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Beautiful i Girls Featured in Varieij of: . Films in ; Salem
Th OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Orocjon, Sunday Morning. May 25. 1941
All-American
Cooper Stars
"Meet John Doe"
Adds Him to List of
' Beloved Vagabonds
' In the appearance of Gary
Cooper as John Doe in 'Meet
John Doe," the Frank Capra pro
duction now at the Elsinore thea
tre another portrait ! is added to
the gallary of "beloved vagabonds
dear to the heart of Americans.
It is a paradox that, although
Americans are the most energetic
and hardworking of people, they
cherish a particular fondness for
wanderers and the economically
dispossessed. si.
The gallery of beloved vaga
bonds who have captured the
typical American imagination to
such an extent is an interesting
one. , v I r j "
When Joseph Jefferson started
playing "Rip Van Winkle" as a
young man, the public took the
philosophical old "Rip" to its
heart to such an extent that Jef
ferson could not lay aside the role
for a generation. j i I
Walker .Whiteside had lone of
his greatest roles in "The Rag
ged Messenger, the story ; of
simple and unorthodox man, who
dared to preach kindliness and
, tolerance in the midst of ; hate
and intolerance. Many reckon
Charming Pollock's "The Fool
as his greatest play.! It essentially
was the story of a humble and
kindly man not too proud to con
sort with publicans and sinners.
The late Will Rogers j played
unorthodox philosophers, wander
ing cow-pokes and." gum-chewing
Itinerants In some of his j most
successful : appearances on stage
and screen. Like Rogers, Gary
Cooper has had some of his great
est roles as small town boys whose
ideas and manners were displeTas
ing to intellectual' Tories and
dwellers in high places. It was so
in "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town.
In Frank Capra's "Meet John
Doe," which. he made at i Warner
Bros, studio. Cooper plays an
average American who has lost
his means of livelihood and who,
in spite of ambition, comes to be
classified as a migrant In playing
the role of an average man; tem
porarily down on his luck,; Cooper
adds another portrait to the gal
lery of "beloved Vagabonds" so
dear to the heart of Americans.
The companion feature is
"There's Magic in Music," starring
Allan Jones and Susanna Foster
Woman's Club
Plans Trip
TALBOT Mrs Ernest Free
man and Mrs. Fred Jorgenson
were joint hostesses Wednesday
at Mrs. Freeman's home w here
they entertained the Talbot Wo
man's club. K
Mrs. Gilbert Belknap presided.
Plans were made for the club to
visit places of interest in iCorval
lis Wednesday. I If'
Eighteen members wer pres
ent. Mrs. L. M. Harding, Corval-
lls, and Mrs. Oscar Hoven were
guests. ! ' i ' i: - -
Dona Zehner gave two numbers
on her accordion, j Mrs. G. W,
Potts,, sr., furnished a game,
Prize went to Mrs. Nelson Gil
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Picnic Scheduled
AURORA The annual school
picnic will be held at the Aurora
park Thursday. The community is
invited. :
Continuous Today: Frona 1:00
Now Showing t Features
A story as heart-warming as
You Can't Take It With You''
. . . memorable as
only Capra can
make it!
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Companion reamre
A Gay, Musical Comedy!
"There's Ilagic
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Allan Jones, Susanna Foster
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John Doe 1:08, 4:54, t:4
Marie Mosie 3:1L 4:57. 11:4J
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MADELEINE CARROLL Is the heroine of the technicolor "Northwest
a Texas Ranger, battles side by aide with the gallant Mounties. This
theatre with the Dionne quintuplets In "Growing Up."
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AVERAGE AMERICAN GIRL IS
part in "Meet John Doe," now
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ready been offered a featured role in a coming Broadway musical.
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A MELODIC SCENE from "They
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sical hit at the Capitol theatre. The companion feature, "The Singing
Hill,' stars Gene Aotry and Smiley Burnette.
Orphaned Oddity: Don't look
in biographies, as published by
studios, for many basic facts con
cerning lives of movie stars . .
Webster says biographies are facts
and events of an individual's life,
but sketches issued by studios al
most invariably omit all refer
ence to dates of birth, marriages,
divorces, children, scandals and
almost everything else not entire
ly complimentary to an individual
Speaking of Hollywood come
backs, Nazimova seems to have
hit solidly. She has four offers
waiting after she finishes the
role of Tyrone Power's mother
In "Blood and Sand." The star
la leasing her home la West
chester, N.Y and la haling all
her furniture shipped to the
coast, ','
Today - Moo. - Tues. - Wedj
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PICTURE LIKE IT!
ForamoiiNl , -Presents
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CARROLL
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Dorothy Andree, chosen to play the
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Met la' Argentina," the smash am"
Call Board
ELSINORE "
Todv Gary Coooer. Barbara Stan'
wyck in "Meet John Doe." Allan
Jones. Susanna Focter in "There's
Magic in Music."
Wednesday Jean Arthur, Robert
Cummings, Charlea Coburn in "Th
Devil and Mm Jones." jonn wayne,
Ona Munson in "The Lady from
Louisiana.
GRAND
Today George Montgomery. Mary
Beth Hughes in "The Cowboy and
the Blonde." Warren William in "The
Lone Wolf KeeDB a Date.
Wednesday Two Black Crows and
comoany in "American Cavalcade
on the stage. John Beal in "The
Great Commandment."
Friday George Brent, Martha Scott
in miey Dare Not Love." Ralph
Bellamy. Margaret Lindsay, Charles
Grapewin in "El lery Queen's Pent
house Mystery.
CAPITOL
Today Maureen OUara, James El
lison in "They Met in Argenuna.
Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette in
"The Sinaina HilL-
Wednesday Guy Kibbe. Carol Hughes
Roy Rogers In "The Sherifi of
Tombstone."
STATE
Today Melvyn Douglas, Rosalind
Russell in "This Thing caueaLOve."
plus "Land ol Uberty."
Thursday Frednc March, ' Betty
Field in "Victory." Joe . Brown.
Frances Robinson In "So You Won't
Talk." i
Saturday midnight Katherine Hep
burn. James Stewart in "Philadel
phia Story."
HOLLTWOOD
Today Gary Cooper. Madeleine Car
roll in "North West Mounted Po
lice." Dionne quintuplets in 'iGrow
in Ud."
Thursday Gloria Jean, Hugh Her
bert in A Little Bit or Heaven."
Roy Rogers In "Borden Legion." i
UBERTT V .':
Today Errol Tlynn, Brenda Mar
haU in "The Sea Hawk." LueUle
Ball in "You Cant Fool Your Wife."
Wednesday Dennis Morgan in "Riv
er's End." James Stevenson In "Call
ing Philo Vance."
Friday Pat O'Brien, George Brent
in Tffl We Meet Again.8 Grant
Withers in "Lure of the Wasteland."
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Mounted Police a Gary Cooper,
opens today at the Hollywood
Dietrich Less
Draw Praises
Scanty Clothing Shows
Famous . Marlene't
Shapely Limbs
HOLLYWOOD, ;May 24-Marlene
Dietrich may not be leg conscious,
but visitors to sets where she is
working become,
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Marlene's legs
live up to all
that has been
said and written
about them. They
are slighter, Vis-
i t o r s observe,
than' expected.
But there is no
complaint about
their rontonr nr
streamline effect M",eM! D,et11
Even her garters carry out the
Dietrich tradition. These are black
and round and held together! by
diamond buckles, or whatever it
is that holds garters together. Con
sidenng her poor estate in the
story, the diamonds must 1 be
phoney.
Miss Dietrich in "Manpower'
plays a "B" girl (she puts the
"Bee" on men for drinks), a wom
an no better than circumstances
permit and no . worse than the
Hays moral code allows. Both Ed
ward G. Robinson and George
Raft go for her. One of them gets
her.
Because she plays the kind of
woman she does, Marlene . wan
ders around the set wearing scan
ty clothing, which reveals her legs.
She is not afraid to show them.
After all, she was once called
Legs" Dietrich. She has a bean
tiful face, too, although it's a lit
tie thin. I"
No visitors are permitted when
Marlene makes love scense. They
may look at her legs but not at
her kisses.
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GKOKGE MONTGOMERY and Mary Beth Hughes appear in "The
Cowboy and the Blonde." showing aa the current attraction at the
Grand theatre. ..:
If she clicks in "Betty Co-Ed,"
Harriet Billiard may abandon the
nomad life with Husband Ozzie
Nelson's band and establish a
home in California. She and Ozzie
have two children, David, 4, and
Eric, 11 months;
In the last six years Harriet has
traveled 100,000 miles with the
band. The older ! boy now accom
panies her but the baby is in the
east.
She'd like to : settle down and
have the two of them with her.
Ozzie would live' in California be
tween engagements.
Jack Oakie's bosses at Twenti
eth Century-Fox are giving him
equal billing with Alice Faye and
John Payne In "The Great Ameri
can Broadcast 1 Maybe that will
make him feel better about losing
the Academy award. . . VHigh
winds at the beach collapsed the
back porch of the Boots Mallory
B3J Cagney summer . home. ' . .
Remember Phillip Reed? He's back
in Hollywood and may do a pic
ture. . Gail Patrick and Ed
mund Lowe are the town's newest
combination. They were at the
Scheherazade. . . . Billy Halop's
parents, recently re-married,
chaperoned the boy actor and
Georgiana Young at Charley Foy'a.
Colorful Film
Is Argentinan
New Songs and Nativi
Dances Featured
at Capitol
Weaving Its : sparkling story
about the stormy romance of : a
young American engineer and an
imperious Latin heiress, "They
Met in Argentina," brought Mau
reen O Tiara and James Ellison to
the screen along with the new
South American favorite, Alberto
Vila, in what is said to be one of
the season's gayest offerings, en
acted against the colorful lack
ground of Buenos Aires and the
gaucho country. "They Met in Ar
gentina" is current on the screen
at the Capitol theatre. , : 5
A wealth of songs and pictur
esque native dances is linked with
the progress of the story, with
most of the action. taking place at
a fashionable Buenos Aires race
track, a waterfront bar and a ba
ronial "estancia on the pampas.
Lolita O'Shea, the daughter of
a haughty Irish-Argentine gran
dee, meets; -Tim Kelly, a young
American oil man, at the race
meeting. Kelly's American em
ployer orders him to buy Lucerd,
a noted race horse owned by Lo-lita's,-
father, and, knowing that
the proud Don has no intention
of selling the animal, Kelly per
suades Santiago, the Don's chief
gaucho, to introduce him at the
estancia ; as a cattle buyer. 1 1
The sentimental Santiago leads
Lolita to believe, the handsome
young Yankee has followed her
for personal reasons. When she
learns the truth, things begin to
happen; further complicated by
the arrival of a young Argentine
sportsman, Alberto, who is in love
with the girl.
Kelly's purchasing scheme and
the J romantic triangle develop
when the American suddenly dis
covers that Lolita is more nmpor
tant to him than Lucero. '
A special feature of the picture
is the introduction of the world's
mosjt dangerous game," El Pato," a
gaucho pastime that was outlawed
for pumy years by the Argentine
government because of its menace
to life and limb.
Itoe companion feature, "The
Singing Hill," stars Gene Autry
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est western offering.
Understand Nils Asther finally
managed to talk on the telephone
to his mother, Mrs. Hilda Asther,
who has been critically ill in
Stockholm. The conversation was
ttiade passible through the influ
ence of the doctor on the case,
who also attends the king.
Nils finally has gotten the last
of the four visas necessary before
he can fly to his mother's side. She
told him she is much better, how
ever, and urged him to remain in
Hollywood, at least temporarily,
After years off the screen, Nils is
making a comeback in Para
mount's "Night of January 18." i
Billy has given Georgiana a gold
chain friendship ring. . . Mona
Maris and Al Barbee were a Mo-
cambo twosome, . . . Billy Gilbert's
personal appearance tour will be
in the same towns where he ap
peared only a few months ago. i ,
The first day she went to work in
Columbia's "Time Out for
Rhythm," Rosemary Lane slapped
Rudy Vallee's face six times. Tea,
it was in a scene.
IZorss Show
Amateur and professional
entries. Some of the best
horses on the coast will be
here to compete for the sub
stantial cash purses.
STADIUM
STATE' FAQ GROUNDS
Last Times
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Reserved Seats 55c
General Admission 25c '
Tickets at Qulsenberry"s :
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"LAND OF LIBERTY" at the State
stars, is the whole exciting drama of America a Mazing sac
of a mighty empire built by sword and fire. Second hit is "This
thing Called Love," starring Rosalind Russell and Melvyn Douglas.
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Doe" now on the screen at the Elsinore theatre. Companion feature
Is There's Marie in Music" with Allan Jones and Susanna Foster.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH in spectacular pageantry rewards Errol Flyun
for gallantry In The Sea Hawk," starting today at tne UDeny
theatre. Lucille Bali In Ton Can't Fool Your Wife," is the second
feature. 1
Fire Group
Adds Men
TURNER Two new members
were added to the fire department
roster at Tuesday's meeting,
bringing up the total number of
active volunteer firemen to 15.
Several have been called to
various branches of the services
within the past year but others
have taken their places. Chief
Albert Jensen appointed the fol
lowing: W. A. Rankin, foreman
of i the engine crew, with Dick
Bouchie, Bob Ball, Nial Dow and
Bud Mitchell assistants; hosemen
include Charlie Standley, Frank
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Parr, Amos Ackerson, Earl Stand
ley, Stan Prather, Bob Sorenson
and E. S. Prather. Bob aBU and
Kenneth Barber alternately are
charged With the operation of the
Indian pump.
Perc Westmore called to say
that the comedians aren't the
only ones overlooked 1 the
Academy awards.
He wants to know why the
Academy doesn't recognise the
make-up men, the hair dressers
and the costume designers.
"Fellows like Orry-KeUy and
Adrian are making Hollywood
the atyli center of the world,"
complained Fere, "and yet they
cant get any glory in their own
business,
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FAIRGROUNDS TODAY TM.
Riotous Love
Story Opens
Rosalind Russell and
Melvyn Douglas
Star at State
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What is This Thing Called
Love"? ;
It's a comedy, first J . . with
Rosalind Russell and Melvyn
Douglas' co-starred. It's a ro
mance, second . . one of the
most uproarious romances the
screen has known. It's a delight
ful motion picture, third ... di
rected as it was by Alexander
Hail, and with a stellar support
ing cast which includes Binnie
Barnes. Allyni Joslyn. Gloria
Dickson, Lee Jj Cobb and Gloria
iioiden. And, finally It's the
forthcoming Columbia attraction
it the State theatre, where It
opens today. J'.. .
Aius ining 4 v-auea uovv , is
M wacky, gaily uproarious mari
tal comedy; In which Rosalind in
sists upon being the platonie
bride of Melvyn Douclas. who
loves her madljr. She loves him
Just as madly J and she doesn't
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won i uieir marriage to go on
the rocks. She therefore insists
to Melvyn's Indignation and
disgust that they learn to live
together peacefully in the same
house before they even attempt
to share the same room.
Greatest ! complication to this
complicated domestic ' scene, is a
business deal In which Melvyn
Is involved. He is attempting to
interest a wealthy South Ameri
can in a mining proposition, and
the wealthy South American
happy father of nine children
insists that children are the only
guarantees of a man's honesty
and integrity. 1
Rosalind, finally apprised of
the deal, willingly pretends that
Melvyn soon will be a proud
father, and,' Melvyn, who knows
better, spoils everything by at
tempting to make his wife jeal-
ous. He starts to run around
with a blonde secretary and
winds up with a bad case of ivy
poisoning! . I
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Gary Cooper, who 1 might havf
gone down in Hollywood history
as one star who never clipped and
filed his publicity, confessed re
cently that he has started a scrap
book! t
But Cooper, who co-stars with
Madeline Carroll in "North West
Mounted Police, Cecil B. De
Mille's technicolor drama of the
Canadian wilds, which opens to
day at the Hollywood theatre, add
ed that the scrap book was not
for himself, but foi his horse.
Argie is a red roan that the tall
actor picked up in Arizona two
years ago. Cooper rode him in
f'The ' Westerner," and morei re
cently in DeMifle's "North West
Mounted Police," and then decided
to keep riding hint in every pic
ture which calls for him to ride.
"Bill Hart kept all his horse
Tony's publicity, and now that
Tony's dead Bill's got something
to remember him by," Cooper ex
plains. "Well, I'm pretty fond of
Argie myself, so I thought I'd do
the same thing with his publicity
. . He looks swell in those stills
from 'North West Mounted Po
lice too. They're in color."
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