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PAGE SEVEN Spencer Tracy In Role Of Thomas A. Edison Opens At Craterian Today MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON. SUNDAY. JUNE 23. 1940. NEW FILM SHOWS AMAZING EVENTS INVENTOR'S' LIFE Once more illustrating the fact that truth is stranger and more dramatic than fiction. "Edi son, the Man," filmization of the career of Thomas A. Edison, opens today at the Craterian Theatre with Spencer Tracy In the starring role. Biographies have proved among the most popular offer ings in Hollywood history dur ing the past few years and the story of Edison is replete with dramatic events which are so thrilling they might be con sidered the product of a fiction writer's mind. In fact, so many amazing events and so much intriguing humanness were found in the inventor's life that the studio's greatest Job was in at. " !; tato a dyna mic tur- ,.J T I ,t s jrds Tracy witliyef -1 fciat real-life (old k Mdiki h others with which he has won acting ac claim. As in the portrayals of Father Flanagan in "Boy's Town," Henry M. Stanley in "Stanley and Livingstone" and Major Robert Rogers in "North west Passage," Tracy plays the Edison role wholly without makeup until, in a brief pro logue and epilogue, he portrays the beloved inventor at the age of eighty-two. Every background in this pic ture is authentic to the smallest detail and all of Edison's early Inventions were accurately re produced to a point where they actually operated as they did in Edison s day. The story is basically a young man's story since it begins when Edison is only twenty-two, ar riving in New York as an un known and almost penniless young man seeking opportun lty. It carries him through his courtship, his family life as a husband and father, and through his most fruitious inventive years when he created the pho nograph at the age of thirty and the incandescent light at the age of thirty-two. witn iracy in "liaison, we Man" are Rita Johnson, Lynne Overman, Charles Coburn, Gene Lockhart, Henry Travers and Felix Bressart. Closing tane for Too Late to Clas sify Ad li 130 p. n. V - Fifth Column In "Four Sons" IT- Air Hostesses Featured Vf:--'1 Na i The most timely motion pic ture of the year is unquestion ably "Four Sons", which comes to the Craterian Theatre Wed nesday for a four day showing. Eugenie Leontovich, famous stage star, makes her screen debut as the mother, with Don Ameche, Alan Curtis, Robert Lowery and George Ernest as her four sons. Mary Beth Hughes, Lionel Royce, Sig Ru mann and Christian Rub also have important roles. A dramatic story of a family divided against itself brother against brother, wife against mother Four Sons is a screaming indictment against the subversive elements that make up the "5th Columns" that have played such a vital part in recent world-shaking events. The locale might be almost any nation in the world including our own. Actually, it is set in Czechoslovakia. BRITISH PREMIER TO KEEP UP FRAY (Continued from Piga One ) new armistice was put at 6:50 p. m. (8:50 a. m. PST.) Hitler Absent The signer for Germany was Col. Gen. Wilhelm Keitel. chief of the nazi high command, and for France General Charles Huntziger. One of the French wept. Adolf Hitler himself was not there. He had met the French on Friday, in the old railway car of Marshal Foch where the Germans signed a loser's peace in the last war. to tell them of his demands. Then he left. General Keitel spoke briefly in tribute to the French dead, and asked all of the negotiators to rise in respect for those who had fallen. Then, in Marshal Foch's old fashioned car, the pens were put to paper. The French delegation had struggled with their Droblem for ! more than 27 hours and in Bor deaux the French cabinet had held itself in readiness for the last great decision. In a little barely-furnished tent near the railway car the French agents kept communica tion with their government by telephone. Details Lacking While announcement of the extent of the French surrender in its details awaited the con clusion of the capitulation to Mussolini, this much seemed certain: That France has been com pelled to promise a complete Starts TODAY For 3 Days! r ' ST I . j V - Mi ( 3 25. 1- 4ssrltVV, 1 Bringing to the screen the thrilling story of those unsung heroines of the air the air hos tesses is "Flight Angels", a ro mantic and comedy filled ad venture of the air which comes to the New Rialto Theatre for Tuesday and Wednesday. Jane Wyman, Wayne Morris and Margot Stevenson have starring roles with Dennis Morgan, Bob Hope 5 J';4 i. ' f Ralph Bellamy, John Litel and John Arledge in the thrill packed story of the airway's career girls. "Beyond Tomorrow", one of the year's top-notch love stories. I will play as the companion fea- ture with Charles Winninger, C. Aubrey Smith, Harry Carey, I Richard Carlson and Jean Park er in featured roles. halt to any resistance of any sort; to help in at least some ways perhaps as a supplier of munitions and the like in Ger many's war against Britain: and to agree to a broad reconstruc tion of continental Europe along the lines that Hitler wants it to be rebuilt. These were explained yester day as the central purposes of his demands and it was clearly understood that only a yes or no answer would suffice. While the railway car became once again a scene of national humiliation this time for the French and a scene of national triumph this time for the Ger mans men fought on in the hills and valleys of defeated France. Nasis Beaten Back On the lofty reaches near the Swiss frontier the Germans ad vanced a few hard-gained moun tain miles in an effort to join with the Alpine army and thus to join with the Italians to put a last noose about France. Fort L'Ecluse itself, the "Gi braltar of the Rhone," still was in French hands after a day of bitter back-and-forth fighting. Bellegrade, city near the fort, was lost by the Germans, then regained. French resistance continued, too, in the Vosges mountains where troops of the now useless Maginot line the line that was to have been France's impene trable bulwark formed in a square and tried to storm their way through the encircling Ger mans. South of the Loire river there were other engagements, but they were described as minor. There was slight fighting with Italians in the Alps. Bob Hope, favorite radio and screen comedian, relies on gags Instead of guns to trap the mon ster in "The Cat and the Can ary", thriller deluxe which op ens a three day run today at the Roxy Theatre. Paillette God dard is cast opposite the "Rhett Butler" of the air in this new 1940 version of the famous stageplay that has brought more goose pimples to audiences than all other spook shows put to gether. "Fast and Furious," co-fea turing Ann Sothern and Fran chot Tone, plays as the compan ion laugh hit with the Bob Hope hokus. RAILMEN OPPOSE BRIDGES OUSTER Tacoma, June 22. IIP) The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engincmcn of Washington and Oregon in an' nual session here today went on record recommending that the legislative action for do- TODAY and MONDAY ONLY! BIG "TRIPLE HIT" PROGRAMME The and 9 Starring the "Rhett Butler" el the air . . . Bob Hope Paulette Goddard with Gale Sondergaard and Douglas Montgomery ADDED . . . -Conio MaUtr" It op ti ntr old tiirkt again In tola companion fun fratnra , . AN SOTHERM FRANCHOT TONE 'Fast and Furious' with Lee Bowman portation of Harry Bridges, west coast CIO waterfront leader, be protested. Other of ficials would make no comment on the recommendation which was announced by B. J. Cala han, Portland, general chairman of the Brotherhood for the Spokane, Portland and Seattle railroad. Pasco was selected as the 1941 convention city. A. C. Lar son of Pasco was elected chair man for next year and Herman D. Pipy of Portland was chosen secretary. Triple Bill Opens Rialto Today With Louis-Godoy Fight The greatest program of star studded attractions ever to grace the New Rialto's screen I opens a two day run today at the. popular Main Street T tre. Comedy, drama, music and a great spnrs event make up the big "triple bill' with "He Married His Wife" heading the list as the first star-packed fea ture. With a cast headed by Joel McCrea, Nancy Kelly. Cesar Romero, Roland Young, Mary Boland, Lyle Talbot. Mary Healy and Spencer Charters. "He Married His Wife" Is a merry domestic comedy based on a hilarious idea; an ex-husband who wants to find a hus band for his wife so he can stop paying alimony, but who balks when she turns down the colorless prospect he digs up for her In favor of a dashing, romantic Romeo. The situations are a natural for rollicking comedy and fans can expect them to be played to the hilt by the excellent cast. McCrea and Miss Kelly play the husband and wife and Cesar Romero j plays the dashing Latin from Manhattan who puts the fly In McCrea's ointment. What happens when a public enemy goes romantic and turns; to writing love-ballads is told in the new musical film, "I Can't j Give You Anything But Love, Baby", which plays as the sec-i ond feature on the "triple bill",! Offering novelty in story treat-! ment tnd in the characters pre sented, the picture brings to the1 screen more music-filled hi-jinksl by the makers of "Oh! Johnnie!" and "Ma! He's Making Eyes at Me". The all-star cast is headed, by Broderick Crawford, Johnny j Downs, Peggy Moran, Warren, Hymcr, Gertrude Michael, Jes sie Ralph and radio's sweet-singing Jcni LeGon. The third attraction is the sensational booking of the Joe Louis, vs. Arturo Godoy of ficial heavyweight champion ship fight pictures fought only last Thursday and now on the screen today. The ring scoop comes to the New Rialto direct from the r'ngside of the Yankee Stadium in New York City. Due to the added interest of this particular fight the films were rushed by airplane from New York to Msdferd. Martin Tells Why Portland. June 22. W) A nation can't rely entirely on its patriotic citizens for an army when war comes, ex-Governor Charles Martin told the Port land realty board yesterday. The United States did, he said, and now finds its army ranks 18th among nations. CIO Picket Held Portland, June 22. (P( Fred Gustafson. 49, one of six CIO Lumber Workers unionists charged with picketing the B. F. Johnson Lumber company in violation of a circuit court or der, was arrested yesterday, Deputy Sheriff A. C. Schirmer said. Closing time (or loo Lata to Clsa clty Ade la 1:30 p. m. art1. tM (Ol- tfarnttS et thU her wagon tnt th tllrkMt In th vtlltjr. It hu new fangled rubber tires and It ilit net like a mirror. tetta look clean aa ma t eofy. and muter. It shore rune good! Dont um much fuel eana Its got one of them there oeer drleea. We dont know how we do It, bat we're goftt f JAC to let It go for v47 J 10ST Studebaker delnn atdaa DE SOTO PLYMOUTH Humphrey Motors II So. 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