Will Rogers, with his homely aphorisms and rustic personality, brings to life on the screen an almost classic character. In the role of the New England horsetrader and village banker in the nineties, he dominates the picture with his ingenuous humor.

He takes it upon himself to encourage a romance between a pretty acquaintance of his. Evelyn Venable, and his bashful bank clerk Kent Taylor. He accomplishes his purpose when he discovers the balking horse he has sold Miss Venuable can trot if coaxed by singing. After persuading kent Taylor to bet on the horse, he does his share on the singing end of it. While the plot is weak. Will Rogers makes David Harum an enjoyable evening.

The other film, "The Lost Patrol" has been hailed as one of the best pictures of the year. Supposedly, it holds the audience in suspense; its vague moral gives the impression of extreme profundity; and the lack of women in the east gives the movie goer a novel experience.

But the plot, concerning, a lost pain who are shot down one by one, is uncomplicated, almost too simple. If there is a point, it must be the futility of war. However, we found the picture just a bill disappointing.