Theaters Schedule This Week at Center News Events
Center cinema listings show hit the ice Abbott and Costo lifting heads war act sky science Pete Smith specialty and un invited post color cartoon Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday new releases Bataan stars Robert Taylor and Thomas Mitchell headline the Center program with additional shorts and cartoons.
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Broadhurst Today to Monday Program Notes
A compact listing shows films and cartoons including Dean Jagger and John Carradine in Tree for Two Color Cartoon Wedding In Bikamer News of the Day Frankenstein Meets Wolf Man Lon Chaney Bela Lugosi Double Talk Girl Community Sing Merchant Seaman News of the Day Ghost Rider Lift Your Heads Blackened Senial Willoughys Magic Hat Boobs In Night presented for the week with assorted shorts and acts.
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Broadhurst
Dean Jagger
John Carridine
Bikamer
Lon Chaney
Bela Lugosi
Johnny Mack Brown
Willoughy
Broadhurst Theatre
Paramount Today Hold-Over Burlesque and Screen Highlights
A stacked bill features Lady of Burlesque with Barbara Stanwyck and Michael O'Shea, plus Memories of Australia travel talk. Cartoons include Aristocat and Hungry Goat Popeye. Noel Coward in In Which We Serve, Noel Coward, Bernard Miles. Mary Martin and Dick Powell in Happy Go Lucky. Late show includes Du Barry Was a Lady with Red Skelton.
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Barbara Stanwyck
Michael O'Shea
Australia
Universal News
Jimmy Rogers
Noah Beery, Jr
Hungry Goat
Popeye Cartoon
John Hubbard
Virinjia Grey
Omedy
Strange Empire
Noel Coward
Bernard Miles
Johnny Davis
Orchestra
Mary Martin
Dick Powell
Rudy Vallee
Duty
Beast
Sheperd
Roundhouse
Oddity
Our Gang
DU Barry
Red Skelton
Hunt Stromberg
the Paramount
Rialto and Fox Film Highlights and Wartime Shorts
The page lists Rialto London blackout murder and "Living Is The Thing" musical, Donald's Snow Fight cartoon, Fox Movietone News on Tuesday with Wrecking Crew and McFarland Twins headliner, Scrap for Victory cartoon, Across the Pacific short, Bogart and Astor in a short, Mitchell Ayers and Oreh musical, What Are We Fighting For war act, Stardust of Sage and Overland Mail serial, Stooge To Conga, a new oil-saving larvicide by the agriculture department, claim that the White House design mirrors the Duke of Leinster's Dublin palace, Mexico seeks blood donations for measles battle, and Norway's coastline contains 150,000 islands.
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London
John Abbott
Mary McLeod
Donald
Fox Movietone News
Wrecking Crew
Richard Arlen
Chester Morris
McFarland Twins
Popular Science
Humphrey Bogart
Mary Astor
Mitchell Ayers
Oreh
Stardust OF Sage
Gene Autry
Smiley Burnette
Overland Mail
Stooge
This is Hollywood Oddities and temperaments on film set lore
A slice of Hollywood lore covers clocks that never wind for perfect dialogue, stars’ quirks, and backstage oddities. It notes the war’s impact on technicians, studio tales, doubles, and a Woody Herman career arc from vaudeville to a five figure pay for Wintertime.
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Sonja Theinie
Grable Defends Glasses Wearing Gals in Hollywood
Betty Grable protests the Dorothy Parker view that spectacle wearers are wallflowers. She argues many beautiful girls wear glasses and should not be portrayed as drab. Bruce Humberstone will direct her upcoming pin up film.
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Don Does Not Mind Playing Old Man Part
Hollywood notes the reluctance of stars to portray aged characters, even when young. Irene Dunne and Don Ameche embrace aging roles, with Ameche praising aged makeups for versatility and audience perception. The piece cites Spencer Tracy, Robert Donat, and Orson Welles as successful examples of aging roles.
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Edison the
Robert Donat
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Speed warning device nudges drivers to stay under 35 mph
A new speed warning device helps drivers maintain legal speed by resisting accelerator pressure once the vehicle nears the 35 mile per hour limit, providing a tactile cue to slow down.
Stinson Sentinel Hovering Aircraft Guides Battle Lines
The Stinson Sentinel airplane can hover above the battle lines at 45 miles an hour, directing artillery fire or the movements of troops and tanks.
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