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Show Scouts Sponsor Feature Picture Manager Roy Firmage of the local Firmage theatre has booked "Drum Taps," featuring Ken May-nard, May-nard, Dorothy Dix and the wonder horse Tarzan as the special picture for Friday and Saturday nights of this week, the proceeds of which are to be split with the Milford Boy Scouts as a means of raising money with which to pay transportation trans-portation costs to the regional camp at Navajo lake- The Scouts have been busy selling tickets and it is hoped that the response of the public will be generous. "Drum Taps" has many novel angles to recommend it. Being a thrilling outdoor drama, it has its full quota of great horsemanship, keen hand-to-hand tussles, last-minute last-minute rescues and the participation partici-pation of a full Boy Scout troop, who enter the story in the beginning begin-ning and play a dominant role in the unfolding of the narrative. The story it keeps the audience keenly interested in the- succession of dramatic sequences concerns the efforts of Ken Cartwright (Ken Maynard) in ridding the territory ter-ritory of a band of land-grabbers, depriving homesteaders of their claims by compulsion. The gang is powerful and resourceful, and Ken is able to prove his innocence when he is framed as a cattle-rustler cattle-rustler only by taking desperate measures. The Boy Scouts are shown going through many of i their interesting maneuvers in the course of the picture, and their help in rounding up the gang of crooks will be widly applauded. In I addition to Ken Maynard in the stellar role, there is also his fa-I fa-I (Continued on page 5) o FIMAGETHEATRE ; (Continued" from first page.) J mous white horse, "Tarzun," with a new lot of tricks- On the roster, of players we find Dorothy Dix, in the only feminine role; Junior Coglan, boy star; and Kermit Maynard, Ken's brother, whoj makes his screen debut in this pjc-; ture. In addition to this great picture here will be a good comedy, a news reel, and another ! of the See America First series entitled, "Remember the Alamo." "Kid Millions," Eddie Cantor's fifth annual screen musical extra-vanganza extra-vanganza for Samuel Golilwyn, brings the pop-eyed comedian to the screen of the Firmage theatre Sunday, Monday and Tuesday as a boy Cinderella of the Brooklyn waterfront who becomes the heir ! to a fortune in buried treasure in the land of the Pyramids. Ann j Sothern, Ethel Merman, Block and ' Sully, George Murphy and this season's crop of Goldwyn girls prance along the Nile with Eddie in this fast-paced tuneful tale of adventure in the harem of the Sheik and the tombs of his father. Among the amazing settings arei a fantastic ice cream factory, three huge "contented cows" which moo. and nod and swish their tails while ! lovely Goldwyn girls as milk ! , maids sing and dance for them; ajj gigantic ice cream freezer on the ! top of which an ice skating ballet ji of thirty beautiful girls is staged; jj a free ice cream counter where j j 500 youngsters are served ice ; j cream to the rhythm of the new II Kahn and Donaldson song hit, and j a row of truly colossal ice cream I sodas, each of which is thirty feet high. The technical ingenuity which made these settings possible ! is a dcreaDfeete p epmaidsaukTh j is a splendid tribute to the imagin-i! ative genius of studio artisans, j Spring's balmy breezes make balmy the characters of "Spring Tonic", the farcical Fox Film comedy coming Wednesday and Thursday to the Firmage theatre. The elements of this merry piling up of escapades are a tiger on the loose, a goofy newspaper reporter, j a guitar-player Romeo, a bored heiress who bolts her wedding rehearsal, re-hearsal, and a conventional gilded youth ignorant of the first princi-l pies of love-making. Lew Ayres ; plays the inexpert sweetheart who j accidentally gets a post-graduate course in courtship while watching; Walter King, as the torrid troubadour, trouba-dour, croon himself into a girl's heart. Claire Trevor is the heiress heir-ess hot-footing it for romance. ZaSu Pitts is her maid-in-waiting and trouble. Jack Haley, eccentric eccen-tric funster, enacts the scandal-sniffing scandal-sniffing reporter; exotic Tala Birell the tiger tamer, Siegfried Rumann a hotel guard, and the comedy team of Mitchell and Du-rant, Du-rant, a couple of moonshiners never still. |