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The Ruston Daily Leader from Ruston, Louisiana • Page 2

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Page Two' iniii At The Theatres fUJStON DAILY LEADER, RTJ3TOM, LOUISIANA Thursday, May 26, 1932 PAttAI.VSSEI) TEXAN SIITNES AS AND HUNTER STRAND A gusty advcnturo-slory of thr hectic days during the Russian revolution is tho curront veh.c.o for George Bancroft at the StrnnrI t' 1( atre with trnsr dvnma'ir thrills, "The World and the Hesh provides the ebullient Branm.n with his most sensational charadei- izfttion since the "Tho cording to preview critics. Paramount has gone to rna! pains in providing an nbimdiinrr- ot Atmosphere for HP burlv ti-nc fi1.ni production. Sroi oT'sccnes in scores of indoor outdoor locales heighten the jrnhKin of the story which moves rapidly from one thrilling cpisodr to the next. Miriam Hopkins, blonde favnrilf of "Dr. Jckyll and Mr.

Tlyde. 1 "The Smiling Lieutenant" and in the Dark." heads the cast which includes Alan Mowbmy, George E. Stone. Miidiril is. Oscar Api'el and Reginald Barlow.

Bancroft is seen as the dmnin'rr- ing sea captain whose rongh-inul- ready sailor crew woiship him. the outbreak of the they taflcc an active parl in the onslaught upon the inon group of lleeinu' nobles who feasting at an inn in a searnas! town, they make the fugitives their captives. But a counter-attack by loyal Cossacks turns the tide and Bancroft with three of his men. Income, prisoners. With Miriam Hopkins, a peasant girl who lorn 1 been living a life of luxury wil.li I lie aristocrats, the revolutionaries ar taken aboard the ship for transportation to a city still loyal the government.

In a new outbreak on board the ship, Bancroft and his men take over the vessel and s'eer it on a course to Theodosia. a town In the hands of the revolutionist. 1 RIALTO "Corsair" Chester Morris emerges in "Corsair, 1 at the Rialto theatre today as a full-fltdaed United Artists star an elevation which brings the young actor into the ranks of Chaplin, Fairbanks, Colman and Cantor. Thus a Broadway actor, who thret years ago was unknown Uj picture' audiences has reached the of stardom. In 1929, it, will lie recalled, Morris was impor.cd irom Broadway to portray the leading role in a picture which made him a celebrity almost r- KOUNTZE, paralyzed from (lie waist down since on; 1y'childhood, Fount Simmons, 75 the Bis Thicket, is recognized as the best rail-plitter, bear slayer, deer hunter, guide and nil-round woodsman in Hardin County.

After he was stricken with paralysis at 10 Fount learned to Get about, on hands and knees. He trained ooai to him about In a homemade cart. Later, he a special saddle and trained a pony to his ways. Hr then became a scout, guide and provider of meat to the many parties and lumber camps. Today he has a large pack of i hounds with which he explores the i threat wilderness at the door-steps of log cabin.

The cabin walls are I lined "with pells of all kimte of game. YEAR OLD QUILT MONKTA, A quilt left i uncompleted by its owner 95 years is being completed here by Mrs'. Lewis Muddiest on. Originally the propery of a Mrs. Moorman, ji left unfinished to her dau- who gave if to Mrs.

Huddleton before her death a few years ince. 10-Inch Rain Floods New Orleans "The "The "The fjiiik- him Ttis work since that time in Divorcee, Die Big House," Cast- of Grischa" and Bat each role unlike the others brought following which is extremely ilat.tering. Discovered by Roland West It Roland West, United Artists producer, who discovered Chester iMorri.s. and West has sponsored him through his career an'd their friendship is a particularly firm one. Chester bought Roland's house, they week-end with their wives, the former Sue Kilborn of Paramount and the former Jewel Carmen Mr.

Ziegfeld's Follies. On the stage in New York Chester Mon-is played with Claudette ColbeijU. in "Faifl Life." His best stage role was in "Crime." Cecil De Mille and David Wark Griffith registered enthusiasm for him as picture possibility, and Mrs. Griffith tested him. But it was Rolanc West, looking at some old tests a i United Artists studios, who saw the test, Morris and wired for hirr to fake the first train out of Nev York.

Try Our Classified Ads (READ THE SiOKY TIIKN COLON THE IPS nnr) quart of homft-madfi adn. Yes! it was real that stuff that some of my friends claim to find in a stump hole up about Alabama Landing. MILK HORSE RAPS ON PAVEMENT WIMBLEDON, England (U.P.)~ Bclieved to one of the oldest What about "Don" the Eonagam- working horses in the world, Mag- btan? Well, that Coon can get away' gie, 38 years old, has drawn her with more fish bones at one setting than any Negro of his weight in the whole world. Not than Dcyn does- n'l like fish; ho? adores fish; but if lump of sugar. ami when there isn't any fish left, tlvn Don takes the leavins" gladly.

It was.now half past one by the Recalling thai a slow been falling since morning, and that we must cover a seven-mile stretch of dirt road to milk wagon 20,000 times. At some houses she taps her hoof on the curb and waits for her reward of a Wt; luht lio tiil'iO iu getting buck to the bayou with our tackle intact, our spirits still our bait buckets well filled and our tummies even fuller. From the first cast, it was Nip-'n- who wrs leading in landing UK lively little beauties. "Pat" scored first, with "Singing" Kelley a clo.se second. As I now recall it when "Pat" had fifteen on his string Kelley had fourteen and I hadn't a But it was one of those big, vivacious, hefty nibbles that almost nulls you by sinking my heels into the soft mud.

and leaning backwards, I managed to slay on the bank. I shall always wonder what it was that seized the tiny bream ho'ok I was using and Many sections of New Orleans became lakes under a 10-inch deluge rf 0 rts to net awav with of rain in 48 hours. Giant pumps were unable to cope with the flood. Top euoits to feet away wun picture shows how downpour ripped out wood-block paving of streets. lc lmc nook sinker all.

rh'j blocks are shown afloat. Below, an enterprising flat-boat owner It was exactly four o'clock when I errying passengers through St, Charles Avenue, one of the city's prin- decided to wind up my tackle and thoroughfares, at a nickel a ride. Hundreds of autos were stalled, return to camp. My two companions 1..... preferred to keep at work for ano- there was a liberal supply of on- ther hour.

When I reached camp, ions, bread, pickles, a boitlc of cat- old Gilson Proctor of the campground and patriarch of the com- aup and most, but not all, the oth- niunityi was hard by setting out er things that go to make a sue- "tater" slips. Gilson believes in di- npKtt 1 v. liilnk i (id. in i in ii 1 i i i. it In- 'A ln-il i i.

.1 i "I liitvi- IMI I 11 I In 11.1 i 11 11 I I I I', I 111' I I II il I ill In-lpiiiL- i I 1 i ii il ul i AIM! .1 ll h- ii in ainl I.A I i 11 i i' i 11 i 1. '-'I i it! OILS TUtiLS WE DON'T AND WON SLLL TIREb LIKE i HtSt KfKKKAM) SKKVM'i; STATION N'. iU l.A- Complete Angler Deluxe By ii. L. MCKNIGHT Chapter Two River "jes 1 rollin' he said Instantly, "Nah Sir I Nah Sir! I'se never been lonesome.

You see, I knows most of the river men; fac 1 Is, I knows all ob em; I nowed Capn' Cooley an" Capn' Cotton; ye- nowed well. rtld. It's about, time for de "Ouachita" to pass here now, lessen she sip'd by las' night. You de "Ouachita" and de "City of Monroe" makes reg'lar trips by hyar. I mos' gen'rly knows dey's comin 1 and I stand on de bluff light thar and watches 'em pass.

Ole' Capn' Cooley, he used to always wave to me as his boat passed. An' so did Capn' Cotton, too. De Law'd never made two finer river men den dem two." Try Our Classified Ads cess el such undei takings. versified farming. He owns three PICTUQES KING- It was while watching this diminutive darkey steer his tiny craft across to the opposite shore that I heard again this sonorous "Soup's on" emanating from the immediate vicinity of "Pat" Colvin.

Instinctively I knew that something was about to happen. When "Pat' has worked laboriously for an hour, cleaning and frying bream of the choicest size and kind, with a bucket of perfectly good coffee, simmering contentedly hard by, and with "Singing" Kelley standing in the offing, sleeves rolled up, tin pan in hand and a on his face that would defy a den- of the I noted all this and reflected that the Loid helps those who help knew hostilities were really about to begin. Dropping my pole across the bow the ship that Gilson Meneyweather uses in his larger commercial operations, I dashed up the bank and took my position just across the impiovised table on which the- chef had spread a bountiful supply eats fit for a king. The piece de resistance was a dish (the pan, not the fish) and was about ten inches high. Scattered carelessly about this big pan of fish And speaking of eating fish: Ever! quarter; and a fraction a fourth, watch "Pat" Colvin do the job? but only about twenty acres are un- He's a past master.

From observa- dcr the plough. I think that even tion of "Pat" under fire during "hos- this small acreage is not greatly Unties" of this kind, my guess is; stirred with the ploughshare. Gil- that he will ordinarily consume not son. Meneyweather, like so many more than twenty to twenty-five of his iace, is wiser than he looks, bream of the size usually caught Fifty-eight years spent on the bank out of Lapine Bayou. And as to of the Ouachita has given Gilson "Singing" that man much knowledge of folks, "var- eats fish just like he sings at a i the denizens of the river session of North Louisiana Sing- and even the boats that ply its ing Association.

He's all action; all; waters'. Asked if he did not get movement; plenty energy; and pretty lonesome, living there off the with a stroke that would put Bobby beaten path of men and things for Jones on the retired list. Honest, Kelley's capacity for putting away well-cooked right on the bank of the stream from which they are caught, is ii'tle less than marvelous. And he does it with such grace and ease! It's a joy to watch that guy at a camp table. As for me, well, being a sort of a timid peison with a retiring was satisfied with eighteen bream, a loaf of bread, three cups of a half a bottle of pick- fifty-eight years, with Ole' man Dr.

S. R. Clay OPTOMETRIST We devote ourselves exclusively to your better eyesight. DELICIOUS! SANDWICHED Cold Drinks and Short Orders VISIT US Just Once DAY OR NIGHT And you will be a Customer for Life. Cooking Personally Supervised by Mrs.

Haddick HADDICK SANDWICH SHOP Located on Monroe-Ruston High" way across from Ford Gas Oil JI MV THEATRE Shows Arc Climbing to Popularity TODAY Mutinous violence in a war-torn empire! With brute strength the new king of sill Lirt ill thritli with GEORGENjS- BANCROFT JheWoiU ancf The ftoh WIT-H Ml MAM HOPKINS a paramount picture AND FRIDAY Side curtains repaired, new curtains made. Door glass and windshields replaced in any make car. The only authorized Duco refinishing shop in Ruston Our prices are right. RUSTON MOTORS, INC. ANOTHER DTATTA THEATRE "BETTER SHOW" TODAY AND FRIDAY ROLAND WEST'S STARRING CHESTER MORRIS WITH ALISON LOVP PROM SENSATIONAL LIBERTY MAGAZINE STOBY Ay WALTON GREEN A UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE iy i -iii'l liark.

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Our to I 1 .1 that can I 'iii-p. cv. li i iif nil; -i i I ii i II Ill II i In.ii'-r, ii' it (aUc.i all I ANNOUNCE The Occasion Corredly 'I'hcrc aro other ways, but (hero is only one way to announce a wedding and to send otii invitations. many years socially prominent people have entrusted UH lliis responsibility, knowing that, we would have them engraved and printed in a form that's socially correct and in good taste. Come in and let us show yon what did for them you'll find our prices right.

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Pages Available:
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Years Available:
1932-1958