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PAGE TEN ' MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 14, 1940. ' "Rulers Of The Sea", With Douglas Fairbanks Jr., On Craterian Screen CONQUERING SEA BY FIRS! STEAM IT The heroic struggle to con quer the Atlantic by a ship powered with steam, set in motion by the salty, red-blood ed men and women with cour age to bring a dream to tri umphant realization, is glori ously told in the new Frank Lloyd production "Rulers of The Sea", which opens a three day run today at the Craterian Theatre. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., who has played many great roman tic roles with vigor and cer tainty, is starred as the first mate of a sailing ship. Margar et Lockwood is co-starred, cast as the daughter of a Scottish Inventor. To round out the starring trio, Will Fyffe, the great Scottish character actor, was asked to play the role of a Scottish Inventor and foun- dryman who prefects a steam engine which he believes pable of driving a ship across the ocean. "Rulers Of The Sea" weaves a human and believable story against a background of epoch making events. Fairbanks young mate of the sailing ship. Falcon, bound for Greenock, Scotland from' New York in 1830, leaves his berth after the captain's relentless driving of men and ship to make port In time results In the death of a seaman during a gale. The captain's efforts to per luude him to change his mind fail, and Fairbanks meets Will Fyffe, Inventor who contends that he has perfected a steam engine which can drive a ship across the Atlantic. After some discussion pep pered with the slv humor which only Will Fyffo can dis pense Fairbanks goes home vith Fyffe, looks over his plans and meets his lovely daughter. Miss Lockwood. His enthusiasm for the engine and his interest In Miss Lockwood, Incidentally prompt him to stay on, build a model of the engine. When Miss Lockwood Insists that her father return to his old job, Fairbanks goes to London in an attempt to se cure backing to build the en gine, Install it In a ship across the Atlantic. His Initial failure to sell the plans, his ultimate success, the -final sailing of the "Dog Star," a converted coastal steamer, irom Greenock for New York In 1838, lead the picture to stir ring climactic scenes in which Fyfe, Fairbanks, strong In their purpose, overcome seemingly Insurmountable obstacles to get the "Dog Star" to New York. Stephen Foster Tunc-3 Featured Craterian Hit IMHWPf ' 9m " ' miHMiiiiy wm n ump -mriiT i itb mi r mi p v i i iiMljii h I 1 TrrjrTTHrTnlin irwTrTnwiimrnp) lyripipiirrifpm Those colorful, romantic days I great American composer and of minstrels and river boats, when a stormy love wrote the songs that are America's own, are brought stirringly to the screen in "Swanee River", the story of Stephen C. Foster, the troubadour. Don Ameche is starred as Foster and Andrea Leeds is seen as the girl who inspired his greatest songs. Al Jolson plays E. P. Christy, the famous minstrel king of the day. "Swanee River", filmed entirely in beautiful, breath taking Technicolor, comes to the Craterian Theatre Wednes day for a four day showing. Over fifteen of Foster's most popular songs are featured in the gigantic cavalcade of the Mississippi river. . Mysterious "Dr. X" Returns To Rial to Screen in New Film PRIVATE LIQUOR CLUBS DUE FOR TIGHTER REIN Salem, Ore., Jan. 13. (U.R) Private liquor clubs are due for stricter legislation, J. J. Hague, administrator of the Loregon liquor control commission, told a Salem audience today. Dm Mall Tribune want ads. Synthetic blood, murder, dis appearance, chills and thrills will fill the New Rialto Theatre screen today when the thril ling picturization of "The Re turn of Dr. X" opens there for today and tomorrow only. The producers made it hard for themselves when they had Lionel Atwill killed in the ori ginal "Dr. X" seven years ago. Film audiences like to have their favorite horror characters return to the screen . in series of stories such as the Frank enstein, Dracula and Doyle's Dr. Moriarity yarns. But here is a now story that revolves around "The Return of Dr. X." When a young newspaper re porter, played by Wayne Mor ris, comes across the lifeless body of an actress, the lovely new Lya Lys, a scries of wild adventures follows. Morris prints his story, and several days later the actress reap pears to press charges. Mor ris loses his Job and sets out to do some private sleuthing. A wave of murders and dis appearances leads him to a hospital, where he meets and falls in love with an attractive nurse, Rosemary Lane. Here he becomes suspicious of Dr. ' Xavier, Humphrey Bogart, who is assistant to a laboratory scientist, John Litel. Miss Lane disappears and with the help of her friend, Dennis Morgan an interne in the hospital, Mor ris is able to (in a thrilling and chilling climax) bring about the solution of the in triguing mystery. Bogart lias his greatest role In the character of sinister Dr. X. Wayne Morris and Miss Lane are said, according to ad vance reports, to outdo all their other screen efforts as the re porter and the nurse who fig ure so important in the sub duing of tricky Dr. Xavier. "Bad Little Angel", the dra matic story of a jinx-bitten lit tle girl who gets into trouble at, every turn, plays as the added feature with "The Re turn of Dr. X." Virginia Weid ler plays the title role and others in support are Guy Kib bee, Ian Hunter, Gene Rey nolds and Henry Hull. Corvallis, Jan. 13. (IP) Dr. Fritz Kunkel, German psychol ogist and lecturer, recommend ed Oregon State college co-eds employ patience, thoughtfulncss and tenderness to gain power over the opposite sex. Oregon City, Jan. 13. (IP) The Clackamas county grand Jury Indicted Hugh L. Guthrie, Jr., former Sandy union high school clerk, yesterday on a charge of larceny of public funds. WARD OF BEAUTY Lemoncove, Cal., Jan. 13. (IP) Twelve-year old David Hobbs, who got homesick at the Beverly Hills mansion of actress Ann Sothern and band-leader Roger Pryor, is back with his 11 brothers and sisters, playing around their tent house on the bank of the Kaweah river. "They were swell to me, but I Just wanted to be home," said David. Miss Sothern noticed the boy's fine appearance two years ago when she saw him selling newspapers at a Dallas, Texas, hotel where Pryor's orchestra was playing. She arranged with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hobbs, for him to live at Bever ly Hills witli the prospect of eventual adoption. Jean Hersholt In Tuesday Show Jean Hersholt brings his fa mous radio characterization, "Doctor Christian", to the screen for the first time in 'Meet Dr. Christian", which comes to the New Rialto Thea tre for Tuesday and Wednes day. The story centers around the unselfish efforts of the country medico to establish a hospital in the little town of River's End. Included in the cast with Hersholt are lovely Dorothy Lovett, Robert Bald win. Marcia Mae Jones. Eddie Acuff and Jackie Moran. "Laugh It Off", a hilarious comedy of high-stepping song sters, starring Constance Moore, Johnny Downs, Marjor ie Rambeau and Helda Hopper, is scheduled to play as the com panion feature with "Meet Dr. Christian". ' AT MURDER TRIAL Mauch Chunk, Pa., Jan. 13. (P) Screaming "Why did he kill my little child," the mother of slain Joan Stevens collapsed in court today as the case of a suspended state trooper ac cused of shooting the girl near ed a jury after a week's trial. "My poor child oh, why did he do it?" cried Mrs. Mayme Stevens. "She didn't know any different. She was only 14." The mother's outburst was in the presence of a jury which had just examined a small se dan in which Corporal Benja min Franklin, 30, shot the school girl last June 5. He says he fired in self-defense when Joan brandished a "gun" he later learned was a toy. Women removed Mrs. Stev ens from the courtroom. Pale faced and trembling, she return ed to the courtroom a few min utes later , on the arm of a daughter. HE ROSE FROM THE DEAD... to Haunt the LIVING! Back from a murderer's lomb he came to destroy hit betrayer and loose an unholy reign of terror that makes "Frankenstein" and "Dracula" look like sissies! A mad geniusl A great story! A grand cast! 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March Of Time At Craterian Off era Inside Farm View The latest March of Time film, entitled "Uncle Sam The Farmer", which ays on today's program at the Cra terian Theatre with "Rulers oi The Sea", brings to the screen the story of the 32 million American citizens who com prise this country's great farm ing population their life, work, hopes and new prob lems created by the war now under way in Europe. The film shows in detail how the U. S. Department of Ag riculture is today carrying out its gigantic task of preserving and improving the nation's greatest single asset one bil lion acres of rich, fertile soil. In filming "Uncle Sam The Farmer", March of Time cam eramen went to farms, large and small, throughout the en tire farming country. Their story is of special interest to every man. woman and child in the Rogue River Valley, as well as the entire United States. We know our poetry Isn't fto hot. Some people tliluk We should he shot. But liere Is whnt We're trying to do Advertise our ears, And atniis you, too. DE SOTO PLYMOUTH Humphrey Motors 33 S. Riverside. Phone 454 Fighting to Rule the Seas! THRILLS . . . with the first ocean-going steamship, the "Dogstar", battling the great tall-masted "Falcon", fastest of sailing ships, for mastery of the broad Ailanticl ADVENTURE . . . with a brave seaman fighting to prove his worth in the eyes of a beautiful daughter of the seal ACTION . . . ROMANCE In the greatest sea picture since "Mutiny on the Bounty" pwX. f Ayr , - starting IUUAT for 3 days ULERS U)P TEE E! " starring Jx ' ? V ,n"" Todat 1:IM Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. with MARGARET LOCKWOOD WILL FYFFE GEORGE BANCROFT MONTAGU LOVE ADDED HIT MARCH OF TIME presents "Uncle Sam -the Farmer" A Nign of 3'i million Amfiimn nho tnakp up this rMintry'ji sra( ngrtctil tnr.it rommunlly.
