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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
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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 !
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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.
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best! training school for comedians
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