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Scenes of Destruction Hold Cinema Spotlight uThe Rains Came" and "San Francisco" Rated Hili; "In Name Only" Shows at Elsinore . Fjrf J1? disaster and the never-ending "eternal triangle -hold center stage in this week's offering at Salem's theatres. - "Some of the greatest disaster shots ever filmed in Holly wood or anywhere else are shown in "The Rains Came," going into its second week at the Grand, and "San Francisco " an epic picture brought back to the State for a thre rtv r.,n The "eternal triangle" has its current refurbish in "In Name ;rtV : ineriourroles she re- Only" now playing at the Elsinore. Carole Lombard, out of screwball ma,3 a wag at heart roles for a try at hearier dramatics, is the "other Ionian" and Cary The othe? day for examole in r..nt tha Ttiirhiv ia rah hi.eKon tr m . 1 ne oilier aay. lor example, in 7 :"-." VvV :"'r.! .7."" ia. 01 ice and sat on it between set calls iin.u AAviijmwuu. x ma mm was miss sandy s aeDut ana t' ; one in which Ehe was cast as a boy baby. Richard Arlen and Andy Devine are teamed In "Tropic Fury" at (he CapltoL DizzvLomb The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Sunday Horning; October 1, 1939 ard PAGE NINE Turns Serious But She's Still at Heart a Screwball Despite Sober Roles HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 30-()-Moviedom's dizzy dame has turned into a demurely dutiful farm wife, but Carole Lombard still has that old twinkle in her eye. Screwball sensation of the "My Man Godfrey" comedy cycle, now Elsinore, "In Name Only Grant, Carole Lombard and Kay! When she was working she turned it over to extras to "keep It warm' for her. Carole, still receiving compll ments for her serious work in her two most recent pictures, "Made for Each Other" and "In Name Only." currently is playing a starkly dramatic role with Brian Aherne In "Vigil in the Night Carole, in case you didn't know FEATURED PLAYERS Cary Francis- THE PLOT Unhappily married to money hungry Kay Francis. Cary Grant Is captivated by Carole Lombard, a charming young widow 1 for some six months now has been wua a nve-year-oia aaugnier wnom she supports by working as a I the wife of Clark Gable ; fashion artist. Carole reciprocates Grant's love but tries to sacri fice It when she finds he is married. But Grant comes to a show down with Kay. asks his freedom. The wife agrees to go to Paris to get a divorce, but returns without the decree and flatly Informs the distraught lovers that she will never release Grant. The impasse results in Carole sending Grant away and he winds up in a hospital with a severe case of pneumonia after going on a spree. Here the Btory mounts to a climax and a solution of the triangle situation. . Supporting playersCharles Coburn, Helen Vinson, Katharine Al exander, Johnathon Hale. REMARKS It's a new role for Carole, who demonstrates her ability to carry a heavy part as well as that of a waggish comedienne. COMPANION FEATURE "The Witness Vanishes," based on James Ronald's '"who-dun-it" thriller and featuring Edmund Lowe and Wendy Barrle. Grand "The Rains Came" FEATURED PLAYERS Myrna Loy, Tyrone Power, George Brent. BTORY When the rains came to Ranchipur they came hard. The destruction and the plague they brought with them changed the lives of Myrna Loy, cast as the somewhat wicked wife of Lord Es keth, who died in the flood, Tyrone Power, the young native doc tor, and George Brent, who had been content to live the easy life of a remittance man. Myrna found love for the first time in her life of many conquests, but tragic circumstances prevented happiness. Tyrone loved too, but saw his love sacrifice herself for his future as head of the progressive state of Ranchipur. Brent, put in charge of rehabilitation work after the great destruction, and Brenda Joyce, the little missionary's daughter, were the only ones to find happiness, i SUPPORTING PLAYERS -Brenda Joyce, Nigel Bruce, Maria Ou pen skaya, H. B Warner and others. ON THE SIDE Maria Ouspenskaya as the old Maharanee comes near to stealing the show. Brenda Joyce is hailed as the great discovery of the year. She was picked oft the UCLA campus for the role. Just Farm Folks They live on a ranch miles from the studio, drive to work to gether to separate stuaios ev ery day, and are very happy. Six years ago they played In picture together "No Man of Her Own ' but Carole says they wouldn't do it again unless they got just the right Btory. "No one," she asserts, "wants to see Mr. Gable playing opposite Mrs. Gable." Clark is doing quite well in the cinema, thank you, says Carole. She just saw him in a sneak pre view of "Gone With the Wind, and she says the picture is ter rific. "You mean Gable is terrific," she wa3 asked. "I mean the picture is terrific, she said, firmly. Far be it -from Carole to boast, even about Clark, From Cronin Novel Maybe they'll be saying "ter rific" about Carole one of these days in "Vigil in the Night." From a new novel by A. J, Cronin, It paints England's nursing profes sion in the same uncompromising colors "The Citadel" did for Brit ish medicine. A nurse in the picture, Carole wears the unromantie uniform of the profession, complete with cot ton stockings, and. emotes within a severe hairdo. Its realism that's what. Carole abandoned haywire com edy, but not for long, not by de sign and not for fun. She didn't particularly choose the roles in her. three serious pic tures, she says--"They just came my way and looked like they had State "San Francisco" FEATURED PLAYERS Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Jeanette Mac Donald. 8TORY Built around the great catastrophe that rocked San Fran cisco In 1906. the film "San Francisco" presents Clark Gable as a Slg time gambler in the city's most-glamorous period, the days of I gutB the Barbary Coast. Miss MacDonald is a small-town ministers ghe has no especial preference .daughter who seeks adventure in San Francisco, rises to fame in ror drama "If It's a good part music halls and later in the legitimate theatre. An absorbing love jn a good story, that's all that story for Gable and Miss MacDonald, reaching its climax in the counts" and she regards comedy ; catastrophic fire and earthquake. Is woven through the plot. &peu-ias being more difficult than heav' cer Tracy plays the role of a priest who scores the honky-tonic me i ier roles - of the city. , SUPPORTING CAST Jack Holt, Jessie Ralph. Ted Healy. COMPANION FEATURE "Should a Girl Marry" with Ann Nagel and Warren Hull. - Iff Ppmd'W ? v x " x w CARY GRANT and Carole Lombard are romantically paired as an unloved husband and a charming young widow in ,"In Name Only now showing at the Elsinore. The companion film Is "The Witness Vanishes" with Edmund Lowe and Wendy Barrle. Screen Discovery Finds Boy Friend Keeps Her Stable Every girl who crashes Holly wood's movie gates needs a good boy friend to act as a Btabilizer, says Brenda Joyce, the 18-year- old Los Angeles coed to whom Darryl F. Zanuck has given one of the greatest chances at stardom ever offered. Brenda, selected for the role of Fern Simon in Zanuck's produc tion of "The Rains Came," by Louis Bromfield, after a nation wide search, declared: "I think it Is only natural for any girl to lose little of her sense of balance when she suddenly finds herself under contract to a big studio and playing a leading role. That's where the boy friend comes in. If he has good common sense, he Can keep her normal with a bal ancing sense of humor." Brenda's b.f. is young Owen Ward, a senior at the University of California, which school she herself attended. ---5?- - .: ----- ;. . M " - v ""f f i f w r SANDY," Joan Blondell and Bing Crosby In which opens today at the Hollywood theatre. 'East Side of Heaven Hollyivood "East Side of Heaven" 1- EATURED PLAYERS Bing Crosby, Joan Blondell. Mischa Auer. STORY Bing Is a crooning cabby and Joan, his sweetheart, is a tele phone operator. Mischa Aner IS Bing's unemployed roommate who has learned from reading the Btars that he should not even look for work until 1942. The fourth top member of the cast is "Sandy," a fetching Infant who is left with Crosby by Irene Hervey who takes this means of keeping her baby from her wealthy and hard-fisted father-in-law. The fun starts when Bing, Joan and Mischa start to take care of the youngster. Rfixr.H. "East Side of Heaven." "Sine a Sonjt of Sunbeams." "That Sly Old Gentleman from Featherbed Lane," "Hang Your Heart on a Hickory Limb-' COMPANION FEATURE Walt Disney's "Ferdinand the Bull." Bits for Breakfast (Continued from page 4) friends. Oh, my 'brother, let us render to Him, to whom all things belong, a proper proportion of what is His due.' " "McLoughlin: Well written, brother. Yon have made me a bet ter Christian; given me a finer understanding of my great trust let us hope, for higher service in this wilderness- to come. Who knows the divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we may, wherever accident may place us on the highways of life? God speed you on your dangerous way" jf Still quoting the book, "Page ant of the Pioneers," following Capitol ! "Tropic Fury" FEATURED PLAYERS Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Beverly Rob-rts- htory Arlen breaks a threatened world-wide rubber monopoly by I the foregoing ffottinr tha Inside done on the rubber slave trade in the Amazon! "Smith was a strange charac jungles. He Is assigned the Job of investigator after four others Iter, his an unusual career, for the had failed to return, thwarts an attempt on his lire at rara, ana seiung oi nis me, makes his way to the Gnamo country where the rubber pirates . . work. There he meets "the girl," Beverly Roberts, who is In search of her father, a scientist, who bad previously disappeared. COMPANION FEATURE "Timber Stampede" in which George O'Brien, as a cattleman, breaks up an attempted timber steaL He and his faithful companion, Arthur Black, were on their way up the Colum bia on the 12th of March; to Ket tle Falls, Fort Caldwell; Flathead House. He had been there, among the Flatheads, in the winter of 1824-25. The Flathead Indians had then heard him talk of his religion; tell them , it showed the true way. Here he was among them again, in 18-29; saw them holding one of theif rude religious festivals, dancing around the sun pole in greeting to the return of HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 30 (AP) Hollywood is proud of spring. He told them, again, that the way it maintains authenticity. But the effort requires pmemBgUsP;iXX "ongl an immense amount oi storage space. and mstead of - being acceptable There is nothing more distasteful to a producer than to and pleasing it was displeasing to ' , . . . . l. L " A Itti . 1 J J 1 . V i x 1 nave an eagie-eyea movie-oer point out an inaccuracy, a mm; glance around the Warner back lot reveals the lengths to which major studios will go top- Want a 1914 Nevada License Plate? Or a New Orleans Street Signpost? An Alcatraz Cell? Hollywood Has It make certain snch doesn't happen. Among reams of other things, you'U find: A collection of newspapers, let terheads and telegraph ' blanks from all parts of the world. Racks of automobile license CfinuaCliMMit (lauiuuiaiiiiiiu. IS -' with HORSE SHOW and RQDE1K rOITUIO. OREGON 'OctebWhfM It Skews Is One Elcvea acres aar oaa Tool. Exhibits of pur-brad UvssUck. Dors. Poultry, Pst stock. Wild Life. : If snsfse a r i A (ad Prodsrts, 4-fl Clsk Sssltk Hvfhes v Vscstiaasl EdaraUra Work: ! ths Hers Shssr ad Iadoar Jtodaaw ; Urn tombM lists. plates from every state, covering more than 20 years. Street signs from every big city, some the real thing, others copied from photographs. They prevent snch mistakes as Boston markers In a New Orleans street scene. Bushels of Buzzers Police and sheriff's badges from more than a hundred -ities and counties. Four modern telephone switch boards and one from the days when talking by wires was still wonderful. All sorts of radio, telegraph and airplane instrument boards. Thirty-four huckster carts from New York's east side. Cells and cell blocks, replicas of those in each of the nation's big prisons and some of the larg er Jails. . A $40,000 collection of artlfl- informed . them that the white people away toward the ris ing of the sua had been put in possession of the true mode of worshiping the Great Spirit; that they had a Book containing direc- t i o n s of how to conduct them selves In order to enjoy His favor and hold converse' with Him; and, with this guide, no one need go clal flowers add greenery, includ ing enough field daisies to cover a couple of acres. A boxing rgtg, once graced by such characters as Sammy Man dell and Fidel La Barba, which is hauled onto a Sound stage three or four times a year. An array of gambling equip ment collected from San Fraifcls co's Barbary Coast and other early Calif ornia hot spots, with choice additions from some of the swank Hollywood establishments of the prohibition era. J. M. Hollingsworth celebrat ed his 74 th birthday at his son'; home in Silverton on September 20 C. C. Carter and George Scott have just finished cutting corn and filling their silos. Other Bilos being filled are the ones on the Walter Winn and Adolph Heatfcr places. Twenty-six pupils are enrolled In school here this year. This; is a decrease from last year as there were 33 pupils at the beginning of school. Mrs. Floyd Bailer Is the teacher. immi "mi l V Iti TYRONE POWER nd Myrna Loy In leading roles of "The Rains Came," powerful picture based on Louis Bromfield's novel, now showing at the Grand theatre. astray; but every one that would follow the directions laid down could enjoy in this life His favor, and after death would be received into the country where the Great Spirit resides, and live forever with Him. Jedidiah Smith told the Indians of the white man's God and the white man's Book of Heaven. He did not live to see the fruits of his labors among the Indians of the Flathead country S S "He was killed by the Com manches May 27. 1831. a month and a day before he was 33. "But his short earthly life, like that of his Master, blossomed and ripened into fruit the gather ing of which will never end. He found his partners (or Joe Meek found him), in the summer of 1829, in the shadows of the Te- tons." (Continued on Tuesday.) Union Hill Sunday School Postponed UNION HILL Sunday. Octo ber 1 there will be no Sunday school at the Union Hill grange hall. Sunday school will be held at the Baptist church In Stayton in connection with the district Sunday school convention held there. Mrs. W. H. Babens found a large white leghorn egg which measured seven Inches around while gathering eggs from her flock of chickens. . Mrs. Dick Henry and three children have moved to Lapine. The two older children are at tending school there. 1 1 bTmgiTrm"! Today - Monday - Tuesday Continuous Sunday 1 to 11 P. M. Also and News, Comedy H)WWWMiMiMaawwawMaB4w 1 fjf J. A v 1 , & x , vx-if i -. mn.iiif ' I in iff Tftirniin inn miiiiii i i ' - f - "Knight Errant" By jack Mcdonald Lebanon Hospital Report Given LEBANON Mrs. Earl Hoover was admitted to the Lebanon hos pital Friday night for a major op eration. Mrs. Raymond Downing and Mrs. Dan Kopp were admitted Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Howard Newton and Mrs; C. W. Rover were dismissed Frl- ( Continued from page 4) black horse. "Snapper, he's grog gy. A dead short horse! I tell you, not even a man like Dan Mills can get 'em up to race like this without a tightener." At the Sixteenth And they hadn't gone a six teenth of a mile yet. i Where the straightway from the chute blends into the mile onral proper, Coronado bolted for ward with a squeal strange to Gardner's ears. Suddenly his legs buckled. Gardner went catapult ing over the black neck. The horse crashed headlong to the ground, and was lost in the jum ble of clattering hoofs. ' A mighty groan went up from the stands. "He's down! Corona do's down!" The word soughed through the Immense throng. "Coronado!" screamed Heath er. She shuddered, closed her eyes and opened them, to find Coro nado lying motionless on the track and Gardner, badly shaken up, limping to his side. The other horses swept on, with Lady Killer in the lead. I Heather clinched the rail in front of the box for supper, and stood trembling, weak and fright ened, helpless as a child. The rest of the race was a blank to her. A little later she saw her stunned father, standing over Cor onado. The great stake horse lay motionless, staring up at Dan out of wide, rolling eyes. No Break Dan knelt and ran his hand gently over the slim black legs. and then bent them frantically at the knees, but could find no break. "Get up, laddie," old Dan urged brokenly, tugging gently at the nose band of the bridle In the hope Coronado would rise. But Coronado lay with his head stretched wearily on the track. (To be continued.) .CoDTrlcht by Jsck McDonald: Distributed by Kins; Featnres Syndicst. inc. day from the Lebanon hospital. A boy, 7 pounds 3 ounces, was born Tuesday to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Barnes, Brownsville, at the Leban on hospital. CLARK GAUI.K as a big time gambler of San Francisco's salad days before the big fire of 1906 and Jeanette McDoi aid as a popular singer have leading roles in "San Francisco," now showing at the State theatre. 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