NEXT WEEK AT LOCAL THEATRES 1
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WM. POWELL STAR OF
SMART CONTINENTAL
COMEDY AT PEOPLES
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Luise Rainer Proves To Be
Fascinating: in American
Screen Debut
ESCAPADE
MON.-TUE.
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Lew Ayres and Mae Clarke
Open Week At Peoples
With Silk Hat Kid
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By HOWARD HANCOCK
• “Silk Hat Kid” is the selection
for the Monday-Tuesday picture
next week at the Peoples, with Lew
Ayres and Mae Clarke in the lead
ing roles. It is “drama” with Lew
in the kind of role he likes—a part
with “insides” to it, according to
Lew, and incidentally, the kind of
role that made him a star.
Ayres portrays the part of a
bodyguard to Paul Kelly, owner of
a cafe, which is located in the
perilous sulms of a big city. He
meets and falls in love with his
employer’s girl-friend, Mae Clarke,
and an intense rivalry results,
which reaches the dangerous stage
when both men are at the point of
gun-play. Here the story takes a
novel twist and brings the film to
an altogether interesting and dra
matic conclusion.
Mae Clarke is an ideal choice for
the role of the school teacher who
becomes the center of the battle
between the two men entirely ac
customed to getting what they
want. Her romance with Lew
Ayres provides the “love interest,”
and it is our opinion that “Silk
Hat Kid” will be found to be very
acceptable as a movie.
Among the others included in
the cast are such well-known
names as: William Harrigan, Ralf
Harolde, Billy Lee, John Qualen,
Vince Barnett and William Benne
dict.
“Escapade” is a gay, sophisti
cated comedy with a decided Con
tinental atmosphere, and the Wed
nesday - Thursday attraction on
next week’s Peoples program. It
offers William Powell in the lead
ing role, with Luise Rainer, of
whom leading critics seem to have
unanimously decided is the most
fascinating, and one of the best
actresses that Europe has sent to
Hollywood in many moons.
“Escapade” is a gay essay, with
a bit of seriousness here and
there. In it, William Powell takes
the part of a famous Vienna ar
tist who, when he isn’t standing
off sketching portraits of pretty
girls, is standing up close patting
them. He meets the wife of a
noted surgeon at a ball, and within
an hour she is in his studio pos
ing in a mask and a piece of chin
chilla, which will give you a slight
idea of the persuasive powers of
the sleek, debonair Powell.
However, trouble starts when
the sketch appears in a Vienna
newspaper. The lady’s husband
doesn’t believe it is his wife, but
is almost sure it is the fiancee of
his brother, who is a famous mu
sician. Then, all Vienna 'starts to
talking and wondering . . . and
when Vienna starts to talk!
Well, you may be sure you have
started somethinjg/! The entire
city is wondering who the lady is
who dared show so much of her al
luring form to the artist. Finally
suspicion points to Miss Rainer,
who is in reality the soul of inno
I Another Astor Heir
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NEW YORK . . . Mrs. John
Jacob Astor 3d., (above), is the
mother of a new Astor heir, a son
being born last week. Mrs. Astor is
the former Ellen Tuck French,
whose marriage to young Astor
was one of the big social events of
1934.
cence, and the mouse-like com
panion of an aged countess. Little
Luise standing undraped in an ar
tist’s studio . . . one might quite
as well conceive the idea of her
attending church in shorts!
It is our opinion you will like
“Escapade,” as well as its new
feminine star, Luise Rainer. Miss
Rainer has been haled as “the girl
with Europe’s most beautiful
eyes.” She is a distinctly novel
type in screen beauties, and it is
said, her acting has a distinction
and deft sureness that is not ex
ceeded by any present-day movie
star.
ROANOKE RAPIDS
THEATRES
PROGRAM FOR WEEK BEGINNING AUG. 5th
PEOPLES
Moaday-Tuesday
LEW AYRES - MAE CLARKE
SILK HAT KID
| Wednesday-Thursday
William Powell - Virginia Bruce
ESCAPADE
Friday
GUY KIBBEE - ZASU PITTS
GOING HIGHBROW
Saturday
BUCK JONES
STONE OF SILVER CREEK
IMPERIAL
Monday-Tuesday
Joel McCrea - Maureen O’Sullivan
WOMAN WANTED
Wednesday
GREGORY RATOFF
THIS WOMAN IS MINE
Thnrsday-Frlday
WARNER OLAND - PAT PATERSON
CHARLIE CHAN IN EGYPT
Saturday
BOB STEELE
. RIDERS OF THE LAW
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COMFORTABLE
In the cast of “Going High
brow,’’ popular new Warner Broth
ers comedy coming to the Peoples
next Friday-only ’ for “bargain
day’’ performance, is Guy Kibbee,
Edward Everett Horton and Zasu
Pitts. This is the first time this
trio of fun makers have been to
gether, and it is said they appear
to a good advantage.
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T OWN
TALK
Messrs. Herman Medlin, Lee
Morris, Luther Ivey, Tonie Bris
tow, and .J. O. Matthews spent
Sunday at Ocean View.
Vacationers from South Rose
mary leaving Sunday for Minne
sotte were a house party includ
ing Mrs. R. E. Merritt, Alice and
Tommie Merritt, Evelyn Johnson,
Maxine Hawkins, Mrs. Lewis John
son and daughter, Josie, Misses
Ruth and Viola Glover, Katherine
Hines, and Miss Walston of Scot
land Neck.
Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Johnson, Mrs.
Ed Hawkins and Miss Josie Mat
thews motored to Norfolk Tuesday
morning. Miss Matthews will be
the guest of her aunt, Mrs. J. L.
Matthews.
Mrs. L. R. Cullom and children
have left for Toronto, Canada, to
visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E.
D. Ashe. Mrs. Cullom was ac
companied by Miss Bernice Cul
lom of Weldon.
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Britt and
family of Severn spent Sunday
with Mrs. S. L. Coley.
250 ON RELIEF ROLLS
HERE RE-REGISTERED
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j On Washington Bench
WASHINGTON ... The District
of Columbia now has a woman
judge presiding in the Municipal
Court of Washington, D. C. She is
Judge Ellen K. Raedy, whose ap
pointment has been confirmed by
Congress.
Weldon Group On
Air At Raleigh Station
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Last Tuesday, July 23, a Wel
don local talent program, which
is under the direction of Temple
‘Chappel, was presented over sta
tion WPTF in Raleigh for audi
tion.
The program passed the audi
tion and as soon as a sponsor is
found they will begin broadcast
ing. The names cannot be an
nounced as there will be a differ
ent group each week.
250 unemployed persons here
registered Monday when the office
force of the Re-employment a
gency of the government under S.
B. Bennett of Rocky Mount was
here for the day.
The purpose was to register all
employable persons on the local
relief rolls over 16 years of age.
Assisting in the registration
were Miss Evelyn Rogers, case
supervisor for Halifax, Northamp
ton and Hertford counties, and lo
cal case workers: Misses Bernice
Hitchens, Ann Coleman and Eva
Slythe and Mrs. T. M. Jenkins.
The idea is to remove employ
able persons from the relief rolls
as quickly as possible.
L. A. Grissom and family spent
Sunday in Henderson.
Miss Dorothy Wynn of Norfolk
is the guest of Mrs. F. E. Joyner.
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EXECUTORS’ NOTICE
NORTH CAROLINA,
HALIFAX COUNTY.
The undersigned having been
appointed and dulv qualified as
executors of the will of the late
Mrs. Cornelia E. Shell, deceased,
all persons having claims against
her estate are notified to exhibit
the same before the undersigned
on or before the 25th day of July,
1936, or this notice will be pleaded
in bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to said es
tate will make immediate pay
ment.
This the 25th da<r of July, 1935.
L. G. SHELL,
C. C. SHELL,
Executors of the Will of Mrs.
Cornelia E. Shell.
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