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PAGE SETCf "My Favorite Wife', Whirl-Wind Comedy, Opens Run Craterian Today "Maryland" Here Wednesday, Boasts Fine Cast New "Dr. Christian Film Coming Destry Rides E HERE FOR PARLEY MEDFORT) MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON'. SUNDAY. JULY 21. 1940. IRENE DUNNE AflD GARY GRANT STAR IN SPICYCOMEDY Modern Martial Entangle ments Include Gail Pat rick and Randolph Scott. Ace talent and a streamlined story of modern marital en tanglements mark the fast- pared, delightful comedy enter tainment. My Favorite wife. which makes its local bow at ' the Craterian theatre today for a three-day run. Re-united for the first time since their appearance in the memorable comedy hit, "The Awful Truth," Irene Dunne and Cary Grant are co-starred in "My Favorite Wife" with Ran dolph Scott and Gail Patrick heading the supporting cast. Miss Dunne, cast as Grant's wife, disappears when a scien tific expedition for which she is the photographer is ship wrecked in the South seas. Af ter seven years Grant has her declared legally dead and mar ries Gail Patrick. Unfortunately, Irene is very much alive, and is rescued from the desert island with Scott, a handsome scientist with whom she has been marooned alone all this time. She arrives home on the very night her husband embarks on his second honey moon. Chartering a plane, she Ties to Yosemite to overtake the newlyweds. After she flabber gasts Grant with her appear ance, "My Favorite Wife" at tains dizzying heights of hilar ity. Irene tries to outwit Gail for the love of her husband. Grant grows frantic In his ef forts to tell his bride the start ling truth of Irene's return. Gail can't understand her groom's sudden coolnes. And when Grant learns of Irene's island mate, Scott, who now wants to marry Irene, the pic ture unrolls a series of spicy situations and scintillating mo ments unique to the screen which are climaxed by a whirl wind laugh-finish! Warner Baxter Has Lead in Hilarious Picture at Rialto I &a f"?i 0m h M IS if nm i I 3 fr a If 1 With three Academy Award winners in the same picture, acting honors should be well taken cars of. In "Maryland", the all-Technicolor story of the proud "Old Line State", com ing to the Craterian Theatre Wednesday, Walter Brennan hasi a role reminiscent of his fine I characterization in "Kentucky".! with John Payne and Brenda Joyce filling the romantic roles. Also in the cast are a couple of other Academy winners Fay V. J mm s- mm-sz k -"mm .? i.ri- Bainter and Hattie McDaniel, the latter remembered for his prize winning characterization of Mammy in "Gone with the Wind", the first time a colored player won the coveisd "Oscar". Charlie Ruggles and Marjorie Weaver are also featured. beyond belief and above all, a movie that will leave you in a jolly mood for the remainder of the week. J. Farrell MacDonald. Polly Ann Young and Warren Hull have featured leads in "The Last Alarm," which plays as the second feature. IGHTMARE Munford, Tenn., July 20. (IP) A bereaved father told today of a nightmare that made him leap from bed and kill his lit tle daughter under the delusion she was a mad dog. Magistrate C. L. McCain said Reuben Flynn's strange story had been investigated and no charges were being filed in the death of three-year-old Helen Marie Flynn at their tenant farm home Thursday night. The family was awakened by the child's screams, . found the 35-year-old father flailing her against the walls of a bedroom where she had been sleeping with her parents. Awakened, Flynn told dazedly of his dream that a dog was attacking Helen Marie. The baby's skull was crushed and she died in a few hours. The Rev. C. B. Betts, a "neigh bor quickly summoned, said of the tragedy: "As soon as they got Mr. Flynn awake he hugged the dying baby in his arms and would hardly turn her loose. He is a poor but kind and gentle man." Portland, July 20. P Rain cooled hot western Oregon jes terday from the Sisklyous to the Columbia river and from the sea to the Cascades. The wea ther bureau said it did not ex tend east of the mountains. Romantic complications arise in "Dr. Christian Meets the Wo man", when the famous medico of River's End diagnoses Mari lyn Merrick's listless feeling as plain old-fashioned "heart trou ble" the effects of the arrival in their town of a handsome young lad from the city. The newest of the Dr. Christian ser ies comes to the New Rialto Theatre for Tuesday and Wed nesday with Jean Hersholt again as the popular radio character and with Dorothy Lovett play ing Nurse Judy Price for the third time. Edgar Kennedy Frank Albertson and Rod La Rorque are also in the cast. "The Captain is a Lady," fea turing Beulah Bondi, Billie Burke, Helen Broderick, Vir ginia Grey and Charles Coburn, is scheduled to play as the sec ond feature with "Dr. Chrisian Meets the Woman." As Thomas J. Destry, Jr. tall and lanky James Stewart brings to life the famous name of his father In "Destry Rides I Again," a rip-roaring saga of the wild and colorful West when lead and legs ruled the deadliest city West of the Mis sissipi, which heads the dou ble bill opening a three-day run today at the Roxy theatre. Marlene Dietrich is starred op posite as a glamorous and fight ing dance hall siren named "Frenchy," who, in a pinch, can fight and scratch her way out of any jam and does mix it up with Una Merkel in the highlight "scratching and hair pulling" battle of the film. Others in the cast include Charles Winninger, Mischa Auer, Brian Donlevy, Billy Gil bert and Allen Jenkins. "No Place To Go," featuring Fred Stone and Sonny Burp, plays as the added feature with "Destry Rides Again." New York, July 20. (JPt William Bullitt, U. S. ambassa dor to France, returned from Europe on the Dixie Clipper to day to confer with President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull af ter having been out of effective contact with them for mora than five weeks. He explained that despite the war turmoil in France he had been able to communicate with U. S. officials most of the time, but not in the volume nor with the certainty and privacy neces sary for the normal transaction of his duties. He Indicated that he expected to return to France. The ambassador declined to discuss possible developments abroad. Screen Star 111. New York, July 20. (P) Annabella, screen star and wife of Tyrone Power, today was reported "resting comfortably and improving satisfactorily" following a major operation in Mt. Sinnl hospital. LATVIA PATRIOT DEPOSED BY REDS Stockholm, July 20 Latvia's new communist regime decreed today the removal of President Karl Ulmanis, who helped write the country's dec laration of independence in 1918. The presidential functions henceforth will be administer ed by Prime Minister Kirchen- stein, little known 68-year-old former horse doctor and lee turcr on bacteriology. Ulmanis, 62, an agriculturist educated in the United States at the University of Nebraska, consolidated his power as die tator in 1934 by an army coup. The decree, nullifying the president's office, was publish ed on the eve of the convening of the new communist parlia ment which, like those of Estonia and Lithuania also meeting tomorrow, is expected to vote for union with Soviet Russia. Giant street parades will mark the assembling of the new parliaments tomorrow. A Swed ish press dispatch said that 60. 000 Soviet flags were ordered. Air Closed Or FiId. Portland, Julv 20. (T) A student pilot practicing stalls recently forced an air transport plane carrying 10 passengers to do a wingover and for that reason the federal aeronautics commission yesterday closed the air over Portland's peninsula district to airliners. July Power Sales. Salem. July 20. (PI Ore gon's 32 priv.itely owned elec tric utilities sold 1,351,738,284 kilowatt hours of power during i 1939, Ormond R. Bean, state j public utilities commissioner, re- ported today. They grossed ' S22.138.860 from sales to' 266.- 941 customers. Dh Mall Tr.uun want ads. Vtm Matl Trlbuna want i OF SALES Slarlt TOMORROW Rrdurtloni (or Every Mrmber o( tha family BUSTER BROWN SHOE STORE T Hailed as a masterpiece of film magic, "Earthbound," which centers about a ghost who doesn't know he is dead, opens for today and tomorrow only at the New Rialto theatre n-lth "Th Ijst Alarm." a sUrtling story of a fiend who kills with fire, playing as the companion thriller. Warner Baxter, who Is star red with Andrea Leeds, has the role of the ghost in "Earth bound." Haunted by those he knew In real life he is able, through the perfe. iion of a new camera device, to walk through steel doors and stone walls while people pass right through him. Like the already famous ghosts in the "Topper" film, he finds it hard to realize that he Is dead and that he Isn't Ban nr hpnrri. The surprising and hilarious adventures of Baxter are claim ed by previewers to make the role the most unusual as well as the strongest he ever has played. His part is doubly unimi in much as he has foreknowledge of what will hap pen but is unable to preveni n. Andrea Leeds portrays Bax ter's widow. She senses his presence although he isn't vis ible or audible to her, and she strives throughout the picture to clear his memory so that his spirit may find peace. A fow nf the hiehlights of the comedy are when he at-1 tends his own funeral and gives a mock impersonation of a man suffering at his own iriDunai, when he, in the form of a ghost, nr with his own wife, and when he walks in upon his; would-be friends and listens to them give him a "rake over the coals." so to speak. All-in-all the film is definite ly a "should be seen" show for voung and old alike a picture that will fire the imagination The SALE of SALES Starts MONDAY Wltti plartlon for lirrf Mmlr of tt rimllt Buster Brown Shoe Store i (Hilarious! Gay!.. and Just Plain FUN! With a Ghost Who Out-Ghosts Himself- j u.. t .i l wat Ghost! He at- L ' '' i tendi hit own funeral . . . h I t ' make love to hit own wife .. . ' r- " and like Topper tettlet all l i j Y.,y-,. . . ' ) accounts with hit enemiet! I TODAY and MONDAY! A iij Something unusual ... s'jA fi ftl I P something exciting ... a ' prise package of entartain- X .f"!5l;5''f'2l I ment with two swell hits! s 'ifrT' m a iie.apqp a iama ,hi. n , ttfmmmfcm I BVfVT'-7-r '"- '" 1 ' ..-m.-i I ' PLUS A city ablate ... as a dangerous rS Ill j I tlend who kills wlih lire eludas the Arson Q 7 ', I lii Squad In an amasing man huntl yif vi'"" " 1 fT K Af& , Ml tr n JCI ftVTJ iHE 0 iW iWJIw. r . g.-a m rm - 'Earthtvound' Toda at t OO- 4 t POLLY TOI NO ARIieV t LI t. rarrrll MarDON ALD Mary GORBON t. it i lat Alarm' TfHleT at IK :IS-:S MATtNFr TOIUV I il-J IS M E rl 63 tVIMNM TOHAV JM-SH A V1FE Upstairs... A BRIDE Downstairs! starts Today 3 DAYS ONLY! There's Something FUNNY Going On Here! 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