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PAGE KING est' Films of Year and Popular Stars at Theatres Today Th OREGON STATESMAN, Salexa, Oregon, Sunday Morning, June 19, B 'Kidnapped' Is Colorful Film rT1 Stevenson Classic Givi Fine Screen Setting; Now on at Grand J From the world's great stories come the greatest motion pictures end "Kidnapped,, which Robert Lcula Stevenson considered his Lest, proved this axiom to the li Ht yesterday at the Grand thea tre ' . ; Warner Baxter portrays In all his swashbuckling, vigorous best; the never-to-be forgotten Alan Breck; fugitive clansman of the highlands. And Freddie: Bartholo mew, a size Or two larger than when he last appeared so brilli antly on the screen, gives a fine performance to the roleiof David Balfour, the boy hero of the piece. Script Changed Little The movie takes liberty with the original script in introducing a "heart interest" to the life of Alan Breck. But this reviewer is willing to concede that even Rob ert Louis. Stevenson might: have rewritten his story had he known Arleen Whalen, This bright-eyed, mischievous Irish la&s brings a freshness and beauty to the story tnat makes "Kidnapped" a treat for eyes jaded with glamor girl alter glamor girL The story ' concerns Alan Breck's leading the clans in re volt, against union of the North Country with George Ill's domain David Balfour Is the lad with the unscrupulous uncle who tries to ceep the boy's rightful estate by laving him kidnapped and shlp- ed to America. The lives of Alan Jreck and David Balfour cross at lie point where the girl, fiancee f a lesser rebel, falls tn love with Jreck. An Impressive cast headed by C. Aubrey Smith, Reginald Owen, fohn Carradine, Nigel Bruce, Miles Mander, Ralph Forbes and H. B. Warner appears In the film, r- h i e h was directed by Alfred Werker. K e n n eth Macgowan served as associate producer, with the screen play authored by Son ya Lerien, Eleanor Harris, Ernest Pascal and- Edwin Blum. Terror of Prison Camp Is Revealed Shirley Ross, Newcomer to Films, Is Star of Capitol Bill The experience of a beautiful young girl who nndergoes all the terrors of a brutal prison camp rather than desert the man she loves forms the unusual plot of Paramount'a new drama, "Prison Farm," which opens today at the Capitol theatre. With a group of noted young players turning In moving performances, the film uncovers the shocking conditions existing In certain American penal Institutions and shows what their effect can be on an innocent young girl who Is exposed to them. Heading the cast in a new kind of role is Shirley Ross, the viva clous blonde who was hailed so enthusiastically when she sang "Thanks for the Memory" in the recent "Big Broadcast of 1938 She is now seen as a romantic young girl who t hrowi up her home, her Job and her friends for the love of man who does not deserve it, and even follows him into a brutal prison camp. Director Make Study Under the painstaking direction of Louis King, who has made an exhaustive study of his subject. "Prison Farm" reveals the "trage dy of the innocent girl, who is ex posed to one terror after another. climaxing with a live steam bar rage when she and a group of her fellow-inmates strike for better tieatment. Lloyd Nolan, as Miss Ross's gunman - sweetheart, and John Howard, as the crusading prison doctor, hare the other leading roles in the picture. As Howard shows the girl what the love of the right sort of man can accomp lish, she gradually draws away from Nolan and in the end links her future with his. Ross Visions Net Of Utility Areas SPOKANE. June IS -MPV-Ful filling the demands for immedi ate power is his greatest con eern. J." TX Ross. Bonneville ad m lniat rat or, told tha, Washington association of public atillty dis trict commissioners today in, an addreis isr which he envisioned a net work of utility districts rornrinr the entire northwest. Already he said, he has made I application to Washington, D.C-, for $21,000,009 for the construe tion of a power Una from Bonne- : Till to Grand coulee, tnrougn Pasca and Yakima. "it la mine to tar the re sources of Bonneville to care for the demands' now be lag msac for nower." be said. "I am advocating the? construc tion of a big dam in Idaho and another oa the Columbia, prob ably, at Umatilla. But, it takes TPin to bnlld a dam' and my greatest concert o Is to stare off a power shortage, uw pwe -PI Bins Crosby Blne of the Right' EVE.. MAT. Great Heroes in r Warner Baxter and Freddki Bartholomew mcoiintcr-citing dv- ' ture In the 2Hh Century-Fox son's "Kidnapped" in which they r r i ':Zy 1 - .y ! 1 :t TLLr i. I ii r . ...n...... " '" r. ' ' ' ' 1 11 1 This is not a candid camera shot of from Vivacious Lady" in which Ginger Rogers and James Stewart are thas engaged and the featured picture at the Elsinore theatre today, i 4 4 That's what Bazooka Bob Bnrms somnia which prevents his writing song unconsciously ia his sleep which Milton Berle and Jack Oakle pilfer 'mid the gay xnosicomic festivities in "Radio City Revels' playing today at the Hollywood theatre. 1 far from the white elephant ouf opponents would have you believe New Biographies Added to Library ' '-' A collection of unusually in teresting and timely biographies have been added to the Salem public ! library. "Savage Sym phony" by Lips is an account of the effect of the Hitler regime upon the young Aryan director of the anthropological museum of Cologne and his wife, who tells the story. "On My Own" by Mary Knight; is the autobiography of a foreign correspondent. "Helen Keller's Journal. 10JS-10J7," Macartaey's "Fifty Years a Coun try Doctor,- Arnlm's "All the Dogs of My Life" and Kraeauer's "Orpheus In ; Paris" ara other new title in this group. Two ! more books -about con temporary Germany are- Th House that Hitler Built" by Ro berts and "The German Octopus" by Wolfe. , - v- , l:5CTirE Two Smasli Features Thrilling! Rlp the ltd off the Inside work. lags of a prison more feared than Devil's Island! ' O If i IZin CXS-LLCYD &D3 I JL Cants' Kaci3Pcrtif Cs3fcsi3 Q. tSssg AND HIT NO. 2 THE THREE MESQUTTEERS IN i "RIDERS OF THE BLACK HILLS "Kidnapped" . . r v s production of Bobertjboals werei play the leading roles and sow a corn -rating contest, bat a oceno r"7 l f would like to know to cure the in Among the new novels are "The Great American Norel" by Davis, "American Years" by Sin clair. "Towers In the Mist" by Goudge. "I Seo a Wondrous Land" by Kamban. "Free Land" by Lane and "The Strongest Son' by Stevens. Award Contract For Orville Job The state highway commission yesterday awarded the 13.805 contract for oil-surfacing of the south river road from Roberts 3.3 miles to Orville ' on which bids were received June 2. The suc cessful bidders were McNutt Brothers of Eugene. The commission also awarded Saxton. Looney and Risley, : Oak Grove, a contract to grade, sur face and oil 1.73 miles on the Washington county line Skyline section of the northwest Thomp son county road- Ur,HfUnemaa county. . .. . ' . Both coa tracts! wJttfao started wlthla a few days..-T;; TODAY MONDAY. TUESDAY and hated - fc!a Eoxv. 25 : r" - i tit. m - i Ginger Rogers Elsinore Star Night - dub Entertainer, Professor Romance in "ViTacious Lady" Co-starring two of the screen's lead ins favorites. Ginger Rogers and James Stewart. -Vivacious Lady" offers a brilliant and ap- to-date romance to film-goers which Is opening today at the El sinore theatre. The stormy love affair e a night-club entertainer and a atu dious young professor is the theme of this story, the action of which takes place la a sleepy lit tle college town, in whoso digni fied atmosphere the heroine is as tonished to find herself. Stewart, as the y o a n g peda gogue, marries Miss Rogers, the entertainer, after a brief whirl wind courtship ia New York City and Lakes her back to Old Sharon. Fearing the atera tongue of his Puritanical father, who is also the president of the college, the boy hesitates to tell his family of the marriage. - Complication Hits Romance Only Stewart'a cousin, played by James Ellison, knows the truth and he loyally tries to help out the couple. A series of complica tions, fostered by the determina tion of Stewart's boyhood sweet heart to marry the young man, and by Miss Roger's growing im patience with her husband's lack of decision, make op the inter locking crises of the story, with many hilarious situations piling high the entertainment values of the picture. Roles Are Colorful The two stars hare ctrongly col orlul roles that give them notable opportunities to display their abil ities, and they are given grand support by a hand-picked cast. El 1 i s o a is featured as Stewart's playboy cousin, and Charles Co- burn and Beulah Bondl as-Stew art's parents, Frances Mercer as the "other woman." Phyllis Ken-J nedy as a bored housemaid ana Grady Sutton as Stewart'a labo ratory assistant, all fill prominent roles. The settings range from the glitter of a Broadway night club to the Ivy-clad walls and sedate classrooms of the small-town col lege. A sparkling modern ballad. "You'll Be Reminded of Me." is sung by Miss Rogers in the night club sequence. Independence to Hold School Vote INDEPENDENCE So far as Ii known there Is no one seeking tho school board post beings va cated . by Dr. George C. Knott, whose term expires Monday, the day for the annual school elec tion. Dr. Knott has declined to stand for reelection, stating that his practice does not allow time. The meeting, whihe will be at 8 o'clock Monday In the train ing school auditorium, will have as other business the election of a clerk and hearing of the annual clerk's report. Possibility that the f 18.000 federal grant for improvement of the high school may still come through was seen Thursday when E. W. Hoffman, acting regional dlrecor of Public Works Admin istration. Portland, said the In dependence project Is still alive and stand a good chanca of be ing provided for by the adjourn ing congress. This 118.000 would be added to a $22,000 bond is sue to make $40,000 available for the Improvement. Rain Save Clatsop Pea Crop From Destruction ASTORIA. Ore.. June 18-MV Two days of rain broke the drought in Clatsop county and saved hundreds of acres of peas from destruction today. Several acres in the sandy area at Clatsop Plains were lost but the bulk of the eroo was well dampened in the bottom lands. The rain also lmprovea drying pastures. MAJOR Jim 2 "Tal Ce eke Cola J -eaJ HI TeU Tee Towftrtartr i r Vs.' J jZyMtzjAni Hit No. 2 v - : Buddies in Ban ii 1 1, if a KKirimr Rnas'a niivitf lor for the K- tm hu-kvird and new drama which comes to the Gen. Wliite Snaps Down Guard One Inspection Tour Covers 10 Miles of 1 Stiff Uneasy Privates ASTORIA. June lSP-MaJor General George A. White, chief of the list division, et a snappy four-mile-an-hour pace today in specting 30,00 national guards men at the Camp Clatsop pa rade grounds. The general' tour covered about 10 miles. He observed two regiments of infantry, one of field artillery, a signal unit and a medical corps. Each outfit dis sembled its equipment for the inspection. " Occosaionally the general, step ping briskly along the route, paused to ask a national guard men about the condition of his rifle, the technique of the weap on and even "how do you like the coffee." He peered Into open packs to ee that all was in or der, glanced into shelter tents and carefully went through the 42 mess kitchens. To Repel Invaders The coast artillery. 249th regi ment, will biovouac at Fort Ste rens Monday for night drill with searchlights to pick up an In vading" force of coast euard boats. Service ammunition will be fired from two Fort Stevens batteries and one at Fort Canby. Wash., on Wednesday. The 2nd brigade will blvouc in the Lewis and Clark area sev eral miles east of Camp Clatsop In tactical mneuver gainst la Taders landing on the coast and taking Fort Stevens. The bri- TODAY MON. TUES. FEATURES Henry Fond and Leo Carrillo as bnddies in Spain's civil war, which . ' forms the background of "Blockade," romantic drama opening Wednesday at the Elsinore theatre on a doable bill program with "Who Killed Gail Preston" starring Rita Hayworth. You ll Go Croxy . . Over This Uproariona cocttoa of Mirth and Mad ness . . . H mm mm War Film V. wTons sort of man. Lloyd Nolan brntal fans tn "Prison Farm," tho Capitol theatre today. gade will move against Seaside early in the morning to contact the enemy. Oregon Borrowers Repay H0LG Loan Oregon ranks high in perform ance on the records of the Home Owners Loan corporation, accord ing to figures revealed by Frank B. U pshaw, state- manager. He stated that "Oregon borrowers have paid back $2,322,454 or 17.8 per cent of their principal indebt edness, and 37T loans, amounting to- $581,927, have been paid in full. "There were 9.410 loans, amounting to $18,554,279, grant ed in the state. On April 20, 7,440 accounts were entirely car rent or less than three months In arrears, while 02 other bor rowers were meeting all current bills and making regular monthly payments on their arrearages. There are 381 other borrowers who are making some kind of payments .and whose homes the corporation hopes to save." - Mr. Upshaw also released some national figures. showing borrow ers of the HOLC have paid back $408,124,521. or about IS per cent of their entire principal In debtedness, and 31.920. amount ing to $75,128,445, hare been paid ia full. "4 The ; Oregon Statesruiaim Star-Studded Cast In "Radio Revels" Screenland Favorites Are - Given Roles in Film Now at Hollywood Revolving about one of the m o s t , ingenious themes ever brought to the screen. RKO Ra dio's new musical comedy hit. "Radio City Revels." has been lavishly produced with a star studded' cast beaded by Bob Burns, Jack Oakie, Kenny Baker and Ann Miller and opens today at the Hollywood theatre with a melange of lyrics and laughter and dancing among its entertain ment features. The theme of the film is based on what psychologists call "au tomatic writing." the peculiar fac ulty some few persons possess of being aWe to write In their sleep or In a subconscious state. Bob Burns is an Arkansas hill biQy who yearns to become a song-composer, although his efforts while awake are hopelessly amateurish. When he is asleep, however, he caa and does write sparkling songs, and on this odd phenome non the whole plot of the picture hinges. ' Triangular Romance A triangular romance develops among Jack Oakle. Baker, and Ann Miller, sensational dancing Ingenue. Victor Moore as the Ra dio City -'producer, Milton Berle, as Oakle's pianist and Helen Bro deriek as Ann Miller's acld-ton-gued sister, are also heavily In volved In the comedy and roman tic phases of the picture, as are Buster West and Melissa Mason, the novelty dancing pair of "Whlto Horse Inn" fame. Many catchy songs are featur ed. Written by Herb Magldson and Allle Wrubel, these include the romantic ballads.- "Speak Your Heart" and "Good Night An gel;" three modern numbers: "I'm Taking a. S h 1 a e to You," "Take a Tip from the Tulip" and "There's a New Moon Over the Old Mill." and the novelty song. "Swlnglnf In the Corn." Cevurtz Quarters Will Be Enlarged - William D. Gwynn, manager, announced yesterday the Gevurts Furniture company had arranged to ' take over the present location of Buslck's Liberty street mar ket, adjoining the furniture store, shortly after July 1 as additional display space. That part' of the building will be remodeled and connected with the firm's present floorspace to the north. The Gevurtz company entered the Salem field last August, Man ager Gwynn hopes to have the en larged store ready for opening in connection with a celebration of its first anniversary here. Americanization Class Is to Start A number of members of the WPA adult education class la Americanization were among those who came up for their citi zenship examinations last Friday. Others who were not yet ready for their examination may pre pare for the on which comes In September by joining the new flBAXTER avrt I? CTCVCMtOMf SSZEAUil UgmM Some folks- like their privacy. But our G 1 a s s i f ie d Columns want to be seen by. you every day! Tliey offer so many oppor tunities for you to find what you want . . to dispose of what you don't want. Get the Classified habit it will pay you! Phone 9101 The Coll Board CAPITOL Today Double bill, "Prison Farm" with Shirley Ross and Lloyd Nolan and the Three Mesquiteers in "Rid- ers of the Black Hills." Wednesday Double bill. Bobby Breen and Ned Sparks In "Hawaii Calls'' and "The Lady in the Morgue" with Preston - Foster. ! " HOLLYWOOD 1 Today "Radio City Revels" with .Bob Burns,- Jack Oakle.' Kenny Baker and Ann Miller. Wednesday Family night. Double bill. "She Married an Artist" with John Boles and Lull Deste and Rich- " ard Arlen and Fay Wray -in "Murder in Creenwlch Village." Friday Double bill. "My Dear Miss Aldrich" with Edna May Oliver, Maureen O'Sullivsn and Walter Pld- geon and Charles Stsrrett ia "Cattle Raiders." CRAM) Today Warner Baiter, Freddie Bartholomew lu Robert Louis Stevenson's "Kidnaped." - ' Wednesday June Lang and Dick Baldwin tn "One" Wild Night." Saturday Don Ameche', Si-. none Simon a n d Robert Young ia "Josette:" Ellnore Today Double bill, Uingr . Rogers and James Stewart la "Vivacious Lady." and "When Were You BornT" with Margaret Lindsay and Ann May Wong. Wednesday Double bill, "Blockade" with Henry Fonda and Madeline Car- roll and "Who Killed Call Preston" with Rita Hayworth. class In Americanization starting at the old high school, room 2-K, next Monday night at 7:30. Any person desiring to prepare for citizenship Is urged to attend this clsss. taught by an exper ienced Instructor who is able to give the' kind of help needed. This course is part of a program sponsored by the Salem public schools and the state department of education, with no charge for tuition. MELLOW MOON ROLLER RINK Salem's largest and finest Open every nlte 8-11 New Hammond Electric Organ The best music for skating. New hard eastern maple floor. Featuring all the new national skate dances. Join our club for special privileges. Special sum mer rates. Skates 20c Spectators 10c Member of R. S. R. O. A. Fhone 7064 NOW SHOWING Continuous Today 2 to 11 P. 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