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The Kingston Whig-Standard from Kingston, Ontario, Canada • 7

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THE KINGSTON WHIG-STANDARD FRIDAY MAY 2 1947 PAGE SEVEN In Hollywood: Jt The Movie Column: Joe Brown Keeps Rolling like the River ELANEyl THEATRE GANANOQUE ONT Friday Satardsy May l-l Heary Fends Linda DaraeU "MT DARLING Revival Friday Night "CAROLINA with Abb Miller Friday and Sstaiday night shews at IJf and EegMer sew far Aautrar coming May 29 lb PHONI lit Movie Dillinger Given 90 Days BEVERLY HILLS Calif May (AF) Lawrence Tierney 28 who played in the films was sentenced to 90 days in Jail Monday for probation violation outgrowth of an aarly-mnrning arrest while scuffling with hia brother outside a girl friend's apartment ALL NEW MCNSMTISr MOOT HTTI By Hon Gadsby TORONTO May (CP) According to the long the Missis-Ippt River ia the 'ole man river that juat keep rolling along Hollywood too haa a counterpart that doe the aame thing and who haa a mouth according to the lateit geographic aurvey juat a few lnchei narrower We apeak of coune of Joe Brown There are thoae who like the 9 earthy Brown and there are those who but none can detract many years ahead before she thickness demonstrates how ten stave off the day of reckoning C37P 237 MICKEY UWIS ROONEY-STONE BE IT COULD BE that Frankie Sinatra has been showing Kathryn Grayson how ha reacted in a recent row with a Hollywood columnist At any rate Kathryn has her right poised in a manner which should prove her amateur statue in boxing AUDREY TOTTER who has need worry-about that midriff minutes of exercise daily will Audrey is an M-G-M- actress June 10 Just two weeks before Betty Grable keeps her date with the stork Producer-director Mike Curtiz is preparing "Winter for Bogart and Bacall Aside to movie producers: With the California Centennial coming up how about a film version of "Samuel Brannan and the Golden novel of the gold rush days by Revs Scott the San Francisco newspaperwoman? MARLENE DIETRICH now In Paris making a mo via went to Verdun the other day to entertain some troops in the same Rarest and most London Little Theatre Centre Lays Welcome Mat for Festival Double Bills Cost Scribe All His Humor By Erakino Johnson HOLLYWOOD May (NEA) Hollywood I've had enough My back is out of Joint My eyes hurt and my sense of values has gone to pot Two-feature-length movies a newsreel a cartoon a travelog and a two-minute trailer are driving me crazy I get the plots mixed up I always get Into the theatre In the middle of the second picture By the time I get around there again I have the leading man in the first picture married to the horse in the second picture Or my favorite actor ia the hero in one picture and after the newsreel he comes beck wearing a mustache and is the villain People go to movie theatres any more to be entertained They go to be tortured They emerge with their spines all out of shape and with technicolor headachee revive single features Or else replace theatre seats with hospital beds AFTER ALL these years Errol Flynn is wooing the press He hosted a luncheon for the scribes on the second day of work on his new film "Silver plenty of pressure In New York to leave those fight-fixing scenes in "Body and on the cutting-room floor 'The State Department has quietly asked Hollywood to lay off gangster movies The reason: Because they were Interfering with Uncle efforts to sell the US to a world looking for peace and security Faye Emerson Roosevelt is wearing a lapel pin bearing the words "Please Do Not Handle" The pin or Faye? Harry James will be beck from his band tour TODAY SAT Emost tfAZINGIf SSifflT Sgj HEY KIDS! CARTOON SHOW SATURDAY Come Early by tha Toronto CaraAm Players "My Heart's in the by the Edmonton Community Theatre and tha Nova Scotia entry Her Victorious" by the Halifax Theatre Arts Guild Wednesday Le Caveau players of Ottawa will present Paul version of Louis Hemon's classic "Marla and Thursday evening will be given over to "Angel by" the Vancouver Little Theatre Three one-act plays are listed for Friday night: "Room in the by the Little Theatre (Continued on Page 18) Dancing Saturday Night AT THE COTTAGE INN Music by the "Cottage Inn Orchestra GOOD FOOD GOOD MUSIC GOOD TIME ADM 71c aach Dial 1-1871 for EsaerrsUm 998 Princess Street Just West ef Traffic Circle ADDED FEATURE Mystery Slatts the Range antu "HOrPT" Takae Over! WILLIAM BOYD aa "Hopaleag Casaldy" fOAi SAi turn i foj from the honor he won during the war for hia devotion to the troops Hope and Crosby had better presa agents Brown want one And wherever he went the guys loved him because he too was a guy and he understood them i MR went up front did his turn got scared and stayed When his teeth chattered It sounded like a machine-gun barrage they say but he stuck It out And when his son lost hla life in the Pacific Joe worked harder than ever in the best tradition of the stage because hla heart la twice as big as hla 4 mouth A couple of weeks ago In Chicago Joe put on a party He is playing there In the famous stage play Yes the one about the rabbit In fact the pla7 is in its 41st week in the Windy 1 City and Joe la the star As you might expect the party i a very formal affair There were in attendance a number of friends including Roger Hornsby getting stout now Elmer Leyden of the four horse' men and football fame Brock Pemberton Pulitzer Prize winner (twice think) and a number of others Joe took the occasion to announce that in a few weeks he is returning to Hollywood to make Jr another movie This time with a new fervor fanned by the loss of his son and by hia ingrained love of kids he will do a dissertation on Juvenile delinquency (Picture of Joe appeared in The Whig-Standard recently in this connec- tlon) He will play the role of a mln-a- later dedicated to helping the kids in the back alleys The film is tentatively entitled "My Son and and you can bet your last Oscar Joe XL Brown will reach right into hia heart to do a good Job The little fellow has been through the mill Hollywood and its phonies have never baffled him He has been up down and around but one part of him that never was dented was his character to Rev Joe Brown in "My Son and Chaplin Settles For $93000 I NEW YORK May (AP) A $5000000 suit brought by author Konrad Bercovlcl charging Charles Chaplin with plagiary and breach of contract in the motion picture "The Great has been settled -for $05000 Judge Harold Burke announced on Thursday WAR ON CATERPILLARS VICTORIA (CP) An intensive battle against tent caterpillars which destroyed orchards in sectors of Vancouver Island-last season is urged by the Junior Board of Trade Plans are under way to clean up empty lota where the peat exists in large numbers DANCING AT LIBERAL HALL TONIGHT 9 to 1 Jimmy Yokom and his orchestra A rare treat for dancing feet AND TERRIFIC 1 dangerous of coinsl -hIEOUE NIITEIMEII I1ICT dill 2a ONTuir-rox NOON SATURDAY) HERE COME THE BIGGEST LAUGHS! BRIGHTEST SONGS! IN TECHNICOLOR! tilin' DANCING SATURDAY Odd Fellows' Hall Gananoque To the Music of the ERIC JAMES ORCHESTRA i srtih year fovarite pie arranged as yaa Uke them by JIMMIE RENNIE DANCXNQ 110 11 ADM SOo PERSON ndfe theatre in which she danced for American during the war Entering the theatre she saw a shapely pair of legs drawn on the wall with the words: "Marlene Was It was signed SORRY FOLKS! Sold aut tonight May fad COTTAGE INN 888 Prinecm St Dial X-1871 ROSE 71 CONTINUOUS FROM 1 PM HOW RIGHT YOU ARE MR By Fred Kerner LONDON Ont May As cradle of the Little Theatre Movement in Canada London is preparing to play host this coming week to the revived Dominion Drama Festival In which 13 groups from all parts of Canada will compete The cream of Canada's amateurs will tread Jh boards of the old Grand Theatre where stara of another day once shone Londoners generally are looking forward to their second Dominion Festival Held at Ottawa for the first five years of it existence 1933 to 1937 the festival went to Winnipeg in 1938 and in 1939 came to the "Little Theatre The finals will run a week starting Monday with nine one-act plays and four three-act presentations Two productions will be in French WITH A IIISTORY extending ba'k before the First World War London has a proud record in amateur theatricals Its drama groups have carried off Western Ontario honors four times since 1933 and in 1938 the London Little Theatre won Dominion honors Their entry was a depression drama entitled by Eric Harris of Sarnia Ont London however was winning dramatic honors as far back as 1910 when Earl Grey former governor general sponsored the first Dominion contest In 1907-10 The London Dramatic Club was the 1910 winner Tha London Drama League produced plays for 13 successive years wu founded in 1919 with many of the plays written by local talent including Frances Beatrice Taylor Margaret Clark Russell and Carnith-ers For three years the London Drama League Meredith Players and Half-Way House flourished as separate units until 1935 when they merged to form the London Little Theatre THE FESTIVAL opens Monday with the Ottawa Drama production of Noel Coward's comedy "Blithe The second night program comprises three one-act plays "How Death Came to the DANCE INVERARY COM HALL TONIGHT Am Poste's Orchestra Admission BOe Danelpg 8-1 Dost prim: large box grocerim Aospitto Inverary Glee Club DANCE MASONIC HALL BATH Uadtr asspleos ef Bath Hockey Chib TONIGHT BBOW1I BROS OUCH Admission Me DANCE Saturday GOLDEN SLIPPER DICK EDNEY AND HIS ORCHESTRA Admbolon 1M potion For noMvatlene dial X-S74S 24 hour service SATURDAY MATINEE CHAPTER 2 "SECRET AGENT SHOW STARTS AT 1 PJtf 0DE0N Bsawsl Celdwya's BEST Years of Our Lives" ODEON Dancing Saturday! at the Hotel La Salle FEATURJNa NICK HAMLET and Hid Orchestra UN per eeeple DU 3181 (Or iwcrvationa OUR SPECIALTY Private Parties ihoe Uol Qyl ft? EXTRA SATURDAY MATINEE (DOORS OPEN 12 BElSVRElTOlwe ARMVOURt BUTTON FEATURE HOURS AT LOCAL THEATRES BJltmors "Phantom of tha 130 1-23 614 011 "Kid Prom Brooklyn" 135 41T 309 1001 Last complete show 01 Capitol "Love Laughs at Andy Ml 3-U 637 1 JO Last complete show 604 "Brasher Doubloon" 100 310 116 750 1016 "Unexpected 310 4JS 850 816 Last complete show 800 Odeoa "Oreen Par Danger" ISO 3J5 845 750 100a Last complete show 920 "Kid Inf the California Trail" MO 403 838 909 "Tar-san and the Amazons" 335 BAS 741 1010 Last complete shew 80S DANCE SCXBURY IIALL SATURDAY MAY 3 ANDREWS BROS ORCHESTRA Ada SOe Dancing 8-11 DST CENTRE TAXI dial 3000 lain JACK LAZ1NS Prep worn pile DOORS OPEN DAILY AT 12-30 THIS IS ABOUT LAUGHS YN'e ivt FOR THE SUMMER MONTHS THE ODEON MOVIE CLUB SHOW WILL START AT 10 AM DOORS OPEN AT 930 SATURDAY PROGRAM: OF THE RIN TIN TIN WHAT AMERICA'S TOP COLUMNIST THINKS FOR PACKED WITH AND MYSTERY SEE IT YOURSELF AND AGREE WITH BILLY ROSE mxn Five and seven passenger ears Special attention to funerals and weddings DIAL 41 COLOR CARTOONS SPECIAL CLUB FILM SING SONG CONTESTS SWELL PRIZES STAGE SHOW a pepaiar spat far Bridges Teas Banquets Receptions Showers UPSTAIRS LOUNGE 818 KINO ST AD passengers insured I.

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