Mirthful Murder Hit Plays Center Wednesday
A Night to Remember, Columbia's light mystery with Loretta Young and Brian Aherne, opens at the Center Theatre Wednesday and Thursday. The gay tale follows Nancy and Jeff Troy trapped in Greenwich Village after moving in for atmosphere and finding a corpse and an odd cast.
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Rooney to ship out after Army camp tour in June
MGM and the Hollywood Victory Committee have arranged an Army camp tour for Rooney. He departs in early June and is expected to be sent overseas. Audience interest grows after his dramatic performance in The Human Comedy. Marjorie Main is shifting from screen comic roles to a glamorous new image.
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Center to Open Friday Event
A new event is scheduled to open Friday at the Center, marking the start of activities for attendees. The opening promises a selection of programs and community engagement opportunities.
Hollywood Notes From The Studio Beat Of 1943
Film items report first vaudeville booking for Bud Abbott and Lou Costello at Willow Grove Park. Lionel Stander enters Air Corps in June. Ann Corio and Maxie Rosen Bloom plan Broadway co star revue. OWI choreographs All star motion picture to support Army Navy relief. Betty cotton called Blonde Blitz while Pola Negri returns in Hi Diddle Diddle. A new MGM title shifts from As Thousands Cheer to Private Miss Jones.
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They Got Me Covered Opens With Hope and Lamour
Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour star in They Got Me Covered at the Center today through Tuesday. Hope plays a quirky foreign correspondent chasing a vast Axis espionage plot in Washington aided by Lamour who runs the bureau. The comedy blends romance and spy antics with kidnapping murder and drugging as a satirical chase unfolds for laughs.
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Unnamed War Era Film Notes and Hardware Convention
A collage of blurbs notes Ruth Hussey in The Uninvited and Claudette Colbert in So Proudly We Hail with stars like George Reeves. In Raleigh the Hardware Association of the Carolinas meets for its 39th annual convention to address postwar industry issues. A tire overshoe from brake lining asbestos appears in New York. March sees more cracked motor blocks as drivers neglect antifreeze checks.
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Senate Appropriations Panel Approves Naval and Farm Bills
The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a 24.85 billion naval appropriations bill the largest in history and an 820 million farm measure with controversial provisions. The naval bill allocates over 9 billion for ships 6.5 billion for aviation plus pay and maintenance. The farm bill centers on Farm Security Administration funding triggering debate over its future.
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Teddie's Son Kermit Roosevelt Dies in Alaska
Major Kermit Roosevelt, 53, son of former president Theodore Roosevelt, died June 4 in Alaska on war duty. He had served with both the British Army in World War I and later the U S Army. He accompanied his father on the Africa hunting expedition and the River of Doubt expedition in Brazil.
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Work Begins on Sweet Potato Dehydration Plant
Raleigh reports construction started on a 50000 dollar sweet potato dehydration plant at Chadbourn in Columbus County. The plant, the souths second automatic dehydrator, will process 1200 bushels daily in September and employ 150 women in three shifts for 120 days next fall. Initially it will dry sweet potatoes only, with future capacity for other vegetables. Hugh Martin oversees construction for the agriculture department.
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The Jheatonis Hero This Week
A period page lists film slots for today through the week featuring Dorothy Lamour Bob Hope Loretta Young Brian Aherne William Holden Susan Hayward Laurel and Hardy Don Barry and Leon Errol. It highlights titles like Mission Accomplished Shantytown Jitterbugs and Valley of Vanishing Men with cartoons reels and serials.
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John Archer
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Leon Errol
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Paramount Keeper of the Flame to Open Late Show
Universal News lists Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy in Paramount Keeper of the Flame and George Brent Brenda Marshall in You Can t Escape Forever with a cartoon and several features including One Dangerous Night and Edge of Darkness on a late Saturday night lineup in the theatre program.
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Rialto Screenings and Color Shorts On Tuesday
Coastguard serial flows in with Ham and Yeas All Star Comedy. In Technicolor titles include Ship Is Born and Joan of Ozark. Musical acts feature Johny Scat Davis and a star-studded Fox Movietone News lineup. Rubber chemists note tires from the last five years resist deterioration in garages up to four years with under 15 percent loss.
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