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I IP PAGE TWO PA SECTION FOUR THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER The Form-NI News-paper of Tile Two Carolinas SUNDAY FEBRUARY 24 1946 PE SUNDAY MOVIES SPECIAL MIDNIGHT SHOW asky icks FR1DAy 1130 Ideal Hero Ac: SI Joan Caufield And Mark Stevens Head List Of New Screen Players For 1946 NOW AT el DREAMLAND ALSO ALL DAY SATURDAY For Movies Wilkinson Blvd 4 Miles From Square Beginning this Sunday we will feature movies every Sunday continuous beginning at I TODAY'S OPENING SIIE4 1INEMIOMMINI Hundreds Turned Away Each Performanca BUYTICKETSKOW11 I Don't Let This Hippo to YOU a 3 "SOUTH OF PACO-PACO" -i Tickets For Midnite Show Now 1 1 A Tickets For Midnite Show Now 1 Starring Victory MeLaglen Jon Hail Maria Montez Popo 11r Admi4Nion Friers VISULITE announces with pride the installation of Altec i Lansing's loudspeaker system THE VOICE OF THE THEATRE This is the same speaker that is used in Hollywood motion picture studios We invite you to thrill to the new exciting experience "in person" sound Now we can bring you living breathing stars music in all its vibrant shades and colors sound effects reproduced with blood-tingling realism Every show at this theatre will be an exact reproduction of the performance as it was recorded in Hollywood wsPAIAFTr i I 7:: 5 e41t11 -4 ''11 '''4 42: --'f'- 1 I '56' '0' 4 I 8 I ::::::4 1 "4 NI': 1 17 i i 1 0 t- ii 7 0 't: I I 1 'Y 7'' I 1:::::11:: i ''44ilitA ::4 A 2': titilill i tl 'I'l '17 I ::4 1 5 U411111----g40 HOLLYWOOD Feb been a great scarcity of just the right kind of husky movie hero according to no less an authority than Jesse Lasky The same Mr Lasky who has discovered wore top-ranking talent than any other prospector in that field in film history The war has nothing to do with 'it The scarcity Lasky says existed before that Lasky was precise and exacting in the ideal hero he wanted for his RKO Radio presentation "Without Reservations" which Mervyn LeRoy is producing and directing In the first place the hero had to be big rugged virile Handsome but not in the slightest degree pretty The out-and-out man's man fatal to the feminine by the very fact of his mannishness As an actor he had to have feeling emotion warmth encased in just the right degree of hard-boiled exterior "So" said Lasky "when John Wayne the one man with all these qualities came along I lost no time in signing him for 'Without Reservations'" John Wayne grinned in 'his shy little boy way Claudette standing beside him on the set nodded vigorous assent while tenderly rubbing parts of her anatomy "Right in every respect Mr Lasky" she said "But why does a he-man have to be so virile? rm covered with bruises from lovescenes with John The man is so big and strong that even when he thinks he's being gentle he doesn't know his own strength" "I'm sorry Claudette" John replied "but he also said I have warmth sympathy and emotion too you know" I DTI Lin 1 fkl I I i'? 0e 1 0111tr- 140 I P- i A ir 0110f ('41111 1 esos 4 il ildWII 0 1 il I Fliwil Lli n114111t4L 11J1' 1 JOAN CAULFIELD iiJIM! Th trilVirE 4 'GlitiSh BRING YOUR BOY FRIENDDISCOVER IF YOU HAVE Ai MAN OR MOUSE! THRILLING! toot0 STAUB! WARNER BAXTER in "Crime Doctor's Warning" rlf het Pre 01 rat a I al to 1 I 7e rof" rtv 7 ir fl a Ai 1 t) I V) 1 k-Azi 1 On Sole At The Box-Office A 1 A 2 i GIRLS! BRING YOUR BOY On Sole At The Box-Office FRIEND-DISCOVER A IF YOU NAVE A MAN OR MOUSE! 5TAgg! 1 4 -ID (11A- 1 Co an zr et MUM an' I to 1 A e1 i 4-- 4 '0 ILt SI Ili tilt 0 3 I I 11-----71 71 i 0 wTHRILLING! 1 pl 0 Alb I COOED" ati 1 1 Ab lat ee i is polsom ge I ti 'IN al 0 31' it A c4v di 411::::::: I mDRE0 Hoops 1: i Ls 1 -'111? FROM l'''-z- al (-) tioLl- ai 0 the 4 Penr00n air 7 ir7b jot ztinetionae mi ''Ilist 4 Pns rite i fir' 11 eI i 1 "'vs it taat iv ste It i A 141 Pf4 I( 4 No 1 WARNER BAXTER 1 tri 41 11 "Crime Doctor Warning" DAD '--i-: 8R WA I te 4 4 Iv -----2'f- I TODAY-MONATE! LOVE-AS YOU'VE DREAMED THAT LOVE MIGHT BE e' BY VICTOR GUNSON Central Press Correspondent HOLLYWOOD Feb 23--A brilliant array of new faces will greet movie goers in 1946 with Joan Caulfield and Mark Stevens rated the top finds of the past year Yet to be seen on the screen Migs Caulfield already has been costarred in three Paramount epics costing $9000000 She is now completing "Monsieur Beaucaire" with Bob Hope a $4000000 production after co-starring with Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire in "Blue Skies" budgeted for $3500000 In her only other screen role she played with Sonny Slagle" which cost $1500- 000 Miss Caulfield was signed for the screen after she had scored a hit in the Broadway play "Kiss and Tell" Prior to that she had had only a minor part in another play A blonde beauty she regards herself as the most lucky of all girls While she was at Columbia university in New York she won her first stage test by merely going to a producer's office and asking for Stevens was lifted from screen obscurity to co-star with Academy Award Winner Joan Fontaine in "From This Day Forward" In tact TOdlif St 2-4-9 11 LETS Uolic1 THAT 67 NVTEHRE 14 Of YOUR HEART!" with Zachary SCOTT Betty FIELD Wed Thur "A BELL FOR ADANO" Wed Thur Todar st 2-4-9 1 ego 76 1 1:: 4) I E46n pal 161 LETS lol to THAT NE I OUR HEART!" with Zachary SCOTT Betty FIELD Wed Thur "A BELL FOR ADANO" Wed Thur Sidney Creenstreei Is Comedian at Heart HOLLYWOOD Feb 23 Bard of Avon devotees may be astonished to learn that Sydney (the fat man) Greenstreet now a super menace man of the movies and cur rently starring in Warner Bros' eerie mystery drama "Three Strangers" is actually a Shakespearin natural inclination by vocation and by long experience He has toured England from one end to the other as Bottom Dogberry Sir Toby Belch Casa Falstaff Jacques and other humorous characters created by William's adroit quill MARK STEVENS spectacle "Holiday in Mexico" with Walter Pidgeon and Ilona Massey Jane whose voice is sensational was born in Portland Ore and began singing on a children's radio show when she was seven Four years later she began taking lessons M-G-M signed her three years ago but kept her in a few small roles until they thought she was ready to make her real debut Petite Viola Essen the sensational ballerina of "Hollywood Pinafore" on Broadway will make her screen debut in Ben Hecht's "Specter of the Rose" Co-starring with her will be another newcomer Ivan Kirov a swimming champion who became a ballet dancer Republic will introduce two other newcomers in Frank Borzage's "I've Always Loved You" Catherine McLeod and William Carter paired Drake star of "Oklahoma" will make his movie debut in the screen version of "Tars and Spars" for Columbia Nancy Guild discovered by a talent scout while at college began her screen career at the close of 1945 with a super-break from Twentieth Century-Fox She was cast opposite John Hodiak in "Somewhere in the Night" Paramount gave Olga San Juan former star night club singer and dancer her best role to date in "Blue Skies" Virginia Welles just glimpsed with Shirley Temple in "Kiss and Tell" has just been cast opposite Eddie Bracken in "Ladies' Man' Very pretty Martha Vickers who has played a few sweet young things at last got a role she can put her teeth in She played Carmen Lauren Baca 11's sister in the new Warner Humphrey Bogart thriller "The Big Sleep" which is coming out shortly Miss Baca II as you recall was the big find of 1944 be has even more footage in the picture than Joan does He came to Hollywood from the Midwest two and a half years ago and won a contract at Warners Stevens' -funds were so low at the time he had to walk back from the studio after making his first test He played a few minor parts there became disgusted and asked for his release Twentieth Century-Fox saw decided possibilities and signed him Mark played only one smal role for Fox when his big opportunity came As a matter of fact he was so discouraged he did not even want to make this RK0 test with Miss Fontaine It proved sensational Now Fox has him working with Lucille Ball in "The Dark Corner" Stevens is Hollywood's most ardent movie fan He sees pictures whenever he can He thinks they're all good and that all the actors and actresses are good too Another meteoric rise to fame is that of Guy Madison ex-telephone linesman from Bakersfield Calif While on duty with the Navy at San Diego he hitch-hiked to Hollywood one 4ternoon was seen by a Selznick talent scout and signed While on leave Guy played a bit part in "Since You Went Away" Two weeks after he was discharged from the Navy RK0 borrowed Madison from Selznick to co-star' with Dorothy McGuire in "Till the End of Time" Red-headed Beverly Tyler 18 a native of Scranton Pa has Just made her singing debut in M-G-M's "The Green Years" after four years of careful preparation When she was visiting New York four years ago she walked into M-G-M's metropolitan office asked for a test and got it She also got a contract It was as simple as that Another M-G-M 'singing discovery Jane Powell 15 has Just had her big break in the technicolor Coming ve1401 elITTRACTIONS rzz At ittany 'leading Fr THEATERS 74- A in the two CarolinAt--- 7 1 ming il TTRACTIONS At "tinny leading 1m THEATERS -1--- r-s 4A WA rik 4L 41 a Arli "Lel diAl" Adk ir- aummonnil SEE THE BEST PICTURES The program announcements made to this guide not only rep resent a considerable service for their patrons on the part ot the owners of the Theatres listed i but they also constitute a genuine endorsement of the calibre of the pictures being Advertised The TheAtre owners participating in the program guide are justly proud of the attractions they have secured for their nooses and for your pleasure They present these weekly announcements so that you may have advance information of coming photoplaya THE CINEMA BY DICK PITTS RENNETTSVILLE Carolina Theatre UMBERTON Riverside Theatre has My glorious kindl spirit as gay laughter bright love brilliant star perform this picture brings you the de lightful story of Miss Susie's boys and the that they loved! ki From a "'4 memorable 4) Bestoseller This Unforgettable Picture! 670A NSAULFIRLD New enthantreu of the serseC1-1 soars etroight to brilliant etardones ill made for her cklightfuZ young channel H'''' 110r 4 6'''''' 41 Nh 1 -1144' trilli t4ii 1 141: s'''kcs4T: 44') '''''t 4- From a kq ts: '1 '1 1 417Sr N'I lo4''r: 4: Nii i 1 7) i emora est-seller This 9 4 4 i or a 1 ri01- 1 72 7::::: ulu 4 cr7 '4I: tt 1 '11i I I I i s' L': il b'' i ''k :30: ::::07 a 1 dAk ill' '1 1 I 1 1'41'''14e- ::40 1 liil "'''7 i t' wamonmboaww 1 1 670AN-CAULFIRLD ti: Mew of the sereen-os soars straight to brilliant stardom has My 'I kvoLryte made for her cklightlisZ glorious kind i 14:: yolots charms I laughter bright tJ 11 51? spirit as gay love brilliant I ko 4z) 1 1100-ii 1 (---filE 1h star perform )1 0 fi IN is plc ture 'L i th I til Ile brings you the de 4 that they loved! sk lightful story of Miss I 4 a 1 Susie's boys and the 4 At ull 11' 1 441' 0 iy 4 41 't't Vsl'' t'Li yt "GIRL OF THE Nelson 'CHINA SKY" Scott "HAVING A WONDERFUL Pit O'Brien Carole Landis "BLOOD ON THE Cap My Sylvia Sidney "LAND OF THE OUTLAWS" "CRAZY Gilbert "GETTING GERTIE'S GARTER" "ONE WAY TO LOVE" Marguerite Chapman "MEN FROM OKLAHOMA" Roy Rogers "ALLOTMENT Francis SAT LATE "HOLLYWOOD AND Ellison Also Serial News and Comedy The subject of more jokes and bon mots since Mae West reaches the screen of the Carolina theater this week rm speaking of that corking-good (pun intended) drama "The Lost Weekend" which holds one morbidly enthralled from the first cork to the last From the moment the bottle is opened until the last one is empty you sit there fascinated by one of the cleverest pieces of screen entertainment ever devised and by the brilliant performance of Ray Mil land 1HES'ffR Chester Theatre MOUNT GILEAD Gilmont Theatre He has delirium tremens All the while his lovely fiancee Jane Wyman tries to catch up with him and get him sober Can you imagine a more sordid story than that? Can you Imagine it becoming the hit picture of the year? can I saw the film Much credit is due the Wilder-Brackett team for their skillful handling of the drama There is sledge-hammer directness and ugly simplicity that make it outstanding There is no trick stuff no wobbly scenes no out-of-focus hazes no montages no Salvadore Dalt ts It's starkly realistic No fancy dressing That's what does it That's the and Mil land's performance If his Ts don't send a cold shizzer up your spine brother you ain't human Although it is a clear-cut indictment of over-indulgence it can hardly be classed as prohibition propaganda because it is intimated that during prohibition days alcoholism victims were in greater numbers It is Interesting to note that originally there was a sequence which showed actual photos taken in the alcoholic ward at the Bellvue hospital in New York But the John son office (formerly Hays) ruled that it was much too harrowing for the theater-goers "SPANISH O'Hara Paul Henreid (In Color) "FRONTIER FUGITIVES" "ONE WAY TO LOVE" Chapman "STORK Hutton "FORTY Caul dy "A GUY COULD CHANGE" Also News Serials and Shorts "KISS AND Temple Jerome Court land "HARVEY GIRLS" Judy Garland John Hodialt "GREAT STAGECOACH ROBBERY" Elliott LATE "DINIE Langford Guy Kibbee WANNAPOLIS Colonial Theatre OCK HILL Pix Theatre It Way" of with with with ances girls ''oliree -0 '''6 4 '''''N i Itl of wit wit wil an bri ligl Su! gir i 1 4 es" tz o''' to '( :4 it I 1 1 1 i 9 yr oe 1: 4 i I 4 i i v' l' It Way" with of with with ances girls "CONFIDENTIAL AGENT" Charles Boyer Laureta Boron "LETTER FOR Hunt John Carroll HOME OF BETTER PICTURES "SAILOR TAKES A WIFE' FIT FOR A Brown '1IFE IVITH BLONDIE" FRI MIDNITE "FRONTIER Mack Brown Also "FEAR" SAT LATE "HER HIGHNESS AND THE BELL 1101" Robert Walker Also News Short and Serials frernr7 I04101cx0041! 01 0 Apia lluuv 111 14 NEXT MY REPUTATION" Barbara Sian wyck 1111IPINME I 77' vobia 0 kt 0' co SIIM" ii i I ANCASTER "Midway Theater OCK HILL Theatre Theatre I A "BECAUSE Or HMV bin Franebot Tone ton M4111111 nut' Chili Laugh "THE DOLLY Grahie John Payne June Haver In Technicolor "THE RACKET MAN" Tom Neal Jeanne Bates 'AN ANGEL COMES TO BROOK Dowd Robert Duke David Street Barbara Perry "STRAIGHT SHOOTER" Tim Moen'' Julie Shelton There seems to be little doubt in the industry that MU land will walk away with the acting Oscar for the best performance of 1945 Ile deserves it every drop If anyone told me that Hollywood could produce a film about the trials of an alcoholic that would draw flies I would have said they were crazy from hunger In fact that's what the industry told Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett the writing producing directing team which made the film But the producers of such fine films as "Double Indemnity" "The Uninvited" and "Five Graves to Cairo" thought they had a good show and stuck to it Lost Weekend" based upon the noval by Charles Jack son zoomed from a question mark to a national institution in seven weeks Briefly here's the story: On November 28 the eve of the World Premiere the entire industry had its fingers crossed as to "Weekend's" box-office fate Trade skeptics while praising the pieture's high quality wondered If the daring theme would draw even average grosses Opening-day figures on the west coast premiere show revealed that the film had stumped the experts by topping even "Going My Way" for in all-time record at the Hollywood Paramout The New York premiere on December I pulled the second high- est gross in the 27-year history of 'the Rivoli theater and critics cut loose with the greatest praise barrage in history At the end of seven weeks the picture which opened with an unknown quantity proved itself the sensation of the industry and one of the greatest money-makers of all time The story is simple An alcoholic portrayed by Milland is headed for a Week end in the country with his brother But a drink knocks those plans into a cocked hat SUNDAY THEATER He gets drunk: sleeps it off Tries to hock his typewriter to buy another drink but all pawnshops are closed He tries to steal money from a woman's purse but is caught and kicked into the street He borrows money from a dame He winds up in an alcoholic ward He escapes On "THE ENCHANTEO FOREST" coke Edmund Lowe Bren Joyce "LIVE Side Ride Late Show SAL Night FOREST" Lowe Brenda ANCASTER 1-A Parr Theatre yORK Sylvia Theater ALONG FILM ROW: Universal held a luncheon party for local film folk last Tuesday It preceded a preview screening of the excellent British production "Seventh Veld" starring Ann Todd Miss Yvonne Liming 'cashier at Universal Wednesday completed a successful stint with a 9-performance Little Theater play Charlie Oat of Universal used to be oboist with the Cleveland Symphony orchestra Carl Ingle of the Universal shipping department has returned to duty after a hitch with Uncle Sam Burtis Bishop district manager for Metro with headquarters in Dallas was in town last week Johnny Martin former booker at Twentieth Century-For has returned after duty with Uncle MAKES ALLOWANCES Despite the fact that 13411'01ra Stanwyck earned $323333 in 1943 she gives her 13-year-old son only a 35 cents-a-week allowance and makes him cut the grass to boot NEW ROMANCE Formerly linked roman tically with Barbara Hutton Philip Reed is making telephone calls from the set of Paramount's "Big Town" to actress Martha O'Driscoll Latest News Events rditr with Billy De WolfeRay Collins Bill EdwardsPat Phelan Renny McEvoy tia4tptOX't ENTIRE WEEK STARTING TO-D-A-Y! I g40 4 FIRST SHOWING IN THE CAROLINAS! 4" 1 Ndiffil 1034f 0 si '''N 0 '''N'ZN '''''4 1 4 c'''': i 4' 44v starring LAKE i 4 'rt --ftx- 4 't s' 4 ipt' vER0NIcA tkk 44k''' is i 1 1 ''A 4 1 i ill ll SONNY TUFTS I 0 A AV k4: I 1 4 1 1 li 1 I with i '0316kt Billy De WolfeRay Collins -4r- tY Bill EdwardsPat Phelan i i 1 I I I Renny McEvoy i 4011 MI 1 1 LILLIAN GISH It 3 liV''- 44 i 4 LIJ 344 EXTRA SPECIAL MARCH OF TIME 1 1 ENTIRE EEK STARTING "LIFE WITH BABY' FIRST SHOWING IMMINIIIIIMII IN ToloolD-Any! Latest News Events THE CAROLINAS! "BANDIT OF SHERWOOD FORME" (In Wilde An In Louise "IttlE OF THE Kar KM Ellen Drew "VACATION FROM MASSIAGE" Robert Don't Deborah Kerr "SALTY O'ROURKE" Alan Ladd (WI ROOM! ticketed bbort Subjeets Daily MONTu "FALLEN Faye Dana Andrews WED "GIRLis Or THE PM DOUSE" 122ho Adm every Wed TIOIRRFRL-- 1111 V14 Gardner Ring Crosby and Guests "GETTING maws DARTER" Ph II Etilorr EntRN "N1 le I AURINBURG Gibson Theatre MOM-TUES-WED-- "LEAVE HER TO Tierney Cornet WildeJeanno Crain "MILHRED Crawford Jack Carson THESE THEATERS SHOW THE BEST OF PICTURES '41 SCREEN RETURN Jean Rogers returns to the screen for a lead in Paramount's "Hot Car go" a PineThomas action movie She retired from the screeen several years ago shortly after she had been selected as one Of the most promis ing actresses destined for stardom 'THE CRIMSON CANARY" ft Nosh Stern Jr Lois Collier idiatiadaktioaiddik40 ki 6Z" a 0.