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Show 1 hn c u WOJ ft j iM . United n i! Wanda freeman of Brigham head of the contest, accordingiTT'' City was named for the Utah ceived from tht coiw5!: lighting committee ans The contest wjl! State Agricultural college be. 6 nual womens intramural dance Film Shop By PATRICIA CLARY Spectacular Debut Pieu Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD . v w ii 1. 1. (LIP) A white-haire- goateed wizard called Dante has invented more .tricks but than, any other magician, he says his "million dollar illusion is sawing a woman in half.; . Brigham USAC Student.' To Head Committee Mother Does Know Best Started As Photograph N l I 1 . 4 Dante says he created this illusion in 1920. Since then he has improved on it "Now I can move the two he halves around the stage, V said. "The head, in one half of the box sings. The toes, on the other side of the stage, wiggle. Dante was a constructionist X (or 'carpenter) for the magician the t Thurston when he created tf sawing stunt On Thurston's . Jean Hagen death he acquired all his tricks and was named his successor. . . . was signed by "I have been making magic two weeks after for 50 years, he said, "and I and, within have originated 25 major illu- her arrival in Hollywood, was sions and 40 lesser ones. This cast in important dramatic films, surpasses the inventions of all roles in five top "PICK O' THE PICTURES ' Govern be the LAST SHOWING y i Mrs7:30 . FRIDAY - SATLRDAY ; - pei tod." There are few, if any, other men in the world who actually can create and construct the il lesions which become magic In the hands of professional wizards. It takes more than just car-- , AND SATURDAY CHARTER OF 2 'J o pichiri liki this . . . brought to thi screen with oil Walt Disney's wizardry! Not sine ..ZivrAfiiiiltintilMRli ill H iW Paramount News Color Cartoons MS tol Amanda Blake . . . enjoys distinction of making screen debut without ever having set foot in front of a camera. She appears in Battleground only in a photograph as the wife of one of the G. I.s. RKO Radio, where he showman, but he invented very is doubling as actor and techni- little. He was not a great ma cal adviser in Bunco Squad, gician." a melodrama about phony HOLLYWOOD Donald (UP) A magician cant do much to Woods got his start to success copyright his illusions, he said. in movies because he couldnt "About all we can do is make afford a new suit of clothes. Woods was dead broke when them so complicated they cant be duplicated, fie said. "But im- he applied for a job in the stage postors are always trying. play "East Is West. He walked Dante knew Houdini, along into the theater wearing a pair wiz- of worn college cord trousers. with most other ards. He says Houdini didnt Later, the director told him that know much except how to get if hed come in wearing a cane and spats and trying to make out of a trunk. He had a good press agent, an impression, he wouldnt have , Dante said. "He was a great got the job. "He was pleased with my unWoods affected appearance," smiled. "He didnt know I had no other clothes. AUTO-V- U Today Woods' Is widely known in movies, radio and tennis cirHe is currently working Last Times Tonight cles. with Bing Crosby in "Mr. Music" at Paramount. His voice is heard "SUNDOWN" on several network radio shows with Gene Tierney a week. He and his son have - ALSO teamed to win west coast tennis tournaments. , ."CRYSTAL BALI," Always Busy The boy is just 15 btft"he with Paulette Goddard ranked way up in the seepings, and Ray Milland Woods said proudly, lick the tar out of me, Saturday Woods is one of the woodites who looks on acting as "BIG SOMBRERO" a business, not a plaything. Glaand mour means nothing to, him. "LEATHER GLOVES" Acting is a means to an efd and he treats it like any othfcr job. As a result, hes always busy. Sunday And Monday Last year he rehearse and starred in 10 plays in 10 weeks "MIRACULOUS of summer stock, made seven movies, d i d countless f radio JOURNEY" shows. My friend including and Irma, and a three-ac- t play he "BADLANDS OF hopes to produce this season. If I were selling insurance, : t DAKOTA" Id always be looking for new ways to improve my position, Tuesday & Wednesday he said. Its the same thing with the theater. The' more (Family Nights) things you can do well, the more you are. "GALLANT BLADE" secure Its just business, thats all, and Id rather have money in ment to spir-itulist- theatre MflWN P9 I mute 4 STARTING the bank than my name in the gossip columns. You cant eat newsprint." . Kentucky To Rejoice In Laurel Blooms The rest of the Jolson story, "Jolson Sings Again," opens Sunday at the Roxy theater. Larry Parks again is starred as the worlds greatest entertainer, with Barbara Hale starred as Jolsons wife, the army nurse who insists he return to singing because that is what he wants to do. Prominently featured in the film, which has color by Technicolor, are Wiljiam Dema-rest- , Ludwig Donath, Bill Goodwin, Myron McCormick and Tamara Shayne. Among the songs in "Jolson Sings Again are I'm Looking Over a Four-Lea- f Clover, Give to Broadway, My Regards "Sonny Boy, "Pretty Baby, After You've Face, "Baby When the Red, Red, Gone, Robin Comes Bob, Bob Bobbin Is It True What They Along, Say About Dixie?, I Only Have Eyes For You, and others. The PINEVILLE, Ky. (UP) Kentucky- - mountain laurel festival, one of the states ,most colorful events, will be - held when the pink and May 25-2white laurel flowers will cover the mountainsides of southeastern Kentucky." The pageant, which will be held in the natural amphitheater at Laurel Cove, Pine Mountain state park near here, is expected to draw record crowds this year.' Candidates from all of Kentuckys colleges and universities will enter a contest for the Queen of Laurel. A grand festival parade, queens ball and tours of the laurel area also are planned. Still Riding High MILFORD, Mass. (UP) Char-IS. Brown' celebrated his 81th e birthday by .taking a bicycle ' You'll be surprised at the exl a daily practice he has not cellent results ' classified ads secure. missed for 75 years.' ' jLiU Tide, Impro dal cl must day, A 8:00 tw e k OntfibvlMl by INC. KO RADIO NCTUtES. attraction and the fils NOTE This is a pany checker requires each child attending math night to hold a ticket, purchased at their established) of 23c. Adults: no increase in admission. road-sho- w MATINEE SATURDAY S' MOVIES ARE 1 PICK O' THE PICTURES' THAN EVER! SUNDAY MOATS MONDAY , TUESDAY SEE THESE CHEAT V) AT LOOP. M. THE REST OF THE JOLSON MOVlE$JiOIpOM( that in my own simple way, I have the privilege of serving the people' ll of this community. ; 1 Im proud . . . when I see whole families come in together . . , and when parents? j tell me, I never have to worry when mj I I child is in your theatre. I m proud... when I see my patrons wit Ta grand time on every face, re freshed by a full measure of entertainment. . .. ; TOMAHAWK e. Out of the sun the stars the thululer and the night comes a motion picture of such heart and passion it will lift you to the emotional high of screen experience! ! . twit BARBARA HALE y) Iron Wll Sow , awarros 30 "A TICKET TO Mac-lvenzi- W For 4 Day TWELVE O'CLOCK Starting Sun., April STORY most electrifying perHugh Marlowe Gary Merrill Millard Mitchell Dean Jagger Robert Arthur. Bob Patten Paul Stewart John Kellogg Joyce l to the Sunday Movies L are Other Coming Attractions "The Big Lift" "Night and the City" "Broken Arrow" 'The Gun Fighter" "Black Rose" "When Willie Comes Marching Home" 'Three Came Home" "Wabash Avenue" "Cheaper By The Dozen" . TeU Me" well-bein- g of our town. 2 Im proud... that my theatre is a Commu' nity Center in every sense, at the call of every worthy cause. ., And I m proud of Hollywood and its serious men and women, devoting their ingenuity and energy to improving your J f I t -- ? entertainment. . I'm the proudest man in town . .. I am the manager of , M your favorite theatre. I coioTrCT: v i , -' , v better than ever Day-quart- tabern Bowen dl of thority. faith ' H1GH" in as SAVAGE ... his ... formance! With . . . mm Starting P. Crysta north highw Saturday 8.30 P. J All lm proud... of the contribution wc make' r 8:00 et I'm proud mA club. Sponsc ' Sevent Monday, 8.00 P. 'J Sigma . Paines 8:00 P. Amerii War h Thursda1 Iers, S.I News-Journa- COMING HITS! LARRYlPAR KS J P- I: : retirinj , SUNDAY PICTURE IN YEARS! at popula der hi high s 1 Everyo 8:00 P. :i rehear: Saturday Jolson Once More ever THE MOST EAGERLY h A Wood, Parks Appears As NOW AT THE ROXY THEATRE AWAITED MOTION i 8.00 P. soon. MVIES ARE BETTER T,IAN the fionce - Also of camp i "Snow Whit Benjamin Stanton Gage . . . celebrates his two months birthday with a swimming lesson from his mother, Esther Williams, who recently started work in her new Technicolor film, Duchess of Idaho with Van Johnson, which will appear at the Capi- top-flig- TODAY I Mrs, south,-7:3- 7.30 P-- Adams Rib, Ambush, . gether. The Asphalt Side Street, Other Illusions and A Life of Her The professional magicians, Jungle, all Own, of which will be at "illucall the them way, by theater in the the Capitol sions, not tricks, t Among Dantes other illusions near future. pentering to create a first class illusion, he said. "It takes Imagination, then the skill to carry the whole plant out. The appa ratus has to be correctly made, light, portable, easily set up and knocked down. Too many magi clans find themselves lugging around boxcar loads of equip ment. Much Paraphernalia Dante himself has a boxcar full of pharaphernalia. He uses it when he travels with . his troupe of 30 putting on "Dantes Cockeyed Inferno." The magician, whose 'real name Is Harry A. Jansen, brought $30,000 of his equip 1 P- - to- aie the barber shop travesty, where' he winds up shaving himself. He is the father of the magacians rehearsal and the getaway in which a pretty girl steps on a scale, drops in her penny and vanishes. "I turn out five or six illusions every March, and that is my output for the year, he said. "I dont believe in astrology, but Mcrch must, be my inventive H - P-- camp M-G-- other leading magacians put : P. camp 2:00 CAPII0L THEATRE ' ' I |
