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The Tacoma Daily Ledger from Tacoma, Washington • 7

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rrn-R DAILY LEDGERi- FBIPAY SEPTEMBER -30 1932' xy Th ea ter Completely 7 ffsnaM BXTORGB NEW TORE 8P ZSz--SW Mrs Ruth Elder Camp will leave for Iteao within a few days she aanauaced today to obtal a divorce from Walter Camp Jr her third husband Thai former ocean filer and her husband metioa picture producer and son of tho late football coaclv said they had reached a separation agreement and had definitely coma to a porting of the 'ways tho last moath a Sporting Age --v EMPLOY STUFF W1 OF 40 PERSONS Sam Katz of Paramount Outlines Program of Unusual Merit By MOTiTtE UBBfilCK Latest Equipment Including Large Chromoiie Screen Ready for First Performance This Afternoon mwrirhl 1V82 by Hie lodger Sad thcl Xorth American spjr Alliance) 8 ON TDfltE 'V II HOLLYWOOD Cal Sopt 20 when the motion got on tho financial slide-together with a good many Other I a new typa executive Was Hollywood to salvage the millions in vested in gelatins product Each studio has had its some are already returned toHrw York But ono who has lhado good in a big way and will undoubtedly stay I with it la Sam Kata ones an exhibitor with true understanding of tne public for which motion pictures are made have been reading from time to i time these lost weeks statements of motion picture looses oo bearded this young keen affable producer In his sanctum to net hi of whert I entertainment will go during the next 12 montha First Tacoma Showing id Completely remodeled and equipped the latent cound and projection i iiuipmciU the Itoxy theater will take jm place among downtown fumisenient centers at a gala opening tmliiy op-ii ing of the doora at 2 o'clock this afternoon will mark the return to this city of Jensen andJ uii Herberg veteran showmen' who i one time operated 75 theaters in ihn Northwest Two of these were Tacoma "it feels like coming home to open house in Tacoma" Jensen said yes t-rday on arriving from Portland -This was always a good show town for our theaters and we are more than pleased to be able to return" kptlnlim Rules rflliSqually optimistic was Von Her-r theater business la In jTfon rfume ways an industrial smashing romantic drama that will set the red blood in your veins atingling I v-'S A im HAVE In' motion pictures 4 1 1 he raid "When other lines improve J1L rtl 1 r- k-: gone no for -with aex WO are I likely to said Kata "We baaed our program for the coming year then on comedy melodrama and the un-1 usual In adventure stuff "Convinced that wo have at Paramount as Interesting a lino-up of stars as any studio could bring -together wo have concentrated on building those stars individually aO carefully as we are building tbO studio as a whole "Knowing that the whole entertain-1 Intent-seeking world has pondered and I worried and thought thi last year (until It has a permanent headache we have avoided preaching avoided I I pointing a salutary lesson or giving them psychological problems to solve I In short we have centered on enter-1 talnment purely jt is felt in the entertainment business We are Bure that our program policy and our prices will be welcomed by the new theater public as well ns our many old friends in Ta-co i Contractors worked far into the riuht preparing the house for the opt ning today The remodeling included new decorations back drops reiiiovnl of the old boxes and the installation of a large chromolite screen the only one in the city The Jtoy theater will employ 40 persons tinl will follow the Jensen-Von Ilcr-lic-rg policy of buying only Tacoma products and the use of local labor the opening today women will be piven stiver spoons as favors After todav doors will open at 9 a and thows will change twice a week on Tuesday and Friday First Picture A picture filled with the dash and xcltoment of the hockey field and a romance between Evalyn Knapp and turdlc Albright two of fllmdomV most popular starlets will today (pen the new Jensen-Von Herberg gimo in Tacoma "This Sporting stars Jack JTolt ns Cart John Steele and witn him are cast Evalyn Knapp as Mickey Steele his daughter Hardle Albright as Johnny Raeburn Walter jtyron as Charles Morfell Parrel MicDonald as Jerry O'Day Ruh Weston as Mrs Rita Duncan Nora Iane as Mrs Wainleigh: Shirley as Ann Erskina and Hal l'rlce as the surgeon A rnttS rTi'A in "We feel the world la ready to enjoy such things as Phantom President this year as never before I It IS precisely in the vein we triad to hit We feel that Mae West will be a sensation when her first pic-1 is released She will open a I new comedy door As the antics Of I our established comediennes are get-1 ting to be rather familiar to us her I technique which ia utterly differ- ont will be Welcome Her second pic-1 ture will be 'Diamond and this I story also cornea within the scope of the type we want to give How about The Sign of the I Cross? aaid 1 That doesn't cornel within any of the three types you publio likes a touch of the spiritual in timet like these and I Sign of the should he the answer to a widespread demand feel that our choice of roles for Gary Cooper is going to be especially fortunate To date ha has dons the finest scene of his career before the camera with Helen Hayes a Farewell to The public will be surprised In this Gary Coe-1 per In fact ha was surprisad at I himself "Fredrle March is one of tha ablest actors on the screen today In lend-1 ing him to we secured for him a role which would build htrrt well His part in The Sign of the is an excellent one for him I He goes next Into Llves of a Bengali Lancer together with Gary Cooper! Richard Arlen and a star cast And I he will possibly finish up tha yeat with a production of Jest 1 which will give him on of his great-1 eat opportunities FIRST OF GREAT AGATES COMPLETED 'W FOR HOOVER DAM y-v- with 4 I--' Jack Holt Evalyn Knapp and HaTdio Albright bead tho east in Sporting Age the picture selected for the opening of the new R0Xy theater Friday Tho film if aaid to revolvO about exciting polo maC Beiow aTO 6 Jensen loft and von Herberg who in adding the Roxy to their string of Northwest theaters are coming back to Ta-coma after several years' absence They are two of tho beat known theatrical men on tho west coast EVALYN KNAPP HARDIE ALBRIGHT I Farr el MacDonald LOS ANGELES Sept 29 The first of two great steel bulkhead Rates each weighing 1500 tons that for' the first time will halt tha turbulent Colorado river In the Grand can yon that It has carved in past centuries was finished here today Forty flat cars will be required to haul each of the dissembled gats to Boulder City and Hoover dam Where to Go! Finishing rivets were hammered into tha big steel structure today at tha plant of the Consolidated Steel corporation lilt 1 an the CHILLS of an later national polo match With tho strangest duel that ever was TOB A WOMAN! J-- if: S3 MM UK I (1) ''Vyv ly Supreme Laugh Provoker I "Tj'VERY studio should build new I -people the established one 1 BLUR Lee Tracy Mary Brian In Event Dolores Del Rio Joel McCrea In "Bird of Paradise Janet GaynoT Chafles Farfell In "The First Year ROXY Jack Holt In "This Sport ing HAMRICK'S Armstrong James "Suicide Fleet" Robert GleaSon in Tacoma Never Saw So Much Entertainment On Any One Program! jf- 'fthlUKK -V i- 1 vivvj in its: HOP FROM MANILA ON WORLD FLIGHT MANILA (Friday) Sept 30 Continuing their flight around the world Captain Wolfgang von Gronab and three other German aviators tdofc off at 7:50 a today (9:59 iti Friday eastern standard time) for ZamboAnga Island Of Mindanao southern Philippines 'The flight of 550 miles will take them over numerous islands of the Philippine group to Zamboanga a town of 3500 mostly UOroa Thence they plan to soar 250 miles over the Sulu sea to Borneo Tha fliers who arrived Tuesday from Hongkong expaet to return ta Germany late in October A Hiiarioua Mirthquako of Joy -v MICKEY MOUSE in hia latest and greatest cartoon ThriHinjr Camera Shot! of the great Northwest CAMERA are already entrenched IA public affection and good pictures will keep them there But this industry needs new not for one but each season because of the tremendous output Our sensational acting figure for this year will Undoubtedly be Charles Laughton whose first cinema role lit "The Devil Add the Waa acclaimed everywhere We loaned him to MCtsd for "Payment Deferred" because we consider presentation of his greatest stage role fitting at this time Whan he finishes the 'rale of Nerd ta "8tgA of tho ho will play tho name part In tha "Island Of Doctor Moreau" Then when tho motion picture public la firmly convinced that Laughton Cari do only Mo thing we will'launch him la his own light centedy HO built up his stage reputation on Comedy and hla magnificent interpretations of character roles of moribund quality make him one of the most versatile actors before the cameras today a rjtHIS new type executive Is leas A than 40 Keeps hla appointments on time No outer room full of waiting people Afid like All successful ones knows what ha Wants tO say and manages to fifld sufficient tuns to aay It easily and pleasantly and without interruption With motion pictures going on a now' footing it is interesting to note that one of the outstanding exponents of the new regime feels that Baric avenue society dramas With extravagant daughters intoxicated mothers A4 harassed fathers are not the material a worried public cares to pay for in its hours of relaxation Xt sounds pretty ea he to mot 4 a 'V' World Events as they happen TONI HEARST METBOTOtfE NEWS JOEL MeCRAE IS KEEN ZVWy lady attmlxjr opomng wUl raealvo a basu tiiii SRw tmMmi 100 Vdvkiir Garage pay tha difference1 iflifij'lhi I'llti-l Ill Our CROSSES PERNAMBUCO Bratfl Sept The German dirigible Graf Zep-1 pelin arrived here today after' a I flight from Enederichahefen I OF PARADISE with Dolores Del Rio TREE LINEN NIGHT 'SRlAfcTO Every lady attending tonight 1 ter 5 o'clock will receive a beautiful pleas of pars linen ensemble 1 A s-- -y ml a i- 1 i i 'V r- i v- -J 1 i EM.

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