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r Walter Huston Cast In Film Version Sinclair Lewis Novel At Holly
Tarzan Picture Coming On Thursday Holly Program
Murder Mysteries On Rialto Bill
Holly Wednesday
In Sleuth Role
PAUL LUKAS PLAY
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RUTH CHATTERTON,
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: Walter Huston heads the cast of
ihtt screen version of Sinclair Lewis'
Dods worth," which opens a three
day run at the Holly theater today.
With htm In the cast are Ruth Chat-
treton, Paul Lukaa. Mary Astor, David
Ulvcn and several of the players who
were featured In itie stage play.
Huston again plays the title role
of Sm Dodsworth, the easy-going
American husband. In which he
scored such a hit In the two-year
run of the play. Miss Carpenter has
the part of Fran, the pretty, frivo
lous, selfish wife whom he adores.
The story opens when hard-working,
successful Sam Dodsworth re
tires to travel And enjoy his first
taste of leisure. But to his wife,
Fran. Europe means one last fling at
a romance before settling down to
middle-age.
The couple sail on the Queen Mary.
Fran has her first flirtation aboard
ship. Arrived In Paris she becomes
Involved with a dubiously fast set
and leaves Dodsworth to amuse himself
as she dances In all the gayest res
taurants with the worldly Arnold
Jseltn and the handsome Kurt Von
Obersdorf, an Impoverished young
Austrian aristocrat.
When she becomes romantically In
volved with Iselln, Dodsworth for
gives her. But when Kurt asks her
to marry him, she ruthlessly divorces
Dodsworth.
Wandering around Europe alone, he
meets and falls In love with Mrs.
Cortrlght, a charming, sympathetic
woman. But In the midst of his
new-found pleasure, Fran's marriage
plans fall through and she frantically
sends for him. He leaves his happi
ness to return to her, but seeing her
at last for the selfish, empty crea
ture she really Is, he goes back to
the woman whom he really loves.
Slim Summerville
Appears In Laugh
Hit Rialto Screen
Laughs from the land of cotton,
songs with southern charm and Har
lem pep and romance under the
moonlight and magnolias highlight
Jane Withers' hilarious and tuneful
new picture, "Can This Be Dixie?"
which opens a three day engagement
at the Rialto theatre today.
With the Irrepressible, peppery and
ever dynamic Jane demonstrating
her versatility and winning new
laurels In a film that surpasses even
the best of her past hits, the pic
ture is a combination of hilarious
fun, lilting music, , fast-moving
dances and rollicking comedy.
Slim Summerville heads the out
standing cast which Includes Helen
Wood, Thomas Beck, Sara Had en,
Donald Cook and Claude Gllllng
water. The picture opens with Slim and
his niece Jane, putting on a medicine
show for the darkies on Claude GU
llngwater's run-down plantation.
They are selling a hair stralghtener
which goes over big, but the darkles
have no money with which to pur
chase It. GUllngwater saves Jane and
Slim from the sheriff and they. In
turn, save him from Donald Cook,
who holds a mortgage on the plan
tation which he threatens to fore
close unless Helen Wood, atlllng
waier's grand -daughter, marries him.
Jane Wyatt and Louis Hayward co
starring In "The Luckiest Girl In
The World" plays as the added
feature with "Can This Be DlJttc?"
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Kid, 10c
Today And Monday
WOMAN TROUBLE
Threatens the
srreeni no. 1
society sleuth!
WILLIAM
POWELL
JEAN
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JAMES OLEASON
BOB ARMSTRONG
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BLORE
Reuniting Johnny Weissmuller and Edgar Rice Burroughs narratives. The
Maureen O'Sullivan In another drama I new story deals with the attempts of
of Jungle adventure, "Tarzan Es- a white hunter to capture Tarzan
capes," comes to the Holly theater for exhibition purposes, and the lat
as the most thrilling of the famous Iter's escape aided by his animal
friends. John Buckler, Benlta Hume
and William Henry are also featured.
On the same program will be Walt
Disney's Silly Symphony, "Three
Blind Mousketeers."
CASCADE LOCKS, Dec. 5. (AP)
For King Edward VIII, membership
In a yacht club, riding in the magni
ficent scenery of the Columbia river
gorge, a town house at Portland, 40
acres of land and a London fog.
Thus did the Chamber of Com
merce Invite his majesty to forsake
"the busy bodies of the British cab
inet for the personal freedom offered
In the Columbia river gorge, situated
at the foot of a fiO-m tie -long Cascade
lake, above the great Bonneville dam
project."
Besides the yacht club, the riding
and the scenery, the chamber's Invita
tion read:
"Should you pine for a town house
and a London fog, we have Portland
slightly below us, which can readily
provide both. As a special induce
ment, we offer you. free of all Incum
brances of any kind, SO acres of land."
Job Loafer Repays City.
SAN JOSE, Cal-(UP) Mary F.
Walker, member of Father Divine's
congregation at New York, has sent
City Manager C. B. Goodwin ft check
for $20 to ease her conscience for hav.
ing loafed on the Job while employed
in a city office here. Goodwin Is
having more difficulty In deciding
what he can legally do with the
money than Mary Walker had with
her conscience.
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WINDOW GLASS We sell window
glass and will replace your broken
windows reasonably. Trov bridge Cab
met Works.
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TRADING Al END
PORTLAND, Ore.. Dec. ft. ( AP)
A virtual ccssntlon of wool trading
In the northwest after growers sold
approximately 50,000,000 pounds,
mostly In Texas, occurred In north
west markets within the past week,
market sources said.
The major transaction reported was
the sale by the Hlslop Sheep com
pany. Spokane, of 30.000 fleeces of
lambs' wool to the Pendleton woolen
mills at 33 cents. In the Lakevlew
section, where prices recently reached
33 cents, quotations had fallen off to
30 cents.
The Hinlto theater offers a super
thrill double bill of murder mysteries
for their Wednesday and Thursday
program. They are "Mad Holiday."
which stars Edmund Lowe and Ellssa
Land), who incidentally hasn't ap
peared in a picture for a long time,
and "The Case of the Black Cat," a
brand new Perry Mason detective
story starring Rlcardo Cor tee in the
role of Mason with June Travis oppo
site. Others In the cast are Jane
Bryan. Craig Reynolds and Gordon
Elliott.
"Mad Holiday' Is the adventurous
tale of a movie star who refuses to
appear in another myaterv picture
unless his company allows him to go
out and find a real-life murder mys
tery for, himself. With the aid of
Miss Landl, his scenario writer, he
finds what he Is looking for, and
more too. With Lowe and Mtsn Landl
In the caat are Zasu Pitts, Ted Hcaly,
Edmund Owenn and Edgar Kennedy.
EUGENE PAIR DIE
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EUGENE. Dec. 8. (AP) One Eu
gene man was killed and the girl
riding with him crtslcally Injured
early this mornlnir Then the car In
which they were riding crashed Into
the city euspenslon bridge aeven mllei
east of Vlda on the McKenrle high
way. The driver of the car, E. 15. Mor-
Just Where Does Love End
and Fair Play Begin...?
powerful document of the human heart!
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Handsome Arnold Iselin . . . man of the world ... Fran . . . pleasure-loving,
selfish . . . who never suspected that faithlessness was a game two could
play . . . Sam Dodsworth . . . rugged, sympathetic, lovable . . . and Edith
Cortright . . . lovely, unloved . . . who defied convention for a moment's
happiness in the arms of Sam Dodsworth . . . and here is their story . .
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Paul Luhas Mar j Astor
rlson, was killed Instantly while his
companion, Lena H, Scott, Is In a
hospital here with serious Injuries.
The accident apparently occurred
about 13:40 this morning, but tho
wrecked machine was not discovered
till about 8 o'clock, the pnlr lying
In the wreckago of the machine dar
ing the Interval.
When THE PEASLEYR linvA Rnectnl
Photograph Offers, they really go to
town.
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Wendy Barrle and Lawrence Tlb
bett head a cast of favorites in "Un
der Your Spell." coming Wednesday
to the Holly theater, a rough-house
romance of a famous bnrltone. Ar
thur Treacher and OreRory Rat-oft are
included In the fun.
NEW YORK, Dec. 8. (AP) The
nation's Industrial machine contin
ued to whirl ahead In the latest
week, setting the fastest pace since
fl. h I
Noti for his smart polished lm
personntlons. William Powell is Ideally
suited in his co-starring role with
Jean Arthur In "The Ex-Mrs. Brad
ford," which plays at the Roxy the
ater today and tomorrow. -
Jrtmes Olenson, Robert Armstrong
and Eric Bloro head the cast In sup
port of Powell and Miss Arthur.
November, 1P29.
The Associated Press seasonally ad
justed index swept up to 90.3 from
08 8 a week ago, and compares with
86.0 In the same period lost year.
Both electric power production
and railroad freight cnrlondlnga
pushed Into new high ground for the
year. .
The lean than seasonal decline In
freight shipments waa accounted for
by unusually large . movements of
coal coincident with cold weather and
heavy industrial demand.
Former slave Wetis.
PASADENA... Col. (UP) Green
Tyus, 88, former slave has married
Arbella Oreon. 74. Tyus says his
hardest luck as a slave waa being sold
to a man who couldn't afford to
pay for him.
Closing time for Too Late to Clas
sify Ads Is 1:80 p. m.
Today - 3 Days!
TWO BIG HITS!
ENOUGH SONGS, ENOUGH ROMANCE
ENOUGH LAFFS FOR 6 PICTURES!
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"Dixie" ahotvs at
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JANE WITHERS
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'Pick. IMck
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"Does You Wan
na flo To lira?
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Time In
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SLIM SUMMERVILLE
HELEN WOOD . THOMAS BECK
SARA HADEN . DONALD COOK
CLAUDE GILLIN GWATER
Here's Feature No. 2!
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THEY FLIRTED WITH LADY LUCK!
'V Tho rooming house romance of a runway heiress
xf , , and a handsome olerk who didn't have a dime I
.lThe Luckiest
s ;fi Girl in the World"
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with JANE WYATT . LOUIS HAYWARD
Nat Pendleton Eugene Pallette
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