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"Of Mice and Men", Drama of Migratory Workers, on Craterian Screen
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON. SUNDAY. MAY 26. 1940.
TENSE, DRAMATIC
BROADWAY STAGE
HIT QPENS TODAY
Burgess Meredith, Betty
Field, Lon Chaney, Jr.,
in Brilliant Cast.
it-
Starring Burgess Meredith,
Betty Field and Lon Chaney,
Jr., "Of Mice and Men" opens a
limited three-day engagement to
day at the Craterian theater
unfolding a richly emotional and
tensely dramatic story of the
migratory ranch workers of
California.
Based on the best-selling
novel of the same name by John
Steinbeck, who also wrote
"Grapes of Wrath," and trans
ferred to the screen as an adapta
tion of the Broadway stage hit,
"Of Mice and Men" tells thei
exciting story of Ceorge and
Lennie and Mae on Aguora
ranch in . California. George
and Lennie have traveled to-
KVb,. ndtiH-th. Pifturization of Daphne du Maa-
fnrmiip rfevntpH fn hi nartner
...I n k.i,4a ctpannlh anH wpale ! S
mind upsets all George's "best
laid plans." But at long last it
seems that their dream is to
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come true they have found the
money to buy a small farm of
their own and live "off the fat
n1 the land." However, they
haven't counted on Mae, the 7,asu Pitts. Felix Brrssart,
One of the bissest box-office, becca" unfolds a thrilling love i by the past of Rebecca, the first
hits of 1940 is "Rebecca," the1 story against a background of: wife, whose memory is kepti
chilling mystery and eeriness., alive by the housekeeper, who,
The story concerns a young and resents any intrusion on what
unsophisticated girl who be-j she terms sacred property.
comes the bride of the wealthy Judith Anderson has won.
and prominent Maxim de Win-wide acclaim for her role of the
ter. The two return to live on 1 housekeeper, while others in-
his vast estate, Manderley, and i elude George Sanders. Nigel
the bride learns to her horror i Bruce. C. Aubrey Smith, Regi
that her life is being dominated' nald Denny and Gladys Cooper.
rier s best selling novel, corn-
to the Craterian Theater
Wednesday for a four-day en
gagement. Laurence Olivier and
Joan Fontaine have the top
starring roles.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock,
master of mystery thrillers, "Re-
One of the year's finest casts
supports Frank Morgan in his!
new starring role of Vcrn Adams'
in "The Ghost Comes Home."
hilarious comedy of a pet-store
proprietor enmeshed in Ncwj
York on a holiday of niiiht life!
and handed a million dollars to,
spend on his home town, which
comes to the New Rialto Theater!
for Tuesday and Wednesday.!
Those in the supporting cast in-1
elude Nat Pendleton. Ann Mor
riss. John Shelton, Billie Burke,
Reginald Owen. Ann Ruther
ford, Frank Albortson, Hobart
Cavanaugh and Harold Huber.
"The Saint's Double Trouble,"
depicting further adventures in
the romantic and detecting life
of fiction's Simon Templer, plays
as the supporting picture with
George Sanders again in the
title role.
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only woman on the ranch, mar--ried
to Curley, the owner's son.
It is Mae who turns their happy
dream into stark tragedy, bring-
M ing the picture to a climax as
unexpected as it is stunning.
I Meredith is George. the
dreamer and brains of the two
partners; Lon Chaney, Jr., is
Lennie, who loves pretty things
but doesn't realize his own bull
strength; Betty Field is Mae,
who can't bear to stay at home
alone. Others in the cast In
clude Charles Bickford as Slim,
the mule-skinner; Bob Steele,
erstwhile western star, as Cur
ley Mae's husband; Noah
Beery, Jr., as Whit, Oscar O'Shea
as Jackson; Granville Bates as
Carlson and Roman Bohen, of
the original Broadway cast, as
Candy.
Bromfield's Novel
On Rialto's Screen
Stars Ann Sheridan
" An exciting new picture, "It
All Came True," based on Louis
Bromfield's novel, heads the
double bill today and Monday
at the New Rialto Theater. The
Dlcture. written by the author
who penned "The Rains Came."
stars Ann Sheridan, the red
headed Texan dynamo who has
become Hollywood 9 most out
standing personality, combining
as she does, that "omph" with
dramatic fire.
With the ouaintness, charm
and dramatic suspense of the
Bromfield novel, "It All Came
True" tells the story of a group
of people who live in a New
York boarding house run by a
counle of sentimental old wo-
men, using it as a refuge where
they can fight off the reality of
the nresent and dwell in the
fond memories of the past.
The complacent atmosphere
of the house is shattered when
first Ann. daughter of one of
the ladies, comes home to roost
and again when the house
keeper's son. Jeffrey Lynn, re
turns home after an absence of
five vears, with a gangster who
intends to use the house as a
hideout. The gangster, played
by Humphrey Bogart, is so won
over by the motherly ministra
tions he receives that he offers
to straighten out the financial
difficulties of the boarding
house by converting it into a
night club with a "Gay Nine
ties" background. From there
the story works up to an un-
usual and exciting climax.
Playing one of the most de
lightful characters ever created
by Bromfield, Ann is at once
bold and beautiful, hot-tempered
and honest. She is sentimental
but is the last person in the
world to admit it. She sings,
dies the rluimba, and "hangs
one" on the jaw of a would-be
tilcnt scout, all with equal pro
ficiency. Others In the cast include
Una
O'Connor and John Litel
"Ski Patrol," a thrilling story
of modern ski warfare, is the
first motion picture to show the
daring strategy of ski armies
whose tactics include planting
mountain mines creating an
avalanche to destroy the enemy,
and other maneuvers. Lull Deste
and Philip Dorn have starring
roles in the film which plays as
the supporting picture with "It
All Came True." Stanley Fields
supports. Some of the world's
greatest ski champions will be
seen in action in the film,
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FESTIVAL ACTORS
Nasi Seise Cargo
San Francisco, May 25. (IP)
Cargo of the American freight
er Charles R. McCormick, un
reported for many weeks after
it sailed into the European war
zone, has been seized by Ger
man authorities at Bergen. Nor
way, owners of the vessel here
were advised.
ated on a non-profit basis. Thorn
dike urged that persons who
might offer such type of em
ployment leave necessary in
formation at the Jackson County
Chamber of Commerce building
here to be forwarded to Festival
Association officials.
"We realize some of the out-of-town
actors and actresses are
self-supporting while engaged in
production work," he said.
"However, a number participate
Am anu.1 ffinamtiin .f solely Decause 01 tncir aesire
. , . ,. ... for theatrical experience and
civic and community-minded pH0m, t h.u ih nf.
would appreciate anything that
could be accomplished in this
line."
Casting try-outs for major and
supporting character roles will
start at the Southern Oregon
College of Education given in
Ashland the week beginning
June 3. Rehearsal schedules
will be in effect after casting is
completed.
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New York, May 23. (IP)
At least half a million German
soldiers have been "lost" during
Tyrone Power has one of his
most colorful roles to date as
the Indian prince in Louis
Bromfield's spectacular story of
modern India, 'The Rains
Came", which opens a three
day run today at the Roxy
Theatre.
Myrna Loy plays opposite as
the most selfish white woman
in all Asia who falls in love
with and leads to near destruc
tion the man chosen by the
people to be their next Maha
raja. George Brent is cast as
Tom Ransome, shiftless artist
who also loves the Lady Esketh.
Others in the cast Include
Brenda Joyce, Nigel Bruce. Jo
seph Schildkraut and Maria
Ouspenskaya.
"The Death of a Champion",
starring Lynne Overman, plays
as the companion feature with
"The Rains Came."
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Inventor Lester P. Barlow't
liquid oxygen-carbon "super ex
plosive" apparently failed as an
Instrument of death In a test
on live goats at Aberdeen prov
ing grounds today.
A 1.000 pound charge of the
explosive, which Barlow claims
radiates lethal "varuum waves"
over a wide radius failed to
kill a single one of a herd of
98 goats tethered at distances
ranging from 2110 to 1.000 feet
from the point where the bomb
was set off.
Observers who went out on
the testing field after the ex
plosion said they could not find
one dead goat and Barlow ad
mitted the experiment had
flopped.
"I'm licked on it," he said,
"but I had to try it to find
out."
Um Mall Trlbun want ads.
the last 10 days, a German
language short wave broadcast
from London said today. The
announcer, heard here by NBC,
said the estimate was made in
Paris.
The broadcast said authorita
tive English circles claim that
the German division from
Frankfort on the Oder, which
recently effected the various
attacks on the Aisne, had been
repulsed with the loss of half
the men.
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