Drama » Art Pre-War Film Masterpiece Returns Cinema * Music Coming Events A Pat O'Brien City Park "Birth of a Nation" IT'S HIS SUBCONSCIOUS! Tells Tall Ones August 20 With Original Cast, Complete Masons, all day picnic and ba "Story conferences" took place game. , ' Sound Effects at Plaza daily on tho set of "Public Enc Mexican Independence Da; my's Wife," during the filming period in American history, the ture, tho actor who had held With the most vital of the Warner Bros, picture Civil war, as its background, D. W. Griffith's 21-year-old most often got It for keeps. showing at the Torranco Thea­ masterpiece, "The Birth of a Nation," supplemented by tre Wednesday only. But these , Pat O'Brien, a raconteur sound, and with tha original cast, comes to the Plaza conferences worn not to revise sorts, won the cup, with Arm Theatre, Hawthorne, beginning Sunday, Aug. 2iJ. the script. strong second and Foran third » Again and again this film Wife" is The conferees, Pat O'Brien, "Public Enemy's and "ro Robert Armstrong and Dick For­ powerful drama of a beautifu filled with the drama an took turns telling stories in girl's struggle to escape th Bobby Breen mance of America's great strug competition for a. battered tro­ toils of the law and also he gle for unity, has been brough phy which tho property man maniacal husband, who ha to the screen by the demand o exhumed from a drawer In his eauscd her to be unjustly im Reaps Reward the public. Now at the age o< prop box. prisoned. 21 years, more real thru the ad Nick Grinde directed" the film The rules of the informal con­ Of Long Effort dition of sound and dialogue, i test were simple. Between scenes from the screen play by Abei undying art .of ' Its whenever possible, the three Finkel and Harold Bucklej Five years of assiduous effort brings the drew chairs into a circle in a based on a story by P. J. Wol" have brought Bobby. Breen the secluded corner. The one who son. reward he so well merits and public. told the best story of the day, the goal so many parents seek It was in this film that Henry determined by a vote, got pos­ BIRTHDAYS OF THE FAMOU! for their talented children, B. Waltnall, playing opposite The doctor tells Charlie Ruggles all about his somnam­ session of the cup until the next Benjamin Harrison, 23rd Pres; Bobby is in the movies, the bulism, while baffled Mary Boland looks on during a scene At the end of the pic- Dorothy Gish, placed himself meeting.' dent, was born Aug. 20, 1833.. star of "Let's Sing Again" which among the Immortals of film from "Early to Bed,"'the team's latest farce'. The comedy comes Sunday, Monday and dom. Tuesday to the.Torrance Thea­ in which Charlie and Mary appear as a couple who marry tre. Bobby Breen is the. eight although it required consider- after a "20-year engagement comes today to the Plaza year-old, who, equipped with Theatre, Hawthorne. - :; the film to the Plaza, he expect situation paradoxes which make for ed that, because of the.demand Among l^ie many for the picture shown by the the gay and giddy comedy in the new photoplay, "The voice for a lad of his age, earned movie fans, he- would have un­ Bride .Walks Out," is that interpreted in the above scene national fame for himself sing- precedented crowds attending Robert Young, millionaire playboy, proffers advice on Ing on 's, radio the showing In Hawthorne. transporting the bride across the traditional threshold to broadcasts. NOW l.s the time to Barbara Stanwyck and Gene Raymond, who faced the jus­ Starting his career five years have you* eyes exam­ tice of th'3' peace only an hour before. At the Torrance ago as a singer in the Silver Unique G-Men ined! Slipper night club in , Theatre Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 23, 24, 25. Bobby advanced to vaudeville PHONE TORRANCE 132 NOW Is the time to and footllght engagements, radio Film Comes to think of your eyes, not work and now is in the cinema just as they are today, TRIANGLE IN WILD LAND sponsored by . Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Aug. 20-21-22 but as they will be' 10, PRIMITIVE The story is centered upon Plaza Today 20, 30 years from today. Ask yourself ... will they give Bobby, an orphan, who is lured "WHITE FANG" me the same clear, perfect vision they give me today? Will away by a traveling tent show. "Public Enemy's Wife," War­ with MICHAEL WHALEN and JEAN MUIR I still be able to see objects as clearly, Judge distances, drive Joe Pasquale, its handyman, ner Bros.' new and unique thril­ AND a car in 30 years as I do today? takes Bobby under his wing. An ler of G-Men activities, comes to WELL, YOU WONT IF YOU DON'T TAKE CARE OF erstwhile member of the Milan the Plaza Theatre today. "HUMAN CARGO" THEM!!! 3pera Company, Joe recognizes The picture Is enacted by an with CLAIRE TREVOR and BRIAN DONLEVY Come in today for an examination. Moderate prices to suit :he potentialities of a fine voice exceptionally brilliant cast which Also On Stage your convenience and terms the way you want them. In Bobby. includes Pat O'Brien and Marga­ HOMER'S EDUCATED ANIMAL CIRCUS ret Lindsay In the featured roles Horses! Dogs! Ponies! _____ as lovers, O'Brien the ape G- Animal Show Han and Miss Lindsay in the fll_D€N W.SmiTrr title role; Robert Armstrong, an other G-Man; Cesar ftomeroi the WITH Coming Friday to arch villain arid murderous head Sunday, Monday^ Tuesday, Aug. 23-24-25; ;1503 Phone of a band of desperate ctooks; WALKS OUT' Dick Foran, rich play-boy; Jos­ "THE BRIDE Cabrillo HOllifiRWJCllKICW 41.1 „. Local Theater eph King, Richard Purcell, Ad- With BARBARA STANWYCK. and GENE RAYMOND dlson Richards and others. AND Homer's Educated Animal Show- will appear at the Tor- The plot centers about Miss : "LET'S SING AGAIN" ranee Theatre Friday and Satur­ Lindsay, who is sent to prison With BOBBY BREEN and day, Aug. 21 and 22. Besides for a crime she did not commit, being educational for the chil­ having married a handsome.and dren, It is a show that will be magnetic crook without knowing especially interesting 'to the his background. The husband, Wednesday Only, Aug. 26 ' adults as well. Cesar Romero, has let her .take "Headlight," the world's won­ the "rap" with him for the "PUBLIC ENEMY'S WIFE** der horse, conceded- to be the crime, because he is afraid she with PAT O'BRIEN and MARGARET LINDSAY Replete with romance of the far north and filled with most educated horse to ever ap- will divorce him and marry -, ' . AND ' . HAWTHORNE, CALIFORNIA he drama of the lawless frontier, "White Fang," Jack iear on the stage. He makes again. When she leaves prison Telephone 2Q9 , ^The Friendly Family Theatre" London's great sequel to "Call of the Wild," opens tonight change at the cash register -just before he does, he threatens to "CRIME OF DR. FORBES" as a human will do, and he also kill any man who comes between with GLORIA STUART and ROBERT KENT Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Aug. 20-21-22 Wuir. Heading an exceptional cast. las many other tricks which he them. • Also SURPRISE NIGHT A Dajryl F. Zanuck Twentieth* loes with such intelligence that 2 Complete Shows 6:00 and 9;00 P. M. Century production, "White}however, and when Beck's body is a wonder. heads for the wedding ceremony £&».. 'TOUC ENEMY'S WIFE" . The show also presents the when he learns of it, Intending V Tfl RER" ""ang" takes up where London's | is found in the snow, he con­ andCHARLIE: MARY RUGGLES BOLAND, in "CADItttiuui lu DLli ther stirring adventure-drama iomedy mule "Ginger" and her to carry out his threat. But ace- eft off and weaves a thrilling vinces a mob that it is murder i7' tricks; "Little Walter," the r-Man O'Brien is on the watch. Thursday, Friday, Saturday; Aug. 27-28-29 Friday Evening You Play We Pay and they .set out to lynch midget pony who does a pretty The rich play-boy, whom the nd danger. Intel-mingled with Whalen. urn .with a big Japanese ape on girl is to marry, proves yellow, TRACTORS** so O'Brien goes thru with the "EARTHWORM he narrative, is the biography "White Fang," the dog, and lis back; also there are high- with JOE E. BROWN and JUNE TRAVIS - rf Lightning, the mighty son of Miss Muir are Whalcn'a only eaping greyhounds and the ceremony, hoping to trap the kil­ to fall ; —AND— SUNDAY, MONDAY AND TUESDAY luck, the dog-star of "Call of hope of rescue. The girl is torn ersian cats "Beauty", and ler. It, is then he begins he Wild," and a she-wolf. between love for him and fear 'Felix." / in We with the girl. And It Is August 23, 24, 25 who like a cirods will then that the picture enters a "PALM SPRINGS** Whalen, an' adventurer down that he is the murderer of her Those brother. The climax comes in a be more than thrilled when they series smashing episodes, with FRANCIS LANGFORD and SMITH BALLEW After 21 Years n his luck, Is persuaded by animals Winding up in an unusual 'homas Beck, a newcomer to breath-taking rush of thrilling ee these motion picture THE TRIUMPHANT RETURN OF he North, to guide him on a "events. THE ORIGINAL ong trek into the interior in earch of a gold mine be- KITTY KELLY AND NEUIE SHANNON <» [ueathed to Beck and his sister. K|TTX-yoO REfttLV I you NEEDN'T ee 5URE XOU CAN—IF Wolf-Dag Saves The long, nerve-wracking trip &ov I SO EMPHATIC weu_->e>u KNOW yoO NTNBOT WHAT ARE 1-TheBirthofaNation" >ver the ice and snow is too -plDNT NELLIE ~1 CAM VOU GOING Tb •I V\\ &0 luch for Beck. He eventually --_j5cr>OR A or«THE KLANSMAN» toes mad and jumps over a ~^\ IN 1"MG rAOVieS-— irecipice while Whalen falls un onscious. A pack of wolves as been trailing the pair for D. W< GRIFFITH'S IMMORTAL miles and, when the man drops, MASTERPIECE ho beasts close in. The leader L magnificent creature and unfamiliar man-scent stirs First Time in Sound ome odd emotion in his brain Tha Supremo Picture of All Time Brought He viciously chases the remain- to Life by the Miracle of Sound, Screen er of the pack and assumes with All Effects and Musical Scoring. guard over the man. Whalon is saved by a group of irospectors and papers In his Tho Los Angoles The San Francisco locket lead them to believe that Examiner, Sept. 18, News says: "If .e Is Beck. Whalen,adopts the 1930: 4The revival you have never- alf-dog that saved him and, as seen 'The Birth of By L. Antonette-i of The Birth of a Beck, assumes ownership of the BOZO AMP THE BARON — a Nation,' grasp mine. He is forced to discharge Nation' with syn­ this chance. Jf you ic foreman, John Carradlne, chronized musical have seen It, go 'hen he finds him stealing. score and sound I again and see how Mob Menace effects still re­ well a magnificent­ Miss Mulr arrives and accepts ly made picture mains the greatest iVhalen .publicly as her brother, will stand the test 'arradine Is still suspicious. picture ever pro­ of time." Sept. 2, duced." ' 1930. PILGRIMAGE PLAY In response to popular appeal, — Also 10 present season of the Pil- rimage Play, Hollywood, haa eon extended for two weeks, Jack London's "White Fang" he management announces that he play will positively close on ug. 29. Tickets may be ob- ained at the Policy Drug Corn- any in Torrance, COMPLETE COVERAGE "THREE CHEERS FOR LOVE" & "HIGH TENSION" All Tunance Herald ttd» run In ome Early Uoors Open (1 P.M. W* e Tri-nty HlmpplriK News with-