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Shamokin News-Dispatch from Shamokin, Pennsylvania • Page 14

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SHAMOKIN NEWS-DISPATCH, SHAMOKIN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3f, 1950 PAGE FOURTEEN Co-Star in New Hit tor, he was an all-around rodeo champion in his native Texas. He possesses trophies won in many diversified events such as calf bulldcgging, broncho riding, wild-cow milking and steer roping. Majestic Double Feature Show Will Begin Two-Day Run Here Tomorrow In 1939 he was adjudged all-around As exciting as a tropical storm, FatherSon PNG Team', Broken by Duty Order The first father and son team in Pine Grove National Guard history was broken up when the father, Corporal Roy Shollenberger, left for Fort with the 167th Headquarters Battalion. The son, Harry Shollenberger, a recruit, is scheduled to leave today with another Pine Grove unit, the 121st Transportation Truck Company, for Fort Eustis, Tex. The father has 18 years of Pennsylvania National Guard experience.

His son has been in only three weeks. Sunbury Teacher Ends Long School Career Miss Effie M. Conrad, Sunbury, tendered her resignation to Sunbury Board of Education, after being a school teacher for 38 years. The board accepted the resignation. Miss Conrad's retirement is effective as of June 30, 1950.

She taught in the Sunbury elementary grades for 29 years. Miss Conrad is a graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Prior to teaching in Sunbury, she taught in Bristol, Salem Township and Berwick schools. doubtedly have made her America's most beautiful schoolmarm. "I'm not saying I'm over-educated," continued Helena, "because a college degree doesn't necessarily mean you're an educated person.

But I am at least literate. "And that brings up another thing. There are men in Hollyvood, you know, as there are everywhere else, who are literate, educated and talented. One would think, from what you read and hear, that they are interested only in figures, and I don't mean the kind on a balance sheet. "So I think It's wrong for a girl to play down her education.

She's liable to turn out to be pretty dull because shell be discarding what Is obviously a good asset toward champion of the West Texas Rodeo, held at Marfa. Since he was a youngster he has been an unusually expert whip manipulator, and does such stunts with a 20-foot bull whip as snipping off the greater part of a cigaret held in the lips of a very brave man. Columbia's "On the Isle of Samoa, coming to the Majestic Theatre tomorrow, an exotic love story of a greedy adventurer, fleeing from the law, who takes refuge on a tropical island and is eventually conquered by its friendly inhabitants. Jon Hall is the money-mad individual who, having robbed his employer, takes off in a plane in the teeth of a tropical storm and crash-lands on an uncharted island paradise. There, a white missionary, who has chosen the simplicity of the island life to the crass ways of civilization, and an island beauty befriend him.

But the good life lived by the natives on their tropical paradise makes little or no impression on Hall, who dreams of re SHAMOKIN DRIVE-IN FAMILY BARGAIN NIGHT Capitol Helena Carter One of Several Standouts in Movie Now Unreeling The old bromide that men are afraid of educated girls is just a lot of bunk, reports Helena Carter. The lovely red-haired actress is James Cagney's leading lady in "Kiss CAR FULL $1 FEATURES 2 TONIGHT ONLY tPWAHBLAlPlMOM-wwr- Grandma First to Know NEWTON, Mass. (U.PJ Mrs. Margaret Lament was the first to learn she had a new grandson. She delivered the baby in an ambulance which was taking her daughter, Mrs.

Joseph L. Badger, 21, of Cole-brook, N. to a hospital. Hollywood Film Shop By PATRICIA CLARY HOLLYWOOD (U.RBi21y the Kid in real life was a cockeyed character with dirty long hair, but you'd never find it out by going to movies. In the cinema Billy has been played by everybody frcm Robert Taylor to Audie Murphy and every one oi Jthem had a different version.

If you 'want to learn his real story, says Louis King, who directs westerns 'himself, you'd better go to the library. "He was a real person and his story was one of the most dramatic iln the history cf the West." King jBaid. "Movies have been making ver-'Bions of it since King Vidor started years ago with Johnny Mack Brown in the lead. "Except for a romantic ending, jthat probably came as close to facts any of them." i Wild Bill Hickok is another char-sacter who turns up in every western Jstory, whether he belongs there or tnot "He's been pictured in po many 'different ways and by so many different players that anyone looking for any resemblance to his real history as marshal of Dodge City and "Abilene would be totally confused," said. Same thing with Jesse James.

He's been in so many movies that nobody even bothers to connect him with the real character, Calamity Jane was really a to-jbacco-chewing, cussing, hag. On the screen she's gor-'geous Yvonne de Carlo. "A great improvement on the 'original," King commented, "but hardly historically accurate." VS? xY Zk' tfi rf Hill -r iMl ffMillllttiiMaMdfcllMnMlMWMM-y. REXwSH SHEIK pairing his plane and taking off for civilization so he can spend his ill-gotten gains. KIM 0 tHljYtur VWU7 MOIMIt WONDKfclKMJff JL NATIONAL PICTPIUr- Tomorrow Goodbye," Cagney Jfro-ductions' film for Warner Brothers distribution, currently playing at the Capitol Theatre.

Helena is a graduate of Hunter College and attended Columbia University's Graduate School, where the was seeeking a master of arts degree in English literature before leaving to become one of New York's Also SKATE at ARENA GARDENS Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday 8:00 P. M. Sunday Afternoon 2:00 P. M. USE SAME ENTRANCE FOR BOTH If there were more screen actors like Whip Wilson, there would be fewer stunt men in Hollywood.

Wilson, newest of the film cowboys, comes to the Majestic Theatre tomorrow in "Gunslingers," the Monogram western drama in which Tyrone Power and Cecil Aubry, above, play leading roles in "The Black Rose," current drama now unreeling on the Victoria Theatre Screen. BROADWAY PLAYS MILLVILLE SUMMER THEATRE Millville, Pa. Routes 42 and 115 Phone Millville 4901 Nightly through Saturday, at 8:30 "See How They Run" A New Farce Comedy Week of Sept. 5 A Broadway Hit "SEPARATE ROOMS" Andy Clyde and Reno Browne head Victoria Theatre. top Had Helena finished the course she would have been all set for a teaching career, which would un- the supporting cast Long before Whip became an ac- The epic film is a form well known to moviegoers, and great screen spectacles have highlighted motion MODERN and SQUARE DANCING TONIGHT and Every Thursday Edgewood Park Pavilion at 8:30 picture entertainment from the time the first flickrings became fact.

But what you may have seen before pales in the presence of "The Black Rose." apart from all competition, that Twentieth Century-Fox traversed the world to film it. It is another rare virtue of this film that it is imbued with a taste and spirit for the kind of high-voltage action it depicts. There is fire to the performances of Power, Welles and Hawkins, beauty and mystery about Iss Aubry, great sweep to the Louis D. Lighten production and coverage of the technicolor cameras, and the stamp of daring and imagination in the superior direction of Henry Hathaway. The spectator shares the tumult, the emotion, the sense of history unfolding before his eyes throughout the two hours that "The Black Rose" fills the screen.

Spanning three continents, The Black Rose" tak3s Tyrone Power and Jack Hawkins from a world of Eng lish castles across the world in pur suit of adventure. Through Africa and Asia, Power and Hawkins chal JTSUMMIR PIAWOUND Of PINNA, IN THE BALLROOM lenge and by their courage impress the great general Bayan, played by 1 Orson Welles, and serve the beautiful SEPT. 2nd D.S.T. Music by Georgie Kanaskie and His Ambassadors of Dance and Song CALLER WITT GILCHRIST Admission SOe (tax included) Sponsored by: J. Konaskie, G.

Long lady known as "The Black Rose," RALPH who crosses the path of their pur suits. The role is exactingly and ex For expert service in printing try the News-Dispatch iob printing plant. i mm his NEW HIT i Victoria i Displays of Grandeur And Pageantry Appear In Current Screen Hit Displays of grandeur and pageantry that dwarf anything of its kind screen has recorded in the past, a lusty adventure story that takes a bowman and a scholar to far-off lands in the service of a conquerer. "and the breathtaking color and beauty of far-away places, these in- 1 gradients brew the essence of "The Black Rose," the magnificent Twen- tieth Century-Fox picture now at the FLANAGAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA Dinctrt $1.50 Sptctatort 79 )f Plui citingly filled by lovely newcomer, Cecile Aubry. There is a glamour to high adventure in distant lands that couldn't be duplicated on the screen unless DRESSES, SUITS AND COATS DRY CLEANED AND PRESSED the events depicted were photo SPECIAL FREE ATTRACTION PARK BANDSHELL SEPT.

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TOMORROW NIGHT AROUND 8:30 P. M. PLAY THE BIG GAME HOME STRETCH ZACHARY SCOTT EDWIN MARIN -zznnnnnnnnoannnnonnponnnoonnnnnnnnnnonnooD ion.

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