MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEPFOKH. OREOON. SUNBAT. DECEMBER 22. l!35.
PAGE ELEVEN
THE INFORMER' IS
HELD YEAR'S BEST
FILM BY CRITICS
NEW YORK, Dee. 21 .J-) Til e na
tional board of review of motion pic
turea, an organization composed of
several hundred unpaid lay critics
Who preview films, today termed
"The Informer" starring Victor Mc
ta.en, the beat picture marie any
where during 1935.
Based upon popular appeal, the
board named the following In order
of choice: David Copperfield, Mutiny
on the Bounty, The Inlormer. Lives
of a Bengal Lancer, Top Hat. Mid
summer Night's Dream. Naughty Mar
ietta, Lea Miserable, Anna Ka renins
and Rtiggle of Red Gap.
The ten best Amrlcan-m.le films
were listed Alphabetically as: Alice
Adams. Anna Karenina, David Cop
perfield. The Gilded Lily, The Infor
mer, Lea Miserable, Lives of a Ben
gal Lancer, Mutiny on the Bounty.
RuRgI? of Red Gap and Who Killed
Cock Robin.
The ten beat foreign made films
were listed as: Chapayev, Crime et
Chatiment. Le Denver Millionaire,
The New Gulliver, Peasants, Thunder
in the East, and The Youth of Max
im. The board was established In 1903
and annually names the ten best
films as chosen by lay reviewers.
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EXTRA FANCY BOXES
10 NEWSPAPER FOLK
Eastern advertising managers and
food editors who have been singing
the praise of Oregon-Washington
pears all season will be eating them
at Christmas time, since the Oregon
Washington Pear bureau haa ar
ranged that a box of extra fancy
Oregon or Washington pears be de
livered to the newspaper plants the
day before Christmas. Such fine
merchandising and publicity support
has been given by every one of tne
papers that it was felt this would
be a good way to show apprecia
tion. Oregon -Washington peara for the
holidays are being urged in con
sumer advertising appearing in news
papers in the various eastern cities
where the pear bureatt is conducting
a sustained promotional campaign
this season.
Pears, as well as apples, are &
"natural" for the Christmas season,
and this is being played up in the
advertising, plus the fact that pears
from Oregon and Washington are
the highest quality available on the
market.
Anjou advertising is well underway
In Philadelphia, Boston, New Or
leans, Dallas. New York City and
Milwaukee; advertising on Anjous
m Miami has Just been released.
Boso only are being advertised in
Birmingham and Atlanta, where An
jous have nat as yet been put on
tha market,
Shirley Temple on Holiday Program
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Specially booked in for the
holiday week, Shirley Temple's new
picture, "The Little Rebel" comes to
the Craterlan for ita local run. The
entire program, consisting of & Walt
Disney cartoon, a special reel of the
world-famous Pared Children'
Oholr and the other short subjects,
together with the Shirley Temple pic
ture, fairly glow with the spirit of
Christmas cheer.
Shirley. In "The Little Rebel, por
trays the part of a little lady of the
old southland during the Civil war
singing, laugiiing, dancing as she
tries hor hardest to be brave. John
Boles, Karen Morley. Jack Holt, and
Bill Robinson are in the supporting
oast.
EAGLES PACK 100
CHARITY BASKETS
Members of the Prater! Orlr af'j
Eagles were busy yesterday preparing
100 Christmas baskets for needy fam- i
Hies of Jackson county. The bas
kets are to be distributed Tuesday.
Each basket contains eenough food
for a complete Christmas dinner. In
cluding a roast, potatoes, bread, vege
tables, sugar, coffee and milk. The
amount of foodstuff in each basket
varies in accordance with the size of
the family It Is intended for, mem
bers explained.
Committee In charge of basket dis
tribution Is composed of Fred Powell
and P. E. Shafer.
About 500 persons attended the
Eagles' Christmas party for children
at the lodge Friday ntght. An en
tertainment was presented and the
children. 250 In number, each re
reived sacks of fruits, candles and
nuts.
MASS MURDERER'S
LADY FRIEND TO
mew; reform
SEATTLE. Wash., Dec. 21. (AP)
Pegtry Peterson, Paulos. in a secret
hideout in the Cascades because of
threats, against her life. Attorney
Ralph A. Horr said today, will remain
secluded until she Is ready to go to
relatives in West Virginia, her birth
place. She received several threats during
the trial in which Leo Hall, whom
she accused of committing the Er
Innd's Point mass slayngs, was con
victed and the death penalty recom
mended, Horr said.
"Peggy ran with a dangerous mob
and now that she is quitting them,
there are underworld characters who
will stop at nothing to kill her," he
sold.
Meanwhile, the claimant of the $500
reward offered by Kitsap county for
the solution of the case was unde
cided. Horr said Mrs. Paulos" con
fession entitles her to It. but that she
does not expect to claim It and that,
although her confession was made to
him. he will not claim it either, un
less someone else makes application.
Tha: Rev. Joseph E. Cameraman,
Catholic priest of Bremerton, visited
Hall yesterday in his cell at Olympla.
"He was not nervous and main
tained he was Innocent." the priest
said.
The arguments on Hall's motion for
a new trial will be heard Monday at
Port Orchard by Judge H. a. Sutton.
Income Shares
Mnryland funding b'.J 17.4a; Mkcd
18.B4.
Quarterly Income shares, bid 1.4";
asked 1 1
N,w C!arknma Courlhou
OREGON CITY, Ore.. Dec. 51
i API Work of razing the historic
Clackamas county courthouse to
make room for the 1!4.700 building
approved by the public works admin
istration will atart Monday, colinl?
official, raid. The county court al?n
e t leases for temporary quarters.
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MASQUERADE h
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Christmas Eve.
Dreamland
Rube and His Orchestra
dirts for the bet n.f funnier
couples In rwtume
-Today and Monday-
Shows l:30-S:Wl.fl:45-0:00
Picturesque SHANGHAI
. , . where East
meets West and
races collide !
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Probe CCC Kemivnt
PORTLAND, Ore.. Dec. 21. (AP)
A committee of the state planning
board will investigate the proposed
abandonment of the CCC camp near
Moro. a delegation from Sherman
county was told. Resident of the
Mcro area protested that erosion con
trol work of the camp was Just get
ting started.
It Tares to Reveal the
Truth of a
j IV mian s Soul!
STARTS f y -
TODAY IdA
Nil udys w Tff
I h&ZZO Here is a si 7 ''bfe, V
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so beautiful aud
fragile so tender
touching that it will make you
forget every other love story you
ever heard ... or read ... or
saw on the screen!
k FEATHER
BIER HAT
with
PAULINE LORD
BASIL RATHBONE
LOUIS H AY WARD
Wendy BARRIE BiHie BURKE
On Roxy Bill j
Now at Rialto
At Craterian
'Shanghai," where East meets West
and falls In love In fptte of tlw age
old racial preudlces brine Loretta
Yotui and Charles Boyer to the Roxy
theater for today and Monday,
Mlsa Young play the part of
young American girl whose romance
with Boyer, as & Ruaso-Chineee. Js
froTied upon by both the whites end
the yellows in the social circles of
Shanghai. Their seftrch for happlneaa
together forma the oasl of an intrig
uing story. Alison Skipworth and
Warner Oiand are also in featured
roles.
Pauline Lord, remembered for Uer
fine portraval of "Mr Wis of the
Cabbage patch," ,head the cast of
"The Feather In Htr Hat" suirtin a
three day run at the Riaito theater
today.
A. love atory, s&i on mother'
gallant attempt to make her , son a
eentleman. "The Feather In Her Hat"
cornea here with lavish praise from
dramatic critics throughout the -country
hailing it -a one of the finest
romances ever told on the screen.
Included tn the cast are BasII Rath
bone, Louis Hayward. Wendy Btirrie,
Blllle Burke and Victor Varcoul.
iHflW.
The wild famou voice of Lw
rencs Tib-bett, renowned stir of the
Metropolitan opera, the radio- and
concert fleide i heard In "Metropoli
tan,11 starting today at the Cmterlnn
theater, a story o the rise to fame
of a young singer.
With Tibbett tn tne role of the
ambitious singer who flnda he must
ffive his careful attentions to Alice
Brady, woutd-b contralto, to in
sure the financial success of his com
pany, complication arise when he
meets and fstta in tove with Vfminl
Bruce bit Is unable to show hi emo
ttotis for fear of olfciidlng tlie purse
strings of Miss Brady,
During fht course of th picture,
Tibbett ia heard in renditions of nr
Joiis aocrea from some of tn better
known, pern. IncSadtng the prologu
to "pagilaeei (the clown's laments,
flio singing modern nuirtbere such a
"De Olory Road" and "The Road to
Mandalay.8
PORTLA4, Ore., Dec. St. (APi
Of. C. c, PotinSr evanfEeUcal minister
who wns near dat& foilowtng a op
eration, passed the Crist and wa ex
pected to recover hospital attend
ant here: reported today. Dr. Poiine
is father of Dtf Daniel A. Poling of
the Christian: Endeavor,
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