Corsicana Daily Sun from Corsicana, Texas • Page 13

THE CORSICANA DAILY SUN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1929. THIRTEEN. ADDITIONAL STATE HIGHWAY CONTRACTS BE LET WEDNESDAY TOTAL FOR TWO DAYS EXPECTED REACH THREE AND HALF MILLION DOLLARS Leatherneck at Palace Thursday AUSTIN, June The highway commission will award construction contracts in 14 counties today. It let worth of new construction work yesterday, and business will probably bring the total to $3,500,000. Contracts will be let today on the following projects: Medina 3-4 miles grading and drainage, Highway 3.

Tarrant miles concrete pavement, Highway 121. DeWitt work over Smith creek, Highway 119. Dallas 1-2 miles grading, drainage and concrete pavement, Highway 114, and 3.2 miles bituminous surface treatment, Highway 78. Wharton across Colorado river, Highway 12. Ellis and Dallas miles grading and drainage, Highway 6.

Tarrant 1-2 miles grading, drainage and concrete base course, Highway 1. San Patricio miles grading mid drainage structures, Highway 128. Uvalde County miles crushed stone base course with rock apshalt surface, Highway 3. Falls over Big Creek, Highway 6. Grayson miles grading, drainage an dconcrete pavement, Highway 6.

Maverick miles rock asphalt surface, Highway 85. Brazos 1-2 miles bituminous surface treatment, Highway 6. Blanco repairs on Highways 20 and 46. Ellis miles double bituminous surface, Highway 14. William Haines At Ideal Thursday In His Latest Picture William Haines, star of of and other recent hits, returns to the screen in a distinctly different type of role in Man's Metro Goldwyn filmiza- tion of Patrick famous stage hit, which comes Thursday and Friday bo the Ideal Theatre.

The new story, directed by James Cruze. who directed and made film history with Covered is a lilting satire on Hollywood, with Haines as a youth with a correspondence school complex, and Josephine Dunn, who played opposite him in as his sweetheart, with movie star aspirations. They get married, and then the fun is fast and furious. Despite the hilarious comedy of rthe story there is a delicate love romance that runs through it, and many human touches, some of them bordering on pathos. Thrills add to the ensemble.

Such vivid bits as the Hollywood bungalow party, the showing of- the premiere of at famous Chinese Theatre, with many famous stars appearing, snapped on the night of the event specially for the picture, and other vivid cross sections of the movie capital aid In making tile affair interesting. THE BUT and COMES THE SHOW Latest Records. Cifv Book Store, TUPELO RESIDENT DIED HERE; WILL BE BURIED TUESDAY THE BROADWAY STAGE William Boyd and Robert Armstrong in the dramatic picture Seldom can a motion picture boast a cast of the calibre assembled to gether for a Pathe picture starring William Boyd which will be the feature attraction at the Palace Thea'tre, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. In addition to the popular star, Alan Hale and Robert Armstrong, both favorites among film fans, will be seen in featured roles, Diane Ellis, a comparative newcomer to the screen whose charm Mrs. Lois Thompson, 41, wife of G.

N. Thompson of Tupelo, native of Navarro county, died at the residence of her daughter. Miss Artrell Thompson, 606 North Beaton street, Tuesday evening, at 6:30 and the funeral was held Wednesday afternoon at the Hamilton cemetery where burial was made. Prior to moving to the Tupelo community about a year ago, the family had resided in Corsicana for many years. Mrs.

Thompson had been in ill health for throe years. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. J. Howard Williams, pastor of the First Baptist church. Surviving are her husbarfd, sev- and classic beauty already haveien children, Miss Artrell Thomp- won her many admirers, has the Corsicana; Donald, leading feminine role.

Fred Kohler Oscar, J. Albert, Jack and fills an important heavy role, Jane, all of the Tupelo with Mitchell Lewis, stage and i community; four brothers, Donald screen veteran, and Jimmy Aldine New ork; B. ovin, in other important characteriza- iOolumbus, Ohio; J. M. Flovin, tions Texas, and F.

Flov- is a story Atwo three Marines, and follows their i fortunes in various far flung sta- i Corsicana, and other tions, where the maintain law and order. It was directed by Howard Higgin from an original story by Elliot Clawson. Hollywood Sights and Sounds BY BOBBIN COONS a favorite in-1 door sport at many studios to classify new arrivals to the acting fold according to types and resemblances. This new actress, for the secret of her charm, if any? she just faintly reminiscent. of Greta Garbo? Is her beauty akin to Billie Is some slight mannerism, some nuance of personality, some certain flash of her eye, remindful of Norma Talmadge or Marion Davies or Corinne Griffith? When they try the sport with Kay Francis as subject, however, likely to be stumped She seepis a new type.

Tall, willowy, fair of skin, but dark of hair (she wears it in a strikingly boyish bob that is in itself), she 1 practically the Some- 1 one suggests Jetta Gaudal. tery, you know, elusive charm, seductive appeal. Kay has them all in her own way, not in Model. Kay Francis came to Hollywood from Broadway after her performance in of the talkie version. In New York she was known as one of best-dressed women.

And clothes, from the simplest gowns which she prefers offstag to the most elaborate and exotic creations she could ever don for the camera, do seem part of her. Speaking of clothes, knickers or continue to gain in popularity here for wear, but there is at least one staunch conservative who insists he discarded short trousers permanently in his This Jimmyy the wrote to a New York friend: me up when you get out here. You have any tpouble finding me. Look for the guy with the long At Random. Louise Fazenda has buried a tried, true friend the trained duck which broke into the movies with her a dozen years ago and was famous in that day, has passed away from old age Matt Moore sunning outside a sound stage betwen shots on picture in which he and Brother Owen and Brother Tom ape tri-starring Mildred Marris, former wife of Chaplin, is in it, too, after a vaudeville tour.

which ran on Broadway last year, is having a. Los Angeles premiere, with talk added It is Janet talkie debut. Fox is other once silent pictures by adding dialog. Spirit of compromise in Hollywood: not so long ago signs on sound stage walls commanded, Now signs plead: Smoking in Camera GET GOAT. WASHINGTON, June Somebody got Secretary goat.

Willliam Hamilton Bones, who was a bet of the governor eral at Manila, has arrived at San Francisco, but inspectors of the department of agriculture are holding him, insisting he is not eligible under the law to join Old Soak at Washington. UNEXPECTED CALLERS. EAST RUTHERFORD, N. June is about two gentlemen of Verona. Robert Steel and Charles Robinson from that New Jersey town were unexpected callers on Frank Wynstr here.

Frank, upstairs, heard a great noise. Downstairs he found an automobile in his front foom, pas-; sengers and all. It liad crashed in. Wonder Gas We give more miles per dollar on our green gas than any on the Cor- slcana market. BUCRHORN FILLING STATION AND GROCERY 847 S.

15th St Phone 1672. The funeral was directed by the Sutherland Funeral Home. DAIir TRUCK WILL TOUR COUNTY AGAIN DURING NEXT WEEK BY DEMING SEYMOUR. NEW thousandth consecutive performance of the French version of was made an occasion for celebration recently at the Paris theatre where the musical comedy has been running for more than two years. It has been almost five years since New York first saw long time as musical comedy goes but the piece is still cn view not only in Paris, but in Australia, the English provinces, and the United States and Canada.

The American company of which played from Montreal to Seattle and back to El Paso last year and is now taking a summer took the musical comedy to Detroit for the tenth time and to Pittsburgh for the thirteenth. In seven months the troupe made a profit of $113,000. The Hammerstein theatre represents some of the returns which the show has brought to Arthur Hammerstein, its producer. Indian Love and the two song hits, are still in demand in the music shops, and the totem-pole dance, in which the chorines tumbled one another over, domino- fashion, is still being imitated by innovators of dance routines. At thet first production of one that opened at the Imperial theatre in New York in the autumn of heroine was Mary Ellis, and the hero Dennis King.

Both were unknowns then, and Miss Ellis, the best paid member of the cast, got but $500 a week. FIVE PERSONS HELD AS BEING MATERIAL WITNESSES IN MURDER New is to have something new in playhouses next autumn. It will occupy the roof of the New Amsterdam playhouse, and its creation involves the reconstruction of the old Frolic theatre which was converted last season into Midnight Frolics. The Aerial Mr. Erlanger will call it will foe nian, were arrested tGciay as maler- wired so that every sort of motion witnesses in the slaying of pictures, color pic pictures NEW YORK.

June persons, one of them a young wo- Frank Marlow, night club owner. and can be tures, wide-vision three-dimension pictures shown in it. It will have sound-proof curtain in front of the stage, and equipment enabling any sort of performance to be broadcast from the stage, behind the glass curtain, while an audience watches out front and hears the music and dialog come through the amplifiers in the auditorium. There will be 800 seats, and Mr. Erlanger promises something new In th way of seating, lighting and furnishings.

It is the Erlanger idea of the theatre of the as well equipped for radio and television broadcasting as for the regalement of the immediate audience. The Navarro county dairying and poultry program of musical entertainment, short talks and motion on dairying and poultry with the Cotton Belt auto truck will be given in six communities of the county next week. These programs will be presented by the agricultural department of the Cotton Belt railway free of charge through the co-operation of Henry Gentry. Navarro county demonstration agent, and the local chamber of commerce, with the assistance of community groups in each of the towns. The programs are scheduled to begin in each community at 8 o'clock.

The following are the communities in which these meetings are scheduled to be held: Wednesday, July 3, Barry; Thursday, July 4, Blooming Grove; Friday, July 5. Frost; Saturday afternoon, July 6. Dawson. We Pick Up Bargains for McAfee, Jewelers. Police Commissioner Whalen announced homicide indictments would be sought against two unidentified men.

The commissioner said detectives had traced movements up until 45 minutes of he tune he was found fatally wounded Monday night near a cemetery at Flushing. Those arrested, all of whom were said to have spent the afternoon and early evening in the company of the slain night club owner. were: Johnny Wilson, former middleweight boxing champion: Edward M. Lewis, known as a gambler, of Boston; A1 Siegel, a dancer of Coney Island; Ignatius Coppa, proprietor of a restaurant where Marlow dined shortly before his death, and Mary Seiden, of Coney Island. INSULT TO UNIFORM.

NEW YORK, June For an insult to the uniform of the navy, Clifford Reed, chief usher for a movie theatre, must spend two months in jail Joseph F. Collins, seaman of the battleship Wyoming, and his mother were put out of the orchestra because the youth was In uniform. years said Justice Kelly, -would have thrown yourself on this young neck and dragged him Your Vacation Shoes It only takes a little while to rebuild your shoes. Try our service. Shin parlor in connection.

LIBERTY SHOE SHOP The premiere in Poland of George Bernard new play. Apple removes some of the mystery that has shrouded its plot. The play is on next season's Thea tre Guild schedules for presentation in New York Apple deals with a future monarch of Great Britain whom his ministers desire to oust because he is so shrewd a fellow. He offers to resign, but reserves i the right to enter politics, and his cabinet, in panic at the thought of what mischief he might do them as one of their own kind, is happy to permit him to remain as king. Perhaps the chief interest in the i play on this side of the water; how- ever, lies in the fact that it cul -1 minates in the United re-j entry into the Britsh monarch and ministers! are skittish at decision to become a part of Britain regarding the move virtually as an- neaxtion of Great Britain by the United States.

But in that day the empire is dominated, anyway, by a great industrial corporation, and the commercial interests of the two nations are so allied that a political reunion is merely a tacit admission of the common interests of the English-speaking peoples. Wear Good Diamonds, hut do not pay high for 1 1 McAfee. Pay As You Ride On the best small down payment puts a real Mitche -1 lin Hetlre on your ear. It will give you 4 to 5 thousand miles more than the average tire. Why not use the best when it costs less First and Last.

HODGES TIRE CO. 106 N. Commerce. Phone 43. Long, longer, longest! Not so long! Short! Matinee Adults25c Children 10o Night Lower Floor Balconies Children 35c 25c 10c TODAY IS PENNY DAY One cent with each paid ticket admits two.

David R. Williams A. I. A. Announces the opening of offices in Corsicana for the practice of Architecture.

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Shearer Garho and others. Bill Haines comes through again with a perfect picture entertainment! WILLIAM UAINfy He had taken a course in "How to in ten 'Vv) i THE FINEST AND MOST MOVING ROMANCE OF THE YEAR' ra DIO, COLUMN 3his song of long Ago thrills us to-day over a radio from- flJY TIRE in WEST FOURTH AVE. as particular about about quality and value. fit as we are You have to worry about sleeve- lengths when you trade at We make sure your sleeve lengths are right altered when necessary without extra charge. That's why more men are coming to us for shirts.

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