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PAGE ELEVEN "Appointment for. Love" With Brilliant Cast, Opens Craterian Showing Jack Oakie Coming Wednesday in Hilarious Hit Nat Pendelton in Rialto Comedy TRAFFIC DEATHS LOWER ' Salem, Dec. 20. VP) Novem ber traffic deaths showed a 31 per cent decrease in Oregon fray the 1940 toll, the state de partment reported today. There were 29 traffic fatalities In con tiast with 42 for November of last year. LATEST HIT WINS Margaret Sullavan In Fine Performance Rita John son In Supporting Role. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21,' 1941. CHARLES BOYERS TrT-1 -.JJlMl ii nw ! m hip i. i Li. kjr-. ' J M. J DIVIDEND )mhm0 o ism A gay, streamlined comedy ro mance, "Appointment for Love", opens a three day run today at the Craterian Theatre with Charles Boyer and Margaret Sul lavan as its brilliant co-stars. Rita Johnson, Eugene Pallctte, Ruth Terry and Reginald Denny are among the galaxy of players Importantly cast in supporting roles. Broadway and Manhattan's sky-line are the ultra-modern backgrounds for the bright dra matic piece tailored precisely to exploit the stellar talents of Boyer and Miss Sullavan. Boyer portrays a successful Broadway playwright, a genius at penning the romantic adventures of his fictitious characters. He bogs down completely when his own affairs of the heart develop com plications. Miss Sullavan is cast as a femi nine careerist a doctor who makes a domestic fixture of Boy er after he has staged an impet uous romantic pursuit and car ried her to the altar. Her insis tence that each establish his own home and pursue his separate career without interference from the other lays the basis for com plications which repeatedly ob tions of satisfying their romantic struct their well-meant inten urge even after marriage. Through their harassed lives moves a constant flow of sharp are past loves of theater and cafe their career backgrounds. In his ly drawn characters familiar to society, whose connivances step up the farcical aspects of "Ap- There's never a dull moment in Mark Helllnger's "Rise and Shine", hilarious musical fun show coming to the Craterian Theatre Wednesday as their gtla four-day Christmas offer ing. Jack Oakie is starred as Boley, AH-American chowder head who is the "big shot" at Clayton college because he is advertised as the world's great est halfback; Linda Darnell plays his best gal, who sees to it that none of the other co-eds sees him; Walter Brennan is cast as "Slap-Happy" grandpappy and others In the gay and re freshing show are Milton Berle, George Murphy, Donald Meek, Raymond Walburn and Ruth DonneHy. Five brand new Robin and Ranger song hits are a fea ture of the new show. pointment for Love" to outspok en as well as hilarious episodes. Her devotion to the strict letter of science both In her profession and in her off-duty interludes, adds further complications, not the least of which are her ador ing patients. WOLF INSIDE NOW Sulphur, Okla. (U.R) Over at the Roy Turner ranch near here the wolf at the door has gone inside. But it got inside the hard way. J. B. Robinson, Frisco station agent, shot the animal, which reportedly had been lurking about the ranch since 1928. Turner took the wolf inside his ranch house, where, in rug form, the animal's pelt soon will be on display. Cloamj tlmi tut Classified Ads B m. Too Law to dually 1330 p On Roxy Screen it;.; ? jjf " ' i- I f : LARRY SCH4D The Newest BULOVA WATCHES Exclusively at ifr 1 "TCMtffe" i 1 From the Burma Road to the war-torn China Seas, Clark Gable chases and romances with Rosalind Russell in the hectic story of two super Jewel thieves who fall in and out of trouble In 'They Met in Bombay", which opens a three-day run today at the Roxy Theatre. Peter Lorre and Jessie Ralph have important roles with Gable and Miss Rus sell. Gloria Swanson In New Screen Role On Program At Rialto RUSS FREIGHTER SUNK Batavia, Netherlands East In dies, Dec. 20. (P) Japanese planes bombed and sank the 4,200-ton Russian freighter Pere pop on her run between Vladi vostok and Surabaya, Java, The Netherlands news agency Aneta said it was learned here today. Closing Urn fur Classified Ads S . m. TOO Lot- tc ctusirj 130 p Nat Pendleton as 'Top Ser geant Mulligan" gets set to re sist the "advance" of beautiful Carol Hughes and Marjorie Rey nolds in the uproarious army camp comedy of that title which comes to the Rialto Theatre for Tuesday and Wednesday. "Mystery Ship" featuring Paul Kelly and Lola Lane, is sched uled to play as the companion feature. Ross, plays as the companion feature with the Menjou-Swan-son comedy farce. AL HOPKINS, 76 Bringing together Adolphe Menjou and Gloria Swanson, re suming her spectacular career. "Father Takes a Wife", a modern tale of modern marriage and its complications, plays for today and tomorrow only at the Rialto Theatre. The story deals with the hi larious troubles that surround the wedding of a wealthy ship ping magnate and a temperamen tal stage star. The magnate's stuf fy sons and serious-minded daughter-in-law both view the step with apprehension and ob serve the frequent hectic quar rels of the love-birds with alarm. But the couple is finally start ed off on a honeymoon, only to return with more trouble in the person of a handsome young singer whom the star has taken under her wing. The singer's presence in the magnate's home finally breaks up the marriage and when the son and his wife take over the baritone's career. he innocently splits up that home as well. How the two couples are rec onciled and the singer satisfac torily disposed of makes for the CENSOR CZAR TAKES OATH gay climax to this fast-moving Washington, Dec. 20. (VP) 'ilm- I Byron Price took the oath of "Sailors on Leave", starring I off Ice today as director of cen William Lundigan and Shirley 'sorship. Al Hopkins, 76, passed away at the home of his son, Elmer Hopkins, Route 1, Ashland, at !:30 a. m. Friday after an illness of several months. He was born in Phoenix and had been a resi dent of southern Oregon all his life. He Is survived by his four daughters, Mrs. Mary Rowley, Ashland; Mrs. Jessie Eves, Top penish, Wash.; Mrs. Hazel Close and Mrs. Verda Edsal, Medford; and two sons, Elmer and Vernon Hopkins, Ashland. Funeral services will be at Litwiller's funeral home at 2:30 p. m. Monday. Interment will be at Hill's cemetery at the Old Klamath Junction. PLUNGE FATAL Baker. Dec. 20. (P) A 400- foot plunge from the icy Dooley Mountain road fatally Injured John Engert Lewis, 39, Austin, Ore., Thursday. Lewis died In the wreckage of his automobile before rescuers could remove him to the highway. PLAZA PROJECT TO START IN APRIL The Pacific highway straight ening project in Ashland was assured today when property owners in the Plaza district accepted a highway commission demand for an aggregate $3,000 option price reduction. Construc tion Is expected to start in April. HIT POWER AUTHORITY Portland, Dec. 20. (VP) The Oregon Taxpayers' federation passed a resolution opposing creation of a Columbia power authority and other power divi sions, President Clyde Buchanan said today. Investors In this Association will receive their semi-annual dividend on January first at the annual rat of 4. Investments made by January tenth will earn dividends for the full six months period beginning January first. Investments up to $5,000 per Individual are Insured by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp. Jackson County Federal savings & loan association 126 East Main HOUSING BID LET Oregon City, Dec. 20. (P) Low bid on the Clackamas heights 100-unit housing project, S229.389, was submitted yester day by the Viesko-Haneman company, Salem. PUBLISHER PASSES Boston, Dec. 20. (P) Edwin Wesley Preston, 68, general man ager of the Herald-Traveler cor poration, publisher of two large Boston papers, died today In Beverly Hills, Calif. He was a widower. TODAY for 3 DAYS A "KEYHOLE" MOVIE! ...and Will You Shriek at This Honey moon That Almost.. .Didn't .Happen! The lovers cf "Back Street" turtT-heaeVthfebs1 intohppl- ' nets... in this gayest of the seaton-'s-emorouradventirresft' ' ear" Charles Margaret 3 bom SIMM :o zn She Is a doctorhe Is her hirs band..yet the man (curse the luck) has to make an.... K' with this gay end sparkling comedy cast RITA JOHNSON - EUGENE PALLETTE Reginald Denny, - J. M. Kerrigan - Ruth Terry l.o MattnM . . . MS-! M sot ti sc lu ll in IS 2Sc Inrt. Ill Kiddle. 11. IntL tu Emlni ... S:4S-:e 4M tai 4. . IS ts IS IS. InrL tai KlddlM 11. Isri. US Dm Mall maun want sda. 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