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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
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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.
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Air Hostesses Featured
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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