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The Waco News-Tribune from Waco, Texas • Page 13

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THE WACO NEWS-TRtm NE. FRIDAY. OCTOREn C3. 194: IB omniums Signed Palest Film Show inn at Orpheum; Latest at Strand HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 22 1 niver- il signed Arthur Shields and Abbott for featured comedy mips in Dwight in which Tim Whelan directs I Barrymore and Brian I ns stars.

GRAND THEATRE 423 I Gene Autry in THE SINGING HILL" I ast Picture Made In Western Star Before Entering Branch of I S. Corps n. ix' drey. Capisi ran" and Autry. Smiley Burnette.

VIr Lucien Littli field, tforgafi Claire PoBrey WACO NOV. 9 1 WKI.IN E. 1LRNOON NIGHT The Most Colorful The Most Beautiful The Most Exciting Zhow of Them All WALTER WiNCHELL PRODUCED IVV JOHN RINGLING NORTH a by JOHN MURRAY ANDERSON NORMAN BEL GEDDES ous New Super Spectacle BALLETof the ELEPHANTS 1 ted bv GEORGE BALANCHINE AMl MChy IGOR STRAVINSKY GARGANTUA The Gi at li! Amy of OIL 1IB SIII II1IE1, fit (UN PrslncnwssmlAll OuiMtf.c HKAIC Alfred Animal Acts 180 KsnoMnsd C'rcas Stars 100 of Pu'fbted Hotm Vist OS IARBfST TfNT, 100 AIR COHOmONfO TWICC DAI LY 2:15 and 8:15 M. Open 1 7 -POPULAR PRICES Is IIIKMR sTIN WKM VI HOI Marking Cene Autry's fifty sec- iond starring vehicle and his last before he joined the S. army air force, of deals with a clash a feud, in fact between two traveling rodeo shows.

As such, features not only a brilliant cast of noted western a'tors, but all kinds of ropers, bull-doggers, bronco-bust ers, runaways, shooting, fisticuffs, topped with six song hits, plenty of com- edy, and interludes of romance. Against this background, Republic has given Autry a role which demands that he participate in four free-for-alls and land in jail during which he runs the gamut from realistic action to comedy and romanee. But he also does a bit of fancy shooting, riding and singing. Better than ever is Frog, played by the inimitable Smiley Burnette. Tn a role that ties the for film footage, Smiley; garners his share of the laughs, and is ably abetted in the design for fun by Tadpole, played by 11-year-old Joe Strauch Jr.

I ranch Sullivan and Leslie Howard malch wits during the exciting action of opening on the Orpheum today. Howard is the mysterious liberator who crosses swords with the gestapo. Tale )f rizomi Told in tiene Autrj and hartes ane find no way tilintes over than the bar" in of current Strand play. Ridicule For Is Plan )f ie Star Leslie Howard. Director of at Orpheum timidates Arthur attraetlve New.

V. CR ysta Todav and Saturday Shirley Temple Centennial CUT-RATE Liquor Stores Rig 332 Austin Ave. Phone 66 201 Elm, East Waco Phone 11 MOreS 923 25th Phone 44 3 A la Straightforward Statement Regarding the Liquor Situation! ALL WHISKY MAKING ENDS WASHINGTON. Oct. 2 The war production board today ordered all production of whisky stopped effective Oct.

H. The industry has been ordered to shift entire production of trade name for 120 to 130 proof redistilling plants for converison into JdO proof industrial aleohol. SCO -Herald Oft. 2, 1948 War Is An All-Out Effort and It Must Be Won! Therefore BUY BONDS! new taxes WILL go into effect on Nov. 1, only 8 days from now.

Tax $6.00, average discount withdrawal $4.00, total increase about $10 to $12 a case. Take an honest tip and STOCK UP at present low prices! STOCK UP for Now! STOCK UP for Thanksgiving! STOCK UP for Christmas and New Year! STOCK UP for next year! STOCK UP while you can get your favorite brands! Hurry! Hurry STOCK UP CHRISTMAS LIQUORS NOW! CASES or BOTTLES AVOID SHORTAGE! OUT-OF TOWN CUSTOMERS MAIL ORDERS FILLED! WE SHIP INTO ANY WET AREA OF TEXAS (1 OR 100 CASES). WRITE. PHONE OR WIRE VOI ORDER. ALL PRIC ES F.

O. B. WACO, Mister uni. Cn Howard. Mary Jloms, Fra van.

Hindi McDermott. A. Sull I The nazis arc still the gangsters they were and will continue to be as long as exist but the cinematic approach to them has changed. 'Hie brutalities and horrors of concentration camps and deliberate terrorism still exist, but the movies have begun to abandon them as screen material. The subject has been covered thoroughly, for one thing, and for another, something new has been added subtlety.

Is Anti-Nazi "Mister is anti-nazi -its very plot and substance are dependent on that fact. But more than this-, according to Howard. Its star as well as producer, it was designed as entertainment rather star of the mighty adventure story of Arizona's birth, Weslev spectacular screen drama. playing at the Texas theatre through Saturday. than a msy preachment on nazi- letti In a who release the States, Howard thing, the nazis human beings; ridiculousness of and his thinking United Artists, film in the United rot et on in are for another, the the nazi follower is exposed; finally, the grimness of the theme doe not exclude humor.

The gestapo general in the film is not merely sinister. He is made to stand out as a rounded character rather than a prototy pe of nazi bureaucracy and brutality. He is credible by virtue of his and behavior rather than because of the simple fact that he is a gestapo Ilf dust Laughs Theatre (Calendar WACO: Robert Taylor and Norma Shearer in Cardboard Lover." Currently showing. John Payne and Sonja Henie in Starts Saturday. Midnight show Saturday.

11:30 p. of ORPHEt Leslie Howard and Mary Morris in "Mister Starts Friday 01,1: hut Tone and Joan Bennett in "The Wife Takes a Currently showing. Walter Pidgeon and Greer in "Mrs. Starts Saturday. STRAND: Gene Autry in "Bells of Currently showing.

TEXAS; Jean Arthur and William Holden in Currently showing. Gene Autry in "The Singing Friday and Saturday. CRYSTAL; Shirley Temple 5n Starts Friday. kiday ST A I ION AC Mutual. Network and Mft Blue Mormnt 7 Johnny Bob Wills the o' Morning 7 55- of Breakfast Club 30 Musicate What's Doing Aim it i'.

Tie cheer Gar pt of Mnrkuni 1 to r. Y.tnk* Par Il Star Reporter 11 Music a Mone Bill Rav Heads th MON I HAp HritaUeantlnc 'ompaof) A tlrrnwiD 11: Fi irt and Horne II AtKNmoii 12 OO- T1 Rhythmic Am 12PS -IP Hines -Ot 12 1 1 45- 15- -Hi dr tw kerboard Time ic Foster the Book 30 i 'Em Flying 1 15 Pr Program eott Presents 2 of the Sea 2 45- Fr om Broad wa) 3 -Star Reporter 3 ea. mirv Star Par 30'-Cl uh Matinee 3 -Ne 4 00--Mi nute Men 4 30- rman 4 45- The OM 15 Ro nel of ne Trio 5: a'k ArmstrriE Program ip.fiin Waco 1 nThoard 1 ot World 15 Judy 2 Ma I i 2 and Jane Marlin er Vi.UOli 5 UlkfU IH II i a i i i Uo Widd. a G.n tia Faces Lt! Just Plain BUI Pa 5:00 Alien or 5: ws A 5 TOiie i cl a 15- r. 6 7 Manners STATION (Nalioaal Broadeamlini; Picture Made From Oar- cnee B.

Kelland's Magazine Is Featured at Texas T- c.i»t Hoi! Jean Arthur, Wanrn Wdltam. Porter Hall. Based upon Clarence Budington epic magazine serial of the same name, "Arizona' is an outdoor, romantic drama based on historical truth. Presented in it are the real lives of men and women in a walled city left to the mercy of savage Indians when the government recalled its protecting troops. Tucson in IH kii hat happened to the people of Old Tucson in 1860 when troops were withdrawn, and the part played in those stirring events In a slim, determined young woman, the first white woman Arizona, supplies the theme of this great production.

Made in its entirety in Arizona, picture presents Jean Arthur as Phoebe Titus, who dreams of the time when the land will be at peace, free from savage In: dian raids and law less frontier killers, and who courageously both to brmg that day nearer. William Holden appears to advantage as the casual, laughing young adventurer, Peter and others in the cast of thousands nclude Warren William as a and Porter Hall, renegade saloon-keeper Directed Ruggles Directed as it was by Wesley Ruggles, the spectacular film is remarkable not alone for its authentic reproduction of a little- known phase of American history, fcr its mighty vistas and hair- raising cattle stampedes, its fierce fighting and its overwhelming name, but for that indefinable attribute which immediately marks a motion picture as great, A masterly understanding of all that makes breath-taking enter, tarnment underlies the Indian raids lend cattle and drenched vistas of magnificent beauty and the contrasting squalor of the fortress city of Tucson, with its goid-seekers, storekeeper! and gamblers and killers, lounging Mexicans and sullen Indians. DOORS OPEN JEAN ARTHUR WILLIAM HOLDEN "ARIZONA li TODAV NATI KDAV I I I HI THI NATIONS BACK ON THE SCREEN TO THRItt YOU IN THf PICTURE OF HIS COLORFUL GEHE RUTRV in BEILS OF 5 TRRno pit A I artoon AJ.SO l.a*t haptef Ol UOI on I I SMILEY BURNETTE I VIRGINIA GRIT tUCIEN ItTTlEFIIlD MORGAN CONWAY Afternoon 12 4P Wfi K'il )n Gang Itila orday (pels Long-1 erm Offer From ItkO Sind Signing of Rita Corday, 'blue-eyed, brunette Swiss actress to long-term contract by RKO Radis, has just been announced, and at the same time the unusual circumstances of her discovery have been revealed. The Tahitian born a Ires s. If anything is an antidote to the nazi myth of invincibility it is laughter.

And laugh is uhat Howard does at the expense of the Aryan superman. His principle is that there is no better way of proving that a superman is not a superman than by ridicule. His disclosure of a sweet tooth in a man-eating nazi, he holds, is more of a blow against nazi ism. bv virtue of the laughter it engender, (daughter of a traveling represen- than a dozen fiorv and humorless watch firm, was tracts. has its serious viewing a play at the Max Rein- side, of course, and its serious pur- hardt Workshop.

There to scout pose, but that does not prevent it work of an actress in the play from bursting into verv loud was a representative of the studio laughter everv now and then. talent department who, impressed Most of 1 he dramatic action of by Miss Corday beauty, recom- the film is unfolded in present-; mended her for a screen test which day England, on the Swiss border, was followed up by a contract, and in Berlin. The most im- The newcomer has had drama portant and impressive scenes; tnaining in Switzerland, Paris, show the workings of the German land Shanghai, where her father ministry of information, the inner 1 remains as a neutral representing ji sanctum of the gestapo chief and)his country there. She came here the well-knit organization of the with her mother more than a year underground in that country. ago.

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