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PAGE NINE omaice and Drama Provide Etftertaiiiiiieiit at! Theatres Today TJie OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, July 10, 1938 Spencer Tracy Star at Grand Loretta Young Teams With Him in "Man's Castle," Outstanding Drama Without doubt the most poig aat aud mowing rove story erer brought to the screen, Columbia "Man's Castle," - yesterday pre aented Spencer Tracy and Loret ta Young: to tk Orand theatre audiences la one of the moat poignant motion pictures ol all time. Both Tracy, who won the 1938 Academy award, and Miss Young have appeared in acores of excellent films: "Man a Cas tle" ranks easily with the great 1 est. '' ,. -; : ., cr.-r - Director Frank Borzage Is equally responsible lor the pow erful appeal of a homely lore story told' amid tawdry, squalor filled surroundings. Borzage's deft . touches - and . the artistry Uh which the two perfect Play er inrprnrM iRpir rnist rvnr nin the production- a Bathos and oving force which sweeps the spectator along with it in a flood of emotional appeal. Tracy is . seen as a shiftless, homeless vagrant, and Miss Young as a hungry, helpless waif whom he rescues from the streets ttd takes to his ramshackle tin shanty in the riverside 'dumps.' Footloose and irresponsible, he sooa becomes restless under the restraint of living so long in one place, and he tells the girl he doesln't love her and plans to leave her. She, happy , in the home she has, tees her world trumblink beneath her. f The girl announces that she is boo;) to begome , mother. But that ineanfenotbing to the vag rant, except that he must now profide the money to care for boti before he can leave. To get money he attempts a robbery and! tails. But the results of that failure straighten out. the tan gled romance of these children of poverty. - 1 Exceptionally capable players support the st a r s . Mar J or le Itambeau, Glenda Farrell, Walter Connolly, : Arthur Hohl, and Diqkie Moore are among the ac- nr vnn ann nriutanr nprrnrm. aaces to a Dnmant mm. arleyr Welcome Events Arranged Due in State on Thursday and Will Be Feted in i Number of Cities Portland, juiy 9-p-ore- i gont democrats, from Ontario to i Portland, laid a trail of welcome f fori James A. Farley, postmaster general, fho is scheduled to ar rive in the state on July 14, en route to Seattle to the convention i of the Young Democratic clubs of ', the: nation. Arriving at Ontario for lunch eon;', Farley will be taken in an .automobil ecaravan to Baker, topping at Huntington. After a dinner at Baker at. which demo cratic leaders are expected to ap pear, Farley will meet Willis Ma- ) honey, candidate for US senator. Te Call Boar d ! ': HOLLYWOOD . Today The Hurricane" . !w.lth Dorothy Umour, John Hall and Mary Astor. Wednesday "Stand In" with Leslie Howard and Joan Blondell. Friday Double bill, "Roll ing Caravans" with John Indent Eleanor Stewart , and Harry" Woods and Nell Hamilton- and Eve lyn Venable In "Holly wood Stadium Mystery." GRAND Today Loretta Young and Spencer Tracy in "Man's Castle." Wednesday Victor McLag- lenr Oracle Fields and ' Brien Don levy In "We're Going to Get Rich." ' Saturday Eric Linden and Jean Parker in "Romance of the Limber Lost." "ELS1XORE Today Wallace Beery and - Maureen O'Sullivan in "Port of 7 Seas" and lat est "March of Time." Thursday-Double bill. Gin ger Rogers in "Having Wonderful Time" and I "Young; Fugitives' vwith f Robert Wilcox. CAPITOL Today Double bill. Wayne ; Morris and Priscilla Lane in "Men Are Such Fools" and Charles Starrett in I "Law of the Plains." Thursday Double bill, Paul Muni and- Bette Davis in -Bofder Town" and Ed i ward Q. Robinson in "A i Slight Case of Murder." STATE Today Sonja Henie and ' Don Ameche in "Happy ! Landing" and Charlie Mc ' Carthy and Eddie Bergen r comedy. . Tuesday Double bill, Ju dy Garland, . Allen Jones and Sophie Tucker in "Everybod. Sing" and Melvin Douglas aid Vir ginia Bruce in "The Re turn of Arsene Lupine." Frlday--Clalre Trevor, Ml chale Whalen and. Phyllis i Brooks in "Walking Down " -; Ttroadwav" and four acta Eastern Circuit vaudevile. Saturday midnight pre t!pw Jimmie Carney in "Something to Sing AbouL" Lovers in "Man's Castle " v V- -V " yv(:.:..;.v....'.-:-:-.-:.:.;:.. ? ' - - i - x v. J Loretta Young and Spencer Tracy Castle, ' playing today at the Grand theatre. ' John Deal, Wallace Beery and Maureen O'Snllivan have the leading roles in "Port of 7 Seas," the atre today. -:-.. - " - i 5'-"'. A 7 ' Whether it's on the screen or In private life, Wayne Morris is PrisclUa Lane's boy friend. They're co-starring in ; "Men Are Such Pools," ; showing today at the Capitol theatre. ; Henry L. Hess, candidate for gov ernor, and other political figures of the state. -: Leaving Baker by train, Farley will stop briefly at La Grande at 9:15 p.m., and will arrive here the morning of the ISth for a breakfast at the Aero club, lim ited to 250 guests. He will spend the morning in conference with party leaders, departing at 1 p.m. for Seattle. I f : Meantime, republicans planned a reception of their own for form er President Hoove ron his jour ney back ; to Palo Alto from a Canadian fishing trip. A dinner will be held tor him at the Uni versity dun ; next Tuesday night and on Wednesday he will confer with party leaders at Medford. Postal Clerk Charged With Tampering Mails MARSHF1ELD. July 9-;p)-Justice G. N. Bolt, acting United States commissioner, bound Da vid Henry Ward, 21, Bandon, substitute postal clerkt over to the federal grand Jury on a charee of tampering with the mails. Ward was accused of open- f mg letters aaaressea 10 vne of Bandon and extracting money. Cherry Tonnage Record Reported at The Dalles THE DALLES, July. 9 -(A)-A record-breaking harvest of 060 tons of 1 cherries, exceeding the previous high in. 1936 by 2009 tons, was reported today by co operatives.. Most of the tonnage was bar reled, and 221 : ears of 20 tons each were shipped. 13 Miles of Nickels in Portland Parking Meters PORTLAND, July 9-(JPi-VoTt-land's counting machine ticked off the millionth nickel to be ran Into parking meters since March 7 to day. The S50.000. if sUcked up. would reach' 595? feet, or 12.8 miles If laid edge to edge, or haw ever else you want to figure It if you do. 9 play the romantic roles In "Man's featured picture at the Elsinore the Battleship Oregon Fund Status Told Dan J. Fry,8-state purchasing agent. Issued a certificate Satur day to the Oregon battleship com mission showing that approxi mately $53,660 of contributed and state funds now are avail able lor moving the battleship to its new moorage in the Jef ferson street - park. The battleship Is now located at the east end of the Broadway bridge. i , In addition to these funds the commission will have $25,000 appropriated by the federal government. The total cost of moving the battleship and arranging the moorage was estimated at $79, 000. LaGrande Cuts Debt LA GRANDE, July f -(A3)-' La Grande's indebtedness has been reduced from $850,000 ten years ago to $389,604.71 at present, Ed Ford, city manager, said today. j Mat. -tsisssls PLLS CHARLIE RIcCARTHY 1 r s i I (' ;,; J ' r -':1a THEIR LOVEJ S 5 I I Wallace Beery Is at Elsinore "Port of Seven Seas" Has Notable Cast; Lure of Sea Theme Trite Is the phrase "nothing new under the sun," bat Holly wood sent the theatregoers some thing new when .they produced "Port of Seven Seas, now play ing at the Elsinore theatre. Starring Wallace Beery and with a splendid cast including Frank Morgan, Maureen O'Sulli van, John Beal and Jessie Ralph, the picture presents an entirely novel theme. . At the gruff, but understand ing father and owner of a water front tavern. Beery is outstanding as usual, and hi dramatic work with Frank Morgan is equally as enjoyable as their comedy. Romance is supplied , by Miss O'Sullivan, who rushed back from London where she appear ed in "A Yank at Oxford" with Robert Taylor, to do this pic ture; John Beal, who was last seen in "Double Wedding," and Frank Morgan. No that's not a mistake. Morgan does something entirely new in screen characteri zations and turns romantic and dramatic with outstanding re sults. The story concerns "a boy who is torn from the arms of his sweetheart by the lure of the sea. He promises to return and marry her In three years. In leaving he also breaks his father's heart. In the meantime, another suitor, twice the girl s age, asks for her hand. At first she refuses, then agrees to marry him when she sees the happiness it will bring. She's still in love with the boy, but feels they'll never be happy if his love for adventure is great er than his devotion for her. He returns to find the girl married. He damanda that she leave her husband and go with him. His father makes him see that it would be impossible to break the old man's happiness, so the boy returns to his first love, the sea. Morris and Lane Stars at Capitol "Men Are Such, Fools" Is Vehicle of Pair Who Are to Wed Soon The screen's youngest "Mr. and Mrs." team, Wayne Morris and Priscilla Lane who are plighted, incidentally, to become. such a team in real life within the next year cornea to the screen of the Capitol theatre to day in "Men Are Such Fools, the second of the plcures in which the Warner Bros, studio cast them opposite each other. The unmistakable popular ap proval which greeted the young couple's first appearance as a screen team in "Love, Honor and Behave." made it inevitable that the studio should give the public some more of what it so evi dently likes. "Men Are Such Fools" Is an other tale of the efforts made by a young couple, genuinely in love, to solve a problem of hu man relationships which tor a time seriously threatens to make it impossible for them to achieve a happy wedded life. Although the picture is packed with lively and amusing inci dents, it has a serious underlying theme of wide general applies tion, for . the problem which threatens to part the young con pie who are its chief characters is that thoroughly modern one of whether wife should con tinue to work outside the home after marriage. To support the young featured team, the studio supplied a cast of unusually capable players, dis tinguished by such names as Humphrey Bogart, Hugh Herbert, Johnnie Davis, Penny Singleton, Mona Barrle, Marcia Ralston, Donald Briggs. and Gene and Kathleen Lockhart. Tiro Million Bushels of Wheat, Gilliam Prospect CONDON, July 9 -(-Prospects of a two million bushel wheat crop In Gilliam county were seen today by some observ ers as harvesting got underway.. Tne average crop , runs about 1,400,000 bushels. Stands In the northern part of the county are expected to average 20-25 bu shels an acre. AIR-COXDITIOXED , NOW PLAYING i zr.ui's greatest r.rn rvwrn tn nix e2SEje cssnr usnzx rru'iirvAa , WHI SEAL ""' a Mmtrm 0 Mwy Mwyr Httmn yyy) Plus MARCH OF TIME POPEYE CARTOON Romance in the South Seas v .v" .. . . . ... .' .... A - . s '- t ..... : '. - -: yi: Jon Hall and Dorothy Lamour are Sea island idyll pictured here from Samuel Goldwyn's "The Hurri cane," the powerful, romantic day. The Lone Ranger' Serial at Capitol 14-Chapter Film . Version of Radio Characters Story Opens Soon For the past four years '""he Lone Ranger" has been one of the most widely listened-to radio programs in the country. The shrill cry of "Heigh-yo, Silver" ts familiar to millions of listen ers, young and old, all over the United States. The dashing and mysterious "Lone Ranger" has become ' practically a member of thousands of households through his nightly visits by way of the radio. Now, he is coming to the screen! Republic Studios are starring him in the most ex pensive and exciting , serial ever produced "The Lone Ranger" the first chapter of which wilj open Sunday, July 17 lor three days at the Capitol theatre with 14 consecutive chapters every Sunday. Monday and Tuesday for 14 weeks. Just as his Identity has been kept unknown on the air, so will It be on the screen. .Always masked, the start of this remark able serial will be known as "The Lone Ranger." His fea tures will not be shown until the final chapter. The story of "The Lone Ran ger" is laid during the reclama tion of Texas immediately follow ing the Civil war, and is said to be excellent screen-fare for the entire family. . Much Work in -Prospect WASHINGTON, July 9 (JP) Creation of 62,500.000 man hours of work in producing lum ber and other wood products nec essary in the new PWA spending program was predicted today by PWA officials. The lumber will cost approximately $65,000,000. AIR CONDITIONED COOL r STARTS TODAY 2 ACE FEATURES it's Funny! : But It's True nunc rum . puny siisimi si Mr as. a wi And Hit No 2 THRILL-FILLED RHYTHM . n i i : ' Jin y r I L i . 9 i the charming figures In the South drama at the; Hollywood theatre to "Hurricane" Film On at Hollywood Jon Half, Dorothy Lamour Are ; Stars of Island Romance-Drama I Samuel Goldwyn's long-awaited film version, of "The Hurricane the famous novel from the type writers of Charles Nordhotf and James Norman Hall, who wrote "Mutiny on the Bounty," arrives at the Hollywood theatre today. "The Hurricane" Introduced an important! new Btar 1 John, Hall, the handsome young man of the magnificent physique, whom Goldwyn selected over leading Hollywood names to play i "Te- rangl," story. the native hero of the Dorothy Lamour, who made year os so her screen debut a ago as the native heroine of "The Juingle Princess." appears opposite I him as the South Sea It belle, Marama, and "also" scores a triumph in a difficult role. Goldwyn has given the I film a great cast, including Mary As tor, C Aubrey Smith, Thomas Mitchell, Raymond Massey, : John Carradine and Jerome Cowan. The - - 0My Sonja Henie Play At State Theatre 'Happy Landings' Presents Variety of Settings, Maximum Comedy Happy- tidings are la the off ing for the Sonja Henl fanst "Happy Landing," a show aglow with Joy-laden wonder, winging from gay Norseland fes tivals to New. York wlnter-Unte spectacles, comes to -the State theatre today, j - I This 20th Century-Fox musical start Sonja Henie with her "One in i Million"; sweetheart, Don Ameche. It tells the story of a song writing band leader (Cesar Ro mero I who flies across the Atlan tic for a publicity stunt and comes down In a Norwegian fog bank almost in the middle of a folk festival known as a "Bride's Fair." The custom which ttarts the trouble Is a rule, that it a young man -dances twice with the same girl at the party, he has proposed. ' The band leader, a little bit amused because one lovelorn lit tle girl Is giving him plenty of his favorite . food hero worship dances twice with Sonja Henie. That starts the silvery, sumptu ous show on its way. t ( Don Ameche, the filing baton wlelder's companion, knows there Is little or no sincere Interest In Romero's attentions, inasmuch as he is very much engaged to an American girl played by Ethel Merman. From this point on a whole new world of happiness ovens for film fans. ' Service Station Robbers Sougbt EUGENE. July 9-iP)-fT w o youths, described as about IS years of age, held up a, Eugene service station early Saturday morning and escaped with over $'0 in cash, It wa sreported to day by city police. t The hold-up served notice on local authorities that the I crime wave which has swept this com tnunity the past three weeks was Today Monday - Today Continuous Today - 2 to 11 P. M. Dmnr tamavr, Jm Hall, - Mary AMor. C Awfervy Sattk. Trom n ra of Mvfin 4? Added News, Cartoon and "March of Time "1 mi i. ! I uwmmmmmmmmi UMSit i Every day's news has soin sort of "extra" you don't want to! miss! Be sure of knowing all the goings-on, by writ ing or phoning us your vacation ad dress. We'll be glad to forward your paper every day, all summer. Just dial 9101, or drop in at Tlie Statesman office, 215 S. Commercial, and we'll do the rest. ! NO EXTRA CHARGE FOR VACATION RATES 2 focl Only 2 5c Oregon Statesman Radiant Sonja " . i. ;. . . Radiant beyond Imagining, Sonja Henie Is reunited with Don Ameche in "Happy Landing," music hit at the State theatre. not at an end. Police Chief Carl I . Bergman said tonight he ex pected an arly arrest In the case. Retail Sales Are Sbowing Increase PORTLAND. July 9-UP)-Dun's renew Bum mmj ruiic nnu re tail hardware sales showed sharp Increases in the past week. Other retsll sales rose slightly. Sales in larger food markets went up 8 per cent. The public showed much interest in new automobilea and semi-luxury mer chandisers reported Increased ac tivity. Tha lumber Industry, be set 'by labor difficulties, and re tail and ; wholesale collections showed no change. a "i.' t ' " f 1 1 t ' n ' 1 ma iri sH iiiul