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Show PAGE 2 STM?" SUNDAY HERALD 'National Velvet' Is At Paramount A combination of veteran performers per-formers and youngsters whose names will mean more and more to movie audiences have brought to the screen one of the most de lightful pictures of the season "National Velvet," which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is presenting at the Paramount theater. Mickey Rooney, who stars; Donald Crisp, Anne Revere, Reginald Reg-inald Owen and Arthur Treacher Treach-er are the veterans. Jackie ("The Human Comedy") Jenkins. Elizabeth, Eliza-beth, ("Lassie Come Home") Taylor and Angela ("Gaslight") Lansbury are the youngsters. Together, To-gether, under the ; direction of Clarence Brown, who has innumerable innum-erable hits' to his credit, they have produced an exciting, warm, human motion picture that will live long in the memories of the millions who wil see it and love it. 1 Anne Baxter Is Seen In New Film Few films seen in recent months comes anywhere near Hunt Stromberg's "Guest In The House, now playing at the Uinta theater through United Artists release. This new production. with a whale of a story, a cast to go with it and one of Hollywood's Holly-wood's best directors handling the whole job, is a gripping, never nev-er faltering achievement. Adapted for the screen by Elliot El-liot Paul from the daring and sensational Broadway stage play. "Guest In the House" is con ceived and enacted somewhat along the lines of the classic psychological horror story, "Night Must Fall." The difficult and rarely sym pathetic role of the "euest". Evelyn Heath, is sensitively en acted by Anne Baxter. The male lead is more than adequately nanaiea Dy naipn Bellamy, re J - fa Rooney, as Mi Taylor, an ex- 'e Jockey, provides a different char-BroXav mk-c rTnTl iptr(iAn fmm hi. ,ai M !rom 8 Broadway success. Final- this one is comparable to his work in "The Human Comedy." As a disillusioned youngster who finally finds a home with a family fam-ily in a small English town, he ne oecomes trainer of a norse won in a raffle by the 12-year-old Velvet Brown, whose passion is horses to the exclusion of everything else. Mr. Brown's opposition to the idea of owning the horse, and Mrs. Brown's e ncouragement, form the background for a series of adventures that will bring laughter and tears to your eyes as the youngsters realize a seemingly seem-ingly futile dream and succeed in entering their horse in the greatest great-est of all steeplechase races, the Crrand National at England's Ain-tree. Ain-tree. with the girl riding the horse. ly escaping from the eternal typ ing as the "guy who always loses the gal." Bellamy gives a mature and well-rounded performance as Douglas Procter. Kay Kyser, his band and gang or specialists like the beauteous Georgia Carroll, the comical Ish Kabibble, Harry Babbitt, Sully Mason and songstress Diane Pendleton, Pen-dleton, have always been entertainers enter-tainers of the top rank. It's no surprise, therefore, to find thai they are still at their amusinfi best in Columbia Pictures' new musical, "Carolina Blues," com panion picture at the Uinta the ater. The Department of the Interior reports that Isle Royale National Park, situated on northern Lake Superior, has a moose DODulatlon of 500. :- f3& , 1 T'" rrS- J I . , &wvx x - 1 I ,J 1 Three Stars Play Touching Romance How. the magic of an historic honeymoon lodge brings happiness hap-piness to two young fugitives from a world that seemingly has no. place for them, is the Inspirit ing theme of Hollywood's latest dramatic romance, "The En chanted Cottage," now playing at the Academy. Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young, the famous pair of "Claudia," and Herbert Marshall share stellar honors in the modernized mod-ernized version of Sir Arthur Wing Pmero'a noted stage suc cess, which was also the basis for one of the bestrknown films of the silent era with Richard Bar- thelmess and May McAvoy. With its story background brought up to date, the picture has Young in the role of a re serve army pilot, who on the eve of his. marriage, is called to the soutn Facinc. saaiy nurt m a plane crash, and with his face disfigured, he returns home, but is embittered when his fiancee shudders at the sight of him. He retires to a lonely New England cottage where he had planned to spend his honeymoon and which has been a famous re treat for honeymooners for many generations. There he meets a village girl (Miss McGuire) who is so painfully plain that she too has become something of a re cluse. The common bond of feel ing- that they are unwanted brings the two together. This in turn leads to marriage which has a miraculous effect in their out look on life. Herbert Marshall plays a blind composer who befriends the young couple and such noted players as Mildred Natwick. Spring Byington, Hillary Brooke Kicnard uaines and young Alec Englander are featured. mm l f J mW f i ?... ..... .. r,ll f w-mH'-i:' win w If X x - f. t i i - ' i 1.1 . J- - "I I Illl Ij 5- , 1 TO MAU w tO W A galaxy of Hollywood's top-ollling stars flash across the screens at the local theater houses, which currently, are showing entertainment of a variety to please one and all. Scenes from the popular film include (Upper left) Mickey Rooney and Elizabeth Taylor, in "National Velvet," now playing at the Paramount; (upper right) "Christmas Holiday," Holi-day," Monday and Tuesday at the Scera, starring Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly; (lower left) Dorothy McGuire, Robert Ro-bert Young and Herbert Marshall, in "The Enchanted Cottage" Cot-tage" now playing at the Academy; (center right) Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Herbert Marshall and the Wilde twins, Lyn and Lee, as seen in "Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble," now on the Strand screen and (lower rght) Anne Baxter in "Guest in the House, currently showing at the Uinta theater. Variety Program At Strand Theater Andy Hardy goes to college in "Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble," the new film at the Strand theater, the-ater, fourteenth of M-G-M's popular pop-ular Hardy Family series. As usual, Andy has his trouble with co-eds three of them this time and all blondes. They are Bonita Granville, whose star is rapidly rising in the film firmament, firm-ament, and the beautiful and talented tal-ented Wilde twins. In addition to the Hardy family fam-ily favorites, who include Lewis Stone as Judge Hardy, Fay Hol-den Hol-den as Ma Hardy and Sara Haden as Aunt Milly of course, Mickey Rooney as Andy, the new picture pic-ture introduces Herbert Marshall as dean of Wainwright College and Andy's love rival: Keye Luke, one of Dr. Gillespie's assistants, as-sistants, as a young doctor, and Jean Porter. Leave it to the movies to find the silver lining even in the housing shortage now perplexing our national capital. Out of the situation, 20th Century-Fox has made the year's surprise laugh picture, "Ladies of Washington." the very merry comedv also playing at the Strand theater. "Ladies of Washington" is a fast-movine tale of the com plica tions which ensue when a girl cabby, played by Robin Raymond, and a SPAR in the person of "Christmas Holiday' Is Coming to Scera "Christmas Holiday," which will play at the Scera theatre Monday and Tuesday presents Deanna Durbin in her first dra matic role. She does an outstanding outstand-ing fob of acting in the leading rolef&f the screen adaptation of the ffomerset Maugham novel. The story revolves around Miss Durbin as a girl whose tragic marriage has forced her to become be-come an entertainer in a cheap, notorious night club, though herself her-self remaining essentially a good girl still in love with her convicted con-victed husband. As the irresponsible, yet charming husband. Gene Kellyis superior. Others in the cast include in-clude Dean Harens as the army air force lieutenant unlucky in love, Gale Sondergaard's portrayal por-trayal of a mother whose pathological pathol-ogical love for her wayward son turns here against her daughter-in-law. LAST TWO DAYS! Doors Open 1 p.m. A WOMAM WITH STIANCI ntwtemc DESKS to Dcsrtor THOSB WHO i IOVI HQ! INT STKOMtflB (Guest in theffiCHSe A1H1E MXTER .-RALPH BEUAHT -nimwTtt Sea nt la the House From the Beginning" 2 enrou Menus KAY ANN VICTOR KYSER MILLER MOd mKAY KYSER'S BAUD T X3SBSL m . l ENDS f 1 WED.1 Trudy Marshall, pick up a lux urious but dejected young iaay. sheila Bvan. who has beauty lavish wardrobe everything, in fact, but a rool over ner neaa and make her the seventh occupant oc-cupant of their crowded room in a Pennsylvania avenue house that has been converted into a girl's dormitory for the duration. Then the fun begins. J NOW! A GREAT 1HT! . Doors Open at 1 PiM. 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