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'Priscilla Lane in 'Milton Dollar Baby" on Craterian Screen Today
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON. SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1941.
JEFFREY LYNN IN
Ronald Reagan, Walter Cat
lett Have Roles Picture
Shows Through Tuesday
"Million Dollar Baby." star
ring Priscilla Lane, Jeffrey
Lynn and Ronald Reagan, makes
its local debut today at the Cra
terian Theatre, where it will
remain through Tuesday night.
In the featured supporting cast
are May Robson. Lee Patrick,
Helen Westley, George Barbier,
Nan Wynn, John Qualen, Walter
Catlett and many other well
known players.
The new film is a delightful
romantic comedy dealing with
the adventures of a shopgirl who
inherits a million dollars. Pretty
Priscilla Lane is, of course, the
"Million Dollar Baby" and Jeff
rey Lynn is the young lawyer
who brings her news of her in
heritance, then stays to sue for
her hand. Ronald Reagan, popu
lar young star whose popularity
is growing in leaps and bounds,
is cast as the cynical young
composer who is in love with
Priscilla too, but prejudiced
against her money. Veteran May
Robson plays the eccentric,
wealthy old woman who gives
Priscilla the million dollars for
reasons of her own which she
refuses to divulge.
The resulting complications
make the picture bright film
fare.
DUDS-BUYING SLUMP
MAKES NO DENT
RETAIL SALE CLIMB
New York, July 27. W
Apparel buying slackened a bit
in some stores this week, but
retail sales averaged 20 to 24
per cent above last year for the
country as a whole. Dun It
Bradstreet reported today.
"Retailers' reports indicated
a more uneven day-to-day move
ment of trade as the first signs
of a summer lull appeared in
apparel lines," the credit agency
aid.
"Sales volume, however, was
aid to be continuing heavy
when judged by normal sea
sonal standards. Few retailers
felt the buying spree had spent
Itself, although there were some
who were inclined to believe
that the exceptionally heavy
buying In May and June had
partly borrowed from July busi
ness. "Strength In prices was ap
parent not only in smaller re
ductions on clearance mercnan
dlse, but also In moderate in
creases on new-season goods,"
the agency continued. "Only in
scattered Instances was any re
sistance to price advances
noted."
'MllunPS
24 HOURS, PUZZLE
Dayton, Ohio, July 26. (IP)
Col. M. G. Estabrook, Jr.,
commandant at Patterson field,
asserted today that four army
plane mishaps in Ohid within
24 hours was "a series of re
markable coincidences."
"They were all accidents, dif
ferent in nature," Estabrook
said, "and there is not the
slightest Indication of sabot
age." Two U. S. army officers died
in the crash of a Britain-bound
twin-motored Hudson bomber
that crashed at Mt. Gilead late
Thursday, another Hudson
bomber ground-looped and
burned at Patterson field yes
terday; a B-18 bomber carrying
mail from Wright field to Wash-
lngton pancaked in a wheat
field near Newark yesterday,
and a large transport caught
fire but landed safely at Patter
son field Thursday.
Tragic Stumbla
Roseburg, July 28 (Wal
ter N. Storey, Jr., 21. Looking
glass, Ore, stumbled at the
Foltt lumber mill yesterday and
was killed Instantly by a whirl
ing saw. He had worked there
three days.
Abbott and Costello In Navy Comedy
Abbott and Costello, the com
edy team that has become the
sensation of the nation follow
ing their appearance in "Buck
Privates," are reunited with the
hot-singing Andrews Sisters in
In the Navy," coming to the
Craterian Theatre Wednesday
for a four-day showing.
Dick Powell shares starring
honors In the rowdy story of
navy life, with Claire Dodd,
Dick Foran, Butch and Buddy
and the Condos Brothers in fea
tured roles.
Communications
To the Editor: The United
States made a very commend
able deal with England to obtain
bases in strategical points in the
Atlantic.
Is there any reason why we
should not make the same kind
of a "horse trade" with Russia?
Russia wishes to keep her Pa
cific coast free of "monkey-men"
and we too, of a certainty, must
deal with them and use the
'"mailed-fist" in doing so.
The Japanese have accused us
of trying to "ring-in" Japan and
we never will have a better
chance to do this than to trade
action-with-Japan, (which must
come anyway), for a half dozen
bases on the Chuketski Pen,
Kamchatka, Sakhalin Is., and
the Sikhota Alin.
The very life of Russia de
pends on keeping her Pacific
ports open and this she cannot
do without English or American
aid.
The effect on Japan of a 99
year lease from Russia on bases
at strategical points might make
her think twice if it could be
done before she turns loose her
"dogs of war" on England and
the United States. Then too, the
post-war settlements which may
develop into a ticklish situation
could be handled with a great
deal more confidence in event
Russia is defeated by Germany
or we have a victorious and
overbearing Russia to deal with.
I would say that such a deal
certainly has its good points,
which I believe, far outweigh
those to be enumerated against
it. H. WHEELER HUNT
Medford, Oregon.
How About Itr
To the editor: From reports
and statistics it is said that the
United States must spend $40,
000,000,000 yearly on arms pro
duction in a program of world
wide human slaughter in order
to beat the Nazi aggressors, and
to date there has been no statis
tician or tax expert calling this
program financially unsound.
In the past several years Dr.
Francis E. Townsend has advo
cated that America Invest $6,-
uuu.uuu.uuu annually in a pay-as-you-go
program of retirement
pensions for all citizens over
sixty years of age, so that every
American may enjoy security
and national prosperity, and
create a Christian example of
peace and abundance which all
Dick Powell In Tuesday Rialto Hit
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Dick Powell steps out of his
real-life role of husband of Joan
Blondell to co-star with her in
Model Wife," hilarious comedy
which comes to the Rialto The
atre for Tuesday and Wednes
day. The story is that of a man
and wife working together in
the same store where marriage
is taboo and with a little
"blessed event" coming along
things get mighty complicated.
Others in the cast are Lee Bow
man. Charlie Ruggles, Lucille
Watson, Ruth Donnelly and
Billy Gilbert.
mankind might accept. Dr.
Townsend was branded a "crack
pot" by our nation's wiseacres,
who called his plan fantastically
unsound and impossible; that it
would cause complete economic
collapse.
C. M. MEDCALF,
Phoenix, Ore.
New "Dr. Kildare"
Picture Today On
Screen At Rialto
A daring operation and a
malpractice suit form the pivot
of the dramatic story in "The
People vs. Dr. Kildare." latest
of the medical-detective ro
mances of young Dr. Jimmy
Kildare, which plays today and
tomorrow only at the Rialto
Theatre. Lew Ayres, Lionel
Barrymore, Laraine Day and
Alma Kruger again have the
same roles in this newest adventure.
A new guest star appears
with the Kildare "family" in the
person of pretty Bonita Gran
ville, who as an injured ice skat
ing star gives Kildare the tough
est test of his prowess so far
on the series.
Dr. Kildare, played by Ayres,
is forced to perform an emer
gency operation on Miss Gran
ville following an automobile
crash, and when she convalesces
she develops a paralyzed leg,
apparently ending her career
as an ice skating star. Her at
torney sues, charging malpractice.
Aided by his precentor. Dr.
Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore), the
young medico turns detective,
clearing up some of the evi
dence that appears damaging
and falling on the clue to the
real trouble.
Others in the cast are Red
Skelton, Diana Lewis and Eddie
Acuff.
newest
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as Dr. Leonard Cillespi I V 1
LEW LIONEL
AYRES BARRYMORE
as Dr. Kildare
LARAINE DAY - BONITA GRANVILLE
ft a tout fararlt comic ttn fantur
"POPEYE MEETS RIP VAN WINKLE"
On Roxy Screen
'ni iiiifcNalP
Errol Flynn plays Jeb Stuart,
commander of the Union army
sent out west to Kansas to cap
ture fiery John Brown, rebel
leader of the abolitionist party,
and return him to Washington
for trial in "Santa Fe Trail."
which opens a three-day run
today at the Roxy Theatre.
Olivia de Havilland playt op
posite Flynn and others in the
cast include Ronald Reagan as
General Custer and Raymond
Massey as Brown. Alan Hale.
William Lundigan and Henry
O'Neill play such important
Americans as Robert E. Lee,
U. S. Grant and Stonewall Jackson.
In The '
Day's
and
Br FRANK JENKINS
VOU may think, ladies
gentlemen, you have seen
poker games in your time.
This writer ventures the opin
ion you have never so much as
DREAMED of a poker game
comparable to that in which
the United States and Japan are
now rattling chips.
UTITHIN a matter of days,
" Japan has swallowed Indo
China (French.) Already that
meal Is forgotten and today (Fri
day) she is talking of Thailand
(former Siam, Independent if
any small nation can be said In
these days to be independent.)
Indo-China, with Its great
naval base at Camranh bay, com
mands , the sea route to the
straits of Singapore. Thailand
offers a land route to the Malay
peninsula, and the Malay penin
sula leads down to Singapore.
Singapore Is the key to the
Dutch East Indies, with their
oil and rubber.
IAPAN is toweringly ambl-
tlous. If she thinks she can
get away with it, she will move
on from Indo-China and Thai
land to Singapore and the rich
Dutch Islands.
The limiting factor Is what
she thinks ah can get away
with.
Otherwise the sky Is the limit.
Japan can get away
will depend on the
United States. Britain la too
busy elsewhere to spare the
strength necessary for positive
defense of Singapore.
If Japan Is limited, this coun
try will have to do the limiting.
(Thursday) the
of the United
States branded Japan's step Into
Indo-China as a threat to Ameri
can security and Sumner Welles,
acting secretary of state, "indi
cated" that American efforts at
conciliation in the Pacific are
at an end.
(Implying, although carefully
not SAYING, that shooting will
come next.)
Today President Roosevelt
says that TOMORROW (Satur
day) the U. S. will retaliate with
specific action for Japan's seiz
ure of Indo-China. .
What form the retaliation will
take Is not specified. Among the
Washington experts freezing of
Japanese credits and assets here
is generally expected.
There the situation rest as
these words are written.
r the background (with every
thing to gain and nothing to
lose) Is Hitler, prodding the
Japs Into action that will em
broil them in war with the
WHAT
" with
YESTERDAY
United State.
The Japanese must be
cyni
cally smart enough to know that
it It suited his purposes to do
so Hitler wonld cut their
throat as unhesitatingly as ho
cut the throat of his pal, Stalin.
TF each side knows exactly bow
'far it can go and GOES NO
FARTHER, if good fortune at.
tends the playing and every
card falls just right, this tre
mendous poker game with its
unbelievably high stakes may
end up without shooting lor
the present, at least.
If not
Well, you know the answer
to that as well as anybody.
QN the Russian front it's all
question of whom you want
to believe. The Germans aay
they're proceeding according to
plan. The Russians say they're
holding.
What Is happening on the
Russian front will concern us
sooner or later. What la hap
pening to the southward from
Japan concerns us RIGHT NOW.
That Is the difference.
QN the home front. Dun It
Bradstreet, reporting aver
age retail sales for this week
20 to 24 per cent above the
corresponding figure for year
ago, adds:
"A tendency on the part of
consumers to PURCHASE
AHEAD on many requirements
continued to be observed."
When you think you can't let
It, you WANT IT NOW.
Human nature Is human na
ture, in war as at other time.
Burlesque shows date back aa
far aa 300 B. C. when "strip
tease" acts were introduced to
the Greeks.
Buster
Brown's
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and then suddenly (ha bad
million bucks! Wow!
Mora laughs than you're
had since Cinderella got
the hot foot!
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