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PAGE NINE Historical Drama, Starring Bette Davis And Errol Flynn, At Craterian "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington" Here Wednesday "Dancing Co-Ed" Here Tuesday In Roxy Role in Paris, broke and hungry. Ameche comes to her rescu and the two fall into the most laugh-provoking situations sine Irene Dunne and Cary Grant shocked the natives in "Tha Awful Truth." John Barrymore and Francis Lederer have supporting roles. a MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON. SUNDAY, DECEMBER S, 1939. TECHNICOLOR HII BOASTS BRILLIANT SUPPORTING CAST 'A 'The Private Lives of Eliza beth and Essex." the new tech nicolor production starring Bette Davis and Errol Flynn, has its first local showing today at the Craterian theater where It opens a three-day run. A bril liant, spectacular prod uction with a magnificent cast of thousands, the film play has the two stars in roles into which they fit like the well- known proverbial glove. ." Bette Davis, of course, it cast . as the self-willed, vain and dom ineering Queen Elizabeth, torn between her love of England and its people and her over whelming love - for the hand some and dashing young Earl of Essex. Flynn as Essex has . precisely the type of role in which he has endeared himself to audiences the world over that of a handsome, swashbuck ling hero, as victorious in love v u he is in war. But his vic tory over Elizabeth is short- ' lived in the film; for, loving him, she sends him to the exe cutioners block, because she realizes that if England is to live, Essex must die. Played against the spectacular back ground of the pomp and pag eantry of the Elizabethan court, the love story is still the all important theme on which the film is focused. The brilliant supporting cast lor tne two stars includes Olivia de Haviland, Donald Crisp, Vin cent Price, Henry Stephenson, Alan Hale, Raich Forbes. Henrv Daniell, James Stephenson. Nan ette iabares, Robert Warwick and Leo G. Carroll. E Berlin, Dec. 2. (JP) Britain and France, informed German sources said today, are to blame lor Finland s predicament. i If the western powers had not stiffened the Finnish gov ernment's back , by moral sup port Finland would have seen the historic justification for Rus Bia's position, these sources as serted. They insisted Germany had proved a better friend to Fin land and to peace in the Baltic by maintaining an attitude of reserve toward the Finnish-Russian crisis. "We don't meddle everywhere as tngiand does, one author ized commentator observed. The total value of the chemi cals found in the body of the average man is 98 cents. ft SCOTTISH RITE d'jJJl opeciiw meeting unapcer S.7YT- 7:30 o. m.. Dec. 4th. work In 15th decree. Li. e. wiiuams, oecty. Pt; lift b lWWfivJ PnM s ft j? siJhiMml ml " F lJilM I i? Uifcl f Frank Capra's "Mr. Smith goes to Washington reaches Medford Wednesday when it will open a four-day run at the Craterian theater. And with that announcement is the guar antee of exceptional film enter tainment, just as has been the case with every Capra picture of the last six years. This time, the ace director of Hollywood has turned his ge nius toward the nation's capitol and uncovered a typically Cap ra. human story of a young senator's trials and tribulations and adventures that - happen during his brief but exciting career in office. James Stewart and Jean Ar thur top the cast, with Stewart as "Mr. Smith" and Miss Ar thur as a senator's sccretaiy. A homespun youth, Mr. Smith, seen at left below, is appoint ed to the senate by Governor Guy Kibbee, member of a gi gantic political machine. Stew art's actions in Washington, top left, frighten party machine men Eugene Pallette, Claude Rains and Edward Arnold. Below that is further evidence of the trouble created by Mr. Smith and his homespun principles. 'Beware Spooks" on Rialto Screen Will Feature Joe Brown A hand-to-hand battle in the intricate confines of a beach re sort Spook House, with its slid ing panels, eccentric lighting. skeleton-lined closets and thous ands of other laugh haunted thrills, is the climatic sequence of what has been hailed where- ever it has played as the fun niest Joe E. Brown comedy in years. It is "Beware Spooks", which heads a laugh-jammed double bill opening for today and tomorrow only at the New Rialto Theatre. The film pre sents the cave-mouthed star as an officer of the law whose eagerness to match his own father's sturdy reputation is counter-balanced somewhat by the ease with which he gets into trouble. The fun starts when the star allows a dangerous criminal to escape from the police commis sioner's office, where he had been brought for questioning. From that point on Brown gets into more trouble than a paci fist at a military school. He is dropped from the force, evicted from his apartment and finally compelled to take his belated honeymoon at Coney Island. There his young bride aids him in trailing the wanted criminal. Joe follows the fugitive into a beach fun house, and precipi tates a battle that calls into use every contrivance ordinarily designed to mystify and terrify customers. An outstanding cast of Holly wood screen favorites is seen in support of the star. There is Mary Carlisle who. portrays a young bride bewildered by the bizarre adventures which con front her husband's career. Marc Lawrence plays the crim inal and the comedian Clarence Kolb plays the bellowing police commissioner. The latest comedy adventure from Nancy Drew, "Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase," star ring Bonita Granville, John Li- tel and Frankie Thomas, plays as the added fun feature with "Beware Spooks". The new film has the mischievious little would-be detective in all sorts of new laugh-provoking troubles. Quiet On West Front Paris, Dec. 2. (IF) The reg ular evening military commu nique tonight said merely "a quiet day on the whole front." . Use Mall Tribune want ada. TO U.S. INDUSTRY New York, Dec. 2. (fF) In the first three months of the war, the United States' indus trial machine has spun out one of the most rapid business re vivals in many years. The titanic struggle of eco nomic prowess between the Anglo-French front and Ger many laps at the shores of Uncle Sam's home market, the richest business empire on earth. Pittsburgh, Birmingham Cleveland and other industrial centers have sounded a boom note under a combination of ex pected war buying, normal autumn stimulus and what some business leaders call "natural recovery" from a long depres sion. ' . Industrial production indices are the highest in 10 years, after an almost vertical rise from Au- uauai star of "Drums Along the Mo hawk," goes hilarious for her role opposite Don Ameche in "Midnight," which plays today and tomorrow only at the Roxy theater. The film has Claudette Lana Turner. America's glam our girl, and Ann Rutherford, Andy Hard's girl friend, have two of the featured roles with Artie Shaw and his swing band in the jive and sing festival. "Dancing Co-Ed," which comes to the New Rialto theater for a three-day run starting Tues day. "Dancing Co-Ed" is a parade of youth, plus romance, comedy and glamour, with Artie Shaw leading the world's most popular band. Never before has the youthful king of jitter bugs appeared in a motion pic ture but never before has a musical show become as eager ly looked forward to as "Danc- gust to manksgiving. yet, as the struggle enters the fourth month, economic consequences of the war from the long view remain obscure. lng Co-Ed." Artie helps Lana Turner tap her way deeper into the hearts of her missions of picture fans and into a ro mance with the increasingly popular Richard Carlson, who has the romantic lead opposite Miss Turner. Others In the cast include Lee Bowman, Thurston Hall, Roscie Karns and Leon Errol. "Missing Evidence," starring Preston Foster and Irene Her vey, will play as the added feature with "Dancing Co-Ed." Donald Dickson Metropolitan 0ra Baritone rrb. tth Klrt 2(1 roi-$'.'.?(l Nxt 7 ro-vn-SI.es 7 rowa-Sl.10 Including Tax M arian Anderson Fnmom Colored Contralto Mar. Srrt First 2n rowi-94.40 Next 7 rois-JJ,8; 7 rowT-$3.30 Including Tax Avoid loiter Disappointment by Mak ing Reservations Now. Call or Write Pruitt's Radio-Music Center 111 W. Main Phone 22 Closing time for Too Lat to Clas sify Ada la 1:30 p. m. 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SMELTING at RHFTNlNn rn i "-'-.i.ii.p.Mn rrinajci i 1 nino oootn am yrendica Linens For Christmas A choice selection of embroidered linens from a convent In China on view at 330 N. Holly. Apt. 8. Exquisite handwork on real Irish linen, from handkerchiefs and collar and cuff sets to bridge and tea sets. Will make exceptional and lovely gifts. TODAY and MONDAY ' r- Thai's Just what happened to Claudette until hand some Don came along and tared the day . . . It's ro mantic iunl MMIM HUM I . . . 'III I'lin lalt NfWll ?Sjt KS&y. I -sand hogs" Wimri I rotor Cartoon News Events lliH, V!W, ' J iri and He'll Make You a Wreck yti ...With Laughter..!! . f Jl rifj Hilarious, hair-raising fun on the "foree" . ( . X 1 ... as Jo. turns copp.r in a whopper I v K JlS, ' 'aUBh hlt' ' ' " M" ,unme,t" . Wi MONDAY Q f: kii-:s a'"' Exciting Days ! . .When Steel Met Steel... and Empires Trembled! Spectacular! . . All-ln-Tochnicolorl , , The heroic story of dashing adventurer . . . risking his life and his queen's reputation . . . for milllon-to-on. chanc. of becoming his nation's kingl starting TODAYS 3 days only! Another hilarious sup.r-sl.uth hits tha haunt ed trail In this added laugh detective riot . . . Nancy Draw In her latest adventurel "Nancy Drew Hidden Staircase" Frankie Thomas John Llial Cr.ighton Hal. "NANCY DRRIV" today at J:4V7:00-0:1II Mntlnrra 1:1s - ll .tillltta ?."r-l.o7-. 30r Klil'lln lllmr mwmz Rvenlnc 6:4.1 - 9:30 A1 ll It .'t"t -l.nseff 40r K Mil lf A Dim Their ff' (yx ; tJtfL e!hz4 Romance H V fV.' ' ,,f yrf -J & Was M ? f ft I 1 iVI . Blessed W" r, '1 1 41 the XV "I ' BBS starring BETTE ERROL DAW OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND Donald Crisp Alan Hale Henry Stephenson Vincent Price Ralph Forbes 1000s of others Knows Today 1:411 - J: SO :S - 9:00 Mats - arte Kvrs - 40e Rlddlrs 10c
