The More the Merrier Opens at Center Today
Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea star in George Stevens comedy about a Washington secretary who rents a spare room to ease housing shortages. Coburn’s meddling prompts a chaotic arrangement as McCrea shares the apartment. witty situations follow in this 1943 release.
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Jean Arthur
Joel McCrea
Merrier
Center Today
Charles Coburn
George Stevens
Washington
Jean
Coburn
Sweden Adds Leap Day In 1712 Calendar Adjustment
In 1712 Sweden briefly added a leap day making February contain 30 days before restoring alignment with the Gregorian calendar 40 years later by dropping 11 days.
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Sweden
Hollywood Soldier Helps Cap Bizerte Tunis Premiere Link
George Webb from Hollywood worked at RKO Radio Studio Art Dept before enlisting. He wrote Dudley Nichols from North Africa promising help to capture Bizerte and Tunis by May 7 to align with Nichols' film premiere. May 7 saw the victories and the Cincinnati premiere occurred the same night.
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Bizerte
Tunis
Hollywood
George Webb
RKO Radio Studio Art Department
Dudley Nichols
Webb
North Africa
Nichols
Cincinnati
Optical Treat Death at Universal Studio Scene
Director Roy Williams added a scene with the dead victim to heighten the effect but a slip left the prop department uninformed. Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce were on stage when Neill arrived and approved a bier setup. The prop man asked how many would be drinking, prompting a wry exchange.
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Universal Studio
Roy Williams
Basil Sathbone
Nigel Bruce
Neill
Poppies Honor War Dead At High Point Poppy Day
Poppies to be worn in High Point on Saturday May 29 to honor fallen soldiers of the present war and those from France and Belgium twenty five years ago. Proceeds support veterans and families as Andrew Jackson unit of the American Legion Auxiliary leads the observance with volunteer workers on streets selling crepe paper poppies.
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America
High Point
Leigh Harper
Andrew Jackson
American Legion Auxiliary
France
Belgium
Auxiliary
J. Frank Carriker
Columbia
S. C
Rehabilitation Department of the Auxiliarys
Theaters This Week At Local venues
Sunday to Tuesday feature The More the Merrier with Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea. Thursday to Saturday show My Friend Flicka with Roddy McDowall and Preston Foster. Also sports shorts and center news events including Red and Reel and Wise Duck cartoons.
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Jean Arthur
Joel McCrea
Sporting Dogs
Flicka
Roddy McDowall
Preston Foster
Rtoon
Broadhurst Night Plane to Chang King Show
Studio listings reveal a mix of features and shorts headed by Broadhurst nightly program. Highlights include war act documents and serials such as Valley of Vanishing Men and They Came to Blow Up America with stars like Ellen Drew Joan Crawford and Tim Holt.
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Robert Preston
Ellen Drew
Broadhurst
China
Chungking
America
George Sanders
Anna Sten
the Broadhurst
Chang
Anna Stein
George Saunders
Acqua Aces
U.S. Navy
Tim Holt
Valley of Vanishing Men
Rialto Weekend Film Notes and Shorts
Rialto schedules feature Bela Lugosi in The Ape Man with Wallace Ford, plus Mr Smug and Spirit of Annapolis. Fox Movietone News reports Moonlight in Havana Allan Jones and Jane Frazee, Ding Dong Daddy, Merrie Melody Cartoon, and Little Isles of Freedom. Midweek shows include Once Upon a Honeymoon Ginger Rogers Cary Grant, Sunset Serenade Roy Rogers, Right of Way War Act, Calling All Kids Our Gang. Also Boss of Lar serial with Edna.
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Bela Lugosi
Wallace Ford
Spirit of
Annapolis
Fox Movietone News
Havana
Allan Jones
Jane Frazee
Merrie Melody
Dick Stabile
Ginger Rogers, Cary Grant
Roy Rogers
Clam Winslow
Connard
Flicka Plays Center Next Thursday at Center Theatre
Mary O Hara novel adapted to Technicolor film MY FRIEND FLICKA opens Thursday at the Center Theatre. Roddy McDowall Preston Foster and Rita Johnson star in a Western tempered with romance and action set in today’s West. Also on bill SWEATER GIRL LIGHTNIN CARSON RIDES AGAIN and BAD MAN OF THE HILLS MOONLIGHT SERENADE with a Stooge comedy.
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Mary O'Haras
Flicka
Roddy McDowall
Preston Foster
Rita Johnson
Mary O'Hara
MY Friend Flicka
Center Theatre
West
Charles Starrett
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Erskine Johnson
NEA
John Carradine
Carradine Park
Carradine
Zoltan Korda
Adolf Hitler
Sahara
der Fuehrer
Axis
Desert
Africa Korps
United States Army
Humphrey Bogart
Maxim Litvinov
Moscow
Oscar Vomolka
Curi
Ann Corio
Ann
Palestine
Jerusalem
City
Homoika
Litvinov
RED River Robinhood
Paramount
Phillip Dorn
Joan Crawford
Universal News
Edward Norris
Joan Woodbury
Navy
Flop
Weasel
Stuart Erwin
Evelyn Venable
Rialto
Edna
West End
G Robinson
John Wayne
The
Cary Grant
Ceny, Inc.”.News and Cartoon
Carson
Joel
Man
Ala NY
Lewis
Foster
Robert Russell
Frank Ross
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