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Show Romance of 7ar Bride To Be Told At Academy Soon : With lta title, "Tender Comrade," Com-rade," taken from a line of Robert Ro-bert Louis Steven's verse, the production pro-duction starring Ginger Rogers is an appealing story of the girls who are left behind when their men go off to war, girls who have only their romance to look back on and their futures to look forward to but with heartbreaking heartbreak-ing Jobs to be done in the prevent. prev-ent. - - "Tender Comrade," which opens op-ens at the Academy Wednesday, la said to be not only the finest enicie in the stars career, but One of the most compelling offerings offer-ings of the year because of its timely and memorable love story. Jo (Ginger Rogers) and Chris (Robert Ryan), are a couple of youngsters who grew up as neighbors. After they are married, mar-ried, the war clouds pile up on the horizon. ' Determinedly tfcey plan their future, and when-Chris gets into uniform, Jo carries on for him with a job at an airplane air-plane plant. ; Rent and transportation diffi culties induce Jo and three of her feminine fellow-workers to :Club together. They rent an old-fashioned house and hire a housekeeper. house-keeper. The current problems of the quartette, their personal8, joys and sorrows, supply a sympathetic sympathet-ic background for Jo's memories of courtship and her brief but happy married life. When her baby is born, she and Chris Jr. return to the old house which has become a real home for them all, and a dramatic and poignant climax serves to strengthen the bonds. The talented supporting cast consists of Ruth Hussey, Patricia Colllnge, Kim Hunter, Mady Christians, Chris-tians, and Jane DarwelL Edqemont Uinta Combines Thrills and Laughs In Current Hits "Dangerous Blondes," a mystery mys-tery with a liberal dash of merriment, merri-ment, will unreel Its gay tale today to-day at the Uinta. Allyn Joslyn, portraying the typewriter Bleuth, Barry Craig; and Evelyn Keyes, as his willing, but not too able wife, Jane, are in the featured roles. The pair become involved in a killing and the plot breezes along a path lined with laughs and tnruis, arter wnicn Barry brings the killer to bay and traps him in a climactic sequence. The four eye-filling beauties from whom the picture gets its name are Miss Kayes, Anita Louise, Lou-ise, Ann Savage, and Lynn Merrick. Mr. Charles "Dingle" Coburri, uie runny old meddler of "The More the Merrier," is at the Uinta Uin-ta today in his new laugh feast, "My Kingdom For a Cook." This time Corburn will be seen as a snobbish, eccentric English auth or, with a passion for fine food and a biting word for all his con temporaries. Coming from Lon don, he runs into the servant urob lera here, and winds up stealing cooks so that he can have .hit favorite dish. Marguerite Chapman and Bill Carter have the romatic leads, and Edward Garfan and Isobel Elsom head the supporting cast. Mrs. Elmer Taylor was hostess to Edgemont Literary club Friday afternoon at her lovely new home. Mrs. Ann Pinkerton gave a very Interesting review of "Doctor Without a Country" by Dr. Thomas Lambie. Dr. Lambie is a personal friend of Mrs. Pinkerton. The club members presented , Mrs. Taylor with a gift for the ( home and Mrs. Zepha Smith readj "A rrayer lor me new iwuu. by Philip Gerome Cleveland. A dainty luncheon was served to Irs. Pinkerton, Mrs. Ida Taylor and Mrs. Susan Taylor, guests and Mesdames Ethel Taylor. Tana Richards. Mary Rowley, Zepha Smith. Matla Burk. Cordelia Booth, Louise Trotter, Merne Schoney. Alba Anderson. Bernlce Faulkner. Lucile Kemper, Hilda Conder. Annie Gillespie. Bertha Salisbury, Joanna Boyce. Emma Brereton, Lvdia Johnson, Eva Gillespie and" the hostess, who was assisted by her daughter, Miss LaNeil Taylor. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Johnson have received a card from their son, Vivian C. Johnson, who has been at the Phlllipine military prison camp No. 2 for the past two years. He reports his health is good and he is not under treatment. treat-ment. He sends his love to his family and regards to all his friends. This is the third card received re-ceived by the family since he has been a prisoner of war. Kay Taylor, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Taylor is spending a short furlough here with his parents. Kay has been stationed with the marines at Camp Pendleton, Oc-eanside, Oc-eanside, California, for the past six months. Mrs. David Rowley was pleasantly pleas-antly surprised at her home Wed nesday evening, the occasion being her birthday. Dinner was served at one long table, covered with a lace tablecloth and flowers, green candles and a birthday cake were used in decorating . Those in attendance were Mrs C. E. Prestwich, Mr. and Mrs. Merlin Prestwich, Mr. and Mrs. Elwin Prestwich. Mr. and Mrs. Leland Prestwich, Mrs. Elnor Fausett, Mrs. Lucy Rowley, Nor ma Jean Burgner, Byron Prestwich, Prest-wich, Melvin, Ann( Dwayne, Rex and Vern Rowley and Mr. and Mrs. David Rowley. Mrs. Tana Richards and Mrs. Mary Rowley attended the temple excursion in Salt Lake on Thurs- day. Mrs. Maxine Lloyd was a Salt Lake visitor on Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse L. Smith have received word of the safe arival of their son, Norman at the Gilbert Islands. Another son, Lawrence (Bud) is at New Guinea, where he has been for the past year. Both are with the Seabees. Mrs. Ralph Smith of Los Angeles An-geles visited Friday and Saturday here with relatives. She is.enroute home from Seattle, where she has visited her son, Arthur, who is with the U. S. Navy. She was a house guest of Mrs. H. V. Smith. All old folks, widows and widowers wi-dowers of the ward were pleasantly pleas-antly entertained Saturday. First a picture shov at Scera, where old folks of the stake were assembled, then a hot chicken dinner served at the Relief society rooms. The tables were artistically arranged with a patriotic theme .covers being be-ing laid for nineteen. The committee com-mittee in charge was Mr. and Mrs. Jesse L. Smith, and Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Pinegar, Brilliant Musical Production Now On Paramount Screen Coming to the screen in brilli ant technicolor, "The Desert Song," starring Dennis Morgan and Irene Manning, will be fea tured today at the Paramount The production is a completely modernized version of the famed musical stage success and will have all of the original Sigmund Rombert music, which consists of such favorites as 'One Alone," "The Desert Song," "The Riff Song," and 'Romance." The story is told against the exotic beckground of North Africa Afri-ca Just before Germany and Fiance went to war, and is about a young American musician who takes it upon himself to protect the Riff slave labor from Nazi aggression. Working through Caid Yousseff (Victor Francen), a rich Arab, the Germans persuade per-suade France to build a railroad from the interior of Northern Africa to Dakar. The Caid employs em-ploys Riff slave labor to drive the railroad over impassible terrain, and the Riffs die like flies. Dennis Morgan, portraying the role of Paul Hudson, is incensed by this treatment of the Riffs and becomes their friend and champion. Hiding his identity under un-der the name of El Khobar, he uses every spare moment to free the slaves from the German-inspired French, and soon becomes a one-man scourge of the desert. des-ert. When the French authorities become aware of the real identity of El Khobar, they stage a surprise sur-prise raid, and he escapes only through the efforts of his friend Johnny Walsh (Lynne Overman), a newspaper reporter. In time F l ?'vv - .rw.ni L-v-v - .w 1 tV 1 r u hr - X f r l i tl x4 e& 's- - - Li :' tWi " (I ,fk v. ...4 LJ UXV. B 30 Meet Death In 1 Senate Aoproves Vesuvius Eruption Gl Bill of Rights UPPER LEFT: Dennis Morgan and Irene Manning are at the Paramount today in "The Desert Song." UPPER RIGHT: Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins are co-starred in the current Scera feature, "Old Acquaintances." LOWER LEFT: "Dangerous Blondes," starring Allyn Joslj-n and Evelyn Keys; and "My Kingdom For a Cook." "featuring Charles Coburn. are the two attractions at the Uinta today. LOWER RIGHT: "Tender Comrade," starring Ginger Rogers and Robert Ryan, will start Wednesday at the Academy. PAGE 8 "SSSbSt-MA, SUNDAY HERALD Welles, Fontaine Star at Strand The old Hollywood axiom, "great books make great pictures," pic-tures," has been aptly illustrated in the current Strand offering, "Jane Eyre," which stars Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine. Since it was first published, this book has had one of the most remarkable remark-able histories in the country. With Mr. Welles" portraying Edward Rochester, and Miss Fontaine Fon-taine in the role of Jane, the film sweeps to the screen In a relentless re-lentless onrush of transcendant love, frightening mystery, dramatic dra-matic emotion and scenes and moments of romance's most glorious glor-ious ecstasy. Mr. Rochester is the brooding, silent master of Thornfield Hall, who has sought all his life for a woman he could love. His wife was driven mad by her own excesses ex-cesses he finally finds Jane, only on-ly to see her torn from his arms by a terrible secret from the past. Jane is a girl with no home, ho family, and she Knows only the cruelty of women, the beastialtty of men. And then she meets Edward Ed-ward . . . their eyes meet . . . j their Hps touch . . . and Jane's life reaches an emotional climax jtijat makes it stand out as one of the great romances of fiction. Margaret O'Brien, Peggy Ann Gardner, John Sutton, Sara All-good, All-good, Henry Daniell, and Agnes Moorehead are also featured in the production. Dlh Wncrior Tlirnc tor Swan to the telephone." Swan, u,sn vvasner iums xvho 8tudics law between ,e8. Out to Be Senator legis latlve sessions, said he liked his duties at the sorority house except I BERKELEY, Calf., Maxell 25,or ne thing: "What this coun t-iuijuuii l'i iuyuiit u-auuua Lduai a vcierans irjiniDus bui stating i j r- . ,4 , ed the death of more than 30 per-"P a 53.000.000,000 education and m 8rlt' didn't know that .m in m,- seconds after burn-sons burn-sons and i mr.es to several scores ununploj-ment compensat.on pro- Rrcy-hnlred John Harold Swan,"'g something w. it. f ,, ; . , , grnni lor veterans of World War who washed dishes In thr-ir hofi.se,- nf nthofc U h(. imtt fnn ice ' u ' a'"ilI- sent to the house today ws a state senator until a voice' A thousand Flying Fortresses, the Allied military government 'after unanimous senate approval over the telephone said: "This is flying on a six-hour mission would announce! uxmy. ina.-ui ... ...y m..- Governor Waren, please call Sena- use 1,500,000 gallons of gasoline Many of the casualties were i An1' r'' lfS- thP ' ' -- J :nns of Foreign Wars, was approv- -ttuiu v) lan.iift otuiivo or uy , pr m nf (i(.nat late yesterday roofs c-ollaivsing under the weight after less than n hour of disrus- of volcanic ash while the occu A L I E D HEADQUARTERS; WASHINGTON. March 1'5 (1.1! NAPLES, March 24 l.v. The ! The so-called "G-I bill of rights' withbut dissenting sion and pants were asleep in their dwell- Ximilar bif'l has been under ings. AMi.i t. " l ie, I. consideration in the house vet-r- Inluibitants were warned to- '"is t omniitt-e for several week;; day to shovel clnd-rs and ashee nd iaU,ti representa- A. . , . . ,tives said they would urge specdv from their roofs to prevent a re-.actlon ln tna chamber. currence of similar disasters. The, I. volcano still was spouting cinders j BLAST WRECKS and ashes today, but the lavajSTATION PROPERTY flow appeared to have subsided i BAKER. Mont.. March 25 C.r considerably. ! Sheriff James Kochel today ;said a blast Thursday night, which Paul acquaints Col. Fontaine caused in excess of $40,000 to Bak (Bruce Cbot). a French officer, er property, vcas the result of with the true f-iets of the case, , overflowing gasoline storage and thus he is instrumental in I pumps Ignited by a gas heater freeing the Riffs. in a local garage. CROWLEY, MELLETT RESRESIGN POSITIONS WASHINGTON, March 25 (CE) President Roosevelt today an-nounoed an-nounoed the resignation of Leo T. Cowley as alien property custodian cus-todian in order that he may devote close attention to his post of foreign for-eign economic adminisrator. M Roosevelt also disclosed during his news conference that Lowell Mellett, one of his administrative ad-ministrative assistans and former form-er head of the U. 8. Information service, has resigned to return to newspaper work, writing a col-im col-im for the Washington Star, 10 w -- m 0 P ...NO FORCE CAN CHALLENGE THEIR RIGHT TO THE DESERT THEY LOVEI NO PICTURE CAN OFFER MORE ACTION-CRAMMED ADVENTURE THAN THIS STORY OF THE DASH-ING DASH-ING DESERT GUERRILLAS WHO KNOW NO FEAR I ism mi fat jfll its Spectacular Acti, v TEPH UT I - COLOR ! AND THOSt WONDfftfDL SONOSI rtMf Ainwr DFSFT SONff RIFF 50NG' a cast of thousands including DENNIS MORGAN IRENE IW 0rdvil LMdtr of th RifhJ Singinf Darling of "Yjnkw Deodlt Dndy- BRUCE CABOT-GENE L0CKHART STARTS TODAY! Doors Osa 1 P. M EXTRA! tArKA;E rou J;VSPBRW Cartoon IV TOMATO" mm have net a"E ORSON WELLES r 'EDWARD ROCHESTER rj-, JOAN- F0NTAIM 5 Vk- if JANE The ttrang$t love story ever told I Margaret O'Bnen Added: . . . "HIT TUNE JAMBOREE' MGM NEWS LOOKING FOR FUN? . . . Here's TWO Hits With Just Thatl M I' V0"nl STARTS TODAY! rwu rijrN miai f Here's You're Academy Award S JluSifc Winner ln that same delightful CHARLES wmqu COBURN XAV? with MARGUEKfTE CHAPMAN fC 7 JtTK HYJ I A COIUMIIA PICTUKt iyKdJ Vi V.A-A.,.fJU It Starts mlth Crlm-aala b4 rnda la n Rattle of tfce Sfin! 4 tat LLYN JOSLYH " VELYN KEYES gmmm EDMUND LOWE ANITA LOUISE COFEATURE CO-FEATURE .2tP3 -- JOHN HUBBARD FRANK CRAVEN 1 w'"iJJ MARTHA SCm ALBERT DEXKER . 4 .K-'-l GEORGE H1YK KirTi Plus DISNEY CARTOON, in Color NEWS -NOW PLAYING Ends Tuesday- 3 But she won't date! Works at a war plant Fellows can't get first base . . . don know the story. It today's biggest love story . . . and lots girls know ... it their story, too! to Of ,Jf-' ""- IICEIS I tf "CHIM-UP"Gmt i ROBERT RYAN RUM HUSSEY PATUC1A COLUXGE MAOY CKriSTIAMS KIM HUNTER JANE DA1WFI1 tlfHitn UfitTIU JWaer OAVIO HeMKTtAO Directed fy f OWAUO OMTTtYX R Q RADIO STARTS WEDNESDAY ACADEMY |