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High Point Enterprise

Location

High Point, North Carolina, United States of America

Date

Dec 28, 1947

Page

6

Theatres This Week Bring Hope and Heroes On Screen

This week at Theatres runs through Wednesday with Where There’s Life starring Bob Hope Signe Hasso and William Bendix and the Red Hot Rangers cartoon plus Midnight Serenade and Playing By Ear. Thursday to Saturday features The Swordman with Larry Parks and Ellen Drew and T Men In Action plus aMexican to Duck cartoon and Santa’s Surprise. Late Show Saturday Night presents Nightmare Alley with Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell.

Bob Hope Signe Hasso William Bendix Red Hot Rangers Pete Smith Paramount News Larry Parks Ellen Drew T Men In Action March of Time Paramount Batavia Center Theatre

Adventure Island and Rhapsody In Wood On Screen

Monday Tuesday features Rory Calhoun and Rhonda Fleming in ADVNTURE ISLAND with cartoondrama and news of the day. Evelyn Ankers appears in Inate Hall while sports novelty Pointers entertain and G Men Never Forget continues.

Advnture Island Rory Calhoun Rhonda Fleming LAST Inate Hall Evelyn Ankers Rous Dan McGoo Riders OF “Tone Charles Starrett

Paramount Today Movie Lineup Features Classic Stars

Monday to Tuesday highlights Franchot Tone and Lucille Ball in Her Husband's Affairs with news events and midweek shows including Sons of Courage and All's Fair At Fair. Ride the Pink Horse stars Robert Montgomery and Wanda Hendrix through Wednesday to Saturday.

Robert Montgomery Andrea King Paramount Theatre Franchot Tone Lucille Ball Sons of Courage Adventure Wanda Hen

RAMROD and Other Titles Show Film Schedule Highlights

The listing outlines a week of screen and cartoon features including RAMROD with Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake, UNEXPECTED GUEST with Hopalong Cassidy, STRAIGHT SHOOTERS, TELEVSION TURMOIL, PEST IN HOUSE, SANTA FE UPRISING, Son of Zorro serial, Overture To Win Tell cartoon, Fox News, UNDER FIESTA STARS with Gene Autry, MUSICAL BANDITS with Ray Whitley, Pluto's House worming one, Deep In Deep Popeye, Dog gone Modern and Happy Go Lucky cartoons.

Joel McCrea Veronica Lake Donald Ae Foshanasday Hopalong Cassidy Edgar Kennedy Allan Lane Bobby Blake Fox News Gene Autry Ray Whitley Pluto Cne Doggone Modern

Sunday-Monday-Tuesday Screenings with Irene Dunne and Bogart

A busy cinema schedule features Lady in a Jam with Irene Dunne and Patric Knowles, Call It Murder with Humphrey Bogart, and a special cartoon program Popeye Little Lulu Tom and Jerry. Trail of the Mounties stars Russell Hayden and Jennifer Holt. Also notes aging brickwork lime reverting to limestone.

Irene Dunne Patric Knowels Little Lulu Tom & Jerry Humphrey Bogart Russel Hayden Jennifer Holt

Insurance Leader Who Shunned Pay After 69 Years

Frederick H. Ecker, 80, chairman of Metropolitan Life, began at $4 a week 65 years ago and has since overseen vast private wealth. He waived compensation after turning 70, contributing to the firm with an estimated $1.75 million value, and led major financings including the Empire State Building loan and Rockefeller Center loan. He also developed large housing projects like Parkchester and Parkmerced and helped retire 80,000 shares of stock in 1914.

George Tucker New York Ecker Empire State Building Rockefeller Center Parkchester Bronx New York City Parkfair Alexandria Virginia Parklabrea Los Angeles Parkmerced San Francisco Peter Cooper Stuyvesant Manhattan The Metropolitan National Association of Life Underwriters

Wayne County Hospitals Bond Vote Set

Wayne County residents will vote January 27 in a special election on issuing $700,000 in hospital bonds to fund the county’s share of a $1.6 million expansion for the Goldsboro hospital. If approved, the hospital will be renamed Wayne Memorial hospital to honor local World War II veterans. Rest of expansion costs come from federal and state programs.

Goldsboro Wayne County Goldsboro Hospital Wayne Memorial Hospital Medical Care Commission

Motoring Boom and Domestic Wage Custom Reflections

The 1941 estimate shows 54 million American travelers using 16 million cars spending 6 billion dollars on gas repairs lodging and incidentals. In 19th century England ads for house servants noted whether tea and sugar were provided with wages.

United States England

First Woman To Get Degree At USC Dies

Hendersonville reports the death of Mrs. Jean Adams Haynes the first woman to graduate from the University of South Carolina She and her late husband Lawson Bedford Haynes were longtime South education figures She taught at Meridian Hell Mississippi and at Alabama State Teachers College Her later studies included Columbia University and Oxford University Funeral services set for Sunday in Hendersonville and burial Monday in Leesville South Carolina

Hendersonville Jean Adams Haynes University of South Carolina T. R. de Shields

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