Shamokin News-Dispatch from Shamokin, Pennsylvania • 10

SHAMOKlrt NEWS-DISPATCH, SHAMOK1N, PA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1944 PAGE TEN Screen and Stage Personalities Current Attractions at Local Theatres speech and twitching trigger Showing on Local Screen Charging into Action SCREEN CHATS By EESKINE JOHNSON Bashfjil Syd Saylor, whose comedy fits In the high spots of "Harvest Melody," new P. R. C. musical, now at the Majestic Theatre, began life as an artist. He was graduated from the Chicago Art Institute, later switched to the theatre where he spent 14 years, and finally moved He knew them by their first names, almost shook their arms off and patted each on the back.

They were Technical Sergeant Charles Sewell, Glendale, Master Technical Sergeant Robert E. Marks, Boston, and Corporal William Diekerson, Austin, Texas. The three were radio communications men during the raid and right in the thick of the fighting. Randolph Scott enacts the role of Colonel Thornwald with Noah Beery, Alan Curtis, Peter Coe and Sam Levene in featured to Hollywood where he has remained. For many seasons he made Syd Saylor Comedies, based on his own inimitable wry-faced humor.

His cheerful, homely face and awkward manner are his stock in trade and he deals out a generous portion in "Harvest Melody." Capitol Makin Island Story IN 6 DAYS THE THRILLING HUSHED-UP. TRUTH! Now it's "Depth Charge In a letter to Dorothy Lamour, the ship's company of the submarine Gudgeon gave her the title after carrying her photograph through 30 months of sea duty enemy waters and "scores of depth charges." "Your photograph," the boys wrote, "has done wonders in seeing us through numerous engagements with the Nippers, and has witnessed extensive damage to our enemy. News item: "Soldiers in Alaska present Errol Flynn with 6-month-old blue fox." A wolf would have been more appropriate. Alan Ladd and wife Carol, who ought to know, are denying that second visit from the stork Odd casting for Anne Revere, who did such a swell job as the mother in Song of Bernadette." Shes now playing a jungle princess, in a sarong, for Dorothy Lamour's "Rainbow Island." Randolph Scott Plays Role of Lieutenant Colonel Carlson in Current Screen Drama Rousing action and roaring songs highlight Columbia's newest western, "A Tornado in the Saddle," currently at the Majestic Theatre. Russell Hayden (at the left) supplies the action, while Bob Wills (on the right) combines on both' the action and the songs.

Other featured members of the cast include Dub Taylor and lovely Alma Carroll. In an exciting moment in "Danger TV. a whs Vireinia Bruce picks up a revolver and holds some Arabs at bay. I can near auaiences jiu "Lay that nistol down, babe." Roftfl navis will marrv a sailor One of those things that happen only in the movies happened during the making of "Gung Ho!" the action drama now at the Capitol Theatre, and it happened with plenty of witnesses. In front of the Marine's post exchange, Ray Enright was directing a scene with Grace McDonald and David Bruce.

The picture, produced for Universal by Walter Wanger at the Marine base and Gamp Pendleton, is the story of Lieutenant Colonel Evans p. Carlson's historical raid on Japanese-held Makin Island. Lieutenant Colonel Carlson, as technical and story consultant, was watching a scene in rehearsal when three Marines stepped up to him with snappy salutes. Then came one of the most enthusiastic "family" reunions. The three Marines were among Carlson's Raiders in the Makin Island assault, but he had not seen them since he left them in the Solomons last April.

her next picture, "Christmas in Connecticut" Warner dancer Harriet Olson says she has a private telephone number. Every private tum sapjis to have it Add war Ity. People throng the streets, wearing the clothing of their grandfathers; guns blaze in bitter battles and cowboys bowleg their way into hotels," land offices and saloons. Then they are suddenly deserted. The lizards and pack rats take over.

A single watchman protects the sets against vandalism. They become ghost towns. Such a town was utilized by Columbia in "A Tornado in the Saddle," a sagebrush saga currently starring Russell Hayden with Bob Wills at the Majestic Theatre. Complete to the least detail it might have been a village of the '70's, a sprawling, dusty town, reminiscent of imbroglios, drawling time problems: There were 4,500 and Mrs. Irvin Rickenbauch, Sun-bury.

Mr. and Mrs. Earl S. Gass and son, Sidney, Oak Grove, visited the former's mother, Mrs. Eva C.

Tharp. Mr, and Mrs. Bernell Graybill visited relatives at Augustaville. Mr. and Mrs.

Clarence Herman and sons, Ronald' and Junior, Stonington, visited relatives at Reed Station. Allen Clark, Irish Valley, was a reecnt Reed Station visitor. Miss Miriam Miller and Robert Miller, Mayfair, attended the Youth Fellowship meeting in Elysburg Methodist Church. Thirty members from the Clark's Grove United Brethren Church were present. Miller's Cross Roads Methodist Church was represented.

Mrs. Sarah Hopkins, mother of Rev. Henry Hopkins, pastor of Miller's Cross Roads Church, Stonington, returned to her home after visiting a son at Espy. Majestic Twin Entertainment, A scene from "Gung Ho," story of U. S.

raid on Makin Island, is pictured above as it appears on the Capitol Theatre screen. Showing at Majestic Doors Open 1:15 P. M. Show Start 1:30 P. M.

THI STORY OF their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. John Thomas. Mrs. Harry Spotts and daughter, Tharptown, recently visited Mr.

and Mrs. Carl Reitz, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Renn, Pax-inos, and Mr.

and Mrs. Henry Bix-ler, Shamokin, recently visited Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Shipe. Mr.

and Mrs. Earl Persing, Irish Valley, visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Adam Ressler. Miss Jane Madara, East Cameron Township, spent the week-end at the home of her uncle and aunt, Mr.

and Mrs. Joseph Crowle. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Fox, and sons, Randall and Lamar, were guests of relatives in Millersburg.

CARLSON'S MAKIN ISLAND RAIDERS! 'A Tornado in the Saddle' and 'Harvest Melody' Provida Interesting Double Feature Hit Mr. and Mrs. George Boden and family moved to Philadelphia. California, has a new type ghost town. It's the carefully constructed western city utilized by Hollywood in the making of outdoor dramas.

For wgeks on end, these reproductions of roaring, rampant towns of the pioneer days hum with activ- extras registered witn uenwai in 1939. Today's total is 1,700. Success story: Three years ago Mikhail Rasumny couldn't get a job on Broadway. Since playing the Gypsy in "For Whom the Bell Tolls," he's had 10 offers to appear in Broadway plays. ADD INCIDENTS Walter Brennan's daughter, Ruth, Is starting a screen career of her own in a small role in David O.

Selznick's "Since You Went Away." She's using the name of Lynn Win-throp Clarence Muse, the Negro actor, has written a ballad, "River of Freedom," which Paul Robeson will Introduce In concert soon. Muse is the composer of "When It's Sleepy Down South" Alan Curtis end his mustache have Darted company. Universal thought it made him look too villainous. A soldier spent 10 minutes talking to Vera Vague at the Hollywood Canteen the other night Later, he told a friend: "That Kay Francis is wonderful. But I never knew she looked so much like Vera Vague." Nominated as the funniest scene of the year: Gary Cooper singing "Pistol Packin' Mama" in those South Pacific newsreels Add oddities: Van Rooten and Van Tooten are the names of two actors on Par-amount's "The Hitler Gang" set Betty Hutton may do a play in New York next spring based on the life of Eva Tanguay.

Sonny Tufts, who plays a ski-trooper in "I Love a Soldier," got his 4-F classification as the result of a skiing accident. FAMILY AFFAIR Preston Foster put the nix, but emphatically, on a suggestion by Director Ben Stoloff that they might hire Foster's 5-year-old daughter, Stephanie, for a scene with him in his current picture "Murder in Bermuda," at 20th Century-Fox. Explained Foster: "We tried that two years ago in a picture. We were half way through a long scene when she interrupted and asked, 'Daddy, is that man taking a picture of i i i IMPERIAL KULPMONT Rojemary Lane and Johnny Downs, above, appear in "Harvest Melody," now at the Majestic. LAST TIME TONIGHT other year.

Tallulah Bankhead, newcomer John Hodiak and Bill Bendix are standouts. ft! Georee Jessel is telline this one on himself. Savs he doesn't know Robert Shandy, captain; seriors, Joseph Bodgan, Jerome Kapitsky, Gerald Crossland, Ray Gunther, Joseph Zelinskie, Edward Roman-oskie, Jerome Zupicick and Robert Shandry; junior, Robert Meiser; sophomores, Ray Lauer, William Romanoskie, James Yurick, Vincent Ferrance and Thomas Carr; freshmen, John Rosetti, Robert Johns and John Duncheskie. Reed Station Notes The Mary and Martha Class of Miller's Cross, Roads Methodist Church met in the home of Miss Faye Yordy, 'Stonington. Devotional services and a business session were held, after which a luncheon was served.

Those, present were: Miss Leona Wolf, 'president; Mrs. Mildred Lawrence, Mrs. May Ross, Mrs. W. D.

Hummel, Mrs. Charles Kerstetter, Mrs. Grace Herman, Mrs. Pearl Dunkelberger, Mrs. Olla Reeser, Mrs.

Blanche Berger, Mrs. Marvine Wynn and Miss Faye Yordy, Stonington; Mrs. May Cook, Mayfair, and Mrs. Grace Knouse, Reed Station. Visitors were Mrs.

Maggie Wolf and Mr. and Mrs. William Yordy, Stonington; Arlington Knouse, Miss Mildred Knouse and Eileen Knouse, Reed Station. The next meeting will be held in the home of Mrs. May Ross, Sunbury, R.

D. 2, March 13. Frank L. Martz and Irvin A. Herman were jcent Dewart visitors.

Miss Leona Landis spent several days with Mrs. Iva Duttinger, Dei-bler's Station. John Smith, Turbotville, was a recent guest of Mr. and Mrs. Frank L.

Martz and family. Mr. and Mrs. Earl L. Miller and daughter, Miriam, and son, Robert, Mayfair, visited relatives this week.

and Mrs. Irvin Herman and his draft status. His last bride was born after Pearl Harbor. Lew Landers has directed every type of film from westerns to drawing room dramas. He's one of the THE SCREEN'S GREATEST GLORY STORY! few Hollywoodites we know who is willing to teach tricks of his trade HIT NO.

2 Robert Lowery "A SCREAM IN THE to newcomers. When RKO groom RANDOLPH ed Garson Kanin for directorship, they sent him to the Landers' sets to observe Lew's methods. Learns Htti NOAH BEERY Jr. ALAN CURTIS Peter Coe David Bruce Sam Levene J.Carrol Naish Richard Lane MilburnStone his script thoroughly and then never looks at it again from start to fin ish of picture. LADIES! Tonight- You May Still Start the Beautiful Old Antique Dinnerware Set son, Irvin, and daughter, Shirley Mae, visited the former's mother, Mrs.

Eva C. Tharp, Irish Valley. STATE IS PLANNING WILLIAM PENN FETE HARRISBURG, Feb. 24 (U.R) The Commonwealth he founded had preparations under way today for the tercentary celebration of 'William Penn's birth, October 24. The State Forests and Waters Department disclosed that an arboretum of trees native to Pennsylvania will be developed this year at Washington Crossing.

Park and named "Penn's Woods" in honor of the founder's 300th birthday. This arboretum will comprise approximately 12 acres within the park's Bowman Hill Wildflower Preserve, which contains flowers, shrubs and ferns native to the state, the department said. The State Historical Commission will supervise the Commonwealth's formal observance of the Penn tercentary. Trevorton Road Mrs. Harry Deats and Mrs.

Harold Swank and daughters, Evelyn and Marjorie, Klinesgrove, visited grace Mcdonald PRODUCED IN COOPERATION WITH THE UNITED STATES MARINES Extra! "NEW ORLEANS BLUES" with Ray Eberle Louis Prima Orchestra Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Landis and adughters, Leona and Orpha. Mae, and sons, Delmar and Bruce, visited the former's parents, Mr.

IMPERIAL KULPMONT RITZ THURSDAY Shows at TREVORTON 6:30, 8:45 "Henry Aldrich Swings It" l.ydon "Alaskan Highway" Richard Arlen Jean Parker BROS. uutkffidc TODAY 2 BIG FEATURES THRU TIT? A fl SATURDAY! riiiii 4 A AM-0A M.JL "Anchors Aweigh" was written as the-official march of the class of 1907, United States Naval Academy. The "music was composed by Lieutenant C. A. Zimmerman, academy bandmaster and choir leader; the words by Commander A.

H. Miles and Midshipman R. Lovell. That much C. B.

DeMille found out from his research department the other day. He wanted to use part of the song in the musical score of his "Story of Dr. Wassell." He applied to the Navy for official permission to use the song, only to find the Navy had nothing to say about it. DeMille had to buy the screen rights for partial use of the song from the Robbins Publishing Company, which owns the copyright. Veloz and Yolanda expect their second baby next month and hope it's a girl.

Diana Barrymore is telling New York friends she'll return to Hollywood and make one more film and then quit the screen. Her last picture was "Ladies Courageous" for Walter Wanger. Irene Manning, recently returned from a camp tour, tells us that at Fort Sheridan reveille is played with a recording of "Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey." Ida Lupino received a fan letter the other day from Africa in which the soldier asked for a kiss-print. "But please don't send it V-mail," he wrote. "My buddies tell me the reproductions come through a mere smudge." It's Vivian Blaine, 20th's redheaded star of "Greenwich Village," who says having a date in Hollywood these days is like shooting dice.

"Between 7 and 11," sighs Vivian, "they're making passes all the time." Don't miss Alfred Hitchcock's new thriller. "Life Boat." It's just as good as "Rebecca," with some of the finest acting of this or any COAL CALL Laughs Songs Swing Swoon i.and Everything! Producer Samuel Goldwyn just bought $500,000 in War Bonds, the highest personal investment yet made in movietown. Character Actress Betty Roadman has a voice you love to hate in her latest movie, "Up in Mabel's Room," in which she's heard but not seen. She plays the mother-in-law who rules the marriage of Marjorie Reynolds and Dennis OTCeefe via vitriolic telephone conversations. Dooley Wilson, singin' man born with rhythm, made "As Time Goes By" famous in the film, "Casablanca." Dooley once toured the south with the Rabbit's Foot Minstrels, later scattered blue notes from New Orleans to Cairo.

You'll see him next in RKO's "Seven Days Ashore" and "Wing and a Prayer." Currently in "Higher and Higher." C. T. Gym Show February 29th (Continued from One) be members of the queen's court. The queen will be crowned by Peter Lonchar, president of the senior ciass and master of ceremonies for the exhibition. The exhibition will be under supervision of Miss Ellen Haile and Joseph Kurtz, instructors in health and physical education at West End High School.

Tickets for the event are now on sale at the school. Members of the girls' team are: Jean Hines, captain; seniors, Bette Blusius, Jean Hines, Gloria Hoover, Jean Troutman, Anna Vitacco and Dorothy Raudenbush; juniors, Peggy Evans, Kathleen Francis, Mary Lou Brennan, Erma Zartman, June Johns, Mary Jane Long, Betty Mar-cinek, Rosemary Moore, Shirley Siegfried and Xenia Mauslcy; sophomores, Josephine Kalejta, Gloria Stanlshewski, Betty Tomol and Rita Knapick; freshman, Louise Bradley. Members of the boys' team are: "A TORNADO WEEK-END SPECIAL FROG A PLATTERS I .03 LOBSTER TAIL -mc PLATTERS I 3 FISH -nc PLATTERS OU OYSTER mfc PLATTERS OU DEVILED CRAB apc PLATTERS OO IN THE SADDLE" with I JOLLY JACK ROBEL'S with RUSSELL HAYDEN ORCHESTRA i in the New Program of i 50 CHICKEN SEA LEG PLATTERS ORDER OF SHRIMP Alma CARROll Bob WILIS 35' i if tor The Vigilantes Tlie Radio Rogues Eddie LcBaron and Orchestra ORDER OF mhc CLAMS 03 HAM, CHOPS AND rc STEAK PLATTERS OU HAM AND EGG PLATTERS OU SPAGHETTI 25c Variety of Sandwiches FRITZ BOWER 840-842 W. Walnut St. Is I THE ANTHRACITE REGION Tune in WEEU 6:00 p.

m. Tuesday through Saturday Tune in WKOK 6:45 p. m. Monday through Friday BROWNIE PAKE-WARE JSC.