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press agent rents a $100,000 diamond bracelet to be used in an advertising stunt, but one of the refugees inadvertently seals it up in a can of beans — which, when the newspapers get wind of it, results in a booming bean business. Harry Langdon, Charles Rogers. Director: William West. Driftin' Kid, The 4057 (57) Sept. 19 Western. A sagebrush thriller in which the bad men are routed by fireworks. Tom Keene, Betty Miles. Producer-director: Robert Tansey. Dynamite Canyon 4056 (58) Aug. 8 Western. The story of a marshal masquerading as a crook to catch the real villains. Tom Keene, Sugar Dawn. Producer-Director: Robert Tansey. Father Steps Out 4005 (63) July 19 Melodrama. A railroad president, ordered by his physician to take a short holiday, is accidentally thrown from his private car and falls in with a couple of amusing hoboes. A rival group tries to ruin him financially but a reporter, in love with his daughter, saves the day. Frank Albertson, Jed Prouty, Lorna Gray. Director: Jean Yarbrough. Flying Wild 4013 (63) Mar. 10 Air Drama. The “East Side Kids” work in an airplane factory and uncover sabotage and saboteurs. Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, Joan Barclay. Director: William West. Forbidden Trails 4153 ( ) Dec. 26 Western. Newest in the “Rough Riders” series of prairie adventures. Buck Jones, Tim McCoy, Raymond Hatton. Director: Robert Bradbury. Fugitive Valley RB-8 (60) July 30 Western. 'The Range Busters pretend to be holdup artists in order to get into the gang’s headquarters. Ray Corrigan. John King, Max Terhune. Director: S. Roy Luby. Gang's All Here, The 4016 (61) June 11 Melodrama. Insurance racketeers muscle into the cross-country trucking business and almost get away with it — until Frankie Darro and his pals swing into action. Frankie Darro, Mantan Moreland, Marcia Mae Jones. Director: Jean Yarbrough. Gentleman From Dixie 4119 (63) Sept. 5 Drama with Music. The story of a breeding farm operated by two brothers, one an innocent ex-convict who works as a horse trainer on the farm. He breeds a champion and thwarts the villain who had railroaded him to the pen. Jack LaRue, Marian Marsh, Mary Ruth. Director: A1 Herman. Gun Man From Bodie 4152 (62) Sept. 26 Western. Second in the “Rough Riders” sagebrush series, in which more notches are put in their guns. Buck Jones, Tim McCoy, Raymond Hatton. Director : Spencer Bennett. Hoosier Schoolboy, The (Reissue) ( ..) Apr. 17 Drama. House of Mystery 4025 (62) May 7 Mystery Melodrama. Story centers around the murder of an eccentric old woman in southern France and the disapnearance of her clairvoyant comnanion. Based on the novel by A. E. W. Mason, author of “Four Feathers.” Kenneth Kent. Judy Kelly, Walter Rilla. Director: Walter Summers. I Killed That Man 4118 (70) Nov. 28 Melodrama. A murder takes place within a prison death chamber just before the scheduled execution, with the victim the condemned prisoner. Ricardo Cortez, Joan Woodbury, Pat Gleason. Director: Phil Rosen. Invisible Ghost, The .4007 (64) Apr. 25 Mystery Melodrama. Murder by hypnotic remote control furnishes the plot of this story. Bela Lugosi, Polly Ann Young, Betty Compson. Director: Joseph H. Lewis. Kid's Last Ride, The RB-5 (55) Feb. 10 Western. The Range Busters, as peace officers, are out to rid a rangeland gang of malpractitioners. Ray Corrigan, John King, Max Terhune. Director: S. Roy Luby. King of the Zombies 4009 (67) May 14 Melodrama. Through phoney radio signals, the arch villain attracts American aviators to his island stronghold, where he makes zombies of them to extract military secrets. Dick Purcell, Mantan Moreland, Joan Woodbury. Director: Jean Yarbrough. Let's Go Collegiate 4111 (62) Sept. 12 Comedy with Music. Story of a pair of college boys who place an uneducated truck driver as a member of their rowing crew, only to have the scheme kick back at them with hilarious results. Frankie Darro, Marcia Mae Jones, Jackie Moran. Director: Jean Yarbrough. Lone Star Law Men 4140 (61) Dec. 5 Western. Tom Keene portrays a straight-shooting member of the famed Texas Rangers. Tom Keene, Betty Miles. Producer-director: Robert Tansey. Murder by Invitation 4015 (67) June 30 Melodrama. An eccentric old lady with parasitic relatives, all after her millions, invites them to spend the week with her, during which time the murders occur. Wallace Ford, Marian Marsh, Sarah Padden. Director: Phil Rosen. Pioneers, The 4054 (61) May 10 Westerji Based on the classic novel by James Fenimore Cooper, this finds Tex Ritter in a semi-historical role as a frontier scout. Tex Ritter, Wanda McKay. Director: A1 Herman. Redhead 4008 (64) May 21 Drama. A millionaire playboy, disinherited by his father, marries a girl just acquitted of a murder charge. She takes him in hand, rejuvenates him, and wins the father’s affection. June Lang, Johnny Downs, Eric Blore. Director: Edward Cahn. Hidin' the Cherokee Trail 4053 (61) Feb. 25 Western. The Texas Ranger’s new assignment is to capture the bandit chief of Cherokee Strip. Tex Ritter, Betty Miles. Director: Spencer G. Bennett. Riding the Sunset Trail 4058 (56) Oct. 31 Western. After thinking he got rid of his halfbrother, the villain presents a forged will which leaves him all of the brother’s money, ranch and cattle. The “murdered” man shows up in time to keep his daughters from being put off the land. Tom Keene, Betty Miles, Frank Yaconelli. Sugar Dawn. Director: Robert Tansey. Riot Squad 4128 (55) Dec. 12 Melodrama. Acting under police orders, a doctor joins a criminal gang as the vrouD’s medico, tips off the law as to the gangsters’ doings, and one by one has them arrested. Richard Cromwell, John Miljan. Producer-director: Edward Finney. Road to Happiness .4101 (84) Dec. 19 Musical. John Boles returns to the screen after a long absence, in the role of a father struggling to give his talented son a musical education. John Boles, Mona Barrie, Billy Lee. Director: Phil Rosen. Roar ol the Press 4002 (72) Apr. 30 Action Drama. The irregularities of the habits and hours pursued by newspapermen, with a background story of the uncovering of a pair of murders and a fifth-column expose. Wallace Ford, Jean Parker. Director: Phil Rosen. Saddle Mountain Roundup 4159 (GO) Aug. 29 Western. A murder mystery yarn is woven into this western, with suspicion resting on the shoulders of half the cast. Ray Corrigan, John King, Max Terhune. Director: S. Roy Luby. Sign of the Wolf 4004 ..(69) Mar. 25 Drama. Adapted from a Jack London story about the heroism of two trained Alsatian shepherd dogs. Grace Bradley, Michael Whalen. Director: Howard Bretherton. Silver Stallion 4018 (57) May 28 Western. The story of a wild stallion, a young rebel and a reckless girl, battling against odds and outlaws. David Sharpe, Chief Thundercloud, LeRoy Mason. Producer-director: Edward Finney. Siren of the South Seas (Reissue) 3701 (70) Nov. 14 Drama. Formerly “Paradise Isle,” this film is the poignant romance of a South Sea Island girl for a white man — a blind artist whom she nurses back to health. Movita, Wan-en Hull. Director: Arthur G. Collins. Spooks Run Wild 4106 (64) Oct. 24 Comedy Drama. The Kids are sent to a summer camp for underprivileged children, in a neighborhood where a blood-sucking monster is allegedly on the loose. East Side Kids, Bela Lugosi, Dorothy Short. Director: Phil Rosen. Stolen Paradise 4124 (80) Oct. 31 Melodrama. A story of adolescence and the unbridled passion of youth seeking expression and enjoyment with no knowledge of the cost. Leon Janney, Eleanor Hunt. Director: Louis Gasnier. Tonto Basin Outlaws 4160 (60) Oct. 10 Western. The “Range Busters” act as undercover agents in Wyoming to combat a gang of cattle rustlers. The romantic interest is supplied by a newspaperwoman who goes West to cover the crime wave. John King, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Jan Wiley. Director: S. Roy Luby. Top Sergeant Mulligan 4107 (70) Oct. 17 Comedy Drama. Two drugstore proprietors join the army to escape a bill collector who has been dunning them, only to find that the latter is in the army too. Nat Pendleton, Frank Faylen, Charles Hall. Director: Jean Yarbrough. Trail of the Silver Spurs R3-4 (60) Jan. 5 Western. The Range Busters set out to solve a desert mystery involving the sudden wealth of a man claiming to have a secret gold mine. They find the money was stolen from the Denver 66 BOXOFFICE BAROMETER