Theaters Here This Week at Center
Center shows announce the week's lineup with "The Princess and the Pirates" in color with Bob Hope and Mayo, plus "Watchtower" war coverage, "Guest in the House" with Anne Baxter and Ralph Bellamy, "Goofy News Views" cartoon, and "Waterloo Bridge" with Robert Taylor and Vivien Leigh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Hope
Mayo
Watchtower
Dumbarton Oaks
Anne Baxter
Ralph Bellamy
Waterloo Bridge
Robert Taylor
Vivien Leigh
Main Street After Dark and Comedy and Serial Fun
Listings recap film and short features including Edward Arnold and Selena Royle in Main Street After Dark with The Raiders cartoon. Also shows Girls Preferred sports reel Puttin On The Dog and Cisco Kid Returns with Dun can Renaldo and Gwen Kenyon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Main Street
Edward Arnold
Selena Royle
the Raiders
Marjorie Reynolds
Charles Ruggles
Cisco Kid
Duncan Renaldo
Gwen Kenyon
Watchtower
Lorrigan
Posey
Dan Duryea
Lefty Dibson
Tom Trout
Broadhurst Theatre
Paramount Today-Monday Preview of Featured Films
The schedule lists Universal News and film entries for today and Tuesday with titles including Meet Me in St. Louis starring Judy Garland and Margaret O'Brien, Man in Half Moon Street with Nils Astor and Helen Walker, Chinatown Champs Sport Reel, Topper with Roland Young, Jasper Tell Miniature, and What a Blonde with Leon Er.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paramount Today
ST. Louis
Judy Garland
Margaret O'Brien
Universal News
Halfmoon Street
Nils Astor
Helen Walker
Chinatown
Sport Reel
Roland Young
Jasper Tell
Minature
Leon Er
Forget To Re member Comedy and Jungle Queen Serial
Richard Lane stars in Forget To Re member a comedy offering and Jungle Queen a serial feature with a late Saturday show titled Murder My Swee. The note reads as a partial program listing with limited legible details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rol
Richard Lane
Wyoming Hurricane and Raiders of Ghost City Double Feature
Movietone News lists a double feature with Wyoming Hurricane and Raiders of Ghost City Chap 4. Three Pests and Mess presents a Stooge comedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Movietone News
ueeye-Gweenney
Wyoming
Ghost City
Stooge
Rialto Film Listings and Fox Shorts Preview
The page lists Rialto features including Fighting Seabees with John Wayne and Susan Hayworth and Fox shorts like Six Gun Justice Kings of Fairways and Community Sing. Also shows Pearl of Death with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce plus hundreds of novelty pieces and serials featuring Johnny Mack Brown Don Red Barry and chapter reels of Captain America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fighting Seabees
John Wayne
Susan Hayworth
Fox Movietone News
Kings of Fairways
Voolvil
Janie
Joyce Reynolds
Robert Hutton
Basil Rathbone
Nigel Bruce
Lil Abner
Fox
East Side
Bureau
Johnny Mack Brown
Ann Corrie
Don “Red” Barry
California
Hiawatha
Waterloo Bridge Returns To Center With Vivien Leigh
Waterloo Bridge comes back to the Center theater with Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor headlining a star studded cast. Maria Ouspenskaya Lucile Watson C Aubrey Smith Virginia Field and others support the tender World War I romance based on Robert Sherwood's play.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myra
Vivien Leigh
Roy
Robert Taylor
Waterloo Bridge
Center Theatre
Virginia Field
C. Aubrey Smith
Lucile Watson
Center Theater
Maria Ouspenskaya
London Bridge
Robert Sherwood
Senate Committee To Discuss Machine Tools
A Senate small business sub committee scheduled hearings for next Wednesday on postwar disposal of government owned machine tools. About 70 percent of the $4,000,000,000 worth built for war purposes is government owned. J B Carswell of Canada’s surplus property agency will explain his country’s plan, with other machine tool industry and government witnesses. The update notes World War I and II evacuation death rates, and cites Shakespeare’s Macbeth as background.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Stewart
D-Tenn
J. B. Carswell
Canada
Official Film Shown At Center On Global Security Plan
Secretary of State Stettinius introduces a 15 minute motion picture Watch Tower Over Tomorrow at the Center theater running today through Tuesday. The film presents the Dumbarton Oaks plan and Crimea decisions, produced by the Motion Picture Industry for the state department and the office of war information. It ties the United States Great Britain China and the Soviet Union proposals to postwar peace as the United Nations at San Francisco looms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Center Theater
Dumbarton Oaks
Department of State
Office of War Information
War Activities Committee
Motion Picture Industry
Golden Gate
United Nations
San Francisco
United States
Great Britain
China
Soviet Union
Crimea
Roosevelt
Stalin
Churchill
Stettinius
Germany
Cooper And Ingram Awarded Distinguished Service Honor
New York April 21 Kent Cooper executive director of the Associated Press and Admiral Jonas H Ingram commander in chief of the Atlantic fleet received distinguished service awards from the sons of Indiana of New York The citation called Cooper the worlds managing editor and praised his fight for freedom of the press The award also hailed Ingram as the outstanding Hoosier in military affairs both men are Indiana natives Columbus and Jeffersonville respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Kent Cooper
Associated Press
Jonas H. Ingram
Atlantic Fleet
Sons of Indiana of New York
Cooper
Columbus
Ind
Ingram
Jeffersonville
Skaggs Reelected Principal at Mills Home School
Thomasville April 21 reelection of Romulus Skaggs to the Mills Home school principalship was announced. George Arnold won a two year term along with other local principals. EF L Peterson, principal of the Negro school, was deferred to a later date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville
Romulus Skaggs
Mills
George Arnold
EF. L. Peterson
We the People Face a Postwar World Chance and Challenge
A 1945 speech urges study and understanding of a plan to secure peace and steady jobs for families. It emphasizes the sacred duty to children and the opportunity unlike since 1787 to shape a world free from war through sacrifices and sorrow of wartime.
Princess and the Pirate Opens in Technicolor at Center
Bob Hope stars in Samuel Goldwyn's The Princess and the Pirate a Technicolor comedy opening today at the Center Virginia Mayo leads the female role with Walter Brennan Walter Slezak Victor McLaglen and Marsden Lawrence among the supporting cast The film follows a wandering actor who falls for a princess amid bloodthirsty buccaneers in a quest for buried treasure
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Bob Hope
Bob
Center Theatre
Samuel Goldwyn
Walter Brennan
Walter Slezak
Victor McLaglen
Mars Lawrence
Virginia Mayo
Goldwn
Billy Rose
Goldwyn
Granville County Placed Under Rent Control
The OPA announced Granville County and Oxford will come under rent control effective May 1. Rents for all dwellings will be rolled back to November 1943 levels with Durham handling administration. The Durham office staff will increase to six, including director, attorney, examiner, inspector and two clerks. an additional rent clerk will be hired in Oxford.
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Raleigh
Oxford
Granville County
OPA
Granville
Durham
T.S. Johnson
Wool price adjustments by twine type
The report states wool tied with paper twine earns 2 cents per pound more than untied wool. Wool tied with sisal or binder twine incurs a 10 cent per pound deduction.
Anne Baxter Stars in Guest In The House at Center
Anne Baxter headlines the Hunt Stromberg drama Guest In The House shown at Center Theater on Wednesday. The film, adapted from a stage hit by Elliot Paul, centers on a young woman with abnormal emotions and a split personality. Supporting cast includes Ralph Bellamy Aline MacMahon Ruth Warrick and Jerome Cowan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Bellamy
Ruth Warrick
Hunt Stromberg
Anne Baxter
Center Theatre
Center Theater
Elliot Paul
Aline MacMahon
Jerome Cowan
War loan drive in Craven memorializes F D R slogan
The seventh war loan drive will be a memorial to President Roosevelt in Craven County with the slogan remember F D R and shorten the war announced by county campaign chairman J J Gaskill McDaniel. Coal forms the base of 85 percent of all war plastics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Bern
Roosevelt
Craven County
J. J. Gaskill McDaniel
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High Point
Greensboro
Rite Hayworth
New West End
Rialto
Gunga Din
de Seven Seas
Dohu Wayne
Susan Hayward
Dennis O'Keefe
Macbeth
Scotland
Shakespeare
Laue
Howard Arnold
Hume Cronyn
Dan Duryer
Audrey Totter
Dorothy Ruth Morris
Broadhurst
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Marty
Truman
Swing
Hoagy Carmichael
Cary Grant
Constance Bennett
Topper
Paramount Theatre
Cooper and Ingram
Skaggs
Louistena
Strange Film At Center Wednesday
Mipuki O'Brien
Mary Astor
Lucille Bremes
Tom Drake
Marjorie Main
Paramount
Ohl
Mister Goldwyn
Tonat
Kanae
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