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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1942
Page
7
A fragmented listing highlights a multi act bill featuring Andrews Sisters and Dick Foran with a wartime promo piece. Also advertised are Glenn Gray and Orchestra and a private Buckaroo segment along with a military department subject and unusual SABCUPS gar roles.
Paramount today shows Barbara Stanwyck and George Brent in The Gay Sisters. Tue Maisie Gets Her Man with Ann Sothern and Red Skelton. Carnival in Brazil musical act. Also Picture People act. Wednesday Thursday Saboteur with Robert Cummings and Priscilla Lane. Sanpower defense reel. Friday Behind the Eight Ball Ritz Bros. Dick Foran Carol Bruce. Ale American Follies stage show. Saturday Hayfoot William Tracy James Gleason. Wacky Blackouw Looney Tune cartoon. Hurricane Express serial. Campus Capers novelty. Trimmed in Furs comedy. Late Show You’ll Never Get Rich Fred Astaire Rita Hayworth Robert Benchley.
A compact cinema notice highlights upcoming features starring Lon Chaney Jr Johnny Downs and Anne Nagel with trailers for The Time musical and What Will It Be defense.
The Paramount stage hosts All American Follies for four performances on Friday. Critics coast to coast laud its humor and energy. Featured dancer Miss Bumps Del Rio headlines with exotic dancing. The Rhythmaires supply driving syncopation, backed by lively dancing dolls and vibrant numbers.
Listings announce upcoming cinema showings with Manpower Defense Trailer and Night of January 16th featuring Robert Preston and Ellén Drew. Also The Lips Shall Grow, Campus Capers, My Favorite Blonde with Bob Hope and Madeleine Carroll, Hero Worship sports reel, Melody Ranch with Gene Autry, Magnetic Telescope, and Lost Jungle serial.
Weekly screening lists Laurence Olivier and Leslie Howard in The Invaders and Charles Starrett with Russell Hayden in West of Tombstone. Lupe Velez and Leon Errol star in Mexican Spitfire at Sea. Friday Saturday show includes Wyoming Wildcat with Don Red Barry Mob Town Dead End Kids Little Tough Guys Host of the Secret Service No 9 and Kicking The Conga Around comedy.
A week long community push from November 15 to 21 sees schools, libraries, and bookstores exhibit posters and placards bearing Forward With Books. The piece traces Book Week origins from 1918 and 1942 slogans urging stronger home libraries, teaching children the value of free books as powerful, enduring defenders of freedom.
The column notes that a teenage draft bill looms as national law, urging courage and sacrifice from mothers and youths. It profiles youths entering service, the experience shaping disciplined, wiser men, and mentions local notices of military entries and a marriage in York, South Carolina.
The Christmas Seal sale to aid tuberculosis elimination will launch soon with school children active in fundraising. A Guilford County Sanatorium and Richardson Memorial Hospital photo was shown at Guilford High School. The Tigers of Williams Penn defeated Reidsville 26 0 to claim the district high school crown.
Fairview School has joined the Schools At War program and will award a Liberty Brick for excel lent work while compiling a national scrapbook. The Alpha Art Club opens a Daniel Brooks Homes room for surgical dressings with 2 000 made in the first week, urging women to volunteer in Red Cross war service.
The Beauticians Club will host a Bingo Party at Mrs Hattie Leach's home at 205 Underhill on Monday night November 16 at 8 30 p m The public is invited to attend the event.
The Business Men's Civic Club met at W. H. Cook's home and pledged 375.00 in Government Bonds. Bond drive chair Prof 8 E Burfird spoke, with Prof L L Boyd of Leonard Street School guesting on child guidance and home school links. A roundtable on Post War Activities and Negro occupational skills followed, advocating substantial vocational training. Dr M B Ravis urged engagement in instructional courses to gain skills. host offered a refreshing repast.
The West End Theatre announced it will run six days a week, closing every Tuesday. Better programs will replace the lost day, with offerings on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. The change aims to conserve resources while maintaining performance quality. Ice cream manufacture in the United Kingdom has been discontinued to conserve raw materials and free cold storage and transport space for essentials, per the Department of Commerce.
The Office of Price Administration says coffee hoarders gain no advantage once the November 28 rationing starts. Households may exceed one pound per person only until that date, then must consume at the rate of one pound per person per five weeks and stop purchases until stock is used. Registration will certify preexisting coffee on hand. sugar ration stamps will verify credits. Hoarders lacking stamps or missing sugar books face enforcement actions.
Manuel Quezon, president of the Philippine Commonwealth, says the independent democratic government promised by the United States serves as a model for the United Nations after the war. He recalls 20,000 Philippine soldiers and 75,000 more who fought for liberty under General MacArthur and notes allied cooperation across the southwest Pacific. Roosevelt will speak on a radio memorial program with Mexico’s Avila Camacho and Quezon.
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