Kingsport Times from Kingsport, Tennessee • 17

KINGSPORT TIMES SUNDAY AUG 23 1942 5 'Reap The Wild Wind' To Play Four Days At State Leslie Howard Is Starred In 'Mister V' At Strand Tops for gusto In a long line of8 is kidnapped but escapes in time to expose the treachery and save the money 'Son Of Fury' i i gir 1 0 selectee Dodo Doubleday (William Tracy) who is blessed by nature with a photographic memory and because of his gerilus is immediately made a sergeant much to the resentment of his buddies After a series of hilarious situations however Tracy is vindicated and wins the esteem of his fellow draftees Also featured at the Rialto Wednesday and Thursday is a war propaganda film Russian which is some 40000 feet of newsreel clips photographed in Russia since attack on June 22nd Sponsored by the Russian War Relief YnQj the film offers an engrossing spectacle as timely as it is terrific inita impressive presentation of elemental emotions of self-sacrifices of a struggle for existence in the teeth of savage invasion and of splendid endeavor by earnest workers behind the lines An unusual plot is found in starring George Houston and showing at the Rialto Friday and Saturday The rustling gang is disguised as padres in an i rom nrhh they operate under the leadership of a woman bandit played by Claire Rochelle MS of Drama Won Actor's Role For Norman Lloyd By Bob Musel New York UP Like an other young man with a little leisure time on his hands Norman Lloyd has a play at the bottom of his trunk But this is a very special manuscript for it is the item that got him started on what looks like an Impressive film ca reer No not as a writer as an actor Lloyd is the slim red-haired enemy agent of Alfred new picture The critics liked him so much even show-wise folks went around saying "Who is Norman This was a little galling to a young man whose few stage appearances twice have won him the high honor of appearing on "ten best performances of the lists he said sadly a press agent is the essential hand-maiden of fame" Appointment With Hitchcock One thing is certain Lloyd be a screen lover Not even the Westmore brothers en masse could prettify his pleasantly homely face But give him a part with like Senator Cinna in Orson Welles' stage production of "Julius Caesar' or Johnny Appleseed in I and watch the But to get back to that the one in the trunk took it to John Housman who was associated with Welles in the Mercury he said wrote it during the time -1 was supposed to be rehearsing for a play that never came off When I walked in with the manuscript Housman said it I did said Housman been reading a picture that of the story of Benjamin Blake based on Edison best-selling novel is a swashbuckling film of adventure action on the high seas and torrid romance in the South Sea Islands These thrilling sequences of adventure come to the Rialto Monday and Tuesday The story is laid in the early and depicts the adventures of a nameless urchin who fiTUst go through life battling the world for his birthright It is the blazing history of a man who rises from stable boy to ruler of a South Sea paradise and who deserts the paradise to claim his name Gene Tierney as an exotic native girl makes it doubly hard for Power to return to his native England George Sanders Frances Farmer and young Roddy McDowall complete the top featured cast A a streamlined i jtA Amt -Ain 1 Ray Milland closes a fist and prepares to land a few love taps on his rvmiimio trvm Jmn ZZiZi PiilCiir tries to be a peace-maker in this scene from Reap the Wild playly at the State Theatre Monday through Thursday reaxure siiuwms row army in action comes to the Rialto Tuesday and Wednesday The film deals with the escapades of a Tyrone Power deserts a tropic paradise and native belle Gene Tierney in "Son of Fury" showing at the Rialto theatre Monday and Tuesday but he returns in a hurry after paying his respects to the woman who tried to wreck his life and fortunes Cameraman Robert Planck Sniffed Romance On A Set ever get the part but I did I might say that it was wonderful working with Hitchcock He's so Nearly 11 billion pounds of fats and oils were' used in the United States in 1941 Jack Sklrball and Hitchcock are going to do for Frank Lloyd and I think a part in it for then I could see my play sinking deeper into my trunk Housman called Hitchcock on the spot then and made an appointment for me I had no idea I would spectacular Cecil DeMille film hits Is "Reap the Wild Wind showing at the State Theatre Monday through Thursday A lusty yarn of the roaring days of the 1840's the Wild stars Paulette Goddard as the spitfire who operates a salvage schooner Off the Florida keys Ray Milland and John Wayne are co-starred Milland as the sea lawyer who puts fists as well as brains into his career and Wayne as the ill-fated skipper of a ship whose wreck signals the outbreak of a piratical war between salvage crews Robert Preston and Raymond Massey operate the salvage ship that clashes with while Lynne Overman is featured as a lusty old salt who fights against the plunderers Moat spectacular of all scenes is the underseas battle of Wayne and Milland against a giant squid whose ten tentacles sweep destruction along the ocean floor the Wild is De 66th motion picture since his entrance in the film industry in 1912 For Bumsteads The Bumstead family Dagwood in particular finds out just how unhandy guinea pigs can become when Blondie practices her first aid lessons on him in for at the State Theatre Friday and Saturday jfe-tlvities in the latest Bumstead comedy consist of organizing the Housewives of America club a band of patriotic women who devote so much time to war activities that they be bothered with domestic morale Dagwood in the meantime has to put so much effort into domestic duties that his work drafting battleship designs plunges downgrade Larry Simms continues as Alexander Baby Dumpling come of age "Mister the new Leslie Howard production with the star in the top role shows at the Strand Monday Tuesday and Wednesday This film provides movie-goers with an interesting if short tour of Europe today The action starts in England proceeds to the Swiss border and continues into Germany Mr Howard plays a professor of archaeology at Cambridge who rescues anti-Nazis from inside Ger many Operating cleverly and following a fascinating formula our hero is never seen by the Nazis or by the people he rescues' His escapades bring him face to face with the head of the Gestapo and how the mysterious liberator outwits the Nazi provides tense and exciting moments That man Autry is here again! on the Strand screen Wednesday Thursday and Friday with his hoss Champion his lariat his guitar and his broad friendly grin On The is adventure loaded with thrills as Gene hurls a defiant challenge at a scheming band of outlaws who use the law to shield their unscrupu-lous plans He is tricked by a girl THBIIUL ALL SCREEN SPECTACLES Biggest Show! inthe east Mrs Terry to make the sweet story short thinks Mr Terry is very wonderful and incidentally a wonderful actor who has not yet begun to be appreciated Parson of etc) but will but will He was for stance when some magazine writer asked him if he thought he could take it if they called him Joan and his reply was think be called that but if I am it will be all right with And he was wonderful too when strolling together across the lot they bumped into Franchot Tone second Franchot said and congratulated the new husband and then there was an embarrassing silence but you know how wonderful Phillip is and well it goes on like this with soft music from phonograph in the background Mrs Terry said that selfishly like to make a picture with Phillip but unselfishly she because it be fair to him People would think she was promoting his career and he was so good he need promoting An absent-minded professor matches wits with the Gestapo in Mister at the Strand Theatre Monday through Wednesday with Leslie Howard starred as actor-producer seen here with Francis Sullivan who is prominently featured in the comedy thriller By Bobbin Coons You find seers and prophets in the oddest places in Hollywood Behind a camera for instance Robert Planck is a cameraman or chief cinematographer He has been photographing these several weeks a movie called Three days before a certain romantic event Prophet Planck began making exploratory repiarks to the star he said are up to The young lady smiled 16oked innocent he said next day is something in the Again the young lady smiled he said again goes It went on that evening In Ventura Calif where Joan Crawford became Mrs Phillip Terry in a wedding that threw the local ro-mance-handicappers for a reeling stagger Prophet Planck ovjes his powers of divination to no occult system crystal ball nor black magic Having worked on half a dozen Crawford pictures he knows her extremely photogenic face by heart can its secrets Prophet second sight Is of no particular use other than professional at the moment Mrs Terry is fulfilling her pro-matrimonial promise: I have a romance shout it to the Mrs Terry has a romance and she is shouting it Romance is extremely becoming to Mrs Terry Part of her is expressed in radiance Between scenes she -clicks her knitting needles and eulogizes the young actor she discovered six months ago This was before the time as I recollect it that the gossipers were full of items about attachment for a mysterious suitor Charged with suspense and tense romantic adventure magnificent in its sweep powerful in its drama as stirring a tale as ever master director put on the screen! Entertainments Here This Week State Wasps Unpatriotic Houston Louis Wagner attorney was a casualty of the rubber salvage campaign Searching for old rubber in the garage of his home Wagner lifted two discarded inner tubes and disturbed a nest Nine or of the angry insects attacked Wagner but Uncle war machine will get the rubber Cecil son is a sergeant in the a New England machine tool maker informed Parks Johnson in a Vox Pop interview quite a fighter got a lot of his Warren Hull interviewed Corporal David Sackson air mechanic on Vox Pop Concert violinist before joining up he had played under Toscanini us about the fabulous Warren pleaded make a good drill shot back Sackson With This TREMENDOUS Cast Of Stars Ray jfinn Paulette GODDARD John I VAYIIE Raymond MASSEY Susan HAYWARD Lynn OVERMAN Robert PRESTON Martha SPECIAL "REAP THE WILD PRICES Adults H0EITSD By Every CJazi ZXgent Hated By Every Gestapo Agent In Loved By All Free People The World Over Subtly he i strikes mysteriously disappears to strike another blow for VICTORY Leslie MTOBS IN THE ARMY and the sergeant has his hands full as you can see in this scene from ''Blondie for playing a two-day engagement at the State Theatre Friday and Saturday Arthur Lake and Edward Gargan complete the trip above with Penney Singleton Monday through Thursday "Reap the Wild starring Paulette Goddard Ray Milkmd and John Wayne Friday and Saturday: For with Penny Single-ton and Arthur Lake Strand Monday Tuesday and Wednesday: starring Leslie Howard with Mary" Morris and Francis Sullivan Thursday Friday and Saturday: On the featuring Gene Autry with Smiley Burnette Rialto Monday and Tuesday: of starring Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney Wednesday and Thursday: 'Tanks a with William Tracy and James Gleason Also Russian with Walter Huston as commentator Friday and Saturday: featuring George Houston FOX Sunday and Monday: Died With Their Boots starring Errol Flynn and Olivia DeHavil-land Tuesday: in the with Errol Flynn and Brenda Marshall Wednesday and Thursday: Dogs of the with James Cagney and Pat Friday and Saturday: "Design for with Rosalind Russell and Walter Pidgeon and "Pirates On with Bill Boyd SCOTT Sunday Monday and Tuesday: of the starring James Cagney and Dennis Morgan Wednesday and Thursday: day I with Walter Woolf i King and Mona Barrie I Friday and Saturday: "North of i I the and "Sunset On the 1 1 I Dieppe Assault In State Newsreel i iv For the first time since 1918 1 Yankee troops see action in Europe and the Paramount Newsreel is on hand to record their story for the folks back home First pictures of the Allied landings at Dieppe when American soldiers joined Canadians British Commandos and Fighting French in a smashing -assault on the French coast are shown in the State Theater newsreel on the program Monday through Thursday with "Reap the Wild Featured in the newsreel are the secretly-trained Rangers specialists at hand-to-hand combat and scenes showing the preparation for the big show that caught the Nazis flat-footed Dumb Andarko Okal IP Near the front door of the Karl Douglass store there is a life-size paper cutout of a beautiful woman Some of the customers have asked the manager to remove the lady They say she is so life-like they speak to her every morning Based on a story by Thelma Strabel Resplendent in TUCE-MCOIG On Our Stage Monday Night at 9:00 PM 1942 FUR FASHION SHOW Presented By FRED JOHNSON CO Brigand rogue hunted across three continents and the seven seas he fought lhe whole world for his birthright BENJAMIN BLAKE MAN of TWO WORLDS and MANY In his finest role as the one man who dared to fight alone against the entire Nazi force Matinee 40o Night 65c (Including Tax) Children 9e SHOWS START AT: 10:50 12:57 3:04 7:18 9:34 LOVES -a ifeste? Yr '(KW'lM Midnight Tonight and MON-TUES-WED-THURS i gxo)ioj tyV ijrf Vila Short Treat if Cartoon In Color Monday Tuesday and-Wednesday fit tivMMihrijiy- zw- Color Cartoon if tf A THURSDAY FRIDAY and SATURDAY! Gene AUTRY in STARDUST ON THE.