My Friend Irma at the Princess Theatre film
Marie Wilson stars as Irma at the Princess with John Lund Diana Lynn and Don DeFore. Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis make screen debut in Hal Wallis Paramount comedy about two working girls chasing marriage and prizes and a mistaken romance with a millionaire ally. Martin sings three new songs with Lewis in two routines.
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Fiim
My Friend Irma
Princess Theatre
Marie Wilson
Irma
Marie
Hal Wallis
Paramount
John Lund
Diana Lynn
Don DeFore
Dean Martin
Jerry Lewis
Friend Irma
Tion
Martin
Lewis
Lund
Irman
Miss Lynn
Jane
DeFore
Richard Rhinelander
Steve
Crazy Seymour
Night Song at Capitol Captures Romantic Drama
Blind composer Andrea weds art with tragedy after sight loss in a car crash. Dana Andrews and Merle Oberon star opposite Ethel Barrymore as a society woman who helps him resume his career. The climax features Artur Rubinstein and the New York Philharmonic under Eugene Ormandy performing the concerto. Hoagy Carmichael heads the supporting cast and Leith Stevens wrote the featured concerto.
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John Cromwell
the Capitol
Dana Andrews
Merle Oberon
Ethel Barrymore
Andrews
Miss Oberon
Artur Rubinstein
New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy
Hoagy Carmichael
Leith Stevens
First cathode tube built in 1897
The article notes the first cathode tube was developed in 1897 marking a key milestone in early electronics and television history.
An Innocent Affair at the Roxy Theatre
The comical film An Innocent Affair stars Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMurray at the Roxy Theatre Tuesday and Wednesday. The plot centers on a straight‑laced advertising exec whose dealings with a widow cause his wife to plot a flirtation, delivering nine reels of witty intrigue. Produced by James Nasser, it features Charles Buddy Rogers, Rita Johnson, Louise Allbritton, and Alan Mowbray with Lloyd Bacon directing. Carroll, returning after seven years in Red Cross duty, co stars with MacMurray, previously seen together in multiple titles.
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Roxy Theatre
United Artsist
Madeleine Carroll
Fred MacMurray
James Nasser
Charles
Buddy’ Rogers
Rita Johnson
Louise Allbritton
Alan Mowbray
Lou Breslow
Joseph Hoffman
Lloyd Bacon
Miss Carroll
Red Cross
MacMurray
Bali
Virginia
Lisbon
Shirley's Stand On Woman's Rights Shocks Parish
Shirley Temple stars as Dinah Sheldon a rebellious painter in Adventure in Baltimore at the Princess. Robert Young and John Agar join her in a comic tale of a minister father entangled with his parishioners as Dinah champions women’s rights in early 1900s settings.
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Baltimore
Robert Young
Shirley Temple
John Agarin
Dinah Sheldon
Dinah
Young
Shirley
Agar
Albert Sharpe
Josephine Hutchinson
Johnny Sands
Richard Wal
Top Flight Stars Seen In Cinecolor El Paso Here
Paramount brings El Paso to the Princess Theatre with John Payne Gail Russell Sterling Hayden George Gabby Hayes and Dick Foran in the lead. Cinecolor western shows Payne as a postwar Charleston lawyer in El Paso where law and order are hard won. Payne battles ruthless town officials including a drunken judge played by Henry Hull as he fights for justice amid hangings and killings.
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John Payne
Gail Russell
Paramount
el Paso
Princess Theatre
Sterling Hayden
George “Gabby” Hayes
Dick Foran
Eduardo Noriega
Henry Hull
Mery Beth Hughes
Cinecolor
Mary Beth Hughes
H. Barner
Bobby Ellis
Charleston
Gail
Henby Hull
Payne
Warner Baxter Faces Underworld in The Devils Henchmen
Warner Baxter stars as an undercover insurance agent chasing a waterfront gang preying on ships in a West Coast harbor. Mary Beth Hughes Mike Mazurki Peggy Converse and Regis Toomey support as the film follows Baxter’s dangerous infiltration and the gang’s big haul, ending with a police takedown.
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Columbia
Capitol Theatre
Warner Baxter
Mary Beth
Hughes
Mike Mazurki
Peggy Converse
Regis Toomey
Baxter
Eric Taylor
Seven Seas
Mazurki
Monks Smuggle Silk Worms From China to Europe in 550 A.D.
Two monks, acting under a Roman emperor, smuggled silk worms from China to Europe around 550 A.D. This event marks an early transfer of sericulture knowledge along ancient trade routes.
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China
Europe
Immortal She and Pompeii at the Capitol stage
Merian C. Cooper presents a pair of revived 1930s productions at the Capitol, She and The Last Days of Pompeii. Helen Gahagan and Randolph Scott lead She with Nigel Bruce and Helen Mack in support. Pompeii features Preston Foster with Alan Hale Basil Rathbone and others. Ernest B. Schoedsack directed both shows.
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H. Ridder Hagegard
Pompeii
Capitol
Merian C. Cooper
Helen Gahagan
Douglas
California
Randolph Scott
Helen Mack
Nigel Bruce
Irving Pichel
L. C. Holden
Perdition
Preston Foster
Marcus
Alan Hale
Basil Rathbone
John Wood
Louis Calhern
David Holt
Dorothy Wilson
Wyrley Birch
Ernest B. Schoedsack
Reading Orange Leaves In Riverside Science Study
Riverside, Calif. UC chemists grind orange leaves and analyze them to determine what compounds they contain and how these signals may reveal information about plant health and potential applications.
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Riverside
Calif
University of California
Orange tree shows hunger in leaves for missing nutrients
A forecast of nutrient need for a tall handsome fertilizer bag hints the orange tree signals hunger by its leaf deficiencies. The brief note frames plant care around soil nutrition and implies key elements the tree lacks to thrive.
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Charles “Buddy” Rogers
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