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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1935
Page
6
fragments describe film praise for Married Her Boss and It Happened One Night with names like Colbert Capra and Buchman. scattered notes mention stage plays in Germany and telephone linking in a provincial reconstruction bureau.
Feeble economic theory sets the background for a satire about disposing surplus goods in a new film scheduled for Tuesday at the Houston theater. Professor Reginald Q. Jones played by Charton Starrett uses the chain letter craze to amass wealth and later returns profits as surplus goods bought from manufacturers. The cast includes Pauling Brooke George EB Stone James Burke Guy Usher Norman Houston Monte Carter Jimmie Aubrey and George Cleveland.
Tom Tyler stars in Silent Valley at the Alabama Friday and Saturday as a young sheriff who battles a night riding cattle-rustling gang. The open air adventure features Nancy Deshon and a cast including Wally Wales Charles King Charles Whittaker Art Miles and Murdock McQuarrie amid thrilling action and romance.
Laughter and sentiment mix in The Virginia Judge a film version of Walter C Kelly’s stage fame. Robert Cummings Marsha Hunt and Johnny Downs star as Tidewater Virginia villagers in a simple town life tale with a satirical judge at its center.
Voters in York Pennsylvania report Robert D. Gentzler filed an expense account for his successful bid for the Democratic nomination for clerk of court detailing a 420 expense for chewing gum.
A Darryl Zanuck production arrives at Houston theaters for Thursday and Friday engagement led by Ronald Colman in the title role. Loretta Young plays Lady Clive with a large supporting cast including Colin Clive and Cesar Romero. The drama traces Robert Clive from a clerk at the East India Company to Britain’s famed victor while exposing personal life and the role of his wife.
The popular novel Freckles by Gene Stratton Porter is adapted to cinema and shown in Houston on Wednesday. The 1904 tale, a top seller since 1875, inspired prior stage versions and silent films, with RKO producing a talking picture featuring Virginia Weidler and Carol Stone in key roles.
Richard Dix stars in The Argonian at Alcazar portraying Clay Tallent a frontier lawman chasing bandits. The film ties Wild Bill Hickok Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp legends into a Silver City Arizona setting with Margot Grahame Preston Foster and Louis Cathern among the cast as it dramatizes graft and outlaw domination and a marshal led cleanup.
In Turapy Konia Turkey eight Turkish girls living nearby arranged a mass wedding for six couples seeking inexpensive nuptials. The brides married on the same day and site with only figs and fresh refreshments, no wedding gowns, and returned to work the next day.
In Sao Paulo Brazil Lionel Burtaneo was arrested on two murder charges and related commissions. Authorities report he earned $125 from illicit activity. No death penalty exists in the jurisdiction. he awaits trial under provisional imprisonment terms.
Dramatic tale of government secret services and federal agents in a war on organized crime. Chester Morris stars as Jeff Crane with Joseph Catlin as the fugitive lord, Lionel Barrymore adds comedy and pathos, Jean Arthur offers romance, supported by Paul Kelly Lewis Stone and George E Stone.
James Oliver Curwood’s own favorite book, dubbed Red Blood of Courage, is adapted into a brisk screen feature at the Alabama theatre next Wednesday and Thursday. Starred by Kermit Maynard with a strong cast including Ann Sheridan Reginald Barlow Ben Hendricks Jr George Renan Nat Carrera, the film keeps the book’s action on screen.
The page previews a week of film showings including Claudette Colbert with Melvyn Douglas in She Married Her Husband, Symphony in Black, Make a Man out of Charles starrett, prize rap, and Metro News. It also notes Gene Stratton Porter titles, With Clive in India with Loretta Young, The Virginia Judge, Mushroom cartoon, Phantom Empire, Harmony Lane, March of the President, Keeper of the Been, Red Blood of Courage, Miracles Rider, Goin to Town, Public Hero No 1, Discontented Canary, Calm Yourself, The Arizonian, Betty Boop cartoon, and Miracle Rider across days and venues.
A shell shocked veteran, released from a government hospital, travels by hitchhike toward his native city. In Peaceful Bay he finds a bee keeper and romance amid mysterious circumstances, with Nett Hamilton and Hefty Furness leading a strong supporting cast including Hobart Bosworth Emma Dunn Edith Fet Towes Helen Jerome Eddy Marion shijing James Burtis Barbara Bedford Lafe McKee.
President Getulio Vargas vetoed an eight bill appropriating 16 000 in year to aid Salesian monks in converting the Chavante Indians of Mato Grosso. The move follows concerns over funding and indigenous policy, with officials vowing continued attention to missions in the region.
Roaring tale blends romance and comedy as Robert Young and Madge Evans star in Calm Youracl at the Alcar theater, with a lively supporting cast and buoyant mood. Harmony Lane provides an aspiring musician’s saga at the Alabama theater with Douglas Montgomery delivering early genius thwarted by family duties, including a chorus of notable names and a cultural backdrop. Relief note from Spokane reports Les Ryan receives $364 after a late-started pension proof, traced to two deceased brothers.
Ne supported by Des Moines bureau reports Polk County relief administrator Allan Houghton doubted workers stories of no work. He toured to verify and within 50 minutes found four jobs offering about $2 each, contradicting claims of widespread unemployment.
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