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- i i i t - j ;The OREGON STATESMAN. Salem. Oregon, Sunday . Moritlng, January . 26, 1936 - f PAGE NINE r T- -m- Goua t J ' - - - ' Colbert Again Elsinore Star -1 - j-v- d - "Bride Comes Home'f Is "'.Bright Romance; Fred AlacMurray in Cast Claudette. Colbert and Fred MacMurray. teen together for the tint time in "The. Golded I41y, re back in another Paramount's sprightly modern screen j romanc es, "The Bride Comes j Home," which opened yesterday at the El sinore .theatre. ' It Is a crisp, invigorating pic ture of two young people foreor dained to battle one another at the lightest provocation. Small at tention is paid to elaborate set tings for the producers, bad a story to work with a story that la full of entertainment from the first shot to the fade-out. 1 Miss Colbert is cast as the daughter of William Collier, Br., a former man of wealth who has fallen on evil days. The two of them are down to a diet of beans as the story opens, and Miss Col bert decides It 'is time she went to work. Her childhood sweetheart, Ro bert Young, has just inherited three million dollars and for a long time bas been asking her to marry him. He is addicted to the bottle, however, and his procliv ity for getting into, fights makes it necessary for a bodyguard to accompany, him in his roamings. The bodyguard, a former news paperman, is Fred MacMurray. whose right fist solves many an embarrassing problem for his youthful employer. Frank Merriwell Serial Is Coining College Hero Will Do His Stuff Through Twelve Cantos, Elsinore The greatest athlete of all times make bis Bcreen debnt at the Elsinore theatre on Saturday, February 19, when the first chap ter of Universal thrilling new 12-chapter serial. "The Adven tures of Frank Merriwell," opens at the Mickey Mouse matinee. Baaed on the stories of the fa mous college nero by Gilbert Pat ten, who wrote under the pen name of Burt L. Blandish which were a family by-word for more than 20 year, the chapter play sets a new high ia fascinating en tertainment. ' Under the direction of Cliff Smith, "The Adventures of Frank Merriwell" offers an endless suc cession of athletic feats that will thrill all fans. Interwoven is a fascinating plot that involves the efforts of a sinister gang to gain possession of a hidden gold mine. . the secret of which is known only to . Frank. The plot develops on the campus and takes Frank on a series of adventures during sum mer vacation through a lumber camp, on the high seas, in a myth ical Latin American country to return to the campns in the fall for sensational football . games and the smashing climax. Miss Thiess Home PIONEER, Jan. 25 Miss Ma rie Thless, who has been helping with a nursing case at the Smith home of Rickreall the last two months, returned home the last of the week. The Call Board ELSIXORE Today Claudette Colbert In "The Bride Comes Home." Wednesday Double bill, Barbara Stanwyck in "An- nie Oakley" and "Th Leavenworth Case" with Donald Cook. GRAND Today "Charlie Chan's Se cret" with Warner Oland. Wednesday Double bill. "Guard That Girl" with Robert Allen, and "Too Tough to Kill- with Victor Jory. Saturday Richard Arleam "The Calling-of Dan Mal thews. CAPITOL Today Double bill, Edward Arnold in "Remember Last Night", and "Honeymoon Limited" with Neil Hamil- ton. Tuesday Double bill, Ad- ' miral Byrd's "Little Amer- : lea, and Tim McCoy in "The Square Shooter." Thursday Double bilL Show Them Vn Utm" wlfh ehelle Hudson, and "Danc ing Feet" with Ben Lyon. HOLLYWOOD Today - "Broadway Melody - of t S3 6" with Jack Benny. Wednesday "The Black Room" with Boris Kar- loffi Friday Double bin, 'SaPer speed" with Norman Fos ter, and "Red Morning-, with Steffi Duma, r Today "TlttTBIg Broadcast of lili" plus Walt Dis ney's latest, "Cock of the Walk". - - - -iVv- Wednesday W. C. Fields In "Tillle and Gus." -1 Thursday First run, dire Brook ia "Loves of a Die tator" plus March of Time No.. . v. Saturday First run,. Big Boy Williams ia "Cowboy .. Holiday", and Chapter I of Rex and Rinty." : Sparkling Trio M-r...-:." '.'. -'i::f-if:;:.v-S-. .yti.-v.&: .... "'. : " - . - - - ' ..: -:-: . . -' . -: - . - ' -. . ; . s ..:;---' '. ... - :... r j K y - : . .- " ' i '-'Z. v. - "" " . ,-.fc-''- .. "" 'i; i : :--jyy ...... . y .:$: '-y-' yiy yyyy Zy. -yy. yyyy -y:. ': .yy y -. y y .; .: '- ky X, i:y. i--v,X: yiyy yy -, f- ; i : wyyy'y -yp ?yv-y,x y' t, MTyy'J'y ; . :. Fred Macnnrray, Clandette Colbert and Robert Young wndergo spats, spills and all sorts of mirth-provoking adventure In "The Bride ' , Comes Heme current Elsinore attraction. . 1 - ... 1. 1 There are plenty of humorous spots iii "Remember Last Night" well as mystery chills. It is at the Capitol on a doable bill. "Broadway Melody of 1936" has been acclaimed everywhere as one f the most entertaining musical comedies ever produced. It opens ( at the Hollywood today. Above are some of the featured phiyera. 'Melody of 1936' Is at Hollywood Jack Benny Heads Cast of Stars Recruited From Radio, Stage, Film The radio, the stage and the screen were scoured in the seanch for talent to make the new Met ro-Gold wyn-Mayer musical ex travaganza, "Broadway Melody of 1936." which will open at the Hollywood theatre today. Ileaded by Jack Benny, number one nero or the air wares, tne cast of noted entertainers in- eludes Eleanor Powell, the "world's greatest feminine tap dancer"; .Robert Taylor, Holly wood's most rapidly rising lumin ary; popular Una Merkel; June Knight, stage and screen favorite-; Nick Long, jr., world-famous ac robatic dancer; Yilma and Buddy fibsen, Broadway stage favorites; Robert Wildhack. the "snore spe cialist," who created a sensation on the stage and repeated his suc cess on radio; Frances Langford, radio's snogblrd; Harry Stock well. New York singer famous on QB.LY170QU Today, Monday and Tuesday Continooas Perforata nee Today 8 to 11 P. M. ! FIUIDOM'S NEWEST WQISDER SHOW! iTKS& 7 - fw r M-G-M't NEW GIANT HIT I 4 Plays Together f. ;f -if. if v vV as both stage and on the air, and Sid Silvers, "king of the stooges." Dotson Performs For Bethel Club BETHEL. Jan 25 D. D. Dot- son of the government employ ment Office in Salem, ontertatned with excellent ventriloquism and sleight-of-hand performance for the pleasure of those attending the community club meeting here Fri day night. lass A. Nichols was program chairman. Mrs. Nichols flayed xor community singing. There were piano solos by Coralee and LueDa j Nichols, and violin solos by John Bucurench. It was decided at the business meeting to work to remain a standard dub for this club year. Program committee for Feb ruary meeting ia 8. Hamrlck, J. A, Haln, 0. L. Brabaker. Refresh ment committee. Mrs. J. A. Hain, Airs. Klp A. Wilson, Mrs.- J. P Bucurench. Mrs. j William Froehllch, Mrs. M. II. !Utter and Mrs. Kenneth Wolfe served refreshments during tne social boar. rw v 1 -.-wi-.t.Mi.TLJ ! Z Newest . ) 1. Adventure r . -w n r . v ! m m mm. wa a .iim 4 . I r Big Broadcast Now at State Unusual Number of Stars Contribute; J. Oakie Heads Fun Troupe Lavishly mounted, madcap com edy, stndded with the outstanding stars recruited from every divi sion! of the amusement world. The Big Broadcast of. 113 which .had its premiere at the State theatre at last night's pre view, can be classed as entertain ment of toe highest order in the comedy and musical fields. Not a dull moment is to be found in this sparkling, breezy. gala production which fairly ex udes the highest talent from ra dio, stage and screen. For pure fun and light comedy no better trio of comedians could be team ed together than Jack Oakie. Burns and Allen and Lyda Ro bert!. Oakie's infectious enthusi asm in his role alone is enough to guarantee for moments of hilar ity. Coupled with the high links of Robert! and Burns and Allen, the perfect combination is achiev ed. Add to these fun makers such ace high performers as Amos 'n Andy, Bing Crosby, Ethel Mer man, Bill Robinson. Mary Boland, Charles Ruggles and Ray Noble unbeatable assortment of enter tainers. Shakespeare Play Filming Big Task Unprecedented Methods in Artistry Employed on Spectacle; Here Soon No picture yet produced in FoIIywood has required the ssme elaborate scheme of preparation as "A Midsummer N i g h t's Dream," the Warner Bros. Pro duction which cornea to the Elsi nore theatre, on Thursday, Feb ruary 6, as Max Reinhardt's first essay into screen technique. to Keinnardt. the smallest de tail is Important because it Is part of his general plan. Tha Droner emphasis on a line of dialogue by nis leading man bears a direct relation to the spangles on a fairy's costume. Everything is Part of a unified whole. ' Decisions on apparently small details are weighty matter tn Reinhardt. Everything touches his preconceived picture. Tne script, written b- Chari Kenyon, and Mary McCall, Jr., re quired many weeks of discussion and conferences, involving Henry Blanke, associate producer, Wil liam Dieterle, director, and of the major executives, jack Warner, head of the Warner studios, Wil liam Koenig and Hal Wallls. - it was necessary to organise th work into three general division dramatic, ballet and technical. with many subdivisions. The ballets were in rhare nt Bronislawa NJJinska, considered Europe's greatest ballerina Nina Theilade. Creates New Department The dramatic direction with play readings, similar to those ordinarily employed hv stage directors, but with the one great difference that Reinhardt supervised the reading of every word. Principles tn a "A Night's Dream" not only had to learn unes, out had to absorb Reinhardt's extraordinary concep tion of Shakespearian drama. Meanwhile Art Director Antn Grot, with his assistants, worked continuously on sketches. some of Reinhardt s imaar- tequlred the establishment of aa entirely new department, under Percy Westmore. This department was naradn-rl- cally the most practical while at the same time the most incredible ia its functions, making masks for HERE'S YOUR CHANCE TO XUGH YOUR HEAD OFF . . . EVERYONE SAYS GREAT! I , V 7 'i " Pins . .1 ' , Popeye S. Cartoon Band Ad sTi News" lt0000' r 1110 wI&B Li ism Charlie Chan at Grand 3 it ymi yyy -V-- V7 Ctiarlea Qnigley and Rosina Lawrence try to help Warner Oland solve j the baffling marder xnyster in "Charlie diaa'a Secret" at the i Grand today. - I " HD.WMMpHif, ' J'M"i I ' IHM.MI Jill 1 . I r - - v . " Xv. "S - -s. ,i. - -ii - r. s' . " '., v t - .it- !,-- ,!fVJ"' T s i - r v-' J :i -.A c .Vp-t ? 'T ' fh " .y - v -V ? V--' " ta , f -.- .jt-? .-.- '"'v .i''.-,.- . , .. ." : V'1 4 r"-.:-::-?:-. Charles Boggles and Mary Roland are bat two of the many stars appearing in "The Hlg Broadcast of 1836 coming to the State theatre today. the gnomes, a tail for Puck, the donkey's head tor Bottom, fifty pairs of bats' wings, a crown for Oberon, of JLbalone shell! Max Ree, who designed the costumes for Reinhardt's Euro pean production of "A Midsum mer Night's Dream," allowed his fancy a freer rein than for the stage. He kept a whole corps of designers busy. , , "C. Clay Campbell and other "sculp tors designed numerous statues, figurines and even specially saaP od leaves for some of the trees in the woodland scenes. All of these had to be modelled first in plaster. In "A Midsummer Night's Dream," gnomes, elves, sprites p.nd fairies continuously perform I -believable things believab'.y. Model Builders Busy Model builders worked night and day so that both Reinhardt and Nljinska could co-relate tbeir work on the maaa spectacles. Small scale models of every set complete to the- minutest detail had to be rushed in order not to hold np the super-expensive cast, and the four hundred ballet dan cers. "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is sheer fantasy. It is built on the glorious nonsense of human ity summed up in Puck's immor tal comment, "Lord, what Fools These Mortals Be!" Reinhardt sees "A Midsummer Night's Dream" as a play that must never impinge on reality. He transports his audience to anoth er world, where anything might happen and he believed. There is an all star cast which includes James Cagney, Joe E. Brown, Dick Powell, Jean Moir, Victor Jory, Verree Teasdale. An ita Louise, Hugh Herbert, Frank McHugh and many others. NOW PLAYING SSilSuSn - ' ' 'fsoo '4 - ..?r ; GOOD " BEATS 5V ."4 Four Murders in Capitol Mystery "Remember Last Night" Is Offered; "Honeymoon Limited" on Bill Four unsolved murders prove unusually knotty problems tor Edward Arnold, cast as an "ace" detective in Universale weird and thrilling drama of murders dur ing and after a gay Long Island party in Universal. "Remember Last Night?" at the Capitol the atre In the film are featured such players as Constance Cummlngs, Sally Eilers, Robert Young, Rob ert Armstrong, Reginald Denny, Gregory Rateff, Monroe Owsley, aod Louise Henry. A thinly veiled but playful sa tire directed at a famous Amer ican literary figure provides the story structure for "Honeymoon Limited" with Neil Hamilton and Irene Herrey second feature at the Capitol. The plot of the new Monogram film concerns the adventures of an author who is renowned for his rather egotistical autobio graphical accounts of his travels. The author la this case enacted by Nell Hamilton sets out incog nito on a transcontinental walk ing tour which lands him in some of the most thrilling and excruci atingly bamoroa situations de picted on the local screen for many a day. H STARTS TODAY 2 FEATURES Till 5 P. M. will never we out who 4 IimU fcW-t,i-'fc 2V :i- t CUMM1NGS I Lr ER$ YOUNG And Hit Ho. 2 NEIL HABULTON HONE YJIOON UIITED 15c IV.. i A R M O L oV; t!f "yfl Charlie Chan Now At Grand Theatre Another Baffling Murder : Mystery VUnraveled Jj -y Oland as Oriental ' Shiver-and gasp as you may havf at1 the previous pictures of the Charlie Chan aeries, you will find new: and unexpected thrills in "Charlie Chan's Secret, as Warner Oland unravels a baffling marder mystery in the Fox pio tare which opened at the Grand theatre yesterday. ' "" Weaving his web in a house of death, the bland Chinese detec tive solves San Francisco's most baffling mnrder mystery in this new picture, while he defies a band of sinister killers. Chan first picks up the trail of ; the missing man at a shipwreck. Then he files to San Francisco where he is caught up with the man's family, a strange group who dabble in spiritualism, and no one of whom desires the miss ing man's return. At a spiritualist seance, - the heir is suddenly discovered dead with a knife through his baek. And although Chan knows that he has the wiliest criminals of his career to deal with, he im mediately sets about tracking them down. Before the eolation fo the crime is reached, others fall vic tim, and Chan himself narrowly escapes death. Rulings Are Made On Job Insurance There will; be no collection or acceptance of contributions from employes under the unemploy ment compensation law enacted at the last legislative session, T. Morris Dunne, chairman, announ ced yesterday. Dunne said a section providing tor employes' contributions was erroneously included in tne en rolled bill but did not appear in the legislative journal. Important i regulations adopted t-y the commission at a recent meeting here! follow: Employers! contributions for the month of January, February and March,; 1936, shall bo pay able on or before April 20, and thereafter contributions shall be aid monthly on or before the 20th day of each month for the preceding month. Services performed by all em ployes of municipal corporations In the state are exempt from the provisions of the unemployment compensation; act. Bridge Olympics Here February 4 Many Salem bridge players have already! entered the World Bridge Olympic which is to be staged in this city Tuesday night, February 4, at the Elks club un der direction of George Ketchum. This year 70 countries of the world will be in the play where 1 identical hands will be played. Fire hundred additional Chinese bridge players will participate this year; (4 players in Holly wood's movie; colony will partlci- TODAY! ij 1 C" ill I Doaews VjV J 1 I of Stars , N-C jl ll Including o ll Lf C. CHARLES I N. j,,,, i I iUh'ih BOLAXDr ( Cm CyV ! MERMAN A j ITS THE I WONDER SHOW. 1 OF THE YEAR! gn A YWott'lQUntta- I im TcruuirOtOR. pate and the Olympic will be con- ducted aboard six ocean liners:' Local players who have already signed to lay in the Olympic in clude the following: Mr. and Urs. Don Madison, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Diedmer, Mr. and Mrg. Max Ou ter. Mr. and Mrs. George Hender son, Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Albrich. Mrs. L. S. Rankin, Mrs. Robert Bretman, Homer Smith, Roy Card, Walter Cllne, Mrs. Ercel. Kay, Mrs. George Flagg, George. Waale, Mrs. Ed Baker. Hop Market Hits Low During Week The hop market reached sew , lows last week and was almost so j low that it had to reach up to -touch bottom, with from five to -eight cents Paid to growers, tally ten cents per pound below the cost of production, Salem dealers reported. Comparatively small quantities were sold at this fig ure, however. . ,f Highest current bids for Prime to choice hops were ranging around nine cents a pound, bnt most growj were holding for at -least ten cents and higher per pound. A strengthening influ- ence for the future was hoped for, with comparatively light remain ing stocks of new crop hops in growers' hands compared with a year ago. Demand during the week continued to b confined to domestic consuming interests, since foreign inquiry remained slow. Perrine Going to Father s Funeral Alderman E. B. Perrine of Sa lem will go to Portland Monday to attend the funeral of his fath er, Burchfield Grace Perrine, who died Thursday at the home of a daughter at the age of 91. The services will be held at, S p. m. Monday from Pearson's funeral church, SOI Northeast Knott street, and vault entombment will be in the Rose City cemetery. B. G. Perrine, a resident of Oregon for 30 years, had often visited his son here and became acquainted with fellow members of the G. A. R. Surviving in addition to tbe son here are three other chil dren, Orton Perrin of Monte sano. Wash.. Mrs. Charles McCart of Portland and Mrs. George Chevron of Vancouver, Wash.; a brother. Thomas Perrine of Franklin, Pa., and a sister, Mrs. Sarah Griggs of Topeka, Kan. COMING ELSINORE One Day Only, Fe. 6 Road Show Picture Shakespeare's omiDsummEn uiGnrs onEnm ALL SEATS RESERVED Matinee 53c 83e Loges $1.10 Evening 55c 83c $1.1(T Loges $1.65 Including Tal Seats on Sale Box Office Phone 579S nny seat nnana V Today Vl2:45! y- J v-i. ,i "" " t, -ii., s m- 1 1 ", ii "' mi r u, . . T