Skeffington Film Stars Bette Davis
Bette Davis headlines as Fanny Skeffington in the new screen version of the Elizabeth novel opening today at the Center Theatre. Claude Rains is the title figure with Walter Abel Richard Waring and Marjorie Riordan in supporting roles. The story spans twenty six eventful years from World War I to the present conflict.
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Center Theatre Today
Mr. Skeffington
Claude Rains
Elizabeth
Center Theatre
Miss Davis
Walter Abel
Richard Waring
Marjorie Riordan
Fanny Skeffington
Woman Succumbs To Rattlesnake Bites In Kentucky Church Incident
Coroner reports the death of Maudie Joseph Ford, 28, who was bitten three times during a church meeting at the Church of God in Harlan. Magistrate fines pastor Willard Cross $50 and places him under a $500 peace bond under a 1942 Kentucky law on handling snakes in religious services.
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Harlan
Fielding Hensley
Maudie Joseph Ford
Harlan Hospital
Hensley
Lankford
Church of God
John Keller
Willard Cross
Kentucky
Adventures Of Mark Twain At The Center
Warner Bros new film about America's humorist The Adventures Of Mark Twain arrives at the Center, showing this week at regular prices. Alexis Smith stars as Livvy Langdon with Old Crisp and Alan Hale among the supporting cast in a portrait of Twain from barefoot boy to literary light.
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Warner Bros
America
Rick March
Alexis Smith
Twain
Livvy” Langdon
Mrs. Twain
Old Crisp
Alan Hale
Steve
The Hairy Ape at Local Theaters This Week
Frederic March and Alexis due star in The Hairy Ape showing this week. Also listed are Birdie and Beast Merrie Melody Cartoon Unusual Occupations Special and Victory Short with Walt Disney’s Springtime for Pluto cartoon and Ladies feature. Shows include performances at the usual venues with latest news and schedule details.
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Ines OF
Ain
Frederic March
Alexis Ean
Birdie and Beast
Merrie Melody
Hairy Ape
William Bendix
Susan Hayward
Pluto
Walt Disney Cartoon
Victory Short
Broadhurst Night at the Movies and Cartoons
A sequence of films and shorts listed for Monday through Saturday features Martha O'Driscoll and Noah Beery Jr in Allergic to Love, U-Boat Prisoner, Forty Thieves, and a Green Line cartoon plus sport reels and a Tree Surgeon color cartoon. The lineup includes Follow Through, All Star Band, and Escape as part of the program with additional features like Brazil Today and Americanes be the Day.
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Broadhurst T
Martha O'Driscoll
Noah Beery, Jr
Peekulyar
Sitchenshun
Lil Abner
Brazil
America
Bruce Bennett
Erik Rolf
All Star Band
William Boyd
Andy Clyde
Paramount Opes Sulivans and Wartime Shorts at Rialto
Paramount opens with War Speeds Up Victory Short and Universal News. Gary Cooper and Laraine Day star The Story of Dr Was Sell. Merrie Melody Hair Ribbin joins All Star Comedy and Three Stooges. Fox Movietone News presents Five Graves to Cairo and Beyond the Last Frontier. Betty Grable Pins Up Girl headlines with Deserte Hawk serial and Dr Feel My Pulse.
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Paramount
Rialto
Billy Gilbert
Shemp Howard
Fox Movietone News
Cairo
Franchot Tone
Anne Baxter
Betty Grable
Joe E. Brown
Beyond the Last
Eddie Dew
Smiley Burnette
Hulla
Lulu
Little Lulu
Vera Vague
The Hairy Ape Stars Bendix And Hayward
William Bendix and Susan Hayward star in The Hairy Ape at Center Theatre this Friday and Saturday. Jules Levey produces a million dollar screen version of Eugene O Neill's drama that promises dynamic, exciting entertainment.
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William Bendix
Susan Hayward
Hairy Ape
Jules Levey
Eugene O'Neill
Center Theatre
Warehousemen Told To Check Scales
Raleigh tobacco inspectors found violations of the Weigh Master Act and warned warehousemen to use licensed weighers. With tobacco at about 42 dollars per hundred pounds, accurate weighing is crucial this year. Complaints should be made to the public weigher or the Weight and Measures division in Raleigh.
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C. D. Baucom
Weights and
State Department of Agriculture
Baucon
Weight and
Baucom
Behind the Scenes Mollywood Highlights and Rumors
Hollywood gossip notes from Kay Kyser postponements to Pat Knowles separation rumors. Renae Landis to pay fan magazine if she splits before a marriage story. Child star Connie Marshall on covers. Joan Fontaine hunting with Paul Hease. Robert Cummings instructing at War Eagle Field. Joan Lesie eye injury from exploding cap. Hunt Stromberg pressures O’Shea to stop riding.
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Carole Landis
Thomas C. Wallace
Joan Fontaine
Paul Hease
Robert Cummings
War Eagle Field
Lancaster
K. T. Stevens
Jackie Coogan
Judy Gaerland
Dave Rose
Gladys George
Leonard Penn
Joan Leslie
Hollywood Hi Jinks and Showbiz Moves Across Tinseltown
A wild roundup of Hollywood gossip with Esther Fernandez touring Spanish theaters to fund a visual education program in Mexico and buy projectors. Betty Hutton buys Johnny Hyde’s Beverley Hills home with pool and badminton court, while Sister Marion Hutton to take over her apartment. Arthur Rankin returns from the South Pacific to await a role after Marine discharge, and Linda Darnell eyes Vera Vague’s ranch. Lois Andrews schedules an eastern tour starting July 15, Abbott and Costello tweak a fox chase in In Society, Jan Savitt plans Mexico City then a classical and jazz tour, and Bob Wills leads the largest western band in the nation.
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Esther Fernandez
Mexico
Betty Hutton
Johnny Hyde
Beveris Hills
Marion Hutton
Hollywood
Lois Andrews
Abbott and Costello
Fox
Jan Savitt
Mexico City
Carrington
Sprathing
Camp Roberts
Skelton
Linda Darnell
Vera Vague
Lisette Verea
Romania
Joe Reichman
Biltmore Row
Bob Wills
Milton Berle
Transport Plane Lost on Mt. McKinley
The Air Transport Command reports a crash on a Mt. McKinley peak in Alaska. Sixteen passengers and three crew members are believed dead. A rescue party plans a 70 mile hike to the wreck at 9,000 feet amid rugged terrain near Eldridge Glacier 25 miles from the Alaska Railroad between Honolulu and Hurricane.
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Seattle
Air Transport Command
ATC
Mt. McKinley
North America
Fairbanks
Alaska
Eldridge Glacier
Honolulu
Stalin Receives U S British Envoys In Moscow
The Moscow radio reports Premier Stalin greeted American ambassador W Averell Harriman and British envoy Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, informing him of decisions from the Quebec conference. The dispatch notes the exchange occurred in Moscow.
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Moscow Radio
Stalin
W. Averell Harriman
Archibald Clark
Kerr
Churchill
Quebec
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