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GEORGE RAFT and Janet Blair In a sensa- L scene from their new picture "Broadway," a fjrsidVay hit now snowing ni mo ncuig meaier. Uoy to fee j iinilvwood. fast-ac- Ur actor of the movie faiM club for one week appeared in many west '.! with Gene Autry, the .Z..,i.-r the Weaver L the Lo" Ranger and I T i uie villain wuw La out until the last reel. s GENE (JDS . 5N1Y "1 ID. JULY 1 I ICI 2 and 8 P. M JlllY X Doors Open a. ilEAT 3 RING EM3 MICA'S FAVORITE BIG SNOW SsftfieWORlDdf WHITI (ittlitlr THBIUINO BfST I OF MOCK AND ANIMALS I V HBFORMINO ilinUNTS I OS IUSHIF1CENT HORSES W 1)1011 t ACKH OF TINTS M Awl Anl.ll 4 Aim. in Ailm Anitl Itltri fpjj CUA CF THE NMU'S VJ CTOKHT tWCM TAim PT A CARNIVAL! "TO ' mil Brat. Orral I "J"1 luitrul ralrtlt UU l ? """'''If . . Thl ft imlJl tullWI iiniu u Fortius rr!ta " ml tear m n ! Ctlrteratt. and then It is he who "bites the dust." Tex has been killed eight timet, and has been beaten up by the heroes at least 32 times. He has been thrown off stupendously high cliffs to the body-shattering rocks below, only to come back again to be all shot up in his next picture again. Previously before going on tour Hall had one of the biggest and best cowboy entertaining troupes ever assembled and had many top notch stars in his group. Also on the same spotlight with the famous Hall will be Nora and Norman Perdue who will stage a strong arm and novelty act three times nightly along with the Hall show. Playing for the week night danc ing patrons will be Fred McKinney and nis lour-piece Hollandaire band with pretty Ruth Barton handling all of the vocals. Theater Program Mcdonald Sunday thru Tuesday My Favorite Blonde Larceny Inc. Wednesday thru Saturday Tortilla Flat Sunday Punch HEILIG Sunday thru Wednesday Broadway Sing Your Worries Away Thursday thru Saturday Call Out the Marines West of Tombstone REX Sunday and Monday To Be or Not To Be Honolulu Loo Tuesday and Wednesday Ladles In Retirement Billy the Kid Thursday thru Saturday The Man Who Came to Dinner Mystery Ship MAYFLOWER Sunday Only Butch Minds the Baby Man With Two Lives Monday thru Wednesday Theater Closed Thursday thru Saturday Broadway Mississippi Gambler STATE Sunday thru Tuesday One Foot In Heaven Glamour Boy Wednesday and Thursday Nine Lives Are Not Enough I Killed That Man Triday and Saturday Dude Cowboy North to the Klondike THE REGISTER-GUARD. EUGENE, OREGON Page Seventeen. 'Broadway' On Heilig Screen Broadwsy-moit exciting tnd fabulous hub of f.ct and ficuon in the world! Every city, almost every hamlet has its historic fas cmule of the most noted of Broad ways Nw York's. It is the lat ter, dunng one of the most cat aclysmic eras of its ceaseless mu UUons, with which "Broadway" the new Universal film hit, open ing Sunday at the Heilig theater concerns itself. "Broadway," the film, is an ex citing melodrama, both of story and of the fabulous davs of "the roaring '20's" when prohibition and violence marked It for his toric notoriety. Arrayed in its cast is a brilliant acting personnel headed by George Raft and Pat O'Brien as co-stars, and includ ing Jartet Blair, Brod Crawford, nne uwynne, Marjorie Ram. beau and a host of others. uusuai in ns treatment of a basic plot which, as "Broadway." was a smash hit of the legitimate theater in the late '20s, the new uruce Manning production is i dramatized biograDhlcal adanta. tion in which Raft is presented as George Raft, the film star. In it ne re-lives a critically exciting slice of Broadway night club life which closely parallels his own career experiences when he was reputed to possess "the fastest dancing feet on Broadway." mmQ ELEANOR POWELL with Red Skelton, surrounded by a bevy of beautiful girls in a scene from the new MGM musical, "Ship Ahoy," which opens at the McDonald theater Sunday, June 28. 3 gpringfield Jheater CUslttM Cnr T MUlsiii fe "SKTLAKK" Oiirtfi VUrrftl !!? Is "OTAI, MOCNTSD FATSOL" Cfcrnla CtrWB - Xwa Spouse Lauds March's Role "I believe he is as handsome as my husband was, after all." Mrs. William H. Spence made that remark after meeting Fredric March for the first 'time on the Warner Bros, film set where he portrayed her late husband In the film version of her son's book, "One Foot In Heaven." now play ing at the State theater. The widow of the central char acter of "One Foot in Heaven" and mother of Hartzell Spence, author of the book, was in Hollywood visiting Iowa friends. Until she called at Wamer Bros, to witness scenes from her own life being filmed, she'd never seen the inside of a movie studio or met a screen star. In addition to March, Mrs. Spence met Martha Scott, her own impersonator in the film. She said Miss Scott flattered her in appear ance, but despite the fact that March was her own choice for the role, she'd give him no better than an even break on looks with her husband, the late William Spence. A McDonald Bills 'Tortilla Flat' Brought to life nn one of the most fascinating settings ever designed for a motion picture, John Steinbeck's best-seller novel, Tortilla Flat." filmed by Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer and starring Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr and John Garfield, opens at the Mc Donald theater. Accurately recreated to the last detail, the set includes a street two blocks long, with the paisano shacks under the pines. It covered an area of three acres. The set was built over a period of six weeks, after set designers and camera crews had gathered data and materials at Monterey. One of the most unusual stories ever brought to the screen, "Tor tilla Flat" deals with the happy- go-lucky life of the California paisanos who live a carefree ex istence on Tortilla Flat. Tracy, as Pilon, is the leader of a band of paisanos. The youngest and best looking is Danny, played by Gar field. Pilon's greatest admirer is Pablo, portrayed by Akim Tam-iroff. They are content until Dolores fSweets) Ramirez comes to the flats and Danny goes to work because he loves her. Frank Mor gan is seen in another memorable character from the book, the Pirate. The film was directed by Victor Fleming, who directed "Gone With the Wind." ST-;,.. mmmm ",i-awiii.iviw -( M r I lIlM I J 'j SPENCER TRACY, Hedy Lamarr and John Garfield, In . Victor Fleming's production of John Steinbeck's great novel, "Tortilla Flat," which opens Wednesday at the McDonald theater. ONLY WANTED FLAG disregarding all other Items of 4 MILWAUKEE (U. A thief lvalue. who amshed a window of the tee- off shanty at Lincoln Park golf course took only an American flag, j TRUCKS FOR RENT Ton Drive Move Yourself Save to Long and Short Trips HASTINGS TEXACO SERVICE (14 Pearl Ph. til Some government officials esti mate it will be early In 1944 be fore any rubber is released for civilian use, that is provided the war does not end before that time. THINGS DONT LOOK VERY GOOD for Dan Dalley Jr. as he tries to punch his way into Jean Roger't heart in "Sun day Punch," opening Wednesday at the McDonald theater. Rex Returns Famed Comedy "Stand back. I have three dlf-1 ferent deadly contagious diseases." I That's the dialogue with which Monty Woolley, portraying a world-famed literary lecturer, greets club-women gathered to j meet him at the railway station in "The Man Who Came to Din ner," the famous comedy opening at the Rex theater on Thursday. It's the dialogue, too, delivered at the very beginning of the film, which gives us the key to the man a querulous, crotchety, but unbelievably witty man of the world who has dedicated his life to shocking conventional and fuddy-duddy people wherever he finds them. He finds them In this Instance in the persons of Billie Burke, a lion-hunting hostess, and her husband. Grant Mitchell, a pom pous, middle-westerner who stand for everything that is anathema to Woolley. Skelton Stars In'ShipAhoy' Carrying on hl successful car eer as a top comic ana aiso a romantic hero. Red Skelton sings and wins' the girl in M-G-M'a musical, "Ship Ahoy," which opens at the McDonald theater Sunday, June 28. Eleanor Powell, Skelton and the Tommy Dorsey awing band head the stellar east Miss Powell Is seen as i G-glrl In the musical, with Skelton as her hypochondriac sweetheart Both become involved with for eign scents, dangerous plots and hilarious mixups. The action takes place on a showboat bound tor southern waters. Interspersed be tween the plot maneuvers are four elaborate production numbers in which the dancing star is fea tured In Spanish bull-fight number, a Morse code tap, a novel soft shoe dance, and an Hawaiian War Chant All New Show Today! ST r' CM untie - m MARCH SCOn TfcoyV fltf 4MM (M l tsOTVM- Wm sWyra fciW ill hi (Ml itsi mm IMirTS A WARNER BROS HfT, Wto BETJIAH fiONDt . GENE 10CKHMT ELISABETH FRASER HARRY DAVENPORT LAURA HOPE CREWS GRANT MltCHELL CWKttd by IRVING RAPPER I "SkiM" aroVs V I and become p GLAMOUR BOY S Pi on COOPER FOSTER Walter Abel Darryl Hlckmia Ana Gllllt William DimifMt eiracns la Btosei till TUES J C1I0LE V fLOMBARDl 7 jack BENNY. f lOBHI STACK fr J JAVnitAMt THE PyyCOBS GASPINOI B tV.W i ROBINSON blast Ml way Into meniy PI t tUVSMTW TSAOSV Wei ENDS TONIGHTI CRIME'S CRACK CROOK turns nursemaid. ..whan caught. Art STARRING. HOCKING! SOCKINGl I t - iCT LI. i . 9 fi nil alMMBWAlD NOIRII - Vj lleonor UWION Continuous Show front 11:4S to 11:10 oa Bondayt NOTICE! the Mayflower will b closed MON TTJES. & WED. The HOLLAND PRESENTS Big Gala floor Show Fsaturlna W PERSON EX HALL GM Autry Pictures it mmm t; M LA HALU Nora & Norman PERDUE e! International Fam RUTH BARTON Sweetheart of Songs "UA PEBDCX STARTING MONDAY FOR ONE WEEK ONLY THE HOLLANDAIRE Toot Piece Orchestra Friday Saturday June 26 27 POLACK BROS. VICTORY Fairgrounds MATINEES EVENINGS BtogsJ Rto9 WW AUSPICES EUGENE AMERICAN LEGION o 3 Rings 41 Acts 100 People SAME COMPANY AS APPEARED AT THE ARMORY LAST YEAR Adults 50c (plus tax) ChUdren 25c Starts Todayl for 4 - Big Days! m Tki WiiW'i Hut Cli-.f.n nA c PiQsPi. tA llrtl...wilh HtAaatOL fj TLri V- J XMki RAFT O'BRIEN i IAHETBLAIR CO-FEATURE .-ttf BROD CRAWFORD WALT DISNET CARTOON LATEST SEHSREFL DOORS OPEN 12:11
