Bogart Leads Desert Battle in Sahara Previews at Princess
Humphrey Bogart stars as a tank commander in a stirring Libyan desert story ahead of Sahara. The 3 day Princess Theatre showing features a multinational Allied crew battling through sand wastes toward El Alamein with Zoltan Korda directing. The cast includes Bruce Bennett Lloyd Bridges Rex Ingram Carrol Naish Dan Duryea and more. Lubitsch’s Heaven Can Wait also looms with a starry cast and a birthday origin, though separate from the Bogart feature.
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Sahara
Humphrey Bogart
Casablanca
Princess Theatre
Bogart
el Alamein
Zoltan Korda
Imperial Valley
California
Texas
Brooklyn
Mr. Bogart
Bruce Bennett
Lloyd Bridges
Rex Ingram
Carrol Naish
Dan Duryea
Richard Nugent
Patrick O’moore
Louis T. Mercier
Carl Harbord
Guy Kingsford
Kurt Krueger
Lulubelle
J. Carrol Naish
Girls on Probation at Strand highlights juvenile delinquency
The Strand Theatre presents the drama Girls on Probation starring Jane Bryan and Ronald Reagan. The film portrays probation’s workings and follows an innocent girl targeted by a railroading case, aided by a sympathetic probation officer. Also featuring Anthony Averill and Susan Hayward, directed by William McCann.
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Strand Theatre
Jane Bryan
Ronald Reagan
Miss Bryan
Mr Reagan
Anthony Averill
Shelia Bromley
Esther Dale
Susan Hayward
William McCann
Paroled killer released in Montgomery case
State pardons and parole actions lead to the release of a murderer in Montgomery, Alabama, with details noted in the June report.
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Montgomery
Ala
Bela Lugosi in The Return of the Vampire at the Roxy
Bela Lugosi stars as the returning Vampire in a chilling horror tale set in London and beyond. Lady Jane Ainsley battles the undead, aided by Professor Saunders, as the creature returns twenty years later before a sunlit finale.
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Bela Lugosi
Roxy Theatre
Jane Ainsley
Frieda Inescort
Nicki
Nine Foch
Lady Jane
Porfessor Saunders
Gilbert Emery
London
Matt Willis
Nina Foch
Farore Granted to Smiley Otwell in 1936 Slaying
The board yesterday granted a pardon to Smiley Otwell of Cleburne County who was sentenced to life in 1936 for the fatal shooting of his wife. Otwell testified the intended bullet was meant for himself and that the shot passed through his body before striking his mate.
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Board
Smiley Otwell
Cleburne County
Otwell
Delano Park Hosts Largest Pet Invasion Yet
Delano Park Recreation Center welcomed hundreds of visitors and a parade of pets in a memorable community day. Judges Rev Elmer Freer Adj Leon Thomas and Mrs Quince Eddins awarded prizes to diverse pets including Betsy the hen, Leon the frog, Wild Money the cat and Major the dog among many others. Special guests Mrs Edward Cowan from New York and Mrs Royal Voght from St. Louis joined families from Courtland Air Base and Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. The park drives added six new swings donated by Crow and Crow, and Special Arts Week runs June 11 to 18 1944 with daily activities for children and teens.
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Delano Park Recreation Center
Arkie
George Hartselle
Chang
Billy Levin
Jack
Bettye Jean Brown
Edward Cowan
New York
Courtland Air Base
Royal Voght
St. Louis
Romaine
Voght
Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation
Delano Park Recreation
Heaven Can Wait opens at Princess Theatre with Gene Tierney
The Lubitsch style comedy Heaven Can Wait stars Gene Tierney and Don Ameche in a saucy tale of the naughty nineties. The film opens Wednesday at the Princess Theatre, promising sparkling romance and playful intrigue.
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Lubitsch
Don Ameche
Gene Tierney
Princess Theatre
Charles Coburn
Marjorie Main
Laird Cregar
Allyn Joslyn
Eugene Pallette
Signe Hasso
Invention of Glass Blowing Arrives with Christianity
A fragment notes that the technique of glass blowing emerged with the advent of Christianity. It suggests a historical link between early Christian era developments and glass artistry.
Paris After Dark at the Roxy portrays Nazi occupation
In Paris After Dark Brenda Marshall helps the underground while her husband Philip Dorn, returned from a prison camp, has lost his courage. George Sanders leads the resistance as Brenda risks exposure and heartbreak amid fear and suspicion.
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George Sanders
Philip Dorn
Brenda Marshall
Roxy Theatre
Paris
Brenda
Marshall
Underground
Dorn
France
The
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Louis Calhern
Spring Byington
Don
Gene
Kansas City
Lazlo Bus- Fekete
Samson Raphaelson
Fred Astaire
Rita Hayworth
Jerome Kern
Fred
Rita
Kern
Roxy
Adolphe Menjou
Peaggehe Kern
George Sander
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Thursda
Delano Park
Schwachow
Elizabeth Roberts
Glee Club
H. E. Weston
Leon Thomas
Hartselle, Alabama
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Robert Walker
Private Hargrove
Donna Reed
Bob Crosby
Robert Benchley
Penn
Onald Reagan
Jean Pierre Aumont
Gene Kelly
Cedric Hardwicke
Peter Lorre
Cross OF
Lorraine
Roy Rogers
Ruth Terry
Music Mountain
Pat Brayy
Bob Nolan
Sons OF the Pioneers
Robert McRight
Capitol
Stuart
the Boss
George
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Lorre
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Trinidad
Pat O'Brien
Brian Donlevy
Janet Blair
Russell. Hayden
Alma Carroll
Wyoming
Tues
Bruce Bennett Carrol Nash
Loy
Bridges
Mewart Lawson
Zoltan Kanda
Zotan Korda
Columbia Picty
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Minster
Heaven-On-Earth
Ernst ’Lubitsch
Therney Ameche
Coburn
Ernst
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