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Nice Work If* You Can Get It HBf _ B :y fm :■& jS.fsj: 5» " / f / JC' j 4 , jk..' * A back view of a Paris beanty contest, with one Frenchman wielding a rule in one of the easiest Jobs on record. He’s tallying the points of four girls competing for the title of “Prettiest Parisian of 1938’’ and faces alone aren’t enough to convince him that a girl is beautiful. COMIC TINKERS WITH DIALOGUE WHILE ON SET Joe E. Brown Plays At Dolly Madi son Theatre Tomorrow and Tuesday, April 4-sth. To employ an old footlight phrase, it might be said that Joe E. Brown, during the making of Columbia’s “Wide Open Faces,” doubled in brass by pinch-hitting as a dialogue director as well as playing the stel lar role. At least a dozen speeches of the completed picture, showing Monday and Tuesday at the Dolly Madison Theatre, can be credited to Brown as on-the-set author, according to Kurt Neumann, director. These speeches represent chang es from the completed screen play manuscript that were suggested by the comedian while filming was under way. Most of them are his own lines. Others, however, include lines spoken by Alan Baxter, Jane Wyman, Alison Skipworth, Lyda Roberti and other members of his supporting cast. That Joe E. Brown’s suggestions are almost invariably improvements upon even highly perfected scripts, Life Insurance CAN BUILD YOUR ESTATE One of the easiest, quick est and surest ways to build up a nice estate is by means of life insurance. In addition to that you get the best protection in the world. We will be glad to explain. WALKER INSURANCE AGENCY J. S. and BILL WALKER Roxboro, N. C. Just arrived with a nice bunch young mules. If you want mules see me, as I am going to sell these mules, if they bring cost. Also have some nice fresh milk cows for sale. J. W. Pleasants Virgilina, Va. especially when the lines concern comedy situations, is the director’s assertion. “Joe has an intuitive feeling for lines,” said Neumann. “He under stands such basic comedy require- I ments as lift and tempo. Long ex ! perience at getting the laughs, not i only in pictures but on the stage and in his early varied public ap pearance, have made him very sure as to what will or will not prove funny. “As a consequence of my faith in his veteran training as a laugh mechanic, I have had the dialogue rewritten on the set whenever Joe thought some added phrases or words might give it a comic build up.” o Walter Huston As Pioneer Preacher In Stirring Film Jamcs Stew jut and Beulah Bondi Also Featured In “Os Human Hearts” PICTURE DIRECTED BY CLAR ENCE BROWN Placed in the stirring days of Lincoln, and ’in America’s pioneer settlements in Ohio, “Os Human Hearts,” the human drama of a circuit-riding preacher and his fam ily, brings Waiter Huston to the screen for the first time since his triumphs in “Dodsworth.” The new picture, in which James Stewart and Beulah Bondi are teamed with Huston as his son and wife, comes to the Palace Theatre Monday for a two day engagement. “Os Human Hearts” is based on the story, “Benefits Forgot,” by Honore Morrow, and deals with the struggle of beliefs between father and son, and 'the everlasting love of a mother who worships her boy and also blindly adores the father. Dramatic highlights include the bitter quarrel between father and soni the dramatic moment in which Lincoln sets the boy’s erring feet on the right path, the reunion of mother and son after the Civil War, and other dramatic moments inter spersed with human interest and comedy. Clqrence Brown, who filmed “Ah Wilderness!” directed the picture, the first since “Con quest.” Much of it was made in a PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. C* village specially constructed on lo- The cast includes Guy Kibbee as cation at Lake Arrowhead. the village grocer, Charles D Co- Os lO(//3~K£ii* .j Mu* fc Features A Photo Syndicate T ONGEST and oddest —long Li title in ASCAP’S files to date is “Plant a Watermelon on My Grave and Let the f Juice Soak Through.- More than 8.000,000 compo sitions were played on the air in 1936. Os this total nearly 90 per cent, were written by Americana. Let Louis Reid the eagle scream! Verdi waa first among the Italian com-: posers, Havel led the French con tingent and Tschalkowsky the Rus sian. Broadway, sparse with musical comedies this season, is waiting hopefully for Cole Porter's new heigh-ho, called "You Never Know.” Reports reach us of three prospec- tive song hits in the on, though various sing show: “From Alpha to eTt Matured It in vau- Omega," "At Long Last f deville. A year later, Love," the title of which I' jBEr however, it began to is undoubtedly inspired v ' ' seize the fancy of the by the former King Ed- public. But by this time ward’s abdication 1 ' It had attracted the at speech and "By Candle- | xwß tention of May Irwin, light." My sufficient guarantee of It has been many a|l&' an V long day since candle- P* al - ?? c light was hymned by the . o,d f J*, *? the songwriters. They ond xt became her lead prefer moonlight. Most number —such .® memorable candlelight leading number that it line occurs in Paul «« advertised along Dresser’s old ballad, ■■B*™«*** th . e * ame . °J. "On the Banks of the , _ ~ . •JWf ln t TOnt of ttl9 Wabash”: “Through Rosamond Johnson playhouse . the sycamores the can- A.S.C.A.P. * dlelights are gleaming.” No passing has been more com plete in America than that of the minstrel show. Until a lew years ago minstrels were conspicuously asso ciated with the amusement life of the nation. Radio and the movies have killed them off, until today there it a scant half dozen minstrel troupes touring up and down the country. Many of the most prominent min strels have been gathered to their fathers Primrose, West, Dock stader, Mclntyre and Heath, Honey Boy Evans, Theodore A. Metz, A.S.C.A.P., but there are -still some veterans left, notably, Jonn W. Vo gel and Eddie Leonard. They and their companies were responsible for many a geat song hit It was Metz who composed the immortal tune, “A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight.” Until his death a year or * two ago at 85, Metz toiled amid the cliffs and clefs of Tin Pan Alley. He liked to reminisce about his old song and its national glorification during the Spanish American War. Metz wrote the song in 1886 when he was the conductor of the Mcln tyre and Heath Minstrels —wrote it on a train passing through Louisi ana. He had decided, he once told us when we found him in his cubby hole at the E. B. Marks Music Com pany, in mid Manhattan, to compose a march for the street parades of tb" troupe. .'*3 this .'rain approached a ham ’ ’ "’d Town the c •'r~ny Tke Spoilt o| J-tefypjjuflrieAA Every bank has a personality of its own—a reflection of the services it renders, and the spirit in which it renders those services. We have striven to build our personality on a foundation of warm, human understanding and a spirit of sincere helpfulness. It is in this spirit that we offer our facilities to you. We believe you will find real pleasure in dealing with our bank, just as we will find real pleasure in serving you. jtfjSSS&k The Peoples Bank Roxboro, N. C. noticed a negro cabin burning by the railroad tracks. Mclntyre, al ways ready to Joke, observed that “there’s going to be a hot time In Old Town tonight.” Heath heard his partner’s remark, and turning to Metz, said: "That'll make a great title for your march.” Took 11 Yeara to Catch On And the title It became. It was played for ten years without arous ing any emotion 1» the land save In smalt boys who lined the route of the parades. Then in 1896 Metz, done with trouping, teas operating a musical agency in New York. Into his office one day burst Joe Hayden, formerly an end man with the Mclntyre and Heath minstrels. He had written words for “A Hot Time" and would sell them for 815. Met heard them, was struck xcith their force and originality and pur chased them. The song was copyrighted In May 1896 and published. It failed to catch jlaumV »/i«l/uia aisi/ia Our soldiers in the Spanish-Amef ican War adopted it in 1898 and gave it undying glory. Nor was it confined to the Cuban conflict It provided martial inspiration for American troops in the Boxer Rebellion, where its words were changed to “A Hot Time in China Tonight” and lor the Britiah Tommie* in the Boer War, who tubstituted “Transvaal” for “China.” Later, as if to demonstrate the universality of its appeal, it fur nished the musical motif for the funeral march of a Filipino chief. Conquered the World The song conquered the world. It was known and shouted and whistled in every crossroads of America. Then the fires died down, only to blaze again when Theodore Roosevelt and his impassioned co horts, in need ot a spirited march ing tune, which would symbolize their zeal and vigor, made It the theme song of the Bull Moose con vention in Chicago ln 1912. It was again revived In the World War, the doughboys changing the first line of the chorus to “When you see our Yankee fightin’ line.” The bong is thus indelibly woven with the history ot America, is a beloved part of musical folklore. The estate ot Theodore A. Metz participates in the royalties divided each quarter by the American So ciety of Composers, Authors and Publishers, which licenses the per forming rights of songs composed, written or published and copy righted by its members. burn as the local doctor, Gene Lock hart, Ann Rutherford, Leatrice Joy Gilbert, daughter of the late John Gilbert who makes her screen de but, Arthur Aylesworth, Clem Bevans, Charles Grapewin, Gene Reynolds, Sterling Holloway, Char les Peck, Robert McWade, John Car radine, Leona Roberts and Minor Watson. WILSON’S ADVISER DIES New York City —Col. Edward M. House, war-time confidant of President Woodrow Wilson and of ten described as the most powerful statesman in the world without of ficial portfolio, is dead at the age of 79. During the World War he was the unofficial American spokesman in Europe. SILVER BUYING STOPS Washington, D. C. The unlaw ful seizure of American oil proper ties by Mexican communists brought Palace Theatre Monday - Tuesday, April 4-sth. 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Admission 10-26 c ON THE STAGE Native Hawaiians Presenting “Follies Os The South Seas” Hula - Hula Dances Haunting Melodies of Hawaii Featur ing “tattle LeiianiT, 5-ytear-cJd Sensational Hula Dancer!
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