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The Decatur Daily Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 21

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Morning. September 13, 1P3T. SUNDAY HERALD AND REVIEW PAGE TWENTY-ONE Margie Hines Interesting Offerings in Decatur Theaters This Week k1 In The Theaters siren who leads the Imps and urchins on, and on, and on. Her voice is the voice of Margie Hines, once on the vaudeville stage and ln radio, who got her start ln a Helen Kane "Boop-o-doop" contest in Brooklyn. It was while she was boop-a-dooping ln vaudeville that she was heard by a mem- Is Voice for Bettie Boop You've wondered perhaps whose jber of the Fleischer staff, who voice It is that speaka lor Betty reauzea mat ner voice was just mc Boop ln Max Heischer'a Inkwell If on L' th tu-islini? tanrline.

wide-eved. cartoons on the screen. Bettv bow-lipped little vamp of the car-Boop Is the girl with the rolling toon. So Margie got the Job and eyes and the rolled hosiery, the 'still has it. LINCOLN Sunday "Merely Mary Ann." Thursday "Murder by Ihe Clock." Sept.

20 "Night Nurse." Sept. 23 "Dirigible." EMPRESS Sunday "Sweepstakes." Tuesday "A Woman of Experience." Friday "Too Manv Cooks." ALU AM BRA Sunday "The Finger Poinls" and "Captain Thunder." Tuesday "Man Who Came Back." "Woman Hungry." Thursday "Part Time Wife" and "Maltese Falcon." Saturday "A Devil With Women" and "The Hood." GRAND, SULLIVAN Sunday "Honeymoon Lane." Tuesday "The Public Defender." Thursda' "Young as You Feel." Saturday "Hell's Heroes." Gaynor and Farrell Together Again -MERELY MARY AXX" Mary Ann Janet Gaynor John Lonsdale Charles Farrell Mrs. I.radbattrr Bervl Mercer First drayman .1. M. Krrrigaa Virar Smedne Arnold Lucy Rosie I.radbattrr I.orna Balfour Second dray man Tom Whitely IVter Brooke G.

P. Huntley Jr. GO'NOR AND FARRKt.I, a movie team that "went sour" at one time and separated for that reason and others, are together again Mary Ann." today's offering in the Lincoln. This play is (he bt romantic sort that is pure relation for the audience. Vhi they wrre placing apart.

Janrt Gaynor in "Daddy Long Legs" and Farrr'l in "The Princess and the "Lilioin" and others, two s'ars showed that they could really act. Critics who have thrm in "Merely Mary Ann" say they have not forgotten their o-o-o The stop- is an old one. the orphan who is a servant in the Ixnulon jjH tlie ta'rntcd young composer ssho is the lodger, and! hc s'r'l art for Hollars and hrcad, and the fortune that comes; g-fxpectedly. There is this and that to complicate matters, and there! liBrl Mercer to gne the film prestige. o-o-o F.it t'e end of the week, the Lincoln is offering "Murder bv thei A Publix Theatre -w Phone 2-6000 Open 1 to It Pir--OV ALWAYS COMFORTABLY COOLED jPXN, A fp Kj- fr r-sA r.

4 fegfc- (AW I -e I I IT pv'K." Iring richcl. who was the attorney in "An American T'U'V" r'aed in the Lincoln last week; Lilyan Tashman. William d. Sally O'Neil, Regis Toomev, Blanche Ficderici and Leuita Lane. O-O-O Tie F.mpiess opens today with a story rif the race is of special interest because its leading woman is Marion sister is Mrs.

Howard Hodge of Decatur, and who has here on occasion. Kddie Ouillan, James Gleason and Lew Cody j-p in ti cast also. "A Woman of which is the film ff John Farrow's "The Registered will be shown Tjevii1. 'h Helen IneUetrees in the lead, and Lew Cody. Zau Pitts, p.

Warner. Nance O'Heil. George Fawcett, and others, in the cast, j-, is of the registered women in Vienna, and of F.Na who falls iv th a man not of her world. O-O-O E1v rornedy indeed is "loo Many Friday and j. i(V the Fmpress.

and offering Bert Wheeler and Dorothy Lee. the eonocal stuttering Roscoe Ates as support. With this comedy ABOVE: Eddie Quillan and Marion Nixon, charming sister of Mrs. Howard Hodge of Decatur, will play this week in the Empress in a story of race track folk. RIGHT: Janet Gaynor.

Lorna Balfour and Beryl Mercer are part of the cast being presented in the Lincoln today in the delishtful little comedy, drama, "Merely Mary Ann." Charles Farrell co-starred with Miss Gaynor. Start! NOW PLAYING Today Thru Wednesday The Screen's Supreme Sweethearts at 1:53 3:50 5:30 7: 13 and 9:10 wn the first chapter of a new continued feature film. 1 lie in which Harry Carey and Fdwina Booth will play. O-O-O tis is alwass talking about ambassadors ami what tnoy r. Cut Hollywood Salaries, Cry the Producers IS he Laskaii Snf.irf in Now been made an ambassador in the mowes.

will cine to the Lincoln before long. Also Norma i Mont comers- in "Private and Greta Garbo i I mo" to sav nothing of thise great stage stars, Lynn i i i io Bv ROBERT E. SHERWOOD rC Charles nt- ami frtd 1 unt in 1 lie imarasm.m incir iirsi mmc. I trie ami viirtu mn i Last -week a larpe group of movie Hl.t.c ra.my i m- theater ownprs eathrred in conven- four Marx brothers. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, l.ilyan ln Npw york and a fPW "The Road to Clive Brook in and Richard yelps which could be heard clistlnct- rr, are Tjshiraii in i i salary, they will pay it.

tinder the PactnrAC delusion that she is worth it, just Vjreen I dblUICb see many Decatur persons going to Chicago in order to see the play. Tickets axe $1.50 to $3 for evening shows, and $1 to $2.50 for Wednesday and Saturday matinees. "last Flitht made from last winters serial in i.ineris, jy in Holivwoocl. hurled her War Birds." Helen Chandler is Nikki. This is The manifesto of protest forth bv these embattled exhibitors Now in Chicago Downtown Theater not a war scene in it.

as Metro-Goldwyn will pay its ornamental executive, Louis B. Mayer, three quarters of a million dollars a year for the use of his name and his political pull. Wmi mau n-cll lr.ni.iro fi.r- I pr- war picture in their newest hit "MERELY MARY ANN" Sweep the cobwebs out of your bouI! It will squeeze a tear Goody! Goody! Laurel and Hardy is an impressive document. I hope that a large number of film fans have read it. for it contains many emphatic corroborations of their own humble opinions.

The meat of the matter is con Mavbe You Didn't Know This Before: nishes all this And the! One of the chief offerings of the from your eves, mop away vour cares, dust off your funny answer is. roughly: "You do." unicago uirau-n clean" is the Utle of a uhn Pav onH iinu "The Green Pastures, wnicn open- bone! THFODORE DREISER hadn't sunshine, in large quantities, ana tained in the following potent para- he hkes it. It isn't so much the money you ed last Monday night in the Illinois tne ast of this week ln tho spend for tickets at theater. The play had a lonE run Lincoln theater, in connection with That, alas, has become almost the! in New York, and has the same f) feature. Laurel and Hardy are ALSO Smith Dale In "What Price Pants-Screen Song and Sound Newi For 18 winters Durante 'he pro I NEXT THURSDAY "Murder By lhe Clock' the stars Orsy or hxtravagance "We are gathered here today to call a halt on the most colosr-al orgy of extravagance and wast nounces the final e' and his teammates have lived by night, first in the cabarets in which thev least Important source or Holly- cast xnai, cieawa u.

i.sRj,3 woods revenue. Its the money 1 be secured by mail, and Indications that been induced to spend are that the four weeks run will you ve you've injile their s'art. to for fruitless stocks that now is be hows followed by all ir.cht appear- demand that the men appointed to uscd ,0 for J6 cyllndPr cars i ked up a fuss about licffnstPin's scrren adapt Amrr.ian Tracdy" up as a Rood niovi" co at that. Why Mr. say "Than' Pirainount for the $130 000 screen rieht.

and he thank Josef Von 'it having made such a from hLs grusome j.n'-es in the biggest night clubs. liau lilt: HUH' lliu.pii.1 Piu'c rfiGmnnl cti.rlrfoH er Durante supports William Haines ntrnr in inai. panprM iiv x. 1- r.y nva hnMnrrt lutrb mra, uiu wii auuuu cases, and villas on beach. i i lion oi me prooiems inat nave Jarksnn.

who came with him. p.axs broxieht cur business perilously clae ton ana. i suppose. Muuirc, to ruin. Deflate Hollywood and save tVl thnk is to follow shortly.

the' indu.stn-! Deflate Hollywood. 'v. a chance the three oi mem maj oo bv thfl of a few hundred a feature together. ihired fans but bv a widespread re- aeslroj ts 1,, (Ua Kc 1 1 vrl idlirioc i i-l I utit. livu in sy.

ui ookhho Harry Bannister always calls his ire follows the fidelity. Lvon ha vit been signed and to stars, directors, executives r.g c.iis(u::ne o.e op- DANCE TONIGHT COLISEUM With gene Mccormick And His WENR Orchestra Admission Only 25c Dancing 9:00 Till 1:00 wife, Ann Harding, "Little Fener. other favored ones. Eliminate the It's a term he used before they were waste which has made Hollywood si- nn'the laughing stock of all except married and he still keens it "P-; thnfie w0 hve to f00t tne mr Then there are tho-e two intepara-j Thpre js aI0 a bittPr allusion to ble pal. James Gleason and Robert "thirty thousand dollars a week for poite M.ili-r in "Her Mij-sty Love," nn eoes into Bob always stars but no dividends tor siock- Dance Tonight Moose Country Club Ossie't 8-Piece Band from Bloomington Admission Dancing Free! From 8:30 to 12 DANCE WITH THE CROWD! at th? Armstrong.

To Jimmy, holders If I were one of the ar- 1 west coast studios js -Robbie." And Armstrong always ner brothers. I should be Inclined calls Gleason to take this personally. J-lrst on Sept. 8. Wil-helin Dieterle is 1 So there is another vigorous de- A new contract as a featured mand for the of Holly-player for Paramount has been wood.

a repetition of the demand signed by Carole Lombard, who re-. that has been made over and over to ri.rct the film. Ben Lyon, you recall. Is the and wniwrmn with uiioi.Kiioui, uie the 1 yA LCUH, which never seems to have more h'tsband of Bebe and they Powell William re to be one tr.e nony- cod couple that after their honeymoon in They were married after the i comDietlon of 'I 4' iijn seern to be to stay together, It a-ht at leat. They have been WW or.lv a little more than a to optimistic.

19 take This Wonv than a temporary effect. Innumerable people have cried out indignantly against that colossal orgy of extravagance and waste. Expert satirists have poked fun at it. But It has gone on, serenely, through good times and bad times. There is only one thing that will ever stop it, and that is insuficien-cy of cash.

$.10,000 Too MiK As long as the Warner boys have arcess to enough currency to pav Constanre Bennett's $30,000 a week 1 Cr.alic t.p '4 victory for the is back. And an" ln which Miv; Lombard appear-: ed with Gary Cooper. Her other Paramount Pictures have be'i) "Ladies' Man," HOTEL BELLEVILLE BELLEVILLE, ILLINOIS New, Strictly Modem Thirty minutes from the World's Series Games or Fairmount Races, either by bus or car. Make your reservations at once, so j'oti are sure of the best accommodations. RATES $1.50 to $3.50 we mean it.

a vear's absence say ba'-k than Hollvwo-xi "Man of the and "Upt An up-to-the-minute pruide on style and fashion from Decatur's leading business houses. Pops the Devil." carole lombard DANCE 3i 1 and rt.a'-.'. f'T To vmj B.ll.e on he ir.r.s the ear. the old he mad them Jhe wa.s Nh-'r-. The t'-ll you Begins Today Continuous Today.

ALHAiBRA TODAY nnd MONDAY 10c and 20c :.10 to 11 P. St. I ZACKIE MOORE 10-Piece Band TONIGHT Hours: to 12 Adm. Per Person ANOTHER M(J DOl'BEE FEATURE SHOW A' fit i Richard liarthclmess in 6 Lj-c Victor Varconi and Fay Wray, in "Captain Thunder" Kidnaped from her oun treddin 1 films ere prety bad. I "The Finger Points" Elks1 Country Club EDDIE To print ichat he fcnotrs Or to Dirante the gooiv stace team of Claytsn.

'-or. and is a ejtpfsfd to Califoma forced to marry a cattle-rustler II QUILLAN krro autet? Can thev kill a reporter? The story no newspaper dared to print' a mmuie. Mirer sne is a wiaow another and slie is a bride! 1 1 Authoritative, interesting Shopping Tips by Charlotte will keep you in touch ith the latest in style styles ranging from furniture and home furnishings to dinner menus from clothing to the most modern wrinkles in beauty culture. A convenient helpful feature for every reader. NEWS AND FABLES I "HERO OF THE FLAMES," SERIAL I ft With Decatur's Own Star MARION NIXON in a Rare Truck Dramatic Feature "SWEEPSTAKES" With Lew Cody Jax.

Added Karl Dane t.eo. K. Arthur Comedy Fox Sound Swi AVON PRICES Children 10c Adults 15c-20c TODAY and MONDAY Continuous 1:00 to 11:00 HI NTED BY THE LAW YET THEIR ONLY CRIME WAS LOVE! KODAK PRINTS (Any Size) Quality Plus Service I oft Prirrf lectur 6-Kxposure 12-Exposure ROLL ROLL I'rint. With II I'rlnli 28c 46c V.ur DrHrr We Py Pi.taie! Haines Essick Co. A Service of the CLARA BOW With Regis Toomejr Wjnne Juliette Compton Today and Monday IN Paramount's 'erfion of the Rig Stage Surcess "KICK IN" Sunday Herald and Review Clnra as the fiRhtlnR.

lovinir virtim of rlrrumstanres. who battles the law to keep her sweetheart See a new Bow in a story of human, vital drama of a woman in love OMEDV: 1 (tMKI.IK CHASE IN "TH NDEKIM. TENORS" SOI ND NEWS AND CARTOONS A ruhlix Thrat'e -Mntivr A- Vio'it lOi-tOf IU2-I2 Street pkoxipt skrK'H.

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