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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1941
Page
5
The play Under Age opens at the Broadhurst Theatre for three days featuring Nan Grey Alex Baxter and Toni Neal with the Dead End Girls. It centers on a ruthless racketeering ring using young women as decoys in a roadside resort scheme, delivering suspense romance and sharp social exposure.
The article explains how trees have multiple names including common, scientific, and local terms. It notes Nyssa sylvatica as black gum and sour gum, pepperidge, tupelo, and cites joblolly pine with many nicknames. It discusses why botanical names are universal and records origins of names like magnolia and Osage orange.
The article notes Abbott and Costello in In the Navy at the Center this afternoon with The Andrews Sisters and Dick Powell. It also mentions Paulette Goddard in Reap the Wild Wind and Jimmie Stewart in Pot of Gold, plus the Broadhurst showing of Free and Easy with Robert Cummings and Ruth Hussey.
James Stewart and Paulette Godard headline the first Hollywood production Pot O Gold directed by George Marshall. Asterix of a millionaire who sells Vitamized foods intrigues a penniless nephew and a dance band atop a boarding house roof. Horace Heidt and his band supply the tunes.
A brief note notes Eva Gabor known as Golden Gypsy for her honey hair and Hungarian roots. It states Hollywood will teach her acting skills and she will appear in movies.
The listing shows daily film pairings and acts including Abbott and Costello in In the Navy with the Andrews Sisters, That Uncertain Feeling with Merle Oberon, Pot o Gold with James Stewart, Under Age with Nan Grey, Free and Easy with Ruth Hussey, Law of the Range with Johnny Mack Brown, and late show Devil Dogs of the Air with James Cagney. It notes news events, cartoons, novelties, travel talks, and serials across Wednesday to Saturday with multiple titles each day.
Today features Robert Taylor Mary Howard and Brian Don levy with Walt Disney cartoon Canine Caddy. Monday Tuesday brings Virginia with Madeline Carroll and Fred MacMurray Universal Ellery Queen Penthouse Mystery stars Ralph Bellamy Margaret Lindsay and Charlie Grapewin Spider's Return serial New Ready Willing But Unable Back Street with Margaret Sullivan and Charles Boyer.
Ruth Hussey shines in the romantic comedy Free and Easy at the Broadhurst Theatre, opposite Robert Cummins. The role marks a departure from Philadelphia Story and Flight Command as she plays a penniless blueblood drawn to love over money in a witty Broadway hit.
Screamingly funny pair Abbott and Costello return to the screen with Dick Powell in a new Universal comedy Abbott and Costello and Dick Powell In The Navy. The film opens today at the Center Theatre and is said to surpass Buck Privates at the box office. Leading roles include the Andrews Sisters Patty Maxene and LaVerne Claire Dodd Dick Foran Butch and Buddy Shemp Howard and the Condos Brothers. Director Arthur Lubin repeats a similar assignment from Buck Privates. Alex Gottlieb serves as associate producer on the Navy film.
Washington report notes President Roosevelt mandates fingerprinting for all federal civil service employees without files on record. Des Moines item reports Marjorie Smith surrendering Iowa license No 13 on Friday the 13th amid a string of misfortunes including accidents, surgeries, burns, and a robbery.
Hideki Tojo, the Japanese minister of war, issues a stark warning that the world faces a potential plunge into war. Tensions between Japan and the Dutch East Indies escalate to a new pitch, signaling a critical geopolitical strain.
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