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Show FiRMAGEJHEATRE Friday and Saturday A renowned episode of the American colonial period is unreeled unreel-ed in the historic adventure picture, pic-ture, "Daniel Boone," which comes to the Firmage theatre Friday and Saturday. George O'Brien is cast in the title role, this being the first in a series of films of frontier heroes in which George A. Hirli-man Hirli-man will present this well-known star of out-door melodrama. In "Daniel Boone" the purpose is to bring to theatregoers in authentic form the conditions which surrounded sur-rounded the settlers of this country when they were pushing forward the pathway of civilization. This episode in the life of Boone, greatest great-est of frontiermen, revolves about the period of 1775, when the settlers set-tlers in the eastern colonies were looking toward the western horizon. hori-zon. They wanted newer and more fertile lands, and had visions of founding a new empire in which they would be the dominant factors. fac-tors. George O'Brien is supported j by Heather Ar.ge!, John Carradine. 1 P.alph Forbes, Clarence Muse and others. "Horse Power in Action" and a tabloid mimical also will be shown. 1 I ! j Sunday and Monday ' William Powell attains the uis-! j tmction of being a butler for the j nuttiest family in the whole coun-try coun-try in the romantic Universal comedy, "My Man Godfrey," which comes to the Firmage theatre Sun-: day and Monday. The charming,; talented Carole Lombard is co- j starred with him in the screen offering, of-fering, which was taken from ' Eric Hatch's sparkling, mirth-stirring mirth-stirring novel of the same name. The screen narrative reveals Powell as a "forgotten man", being brought Co a very ritzy party by Carole Lombard, so that she may win first prize in a scavenger j hunt. Then she engages Powell as i the butler and the fun takes on a ! madder race. Others in the cast include Alice Brady, Gail Patrick, Jean Dixon, Eugene Pallette, and Alen Mowbray. "Musical Memories" Memo-ries" and a Movietone news also will be shown. Tuesday and Wednesday His back to the wall, a knife at his throat, the world's slyest sleuth, Charlie Chan, battles for his life in the most thrilling and exciting of the Twentieth Century-Fox Century-Fox adventures of the wily Chinese Chin-ese detective, "Oharlie Chan at the Opera." coming to the Firmage j theatre Tuesday and Wednesday.! W arner Oland, of course, portrays j t'.u- arch-enemy of crime, with ; Boris Karloff co-starred as the! king of terror, in what is promised as the most chilling and thrilling mystery Chan has ever encountered. encounter-ed. With Keye Luke, Charlotte Henry, Thomas Beck and Margaret Irving featured, the film starts off in a roar of high tension excite- j ment that reaches a spine-tingling j climax in a crescendi of thrilling! events. Chapter three of "Secret ' Agent X19", a travelogue and an Oswald cartoon also will be shown. Thursday I Sinners Take All", detective j mystery which brings a new lead- j ing man to the screen in the per-! son of Bruce Cabot, featured with: .Margaret Lindsay and Joseph Cal-leia, Cal-leia, is the attraction coming to the Firmage theatre Thursday only. The new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer j picture deals with a newspaper re- j i.oi ter who solves a strange series ; of murders and a plot menacing an j heiress. Its local is New York. ; Penthouses and newspaper offices.; night clubs, police stations, are I among the locals. Three selected j short subjects also will be shown, j |