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Show nRMAGEJTHEATRE Friday and Saturday The primary secret of W. C. Fields' success, he reveals, is the fact that his featured antics are pantomimic. A good example of the Paramount comedian's statement state-ment can be found in the role lie p'Jays in his lattst comedy, "Man on the Fl in? Trapeze," which comes to the Firmage theatre Friday Fri-day and Saturday, and in which a goodly portion of his most amusing amus-ing experiences are committed in true Fieldian style, aided and abetted with typical Fieldian pronouncements. pro-nouncements. "If a comedian's pantomime is good," asserts Fields, "dialogue is of little consequence, conse-quence, for the audience is already laughing and paying little attention atten-tion to the words. If the pantomime panto-mime is bad, even the best of dialogue won't save the situation." How Hopalong got his nickname and who gave it to him is shown in the first Clarence E. Mulford western to come to the screen, "Hopalong Cassidy," a Paramount release featuring William Boyd, Jimmy Ellison and Paula Stone, which comes to the Firmage theatre thea-tre as the second part of the Friday Fri-day and Saturday double feature program. The nickname was given to Mulford's favorite cowboy cow-boy character, Bill Cassidy, by the author in one of his many books, when Cassidy receives a leg wound in a shooting scrape that forces him to limp or hop along thereafter. There will also be a Fox newsreel. Wednesday and Thursday Throbbing human emotions are blended in a symphony of love and drama in "Break of Hearts" which brings together on the screen for the first time the faci-nating faci-nating Katharine Hepburn and the dashing Charles Boyer. Love, glorified through sacrifice, is the theme of the story, which runs' the scale from laughter to tears in inspiring harmonies. This film which conies to the Firmage theatre thea-tre Wednesday and Thursday, tells the story of a young composer com-poser who marries a great orchestra orches-tra leader but leaves him through pride when she believes her love is only an incident in his cereer. Later they botlrcome to the realization reali-zation that " their love for each other is the only worthwhile thing in their lives. Masterful direction is supplied by Philip Moeller, noted New York Theatre Guild director and by Jane Loring. The last episode of "Roaring- West" and the first chapter of the new serial "The Great Air ' Mystery," featuring Tailspin Tommy of the comics, along with a short subject will also be shown. |