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PAGE SEVEN "Broadway ", Dramatic Picture With George Raft and Pat 0 'Brien, Opens JANET BLAIR. NEW STAR APPEARS IN Wallace Beery Comedy Drama Coming Zazu Pitts in Hilarious Holly Comedy In Army Drama In "Mob Town" DRIED PEARS GET sum MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 12, 194?. Film Story Closely Follows Raft's Life "Broadway" Is Stage Hit. , . ' What might easily be mistak en for George Raft's own life story opens a three-day run today at the Craterian theatre with the first local showing of "Broadway." Pat O'Brien is Baft's co-star. : Raft is shown as he Is today a famous screen star and the picture also traces his rise from an obscure "hoofer" to his pres ent status. O'Brien has one of his best roles as the "toughest cop on Broadway." It is inter esting to note that, in the screen play, O'Brien repeats one of his greatest successes on the stage, having played the same role in the stage play. Janet Blair, Life Magazine's favorite army-camp entertainer and model, has her first screen role in the romantic lead op posite Raft. Basically, the story of "Broad way" is a highly exciting drama dealing with an ambitious hoof er in a speakeasy who, on the eve of his big break, becomes involved in. a gangland killing. Adding complications is a sec ond killing to which. Raft is likewise linked. Staged largely backstage In a speakeasy on Broadway, the film gains momentum through the intervention of O'Brien, in the role of a clever detective, and the accumulating sidelights thrust into the plot as others become involved. Setting and incident closely parallel those familiar to Raft during his earlier days on tsroaa- way, when, after turning trom professional fighting and base ball, he took up dancing as a career. m ipsa ........ tY,r,,--. ..1.. howl That lovable rascal stars in "Jackass Mail," a riotous western comedy-drama coming to the Craterian theatre Wednes day for a four-day run with Marjorie Main again as his side winding sweetheart. Beery por trays another one of his would-be-crooked scamp roles as a worthless mall robber who be comes the hero of a mining town when he stays off a gang of high-Jackers who try to beat him to the loot of the "jackass mail. ' Marjorie Main plays a honky-tonk entertainer with de signs on Beery's anticipated loot. over for the Christian Science lecture on that date. When Ayres first hit the na tional headlines with bis pacifist beliefs, theatres throughout the country immediately dropped the showing of the Kildare pic tures. However, with his Join ing the medical forces, fans are again asking for his screen shows. In "Dr. Kildare's Vic tory," he portrays the young medico who defends an interne whose emergency operation on a patient results in the interne's dismissal by the hospital. Lionel Barrymore plays Dr. Gillespie and Ann Ayres is the debutante patient whose opera tion creates a storm center. "Atlantic Convoy," featuring Bruce Bennett, John Beal and Virginia Field in an advanture packed story of terror on the high seas, is the companion fea ture on the twin bill. Holly Fans Favor Showing of Ayres "Kildare" Picture By a vote of 93 per cent in favor of his return to a - local screen, Lew .Ayres whose re cent Induction into Uncle Sam's medical corps has relieved the minds of his many fans is at the Holly theatre for this after noon and evening and Tuesday night in "Dr. Kildare s Victory." The theatre will not have its reeular Derformance tomorrow (Monday) night, being turned ROSY CHERRY PRICES Portland, July 11 W Cher ries: Bings 8-10 cents, row pack ed 10-12 cents; Royal Anns 8VV 9 cents; pie 6-7 cents. POLE GUERILLAS KILL SS LEADER London, July 11 (IP)- The death of a German SS leader in the Lublin- district of Poland Erich Guddard, in unexplained circumstances, recently was dis closed in an obituary notice in the Krakauer Zeitung, the min istry of information of the Pol ish government in exile said today. The death notice said that Guddard lost his life in per formance of his duties and Pol ish quarters here surmised that he might have been killed in a clash a fortnight ago between guerrillas and an SS detachment in a woods near Zamosc. Zasu Pitts accepts a boiler maker cocktail from Roger Pryor and turns from a timid gal into a gangster's moll with a trigger-twitch in "So's Your Aunt Emma," hilarious comedy which comes to the air-cooled Holly theatre for Wednesday and Thursday nights as the added feature with "Almost Married," starring Jane Fraz.ee, Robert Paige and Eugene Pal let te. Mirth-provoking complications arise in "Almost Married" when Paige and Miss Frazee have to get a divorce when they aren't even married, Former Local Flier Honored For 1 000th Crossing Of Andes Warren B. Smith, - former Central Point boy, recently re ceived a medal and the honor ary title of "Caballero de Los Andes," or Gentleman of Los Andes, marking the 1000th flight over the high Andes as a pilot for the Pan-American Air ways, according to word receiv ed here by Mr. and Mrs. A. W Walker, 1122 East Main street, parents of Mrs. Smith. Banquets by the air line and by the Ma sonic lodge In Santiago, Chile, Labor - management commit tees now are boosting produc tion in more than 900 war plants. NOVELTIES Complete Line Novelty Jewelry Engraving FREE Camp White Bus Terminal Open Evenings, Sundays .Mils iic-llc ties Uc Inc. Iu Doors Open at 1:45 and 6:45 H TODAY and Monday Nits I THEY TROMP ON YOUR FUNNY BONE! as they give fvJtTS the East jif'VU Side a real luW- Ti arnishingl Vt !f L 9 1 iiihml&A'&imlirA MX 1- sfSrPLUS ; IT? mm mm i3 Untarths Fifth-Columnists THE STAR YOU VOTED TO SEE AGAIN Back On the Screen in His Best Kildare Hit Yet! Am 1 A . i ,: 1A .i'J.,vr.t "Kildare" Today at 2:00-4:51 8:05-11:00 AIR-' COOLED lor Your COMFORT WALK TWO Battling Under seas Terror! In this added Adventure Hitl m "Convoy" Tedey at 3:50 7:00-:00 AIR-COOLED BLOCKS MORE PAY 10 LISS S 1 1 'TWICE MATS 1:45S:30 302 TTW LUAV7 fi Si Si i- I for Your COMFORT AS MUCH! EVES (:4S-t:30 40c ISe-Ue IncL Tax K V1 where the couple reside, also honored the pilot. Both Mr. and Mrs. Smith graduated from the Central Point schools and he learned to fly here in one of the famous "Jenney planes, relics of World War L Entering the service of Pan-American Airways about eight years ago. Pilot Smith has won steady promotion until now he has one of the best paid routes in the company's far- flung system. A brother, Jerry R. Smith, resides at 1033 Reddy avenue. Some New Orleans streets are named after muses of Greek mythology. V-.V '. , " ,"'.'U. r , ' j k ? .,..v. y i Not since the days of "Ben Hur" and "Birth of a Nation" has the Rialto theatre witnessed such thrills and action as dis played in "Ten Gentlemen From West Point," which opened Fri day to capacity crowds and which, according to all indica tions, will continue to pack crowds into the popular Main street showhouse until the en gagement closes Thursday night. George Montgomery and Mau reen O'Hara have starring roles in the exciting story of Amer ica's famous "citadel of heroes." Billy Hallop, as one of the Dead End Kids, talks it over with officer Dick Foran In "Mob Town," starring the gutter hood lums with the East Side Kids at the Roxy theatre for today and Monday night. "Underground," a daring story which unearths fifth columnists and saboteurs, plays as the com panion action feature with Jeff rey Lynn in the starring role. Wise's gallant performance occurred recently when his squadron of American bombers was attacked by 18 zeros while returning from a raid on Lie, New Guinea. Despite the loss of the use of his legs, he refused to climb aboard his plane's life raft be cause it was loaded to capacity with the crew's emergency ra tions and Jungle gear. San Francisco, July 11 (JPh New, higher prices for west coast (rowers who sell natural condition dried apricots and pears to the agricultural mar keting administration for lend lease and other uses, were post ed here today by the AM A. The new price for apricots ranges from 23Vs cents a pound for fancy Jumbos to 13Vi cents for standard slabs. There were intermediate prices for grades less choice than fancy but better than standard. Dried pear prices were set at 14 cents a pound for extra standard quality, and 12V4 cents tor standards. The new prices will average about $380 a ton for dried apri cots and $260 a ton for pears. These averages are about $40 a ton more than prices an nounced June 20. ANN MUELLER I W1W CAM an CRYSTAL BEADEB CTerythtni strictly eoafleeiitlal RS Sbtrmaa, Dial tail OF STERN METAL General MacArthur's head quarters, July 11 (P) Wound ed in the legs, 19-year-old Trev or Wise. Australian air gunner, doused flames aboard his bullet pierced bomber, shot down an attacking Japanese zero fighter, then swam three miles to shore after his plane was forced down into the sea. HAL WANTS: To Have You Visit His Shop. To Prove That His Service Is Most Complete. To Show That His Finishing Is Best. . To Service Your Camera and Keep It la Condition. . -To Rent a Small House or Apartment by the 15th Hal's Camera Shop, 113 North Central Phen 3680 Heaven Help the Hobs .... and .lolls lien RAFT and O'BRIEN Get Together! ... ' t- f. it i i.t V mm x w f m TODAY for 2 Days I ITS A GREAT STREET. But They Knew It When,, S) hoefer tot an avaa break ' U he was tough SMughll S) girls had to dance at pri vate parties . f to eatU gorillas In silk shirts were the Big Tewa Kingsll GEORGE o Playing a Part He Knows Best From Experience! PAT la the Kola Ha Made Famous oa the Stsoe . . . 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