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Show "CATERPILLAR" TRACTOR TAKES PLACE AS STAR A new star has appeared in the movies. That star is none other than the "Caterpillar" tractor. It all happened like this: Recently Re-cently Warner Bros, purchased the movie rights from Author William Hazlett Upson covering those side-splitting adventures of the "natural-born" tractor salesman, sales-man, Alexander Botts, which have featured a famous weekly magazine maga-zine for several years. Joe E.; Brown, the cavernous comedian, was perfectly cast in the starring role of Alexander Botts. June Travis and Carol Hughes furnished furn-ished the love interest. Guy Kib-bee Kib-bee was assigned the role of the reluctant and often rebellious prospect. But the title role was still un-assigned. un-assigned. What machines were to I be selected to play the part of "Earthworm tractors?" . 4-fter .a, : careful survey, the products of Caterpillar Tractor Co., were selected se-lected for the part and since the picture was to be up-to-the-minute in every respect the company's latest Diesel models were chosen One machine of a much earlier vintage was used in the film. It was a veteran tractor manufactured manu-factured in 1914 that was stilt in daily service after 22 years on a ranch near Hollywood. The machine ma-chine was rented for the production produc-tion and the owner is now proudly displaying it as the tractor that was a co-star in Joe E. Brown's latest laugh sensation which will be shown at the Rivoli theater here August 21 and 22. During the progress of the film the tractors were called, upon to perform some of the most dangerous danger-ous and gruelling feats in machinery mach-inery annals. Demolishing a railroad rail-road station, running wild through a Mississippi swamp, climbing mountain cliffs, crashing over automobiles and scampering across town with the prospect's residence in tow are but a few of the stunts that have caused critics crit-ics to acclaim "Earthworm Tractors' Trac-tors' 'as the most thrilling, as well as the funniest, of all Joe E. Brown's films. |