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Flynn Star in
Elsinore Film
Starring in Green Light
Lovely in "Woman Alone"
Llerry Herry-Go-Round
Irving Berlin
Film at Grand
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One of Great Popular
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'Green Light" New Cinema
of Best Seller; Two
Features Offered
The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem Oregon, Sunday Morning, February !, 1937
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; "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. -
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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.
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Alice Brady and Gny Kibbee in "Mama Steps Oat, featured on the
' doable bill at the Capitol theatre today and Monday. -:
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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
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ThriUing
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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
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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
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Sylvia Sidney in "The Woman Alone, featured at the State theatre)
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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."- - '
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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
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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
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BROADWAY NIGHTS
Copyright, l$3T. Xing Femtmrvt Syndicate, t , '
By C4ark
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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- -
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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
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TWO OUTSTANDING FEATURES
Another Inspiring novel by the same author
. of . "J&agnifieent Obsession comes to the
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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.
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