“Air Force,” which starts tomorrow at the McDonald theatre, has re
ceived nation-wide praise as one of the greatest air-war films to ever
Iniit the screen.
Mac to Show ’Air Force’
The army fore? tells its own
story on the screen of the Mc
Donald theater on Thursday in
“Air Force,” the first factual ac
count of the army's part in the
air war over the South Pacific. It
was at the express wish of Gen
eral ‘'Hap” Arnold, commander
of the U. S. air forces, that War
ner Bros, made the picture.
The department archives were
thrown open without reservation
to producer Hal B. Wallis and
Director Howard Hawks. Major
X Theron Coulter and Major
Sam Triffy were assigned as
technical advisers to Director
Hawks, who flew fighting planes
himself in World war I, and has
produced the outstanding air
thrillers, “Dawn Patrol,” “Only
Angels Have Wings” and “Ceil
ing Zero.'
The film features John Gar
field, Gig Young, Harry Carey,
George Tobias, Arthur Kennedy,
James Brown, and John Ridgley.
But the starring role is as
signed to “Mary Ann,” a B-17
known as a Boeing flying fort
ress. Although this is her first
starring role in a screen story,
she is far from being an un
known quantity. She comes with
press notices from all over the
world testifying to her great
range and power.
Her assignment in “Air Force”
turned out to be an arduous and
exciting experience, but. accord
ing to advance reports, she made
the grade and rendered a sensa
tional performance.
Dudley Nichols wrote the
screen play.
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starring
* William Bendix
* Grace Bradley
Gag' of the week: ad in the
Guard by a local theater which
read: No war shows; no nasty
Nazis; just plain good entertain
ment .
The showing of “Hitler's Chil
dren'1 locally marks the first si
multaneous run of a feature lo
cally for many years. Heilig and
Mayflower will both show it
starting Sunday. The Paramount
and Playhouse.
The Mac's “Air Force” has
probably received more publicity
than any ether war picture to
show locally for several months,
and from what our Hollywood
correspondent writes, deserves
every word of it.
And now for the news from
Hollywood:
Production Notes: Final cast
for “Animal Kingdom" announced
to include Ann Sheridan, Alexis
Smith, Dennis Morgan, Jack Car
son, Jane Wyman, John Loder
and Dane Clark . . . Life of
George “Honey Boy" Evans, min
strel star, announced for Mickey
Rooney . . . Benny Baker deserts
Broadway for prominent role in
“Up in Arms" . . . Florence Bates
reports for important part with
Ingrid Bergman and Gary Coo
per in “Saratoga Trunk.”
Paramount signs Cornelia Otis
Skinner for spook story, “The Un
invited" . . . MOM buys “Small
Town Miracle” . . . Because of
excellent work with Humphrey
Bogart in “Action in the North
Atlantic,” Julie Bishop promoted
to stardom by Jack L. Warner
and joins Bette Davis and Ann
Sheridan in "Dark Eyes,” slated
for future production.
“False Colors," 49th Hopalong
Cassidy picture in nine years,
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Motion Picture Guide*
By Bill Lindley, Motion Picture Editor, The Emerald
Now Playing
Why not take your mind off
the war and rationing by taking
in a movie at your favorite thea
ter tonight? The following films
are playing tonight:
HEILU1
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
McDonald
Star Spangled Rhythm
MAYFLOWER
Theater Closed
REN
Lady Eve
Untamed
A current hit tune title says
“there are such things”—but
when that thought is applied to
Klyse Knox, one hastens to add
that there aren’t enough like her.
The perfect photographer's mod
el, she’s shown in a 1943 Catalina
swim suit. The Universal beau
ty’s current film assignment is
in Abbott and Costello’s “Pardon
My Ski.”
Starts Sunday
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John Loder
Paul Cavanaugh
Nazi persecution is shockingly revealed in “Hitler’s Children,” Sun
day’s hit at the Heilig theatre.
'Hitlers Children’ Brings Story
Of Nazi Horrors to Screen
One of the most shocking pic
tures yet to come to the screen
since the outbreak of the war is
“Hitler’s Children,’’ which opens
simultaneously at the Heilig' and
Mayflower theaters Sunday.
Adapted from the widely-read
book, “Education for Death,’’ the
picture tells the stcry of atroci
ties which the Nazis perpetrate
upon young' women when they
adjudge them unfit to be mem
bers of the “superior Aryan
race.”
Bonita Granville and Tim Holt
star in the story of a young co^
pie who rebel against the Nazis,
The author of the book was in
Germany shortly before the war,
and saw first-hand the way in
which German youths were edu
cated for death. A noted teacher
himself, the American wrote the
book to warn his countrymen
what might happen if they did
not resist ideas of the new order.
Starts Sunday, April 11, at Both Theatres
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"THE AMAZING MRS. HOLLIDAY
AT MAYFLOWER, THURS., FRI., SAT.