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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1941)
Tlh e a NewSinger At Elsinore Rise Stevens, Nelson Eddy Starred in 'Chocolate Soldier' 10 Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morrfng. December 21, 1941 It m 1 v '" """" ! v - : v v - jfm If A t I i i" t ft Hi I I ' ' v " ' " f I " fif t m( I, -. ..- 1: (.ST - z -" -1f1l 1 nmrir r.nnn srAsnvs ,hv the new hit. "I Wake ud Screaminr," is popular at the Grand theatre, ... --..VI. x.i-..-. vr.tn-. .mi rami T and is. Carole and Betty are teamed as sisters arain they UCHJ VJiBAWAV V muw " - - A t . were sisters in "Moon Over Miami." Vie is the I uy who has to make up his mind as to whom Is the more desirable. Laird Creg ar, William Garjan, Alan Mowbray and Aiiyn josiyn complete tne iea tared cast ' ' ML WEDDING OF MICKEY ROONEY, 20, the star of the "Andy Hardy films, and Ava Gardner, 18-year-old actress, is expected soon. Rooney, confirming- the report, told newsmen that "I fell in love with her as soon as I set eyes upon her, and ever since I've been working up courage to propose to her." Call Board ELSINORE Today Nelson Eddy. Rise Stevens in The Chocolate Soldier." George Sanders, Wendy Barrie in "The Gay Falcon." Wednesday J i m m v Durante, Jane ,Wyman in "You're in the Army Now." James Ellison in "Mr. Dis trict Attorney in the Carter Case." Saturday Edgar Bergen, Charlie Mc Carthy in "Look Who's Laughing." Jeffrey Lynn, Jane Wyman in "The Body Disappears." GRAND Today Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Carole Landis in "I Wake up Screaming." Jane Withers, Bruce Edwards, Jane Darwell in "Small Town Deb." Wednesday Barbara Stanwyck. Henry Fonda, Florence Rice in "You Be long to Me." CAPITOL Today t -Albert Dekkcr, Frances Farm er in Among the Living. Lioya Nolan in "Steel Against the Sky." Wednesday Priscilla Lane, Richard Whorl in "Blues in the Night." 'Target for Tonight." Saturday Claude Rains, Dick Foran 'in "The Wolf Man." Roy Rogers in "Red River Valley. fOLLVWOOD oday Clark Gable. Rosalind Russell in "They Met in Bombay." Edward Everett Horton. Baby Sandy in "Bachelor Daddy." Thursday "Jungle Cavalcade." Robert Benchley in "The Reluctant Dra gon." LIBERTY Today Lane sifters. Gale Page In "Four Mothers." Bob Crosby, Ruth Terry in "Rookies on Parade." Wednesday Ann Sheridan, George Brent in Honeymoon for Three Edith Fellows in "Out West With the ' Peepers. Friday Bill Elliott in "Across the Sierra." Weaver Bros., Elviry in "Arkansas Judge. Larger Family Features Film 'I ; I m . 1 Latest and said to be best of a very successful series, "Four Mothers" opens today at the Lib erty- theatre. The cast differs from that of its predecessors,. "Four Daughters" and "Four Wives," only in point of natural population Increase. As the new title indicates some of the Lemp daughters have "become mothers. Tots Barbara Quintanilla and , Sharon Van play the children of Priscilla Lane and Gale Page, and twins Barbara Ann and Arlene , Lande are assigned to Lola Lane , Jeffrey Lynn, Rosemary Lane, -Eddie Albert, Frank McHugh, Grand Screen Has Mystery Two Beauties, New 'It Man Featured in ThrUler Novel The audience at the Grand theatre last night acclaimed 20th Century-Fox's "I Wake up Screaming" the year's most ex citing mystery drama, and stamp ed Betty Grable, Victor Mature and Carole Landis Hollywood's three most exciting people. Sensational was the word used for Betty; new "it" man was what they called Vic; terrific was the description of Carole. 'I Wake up Screaming" is a thrilling, spine-freezing mystery drama. Based on Steve Fisher's novel, "I Wake up Screaming," it tells a story that had the audience spellbound. Mature as a promoter, Alan Mowbray as an actor, and Allyn Josiyn as a newspaper columnist select Carole, a waitress, as the girl they are going to glamorize and make the darling of cafe so ciety. The plan succeeds, and Carole is offered a Hollywood contract which she accepts with out consulting her backers. The next day she is found murdered. Mature is really on the spot, be cause detective Laird Cregar has decided to prove that he is the killer. Betty, meanwhile, has fall en for Vic although he is sus pected of murdering her sister, and she hides evidence which ap parently adds to his guilt. Together Vic and Betty learn the real murderer, and make the detective accept the truth in the most amazing denouement ever shown on the screen. Betty Grable and Carole Landis are again excellent as two beau tiful sisters. Victor Mature, in his first film since his success on the Broadway stage, shows the superb talent which made him the toast of New York. Fine support is given by the featured cast which also includes William Gargan. 'm,"uWVH iL ' - f A ' 4 . ! if WHICH HAT FITS? that on Edward 'Everett Horton or on Baby Sandy. They are shown In a scene from the gay comedy, "Bachelor Daddy,", now at the Hollywood theatre. Second feature is Clark Gable and Rosalind Russell in "They Viet is Bombay." "The Chocolate Soldier," new musical comedy, which opened at the Elsinore theatre yesterday, of fers Nelson Eddy in a gay, ro mantic role, and introduces Rise Stevens, a new singing star. Not only does the picture give Eddy's voice full range with a wide variety of songs, but it gives him a part ideally suited to him, as a young singer and husband determined to find out whether or not his wife loves him and him alone. Their harum-scarum do mestic life reaches its climax when he masquerades as his own rivaL For the first time on the screen, Eddy sings in two voices, his nat ural baritone and bass, in playing the dual roles. A notable addition to this mu sical extravaganza is the glamor ous personality and brilliant voice of Rise Stevens. The first Ameri can girl to portray the fiery D lilah in "Samson and IMilah" for the Metropolitan opera in 22 years, she sings one of the arias in the picture and proves herself a def inite screen "find."' The dance productions, created by Ernst and Maria Matray, are another high point, especially the hilarious "Seek the Spy" ballet Scored by Herbert Stothart, "The Chocolate Soldier" offers a great variety of song numbers. Miss Stevens' rendition of "The Trout" and Eddy's singing of "The Song of the Flea," which he sings in Russian, are highlights, and their duets of the Oscar Straus num bers, particularly "My Hero," are worth the price of admission alone. The supporting cast of "The Chocolate Soldier" includes Nigel Bruce, Florence Bates, Charles Judels, Nydia Westman, Dorothy Gilmore and a host of ballet and eccentric dancers. "The Gay Falcon" is the com panion feature and stars George Sanders and Wendy Barrie. .v.v LI 4 NETW TO THE SCREEN is Rise Stevens, wh b c- tarred with Nel son Eddy in "Th Chocolate Soldier," which to pUyinff today at tho Elsinore theatre. "The Gay Falcon" with Georre Sanders and Wendy Barrie is the companion feature. A HOMICDDAL MANIAC is the role taken by Albert Dekker In "Among- the Living," which is playing today at the Capitol theatre. Frances Nolan is co-starred. "Steel Aglnst the Sky" with Lloyd Nolan is the companion feature. MOTHERS AT WORK are Gale Page, Priscilla, Rosemary and Lola Lane, who concentrate their affections on little Sharon Van in this scene from the new Liberty theatre hit, "Four Mothers." mm Behind Hie Seen I In i HOLLYWOOD ROSEMARY LANE, screen act ress, models this new Russian peasant-accented costume which features a coat with full skirt, loose back and full Dolman sleeves and a dress featuring various colors and a trimming of a floral design made in self- fabric and cords. The outfit is designed for wear at southern resorts. Singing Wood Carvers NASSAU, NP, Bahamas-(P)-Thousands of miles from London where Hepplewhite, Sheraton and Chippendale conceived their de signs, native wood carvers are re producing the furniture of those artists. As they work," they sing songs of the island. It started as a hobby of G. R Baxter, who brought costly orig inals to Nassau. In three years the sensitive - fingered colored men learned to fashion Haitian maho gany and majagua into furniture which only experts can distin guish from the originals. By HARRISON CARROLL King Features Syndicate Writer HOLLYWOOD One of Richard Dix' twin sons it was Robert scared the life out of everybody at Coronado lastweek. He some how got down to the beach and into a leaky boat. There still is some doubt as to what hap pened, but when next spotted, the boat, carried by a strong out going tide, was beyond the surf and batter ing against some rocks. The first the star knew of the incident was when somebody came up to him in the gardens at the hotel and said, "Oh, Mr. Dix, did the lifeguard get your little boy all right?" The lifeguard HAD. When the frantic star reached the beach, there was little Robert, safe but pale around the lips, and so scared that he voluntarily stayed in bed all the next day. :" v -A Richard Dix to yAur noodles. I've been doing this for 20 years." Wat's going to happen? Ginger Rogers, who usually dodges pho- togrsrohers, went for a whole magazine layout at Del Monte . . . Luncheon at the Brown Derby was virtually disorganized when five eastern college girls came up to Jams Ellison and announced they had sworn not to go home with out kissing a movie star. He was embarrassed to death, but Mrs Ellison (Gertrude Durkin) made him oblige the girls, who gave their names as Gertrude Black, Hilda Jamison, Lenore Crowley, Elsa; Brannberger and Frances Murphy . . . Nils Aster is on a meat-with-every-meal diet to re cover from the illness tnat made him give up the role with Helen Hayes in "Candles in the Wind? . . . iLaraine Day and Ray Hend ricks are making the Casa Manana their, favorite rendezvous, these evenings . . . Florence Rice and Eddie Norris are a new twosome They were at Charley Foy's . DonAmeche, of all people, has to clip 'Joan Bennett on the chin in "Confirm or Deny." Entire Film 'Just Murder' Something unique in the way of murder thrillers, "Among the Liv ing," with Albert Dekker in a dual role, is playing today at the Capitol theater. "Among the Living" is described as straight, stark melodrama, shorn of the hokum usual to thrill pictures. There are no strange effects, no camera tricks, no slid ing panels, clutching hands, defi nitely no ghosts and not a single trapdoor. It's 68 minutes of just plain murder," asserts Director Stuart Heisler. Supporting Dekker in his diffi cult job of playing two totally different parts at once those of Paul Raden, the maniac, and his brother, John, a happily married, respectable, handsome millionaire industrialist are such players as starlet Susan Hayward, the vet eran Harry Carey, Frances Far mer, Jean Philljps, Gordon Jones and Maude Eburne. "Steel Against the Sky" with Lloyd Nolan is the companion feature. : Dick Foran, Claude Rains, May Robson and Vera Lewis are the other principals. William Keighley directed. The rest.oi the staff, like the cast, is. little changed. mmmmumm THE INSURANCE OFFICE OF & Mey - For Many Tears Over Ladd'A Bush . . . . H . . . Uill Hove January hi 143 So. Liberty Street GnOUIID FLOOR Jost South First National Bank ; Sec Ua' for DepdaWe Service Phone 600 X . ; n I A - ":jf i - -l & - r Ifk , A . , ; . i i , , ; I-- : " v I -; - - : , , - - ' jwvj.:'. ..Jtmmm In R-K-O's "Call Out the Ma rines," Victor McLaglen will get his first screen kiss in goodness knows how long. Blnnie Barnes will be the donor. Young Tim Holt, who had to go kissless as a western star, also will get some osculatory attention from Simone Simon. James Wong Howe, Chinese, and one of Hollywood's ace cam eramen, operates a restaurant as a sideline. The other day, he hired a commercial photographer to take pictures of the place. The photographer set up his equip ment in the boulevard. A couple of trucks narrowly missed him as they whizzed by. "Why don't you move in five feet?" suggested Jimmy. "You still can get everything in." The photographer, who knew Jimmy only as a restaurant pro prietor, responded with a sour look. "Listen," he said, "you go back GEORGIA CARROLL, another . lovely ' Texan," seems - happy - about the whole thing Holly - wood, her lone term movie con tract and her part in sensational t jPLUS DEFENSE TAX 1 ' jm. - - is unable to account for his lean ing toward the theatre, evident at an early age. Examining his fam ily tree, he finds as he puts It: "Most of my forebears were far mers, innkeepers, or horse doctors. There isn't an actor among them as far as I can ascertain though I have an uncle who operates a mo tion picture theatre in Pennsyl vania." Gable, coming to the Hollywood screen in "They Met in Bombay," with Rosalind Russell as his cT star, is descended from a long line of thrifty, hard-working Dutch, who settled in the Quaker state. over at Universal, two other bur lesque veterans, Abbott and Cos tello, are making box office history. JANE WYMAN, merriest comedl enne of the movies, was work ing as a typist when she sud denly got a hunch she'd make a hit in a picture. She immedl ately went to an agent and in double-quick time found her self with a long-term contract. In private life she is Mrs. Ron ald Reagan. They are proud parents of tiny Maureen. Eliza beth. Gable Is Only Actor in Family Clark Gable Is a "problem ! .ViilfV in the Yiwr( (in hproHitv' The star himself confesses that he ' Always 2 Smash Hits Starts Today Tlii "Few Daogbtirs" trt back tjahi I J On the "Panama Hattie" set at M-Q-M, Ann Sothern is playing scene in which she is a little in toxicated. Sitting around a table with her are ?Red Skelton, Rags Ragland, Joe Yule (Mickey Roo- ney'fc father) and Ben Blue. Alan Mowbray also comes into the scene as a hoity-toity butler. It i interesting to analyze this little group. Ann Sother and Mow bray graduated into the movies from the stage. Ben Blue came up from vaudeville. But Funny-men Skelton, Rag- land and Pule all arrived via bur lesque. Its quite a commentary on the best! training school for comedians -especially when you realize that, "Don't stay at home in the dark Shows going on as usual during Blackouts." NEW LOW "T ANY PRICES mm M TIME Plus Tax Today-Mon.-Tues. 2 Hits Packed with Laughs! New Musical Fun Show! 7KH0C01ATE SOIDIE NELSON EDD7. st STEVENS Companion Feature hubbitt, babies ani ad I I 6C0R6E SANDERS 1 t '-n wrwpv IARRIcr - ' J - - - - - - Starts Today Plus Defense Tax Today-Mo n. Tues. - 1 Hits 15c Plus Tax Till 5 Continuous Today TTTT 1 to 11 P. M. r Ded Skellca Ana Rulherf ord "WHISTLING IN THEDAUK" ? -AND- Liberty Magazine THE STARS LOOK DOWN" Picture Program will continue unin terrupted during the Blackout, . ILL MM Mm rw ATM UC ' He thrills . . . chills . fascinates you! and 1 -Tn.? V I '-.And Second Feature A Companion Feature I What Thrills! Also News, Cartoon and Special March of Time, 'eace byiAdclph ffitlet' if AX I I - i Airrt uon nut asa ism nnss Plus Serial. "JUNGLE GIRL" Plus dmK Tax tOMKHOlT mi K0ABWAT1 , T WW MATMB KXX... X in thm yoor's mttt l thoddng dromi t . . -rv ill I'll i ! .... la "I Wake Up Screaming" with LTtMi: "'(i Dili Continuous Dally from I P. M. 2nd Hit Feature Y IAHE WITHERS J v ' : .u cti. -J Stmt TU Ttm bmakfn. Prtsdlla lane Rosemary lane lob lane -Gale Page CWt imu Mfer Irm Ut Uktrt 2nd Hit THETIE W THE ARMY K0WI own Mai tmrit wyfciwi . . . i krfeoVllni.,UvvKkd1 -Aad Ccnedy L 5H K PIw -II Tax ;'-"Navy Blues." - . i i
