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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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