Decision Before Dawn Opens at the Roxy Theatre
A landmark wartime drama on treachery and loyalty centers on a brave German youth torn between loyalties. Oscar Werner leads a strong turn alongside Richard Basehart and Gary Merrill as Allied undercover efforts behind German lines. The film features Helene Thimig and a notable German cast.
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Germany
Oskar Werner
Lew Ayres
Werner
Richard Basehart
Gary Merrill
Hildegrade Neff
Marlene Dietrich
Dominique Blanchar
O. E. Hasse
Wilfried Seyfert
Hans Christian Belch
Helene Thimig
Robert Freytag
Flaming Feather Opens With Spectacular Western Action
The Sunset Theatre shows Flaming Feather a Technicolor Western with Sterling Hayden Forest Tucker and Aileen Whelan. Hayden chases the outlaw Sidewinder as brutal frontier battles massacre scenes and dramatic abductions unfold. Barbara Rush joins the tale as danger grows and justice nears.
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Sterling Hayden
Frontier
Aileen Whelan
Sunset Theatre
Forest Tucker
Nat Holt
Hayden
Tucker
Miss Whelan
Barbara Rush
Town Creek Rebecca class party honor Grace Ethredge
Rebecca class of the Baptist church held a dinner party hosted by Miss Grace Ethredge with gifts exchanged and a social gathering after the turkey dinner. Family and friends from Courtland Palmetto and Lexington attended holiday visits and local residents hosted relatives through Christmas season.
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Rebecca
Grace Ethredge
the Baptist Church
Thomas Etheredge
Austin Jeffreys
Mabel Ethredge
Velma Ethredge
Lavert Brackin
Edith Givens
Lloyd Landsdell
Dewey Bynum
W. A. Norton
Maude Odell
Pluma Brackin
John Kent
Hazlewood Students Shine at Athens College Honors
Hazlewood high school is well represented at Athens College with Jimmie B. Thaxton and Miss Marie Hill named Mr and Miss Friendship for 1952 53. Thaxton named one of the five most interesting boys and serves as freshman vice president and basketball player. Hill is captain of the Golden Bears team, with other Hazlewood students Fred Lyndon Terry Paris Terry and Eloise Hill noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazlewood High School
Athens College
Jimmie B. Thaxton
Marie Hill
Jimmy
Herchel (Shag) Owens
Golden Bears
Hazlewood
Fred Lyndon Terry
Paris Terry
Eloise Hill
Personal Christmas Gatherings Across Town and College Homecomings
Mrs Mildred Houston spends Christmas in Manchester Tennessee. Mr and Mrs Billy Mardis and baby visit Mrs Mardis parents Mr and Mrs Travis Givens. College students return for Christmas include Joe Wesley Sanderson Bobby LeMay Jackie Montgomery Freddie Agee Jemmie Thaxton Herbel Owens Birmingham Southern Charles Howard Nina Belle Etheredge. David Thaxton on leave from Korea at home with his parents. Christmas dinner guests include Bud Allen Lt Clinton Berryman El Paso Texas and Robert Berryman. Melvin Clem Tom visit Mrs Clem s mother Ethel Cross and Mr and Mrs Floyd Cross and children. Minor Woodall and Butch spend holidays with his father in Cleveland Texas. Mrs Celia Martin and Mrs Dora Muston visit Mr and Mrs Irvin Martin of Harp...
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Mildred Houston
Manchester
Tennessee
Billy Mardis
Baby
Mardis
Travis Givens
University
Joe Wesley Sanderson
Bobby LeMay
Jackie Montgomery
Freddie Agee
Athens College
Jemmie Thaxton
Herbel Owens
Birmingham Southern
Charles Howard
Auburn
Nina Belle -Etheredge
David Thaxton
Korea
Floyd Cross
Minor Woodall
Butch
Mr. Woodall
Cleveland
Texas
Celia Martin
Dora Muston
Irvin Martin
Har
Frontier Saloon Ends Standoff as Couple Finds Peace
The Sidewinder is secured and salted away while Miss Rush rests in Hayden's arms. The frontier saloon and the surrounding players settle into a calm ending as the tale concludes with a sense of order.
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Miss Rush
Hayden
Frontier
Mitchum and Russell Star in His Kind of Woman at Mars Theatre
Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell headline the film His Kind of Woman at the Mars Theatre. Vincent Price Tim Holt and Charles McGraw lead the supporting cast as much of the action unfolds at a swank Mexican coast resort hotel. Russell performs several musical numbers as her character is drawn to Price and Mitchum.
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Mars Theatre
Robert Mitchum
Jane Russell
Vincent Price
Tim Holt
Charles McGraw
Miss Russell
Price
Mitchum
John Wayne Stars in Flying Leathernecks at Mars Theatre
John Wayne plays a squadron leader of U S Marines in Flying Leathernecks with Robert Ryan co starring. The Technicolor feature from RKO emphasizes air support for ground troops in combat zones and runs Wednesday and Thursday at the Mars Theatre.
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John Wayne
Technicolor
Mars Theatre
Robert Ryan
Wayne
Shanty Still Home in Lethbridge
Bert Herigsted built a sod shanty in 1909 after arriving in southern Alberta and still lives in it. It remains the only original sod shanty in active use in this region.
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Lethbridge
Canada
Bert Herigsted
Alberta
Judy Canova Stars In Oklahoma Annie At The Roxy
Judy Canova headlines Oklahoma Annie at the Roxy Theatre. John Russell plays the frontier Sheriff as Judy emulates her legendary grandmother to clean up town crime. Emmett Lynn Housely Stevenson banter with antics of Paydirt and Blinky amid car radios, chases, and a boisterous western spoof.
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Roxy Theatre
Judy Canova
John Russell
Judy
Blinky
Emmett Lynn
Housely Stevenson
Dan Fraser
Fraser
Bull McCready
Grant Withers
Carrie Nation
Frontier Ladies
Handsome Dan
Greatest cataract joke and scattered quips from a column
A collage of humorous lines and anecdotes from a newspaper column includes a grand water fall remark, jokes about prejudice and listening openly, an insurance salesman stranded six days, a professor on a streetcar, venom comparisons, firearm jokes, and quips about Baruch, family kindness, funerals, basketball, and a Kentucky colonel debating with the devil.
Humorous Bits From a Small-Town Paper Cartoons
An assortment of light vignettes and jokes from a small town gossip page. The items include a memory tale about an Indian and a colonel, local wedding birthday notes, a cocktail party quip, a bus driver exchange with a mother, a jab about modern life, and a playful resident notice about a chicken house. Mae and June-Lucky referenced as neighbors.
Box Office 1952 Poll Shows Men Dominating Top Ten
Hollywood box office leaders of 1952 favor male stars with eight of ten winners male. Doris Day and Susan Hayward are the sole female entries, while Gary Cooper, John Wayne, James Stewart, Gregory Peck, Randolph Scott star in outdoor epics and Dean Martin with Jerry Lewis and others lead the musical, comedy, and adventure choices.
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Bob Thomas
Hollywood
Doris Day
Susa Hayward
Day
Hayward
Martin and Lewis
Bing Crosby
Bob Hope
Gary Cooper
John
Doris Kapperhoff
Mary Pickford
Shirley Temple
Janet Gaynor
Bette Davis
Claudette Colbert
Irene Dunne
Greer Garson
Ingrid Bergman
Joan Crawford
Norma Shearer
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Jerome Kern
Oscar Hammerstein, II
Kathryn Grayson
Magnolia
Howard Keel
Gaylord Ravenal
Ava Cardner
Julie
Joe E. Brown
Cap’n Andy
Agnes Moorehead
Parthy
Robert Sterling
Stephen Baker
Snow White and the
America
Theatre For Colored
Barbara Britton
Willard Parker
Philip Reed
Buster Crabbe
Matthew Cross
Leroy Lawrence
Wellington
Ill
Wallace Montgomery
Nina Belle Etheridge
Theron
Bud) Etheredge
Lexington
Ollie Lee
Cullen Suggs
Leroy Whittle
Palmetto
Florida
W. J
Glen Green
Glenda
Jimmie Martin
Charlotte
Landersville
James Bowers
Selma
Claude Muston
L. M. Martin
Otis Terry
Courtland
L. L. Abrams
Anniston
Baldwins
Trafford
Mills
Aliceville
U & Patent Office
York
Eust Bank
Matz
Junius
W. M. McG
el Paso
Barney Baruch
Kentucky
Mae
Mabel Beazley
Charles Arnold
Saluda
Mabel
Charles
Chaming Beck Health
Loyd
Sunset Drive
Len TheaTe
Dopey
Walt Disneys
M-G-M
Learing
Ethel Barrymore
van Johnson
Gene Kelly
Janet Leigh
Fredric March
William Powell
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