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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1944
Page
6
Center Theater presents Fighting Seasbees in a staged showing Thursday through Saturday. The epic drama features John Oak Susan Hayward Dennis O'Keefe William Frawley and Grant Withers in a vivid service picture praised for its action battle sequences tense drama humor and suspense as one of Hollywoods most spectacular war films.
Rita Hayworth stars in a Technicolor musical at the Center Theatre with Gene Kelly and 15 top cover girls. Featured cast includes Lee Bowman Phil Silvers Jinx Falkenburg Leslie Brooks Eve Arden Otto Kruger Jess Barker Anita Colby and Kurt Bois with music by Kern and Gershwin.
In Argentina and beyond, diverse supporters launch a drive to create an endowment for an Antine Republic project at Selg University of Jeru. Organizers seek donations from multiple communities to fund the initiative.
Center today through Wednesday features Cover Girl with Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly. Thursday through Saturday presents Fighting Seabees with John Wayne and Susan Hayward along with Zoot Cat color cartoon. Also listed are Jamboree with Ruth Terry and Wilson and Browdhurst shows with multiple acts.
Universal News highlights a Technicolor sport reel lineup with Mystery features and stage shows. The listing includes So's Your Uncle with Donald Woods and Elyse Knox and the animated Chicken Little cartoon among other shorts and features.
A montage of Fox Movietone News reels and short features includes Heavenly Music Special, Cross Country Detour, Claudia with Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young, Princess O’Rourke with Olivia de Havilland, It’s Your War Too Victory Short, The Dancing Masters with Laurel and Hardy, Nursery Crimes, He Was Only Feudin, Song of Texas with Roy Rogers, and a Pittsburgh letter recounting Sergt John Sughrue’s narrow escape in Italy as he laid a night communications line 50 yards across open ground.
The War Production Board announced depot hospitals for limited civilian penicillin in North and South Carolina. North Carolina list includes Asheville Mission. Charlotte Memorial and Mercy. Duke, Lincoln, Watts at Highsmith. Angel. St. Luke’s. Rex, St Agnes. Roanoke Rapids. Rutherfordton. Taylor. James A. Memorial. City and North Carolina Baptist in Winston Salem. South Carolina includes Roper. Columbia. McLeod infirmary. Greenville General. Greenwood. Spartanburg General.
Advice for women to protect beauty, health, and confidence. Emphasizes self care, dress sense, manners, outdoor activity, hydration, sleep, steady use of beauty aids, and evening routines for relaxation and self companionship.
The National Association of Boys' Clubs plans a nationwide service to train 200000 working boys in fire fighting and first aid across England. The effort seeks to boost safety skills and community readiness.
The Tropical Nights Revue features Al G Fields style minstrel roots with veteran performer Miller and a cast including the Four Elgins Billy and Nancy Long Linda Compton Hal Parker and Bert Gehan. Expect beau tiful Pangea girls in sarong parade Hawaiian number and bathing beauty march.
Frederic E. Mansion, editor of the Williamsport Grit for 14 years and longtime managing editor, died last night in Williamsport Pennsylvania at age 83.
Perkasie sergeant Clarence Parks recounts a Japanese pilot who supposedly entered combat intoxicated and survived multiple wounds before being shot down.
Washington reports Maj. Gen. Hershey says there are enough available men under 26 to meet draft quotas through fall. He notes draft calls declined recently as army strength grows and that any excess demand beyond youths 18 to 25 could be filled from older age groups. Some boards restrict induction of men over 26 in essential war pursuits since the April 5 order.
A resident in Augusta Maine received a ton of soft coal ordered by his landlady and told to place it in a basement window. The tenant kept the coal since the company preferred giving it away to cleaning his living space.
Bishop H Lester Smith of Cincinnati described the 1944 Methodist General Conference Crusade for Christ as the church blueprint for the next four years. Plans include a 1946 $25,000,000 postwar rehabilitation drive, 1947 evangelism, 1948 Christian stewardship, plus efforts for world peace order and Sunday school enrollment revival. The conference advanced 56 reports as it neared final adjournment.
The Toc H Chapel at Croydon England was consecrated by the Bishop of Croydon. It formerly operated as an inn complete with a bar.
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