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Show Friday, March 25, THE OGDEN POST T H EATRE-- Stage Screen Europe Through the Eyes of a Humorist RAMS G Amusements Hal Roach Finds Girl Utah Girl Scores Great Hit In The of Lost Photo and Belle of Broadway, Which Conies Gives Her Contract to Egyptian Theatre Next Sunday Miss Viola Richards has been l posi-- ively identified as the beautiful girl whose photograph, after having been itory. and ia satisfied with the artistic enwemble, and the skillful portrayal of ound at the Hal Roach studios and vivacity, pathos, romance and other irought to the attention of Roach, human interest qualities. was published in the Lds The production, according to reports, himself, Examiner, with a request Angeles which in has a pleasing vein of comedy the that her because a public the noted character actor, Tom screen contract identify wmmrn awaited her. Ricketts, plays a prominent part Alto True his the promise, bert Koccardi, Armand Kalis, Edith rave Miss Richards a five-ye- producer conYorke, Wilfrid North, Edward Warto appear in his comedies. She tact ren, Edward Kipling and Auguste ex- will, under this contract, be seen with compose the balance of an such popular funmakers as Charley cellent cast. Betty Compson is playing in this she production, the best role that Miss has had since "The Miracle Man.," a high class Compson is actress who responds to the requirements of difficult roles The role of Marie Duval which she plays in this picture is broad in its demands', and colorful in its moods. ar Tol-lai- re You Will pre-eminen- tly Thrill ! "The Belle of Broadway, a Columbia Picturea film feature baaed on the Broadway stage success, "Adele, which will open at the Egyptian theatre on Sunday, presents Betty Comp-wthe Utah girl who has made such a rise in motion pictures, as the star of the production and Herbert Raw ' 'i hnson as leading man. Thoae who have seen this picture " Av 'A- ' v S say that it has few equals among enreju'i': tertaining screen dramas.' The venation angle in which a beautiful actress discovers for herself the secret dif"Europe ia a swell plare, says Will Rogers, "poet lariat, philosopher of perpetual youth, is treated in a The before. ever than are It for and ferent way ambassador. "The onlf requirements enjoying that you havent seen America. imagination suffers no strain in fol lowing the consistently constructed town home by "Well, folks, said Rogers, "Mrs. erley Hills, Wills Besant didnt bring her Messiah, but adoption, decided that Mister Rogers famous first citizen if he was going Mrs. Rogers brought hers and here had been doing altogether too much off to Europe all the time and then to suit coming home by way of Chicago, Dalg I am. gallivanting and To make a long story short, Bev them. What was the use of having a las, Denver and' a thousand other points west, east, south and north? And so the good people of Beverley Hills decided to corral this wayward son of theirs in a way that would make him stay home at least a couple of days a year. After a great deal of thought, they elected him mayor without even consulting Mister Rogers as to whether or not he wanted to be IN mayor. But they elected him just the same, and Will just had to go DIRECT PROM MUSIC BOX,NCW YORK You cant be mayor of your home. PLAYING ITS IN NOW home town and stay away forever. V& BIG YEA But just to prove how smart he is. Will told them what a swell idea it was to have an absentee mayor. He said his idea of a good mayor would be Charlie Chaplin you could never find him! He also said that Beverley Hills is a swell place. Already, according to Will, there's two swimming pools in the place to every Bible. While over in Europe, Rogers found he was only making fifty or sixty thousand dollars a day for his stuff in the newspapers and the Saturday it Evening Post, and anyone knows an takes a lot more than that for American to live in Europe these days. The Europeans have to pay off those war debts some time, and American tourists might as well pay them as anybody. Well, along with his many other HELEN BOLTON lariat titles, among them being poetman in of America and the "funniest the world, Will Rogers is now a aQjPr mayor. No longer will the sage of AvVUIUICES: $2.75, $2.20, $1.65, $1.10, including tax. Cluremore, Oklahoma, be addressed as From now on he's "Mister. MAIL ORDERS NOW the Mayor of Beverley Hills, SEAT SALE FRIDAY, APRIL 1st California, and maybe the bailiwick will be the lot of him so bold as to a (Not Moving Picture) address the worthy Will in any less respectful fashion. Some men run for mayor, others buy enough votes to assure their election, but Will is perhaps the first member of the body politic to have an mayoralty thrust upon him. d Returning from his as the to Europe journey Ambassador to President Coolidge, Rogers toured the country in the style to which he has long been accustomed that is, playing to packed houses RUGGED WATER wherever he felt the urge to stop a while and give the folks the latest A Paramount picture featuring Lois Wilson, Wallace dope on Mussolini, the Prince of Wales Beery, Warner Baxter and Phyllis Haver. and all the rest of Europe, including the Scandanavian. It's been so long PEACEFUL OSCAR since people didn't jam tho place to hear him talk that Rogers has forAn Educational Comedy. gotten what the back of a theatre chair looks like. And some of those theatres, or auditoriums as they call them out West, arent exactly small. One of them was so big he told the CARGO crowd they must have put a roof on A rousing romance-thrille- r of California in the gold the ball park. In one town, Rogers blew in just Pauline with A 49. Paramount of rush days picture behind Mrs. Besant, sponsor for Adams. William and Clarie Collier, Jr., Stark, the New Messiah from India. But she didn't bring her protege with her. She should have. It was just HOLD STILL the opening Rogers needed to introIsi the Comedy. duce himself once more to his old friends in the community. And so it came about that Will thought up the bright idea of making a movie of his Grand Tour. Everywhere he went a movie camera went with him. He "shot everything he Sullivan. Starring Billy saw and he saw plenty. These shots have been assembled in a series of SANS MADAME twelve short pictures, known under A Hal Roach Comedy with Glenn Tryon. the general title of "Will Rogers. Our Unofficial Ambassador, Abroad." C. S. Clancy is presenting them through Pathe. Rogers is certainly a genius. In ROONEY LITTLE Dublin he "shot the president of the Irish Free State without starting a With Mary Pickford. fight. That's the first time anybody lever shot an Irishman and got away CLOSE SHAVE with it. He also reviewed Ireland's An Educational Comedy. , little army. Will says the Irish have fought in every war on both sides. BARDLEYS THE MAGNIFICENT, Next Week Some day, he says, they'll combine and lick the world. The subtitles are With John Gilbert. Rogers all over. They ought to be. He wrote them. Starts Thursday , March 31 Roy Stewart in General Custer at Little Big Horn SUNDAY Ernest Torrence and : Clara Bow in Mantrap Its a Faramount. self-appoint- ed MONDAY .Warner Baxter and Esther Ralston in globe-trottin- Best People Its a Paramount ORPHEUM April 5 and 6 FUNNIEST SHOW re-b- SATURDAY n, 3hi Chase, Stan Laurel, Martha sWi. Wampas Baby Star; Max Iiavid' son, Oliver Hardy, James Fin!avon and other comedians. Miss Richards U native of Buf falo. New York, and hos been ;n H0j' lywood only a few months, tryi-- g .. secure a foothold on the ladder of screen fame. Roach found that she was already under contract to jaev Sherrill, a manager, but arranguju-"- . were immediately completed so that the producer took over the agreement. It was while at the Hal Roach studioi a few days ago, closing a deal wn. y Agnes Ayres is now making a comedy there under the direction c.f L, McCarey, that Sherrill accidentally dropped the photograph which sneiled a rosy future for the charming oune lady. 1927 Lyceum Theater Bctttj Compson V-- 1927 TUESDAY Geo. OHara in Timid Terror 25 YEARS WEDNESDAY . Laura La Plante in Her Big Night ' THURSDAY Jetta Goudal in Paris at Midnight FRIDAY Betty Compson and Ricardo Cortez in The Pony Express Its a Paramount. The greatest gooseflesh-producin- g screen drama in years. By Somers Roche Arthur master of detective fiction. An Ogden. 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