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Cast JANE WITHERS IN AMUSING COMEDY In Movie Poll! CO a Your Vote BESTPICTURES LAST YEAR AT BOX OFFICE By KATE CAMERON. THE motion picture exhibitors throughout the country have been busy during the last few weeks counting the pennies taken in at the box offices last year, and prorating them in terms of the individual drawing power 2 to 1: A C. 1 TV 4 zn e-i of the stars and the magnetic quality of certain productions. I A virino i i'i tt in-! jr. stance, James Stewart and Mickey Rooney topped all other male stars their ability Jane Withers and Joe Brown Jr.

are reprimanded by Claire Du Brey in "High School By KATE CAMERON. "High School." 20th Century-Fox picture directed by George Nicholls Jr. from screen play by Jack Jungmeyer, Edith Skouras and Harold Tarshis. THE CASTl 5 1 III. 6.

TZt. Jeff- Jane Wallace- -Cliff Edwards -Lillian Porter Slats Boberts to draw people and pennies into the theatre, and Bette Davis is the outstanding feminine draw of the year. The money -making powers of these three are based on the fact that each them i uted Tommy Lee -John Kellogr Jane Withers Joe Brown Jr. Lloyd Corripan Claire Da Brey T.ynne Roberts Paul Harvey Miss Witberspoon Margaret Brayton Dr. Henry Wallace-Miss HuKfrins Carol Roberts James Wallace Mai btepbens -Johnnie Ptrocne Terry- Jane Withers leads a band of lively youngsters in an amusing screen item primarily designed for teen-agers.

"High School' is a fast-paced comedy which young Miss Withers dominates with her usual exuberance. From a chubby lass of last year, she is stretching into a avelt and lissm sub-deb. Bette Davis wininng Ten in Tyrone Power and Jeannette MacDonald with the crowns thry received as King and Queen of the movies last January. This week film fans throughout the country again have the opportunity vote for their favorites in a one-day election. Two pages of pictures of leading male and female performers appear on page's 2 and 4 of the Coloroto Section of this issue.

Who should be KING and QUEEN of the Movies The News and mere than fifty other newspapers ia key cities are holding a ONE-DAY ELECTION. Vote! Use the coupon printed below. Tyrone Power and Jeanette MacDonald 'sere crowned King and Queen in last year's election. Who are your present favorites of the slver screen? THIS YEAR'S VOTES WILL BE SCORED BY TOINTS. Your first choice will count three points for your favorite; your second will count two points; your third choice, one.

The Two Candidates With the Most Points Will Win Don't try to increase the score of your first choices by, writing their names also in the spaces reserved for your second and third choices. If you do that, they will receive credit only for being your first choices three points each, that's all. Age wont bar any candidate from becoming eithef King or Queen. You can vote for a child star, if yoa want to. Any movie actor or actress is eligible.

Each reader is entitled to cast one ballot. If eome other member of your family is casting his vote on the printed ballot below, write your first, second and third choices on apiece of paper, sign your name and mail it in according to instructions. REMEMBER, THIS IS A ONE-DAY ELECTION. Fo, fill in your ballot, and RUSH IT BY MAIL to "KING and QUEEN of 1940," The News, 220 E. 42d N.

Y. C. All ballots must be in The News office by midnight Thursday, Jan. 18. Ballots received after that hour will not be counted.

The action takes place at the Thomas Jefferson High School of San Antonio, which seems to be a very unusual place of learning. It is a fancy school wherein the extracurricular activities seem dominate the classroom work. Joe Brown Jr. (no relation to comedian Joe E. Brown) plays the male lead.

He is a promising youngster of the freckle-faced, pen-mouthed, slow-thinking variety, who makes a good foil for the sharpness and vivacity of the young star. Jane, the only daughter of a well-to-do rancher, has been allowed to run wild until her father decides that a little discipline might do his cocky, motherless daughter some good. He sends her off to San Antonio, where his brother, Dr. Henry Wallace, is superintendent of the Thomas Jefferson High School. There, the boys of the ROTC and the girls of the lariat corps do a good job of toning down young Jane's pugnaciousness and making her into a popular member of their sfroup.

George Nicholls Jr. has managed to get the maximum fun out of the situation by his clever handling of the boys and girls. Short Features The ten top box office attractions among short features, according to results of a poll conducted by the Motion Picture Herald, are as follows, in order of their placing: 1. Walt Disney cartoons. t.

Merrie Melodies. 8. Broadway Brevities. i. Pete Smith specialties.

5. Our Gang comedies, 8. MGM cartoons. 7. Melody Master.

8. Terry-Toons. 9. MGM Miniatures. 10.

FitzPatrick Travel Talk. After the first ten winners and occupying relative positions from eleventh to twentieth inclusive, in the complete listing, were these: 11. Crime- Doesn't Pay series. 12. Grantland Ru-e Sportlights.

IS. Paramount Headliners. H. Three Stooges' comedies. 15.

March of Time. 16. Looney Tunes. 17. MGM Musical Comedies.

18. Popeye the Sailor. 19. Viiaphon Varieties. 20.

"Your True Adventure." three or more films to the screen during the period involved. Five for Stewart. James Stewart tops the list with five productions "Made for Each Other," "It's a Wonderful World," "You Can't Take It With You," "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," and "Destry Rides Again." Young Rooney rode to popularity on Hardy series, three of which were released during the year, the musical-comedy film, "Babes in Arms," and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Bette Davis' draw is based on three Warner Brothers productions "Dark Victory," "The Old Maid," and "Juarez." The Technicolor production of "Elizabeth and Essex," in which Miss Davis played the Virgin Queen, was brought in too late in the year to be considered. Like "Gone With the Wind" and other big films released at the close of the year, it will be counted among the 1940 releases.

"Jesse James" Leads. Showman's Trade Review lists the 25 leading pictures, as judged by their box office draw. They are in the order of their popularity, as follows: "Jesse James." "Dodge City." "Union Pacific." "Kentucky." "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." "Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever." "Babes in Arms." "The Wizard of Oz." "Stanley and Livingstone." "Goodbye, Sir. Chips." "Bachelor 3Iother." "Out West With the Hardrs." "Tarzan Finds a Son." "The Rains Came." "Three Smart Girls Crow Up." "The Hardys Ride High." "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." "Only Angels Have Wings." "Rose of Washington Square." "Dark Victory." "Gunga Din." "Hollywood Cavalcade." "Angels ith Dirty Faces." "Young Mr.

Lincoln." "Stage Coach." This list was compiled from a nation-wide poll of exhibitors and leaders of the motion picture industry and covers the period from Nov. 1, 1938, -to Oct. 31, 1939. A total of 387 films were considered and they were all from the eight major and two major-independent companies that have studios in Hollywood. SUNDAYS NEWS King and Queen the Movies tliiditli AiitleiMi lit Coloroto There is a portrait of Miss Judith Anderson, the Broadway stage star who is now to be seen In David O.

Selznick's ''Rebecca," on page one of today's Coloroto Section. Miss Anderson was born in Adelaide, Australia, more than forty years ago, yet she seems ageless. She was one of four children. She began playing in stock in Australian towns in 1914. In 1917 she arrived in New York with her mother.

There were four more years of stock, then small parts in better shows. By 1925 she was a "Belasco star." A few of her stage triumphs include "Strange Interlude," "As You Desire Me," "Mourning Becomes Electra," "The Old Maid" and "Family Portrait." Her ranking by the New York dramatic critics as the finest actress of the season for her portrayal of the Virgin Mary in "Family Portrait" made Selznick seek her for the role of Rebecca. In 1918 she went to Hollywood with a letter of introduction to Cecil B. DeMille. It did her no good.

In 1932 she returned to make a picture, "Blood Money." It wasn't good. While there she met an old friend, Ian Keith. There were reports that they would be wed. But he remarried a third wife. On May 19, 1937, she married Dr.

Benjamin Harrison Lehman, professor of English at the University of California. In July, 1939, she divorced him, charging incompatibility. Miss Anderson hopes to open a Pacific Coast company in a revival "Family Portrait," and to extend her tour across the continent and back to Broadway. This portrait by The New photographers Cranston and Elklna is another in the series of colorfotos of stars of the stage, screen and radio. Next Sunday Claire Trevor.

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