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Show Round the Bend" a riotous, thrill-filled thrill-filled adventure. Groat Supporting Cast For the rest, the picture is strongly strong-ly colored with the curious superstitions super-stitions of Mississippi folk, their colorful speech, their spasmodic and agecting religious revivals and the marvelous melody of colored folks singing their spirituals. One song - in particular, "The Eagle's Nest", I was borrowed from the Negroes who had long forgotten its origin or its author, by Burman. River's Romance Lost? Not for Film's Author! Romance still lives along the stretches of the Mississippi, America's Ameri-ca's most majestic river! Along the bayous, hidden away in the dark swamps and on the muddy bosom of the grand -daddy of rivers, the Mississippi, there are still as many stories filled with the romance, drama, tragedy and robust comedy found In the lives of simple people as ever Mark Twain wrote. And Ben Lucien Burman, who has been dubbed the modern Mark Twain, 1b the man to bring them to paper. From Burman's latest tale of Mississippi romance Fox Film has made Will Rogers' new starring picture, pic-ture, "Steamboat' Round the Bend," which comes Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, November 3, 4 and 5 to the Alhambra Theatre. But, if Burn-man Burn-man had not been positively obsessed obses-sed with the idea of writing about the river, if he had not refused the opportunities of making an easier living and finally persuaded publishers publish-ers to give him a hearing, this story would have never come to light. Lived on the River A mild-mannered southerner, slow in speech and slight in appearance, Burman is attached to the river people, peo-ple, the legends and comic stories of steamboating, the swamp 'folk and their lawless attitude and all the strange phenomena of Mississippi's Missis-sippi's abundant life. A few years ago Burman was aboard one of the boats that competed com-peted in the last of the river races, from Cincinnati to Pittsburg. From this experience Burman derived many of the details which make the climatic river, race in "Steamboat |