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THEATER TOPICSh By BARNEY OLDFIELD.L¥ EGEND of Jessa James, tha Missouri outlaw, has always '_MLA been a glamorous bit of middle-western lore. Why the movie producers so long overlooked a piece of its potentialities on the screen, is amazing, considering what 20th Century-Fox has finally done with it. The film Jesse James can't miss either in entertainment or financial success. It wili be found a magnet at the boxaffice for all classes.From the minute announcement^ was made that Jesse would beglorified on the screen., the company was be-deviled by offers of all kinds of trappings reputedly belonging to the outlaw. One fellow even offered himself as an adviser, saying he was the real Jesse James, while the man buried in Missouri is somebody else.But, down in F.lk Creek, Neb., my home town, lives a woman, whose father, Owens Vail, wrote a homely verse, when Jesse was planted under the Missouri soil, which was printed at that time by the St, Louis Post-Dispatch. The lady is Mrs. Fern Stanton, who holds not only the clipping, faded and yellow -with age, but also a shirt stud, reputedly'' belonging^ to Jesse, sent her father by the widowed Mrs. James in appreciation.The Post-Dispatch introduction to the verse reads:Thu folio*In* pathetic poem has been sent to the Post-Diipsitch for publication. Of course dlsnpprme of the sentiment, but we print the production as a curiosity. It demonstrates, that In having the outlay;- James killed In a treacherous and cow- ordly mnriner. Gov. Crittenden has aroused tho RcntimemAJlty of a large class of people and made a romantic hero out of a vary ccxnmonplaco desperado.”The verse runs too long for re-print here, but, when you sec Jesse James,” you will think nothing commonplace about him, and be glad to give your money to see him—because Jesse James on the screen has the same “taking” ways he had in life.former owner, she having sunk $200,000 in it. Stuff is all quartered in Baldwin Park, Cal., and no decision has been made about doing anything with it. Ringling Bros., Bamum Bailey seems set to go on the road with labor relations more cordial. Ira M. Watts, who started Parker Watts circus last season, is now touring to buy equipment to enlarge it for 1039. He was in Rochester, Ind., where he looked at some of the Cole Bros, and Robbins Bros, properties, the former being in financial difficulties. Where A1 G. Bames-Sells Floto will go this year from Sarasota, Fla., is still being studied, its field having previously been always on the west coast. Downie Bros, circus is for sale, whole or part. The year 1938 will be remembered a long tune in the circus business as its blackest season.Discovered: A new use for an electric razor. Bert Labr’s wouldn't work, and he found it wa** all gummed up. His valet, a Filipino, had found it worked very well to keep the woolly surface of his camel hair coat smooth..Robert Montgomery and Bill Stem, the NBC broadcaster, met in Hollywood at MGM. They talked for several minutes, when Stern, getting up his nerve, asltcd:“Were you by any chance carry-cn/inv in n e-hrixxr in fkp
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Lincoln Nebraska State Journal
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Sun, Jan 22, 1939
Page 31
Full Page
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Joplin P.
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