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1 til "Wing and a Fraver" Cominc WITH GENE KELLY ".Christmas Holiday" Tops Craterian Bill Gilder sleeve Headliner at Rialto EfSH ?iPsaE.V .'I1 Deanna Durbin, for several years Hollywood's top singing star, now emerges as one of tht screen's top-ranking actresses as well. Any question which may have been entertained regarding the ability of the lovely songstress to successfully invade the sphere of pure drama is now dispelled. Her new picture, "Christmas Holiday," now at the Craterian theater, proves beyond doubt that Miss Duibin can, effortless ly, hold her own In any company of dramatic artists. Her perform ance in her first sheerly drama tic role is flawless. . The picture, adapted from W. inrstt let' t ijS-iu it . fife KI If - vi s:- n v Stock Ranches Farms Country Homes Our Specialty THOMAS J. HIGHT Broker 200 Holly Theater Bldf Dial 5397 Starting Wednesday at the Craterian is ' Wing and a Prav er," the screen's first drama of our carrier force in action. The cast is headed by Don Ameche with Dana Andews, William Eythe and Charles Bickford. "Bess cf Boomtown" Becked fJ.iVf. 4 '! 14 ' f v s - 1 , v -t ( - c"- ty Starting Wednesday at the 'feature. Rod Cameron, Tom Ty Rialto, the Dead End Kids in i ler and Vivian Austin are starred their latest picture, "Block Bust-I in "Boss of Boomtown." crs." Playing in the companion fe- t'jj. E E USO DIRECTOR TO I RADIO SERVICE All makes repaired or Completely recond'tioned PHILLIPS' RADIO SERVICE Phons 3859. 1307 N Riverside BIGGEST Show Value in Townl NlchU Onlv kekclavs Sum &: CONTINUOUS SHOWS TODAY 3 DAYS SEARING DRAMA! BLAZING ROMANCE! Somerset Maugham's novel of the same title, tells a story with in a story and presents Deanna in a dual characterization a worldly cafe entertainer, and a charming bride whose world col lapses about her when her hus band of six months commits murder. The film introduces Deanna singing a torch song in a tawdry New Orleans cafe and reveals her earlier years in flash-backs as she relates the sfory of her life to a young army lieutenant. Gene Kelly, who co-stars with Miss Durbin. gives one of his finest performances as her hus , band. Kelly is completely charm- inrf anH v,'t thnrnimlllv rnnvlnp. ; weaKness man niaiiee. , "Gilderslceve's Ghost" and "Stars on Parade" are featured today at the Rialto theater. ANNE BAXTER THOMAS MITCHELL GET fjAPPY! Shew in Townl jLjj' . fM NAN iTi rf WYNN Ginger Rogers, Rogue River's Hollywood star, gained consider able publicity in Oct. 17 issue of Look magazine. In the magazine several pages were devoted to pictures of Miss Rogers and her Rogue River valley ranch. Two pages show the star's life his tory in pictures and other pages reveal the fact that she can "farm, fish and ride as well as act." She is shown currying a prize Hereford bull on her 1,082 acre ranch near Medford, feeding her chickens and turkeys, cultivating corn, irrigating an oat field and other pictures of her fishing the famed Rogue and riding horse back, with her secretary on her vast acreage. Miss Rogers purchased the land in 1942 as a business in vestment and partly a hideaway, according to the article. Now the ranch is worked on a profit sharing basis with a partner. Miss Rogers visited the ranch several times during the past summer and participated in a bond rally in Mrdford during one of her visits' here. The Santa Fe railroad made San Diego its transcontinental I terminus In 188S. CONTINUATION of SHORTER STORE HOURS Effective Until Oct. 16th 9 a.m 7 p.m. OPEN (LOSE AT AT WEEK DAYS, EXCEPT SATURDAYS SATURDAY 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m WESTERH THRIFT STORE SOLDIER IS SAFE Elizabethtown, 111. (U.R) A new way to explain the safety of his position to his paienis was found by James Palmer, sta tioned somewhere in the South west Pacific. "I'm lik: the sol dier who wrote home and told his mother not to worry about him as he was 50 miles behind the Wacs," he wrote. Captain Robert Angel, who has acted as director of River side USO since January, 194-1, has been transferred to San Diego, effective Oct. 15 and will be director of Salvation Army USO in that city. A new director for the River side USO will be announced in several days, Capt. Angel stated today. He plans to leave Mrs. Angel and children with Mrs. Ansel's parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Goul of Wilmington, Calif., for a short time. Mrs. Harry Nordwick, former- He added that C. W. Reynolds, associate regional executive for USO, Portland, has recommend ed that the Medford USO build ing be retained as long as USO lias a place in the Medford com munity. Other officials have ad ded that the club will be con tinued as long as there is a dis tinct need for tha activity in Medford. GIRL MADE GCOD Boston (U.R) Friends scoffed when a schoolmarmish New England girl spent her last $10 to go from Boston to New York. Twenty years later Gertrude Battles Lane was earning $52, 000 a year as editor-in-chief of the Woman's Home Cpmpanion. HAS TRIPLETS Roseau, Minn. (U.R' A cow owned by Mrs. Elsie Foley has borne seven calves in two unci Chungking, Oct. 7. (U.R) The fate of two great Chinese cities hung in the balance tonight as the Japanese smashed nearer the flaming city of Kweilin in south ern China and in Fukien prov ince stormed ashore southeast of Foochow in a second threat to that vital port where the Chi nese already are fighting a des perate battle against invaders in the northwestern suburbs. (Japanese imperial headquar ters, in a communique broadcast Saturday by the Tokyo radio, claimed that its forces had "com pletely occupied Foochow" on the morning of Oct. 4, after crushing the enemy 80th divis ion.) The new threat to Foochow, last major Chinese-held port on the eastern seaboard, was posed by a Japanese force which land ed on the south bank of the Min river two days ago and advance to Diongloh, 3V4 miles south cast of Foochow and near the city's Pagoda landing stage, where the Chinese are fighting to check their progress. Sunday, October 8. 1944 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE NHTB Soldier Brothers Meet in England, Parents Here Told Cpl. John C. Lyons and Pfc. S. Lyons, sons of Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Lyons, 621 Albert street, met recently in a village in England and had dinner together, they, have informed their parents. The corporal, a quartermaster I truck driver, has been overseas j 15 months, his brother, first, gunner in a parachute Infantry; mortar squad, crossed to Eng-j land about August 1. Cpl. Lyons j located his brother after learn-, ing that the latter's outfit had! arrived in England. j The dinner and several hours visit were greatly enjoyed by1 the Medford boys, they told their parents. The first attempt to breed salmon in America was made in New York City in 1864. WANTED SO USED GARS Medford'i Largert Buyer Pays Highest Cash Prices No Dolays. "Ask the man who sold one" HPKY MOTORS USED CAR EXCHANGE 33 S. Riverside Dial 4980 The Terminal Tower, Cleve-' land's principal railroad sta-1 tion, is the tallest building in j Ohio, rising to a height of 52 stories. ly with Salvation Army USO in one-half years. The Intest off the "Masonic building, will con-j spring are triplets. All of the tinue on the Riverside staff as seven calves are living and of a staff aide, Capt. Angel stated. 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