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THE JACKSON SUN PAGE ELEVEN Paramount Has "Can This Be Dixie?" at State Davies and Gable Score Feature Program on Tap All Week at State With Four Pictures Scheduled NOVEMBER 22, 1936 "Cain and Mabel" In Riotous Comedy With Music in Brilliant Film An all-star lineup will be featured this week by the Paramount Theatre, playing: "Cain and Mabel" on Monday and Tuesday, "Theodora Goes Wild." Wednesday and Thursday, and the Dionne quintuplets In "Reunion, Friday and Saturday. The State this week Is featuring one of its best bills of the month, opening Monday with mischievous Jane Withers in "Can This Be Dixie?" with "Two in a Crowd" beginning Wednesday, and a double-decker for Friday and Saturday in "The Arizona Riders" and "The Big House for Girls." Laughs from the land of cotton, 0 1 Two of the foremost stars of the5" Marlon Davies and silver screen. songs with southern charm and Clark Gable, are brought together Harlem pep and romance under the moonlight and magnolias high mantic interest supplied by Melvyn Douglas is grand, and the screen play by Sidney Buchman is equally fine. Outstanding support is given by Thomas Mitchell. Soring Bying-ton and Elisabeth Disdon.

but the omission of the other names in the cast is by no means an indication that their roles were any the less excellent. This film has universal appeal should be a sure thing at any man's boxoffice. In 'Cain and Mabel." a cosmopolitan production, replete with popular music, comedy, romance, spectacular feature numbers and the splashing action of the fight arena. The picture is released by Warner Brothers. Besides the glittering background of the theatre, with its beautiful pageantry and its revelation of back stage life, and the thrill of a championship battle- in the squared circle, there are two mammoth specialty numbers, one of which is said to eclipse in magnitude and splendor anything of its kind ever presented on the screen.

This is the "Thousand Love Songs" number in which Miss Davies leads one hundred and Surprise Follows Surprise With Quins "fI fjjm lliili llp Illr'mvP WMM AWb 1 til 4ti sixty of Hollywood's most beautiful chorus girls through intricate Jance routines and spectacular scenes. stage appearance was in "Jarne-gan." which starred her father. This role brought Joan offers from Hollywood and she made her screen debut with Ronald Colman in "Bulldog Drummond." Joan hopes some day to return to the stage. "I'd like," she Bays, "to star in plays written by my husband." Her husband. Gene Markey.

has been accused of making Joan the heroine of every screen play he writes and he has never denied the soft Impeachment Joan Bennett was born in Palisades, N. February 27. 1910. She was educated at St. Margaret's School in Waterbury.

and at L'Hermltage. Versailles, France. After her first film, she appeared in such screen hits as "Disraeli," "Moby Dick." "Smilin' Through," "The Trial of Vivienne Ware," "Little Women." "The Pursuit of Happiness" and "Mississippi." Miss Bennett's role in "Two In a Crowd" is a light, bubbly one which gives her the opportunity to show her charm as a comedienne. Advance reports from the coast indicate that the director, Alfred E. Green, has developed numerous unusual comic situations between Miss Bennett and Joel McCrea.

Hollywood scouts declare that the story intermingles, with humorous intent and riotous result. New Year's Eve parties, a torn thousand dollar a bank robbery and a goofy detective, a girl who spends her former suitor's trousseau funds for dramatic lessons, plus another young fellow who falls In love with her. The supporting caat includes such capable comedians as Henry Armetta, Alison Sklpworth, Nat Pendleton Reginald Denny, Andy Clyde, Donald Meek and Elisha Cook, Jr. Another big specialty number is light Jane Withers' hilarious and tuneful new Twentieth Century-Fox triumph, "Can This Be Dixie?" The picture will run through Tuesday. With the Irrepressible, and ever dynamic Jane demonstrating her versatility and winning new laurels in a picture that surpasses even the best of her past hits, the film is a combination of hilarious fun.

lilting music, fast-moving dances and rollicking comedy and the fun really shines all the time. Slim Summerville heads the outstanding cast which supports "Ginger" Jane Including Helen Wood. Thomas Beck, Sara Haden, Claude Gillingwater and Donald Cook. The picture opens with Slim and his niece. Jane, putting on a medicine show for the darkies on Claude Gillingwater's run-down plantation.

They are selling a hair-stralghtener which Roes over big, but the darkies have no money with which to purchase it. Gillingwater saves Slim and Jane from the sheriff and they. In turn, save him from Donald Cook, who holds a mortgage on the plantation whfch he threatens to foreclose unless Helen Wood, Gillingwater's granddaughter. marries him. There appears on the scene Thomas Beck, a young northern lawyer, and he and Helen go for each other in big way.

Gillingwater expects to recoup his fallen fortunes by winning the forthcoming $50,000 Derby with his racehorse. Stonewall Jackson. But Cook orders the sheriff to attach the horse. Jane persuades Slim to draw a phoney check on the "Bank of England" for a supposed interest in the horse, which Cook accepts. In order to raise money to cover the check Jane takes the plantation darkies to New York where they click on an amateur program.

In the meantime Helen despairingly agrees to marry Cook and the ceremony has started when Jane rushes in with the money to cover the check. Beck replaces Cook as the bridegroom. To raise money to enter the race horse, the plantation house is turned into an eating place with fine southern food and featuring Gillingwater's famous juleps. But Stonewall Jackson loses the race and Cook starts his foreclosure. In the nick of time Beck arrives with a northern millionaire who wants to sell the juleps in cans.

He pays Gillingwater an advance of $10,000. Just how this arrangement works out provides a tuneful and hilarious finale. The picture was directed by George Marshall, was based on a story written by amar Trottl and Marshall. The music and lyrics ars by Sidney Clare and Harry Akst. with dances staged by Sammy Lee.

Sol M. Wurtzel was the executive producer. Surprise follows dramatic surprise, romantic secrets are revealed and lives set straight when the Country Doctor's 3.000 grown-up "babies" come back to share their joys and tears, with the man who brought them into the world in "Reunion." Twentieth Century-Fox's latest screen triumph. Coming to Paramount Friday for a two-day run. The picture, which stars the world famous Dionne Quins and features Jean Hersholt, Rochelle Hudson.

Helen Vinson. Slim Sura-merville. Robert Kent. John Qua-len. Dorothy Peterson and many other players, boasts the year's most important cast in the sea-eon's most unusual drama.

The Quins' Dr. Luke, played by Jean -Hersholt. on the verge of retirement from the burdens he has carried for a feneration, decides to call back from all over the globe the three thousand men and women whom he assisted into the world. From all over the country and from many foreign lands they come, the rich and the poor, the high-placed and the lowly, to take part in the reunion. Also joining the party is.

attractive young Dr. Tony Luke, the doctor's nephew, whom he has called back to the little Canadian town from his post in Toronto to carry on with his (Dr. Luke's) duties. Tony, though deeply in love with Mary. Dr, Luke's nurse is followed by the wife of his superior in the Toronto hospital, who refuses to release him to a younger and fresher love.

In a climactic scene that combines all the elements of potent drama with pathos and uproariois humor. Dr. Luke. "Tony. Mary.

Mrs. Sheirdan. and the Doctor's 3.000 grown-up "babies" Including the governor of a state, a fading stage star, a crook jus tout of jail, and many other unforgettable characters convene for the reunion. Also present at the gathering, for added chuckles and heart tugs, are the celebrated Quintuplets. You'll grin and gulp by turns as the "Coney Island" set.

These production numbers were staged by the famous Broadway and Hollywood dance director. Bobby Connolly, with original music and lyrics by Harry Warren and Al Dubin. Miss Davies has the role of the young waitress who springs to stardom almost overnight. In her rise to fame she inadvertently interferes with the career of a young prize fighter who aspires to become world's champion, the latter Urt played by Clark Gable. The two come to hate each other cordially, but a truce is established by the actress' press agent who conceives the brilliant idea of announcing a romance between the two in order to further their popularity with the public.

Roscoe Karns plays the part of a newspaper man turned press agent to the rising youg musical comedy star, while Allen Jenkins is the satirically comical prize fight trainer to Clark Gable. Walter Catlett is a theatrical producer who sponsors Miss Davies" shows and David Carlyle her leading man. who is a rival of Gable's for her love. Other talented players in the supporting cast Include Hobart Cavanaugh. Ruth Donnelly.

Pert Kelton. William Collier. E. E. Clive.

Allen Pomeroy. Robert Mid-dlemass. Joseph Crehan and Eily Lloyd Bacon, who has (handled scores of hit pictures, directed the production from the screen play by Laird Doyle. Outstanding Stars of Silver Screen at Local Theatres This Week Slim Sumnierville and Jane Withers look a little out of tune, lower left, but they're teamed In a great picture. "Can This lie IMxle?" at State Monday and Tuesday.

Of eourse you recognize the Dionne quint, coming to Paramount Friday in "Keunlon." Marion UaUes and Clark Gable, top right, battle their way to real love in "Cain and Mabel, opening at Paramount Monday. Joel McCrea and Joan lieimett, left top, star in "Two in a Crowd." at State Wednesday and Thursday. Lip Adornment Proves Problem For Clark Gable Hollywood's most pressing prob-- Irene Dunne in Theodora Picture Audiences should go wild over "Theodora Goes Wild." It reveals Irene Dunne as a comedienne of 'superlative charm and ability, and its delightfully rollicking comedy is remindful of "It Happened One Night." From everv angle the picture is practically flawless. Richard Boleslawskis direction hits a new comedy high. The ro the old doctor, under cover of a pompous speech by a government dignitary.

straightens out the problems of Tony. Mrs. Sheridan and the jealousy-torn Mary, of the governor and his unacknowledged little waif of a son, of the actress and her girlhood flame. Oregon has recently erected five large bridges on its scenic coastal highway. Zane Grey Filni Friday, Saturday Larry Crabbe rides, shoots and swims his way through a thrill-packed yarn of cattle-thieving and adventure in the Zane Grey film, "The Arizona Riders." which opens at the State Friday.

The film will run two days, along with the "The Big House for Girls," starring Mary Doran. Crabbe is teamed with Marsha Hunt and aided by a cast of top-notchers. including Raymond Hat-ton. Johnny Downs. Jane Rhodes and others.

Unique in a number of ways, "Arizona Riders" presents Its thrills in double-barreled doses. There are two romances; two near-lynchlngs and two stampedes worked into the plot, each as exciting as the other. In i ddition. a novel twist is given the story by a sequence in which Miss Hunt, as a ranch owner, is forced to "stead" her own herd of horses to save them. The picture opens with Larry about to be hanged on a false accusation of horse stealing; he makes his escape by Inches.

Shortly after, Crabbe comes upon Raymond Hatton. about to be hanged by a second posse for a list of minor offenses: he saves the victim and they become rldlnc mates. Crossing the state line Into Arizona, the pair enter a small town and Hatton gets thrown Into jail for shooting up a saloon. In jail he meets Downs and promises to help the boy elope with Miss Rhodes. Crabbe frees the pair by stampeding a herd of cattle through the town, so that they shatter most of the buildlni including the jail.

lem, Clark Gable's moustache, was solved, apparently to the satisfaction of all concerned. Gable, who is now co-starring with Marion Davies in the Cosmopolitan production. "Cain and Mabel," was working on the picture when he learned that he was need Marion Davies In Three Beautiful Dances for Film Marion Davies has three famous partners for her dances in the specialty numbers staged for the Cosmopolitan production, "Cain and Mabel." The most pretentious dance takes place in the "Thousand Love Songs" number, which is the most spectacular feature of the picture. In this she dances the adagio with Charles Teske, the celebrated ballet dancer. One hundred and sixty of Hollywood's most beautiful chorus girls also have a part in the ballet.

In I the "Coney Island" number, the scenes of which are laid in the famous amusement resort. Miss Davies dances with Sammy White, noted eccentric dancer of the stage. They give an exhibition of a most intricate and unusual novelty dance, with a chorus of beautiful girls. SttffitbB MONDAY TUESDAY afc SSL Wfr'V 4y Joan Rich in Film Tradition Nine generations of theatrical tradition surround Joan Bennett, daughter of the stage stars, Richard Bennett and Adrlenne Morrison. Joan's inherited talent is revealed in Universal's romantic comedy drama.

"Two in a Crowd," which opens at the State Wednesday for a two-day engagement, starring Miss Bennett and Joel McCrea. Joan first showed her dramatic flair at the age of eight, when she wrote a play, giving a performance with her sisters, Constance and Barbara. Joan's first ed at another studio for retakes on his last picture there. In "Cain and Mabel," a-story Involving the romance between a prize fighter and an actress, played by Gable and Miss Davies, respectively, Clark is smooth-shaven. In the other picture he wore a moustache.

The question arose as to how he could work smooth-shaven in "Cain and Mabel," then grow a moustache overnight for the retakes. Make-up men solved the puzzle by shooting a large photograph of Ct SDOHSOUTH tne liable moustacne and, by using it as' a model, manufactured an accurate artificial lip Liarry C'rabbe and Marsha Hunt cuddle close in "The Arizona Riders," at State Friday and Saturday Monday 14 Monday Tuesday Tuesday iTUUViiflV, gome-" Paramount Wednesday and Thursday 1 'i aufftt Ml A BEAUTY and i BRUISER GO ROUND and ROUND with RHYTHM nd ROMANCEI -5 -'Jt- SJXA .4 2 1W New Musical Wondert To cm sumu1' Awe the Film Worldl n.iiinuwiLUi -1 cl Jf isfesft 1 j4 'TP. i Mary Doran Has High Regard For Her Alma Mater Comparatively few motion picture players have Alma Maters, and most of those who do are prone to parade the fact because of the cultural implications. But there are a few who have an affectionate remembrance of their college campuses and who, therefore, would not capitalize that remembrance under any provocation, -t Mary Doran, featured in "The Big House for Girls," Friday and Saturday at the State, is one of those few. Mary is an alumna of Columbia University, in her native New York City.

She spent three of the happiest years of her life there, but you'd never know it from her conversations, for Mary happens to be one of those young women who feels' no need to explain herself in any gathering You accept her. or you don't, and there it rests. Mary was born in New York and ib the rroduct of the public schools of the mteropolis. And even before she matriculated into Columbia she had begun to display a talent for histrionics. Whenever there was a school play, you could be sure to see Mary in the front rank.

This continued at Columbia, where she was prominent in dramatics. It was only natural, therefore, that she looked to the stage after graduation. She won parts in several stage productions, the last of which was "Saturday's Children," a Broadway success of several seasons ago. She was discovered in this production by officials of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the result was her removal to Hollywood. She has been extremely active ever since, some of her most prominent pictures being "Remote Control," "Broadway Melody," "Divorcee." "Criminal Code," "Fifty Fathoms Deep." "Poor Little Ritz Girl." "Party Husband," "Her Mad Moment" and "Union Depot." Only five of the 50 members of the University of Texas football squad are from out of state.

The roster lists 31 of the 50 squadmen as still in their 'teens. Li Irene Dunne and Melvyn Douglas in "Theodora Goes Wild," a delightful comedy. sills' IF ROSCOE KARNS DAVID CARLYLE and a sterling cast Tells Realtors Houses Should Be Built To Endure iiV VOeiT- mr naopoltttn Picture miltlMUttuAWUvYYB NET ORLEANS, Nov. 21 (JPj Houses should be built to endure, the" nation's realtors were ALABAMA GOVERNOR WILL ISSUE CALL MONTGOMERY, Nov. 21 Governor Bibb Graves said today his formal call for a special legislative session November 23 wulod be issued tomorrow, restricted to subject that "bear on financial matters." The statement was taken as au indication that only the questions of additional revenue and of prohibition repeal would be included In the formal call.

duced qualityv that thing must be superficial to the general construction, something that can be replaced without a major" alteration job when replacement appears necessary." Home" l- I comcd3r r-C 1 "Movie- VC 4 tone i N2p- FEATXRETTES "Star Gazers" -Tour "Paramount News" "Two Lazy Crows" told today. John MCC. Mowbray of Baltimore, told the Land Developments and Home Builders division of the National Association of Real Estate Boards good design, wise land planning, substantial construction and provisions for preserving the character of the surrounding neighborhood were necessary in a buliding program. "If," he said, "in order to bring the house within a certain price bracket something must be of rc-.