Theaters This Week Feature Cartoon Shorts and Star Appearances
Local listings highlight a busy week at Bradhurst and nearby theaters. Dennis Mor Sige Trene Manning presents a Red Cross short and a color cartoon while Kay and Joan Davis headline Latest News. Other acts include Donald Woods Knox in Sweet Swing and the Larroaine program with Peter Lorre and Pierre Aumont. The Phantom and Rocky Road To Ruin share Friday through Saturday slots alongside more cartoons and shorts.
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Dennis Mor
Sige Trene Manning
Red Cross
Kay
Joan Davis
Mischa” Auer
Saludos Amigos
Broadhurst
Donald Woods
Knox
Jasper
Lorraine
Richard Serf
Peter Lorre
Pierre Aumont
Johnny Mack
Serf
Red Cross Short
Weekend Movie Shorts and Features Noted in Listings
A collage of film and cartoon previews appears with titles such as Ozark Sportsman Fighting 69s Metropolis Variety and Casanova News. Names include Toa Mona wr Te Ameche Judy Garland Walter Pidgeon Susan Hayward and Pete Smith Special.
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Te Ameche
Jimmy
Charlie Smith
Sean Smith
Ozark
Tom Neal
Robert Ry
Ten Pan Alley Cats
Amaz
Metropolis
Variety
Turday Tre
Iraq
John Ruth Ford
Loan St
Maskvel
Saturday Night AM Curie
Greer Gar
Walter Pidgeon
Rialto
Susan Hayward
Pete Smith
Ox Movietone News
Carmien Burers
Wil Boyd
Edgar Kennedy
Veteran Leader Develops New Bomb Amid Injuries
Patrick Huskinson, blinded by a 1941 German air raid blast, remains active in Britain's armament program. Despite losing sight while serving as RAF armament chief, he continues work with the Ministry of Aircraft Production on advanced explosive devices.
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Patrick Huskinson
RAF
Ministry of Aircraft
Probat
Film Firm Found Plagiarist in Alexander's Ragtime Band Case
A St Louis court ruled Twentieth Century Fox plagiarized an unpublished Casper Wyoming author Marie Cooper Oehler Dieckhaus by basing Alexander's Ragtime Band on her Love Girl. Damages to be set by a special commissioner. Fox may appeal. The judge noted similarities in principal characters and conversations.
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ST. Louis
Saaie Hees
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Alexander
Marie Cooper Oehler Dieckhaus
Casper
Wyo
Dieckhaus
Hollywood
Twentieth Century-Fox
Irving Berlin
People’s Opera Clears Costs Returns Money
The People’s Opera at City Center of Music and Drama staged nine performances of three acts with ticket prices from 55 cents to 2.20 dollars. Laszlo Halasz, the musical director, received 30,000 dollars from the center’s funds but returned it to see Friedgut after the run, marking a unique but costly venture with mixed crowds, from curious Tosca attendees to a shrinking audience over the week.
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New York
Laszlo Halasz
Friedgut
Desert Song opens at Center with Technicolor splendor
The four day engagement presents a modernized film version of the stage favorite The Desert Song. Dennis Morgan and Irene Manning star as Paul and Margot with Bruce Cabot Gene Lockhart and Faye Emerson in the cast.
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Dennis
Irene Manning
Kay Kyser
Susan Hayward
John Carroll
Raoing Technicolor
Center Theatre
Georgia Carroll
Model Extra- Theatre
Kyser Band
Marcy McGuire
Paul Hudson
Paul
Margot
Dennis Morgan
Mara
Bruce Cabot
Gene Lockhart
Faye Emerson
Manning
Bruce Jcabot
Gene ‘Lockhart
Badoglio Seeks Details on Plan to Divide Italian Fleet
In Naples on March 4 Marshal Pietro Badoglio asked Allied officials for the most complete urgent details of Roosevelt’s plan to turn 11 Italian fleet ships over to the Allies. He said he learned of the proposal from press and radio reports and reserved the right to act upon receiving formal information.
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Naples
Pietro Badoglio
Italy
Roosevelt
Badoglio
Traffic deaths drop nearly a thousand between 1941 and 1943
The report notes that almost 1,000 fewer people were killed in traffic accidents in 1943 compared with 1941. The statistic highlights a sharp decline over the two-year span amid wartime conditions and changing travel patterns.
High Average Low Production Records Set in 1943 Virginia Tobacco
The War Food Administration announced the 1943 Virginia fire-cured tobacco crop set a new low in production while achieving a record high average of $28.02 per hundred pounds. Total pounds sold dropped sharply from the previous year, with demand driving averages up despite overall leaf quality being variable.
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Raleigh
Virginia
War Food Administration
WFA
Borman
Planting tips from victory garden experts
Victory garden guidance covers frost risk, crop timing, and seed depth. It advises radishes carrots parsnips onions beets and turnips early, while tomatoes potatoes beans and peppers wait for danger of cold to pass. It stresses soil prep straight rows and careful thinning and irrigation.
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Victory Garden
United States Department of Agriculture
Tobacco Markets Face Slow 1943 Crop and Holiday Pause
The 1943 tobacco crop was narrow and light, with yields among the smallest in years. Markets opened December 6 and sales ended February 27, while primings sold October 5-28. A January marketing holiday followed a late January glut from high packing plant demand and a labor shortage.
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Farmville
Lynchburg
Blackstone
WFA
Federal Age Commodities Corporation
Guns In London Fire With Terrific Blasts
London reports anti aircraft guns now fire with blasts that knock locks from doors and blow doors open. An official account says doors are left open and blackout boards fall, with ATS girls assigned to keep doors closed as part of their duties.
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London
ATS
Kay Kyser Film To Play Here Disney Featurette On Program
Kay Kyser and band star in Around the World a three continent musical comedy with Mischa Auer nine new songs and a troupe touring Australia China Egypt Tunisia and Liberia plus a 30 minute Disney Saludos Amigos featurette in color with music and folk lore of Argentina Brazil Chile Colombia Peru and more
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Kay Kyser
Center Theatre
Kay
Australia
China
Egypt
Tunisia
Liberia
Mischa Auer
Mischa
Joan Davis
Marcy McGuire
Georgia Carroll
Har
Ry Babbitt
Ish Kabibble
Ivan Eff
W Brown
Chester Conklin
Hollywood
Disney
Argentine
Brazil
Chile
Livia
Peru
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Richard Whorf
Gene Kelly
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Sir Sedrichardwicke
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Federal Mint
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Freddy Martin
Count Basie
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FBI
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