rAUE TWO
The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem Oregon, Sunday Morning, September 6,
1938
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'China Clipper'
Is at Elsinore
Pat O'Brien and Beverly
Roberts Hare Leads in
Aviation Thriller
"Chin Clipper." the new First
National production which is
scheduled as the feature attrac
tion at the Elsinore theatre . on
today, is a glamorous romance vt
the air. marking a milestone In
the pictorial history of daring av
iation. 'There Is an exceptionally tal
ented cast which includes Pat
O'Brien. Beverly Roberts, Ross
Alexander, Humphrey Bogart,
and Marie Wilson in the principal
roles. '.
PAT O'RRIEN
' While the story Itself is ficti
tious, it is based,, to a large ex-
tpnt. on the hazardous flights of
the famous China Clipper of the
Pan-American Airways which not
o long ago established an air ser
vice between Alameda,-on the'Pa-
if ie coast near San Francisco,
and the Philippine Islands.
; O'Brien has the leading role.
that of a war ace, who conceives
the idea. of establishing definite
air' routes from the.United States
to the South American countries.
then to China, to span the world
"Mine With Iron
Door," Hollywood
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Ancient Legend ofWest Is
Filmed; Richard Arlen
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Harold Bell Wright's fascinat
ing: story of "The Mine With the
Iron Door," a fictional dramatiz
ation of a legend that has lived on
In the American west for almost
three hundred years, has been
"brought to the screen by. Colum
bia with Richard Arlen in the
starring role. -It is scheduled to
open at the Hollywood theatre
today.
. The legend tells of a treasure
la gold and Jewels that was bur
fed in a cave by the abbot and
monks of the Mission of San Ca
pello about three centuries ago In
anticipation of an attack by the
Indians. The Indians massacred
the missionaries in an attack: at
dawn, leaving the location of the
treasure a hidden secret. "
Wright's story concerns the at
tempt of a modern soldier-of-for-tune
to discover the lost cache.
Appearing in support o Arlen,
the modern Cortex, are Cecilia
Parker, Henry B. Walthall and
Stanley Fields. David Howard di
rected. Fredrie MARCH
Warner BAXTER
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. 2 to 11 P. M.
Charley Chase Comedy, News and the Three Stooges
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New Romantic Triangle
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Warner Baxter, Jane Lasts and Fredrie March engage in a battle of
hearts with the world war as a background in The Road to
Glory" at the Grand today. ; .
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'Straight from the Shoulder" is a fine family picture with Ralph
Bellamy and ITid Holt as father and son. It Is the current
Capitol attraction.
Exceptional Pictures
Fall and Winter to
Of Scotland" and "Ziegfeld" Billed
Lights! Action!; Camera! And
the curtain Is going up on one of
the biggest and! best motion pic
ture seasons since the first Edi
son company produced the first
one-reeler way back when. Man
ager Carl Porter Of the Elsinore
theatre has fust announced some
of the outstanding attractions for
ma winter season 01 193S-37 at
the Elsinore. :
Leading off the great parade
of hits comes ("China,, Clipper"
with Pat O'Brien which opens at
the Elsinore today. Then follow
such outstanding bits as, Fredrie
March and Katharine Hepburn In
Mary of Scotland"; "My Amer
ican Wife" with Frances Lederer
and Ann Sot hern; Fred MacMur-
ray in "The Texas Ranger" with
Jack Oakie and Jean Parker; fA
Midsummer Night's D r e a m";
My Man Godfrey" with William
Powell and Carole Lombard:
The Gorgeous Hussy" with Rob
ert, Taylor and Joan Crawford;
Fred As taire. Ginger Rogers in
Swing Time"' "The Great Zteg-
feld". with William Powell and a
cast of lOOOi Hervy Allen's tri
umph, "Anthony Adverse", with
Fredrie March and Olivia. de Hav
iland; Gary Cooper in "The oen.
eral Died at Dawn" with Made-
leinne Carroll; "The Big Broad
east of 1937" with Jack Benny,
Burns and Allen, Bob Burns and
great cast of radio favorites:
Dick Powell in j "Stage Struck"
with Joan Blondell and Frank
MacHugh; "Old Hutch" with Wal
lace Beery; Errol Flynn in "The
Charge of the Light Brigade";
Give Me Tour Heart" with Kay
Francis and George Brent; James
Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of
the Mohicans"; and last but not
least the superb all color master
piece "The Garden of Allah" with
Todav. Mondnv !
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Elsinore; "Mary
Marlene Dietrich and Charles
Boyer.
These super - attractions com'
bined with the best the industry
affords In the way of short sub
jects point the way to many
pleasant evening's entertainment
for the ensuing fall and winter
season at the Elsinore.
Ladies Have Tea
TURNER. Sent. S. The lfth
odist ladies held their mnntkW
sliver tea Friday afternoon at the
country nome oi Mrs.,C. A. Bear.
Guessing contests were enjoyed.
Mrs. Mary McKinny gave two vo
cal solos. ,
We ore Pleased to Announce That
DOROTHY SMITH
Has Been Added to Our Larg-e Staff of Experts
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TODAY AND MONDAY ONLY
A
America's New Boy Friend
ROBERT TAYLOR
in
"There s Always Tomonow"
with
Frank Morgan
Binnie Barnes
"THE SANTA FE TRAIL"
uith - ,
Richard Arlen
Eugene Pallette -
War Drama at
"The Road to Glory Now
Playing; Baxter and
; Jane Lang Stars j
The great love drama of the
World war. The Road to Glory,"
Twentieth Century -Fox produc
tion, opened at the Grand theatre-
yesterday and revealed itself
as one of the outstanding cinema
achievements of the year. ;
Painted Against a background
of the seething kaliedoscope of
battle, no-man's land, and war
torn France, the film depicts love
in all ita phases. '-'.
Vibrantly enacted by an im
pressive cast Including Fredrie
March, Warner Baxter, Lionel
Barrymoro, June Lang and Greg
ory Ratotf. the film tells a robust,
dramatic story, and maintains an
intense suspense from beginning
to end. ; -
' Baxter Is seen as the hard
bitten commander of a war-torn
sector, whose only relief from the
din of war is found in the arms
ot Monlque, a petite French
nurse. ..
June Lang, a virtual newcomer,
has her first big .chance as Mon
lque, and, if her performance is
any criterion, she will soon be
among Hollywood's leading fem
inine stars. Gregory Ratof fs de
lineation ot the sergeant, who goes
on' laughing to the last, is one of
the voluble Russian's outstanding
cinema contributions.
The Call Board
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Today Double bill. Robert
Taylor in "There's Always
Tomorrow" and Richard Ar-
len in "The Santa Fe
Trail". :
Tuesday Double bill," Her-
bert Marshall In "Till We
Meet Again" plus James
Gleason in "Murder on the
Bridle Path".
Thursday Double bill, George
. Brent in "The Case Against
Mrs. Ames" and Margaret
Sullavan in "Next Time We
Love".
Saturday only Charles Star-
rett in "The Mysterious
Arenger". '
ELSINORE
Today "China Clipper" with
Pat O'Brien. .
Thursday Double bill, Joan
Crawford in "Dane! n g
Lady"' and Wallace Beery
in The Big House".
CAPITOL
Today Double bill, "Straight
; From the Shoulder" with
' Ralph Bellamy and "Down
to the Sea" with Russell
' Hardie. :
Tuesday Double bill. Tom-
j Brown In "I'd Give My
i Life" and "Danger Ahead"
" with all star east.
Thursday Double bill, "Hoi-
lywood Boulevard" with 20
i stars and Joe E. Brown la
"Sons 'o Guns". n
GRAND i
Today Fredrie March In
"The Road to Glory".
Saturday Jane Withers in
"Pepper". .
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Today Richard Arlen in
j Harold Bell Wright's "The
Mine With the Iron Door".
Wednesday "My Marriage".
with Claire Trevor.
Friday Double bllL Jean Au-
i try in "Red River Valley"
and "Roaming Lady -with
ay wray.
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-By CLARK
NEW YORK, Sept. 5. The ar
rival of Philip : Barry's comedy
about political birth-pains on the
campuses, "Spring Dance," la a
break. lor the D'Oyly Carte Opera
company, for it gives theater
goers something to talk: about be
sides flaws in the current produc
tions of Gilbert & Sullivan operet
tas by the English troupe. Torrid
temperature in -the notably air
unconditioned .Martin Beck
theater have put the Sullivan fans
in an irritable temper and made
them doubly disposed to find
fault.
Grounds for Complaint
Unfortunately, there are good
grounds for complaint about the
D'Oyly Carte version ot "The
Mikado." The players are too
willing to oblige with encores, and
too lacking in Ingenuity to make
the encores anything except bore.
Stage direction of the company is
so antiquated that any repretltion
makes the show drag with both
feet. One of the ladies sang so
far oft key that It was apparent
to even these old ears, made dull
and insensitive by many a year
ot listening to Cantor, Crosby, et
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"Spring Dance" comes to town
with the promise ot relieving the
monotonous procession of "Comes
the Red Dawn" plays with. which
Broadway has been afflicted for
two -seasons . But the heavy run
of propaganda is to continue early
season announcements indicate.
Speaking ot i announcements,
one of the most amaxiag in several
years ot drama records, is that at
tributed to Sinclair Lewis, whose
"It Can't Happen Here" is to he
dramatized simultaneously in sev
eral languages in Boston, Newark
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Den
ver, Chicago, New York, New
Orleans, Cleveland, Dallas, Ta
coma, Indianapolis, Syracuse. De
troit and Miami or Jacksonville on
Oct. 29. by the Roosevlet admin
istration's Works Progress Admin
istration theater project. The
WPA says he said:
Prefers Federal Theatres
"In spite of commercial offers
for the dramatization of 'It Can't
Happen Here' I prefer to give it
to the Federal theater for two
reasons: First, because of my tre
mendous enthusiasm for its work,
and second, because I know I can
depend upon the Federal theater
for a non-partisan point of view."
If Mr. Lewis really believes the
Federal theater is non-partisan, it
is because he hasn't seen much
WPA exhibits as "The Living
Neawpaper," "Turpentine" or al
most any of its productions in
New York except the Harlem ver
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transn's ftcsrl to
brook all records
for foaross con
quots of tho olri
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sion of "B amlet" and "Murdeg in
the Cathelral.'
The Lewis statement implies
that there isn't a" Broadway pro
ducer witli the courage to drama
tize "It Can't Happen Here" in the
spirit in which it Is written, and
this, we think, libels most ot the
producers
er within
on Broadway, who nev
the memory of modern
drama reporters have balked at
any theme whatsoever " that has
promised I a profit. Almost any
one of them would be shot in Rus
sia, exiled to a Mediterranean isle
in Italy
or sent to a detention
camp in
Germany for the plays
they have produced on political
themes in recent years.
The desire to have his novel
ballyhooed In the most effective
method possible doubtlessly actu
ated Lewis decision. No Broad
way producer could have offered
him the widespread simultaneous
production the WPA promises
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It may be only a coincidence
that the date set for the produc
tion of the Play by all of the WPA
companies Is the week ot the pres
idential election. - -
I ton-Partisanship
A statement by Mr. Lewis con
cerning the non-partisanship' of
the WPA Federal theatre would
be more appropriate after it has
produced something suggesting
there is nuch a thing as an honest
business man. or one. that makes
as much fun of the administra
tion as he j. Soviet government
theatre's "Squaring the Circle"
does ot uhes Soviet regime.
The Big TVwn Crier: The Lon
don Mirror says Robert K. Sher
wood's plays hare earned him
$500,000 In royalties in six years.
He is to be represented on Broad
way next by "Tovarich." an adap
tion from a French play by Jac
ques Deval ... Tallulah Bank
head's play. "Reflected Glory"4 is
such a big, hit in the provinces
that the Shuberts are rushing it to
New York, and leaving most of
the road to be covered later . . V
Add to the season's historical
characters Benedict Arnold, who
will be the hero of the villain of
"A point of Honor". . . Mark Heil
Inger, the columnist, begins hi3
career as a Broadway producer
with "Double Dummy." Mr. Hell
inger's no dummy, so he'll con
tinue doubling as one of America's
best paid columnists ... There
are so many shows now in prep
aration that theatres are being
used for rehearsals by two comp
anies, one by day and one by
night.
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Shown at
'Straight From Sfcoulder"
With Ralph Bellamy,
Katherine Locke '
Straight From the Shoulder",
hich opens today at the Capitol
theatre; furnishes more than
enough real, solid entertainment
to satisfy" even ! the most hard-
I oiled movie fan. I
It's a, fast-paced yarn of n girl
nd a man and a youngster who
proves himself the squarest little
hooter who ever came down the
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soc "-1 I A manf a girl and a little boy, Innocent
orch. A bystanders, become! key-witnesses to
ssc - J a daring crime... huhted by the police
bounded by the mob I V
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Tho oarth's mightiest ocean jits scttinrjl
Tho clrs aco pioneers its heroes! ,
History's most daring illrjht its climax I
Feel your pounding heart tick off each sensatton-packed second
; with two lovers who never knew which kiss would be their last
i for all eterniy! It's the supreme spectacle of man's battle with
death in the sides told m thundering human drams that
will leave' you with just breath enough to shout . . . "See kr
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IIUOTYDOfiART-rJARIElvILSO!
Joseph Crehah. Joseph King Addlsin lUchards
Olreclee? y loyssene larlfkfA Fint Netleeel ietere
pike. The romance is tntninhe
in liberal doses, oy "
Locke, late of the l1".
stage? making her screen debut
in the film, and handsome Ralph
Beaigit From tne Shoulder,"
based on taclan Cary'i ensation.
iUr successful Saturday Evenlnsr
Post tales, shows a quick-think-.
Ins artist j who, when ho wl tnesa
eTn gang killing, sketches the
killers 3of the police, thus Iden
tifrlns thent The killers, pursued
bytSf police, tow to "get" him
and are thwarted only by th
courage and bravery of his young
son, played by David Holt.
Andy Clyde, bespectacled, wal-rus-mousached
comedian, is seen
in his flrt straight dramatic role,
as the old gunsmith who teaches
little David to shoot straight
.i. .mi with actions.-
TODAY
and
MONDAY
DRAMA! ROMANCE!
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TO THE SEA"
Hardie . Ann Rutherford
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