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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.
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"Wife, Doctor And Nurse," Coming Wednesday
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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
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James Gleason In Rialto Mystery
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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.
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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
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