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PAGE EIGHT Tlx OEEGON STATESMAN, Salem. Oregon. Sunday Morning. January 23, 1S41 ge---FeaMrimg Full Week of Salem Showings Theatre Pa Cimeiima Grand SKows TliriUFilm "Escane to Glory" Will . Give Pat O'Brien Fans Real Treat One of tie most thrilling ac tion dramas, Columbia'! "Escape to Glory" opened yesterday at ike Grand theatre with a superb east headed' by Pat O'Brien and Constance Bennett. Supporting the co-stars are John Halliday, Melville Cooper and Alan Baxter. John Brahm directed, from i screenplay by P. J. Wolfsoa. Too much credit can not fee ac . corded each : member of the east -and crew associated with the new Columbia production, a surging-, tumultuous story of ordinary hu man beings teetering on the brink f breathless disaster. Both play ers and technical staff combine the best of their many talents to make "Escape to Glory" the best adventure of the season, a produe tlon filled with powerful drama. fighting-fast action and a romance which is lired in flaming, fearful seconds. As a soldier of fortune, and as "secretary" who prefers sables, the co-stars are superbly fitted to their roles. Halliday is cast a a crusading district attorney fleeing from gangland vengeance, with his gunman-nemesis la the person of Alan Baxter. Cooper is effectively seen as a man who has lived in 'fear all his life, who dies a hero In a blare of dory. Other players are equally superb la their roles, to make this dram atlc Journey of saints and sinners and blackguards one of the most hectic adventures in screen his tory, one of the most halcyoa of a movie-goer a memory. Jimmy Worries Over Pictures Spends Four Hours Each Week From Marines at Hollywood Office By HUBBART KEAVY HOLLYWOOD. Jaa. X--Tbere Is considerably more bustle and business around the Glebe picture plant Saturdays from 4 to 8 p. m. than at any other time. Then the boss la back and he has four hours to answer many ques tions and aign many papers. The boss of Globe is Capt. James Roosevelt, stationed at Saa Diego with a marine reserve unit. He allows himself only four hours a week In his studio, flying here and back to his station. Each alght ta the barracks theatre, after his work fts doae, he sees the com pleted portions of the films being made by his company here. These "rushes," as the daily output is known, are flown the 100 milee to San Diego where Producer Roose velt looks at them to commend or rlticixe. He really should spend mere than four Jttours a week In his office,, his -Associate say, but he refuses to -take any more time from bis marine duties for fear of incurring crltielai. Can Capt. Roosevelt catch up with a week work in four hours, I wondered "Well, he signs contracts and keys suggestions of his asseei ates." said one ef them. "And ae, worries." "Can't he worry la Saa Diego too?" I asked. "Not nearly ao well as he can In Hollywood. Everyone worries mere and better in Hollywood." The Robert Taylors have been trying to arrange a vacation to gether for years. When abe, who Is Barbara Stanwyck. la. between pie . tares, be is not. When Barbara completed The Lady Eve," Taylor was on location fa Arizona for "Billy the Kid." She .broke a Taylor family rale aad went ot the leeatioa with him But she would not go on his set sbe thought, On the first day she did go to the set. to have her picture taken wtth her husband. On almost the same day next month that Taylor flnlahea his picture, Barbara will start The Pioneer Woman." Life here is complex. Isn't it? Today-Mosu-Tae. i v IJfgflf i nnk Coatinaous Today 1 to H P. M. f"T t"" "" tnmnA i . 1 1 1 f"f IHHI I "v a m a . Second And Featoro riJ dihi Also News, Carteen, aad "March of Time ulBQ J it If THOMAS MITCHEL.li as be appears ta "The Lonir Veraee Home" with John Wayne, now playing Arlen and Andy Devine in "Lucky HOTTER THAN FIRK CRACKER - i . - '-' . - f , usy m a iMMiaay w&esi jrs "tJUrtMttmma la Jsl" stsrring Dirk PoweU aad Ellea Drew. 'The show is playing today through WeAsesday at tbe State theatre aad the compaaioa feat ere Is "Wyoming" wit Wallace Beery aad Leo Carrillo. W$2fotodi2 By HARRISON CARROLL Xlac fMMnt Srndlest Wrttar HOLLYWOOD By lifting Jane Withers' option. Twentieth Century-Fox gives this young actress a unions poslUoa ia Hollywood. Unless memory falls me, she be comes the only child star ever to finish out n seven-year contract with the same studio. Not even Shirley Temple did it. Jane now has been with Fox longer than any other player on the lot except Alice Faye. And she followed Alice by only about six months. For her next picture after Very Yeuag Lady." Jaae's salary Jumps to fZbOe per week. Bpeaklag of child stars, it la amaxtng to see hew Jackie Coo gan's kid brother, Robert, has grown ap. Seems only yesterday that he was a little fellow playing in - nxippy." now as is s, as a is young giant. Stands several inches over six feet aad weights tS9 pounds. He is an expert horseman aad has just taken his first flying les son from Brother Jackie. Inci dentally. Starlet Nina Orla also Is a stndeat at Jackeys flying school. While they were in Lisbon wait ing to hop to London, Vivien Leigh rna jaurence Olivier made a ner sonai appearance at a theatre showing "Rebecca." Tbe film was dubbed In the Por tuguese language, which tickled unviers sense of humor. He cabled David O. Selznick: Performance magnificent bnt an intelligible.1 Martha. Beett aaay wte acting awards, but abe aUU likes to play reps aad robbers. The oth er night, burglars ransacked the eg the star's seat-door Two Bosroisaea im a. qnad car ' answered the alarm and Martha rode arewad with thaw while they seomred the hills for suspects. She was a tired girl whew she reported at ) i z.. i ' r - ;,1 at the Capitol theatre. Plus Dick Devils." merrier than Christmas, every Seen Coiaaabia tbe next moraiag for sceaes la "Tbey Shall Not Love." Hear that Paramouat's new dis covery, Stirling Haydea, may have a thrilling break in prospect. After personal appearaece with his first picture, "Virginia," the six-foot-four young actor has been told to go to Florida and confer with i Er nest Hemingway. : The reason to see what Hem ingway thinks of him for the role of Robert Jordan In "For Whom the Bell Tolls." ! For three weeks Waif Disney has been at a skiing lodge sear San Francisco and, accordins to the studio, this will be only one or several vacation trips plaaasd by the creator of Mickey Mouse. The Disney gang Is very odU mistic about tbe; box of flee pros- peels or -Fantasia." They aay it has been playing to capacity (t2 00 a week) ia New York since Nov. is aad, inside of a year, will he seen in 72 cities. The picture cost about 12,500. 000. i Ironic situation at Paramount. The "One Night in Lisbon" com pany bad a small fire. The set was supposed to be a biacked-out Lon don atreet and among those help ing to put out the blase were ex tras dressed as British air-raid fire wardens. Paulette Ooddard woald love to do a film version of "My Sis ter Eileen," with Rosalind Rus sell plsytng the other role. ... If yon know Joe Pasteraak, get him to toll yon his Ton Stro be tra anecdote. It's" hilarioas. Sorry, I can't priat it here. ... Llada Darnell and Booby Stack: created a lot of attention at the Tallalsh Bsnkhead opening at the Scheherazade. , . . Trances ' Neal and Fraachot Tone were another twosome at tho latter t spot. ... And that was Stager . Beryl Cameron with Pan Harrfn at the Ilhnm-Boogie. . . ; Bob Hope and Jack Beany are slated as co-masters e ceremony at tbe Greek War Relief i Benefit . hvoadrast. ... Everybody is kid- dins Charlie Rnggies. He car ried somebody t else's rsiacoat 1 away from the Brown Derby. There is no Identification mark e the garment. Hear Wayne) Morris was telliag it at the Baad-Box cafe that he will mar: ry Tat Stewart when his divorce Is flaaL He denied tbe same swmor several Weeks ago. . .-., The Cart Brissons hare delayed their Australian safllag. They are f arnishing an apartment, so ' It looks as If they snap giro ap ta trip entirely. itol Theatre Has Sea Yarn 'TheXong Voyage Home" Depicts .Great Play by Eugene O'Neil Against the highly-dramatic and emotionally stirring story of men and who dare the perils of sea sxy, waiter wanger's new screen presentation, "The Long Voyage Home, was unveiled last night at the' Capitol theatre under the auspices of United Artists Based on the famous sea plays ot Eugene O'Neill, America's great est playwright. It Is John Ford's first Argosy production and was filmed from a brilliant screen play; by Dudley Nichols. The hand-picked cast of this thrilling "and suspensefol film is headed by such distinguished performers as John Wayne, Thom as Mitchell and Ian Hunter and Includes: Barry Fitzgerald, Wil fred Lawson, John Qualen, Car men; Morales, Arthur Shields, J m. Kerrigan and Mildred Nat- wick. Four of O'Neill's immortal one- act nautical plays. "The Moon of we caribbees." "Bound East for Cardiff." "In the Zone" and "The Long Voyage Home," were com bined to form one tixhtlv-knit. terrlflcally fast-paced story of tho experiences of the crew of an am munition laden tramp steamer, the S3 Olencalrn. In the war zona. As timely as the headlines In to morrow newspapers, the film brought to last night's enthralled audience the tale of the heroic sailors who without uniforms. protection or the possibility of re ceiving medals, carry out one of tns most dangerous tasks in mod ern warV that of supplying ever necessary explosives to their country, while they challenge the roaring gales ot the high seas. woven into the tumultuous drama are a number of gripping individual stories the drunken renegade army officer who dies heroically while defying a flight ot enemy airplanes that machine gun the Glencairn. the romance between a young Swedish sailor and a beautiful bum-boat girl. and the efforts of a Limehouse crimp to shanghai members of the crew when they dock in London's Limehouse. "The Long Voyage Home" will go Into history alongside auch other hits as "Stagecoach" and "The Grapes of Wrath." as a credit to its director, John Ford. Dudley Nichol's screenplay, com bined with the superlative pho tographic work of Gregg Toland and James Basevl'a outstanding special effects ia the action packed raging storm sequences make "The Long Voyage Home" an outstanding picture of this or any other year. The most sophisticated garment Deanna Durbin has ever worn on the screen will be a pair of black lounging pajamas for a acene in "Nice Girl." Funny thing Is the isr aesixnea tnem nerseir. had them made up and asked to be lOWed to UBS them in th nIMnr awu ami as a yonag girl iuk m toe stneunes and watch Gap i 4 ' I ooviy siawres as tney auenOed swank Xnnctions. Here Is Kitty ; (Ginger Rogers) ia earn a scene taken from the screen drama maae or cnristopber Morley's beet lag at the PHslaore theatre. WHEN A MAN DAS ONE WIFE TOO MANTtherVs honnd to be www mm riwnsion) ana tnat'a what " ww uau rauiest frtmtl. Patrick frlrhftl. no. i, is very aaneh all re in tbo opening today nt iJ PatroL." , Call Board Elsinore Has r.RAKD Today Pat O'Brien . and ' Con stance Bennett in "Escape to Glory" and "Blondle Plays Cu pid" with Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake. - i - Saturday Rosalind Russell : aad Melvyn Douglas in "This Thing Called Love. . . f - STATE . , " : " . Today "Wyoming" with Wallace Beery, and. Leo Carrillo end "Christmas in JulyT.with Diek Powell and Ellen Drew. ' ' V Thursday "Our Town" with Pay Bainter and "Girl ta Room Hi" with Florence Rice. I " Saturday. Midnight Show "Boom Town" starring Claudette Col bert, Hedy Lamarr. : Spencer Tracy and Clark Gable. . LIBERTY . Today 'My Favorite Wife' with Irene Dunne aad Cary Grant plus "Ski Patrol" with Lull Destre and Philip Dorn. Wednesday "Anne ot Windy Poplars" with Ann Shirley and! Jimmy Ellison and "Enemy Agent" with Richard Cromwell and Helen Vinson. ! Friday Gene Autry in "Ride Tenderroot Ride," with Smiley Burnetts and "Dr. Christian Meets tbe Woman," with. Jean Hersnolt. HOLLYWOOD Today "When the Daltons Rode" with Randolph Scott and Kay Pr.n.l. . .... . - T 1 M uuiei ujr iu osyi 11 sea. -n tt j i ..c . .. Thursday The great adventures V...,r:.- Little Peppers in Trouble' Edith Fellows. ELSINORE Sunday Ginger Rogers ! in "Kitty Foyle" with Dennis Mor gan, plus Bob Crosby In "Let's Make Music." Wednesday Fred Astaire and Paulette Goddard in "Second Chorus." plus companion fea ture. CAPITOL Sunday"The Long Voyage Home" with John Wayne and Thomas Mitchell, plus Richard Arlen and Andy Devine nl "Lucky uevus." Wednesday Bette Davis In "The Letter" with Herbert Marshall, plus "Next Time We Love" with Margaret Sullivan and James Stewart. Saturday "Captain Caution" is: Carl- with Victor Mature and Louise riatt, plus Bill Boyd and sell Hayden in "Doomed van." Telephone Meet j Held, Union Hill UNION HILL The Subllmitr TuiAAtiAn. naal.meeUn. it the tti n rn h.n wi.... ...k. T." year tor each patron. umcers elected were W. I M. wtri r . in. i xate. president; C. E. Heater, vice- president; O. W. Humphreys, sec retary-treasurer; C. C. Carter.! di rector, all reelected. V. D. Scott and Theodore Fisher are the otner directors Gene Ditter was elected to rep- resent the Sublimity Teleohona j company at the annual meeting of al-jthe Stayton Telephone office! on I u- J.- - i Monday It was Kitty Foyle's dellgbt to tbe PhiladelphU "Main Lino' - eeller, "Kitty Foyle. now olay. Cary Grant naperleaces when nmawara tfaaS I ware that Irene Dwnae, wif e edy filas. My Favorite Wife," Is :7 Ginger Rogers Does Good Character Job in ! Film of Novel Frequently motion pictures en-1 deavor to -make a famous fiction al character come to life on the screen. Rarely are such endeavors as successful as 'they are in "Kitty Foyle" which opened at the El sinore theatre - yesterday with Ginger Rogers doing a sclntlllant Job ot creating Christopher Mor ay's salty "white collar girl" la the cinematic flesh., and wtth a fine cast, story and direction. I i As the many readers of Mor- ley's widely-discussed novel will I recall. Kitty is a forthright, spirit- j ed Irish girl from Philadelphia I who sets out to carve herself a I career as a business woman, after her hectic romance with a well-1 I meaning, but. weak young social- ice proves something of a tall I nre. - Bat despite the earnest atten- I uons of a doctor who wants to marry her, Kitty can't forget her I nrst love, nor can ahe resist the I appeal he makes oa her. And her exnerlenees. hannv tint f-r rf an i I alwavs human, and th mmti.t eonnt within W h.tn i... head and h kiri .n i.. nn I . 1 T - I I . " I when aha hn tn mV. nn , j mind between marrying the doctor msionea society man as his i mistress. Dennis Morgan gives excellent support to Miss Rogers as the so cialite, and the nw -rinA - James Craig, proves himself valu able as the faithful young doctor. jsrnest uossart. Eduardo ClanneM II, Gladys Cooper and other well- known players do exceptional work, and Sam Wood's . direction keeps the story's action in its hn- manness moving flawlessly to ward the climax. Dalton Trumbo and Donald Os aen Stewart have done a note worthy task of adapting- the Mor- ley novel to the screen without losing any of Its vividness and flavor. x State Theatre Plays Wyoming ! J J G Wallace D.Fr'J,red in a mam. ua-a acacu Saga ot West TnTttA. tir.1l... n a - s a I s1 ouiaoors nis rans are usuanr "re.of entertaln- L ment- This u particularly true of the pioneer west, filmed In the Jackson Hole cnnnlr' f Wnm. a m . ... Ik.-T-T ol1' Beery plays Reb Harbness. re formed tram robber who assumes protection of Ann Rutherford and little Bobs Watson, whose father ?"V,7a "J "ldert. - T. ? "otv"utr leaaer n r wit. Yivmm r I a primitive wilderness, helos Gen- eral Custer In his Indian fighting ana oreaks up a band ot deeper adoes headed by Joseph Calleia On the other hand, he plays Lo- tharlo and courts Marjorie Main, v vtMbnaiutiu tu all) lUU nlest romance since "Mln and Bill." As ths good-natured but tough naraness, usery has a role ideally I uuea 10 nis talents, even to the harmonica plavlnr. Mlaa Rmk... ford Is attracUve as the youna- romantic firurs of the etorr 66 muy ruyi site Less Bowman, debonair as 1 to tell Joey and Polly that Custer's young lieutenant. Beery there are not many of the frag and little Bobs Watson provide r"t little fellows in Hollywood. -vine vi me iinest scenes la the I picture, and hia com ad v t.i Carrillo enlivens many a moment, I oepa aiieia is convincingly uiucia( as ins viuainous Buck ley, Anti-Liquor President To Speak at Amity AMITT-B. N. Hicks. sUte su pennienasnt of ths AnU-Uauor League of Orexon. win iMav a da, morning at the Amity Metho dist churctt on "Offending Touth." jc wngnt of Taft waa . u,t Toly end Wednesday tt.Vnom hr "ttts, Mrs. T.h0nm!.-MV.Taa" returned wiui ner. , - i t 1 1 "CHrlotmao : In Julvff i C ! Fnwoll ADVENTURE IN LOVE Soldiers danger-bannted thrills to lire an eternity of love in tne preciona seconds left to them. Pat O'Brien and Constance Bennett are) the romantic stars la this new drama, "Eseapf to Glory at the Grand theatre. 'r 1 POPULAR STARS featnred in "When tbe Dal tons Rode starting to osy a we nouywooa inentre. From left to right tho stars are Frank Albertson. Randolph Scott. Kny Francis, Drodertrk CYaw ford and Brian Donlery. Tbe second hit Is "Saps at Sen" wltn. Laurel aad Hardy. . i . j j Glamour Notes Of Hollywood By HUBBART KERRY Movie glamour has had a set back. Here' a very clear cut case. The other day Joey Merwia and p0ny winton of Pasadena . were u-uu- ktv. iwui vosseu- in autograpnea pictures of the stars they'd seen on a studio tour. as wen as pictures of many tbev'd aeen only on the screen, but to day I had to read their bread-aad- batter note twice. No, they did not waat the signed vie tare bnt iosteod rend this cnrefnlly they wanted a pet skaak. and one that maybe had worked la tne movies. Did I, because of my movie con tacts, know where they could buy lawrvi VI 1PTJU kUOkI If Joey aad Polly want a akunk instead of lovely pictures auto- graphed to them, who am I to dis- suade them? Skunks are very Interesting 40 hear about. "O"1 Pei snops won't have them around and tha maniti. n..vin B been edited out of more scenarios than any other anlmaL So there Isn't mnch of n de nnd, explained Cnrler Twvf. ford, who deals la all kinds of STARTS TODAY THE YEAR'S LAUGH HIT! cimTGiiiirjTl in scon i L- LJ L . witn Lnll Deete . Philip .Dora 7 PI as Selected Short Subjects : V I j Lfjlt PATIICJLJ w - a L ISO of fortaac, these twaia xnfeg amkl rv'. ViUt$.' ft' i ! aaintals for tbo nsovieaj Cnrley said sknnks are difficult to keep alhre beeanso MaU tbeyi hare to do is see a dog and they get distesnper aad die. ri bet Pro lost BO that way in the last 10 yeaira. Cnrley mow keeps his skunks; ia cages- seven! feet off the gronnd. ..Si j l , He has three, bat he Won't selL He needs one more because he has ja movie deal coming! up. Im agine a director wanting; a quartet of skunks. But Curley isaid he could get the girls a pet if they could wait about three weeks. His Price la ills . ! Cob tin eons Today 1:4ft-ll:SO I - a I w m ge- Bngennsni lt1hl.l l J w r i a j a i Today; Moil, Tues. 2 Hite ' w- .wwBrv MOXGAN JAMCSCKAJG f- Phxs 2nd Hit 1M Zrjns Disney CrjoonT Today Blon Tues.j-;2 Hits Haflei by Critics as?THE GREATEST SEA PIC TURE EVER MADE." Ha n ntiag Caribbean II abrhts--cay Latin adris . fhen off to aesi 4 . . WAGE i. i ante THQuit iaa Lvxrzi cjTru zvmt CcmpAniort Feature Two hard fitting heroes U - . look ln. for n -fight or a frolic and fladinic both! 3 V: r ur. rvi HA" LIE v ft f V . I 1 1 .1