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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER'26, 163fi TORRANCE HERALD, Torrance, Callfornla- I Will Rogers' Latest Film Opens JUST A BIT OF RUSTIC HARMONY Little Curly Top Seen Tonight, Britliarit Grand Opera "Carmen 5-Day Run At Plaza On Sunday Friday, Saturday At Torranc Philharmonic Auditorium A rip-roaring river race, the most sensational Holly wood iias ever screened, brings Will Rogers' grand new mirth and drahia spectacle, ",' which opens Sunday at the Plaza Theatre, to its thrilling climax. No clement of popular entcr-^jn the muddy Mississippi. H tmnment Ims bren overlooked in I'""«» to 'have' his young nepjicw John McC!ulre. ns hid pilot, mi vhen the boy commits murder ti irotcct Anne Shirley, the girl In nves, Rogers turns him over ti he Jaw,_.______._ ._. The boy Is condemned, anc toners and Miss Shirley, whi ,lamo each other for his pllgh re nt first hostile, then drawl together by their common interest After many,wild and Incredible nrrvcntnTP.T with ~ir ~floatlmr- -wire

nns, are caught up in the t river race und thunder dowi the finish stretch to save the bo;. and bring the picture to a linppj -climax;- . W. C. Fields, laugh promoter of the age, reaches the op of his form as' a, comedian and pantomimist in his atest laugh riot, "Man on the Flying Trapeze," coming man's I'lctorla Sunday- and Monday to the Torrance Theatre. Tomlnent in the support- urc Kugcnc Pallctte, Ber- An amusing and quite plausible story carries Mr. Fields [ hlll and Stcphln Fctchtt. tor. From that tjme _Qn_liis luck Also Zasu Pitte begins to clraiige. Tho Sequence's when- he retires for the'night, ap­ On the same bill with "Stoam- pears at the breakfast table, tries :it 'Round the Bend" At the to "tfn-parl;" bis car. arrives at iza for five days starting Sun- Ills office are priceless bits of lay, is Znsti Pitts in "She (lets comedy which establish his artis­ Man," a rip-roaring comedy. try even more completely than his Shirley Temple is revealed as she really is in her sunny past cccsses Fox Film production, "Curly Top.'' America's darling sing Kathleen TfoWti-a,~T!fBay StiTT amraarfceS inThi^ happy, tuneful treat. on%. Vera Lewis, Oscar Anfcl, strangely I LucJvn I.ittlefield support the star elds walks out"? in .his, shenanlsuns. Clyde Uruck-- vith h:x .iauzti- : rMo directed. Village Beauties Lured to Their "Steamboat Round the Bend" frnjrds Ropers his greatest comedy ppprtunitlos in his hilarious Doom By Cruel, Ruthless Monster ivali-y feud with Is-vin S. 'Cobb, ed in the cnll^ to rally for the ! Lackadaisical ZaSu Pitts Shows ptert- humorist and n-riter; as "greatannual picnic reunion 6T| iva'l steamboat captains. And it Isii allows for masterful dramatic sidents of Vermont, How Soft Are the Real Hard Guys s'cw Hampshire, Rhode Massachusetts. Connecti­ cut, in Sycamore lirovc Park a day. Saturday. "October 5, undi about Rogers'1 the auspices of the. .ifrewEngland steamboat captain State Societies. Openbv the inujlc season In Southern California, the Los Angeles Grand! Open Festival wiH present a brilliant performance .of Bizet's immortal and i ever popular "Carmen" October 14 In Philharmonic Auditorium. First of a series of mind opera performances, "Carmen" will be given under the direc­ tion of U»e noted maestro AWo Frnncheltl (upper left) nnd will feature out-, standing, artote. Sllle. Joy McArden (upper right) is guest arllst from the Paris Grind Opera Company, brought -here for the role of Marguerite in t "Faust" Bodolfo Hoyos, celebrated baritone (lower left) has been engaged ! /for the entire series. Olga Dane (lower right), contralto who made her j Hollywood Bowl debut last summer as soloist and sang under KIcmpcrcr'sj [baton with the Philharmonic Orchestra-last winter, will sing the exacting j PHONE TORRANCE 132 role of Azncena in "II Tfovatorc." Miss Dane was acclaimed .for her) operatic singing this summer In the Bowl. The grand opera will be onions; the first productions In the Philharmonic, Auditorium (center) this season. Thursday, Friday. Saturday, September ?6, 27, 28 Dance's Infei-no Shirley Temple Brought to Screeu !n "Curly Top" Hix Inindrcd rind ' thirty years" ago in Italy,'a ydiinK- man found .ZASU PITTS and LOCIE.N LITTLEFIELO time during political exile from V*. 1 SHE. .G E.T.S .' Now At Plaza his native Florence, to write ' a You set us humming with poem called- "The Divine Comedy." low .soft is a -hard guy?" And The happlpst picture of Shlrlej The action .of the poem coven your two songs that cap­ there really a. tender heart Temple's career, "Curly Top," i eleven ilays and It took its author. Dnnte Allglilcrl ture the spirit of happiness! bcntin;;. licncath the bullet-proof Love Conquers All showing at. the Plaza six years to com­ Theatre, Hawthorne, and will c plete the job. st of the average plug-ugly? The For Anne Shirley Master of the house of terror! Monster of the roorii You set our feet tapping of doom! nue through Saturday with < Now popularly known as "Dan­ iswcr to these questions are His kiss is the password to oblivion and dea< nuous with your three gay dance Lovu's dominant importance in performance from 1:30 te's Inferno," although It also furnished in a most hilarious inan- or alive, he.can kill! .. in. Saturday. deals-with I'urgiitory and Paradise, the scheme of human life is tl in "She Gets Her Man," the The gentleman characterized above is none other than In "Curly Top." a charming this work remains the most illum­ theme treated In "Chasing Yes­ UniversBl comedy which comes to the Baron de Berghman, portrayed in the new Columbia tory of a little girl who captures inating and luminous Imaginative terday," Anne Shirley's new .star­ fdrama. "The Blnck Room," show- heart of a lo'ncly bachelor and story of Hell ever created by man. Torrance Theatre, tonight. ring picture with her former cine­ Ing Tuesday only. October 1, a lakes both 'their dreams come " Filmed before in silent days, Friday and .Saturday, with ZoSu ma buddies of '"Anne of Gro< the Torrance Theatre, by that ex­ rue, Shirley has two new sc 'Dante's Inferno," coming Sunday I'itta and Hugh' O'Coniiell In the cellent actor, Karloff, who sc H»K_ and several new and in- and Monday to the Torrance Gables," Q, 1'. Heegle and Helen featured roles. " to He awake nights thinking, up rlcate dance routines for ai Theatre, has recently been com­ West ley, which comes to the Tor­ ice approval. Miss J'itts, unwittingly a hcro- ways to keep his movie fans from pleted in talking form ut the rance Theatre next Tuesday for sleeping too. In this Fox Film comedy-drama, Fox Film Studio in -Hollywood e because she tainted on an one niKht only. LUcerne ice cream, sold through Jlhi late.st horror role is that of ohn Holes Is cast as a bachcl and stands . as one of the com­ alarm button und' released a flood adopts Shirley and her big Waned on the novel, "The Crime Safeway' Stores, was- awarded the n ruthless killer, a bluebeiird, pany's most ambitious efforts. tear-Ban during a Ijanl; robbery, inter, . His gen- Spencer Tracey w51T~B"6usnT"innr- of SylvcHlrc Uonnard," by the gold medal for top honors a, the uses (lie. enmity of Chicago roslty takes them from the dral. obtained by Sol "M. Wui'tzel, pro­ nd dreary atmosphere nf an ducer of the "Inferno," for .the tin picture reveals how iiuina, according '.to C. U Smith, unde read maledictikw tha rphttnage to tho sunny, sumi leading male role. Claire Trcvor Is urroundlngs of a palatial home the love of a young orphan girl dfliarge of Lucerne sales. The he Is t t death lit the hand: tho girl and Henry 11. Walthall pi liis youngert twin..twin, Finally, In n Southampton. There the ro- thatplays ofthe tlpart that' --approximut ROCHELLE HUDSON othl mVders his brother ance of' Holes and Roehclle Hurt- 1 America. ,,ut wh,n she j ^"^ ^^ ^J^Z best by a committee of judges on floiirinhes under the childish . t, Virgil, temp* to defy thu rui-Hc but 1 's part Is that of the forced into a gallici-inK of hattlo- vho sampled scores of brands, uldancc of little Shirley who sings, tdn- _ Produetd br WINFIEID SHEEHAN KM'a life by furthering her ro­ Ultimately meets death at tl Ith Alan Dinehart as his mance with a young; scholar. tt.T samples had been picked up hands of the corpse. anccs and lauHhu* her way into Oirtci* d by Itvina Cumminrji Muiic.br Ray H.ndorton ivel-s that they arc just ; . lot of Crorge' MchollH. Jr.. the ilirec- riMii dairies and stores by repre- eir hearts. tmlutivcs of the Stato Departmnnt —AND— tor of "Anne of Cireen (tables." di­ Shirley is really Imppy i,, t Ms Mammoth's Bonei Found cpeats the only rected "Chasing Yesterday," with f "Agricultilre. J.ucerne milk iilso price, Luccrni cture, for sho has the opportun- has gained in sale; AUKOHA, 'Nnb. (IJ.[>.) William brings the i John tjualen, Kllzabeth 1'uttcr- won two gold medals and two y of displaying her full talents iver inedals in milk y year, winning nev Slevcr. Aurora farmer, found "She Gets Her Man" startling und riotousb HIIII, Trent Durkln, Ktienne (lira- hen she sings "Animal Crackers ic fossilised bones of a niiim- "Thin Is the; first ti l.n li month. The gold My Soup" and "When 1 Grow With ZASU PITTS, HUGH O'CONNELL il confirms the judj," olh In fairly good condition' In a ompetitlon ulilii ha: II near his home. Tho mammoth Shirley is not the only one to linn) been dead approximately County nu In this joyful film. John Holes 10,000 Sunday, Monday, September 29-30 ng« "It's All So New -|'o u o" id ' Curly Top." while Kochelic ic flrat time, "The Simple Thin-s Man On The Flying Trapeze" Life." With W. C. FIELDS, MARY BRIAN Wlnfielii Sheehan and directed by Hay Henderson, America's ace' rvhiB (-'ummlngs. --AND ' . Zabelle Dancing Studio Dante's Inferno" HAWTHORNE, CALIFORNIA Woman's Club, 1422 Engracia Ave., Torrance •Telephone 299 , "The Friendly Family Theatre- With SPENCER TRACY, CLAIRE TREVOR Ballroom Dancing and Daily In the Us Anflole» Evening Herald Social Etiquette Tuesday Only, October 1 Thursday, Friday, Sat, (Last 3 Days) Sept. 26-27-28 Continuous Saturday from 1:30 P. M. High School Students The Black Room "CURLY TOP" New Clacsos Now Forming- Telephone With , MARIAN MARSH 383-J for Information. Wo 'tonch ballroom and KAY TAT 1\J A " dancing as it should be, yviih emphasis on _ANU JOHNSON J xXJyi^tZ^. proper accial deportment. "Chasing Yesterday" 5 BIG DAYS STARTING SUNDAY, SEPT. 29 Our Beloved NEW CLASSES FOR .CHILDREN OF ALL AGES With ANNEBHIRLEY ARE NOW STARTING - ENROLL AT ONCE. WILL ROGERS in Dancing -:- Dramatics -:- Singing Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday! Oct. 2, 3, 4, 5 Radio and Screen Personality f. 4 DAYS RUN OF "Steamboat 'Round the Bend" "SHE GETS HER 'MAN" Wo li.iva ninny intnfiod patrono in Torrance who have WILL ROGERS in been aonding thoir children to our atudio during the pnit Special, Tuesday Evening two yoarg. "AMATEUR NIGHT" Anycno intcroitod may call at tho Torrance Woman'* Licensed Embdmers Steamboat 'Round-The Bend Clubhouse on Friday« between 2:30 p. m. and 5:30 p, m., ' AND I'lciiKi' Note: Durinn tho tihowiiiK "'' "Stoaiijhont or tolophonc Torrano.; 363-J any time. 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