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12 THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1944 Entertainments "Between Two Worlds" At Playhouse Florida Background Used In Anne Baxter's Film THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES. TIMES MOVIE REVIEW Glum Nazis Told To Expect Big TODAY WHAT'S DOING TOMORROW Florida Offers Different, Spellbinding Murder Film day feast for a perfect stranger, a soldier. They eke out a slender existence on the fringe of the Florida swamps, living on a dilapidated houseboat all five of them including Charlie Winninger as a fumbly grandpanpy and three ragged tykes, Billy Cummings, Connie Marshall and Bobby Dns-coll. This is the "crew" to whom Anne plays papa and mama.

"And every one's a scene stealer, to say nothing of Rom-mie, the dog, and a pet hen," Anne pointed out. But the chore promises to be a pleasant one. "Imagine spending a month or two here." she added with an airy wave. It included the water, the picturesque houseboat, the beach and the palms waving lazily. It looked like a perfect setup for a nice long vacation.

And even with all the big sun arcs beaming warmly from above, It was difficult indeed to realize that this was a movie set. Actually, this "Sunday Dinner for a Soldier" set is an acre-sized replica of a place in Florida where the company spent several weeks on location. The company is betting that no one will be able to tell where Florida left off and Hollywood duplication began. Our private hunch is that they won't care while little Anne Baxter, in blue jeans and sneakers, occupies the center of the screen. By JOHN TODD HOLLYWOOD (INS) Little Anne Baxter balanced herself on a float that was riding gently up and down on a beautiful lagoon.

She wore a pair of faded blue jeans, a boy's shirt, a pair of soiled sneakers and a bit of kerchief about her wavy brown hair. Even in that outfit, Anne would have brought a glint into the eye of a seafaring man on the peeping end of a telescope, searching the horizons for a mermaid. And even on a movie set all eyes were glued on her. When the cameras stopped. "Beachcomber" Baxter dropped the lobster trap she's been tug ging at back into the water, wippd her hands and hopped nimbly onto the houseboat.

"Sure, I'm playing Tomboy again, she prefaced with a grim ace that was outright pretty. "Got a bunch of orphaned hooligans on my hands." She reminded us that playing nursemaid to a gang; of young rascals is one of her frequent film chores. She'd done a grand job with a parcel of waifs In memorable "The Pied Piper," and In "The Sulli-vans" she herded a gang of teen agers who became heroes of the piece. Anne's current chore in 20th Century-Fox's "Sunday Dinner for a Soldier" tells of the fre quently poignant struggles of an impoverished little family to get togetner the edibles for a Sun Japs Jail U. S.

Editor's Note i For Inclusion In this roluinn notices niutt ba la belura 4 p.m. daily. ENTERTAINMENTS TODAY Open Air forum. 3:30 P.m.. Williams park.

par profrrsm. p.m.. Williams park. FKIDAY, JI'LY Open Air forum, 3:30 p. Williams park.

SATURDAY, JI'LY 15 Open Air forum. 3:30 p. Williams park. SEND AY, ELY 1 Chapel exercises. 2:30 o.m..

Pinellas county home. Chapel exercises. Masnnir home. DEFENSE ACTIVITIES TODAY Red Cross suruiral dressin? rooms: Central Presbyterian church. 9 a.m.

to p.m. FKIDAY, JILY 14 Red Cross mirjncal dressing rooms: St. Peter's parish house. 9 a.m. to 1 p.

m. Likewood school, 9 a.m. to 1 p. m. ORGANIZATIONS TODAY Exchange club.

12:15 p.m.. Shrine club. Gen. Leonard Wood ramp To. 8.

United Spanish War Veterans 8 p.m.. LSWV home Sons of Legion, 8 p.m.. Lefrion home. Aslrolite class. 7 p.m., GAR hall.

Republican Women's organization, 3:30 p.m.. Republican headquarters, 55 Hist avenue north. FRIDAY, 14 Rotary club, 12:15 p.m., Suwannee hotel. Lions club, 12:15 p.m., Shrine club. Orange lodpre No.

35. IOOK, p.m.. Odd Fellows hall. Elks lodge. 8 p.

Elks club. Sunshine Comtnandery No. 20, Knights Templar, 7:30 p.m., Masonic temple. St. Petersburg society for Hard of Hearing, chapter No.

133. 2 to 5 p.m., 16 Alhambra arcade, Sixth street and First avenue north. La Societe des Quarante Hommes et Huit Chevaux Voiture local 1217, 8 p. American Leeion home. SATURDAY.

JELY 15 Saturday Night club, United Spanish War Veterans, 8 p. VSWV home. TOURIST ORGANIZATIONS TODAY Retired Telephone Employes association, picnic, 12 noon. Sunshine Beach. FRIDAY.

JELY" 14 Three-Quarter Century club. 2 p.m., Tourist Center. Massachusetts society, picnic, 3 p.m.. pier. TOWNSEND CLUBS FRIDAY, JELY Townsend club No.

1, GAR hall. 14 7:30 p.m. PHILADELPHIAN DIES PHILADELPHIA (JP) Edward A. Schmidt, 81, Philadelphia financier and former president of the United States Brewers' Association, died yesterday in Jefferson hospital, where he underwent an operation July 5. TODAY'S HITS AT THE New Retreats LONDON (U.R) German broadcasts yesterday glumly warned the German people to ex pect big new retreats on the eastern front, and dispatches from neutral capitals indicated the hard-pressed wehrmacht was being prepared to fight on Ger man soil.

As Nazi propaganda broadcasts prepared the German home front for a Russian invasion of the reich, Stockholm reports from Berlin said that Field Marshal Walter Model had taken over command on the central sector of the eastern front where Soviet armies leaped toward East Prussia. Admitting the gravity of the present crisis, a military spokes man in Berlin stated "it cannot yet be said where the Soviet ad vance finally will be checked by the Germans," the Nazi Trans-ocean agency reported. The spokesman admitted that a large-scale German counter-offensive was out of the question since the German army was on the defensive on the eastern front and said that further retreats were unavoidable. Another leading German home front radio commentator. Dr.

Joseph Sahl, yesterday said "no German at present must have any otner thought except that we must get through this hard, and possibly most bitter, stretch of the war." A United Press Ankara dis patch quoted diplomatic reports that the Germans were removing factories and raw materials from southern Poland to central Hungary, where more than 80 train loads of material had arrived in the last week. THE WEATHER LOCAL TEMPERATTRKS RfpurtH tor Urn period from 5 p.m. Tuesday to 5 m. Wedneadav oh- served by the St. Petersburg" weather uurpau: Maximum 90 Minimum 74 Precipitation 0.02 St AND TIDES hun rises at 8 42 am.

and net at 8:29 p.m. fct. Petersburg high tides at 9:11 a.m. and 10:04 p.m.; low tides at 2:38 a.m. and 4:02 p.m.

Pass-a-Gri hitfh tides at 7:11 a.m. low tides at 12:38 a.m. and p.m and 2 02 p.m. Uliltpnrt and Corev ranspvav tiiirh tide at a.m. and 8:39 p.m.; low tides at 1:13 a.m.

and 2:37 p.m. Sarasota hieh tides at firKfi a and 7:49 p.m.; low tides at 12:23 a.m. and I'll p.m. Eradenton hiph tides at a.m. and 9:19 p.m.; low tides at 1:53 a.m.

and 3:16 p.m. Johns pass hieh tides at 7 31 a.m. and 8:24 p.m.; low tides at 12:58 a.m. and 2:22 p.m. FORECAST FLORIDA Considerable cloudiness today throutrh Fridny.

with scattered showers and thunderstorms during afternoons and evenings and widely scattered morning showers over the immediate southeast coastal section. TEMPER ATERES ELSEWHERE Workers in Philippines "Double Indemnity," James M. Cain's novel adapted for the screen by Paramount and now showing at the Florida theater, is packed with a double dose ol realism, enough to flatten out even the least suspecting of us. The story, ugly and grim in its realism, grips the audience, holding it spellbound throughout the film. It's a story about murder-murder committed by Fred Mac-Murray, a super-smart fast-talking insurance salesman, a likable good-looking fellow who knew as well as the next man that there's no such thing as "the perfect crime." And murder committed by the victim's calculating wife, Barbara Stanwyck, who gives an excellent performance even in a blond wig.

It's the kind of murder situation behind any front page newspaper scandal, with real people saying real lines. It's the kind that any person could be trapped in by similar circumstances, and in such, is a picture that leaves you with plenty to think about when you leave the theater. The morale of the film, as in any murder story, is that there's no1 Time Clock Thursday, July 13 FLORIDA "Double Indemnity," 1:12, 3:20, 5:28, 7:35, 9:40. PHEIL "Story of Dr. Wassell," 1:32, 4:20, 7:08, 9:34.

LA PLAZA "Andv Hardy's Blonde Trouble," 1, 4:02, 7:04, 10:06. "Jamboree," 2:48, 5:50, 8:52. PLA11IOUSE "Cabin In The Sky," 6:30, 9:57. "Reunion In France," 8:17. BOXY "A Guy Named Joe," 1:55, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50.

CAMEO "Corvette K-225," 2:27, 5:33, 8.39. "Nine Girls," 1, 4:06, 7:12, 9:45. DRIVE-IX "In This Our Life," 8:40, 10:44. PARK "True to the 7. 9:58.

"Northern Pursuit," 8:24. King and Queen See Robot Downed LONDON flJ.R) King George VI and Queen Elizabeth saw a flying bomb shot down yesterday, nd his majesty declared: "It's a pity there are no Germans in them." Their majesties were touring anti-aircraft sites and were having lunch at one gunsite when the alarm sounded. They then saw an anti-aircraft gun and a fighter plane share in the destruction of a flying bomb. "Good shooting," the queen remarked. "I'd like to see these things chivvied about a bit." A SOME UNUSUAL GIFTS SOUVENIRS CURIOS 248 FIRST AVE.

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14e 1 1 TODAY FRIDAY SATURDAY IT'S COLD MURDER and HOT SUSPENSE! Places to Go, Things to Do (Fold AdertUenints) Items under this Heading may occupy a minimum of fiva lines or maximum of 10 lines. Five Point club, Bethlehem chapter OES, card party at Masonic temple, Thursday, 8 p.m. 25c. Chairman, Mrs. Rufus Jones Public cordially invited.

16 BODIES IN PLANE CRASH IDENTIFIED SOUTH PORTLAND. Me. (JP) Identification of the 16 chand and twisted bodies of those who died in the plunge of an Army plane into their Westbrook trailer camp near the Portland airport iuesaay was completed last night. Twelve of the 23 persons injured are still in the Maine general hospital, the names of six oeing on tne clanger list. DRIVE-IN THEATRE Adults 30c Children FREE itNi HI)! r.

7200 4TH ST. N. fS DUxf 80-681 11 fv Cak VA a STARTS 111 3UU DAVIS in her finest riV i emotional 1 At Glasgow'i best seller ALSO CARTOON SHORTS FLORIDA STATE THEATRES SHOWING ADULTS 44c TERRIFIC! CHILDREN 9c SHORT SUBJECTS 4 111 'VTIliT LAST TIMlS TODAY A Gol named Donna loved a flier tor better or worse. Irene Spencer DUNNE in TRACY "A GUY NAMED JOE" Tomorrow: "North Stor" nd "Oklahoma Raiders LAST DAY 1 HITS Randolph SCOTT in "CORVETTE K-225" PLUS i It'i Murder with a whole house full ot beautiful suspects) ANN HARDING in "NINE GIRLS" Tomorrow: "Arcund the World" end "Cowboy Confeen" lift Children IIlSmUl 9c I i i -A I -1 11 I I v. flPfUl Awl 1 9.

FAYE EMERSON and JOHN GARFIELD Investigating the world that lies just beyond our own borders, the Warner Bros, have fashioned an exciting film from their findings. The result can be seen in "Between Two Worlds." which stars John Garfield, Paul Henreid, Syd ney Greenstreet and Eleanor Parker and comes to the Playhouse tomorrow. 4 A consistently superior cast, in addition to the stars mentioned above, includes Edmund Gwenn, George Tobias, Sara Allgood, Faye Emerson, Dennis King and George Coulouris. Edward A. Blatt, formerly dia logue director on such films as Now Voyager" and "Watch On The Rhine" directed the Playhouse new film and Mark Hel-lingcr, last associated with the production of "Thank Your Lucky Stars," produced it.

Daniel Fuchs adapted the screen play from a play by Sut ton Vane, and the music was composed by Erich Wolfgang Korn- gold. Dr. Parran Sees Socialization Of Medical Program WASHINGTO N. (U.R Dr. Thomas Parran, surgeon general, U.

S. public health service, said yesterday that "too much heat and not enough light" has been turned on socialized medicine and he predicted that more, not less, socialization of medical facilities would be needed for a 000 public health program he advocated. He told a senate subcommittee on wartime health and education that "sound health is as necessary for the tasks of peace as the tasks of war" and added: "It is my belief that we can have a national health program fitted to the nation's needs and the social and economic problems of the 48 states not entirely with socialized medicine but not with more private med-iral practice than we now have." He outlined a plan for 417,000 hospital beds and 2,400 health centers and sub-centers, costing $1,989,000,000, not including the health needs of veterans, which he said the nation must get on a sound basis. "As our knowledge increases," he said, "the need grows for putting this complex science (re search, diagnosis and treatment) to the service of the people by groups of trained persons working as a team, the day of the coun try doctor of the saddle bags is past. Public health is the para mount public concern of our mod ern society.

Parran advocated an integrated system of public health service beginning with health crntrrs in every community feeding general and specialized hospitals. He said that prepaid insurance plans of the Blue Cross, strongly advocated to the committee by Dr. Claude W. IWunger, of the American Hospital association council on government relations, "does not semi applicable to the large low income groups" which constitute the "major financial burden on voluntary hospitals." The 4-Fs of the next war, can be picked out from school records of the present children, Parran sud. on the basis of a study made at Hagerstown, Md.

Selective -eruce records of rejectees in this war were compared with public school health records of the rejectees 15 years before. He said 96 'i per cent of the men reiected for teeth defects had teeth defects when they were examined in the public schools. Similar high percentages pre vailed in other causes for rejection. BRITISH HANG SPY LONDON (INS) Joseph Jan Vnnhove was hanged yesterday as a spy the 16th to be executed in Britain during this war. The 27-ycar-old Vanhove, a Belgian subiect.

entered Britain last February, posing as a refugee seaman anxious to serve the Allies. TODAY! it fiction! Errol Flynn in "NORTHERN PURSUIT" PLUS Cartoon A such thing as "getting away with it." Sooner or later a murderer will do something betray Win-self, and in the case of murder by two persons, the risk is twice as great. The end of the chase stops in only cne place the cemetery. Different than the usual, mysterious "whodunit" you usually see in films, "Double Indemnity" has its pattern reversed. Right at the beginning of the picture, you see MacMurray, wounded and slumped over his office dictaphone in the middle of the night, gasping out his strange confession about who did it.

It's how and why the murder was committed that makes the nerve-racking gruesome story. Incidental music, photography, settings everything about the film makes it a picture that is "best of its kind." Edward G. Robinson, as the sleuthlike insurance claims manager, adds his genuine performance to of Miss Stanwyck and MacMurray. Other supporting players include Portor Hall. Jean Heather and Byron Barr.

D. M. Post-War Program Urged by Seamen NEW YORK (JP) A post-war program calling for a United Na tions conference to consider "the best use" of Allied ships and for full employment of seamen through full utilization of those ships was adopted yesterday by the national couneil of the National Maritime union (CIO) at its semi-annual meeting. Joseph Curran, NMU president, announced the program in a nation-wide broadcast over the Mutual network and at a press con ference which followed it. "There is no need for strikes," Curran said.

"We will always think first in terms of our country." The program states, Curran said. that the full employment at decent wage levels for seamen and Allied workers is dependent on "a sourrtl post-war operational program," the basis of which "must bo a people's peace with freer exchange of goods between all nations." The plan, he said, recommends a United Nations conference to promote world trade "on a scale never before imagined," an im mediate "open-table United Na tions conference on shipping at which preliminary agreement on a fair distribution of the world tonnage can be reached," gradual relaxation of government control of shipping, universal minimum wage scales and labor standards, subsidies if necessary and recognition of the right of shipping firms to enter the air transportation field but "no subsidation at the expense of shipping." GERMANY ADVISED TO OUST NAZIS LONDON (INS) Prime Minister Winston Churchill told the house of commons yesterday that the German people should overthrow the Nazi regime, Churchill, reiterating an earlier statement, added: "That certainly would be a very well advised step on the part of the Germans." Churchill declined to answer a question asking what treatment would be accorded the Germans if they did overthrow the Nazi government. Carl Evans and his Accordion FRANK EVANS and his GIRLFRIEND Station Max. Min. ALPENA 72 63 ASHEVTLLE S4 65 ATLANTA 92 70 ATLANTIC CITY 76 6S BIRMINGHAM 8S 10 BOSTON 8S 66 BUFFALO S3 74 BURLINGTON, VT.

SS 73 CHICAGO SO 72 CINCINNATI 82 75 CLEVELAND 7t DENVER SI S5 DETROIT S3 73 DULUTH 75 St EL PAPO 69 FORT WORTH 99 S2 CALVEPTON S9 77 JACKSONVILLE 90 71 KANSAS CITY SI 69 KEY WEST 90 SO LITTLE ROCK 100 79 LOS ANGELES 55 LOUISVILLE S3 71 MEMPHIS 95 SO MERTniA.V SI 76 MIAMI S5 77 MINN. -ST. TAUL 77 5S MOBILE S9 71 NEW ORLEANS 95 77 NEW YORK SS 74 NORFOLK 95 74 PITTSBURGH 92 70 PORTLAND, ME. 80 62 PICHMOND 95 70 ST LOUIS 70 SAN ANTONIO 99 71 SAN FRANCISCO 49 SAVANNAH S8 71 SEATTLE SB TAMPA 90 72 VTCKSRURG S7 73 WASHINGTON" 94 71 WILMINGTON SS 76 Religious outside the Santo Tomas civilian prison camp. Some of them, including both Catholics and Prot estants, refused to sign temporary releases ottered by the Japanese They were held in the camp.

The others, while outside, had only limited freedom under the watchful eyes of the Japanese military ponce. The temporary releases were a pledge against espionage and subversive activities. The Japanese made it clear any violations would draw "dire punishment. From the very outset of the occupation the Japanese, non Christians, did not know how to handle the religious question in the Philippines, only Christian country of the Orient. Their ar my religious bureau failed dismally in its attempts to gain the co-operation of about 13,000,000 Filipino Catholics and several million Protestants for the "greater East Asia co-prosperity sphere.

The Japanese cracked down on some of the American missionaries in Manila in the fall of 1943. About a dozen Catholic priests were taken to the military police prison at Fort Santiago, charged with disseminating "ent.ny" propaganda. We never learned what happened to the priests. This latest action of the Japa-nese may cause widespread re-sentment among Filipinos who al ways have demonstrated a great love and respect for their religious leaders, especially Americans. Foxhole Hunting Newest Sport WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE (JP) Fox-hunting is old stuff to Second Lt.

Mac L. Basham, Roanoke, but foxhole hunting is a new The other day in the capture of hill 192 outside St. Lo, Basham routed a Nazi from a foxhole with a bayonet. Then he prodded six more out of their holes along the roadside. After taking them to the rear he came back with Staff Sgt.

D. E. McGehee, Durant. and Pfc. G.

C. Smith, Philadelphia, Tenn. They went along the road methodically prodding foxholes and collected five more Germans. MARRYING BUG BITES THREE STEWARDESSES ATLANTA (JP) The marrying bug bit three of Delta Airline's stewardesses almost simultaneously, officials mourned yesterday. Ruth Rowland, Mary Dalian and Winifred Stokes coincidental-ly tendered their resignations on the same day to Superintendent John Sutton.

Regulations prohibit their flying for Delta after marriage. Sutton said philosophically, "What can you expect? Our stewardesses are all young, attractive girls, and naturally they're the ones who are getting married." Miss Rowland of Houston, leads the three to the altar on July 18. when she marries Lt. A. F.

Sanchez, at Bowman field, Louisville, Ky. Miss Stokes will be married Aug. 14 in her home at Cairo, to Bill Smith, Delta station man ager at Atlanta. Mary Dalian of Dallas, and her fiance. Naval Air Corps Lt.

Andy Gannet. have set the date for Aug. 16. From the Ovtr tht Prtcipica of Death and Bock Again iy, A Warntr Brot. Ptcturt By RAY CRONIN SAN FRANCISCO (JP) Sen sational charges, topped by espionage, have been lodged by the Japanese army of occupation against American religious workers in the Philippines, according to a broadcast from the Nippon-controlled Manila radio station.

The broadcast said all United Nations missionaries and other religious workers in the islands were rounded up during the past week and thrown into a civilian prson camp. The Japanese said these Catholic and Protestant missionaries and religious workers had "abused" their temporary freedom of movement by engaging in espionage and subversive propa ganda that endangered the safety of the army of occupation. They further alleged the religious workers had attempted, through subversive activities, to upset co operation between Japanese au thorities and the Nippon-puppet "republic of the Philippines." The broadcast said all the properties of the "enemy" religious organizations supposedly the scores of churches, convents, schools and monasteries in the Philippines were turned over to the "bureau of religious affairs of the republic." After the Japanese army took over the city of Manila, Jan. 2, 1942, about 500 missionaries and religious workers, most of them Americans, were permitted to live in their own religious compounds Judge Takes Off Shoe in Court NEWARK, N. J.

(P) Federal Judge Guy L. Fake took off his shoe in court yesterday to have explained a point about a medi cally-discharged veteran's flat feet. "You have first degree flat foot not bad." the jurist was told by Dr. William D. Crccca of Newark, a witness in tne suit ot josepn Grasso, 26, of Newark, who is seeking reinstatement in his pre-service job In the Belleville tan ning firm of A.

J. Crowhurst Sons. Grasso had testified that he was released from service for flat feet, and the Crowhurst company contends the condition makes him physically' unqualified to do the work of his old job. Grasso. the doctor testified, had third degree flat feet.

Adjourning the trial until July 19, Fake, accompanied by counsel aand Grasso visited the tannery for a personal study of what the veteran's tasks would be if reinstated. Grasso's suit is based on the re-employment section of the selective service act which provides for the return of a job to a serviceman if he applies within 40 days after discharge from military duty. School Taxes May Be Cut by Oil Well LAUREL, Miss. (JP) The Heidelberg consolidated school now has producing oil well on the school grounds, and patrons are discussing the possibility of cut-tin? school tax assessment. The Tip Ray Heidelberg well No.

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