Shamokin News-Dispatch from Shamokin, Pennsylvania • Page 9

PAGE NINE Screen and Stage Personalities Current Attractions at Local Theatres SHAMOKIN NEWS-DISPATCH, SHAMOKIN, MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1939 Hand It Over, Mister Ready For Action SCREEN CHATS By PAUL HARRISON 4 MOVITA DENIES BEING MARRIED TO IRISHBOXER Mexican Screen Star Explains Meeting With Doyle in Ensenada ANNUAL STATE FARM EXHIBIT OPENS JNARENA Thousands of Agriculture Enthusiasts on Hand for Opening Day wide contest for horseshoe pltchen will be held during the five-day show to keep the rural visitors en tertained between departmental conventions and other divisional; gatherings. Official and self-appointed Judges who scanned entries during th; week-end were still musing today over the confirmation of horses and cattle and the number of eyes in potatoes as the 150-oiece "future farmers of America" band official musicians for the show went through their program. The boys are the musical cream of 100 vocational schools in 44 counties chosen among 320 nominees from 120 schools. Although they have been practicing their "pieces" for months, today was their first opportunity for play ing together under the baton of their leader, Henry S. Brunner of Pennsylvania Stste College.

The uniformed youngsters represent th largest band ever brought here for, the occasion. Motor Police Commissioner Percy W. Foote announced that a detail' of 185 State Motor Police would be' on duty during the week, patrolling: the farm show buildings, parking areas and adjacent highways, insuring a minimum of congestion. More than 35 acres of automobile parking space has been provided near the new arena. Y.

W. C. A. NOTES Tuesday, 4:30 Owaissa Club meeting. 8:00 Y.

B. G. Club. Wednesday, 4:30 Blue Triangle Club. Thursday.

Blue Banner tureen supper. 8:00 Alpha Club. Friday. 4:30 Pocahontas Club. Saturday Election of board members of the Y.

W. C. A. The polls will be open from 12:00 noon to 8:00. p.

m. All members are reminded to vote for the candidates of their choice. Bonita Granville, the girl detective in "Nancy Drew, Detective," now at the Majestic Theatre, welcomes the protection of her boy friend in this scene from the picture. Kathryn Kane, Ernest Truex and Ken Murray in a scene from "Swing, Sister, Swing," now at the Capitol Theatre. HARRISBURG, Jan.

8 U.R The 23rd annual Pennsylvania Farm Show, with its more than 10 acres of exhibits from "down on the farm," opened here today with thousands of the keystone state's farm folks and other agriculture enthusiasts on hand. Show Director M. J. Grimes predicted attendance figures would at least equal those of last year, when more than 400,000 persons attended the exposition. A heavy snow fell Friday throughout the state and highways were in slippery and dangerous condition in some sections of the state today, despite considerable moderation of temperature over the week-end.

Thousands of persons came here early this week to take in the dual festivities the farm show and the inaugural ceremonies for Governor elect Arthur H. James, who takes his oath of office at noon tomorrow. The new $1,200,000 farm show arena will be dedicated tonight when the address of welcome by Agriculture Secretary J. Hansell French will be heard. James will address a mass gathering in the new arena Wednesday nisht.

A State Motor Police rodeo, a horse-pulling contest and a state MINSTREL TO BE HELD TONIGHT Peerless Entertainers to Present Program in C. T. Auditorium haied into going to work for the stage coach line gives him an opportunity to combine romantic appeal with the he-man type of characterization. Beery's role of the hardboiled, often unscrupulous manager of the Bullet Line is another natural, a typical Beery part played to the hilt and comparable with any of his finest work. For Florence Rice the feminine lead is a sure augury of great success to come.

Comedienne Helen "Sroderick is at her sardonic Charles Bickford and Barton Mc-Lane are as villainous as could be wished of a "heavy," Clinton Rose-mond embodies all the pathos of the Negro slave, and Charley Grapewin, John Qualen, Robert Gleckler and other lend memorable support. SHAMOKIN LEADING THEATRES I TWO DAYS WWa HOLLYWOOD Short takes: James Roosevelt, trying to get down to business as a Samuel Goldwyn ii.iih.'i i uj itc pieaaucjii, '11CS tiiat most his acquaintances of political days are ready to extend him a hand palm up. Two extra secretaries have been hired to answer letters asking for jobs in various branches of the movies. So far there have been about 2,000 requests, but no lobs. Screen testing for a picture in which they'll appear together, Mona larrie and Walter Pidgeon had to bs introduced before they enacted a torrid love scene.

Alter a couple of takes the flustered Miss Barrie asked, "Say, what happens to a woman after you've known her three or four hours?" )A BREAK FOR EXTRAS Most of the film companies give bonuses to employes making less tilian $100 a week, Better news for all Hollvwood was work schedules nromisine the starting of 46 new pic tures within six weeks. And about 15 of these will be high-budget projects with lots of mob scenes and extras. A year ago there were 31 features in production, and only three with large casts. A producer at a quickie studio walked on the set just as tne casi of a mystery thriller stood before flhe camera in various attitudes of tension while a clock struck 12:00, "Can't I ever teach you anything?" he stormed at the director. "Here's the whole company idle, practically, while a clock strikes! And if you'd had it strike 1:00, you'd have saved anyway 15 feet of film!" The "March of Time" reel on refugees is definitely something to see.

It touches on the plights of non-combatants In China and Spain, but it s' mostly about Germany and it pulls no punches either in photo graphic material or comment. Be cause it is so obviously factual it is the most damming commentary yet filmed on conditions in Naziland. MICKEY ROONEY TALKS BACK Notes on juvenile precocity: Asked if he'd got what he wanted for Christmas, Huntz Hall of the Dead End kids grumbled that he hadn't and all he'd asked for was Hedy Lamarr. Charles Duncan of the rival gang fo Little Tough Guys will marry Gloria Newman any day now. Mickey Rooney was reprimanded by his studio for too much night-clubbing and general gadding about.

He replied that if he were man enough to work in 11 pictures without any time off he guessed he could manage his off-screen hours without any paternalistic meddling. Or words to that effect. Anyway, he told 'em. AND STILL MORE DOCTOR PICTURES Don Ameche all set for a biographical impersonation of the inventor of the telephone. Hollywood )is tabbing the picture "Alexander's Ragtime Band." Paramount is closing its dramatic school, and hereafter its young players can look out for themselves.

Just now the stock contract list has been chop))ed to one Joyce Mathews. Talkie town's clinical atmosphere thickens with the cycle of doctor pictures, and Samuel Goldwyn is making capital of the news with a flicker about socialized medicine and the government's battle witih the A. M. A. Republic, though, will beat him to the screen with a similar theme.

Director Mike Curtiz, the language-mangier, usually manages to put over his meanings more clearly than if he used the right words Explaining some bad feeling between citizens of "Dodge City," he saia: me town is divide into two frictions." Majestic Bonita Granville Heads Cast in First of a Scries of Juvenile Adventure Dramas P. Harrison STARTS BIT WHIOHl 1.1 DUk to step KEN MDIIAT lOimMWH.umrauM I00II QOitui imiit Tim By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 16 (U.R) Movita, the glamorous Mexican screen star, corrected a general misunderstanding todayvshe is not, as yet, the wife of Jack (The Irish Thrush) Doyle. Moreover, she said, she was chaperoned by her married sister at the time she and Doyle were found in the same hotel at Ensenada, Mexico, two weeks after Doyle had been deported from the United States and was supposed to be on his way to Italy.

"He just wanted to kiss me goodbye again," she said. Movita revealed that if it hadnt been for the president of the republic of El Salvador, that romantic interlude on the seashore at Ensenada, wouldn't have come about. Doyle, whose exploits as not-so-bad tenor, not-so-good boxer, and ladies' man deluxe have made headlines these many months, was deported from San Pedro, in December because he had entered the United States illegally. Movita kissed him goodbye as he sailed aboard a liner for Genoa, Italy. A fortnight later Doyle and Movita showed up at the resort hotel at Ensenada.

They were reported to have been married at Tijuana. "These reports were lies, all lies," Movita said at Monogram Studios, where she was donning makeup to play the part of an Eurasion in a movie chiller, entitled "Mystery of Mr. Wong." "It was a foolish gesture on Jack's part, but a lovely one. He just wanted to kiss me goodbye again. And he did and we weren't married at all.

I stayed in Ensenada with my married sister for a week and then Jack sailed again for Italy and he's sorry and I'm sorry if we've caused the government any worry. He did it just because he loved me. And if it hadn't been for the president of El Salvador he never would, have managed it." Movita, who was bora Maria Cas-taneda at Nogales, said Jack had spent a lonely Christmas at sea. "And when the boat stopped at San Salvador," she continued, "he got off and who should he meet but his old friend, General MaximO-liano Martinez. Jack had known General Martinez in London, and here the general was president ot El Salvador.

So Jack told the president his troubles and how badly he wanted to see me and snip the president cut all the red tape. "Jack got on an airplane and flew to Mexico City and he 'phoned me from there and begged me to meet him at Mexicali. SO I drove down there with my married sister, Mrs. William Franklin, and then we all drove to Ensenada. I registered at the hotel with my sister and Jack took another room, and I wish people would come to me before they go around printing articles about my being married.

"Anyway, Jack took another boat after a week and this time he really went to Italy. He's going to take singing lessons there and then he's coming back legally and we'll get married. He's such a lovely boy." (Copyright, 1939, By United Press) MPT DICK STABILE TONIGHT 77c (plus tax) 8:30 to 1 RADIO AND RECORDING FAVORITES Boys Vocal Harmony In Swing Style Is Surrounded! WE CANT OUT. EITHER! mm sm i II Victoria Adventure Drama Wallace Beery and Robert Taylor Co-Star in Fast-Moving Action Picture The new outdoor drama, "Stand Up and Fight," co-starring Wallace Beery and Robert Taylor for the first time, comes to tha screen as one of the lastest action stories ever to be filmed. It opened Saturday at the Victoria Theatre.

Taylor's role of the bankrupt young Maryland aristocrat shang ENpAGJiMENT L'LAR DEMAND I I LAST 4fC nUL 13 i nicsnmrniN ROBERT Latest News RETURN BY POPI Second Annual Peerless Minstrels will be presented tonight in Coal Township High School auditorium under auspices of St. Joseph's Holy Name Society, beginning at 8:00. When the curtain goes up for the grand opening it will herald a new type of minstrel, a blend of the old and the new in blackface entertainment. The cast of characters will include many of the community's leading vocalists and amateur comedians. The program will feature dance and musical novelties by Juveniles and adults.

The show will be repeated to morrow night. Capitol 'Swing, Sister, Swing' Ken Murray Portrays Role of Press Agent in Lively Modern Romantic Comedy Ken Murray, stage, screen and radio comedian, makes his latest film appearance with Johnny "Downs, Kathryn Kane, Eddie Quillan, Ernest Truex, Edna Sadgwick and Ted Weems and his orchestra in "Swing, Sister, Swing," now at the Capitol Theatre. Murray has played press agent roles many times on stage and screen and has a similar part as the Broadway promoter in the current picture. As a publicity stunt, he once wrote a story about one of his own shows. An editor saw it and induced Murray to write a column for him.

Now syndicated daily, the column has earned him additional revenue for several years. MUSIC DIRECTOR NAMED DALLAS, Tex. (U.R) Ivan Dneprov, formerly in charge of the department of voice in the Southern Methodist University school of music, has been named director of the new conservatory of music which will be opened next fall at the Miss Hock-aday School for Girls. All narcissuses are daffodils, and all daffodils are narcissuses, since narcissus is the botanical name of the genus, and daffodil is the common name. LEFTY'S CAFE Cor.

Franklin Commerce Sts. Schlitz and on Draught CLAMS and BOUILLON SAUERKRAUT with PORK served as technical advisor on "Nancy Drew Detective," first of a series of picturizations of the popular books by Carolyn Keene, with Bonita Granville In the title role, which is now at the Majestic Theatre. HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 16 (U.R) Francis Lederer, Czech film star, today was informed that he will be granted American citizenship in federal court at Los Angeles Saturday. He applied for his first naturalization papers five years ago soon after his arrival for a film career In Hollywood.

Lederer delayed a trip to New York for a reunion with his wife, Margo. She is in New York reading plays for an appearance in a Broadway production. Lederer long has been a student of world affairs and a leader of world peace movements. He said his greatest ambition would be realized when he casts his first vote as an American citizen. Mrs.

Knute Rockne, widow of the famed Notre Dame football coaoh, has signed an agreement permitting Warner Bros. Studio to film the life of her late husband, it was learned today. The studio Indicated that Pat O'Brien, a close friend of Rockne, would play the role of frhe coach. O'Brien played football for Marquette University and once scored a touchdown against a 'Rockne-Notre Dame team. The screen Tarzan, Johnny Weiss-muller, is to have a "son in his next picture.

Tarzan, will be five-year-old Johnny Sheffield, chosen for the role after a nation wide search. The child appeared in the Broadway production, "On Borrowed Time." He is the son of Reginald Sheffield, an English actor, and was born in Pasadena, Calif. He went through a rigorous test of his ability at swimming, hiking and climbing trees before he was given the Tarzan Junior role. INAUGURAL PARADE TO HAVE MINE CAR Philadelphia Reading Coal Iron Company officials have acceded to a request from Republican leaders of Schuylkill County for use of a mine car and several mules to draw it in the inaugural parade at Har-risburg Tuesday. Mules and car from Maple Hill Colliery, near Shenandoah, will be loaded aboard a special car attached to one of the six special trains to leave Schuylkill County.

It is expected the mulss and car of coal will be one of the big features of the long line of marching Republicans from Schuylkill County. IRON ORE FROM AFAR ST. JOHN', N. (U.R) The first cargo of chrome iron ore ever to land at the port of St. John's arrived after traveling 63 days on a 14.000-mile voyage from the Philippines.

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