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PAGE FOUR THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER THe Foremost 'Newspaper of the Two Carolitias- SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 20 193 SECTION FOUR CHARLOTTE THEATERS New State Theater Opens Tomorrow State Theatre Opens Monday Succeeding Old JILL HUE ALBERT CLOUGH avoided at uncontrolled intersections Her Latest Hit "Common at least as It Is a prolific cause of at Carolina Theater This Week collisions especially here the view-ahead 1 cut off Very low speed intelligible arm signals and keeping to the right are the safeguards against smashes at corners TOICHIMM I JOBS A writes: The paint of my car is bad In spots especially on the fenders tVhat Is the best way to filing these? Answer: In refinishiog or touch ing-lip parts of cars use palnls of the best quality and of the quick drying variety and he absolutely sure that all auifares are absolutely clean before application After washing in the usual way pplv gasoline to remove all traces of oil and grease and smooth the surfaces with sleet wool nr sandpaper Do the work and let It div in a plai-e as free from dust as possible Small spray outfits for tha application of lacquer finish are obtainable which give very flue results hut lacquers for use with a brush also prove s-attsfactory The new State theater opens tomorrow morning To thousands of the vast horde of theater-goers In Charlotte and its surrounding territories that line carries one of the most Important theatrical announcements In recent years For It means the coming of a fine new show-place for everyone the finest little theater in the two Carollnas In policy and physically the new State is to be one of the leaders In the entertainment field The product booked for the coming season Is of the very first rank and it Is the Identical class of entertain ment formerly offered by the Publix Imperial theater recently destroyed by fire As for the house Itself no one who has viewed It during the extensive construction period can deny that It has been built to a standard not to a price In equlplng it i'ubllx Theaters corporation officials approved only the very latest and most practical aids to pleasure comfort and convenience Aside from the class of pictures which will be shown the most Important Improvement is the Installation of the new seats They are large and roomy sturdy heavily upholstered and well spaced In purchasing these officials kept In mind the standard to which the house was being built also what patrons would naturally expect of It In the way of comforts as well as entertainment For this reason the very latest scientifically constructed chairs built to fit the body thus insuring perfect comfort were accepted In all other respects the house is new throughout Walls and ceilings have been rebuilt and decorated a larger screen has been Installed the sound reproduction has been greatly improved new draperies and lighting fixtures have been placed throughout the house all floors have been carpeted all aisles and exits Improved two com fortable lounging rooms built a beautiful entrance constructed ana a massive marques placed over the street In i the new Stale discriminating theater patrons will find their every desire satisfied because in addition to the house being comfortably and beautifully furnished It will show the very best In first run pictures and the admission prices will be nominal from the opening each day at 1 1 a on through the evening The featured screen attraction for Monday and Tuesday will be Transatlantic" a Fox movietone drama starring Edmund Lowe with Lois Moran Jean Hersholt Greta Mvrna Loy and John Halllday This is a thrilling story of fast romance tragedy and the unexpected aboard an ocean liner bound for unknown ports Advance reports on it from leading theaters throughout the country indicate thal It is one of the most unusual and thoroughly entertaining films yet made with the activities of those on board a great ship a floating world within itself rs the theme After viewing it local officials de tided upon it as a first rate attraction for the fine new Slate Other features on the Monday-Tuesday program will be "Air Tight" another of those screamingly funny boy friends comedies "Country a cartoon with the everlastingly popular Oswald and the latest Issue of Metro sound news Some of the coming feature at tractions at the State will be "Daughter of the a Paramount production based on Sax story about the last ad ventures of the mysterious Dr Fu and starring Warner Oland with Annie May Wong "Men Women with Charlotte's own Randolph Scott in the leading role Zane "Riders of the Purple and another Wheeler Woolsey special It superfluous to call attan- tln to ths fact that a vary Urge proportion of 11 motor-car collisions occur at highway Intersections but indicate that this danger la1 all too little recognized and guarded against An open Intersection with good visabllitv Is dangerous enough blit the blind corner on narrow streets closely lined with 'buildings has proved itself deadly Stop sign silent rollceinen and lines on the pavement greatly re- dm the likelihood of accidents but Intersections thus protected are few as compared with the unguarded Every motor-vehicle law limits 'epeed to a very low rate at Intersections and usually calls for blowing the horn If these two regulations especially the former were universally followed collisions at corners would be few A right turn at an Intersection involves little risk "if taken slowly and the car Is always kept close to the right curb but it speed Is too high It cannot he made without the car swinging widely out into the opposing line of traffic and it Is thus that very many collisions at corners are mused Driving straight ahead directly across an Intersecting way Involves eoma risk a other lines of traffic are crossed which is not the case with the right turn but if speed is -very low and there is a definite signal made by pointing directly ahead danger Is minimized A left turn involves crossing Several traffic lines and Is always risky but Its dangers can be minimized If the car la always kept to the right of the center of the intersection and turning Is preceded by an unmistakable pointing of the forefinger to the left It may he desirable to edge the car somewhat to the left elds of the right half of the street before making the turn but clipping the corner should he punctiliously Manager Edward Beck of the Carolina theater has announced the booking of Constance Bennett In "The Common which is her latestpicture Miss Bennett hag become in a comparatively short time one of the most popular actresses on the acreen Fresh from her triumph In "Bought" Miss Bennett brings another sterling performance to the talking screen The women patrons of the Carolina will be delighted to know that Constance Bennett wears some of the most daring and beautiful gowns ever seen In this picture She creates her own styles and supervises the making of all her acreen apparel In "The Common Ijhw" Miss Bennett Is cast as a beautiful young model with somewhat of a tarnished past She applies for a posi tion as a model of Joel studio and he seeing in her the perfect subject for a group of paintings that he is executing hires her and has her pose in the nude for his very daring portraits He falls in love with her and she with him but their happiness is shortlived as one of hlg friends tell him that she has recently been Intimate with another man Constance admits the truth and they are parted for a short while They meet again at a masked ball and she leaves with him for his apartment They are reunited and plan to become married but Miss Bennett is snubbed by ritzy family and her past comes before her again Another cloud comeB between the lovers which happily is swept aside In the sweeping and delightful ending Unlike most of Miss pictures "The Common ends happily and leaves everybody smiling and satisfied One of the highlights of Common Uw Is a grand masked hall held In a large art studio It is called the Four Arts ball ajid ten fashion designers worked tlieee full weeks creating the daring costumes worn by fl4 of Hollywood most beautiful models This hall Is purported to he the largest ever seen on the screen In support of Miss Bennett Is that young favorite Joel MrCrea the perennial villain Lew Cody and ever popular Hedda Hopper NOISY KKMt-l'V OS writes: The resr-end of my tar Is very noisy What can be the trouble? Answer: Growling of rear-axle gears Is often caused or intensified in hot weather bv the use In the housing of a luhrbant which he conies too thin by heat to properly cushion the gear teeth If the lubricant is found so fluid on a hot dav that It will run out like water It 1 not of a heavy enough grade for use In summer and should be replaced with a gear compound which will remain viscous at the high temperatures prevailing Very thin lubricants tend to es ape from housings very fast and the supply may thus be reduced to the danger point bv excessive leakage A Dollar For Dole- Or An Hour Of Work OFFERS VERY REMARKABLE CAST A screen treat Is assured the patrons of the Criterion theater Wednesday and Thursday by Universal's lively comedy drama and which presents a remarkable cast including Conrad I Nagel Sidney Fox Bette Davis Slim Fummerville Zasu Pitts and many other motion picture favor-1 ites This Interesting piqture tells the story of an Inconstant girl wno trifles with the after tlons of many men and who finally cornea face to face with a hitler disillusionment The original story was written by Booth Tarkington famous novelist and the picture was filmed under the direction of Hobart Henley What is claimed to be the finest little theater in the Carolinas will be formally opened in Charlotte when the State Theater opens its doors to the public at 11 a The new theater will rank with the best in comfort and beauty if not in size The above sketch shows what the front of the theater looks like Under ihe management of Phillips well known in Charlotte for his previous work with the Publix theaters the new State Theater will offer to moving picture fans the same class of pictures formerly shown at the Imperial Theater which recently burned In addition to a number of excellent pictures booked for early showing the State will present beginning September 28 Randolph Scott in MEN Mr Scott is a native Charlottean having entered pictures comparatively iecently and his first feature appearance in Charlotte is awaited with eagerness by the public The State Theater which stands on the site of the old Alhambra has undergone extensive remodeling The entire interior has been made over into a beautiful theater with high class equipment installed Soft chairs a new screen new paneling carpets acoustic improvements new marquee and an elegant new entrance are part of the work that has been done The theater also has a relocated and improved ventilating system With the opening of the new theater tomorrow morning the public will welcome one cf the finest small moving picture houses in the south a theater high in beauty and service but low in admission prices The theater will have a special morning matinee every'day except Saturday The State Theater will be one of the Publix theaters featuring the type of pictures that have won such popularity for this chain of theaters In Warner Bros production which comes to Charlotte at the Broadway for a week's run opening: on the all requiring labor In thlr CAR DOLLAR of thousands have run cars a year or two longer Many of these thousands hesitate to buy new cars of being charged with their own prosperity or what others In business may think In our own know that In 1030 some of those who should replacement Packards so keeping their old cars counsel you to buy a any car before you buy else Ours Is not that selfish I do believe that the dollar will go more places and affect more people relief than any other that it can well become starter" for better business prosperity Photoplay Guide Monday September 28 George Ar-liss portrays the fiery champion of human rights when he was at the age of 40 Mr Arils being slight and thin of face was able to play the part without elaborate makeup when he did it so successfully on the stage 14 1 paratively little makeup was needed for the screen x'ersion A brown wig skillfully moulded 14 years ago and so well preserved the man of past 60 that com- Picture to shown In Charlotte this week which have been placed on tne "select" Mat in addition to being passed by the National Board of Review pnni IWfJ OF MINFRAI ruuulu ur STUDIED BY FARMERS OKLAHOMA CITY Sept TRANSATLANTIC Edmund Lowe Greta Nusen Pean Hereholt Lota Moran An unusual picture of chanco adventure on a transatlantic liner Bankers gamblers dsneors and ordinary people In a six-day plot The cast Is good but the real star is the director who has made a first-rate picture In the true sense of a rather ordinary melodrama Mature audience Fox eight reels Given honorable mentton by the National Board of Review BV khVKS 4CADLFY (Praeddent Packard Motor Car Company) Which do you prefer to give? TVhirh do jou think labor would prefer to have? It la more blessed and hetter business to give a man an hour of work than a dollar of dole The former enriches the one who gives and the one who takes The latter may Impoverish both giver and taker for while one gets nothing for his money the other may lose his self-respect DON'T WANT CHAUITV Labor does not want rharity All that It asks Is work And work Is ours to give If we will The very root of our unemployment problem runs down to the unemployed dollar dollar that is afraid to venture forth sometimes through fear of public opinion Why not put the unemployed dollar to work? It will in turn put men to work Why fear to buy more than the necessities of life because of what the butcher the baker the candlestick maker may think or say? To buy today is a patriotic duty not unlike that of the days when we bought Liberty bonds and won a war We now have another war to win the war against unemployment and one that touches a great many more directly and more acutely than did the recent years of strife SLACKERS IN TKACH I No one today can claim a medal for wearing patches when he can1 afford a new replacement There1 are alackers in peace as well as alackers in war 1 hen thp alai ket I dollar goes to work men will go pounds Work and not before The employe should acclaim the employer who bins a new Cadillac a Lincoln or a Packard And the1 employer ahould Just as surely rom-j mend the employe who Inns a Plymouth a Chevrolet or a Ford And so on through the list of motor: lacquers production MOTOR Hundreds their old than usual now for fear flaunting because of associations clientele vie 40 per cent have bought did not do I do not Packard or anything attitude motor car more quickly for quick dollar and the "self and greater IDEAL LONDON id I woman will be five inches tall fashion end of a for small With the puffed sleeves the fax oi next few mg Height ft Hips 42 Bust 39 Arms Wai-t 1 1 PHILADELPHIA seed and late Luther 'Woiiiht COMPANY to his head a temporary process! (UP) Feasibility of a plan devised for removing what few wrinkles he to bring farm relief through the has some grease paint properly ap- co-operative pooling of mineral plied and the transformation was lands owned by farmers is to be amazing Ruddy vigorous he had studied throughout the southwest suddenly become the ardent joungjthis fall by a member of the fed-Hamilton whose susceptible heart oral land economics staff is moved by the pretended woes of Dr A Hartman member of the notorious Mrs Reynolds I the federal staff has been assigned Another reason that makes thet0 the mineral resource project and Arliss metamorphosis so startling i 3 1 ill make an extensive survey the fact that he has been seen in Tile plan Is to provide extra reve-old men roles In "Disraeli" to farmers Large sectors of and Millionaire" land will be marked off and all land beatured in support of Mr Arilssi owners within that region will share miss our All-Great Inaugural Program! It begins with Fox's unusual drama of men and women in tha hands of Fats! A atory of romance tragedy and the unexpected aboard the All Charlotte Has aited! NOW IT IS HERE! TOMORROW MORNING AT 11:00 AM rnir FIRST BIG PROGRAM BPGINA! WOMAN 5 FT 10 Sept 19 The for the winter fashions feet ten and one-half and "a little plump" the experts of London announced today In forecasting the long period of popularity hie figures ifituin of the bustle and possibly rorsels lie fashion figure of the months will fill the follow specifications: feet 1 'I 1-2 Inches i lit lies im lies length 19 1-2 Inches lm lies are Doris Kenyon Rudlev Dlgges Alan Maw bray Knife Harolde June Collver chniles Middleton Montague Love Lionel Belmore Morgan Wallace Givrndolin Logan John Murray Charles Evans John Larkin Evelvn Hall Russell Simpson and James Durkin John Adolfi commonly any returns from minerals sold therefrom regardless of whom owns the land upon which the mineral Is produced The plan Is similar to that under which the Osage Indian oil lands were 'ponied" with earh headright in the tribe shaiing equally the MONKEY BUSINESS Marx Brother! The four Marx Brothers going through their ususl antics Their trip on an ocean liner ai stowanavs is highly amusing Without the antics of the four brothers the picture would have been merely a mediocre slap-slick comedy with little merit Family audience eight reels I LIKE YOUR Loretta Young Douglas Fairbanks Jr The old story of the fresh voung man who wins the girl bv persistently making himself a nuisance Although the plot is trite the dialogue is good and it makes pleasant enough entertainment Family audience First National eight reels DArrHTIR OF HK DRAGON Anna probably betwn 123 and Mav Wong Warner Oland Sessue Haa- kawa Well produced melodrama of Us kind which Includes oriental vengeance secret passages tortures and killing of all the villains 8fMue Hayakawa and Anna May Wong reappear successfully on the American screen and Warner Oland repeats his picturesque version of Chinese viUainv Mature audience Paramount eight reels TO CARRY ON BURBANK EXPERIMENTS COMEt Plan tvnw tn among tha firat in rvel amid the COM- portable nun- ROUN'DJNOS! F- KRE8HINO ATMOSPHERE! CHARMING BEAUTY of fhla FINE NEW PUBLIX THEATRE! NEW THHOUiHOlT! NEW SEATS NEW FURMSHrNGS NEW sound: alnr-atudcled EDMUND LOWE LOIS MYRNA LOY JEAN HERSHOLT GRETA MSSEN GREETINGS To Our New Neighbor THE OTH Kn OEMS! Tb Boy Oaxrnld lit "Country NrAooI" The hull) expel linents of the Burbank will he con- itmued bv Alice Burpee Corn- cars each offering mor for the dol- jjoalor an official of the lar than ever efore company lrrrntlv announced A dollar spent for a new motor ThloUKll fln agreement with the car eases the labor and raw material I))dnt wizard's" widow Mrs Eliza-sltuatlon In every state in the union i llfth riwi-liank thefompanv has for every one of the 48 is called I r(t'd llir Burbank property at upon for supplies and three out of smta Rosa Calif and has reoen-four furnibh fimthra nr mi-fin- (i oie fimmn In Tits: PAGAN I ADY-Evelyn Brent Charles Bickford Conrad Nagel Entertaining drama with excellent work by Charles Bickford and Evelvn Brent The plot centers around a girl who has been tending a bar in Havana and a man a rum-runner who brings her to Florida where ahe ineels a young ieformer well portrayed bv Conrad Nagel Mature audience Columbia eight reels THF COMMON LAW-Constance Bennett Theater I Joel McCrra Drama of a girl who tried io without matrimony and finally found plucd ol rnn'dib't od bis most a 1 it soodv fir pi rs'u atioii Metroloiie News Knicrtnlnnient Value? and here another reason why! 11 A TCfTP 15c 1 TO CLOSE 25c CHILDREN 10c 0e and 2V-- All Honr) Little Thentrn In After the shoV drop in at for Refreshments Two Carolina'' it more convenient to be married Very talkative in pre-war Mle and its wicked lieedom is rather old-fashioned but it appears to have a strong feminine appeal Novel by Robert Chambers Mature ua-dience RKO-Pathe -seven reels POLITICS- Mane Dressier Polly Moran A corned with some serious elements about women in politics An excellent cast and a wide appeal Rated exceptional by the National Board of Review Honied Fickle Displn ill MA OKla A pH kle grown in his borne on is heiuj dipiHrd heje bv The pnklo is throe (humetur and six im hos i and was bottled when it i vniin urumber small onouph onto tho bottle Jt is ni bottle with a nock less an null in diameter i5hd parts Few would hesitate in buy motor cars if all Knew how countrv -uir the immediate effect would be In 1330 motor car ranked first in the consumption of steel burs and heet nickel and lead end ned 51 to R2 per cent of all tho malleable iron yibber Jriiher and plate-plas It alo used IS i feu tn' our nardwood lumber 1 7 per rent our aluminum neariv per enl our steel 15 percent of ur upper 14 per rent of our tin L'fi per cent of all leather 10 per eid of cotton (and cotton prows In states) and Uipe pen-ontapes id ernrea o' whiU licit able I bottled tti was sabd thfiii Just a Few of Our Coming Specials! All Hits Unexcelled Fountain Service Choicest Foods in Town Warner Oland In Onx Rohmer' IMUHTER OF THE PRAOOV WOMEN' MFV MIRRT" STOTT in OWN! WUOI Pit Wheeler VVnnlei PLASTER Zane Gray a "RIOEKS OF THE ft RPLE AFRICA MF A Ks -The Colorada Afiican i Expedition has brought back a thrilling I audible film of the dark continent Family tu audience Given honorable mention bv the cock- National Boa id of Review eight ree 106 Tryon St nlnnuton i i me let uf I (mu ejigs ii iLiht fnnt 1 1 1 at fn I or ill 1 1 KM) planw of Congratulations We Congratulate THE NEW TO THE NEW Theater Theater B4D SlsTI FmritPinmg picture from Month Tntkinglonx Mon The irhftrnriprs hip wpII cast Family audience Universal -bev en reeh washingtonTonvicts SHOW LARGE INCREASE OLYMPIA MMsh (UP) The slntas csponsibilities toward its 9043 delinquents in 12 utatn institution is inereasing at a faster rate than ihe population Aeioidmg figures 36 per cent Im reuse In the population of state institutions was leenuled in the last 10 ca i The gieateM iaue for worry was in the state penitentiary and re-iormatorv wheie the population in-i ereased 7 2 per rent There now are 1 904 inmates in botli institutions as romparrd to 1106 In 1921 During the 10 years 6K03 or 8301 rereived were paroled discharged or extradited TVmli Crop Hotted NCI I t' P) Autm wlin owns a large western in said he was paid bv growers and unneis 1o let his peach totaling 43 tons fall from the trees and rot Austin1 I said Hint lie had found no maiket 'for the peaches He estimated that1 in normal jears th crop would bring more than 35 a ton or ap-i rroximately 11500 1 In the New STATE THEATER The wiring system lighting and power installation for motors Is Another Good Job Done by McGINN ELECTRIC CO Phone 6086 We Service Publix Theaters in the Carolinas FREE inspection of your home for TERMITES (White or Flying Aants No obligation whatever Orkin Exterminating Co ihal 6633 We are glad to have handled the building contract on this creditable addition to Charlotte HOME CO A 219 Tryon St Real Estate Construction Mortgage Loans Insurance S-- ft.