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PAGE FOUR, SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 1941 tfrrrtrtura JCuntotg Courier SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 1941 Theatrical Review of Stage and Screen Presentations NEWS AND VIEWS OF THE SHOWS -ft. By R. H. 8. i I I 1 1 1 1 rv Il limy lie ii sad coiuniciiliiry on llio state of ii flairs in Hollywood, or it may lie just a coincidence, thai so many persons with well-payinii' johs (hid it necessary 1o undertake sumo sideline business to take care of them in their old ae.

There are ji'iiys like Preston who, despite a siring of directorial and writing hits, insists on opcrat iii: restaurants and official on Ihe hoard of directors of a Wilmington, diesel eimine works. 1 jtiW 'A 1 the product ion nexl yeek, production next week. Hasil gell will direct. I wtL Madeleine Carroll and Fred McMurray have the leading romantic roles In "One Night In Lisbon," which has been booked into the State for a week starting Thursday. Scene from "There's Magic In Music," which shares the Rio screen with "The Nurse's Secret," for three days beginning tomorrow.

part of the plot, however, that Rhe BELL'S LAST TOLL WAS DEATH KNELL Ia peer, June It The giant bell, attached to the clock in ithe old Town Hall, tolled for the last time as Archie Van Wagnen, 1 1 who had contracted to remove the ibell, fell to his deatli from the top of the tower. The bell, which weighed a ton, broke loose as it was being lowered, plunged Oa feet to the fire hall below with a mighty 1 clang, knocking Van Wagnen from his perch on the tower. He died of a broken neck. I The Australian Government recently made a gift to Greece of 1 0.0DO tons of Hour. The Italian State Railways now have 4.203 steam and 1.4S2 electric locomotives.

1 WALKING STATISTICS GIVE SURPRISES Chicago, June II In order to 1 jdiscover how much men and women in ditlereut occupations walked. Dr. Harold I. Einiley. a chiropodist, attached pedometers 10 hundreds of men and women and found: A hospital interne walks on an average of IS miles a day; a chorus girl, almost 5 miles; a policeman, a salesman making houso-to-houso, calls, nearly 1(1; a railroad conduc- jtor fi-pi miles; while stenographers other office girls do better than eight miles a day.

Railway shops in India are being used for the manufacture of war material, Twelve thousand silver-fox and blue-fox furs were sold at auction recently in Sweden. JUNE 27th, 1941 Bob Crosby and Judy Canova in will be featured on the screen of beginning Thursday. in several of her most notable films. Screen play is by Lillian Hellman, who also wrote the orig- inal stage version which proved such a smash hit on Proadway. The old lady of fable-fame who lived in a shoe and had so many children she didn't know what to do, had nothing on Producer-Director Andrew Stone during the filming of Para-mount's "There's Magic in Music," which opens tomorrow at the Rio Theatre.

The picture features Allan Jones, Susanna Foster and Margaret Lindsay. Stone had a total of 403 'teen age children on his hands during the several weeks required to complete the production! More than 200 of the youngsters were members of the California Junior Symphony, a collection of Los Angeles' outstanding 'teen age musicians, whose musical skill is considered professionally excellent by top critics. Over a hundred of the youngsters were singers, selected personally by Stone in a month-long series of daily auditions at the studio, and the rest were child actors. Stone, unlike the lady who lived in the shoe and didn't know what to do with her numerous children, did know what to do with those in his charge. "I treated them like adults," said Stone "and we got along THE BIGGEST It MANY Opens A 3 Maybe tliiiifis have been getting lienor lor.

Kniiilv Morgan. He still nwns a piece of the Angostura Killers Company, but lie sold bis Palm Springs antique shop. The Indians proved poor customers, anyway. And Judy fiarland and Lucille Pall sold their florist shops as soon as they begun to l'eel that M-G-M and U.K.O. would keep them on the poyroll while longer.

Henry Hathaway, despite his preoccupation with such pictures as raramounts I lie Miepnerii oi the Hills," finds time to sponsor the manufacture of a safety-pin, which remains closed until it is forced open. Alan Hale invented and manufactured a sliding theatre seat which is being adopted witli increasing success. Chuck Rcisner, currently directing the Marx Pro-thers, has a sporting poods shop to which he can retire after the Marx-es get through making sport of him. George Prent owns an Hawaiian pineapple plantation. James Elli son huilils nouses lor tenants ot moderate means.

Recionald Den ny's model plane factory has been a factor in national defense ex-! pertinents. And Walter Abel. Robert Montgomery, Robert Z. Leonard and Reginald Owen own shares in tungsten mine near Bishop, Calif, which is practically worth its weight in tungsten due to anna-; nient manufacture of the moment. Finally, consider Ihe case of: actor Richard Lane, who owns a milk-bottle cap factory, manufac-j tures a candy bar, has a stable; of three wrestlers who double as bartenders in his La Cienega Ron-1 levard cafe, runs a Venetian blind factory and has a half-interest in a Xew York dentist's office.

He must have no faith whntso-) ever in the future of the motion pictures. Real life drama took place during the filming of Para-mount's "One Night in Lisbon," which opens Thursday at the State Theatre. Edward H. Griffith, who produced and directed the picture, had carefully selected 75 extras out of over 250 candidates. The scene was the interior of a sheltered sub-basement night club in London.

Beautiful Madeleine Carroll was engaged in a conversation with Fred MacMurray and John Lo-der. When they completed their dialogue, a band at the end of the stage broke into a song. Most of the "British" type ex- tras were actually born in Eng- land. With a roar, they all i leaped to their feet and shout- ed out the song's inspiring I words. The tune? "There'll Always Be An England?" 1 imnim iinrliniifo nf I Met ro-Goldwyn-Mayer's experimental short "The Happiest Man On Earth" which marked Hollywood's first attempt literally to translate a famous short story to the screen, has caused two more subjects adapted from short stories to be.

placed in work at the Culver City Studios. One is Allen Poe's classic. "The Telltale Heart" the other, Frank Stockton's "The Lady And Thp Tiger." The Poc thriller, a psychological study of a murderer's battle with his conscience will feature Joseph Schildkraut, well-known character actor of the stage and screen and holder of an Academy-acting-Awai'd and Roman Pohnen. The film, a two-reeler, is now before the cameras under the direction of Jules Dassin. Tie' Stockton story, famous for its odd ending, leaving thp fatal outcome to the reader's imagination, is scheduled to go into a Wra- "Law of the Tropics" is the new title for the picture now in produc tion of Warner Pros, which was originally called "King Rubber." Co-starring Constance Penned and JITerey Lynn, it is being; directed by Ray Knright.

Clark Gable and Albeit Dekker, who staged a vicious fight in the "Strange Cargo," were assured of a return match this week, when Dekkar was cast in Metro-Gold-win-Mayer's "Honky-Tonfl," which U.MMC nana i in uei mi mi in nine. in one ot the most villainous in a long siring oi neavy ciiaractei uations, nckkcr will play a rough i.uiij i-uimuuuiiy eoiuing into COIlinci HUH uame, WllOin lie finally meets in a showdown brawl. Frank. Morgan will also be featured in a dramatic role in the new picture. Jack Conway will direct, worth Pendro Herman producing.

The same lovable personality that has made "Sis Hopkins" a stage favorite for generations, now comes to the screen, with the inimitable Judy Canova enacting the role of the hillbilly heroine whose antics have placed her in the hall of fame of American folklore. "Sir Hopkins," which is scheduled to open Thursday at the Colonial Theatre, shows what happens to Sis when her misguided rich relations pack her off to college. A hillbilly escounced none too comfortably in a collegiate setting, is bound to create something of a sensation, and Sis does just that. She proceeds, first of all, to quite unconsciously win the heart of her snobbish Cousin Carol's sweetheart, played by Bob Crosby. Cousin Carol (Susan Hayward) retaliates by framing Sis in a cheap strip tease burlesque show by making her believe she is participating in a sorority initiation.

Professor Jerry Colonna not only helps her out of this predicament but induces her to enter the cast of the college musical comedy, and Sis proceeds to become such a hit that many of Carol's choice song numbers are switched to her. This widens the rift between the cousins, and a hilarious series of circumstances place Sis in the toils of the law from which she extricates herself with traditional Sis Hopkins ingenuity and good humor. Among the supporting players are Charles Butterworth, Katherine Alexander, Carol Adams, Lynn Merrick, Mary Ainslee, Archie Twitchell and Elvia Allman, the "Cobina" of "Brenda and Cobina" fame. How China's 400 million people are today just beginning to fight the inveding armies of Axis-Partner Japan is shown in the latest March of Time film, "China Fights Pack Although China has already suffered grave losses in lipr four-year-old war with aggressor-nation Japan, the March of Time shows, she is today mobilizing her full manpower and industrial resources for new struggle to drive out the invader and reestablish her national economy. Under Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, the first man in S00 years big enough to unify and.

direct the tremendous energies of the Chinese people, China was well on the "Si3 Hopkins" which Theater for a week fine. I never regarded them as children, never talked down to them, never scolded them. If they got hilarious, I gave them a five-minute recess and then we would go back to work. If they kept up the hilarity, I told them that they were working men and women, and as wage earners they must be serious." There was heavy drama on the "One Night in Lisbon" set at Paramount during the filming of one scene. This was the interior of an Knglish night club.

Madeleine Carrol, Fred MacMurray, John Loder are in the scene. Producer -director Edward II. Griffith had selected 75 "British" types as extras. Most of them, like Miss Carroll and Loder, actually were born in Kngland or other parts of the Empire. As the dialogue between Miss Carroll.

MacMurray and Loder finished, the bund at one end of the stage broke Into a song. With a roar the actors leaped to their feet and shouted out the words. The song? "There'll Always Be An England." Landing Fields The President has asked Congress for $01. 777. Van to expand the Civil Aeronautics landing-field program from 2fi0 to projects.

Britons drank an average of three-quarters of a pound of cot-fee in the last year. STAGE JII0Y MONTHS! Day Engagement at the The Only Real Authentic INTERNATIONAL REVUE Replete with Talent from all parts of the world Gorgeous Girls! Terrific Scenes! Beautiful Light- Effects! Mats. 40c Nites 60c 40c a scene from the Colonial 1 JS, 1 A A I Benefit Ba" AL HERSHEY PARK r1 Police Benefit Ball at HERSHEY PARK retain her attractiveness to men. As the daughter of "The Little I'oxes, Producer Samuel Goldwyn is introducing Teresa Wright, 11 0111 he signed to a long-term contract after seeing her in the Broadway production of "Life With Father." I Characteristically, it was Bette 1 Davis who went out of her way to bid -the newcomer welcome and set! her at ease. The somewhat shy Teresa was so overwhelmed she didn't know what to say, but it took only a few minutes for.

them! to become fast friends. Directing "The Little which will be released by RKO Radio, is William Wyler, who has! been associated with Miss Davi3 COOL COMFORTABLE HOW SHOWING! Robert Taylor "BILLY THE KID IN TECHNICOLOR 25c Plus Tax Till 5:30 Kiddies 15c Anytime THURSDAY THEY'RE NUTS! THEY'RE A RIOT! THOSE ZANY MARX BROTHERS WITH TONY MARTIN IN ii THE BIG STORE" Thtrt'i Magic In ttutic ALLAN JONIS SUSANNA FOSTER) IMARGARET LINDSAY LYNNE OVERMAN no. with LEE PATRICK REGIS TOOMEY MONDAY NIGHT "ZEKE" BECK'S Country Store ft II 15c until 1:30 ana ens roa(j toward Deconnng an exem iplary democratic nation when the I war began. 1 "China Fights the March of Time shows how the Chi hiese neon p. are today rnnt nil ne their nil-nut PtTnit tn liipsni-vp thoiv national independence and their free and democratic way of life.

Now the mystery of the disappearing film troupe can be explained. When last seen it was headed toward Long Reach, for Wavy Plues. Then it dropped out of sight for four days as complete ly as if swallowed. When the troupe returned to the studio, the press department revealed that Jack Oakie, Jack Haley, Herbert Anderson, Jack Carson and 100 extras, portraying gobs, had boarded the U. S.

Cruiser Minenapolis for the four days. The battleships had anchored there the day before from an undisclosed port. When the film company disembarked, it cleared port for an unknown objective. Why all the secrecy? The navy keeps all ship movements a secret nowadays, and any story about the location trip of the film would have supplied an interested party with news of the movements of the Minneapolis. Excitement is the keynote of Warner new mystery drama, "The Nurse's Secret" which shares the Rio screen with "There's Magic in Music," for three days starting tomorrow.

A cold-blooded killer nearly succeeds in committing a series of brutal crimes but is balked by a nurse and a shrewd I detective. The role of the nurse is played by Lee Patrick and that of the detective by Regis Toomey. The film's in- triguing plot is crammed with suspense, thrills and a brist- ling romance. "The Nurse's Secret" was written by Mary Roberts Rinehart, famous auth- 1 or of mystery tales. It's a rare young actress who would have the courage to portray the mother of a 17-year-old daugh-' ter on the screen.

i But Bette Davis has no hesitan-l cy which may be one of the basic reasons why she is first in the! hearts of the fans. So far as Pette Davis is con-1 eerned, the part comes first, which is her explanation for being enthusiastic about "The Little Foxes," in which she is starring for Samuel Goldwyn. Far from a sympathetic role is Rette's in the Lillian Ilcllman story of a small Southern town and a greedy family. As Regina Guldens, Miss Davis portrays a cruel and grasping woman willing to sacrifice her husband and daughter to act) aire wealth. Action of the story explains that Regina Giddens married very young, hence Miss Davis will not be forced to appear overly matronly.

In fact, her age on the screen will be about which is still above the real figure. It is also) Mitchell Ayres To Furnish Music For Police Ball Mitchell Ayres "Fashions in Music" and his Orchestra, will ap pear at Hershey Park Balroom on 1 Juno 27th, through arrangements with Music Corporation of America land West Shore Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge No. 1 1, for their benefit ball. I This combination has been jointly identified since the Ayres orch-jestra became a unit several years ago. Ayres created the style and i the title, both of which have be-! come more and more popular in re- cent months.

I "Fashions In Music" is best described as the perfectly balanced musical program. As times change I so do fashions especially in music. i The success which has greeted Mitchell Ayres and his orchestra dates back to their very first at-j 'tempt together, at the Hollywood' Restaurant in New York, where' they suddenly found themselves af-j Iter some weeks of hardships endur- ed 011 one-night engagements. Mil-1 chell Ayfes and his Orchestra were1 I contracted for a two weeks' engage-! i inent in the Hollywood where many! great names in the dance world bad occupied the bandstand. Their music immediately was hailed as 1 'and they were rewarded with a four-week renewal.

The rest is history which in their cusp was repetitious. They were held, over ii). the Hollywood for seven months, and during that time he-1 came recognized through their broadcasts over the Mutual net-1 works, which brought, visitors from all over the nation to hear their In-: spiring music. Transcribed coin-iinercial programs were completed by Ihe orchestra in a series which: engaged Ihe nniiiie valid ie: thulr musical library. oi' Fraternal Order of Police West Shore Lodge, No.

1 1 Presents This iini(U' oi'clH'st ra i show our i i in 1" our friends supporters in LM piwiis cities, hope they meet with your iipprovnl. We do appreciate your continued support for our WIDOWS AND ORPHANS, POLICE SICK, ACCIDENT AND DEATH BENEFIT FUND. Signed, COMMITTEE FIND THE SUPER-SLEOTHS OF THE BIG STORE 14 1 1 ifriK 'Tor 5 Beauty's ft Sake" ilk 1- NOW- Ned Sparks JsSk Marjorie JS'vil 5 Victor Dennis with McLAGLEN-O'KEEFE Maririe W00DW0RTH THURSDAY LET THE FUN-SHINE IN See Judy and her gang of gagsfers and gal-orious gals! Take a quick look at the drawing above. Then take another, longer look! The mad Marx Brothers of the movws all three of them are hidden in the picture above, and there are 15 guest theater tickets in store for the first, eagle-eyed Courier readers who can find them! The drawing is our artist's conception of a scene from the Marx Brothers' new Metro-Goldwyn Mayer comedy. "The Big Store," which arrives on the Loew's Theater screen Thursday.

Groucho, Harpo and t'Uico play detectives in a screwball story which takes place In a giant department store. There are humorous situations galore, and lots of music sung by Tony Martin. Winsome Virginia Grey carries the romantic interest with Tony, while Groucho Marx bills and coos with his old lady-lov, matronly Margaret. N'ow. see if you can discover the faces of Groucho, Harpo, and ('him in Ihe picture above.

If you can't Had the Marxes very easily, then try turning cither yourself or the paper around! When you have discovered the intriguing physiognomies of all three brothers, trke a pencil and accent their features, so that, nobody can doubt thai yon have discovered the dippy detectives. Then mail or sola' ion to the Contest Editor of the The' iirst 1 correct solutions received will each be awarded a I 1,, Hie i.nMiiiii, 111 1 nr i.o; uilriiu; us. 1 11 i.taililili liuiisiiay. I.UcWH,.