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Show Circus Picture for Pert Miss Rhodes Billie Rhodes, the sprightlv dark-1 ; eyed little star who has created a piquant style of comedy all her own, ' has a remarkably clever chicle in her ; j latest picture. "Hoop-La," produced by the National Film corporation for release by Exhibitors Mutual. I "Hoop-la" is a beautiful young girl who is an all -'round star in a one-ring circus playing country fairs and small towns She rides bareback, does I thrilling trapeze acts and "doubles" I las a lady clown. Her guardian aDd I faithful friends is Old Toodles, a clown with the circus, who "brought her up" j I from a baby. "Hoop-La" volunteers as a jockey 1 and wins a race for Joe McGee, a cheap j ! horseman who wants to marry her. Tony Barrows, scion of a wealthy family, sees "Hoop-La" perform and Mis In love with the beautiful equestrienne. eques-trienne. When "Hoop-La" learns that her father was of the Charters family, wealthv snobs, she marries McGee to save herself from having to live a dull society life. She repents, however, 'and induces McGee to leave her on , promise of keeping him supplied with I I money. McGee, in a drunken debauch, starts a firo in the circus tent and is killed when the tent corpses "Hoop-La" marries Tony and goes to live In her own home, her father's inheritance. This performance opens at the Al-hambra Al-hambra Thursday. net |