MOTION HCTOBE GUILD
By Bill Lindley, Motion Picture Editor, The Emerald
Hedy Lamaar has another South Seas role in “White Cargo.”
She is shown with Walter Pidgeon in a scene from the picture.
'Nightmare’ Challenges
1 Fans to Solve Murder
When “Nightmare” opens at
the Heilig theater Sunday movie
fans will have a chance to play
sleuth along with Diana Barry
more and Brian Donlevy
The mystery concerns the mur
der of a wealthy British army
captain. Dan Shane (Donlevyi
finds the murdered man when he
secretly enters his apartment.
The dead man’s wife (Diana Bar
rymore) claims no part in the
crime, and asks Shane to help
her dispose of the corpse.
But after helping her Shane
becomes interested in finding out
just who the murder was.
As evidence begins to pile up
the audience is challenged to try
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Now Playing
HEILIG
Wednesday only
Ice Capades Revue
Seven Miles from Alcatraz
Thursday through Saturday
Hi, Neighbor
Bandit Ranger
Sunday through Wednesday
Nightmare
Strictly in the Groove
MAYFLOWER
Thursday through Sunday
Ice Capades Revue
Monuday through Wednesday
Theater closed
McDonald
Thursday through Saturday
White Cargo
£ McGuerins from Brooklyn
Sunday through Tuesday
Stand by for Action
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage
Patch
Papers Fight for
Movies on Sunday
The Harrisburgh Telegraph
editorially urges that its state
legislature put an end to the
state’s Blue Laws’ ban on Sunday
movies.
“Movies, through the weekend
and on Sundays constitute the
greatest factors in helping to
maintain British morale during
■he blitzkreigs of the past and
^Turing their amazing wartime
production of the present. Morale
sustaining and relaxation are
just as important to wartime
Harrisburg as they have been to
wartime Britain.”
to discover the murderer before
Shane does. So cleverly is the plot
constructed that the detection of
the murderer is said to be al
most impossible if the detective
is not already a mystery fan.
The film will play the Heilig'
theater through Wednesday and
carry over to^ the Mayflower the
ater later in the week.
'Stand By For
Action’ Starts
Sunday at Mac
One of the top sea thrillers of
the war, “Stand By for Action,1’
promises theater goers plenty of
nautical thrills when it opens at
the McDonald theater Sunday.
Robert Taylor, Brian Donlevv,
and Charles Laughton are starred
in this drama of an out-of-date
destroyer which plays an impor
tant role in a tremendous sea bat
tle with the Jap fleet.
Taylor is seen as Lieutenant
Gregg M a s t e r m a n , wealthy
yachtsman who has become an
officer because of his experience
in regattas. Donlevy plays the
part of a man who has risen from
the ranks. There are conflicts be
tween the two because Master
man thinks he kijows it all when
actually his learning has been
more from books than from ex
perience.
The two finally become friends
when their over-aged destroyer
faces a good portion of the Jap
fleet. Most of the other ships
have been sunk, and the day has
come when either Master-man's
learning or Roberts' experience
will save a convoy.
The film, acclaimed by the
navy as one of the most authen
tic yet produced, is notable for
its thrilling battle scenes.
Mama, iiiariyimue paiys ine itau in "IMgnirnare,
er coming Sunday to the Heilig theater.
mystery thrill
'kt Capades* Will Continue
Run at Mayflower Thursday
Because of the large audiences
which “Ice Capades’’ is drawing
at the Heilig theater, the film
will be carried over to the May
flower to play there Thursday
through Sunday.
Ellen Drew and Richard Den
ning are starred in this picture
which features flashing skates
and' tuneful songs, and they are
supported by many of the world's
finest ice stars.
The story, designed to include
many dance scenes, centers
around Ellen Drew, a girl from
the country who inherits an ice
show which has more debts than
she can pay off. A rival ice show
has contracts for all the big
rinks in the vicinity, and she is
faced with the problem of dis
banding' the unit.
Denning comes along at this
time to offer his assistance, and
she does not realize that he is a
member of the gang of the rack
eteer who owns the other show.
She is almost ready to sell out
when Professor Colonna offers
to back the show with the §100,
000 he is due to receive on the
loth of the month. It turns out
later that Colonna believes in the
stars and that the stars say he
is due to win on a radio program
similar to the “Pot of Gold.’’
But the thrilling routines of
the ice stars save the show after
a finale which combines figure
skating, dancing, and clowning
on the ice.
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Hollywood seems to be getting
plenty of unwelcome publicity
these days. First it was Frances
Farmer, then Errol Flynn, then
Gene Krupa, and now Bob Hope's
sister-in-law is suing him for a
larger salary, and a reimburse
ment of what she should have
earned while working for him-.
She claims that Hope has been
paying her only $12.50 per week
for work which included answer
ing his fan mail and cross-index
ing his huge file of jokes. There
are a lot of rumors around about
how tight Hollywood stars are.
Some of them may be true, and
others nothing but gossip, but
the fact remains that if a case
is brought to court there must
be some truth in the accusation.
Of course we have to remember
that the salary limit in Holly
wood or anywhere else is $15,000
per year, so naturally the poor
stars have to skimp here and
there.
Production briefs: Staying in
Africa, Humphrey Bogart fol
lows "Casablanca” with "Sa
hara” . . . Phil Baker and Joan
Bennett sign with 20th Century
Fox for two pictures each dur
3 943 . . . Finished with her role
as Madam Litvinoff in "Mission
to Moscow,” Barbara Everest
starts work on "Phantom of the
Opera,” remake of the old Lon
Chancy thriller . . . Warner Bros,
buy screen rights to "In Our
Time,” by War Correspondent
Robert St. John . . , Phillis Pova
brought from Broadway for the
latest Bob Hope picture, “Let's
Face It” . . . Gary Cooper will
play the lead in “Saratoga
Trunk” before reporting to De
Mille for "The Story of Doctor
Wassell.”
Idea Department: Not satis
fied with making Wolf Man and
Frankenstein films, Universal
now has in production "Franken
stein Meets the Wolf Man,” an
idea which should be tops in
thrillers.
A local theater may bring' back
King Kong soon for a reshowing.
Personally we think the slightly
old horror film surpasses any
thing ever put out by Hollywood.
Recently even the Frankenstein
films are dragging slightly. In
fact, the last film in the series
had about as many thrills to it as
riding on a merry-go-round. So
we advised the local theater man
to bring the film back, and we
hope he does.
Odd ideas: Hollywood is plan
ning several religious pictures for
shooting soon, because of the up
swing in the return to religion
since the beginning of the war.
Among those listed are: “The
Song of Bernadette,” “Keys of
the Kingdom,” and "The Robe.”
The latter, a novel by Lloyd C.
Douglas, was purchased for $100,
000.
Gold Medal of the Week: For
over three years now your corre
spondent has been rooting for
little Republic studios. .To most
theater-goers Republic is just a
small studio which specializes in
westerns, but to men who keep
tfyeir eyes on the film industry,
Republic is the most up-and-com
ing studio in Hollywood.
Starting with nothing but
cheap dramas, the studio was the
first to bring the western film
back into its present popularity.
Republic discovered Gene Autry
and brought him to the screen, as
the first singing cowboy. Their
idea was copied by others, as
most good ideas are, but none of
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Brian Donlevy stars in “Night
mare,” thriller coming to the
Heilig theater Sunday.
the other studios had Autry, rad
substitutes just seemed to 3all
through.
To a small town theater, A u
try is the man who pays off the
mortgages, regardless of what he
means to big movie men.
The Republic decided to m ke
a big feature on a high budget.
The film, "Man of Conquest,” 'be
came one of the top pictures of
the year. After its release the stu
dio dropped back to westerns, :uad
introduced Roy Rogers, now
head of the singing cowboy de
partment (Autry is a sergeant
in the air force). Recently Repub
lic has brought out two excellent
high-budget films which I ave
held their own against rele. sea
of the larger studios, "Flying Ti
gers,” and "Ice Capades.”
So to you, Republic Piet, res,
we present our gold medal of the
week.
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"WHITE CARGO *
Hedy Lamarr
Walter Pidgeon
and
“McGUERINS FROM
BROOKLYN”
William Bendix
Grace Bradley
11 • S3M
Now Playing!
"MY FAVORITE
WIFE'
with
IRENE DUNNE
also
“IRENE AND VERNOM
CASTLE'’
Ginger Rogers
Fred Astaire
It’s ALL New!
TCECAPADES
REVUE"
Ellen Drew
Richard Denning
"SEVEN MILES FROM
ALCATRAZ’’
James Craig
Eonita Granville
Opens
Thursday