At The Theatres This Week
This week’s listings show multiple studio programs across theaters. Paramount features include Across Pacific and You Were Never Lovelier with additional shorts and cartoons. Universal presents Big Street and accompanying News and features. Fox programs include Juke Girl and Sierra Sue with color cartoons and serials. Roy Rogers and Gabby Hayes headline a Western double bill.
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Broadhurst
Abner
Canyon
Roy Rogers
Gabby Hayes
Smiling Jack
Paramount Today
Pacific
Humphrey Bogart
Mary Astor
Universal News
Big Street
Henry Fonda
Lucille Ball
Anda Panda
Victory Garden
Fredric March
Martha Scott
Tito
Ann Sheridan
Ronald Reagan
Fox Movietone News
Sierra Sue
Gene Autry
Smiley Burnette
Andy Clyde
Shadow Of a Doubt Heralded As Top Suspense Drama
Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow Of a Doubt plays at Center Theater. Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotten star in a tale set in a typical American town with a romantic murderer hidden among familiar neighbors. Supporting cast includes Macdonald Carey Patricia Collinge Henry Travers and Wallace Ford.
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Center Today
Teresa Wright
Joseph Cotten
Paramount News
Hardy
Mickey Rooney
Lewis Stone
Ann Rutherford
Center Theater
Alfred Hitchcock
Center Theatre
Suspicion
Santa Rosa
California
Macdonald Carey
Patricia Collinge
Henry Travers
Wallace Ford
West End Theater Today Tomorrow Features Classic Pairings
The West End shows My Favorite Blond with Bob Hope and Madeline Carroll plus News and Comedy. A Wednesday Thursday double feature includes The Body Disappears with Jeffry Lynn and Jane Wyman and Along The Sundown Trails with Bill Boyd and Art Davis. Silver Bullets stars Johnny Mack Brown and Fuzzy McKnight. Among The Living features Albert Dekkar and Susan Hayward with Gang Busters No 10 and a cartoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Hope
Madeline Carrol
Jeffry Lynn
Jane Wyman
Bill Boyd
Art Davis
Johnny Mack Brown
Fuzzy McKnight
Albert Dekkar
Susan Hayward
Latin Officials Plan Recovery of Spanish Republic
Mexico City reported that Ginger De Los Rios former minister of communications announced Republican representatives met under Diego Martinez Barrio to discuss plans for the Republic. The talks were postponed to allow Basques and Catalonians abroad to consult their groups.
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Mexico City
Ginger de Los Rios
Spanish Republic
Diego Martinez Barrio
OWI Outlines North Africa Aid Program To Rebuild Food
Milton S. Eisenhower of the Office of War Information said Nazi plunder left French North Africa starving and stripped of essentials. With British and American aid the region could regain food production by supplying consumer goods and farm supplies to restart its agricultural system. He noted food and clothing shortages were so severe money had little value and cited an Arab man with two wives forced to choose which to clothe.
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Washington
Office of War Information
French North Africa
Milton S. Eisenhower
OWI
North Africa
Eisenhower
Ickes Sees Fish Output Failing to Ease Meat Shortage
Secretary Ickes reports industry estimates set seafood production this year at about 3.65 billion pounds, far short of the 7 billion pounds needed for armed forces Allies and civilians. He cites ongoing industry handicaps and emphasizes cooperation with fisheries officials, noting 1943 output was just under 1942 at 3.7 billion pounds.
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Washington
Ickes
Secretary of Agriculture
Hollywood Stars Stir Censors With Bold Best Foot Forward Scene
Behind the scenes in Hollywood the Hays Office faces a test as Lucille Ball and director Eddie Buzzell stage a pull apart dress moment in Best Foot Forward. Censors approve after the dress disintegrates on screen. Other notes include Butch the dog in Swing Shift Maisie and stars seen off set by sailors. Orson Welles plans a singing debut for Jane Eyre.
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Hollywood
Hays Office
Lucille Ball
Eddie Buzzell
George Abbott
Lucille
Buzzelles
Edward H. Griffith
RKO
Griffith
Butch
Army
Canine Corps
Rennie Renfro
Ann Sothern
Maisie
Long Beach
Jeanette MacDonald
Jeanette
Cairo
Paramount
Indio
Calif
Akim Tamiroff
Guy Kibbee
Kibbee
Joe E. Brown
Republic
Detroit
Orson Welles
20Th Century-Fox
Fortress and Jap Plane Engage In Ponderous Duel
Si Edward W. Perry of Minneapolis reported a long aerial duel over the Solomons where a Flying Fortress sighted a Japanese plane. The two ships clashed for about 25 minutes until gunners silenced the enemy, forcing it to water and catching fire. Perry is the radioman aboard the Fort.
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Santa Ana
Calif
Edward W. Perry
Minnea
Solomons
Perry
Ame
Se. Perry
H. F. Vickner
Dupont Anne
North
Minneapolis
Two Brazilian Ships Torpedoed In Atlantic
Rio de Janeiro reports two Brazilian vessels torpedoed by Axis submarines. The passenger ship Afonso Penna was sunk March 2 after a February 18 freighter attack. crews were saved from the freighter. The government notes the incidents occurred off Brazil’s coast with no further details on survivors.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Afonso
Sucide
Naval Ministry
Commun
Afonso Penna
War Labor Board suspends war industry strike statistics
The War Labor Board announced it will stop issuing statistics on strikes in war industries. It said the ratio of man-days lost to total time worked is similar across war and non war industries. Future figures will be issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics or the Labor Department without industry differentiation.
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Washington
War Labor Board
WLB
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Labor Department
War
Nav
Labor Departments
War Production Board
Maritime Commission
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Judy Canova
Allan Jones
Ann Miller
Lynne Roberts
George Holmes
Barney Bear
Fred Astaire
Rita Hayworth
James Cagney
Joan Leslie
Rialto
Don Barry
Jean Parker
Merry Madcaps
Abdallah
Pine Ridge
Grantland Rice
Lum
the Broadhurst
Warner Bros
Andy Hardy
Esther William
Mickey
Sara Haden
Cecila Parker
Fay Holden
Ginger Rogers
Bing Crosby
Dorothy Lamour
Joan Crawford
Spencer Tracy
Bing
Crosby
Margaret Sullavan
Roz Russell
Allen Jenkins
Rebecca
Hitchcock
Migkey Rooney
Cecilia Parker
Esther Williams
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