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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1931)
8 SHOW TALK By Fred L. Porter Thursday, Friday and Saturday — Palace, ‘‘Scandal Sheet.” Saturday afternoon Assembly Hall, “Let’s Go Native.” Saturday night — Assembly Hall, “Way for a Sailor.” Preview—Palace, “The Gang Buster.” Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday— Palace, “The Gang Buster.” Monday afternoon and evening — Assembly Hall, Tony Sarg presents his marionettes in “Alice in Wonder land.” “Madam Satan,” a very amusing and light farce on the old “triwrangle,” with the frigid wife twanging a bum second fiddle to the first violin of the husband’s newest girl friend. From some clever mixups in a bed room the picture switches to the Zep pelin sequence which takes up about three-fourths of the footage, depicting a masked ball aboard the ship. Madam Satan is the masked wife who shades her rival by pulling a little warm act to singe all males on board. They stage an auction of women and spring several risque lines that should bring the family out. Plenty of excitement in the finale with a storm that wrecks the zep. Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny, Lillian Roth and Roland Young. “Scandal Sheet,” with a new George Bancroft as a ruthless managing edi tor of a tabloid newspaper, a killer of reputations, a slayer of ideals, a Juggernaut who smothers all in his path, all in the name of the great god News. His credo is “If it’s news it gets printed, no matter whom it hurts.” The owner of the paper is helpless before the power of this man—for he has, through his steam-roller methods, built up a tremendous circulation for the paper, and circulation, in news- paperdom, is commercial success. After a series of events in which Bancroft stops at nothing to get choice bits of news before the public, he at last becomes ensnared in a yarn of his own making. The leading banker of the town plans to leave the city at a time when his bank’s finances are in a precarious situation. Bancroft sees in this a hot news story—Lead ing Banker Embezzles Thousands — but he doesn’t know that the banker is in love with his wife and that the two are planning a secret flight from the city. Photographers whom Bancroft has sent to the banker’s home return with surprise snapshots of his wife and the banker in a warm embrace. Of course the husband is astounded, but still it is news and he orders the publication of the elopement story. Then he dic tates another story for the late edi tions—Managing Editor Slays Wife’s Lover—and turns in his resignation. For his crime he is sent to prison for a life term, and soon becomes the editor of the prison paper. Even in the gray walls of the jail he is still the ruthless editor with his slogan ‘‘If it’s news, it gets printed.” In addition to Bancroft, the cast includes Kay Francis, Clive Brook, Gilbert Emery and Regis Toomey. “Let’s Go Native,” a singie-talkie with Jack Oakie, Kay Francis, Jean ette MacDonald, Skeets Gallagher and James Hall. A great cast in a South Sea setting. Funny in places and silly throughout. “Way for a Sailor” is the story of Jack, Ginger and Tripod, three ship mates who have common interests in the sea, hard liquor and any kind of THE BATTALION Jack falls for a shipping office girl and in an effort to convince her he is sincere, he cheats his mates of a sum of money, buys a store suit, and mar ries the girl. Shortly after the cere- money, Jack tells the newly acquired spouse that he must return to his ship. This bit of delayed information con vinces the girl the sailor used mar riage as a sham for his on purposes, | and she leaves him, to board a steam er bound for Canada. The husband de serts his ship and secures a place on the passenger steamer as quarter master. At sea he pleads with the girl to return to England but she re fuses. A storm comes up and word is re ceived that Jack’s old ship is sinking with all hands aboard. A volunteer lifeboat crew is recruited to make an attempt at rescuing those aboard the freighter and the shunned husband volunteers to command the lifeboat. The lifeboat is swamped by the waves and Jack is lost and Ginger and Tri pod are lost in the attempt to rescue him. Days later the trio is rescued by whaling boat bound for the North seas. A year later it returns to Lon don and who should we find at the dock but the wife. Good old sailors’ wives! John Gilbert and Wallace Beery have the featured roles. Leila Hyams is the leading lady. Ideal Sweetheart May Accept Kiss Of Rival Suitors Occasionally The country bumpkin from Arkan sas invades pineapple-land and bom bards the racketeers with razzberries. “The Gang Buster” with Jack Oakie, Jean Arthur and William Boyd. Oakie undertakes to sell accidene insurance in a city infested with easy-money gangsters. Everybody wants his poli cies except the company for which he works and during the process of dis tributing policies Oakie gets into the underworld and stirs up quite a bit of noise. Gangdom takes its victims for rides and Oakie takes the gang sters for a ride. IOWA CITY, la.—The ideal sweet heart may accept an innocent kiss now and then from a rival suitor with out arousing, the jealousy of her fiance—if the fiance is a University of Iowa fraternity man—replies to a questionaire revealed here. But—the fraternity men don’t think it ought to be done just the same. Emulating the example of co-eds, who chose Francis Wilcox, non-dancer, -smoker, -drinker, -petter, as “the man of their dreams,” the fraternity men decided that Anne Bradford, of Dav enport, la., is the sort of girl they would like to marry. Anne is blond, five feet five inches tall, a senior, and engaged to be mar ried. An ideal girl may smoke but should not drink, the men decided. Beauty is not essential, both personality and in telligence being more important. But above all the girl must dress smartly and be sophisticated. DR. A. BENBOW Dentist OFFICE OVER 1st STATE BANK. PHONES: OFFICE 275 RES. 635 BRYAN, TEXAS Sunbeams May Become Part Of Regular Diet NEW YORK—Artificial sunbeams, to be taken at any of your three meals you prefer, soon will be advertised in the columns of your favorite magazine, if plans under way here to market the discovery of University of Cin cinnati scientists are successful. Under the direction of Prof. George Sperti, university scientists have learn ed how to strip light into thin bundles of closely similar rays which have spe cific influence on food, including the manufacture of Vitamin D. The discovery, it is said, can be used to add Vitamin D in definitely controlled quantities to many articles of food and pharmaceutical products, and can also be used for the steriliza tion in prevention of food spoilage FOR THE NEW TERM Everything in Correct Military Equipment at money saving prices— All sizes in Dress And Drill Shoes f llaldrop 5 (o Bryan and College Memories Fade — Photograph Stay! Someone You Know Wants Your Picture Aggieland Studio PHOTOGRAPHS OF DISTINCTION Picture Frames — Films — • Kodak Finishing The Campus Cleaners and Tailors HENRY LOCKE, Manager Alterations, Cleaning, Pressing and Repairs Hats Cleaned and Blocked Caps Cleaned. Ties Cleaned and Pressed OVER THE EXCHANGE STORE Politics ought to be adjusted, not to human reasonings, but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greater part.— Edmund Burke. What the philosophy of wealth-get ting offers faithful savers everyone knows. What the philosophy of the spender offers him is not, apparently, so well known. —Emily Newell Blair. The Stuppach Madonna, painted by Matthias Brunewald, which has been kept in the Struttgart Palace Mus eum for some time, is to be brought back to Stuppach, Germany, a small village near Mergentheim, where a fireproof and burglar proof chapel is being built to house it. The Greater Palace THURSDAY — FRIDAY — SATURDAY LOOK WHAT’S COMING PREVIEW 11 P. M. SATURDAY The Gang Buster <2 paramount ^picture Aico Monday — Tuosday — Wednesday women.