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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Dec 19, 1936

Page

3

Can This Be Dixie Opening At Princess Theatre

Jane Withers stars in Can This Be Dixie at the Princess theatre with Slim Summerville in a musical comedy of Southern charm and Harlem romance. The plot follows a plantation scheme, a mortgage threat, a fast Derby race, and a series of mistaken payments and romantic pairings in a lighthearted Yuletide film.

Harlem Magnolias Jane Withers Twentieth Century- Fox Dixie Princess Theatre Jane Slim Summerville The Outstanding

Princess Week Ahead At Hartselle And Capitol

Read this week’s show list featuring Jane Withers and Slim Summerville in Can This Be Dixie at Princess Sunday. Bill Powell and Carole Lombard in My Man Godfrey at Princess Monday and Tuesday. Patsy Kelly and Jack Haley in Pigskin Parade at Princess Wednesday and Thursday. Arthur Treacher in Thank You Jeeves at Capitol Monday and Tuesday. Barbara Stanwyck and Bob Young in Bride Walks Out at Strand Monday and Tuesday. Stu Erwin in All American Champ at Princess Friday.

Jane Withers Slim Summerville Dixie Princess Sunday Bill Powell Carole Lombard My Man” Godfrey Princess Patsy Kelly Jack Haley Stu Erwin the Princess Arthur Treacher Jeeves Capitol Barbara Stanwyck Bob Young the Strand Hartselle

Foreclosure Interruption Leads to Caned Juleps Deal Comedy

In a lively finale Beck brings a northern millionaire to halt Cook's foreclosure and strike a $10,000 advance for juleps in cans. George Marshall directs with a Trotti story, Clare and Askey songs, Sammy Lee dances. Sol Wurtzel produces.

Cook Beck Gillingwater George Marshall Lamar Trotti Marshall Sidney Clare Harry Aski Sammy Lee Sol M. Wurtzel

All American Champ opens at Princess Theatre with top comics

MGM presents a fast moving comedy starring Stuart Erwin as Elmer Lamb and Edmund Gwenn as a carnival shell game operator who becomes a big city manager. Robert Armstrong Betty Furness and others fill the lively cast under Edwin Marin direction.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Princess Theatre Stuart Erwin Erwin Elmer Lamb Edmund Gwenn Gwenn George Bernard Shaw Bat- Gwenn Betty Furness Hollywood Youger Edwin L. Marin

Two Big Stars At Princess for My Man Godfrey

William Powell attains the distinction of a butler for the nuttiest family in the country in the Universal romantic comedy My Man Godfrey at the Princess theatre. Co star Carole Lombard adds screen sparkle in this adaptation from Eric Hatch novel with Morrie Ryskind.

William Powell Man Godfrey Princess Theatre Carole Lombard Eric Hatch Morrie Ryskind

Pigskin Parade on Screen at Princess Theatre

Twentieth Century Fox football musical opens at Princess Theatre with Stuart Irwin Johnny Downs Arline Judge Betty Grable Patsy Kelly Jack Haley Judy Garland and others. A zany campus tale of Yipee University facing Boola Boola in a big game with songs dancing and comic misadventures.

Twentieth Century-Fox Princess Theatre Stuart Irwin Johnny Downs Arline Judge Betty Grable Oe Kelly Jack Haley Yacht Club Boys Dixie Dunbar Anthony Martin Judy Garland Boola-Boola Yipee University Yipee Patsy Kelly Rboola-Boola Patsy Jack Stuart Erwin Washington Erwin Arthur Sheekman Nat Perrin Mark Kelly

Lost Art City: Nichols Parks 1924 Flivver in Caves Lot

Retired pitcher Kid Nichols admires a 1924 modern roadster and drives into a downtown parking cave. An attendant balks at the contraption and asks why. Nichols responds I’d like to know why, noting others could not maneuver the vehicle earlier.

City Nichols

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