Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 19, 1936 Page: 5 of 8
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Thursday, March 19, 1936
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‘Music In The
Air’ Riot Of
Tuneful Fun
BUOADWAY’S HIGGISST TUNE
HIT IN YEARS BROUGHT
TO SCREEN BY FOX
Something startlingly different in
the way of musical pictures will be
offered to the nation’s picture thea-
tre-goers in Erich Pommer’s initial
Fox Film production, “Music in the
Air,” according to all advance ac-
counts. The film comes to the
Queen Theatre on Thuraduy.
Not only is the picture one of the
first real operettas to Ke presented
on the screen, us distinguished from
the ordinary type of filmed musi-
cal comedy; but it promises to be
one of the funniest offerings, musi-
cal or otherwise, ever to come out
of filmland.
The extiaordinarly successful
Oscar Hammerstein ll-.lerome Kern
stage production shattered all de-
pression records by running con-
tinuously on Broadway for 11
months, and continuing for four
more in Chicago. This was due
largely to the fact that it introduc-
ed an unusual amount of comedy in
its tuneful story.
Many Laughs
In adapting it to the ncreen, Pro-
ducer Pommer and his director, Joe
May, not only retained all the
laughable situations of the original,
but added many new ones that
would have been impracticable in
the stage version.
In this they were aided by the
fact that nearly every important
number of the cast is an expe-
rienced mirth-maker, and the scen-
arists, Howard I. Young and Billie
Wilder, took advantage of this to
write each scene with special ref-
erence to the talents of the players.
Gloria Swansin and John Boles,
who are seen as a pair of highly
temperamental and jealous oper-
atic stars, are both famous for their
comedy abilities, and the picture
offers them their great opportun-
ities in this field. Douglass Mont-
gomery, who soared to stardom as
dramatic actor in "Little Man,
What Now?” abundantly proved his
talents as a comedian in earlier
vehicles, and June Lang, Fox Film’s
mystery girl,” is hailed as a bril-
liant comedienne by those who have
seen her “rushes” to date.
FARM NOTES
By F. O. MONTAGUE
County Agricultural Agent
For the past two years we have
had an early, heavy infestation of
worms that have played havoc with
tree and shrub foliage. With the un-
usual hard winter wc did not look
for damage from this source this
year but it is here and will cause
much damage unless checked in the
early stages. This worm is a chew
ing insect and can be effectively
controlled by thoroughly spraying
with lead arsenate at the rate of
one and a half pounds to fifty gal-
lons of water.
* • • •
A letter from Jack Shelton, Asr
sistant State Extension director on
March 13th, stated that the crop
acreage control law known as “An
Act to provide for the protection of
land resources against Soil Erosion
and for other pui poses,” was com-
ing out in detail within two weeks.
This of course is very late for any
program right now and should be
in the hands of farmers right now
and the letter so stated but was im-
possible, but that every bit of pres-
sure was being put on administra-
tion officials to come on with the de.
Latest ‘Chan’
Film Called
Best Of All
WARNER OLAND STARS AS
CHINESE SLEUTH IN NO-
TABLE NEW MYSTERY
The seventh screen appearance of
Warner Oland jas the inimitable
Charlie Chan takes place Friday
and Saturday at the Queen Theatre,
where Fox Film’s latest contribu-
tion to this absorbing scries, "Char-
lie Chan in Paris,” will make its
bow to local audiences.
Philip MacDonald, who has suc-
ceeded the late Earl Derr Biggers
as creator cf adventures for the
wily Chinese sleuth, has written
the script of “Charlie Chan in
Paris,” immediate successor in the
series to his own “Charlie Chan in
London,” which met with great suc-
cess last autumn.
In the last-named film, MacDon-
ald brought a refreshing new slant
to screen mysteries. Now, according
to advance reports, he tops that
achievement with this new ParisiaTl
exploit for Chan. One unique angle
of the present story is the presence
each year. Maybe if this situation' Doesn’t it sort of make your
were brought home to them in this blood boil—this inequality? In 1926,
vivid way of actual figures on a the farm per capita income was 34
piece of paper in front'of them, ’ percent as much as the per capita
they might- unite in their coopera-
tive and other efforts still more
effectively.
* * * •
I have been doing some figuring
from another pamphlet gotten ,out
by the Bureau of Economics, of the
Agriculture Department, giving the
total incomes in the United States
compared with the farmers incomes,
for a number of years. I want to call
your attention to the disclosures
made by these figures, in a com-
parison between the two years 1926,
which is taken as the year of a fair-
ly good comparative level of prices,
and the year 1934, the last average
figures for this comparative basis.
tailed program into the field. It jgi°^ Chans 30n among the characters.
’Lee Chan, played by the talented
If looks could kill, most husbands
would be found dead by the cigar-
cte a-hes on the living room rug.
N.H.A. Terms withdrawn
after March 25thi
BUY A
MODERN GAS RANGE
while N.H.A. terms still permit
PAID WITH
YOUR GAS BILL .
LIBERAL ALLOWANCE - FIRST PAYMENT IS
FOR YOUR OLD STOVE. N OT DU E U NTI L MAY.
i* Unless the National Housing Act is renewed by Congressional action.
Come in NOW and select your range
TAYLOR BROS.
BAY CITY, TEXAS
very trying on farmers to hear
from day to day that there will be
a program for the two year period
of 1936-37 and then go into a per-
manent program beginning 1938
whereby the several states will co-
operate with the federal depart-
ment in raising the necessary funds
to pay a “farmer’s tariff” to co-
operating farmers. We have the
tremendous task ahead of us of
taking some forty million acres out
of crop production that was put in
wholesale during the world war.
Farmers must realize this fact and
then the next step is to get all our
people to recognize that agricul-
ture should and must be put on an
equal footing with Industry in
order for this nation to be put on
a safer footing economically.
Section 7 (a) of this act further
states that “It is hereby declared
to be the pulicy of this Act also
to secure, and the purpose of this
Act shall also include, (1) preser-
vation and improvement of soil
fertility; (2) promotion of the eco-
nomic use and conservation of land;
(3) diminution of exploitation and
wasteful and unscientific use of na-
tional soil resources; (4) the pro-
tection of rivers and harbors
against the results of soli erosion
in aid of maintaining the navigabil-
ity of waters and water courses and
in aid of flood control; and (5)
reestablishment at as rapid a rate
as the Secretary of Agriculture de
termines to be practicable and in
the general public interest, of the
ratio between the purchasing power
of the net income per person on
farms and that of the income per
person not on farms that prevailed
during the five-year period August
1909-July 1914, inclusive, as de-
termined from statistics available
in the United States Department
of Agriculture, and the maintenance
of such ratio.
• • • *
The farmers of the countiv, in
•pite of all the fearful inequalities
heaped upon them, are looking
with confidence and with courage
to the immediate future. This is
because the new Soil Conservation
hill has been passed.
What will this new law do-? It
will distribute up toward 500 mil-
lion dollars of Federal money to the
farmers all over the country. It
will pay to a greater number of the
little farmer? than the AAA did,
and it will not pay as big amounts
to the big farmers. This will be on
the basis that these farmers will
withdraw certain specific acres of
their otherwise crop producing
lands from active crop production.
While this law is labeled a “Soil
Conservation” law, yet in fact it is
more, in my judgment an acreage
control law. Of course, these acres
withdrawn from active crop pro
duction will be handled in a way
to increase their fertility, yet the
big object to be accomplished is the
reduction of the fairfui surpiusses
which ruin the farm prices so dis-
astrously. It is in the minds of those
administering the new law tfiat they
will withdraw something like 15,-
000,000 acres from cotton produc-
tion this year, and will withdraw
from 25,000,000 to 30.000,000 acres
as u total from all crop producing
areas.
The net result to the farmers will
Chinese actor, Keye Luke, joins his
father in tracking down one of the
most baffling murder and bond
forgeries ever perpetrated in fic-
tion.
Warner Oland once more contrib-
utes his outstanding talents to the
role of Chan. Preview audiences in
Hollywood are said to have hailed
his latest characterization as the
finest of the series.
Mary Brian heads the supporting
cast and other players are Thomas
Beck, new Fox Film “discovery,”
just imported from the Broadway
stage; Erik Rhodes, John Miljan,
Murray Kinnell, Minor Watson,
John Qualen, Henry Kolker, Doro-
thy Appleby, Ruth Peterson and
Peter Ivins.
John Stone is the producer of
“Charlie Chan in Paris” and Lewis
Seiler handled the direction. Ed-
ward T. Lowe and Stuart Anthony
made the screen adaptation of
Philip MacDonald’s exciting story.
In 1934, the total national income
was about 52 billion dollars, out of
which the farm income was about
&I4 billion dollars.
The per capita income of all the
others, except the farmers, in 1934
was $498, while the per capita, in-
come of the farmers was $183 for
that year.
In other words, the farmers with
much capital invested as any
other group, and working longer
hours, received only 32'a per cent
as much pej^'capita income as the
other % of our people in the United
States, even including the 30,000,-
000, probably, on relief.
In 1926, the total national income
was about 75 billion dollars, while
the farm income was about 814
billions.
In this year the per capita in-
come for all the others; except the
farmers, was $785, while the per
capita for the farmers was $267.
In other words, in 1926, the per
capita farm income was 34 percent
of the average per capita income
of all the other people in the United
income of al! our other people,
while in 1934, even in the depres-
sion year, it was still worse, only
32Vi percent as much per capita as
aJI .the. other people in the United
States.
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HOUSEWORK
WHEN every
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tempt is a burden
—when you are
nervous and irri-
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wit’s end—try
this medicine. It
may be just what
i'-3 you need for extra
energy. Mrs. Charles L. Cadmus of
Trenton, New Jersey, says, "After
doing just a little work 1 had to lie
down. My mother-in-law recom-
mended the Vegetable Compound.
I can see a wonderful change now.”
VECETABLE COMPOUNO
be that they will not only share in
the actual benefit payments direct
from the Federal government, but
it will also mean increased prices
for their crops this year because qf
this reduced acreage.
* • • •
The farmers of the country are
beginning to wake up to the neces-
sity for their getting together and
studying their problems. I wish they
would all keep something of a book-
keeping account of their business,
and would put in cost accounting
systems, in a simple way, so that
they would have an idea of just
how much money they are losing |
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SEE
THE DISPLAY OF—
SPRING DRESS GOODS
White Shoes - Silk Hose
SILK DRESSES
T. R. BRANDON
DRY GOODS — NOTIONS — SHOES AND HATS
P. S-—
Straw Hats for Men, Women, Children
€L€CTRIC RATE
GOES BUT ONE WAY
FIRST STEP
25 KILOWATT HOURS
(MINIMUM BILL
INCLUDED)
TIRED, WORN OUT,
NO AMBITION
TTO W many
It women are
just dragging them-
selve* around, all
tired out with peri-
odic weakness and
pain? They should
km
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'Mrs. Dorsie Williams of Danville,
Illinois, says, “I had no ambition
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JUST A LITTLE more use of
over "the hump” tnd provide yc
And here'* hpw little it coats tc
•nces in the second end third
Toast 10 slices bread.......... lc VaC
Bake 6 waffles............... 2c lc
Make 6 cups coffee;.......... VjC lAe
Wash clothes for 4........... 1 Ac %c
Iron 4 shirts, 10 towels, 2 wash
dresses, 8 hankies, 6 underwear 3 Vic 1 Vic
Mix a cake.................. l/7e 1/14c
Juice 6 oranges.............. 1/J0c l/100c
Roast 2 lbs. meat and 2 vege-
tables ................... 3c 1 Vic
Use heating pad, hour........ 'Ac Vac
Use Study Lamp, hour........ 9/10c 9/20c
Use 73-watt lamp, hour........ Vie Vac
Electricity is certainly your cheapest servant; use it more
freely!
SECOND STEP
Over25
THIRD STEP
Over 50
KWH
IF YOU HflV€ An €L£CTRIC RfKlG€,R€flD THIS•
All figures quoted above are applicable to our regular
Residential Rate. If you have or plan to install an Electric
Range, you can earn an even fthwer cost of operation,
because our Full Residential (range) Rate gives you Elec-
tricity as low as 2c a kilowatt hour for general use and as
low as lc a kilowatt hour for our special water heating
service.
Under the 2c step of the Full Residential Rate, dM
cost of operation of various appliances is one-third lees
than the cost quoted for "Third Step” in the table above.
Oiiiral IViwpi* siml Mglil 4orii|»,*iiiy
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Mrs. J. W. Dismukes and Sons. Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 19, 1936, newspaper, March 19, 1936; Palacios, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth726216/m1/5/: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Palacios Library.