Theaters This Week Variety Showings and Cartoons
This week at local theaters features five graves to Cairo and Crystal Ball with Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland, plus Here at Home novelty and Yankee Doodle Mouse color cartoon. Other days present Fly ing Fortress, Boy and the Wolf color, Dog House, Desert Wonderland cartoon, Hangmen Also Die, Jungle Drums serial, Calling Wild Bill Elliott, Black Dragon serial, and Desperadoes with Randolph Scott. Notable appearances include TaxI Mister with stage show Hollywood Scanties and a Bird Farm cartoon, ending with Presenting Lily Mars late Saturday.
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Cairo
Franchot Tone
Anne Baxter
Paramount News
Paulette Goddard
Ray Milland
Pete Smith
Richard Greene
Carla Lehman
Broadhurst
Clancy Street Boys
Fast Side
Walt Disney Color
Brian Donlevy
Walter Brennan
Bill Elliott
Gabby Hayes
Paramount Today
Randolph Scott
Glenn Ford
Toll Bridge
Malta
Universal News
William Bendix
Grace Bradley
Hollywood
Bird Farm
Sportlight
Walter Pidgeon
Claire Trevor
Marjorie Main
John Wayne
Roy Rogers
Rialto Schedule Highlights Major and the Minor
Fey Movietone News lists Shephard of Ozarks and Great Glover Glove Slinger Comedy Message From Malta. Wednesday show includes George Washington Slept Here with Jack Benny Ann Sheridan. Plan for Destruction featurette. Fox Movietone News. Thursday presents How's About It by Andrews Sisters Robert Paige His Wedding Scare Along Texas Range Two Fisted Justice Range Busters Overland Mail serial.
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Rialto Today
Major and the
Ginger Rogers
Ray Milland
Fey Movietone News
Shepherd OF Ozarks
Weaver Bros
Flviry
Malta
Victor Short
George Washington
Jack Benny
Ann Sheridan
Fox Movietone News
Andrews
Robert Paige
Texas
al Star
Overland Mail
Goering Reported Very Ill in Stockholm Statement
Reichsmarshal Herman Goering is described as very ill with a nervous breakdown and serious heart trouble. By last Thursday night two specialists were treating him and his wife Emmy remained at his side around the clock.
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Stockholm
Goeteborg
Handels-Och Stoefartstidning
Reichsmarshal
Herman Goering
Goering
Emmy
Five Graves To Cairo Stars Franchot Tone At Center
Franchot Tone leads the British soldier in Five Graves To Cairo at Center Theatre set behind Rommel era Africa. Akim Tamiroff Anne Baxter and Erich von Stroheim as Rommel co star in a war adventure praised for action and suspense.
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of Rommel
Cairo
Anne Baxter
Franchot
Eighth Army
Frie von Stroheim
Frwin Rommel
Franchot Tone
Tunisian
Africa
Parameount
Center Theatre
Rommel
Afrika Korps
Akim Tamiroff
Erich von Stroheim
Erwin Rommel
Gasoline shortages spark talk at Asheville meeting
Gasoline shortage and rationing were discussed at the annual meeting of the Southeastern district of the North American Gasoline Tax Conference in Asheville. Speakers included E W Ayers of the North Carolina State Revenue Department regional governor Edwin Gill Amos Tilton of the OPA P D McLean and J M Lee. Lightning flashes travel at 29000 miles per second.
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Asheville
E. W. Ayers
North Carolina State Revenue Department
Edwin Gill
Amos Tilton
OPA
Washington
P. D. McLean
National Highway Users Conference
J. M. Lee
Florida
Teacher Shortage Looms in North Carolina Schools
Raleigh July 3 Nath an Yelton state comptroller said there will be a definite teacher shortage in North Carolina's schools in the 1943 44 school year despite lower certificate qualifications and teacher allotments about 200 fewer than last year.
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Raleigh
Nathan Yelton
State Board of Education
North Carolina
Airport lease canceled. Salisbury returns field to city
Salisbury officials were informed that the government lease on the municipal airport has been canceled and the field will be returned to local management. Local authorities plan to resume control and operate the airport under city oversight.
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Salisbury
Jazz Band Star Harry James Plans July Fourth Wedding
Bands man Harry James will marry leg famous Betty Grable in a July 4 wedding, with his music boosting the celebration as jitterbugs dance in the aisles.
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Harry James
Betty Grable
Oilmen drilled over 18000 miles of holes in 1941
In 1941 American oilmen completed more than 18000 miles of drilling. The record highlights extensive exploration during the year, underscoring the sector’s large scale activity and continued push into new fields. Industry data reflect vigorous efforts across regions and companies.
Theater reform fantasy and Hollywood puffery in one issue
A satirical proposal by Ken Englund urges sweeping cinema crowds controls including throat spraying, hat-knocking ushers, hard men at the doors, a Necking Room, and a back row classroom. The piece laments wartime limits on press whimsy while noting George Popol’s Olive de Havilland victory garden and George Sanders’s self description as lazy in Hollywood.
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Cinema Palace
Ken Englund
Englund
Hollywood
Petunia
Homer Pigeon
Catalina Island
RKO
George Popol
Monroe
N. C
Olivia de Havilland
Popol
de Havilland
George Sanders
Concord High School Star Football Player Missing in European War
Charlotte dispatch reports Staff Sgt. Harold J. Cooke an aerial gunner missing in the European theater since June 22. He is Otto J. Cooke’s son of Concord, formerly lived in Charlotte, attended Central High, and starred in football.
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Charlotte
Harold J. Cooke
Otto J. Cooke
Concord
Central High School
Actor Learns Relaxed Art as Time Juggled Contract Talk
The actor says he has mastered the craft by total relaxation and sleeps between scenes. He jokes about a new contract allowing work only by vernal equinoctial time, causing shifts through Greenwich, lunch, and Pacific wartime zones before going home.
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George
Senator Ball Urges Postwar Air Police
New York July 3 Senator Ball R Minn urged forming a United Nations police force after the war, primarily air units, to preserve world peace. In an NBC address Ball said Americans are overwhelmingly united to crush the Axis and build a world where such horror cannot happen again.
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New York
Ball
R-Minn
United Nations
NBC
E.W.T
The Crystal Ball at Center Theatre
A sprightly comedy romance centered on crystal gazing and a fortune teller in a gaudy New York district. Paulette Goddard befriends the scheming Madame Xenobia, aided by Ray Milland, as a merry chase unfolds with love, suspense, and light adventure.
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Paulette Goddard
Ray Milland
Center Theatre
New York
Gladys George
Paulette
Madame Xenobia
Merry Chase
Ray
German torpedo guided by low flying aircraft
Report says a German torpedo is launched by a plane skimming the water about 1000 yards from the target. Instead of flying straight the weapon follows a circular path as it closes on the objective.
Army Service Forces Handle Record Merchandise Volumes
The U S Army Service Forces processed more merchandise than any other organization in world history, marking an unprecedented logistical achievement and underscoring the scale of wartime supply operations.
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U. S. Army Service Forces
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