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VOL. CLXXIT. No. THE GAZETTE. MONTREAL: TUESDAY.

APRTL 20. 1943. CARRY STORY OF STAR SPANGLED FILM THEATRE and MUSIC xThe Army Show' Coming Here, Opening at His Majesty's May 4 they gave Folkes a half-pint of whisky after he told them he would disclose the details of th 21-year-old navy ensign's bride slaying, if they would "give rce a few drinks. Neither that night nor at a phy sical examination the next morning. Dr.

de River said, was thera anything to indicate Folices had been mistreated by the police. Guide to Theatres Mildred Morey. Jimmie More, Brian Farnon and many others. Music and lyrics of The Army Show are by Capts. Geoffrey Wad-dington, Robert Farnon and Rai Purdy, and Sergeants Shuster, Wayne, and Freddie Grant.

Costumes are by Ronnie McRae, scenery by Pte. Art Price, and the dances have been staged by Aida rJ a4 jiliii Betty Hutton, Victor Moore, Katherine Emery and Walter Abel carry the plot of Star Spangled Rhythm, the big Paramount musical opening at the Palace on Friday. Moore plays a doorman at the Paramount studio whose sailor son thinks he's an executive. When the son comes on leave to visit him, the whole studio and all its stars enter into the deception and give the young man a real welcome. Lamour, Goddard and Lake Rib TOKATYAN ROMEO Armand Tokatyan, well-known Metropolitan tenor, will sing the role of Romeo opposite Jeanette MacDonald when she makes her operatic debut at His Majesty's in Gounod's Romeo and Juliet on May-8 and 10.

Tokatyan replaces Jacques Gerard, Canadian tenor originally announced for the role. Mr. Tokatyan has sung the role a number of times at the Metropolitan. In addition to the principals, both the chorus and ballet will be brought here from the Metropolitan Opera, it is announced. MacMurray.

Franchot Tone, Ray Milland, Victor Moore, Vera Zorina, Mary Martin, Dick Powell, Betty Hutton, Eddie Bracken, Alan Ladd, Rochester and many others. They all take part in a story of a Paramount studio gateman's dilemma, when his sailor son believing him to the head of the studio, visits Hollywood on shore leave. For their song. A Sweater, A Sarong And A Peek-a-boo Bang, the three girls didn't cost Para With the arrival in Montreal the other day of Captain Frank Squires first of several advance representatives for the big revue announcement was made that The Army Show, Canada's all-soldier entertainment, will come to His Majesty's Theatre, on May 4, 5, 6 and 7, The Army Show has a complete military personnel. It includes a chorus assembled from the Canadian Women's Army Corps, and which is an outstanding feature of the show, since the current and successful experiment marks the first time, either in Canada or the U.S., that women have participated in soldier revues.

Among those particularly prominent during the 16 scenes of the extravaganza are: Jimmy Shields, radio tenor who was featured with Fred Allen, Fibber McGee and the Hit Parade; Frank Shuster and Johnny Wayne, comedy team who have done most of the writing for the productibn; Raymonde Mar-anda, singing "find" from the C.W.A.C.; Russ Titus, baritone; Windsorites Lose Visas For Sprees in Detroit Windsor. April 19. W. M. Morphet, inspector of the Windsor foreign exchange control board said today that a large number of residents of Windsor and district have had their border crossing privileges cancelled within the last few days when it was found they had visited beer taverns and theatres in Detroit.

He said large amounts of Canadian money has been finding its way back from Detroit in recent weeks and he said the amounts had reached "alarming proportions." "It is quite evident that Windsor and district residents and others who have had occasion to cross the border, have reached the point in their thinking where they believe the board has become comRlacent about the use of a short form (Permit to carry $5 to United States). He said the problem was a difficult one, particularly on weekends, and that it was virtually im possible to trail every visitor who enters from Canada with funds to spend in Detroit. former commander of a Canadian Highland brigade, has been appointed officer commanding an overseas reinforcement unit, it was learned tonight. Maj. W.

G. Abel, a former Canadian advertising executive, now Director of Press Relations at Canadian Military Headquarters, has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant-coloneL Capt. Eric Gibbs, a former Toronto and Windsor, newspaperman who now is Assistant Director of Press Relations at Military Headquarters, has been to the rank of major. Fire Hose Stocks 'Frozen' Ottawa, April 19. Sales of the heavy, double jacket fire hose used by the larger fire departments have been placed on a permit basis, the Munitions Department announced tonight.

The new order, Issued by Deputy Rubber Controller J. A. Martin, also provides that single jacket fire hose must not be sold until the buyer has certified in writing that the hose is required immediately for protection against fire. Money as well as men are needed to beat the Axis. Buying Victory Bonds is the least Canadians can do.

I SCREAM! YOU SCREAM! THEY ALL SCREAM! AT THOSE GAT FUNSTERS FISHER and WHITE NOW AT THE in- Li LA. 6700 DINNER SHOW 8.30 Cleveland Views Local Girl's Film Author of I Walked With A Zombie on Staff of Plain Dealer One minor entertainment that surely would have rewarded a pilgrimage took place in Cleveland recently. That was the premiere of a film called provocatively, I Walked With A Zombie. Cleveland was chosen for the event because it Is the home town of iu author, a Miss Inez Wallace. The event cf the premiere of a tpook number like this, even with Miss Wallace herself present, snd even the mayor to welcome the 2ombie.

would not perhaps be reason for attending. Even the idea of having the first showing start at midnight, in deference to the habits cf walkers with zombies, would scarcely reward any oat-of-the-way trip, for a movie house is as dark at nnon as it is at the more witching hour. More worthwhile reasons for vi.tmg the premiere of I Walked With A Zombie, however, would be found in the attendance of Miss Wallaces fellow workers. For Miss Wallace is a member of the uff cf the Cleveland Plain Dealer, famed Ohio newspaper. Newvarer lk being what they re.

-nd even what the movies think they are on occasion, a midnight rremiere of little number like I Walked With A Zombie would surely draw forO. an audience response that woulJ break the rules frankness. Usually when sufli premieres are held, the audience is asked to grade lis enthusiasm on little cards provided for the purpose. We should like tr see the cards commenting on Wallace's effort, both from her fellow workers and from her confreres on rival Cleveland papers. It v-rtuld only be embarrassing if Miss Wallac? had delusions of artistic achievement Or THINGS TO COME.

Hume Cronyn, Ontario actor, whoe first film. Shadow Of A Doubt, is now on view locally, has been gned bv Metro for A Thou-snd Shall Fall, the story of French prisoner! in Germany. Others in the cut are Sir Cedric Hardwire and Joseph Calleia. the U.S. Army is expected to ask for 20 minutes or ha.f-an-hour weekly at every theatre for film propaganda.

Gerral Alexander Suries. chief of its Bureau of Public Relations, is with the hit-or-miss allotments of time to the Army. The Seventh Cross. Anna Seghers novel about the experiences cf seven fugitives from a Nazi concentration camp, has been purchased by Metro. Both 20th Century-Fox ard Warners bid for it.

You Can Ration Love is the title ft a new Paramount musical. Universal ha announced Girls. as the title for its new film with music. OF LOCAL INTEREST. Latest of the Hardy Family pictures.

Andy Hardy's Double Life, is slated to come into the Palace on Friday if the Hitchcock film. Shadow Of A Doubt, does not remain for a serond week. No war film, since In Which We Serve, it is reiTted. has received a more enthusiastic reception than Desert Victory (due to o-en at the Capitol Friday). When it comes to filming the war the British seem to know Just what goes over.

Another British film on topical themes is The Avengers, whicb the Princess is launching Friday. This one is about the Norwegian underground movement. The rain drenched streets of Warsaw, the craggy hills cf Czechoslovakia, a fisherman's hut SINGING SIR JOSEPH Charles Bedford-Jones takes the mle of Sir Joseph Porter in the GJbert and Sullivan operetta, H.M S. Pinafore, to be presented by XY.t Montreal West Operatic Society on April 2P. 30 and May 1 in the Montreal West High School.

The proceeds will go to the Lions Boys' Club and the Lions British Child War Victims Fund. mount a thm dime in the way of costuming, which as probably unpre cedented in the annals of picture- making. Dotty appears In one ol the sarongs she wor" in a previous pic ture, Paulette wears the bare midriff sweater and shorts from Nothing But the Truth and Veronica that low-cut gown from I Wanted wings. others as they go through a num ber of routines, the variety of which is seldom found any other aerial troupe. This attraction was the opening and closing feature at the 1940 San Francisco Golden Gate Exposition, a fact that should at test their reputation in the amusement world.

Perhaps the most thrilling moment of the performance is presented at the very end, when two of the members of the act plunge from the top of the rigging to nets stretched below. The nets themselves are no assurance of safety for a person must land just so if they are to escape Joe Basile and his Madison Square Garden band will be Tn attendance at all performance. For a period of 10 years the orchestra leader and his famous organization has appeared at the Madison Square Garden. New York City. The Herb Taylor Four, accounted I one of the best acrobatic acts ever seen here, specializes in performing on the aerial quintpule bars.

Five horizontal bars suspended from a rigging high in the air are only stopping off points for these aerial gymnasts. R.C.A.F. Show on Tour For Servicemen Only Ottawa. April 19. The RCA.F.'s revue, Blackouts Of 1943.

has started from Ottawa to tour stations throughout Canada, Air Force headquarters announced tonight. The show, for service personnel only, is produced, directed and Broadbent of Hollywood. Jack Arthur, popular Toronto showman, has supervised staging of the entire production, assisted by Rorr.ney Brent.Maj. Victor George is general manager. The main objective of the show is the entertainment of Canadian soldiers in Canadian camps and abroad, but all profits that accrue from per-mances given for civilian audiences will go right back for troop off-duty services by way of the Army Show Fund.

This fund is administered by civilian trustees chosen from the citizens and cooperating committees across Canada. On Saturday. May 8, following the four days public shows at His Majesty's Theatre, the Army Show will perform for the troops in the Montreal depots. Box office sale of tickets for civilian showings opens April 27. FOLKES ACQUITTAL REFUSED BY COURT Attorney for Negro Accused in Lower 13 Murder Fails in Request Albany, April 19.

(JPi Judge L. G. Lewelling today denied Robert E. Lee Folkes a directed verdict of acquittal in the Lower Berth 13 murder trial. Defence Attorney Leroy Lomax made his request for a directed verdict after the State had concluded its case against Folkes, charged with first degree murder In the knife slaying of Mrs.

Martha Virginia James on a California-bound train before dawn January 23. Lomax unsuccessfully contended the State had offered insufficient evidence to link the 20-year-old train cook with tne crime. The State's final witness was Dr. Joseph Paul de River, Los Angeles psychiatrist, who described two meetings with Folkes after the cook had made an oral statement which, Los Angeles police officers testified previously, included his admission that he slashed Mrs. James" throat.

Folkes was arrested in Los Angeles as the train ended its run from Oregon. Although Folkes might have had "a drink or two" when he talked to officers, Dr. de River testified. "he was not intoxicated. The psy chiatrist said he talked witn Folkes a short time after he made the statement the night of January 26 Capt.

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7729 HIS MAJESTY'S "Pardon Us." at 1200. 2.35. 8.10. 7.45. 10.20- "Remarkable Mr.

Kipps," at 12.55. 3.30. 6 03 8 40. LOEWS "Keeper of the Flame," at 11.10. 1.50.

4.30. 7.10. 9.50. PALACE "Shadow of a Doubt" at 11.00. 1.40.

4.25, 7.05, 9.45. CAPITOL "Reveille With Beverly" at 11.20. 2.00, 4.43. 7.30. 10.10; "Power of the Press." at 12.35.

3.20, 6.00. 8.43. PRINCESS "Behind the Eight-Ball." at 10.05, 12.30, 3.00, 5.25. 7.55. 10.25." Sherlock Holmes and "The Secret Weapon." at 11.05.

1.30. 4.00. 6.25. 8.55. OKPHEUM "In Which We Serve." at 10.50.

1.35. 4.10. 650. 9.25 SNOWDON "Life Begins at 8.30." at 1.20. 4.20.

7.25. 10.25. "London Blackout Murders," at 255, 5.55, 9. NEWSREEL "Henry Aldrich Gets Glamor," and "Dead Men's Shoes." IMPERIAL "Pittsburgh" and "Under Your Hat." YORK "Who Done It?" and "Life Begins at 8.30." MONKLAND "Navy Comes Through" and "Great American Broadcast." WESTMOUNT "White Cargo" and Chan In Rio." KENT "Springtime In the Rockies" and "Just Off Broadway." MUSIC. HERITAGE Montreal Festivals present Bach's St.

Matthew Passion, at 5.30 p.m. ON THE STAGE GAIETY "Show Girla and Music." 8.30 p.m.; Matinee at 2.30. CABAKET TIC TOC Two Shows Nightly. THE SAMOVAR Two Shows Nightly EL MOROCCO Two Shows Nightly. ASTOR Two Shows Nightly.

AU LUT1N QUI BOUFFE Dinner Musical. CAFE ST. MICHEL Two stories Nightly. ESQUIRE Two shows nightly. on a Russian shore, these are the backgrounds of Diary Of A Nazi, the documentary film next at the Newsreel.

Make-up Men Needed For Espionage Work It isn't betraying a military secret to say that the FBI and other Government agencies interested in alien and spy round-ups are leaning heavily these days on the cooperation of Hollywood. Studio make-up men, those miracle workers who can do amazing tricks with a face, are using their skill for their country instead of making a middle-aged lady or gent look like a sprout or vice versa. And that brings us to the interesting case of Bob Stepanoff, who was detected in the act of transforming Walter Brennan into a convincing professor of history at the University of Prague. Brennan's current role is that of the man who harbors the executioner of Reinhard Heydrich. the Hangman, in Arnold Prcssburger's Hitler's Hangmen Also Die, which comes to the Or-pheum Thursday.

"My bashed-in nose, a hangover from a fight with a Turkish gendarme when I ran away from my home in Macedonia, was all right for cowboy roles," Stepanoff relates, "and it earned me a part as a tough chariot-racer in Fred Niblo's Ben-Hur. But plastic surgery was unheard of then and movie makeup as we know it today had not been invented. "Cecil Holland the grand old man of the make-up business who taught all us moderns our fundamentals was head make-up artist on Ben-Hur. I used to fool around in his laboratory. One day his chief assistant quit and Cecil gave me the Job.

With my nosev I couldn't get to first base as an actor anyway." Today Stepanoff is tops in his art. But the highly remunerative motion picture business is getting only a small portion cf his time. After Pearl Harbor he offered his services to the country of his adoption and they were accepted. What he does is one of those things you don't talk about But it's important So important, in fact, that Hitler's Hangmen Also Die may be his final film chore for the duration. There's a demand for people who can make faces.

Krupa Pleads Guilty San Francisco, April 19. (P) Gene Krupa, widely-known orchestra leader, pleaded guilty through Attorney J. W. Ehrlich today to charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, John Pate-akoS, 20, his valet Judge Thomas Foley continued the case, based on the findings of Marijuana cigarets in Pateakos' possession, until May 10 when Krupa is scheduled to enter a plea on a narcotics charge. Nero, emperor of Rome in 54 A.D..

used cosmetics and perfumes CORK TIP ALSO "GOOD AS GOLD 7 OGDENS all in ire in the on for a RETURN N6AQEMAfT CF This oaeAr com coy www 1 STAR-SPARKLING Jj MUSICAL HIT I foweumsr "LIFE BEGINS AT 8.30" it MONTY WOOLLEY -fclDA LUPINO -SARA ALLGOOD Second Film "Loidoa Blackout Murder DOROTHY THOMPSON-S--UttU UUt Of Frt4om-Narratcd by CHARLES BOYER 2 LAST DAYS A ORPHEUM SrCATHt0 AT StUAANI A MARLENE DIETRICH "PITTSBURGH" Added Feature "UNDER YOUR HAT" 'KnlASA 0" 7oi mam FRAXKSSWtiS, As )f BERT XV yiViS4 SAUNDERS Glamour is said to give itself a terrific ribbing in Paramount's great musical comedy. Star Spangled Rhylhm which opetas Friday at Loew's. The ribbing is done by none other than three of Hollywood's most noted glamour girls Dorothy Lamour, Paulette Goddard and Veronica Lake. The three stars poke fun at their own glamour trade-marks in a number entitled A Sweater. A Sarong And A Peek-a-boo Bang.

It is about three unhappy maidens of the silver screen who come out to Hollywood to emote and are burdened down with those mantles of allure sweater, sarong and seductive hair-do. These three share starring honors this much heralded all-star Paramount musical comedy with Bing Crosby. Bob Hope. Fred PASSION AT 5.30 Subscribers to the Bach Passion performances, tonight, tomorrow night and on Friday night at L'Hermitage, are reminded that they must be in their seats at 5.30 in the afternoon. There will be a break at 7.00.

with the second half of the performance starting at 830. Light refreshments will be obtainable in the intermission, it is reported, for those who do not wish to leave the building. The- office of the Montreal Festivals which is in Room 14 of the Windsor Hotel, will close at 4.30 on the day of the performances. Reservations not called for at that time may be picked up at L'Hermitage. TIME FOR LOVE Marlene Dietrich and John Wayne caught up in big-time industry Pittsburgh, but there's always time for love.

The film is now at Imperial. Hollywood Sky Ballet With Hamid Morton One of the main features of the Morton show coming to the Forum May 22, will be the Hollywood Sky Ballet. Two poles, several yards apart, tower into the air and support six sets of trapezes, roman rings, miniature dancing platforms, foot stand and other mechanical aids- The girls, with the Forum roof a backdrop, perform in unison number of daring contortionistic and acrobatic stunts. Mr. Gibson, the leader of the troupe, performs along with the CIGARETTES PLAIN ENDS AND MILD TOO" CLOWN PRINCE OF COMEDY presented by members of the R.C.A.F.

Its chorus line comes from the Women's Division. Music is pro vided by a 12-piece band, and the cast consists of 32 performers. The unit is designed to fill the need for entertainment at stations remote from large centres, where off-duty amusement presents a problem. The producer is Sqdn. Ldr.

Norman Gilchrist, Director of Music for the R.C.A.F. Working with him are Robert Coote, former Hollywood film actor, in charge of stage direc tion: Bryant Fryer of the R.C-A.F. Art Directorate, who is responsible for the stage effect, and FO. Wishart Campbell, baritone, who composed some of the songs. directed vocal choruses and travels with the show as officer in charge.

Section Officer Lola Thompson or uttawa. aanee and Ballet structress, developed and directs tne dance routine of the chorus. Cpl. Fran Dowie. of Vancouver, whose father played with the original Dumbeiis, is the only noncommissioned officer in the cast He is Hhe comedy headliner.

Other performers include Georg ette Gelinas, singer and dancer, of Windsor. Ont: Honor Benson, Victoria; Cecilia Rennie, Detroit, Lavma Sawdon. Niagara Falls, Ont; Florence Shaw, Winnipeg; Lloyd Edwards, Toronto; Ronnie Gray, Hamiota, Howard Jerome and Mickey Horner, Hamilton; Osjcar Burnside, Stanley Solomon and Gordon McQuin. Toronto; Johnny Gallant and Jack Saul. Montreal; Mitchell Wegrzynowicz, Windsor, and Joe Carfagnini, North Bay, Ont.

HEADS OVERSEAS UNIT Brig. Eric Haldenby Formerly Commanded Highland Unit London. April 19. (CP. Cable) Brig.

Eric Haldenby of Toronto, son, Esther Solloway, Brownie Evans, Barbara Todd, Lucille Jaron, Barbara Pattee and Virginia Bor-gardus. TODAY at the UNITED THEATRES BUD ABBOTT LOU COS- TELLO in "Who Done It," with Patrlc Knowles, William Gargan, William Bendix and Louise Allbritton. "LIFE BEGINS AT 8.30," with Monty Woolley and Ida Lupino. HEDV LAMARR WALTER in White Cargo. with Frank Morgan, Richard Carlson and Reginald Owen.

"CHARLIE CHAN IN RIO," with Sidney Toler and Mary Beth Hughes. PAT O'BRIEN and GEORGE MURPHY in "The Navy Comes 1 yf Through," with Jane. Wyatt. "THE GREAT AMERICAN BROADCAST." with Alice Faye, John Payne, Betty Grable and Jack Oakie. HIS MAJESTY'S o) ni imiyj ltu IN HER CHARACTER SKETCHES Eves.

'67c, 1.00, 1.33, 1.99, 2.65 Seats Now Selling COLUMBIA WEEK OF fafxAs VUceJ? GRAND OPERA ONE COMMENCING MONO. EVE AR TUE eVEAfXL27h 6BERcfvtuE jTHQ fV 1A RAVI ATA FRI eve APft3o poaiAai SEAT5; NOW PDtftZ 1 3 INUVV KH-CJ Artie Dann, billed as the Clown Prince of Comedy, is now appearing at the Tic Toe. along with Marion Francis. Broadway songstress; the Cansinos, Spanish dancers, and the Winnie Hoveler Dancers. A GREAT NEW REVUE DEANE JANIS A Singing Sensation DANNY THE WHIRLING WH ELANS SATURDAY LUNCHEON MATINEE EL MOROCCO 1410 Metcalfe MRT Presents Skits i To Aid Victory Loan Another important war activity has been launched by the Montreal Repertory Theatre which is now giving its time and talent to promoting the fourth Victory Loan.

Under the auspices of the women advisory committee of the Province of Quebec executive of the National War Finance Committee, of which Mrs. Alex Hutchison is joint chairman, two 15-minute skits showing why the public should buy bonds have been prepared and are being presented before women's clubs and groups of workers in industrial and business organizations. One' of the skits is called Only Ten Percent, which takes its name from the proportion of its income the public is being asked to contribute; the other is A Day's Work, and it tells the story of a poor woman with a son in the army who goes to work in order to have something more to give her country. Filmore Sadler is the director and the casts consist of Betty Wii- AWI (Biwfiiid THE LAST JUDGMENT ohn will be ung by the choir of the Church of St. Andrew and St.

Paul Soloists: Joan Ryan, soprano, Dorothy Gillespie, contralto, Kenneth Neate, tenor and Harry Maude, bass. Organist: John Weatherseed, F.R.C.O. and conductor Frederick Newnham, A.R.A.M., A.R.C.M. Wednesday, April 21st, at 8.15 P.M. Tickets 65c each at the Church Door..