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PAGE SEVEN Ritz Brothers, Andrews Sisters in "Argentine Nights" at Craterian MEDFORD MAIL TKIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1940 PREMIERE GIVES F Nine Song Numbers In Rol licking Show Constance Moore In Lead. The world'! premiere show ing of "Argentine Nights," co starring the Ritz Brothers and the Andrews Sisters, opens to day at the Craterian theater. It will play three days only. Climaxing one of the most spectacular careers of any son? trio in history, Patty, Maxene and La Verne make their screen debut in the picture. Known to millions who have enjoyed their songs on phonograph rec ords, radio and stage, the sisters have Introduced dozens of hits including the recent "Beer Bar rel Polka." Now they embark on a .new career motion pic tures and, with their initial appearance in "Argentine Nights," are expected to become top stars in short order. They introduce four new songs In the film. "Argentine Nights" shows the hilarious Ritzes taking a group of pretty girl entertainers into the pampas country, trying to make a hit the "South Ameri can Way" after their creditors from all 48 states hold a joint convention and force the boys' hand. There are nine song numbers. The Andrews Sisters sing "Hit the Road," "The New Lick," "Oh, How He Loves Me" and "Rhumboogie." The Ritzes cut loose with "The Spirit of 77B" (a travesty on section 77B of the bankruptcy act) and "Brook lynooga." Constance Moore sings "Once Upon a Dream" and "Hall of the Mountain Queen," the latter with a chorus. George Reeves, who shares the top ro mantic honors with Constance Moore, makes his debut in the film, singing "Amigo, We Go Riding Tonight, a gaucho number- Si grid Gurie And John Wayne Start Of Rialto Picture i "Three Faces West," a stirring drama of conditions in the dust bowl area, is scheduled to open today and tomorrow at the Ri alto theater with an all-star cast including John Wayne, Sigrtd Gurie, Charles Coburn, Spen cer Charters, Sonny Bupp and Helen MacKellar. The picture deals with the work done by the refugee Vien nese surgeon, who builds a new life for himself and his daugh ter in the heart of the American dust bowl. Beautiful Leni at once resents Asheville Forks, her new home. To her, even the persecutions of her native land were prefer able to this continual dust dust everywhere on furniture, food, dishes and the hopeless, despairing attitude of the ailing people whose once rich land has. been denuded by the ruth less ravages of soil erosion. "The Mummy's Hand," made by the studio that gave the screen "Frankenstein" and "Dracula," and telling the un earthly tale of a group of sci entists who go to the land of the mummy's to solve a secret that has been buried three thousand years, plays as the companion feature with "Three Faces West." Dick Foran, Wal lace Ford. Eduardo Ciannelli. George Zucco, Peggy Moran and the Mummy have starring roles in 'The Mummy's Hand," which, according to advance re ports, will out-creep and out chill even the two previous spine-tinglers. REAL BEAUTY IN ELASTIC STOCKINGS Here's en entirely new departure: from the old-fashioned hot, haaw rubber stock ings. These new Bauer & Black Lastex stock ings not only give your legs the proper sup port, but due to a patented process ac tually look like regu lar stockings. Seam less! No wonder doc tori end patients alike endorse these cool light-weight stock ings. Hove your phy sician prescribe the proper type. rsttatN. 112847. Bob Burns' New .?' K Jit- - n. : ft L;- . When Bob Burns and Old Timer (of the Fibber McGce program) swap instruments in "Comin' Round the Mountain," the result is the weirdest blast of so-called music that ever came out of the hills. Bob Burns, in the new pic ture coming to the Craterian theater Wednesday, is himself again, with bazooka, good-natured hillbilly philosophy and all those characteristics that en deared him to movie fans when he made "Mountain Music" a few years ago. Craterian "March of Time" Covering Dutch East Indies An added attraction on the Craterian theater program open ing a three-day run today is the new March of Time "Spoils of Conquest." This new Time subject is the story of the Dutch East Indies, richest colonial empire in world, which is making headline news ONE FOUND . mW4l COURAGE la THE SECOND FOUND Lf .,VS mLf rY ' I ir? 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Among those featured in the cast are Una M e r k e 1, Jerry (Whored you Ret those eyes?) Callona. Don Wilson of Jack Bcny's radio show, Pat Barrett (Uncle Ezra of the Camel pro gram), H a r o 1 d Peary, also known as Gildcrslecve on the Fibber McGee show, and Bill Thompson, the Old Timer. these days because it is the chief source of rubber and tin so vi tally needed for America's new rearmament and national de fense program. With Holland itself already in the hands of nazi Germany, and with Japan's policy of driv ing the white man out of Asia continuing unabated, U. S. mili tary strategists are greatly con cerned over the possibility that the Dutch East Indies may be seized by Japan and that Amer- Hugh Herbert Coming In Rialto Hit ) i ' j3r i - Starring Hugh Herbert as a nimble-witted and quick-fingered confidence man whose extrav agant schemes of high finance are exploded by a group of small-town "suckers," and a beautiful blonde in "Slightly Tempted," which heads the dou ble bill coming to the Rialto theater for Tuesday and ica's source of rubber and tin supplies be cut off- In "Spoils of Conquest," the March of Time points out pro phetically the possible future of these fabulously wealthy isl ands. Their small but efficient army and air force are rapidly being trained to cope with new developments of modern war fare, their navy has been mobil ized, and the waters surround ing the 20.000 islands compris ing the group have already been mined. . Ban Kile Flying The Hague (via Berlin), Sept. 7. (A) Starting Monday, kite flying is forbidden in The Neth- Could Nero Have Fiddled With Stomach Ulcer Pains? Thp historic flddllne of Nero ntfVr his fenstln could hardly have been posnlble If he RUffered after-eatln pnlns. Don't nealect your suffering. Try a JSC box of Udna for relief of ulcer nnd stomach pains. Indigestion. Aaa pains, heartburn, burning sen. sntlnn. bloat and other conditions caused by excess acid. Udtfa Tablet must, help -or money refunded Western Thrift and drug stores every- wnere. nesday. Gertrude Michael plays the "fly in the ointment," and others in the cast include Peggy Moran, Johnny Downs and George E. Stone. "One Crowded Night." fea turing Ann Revere, Billie Sew ard and Paul Guilfoyle, is sched uled to play as the companion feature with the Hugh Herbert Wed-comedy farce. erlands under regulations an nounced today by the German commissioner general for pub lic security. Kites might be used for aerial guidance of the Brit ish. Use Hall Tribune want ads. ROLLING DOWN , erf.... J. . MmP s A. k&JW ) S Th ho" it o recordings or radio . . ihe - . tr: S$ "Jf ' -' dippiest nuts who eer cracked a cranium . . la Y-iT W : f r j- . . .'U the fastest muticomedr since Adam fell for the -3atk 5 -. V 'i. .- : swaying of a snaky rhumbal T- V,. 4 C(W-iC:X:.:: THE RITZ BROTHERS 17 THE ANDREWS SISTERS I ' dffss Constance Moore George Reeves lrtf f.iJf i'S' Peggy Moran AnneNagel ? AND A SCREENFUL OP IAHN ( hy U k 10VERS AND HOllYWOOD HONEYS I V w, ' ) ' " tS J S f jtxim uyictuf. tempo: 'Rhumboogie' 'Brooklynonga' 'Amigo We Go Riding Tonight' 'Oh, He Love, Me' Mai TortiT 1:4.1-1 IS I7r, Tax Sr .... tor A(e It to 1.1 ... tor klildlee a llltne Return Showing .3 R Br ' .s-- Wt' For the first time in three years. Clark Game and Joan Crawford, who have given the screen some of its memorable hits, team again in "Strange Cargo," .which opens a three day run today at the Roxy thea ter. A pichirization of Richard Sale's best-seller, "Not Too Nar row. Not Too Deep," "Strange Cargo" tells the dramatic story of Verne Andre, played by Gable, an incorrigible convict in a South American peniten tiary, and Julie, played by Miss Crawford, a no-account cafe en tertainer in the penal colony, who become fellow fugitives with eight other convicts on the strangest voyage ever made by human beings. Their breath taking escape and adventures on a boat bound for nowhere are but a few of the exciting highltchts of the film. Ian Hun ter, Peter Lorre, Albert Dekker. Paul Lukas and J. Edward Bromberg head the all-star cast. "Mexican Spitfire," a laugh loaded bombshell of mirth and comedy starring Lupe Vclez and TO RIO in a BARRAGE of LAFFS and TORRID TIMES I J FOREST SERVICE Rogue River national forest headnu&rlpnt vsilsrrfiv an. Vinounced completion of a loca- 1 linn tiinmu nf 4t,A t . C. I, road leading to the undeveloped McDonald basin which the Rogue Snowmen explored a couple of years ago and pro nounced a winter sports area of exceptional potentialities. Since its original exploration, the Rogue Snowmen have been endeavoring to persuade the U. S. forest service to build a road to the area so that it might be developed into a snow sports center. The basin is only about 25 miles from Medford in the hills south and west of Ashland. The basin is now in accessible In the winter, how ever, because the Ashland Loop road is blocked with snow. Portable barracks for a side camp are now being constructed at the Applegate CCC camp and they will be set up on the lower end of Wagner Creek road in the near future, Karl L,- Ja nouch, forest supervisor said. Forty CCC men composing the side camp will start clearing Leon Errol, plays as the com panion feature with "Strange Cargo." plus March of Time presents "Spoils of Conquest'1 Will Japan erlre the Dntrh Raat Indira What abonl the Monroe DortrlneT J t the road right-of-way this win ter. Involved is a 13-mile stretcb. running through timber land. No grading will be done until the clearing has been completed, Mr. Janouch said. Progress of the work, he related, will de I pend upon the skill of the CCC t men and the amount of road luncis available. There are no forest road funds available for the work now and probably will not be until 1942, he added. When the road is completed, the steepest grade will be 8 per cent, he said. Avoiding much of the snow belt, the proposed road will Join the Ashland loop road and thus lead to McDonald basin. Liquor In street. Philadelphia. (UPI Not M loaf uo sou til Philadelphia ns were treated to free whisky when several barrels oi spirt ta dropped from a truck and cracked open. The li quor flowed down the street and resident, attracted by tbe strong odor, quickly rushed outdoors, with, containers ranging from ordinary tublera to mixing bowls and buckets they gathered up the "treat..' Dae Mall Tribune want ad. isttely i in in Hii 111)11 n Heath's Drug Store
