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Show Friday, December 21. 6 T A GE S SCREEN - AMUSEMENTS - For quality merchandise of the Sahara desert is able by and prices, read The Posts ads.880"' France owned by Spain. John Cromwell, Paramount director The first savings bank in the Unit-xn and actor, is six feet and two and . States was started in New York EGYITIAN Now playing, Gertrude Olmstead in The Hit of the Show; ed half inches tall. 1810. RolSunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Sue Carroll and David lins in The Aiu Circus. OGDEN Now playing, Harry Carey in Burning Bridges; Sunday and One Monday, Ronald Coleman and Vilma Banky in Two Lovers. Ken A1 Maynard Hoxie in The Lost Trail; Sunday, LYCEUM Saturday, in A Canyon of Adventure; Monday, Monte Banks in Flying Luck; Tuesday, Bobby Agnew, Pauline Caron ad Ben Turpin in The College Hero; Wednesday, Jacqueline Logan and Clive Brook in Midnight Madness; Thursday, George Sidney and Charles Murray in Flying Romeos; Friday, Raymond Griffith in Time to Love. Nell Uttle and his Jolly Jesters. Dancing TuesWHITE CITY GARDENS r day, Thursday and Saturday. WHAT'S GOING ON Finnic which 0011,68 to lhc Eyptan Ain Tin? 2llii LillLUo theatre Sunday for a run of four days, is a picture taken in the air; and the main actors, David Rollins, Arthur Iake and Sue Carol, travelled a distance of 50,000 miles while making the picture. The picture is very interesting and shows many thrills throughout the whole show. iilu lm Three-fifth- s two-fift- hs Year to Another Best Wishes From to Our Friends in Utah! wNTEcrnr African Jungle Built In Studio for Picture The mountain Would not come to Mahomet so Mahomet went to the mountain. Reversing the procedure, the De Mills company which filmed Midnight Madness, could not visit the African jungle, so they brought the jungle to the studio. One of the big stages on the Dc Millc lot was entirely given over to reproduction of a section of African jungle. A log cabin was built on the outskirts of the dense thicket of trees and foliage peculiar to the jungle, r l Fox Picture By the time the trio of young players who played the leading roles in The Air Circus, which starts at the Egyptian theatre Sunday, had finished this production for Fox Films, they had traveled a distance equal to circling the globe four times. Which is, in a manner of speaking, 60,000 miles. Not that 60,000 miles ordinarily meana anything more than 50,000 miles. No one can ever get all wrapped up in mileage for its own sake. But in this case the distance traversed can be roughly translated into 50,000 thrills. And there, youll admit, one has something. For David Rollins, Sue Carol and Arthur Lake easily got that amount of stimulus out of it as they swooped and spun and careened over the aviation ground at Clover Field, Hollywood. Perhaps if they hadnt learned to fly themselves for this picture they wouldn't have had those delightful prickles up and down the spine. No player could get so much relish out of it if a hidden pilot were handling the controls while he was dramatically having some of life's biggest moments up in the ozone. But in the case of The Air Circus it was decided to have tho youngsters actually learn how to paddle their own sky canoes. They were so directed. The youngsters took to it like ducks to water or rather, like gulls to the air. Curiously enough, the two boys reversed the characters they were sup- impersonate in the air. Young Eised to who was to play a youth considerably daunted by flying, soonied up on his first trips with an instructor exhibiting the utmost confidence and without giving any last message. Young Lake, who was to portray a lad always cocksure in the clouds, in the beginning was not a little doubtful about the reliability of those clouds as landing placeB. tatcr, however, like Rollins, he developed into a steady, skillful navigator of the atmosphere, and after a month's training Howard Hawks and Lew Seiler pronounced them both a couple of naturals of the sky places. As for Sue Carol well, she just purred like a kitten over her first chance at flying. Hawks, who was an observer with of much time and expense. Many tons of earth covered the floor of the stage. Much of the action of Midnight Madness is laid in this wild African locale, while the remainder is distributed between the most colorful districts of a Metropolitan city and the little world of an ocean steamer. Jacqueline Logan and Clive Brook have the leading roles in Midnight Madness," which comes to the Lyceum theatre on Wednesday next. Walter McGrail, James Bradbury, Sr., Virginia Sale, Lou is Natheaux and Clarence Burton also play important Monday Nile, 11:00 P. M. A Barrel of Fun Admission 50c SEE! SEE! SEE! and David Rollins inTfte AirCircusr SutL-Caro- MIDNIGHT FROLIC Blazing Thrills of Life on Broadwav ! the army during the war, took them on long trips, over land and sea, to San Bernardino and other distant places, hunting the cloud banks to make a proper background for their aerial capers. Sometimes they skimmed along for endless miles not five feet above the calm Pacific ocean. Then again he would suddenly shoot them up almost perpendicularly into the air to clear a hilly range. Or they would abruptly drop in an air pocket, with the strut wires singing a weird dirge. And all the youngsters were so enchanted with this new game that they swore a great oath to buy their own planes as soon as they had finished standing on their heads for The Air Directed by RALPH INCE Thrilling drama of the street that never sleeps. Ralph Ince, master director, tears away the curtains of make-belieand shows the world of the stage in all its pulsing vigor! Featuring Gertrude Olmstead, Joe Brown, Gertrude Astor and a Big Cast! Circus. ve ADDED New Mack Scnnett Comedy, Motor Boat Mammas Fox News Halliday at the Wurlitzer Regular Prices! wmm Today and LMLi2scriHCES MERRY XMAS Saturday Two Pianos MELL LITTLES BAND Two Ballrooms Two Check Rooms - 3Z PPTfflN Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! A SUNDAY STARTS A Great Christmas Week Bill! THRILLER OF THE AIR! THREE-RIN- G wm WILLIAM IllBSKXT FREE Tickets imo, LOVSBS for tho i afRSD NI6L0 Air Circus PRODUCTION From M, MHl Bonntf Onsy UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE FOtlnrfacl Well drop them from the sky on Saturday! 3 a Playing Sunday and Monday Hi 0GDEN Watch for Them! Adults, 15c;; Kiddies, 10c. i n I i V. ft JOHN SMALLEY SPECIAL CHRISTMAS BARGAINS! Gents 12 Size Elgin or Waltham. Beautiful White Cases. The Very latest. Kfr Story by GRAHAM BAKER - fif' Directed by ed HOWARD HAWKS mi LEW SEILER Gold-Fille- d 18.75 Added Feature and 519.75 Just a Few Left! 336 3 Twenty-fift- h A idi & Note the Address: Street, Between KiescI and Grant ? i t -- 'i t 1 V aV ,M r A T a if On the Stage MELL LITTLE AND IIIS BAND in a Special Air Circus Prologue. Sec oung America learning to fly-so- aring to the clouds, plunging to the earth. Sec the breathless double parachute jump. Sec tho crashes of miraculous escapes. It s all in the speed-pictu- planes, the of love and aviation TIIE AIR CIRCUS re A $2.00 Attraction in New York! w in - ' Vi Shows at 2 3:45 COME EARLY, 579 PLEASE! Prices Here: Matinees, 30c; Nights, 40c; Kiddies, . - 10c I |