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Show nLivestoclc VICTORY JHEATRE Drama . . . pathos . . . human interest inter-est . . . and a fair sprinkling of wholesome whole-some humor all these are to be found in the new picture, "Straight Is the Way" which comes to the Victory Vic-tory theatre as part of the double bill for Friday and Saturday of this week. Franchot Tone tops the cast with his portrayal of Benny, the boy just out of prison. May Robson, as the aging mother who fears the return re-turn of her boy to his old habits, gives a wonderful performance. Gladys George, recently of the New York stage, makes her screen debut as Shirley the girl who tries, but fails, to win back Benny's love. She brings a new type of "vamp" to the screen. Karen Morley, after a too-long too-long absence from pictures makes a triumphant return as Bertha, the girl who has been faithful to Benny through his long imprisonment. Other good performances are contributed by Jack LaRue, C. Henry Gordon, Raymond Hatton and William Bake-well. Bake-well. A new type of excitement and plot is brought to the screen by RKO-Radio's RKO-Radio's comedy-drama, "Gridiron Flash", featuring Eddie Quilan and Betty Furness. It is a gripping story of a young bank robber, who, against his will, is turned loose on a college campus to play football and become a gridiron hero for "good old Belford College." Tense excitement develops as the youngster coldly plans to clear out a safe and depart for distant places. Eventually, as the suspense mounts, the boy is recreated by college col-lege spirit, the affection of his teammates team-mates and the heart-throbs of a pre-championship pre-championship game rally. He is also "victimized" by Cupid's dart. Guil-lian Guil-lian and Furness are supported by a cast including Grant Mitchell, Lucien Littlefield, Edgar Kennedy and Grady Sutton. Three Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award winners head the cast of "The Barretts of Wimpole Street," to be shown Sunday, Sun-day, Monday and Tuesday at the Victory Vic-tory theatre. Norma Shearer, in the role of the poet Elizabeth, is starred opposite Fredric March, as the ardent Robert Browning the same team which broke all records in "Smilin' Through." Charles Laughton, most recent Academy Award winner, appears ap-pears in the grim and powerful role of the elder Barrett, his first American Ameri-can picture since the international hit, "Henry the Eighth." Sidney Franklin, director of many of Miss Shearer's greatest successes, including includ-ing "Smilin' Through," was the genius behind the megaphone in filming film-ing the famous stage play. The supporting sup-porting cast is equally extraordinary. Maureen O'Sullivan, last seen in "Tarzan and His Mate," plays the rebellious sister Henrietta, enamored, in spite of her grim father's protestations, protes-tations, of the gallant Captain Cook, the part played by Ralph Forbes. Una O'Connor who scored heavily in her first American picture, "Cavalcade" "Caval-cade" is the demure and faithful Wilson, Norma Shearer's maid. Katharine Alexander, Broadways stage favorite, appears in -her most important film part to date, that of Arabel,.the poetess' repressed sister. Marion Clapton, a comparative newcomer new-comer to the screen, makes a graceful bid to fame in the important role of Bella, mid-Victorian flirt. Leo G. Carroll and Ferdinand Manier, both well known actors, interpret the roles of the two specialists, Dr. Ford-Waterlow Ford-Waterlow and Dr. Clayton. Other well known stars harve important ' Lo3 Angeles, December 10, 1934 Revival of the old English custom of a prime roast of beef for the Christmas Christ-mas holidays is becoming more pronounced pro-nounced in Los Angeles. I don't know whether this is true in other sections of the country or not but it is certain that in southern California, the meat distributors have been very successful in featuring choice beef during the Christmas holiday period. Many of the prime cuts of beef from the long-fed steers exhibited at the recent great western livestock show will grace the tables of southern California citizens on Christmas day. Probably this is an economic development, de-velopment, due to the smaller number num-ber persons gatherec. around the dinner din-ner table these days. There is practically practi-cally no waste in a prime roast- of beef and the cost can be held down to an amount the small family can well afford to pay. Prime beef offers a delicious and appetizing basis for j holiday dinner. I Speaking of prime cattle, it is interesting to note that the grand champion carload of steers yielded 68.24 per cent beef a world record dressing percentage for a load of cattle, as far as I can learn. These cattle were Herefords bred in California Califor-nia and fattened entirely upon Cali-; Cali-; fornia grown feeds, j I believe that the day is coming when all beef sold in large cities will be graded and stamped for quality and the proof of the ability of western west-ern breeders and western feeders to produce the choicest beef may be ex-: Ipected to be of immense value in development de-velopment of the cattle industry. There is almost . no limit to the ; amount of barley and other satisfactory satis-factory livestock feeds that can be 1 produced in the west. Livestock feeding feed-ing may be expected to become a j great industry throughout the west-lern west-lern states to supplement the already jvast livestock business on western I ranges and pastures. J Probably we are not yet ready for government grading and stamping of beef for quality for livestock finishing finish-ing on grain is still in its infancy in i the west. But it has been demonstrated demon-strated that the west can produce the 1 choicest beef. The encouragement I given western beef finishers by the j packers catering to the Christmas i holiday period is another step towards to-wards building up the cattle feeding business, with its promised outlet for western grains, forage and other feed products. parts. . Dramatization of a vivid page torn from history, it is the story of the love of two poets, Elizabeth Barrett Bar-rett and Robert. Browning a love nearly frustrated by her demoniacal lather. A brand-new, popular, starring combination comes to the screen in Paramount's "She Loves Me Not," the film version of the smash Broadway Broad-way success. The . picture comes to the Victory Wednesday-and Thursday of next week, with Bing Crosby and Miriam Hopkins in the principal roles. Acting the role of a love-sick, chivalrous Princeton student, Crosby sings and woos his way to the great romance with the daughter of the university dean, after Miriam Hop-jkins, Hop-jkins, as the madcap, flamboyant little night-club dancer, enters his life, and leaves him a sadde but wiser college lad. A distinguished cast including in-cluding Warren Hymer, Lynne Overman, Over-man, Judith Allen, George Barbier and Vince Barrett, support Crosby and Miss Hopkins. "She Loves Me Not" also features several brand new tunes by Rainger and Robin, and Gordon and Revel and a number of duets' by Crosby and Miss Carlisle. |