My Favorite Wife at Center Theatre stars Grant and Dunne
Cary Grant and Irene Dunne star in the breezy comedy My Favorite Wife at Center Theatre for a four day engagement. The plot follows a wife presumed dead returning on her husband’s second honeymoon to create zany marital chaos with Gail Patrick and Scott.
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Gail Patrick
Bella
Samuel Spewack
Miss Dunne
Grant
South Seas
Irene
Desert Island
Scott
Yosemite
Gail
Cary
Million Prisoners Claimed By Nazis
Germans estimate today they hold about 1,000,000 Allied prisoners not counting Belgians and Dutch, with many shifted between intermediate camps toward the Reich. Newspaper correspondents report slow progress toward Lille Arras Calais Ypres on previous routes to Louvain Sterneckerzeel Brussels and Antwerp while convoyed prisoners mingle with fleeing civilians. Some captives are wounded without shoes and lean on comrades.
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Absalom film adaptation at Center Theatre
The Center Theatre previews a Howard Spring inspired film based on My Son My Son about William Essex and his son Oliver. Oliver seduces Maeve and causes ruin before a war ending with a heroic death, while Essex confronts his son’s flaws and loves.
Dermod Dares Fate in Ire Lands Drama Return
The review praises Henry Hull as Dermod in a stark tale where a doomed romance, a brutal war, and a murder ripple through rebellion. A Seattle suit over shell damage adds a curious, quirky note to the program.
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Livia
Oliver
Rory
Henry Hull
Dermod
Shoe manufacturing introduced to America in 1629
Thomas Beare introduced shoe making to America in 1629 after bringing hides aboard the Mayflower.
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America
Thomas Beare
A Child Is Born at Rialto in Life on Screen Drama
A stirring drama of motherhood heads the Rialto two day showing with Geraldine Fitzgerald leading a cast that includes Gladys George and Jeffrey Lynn. The film set in a city hospital maternity ward follows expectant mothers and their husbands as secrets hopes and fears collide in the timeless story of birth and family.
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Rialto Theatre
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Wuthering Heights
Gladys George
Gale Page
Jeffrey Lynn
Mary McDougal Axelson
Possible Runoff Primaries Are Few
Enterprise Bureau reports from Raleigh that less than a dozen runoff primaries for the 1941 North Carolina House may occur after last Saturday's primary. In Avery County State Senator J W Bowers led W C Pittman by two votes but faces a second primary due to votes for other candidates.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Conventioo
Watauga County
House
Avery County
J. W. Bowers
W. C. Pittman
Sun weights about 700 times all planets combined
The sun is described as weighing roughly seven hundred times the total mass of Earth and its planets combined, highlighting the vast scale of the star relative to the solar system.
My Son My Son hailed as finest new film of year
Edward Small presents My Son My Son based on Howard Spring novel. Madeleine Carroll Brian Aherne Louis Hayward star in a vivid, down to earth drama with strong supporting cast. the film opens Thursday for three days at the Center.
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Brian Aherne
Oliver
Scotty Beck
Louis Hayward
Josephine Hutchinson
Hayes
Maeve
Dermod
Son
Madeleine Carroll
Center News Events
Edward
Oward Sprin
Hollywood
Stars Unite In Broadhurst Feature Today
An Angel From Texas opens at Broadhurst reuniting Eddie Albert Mary Lane Wayne Morris Wymann Ronald Reagan Ruth Terry and Jane Wyman from Brother Rat and a Baby. The comedy follows two Lone Star yokels in Broadway hustle with savvy promoters and a scheming wife, promising lighthearted entertainment for audiences.
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Eddie Albert
Wayne Morris
Ronald Reagan
Rosemary Lane
Plorian
Robert Young
Helen Gilbert
Aqua Rhythm
Sportlight
Looneytoone
Private
George O'Brien
Holly
Mary Lane
Wymann
Ruth Terry
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Lane
Morris
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