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PAGS NINE Eddie Cantors New Hit, "40 Little Mothers" On Craterian Program J The Doctor Takes a Wife" Coming "Florian" On Rialto Bill Tuesday Back To Roxy TRIPLE KILLING, MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON'. SUNDAY. JUNE 16, 1940. V ' T&T S"4v '. A RALPH MORGAN IN SUPPORTING ROLES 'Cavalcade of Academy Winners' Added Feature Today's Program. With Eddie Cantor' new pic ture. "40 Little Mothers." ai the feature attraction, and Frank Capra's 30 minute featur ette "Cavalcade of Academy Awards" as a special added hit on the same program, the Cra terian Theatre program opening a three day showing today should prove to be highly en tertaining to picture fans. The story of "40 Little Moth ers" has Cantor as a timid col lege professor who saves the life of a despondent mother bent on suicide. Inadvertently and un known to the mother, he inher its her abandoned baby. When the professor gets a job at a girl's boarding school, he at tempts to conceal the baby In his apartment. And when the girls plot to have him fired be cause he is not as handsome as his predecessor, an hilarious se quence of events ensue. The baby, however, saves the day for the professor when he is discovered by the girls who immediately become forty lit tle mothers and pals. The clim ax is reached. when the head mistress of the scholo discovers the infant and dismisses the professor. It is then that the girla come to the rescue and go on strike, demanding the teach er's reinstatement. Heading the supporting cast are Judith Anderson (recently heen as the sinister houskeeper of "Rebecca"); Ralph Morgan, Rita Johnson, Nydia Westman and, of course, the infant, Baby Quintinilla. "The Cavalcade of Academy Awards" tells the history of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences annual awards up to and including the most recent accolade. It has been hailed as being so enter tainingly composed and of such appeal that the Academy could rightfully give it an "oscar." Produced under the supervision of Frank Capra, former Acad- -'-V ' -rr . j - I e m . $a-r Torrid temperature, embar rassing pulse, terrific tempera ture it's a plain case of heart trouble and it isn't until "The Doctor Takes a Wife" that he really knows what's wrong with himself. "The Doctor Takes a Wife," co-starring Loretta Young and Ray Milland, coming to the Cra terian Theatre Wednesday, is the hilarious account of a girl who writes books in praise of spinsterhood and a doctor who thinks all women well, not poison perhaps, but close to it. In order to continue their ca reers, this pair of haters are forced by circumstances beyond their control into pretending do mestic felicity. They bill and coo in public and battle and clash in private. The results are said to be uproarious. emy president, with Carey Wil son narating, the film con tains sections of outstanding productions honored' by the Academy, and scenes showing all the winners since Emil Jan nings. The climax gives shots of the last Academy banquet, the award winners, the crowds and the celebrities attending. Lana Turner Stars In Rialto Picture With Joan Blondell The Screen's newest dance team, composed of Laura Tur ner and George Murphy, makes its bow in the streamlined musi cal, "Two Girls on Broadway," which open a two day run to day at the New Rialto Theatre. Miss Turner and Murphy, to gether with Joan Blondell head line the cast of this dramatic production with a musical back ground telling the story of two sisters who journey from a small Mid-Western town to New York City in an attempt to crash the big time shows. The romance centers about the love of the two girls for the same boy, hof- er Eddie Kerns, portrayed by Murphy. Screen polls and the public's reaction have hailed Laura Tur ner as the most popular and most talented of Hollywood's current younger stars and her role in "Two Girls on Broad way gives her increased op portunity to confirm this ver dict. Murphy comes to the new musical direct from his success with Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell in "Broadway Melody of 1940," while the popular Miss Blondell makes her first appear- ance in several months in this gayest musical since "42nd Street." Two new song hits are hoard in the production. They are "My Wonderful One Let's Dance.' written by Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed and Roger Edens, and "Broadway's Still Broad way," by Harry Revel and Ted Fetter. "Curtain Call," a heart-touching story of a small-town girl who made good, plays as the !?! Unfolding one of the most unusual stories ever to reach the screen. "Florian" comes to the New Rialto Theatre for Tuesday and Wednesday only as a striking cavalcade of the pomp of Austria and fall of the em pire told through the eyes of a royal stallion for whom a man and a woman ransack the world.. Robert Young plays the lead in the new drama with Helen Gilbert, Charles Coburn Reginald Owen and Lee Bow man and the famous stallion "Florian" in the featured roles. "The Island of Doomed Men," starring Peter Lorre, wil play as the companion feature with "Florian. companion feature with "Two Girls on Broadway." Barbara Read and Alan Mowbray have featured leads. HELD FOR EUGENE Oakland, Cal., June IS. JP) William Julius Herrmann, 37. former Alameda policeman, was arrested today on Eugene, Ore., telegraphic warrant charging kidnaping. He was released on $2,000 bail. Herrmann forcibly escorted Edward Campbell of Eugene from one point to another in Oregon, the warrant charged. The former policeman denied the charge which he said grew out of some work he did for The Gayest Film-Musical of the Last 5 Years! ar-oX 'Qay ana Monaay jJ. p353wv MUSIC . . . LAUGHTER SgK MjM ROMANCE . . . SONGS ggp PgjgS JXJ jfft Two fast-stepping gals from '""'iSJJ'JJ Omaha take over the Gay X5m fy fcV x While Way ,,ln a song and hit AS Mr$L JS ( J"" & danee show to rival "Gold I Fy g'99n" ni I l I with Y" small . tomi girl's I I W V. i il v v thouwnd-to-onechanr I 1rUT TIVI flD I I V-9l at fmm eoms true In I i ntni iHikun i i .. I 11 III M l l I -h- Har them fng: Wonderful On' Danr. "Broad wi ?'i IT'S GOT "GLEX' (gUmour and rippl C'AU flR4lltB READ RLU. IN! s A LAM IOW BRA V Olrlf oa Bd.i!" pliti today at t:XI 4:10 - (:tO Tnrtaln Gll" pUrt today at 3:4 . T:M and 10:0 District Attorney Laurence Carr of Redding. He said he would fight extradition. He explained that he took a witness to a place where he had secreted a belt buckle wanted as evidence in a Red ding murder case. Inose colorful, romantic days 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 dramatic and music-filled story of Stephen Collins Foster's life which opens a three day run to. day at the Roxy Theatre. Don Ameche and Andrea Leads play Mr. and Mrs. Foster and Al Jol son plays the famous minstrel man, E. P. Christy. The Witness Vanishes," star ring Edmund Lowe, plays as the added feature with Walt Dis ney's technicolor cartoon, "The Practical Pig" rounding out the well-balanced program. SUICIDE, AT WEED MALHUER VALLEY Japan-U. S. Duty. Portland, June 15. P) America and Japan share re sponsibility for keeping Eu rope's war out of the Pacific. Shirojl Yuki, Japanese consul, told the Japanese Association of Portland last night. Weed. Cal.. June 15. A blazing pistol, climaxing do mestic strife, left a woman, her two children and her divorced husband dead today. Mark Brawman, assistant dis trict attorney, said Edwin Con nelly, 38, wiped out his fam ily and then ended his own life. The other victims were: Mrs. Grraldine Connelly, 32; their two children, Betty Lou, 8, and Billy, 6 years old. Mrs. Connelly obtained a di vorce three months ago. Her former husband, formerly of I Sacramento, until recently was owner of the Log Cabin hotel at Weed. She charged extreme cruelty, and physical cruelty. She had complained previously that he threatened to kill her. Last night, Brawman said. Connelly went to the hotel which his wife had won on a property settlement, and shot her and the children. He escaped in a car and head ed for Dunsmuir. Highway Pat rolman C. Lane stopped him near the city limits. Lane quot ed Connelly as saying "Mail these letters," and said he then raised a pistol to his head and shot himself through the tem ple. He died two hours later at 'a Dunsmuir hospital. Ontario, June 15. (& Tha limited meadow lands of tha Jordan valley are seriously threatened by Mormon crickets, Russell McMennon, Malheur county agent, said today. The crickets are moving northward and westward from the area south of Ontario, Mc Mennon reported, adding that unless additional fences are se cured, the migration will spread to the Jordan valley. The county court and grazing districts Nos. 3 and 4 have agreed to join in the purchase of fences. The cricket infesta tion has spread nearly 40 miles the past two years. Dm Mail Trlbuna want ads. Scandinavian PICNIC Helman's Park ASHLAND June 23 Mystery Blast Kills 11 Helsinki, June 15. tP) Henry W. Anthlel. Jr., of Trenton, N. J., attached to the American legation in Helsinki, was killed in the mysterious explosion of a Finnish airliner yesterday in which 10 other persons lost their lives. DM Mall TMbuoa vast ada. Ore and Bullion Purchased aM.'tiM Iter WILD B ERG BROS. SMELTING a REFINING CO. Untw 742 MvM SL.Su Ft. 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