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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1940
Page
18
The film Gone With the Wind opens for a six day engagement at the Center Theatre starting tomorrow at 10:00 with two matinees daily at 10 and 2. Evening shows begin at 7:45, with advance box-office sales at 160 South Main Street. A 20 person staff will manage crowds and ushers.
The center shows classic films including Remember the Night with Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray and Wuthering Heights with Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier. Daily listings feature Geronimo, Phantom Ranger, Another Thin Man, On Borrowed Time, and many short features and cartoons through the week.
Ingebord Jansen, a Finland native who lost both parents in the current conflict, stars in the Vanities of 1940 at the Paramount Theatre. Born in Finland, raised in Chicago schools, she pursued dance before wartime turmoil forced her return home. She later came back to the United States and landed a spot with the touring show. The piece notes Britain’s gasoline and horsepower taxes amid rationing.
The Balcony notes that Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind arrives at Center Theater for a full week in Technicolor. It praises casting by David O. Selznick and confirms Vivien Leigh as Scarlett and Clark Gable as Rhett but notes several book characters are omitted from the film.
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