Shamokin News-Dispatch from Shamokin, Pennsylvania • 11

SHAM0K1N NEWS-DISPATCH, SH AMOK IN, PA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1944 PAGE ELEVEN' Wins in a Breeze Comedy by Colonna Paramarine Strategists Make Ready to Attack if SCREEN CHATS By GYPSY ROSE LEE (While Erskine Johnson is on vacation, his column is being written by "guest conductors" from among his friends and fans in Hollywood.) might be classified as an actresi, rather than simply a ravishin? figure in a shimmering spotlight. The brunet Miss Corio now'per forms at the Majestic Theatre til "Call of the Jungle," the colorful Monogram drama in which she ts starred as the reiroing beauty Of an island in the South Seas, and the center of a thrilling series of events. For many seasons Miss Corio packed every burlesque theatre in which she appeared, and her admiring fans ranged from sweatered laborers to the late Oliver Wendell Holmes, chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, who never failed to see her perform when she visited Washington. Credited with being the originator of a new dancing technique in burlesque. Ann's ever-increasing popularity advanced her to the point where she was earning a salary "of more than $1000 per week.

For several years she remained in the fore front of burlesque entertainers, but finally abandoned her career make her debut as a legitimate actress as Tondeleyo in "White Cargo." at a weekly salary of onijf $100. tL 7 A last minute check-up is made by the fighting marines before the big push which is part of the thrilling action in "Marine Raiders," RKO Radio's sensational dramatic picture at Victoria Theatre. Constance Moore and Jerrj' Colonna. in a scene from "Atlantic City." Republics spectacular new musical hit now at the Capitol. Indians in a frontier district, and Washoe Pines Dude Ranch, Carson City, Nev.

Dear Erskine: Here I am, as you suggested in print. Only this time I'm the typographical engineer. This should be a pleasant task, my fine frescoed journalist. Usually, I rattle off a thousand words before I gain control of my larynx. Carson Kitty from Carson City, that's what they call me out here.

This Nevada dude ranch is a great place for a girl to outgrow her girdle. Pure western air must be composed largely of carbohydrates, oxygen and ether. I can't stay awake after 8 p. m. And I have trouble refraining from third helpings of everything at breakfast.

Now I know why they call these the wide open spaces. The natives' faces are wide open with honest friendliness: we tenderfeet are just wide open with vulnerable surprise. Everything else is wide open, too, with the state's blessing. Emporiums of chance harbor fascinating green-topped tables, down which numerical cubes playfully tumble or little ivory balls click into slotted wheels. SHE IS REMINDED Manv of the belles remind m.

nT Maynard, Gibson, Miss Miles and! Capitol Outstanding Film picture which holds the unflagging interest of the audience. Ken Maynard and Hoot Gibson, i two of the screen's most populAi I cowboys, are co-starred in this last- moving film, and both deliver ca- a 1 forthright performances. I Their various riding stunts, and their all-around expertness in the saddle, are nothing less than thrill- ing. Jack LaRue is fine in a "heavy" role, and the charming Bel- ty Miles demonstrates why she was others are arrayed against them on the side of law and order. The climax brings the hard-riding Indians and a troop of cavalry to assist in the rounding up of the criminals.

Robert Tansey has given "The Law Rides Again" a substantial production, and director Alan James must be credited with maintaining the action at its furious pace. father, Ernest Stevens, is an electrical engineer, engaged in war production. Her step-brother. Lieutenant Gene Stevens, is a combat pilot in the Navy who recently won the Navy Cross for sinking a Jap transport in the South Pacific. Aside from being an expert figure skater.

Miss Carroll is an excellent swimmer and diver, a trick rider and. she hastened to explain a good cook. She specializes in pastries and is a collector of new recipes. She raised Boxer dogs before the war. but all of them have since been accepted by the Army.

DT'TT THURSDAY Jg fa and FRIDAY TREVORXON starts 7:00 "Two Girls and a Sailor" Van Johnson June AUyson Gloria De Haven Harry James and His Orchestra Coming SaU Continuous Showing "The Hour Before the Down" Alma Carroll Is Miss America in 'Atlantic Currently Unreeling Here Thanks to a studio-made breeze, RKO actress Laraine Day is able vividly to live up to her nickname of "zephyr girl." more gadgets on their counters than a drug store. Ann Corio turned her back on real security as a top-ranking specialist of the burlesque stage, to begin a new career in which she uver at carson uity theres a Green-eyed Alma Carroll. 20-year-old artist model who is "Miss America" in Republic's "Atlantic City," now at the Capitol Theatre, was planning 'to become a doctor when they made her a beauty queen. As a student at University high saloon called the "Bucket of rousing action story plus a fine romance, RKO Radio's "Marine Raiders" is now at Victoria Theatre with Pat O'Brien, Robert Ryan and Ruth HUssey in its starring roles. A mpgnificent production, both in its dtepiction of "the Corps thai never been licked" in training and in war.

and in its brilliantly told love affair between Robert Ryan and Ruth Hussey, this stirring picture provides high entertainment. Rytaai (who is now in the Marines himself) and O'Brien portray a pair of Marine officers who, after the bitutr affair of Guadalcanal, are sent to Australia to recuperate. There, Ryjtn meets Miss Hussey, a lieutenant in the Australian Women's Auxiliary Air Force, and a romance develops. But O'Brien, thinking his paL is the victim of a temporary infatuation, takes him back to the States before he can marry the girl. The ensuing breach between the two men is not healed until, after months of Intensive work in training recruits in jungle warfare, they ate sent back to the South Pacific wfhere they take part in the Philippines invasion.

After a brief visit in Australia Ryan makes good use of hfis time and marries the girl. An unusual atmosphere of realism recently chosen California's champion cowgirl. Others in the really exceptional cast are Bryant Washburn, Emniett Lynn, Kenneth Harlan, John Bridges. Fred Hoose, Charles Murray, and Hank Bell, not to mention a large number of Indian tribesmen, headed by Chief Many Treaties and Chief Thundercloud. The story finds LaRue.

a rascally Indian agent, directing his henchmen in systematically robbing the my recently completed picture withi Majestic Double Billing 1 IMPERIAL KULPMONT Kanay scott, Dinah Shore and Bob Burns at International, "Belle of the Yukon." Several times when Robert Service visited us at the studio during the filming of "Belle," we chatted about his famous characters, Dan McGrew and the Ladv Known as The Red Cross should be notified about this place. Judging by the libations dispensed there, five pints of plasma from the Bucket of Blood would win the war! Gypsy, the Belle of the Yukon. Within the next few days your Hollywood reporter is taking a vacation. We're so tired we can hardly keep our ears open. While we re away, the column will be in the hands of such famous Hollywood-ites as Moss Hart, Eddie Cantor, 'The Law Rides Again' and Ann Corio in 'Call of the Currently Playing 2 Big Hits 2 HIT NO.

2 ROSEMARY LANE Lou. They were composites of types ne knew in Dawson City during those gold-boom days in the frozen north at the turn of the century. "We call these belles "Roccoro Rd. school in Los Angeles, she had every intention of enrolling for a course in medicine at once of the big colleges. In 1941, the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce chose her to represent the city as a typical Miss America.

She went on a personal appearance tour and it led her right back to Hollywood and a screen career. She was cast In "They All Kissed the Bride," then began to play leads in westerns, including "Belle of the Yukon." following in "Cinderella Jones" and "Up in Arms." She was then selected from more than 100 exquisite applicants for the "Miss America" role in "Atlantic City," starring Constance Moore and Brad Taylor. Miss Carroll was born in Los Angeles, January 11, 1924. Her step- A continued surge of sweeping action characterizes Law Rides Again," the Monogram western drama which now plays at the Majestic Theatre. It is the type of TONIGHT FRIDAY HIT NO.

1 DICK POWELL and LINDA DARNELL in It Happened Tomorrow" Truman Vencil explained, oermeates every foot of the film, MARY ANTHONY'S DANCING STUDIO All Types of Dances TAP TOE RUMBA -CONGA SAMBA OPENS OCT. 7 1:00 P. M. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS BLDG 17 N. Market St "HARVEST MELODY" Joan Davis, Danny Kaye, Lester Cowan, Loretta Young.

Sonny Tufts, Alfred Hitchock, Gypsy Rose Lee, Al Jolson, Monty Goddard, Harry James and Kenneth Thompson, chairman the Hollywood Victory Committee. Marty Lewis, the Paramount radio director, and Dorothy Var lifting it far out of the customary "service picture" class. The romantic leads are splendid, and O'Brien has one of his most appeal-ling roles to date. In the fiipporting cast Frank McHugh and Barton DANCING ROSELAND HOTEL Kulpmont Music by Johnny Arden Hot Bret and Hot Pork with French Fries, Deviled Crabi TONIGHT AND SATURDAY ARE BIG NIGHTS Nuys, one of the most beautiful of the Ziegfeld Follies girls, have discovered each other. MacLane turn in exceptional performances.

Harold Schuster's sympathetic direction of the picture produced by Robert Fellows and the cleverly-written screenplay by Warren Duff combine to make "Marine Raiders" thoroughly enjoyable. China has about 2,000,000 square miles of arid country. Thru A Good Time and Lots of Fun Come to the PARADISE In Kl'LPMONT Music by Nlrrola, Apple, Gble and Babby Victoria MOW fLMTO MONDAY Military Action indicating some pretty girls watching the play at a nearby table. Still hungry for knowledge, I bit. "Why?" "Because they're so ornamental," he laughed.

I'm trying to curb my curiosity. Inside metropolitan city limits, I know what's what; but out here in the sparser populated areas my education seems neglected. Why they call these is another mystery. I ain't seen one yet who looked a day under 50. jfcfcm tossing in the grammatical vernacular so friends will know I've picked up some local color, if not tan.) I always thought cowboys were bow-legged because their chaps were made that way.

But they aren't, believe me. When they walk it's just plain parenthetical- locomotion. MOBILE COWBOY8 But the funny thing to me is that they seldom seem to ride horses. They ride station wagons. "Oats is so high, lady.

It's easier to rassle with the ration board for them high-octane feed coupons." The wild west is tamed and the civilized world is growing wilder. Cowboys are riding automobiles, blacksmiths are vulcanizing hot water bottles and tire dealers have T- jl li''sMilWyifialllW i-r iMwifMi 111 If HviiiiaaTniaTaiwamaawMaMaMai ti tiawnifiM KeoDeninz or opening a urn Pat O'Brien and Ruth Hussey 8tarred in 'Marine Now Unreeling Bringing to the screen a most RAINBOW DINER (TREVORTON ROAD) UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Prompt Service Choice Foods Served Dinners and Short Order Meals Renovated and Redecorated Fried Spring Chicken Chicken Pies Fagots Deviled Crab Platters Dane Saturday CRONE'S CAFE Sunbury Sixth St. Mrs. Maraaret Milbrond. hAanaaer SIVITZER'S THARFTOWN SPECIAL TONIGHT Deviled Crabt, Lobster Tails, Hot Pork and 'What are the wild wavessaying? TIin'ILE R0ARIHG FOR 1944's TOP MUSICAL COMEDY! Shrimp Plotters gj IPS" including i "Br Tkt 5a" rl Ala iGol Nobody" I Trevtrton Bo4 Modern and Square Dancing TONIGHT Music by Smith's Orchestra Wit Gilchrist Collar gl THE SONS OF HEAVEN! j.

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