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Show Edith Fellows' Song Debut In "Little Miss Roughneck" o 1 F ' - "y p... - jgi EDITH FELLOWS "Little Miss Roughneck", In the person of that irascible screen brat, Edith Fellows, will provide the piece de resistance of this week's new screen arrivals when it opens today at the Roxy Theatre. Thea-tre. Edith is the slight, dark haired, hair-ed, 14-year old dynamo who was the bane of Melvyn Douglas existence ex-istence in "She Married Her Boss" and who sent Bing Crosby scurrying scurry-ing into romance in "Pennies From Heaven." As a result of her deft 'comic trouping in these forme? for-me? films she was rewarded with her first important featured role, that of the impossibly impertinent screen-struck child star, Foxine LaRue, in "Little Miss Roughneck.' Rough-neck.' To everyone's gratifying amazement amaze-ment Miss Fellows revealed a singing versatility and perfection that is now being touted as the film's chief highlight. As Hollywood Holly-wood so subtly puts it, she's a "surprise sensation." Produced from a screen play by Fred Niblo, Jr., Grace Neville and Michael L. Simmons, "Little Miss Roughneck" traces the wild car-'eer car-'eer of little Foxine LaRue, whose doting, insufferable mama hopes will someday out-Temple Temple. When Foxines wild-eyed antics get her in hot water with studio officials, she decides on a harrowing har-rowing idea. She runs off in hte dead of night, after disarrangirig her room and leaving a "ransom note." Her midnight Odyssey takes' her several hundred miles from' Hollywood to the mountain cabin of PascuaL a Mexican, played by Leo Carrillo. The fibbing little actress tells her new host of the terrors and horrors experienced in the orphans orph-ans home from which she had just "escaped," and is accepted with the warest feeling. The kid-nap-scare continues on its turbulent tur-bulent course, winding up in a near-lynching and a blaze of glory for the beaming Edith. j Miss Fellows singing prowess I will be introduced to movie audi-j ences with such numbers as, Asj Long as I Love, La Golondrina, I The Wren, and Caro Nome. I 1 birthday anniversary. Covers were laid for Mr. and Mrs. Poppleton, Mr. and Mrs. David Hall, Mr. and Mrs. Reginai Barnes, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Jones and Mr. and Mrs. Pitman. Beano was played after dinner. Mrs. Poppleton was presented with a beautiful birthday birth-day cake. Miss Edith Jones spent the week end here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Jones. Mrs. FarreU Parker was pleasantly pleas-antly surprised at her home on Monday evening. The occasion being be-ing her birthday anniversary. Cards social chat and) a lovely luncheon were enjoyed by the guest of honor and Mesdames Mary J. Parker, Margaret Parker, Mary G. Parker, Leora Parker, Ruth Parker, Ida Parker, lone Parker Jane Jones, Martha M. Glenn, Mary H. Glenn, Chris-tena Chris-tena P. Glenn, Clora Stuart, Sarah Reese, Sarah Bradley, Ida Bair and Isabell Baugh of Logan. She received several beautiful gifts. |