First Yank Into Tokyo at the Princess Theatre
A suspenseful espionage drama centers on Major Steve Ross who poses as a Nipponese officer to reach a Japanese prison camp and rescue an American engineer. Tom Neal leads with Barbara Hale, Marc Cramer, Richard Leo and Keye Luke in supporting roles as the story twists through peril and romance.
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Tokyo
Princess Theatre
Tom Neal
Barbara Hale
Marc Cramer
Michael St. Angel
Richard Leo
Keye Luke
Air Corps
Japan
Steve Ross
Nippon
Secret Service
Bataan
Neal
Steve
Miss Hale
Cramer
Leo
Luke
RKO Radio
War Department
Morgan County News Roundup of Local Movements and Visits
Modne Greene, a senior, had an appendectomy at Arab hospital last Wednesday. Mrs. De Witte Crawford visited her mother Mrs. Anne Johnson in Hartselle Saturday. Principal and Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Eden of Falkville attended the Falkville Ryan game in Ryan Friday night. George Hutson bought C. O. Bone’s property and plans to move soon. Merle Wiggington moved to his new house. J. Green family occupies the old one. Joe Crawford convalescing from an infected foot. L. H. Latham took over new property from George Hutchinson. Tom Davis attracts a good line of customers. Mrs. Cecil Wright and Mrs. Carl Green Jr. visited their mother Mrs. Porch in Union Grove Marshall. Porch ill. Malcolm Mardis absent from school with an infected ear. Cecil Wright and family will move to the Carl Green home. Charles Humphries spent Sunday with Talmadge Bennifield. Quentin Bagwell in Memphis this week. Dave Green of Joppa was buried at Concord Sunday. students extend sympathy to his grandchildren at Ryan high. Eugene Whisenant bought his mother’s farm and moved in with her. Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Bone visited Mrs. Avery McAdams at Cullman hospital Sunday. Colamae Light visited Ruth friends Sunday.
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Modne Greene
Arab Hospital
de Witte Crawford
Anne Johnson
Hartselle
Smith
Eden
Falkville
Ryan
George Hutson
C. O. Bone
Merle Wiggington
J. Green
Merle
Joe Crawford
Cecil Wright
Carl Green Jr
Mrs. Porch
Union Grove
Marshall
Carl Green
Charles Humphries
Talmadge Bennifield
Quentin Bagwell
Memphis
Dave Green
Joppa
Concord
Ryan High
Eugene Whisenant
Avery McAdams
Cullman Hospital
Colamae Light
Ruth
New Star Lizabeth Scott Debuts in You Came Along at the Roxy
Lizabeth Scott makes her film debut as the female lead in Hal Wallis You Came Along at the Roxy Theatre. Co stars include Robert Cummings Don DeFore and Julie Bishop with Kim Hunter and Charles Drake. Scott’s poised performance centers on a war era romance as fate tests love and happiness amid postwar optimism. Cummings returns to cinema in his first role in over two years after serving as a flight instructor in the Army Air Corps.
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Hollywood Horizon
Lizabeth Scott
Hal Wallis
Roxy Theatre
Robert Cummings
Don DeFore
Charles Drake
Julie Bishop
Kim Hunter
Scott
Sallis Discovery
Bob Cummings
Army Air Corps
Local notables visit relatives and military veterans noted
Morgan County residents share أخبار visits as Oden and Alvie Overstreet see grandparents in Eva. Turney family hosts and guests from Redstone Park and Decatur. Veterans Junior Watson and Ollie Edwards return home after Army service. Families relocate and remodel homes in the area.
Thrill of a Romance Heads to Princess Theatre
Van Johnson and Esther Williams star in Thrill of a Romance a MGM comedy with music. The Technicolor romance follows a Air Corps major and a swimming instructor whose honeymoon taken wrong leads to love and drama. Lauritz Melchior Tommy Dorsey provide songs with scores including Because I Love You Indian Love Call and Serenade. Frances Gifford Spring Byington Vince Barnett and Henry Travers also appear in top supporting roles.
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van Johnson
Lovely
Esther Williams
M-G-M
Princess Theatre
Esther
Van
Air Corps
South Pacific
Washington
Lauritz Melchior
Metropolitan Opera
Tommy Dorsey
Frances Gifford
Spring ,Byington
Vince Barnett
Henry
Travers
The Corn Is Green at the Roxy stars Bette Davis
Bette Davis leads The Corn Is Green at the Roxy opening Tuesday with support from John Dall Nigel Bruce Joan Lorring and Rhys Williams. The drama follows a Englishwoman Miss Moffat bringing education to Welsh coal miners facing local opposition and the rise of a gifted miner Morgan Evans toward an Oxford scholarship.
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Warner Byés
Bette Davis
John Dall
Nigel Bruce
Joan Lorring
Rhys Williams
New York
Miss Moffat
Morgan Evans
Oxford University
Miss
Moffat and the Willful Bessie Clash in Schoolroom Romance
Miss Moffat faces Bessie Watty who schemes to ruin her. Watty seduces young scholar Morgan, forcing a choice between a literary career or mining life for his child. Miss Moffat urges the boy to duty toward the world, not vanity, as tragedy nears.
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Moffat
Bessie
Watty
Joan Jorring
Miss Moffat
Morgan
Bessie Watty
Workforce Spotlight at Pentagon Surpasses Rockefeller Center
At peak force about 40,000 people work in the Pentagon in Washington, 15,000 more than the 25,000 at Rockefeller Center’s 11 buildings in New York City.
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Pentagon
Washington
New York
Rockefeller Center
Music Mirth at the Roxy in People Are Funny
The Roxy Theatre opens People Are Funny a light hearted musical comedy with Jack Haley Helen Walker Rudy Vallee Ozzie Nelson and Frances Langford. Haley as the naive foil to Walker Reed and Nelson drives a radio program plot with seven tunes including Langford's Im in the Mood for Love and Vallee singing Alouette.
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Helen Walker
Philip Reed
Paramount
Roxy Theatre
Jack Haley
Helen
Alker
Rudy Vallee
Ozzie Nelson
Bob
Frances Langford
Art Linkletter
Phil Reed
Haley
Miss Walker
North Star
Coast Guard
Rudy
Alouetta
Ozzie
Early 15th Century Venice Had Over Two Hundred Presses
By the first year of the fifteenth century Venice hosted more than two hundred printing presses at work, reflecting a vibrant early era of print culture and dissemination of texts in the republic.
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Venice
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