Lubbock Avalanche-Journal from Lubbock, Texas • Page 11

AVAL.AJ^CHB^OOTN'AL, SUM. APRIL' 1C, 1.944 On The Facts And Fancies -About 0inemalane! JOHNSON ''NBA Staff Correspondent OLLYWOOD, it'lii' your date book that Shir- tr Temple- definitely will star in tie fi'm version "Junior Miss." Even though jl a Piekf ord didn't land the rights, David O. Selznick prob: ably will. Shirley, incidentally, the -most at- 'tractive, junior 'in Hoi 1 ywood fcnd a cinch to 'break ihe old ifilmtown buga- fboo that juvenile is a sensational comebacks. famous ECoburn monocle tis out.

Charley it for first time for this role in Columbia's "The And says. he feels pratical- ly naked. Veloz and Yolanda, the danc 'team, will make a spring summer tour-of 150 concerts, in Is eluding Army camps and Nav Abases. Yolanda recently becam mama for the second time. vocal chores.

COMING SOON ROMISED and for: Laraine Day playing comedy for the first time in RKO's "That Hunter Girl." Major Peter Rainier, Who Served As A British Eighth Army Staff Officer In North Africa, To Speak At Knife And Fork Club i A would-be suitor called up Paramount starlet Adelaide Norris the other night and. Charlie McCarthy's voice answered the phone with, Miss Norris has a date -with Edgar Bergen." I Errol Flynn's next at Warner's will' be another western, "San I Antonio." As a rhumba band leader, i Xavier Cugat is tops, but. M-G-M also thinks he'd make' a good comedian. The studio, we hear, is planning to groom 1-2-3 bump Cugat for Bob Benchley type roles. I Incidentally, Benchley has i now started work on' a new short titled, "How Dance on a Crowded Floor." I leader Artie Shaw, with Cowboy star Tex fatter may turn executive and produce his own starring film.

"Swing- time in Texas," as an independent. Warners is hnving as much rouble casting the roie of Mariyn Miller as Selznick had with icarlett O'Hara. So far Joan Ginger Rogers, Mary Marin, Dolores Moran and Alexis Smith have been rumored for the We're hoping it will be Wary Martin. Ketti Fring's latest book, "God's Front Porch," is one of those books you-can't put down till you've read the last page. Muriel Angelus, the singing star of Broadway's "Early to Bed," is spurning a Metro film offer to remain "with the that happy in it.

Life begins at 80 for John Alexander. After years, in Hollywood workings as Donald Meek's stand- 80-year-old Alexander is making his screen debut in M-G-M's "Gold Town." SUBSTITUTE HEN Hedy Lamarr arrived on the Watner lot to" do "The Conspirators," everyone-was anx- ous to get a close-up look. Two prop men ambled off the set to in awe. One' said, "Terrific, isn't she?" Replied the second, "Yes, she is nice, but Hedy Lamarr." Paramount has scheduled a sequel to "Our Hearts Were Young and Gay," with Diana. Lynn and Gail Russell again in co-starring roles.

Movie makers are playing smart again. "In Our Time" is a story of the invasion of Poland. So Warner Bros, premiered -the film in Buffalo, which has the: largest Polish population in The income tax of in MAJOR PETER W. RAINER J'a discharge from the Navy, is re- I organizing his band and has of leered a fancy- figure 'to Belt; Button's sister, Marian, to do the Britian earning $2,000 a year is Hissing is a sign of extreme pen liteness in Japan. Essay Contest Open To Area Club Boys Plans are now-practically complete for the 1944 phase of the perpetual Sears-Roebuck cow, hog and hen program which was started in 1937, according to W.

C. O'Mara, manager of the company's Lubbock store. The program, which was instituted to place pure bred stock on the farm, is open to all 4-H club and FFA boys in the six counties of the Lubbock district. These counties are Lubbock, 'Hockley, Crosby, Lynn, Lamb and Garza, the last named being included for the first time in the program. Several gilt pigs and one boar pig will be awarded boys in each county for -winning essays on the subject "Advantages of the Cow- Hog and: Pen Plan of Each essay must be under 500 words, O'Mara said.

County agents, or their assist-, ants, and representatives of the: vocational agriculture teachers of. the counties will be "guests at dinner next Wednesday in Major Piter W. Rainer, the only officer from-, the British Eighth Army staff thus far available for American audiences and one of the most distinguished foreign citizens to visit the United States this year, will address the April dinner the Lubbock Knife and Fork club Monday night at 7 o'clock at. the'Hilton hotel. His subject will be: "Pipeline to Battle." Served Continuously In Africa Major Rainer served on the Eighth army general only officer to serve continuously from the days of Gen.

Wavell to the final fall of Tunisia to the Allies. He was in charge of water supply, without which the campaigns in the desert would have been impossible. A mining engineer by profession, he is author of "Pipeline to Victory," published in January -1944: "My Vanished Africa," a notable best seller and "Green Fire," a story of African emerald mines. He spent 8 years in the American Southwest as a mining engineer and -12 years in South America. A South African, he was born in a tent in Swaziland and Zulu kings were his boyhood heroes.

Coming from a staff officer who has been through the three campaigns in North Africa, an intimate associate of British war leaders, an officer who saw the Americans in action, he is able to chart Allied present and a pattern of victory, each move a necessary step This Film Menu Lindsev Leo ''Carrillo and- Andy ar.d Walter Pidgeon. Thursday through Saturday: "Crazy House," Olsen and. Johnson. Palace Sunday through Tuesday: "Top Man," Donald O'Connor and Peggy Ryan. Wednesday and Thursday: "Klondike Kate," Ann Savage and Tom Neal.

Friday and Saturday: "Voodoo Man," Bela Lugosi. and John Carradine. King. Lyric Sunday through Tuesday: "Lassie Come Roddy McDowell and Edmund Gwenn. Wednesday and Thursday: "Adventures Of Tartu," Robert Donat and Valere Hobson.

Friday and Saturday: "Wagon Tracks West," Bill Elliott and Gabby Hayes. Texan Sunday and Monday: "Where Bates (above), blonde blues singer, is the "big sister" of the 56th fighter squadron based in New Guinea. News Briefs toward the next one. An excellent public speaker, he knows military strategy and tactics as few other men available to American audiences. "He served-in the Boer war as a trooper, distinguished himself with" Demilion's scouts in World 1 and has been decorated twice in World war 11 for "devotion to duty and services of exceptional merit." The War department announced Saturday the names of 196 Unitec States soldfers being held as prisoners of war by Germany, including Huley son of Egbert H.

Day. of Brbwnfield. The new capital of Japanese- held Thailand is Petchabun, a village isolated from railroads and main highways. Each In Texas Has Mineral Resource AUSTIN, April 15. (JP) is not a county 'n Texas that does not have some mineral resource that could be developed into a major or minor local industry, the bureau of economic geology of the University oi Texas has found.

In addition to oil and 57 different minerals are being The most common include building stone, caliche, clay, ce- Lubbock hotel at 6:30 p. O'Mara said, at' which plans will 1 be completed. Also to be discussed at this meeting will be the increasing of prizes. K. J.

Edwards, district farm agent, and T. L. Leach, associate professor of agriculture education at Texas Technological college, al' so will be present. Tower Sunday through Tuesday: Heaven Wait," Don Ameche and Gene Tierney. Wednesday through Friday; 'Dancing Masters," Laurel and Hardy.

Starts Saturday: "Claudia," Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young. Tech Sunday and Monday: "What A Woman," Brian Aherne and Rosalind Russell. Tuesday through Thursday: "Random Harvest," Greer Garson and Ronald' Colman. Fridayand Saturday: "Bringing Up Baby," Gary Grant and Katherine Hepburn. Midway Sunday through day: "They've Got Me Covered'," Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour.

and Thursday "There Goes My Frederic March and Virginia Bruce. Friday and Saturday: "Kitty Foyle," Ginger Rogers and Dennis Morgan. Broadway Sunday through e-s a High," Dorothy Lamour and Dick Powell. and Thursday: "Pistol Packin' Mamma," Ruth Terry and Bob Livingston. Friday' and Saturday: "Happy" Land," Don and'Frances Dee.

Are Your Children," Jackie Cooper and Gale Storm. Tuesday through Thursday: Zamboangua;" also "Childi'en of he Wild." Friday and Saturday: "Vigi- antes Ride," Russell Hayden. March Consumption Of Cotton Reported WASHINGTON; April The Census bureau reported tha' cotton" cons'um-d during March led 9.02,102 bales of and bales of linters, com- with of 100,846 of linicrs during February this year, and 991,422 of lint arid 109,172 oi linter; during March Isst year. Consumption the i months endLng Marcl 1 totaled 6,804,272 bales of lint and 875,216 bales of linters, comp with 7,500,302 of. lint 893,665 of linv- ers i'.

the jrrespoiiding" period a year ago. Senoritas From Chicago," Jinx Falkenberg; also "West Side Kid," Don Barry. Friday and Saturday: "Song'of the Trail;" also "Dangerous Cargo." Cactus Sunday through Tuesday: 'The Kansan," Richard Dix and Jane Wyatt; also "Sleepy Lagoon," Judy Canova. Wednesday and Thursday: "Two HOME MADS CAKES AND PIES FISH AND OYSTERS IN SEASON Af.SO SANDWICHES AND SHOET- ORDERS IN OUX FOOD DEPARTMENT. ARREN'S'DRUG SIX MAIN OIAL VJ-3S71 WHERE THERE'S HOPE, THERE'S FUN Bob Hope Dorothy Lamour ment materials, gypsum, gravel, coal, dolomite, iron ore, lignite, lime materials, limestone, peat, voljanic ash, sandstone.

Oil gas resources, listed in a new county index released. by the bureau are from- -counties where there is current The United States has 41 I sons to the square mile. Arcadia Sunday and Monday: Marlene Dietrich and John Wayne; also "Tonight We Raid Calais," Annabella and John Button. Tuesday through Thursday: "They Came Blow ica," George' Sanders and Anna Sten; also "Kid From. Kansas," Dick Foran and Andy'Devine.

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