ni Bong hits nnd spectacular dances Cleanaire Food Conditioner fans Tim McCoy Top Turf Events n cost which In- Food Odors In over IH |iresent In and embracing Absorbs klnRBTuid quncnB of Ice Boxes rent speed-drama. "Hell Kent ! '< State Fair in September "cludes such iiln; th melody and mirth RB Laurel and Wedi Brings Out Important Group 1119 rheatre. Hardy, Jimmy Durantc. Charles Simp, ilny, July 18 n of Thoroughbreds ' Ma Buttonvorth, I'olly Moran, Lupo When McCoy nerves a warm Kilt t" all Ire luix o upon a girl of whom the under SACRAMENTO. Vole*, Frances Williams, Jack Sift a Cloanalre world chief Is particularly fom itstandlng turf events at Pearl and even Mickey Mouse ' 1-10 tioner is inailt- as pa late show fair here September Metro - Unldwyn - Mayor's unUHUal 193| -ithnn nn official Interest In th ; to bring out 1 palRii to introduce t musical extravaganza. "Hollywood Klrl, Trigger Talnno, the Rangstc of thoroughbred Party." comes to the Torrancq Merles of WestlnRhou Ucfrlg- ihlef, frames the entered in races Theatre Tuesday nnd Wednesday, 1 caught rcd-lmnded apparently July 17 nnd 18, an the screen's The (mid conditioner Is nsslHtlnR In a- payroll holdup Nominations fi to: "Is there anything Is discharged 'from tho police mm -electric device which nuickl) stake for 3-year-olds tier the aun?" force* Igh-elnss entries Jor nliHorlw nil food odors within a tho injustl idcd purse, according t prevents tl RankllnR under Ift: box. It not only his suspension and discovering ir. mine, secretary-manager i Inside wnlls from nbsorblnR for le fair. The event will bo ru One Of The - - - tl that the underworld I odors but eliminates entirely disgrace. Tim i Thursday. September 6, liovei of odors from or. sponslble tor his transmission sets out to vindicate himself. Ho nor's day, and will be over tli Largest Selections food to another. - a band of ex-criminals nlle nnd 70 yards course.- orKanizcs OF This free Ck-analre food condi­ each of wjiom- he * has bef rlcndcd, Included In tho entries for thl tioner likewise keeps the Ice froi; and fights-the underworld with Its ;vent arc such w c 11 - k n o w aniulrlnp some of the aromas o own weapons. He Interferes with" lioroiiRhbreiis as Honny Orartoi KurrnnndlnR foods 'in a seasoi their ' rackets, breaks up their iwncd by the Mcadowbrook Stabl when thr- demand for lec'd -drjhk Used Cars schemes and finally sends'them to >f Los Angeles, and her s South of Los Angeles is very great'. * . prison as Jewel robbers. mite, Mnrcleta. Others nominated Mr. U. J. Srott, proprietor o m-ludo On Rush, of Jack AtUln'H the Torrance Electric Shop, sny: anndena Stable; I'rlnce Heather that people nro telephoning in at P. T. A. Outing .ml Mazol. owned by J. W. March- all hours for information regard War, a son of At Camp Seeley ..ink of Tanforan: COUPES - SEDANS inir this Kift and that requests ar he famoiiH Man O'War, owned by filled for free Wstallatlbn m near COACHES - ROADSTERS beinc Uounsavclle, presi­ he Jtnncho San Luls lley the order which they Mrs. U S. owned by H. announces that Ijos Angeles tlverslde: Chlctoncy. dent, I. Crowd! of La Jolla; Blue Law, Every Car A Downright Tenth District California Congress Bargain! Teachers, for the ntered by E. J. Carey of Emery- Thousands Remain of Parents and HlRh Tenlson, owned third year. Is planning a family illc, and y Henry Potter Russell of Kan See Us If You're Planning On On Charity Rolls outing hot only for thu district ...Buying ANY Used Car hoard members and their, families A graphic picture of the case but, also, for council boards and The President's .Futurity, fof loud of the county charities de­ 1 P. T. A. members and fam- ursc of .$1.000 added, will be run Lois Wilson and George Breabton In "No Greater Glory" partment was given.today in fig­ llie n the closing day of the meet, cptember 10. over- a distance f 'A Columbia Picture ures obtained from oTflce records It will Rodgers-Hilton Motors of Earl K. Jensen, superintendent ve nnd one-half furlongs. Fiftee SAN PEDRO includ amlnntlons. for the. event The MISCELLANEOUS FOR DODGE PLYMOUTH,* an.. Lllis Hey, owned by . th Display at 11th / were granted aid by the charities ;••>/.< --.-•; js^j.'- •*•• —— «»^Jr-'--a^-~ department, who were fed nnd enervations close Tuesday, Jul> clothed largely with funds sup­ .and ' must be made at tin -Cavaliers plied by the federal government. Parent-Teafhcr office, 583 Chain 'Cockeyed of Commerce building, 116 KiKurc.s fol' Friday, July 6, -when ianta Fe Trains "Cockeyed Cavaliers." the : the last wqckly c,ount was mode, itli Droadway, by the afternoon ro RKO-Radio Pictures' dramatization of Louisa- M comedy , hit coining to . the. Tor- showed 10S.276 cases still on of June.'10." Each- family Air-Cohditioned must, bo npanicd by a Alcott's classic ''Little Women" as a talking picture recalls ranco Theatre' Sunday and Mon­ charrty and unemployment relief :lon" and I«, irlngs I dollar author'\<rho actually asslstartt passen- day, July 15 rolls Tll.i.8 als that .100.000 the remarkable career'of this great, 3AH, n. Puffy, Wheeler and "rtybert V/oolsey. the cases were opened temporarily book in 'a "spirit of pique," according, to her V, traffic manager of the Satrta '- * Read the HeraJd Want Ad. began the screen cgckoos. In sonic pior« during the fiscal year ending last iV announces thaW..the larRe "air arid lillari /ery week for Big Savings. biographers, "to prove to her publishers that she couldn't of that corri- their nonsensical June 30. mdltUiniiiK program ° write a book -for girls.* my for lOS-l, has been completed goofiRanderlng. POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT It ' is "hard to believe that the nd air conditioned IJullman. club. This time Wheeler and Wool ppear as gallants of the- medieval author of a book, jvhlch has for Follies;1 "Scarlet Stockings" 'and ingc, observation and dfhlnK PHONE TORRANCE 132 "The ge, nidcd and abetted, by Thejma been'a sort of "blblc" for s" arc b'cing dperated on RETAIN ^ 65 years many other similar works. hlef" and "The California* 1,1m- Todd, Dorothy I,c6 and -a bevy - JUDGE American girlhood, mastered also According to literary ox'jii d," and air conditioned dining beautiful femininity. The -coir Thursday, Friday, Saturday, July 12-13-14 SUPERIOR such books wore the forerunne re riding the rods of a. royal tho art of writing heart-throbblnc ir, on j^The Grand Cuiiyon 1-im- ', Clark Gable and Wm. Powell in irns, l)lood-curdlin(? art- the "nirkel novels" which young- itagcciiach they encounter mat­ the Duke ^ and rns vherein 'sters used to lilde under the llr Duffy tin Ann eluding SEW ELL According she" has b usually tollen, to tress anil reay after the iblic response is very gratifying Wesklt, to whom "Manhattan Melodrama" by the hero. folks" went to sleep, l-'or them of air conditioned rumlseil in marriage. They . —AND—.. > lifted and forgiven nd the future Ann According tu an accurate roster she received about J10 each. ipment seems to be well est.ib.- ittlngly wander with Mary the Duke's palace. (Catherine Hepburn in " her works, 81 stories In all, TlK flln sion of <ihed for both summer and wln- into compiled by the RKO-Hartio re- Women." perhaps her greatest r travel. Because of : the popu- Making the most of a situation, We're Putting On A 3 Day rch department ns part of the work of all. is enacted by a rity of these cars, giving ad- ert and Mary Ann fall In love, "LITTLE WOMEN" rk of making the picture as of more than 20 gifted artists, mtages of even tempo r n t u r e hile Hob pursues the alluring ch like the original book as headed by Katharine Hepburn a.- roushout the year, the Santa Ke enovieve, the Duke's niece. The islblt, Miss Alcott was the Jo. Other leading characters art III proceed to add to its already illicking romance reaches a high lior of HUch stories as "King portrayed by Joan Hennctt. I'aul r*e fleet, of car.s now eiiuippi pitch w.len the Duke, Clenevieve's Sale! "Whls- I.ukai Parker, "Tho husband^ and ild boar hunt Lucky air i>f Eyes," who have made trips In Right up to and through Friday tH* Thirteenth you Ihi Dark." "Behind Edna May Oliver, Douglass- Mont- air conditioned brtjig affair to an Issue. Sunday, Monday, July 15-16 w.ill^ find "Lucky Prices" at the following A-G Stores: Musk." "Thrice Tempted," ."Fatal gomory and Henry Slephenson. npresscd by the- pleasure of "C o c k e y e d Cavaliers," UKO- Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey in journey that there Is little Kudl Picture, ' was directed by ubt of them, traveling via'.any aiulrich. Will Jason and G. H. COLBURN ipr means In the future," Huffy "Cockeyed Cavaliers" 645 Sartori Avenue, .Torrance, Phone 622 Three Great Stars Together tes. —AND-, Circus Staged For Ken Maynard 'in Like "1 WOODBURN'S LJbbee Doesn't Modern Hero' In 1801 Cabj-illo Avenue, Torrance, Phone 175 Scotch Joke 'A t'H This Barnes Tent Show DOAN'S MARKET one scene of the First Na- 2223 Torrance Blvd., Torrance, Phone 486 c o m e d y.
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