Kingsport Times from Kingsport, Tennessee • 8

8k KINGSPORT TIMES SUNDAY JAN 10 1943 Roz Russell Janet Blair Stars of 'My Sister Eileen' at State Stage Canteen Dream Come True New When Selena Royle and Jane Cowl dreamed up their idea for a canteen in New York where servicemen could meet and dance with stars of stage screen and radio they never realized that their brain child would turn into one of the biggest business ventures in the country today Selena who has played in over 40 Broadway shows including Ladies Mer chant of the and Mr is now appearing as Kathy Marsh in Faces Life" It was she and Jane Cowl who have played together on the stage for more than 15 years who planned and founded the famous Stage Door Canteen which has been duplicated throughout the country Today with moving pictures radio shows and plays being done about the Canteen the is getting bigger and bigger The American Theater Wing which sponsors the canteen is expected to receive more than a million dollars from the picture Door alone i i' The hectic adventures of struck sisters who haunt Broadway casting offices and magazine editorial rooms and live on Spaghetti and cereal samples in basement apartment in Greenwich Village i3 the State top notch offering for Monday and Tuesday with Rosalind Russell Janet Blair and Brian Aherne star red in Sister Prom the moment Ruth and Eileen Sherwood end a weary apartment hunt by signing a lease for their basement room the room becomes as laughter provoking as any of the players in the cast For one thing the girls are unaware a subway is being built and that the blasting is going on directly under their feet The blasting and the shadeless windows at street level provide the young la' dies with a nightmarish first night in their new home Drunks lean down to talk to them the cop on the beat views them with suspicion and dogs chase cats through their room Drug store managers out-of-work grid stars exotic night club doormen an eccentric artist landlord a fresh newspaper reporter and six Portugese naval cadets are among the motley crew to make the Greenwich basement apartment one of the sprightliest gathering places in Gotham For sheer tomfoolery it would be hard to beat the conga line the desperate girls swing their Portugese seamen into when the boys decide to camp on the doorstep after one look at Eileen Among the featured comedy roles are those taken by George Tobias as the landlord Allyn Joslyn as the reporter and Gordon Jones as from Georgia Tech by the role of General Custer with Olivia DeHavilland co-starred as his wife A former Barter Theatre star Jeffrey Lynn is co-starred with glamorous Constance Bennett in of the at the Gem Theatre Wednesday and Thursday A South American rubber plantation is the setting Johnny Mack Brown with his sidekick Fuzzy Knight dons sheriff badge and six-guns to rid a lawless prairie town of the thieves and murderers who run it in and at the Gem Theatre Friday and Saturday In Northern Africa the Moslem woman of the city is almost always veiled a custom not followed by desert women CHARGING TO GLORY In A Thundering Thrilling-Speclade You'll Never ForgelH Heroism unequaled I Entertainment uncomparable! greatest thrill comes to glowing life on the LIFE GETS COMPLICATED for Eileen and her sister in the hilarious comedy Sister showing at the State Theatre Monday and Tuesday and starring Rosalind Russell Janet Blair and Brian Aherne In this scene Roz and Janet Blair are discovering that sweet Is synonymous with Grand Central Station screen her hair into beribboned pigtails conceal the truth about the were- Riders adventures in the Panwolf that prowls the countryside rhandle country A neat double play is turned in 11 1 detective Preston Foster in The MOJOT Olid in New the Wednesday-Thursday attraction starring Foster and fea- Errol FLYNN Olivia De HAVILLAND COMPLETE WITH PIGTAILS and a balloon Ginger Rogers attempts to ride from New York to Iowa half fare but gets sidetracked when handsome Major Ray Milland rescyes her unsuspectingly from the clutches of a pair of train conductors in Major and the at the Rialto Theatre Monday and Tuesday In their greatest and most exciting roles and gets into a peck of trouble before a military scandal is averted and romance has (its way Julie Bishop Richard Travis are teamed in from at Rmlfo! Wednesday and i a turing Patricia Morison and Albert1 Sophisticated patter in a juve-1 Thursday Travjs is the ex-convict feeh Dekker In fact almost a triple mie military academy is only oneiwhos been framed by a gang but Sundays midnight Show at the whoso skill with a rampra pnnhlps State will be starring Victor Mature and Lucille Ball The regular run is scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday As usual the handsome ex-coast guardsman is surrounded by a bevy of beauties is forced to decide between a flaming Portugese songstress and a socialite whose to a certain will mean the making of his fortune Ginny Simms Mapy Cortes Lucille Balli'ajid a pert youngster named Marcy McGuire -are the ladies in the screen life Les Brown and his orchestra air THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON" On The Same Program Merrie Melody Cartoon in Technicolor MON-TUES GEM THCR of The Tropics with LYNN Constance BENNETT WED Jeffrey A gallant general of former fighting days and one of the best beloved figures in American Ihistory is celebrated in "They Died with Their Boots at the Gem to open the week's bill of fare Monday and Tuesday Errol Flynn has -1 I A I 1 -A iagg isar- headliner Hal (Great Gildersleeve) Peary and Freddy Martin and his orchestra are also featured A host of -popular radio entertainers are spotlighted in the bill of fare for Friday and Saturday starring Jean Parker and John Archer in a pleasant little drama of- liije love and education in the mountains Lulubelle and Scotty Vera' Vague Don Wilson Roy Acuff and his Smokey -Mountain Boys and Girls Cheshire and Birdie have featured roles "The Undying Monster' Never a dull moment at the Strand Monday and Tuesday and never a silent one either if the press material is any indication of the length and intensity of the shrieks this horror special should invoke Dainty Heather Angel is seen as the aristdtcratic English girl whose family archives I Stage Hit Arrives Uproariously On The Screen i 3 THAT PANICKY GIRL is Heather Angel and no wonder what with a werewolf haunting her family gardens on the bleak English coast Featured with Miss Angel are John Howard and James Ellison Guess the gentleman with the wolf-skin complexion ALL THE BOYS LOVE and so ill you! the hilarious yarn of two little girls who step off a bus from Columbus into life and love and laugh ter In mad fabulous Greenwich VII lage! SOUTH AMERICAN BELLES can be pretty gorgeous as Victor Mature discovers in the State Wednesday-Thursday attraction also showing at Sunday's midnight show Lucille Ball is the lucky girl however and all because pretty Mapy Cortes the brunette of this romantic scene believes in the good neighbor policy Entertainments Here This Week UNlOSALIND Brian Janet BIABIH The Broadway and coast -to-coast stage sensation now rocks the screen with gay laughter! LOVE AND HISTORY are Errol specialties in his role of General Custer in Died With Their Boots coming to the Gem Theatre Monday and Tuesday Olivia tie Havilland plays the lady State Monday and Tuesday: "My Sister starring Rosalind Russell with Janet Blair and Brian Aherne Wednesday and Thursday: Leave" starring Victor Mature and Lucille Ball Friday and Saturday: with Jean Parker John Archer and Janet Beecher Strand Monday and Tuesday: Undying with Heather Angel and James Ellison Wednesday and Thursday: in Sew Orleans" with Preston Foster? Patricia Morison and Albert Dcliker FTiday and Saturday: "Down Texas with Buck Jones and Tim McCoy Rialto Monday and Tuesday: Major and the Minor" wifti Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland Wednesday Thursday: Escape from with Richard Travis and Julie Bishop Friday and Saturday: of the featuring Ruth Hussey and John Carroll I Gem 1 Monday and Tuesday Died with Their Boots Starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de-Haviland Wednesday and Thursday: "Law of the with Constance Bennett and Jeffrey Lynni Friday and Saturday: and with Johnny Mack Brown and Fuzzy Knight Fox Sunday and Monday: Pearl with Donald Barry Alan Curtis and Fay McKenzie Tuesday: starring William Lundigan Jean Rogers and Dan Dailey Jr Wednesday and Thursday: Out the with Victor Mc-Laglen Edmund Lowe and Binnie Barnes Friday and Saturday: with Lee Bowman and Jean Rogers and I Wild nights in New mad 'Latin Quarter! I WoKeslat the door and bats in the (belfry I why girls leave home and men never ge home! with George TOBIAS SYS i Latest War News 0R IS SHE KIDDING? 1 The Mojor will find out when I he I Bugs Bunny In Case of The Missing Scott MIDNIGHT SHOW TONIGHT Seven with Victor Mature! Lucille Ball the Great Gildersleeye and a host of top entertainers! jt Short Hits and Sport Oddity BOH HUMPTY DUMPTY MONDAY -TUESDAY MONDAY TUESDAY Ved-Thurs from OILMEN and The 3 Stooges In A Bye TOMORROW and TUESDAY Sunday and Monday starring Bette Paul Henreid Tuesday: "Doctors with John Beal and Florence Rice Wednesday and Thursday: "Atlantic with Bruce Bennett and Virginia Field Friday and Saturday: "Down Rio Grande and I I i'dtefMMfiminrxmi Short A PETE SMITH Specialty 11 hat About Daddy".