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Show Tourists See Home Pictures in Small Towns in Brazil . IUO GRANDE no SUL, Braill, Nov. fi. (By The Associated Tress ) -An American visiting small towns in Bra- il can easily gratify his desire for home scenery Whatever the place, ' larpc or small, he is sure fo find on j ine main suerr m ipasi on'- uinvinu picture thealre and never fails to see there an American production, in fact, seldom anything else- The Associated Press correspondent had occasion to make a trip on a Bra zlhan coastwise steamer which made stops at the ports of Paranapua, San Francisco do SUl, Klorianopolis and Rio Grande, the latter belnp the larp est with about H.ooo inhabitants. In these typical towns, as in the smaller communities of the I'nited States, the movinp picture seems to be the chief source of eveninp entertainment. Adorninp the foyers of the theatres are always fo be soon posters and pho-tographl pho-tographl of well known American movinp picture s'ars. sent from the United States with the film and with the captions still In English- These are usually supplemented, however, by a brilliant poster done in hand by a local artist wbh Portuguese text, em-phsaizing em-phsaizing the thrilling features of the production. The North American isitor may! discover that he has seen the film at home two or three years apo. but evpn so. he wiil find something new In th-manner th-manner in which a film is presented in Brazil. Here, instead of a continuous continu-ous picture, the film is cut at critical junctures of the plot and there follows fol-lows a flash on the screen of "dos minUtOa CIO intprvalln " Thn licrKfe rrn l . "."id Up and thus for en interval of two minutes the rudlence is held in sus-i" sus-i" M wondering what will happen ncr.t. Always the theatres are filled to capacity and the Brazilians discuss j 'he merits rf American actors and actresses ac-tresses of the screen as familiarly as .any moving picture enthusiast In the United States. The comedians are intensely in-tensely popular and there is one, dls-j mnguished for being extraordlnarilv ; fnt, to whom the Brazilians hae giv ,en the name of "Cnico-Boia." meaning Little Bull." The advent of a film showing, "Chico-Boia" combined with that of a Spanish ventriloquist was tuade the, j occasion of a er-la night af the mo ; ling picture theatre in the little town! of Paranagua. nn , |