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Show FIRMAGETHEATRE Friday and Saturday More than five thousand steers were used for the spectacular stampede scene in "Drift Fence," the Paramount presentation of the Zane Grey story which comes to the Firmage theatre Friday and Saturday Satur-day with a cast headed by lrry Crabbe, Katherine DeMille, Tom Keene, Benny Baker, Glenn Erik-son, Erik-son, Stanley Andrews, Effie Ells-ler Ells-ler and Jan Duggan. The panic-stricken panic-stricken cattle, urged by several hundred cowboys, charge and break down a fence, stretching a mile and a half, in a break for freedom. This stampede precipitates the stirring pistol duel between cattle rosUers and a Texas Ranger, which furnishes fur-nishes the climax of the picture. "It's a Great Life," ii story of the C C C camps is the second part of the double feature program. Sunday and Monday Leading stars of each decade of motion picture history have played in the American classic, "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine." It was first produced in 1915 by Cecil B. DeMille. The second production was directed by Charles Maigne and was released in 1922. The third, modernized, in Technicolor, comes to the Firmage theatre Sunday and Monday, with a cast headed by Sylvia Sidney, Fred MacMurray and Henry Fonda. In this dramatization of a feud in the Blue Ridge mountains, the leading part of June Tolliver was first played by Charlotte Walker who created the role on the stage. Mary Miles Minter was the second June and Sylvia Sidney is the new one. Hale, the engineer, was successively suc-cessively enacted . by" . .Thomas Meighn, Antonio Moreno and Fred MacMurray. Dave, the mountaineer, mountain-eer, was played by; Earl Foxe, Cul-len Cul-len Tate and now by Henry Fonda. The role, of Devil Judd Toliver was played by Theodore Roberts, then by Ernest Torrence and now by Fred Stone. There will also be the cartoon "The Runt" and Movietone Movie-tone news, with -no advance, in prices. - ; Tuesday and Wednesday Edward Everett Horton and Peggy Conklin head the cast of "Her Masters Voice," coming Tuesday Tues-day and Wednesday to the Firmage theatre. This is Miss Conklin's second screen role. After making her motion picture debut last year in "The President Vanishes," she returned to New York to play the feminine lead in "The Petrified Forest" with Leslie Howard. This I adaptation of Clare Krummer's comedy deals with -.the adventures of a henpecked husband who finally final-ly breaks loose and becomes a radio crooner and national woman's idol. It was directed by Joseph Santley. Chapter three of "The New Adventures of Tarzan" will also be shown. In addition to the picture program we are proud to present Rue Tyler's "Rhythm Kids", a troupe of musical and dancing children that have performed per-formed for the movies and for theatres where only the best talent is accepted. It is a stage program you will thoroughly enjoy. Don't miss this. Admission will be 15 and 35 cents. Thursday How high a musical note is necessary nec-essary to shatter a small vial of glass ? This was the strange question ques-tion put up to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer sound engineers, and they discovered that "D" in the octave above middle "C" did the trick. This odd vocal feat had to be accomplished ac-complished by Leo Carrillo, playing play-ing the opera tenor in "Moonlight Murder" in which the singer's voice breaks a glass vial concealed is a microphone. The new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer operatic detective story comes to the Firmage theatre Thursday. The new picture, pic-ture, in which Chester Morris and Madge Evans head the cast, was directed by Edwin L. Marin from a story by Albert Cohen and Robert Rob-ert T. Shannon, with screen play by Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf. There will also be selected short subjects. |