Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983, July 13, 1941, Image 12

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Newspaper Page TextPage Twelve. THE REGISTER-GUARD, EUGENE, OREGON 1 f'i i I WELCOMING "BILLY THE KID" which is at the McDonald today are these three usherettes from the McDonald theater, dressed in Oregon Trail Pageant costumes of the wild and woolly Western days. All usherettes and doormen at the McDonald and Rex theaters are wearing Pageant costumes in antici pation of the three-day festivities, July 24, 25, and 26. The girls are, l.ft to right, Dorothy Bevel, Gail Roach, and Estelle Stadlg. Buck Quacks ABOUT HOLLYWOOD By BUCK BUCHWACH I am a failure as a movie columnist, a fact which you proably knew three weeks before me, after reading my first masterpiece. After reading part of it, I mean. I can feel it everywhere I Cnarlie Chan LfHv M.. i Blfl ABBOTT AND LOU COSTELLO are still "In the Navy," but have now transferred their maneuvers over to the good ship Mayflower, where the picture starts today. Picture'sTune OK'dbyNavy "We're in the Navy," one of the several songs written by Don Baye and Gene de Paul for Uni versal's new laugh riot, Bud Ab bott and Lou Costello and Dick Powell In The Navy, has been adopted as an official tune for use by the personnel at the U. S. Naval Training Station at San Diego. Much of this impressive comedy, which starts at the Mayflower theater today is laid at the San Diego station. Officers of the naval base be came interested in the tune dur ing the filming there of scenes for the picture. Later they re quested Universal's music depart ment to turn out for them a mili tary band arrangement of the number. Fight Champ's Girl Friend! Photo by Stein This Impish smile belongs to Bedella Falls, talented young heart interest of "Fight Camp," original dra matic series heard over the Mutual network every Sun day at 3:00 p. m. Bcdrlia, youngest member of the cast, plays opposite well known troupers Blanche Ring and Sam Byrd in this very promising new Sum mer offering, written by Frank "Red" Dolan, out standing movie and radio writer, and cx-ncwspapcr-man. Fight Champ SUNDAYS 3 P. M. This Week at the Theaters 'Devil Dogs' Shows Here At Mac Again The exciting story of Warner Bros.' "Devil Dogs Of The Air", which was filmed a few seasons ago, has even more significance today than at the time it was made, due to the widespread inter est in national defense. Heeding the trend of the times, Warner Bros, have brought it back to the screen and it will be shown at the McDonald theater Wednesday. The picture stars those two ro bust rivals of the cinema, James Cagney and Pat O'Brien with Margaret Lindsay supplying the romantic angle. Frank McHugh plays the role of a comic ambu lance driver. A great deal of the picture was filmed at the U. S. Naval base at San Diego (which could not be done under present condi tions) and produced under spe cial arrangements with the U. S. government. STATE Sunday through Tuesday Love Thy Neighbor Tobacco Road Wednesday, Thursday Pride Of The Bluegrass Double Date Friday, Saturday Prairie Law Lucky Devils HEILIG Sunday through Wednesday She Knew All The Answers Thursday through Saturday Under Age The Medico of Painted Springs Sunday through Wednesday In The Navy Thursday through Saturday She Knew All The Answers REX Sunday, Monday Give Me A Sailor Invitation To Happiness Tuesday, Wednesday Robin Hood Lone Wolf Takes A Chance Thursday through Saturday Wide Open Spaces Life With Henry Mcdonald Sunday through Tuesday Billy The Kid Tho Nurse's Secret Wednesday through Saturday Million Dollar Babr Devil Dogs Of The Air Saturday Bride Came C. O. D. There's Magic In Music Tracy's Gone Tooth Helps i Usually a missing front tooth is a handicap but In William Tracy's case it proved to be of great ad vantage even though he had to remove an expensive bit of bridge work to help him get into character. Fred Allen Has Time of Life in Picture go. Usherettes take one look at the curious conglomera tion of flesh and bones that I call my muscular body, and stare right past me. Movie audiences favor me with the very warm glances usually re served for Humphrey Bog art, Basil Rathbone, Peter Lorre and the like. All because I have as yet failed to select a picture, point out how insincere the hero looked when he looked into the heroine's eves, how in credible it was for a nice young man like Clark Taylor to kill anybody, how silly it was for Hedy Lamour to fall for Brian Cagney when she could have had Robert Gable, and so forth. 1 The Society-For-Making-Sour-And-Damning-Reviews has all but come right out and said that if I didn't get on the boat and scoff at something I might as well forget my idea of getting a critic's dip loma with honors. I want you and them to know that I tried, however. I went to "In The Navy" deter mined to ascertain every flaw in the picture, to discover each and every blunder in the script. I noted that Lou Costello could not have gotten Into the navy in the first place because he was so fat; that Dick Powell was too old to enlist when he did; that Claire Dodd couldn't have a camera on board any U. S. vessel including the Alabama; that the ending was different from the original press story sent out. With those notes' carefully con cealed under my new 1915 over coat, I nonchalantly left the theat er, winked at the usherette on duty, got a very sweet kick In the shins for my trouble, and hurried to the office with my valuable information. The only trouble was that I en- Joyed the picture, especially the wild ending, so much that my fin gers just looked up at me and waggled: "It's a riot, mug." So I'm a failure. But Costello steals the show, Abbott gets paid the same amount of money any way, Dick Powell fails to do for the comedians what Bing Crosby does for Hope, and the picture is easily worth the 35 cents the May flower is charging now. . . . and I've did my duty. Fred Alien had fim tim nf his life for one whole day while mak ing "Love Thy Neighbor," which opens today at the State theater, In which he co-stars with Jack Benny. He spent the time taking pot shots at "Jack Benny and the Merry Macs" with a shotgun. Mark bandrich, the producer director Of the niftnrp fnr Para mount, wasn't at all sure of Fred's markmanship. Neither was Fred. The last time he had handled a shotgun was an indistinct memory from his childhood. Fearful that the shots rMolif on wild and injure innocent bystand ers, sandrich requested a brace of officers of the law to stand by. Their arrival at the studio in patrol wagon convinced everyone mat linauy tne feud of a decade had gotten out of control. They followed the DOlirP Mr in nvmrae Imagine their surprise when tney louna Fred waving a shotgun gleefully in the air, then aiming and firing like a trained mark. man at an electric sign on a the ater marquee reading, "Jack Benny and The Merry Macs," and gradually putting it out, letter by letter. Primitive calendars were based on the lunar month of 29,4 days. A giant white shark weighing 1747 pounds was causht off Pnrt i Lincoln, South Australia, recently. mm i;0V.' til! WED.! A price on his head... ij j revenge in his heart! ""C: as l i w rw-v-rLrruin with BRIAN DONIEVY If in PATRICK ion TOOMEi Eugene's Finest ICE CREAM ALL FLAVORS 15C Pint Quart 25c Ed's Depot 49 East Broadway Ph. 909 In the upper left hand corner of this column, unless my eyes are playing tricks on me again, Is a picture of a guy that's making plenty of dough as a Chinese de tective, without being either a Chinese or a detective, which sounds like mighty easy dough. Sydney Toler is the gentleman's name, but he's Charlie Chan to any movie fan, with not over two out of five being able to recall his real name. Sydney Toler was the leading man for Julia Marlowe when that hot number was the best stage act ress of her time, which Is going back farther than most people can remember without a terrific strain on their crania. He was in many Broadway plays, and finally came to Hollywood as an ice man in "A Wise Child." He never did get to do the part in the movie, being called away by contractual obligations, despite a tempting of fer from Marion Davies, who wanted him for the cinema. Sydney Toler came back, how ever, in 1931, but Hollywood did not exactly order a special set of welcome mats nor shower torn newspapers upon him. Then seven years later he got turned Into a Chinaman through a queer quirk of fate, which you may recall. Warner Oland, who originated the part of Charlie Chan, suddenly died in 1938, and the 20th Century-Fox studios were going screwy, trying to find some. one to take over the role without losing all- the fans Warner Oland had attracted with his suave per formance. The studio had given 34 Holly. wood Jerks screen tests, had re corded 34 failures, and had just about decided to toss the Charlie Chan series into the studio ashcan, when lo and behold ... enters the man who comes to the Mc Donald Wednesday in "Dead Men Tell" (nothing like a smooth com mercial for a chaser, is there?) Sydney Toler clicked, undoubt edly. Most people don't even re member there was another Charlie Chan. In his latest part, Toler is his usual phenomenal self. For the eighth time since he took over the Chan spot he avoids death in the last few seconds and traps the killer, of course. In the meantime, to earn the big salary 20th Century-Fox is pay ing him, he solves two murders, saves 60 million bucks in buried pirate loot, and gets his ubiquit ous No. 2 son Jimmy out of an other jam, No. 2 son Jimmy, in case you're interested and too lazy to turn to a good section of the Register Guard, is a real Chinese and is preparing himself for a role in Occidental - Oriental affairs by working for a Ph.D. at the Uni versity of California, so he's not really the Far East version of Peck's bad boy; in fact he's a home-loving San Franciscan, if there are any such things. When you stop to realize that Joan Bennett Knows All The Answers A nirl whn knOWS &11 the answers, beautiful Joan Bennett . tr. ho Heilie theater tunica screen today with Franchot Tone in Columbia's newest love-ana- laugh farce, "She Knew All tne a nc.ors " Prnvine that Wall Street may know its stocks and blondes but a brunette like Joan Bennett is something else again, the hectic new hit was directed by Richard Wallace from a popu- lare magazine story Dy June Aiian .Tfthr, WnViharri. Eve Arden and William Tracy are important members of the supporting casi. Miss Bennett appears as a night uub performer who, literally an figuratively, goes to work on Wall Street. Determined to win a let ter nf recommendation from the broker-guardian of a millionaire playboy whom she is aeierminea to marry, she talks her way into a job as switchboard operator in the financier's dignified offices. Knowing less than nothing about cwitphhnnrHs. she manages in practically no time at all to panic not only the office out tne mock Exchange as well! Mr. Tone is seen as the all-work-and-no-playboy whose of fice is disrupted, whose conserva tive aplomb and impressive stock manipulations are completely smashed by the bewildering an tics of the beautiful brunette. In "She Knew All the Answers," too, Tone is said to provide an engag ing and delightful characteriza tion as he slowly, inevitably, and hilariously moves from stiff necked austerity to unconventional ' Julvi, ir till Tues. The Laff King! BOB HOPE MARTHA RAYE "GIVE ME A SAILOR" ALSO "INVITATION " TO HAPPINESS" with FRED MacMURRAY IRENE DUNNE HISI HURRY! ONLY A FEW MORE DAYS! THOSE "BUCK PRIVATES" ARE BOUNDING MAIN-IACS. .! Clear the decks (or waves of laughterl CONTINUOUS SHOW FROM 12:45 ON SUNDAYS All New Show Today! THE FUNNIEST FEUD EVER FILMED! m .TOT rnvi CHAIIIT OtAMWIM MAtNIII IAMUAU INI TIIINIV HHIIAM TIACT Off, OraM MilthtN . lam Tllbwv . fcim nti hv Itvnnatlf MMiw BlrttM by JOHN FORD rnl.iK , OAIIU ZANUCK A MM. Cffltvm 'Hht I have only 13 press books, 19 stacks of mimeographed material, 39 pictures, and a short, 3-million word biographical sketch of Toler, only then will you perceive what an amazing job of research work this bit on Toler necessitated. Even an advanced grammar school pupil would have had trouble with the job. The coup of that terror of the golf links, that Romeo of Wil lamette street, that riot of the maple alleys James O'Connell, manager of the Rex, McDonald, and the . Register-Guard movie page I sometimes fear in book ing "Caught In The Draft" the week the army came through Eu gene was just that. ... a coup 'd cinema. AnnrOvimafMv RflO cnlrliare no- day viewed the picture, believe or not, a sizeaDie increase in patronage for any theater. Of course,, the cute Pageant costumes the usherettes are wearing didn't hurt anything, but it was the army picture mat ffnt the shpkple The price for soldiers was re duced .to 21 cents by O'Connell with 4 cents addpd fnr ment tax, which is used to pay soldiers. . . sounds screwy doesn't it? The scene that tmf th wm( laughs from the khaki kids was me one wnere uniforms either nine sizes to big or three sizes too small were hointf tBi,aJ 4Ua draftees. Most of the soldiers had actually undergone the same ex perience. The Heilig's "She Knew All The Answers' comes with beau tiful Joan Bennett, who for my money all that I have is bet- inAN BENNETT AND FRANCHOT TONE en thrnT In "She Knew All the Answera," which starts today it ,V $im&f'' lis if BETTE DAVIS AND J1MM1E CAGNEY combine ttelt ri ents to produce a reported hit, "The Bride Came C. 0. D,' Saturday to the McDonald theater. ter looking than Hedy LaMarr and whose acting is far superior, and Franchot Tone, besides nice reviews everywhere it has shown. It looks above average. Gee, I hope LaMarr doesn't kiss me off on account of that last crack. Who cares if she can act anyway, as long as Will Hayes gets more lenient every day? Note to males: Bertha Hilliard, cute McDonald cashier, was mar ried last Sunday, so .stop wink ing when you buy your tickets. FIRST SUB VICTIM The U. S. S. Housatonic, first warship ever sunk by a submarine was sunk just outside Charleston harbor by a Confederate under sea "fish-boat." Springfield Theatre TODAY'S SUPEB BILL Laps Velex ind Leon Errol In "MEXICAN SPITFIRE OUT WEST" nd Jack Halt In "THE GREAT PLANE ROBBER!" 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