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JNTETDFOfiD MAIL TRTBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON. SUNDAY. OCTOBER 10. 1W Pacific Coast Premier of "Dead End" Opens at Craterian Today 'DEAD END' FAMED MOVIE COMI CRATERIAN BILL As a Broadway stage play. "Dead End" was a smash hit, packing them In for two solid years. Later It was cheered from coast to coast. Today, at the New Craterian thea ter, Samuel Goldwyn's great motion picture based on the powerful Sidney Klng&ley drama of life In a city street opens for a four-day run. This writer had the extreme pleasure of being on hand at a special preview Friday, and unhesitatingly names the pic ture as one of the finest he has ever seen. The film stars Sylvia Sydney and Joel McCrea, and features Allen Jen kins. Humphrey Bogart, Claire Trevor and the original "Dead End" kids. The showing today at the New Cra terian theater is the Pacific coast premiere Of the picture. It being brought here from New York City by airmail. Sylvia Sydney gives a great per formance as Drina. the little slum girl who fights a valiant but losing battle to save her small, motherless brother Tommy from the gangster's fate she has seen the slum mete out to so many of Its sons. Joel McCrea turns In a grand perform ance as Dave, the penniless young architect who loves and who. In turn, la loved by Kay (Wendie Barrle), the girl who has found a dubious route out of the slum Into a penthouse in the fashionable apartment which overlooks the dead end street, the slums, where all scenes are shot. Humphrey Bogart is superb as "Baby Pace" Martin, wanted gang ster and killer, who crawls back to the slum to see his mother and boy hood sweetheart, Prancey, once more and for his trouble receives from his mother a stinging rebuke and a slap in the face, and from his former sweetheart, the bitter knowledge that she has tsken life the easiest way. However, the real stars of this pic ture are the "Dead End" kids, the youngsters raised in the slums at the end of the city street which stops at the rlver'i edge. Their per fection as the tough, brawling babes of the gutter defies description. They must be seen and heard. The entire film takes place in 94 hours, and there are thrills galore in every foot of reel. Others In the notable cast are Charles Peck, Minor Watson. James Burke, Ward Bond, Elizabeth Rlsdon, Esther Dale and oeorge Humbert. POTATO GROWERS ADOPT CONTROL CHICAGO. Oct. 9 (AP) Confronted with a large crop and below-normal prices, potato growers of eight states voted today for immediate adoption of AAA marketing agreements. Marketing of the 1837 crop, official ly estimated at 403,303.000 bushels as compared with last year's 830,000,000 bushel crop, already la underway and spokesmen for the group said they expected the new agreement to be put in effect within 10 days. Voting unanlmoualy to apply the agreements within 10 daysetaoshrdlue agreements were AO representatives of growers In Michigan. Wisconsin. Min nesota. North Dakota,, Colorado. Wy oming, Nebraska and Idaho. They Invited Maine growers to reconsider their rejection of the agreement In a referendum last month. The AAA agreements call for elim ination of culls potatoes of less than an Inch and a half in diameter from Interstate shipment, and for govern ment Inspections. 1 3 FLYING FORTS WASHINGTON, Oct. . (API The war department ordered today 13 ad ditional multl-englned bombardment airplanea known as "flying fort resses" from the Boeing Alrcralt com pany of Seattle at a price of $3,818. 346. Known as the world's largest com bat airplanes, these machines are In tended for use by the general head quarters air force of the army. They will be powered by four Wright "Cyclone" engine manufac tured by the Wright Aeronautical eompanv of Paterson. N. J. The new aircraft are the latest series of a type which has been undergoing rigid teats by the second bombardment group of the OHQ air force at Langley Field. Va., for more than a year. They are constructed to fly at speeds exceeding MS miles per hour, mount five machine guns In addition to their load of bombs and carry rew of ern in nine men. Ask for I "FARM FRESH" CREAMERY BUTTFR "Wife, Doctor And Nurse," Coming Wednesday ( r vi 1 .v A, Drama with a twinkle In its eye brings Loretta Young (a the wife) Warner Baxter (as the doctor), and Virginia Bruce (as the nurse), In Wife, Doctor and Nurse." to tho New Craterian theater Wednesday, where it will open a four-dav engagement With every Indication pointing to ward the film being one of the new season's most sparkling three-cornered romances, the picture la a gay and witty adventure of a personable doc tor who finds two women necessary In his file to help maintain his bal ance and sense of proportion. TELEPHONE IN SUES ON ALLEGED BEATING DURING THIRD DEGREE PORTLAND, Oct. 9. (AP) Two suit seeking 1150.000 damages and alleging brutality on the part of an agent which resulted In hospital con finement were In file today In cir cuit court by Coe C. White, long time engineer of the Pacific Tele phone and Telegraph, who was ar rested last January In connection with a $5,584 holdup. White, who was taken into custody shortly after the robbery of the tele phone company offices here, sued the company, alleging that H. A. Hansley, San Francisco, a company agent, beat him so severely about the head and neck at police headquarters about 3 :30 a. m. one morning, that he had to be removed to a hospital. One suit asked 9100.000 for "ma licious and wantonly" being charged with the crime and the second sought $50,000 for the beating, in which White said he was knocked uncon scious. T AS ACTIVE PLAYER ST. LOUIS. Mo., Oct. 9. (AP) The name of Prankie Frlsch. fiery leader of the St. Louis Cardinals, has graced a major league lineup for the lest time. The Cardinal management an nounced today the Fordham Flash had been removed from the active player list for the 1938 season. He recently signed to manage the gas house gang next year with a reported Increase In salary. One of the outstanding playing managers of ail time. Frlsch played as a regular second baseman for the last time In 1835. The year before he led the Cardinals to their last world championship. During the 1936 season Frlsch was in the lineup occa sionally and he saw action In a few games this year. Frlsch was 39 years old Septem ber 9. ONCE AGAIN HE SINGS PAGAN f" vvwMla SONGS OF LOVE! , ;l ' H Back to charm the world 1 'f J again, the screen's romantic U ' ; tp.' V&r idol returns to give a lesson C v2 5 v in love to an amorous heir- jU . i'I -"ir.f ess in the glamorous desert! Ji!. ' ',CJ IItm"-" I Gene Lockhart Kathleen Burke I I T0DAY " 3 DAYS 2 SMASH HITS! 1 S'mSS"" J . THELOWDOWNon Sa I :" f THE STARS AND J rmmml , ' '.jTi I 51 SIRENS OF XivWi I I HOLLYWOOD! fftV H wA.Il g Behind the scenes of the W J If H Sown a 'touno 1 world . . and into the secrets V ttSi 1 "THB SHKIK' 2:00 4:.V) 8:1 K 10:S3 "IIOM.VWOOD" at 3:40 7:10 B:M Shoe's Todav 1:45.3:15-6:49 9:15 25c-35c-10e James Gleason In Rialto Mystery r James Gleason and Z.isu Pitts (De tective Oscar Piper and Hlldegarde Withers to their big following) have either smashed a mystery Into smith- reens or are about to blueprint a now set of clues. They consider a back stage double murder In "Forty Naughty Girls." sixth of the Stuart Palmer mystery series to reach the screen through the Rialto theater's screen. "Forty Naughty Girls" Is at the Rtalto Wednesday and Thursday, with "Shadows of the Orient," dramatic story of Frisco's fog-gripped oriental section, starring Esther Ralston, Regis Toomey, J. Farrell MocDonald and Sydney Blackmer, scheduled as the added feature. No railways operate In Liberia, and there Is only one main highway com pleted which could be used for bus or truck transportation. When a Connecticut power com pany needed a reservoir It dammed up valley, creating Candle wood lake. The lake Is only 17 miles long but its shoreline measures 97 miles. The American Geographical society of New York is the oldest geograph ical society In the country. It was founded In 1853. Talisman Lodge No. 31, Knights of Pythias, meeting Monday. Oct. 11th, 1937. Important business. All members are requested to at- Vlsltlng members welcome. C. Ftchtner. C. C. w Roxy Today Fred Astalre and Ginger Rogers are at the Roxy theater today, starting a three-day run In "Shall We Dane." The gay musical Is filled with one novelty after another, but the one number that takes the cake is Astalre and Rogers' sensational dance on roller skates. The stars are sur rounded by a grand cast headed by Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore. Jerome Cowan and William Brlsbanri. TO LANSFORD. Pa., Oct. 9, (AP) Seventy-five hundred hard coal min ers In the Panther creek valley stop ped work today In sympathy with 39 sit-down strikers huddled deep In the Coaldale colliery In protest against wage sciles. The entire Lehigh Navigation com pany's workings In this sectton, in volving five operating units, the atrlpplngs and the storage plants, shut down. The action followed a plea by the wives of the sit-down strikers that "something be dona about it." "The Star Spangled Banner" was not designated the national anthem by act of congress until 1931. Ramon Novarro in "Sheik Steps Out" Heads Rialto Bill The famous name of Ramon No varro the dashing, dark-haired re mantle Idol of scree ndom'i patrons again Is flashing majestically from the lights of the nation's theater marquees. The famous movie favor Ite comes to local fans In "The Sheik Steps Out," opening a three-day run today at the Rialto theater. The film Is a fitting vehicle for the sen sational comeback of Novarro, and should more than satisfy his many local admirers. "The Sheik Steps Out" is a desert story dealing with a spoiled Amer ican girl's efforts to obtain a hlgh splrlted Arabian horse from a ro mantic Sheik. The Sheik steps out to tame the heiress, and the situa tions Involved are hilariously funny. Richard Dix, starring In "It Hap pened In Hollywood," shares double bill honors with Ramon Novarro la "The- Sheik Steps Out." - - "It Happened in Hollywood" tall the strangely honest story of a cow boy of the silent films, Tim Bart, who falls by the wayside when talkies come In and he trips over a mare of drawing room dialogue In a voice test, His leading lady, both on the screen and In his heart, played by Pay Wray, passes the test and 1b signed to a contract. Among the surprises In the film 1 the appearance of the doubles of most of the screen's famous stars, among them W. C. Fields, Mae West, Joan Crawford, Charles Chaplin, Ed die Cantor. Irene Dunne, Joe Brown, Clark Gable and twenty -some others. About 35.000,000 trees were distrib uted through federal and state co operation to farmers In the last year for planting farm forests, windbreak and shelterbelts. SCOTTISH KITE Stated meeting Lodge and Chapter, 7:30 p. in,, Oct, Utb. L. K- Williams. Sey. THUNDERING ACROSS THE SCREEN WITH THE FURY OF A MIGHTY AVALANCHE! XVJ l""- I I Mil I, Dead End ... life begins and ends at the water front .... where murderers, dreamers, idlers, lovers and tough kids rub elbows in the muck and squalid existence they call "home" . . t where throbbing life and vivid excitement are part of every minute of every day . . . . You'll sit enthralled when you watch this picture .... and then remember it for the rest of your life! Pacific Coast Premiere Today - 3 Days! Starring SYLVIA SIDNEY and JOEL McCRE A I m HUMPHREY BOGART WENDY BARRIE CLAIRE TREVOR ALLEN JENKINS and lh children who r Ihe wniatlon of lh ti Shows Today 1:45 3:30 6:45 9:00 E 030 &v Matt . . , , 30o Evai . , . . 40o Klddlei , . , lOo
