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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1943)
MOTION PICTURE GUIDE By Bill Lindley, Motion Picture Editor, The Emerald Mac Will Feature ’Flying Fortress’ ^ There's action plus in “Omaha Trail,” second feature on the “Fly V ing Fortress” bill starting at the McDonald theatre Sunday. Ice Capades’ Brings New Thrills to Screen Flashing skates provide a thousand thrills in the “Ice Cap ade.s Revue,” thrilling picturization of one of America’s great est ice shows opening Sunday at the Heilig theatre. Vera Hruba heads a cast of top skaters in the film which also features Ellen Drew, Richard Denning, Vera \ ague, and Jerry Colonna. Miss Hruba whisks over the ice in a series of Zooming out of the clouds, the B-17E's, commonly called the flying fortress, bring new sky thrills when “Flying Fortress’’ comes to the McDonald theater Sunday. “Flying Fortresses Rip Jap Fleet,’’ “Fortresses Batter France,” “11 Flying Fortresses Down 20 Nazi Fighters,” these and many other headlines make Americans aware that with each day the famous Boeing fighting bombers are becoming one of our greatest factors of offense. Blasting two-ton "block bus ters” on Rouen or knocking Focke-Wulf 190s out of the skies, battering the Jap fleet or making mincemeat of the Zeros, the Flying Fortress “has exceed ed even the fondest expectations of its American proponents,” says a report of the office of war information on the performance of the American military and na val aircraft. Richard Greene, now serving England in the war, returns to the screen as a bomber-ferry pi lot who flies the Flying Fort resses from America to England, he and his buddy, Donald Stew art, enlist as combat fighters for the Royal Air Force. They participate in a raid on Berlin in one of the great fort resses. Richard Greene, who left Hol lywood at the beginning of the war to fight for England, has been released from active chity in the tank corps to make the film. The film was made in Eng land on the real battle front of the war. oi Dream-Laamg gyroscupic whirls which weave a magical mood of enchantment on ice. ^ There is the incomparable Me gan Taylor of London, figure skating champion of the world, who makes a hit with her rou tines, as does her father, Phil Taylor who does an entertaining and extremely difficult dance on stilts. Lois Sworshak, dance stylist of the ice, always makes a hit with her jive on the ice. There are also novelty acts which add to the entertainment of the film. Jerry Colonna and Vera Vague, who have their continual battles on Bob Hope’s radio show, con tinue their bickering in the film. The film will run Sunday through Wednesday at the Hei lig, and will carry over at the Mayflower. * orror Pick Coming Chill fans will have an oppor tunity to scream and shiver when a double horror bill comes to the Heilig theater Thursday. Heading the bill is “The Mum my’s Tomb.” Belo Lugosi, menace of a hundred horror masterpieces has the starring role in “Night Monster,” second chiller on the double bill. CLASSIFIED ADS LOST—Brown leather bill fold ^.'ednesday. Call Hollis Hartwick, 3300—Ext 275. Finder may keep money. WANTED—Model A Ford road ster in good condition. Phone 1485-M. “The Mummy’s Tomb,” coming: Thursday to the Heilig; theatre. Lon Chaney, master of horror roles, is pictured in a scene from Skelton Film Due “Whistling Dixie,” Red Skel ton’s latest laugh hit for Metro, will show at the McDonald thea ter Wednesday through Saturday. Skelton is again seen in the role of “The Fox," a radio detective. Ann Rutherford plays opposite him. ggnrcETm Dixie Time! "WHISTLING IN DIXIE" RED SKELTON ANN RUTHERFORD and "Eyes in the Night" EDWARD ARNOLD ANN HARDING T l Two Thrillers! 'NIGHT MONSTER' IRENE HERVEY DON PORTER also "The Mummy's Tomb" LON CHANEY dfoUywxmd K&pxviteA Top moronic statement for the week was made by music Czar James Fetrillo. Testifying before a senate sub-committee, he claimed 22,000 union musicians were thrown out of work with the advent of sound tracks, and proposed that sound tracks be taken from films so that theaters would be forced to hire orches tras again. When senators brought up the point that many small town thea ters could not afford live orches tras, Petrillo said they would have to go back to pipe organs. Senator McFarland of Arizona objected to this statement, say ing that he came from a small town and he knew just how bad theater organists could be. Petril lo promised the senator special dispensation. Back to Corn Most of us capnot remember the days when there was r.o sound track on film. Wheezing organists ran through a reper toire of the same music for each film, and occasionally reached over to push a button marked "steamboat whistle” or "fire gong.” Larger theaters had fine, or chestras, of course, but even or chestras would have a hard time playing the complex musical scores of today's films without weeks of practice. And where would the sound effects come from ? To ask that motion pic ture studios drop the sound track from films is like asking stores with fluorescent lights to take them out and install incandes cents. Musiczar Petrillo has reached out too far this time and has grabbed a handful of Holly wood dynamite which even ex perts are reluctant to touch. Production notes: Buck and Bubbles, one of vaudeville's fa vorite teams, are back on the MGM lot for a role in “I Dood It,” the new Red Skelton com edy. In this musical they will in troduce "Hey, Shorter Than Me,” especially written for them by the authors of "Cow-Cow Boogie” and "Mr. Five by Five.” . . . Gene Kelly now working in "Private Miss Jones," with Kathryn Gray son ; . . Edward Arnold busy in "The Youngest Profession” . . . Alice Faye just finished “Hello, Frisco, Hello,” for 20th Century Fox . . . George Montgomery on the sets of 20th’s "Coney Island.” MGM readies films from fam ous novels, including: “Quo Va dis,” "Mrs. Parkington (Louis Bromfield), “Dragon Seed” (Pearl S. Buck), “The Last Time I Saw Paris,” “See Here, Private Hargrove,” "Marriage Is a Pri vate Affair,” “The Sun Is My Un doing,” "They Were Expendible,” "Madame Curie,” "The White Cliffs of Dover,” "Gentle Annie,” and "A Thousand Shall Fall.” "Random Harvest” has entered its fifth week at the Radio City Music Hall as the new champion at the world’s largest theater, with 569,988 admissions since the opening day, the Greer Garson Ronald Coleman pic has played to more people than any film to re main for four weeks in the Mu sic Hall’s ten-year history. More notes: If nothing man Now Playing! "VIVACIOUS LADY GINGER ROGERS JAMES STEWART and "Five Came Back" SI330W H3XS3H3 LUCILEBALL Ellen Drew stars in "lee <! a pades,” coming Sunday to i'ho McDonald theater. sized comes out of Hollywood for the rest of this year, the indus try will have justified :ts exist ence with "Tennessee Johnson,” already acclaimed by those who have seen it as one of the host pictures of the coming year. The drama about the life of our il'th president has already been pre viewed in New York, and critics there praise it as an honest and commendable attempt to picture what America went through id lowing the Civil War. In reality, the film is something of a con tinuation of' "Abe Lincoln in I lli nois,'1 with some of the. keynotes of "Gone with the Wind.” Don't forget the top films play ing at local theaters- this week end. Heilig has a couple of spine tinglers, "Mummy's Tomb,” and "Night Monster” . . . Mayflower has "Seven Days' Leave” . . . Bed Skelton is featured in "Whistling in Dixie” at the Mac . . . Rex has "Iceland” and "Berlin Corre spondent.” If you can tear your selves away from the books, heal houses promise plenty of enter tainment this weekend. Now Playing HEIEIG Wednesday only Seven Days' Leave Thursday through Saturday The Mummy’s Tomb Night Monster Sunday through Wednesday lee Capades * >:< ■* MAYFLOWER Thursday through Monday Seven Days’ Leave Tuesday and Wednesday Theatre closed Thursday through Monday lee Capades » i? * JfeDONALD Wednesday through Saturday Whistling in Dixie Eyes in the Night Sunday through Tuesday Flying Fortress Omaha Trail « » HEX Thursday through Saturday Iceland I Berlin Correspondent Monday and Tuesday Jungle Siren Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen Opens Thursday