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"My Favorite Wife', Whirl-Wind Comedy, Opens Run Craterian Today
"Maryland" Here Wednesday, Boasts Fine Cast
New "Dr. Christian Film Coming Destry Rides
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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
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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
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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
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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
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