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The Doctor Takes a Wife" Coming
"Florian" On Rialto Bill Tuesday
Back To Roxy
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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-
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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