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1,d.Shei lite-tyntofCharlie Chan’s SecretThe secrets that Warner Oland unearths In his new mystery-thril-ler, Charlie Chan’s Secret, coming this Saturday on the double bill at the State, are of the dangerous kind that mean peril and possible death to the man who reveals them.It is Chan’s task to trace down the missing heir of the Colby millions in the new picture. Until the man is discovered, no one knows to whom the Colby millions will go.Tracing his man from a wrecked ship from which he is believed to have escaped to San Francisco, Chan is astonished and horrified when he is discovered mysteriously murdered nt a spiritualist seance.By an eerie, almost incredible feat, Chan manages to unnerve the murderer and force him to reveal himself.• •• *Little America”The pictures of Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd's second Antarctic Expedition, Little America, is the other feature attraction on the State’s Saturday double bill. The first Byrd picture centered on his flight over the South Pole during tho original expedition to Little America,Little America is an authentic pictorial account of the valiant men who spent two years of mighty struggle, untold hardships in an Ice-bound country packed with the thrills, mystery and romance of the unknown. Actually filmed among scenes of incomparable grandeur, Little America is an absorbing story of a hazardous trip to a new land of frozen wastes.A Popeye cartoon and a new Pathe news are included on the double feature program. The con-a-Father Of G. E. Hunteluding chapter of the Mystery Mountain serial will be shown at the meeting of the Popeye Club on Saturday afternoon.• mmAh Wilderness”The delicate tracery of Eugene O’NclH’s drama with its poignant humanness, its down-to-earth simplicity, and its dynamic dramatic power is vividly caught on the talking screen in Ah Wilderness,’’ the film transcription of the great stage success, coming to the State for Sunday and Monday. Tho outstanding cast is headed by Wallace Beery, Lionet Barrymore, Aline McMahon, Eric Linden and Cecelia Parker.Clarence Brown, the director, who has given the world many great picture successes, uses his deft human touch to the best advantage, and throughout the picture his handling of the charming high school graduation sequences, Beery’s comedy, the town Fourth of July celebration, the love sequences and childish quarrel aro all apparent.O'Neill’s story deals with an American family of 1906, with the* young son in the throes of his first love affair, with its transports and despairs. This is compared with tho mature romance of the spinster aunt and shiftless uncle, and tho steadfast love of the parents,Tho boy’s ineffectual urge to do something important, which involves him with a sinister charmer; the coming to the rescue by the father, and the varied human angles that parallel the main theme make it a living, vital chronicle of American life.Buster Keaton in a comedy called The E-Flat Man, a novelty, Water Sports, and a Movietone News are on the same bill with Ah WlldermMF.
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Redwood Journal
Ukiah, California, US
Fri, Mar 13, 1936
Page 4
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