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PAGE "NINE Gay HilarfeiuLS Go: TTTVO edl .at . TEieatres .eay aM ivmsicaJi ir Flynn Star in Elsinore Film Starring in Green Light Lovely in "Woman Alone" Llerry Herry-Go-Round Irving Berlin Film at Grand a 1. : - - 4tOit the Avenue' Features One of Great Popular ; Composer'- Best 'Green Light" New Cinema of Best Seller; Two Features Offered The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem Oregon, Sunday Morning, February !, 1937 rrr i : - ; ; "Green Light." that stirring story of heroism,; sacrifice and lore, which had many hundreds of thousands ot readers in its book form a couple of years ago, comes to the Elsinore Theatre today as part of a double bill. a faithfully made, splendldsy-cast Cosmopolitan, production, released by First National, t - J Errol Flynri, the young Irish man who made sensational hits in "Captain Blood." and "Charge of the Light Brigade" Is the mas culine star of Lloyd C Douglas; gripping tale. He plays Dr. Paige, the. scientist who almost gives his life in researches destined to al leviate human suffering. The girl he wins, after much misunderstanding and ' unhappt is 'the lovely- little blonde Anita Louise, who had a recent triumph of her own as the mother of "Anthony Adverse," in the film version of that book, and shares stellar honors with Flynn. Hilarious comedy ,layed against a background of news nnner Mmerman't adventures forms the theme of "They Wanted to Marry." RKO Radio's latest Bcreen romance at the Elsinore. The nletnre deals With the dtTTT inve-affair between a roving photographer and a society, heir ess. Tne two lau in love -soon after meeting at a fashionable wMtdine. hnt no matter -what road they take towards getting married they wind up m tne cuy jau witn out benefit of matrimony. ; With Gordon Jones as the cam erman and Betty Furness as the heiress, the action and comedy of the film are adroitly hr -died. Health Director Urges Prevention STAYTON. Feb. 20. ' . In his talk this week to the SUyton Parent Teachers association. Dr, E. E. Berg, countyjiealth depart ment head, urged the immuniza tion and vaccination of all school children: s" "These two methods of preven tion will do much to eliminate an;- possibility of an epidemic of the four most . common diseases of children, which are whooping cou?h, diphtheria, scarlet fever and measles," he said. ' . f "All children in t h e schools should be given, -the tests for "tu berculosis and diphtheria," Dr. "Berg said. "The health depart ment is doing everything possible tg eliminate any chance for the in ception 'and spread of disease anions the students and this co operation on the part of the par ents is an essential factqr." Tests will he given In Stayton next week. Thomas Palmer, president of the Stayton Parent Teachers association has announced that the mystery-comedy - play, ' "The Night Owl." is to be staged March 4 and 6. The cast Includes: Ign ore Inglis. Everett Gettmann, Al ma Shelton, Bernice Cuffel. Min nie Rider, Eunice Jordan, Kentin Thompson, Jerry Marking, Hal Cuffel and Tom Palmer. - S08ETHIM6 KEW! jUhttsiliTwt State Mssicsl KmbsscsI mvytm sours ALICE FAYE rrrf ligaiMTSl. Oi.B.YVOOrl, ; Today, Monday & Tuesday Continuous Performance ! Sunday . ! 2 to 11 P. M 'i' Happiest all Blno's hippy hits 5 jlr Mr . r n L Anita Ionise, Enrol Flynn andTMargaret Lindsay provide interesting - scenes in "Green Light" along with "They Wanted to Marry, show ing at the Elsinore theatre today. t J r .v.. 4 M' 7 k 7 f - v.. " - v . . - ' Alice Brady and Gny Kibbee in "Mama Steps Oat, featured on the ' doable bill at the Capitol theatre today and Monday. -: .. ' i I -If-- The Tri-City trio who share honors with nine other all-girl acts in the -; current Major Bowes all-girl revue which comes to the Capitol the atre for one day on Friday, Blarch 5. This is the latest and clever est of the Bowes unit shows to play the Capitol this season. Movies of Oregon Capitol Ablaze to Be Shown at State For Brief Period; Sylvia Sidney Picture Also Offered BECAUSE of many requests from Salem and out of town people, the State theatre will again show on a return engagement, the only existing motion pictures of the Oregon state capitol fire scenes, on the same show with Syl via Sidney in "The Woman Alone" starting today for a lim ited engagement. Manager Eddie Lewis of theO State theatre photographed the burning4 in complete detail, even to the tonpling of the dome, mak ing the most spectacular fire pic tures ever filmed in Oregon. Because of the historical value ot these . pictures, they are kept m wB"S"wsw ajff'fj Starts Today 12:45 W Sylvia's Newest and Best Pjcture! First Run! i : s Repeat ; 8howing ThriUing Complete Movies of OREGON STATUS CAPITOL FIRE - unut' I m Jff' 3 ' XT' ; , ; s. tinder strict watch for preserva tion, and as a memento of one ot Oregon's greatest catastrophes. . This wUl perhaps be last show ing for some years to the general public, so this Is a rare oppor tunity to live again those . thrill ing moments. : Bing Crosby Film ( Is At-Hollywood "Pennies From Heaven" Is Well Cast Musical L - With Good Plot I r There's happiness ahead at the Hollywood Theatre, where, Blag Crosby's latest picture, Columbia's "Pennies from Heaven," Is show ing. A cast that includes. Madge Evans, Edith Fellows, along with Bins In the film. - Crosby's latest " picture I was "Rhythm on the Range., In which he scored a hit. Madge Evans was last seen in "PicadUly Jim," The story concerns a vagabond troubadour who falls. in with a little girl . and her improvident grandfather and -proceeds to take them under his somewhat patch-ed-up wing. The child Is about to be sent to an orphanage and the elderly man to an Old People's Home when the troubadour hits upon a plan to make enough money for all three of them to live on.-; - ; The county welfare workers who la responsible for the child, happens to be Just the type of girl the troubadour can love, and ha tiads himself doing It thoroughly. However, they are on .opposite sides of the . fence, hence comp lications. Things, manage to work out for the best along toward the end ot the picture, after merri ment, romance and music take tarns with the entertainment. ? Crosby Is. said to sing some ot ' Sylvia Sidney in "The Woman Alone, featured at the State theatre) today.. . - . " " sft f Dick Powell and Madeleine Carroll are starred , is ' Irving Berlin's Twentieth Oentnry-Foz musical, "On The Avenne, a real-life ro mance set to music playing at the Grand theatre. ' The Call Board GRANB Today Dick Powell, Made- 9 leine Carroll, Alice Faye, The Rita Brothers In. "On the Avenue." Wednesday Double feature, Charles Qnlgley in Flnd ' the Witness" and Claire Trevor In "Career Wo- . man." Saturday Richard Dlz la "Devil's Playground." HOLLYWOOD Today Bing Crosby in "Pen- nles From Heaven" with Madge Evans. Edith Fel- lows and Louis Armstrong. Wednesday D o a b 1 e bill, "Rose Of The Rancho" with John Boles and, Gladys " - Swartout and Doris Nolan In "The Man I Marry" with Michael Whalen, Skeets Gallagher and Cliff Ed- wards. Friday Doable bill, "The Three Mesqniteers in "Ghost Town Gold" and "The Luckiest Girl in The World" with Jane Wyantt. Louis Hayward and Eugene Pallette. CAPITOL Today - Double hill. Alice Brady in "Mama Steps Out" and John Mack Brown "The Gambling Ter ror." Tuesday Double bill." Jean Harlow in "Riff Raft" and Robert Montgomery in "Piccadilly Jim.'. Thursday DotTble bill, Frank McHough fn " Men on a Horse" and Buck Jones fn "Sandflow." - . i ELSINORE Today Double MIL "Green . Light" . with Errol ' Flynn and "They Wanted To Marry" with Betty Furness added attraction, "March of Time.". - ' Thursday Charlie Ruggles in "Mind Your Own Busfr. K ness" and Two ' Wise " Maids" with Polly Moran, - STATE : Today First run, Sylvia Sid- ney in "The Woman Alone" ' also Walt Disney auly symphony.' : ; Friday - Eastern circuit t vaudeville on the stage plas "Captain Calamity" all color sea picture. the best songs of bis career la numbers "Let's-Call a Heart a Heart. "Pennies from Heaven." "So Do I." "One ? Two Button Tour Shoe" and "Skeleton in the Closet" were fashioned by Ar thur Johnston and John Burke. Johnston wrote the music for two of Crosby's t biggest successes. "College Harmony" and "Too Much Harmony."- - ' Ss a- I "Mama Steps (hxtP Comes to Capitol Kibbee, Alice Brady Star in Caricature Blorner Slakes Screen Debut Laughter and mosle mingle today at the Capitol Theatre where Metro - Gold win - Mayer's new comedy, "Mama, Steps Out. presents the new screen combi nation of Guy Kibbee and AUee Brady. These veterans ot the stage and screen do a scintillating carica ture of a familiar American type. 8tanley Morner, protege. of Mary Garden, the opera star, appears In his first featured . role, and sings weU.' Betty Furness has the juvenile feminine lead. Morner sings two songs that are nationally popular hits, "Burnt Fingers" and "Be Careful of My Heart," and there is In cidental music by an orchestra led by Edward Norrls. The story details the adventures of Len Cuppy, a typical American business man, who takes his wife, Ada, and their daughter, Leila, for a vacation In Europe. , Ada suddenly acquires a desire jtor whit she considers is culture. As part ot It she cuUvates a. trio of would-be . geniuses who . fasten 3? wo BQn.I7GQtft3i?CG - ) - S ! j2C3 p!l nA - 1 t s : It's carnival tlaae for Bing Crosby, Madge Evans and the little Edith Fellows la Colnmbia's new i sanstcal 'comedy, "Penades From - , Heaven, ehowing at the Hollywood theatre today, Monday and Taeeday. . , I ,:. - BROADWAY NIGHTS Copyright, l$3T. Xing Femtmrvt Syndicate, t , ' By C4ark J NEW YORK, Feb. 20 The dec laration of' independence from, support ot Broadway production that rang oat from Hollywood last summer when the' movie makers became aggrieved with the demands ot the Dramatists' Guild, has a hollow. sound today. Columbia Pictures paid $20 0,- 000 for "Ton Can't Take It With Tott" after a bidding battle with major producers, and agreed not to release It until spring 1938. "Stage Door was bought by . Ra dio Pictures, for. Ginger Rogers, Katharine Hepburn and Burgess Meredith, tor $1S0,000. Idiot's Delight, went to M-Q-M for Clark Gable for $115,000. "First Lady" netted $10.000. Sam Goldwyn produced $1(1.000 tor "Dead End." "Boy - Meets Girl" cost $171,000. The $$00,000 that Sam Harris, the producer,- George Kaufman and Moss Hart-will split on "Ton Cant Take It With Ton." Isn't a record.. Jed Harris and 'George Abbott got $t $5,000 for "Broad way" a decade ago. The highest price ever paid for rights how ever, was the $1X80,000.000 Tho mas Dixon received for "The Birth ot a Nation" and the $L- 000,000 obtained by the owners of "Ben Hur under profit shar ing agreements. , Kaufman Reaps Harvest . Successful novels usually fetch less from Hollywood than plays. Margaret Mitchell's return from movies for "Gone With the Wind" was only $$$,000, a fraction of her royalties from publishers. The deal was made before it .be came such am overwhelming best seller, or she probably would have got more than the $125,000 tnat went to Pearl Buck for "The Good Earth. - -' The ctaemakers are stni mill ing around Broadway producers' offices with checkbooks, and Tovarich," "The Women," "Red. Hot and Blue. "Brother Rat" and the new Maxwell' Anderson plays may be expected to. com mand high prices. - Hollywood scandals h a v e in the past ruined the earning power themselves to the Cuppy family with parasitic determination; Lea naturally objects when he finds an artist trying to make love to Ada, and lands In Jail. Leila falls in love with a crooner who isn't really . a bad sort, but the parents dont know It at' the time.. Eventually; the complica tions clear up In a blend of melody and laughter. "Mama; Steps Out proved to ' be - exactly what the audience wanted and in the opin ion of this reporter it is a picture that will tare well with the great American, public- - i - y - ' ---' - ' Kinnaird' of their principals, as all know. Tet those "Dear Diary", revela tions have had no effect what ever upon George Kaufman's high production of ' Income taxes for Uncle Sam. He shares at least $200,000 in the movie sales ot "First Lady." , "You Can't Take It With You" and "Stage Door," and his various plays probably are bringing him' author and di rector royalties, plus shares of the production profits, totaling $5000 a week. : - Entries Are Rated Taking the above named sell ing prices of plays as a criterion, the newest entries to the Broad way list might be rated- as fol lows: -' . -.. . ' ; . - "Howdy, Stranger," dude ranch comedy featuring Frank -Parker radio tenot $15,000. . "A House , In ' the Country" gangsters vs. simple folks In a rural atmosphere, with Tom Powers as star-r-$ 10,000. "Behind Red Lights." drama tisation of New-York's vice cru sade, by Beth Brown and Samuel Shlpman $10,000. - . "But for the Grace or God," Theater Guild's production. of a Leopold Atlas editorial on strikes $10,000. -v "High Tor,, Maxwell Ander son mixture of fantasy, slapstick and. pseudo-philsophy. with Bur gess Meredith $25,000. . ThesAnderson comedy Is large ly a bore. His play goes to pot In a tangle ot blank verse. Some ot the laughs are Induced by the sheer, relief of .the auditor In hearing something rational. I DAi Gttaj?tJc GEJkJ3)Air TWO OUTSTANDING FEATURES Another Inspiring novel by the same author . of . "J&agnifieent Obsession comes to the screen A exeat picture We guarantee it It ! r L,0!Xrir The Romantic Idols of a Hundred Million f ' . ' ..... f - i-overa jtiake the Screen Flame With AH the Power and Glory of the Famous Serial and Best-SeU ling Novel That ChanedaKIH2on Lovers Lives! AND SlOW DO Will Boaoereee earree "ear eaeyateea ii f s"" 'March '- vw,l r at Time SZZZSL fTwVMTeW ww eVew sTHVVvV - r Swinging merrily along to the tune of the best songs ever writ ten by the greatest writer of songs in the world, 'On the Ave nue," playing at the Grand Thea tre, represents Irving Berlin at bis melodious best.i in a musical that Is full of pep and lilting good spirits. - With Dick Powell and Made leine Carroll making a new and romantic : twosome ot - musical Century-Fox -musical presents a real-life romance of New York, in a show that's as . big as the town. Alice Faye, The Rits Bro thers ' and George Barbier add both. melody and mirth to the production. . -. . Madeleine Carroll, noted hith erto for straight dramatic roles, makes a charming sweetheart for Dick PowelL The beginning of "On the Avenue" finds her, as a wealthy debutante, entering a theatre with her fsther.George Barbier. . and an explorer, Alan Mowbray, at the . moment - that Dick Powell. Alice Faye and the Kits Brothers are engaged in a hilarious uke-off on the home life- of "the richest girl in the world. - Infuriated. Madeleine stalks from- the theatre, theatrens the manager with suit,' and brushes past a stage doorman to snatch Alice's -wig from her snd to break the window - of Dick's dressing room before she Is - forcibly ejected.' - Relenting later, Madeleine apologises for being a poor sport, and invites Dick to dinner. Fall ing in love with her, Dick prom ises to revise the skit, and invites her to the next performance. At this, however1, Alice, Dick's part ner, horrifies him by adding evea more caustic lines to the skit. Scio People Favor Union High ! School SCIO." Feb. 20. Approximately- one-half of the people of Scio signed statements routed In var ious stores ot the city during the last few weeks favoring the estab lishment of a union high school here. It was revealed at a called meeting of the board of educatloa Friday night. " v The method was adopted by the school board some time ago for the purpose of determining thr sentiment here on the proposal. It was believed, however, that the Scio district. No. 95. would be practically unanimous, for the pro posed school advancement. . Accordingly, the school board at the Friday night meeting took Initial steps to call an election la the district, with a view of sub mitting the matter to all adjacent districts calculated to be Incorp orated In the union high district. f Local men ' have visited sev eral rural district and state they are of the opinion that a suffic ient number will vote to become integral parts of a new union high school district. Midnight Prevng ' Tonight 11:30 i , p ' Seats HIT NO. 2 f A