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Show Philadelphia Fair Is Backdrop For Musical Hit at Centre 'lar rise to the top row of Hollywood's Hol-lywood's tnale romantic leads, Cornel Wilde plays the role of Philippe, the Parisian who learned about love in Philadelphia. Philadel-phia. Sultry Linda Darnell, plays Edith, Julia's capricious sister,, whose roving eye sets the fierce romantic competlton between the sisters aflame. William Ey-the's Ey-the's legion of fans are bound to find new thrills in his portrayal of Ben Phelps, an up-and-coming young doctor who is determined deter-mined to become Philadelphia's first male specialist In obstetrics. Walter Brennan, only actor to win the Academy Award three times, is seen as the harassed head of the family about which the story revolves. In one of her tnost amusing roles, Constance Con-stance Bennett is the playful widow from Paris. Dorothy Gish was lured back to Hollywood for her second picture in eighteen years to portray the wife and mother, Harriet Rogers. Flooded Jwith the melodic magnificence mag-nificence of Jerome Kern at his best, and brought to enthralling screen life by a brilliant all-star cast, "Centennial Summer," starring star-ring Jeanne prain, Cornel Wilde, Linda Darnell, William Eythe, Walter Brennan, Constance Bennett Ben-nett and Dorothy Gish, is showing show-ing currently at the Centre Theater. Thea-ter. The creen version of Albert Al-bert E. Idell's best-selling eight new songs by Jerome Kern that represent the greatest creative effort of the composer of America's Amer-ica's best-loved hits. "Centennial Summer" is the story of the amusing and romantic ro-mantic adventures and misadventures misad-ventures of one Philadelphia family in 1876, , the year of the great Centennial Exposition. Jeanne Crain, heroine of last season's "State Fair," and who recently scored in "Leave Her To Heaven," is seen as the dreamy, romantic and forthright Julia, younger daughter of the Rogers Rog-ers family. Marking his spectacu- |