Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 8

PAGE EIGHT RENO EVENING GAZETTE SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1935 DINNER IS GIVEN FOR YERINGTON New and Old JF avorites in Screen Plays for Coming Week ITS OWN WATER SYSTEM In Italy, on a Liner and in Opera A Galaxy of Stars Tl AUSTIN PURCHASES ft? 1 AUSTIN, Nov. 23. (Special) The completion of the acquiring of its water system by the town of Ajsl -pr ST sty Groucho, Chico and Harpo Marx the Majestic for four days. YERINGTON, Nev. Nov.

23. (Speclal Members of the Yering-ton high school football squad and Coach Bailey were honored at a dinner given by the members of the 20-30 and Rotary Clubs. Ralph Marconi, president of the 20-30 Club and Earl Mayes, Rotary president, presided at the gathering and called upon Coach Bailey, Jimmie DuPratt, A. L. Carmen and Ray mond Kilian for short talks.

Musical numbers were presented by Jack Burns and Howard Freitas, accompanied by Miss Stella Kringlen. The football dinner is an annual affair sponsored by the Yerington 20-30 Club and has been carried out for the past five years. The members of the Lyon County Game Club entertained their wives and lady friends Wednesday evening at a turkey dinner given in the 20-30 clubhouse. The dinner was served by Mrs. E.

Rathbun to thirty-five members and guests. James O'Connor, president of the club, acted as toast master. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Burns are the parents of a son born Wednesday, November 20.

a 3 I Here's bunch of attractions in one show coining to the Majestic Thursday. They start ofcf with Bing Crosby in the upper right and they're all there. i- 1 iiiii iiillM "Here's to Romance" shows Madame Schumann-Heink and Nino Martini, both opera stars a generation apart, at the Granada for three days. Zasu Pitts, "Susan," Wigwam. "Personal Maid's Secrets, Granada.

Margaret Lindsay appearing in Jumbo7 Is New For Itself and Also for Its Producer, 'Billy7 Rose By WILLARD KEEFE Austin took place this week when i the Lander county board of commissioners, acting as a town board for Austin, at an adjourned meeting opened bids for the purchase of $2800 of the $4900 issue of Austin. water system bonds, authorized at a recent special election. The bid of the Lander County Bank of Austin of 101 and accrued interest wras accepted and the delivery of the bonds to that amount ordered to the bank. on the terms of its bid. The completion of the purchase of the Austin water system from the Austin Water Company, for which a provisional contract had been made and upon which the sum of $300 had been paid by the Austin Silver Mining Company, was then ordered.

The consideration of $3000 was made as to $600 in cash and the balance in bonds at par in accordance with the agreement. The sum of $300 paid by the mining company on account of the purchase was ordered refunded to it. There were six applications before the board of appointment as water agent for the town. The applicants being Leslie R. Mclntyre, Gus Laurent, J.

R. Sibbald, Walter Wholly, Roy Griffith and John M. King. Mr. King received the appointment, until the further order of the board at a monthly salary of $100 to cover all services.

After completion of the purchase and adjournment of the meeting the plant was inspected by Commissioner Paul H. Dory, John M. King, the newly-appointed water agent, District Attorney Howard E. Browne and Earl Seaborn, assistant engineer of the Austin Silver Mining Company. It is the intention of the town of Austin to improve the plant and service and it is expected that after the improvements have been made the water supply of Austin, both for domestic and commercial used and for fire purposes, be much more satisfactory.

The quality of the Austin water has always been excellent but the quantity and distribution have of late left much to be desired and have been inadequate for the rapidly increasing: population and business of the town. The county commissioners as a town board of Austin were also occupied this week with the further consideration of additional fire equipment for the Austin fire department. All bids received at a former meeting in accordance with advertisement for bids, the consideration of which had been adjourned, were rejected as exceeding the funds available for the purpose and the estimates made. Hubert W. Rast and Doug H.

Tandy, members of a committee from the Austin fire department and Paul Klopstock, appeared before the board and pointed out the urgency of immediate action. A forty-gallon anti-freeze chemical fire engine assembly without chassis was ordered from Dayton, manufacturers for $495 and a chassis for same was ordered from a Reno firm, together with other equipment, for $227. The question of the purchase of a standard automobile truck chassis for fitting up as a fire truck was postponed for action later. The equipment ordered is for quick delivery. The necessity for further fire equipment was accentuated in the public mind, by a fire which a few days ago destroyed the former King residence at the lower end of Main street.

The house was recently acquired by the Austin Silver Mining Company for use of its mill and office employes. The first floor was occupied by the family of mill operator Lattridge and the second floor by Assistant Engineer Earl Seaborn and Accountant A. J. Brennan. The fire occurred in the daytime and was confined to the King house but it was impossible to save any of the contents, excepting a few things from the ground floor, and nothing was left of the building but the brick walls.

The loss was $3000, fully insured. The fire started in the ceiling of the second floor presumably from a defective flue. Mrs. Dora M. Thompson, sister of Jerry Sheehan, former state senator from Eureka county, has been as-sismed as clerical assistant in the office here of Earl W.

Felker, national re-employment director, and has taken up her duties. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Schmidtlein of Kingston canyon are the parents of a daughter, born in Eureka this week. County Recorder Bert Acree and Mrs.

Acree "are on a visit to their daughter, Mrs. Orrin Johnson, at Dayton. Mr. and Mrs. Henry C.

McKay have returned from several days spent in Falloryvisiting Mr. McKay's mother, Mrs. yiola McKay. A. J.

Maestretti Reno attorney, native of Austin and former district attorney of Ls Maestretti, wa ider county, with Mrs. here this week visit- ing his father A. F. Maestretti, who is the oldest esiden of Austin both in years anc length of residence. County Clerk Lena E.

Streshley, her brother, William Streshley and Misses Gertrude and Adelaide Cal-laghan, have returned from several days spent in Reno where Mr. Streshley received medical attention for his eyes. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Schmidtlein and family from Smoky Valley have moved into town for the winter and are occupying one of the Aldape houses south of main street.

Add to Cast Benny Baker, William Collier. Philip Merivale and Sidney Toler have been added to the cast of "Give Us This Night4" I I I I the jolliest of their comedies, at Louise Rainer, "Escapade," Wig warn. Helen Lewis who has the lead in "Goodbye Again," Reno Little Theatre group production, which will be staged in Rena high school auditorium next Monday and Tuesday evenings. At seventy-four, Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink, beloved operatic singer of America, makes her bow in films in "Here's to Romance," wjien.

playing as herself, she assists Nino Martini, noted radio and opera tenor, who also launches his screen career in this play, which is billed for the Granada tomorrow. Monday and Tuesday. In the play Genevieve Tobin and Anita Louise compete for the tenor's offections he's Martini. Reginald Denny has a strong Dart and there is also Vincente Escudero. noted Spanish dancer, besides a cast of good singers.

It Is said to a plav of great Interest. For one day only. Wednesday, Alice Faye and Bebe Daniels will be the attraction in "Music Is Magic." a play in which directors eo mad. film stars get temoeramental and studio assistants fall all over themselves in ah effort to please their suneriors. To ndd to the confusion, Mitchell and Durant.

the screen's "nuttiest" comedians, indulee In the wildest capers of their theatrical career. Two screen beauties appear together In "Personal Maid's Secret," on the week's program for Thursday and Friday. They are Marearet Lindsay, and Anita Louise. Ruth Donnelly is the maid. The plot involves, a perfectly efficient maid who enters the employ of a struggling courle.

and through her adroit manipulation and contacts, boosts them from a humble anartment to a Lone Island estate and to. fortune. On Saturday night James Dunn will be seen, with Dorothy Wilson, Louise Fazenda and Victor Kilian, In "Bad Boy," in which a romantic beginning is almost crushed bv fail ure of employment, but bravely wins for, the boy in the end. Acted in Tragedies jvxariene uietncn, once was a Shakespearean actress under Max Reinhardt. jj i GRANADA PICTURES SCHUMANN-HEINK IN FILMS -Sx j.

1 A in "A Night at th Opera," one of the careers of the respective artists are practically ruined, but it all turns out well in the end after a terrific scene in which the Marx brothers save an audience from panic at a theatre. For Thursday, Friday and Saturday the Majestic will present "The Big Broadcast of 1936," in which Jack Oakie and Henry Wadsworth are seen as two care-free radio performers. A rich young countess who is really ruler of an island falls ii love with their performance, not knowing that they are two people. To decide which one she likes better she kidnaps them to her island to decide which one shall be her husband. Lyda Robert! is the countess and Wendy Barrie is her pretty secretary.

A wonderful radio eye, invented bv Burns and Allen, enables the countess and her sweethearts to see a great radio performance. In this are the Nicholas brothers, Bing Crosby, Amos 'n Andy," Ethel Merman, Bill Robinson, Ray Noble and his band, who contribute specialty numbers. Norman Taurog directed the fun fest. WIGWAM OFFERS VARIED BILLS "Stormy," coming to the wigwam tomorrow for three days, is the story of a ranch girl in which Jean Rogers and Noah Beery play the principal parts. The original Arizona Wranglers appear in it and there are thrilling scenes of a wild horse stampede and a flood.

"Escapade," on Wednesday and Thursday's bill, is a delightful story of an Austrian artist who persuades a doctor's wife to pose in a set of borrowed furs, which are unique. In the picture the doctor recognizes the furs, with resulting William Powell and Luise Rainer are the principals. For Friday and Saturday there will be a double attraction John Wayne in the Western thriller, "Neath Arizona Skies," and Zasu Pitts in "The Affair of Susan," the story of a romance that followed a trip to Coney Island. Ray Walker, Bebe Daniels and Alice Faye in "Music Is Magic," Granada. Marx Brothers at Majestic Tomorrow Followed by 'Big Broadcast of 1936' Next James Dunn, "Bad Boy," Granada HE SEEKS DELILAH BUT SHE IS YET By RELMAN MORIN HOLLYWOOD, Nov.

23. VP) If C. B. De Mille, film producer, doesnt find that "beautiful brute" he vis-1 ualizes for the feminine lead in his "Samson and Delilah," it won't be because Miss and Mrs. America haven't given him every help.

i Some three thousand photographs from all corners of the nation, were Stacked up in his office today the result of his announcement of the search for a slant-eyed siren to play Delilah. Before he made the announcement, De Mille searched the Voluminous photograph files of cast ing offices. He didn't see the face he sought. So he let his plight bet known, and the ladies have been offering to help out, at the rate of about thirty-five pictures a day. On one side of his desk was a stack of photographs he had singled out.

He said he was considering these more carefully than the others. "But don't say I've found the 1 UT lnTTA-n't 9 Numerous photographs were mail-; ed in by friends of candidates. One told the producer: "The dame I'm suggesting isn't a beauty, but she's a brute. Your makeup men can do the rest." De Mille was amused at a letter from Depew, N. that said, "I am ashamed to admit it, but I look like the girl you're looking for." She referred to a published drawing of Delilah as De Mille visualized her.

A San Francisco note told him, "I could play the guitar and sing some sketchy songs for Samson. If you could hire my brother to play Samson we could make a wonderful duet, as we sing 'in the Lattle Church Around the Corner' to perfection. I schottische the prelude." A bathing suit picture of a Chicago who said she was an artist's model, was accompanied by a note which listed her charms, and summed them up with the "to make it short I am an armful of sheer delight." Chicago led all cities in the number of candidates who wrote to De Mille. It had 184 applicants. Minneapolis was second with 120, then St.

Louis sixty-eight, Oklahoma City, iwenty-four, San Francisco twenty, and New York and Brooklyn seventeen. ji -j UNFOUND Mrs. Dottie Miller of Reno, presi- desnt of the Rebekah assembly of Nevada made her official visit to the local lodge Thursday evening. Judge Guild was in Yerington Thursday presiding over a regular session of district court. He return ed to Carson City late that evening.

Mrs. Fred Littel was hostess at a card party Friday afternoon for the members of her card club. Prizes for high scores were awarded to Mr. Mays and Mrs. Vaillencour.

Deli cious refreshments were served to Mesdames Bertha Vaillencour, Car rie Mayes, Anna Peterson, John Ross, E. F. Rathbun, James O'Connors, George Ellis, Ernest Johnstone, E. A. Dillon, C.

B. Newcombe and Miss Elsie Bruhne. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cox entertained at a birthday dinner Thursday evening for Dr.

Magee. Present were Dr. and Mrs. George Magee, and family and Mr. and Mrs.

Walter Cox. Miss Cornelia Holbrook returned this week from a visit to her parents in Lodi, Cal. She attended a Methodist church conference held recently in Reno. Volney Parker of San Francisco is spending this week visiting his uncles at the Gallagher ranch. Dr.

and Mrs. George Magee left Monday to spend the week in, San Francisco. They will attend the Stanford -California football game on Saturday. Mrs. Ella Riley entertained her bridge club Tuesday evening.

Prizes for high and low score were given to Eleanor Keema and Julia Kring len Oscar Nev 11 was a business vis itor in Renq last week. The carr val and dance given Saturday ni ht at the Rink hall by the Junior omen's Club attracted a large atte dance. Strips cut from funny papers were used to decorate the hall' and the many attractive booths and side shows delighted both children and adults. The entire proceeds from the affair which amounted to about one hundred dollars will be used for Christmas charity in this community. Mr.

and Mrs. L. V. Osborne and family spent Saturday in Reno. Mrs.

John R. Ross and daughter Jackie left Thursday for San Francisco where the latter will receive special medical Fred Hamer made a business trip to Mammoth, last week. Mrs. Roland Snyder returned Sunday from Reno where she had spent the past week. Her mother, Mrs.

Walter Bell accompanied her home. Mr. and Mrs. W. Sexsmith of Minden were business visitors here one day last week.

Roy Whitacre, V. H. Bernard and son Victor spent Saturday attending to business matters in Reno. Mrs. L.

Pittwood is convalescing at her home here from an operation recently performed in Reno. Mrs. Percy Bassman and mother Mrs. C. Thrailkill visited in Reno Thursday.

Mr. and Mrs. Antone Lilja left this week for an indefinite stay in Arizona. Mrs. L.

R. Bassman is reported as improving from an operation performed last week at St. Mary's hospital in Reno. Mr. and Mrs.

R. Penrose of Reno spent the week-end at the home of their daughter Mrs. Virgil Bernard. John Baker of Hawthorne spent the week-end with his family here. merrIynIorgot and got a part HOLLYWOOD, Nov.

23. (Because Merrilyn Hartley, eighteen, forgot to say "Hello" during a "Hello day" at University of California at Los Angeles, she was hailed before a student kangaroo court. The result: Her picture appeared in a Los Angeles Film Director Marion Gering saw it, and next week Merrilyn goes to work in a Columbia picture with Ruth Chat-terton. Penner Dodges Radio Because he has decided to make his in Hollywood, Joe Penner, is rejecting all radio offers that would force him, to go East. York Prize astounding.

That he got it in an industry where negotiations are studded with such chilling vulgarisms as "cash on the line" and "bare wall rentals" is a feat which might reasonably be compared with the Louisiana Purchase The truth is that Rose had quite a record as a showman to support him. For "Jumbo" is not his first master stroke. Some seasons ago, when the depression was smarting its worst. Rose routed a revue called "Crazy over inland trails in which other managers had inked suicide. In the show he was lucky enough to have Fannie Brlce, Phil Baker and Ted Healy.

More than that, he had an advertising writer who deserves to be rescued from the anonymity which has always been his. To proclaim the revue, this publicist wrote a series of advertisements which invariably were a matter for the uneasy study of city councils. During the consideration of this business such matters of municipal moment as drainage and tax abatements were frozen in midair. The shocked mayor of one Middle West city shunted Rose and his outspoken advertisements elsewhere, but in the long run he came home with the bulge in the right side of the exchequer, and other maaagers whispering something about "fool's luck. Pressing his "fool's luck" further.

Rose frolicked with cafe business. when repeal took some of the peril out of that trade. Sensing that the couvert charge was something few Americans can face with equanimity. Rose outlawed it. He likewise exiled the stenciled floor show and substituted a program of vaudeville small timers.

The venture succeeded. He expanded to another cafe, which met the clamor of a public with more money to spend, and that too flourished. The rest ls "Jumbo." The whole program of his ventures is that of a pioneer. As recently as two years ago somebody would have called it a "saga." Somebody may yet. JOANlOlTTY IN LOVE HOLLYWOOD, Nov.

23. (JP) Joan Crawford and her newly wedded actor-husband, Franchot Tone, were back in the film capital today, settled in the actress Brentwood Heights home. "We're very much in love, and we're going to stay that way," exclaimed Joan as she and her mate returned from the East where they were married several weeks ago. Both will begin work on new pictures in a few days. NOW NEW YORK, Nov.

23. (JP) For his feat of nestling the bountiful "Jumbo" in the Hippodrome, "Billy" Rose has not only been wrapped in the robes of Barnum but of Ziegfeld as well. Supererogation is a common by-product of theatrical success but this Rose is nonetheless a considerable fellow. He is, without much trouble, the first showman of this season and possibly beyond it. But there is dan ger in Demg iinai about such thing the city's streets are strewn with the whitened bones of the first something of last season's theatre.

Last, winter sometime, unheeding the laments of showmen that there wasn't a free dollar east of Hollywood, Rose began to construct on envelopes and tablecloths the drama-circus-spectacle that now has its being in "Jumbo." He mentioned sums usually associated with Mid-West bank robberies, and people began to nod kindly at him for who doesn't sometimes dream. It was his quaint conceit to set a drama inside the framework of a circus. He intended to mass fragments of circus, drama, ballet, vaudeville and spectacle into a single unit. It was to have the richness of a Broadway musical production and the tone of a carnival. He mentioned a high priced personnel, too.

Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur were to write the play, with songs interpolated by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart and dances by Allan K. Foster, George Abbott was named as the dramatic director and John Murray Anderson as director of the whole. For players Rose had tentatively engaged Jimmie Durante, Arthur Sinclair, Paul Whiteman, Gloria Grafton, Donald Novis and a sup porting army for pictures, radio, the Broadway theatre and other circuses. Since this isn't fiction and needs no suspense, let it be recorded that Rose marshaled the money he need ed some $340,000 and with it has assembled those, actors, acrobats, animals, music and the myriad odd joys of a circus in his "Jumbo." It occupies a rebuilt Hippodrome theatre and imposes on him an operating cost of $37,000 each Saturday night. In addition, it is highly enjoyable to audiences.

Ticket brokers, with an eye for such, statistics grant Rose a hope of grossing $95,000 weekly and are united in predicting that he will have scant trouble living out the season to profit. Apart from the show's chances lor success, however, Rose's boldness in doing such an undertaking is something to give you pause. To recruit the needed finances, he had nothing mere than a dream to sell. His show is unique, without pattern. There was no barometer to persuade the most hesitant investors that they were buying anything staple.

That he got the $340,000 at an is For four days beginning tomorrow the Majestic theatre will present the Marx brothers on the screen in what is declared in all advance notices and pre-reviews to be the most notable of their comic productions. It has a real plot, but it also has the Marx brothers in all their latest gags. The antics of Groucho, Chico and Harpo are said to be their funniest. The story is woven around two young, unknown opera singers, Kitty Carlisle and Allan Jones, who are perfectly cast for their parts, and the antics of the Marxes in bringing them together. From Italy, the action is transferred to an ocean liner and then to New York; where the Marx brothers go into grand opera with a bang.

In the notable cast are Walter King, who also has a fine singing role, Siegfried Rumann, Margaret Du-mont, Edward Keane and Robert Emmet O'Connor. Groucho, Chico and Harpo Marx are seen as managers for the songbirds whose operatic career they are trying to further. Before they are finished with their innocent blunders, insane impulses and madcap antics IS ATTRACTIVE "Merry Wives of Reno" will be the attraction at the Reno tomorrow and Monday, the story of the misunderstandings of three couples and the trouble that followed. Guy Kibbee and Glenda Farrell have the leading parts. On Tuesday Nancy Carroll and Donald Cook will be seen in "Jealousy," and on Wednesday and Thursday Dickens' famous mystery story, "Mystery of Edwin Drood," will be given writh Heather Angell and Claude Rains playing the principal roles.

John Boles and Gloria Swanson will be the center of interest in "Music in the Air," booked for next Friday. On Saturday Buck Jones, noted player Western roles, will be seen with Lona Andre in "Border Brigands." RENO PROGRAM.