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Show PAGE EIGHT PROVO (UTAH) SUNDAY HERALD, SUNDAY,- MARCH - -21 , 1943 Widely Hardy Film Beckons Fans to Paramount , Mickey Rooney gets into legal troubles, finds -himself '"engaged" to two- girls, and finally gets - started for college after a series tf hilarious" predicaments in "Andy Hardy's Double Life," currently cur-rently showing at the Paramount tfreaVfe. The story one of the best of the series deals with three dilemmas for Andy Hardy before his departure to J college. He sells his jaloppy to a pal, who damages a greenhouse with it, and Andy is held responsible as the owner because the car is not paid for completely. Then a pretty pret-ty girl makes a. fuss . over him, and insists that his romantic behavior, be-havior, means a proposal of marriage. mar-riage. Also his father wants to go to college with him and introduce intro-duce him to his friend the president, presi-dent, which Andy knows would make him an outcast with "the ' fellows." but 'he dislikes telling his 'ather -his. His difficulties, however, are ironed out amid laughter, some human interest moments, and an Inspiring "man to man" talk with his :"ather. Mickey, as usual, plays his role with infecious humor, as do the other family members, Fay Hoi-den, Hoi-den, Lewis Stone, Cecilia Parker and Sara Haden. A new charmer is introduced ' in Esther Williams, famous as a swimming champion, who is beautiful and an accor.:- ? plished nctress. William Lundi-gan Lundi-gan and ,Ann Rutherford also shine in the starlit cast. Music, Mystery At Uinta Now Taking its place at the .top with the season's best musicals. "Panama Hattie," starring Ann 5 Sothern and Red Skelton, opens today at Hie Uinta theatre. Rich in elebarate numbers, tempered with a fine story revolving re-volving a round the romance between be-tween Miss Sothern and Dan Dailcy, and the zany antics of Skelton, Rags Ragland and Ben Blue, the film contains every conceivable con-ceivable element bf entertainment. entertain-ment. Tops in the film are Lena Home's version of Cole Porter's ."It Was Just One of Those Things" and dead-pan Virginia O'Brien's sensational "Stompin' At the Savoy." The co-feature at the Uinta is another of the ever-popular Michael Shayne mysteries, starring starr-ing Lloyd Nolan and Marjorie Weaver. Jury duty by day, murder trail by night, and romance any old time that's Nolan's action- packed pack-ed schedule in "Just Off Broadway." Broad-way." The whole thing is played with an engaging flare for so- phisticated melodrama by Nolan, Weaver, and Janis Carter, with Phil Silvers. Variedinematic . Menu Offered j : . - .-....'.-.-..t-.-.-.v.'l-.-.i hyV' : Ssij& i. v J L - - " X fe iCy - j f jf-v ,? j IN $sLi t t i J -r Hi ' i . U 7Lr ' : t ,.. ' . : mmmmm: " ' r , 3k n n m i" n 1 1 111T1 " mititlMH i i i 'i i I to Sizzling Duo Set To Burn Local Screen Fans at. Theaters V Rooney Scores BnFilonday's Scera Program Nazi Comedy Now Tops Strand Bill Expertly Wending fast-paced adventure with an unconventional romance, "Honky Tonk," which opens today at the Academy theatre, presents Clark Gable and Lana Turner in the starring roles. This rip-snorting story 1 of a Western gold camp, with its background of unusual romance, leaves a unanimous impression that the teaming of Gable and Turner has produced the outstanding out-standing emotional adventure story of the year. Gable, in the new story, appears ap-pears as a fascinating card shark with political ambitions. His part provides a chance to use to best advantage some of the swashbuckling swash-buckling characteristics that helped make such fine entertainment entertain-ment as "Gone With the Wind" and "Boom TownJ while Miss Turner plays a dramatic part that gives her a chance to excel even 'Ziegfeld Girl" and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." One of the factors that- helps maintain uninterrupted interest from start to finish is an outstanding out-standing supporting cast, including includ-ing Frank Morgan, Claire Trevor, Marjorie Main, and Albert Dek-ker. Dek-ker. "Journey Into Fear," another Orson Welles smash success, looms as one of the next Academy Acade-my attractions. There's a new kind of comedy treat in store for movie-goers in "Margin for Error," a rollick pic-turization pic-turization of the Broadway laugh hit by Clare Boothe Luce, who wrote "The Women." Featuring Jean Bennett, Milton Mil-ton Berle and Otto Preminger, the film at the Strand theatre today to-day takes the audience on a hilarious hil-arious tour through the New York consulate of the Nazis looking for laughs. And men with murder in their eyes! This film is unusual in a technical tech-nical sense, in that one of its stars Preminger also plays a leading role while directing the story at the same time. ' Others in the cast are Carl Esmond, Es-mond, Howard Freeman, Poldy Dur, and Clyde Fillmore. The second Strand feature is a two-fisted "Hopalong Cassidy" adventure, ad-venture, "Undercover Man." Taken from a Clarence E. Mul-ford Mul-ford novel, this thrill-a-minute western is one of the best in the William Boyd Series. Esther Estrella, Antonio Moreno, Mor-eno, Eva Puig. Nora Lane, and Chris Pin Martin head the supporting sup-porting cast. LONG DISTANCE DEMISE John Ridgrly, who has the role of the pilot of a Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress in Warner Bros.' "Air Force," had played more than 100 small or bit parts before he was given a "dying assignment i mention. in mis mm. Putting Mickey Rooney and Freddie Bartholomew together in the same picture again, for the first time since they've outgrown the knee-pants stage, was an-rtlifi- flpvpr strnkr hv Hollvwood. And the two boys, .. directed by Norman Taurog, the screen's noted director of young stars, came through like the real troupers troup-ers they are in "A Yank at Eton," opening tomorrow at the Scera theatre. Rooney, Hollywood's number one star, again show's how versatile versa-tile he can be on the screen. Most of the time in "A Yank At Eton" he is hilarious. At other times, he gives x portrayal dramatically tense. Mickey is the center of the story, as a typical American boy whose hopes of going to Notre Dame are shattered when his widowed mother marries an Englishman, Eng-lishman, and he is enrolled in exclusive ex-clusive Eton. Most of Mickey's trouble evolves around a TNT-packed newcomer, Tina Thayer, his newest new-est sweetheart on the screen. Juanita Quigley, Alan Mowbray, Mow-bray, Ian Hunter, Marta Linden, and" Raymond Severi. also are deserving of more than passing (Top Left) The screen fairly explodes ex-plodes with sex at the Academy theatre today, where Clark Gable and Lana Turner blend their explosive talents to bring "Honky Tonk" to sensational sensa-tional screen life. Frank Morgan, better than ever, and Clair Trevor, more glamorous than ever before, be-fore, head the supporting oast. (Center Left) "A Yank at Eton," one of Mickey Rooney's most entertai n i n g offerings, arrives at the Scera theatre today to roll central cen-tral Utah fans in the aisles with its hilarious situations. Tina Thayer and Marta Linden, with Ian Hunter and Edmund Gwenn head the supporting support-ing cast. ( Bottom) Hilarity at its peak is seen on the Strand theatre thea-tre today in Clare Booth Luce's greatest work since "The Women." Entitled En-titled "Margin for Error," Er-ror," this Nazi mimicker stars Milton Borle, Joan Bennett, and Otto Preminger; Prem-inger; all of whom contribute con-tribute the best performance perfor-mance of their careers. (Center Right) Broadway's top musical musi-cal hit of two seasons ago comes to the Uinta screen today when "Panama "Pan-ama Hattie," starring Ann Sothern and Red Skelton arrives. The second sec-ond feature is "Just Off Broadway," a " Michael Shayne mystery, with Lloyd Nolan and Marjorie Weaver topping the cast. (Top Right) One of thr most hilarious hilari-ous of the Hardy Family series comes to the screen of the Paramount theatre today in the form of "Andy Hardy's DouSTe Life." As usual, Mickey Rooney is the top star, while Lewis Stone, Fay Holden, Ann Rutherford, and Cecilia Parker are in support. Esther Williams, great newcomer, also is seen. French Guerilla Bands Trapped LONDON, March .19 U.R) Swiss dispatches said today that French mobile guards were closing clos-ing in on a rebellious guerilla band entrenched in the mountainous moun-tainous Haute-Savoie area, and a fight to. the finish was expected at any time. The reports from Switzerland said the French patriots were virtually surrounded, with Lake Geneva their only course of escape es-cape if they found the opposition too formidable. t Other advices from the continent contin-ent reported that posters had been nailed up in France proclaiming pro-claiming that in event of an Allied Al-lied invasion, all able-bodied men would be thrown into concentration concentra-tion camps and guarded by German Ger-man occupation troops. Nazi strongarm guards were reported to have inaugurated house to house searches for French workers defying a labor roundup aimed at sending 1,000,-000 1,000,-000 Frenchmen to Germany within with-in three months. The countrywide rebellion against the roundup was reflected in reports that the French were refusing in wholesale lots to heed the Iazi-Vichy summonses, with occupation authorities trying to rout the dissidents out of their hiding places. CAMELS GO LIP Since the release of Warner Bros.' "Casablanca" and the Allied Al-lied activity in North Africa the rental price on camels for motion pictures has jumped more than 60 per cent per day. SPEAK THE LANGUAGE Los Angeles' entire Gombo speaking colony, 26 persons, in all, was among the 225 atmosphere atmos-phere p' yers working in the New Orleans French Market scenes of Warner Bros.' "Saratoga Trunk." Gombo is the Louisiana Negro's version of Creole French. NATURAL TO HIM Jack Carson; who plays a doz n instruments by ear, added the accordion to his accomplishments a jitterbug dancer for nine years. EXPERT JITTERER Conrad Wiedell, who has been for dance scenes with Joan Leslie in " vvarner Bros.' "The Hard Way." does the jitterbjg dance witn Btte Davis in "Thank Your Lucky Stars." DIRECTORS .DIRECTED More than a dozen past or pres-ent pres-ent stage and screen . directors played parts under Director Michael Mi-chael C'urtiz in Warner Bros.' "Mission to Moscow," film version I An important fuel for home of the book by former Ambassa- heating in some parts of Canada ,dor Joseph E. Davies. is sawdust. COAL. DUST PREFERRED Ida Lupino, Joan Leslie, Dennis Morgan and other principals in Warner Bros.' "The Hard Way" worked for days in a smoke-and-coal-dust-laden atmosphere necessary neces-sary to the opening scenes set in a Pennsylvania coal town. Pleasant Grove STARTS TODAY WHAT A ROMANCE! has his arms full with Lana! JHgHG has her arms full with Gable! WkaiaQuu! What a Gal! 3 . V J 4 C 1 A IT J ii f ; Disney; Cartoon ' .9 I I'- "MICKEY'S ; . ' : y BIRTHDAY PARTY" - ! : . ;and LATEST NEWS Reed Mathews, son of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Mathews, is visiting his home, following the completion comple-tion of his training for a second lieutenant's commission which he received at Fort Sill, Okla., on March 11. He is scheduled to re- port for duty at the conclusion of his leave at Fort Leonard Wood. Mrs. Cora W. Atwood, head of the stake salvage committee, has requested that the drive on old zinc, fruit jar tops, copper and brass be completed by April 1. She asks the cooperation of all housewives and "minute women" in getting the salvage collected by the school children next week. The Daughters of the Utah Pioneers Pio-neers met at the home of Mrs. H. S. Walker Wednesday, with Captain Pearl West in charge. The lesson on "Pioneer Playgrounds," was given by Mrs. Walker, and a taik was made by Mrs. Mary Fage, a pioneer. Mrs. Zelda Peay, president of the Second Ward Relief Society, was honored at the anniversary program. She has been absent for several weeks because of illness. The members presented !her with a potted plant. An interesting ivgiain waa ctiiiieu out. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Archie Boren was the place for a family gathering to honor Mrs. Lucille Butt of Lehi, and Milton Kirk, whose birthday anniversar ies occurred recently.. Two birth day cakes graced the table. Fol lowing the dinner the evening was spent in playing 500. Mrs. Boren and O. I Swensen won high scores. The St. " Patrick's' theme was carried out. Present were Mr. and Mrs. Milton Kirk, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Butt of Lehi, Mr. and Mrs. desson Buhler, American Fork; , Mr. and Mrs. O. L. .Swen-sen, .Swen-sen, Mr. and Mrs. LaVell Boren, Jack and Lloyd Boren. ' Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W; Lar son, and children and Mrs. Dale H. West and taaby were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Webster of Heber. Mrs. Matilda Christiansen was .surprised .recently by the visit of her two sons, Rhodin, who is attending navy radio school at Logan, - and Malcolm, who is stationed sta-tioned at Wendover. SPRINGVILLE Mrs. Lester E. Davis entertained at her home Thursday for her son Clark on the occasion of his eighth birthday. St. Patrick decorations were used and the guests enjoyed games and a nicely arranged lurch. In attendance were: Tom- my Schwartz, Paul Salisbury, Stanley Boyer, Reese Straw, Rex Diamond, Jay Butler, Harold Smith and the guest of honor. Several clubs and other groups have their meetings scheduled for the early week. On Monday evening eve-ning ,the Junior Legion auxiliary, directed by Mrs. Edith T. Miner, will meet at 8 p. m., at Memorial hall. The same evening, Mrs. Dona Jones will be hostess to members of the Ad-Libitum club, and Mrs. Marva Taylor is scheduled sched-uled as hostess to the Firemen's auxiliary. Among visitors to Springville the past week were Mrs. Edith Blanchard from Long Beach, Cal.; Lt .and Mrs. Paul Kelley, here for a short time enroute to the west coast; Mrs. Walter Selck, a guest of Mrs. A. W. Harmer and family enroute to her home in Idaho Falls from San Diego, Calif.; Lt, Joe Salisbury of the army air corps, on his way to a new station at Victorville, Calif.; Mr. and Mrs. EIRey Fehr of Whittier, Calif., here until Mr. Fehr left for rthe armed forces. Mrs. Fehr, the for- Maybnnaise is sold In tubes, like toothpaste,. in Sweden. mer Virginia Rivers, plans to remain re-main indefinitely. Burgess Sumsion, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Sumsion, returned home the past week following an honorable discharge from the army, because of age limitations. He was stationed in Texas. Germans Execute 300 In Poland ONDON, March 20 (IIP) Ger man autnormes nave executed , 300 strikers and ordered the de- portation of the entire population of the city of Radom, in central Polandx the Polish government here revealed today. Tho Polish statement said all except essential workers of the 75,000 Radom inhabitants were being deported. German settlers will replace them: Polish resistance, particularly in the factory areas, was said to be increasing, with the Germans Using starvation to force production. produc-tion. Workers who "go slow" or disobey lose the rations of their whole family. Monkeys have no face muscles with which they can smile. First state prohibition law was enacted inr Main in 1851 LAST 2 DAYS! I1I11HI1I M ' I Willi Ioor" Qpep 1 " m" FIRST TOP HIT jj nftttSw Jii Hf W 2nd ACTION HIT! , GV ; jj MUIFORD'S Av .. V The clamte of a - place is its average weather. JOAN BENNETT MILTON BERLE wot-, iii iu rnn.iiiinrn i,UiAU World's first chamber of com merce was formed at Marseilles, France .during the 15th century. STARTS H TODAY! J k 1 f ' 1 V' lm EARLY ! Hilarious Musical of Rib-Tickling Tropic Fun and PACKED With COLE PORTER SONG HITS! wm mm SKlTOII-rSOTHERII . . 'Rags' ben LZx J ' C" SSP RAGLAND BLUE 'f4 r I IHlllllHUIHlllIlllimilllimi COMPANION FEATURE llllllllllllllllllllllllllllffllllll IT'S A KILLER-THRILLER! ZTtI -tC(h HIT DCS IT ME SraDm JDITK TTMB n They're back with headaches and lauahs! Andy's last carefree before college! caper oeiore coiiegeiyr It's a riot! r y& v 1 J s-1,',':::': V with Pfek I ruilC MICKEY V . STONE ROONEY CCCIUA FAY PARKER HOLDEN Ann RUTHERFORD Sara HADEN And Introducina ESTHER WILLIAMS "y l- i" i T ' "i 943 'S NEW LAUGH-HtTf ESTHER WILLIAMS qorqepuM nvrimming champ, i AndM nr heart-throb t When they meet in era under- wl V 'BMP L :STARTS TODAY AT 1 p. m.; Z-lV- Ul cut . r THE HIGHUGHTS OF NEWS PlllS : : FROM ALL THE WORLD! EXTRA! I Outstandins Factual Film ' of tho War "ONE DAY OF WAR" Filmed on the : Russian Front 15 Cameramen lost- their Uvea bringing-, you this March Of . Time |