PARAMOUNT THEATRE.
The Bumsteads —Blondie, Dagwood, and Baby Dumpling—are in the movies. The popular characters of Chic Young's tamous newspaper comic stnp are seen in Columbia's "Blondie," first of a projected new series, starting at the Paramount Theatre tomorrow. Portraying Blondie is Penny Singleton, vivacious young musical comedy star of many Broadway stage successes. Dagwood's role is taken by Arthur Lake, an old hand at portraying comic strip characters, whose most notable role previously was "Harold Teen." "Street of Massing Men," the assock..j film, is one of these unique motion pictures, ilepubiic has substituted regeneration of a gangster's soul by the faith of a newsboy for the normal "girl-changes-boy" routine. The story concerns the efforts of Charles Bickford, who, just released from prison, seeks revenge on the managing editor of a newspaper which helped coT*\r? liim in azinl '.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 23, 27 July 1939, Page 14
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138PARAMOUNT THEATRE. Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 23, 27 July 1939, Page 14
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