Reviews And Ratings Of Movies This Week
This week highlights hal roach comedies and melodramas with strong casts. notable titles include there goes my heart and Suez with mature family appeal, while pacific liner offers a vigorous cholera drama and room service brings the Marx Brothers to Carolina.
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Hal Roach
United Artists
Fredric March
Virginia
Bruce
Patsy Kelly
Alan Mowbray
RKO Radilo
Broadhurst
Victor McLaglen
Chester Morris
Wendy Barrie
Alan Hale
Barry Fitzgerald
Peck
Circus
RKO Radio
Tommy Kelly
Ann Gillis
Edgar Kennedy
Benita Hume
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Four Girls in White at Center Theatre Portrays Nursing
The film opens Wednesday for two days as a tribute to nursing. Florence Rice Ana Merkel Ann Rutherford Mary Howard and Alan Marshal headline with Kent Taylor Buddy Ebsen and Jessie Ralph in support. Norma Page seeks a rich husband through nursing, shifts to Dr Melford then Maitland, causing a fellow nurse’s death and hospital shunning.
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Center Theatre
Florence Rice
Ana Merkel
Ann Rutherford
Mary Howard
Alan Marshal
Kent Taylor
Buddy Ebsen
Jessie Ralph
Dr. Kildare
Norma Page
Florence
Nor
Suez Deepens Thrills with 14 Day Simoon on Film
Lou Witte, Hollywoods top special effects man, creates a 14 day simoon for Suez at 20th Century Fox, outdoing prior storms. He previously staged fires in In Old Chicago and cloud bursts. the desert sand wrecks and city scenes reshape the film in a spectacular display.
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Lou Witte
Paramount
Monay
20Th Century-Fox
Witte
Darryl F. Zanuck
Simeon
Tyrone Power
Annabella
Chicago
Farm mortgage rules require a home on or to-be-built property
FHA insured farm mortgages cannot cover land alone. The property must include a home either existing on the land or to be built. Private lenders approved by FHA may issue these loans and require repayment in equal monthly, semi annual, or annual installments based on the borrower's annual income.
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Federal Housing Administration
FHA
French and British Pursuit Planes Do Tail-Seat Cockpit Trick
Two modern naval fighters from France and Britain feature pilots in cockpit seats near or in the tail. The French ship reportedly exceeds 370 miles per hour in speed.
Nurse Ma Returns With Courage and Love Reward
Ma joins fellow nurses risking her life to return as her own. The girls honor her while Dr. Melford's respect becomes the reward in a tale of sacrifice and devotion.
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Dr. Melford
There Goes My Heart and Young America at Center Theatre
Frederic March and Virginia Bruce star in There Goes My Heart a gay comedy romance about a heiress and a reporter who fall in love after adventures around a bargain basement, yachts, apartments and skating rinks. Also March of Time presents Young America highlighting Boy Scouts and patriotic lessons.
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Frederic March
Virginia Bruce
Center Theatre
Virginia
March
Patsy Kelly
Alan Mowbray
Patsy
Subway
March of Time
Social visits fill Denton weekend with relatives and friends
Denton residents greeted relatives and guests from Mocksville High Point Asheboro Greens boro Burlington and Thomasville over the weekend. Visitors included Mr and Mrs J W Davis and daughter Nancy from Mocksville Mr and Mrs Howell Snyder and daughter Joanna Mr and Mrs Carlie Davis and several others. Local families hosted relatives and went shopping in Salisbury.
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J. W. Davis
Nancy
Mocksville
Arthur Lanier
Howell Snyder
Joanna
High Point
Grayson Lomax
Pauline Sexton
Clarence Hawkins
Goldsboro
J. F. Cameron
Carlie Davis
Carlie Smith
Thomasville
Cled Morris
Asheboro
James Morris
Farmer
Furman Bisher
C. Bisher
Bill Crawford
Fort Bragg
Moselle Loftin
Mose Loftin
Novella Penny
8. D. Smith
Golden Morris
Greensboro
Lillie Deaton
Troy
Ruth Morris
Mike Inza Hill
Josephine Hill
Ira Deaton
Baldas Deaton
Marvin Sexton
Ruby Cox
Charlotte
J. A. Gallimore
Charlie Robbins
Wallburg
Dewy Cox
W. B. Surratt
Burlington
Robert Morgan
Eton College
Lucy Snyder
Hemp
Howard Spencer
Reid Steed
Ethel Bernhardt
Sarah Boyd
Jane Baxter
Fannie B. Shields
Salisbury
Butch La Guardia: New York Mayor Gets Nickname Move
The New York Daily News names Fiorello La Guardia as Butch to avoid flower imagery. The paper notes the mayor himself said his given name could hurt his presidential prospects, but quips he would perform well in higher office if chosen. The mayor has not commented on the nickname.
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New York
la Guardia
Fiorello
Little Flower
New York Daily News
Butch
Butch la Guardia
White House
Landon
Cleveland
Dewey m
Dewey
Washington
Commerce
Har L. Hopkins
Ne York
Washinton
Roosevelt
Secreta Hopkins
Des Moines
String Orchestra and College Band to Give Joint Concert
The Woman's College of the University of North Carolina string orchestra and the college band will perform a joint concert Sunday afternoon March 12 at 4 in Aycock auditorium. Directed by Dean H. Hugh Altwater the string ensemble includes Paul B. Oneley and many members from Greensboro Winston-Salem and other nearby cities. The college band led by George E. Henry is noted as the first all woman college band in the South.
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Greensboro
Woman's College of the
University of North Carolina
Aycock
H. Hugh Altwater
School of Music
George E. Henry
South
Paul B. Oneley
Misses Evelyn Sharp
High Point
Mary Miller Heffner
Lenoir
Mildred Simmons
Winston-Salem
Frances Edwards
Asheville
Jane Dupuy
Mary Epps
Martveign Cockfield
Carrie Lee Beasley
Four Oaks
Virginia Jones
George Dickinson
Hugh Altwater, Jr
Mark Altwater
Gertrude Grimes
Frances Sloan
Jean Dulin
Charlotte
Barbara Cuthrell
Goldsboro
Peter Farrell
Charles Farrell
Jean McDonald
East Orange
N. J
Meredith Riggsbee
Durham
Dean Altwater
Masons to See Films Taken by Mr Winieskie
Masons of High Point are invited to attend moving pictures by Frank Winieskie from his world trip. The showing will be at the Masonic temple Monday night March 20 at 7 30 o'clock. Scientists say planes cannot rise above 60000 feet nor exceed 500 miles per hour or travel more than 8000 to 9000 miles.
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High Point
Frank Wineskie
Masonic Temple
New York Republicans Push Dewey For Presidential Post
New York GOP leaders visit Washington to rally for Thomas E. Dewey as a 1940 presidential hopeful. The trip includes a get acquainted dinner with Washington writers and parallels to past party push dynamics. Nearby figures like Ed Jaeckle and Kenneth Simpson endorse Dewey as a rising national figure.
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New York
Dewey
Kirke L. Simpson
Washington
Thomas E. Dewey
Michigan
New Yorker
Indiana
Paul V. McNutt
Congress
Hoover
House
Pierce
Hall
Kenneth Simpson
Ed Jaeckle
Buffalo
Alf Landon
Kansas
Roosevelt
Pacific
Kansas City
Observations on Yadkin River Weekly Report
Weekly weather and river data for High Point Clemmons area along the Yadkin river. Murray and Floo Inc. recorded mean temperature 49.7 degrees, high 77, low 26, mean humidity 60.8 percent, high 93, low 42, precipitation 0.45 inches, river stage high 5.80 feet, low 4.23 feet.
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Murray and Floo Inc
High Point
Clemmons
Styers Ferry
Yakin River
Women constitute about a quarter of U.S. drivers
A statistic shows that roughly one in four automobile drivers in the United States are women. This highlights increasing female participation in driving and mobility trends across the country.
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United States
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