Monkey Business Opens at Princess With Star Cast
The four star comedy opens today at the Princess Theatre starring Cary Grant Ginger Rogers Marilyn Monroe and Charles Coburn. A sober chemist's youth reversing potion triggers wild antics including roller skates seltzer fights and jitterbugging as Coburn and the directors join the frothy romp.
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Princess Today
Grant
Rogers
Princess Theatre
Cary Grant
Ginger Rogers
Marilyn Monroe
Charles Coburn
Cary
Miss Monroe
Coburn
Hugh Marlowe
Henri Letondal
Robert Cornthwaite
Larry Keating
Douglas Spencer
Esther Daly
George Winslow
Marine veteran Peter Rabbitt Jr reenlists in Marines
St Louis reports Pfc Peter Rabbitt Jr a World War II Tarawa veteran has re enlisted in the Marine Corps. He has a brother Jack Rabbitt and a sister nicknamed Bunny Rabbitt.
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ST. Louis
Tarawa
Marine Corps
Pfc
Peter Rabbitt Jr
Peter
Jack Rabbitt
Bunny” Rabbitt
Revival and social notices from Morgan County
The Morgan County community reports a stewardship revival led by Alvis Briscoe and Mr Hendon of Southside Baptist Church Decatur with attendees including Mrs George Brown and her daughters and Mrs Jenkins. Visitors and residents attend dinners and visits to local churches as well as updates on moves and illnesses. Due to weather the school concert by the Dixie Drifters drew a small crowd.
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Alvis Briscoe
Hendon
Southside Baptist Church
Decatur
George Brown
Ewell Greene
Marvin Skidmore
Leanne Ryan
Priceville
Annie Bowling
Florette
Randolph Ryan
Levey McKee
Texas
Dixie Drifters
Pony Express Ends After Short-Lived Run
The famed Pony Express carried mail to and from California for 16 months starting in 1860.
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Pony Express
California
The First Time Comedy At Roxy Today
A new comedy about first time parents at the Roxy Theatre stars Robert Cummings and Barbara Hale with Bill Goodwin Jeff Donnell Carl Benton Reid and Mona Barrie. The film follows newlyweds adjusting to parenthood with humor focusing on feeding campaigns in law baby-sitters and financial demands.
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Roxy Today
Robert Cummings
Barbara Hale
Mona Barrie
Miss Hale
Roxy Theatre Today
Bill Goodwin
Jeff Donnell
Carl Benton Reid
Hollywood
Cummings
Jumping Jacks Stars Martin And Lewis At Strand
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis bring their sky soldier antics to Jumping Jacks at the Strand Theatre opening next week. The film features Mona Freeman, a chorus, and songs by Mack David and Jerry Livingston, with Norman Taurog directing on location at Fort Benning Georgia.
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Dean Martin
Jerry Lewis
America
Strand Theatre
Army
Navy
Dean
Jerry
Ace
Mack David
Jerry Livingston
Mona Freeman
Norman Taurog
Fort Benning
Georgia
Red Planet Mars thrills at the Roxy with Mars contact theme
The film stars Peter Graves Andrea King and Herbert Berghof as scientists and a Nazi inventor in a tale of radio contact with Mars. Audiences are kept breathless as an electronic signal reaches Mars and global consequences unfold, guided by scientific speculation on life beyond Earth.
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Peter Graves
Andrea King
Herbert Berghof
Red Planet Mars
Roxy Theatre
Mars
Compris
Moon
Earth
Abbott and Costello in Lost In Alaska at Princess Theatre
Abbott and Costello open Lost In Alaska at the Princess Theatre in a lively, dangerfilled comedy. Mitzi Green Tom Ewell and Bruce Cabot lead a zany Alaska chase with two million dollars of gold and a cast including 508th Airborne personnel in a comic romp.
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Alaska
Princess Theatre
Abbott and Costello
Zanher
San Francisco
Arctic
America
Mitzi Green
Yukon
Skagway
Bud
Lou
Tom Ewell
Nugget
Joe McDermott
Fortune In Gold
Ewell
Bruce Cabot
Zany Abbott and Costello
Far North
the Princess
Lemon Finds Double Egg at Middle Lake
Local resident Art Lemon discovered a boiled egg with a second complete egg inside at breakfast near Middle Lake in Canada. The odd occurrence yielded two yolks and a hard shell within the outer egg.
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Lemon
Middle Lake
Canada
Art Lemon
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