‘Colleen’ Brings Group of Musical Comedy Stars to Capitol Theater

recorded for the Powell-Keeler AL JOLSON AT ARCADIA ton, Lyle Talbot. Allen Jenkins and ‘LAST OF PAGANS’ AT SUNDAY Wini combination at the Capitol theater, THE QUEEN A1 Jolson’s new starring picture, Shaw. The Yacht Club boys Brownsville, Sunday and Monday. MAJOR BOWES r^aKaiaM^Kaataasaa a * K aB “The Singing Kid” is booked for and Cab Calloway and his band also are featured. LATEST SONG The story, written by Robert Lord, a three-day engagement at the is packed with rollicking comedy, Arcadia theatre in Harlingen, Sun- It deals with a famous entertain- romance and a touch of real drama. day, Monday and Tuesday. er whose gold-digging fiancee There is more of a plot than in plays SHOW BOOKED “The Singing Kid” combines rol- him for a the musical and concerns sicker and then runs HITS ordinary comedy with heart throbbing FEATURE licking off with his the efforts of Powell to straighten lawyer who has rob- drama and spectacular musical num- out the business affairs of his bed him of every cent he possesses. weal- bers. Besides Jolson and Miss Dodd thy and eccentric uncle, as well as Famous Amateur Attraction To top it all his voice goes back the cast includes Sybil Jason, Bev- on him and he is his lovescrapes. Incidentally Dick To at Arcadia forced to go SHOW Appear erly Roberts, Edward Everett Hor- the woods to FASH in for some recuperate. land Miss Keeler go romancing and are all tied up in In Harlingen a score of hilarious entanglements, bick Powell, Ruby which are eventually straightened | Major Bowes’ all-star Amateur out in a smashing climax. Keeler her show, booked to appear at the Ar- Toget Two mammoth and spectacular cadia on Thursday, April 16, con- In Dance numt:-', were created and staged Again sists of 8 featured acts, picked per- by Bobby Connolly with scores of And Show sonally by the Major from his 14 Song beautiful chorus girls in each. One touring units to commemorate the takes place on an ocean liner, spe- Texas Centennial. The mere announcement that Dick cially built for the picture and the Powell and are teamed The Major has been giving wor- other in a modiste shop in which in a musical drama seems sufficient thy amateur talent an opportunity is a fashion to insure the popularity of the pic- presented gorgeous to appear before the American pub- show. ture. Those talented young peo- lic and the people of the Valley are ple started together in “42nd Street” The settings are not only uniqbe urged to lend their support toward and made a hit. They made an- and unusual, but exceptionally a whole-hearted reception to the other in “Flirtation Walk” and beautiful, displaying new designs of amateurs on their appearance at again in “.” • glass and streamline furniture, as the Arcadia. In fact, every film well as the latest mode in gowns. All, still youngsters, with a desire has been a big hit. Consequently There are three songs, written for to get on the stage before the foot- when it was announced that War- the production by Harry Warren lights, made their way to New ner Bros., had a new musical, in and A1 Dubin, ace team of song York and the National Broadcast- which were not only Powell and writers of Broadw’ay and Hollywood. ing Studios in Radio City, and be- Miss Keeler, but Jack Oakie and Powell sings two of the songs in fore a critical audience and the • Joan Blondell, Hugh Herbert and his inimitable manner, one by dreaded “mike” told Major Bowes Louise Fazenda, together with the himself and one in which Miss who they were, why they came, stage’s greatest dancer, Paul Draper, Keeler gives a lyrical recitative. and what they wanted to be, and were to be starred, the success of The other, a comedy number, sung then, with a song on their lips and their of the picture was assured in advance. by Jack Oakie and Joan Blondell, a prayer in hearts, gave The haunting fascination of the Soyth Seas, the idyllic lives of its natives, a romance unfolded amid the “Colleen” lives is the best to millions of listeners up to all expec- entitled “Boulevardier from their thrills of primitive lives—these are the elements caught in an absorbing piece of entertainment, “Last of the tations, and another smash hit is Bronx.” the throughout country. Pagans,” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s tropic idyll showing Sunday and Monday at the Queen theatre, Browns- ville. Filmed on an uncharted coral isle in the Pacific, its cast is headed by Mala, the native whose perform- ance in “Eskimo” ~ brought raves from critics and public alike. With Lotus Long the only other player brought from Hollywood, the actors consisted af the entire population, including its chief. A few white men consisting of sailors and overseers filled other roles. The picture i s based on an original story by John Villiers Farrow, Now Now and was directed by Richard Thorpe who spent more than five months in the South Seas with his location Special || company. ★ ★ RIVOU SHOWS SHOWING AT RAMON JANET GAYNOR * 1* Popular Stars Are Appearing Together In ‘Small l* > Town Girl* IIHHIIIII3QOIII A striking new co-starring team SUNDA Y and MONDA Y is presented theatre-goers in the persons of Janet Gaynor and Robert * * Taylor, teamed in the picturization of the popular novel Ben Ames Wil- Town Girl” LAri i wjl liams. “Small showing mmmmmm mhhhhi and Monday at the Rivoli ||! t\ Sunday theatre in San Benito. The story of “Small Town Girl” revolves about Brannan who I \W\ \\\\±\\\\ 11 « ///’ m m /«/ // /»“ I Kay lives with her family in Carvel, Massachusetts, and detests the humdrum of small town life. Everybody expect^ her to marry Elmer, the telephone man; but one night she meets Bob Dakin, from Boston, who is going home from a football game. They go to a night club where students are celebrating, and before morning they are married at a local Gretna Green. Ten minutes later Bob wrecks their car ana goes to sleep; James Dunn and Sally Eilers are seen with Pinky Tomlin in “Don’t next morning he has no recollec- Get Personal”, showing at the Ramon Theatre Monday and Tuesday tion of the marriage, in fact, he and the Plaza, Donna, on Tuesday only. barely remembers meeting Kay. Bob ifc a gentleman and decides to make the best it. He takes of plight; her husband will have pearances Kay and Bob have i i Kay to his aristrocratic parents, bat nothing to do with her and keeps kissless aboard the Daku her when she con- honeymoon turns against «■■■' ■■ .—F his romance ! fesses she knew what was £ping on up with Priscilla, a yacht, but Bob and Priscilla agrei but didn’t stop the wedamg. So society beauty to whom he has they’ll be married when Bob get I a divorce after a decent interval. Kay finds herself in an unhappy been engaged. To keep up ap- Kay moves through a series o r trying experiences, but through he r gentle influence Bob quits drink ■ ing and devotes himself more to hi » really brilliant career as a surgeon One night Kay finds Bob in Pris * cilia's apartment, forces him to gi > I to the hospital for an t ★ u importan operation, and that same night de TODAY and MONDAY cides she can bear no more; sh ft * ...... *» »„ goes back to her family in Carve I and resigns herself to r A new of forgettini world romance..! Bob. where love and hold beauty Through losing her, Bob learn » sway... ’neath the shelter- just how much he has learned b > care for her. And one ing palm of the night 9 while the papers are printing ru magical south sea mors ft of his impending divorce, hi * islands...! drives into Carvel just as he did 01 1 that other night. He hunts up Ka; r and begs her forgiveness. Onci ft more they ride away from thi ft small town, this time to happiness • COMMAND LOVE DEPICIH I

‘La*t of Pagans* to Shov r Sunday and Monday At Queen Here

Romance in the dreamy tropies- native life in the land o f I idyllic the Southern Cross — stark i —— drami New song hits % on uncharted coral islands — th “You Gotta Know' How to deadly typhoon — these are th s f Dane's” contrasting elements in the kaleido South Seas, where “Last o f and 2 More ... a scopic the Pagans,” Metro Goldwyn Mayer’s saga of Polynesian life, wa 5 *4C filmed. The new picture shows Sun ^ day and Monday at the Queen the atre, Brownsville. Director Richard Thrope took i I production unit to the last of th 5 “unspoiled” islands of the groui and was five months in the makin ? *V ★ of the new picture, with Mala her J of “Eskiho,” and Lotus Long a 5 Ip the only Hollywood players. The entire population of the cora 1 isle in the Pacific, including it S chief, was impressed to act. A fei tr white men, sailors and overseen K -4c 5 .vT* were enlisted for other roles. Ex cept for a short wave radio operate i by Cameraman Clyde DeVinna, th B company was out of fouch with civ ilization. In this island paradise the rc mance of the native warrior an a the woman he loves was unfolde a TODAY and MONDAY before the camera. Native dance s and customs were filmed. Thrills c f swordfish and shark, Mala’s battl e to the death with a wild boar, an a A the great typhoon that swept th 0 jt&BKs — JF Jm fgl| hpj || island were filmed for tense episode 5. — Monday and Tuesday — Tuesday Only — Beautiful lagoons, stately pali groves, picturesque inlets, provide ^ beauty. Dusky balles in their pai ■TlftRowNsviLi? rM n eaus. or native dresses, and the del ! MISSION I1T-W1 icate gardenias that grow in th 1 1 ^_~_^_ islands as lush as weeds, appeare THEATRE I DONNA in romantic interlude*. 'm -----

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