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PAGE SEVEN Singing Stars Together Again in Colorful New Musical at Craterian MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MDFORD, OREGON. SUNDAY. AUGUST 4, 1940. NEW ORLEANS IS New Andy Hardy Film Coming MACDONALD-EDDY Together for the sixth time, in a picture said to surpass even their greatest triumphs on the screen, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy are at the Crater ian Theatre for three days start ing today in "New Moon", a story set against the colorful background of early New Or leans. The plot tells the story of a lady of noble French birth and a man who, masquerading as a bondsman, manages to elude the guillotine by dropping his official title as the Due de Vil liers. His dream of a republican form of government is realized when, cast upon the shores of an island remote from shipping lanes, he sets up a community with the members of his ship wrecked crew and the passen gers of the boat, "New Moon", . which he and his men had seized on the high seas. The action moves from New Orleans to the island and is replete with many romantic as well as comedy sit uations. The varied musical score by Slgmund Romberg is one of the finest ever presented in a Mac- donaldrEddy musical. Miss Mac- Donald s solos include the fa mous "Lover Come Back to Me," "One Kiss", "Paree", and "Ron dolet". Together with Eddy she sings "Wanting You", while the Largo number is sung with a choir. Eddy's songs include "Softly As In a Morning Sun rise", "Stout Hearted Men" and "Shoe Shine Song" and a male quartet renders the lilting "Marianne". The supporting cast Includes Mary Boland, George Zucco, H. B. Warner, Grant Mitchell and Stanley Fields. 'Ann Sothern In "Gold Rush Maisie" Head Rialto Bill I Ul f. ' i.'(Vs '' 'catot' if f f mim k mp Wm From the African Jungles of "Congo Maisie," Ann Sothern Jumps to the lonesome desert of Arizona in "Gold Rush Maisie," . third in the popular series deal ing with the laughable and lov able stranded showgirl, which opens for today and tomorrow at the Rialto Theatre. This time Maisie is en route With golden-voiced Judy Gar land In the cast, Mickey Rooney, with the rest of the Hardy clan Lewis Stone, Fay Holden, Ce cilia Parker and Sara Haden brings the ninth of the popular series, "Andy Hardy Meets Deb utante", to the Craterian Wed nesday for a four day showing. ' The story takes them to New York where Andy is faced with a problem very serious to him but full of laughs for everyone else. Back in Carvel he has be come smitten with pictures of a glamorous New York debutante and when his one-sided romance is discovered by his home-town sweetheart and his chums, he answers their heckling by boast ing that he really knows the debutante. That's where Judy comes in and fixes things for Andy and the "glamour girl" to meet and save Andy's honor. to a job as cafe singer in a small Arizona town, when her old jal lopy breaks down in the middle of the desert. A young rancher, Bill Anders, gives her overnight shelter only to have her descend upon him again with a whole family of itinerant crop-followers who are. prospecting for gold. Lee Bowman, the young Arch duke of "Florian," wins his first male lead as Bill Anders, and Slim Summerville is his comic hired hand, Fred Gubbins, Vir ginia Weidler as Jubie Davis, daughter of the prospecting fam ily, completes the quartet of principals. A desert gold strike brings rejoicing and celebration only to result in equal dejection when it turns out to be a fluke, with ore not worth digging for. Then Maisie must start solving problems all over again and her thousand end one fans will begin one of their most delight ful encounters with the popular honky-tonk queen. "Gambling on the High Seas", starring Wayne Morris and Jane Wyman, plays as the companion feature. Washington, Aug. 3. (IP) American wool growers will clip 388.692.000 pounds of wool this year, the agriculture de partment predicted today. Not So Tough Now L. " Mi Recently the screen has seen Marlene Dietrich in a western role and Edward G. Robinson portraying a kindly doctor so it isn't surprising to learn that the "Dead End" Kids and "Little Tough Guys" have been re moved from their New York gutter roles and transplanted to a California ranch in their new est co-starring feature, "You're Not So Tough", which heads the double bill coming to the Rialto Theatre for Tuesday and Wed nesday. They are cast as a group of itinerants who live by their wits and, who, in the course of the story encounter every ob stacle that met the Joads in "Grapes of Wrath". Henry Ar- mctta and Nan Grey have roles with the popular young stars. "Millionaires in Prison", star ring fast-talking Lee Tracy, will play as the companion feature with "You're Not So Tough". Gulliver Returns Adventure and music will lead you away into the land of make believe in the full-length cartoon feature, "Gulliver's Tra vel", which opens a three day run today at the Roxy Theatre, filmed completely in multi-plane technicolor. The grandest car toon feature since "Snow White", the new picture takes the giant Gulliver into Lilliput Land and the strangest adven ture ever written. The unusual film features eight song hits in eluding "It s A Hap-Hnp-Happy Day". "All's Well", "Faithful Forever" and "Bluebirds In the Moonlight". "Ma! He's Making Eyes at Me", featuring Tom Brown and Constance Moore, plays as the companion feature with the car toon feature. WALL ST. STOCKS 42.9 but on the week held a net advance of 1.4 points. Transfer amounted to 121,960 shares against the 22-year low a week ago of 83,220. The day's price stalemate was exemplified by the fact that, of 366 Individual issues traded. 122 were up, 118 down and 128 unchanged. ' U. S. Steel and Bethlehem slipped as next week's mill op- I erations were expected to show a small drop due to suspension of blast furnaces in a number of plants for repairs. New York, Aug. 3. (IP) Thej stock market today edged out of a fair-sized recovery week with minor gains and losses about evenly split. Reluctance of speculative forces to expand positions also was blamed on the desire for more light on the forward busi ness picture and the national tax problem with which con gress is wrestling. Soma nerv ousness was in evidence as the result of Increasing British Japanese tension. The Associated Press average of 60 stocks was unchanged at Brazil has an area soma 250, 000 square miles larger than that of the United States. mono ttl' iu.,hrevWotorl SS I IM oto BETTER WEATHER Swing Leader Chicago, Aug. 3. (JP) Im proved weather conditions for the 1940 corn crop and reports that Argentine dealers are try ing to make sales in the east helped to push corn prices here a cent lower today. j Other grains were unsettled by the action of corn, hedging oi wneat in connection wun ex pansion of the spring crop move ment more than offsetting mill buying. Wheat closed down, September 75Vs-U, December 754-'s. Rains in western sections of Gene Coy and his Golden Gate stage end dance band will entertain local dancers at Ori ental Gardens next Thursday night. There are 13 entertain ers in this outstanding colored attraction. ' v mji.i i r-i w tj ir m the corn belt, particularly in Iowa and Nebraska, and fore cast for showers over the east ern sections where moisture is more urgently needed depressed corn. Export interests expressed be lief poor prospects of an early revival in foreign demand for U. S. wheat are not altered by British purchase of 100.000,000 bushels of Canadian wheat for the current season. They pointed out that the British bought 80, 000,000 bushels only two months ago, none which has been shipped, and large quanti ties of Australian wheat bought some time ago remain to be de livered. They said the British apparently have contracted for almost a year's requirements from the two member of the empire. Uw Mall Tribune want aoa. starts TODH - for Sim iik24w-''l-rT'g:- ft 1 1 II FEATURE NUMBER 2 cj ! M-.r.H' W T T Tom BMWK Contastl WM mh;. m k-sjrj ta ; - .iaVJPl hnw Mn ( i-h.v!.Vip--Kp It -ii i i.ivm- pm a VJ JT I mmb a t tt t:0. 4 41 J JX Y I ( IIJ.IO V) (F AmJ I t:M-l:M TODAY and MONDAY ...She's a Claim-Jumpin' ..Gold-Diggin'. . . Man Trappin' Prospector...! Maisie'i got a new kind of man in her life . . and she putting a new her man! . . . . For on't miss ....... 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