Thunder Afloat at Center Theatre Promises War at Sea Drama
Based on 1918 U boat attacks on American shipping the film follows a tug boat captain played by Wallace Beery who fights alone after a raid sinks his vessel. Chester Morris Virginia Grey co star with a roster of supporting players as action sequences depict submarine chases torpedoing and depth bombing off Atlantic coast and Coronado Islands.
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Atlantic Coast
Wallace Beery
Beery
Chester Morris
Navy
Virginia Grey
Carl Esmond
Regis Toomey
John Qualen
Clem Bevans
Douglas Dumbrille
Jonathan Hale
Charles Lane
Atlantic
Coronado Islands
Giant Eight Foot Telephone at Paramount Theatre
Beginning Wednesday and each week after 8:30 to 9 PM Paramount Theatre invites patrons to inspect and talk on a working eight foot giant telephone. Artist Ralph Gardner and team spent two months perfecting it for public demonstration with plans for a long distance call to a Hollywood star heard by the audience through amplifiers.
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Paramount Theatre
Paramount
Ralph Gardner
Fuel price change and refiners cost rise noted
The report notes higher anti knock quality requirements raise refining costs while average motor fuel prices at service stations on August 1, 1939 averaged 13.28 cents per gallon, down from 14.07 cents in 1938.
Cartoon and Film Lineup for the Week at Universal Center
The schedule lists multiple film titles and acts across days including Yankee Doodle Goes To Town, Mutiny on the Blackhawk, Thunder Afloat, Each Dawn I Die, and Goofy and Wilbur. It features stars James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Wallace Beery, Chester Morris, Virginia Bruce, and more with serials, cartoons, and musical acts.
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Variety
Universal News
George Raft
James Cagney
Goofy and
Wilbur
Moving pictures of three major grid games at Broadhurst
The Broadhurst theater shows scenes from three college football games. Georgia Tech defeated Auburn, Fordham beat Pitt, and Cornell upset Ohio State in the highlights.
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Broadhurst
the Broadhurst
Georgia Tech
Auburn
Atlanta
Fordham
Pitt Panthers
Cornell
Ohio State
Chile Urges Housing Campaign For Laboring Classes
A Chilean effort promotes housing projects aimed at workers and laboring families. Officials frame the plan as improving living conditions and expanding affordable home ownership.
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Chile
Mutiny on the Blackhawk at the Broadhurst
Dick Arlen stars in a swashbuckling drama about a slave ship mutiny and California’s path to statehood. Richard Arlen plays a secret service agent in Hawaii 1840 while Noah Beery illicits grim realism as the captain. Andy Devine and Mabel Albertson provide comedy amid romance and adventure.
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Richard Arlen Chui Devine
Jak Beery
Monday Broadhurst
Richard Arlen
Andy Devine
Metro News
the Broadhurst
Secret Service
Hawaii
California
Noah Beery
Mabel Albertson
Mama Clark
Princess Luana
Mala the Eskimo
Islands
Guinn
Big Boy" Williams
Drunkenness Defendent Flaunts 140th Court Appearance
At North Wilkesboro on November 4 a defendant on a drunkenness charge drew a puzzled comment from the court after he admitted the case was his 140th appearance. The remark highlighted a long history with similar charges.
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North Wilkesboro
Northrop Gamma Plane Aids 1925 Expedition Efficiency
A special built low wing Northrop Gamma with a Wasp engine used by Liacole Ellisworth on his mate expedition of 1925 achieved nine miles per gallon at a cruising speed of 150 miles per hour.
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Northrop
Liacole Ellisworth
Hhis
Doctors win priority in Northern Ireland gasoline rationing
Doctors in Northern Ireland secure priority access to gasoline during rationing measures amid wartime fuel shortages. The policy directs gasoline distribution to medical staff to ensure uninterrupted health services and emergency care.
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Northern Ireland
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington shines in Capital satire
The Balcony notes the world premiere of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington in Washington on October 17 and its four day Center run. James Stewart leads as the honest rookie senator Jeff Smith facing a corrupt machine, with Jean Arthur and Claude Rains in key roles, and a climactic filibuster and confession sequence. The piece also recommends Ginger Rogers in Bachelor Mother at the Paramount and hypes the Capitol set and Life Magazine praise for authenticity.
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Smith
Washington
James Stewart
Jean Arthur
Edward Arnold
Claude Rains
Senate
Lady Godiva
Pennsylvania Avenue
Frank Nugent
New York Times
Columbia
Mr. Smith
Frank Capra
Mr. Nugent
Greenhorn
Buster Keaton
Jefferson Smith
Boy Rangers
Jim Taylor
Joseph Harrison Paine
T Jeff
Committee of
Saunders
Paine
Rover
Bay Rangers
Jeff
Constitution Hall
Robert KR. Reynolds
Carl Durham
Capitol
Life Magazine
Jim Preston
Senate Press Gallery
Paramount
Three Unit Program For Broadhurst
The Broadhurst presents a big three bill for Thursday to Saturday headlined by Bill Boyd as Hop a Long Cassidy in Law of the Pampas a South American cattle rustler tale. Also first chapter of Dick Tracy’s Flying G Men with Irvin Purcell and the final Daredevils of the Red Circle chapter three.
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the Broadhurst
Bill
Bill Boyd
Cassidy
Pampas
South America
Texas
Hoppy
Dick Tracy
Flying G’men
Irvin Purcell
Broadhurst
Red Circle
Fast and Loose at the Rialto A Sequel Week
The Rialto hosts a two film bill starting Thursday with Fast and Loose a sequel to Fast Company starring Robert Montgomery and Roz Russell as leads. Also showing Thunder Afloat and Mutiny on the Blackhawk with the Beery brothers in separate features at Center and Broadhurst respectively.
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Melvyn Douglas
Florence Rice
Robert Montgomery
Roz Russell
Beery Brothers
Wallace
Noah
Broadhurst
Capra's Mr Smith Goes to Washington Tops Screen Marvels
Frank Capra's new hit Mr Smith Goes to Washington opens for a four day run. Starring James Stewart and Jean Arthur with an all star cast the production is praised coast to coast as Capra's best work. The film follows a idealistic senator chosen to fill an unexpired term as complications mount to a climactic triumph.
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Mr. Smith
Washinton
Frank Capra
Jean Arthur
James Stewart
Ceter
Importan
Washiton
Stewart
Arthur
Unite States Senate
Springfield Bride Found Stabbed and Decapitated in Honeymoon Flat
18 year old bride was slain by her 20 year old husband who surrendered after a 60 mile train ride from Brattleboro. Hibberd confessed to killing during a pattern he called an overpowering urge to kill. Police recovered a torso in a bathtub and a head in a wash basin. The husband described stabbing the wife and dismembering the body before fleeing. An autopsy cited multiple stab wounds.
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Springfield
Mass
W Ter RK. Hibberd
Angus J. McKinnon
Brattleboro
Hibberd
McKinnon
Chargin
J. Fleming
Man
Battleboro
Charles J. Downey
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Our Gang
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Rose Marie
Nelson Eddy
Jeanette MacDonald
Popular Science
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Richard Carlson
Rialto
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Dick Lane
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Stardust
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David Niven
Popeye
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Jane Bryan
Yal Niven
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Bob Burns
Wien
Dick Arlen
Blackhawk
Union
ARLEN
Dot Bell
Junior
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Capra
Mr. Deeds
Mr. Smit
Miss Arthur
Stewa
Ward Arnold
Thomas Mitch Rains
Ruth Kelly
Eugene Pallette
Beal Rondi
Harry Carey
H. Warner
Slayer
Massachusetts
Popeye Cartoon
Charlie Chan
Treasure Island
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