Theaters This Week and Film Schedule
The page lists multiple showings at Center and West End Theatres with stars like Alice Faye John Payne Cedric Hardwicke Margaret Wycherly Judy Garland Gene Kelly and Maureen O Hara. It notes war act shorts cartoons serials and newsreels and includes upcoming premieres and double features. Also reported are Jimmy Durante's hospital admission and a jeep delivery to a remote mining town plus a rural employment funds plan by Erie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MY Gal
Judy Garland
George Murphy
Gene Kelly
Ween News
John Beal
Wanda McKay
Royal Araby
Berni Vicci
Henry Fonda
Maureen O'Hara
Food For Fighters
Priday
E Saunders
Herbert Marshall
Rents Kennedy
Moon Is Down film opens with Hardwicke Cobb and Bowden
John Steinbeck's tale adapts to the screen with Sir Cedric Hardwicke as the Nazi Colonel Henry Travers as the mayor and Lee J Cobb as the mayor's advisor Dorris Bowden plays a courageous Norwegian girl in the film opening Thursday at the Center Theatre.
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John Steinbeck
Sir Cedric Hardwicke
Henry Travers
Lee J. Cobb
Dorris Bowden
Center Theatre
Hello Frisco Hello opens with Faye Payne at Center
The new technicolor musical Hello Frisco Hello starring Alice Faye and John Payne opens today at the Center after a Paramount preview. The film features Jack Oakie Lynn Bari and more in a lavish production with music and elaborate numbers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice Faye
John Payne
Center Theatre
Jack Oakie
Lynn Bari
Faye, Payne
Center Today
Alice
Faye
Paramount
Center
Tge Barrier
Hollywood Heartthrob Paul Henreid Captivates Fans Across Studio
The former Nazi actor in Night Train has become Hollywoods leading man in Joan of Paris Now Voyager Casablanca and Devotion. Fans from Dubuque to studio staff swoon as Henreids poised looks and charm draw attention in the cafe and on set. Born Baron von Wassel Waldingau in Vienna, he left in 1935 to pursue acting in London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Vienna
New York
Elmer Rice
Hollywood
Brentwood
Paul Henreid
Dubuque
Voyager
Dubuque, Ja
Baron von Wassel-Waldingau
London
Paul Henreid Fans Homefront Glamour in Wartime Talk
The piece notes Henreid’s continental, sympathetic lovemaking style and his claim that affection, not technique, wins hearts. It adds Henreid’s 3-A draft status with dependents and a hint of wartime duty. It also cites Jimmy Cagney’s view that actors reject medals, seeking only the satisfaction of contributing to victory.
Moon Is Down at Center Theatre Next Thursday
The Moon Is Down screen version comes to the Center Theatre next Thursday in a highly praised adaptation of Steinbeck’s novel. The cast includes Sir Cedric Hardwicke Henry Travers and Margaret Wycherly, with advance notices calling it one of the greatest pictures of all time.
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John Steinbeck
Center Theatre
Sir Cedric Hardwicke
Henry Travers
Margaret Wycherly
Union Employees Walk Out Of Wire Press Association
In New York on May 8, about 135 union workers at Press Wireless Inc walked off the job amid ongoing trans ocean communications service. The firm suspended 10 Independent Communications Guild members after absenteeism issues the union head charged the company aims to force a company dominated union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wire Press Association
New York
Boyd King
Press Wireless, Inc
Transocean
King
Independent Communications Guild
T. C. Basmajian
Deserted stars in wartime amusement mix-up
A committee sent several stars to entertain a White army fighting a Blue army in the California desert. The Blue army learned of the stars and kidnapped them for their own show, leaving the White army puzzled by the sudden disappearance.
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California
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Center Sun - Mon
Tues
HELLO
Frisco
City of Courage
Victory Reel
Cedric Hardwicke
Daredevils
Pete Smith
Merrie Melody
Broadhurst
Buddy
Dick Foran
Harriet Hilliard
Laurel and Hardy
Tokyo
Valley
Rialto
James Dunn
Joan Woodbury
George Montgomer
Fox Movietone News
Charles Starrett
Alma Carroll
Lou
Don Winslow
West End
Jack London
Martin Eden
Franken
Stein
Wigans
The
Rough Riders
Ghost Town Law
Boston
Bored
Idaho
U.S
Gowen Field
Boise
Erie
Horace McNally
Jacqueline White
Marjorie Lord
Robert Paige
Joy
Jollity
Count Berni Vici
Victory Garden
Lynn Merrick
Chasen's
Willie Mae Lee
Houston
Texas
Lucie
Erskine Johnson
NEA
Henreid
Bette Davis
Ingrid Bergman
Ida Lupino
Olivia de Havilland
Studio
Warner Brothers Studio
Citien
Donna
Andy Hardy
Mickey
Donna Reed
Charles Laughton
the Living Ghost
Robert Priscilla Cummings
Wallace
Marjorie Beery Main
Jackass Mail
West Point
Uncle Sam
Jimmy Cagney
Victory Committee
Japan
Sean RiPcoRn
Mae Faye
Ehn
Syn Bari Laird Cregar
June Havoc Ward
George Barbier
Pearl Harbor
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