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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1936
Page
19
Friday Sunday at the Empire theater features the screen program White Fang. Texas Cowgirl headlines a concert in the theater lobby with a renowned South accordionist. She performs a short act and plays a valuable instrument worth over 1000 dollars, wearing a costume gifted by a rich tribe of Indians of which she is an honorary member.
Accordionist Texas Lonely Cawgiel is billed for a three day engagement at the Empire Theater starting Friday. Local music fans can expect a featured set of East Texas tunes and traditional accordion repertoire across the weekend.
LLOYD FANTAGES reports Vicki Baum travels from Bali after catching diphtheria while writing a book. She plans to mend in sunny California and bring the French version of Michael Stroggelt to RKO, signaling recovery and pending project.
A flurry of studio notes recounts changes in international production and release plans. Hollywood Scenes was made in Germany with a large English title add, while Warner’s reissues Frisco Kid as Gan Francisco Kid after San Francisco’s box office success. Universal shifts Boris Karloff horror toward safer audiences, Dick Powell and Joan Blondell headline marital rumors, and Gertrude Michael’s illness disrupts travel plans. Twentieth Century-Fox budgets The Last Slaver with 1000 wigs. Boris Petroff stars in Half Off as he moves into epic films. Sammy Fuller’s forthcoming work, based on his acclaimed novels Burn Baby Burn and Tosy Tube Baby, is noted alongside Luis Alberni’s tie to Billy Rose of Jumbo fame.
Hollywood items report two marriages and two divorces among film people. Dixie Dunbar wore a star sapphire ring amid betrothal talk with Bill Davis of Beverly Hills. Marion LaFoliette, 27, wed B Claris Gardier, Los Angeles store treasurer. A final decree favored Rose Ales in a mental cruelty suit against a stuttering comedian. Mrs. Ted Healy obtained an interlocutory decree.
MGM research department checked all names credited to Rud yard Elpling for Captains Courageous against Gloucester’s current directory to avoid using local townspeople such as Retal Haines in the cast.
Dodsworth comes to the Aztec theater on Friday led by Walter Huston in the title role with Ruth Chatterton and Mary Astor headlining the supporting cast. The story follows Sam Dodsworth, a wealthy Midwestern manufacturer who retires to tour Europe with his younger wife, and his friendship with Edith while his wife pursues European flings. William Wryler directs a bright, sympathetic production featuring Paul Lukas, David Niven, Gregory Gaye, and others as the audience enjoys the Paramounts newsreel and musical highlights.
San Antonio Civic Opera seeks additional singers for The Chocolate Soldier to join the Dallas presentation by David Griffin. The local performance is slated for October 23 in the sunken garden of Brackenridge Park.
Humble technicians pledge continuous improvement and dependable motor fuel and oil. Invite to the Humble Exhibit at the Central Centennial Exposition in Dallas features dioramas re-creating Texas history from the Alamo to Sabine Pass, with captions and narrative told by rocks and Texas oil depths.
Los Angeles reports Shirley Temple, the child film star, is named with her parents and others in a suit led by Jack Hays claiming he held exclusive rights to direct her career for two years and would receive 59 percent of earnings. He seeks $500,000 upfront and up to $590,000 in future earnings.
In 1836 Texas villages were crude and sparsely populated. Now Texans boast thriving towns with new resources and incoming people. The rivet gun and saw signal a surge of construction and rapid improvement across industrial areas.
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