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' 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.
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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
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Cutting Weather
Portales, N. M. (JP) Por
tales has a whittlers' bench
with a sign over it that reads:
"If you are under 50 years of
age don't sit here." Retired
cattlemen, merchants and pi
oneers are among its steady
patrons and when winter be-
"Andy Hardy"
Aficr dude ranching, vaca
tioning and going big-town in
Detroit and Washington, D. C,
in their earlier pictures, lovable
Andy Hardy turns to romancin'
on the level in "ndy Hardy
Gets Spring Fever," which
plays today and tomorrow only
at the Roxy Theatre. Mickey
Rooney, voted last week
"America's Number One Box
office Star", has the leading
role again as Judge Hardy's son
Andy. Other members of the
Hardy family are Lewis Stone,
Cecilia Parker and Fay Holden.
comes too blustery the bench
is removed to a hut.
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.
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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"
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GEORGE BANCROFT
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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.