Farmer's Daughter Opens at Center Theatre with Martha Raye
Martha Raye stars in The Farmer's Daughter at the Center Theatre with Charlie Rug gles. Richard Denning plays the leading man in a Broadway backer produced comedy about a show kept out of New York for three months. Gertrude Michael appears as the ex love. Martha delivers singing numbers including Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair and Jungle Jingle.
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Martha Raye
Charlie Ruggles
Hollywood
Front Rank
New York
Charlie
Gertrude Michael
Richard Denning
Martha
Denning
William Frawley
Gertrude
Jeanie
Seventeen film revival brings Tarkington tale to screen
Tarkington Seventeen returns to theaters in a two day engagement at the Center. Jackie Cooper stars as Willie Baxter with Betty Field as Lola Pratt in a lively comedy about youth and first love set against a small town.
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Seventeen
Booth Tarkington
Jackie Cooper
Betty Pietd
Jackie
Willie Baxter
Lola Pratt
Miss Field
Lola
Chicago
Willie
Buck Benny Rides Again and Other Center Screen Features
From The Balcony previews Jack Benny in Buck Benny Rides Again at the Center for a three day engagement with Rochester and Andy DeVine in tow. The piece notes Carmichael the polar bear and Willie Baxter’s coming of age alongside Jackie Cooper and Betty Field in mirrored comedies and social sketches. Also listed are The Farmer’s Daughter with Martha Raye and Charlie Ruggles and Millionaire Playboy with Joe Penner at the Broadhurst, plus King of the Lumber.
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Buck Benny
Joe Penner
Broadhurst
Jack Benny
Jack
Rochester
Andy Devines
Andy
Martha Raye
Martha
Charlie Ruggles
Wackier
the Broadhurst
King of the Lumber
Back Benny
Eilen Drew
Andy Devine
Dennis Day
March of Time
Actors Portray Family Tates in Current Stage Drift
Otto Krueger plays a father who cannot recall his youth while Ann Shoe maker embodies a patient mother. Norma Nelson enters as the meddling younger sister and Peter Hayes embodies George Cropper, Willie’s rival, in a domestic drama unfolding on stage.
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Acters
Otto Krueger
Ann Shoemaker
Norma Nelson
Peter Hayes
George Cropper
Willie
Millionaire Playboy Opens Two Day Broadhurst Run With Penner
Joe Penner stars in Millionaire Playboy at the Broadhurst for a two day engagement. The plot follows a hapless man who hiccups when kissed by a girl, then visits a mountain resort full of women who are really aged faces with lifted features. Linda Hayes co stars with Ross Brown Fritz Feld Tom Kennedy and Granville Bates in supporting roles. This fifth Penner vehicle is said to surpass his earlier comedies for laughs and entertainment.
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Joe Penner
the Broadhurst
Penner
Linda Hayes
Ross Brown
Fritz Feld
Tom Kennedy
Granville Bates
Mr. Doodle
Northwest Passage Returns to Paramount Show
A film revival note highlights Spencer Tracy as a woodsman soldier in the French and Indian War. The Technicolor drama draws praise for its color and battle scenes, especially the assault on St Frances, while warning it is violent and may be hard on viewers.
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Spencer Tracy
Paramount
Tracy
St. Frances
Theatres This Week Features Busy Schedule of Films
The listing outlines daily showings from today through Saturday including Buck Benny Rides Again and Millionaire Playboy with stars such as Joe Penner and Ruth. It highlights serials cartoons newsreels and special features across a wide slate at the theater.
UNC students plan stay out of Europe's war rally
A group of University of North Carolina students in Chapel Hill announces a rally on May 22 and 23 aimed at arousing campus opposition to U S involvement in the European war.
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Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina
United States
Rialto to Feature Top-Flight Western Heroes of the Hills
Rialto Theatre screens the team Thee Mesquiteers Max Terhune and Kay Corrigan in Heroes of the Hills their best picture yet. The trio plot to secure prison work for inmates on ranches to ease crowding while a crooked contractor pushes for a new prison amid tax tensions. Beaton sequences of robberies drive the plot.
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Thee
Eaton
Beaton
Mesq
Stony Brooke
Bob Livingston
Tucson
Ray Corrigan
Lullaby Lin
Max Terhune
Buck Benny Rides Again headline reads bold and bright
Rochester presents Buck Benny rides again a Wild West spoof featuring Jack Benny as a radio star posing as a rancher to win his girlfriend amid bandits and bribes with supporting cast including Mary Livingston Fred Allen Ellen and Dennis Day in a Paramount production.
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Jack Ben
Buck Benny
Center
Wild Bill Hickok
Billy the Kid
Buck Beny
Bar None
Benny
Rochester
Buck Ben
Agal
Ado
Wu Benny
CIA Cal
Mary Livingston
Fred Allen
Ellen
Paramount
Virginia
Lillian Cornell
Eddie
Chester’ Anderson
Phil Har
Andy Devine
Dennis Day
Carmichael
Polar Bear
American fugitives flood U S liner Wash ton to New York
Genoa Italy May 18 1100 Americans flee war crowds crowded onto the liner Washington bound for New York as Rex follows with another 2000 escapees. The article also notes alleged prisoner escapes and includes film and radio era star names in a mixed narrative.
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Genoa
Italy
United States
Washton
New York
Rex
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Zamies
Martha Ray
Charles Ruggles
J Ranch
Guick Benny
MON Tues
Dames
Gola
Tsun
Martha "Raye
Tarkington
Dot Bell
Betty Field
Barbary Coast
Joel McCrea
Epward G. Robinson
Exntra
Cartoon
Pampas
William Boyd
Vureer the Higgins
Miriam Hopkins
Jacks
Stanley Fields
Meanie
John Payne
Wings of the Navy
Betty Vield
Parmer
Gander
Mother Goose
Terrytoon
King OF the Lumberjacks
Iohn Payne
Silent Wings
Russell Hayden
Noah Berry, Jr
Northwest Passage
Robert Young
Hussey
Universal News
Ruth
Tubrsday
James Stewart
Margaret Sullavan
Tom Thumb, Jr
Floyd Gibbons
James Neweill
Busy Bakers
Sky Fighters
Texas Ranch Girls Varieties
Fred MacMurray
Barbara Stanwyck
John King
Marjorie Reynolds
Kristopher Kolumbus, Jr
Looney Tune
Kit Carson
Rialto
Fox Movietone News
Richard Hayden
Wiliam
Hopalong Cassidy
Higgin Family
Bill of Rights
Technicilor
Heroe
Hills
Society
King OF the
Gloria Dickson
Broadhurste
Tues
Weo
U. S
Kenneth Roberts
Walter Brennan
Ruth Hussey
Carolma
Sonja Henie
Ray Milland
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