Show THE OGDEN 10-- B STANDARD-EXAMINE- and Thrills Abound On Sunday Plenty of Laughs Melody Young Love Adventure BERGEN SEEKS SUNDAY MORNING DECEMBER 3 1939 R r : 1 Show Programs r ' if" 5 1 i NEW DUMMY TO SPANK CHARLIE McCarthy Is Getting Too Chesty Declares Creator HOLLYWOOD Dec 2 (AP) — Don't tell Charlie McCarthy but Bergen's looking for a new dummy Trouble Is says Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen Charlie's getting a bit too chesty — and when a wooden-hea- d gets the swellhead that's bad Bergen's seen too many cases of "going Hollywood" he says so just by way of Insurance he's working without Charlie's knowledge on some new wooden figures of Snerd There's Mortimer es well course Mortimer's pretty tablished now but he's such a yokel that his routine is limited Bergen tried a girl dummy for a while too but she turned out to be the insipid type So he's back in his paintshop in the basement of his Beverly Hills home on his free mornings these days designing a new comedy figure to rely upon should Charlie McCarthy go the way of all flesh Working on Chickens "I've got two chickens I'm on now" says Bergen enthus iastically "They make up a fairly good vaudeville act— and look how Don ald Duck's gone places I have some other ideas too Surely can find some character to take this insufferable superiority out of Charlie" Bergen admits you can hardly blame McCarthy the little shaver for getting conceted "After all" he says "its all I can do to get screen credit and here Charlie's got his name in a movie title" The picture now under is "Charlie McCarthy Detec tive" Charlie and Edgar fight over it all the time The other day Bergen let Charlie's monocle drop "Help" yelled Charlie "I'm falling apart" Charlie garbed in the loud checked overcoat and cap of Sherlock Holmes was supposed to call one of the actors "Weaselpuss Willie" Bergen tripped him up by "Williepuss Weasel the Waffle-Fsaying ace" Right after that when Charlie was to call for help from Watson Bergen had him say "Quick needle the Watson" This was too much for Charlie "Hey Bergen" he snarled "You're sure as hell off today" "Well I'm tired of carrying you around" Bergen replied "You're tired?" Charlie snorted "How about me? I've been carrying you for 17 years" Helped Him Carve Living ChicaYes admits the go-born ventriloquist McCarthy's been helping him carve out a living since Northwestern university days In fact since their advent in radio in December 1936 Charlie and Edgar have been too busy to have much fun Actually says Bergen Charlie's little more than a fugitive from a fireplace "Wait until I get some new competition for him" says Edgar "Then watch him burn" f '"I I T'r-1 slaw f ! H-- A ' ' ' -- I t" — v i 1 V W90WKilrf'''' it J ! s 1 4 5 — - rtWiFi-fif- SHOW MENU Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland (left) ar featured in "Babes In Arms at the Orpheum theatre Sully Mason and Kay Kyser (left center) co-e- d beauty and th ol' maestro in "That's Right You're Wrong" at the Egyptian Gene Reynolds Andrea Leeds and Joel McCrea (light center) in They Shall Have Music" at the Paramount Anna Neagle (upper right) in "Nurse Edith Cavcll" at the Ogden and Ann Sheridan (lower right) in The Angels Wanh Their Faces" at the Egyptian S anta Lane S till Thrilling programs of young love Paramount Offers Drama Romance melody comedy anfl heart throbs western adventure and excitement Sharing top honors on the Paraabound at Ogden's five theatres - dual - bill mount this Sunday The screen entertain- which theatre's giant-three-da- y a for opens today ment is as follows: engagesnent are Alexander Kor-datechincolor film superb That's Right" Show "Four Feathers" and Samuel Offered At Egyptian g musical Goldwyn's romance Have Shall the film first appear"They Marking ance of Kay Kyser and his famous Music" "Four Feathers" is a stirband "That's Right— You're ring drama of adventure and roWrong" Kay Kyser and mance and Is packed with action at the head of a thrills and spectacle It depicts the Adolphe Menjou brilliant cast in what is said to be qdramatic story of a young English the novelty screen hit of the season officer who redeems himself by a series of daredevil adventures durat the Egyptian Sunday "That's Right— You're Wrong" ing Kitchener's campaign in the en Sudan after his closest friends and the troubles joyously probes countered ?by a film company in the girl he loves dub him a coward trying to produce a band leader by sending him four white feathers picture The first attempt has Ky Against desert backgrounds of ser as a romantic Latin type — and startling color beauty the film unby no stretch of the imagination folds sweeping battle sequences in can Kyser be considered a torrid which over 4000 Arabs Dervishes Latin lover! After several succes and British soldiers Ive attempts to shape a likely take part The film is further notstory the scenarists give up Mean- able for outstanding shots of the while the members of the band go Nile cataracts over which are haul to Hollywood in a big way: and ed Kitchener's gunboats just as the luckless producer unable to see they were 40 years ago Outstandany other way out of theMilemma ing performances are turned in by tries to maneuver Kyser into Ralph Richardson June Dupres Clements and C Aubrey John breaking his contract 's co-sta- rs d Thousands of Lights Cheering Fans Dot Boulevard Gay-Colore- By MAY MANN Alice "Barricade" starring Faye and Warner Baxter and "Rio" featuring Basil Rathbone Orpheum Features "Babe In Amis" MONTANA PROUD Standard-Examin- Staff er wind-blowin- Cupid Invades 'Loafing Office' cold-blood- PALMYRA Mo (UP)— Ed Pratt ? ty ed o Rabbits Cause Trouble On Set ' " j tail-spi- ns i TODAY! AT I P M Eves 20c Kiddies 10c No Better Show at Any Price UOV PLAYING The ST dirty-face- ii r d aneels are tak I ing the straight and all for a t dame! The cops can't fig ure it out but we can I policemen just Jaln't got roompn : tf A 4 4 v cent ' I £jj ANN SHERIDAN I -- I'll T - 1 -- " EVERY EMOTION THE SCREEN CAN EVER GIVE All IN iiu Li I i i l THE Vr J (IMC MABNICIITMT iiiui iiiHiiiuii mi ia i 1 f i f x tvi-te- kids C) 'rri A in 3 'AUGELS WASH THEIR FACES' with Thomas Bonita Granville - Henry O'Neill Reagan-Franki- e with Ralph RICHARDSON - C Aubrey SMITH John CLEMENTS June DUPREZ IN TECHNICOLOR Released Through UNITED ARTISTS ± Hit No 2 D THIS STORY 'OF A BOY A GIRL A DOG AND THE WORLD'S GREATEST VIOLINIST V'J ' ' As Human As Kids with Dirty Faces and Hungry Hearts g Drama and a The Freckles on their Noses That Demanded All The Showmanship of Hollywood's' Foremost - Gene Autry in Heart-searchin- Producer! "Boots and Saddle" SAMUEL GOLDWYN presents with 1 Hit GLORIOUS AS HUSIC ITSELF 2nd V '"J vr END Ronald J DEAD -- I 1 Yl DIPTFIHI iii i iiiii g the story of a coward his three friends and the girl he loved four white feathers that sent him into a thousand perils to seek redemption 8000 savage Dervishes filmed for the first time with every detail of their cruel warfare the horrors of the fanatical Mahdi's hideous torture chambers never before revealed ALEXANDER KORDA presents ue : u blood-poundin- and MrDA Program Set for Sunday - w —- j ng Ca-vel- v :-- no - NEW HOLMES DRAM") ed Shown At Colonial ON 'MET' PROGRAM Hollywood's finest juvenile tal Heading the Colonial twin feaent headed by Mickey Rooney and Should U S Curtail All Judy Garland arrived at the Or- ture program is "The Angels Wash Annamary Dickey Decatur 111 pheum theatre via the screen yes- Their Faces" presenting the faExpcorts Is Under mous somekids in "Dead End" inois dentist's daughter who in "Babes In Arms" and the terday Debate result is something to write home what unfamiliar guise of lawabid-in- g reached the pinnacle of the musica citizens but let no one con- world as one of last year's winners about A from this that they've gone of Metropolitan Opera Auditions of DONALD clude YOUNG By Mickey Rooney uncovers more WASHINGTON Dec 2 — (AP) tricks than even his mother must sissy for they are still rough the Air will return to the program — War abroad has set governhave euspected he had and Judy tough and aggressive Ann Sheri as a guest speaker during the ment officials to thinking serious- Garland from three-thirt- y doe3 a job of entertain- dan and Ronald Regan head the broadcast Sunday about oil m over to this revolves nation's adult KLO and The four ly p players 6tory supplies ment that must bring salaams NBC-Blu- e These questions are beinj ask- from her aftaround a the who network brother younger peers Betty Jaynes er t ed: Miss Dickey made her Met debut serving time in a reformatory McPhail June Preisser Douglas 1 Should the United 'States cur- - and about two hundred other returns home and is admitted to Wednesday (November 29) as the tail production stop exports and youngsters membership in the "Dead End" Happy Spirit in Gluck's "Orfeoe to contrive start a new search for waste in Babes In Arms" one of the make kids' club Through the efforts of Euridice" best production as insurance against pieces of musical entertainment to the 'club a band of arsonists and The singers will be Florence Wy of Brooklyn any emergency? come out of Hollywood in months murderers are brought to justice man lyric-sopra2 With increasing expansion of Mario New and York Fiorella so ful is The and film Besides acting Mickey dances the army and navy how long can San of Call Francisco baritone will of fans excitement hardly and have time to that sings gives impersonations estimated reserves cover normal plays fornia new on reflect the the piano Judy dances too peace-tim- e requirements? and Douglas get their big- characters played by the Dead Betty 3 Can the oil states and the gest opportunity and make the Enders petroleum industry be depended very best The second feature is "Boots and of it June Preisser is a upon to continue normal activities dancing sensation Saddles" starring that ever popu in case of a sudden war-tim- e de "Babes In Arms" is a story of lar western singing star Gene mand for the valuable fuel? in which vaudeville passed Autry All of Gene's old pals are the The war navy and interior de out era of existence As the sons and back again even his old side-kic- k partments as well as congres daughters of headliners Burnette in this action out of Smiley Responding to a frantic call from sional committees are searching work romance western kids the take into Grover Stanford wealthy oil man things for the answers The industry's A cartoon and the latest war Mr District own their hands when are they Attorney and his as and are threatened with geologists engineers news out round the program sent to the sistant Harrington arrive at the working independently along the state farm They being a show of scene to find that Stanford has stage same line Edith CaveH' and own their attract a been With only minor murdered proBroadway In case of war the uncertainties Race Show At Ogden clues to work from the D A and would become of paramount lm ducer and wind up in a big revue The picture is interspersed with Widely acclaimed for her out Harrington set out to solve what portance and even drama pathos comedy standing portrayals in the British proves to be one of their most bafThe best estimates in the gov The musical score of Rodgers pictures "Victoria the Great" and fling mysteries during the broads ernment and out of it are that to and Hart wrote who the original "Queen of Destiny" Anna Neagle cast Sunday from five- - thirty known oil reserves will last from NBC-Blsuccess the upon which the makes her American film debut in six p m over KLO and 12 to 15 years But that guess is Broadway l" Network "Nurse Edith based on bo many factors as to be picture is based Is supplemented RKO Radio's new several numbers now by the at notably almost worthless playing Ogden All experts qualify their predic- "Good Morning" "My Daddy Was theatre The popular English star plays tions by saying they are based a Minstrel Man" and "Opera vs PARKER SUES who di the title role in this Herbert Wilcox JEAN A Jazz" Busby Berkeley upon present consumption uses rected has selected three eye and production which graphically desharp decline in domestic to be ear filling sequences the "Babes picts the labors trial and untimecause their would figures MATE FOR DIVORCE revised upward But an unexpect- In Arms" number which is a stir- ly end of the great World war martyr-ed demand would lop off aeveral ring marching song in which 200 nurse kids participate the minstrel show The stirring story based on acyears from current guesses HOLLYWOOD Dec 2 (UP) — sequence in which many of the tual facts contained in official war Jean Oil Be Should Exported school beau Parker the The experts call attention to the old hits are used and the "God's records features a strong support- ty who rode into high on a movies the fact too that discovery of new Country" finale which has the fla- ing cast of forty players among Pasadena tournament of roses float fields — and the end apparently is vor of a Berkeley spectacle In the whom are Edna May Oliver May sued for divorce today from George not yet in sight — would change cast besides the kids are Charles Robson George Sanders ZaSu E MacDonald New York newsWinninger Guy Kibbee Grace Pitts and H B Warner the picture completely paperman Her complaint charged Black gold has been flowing Hayes and Rand Brooks If you "Day the Bookies Wept" star- cruelty from the states at about the rate want a rousing evening's entertain- ring Joe Penner is the second 1 which the bureau of mines esti- ment don't fail to see "Babes In amusing hit Eire 'has introduced a compul mates is necessary to meet month Arms" of the Range" star- sory tillage measure and is eager "Spoilers demand Valves are beProgram is rounded out with a ring Charles Starrett and "Full to supplement Britain's food suping turned just enough to keep the cartoon Pete Smith's "Ski Birds" Confession" with Victor McLaglen plies including ham eggs butter price the motorist pays relatively and- the latest news Will run and Sally Eilers start Wednes and meat but asks more favor stable through Tuesday able prices day th RATHBONE PRESENTS "The Adventures of Charles Auretired Burlington railroad special — officer doesn't want to be narrow VIRGINIA Mont CITY (UP) Milverton" a case In which gustus to ride McCarthy always manage and despised for many about the uses to which his "loaf- Sherlock Holmes Neglected in and the Santa's turned burglar to sleigh— together by the elder generation of ing office" is put but he hopes it film notables who have children years blackmailer will be "Boot" Hill" won't be turned into a marriage thwart a the Madison young burial place ofvalley always bring starry-eye- d five of Montana's parlor dramatized during the Adventures sit on their laps hopefuls to he 'retired fitted of When most of Pratt pioSherlock notorious road Holmes program Mon- up agents Harold ' Lloyd's small son put neer days is being considered for a downown office in which he and day from six to p m forth his best effort to impress historical marking his friends could loaf comfortably over KLO and the NBC-RenetSanta that he really believed in was decades ago that outraged A few chairs and a desk on which work It him and then forgot to ask what citizens of what was then Madi- they could put their feet were the Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and he wanted stuffed in his Christmas son County Ida rose in protest principal items Then Miss Ethel Doctor Watson Bruce) atstocking murder Mae Stroud and Ben W Baer tempt to prevent (Nigel the blacka against notorious Shirley Temple last year brought and conscienceless robberies perpe- came from Loraine 111 to be mar- mailer from ruining the life of an Santa a pair of her own stockings trated by the five men and exe- ried They had heard of the loaf- innocent woman Fighting crime so's he'd know just how much one cuted them after conviction before ing place and asked permission to with crime they burglarize the would hold Baby Dumpling repeatbe married there a vigilante court holme of Charles Augustus Milver "We couldn't rightly turn them ton ed the trick this ye°r Today the five graves lay outto run into a situation — to even when they asked me whichonly been down have known Montana's side first Stars this city really leaves them in danger give forth with their talent when capital — marked only by metal and Pike Moore to be witnesses" their lives ' called before Santa's loudspeaker standards erected since the tender- Pratt said "A marriage now and Nelson Eddy gave forth with his foot came to this state and revived then won't upset things but we favorite song — Joe E Brown recit- interest in historical sites A shift hope it won't become a common in state boundaries placed the pio- practice to interrupt our loafing" ed 'Twas the Night Before Christmas" — Martha Raye went right neer cemetery in Montana The five — Frank Parish Jack lagher's feet Helm cried out: to town with a swingeroo — and Ed"Kick away old fellow I'll be onBoone Haze Lyons die Cantor had ten thousand Gallagher — hell along with you in a minin Helm were Lane and lookers singing Christmas Night George HOLLYWOOD Dec 2 (AP) — and Jingle Bells That was some executed Jan 14 1864 An early-da- y ute" writer said of them: Lyons' grave on Boot Hill was Livestock on the "Dr Ehrlich" set community sing— it could be heard "No man's life was safe in their the second dug for him by forces of is giving the cast a bit of trouble as far as Catalina! no property was safe law and order He had been senpresence Snow Three workers came down with Imitation to death previously for murtenced from their attack" snow real is hay fever which physicians said Only thing missing Their record of robbery and der but was granted his freedom was caused by particles — so everyone buys imitation snow from the a plea of mercy made by wom- fur of rabbits used in scenes showand cotton balls from street ven- murder is written in pioneer his- on dors — and the streets "become as tory of states from Missouri to en of the camp ing the great German scientist in his laboratory white as Sun Valley in December California To aid in developing the vast Parish alone of the quintet Several times too the laboraTo every light post — there's a Suresources showed the of North white Vhen feather pinewood — and tree there tory's white mice have escaped lighted Christmas the noose was adjusted about his matra a highway will be built to much to the consternation of womis a trick airplane writer who neck Lyons believed to the last the east coast to permit direct en on the set It's easier to bu' "Merry Christmas" in the he would escape hanging As the shipment abroad of wood pulp new mice so no attempt to reca sky with lighted fuses was kicked box from under Gal- - turpentine and rosin ture the escapees has been made Santa will be riding nightly right 1 — — — up until Christmas Eve with famous stars It's become as traditional as making movies in STARTS 15c Mats 'Angels' Westerner fast-movi- 'Tf'llfirtKi d HOLLYWOOD Dec 2— The bigheart-etirringest show of the year is now in progress in Hollywood! Cinema city's biggest stars are participating even though there's neither cameras nor studios nor surprisingly enough salaries! Staged nightly on Hollywood boulevard which for the past fifteen years becomes Santa Claus Lane on the Saturday following Thanksgiving it is free Thousands of Lights There are thousands of colored lights and glamorous stars and cheering people Not an actor or actress requests top billing — for Santa Claus Is more attractive than movie city's biggest box ofFuzzy-Wuzzifice attractions —even to Gable or Shirley Temple Tradition bears the story that some light-glob- e manufacturer initiated the idea of Santa Claus lane by approaching the Hollywood chamber of commerce fifteen years ago A million lights or so were sold and Mary Pickford Smith threw the illuminated that switch "They Shall Have Music" is an the sky bedazzling californians outstanding motion picture with for mlies around who hastened to the great Jascha Heifetz playing to see what was going Hollywood his magic music in a magnificent on story that is filled with the laugh Santa Claus first appeared on a ter and the shining tears of youth with two reindeer mounted sleigh The romantic roles are played by on a truck with carloads of movie lovely Andrea Leeds and Joel Mc stars bringing up the rear crea star of "Union Pacific' Today we find Santa in a $20000 while the Important supporting g mabehind a sleigh roles are portrayed by Walter chine wafting huge snowflakes on Brennan Gene Reynolds Tommy his honored guests — who nightly Kelly and Terry Kilbourne Brief- are selected from Hollywood's a of slum tells the ly story boy list who has inherited talent for music celebrity Wallace Beery who has private from his dead father Through a played the role of Santa Claus series of strange events he lands ly for eight years to his adopted in a settlement music school run daughter Carol Ann was this by an idealistic professor who year's Santa right along with the takes him under his wing When the regular pink cheeked grateful youngster learns of the little white-haire- d in his gentlemen desperate financial straits of the red flannel suit who's been riding school he undertakes to win the Hollywood boulevard since that patronage of the great Heifetz and first night so many years ago save the school from the hands of They Ride In Sleigh the creditors and give it a bright Dorothy Lamour and Charlie A cartoon new start "Scalp Trouble" and "News of the Day" completes the program ILLINOIS SONGSTER red-nos- OF 'BOOT HILL' - six-thir- es The ' scheme almost succeeds when Kyser is informed of the producer's chicanery by the dis gruntled scenarists He turns the tables on the producer by agreeing with all his ridiculous suggestions even making " a complete screen test as the romantic Venetian gon dolier of the original story As the double-crossin- g producer Adolphe Menjou has one of his fun niest roles to date May Robson as Kyser's common-sens- e grandmother: Lucille Ball as a glamour girl Dennis O'Keefe as manager Edward Everett Horton as an ecRoscoe Karns centric scenarist and Moroni Olsen form the princi pal support The second hit feature is "The Escape" with Kane Richmond and Amanda Duff Bigges t Show for H oily wood Stars 4 BEING STUDIED to-mon- ! 1 ( ''jfo 1 ir " v'f V Victor McLaglen and Sigrid Gurie make up the next bill to be OIL SUPPLIES - Smiley Burnette Judith Allen v ( A ADDED Novelty War News in ANDREA LEEDS GENE REYNOLDS Directed by ARCHIE MAYO A JOEL MCCREA WALTER BRENNAN Released Ihrv United ArihH U tf ' ) 1 i 3 |