New West End Schedule Features Classic Films and News
This week at New West End shows a range of films led by The Yellow Canary with Ann Nagle and Richard Greene, plus Girl Who Dared with Korna Grey. Other offerings include U Boat Prisoner with Bruce Bennett, Gene Autry in Ranger Ride, and Oklahoma Raiders with Tex Ritter. Newsreels and cartoons accompany the lineup, with serials like Zorro's Whip and Brainy Variety content.
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Ann Nagle
Richard Greene
Korna Grey
Peter Cookson
John Carradine
Bruce Bennett
Eric Rolf
Moniey
Gene Autry
Ranger
Smiley Burnett
Tex Ritter
Fuzzy” Knight
Oklahoma Raiders
Amer
Betty Grable and Haymes Star in Diamond Horseshoe
Betty Grable stars with Dick Haymes in Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe at the Center Theatre. The Technicolor musical features six new Mack Gordon Harry Warren songs and a romance between a girl seeking love and a boy who wants to sing.
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Hollywood
Acapulco
Billy Rose
Betty Grable
Dick Haymes
Sin Sensation
Center Theatre
Ullman To Speak At UNC On Livy Lost Books
Dr. Berthold Louis Ullman Kenan professor and head of UNC classics will deliver the third humanities faculty lecture for 1944 45 at Gerrard hall 8 30 Tuesday night May 29 His talk The Post mortem Adventures of Livy discusses the tomb of the Roman historian and the alleged lost books of Livys history Ullman educated at Chicago Munich and Rome is editor of the Macmillan Classical Series and former president of the American Philological Association
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Chapel Hill
Berthold Louis Ullman
Kenan
University of North Carolina
Gerrard Hall
Ultman
Livy
University of Chicago
Munich
American School of Classical Studies
Rome
Chicago
University of Pittsburgh
University of Iowa
Macmillan
American Philogical Association
Council
American Classical League
Ullman
University
Humanities Division
Raymond Adams
Hardin Craig
Crippled Children's Fund Nears Fifty Thousand
North Carolina League for Crippled Children reports over 40 000 collected statewide with more than 50 000 residents contributing and sixteen counties yet to donate. Dr Lenox D Baker of Durham president and Miss Ethel Honeycutt of Chapel Hill executive secretary disclosed at Raleigh meeting that last year’s total was about 30 000 and outlined new activities for the coming year.
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Raleigh
North Carolina League For Crippled Children
Lenox D. Baker
Durham
Ethel Honeycutt
Chapel Hill
Baker
Honeycutt
League Duri
Pauline Byrnes Declines Sinatra Contract Offer
Pauline Byrnes rejects a contract to sing with Frank Sinatra on his radio program. The former radio star from Six Hits and a Miss quits singing to work at a Grays Harbor foundry while her husband Lieut Jerry Preshaw fights in Europe. He hopes to return and form a band at UCLA. Jerry previously played drums for Skinny Ennis' orchestra.
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Hoquiam
Wash
Pauline Byrnes
Frank Sinatra
Bob Hope
Pauline
Grays Harbor
Jerry Preshaw
Europe
General Patton
3Rd Army
Jerry
University of California At Los Angeles
Skinny Ennis
Laurel and Hardy Star in Nothing But Trouble at Broadhurst
Laurel and Hardy headline the new film Nothing But Trouble opening at the Broadhurst Theatre. Their comic misadventures follow as they work as servants, stir up laughter, and end up in the royal household of the young King of Orlandia with a wholesome human twist.
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Laurel
Broadhurst Theatre
Gale Oaughter
Hardy
Ling Hef
Orlandia
Daffy
Sian Laurel
Oliver Hardy
The
David Leland
Hurst Theatre
Mary Boland
Henry
Philip Merivale
Waitress Gives Nazis One Heil Of A Time
Mrs. Winifred K. Green spent five months in German prisons for answering Heil to every salute of Heil Hitler during the occupation of the Channel Islands. A hotel waitress she heiled with gusto but for Churchill, and she embroidered Victory on her bedsheet as she endured jail.
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ST. Peter's Port
Guernsey
Winifred K. Green
Channel Islands
Churchill
Jersey
R Churchill
De Soto Encounters Hubbard Squash Growing Indians in Florida
When De Soto arrived in Florida he found the Indians cultivating Hubbard squash, a notable detail from early exploration describing native agricultural practice and crop variety observed by the expedition leader.
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de Soto
Florida
Hubbard
Unlucky 13 Dog GI Harbors Superstition in Army Career
Pvt. Harold Hillery of Pittsburgh recounts a string of 13s in his service timeline. Drafted November 13, 1942, 13 days off, 13 states to California, joined the 13th armored division, 13 weeks of basic training ending March 13, 1943, 13 letters in his name, 13 lost teeth, serial number sums to 13, sent to 178th General Hospital in France with APO 562, all leading him to joke about the superstition.
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Pittsburgh
INS
Harold Hillery
Hillery
California
13Th Armored Division
178Th General Hospital
France
Keep Your Powder Dry at Center Theatre
The Center Theatre opens today with Lana Turner Laraine Day and Susan Peters in Keep Your Powder Dry a family friendly film about three women from varied lives joining the Women's Army Corps. Also on the program is the short All-Star Band Rally featuring fourteen Hollywood favorites in 19 minutes of music and laughter.
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Lana Turner
Laraine Day
Susan Peters
Betty Grable
Dick Haymes
The
Center Theatre
Iris
Ife
Women's Army Corps
Hollywood
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