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THE JACKSON SUN: JACKSON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 1942. PAGE NINE Gay Sisters" to Be at Paramonnt; Friendly Enemies" at State "Gay Sisters" Opens Today I i At Paramount Great Cast Of Comedians On Bill At State Ad 110S i Stanwyck Stars In Human Interest Story iiiiiliifc, ir -X-- flrf i 'iVt afiV rtf wftinH You'll thrill as Humphrey Bogart gives his most brilliant performance in "The Big Shot," with lovely Irene Manning as his Inspiration. "The Big Shot" will be at the Paramount Wednesday and Thursday. Noel Madison attempts to get Lynn Bari to reveal the secret code message in the letter he stole from her in "Secret Agent of Japan," "coming to the State Friday and Saturday. From the looks of the two black eyes, it seems that thele two are anything but friendly.

However, to see the outcome of this laugh riot, you'll have to see "Friendly Enemies" at the State Monday and Tuesday. udanna "Klondike Fury" Is Interesting Drama Of North Edmund Lowe And Lucile Fairbanks Star The regeneration of a once fa- "Friendly Enemies" Unreels Top-Notch Entertainment Spirited comedy and exciting drama are skillfully blended in Edward Small's latest film offering, "Friendly which had its premiere showing last night at the State Theatre through United Artists release. This new comedy, which is based on the smash-hit stage success written during World War I by Samuel Shipman and Aaron Hoffman, is headed by a superb comedy cast, including Charles Winninger, Charlie Rug-gles, Nancy Kelly, James Craig and Ilka Grunning. "Friendly Enemies," which was directed at a snappy tempo by Allan Dwan. tells the story of two first-generation German-Americans against the background of that war, with Winninger in the role of a man still devoted to his native Germany, and with Ruggles as the man who wants to cure him of his divided allegiance.

The setting and time of the picture are during the last war, when the United States entered the war against the Central Powers. ABSORBING ENTERTAINMENT This new Small picture is definitely absorbing entertainment on all counts it is well acted, its dialogue is crisp and amusing, its direction is well timed and its plot is extremely timely. The story it tells has a message which is as alive today as it was in the last conflict and will appeal to audiences of all shades of opinion. Mr. Small has given "Friendly Enemies" many expensive and sumptuous settings, including the luxurious home of a wealthy brewer, which is said to be among the largest, indoor sets ever built in Hollywood.

And too much praise cannot be offered for the capital cast he has chosen to enact his story with plenty of oomph and liveliness. KRUGER ENJOYS HARD ROLES Hollywood film studios never cast Otto Kruger as a telephone lineman, a forest ranger or a deep-sea sailor. They say he isn't the type. That may be true but he did pretty well in all those lines before he turned to being an actor, something at whiph he has also done nobly. Kruger, who is currently featured in the Edward Small comedy, "Friendly Enemies," now on view at the State Theater, studied engineering at the Universities of Michigan and Columbia and later entered the forestry service.

Later he bought an entire mountain at Elizabethton, New York, to save its magnificent trees. He founded a summer colony there. His first screen role was with Lee Tracy in "Trun Back the Clock." Since then, he has alternated between stage and screen. He is five feet nine Inches tall, weighs 140 pounds, has brown hair and gray eyes. He is an expert fencer and a talented musician, playing the piano, the violin and the cello.

1 is 0 i'''''iimM iri TTM-n rwrn Jfa. GERALDINE FITZGERALD, BARBARA STANWYCK. NANCY COLEMAN "The Gay Sisters" in Warners' plctiirlzatlon of the famous Stephen Longstreet novel which also stars George Brent with Gig Young, Gene Lockhart. Donald Woods, Charles Waldron, Helen Thimig, and Larry Lmous physician who lost his nerve" because of' an operation which proved fatal and how he regains confidence when forced to perform a similar operation constitute the story of "Klondike Fury," second of the King Brothers' productions for Monogram release. One of the better pictures to come out of Monogram in recent months, the film Las been given the advantages of an increased budget, which is evident in production investiture, strength of cast and other talent.

Edmund Lowe as the doctor, Lucile Fairbanks, Bill Henry, Ralph Morgan head the cast, supported by Robert Middlemass, Jean Brooks, Mary Forbes, Vince Bar-nett, Clyde Cook, Marjorie Wood and Kenneth Harlan. The scene is the far north, where the physician attempts to hide himself and where, when his idtentity is discovered, he performs a delicate brain surgery to, restore a youth whose mind is becoming warped, to health. William Howard directed from a screenplay by Henry Blankfort, who adapted the story "Klondike" by Tristram Tupper. The story was made once before by Monogram, in 1932. Maurice King was the producer, with his brother, Franklin, his associate.

in Berlin, is a British subject. Madeleine Le Beau and Marcel Dalio are French, and so is Robert Eisner, the technican director. Peter Lorre is Hungarian, as is Director Michael Curtiz. Corinna Mura is a South American. Leo Mostovoy is Russian.

Leonid Kinskey is Polish. And Dooley Wilson says that he comes from Harlem. Another great novel, "The Gay Bisters." has been brought to the icreen by Warner who are noted for their fine treatment-of important novels. The picture which will be shown at the Para- i mount Monday and Tuesday, has an exceptionally fine cast In the leading role is fiery Barbara Stanwyck as the eldest of the three Gaylord sisters, a sometimes fierce, brusaue and level-headed person who thinks that sentiment is a silly emotion. Her two sisters, the other mem bers of the Gaylord family (the trio was dubbed by newspaper- men.

The Gay Sisters are played by Geraldine Fitzgerald and Nan-' cy Coleman. Gig Young, a dynam ic breezy newcomer to the screen 1 1 1 4 young artist, and advance reports have it that he is a sensation. George Brent, in his usual casual, at the same time forceful man ner, plays the role of a civil engi neer who becomes a millionaire, and also is the reason why the Gay Sisters are held practically penniless. Brent, through a series of complicated legal litigations has man aged to tie up the will left by Penn Gaylord when he was killed in World War I. His motive is quite obvious.

He wants to get hold of the Gaylord property and build a vast project of his own on it. But it has always been the law of the Gay lords never toN sell the land and for Barbara there is more than just an obvious creed behind the words: for Brent's re lationship to Barbara goes further than that of two legal antagonists. It is the thing that makes the gloomy Gaylord house a place of whispers a place that encourages rumors and speculation from all Quarters until the time when the terrible scandal can no longer be kept under cover and the true, exciting story breaks on the front page of every newspaper in the country. The brilliant supporting cast is made up of such popular players as Donald Crisp, Gene Lockhart, Simms and Donald Woods. The excellent Stephen Long-street novel was adapted to the screen by Lenore Cofffee.

The directional reins of the thrilling film were handled bv Irvine Rao- OPENS MONDAY AT PARAMOUNT The extensive art gallery at War ner studio in Burbank had a- new addition a painting of Barbara Stanwyck. Geraldine Fitzgerald and Nancy Coleman. Alexander Rosenfeld. who has done a number of paintings for the studio, executed the canvas, which is used in "The Gay Sisters." Portraits of players frequently are needed in pictures, and this one contributes an important point. TOO HAZARDOUS HOLLYWOOD Twelve year-old Eric Roberts, the enfant terrible who made life horrible for members of the New York cast "Watch on the Rhine, is already staging a one-boy rebellion on the Warner Bros, lot A scene from the movie version it the stage play calls for Bodo So take a bath.

The kid is demanding a stunt check. Monday Tuesday JOYS "Movietone News 1 "Neck And Neck" STF (fy A "fr yrJ I i pjprTflJyP Humphrey Bogart Cast As "Big Boy Bad Guy Gangster" "The Big Shot," Warner new film which opens at the Para mount Theater today, has a story and star combination that makes for sure-fire screen entertainment It has an action packed story which stars Humphrey Bogart as a one-time big shot gangster who is caught between two fires. He can't go straight because no honest person wants to bother with a guy who has been up the river three times. And he can get into any more trouble because the next time it's life! Hounded by his past, taunted by fellow gangsters as a has-been, Bogart is driven to distraction. Fi nally (after all, a guy has to do something to make some dough) he consents to act as the "brains" for an armored car And anyhow, the boys convinced him that nothing could go wrong because one of the underworld's cleverest mouthpieces (a role played by Stanley Ridges) was backing them.

But plenty could go wrong, especially if the lawyer's wife hap pened to be your former sweetheart before you did your third stretch. NEWCOMER HAS TOP ROLE Irene Manning, an alluring new comer to the screen, plays the top feminine role and advance opinion says that she is headed for a suc cessful screen career. As Ridgeff wife, she explains to Bogart, that she had to marry because she was financially desperate, but now that he is back everything will be all right if he would only promise not to return to his career of crime. On the night of the stickup, Irene prevents Bogart from going through with it by keeping him in his room at the point of a gun. Despite this, a befuddled witness identifies him as the person who used her as a shield in making his getaway from the pursuing police after the holdup.

HAS EXCITING CLIMAX. Someone tips off Ridges as to what's been going on between his wife and Bogart and as a result he lets Humphrey take a lifetime rap for a crime he never commit ted. But Bogart plans a revenge that makes an exciting climax. "The Big Shot" has a fine sup porting cast made up of Richard Travis. Susan Peters.

Chick Chan dler, Howard da Silva and many more. Monday Tuesday rrrrn, quelle iairuanKs is seen in the top photo. She plays at the State Wednesday and Thursday. The lower picture shows the hero of "Prairie Gunsmoke" which plays at the State Friday and Saturday. MANY NATIONALITIES ON ONE PICTURE SET HOLLYWOOD They are calling Stage 8 at Warner where "Casablanca" is in production, "International House." The cast and crew of the production represent so many different nationalities that the set is the most cosmopolitan spot in Suth-ern California.

Humphrey Bogart is an American. Ingrid Bergman is Swedish, Paul Henreid is Viennese. Claude Rains and Sydney Greenstreet are Englishmen. Conrad Veidt, born Monday Tuesday ANOTHER GREAT NOVEL BECOMES ANOTHER GREAT HIT! THE STORY OF THE STARTLING LOVES OF THE GIRLS THE TOWN POINTED 'I, AT. Mm Shanghai gambler a man without a country plays the hero effec tively.

There is a lot of excitement in this picture which action houses can exploit sensationally to the tune of good box-office. A good program picture for lovers of myS' tery and action. FILM COMPANY HAD TO HAVE SPECIAL PERMISSION HERE For the first time in the history of films, a motion picture troupe was allowed to shoot the produc tion line of an airplane company. The highly prized and valuable fotage, gained by. permission of the U.

S. government, is used in Warner "Wings For The Eagle," a story of the men who make our fighting planes. The scenes were shot at the Lockheed aircraft plant in Burbank, now engaged in turning out bombers to blast tne axis. It was only after the government read and approved the script for "Wings For The Eagle" that permission was granted. Ann Sheridan, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, George Tobias and Russell 'Arms head the cast of the film.

Lloyd Bacon directed fwra a story by Byron Morgan and B. H. Orkow with additional; dialogue by Richard Macaulay. Arthur Farnsworth, husband of Bette Davies, Warner Bros, star, is awaiting a flight instructor's license. Menace, Mystery Will Be At The State Two Days "Secret Agent" Plays Friday And Saturday Menace, suspense, mystery and romance are skilfully blended in this up-to-the-minute yarn of Japanese and German skullduggery, in a Shanghai setting, prior to and immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor! The story pulls no punches in its exposure of the ruthless plotting of the Nipponese and the Nazis.

The theme brings a-bout the whoJesomcregenration of a renegade American whose patriotism comes to the fore at a time when the life of a pretty female British agent is at stake. It is an exciting plot of escapade, in which Jap agents kill and torture, and take possession of property illegally while an innocent looking German imposes upon the confidence of the victims. Scenic backgrounds are in keeping with the dour mood of the theme. Of the actors, all of whom perform skilfully, Noel Madison, as the Japanese agent, stands out like a sore thumb. The Chinese actor, Sen gives a most astute portrayal.

Lynn Bari registers unusual charm as the heroine, and Preston Foster as the ATE mr or3fe in. WM MJ 7 A LIFT FOR A LADY i if Mir im Salute to Cove! Their fathers fight the war all over while tbey present arms! wste'i "Wings For The Eagle" Stars Ann Sheridan Dennis Morgan And Jack Carson Share Honors "Wings For The Eagle," which Warner Bros, released locally for the Paramount Friday and Satur day, is a film that does a splendid job of bleding- individual drama with the one grim story iiat hov ers over all personal conflict the world struggle to smash the Axis. But this film tells its story not through the soldiers and sailors on the warring front but through the men and women who turn out our planes. Their story is packed with all the action, drama and excite ment that one would find on tne actual fighting front the constant fight against time is never out of their minds. -Lovely Ann Sheridan and de bonair Dennis Morgan have the leading roles with Jack Carson and George Tobias the support ing cast.

The film is set, for the most part, in the huge Lockheed Aircraft Plant. Ann and Jack play the role of a married couple who split up when Jack becomes irritated over having wasted his money on a phony engineering course. Morgan portrays a care-free char acter who lands a job at the Lockheed plant in the hope that his draft board would consider his job essential But Pearl Harbor changes his mind in a hurry and he realizes he had a wrong slant on things. Dennis also takes advantage of Anns quarrel with Carson and goes all-out in his attempt to be pleasir but he soon learns that her heart is still with Carson. To bias, as usual, gives a splendid per formance as the shop foreman whose whole life is wrapped up in Lockheed and the patriotic fervor to speed up the work.

His son, played by Russell Arms, also works at the plant, but leaves to join the air force and Tobias is prouder than a papa with a newborn babe. It is only after the United States involvement in the war and after Tobias' son pays with his life for his patriotism that Dennis decides he, too, has a 1 debt, both tc his country and his He joins the Force, but "before going he patches things up between Ann and Jack. WESTERN AT STATE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY STARS TEX RITTER Tex Ritter and Bill Elliott, two of the screen's most noted cow boys, will share the spotlight together in the current film, "Prairie Gunsmoke," coming to the State Friday and Saturday. Plenty of action will be seen those days, since a great mystery is playing on the same bill. John Loder, does a bit of boxing in "Gentleman Jim," leran- ed to fight with guns as well as fists at Sandhurst, famed English Monday Tuesday THE FURIOUS PAGES OF STEPHEN LONGSTREET TALKED-ABOUT NOVEL COME TO LIFE! 214 Conger.

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