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Show FIRMAffi THEATRE Sunday and Monday With a ditinguished cast that reads like a "Who's Who" of London Lon-don and Hollywood film colonies, and an engrossing story that covers a century and a third of English history, the long awaited "Forever and a Day" comes to the Firmage theatre Sunday and Monday. Mon-day. A sturdy old English home, built in the year 1804 by the fiery Admiral Trimble, is the axis about which the story turns. The lives and loves, the troubles and joys, of various generations of the old Admiral's descendants, furnish meaty matter for the different episodes that occur from that time on up to the Luftwaffe raids over London in 1940, when a heavy bomb smashes tne structure to fragments. The latest news and a colored cartoon, "War Dogs", also will be shown. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday With its story woven around the consequence of a Nazi invasion inva-sion of a sleepy European village, "This Land of Mine" stars Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara in a stirring and timely - drama of patriotism. The two favorites have the roles of a pair of school teachers in the town, both of whom are inexorably drawn into the underground conflict between the local inhabitants and the Nazi troops. How forces beyond his control transform Laughton from a fear-ridden incomepetent to a courageous rebel forms the dramatic dra-matic basis of the unusual film. The latest news' and a Donald Duck cartoon also will be shown. Friday and Saturday King of the cowboys, Roy Rogers, and his wonder horse, Trigger, will thrill audiences at the Firmage theatre Friday and Saturday, when he appears in his latest Republican hit, "Song of Texas". This picture is one of a double feature program. The story built around a modern rodeo circuit cir-cuit has thrills aplenty, action and outstanding production value. Farce comedy and thrilling romance ro-mance are unreeled in a western setting in Hal Roach's newest film opus. "Calaboose," which comes to this theatre as the other picture of a double feature show. Jimmy rlogers, Noah Beery jr.-, Mary Brian and others are in the cast. Its story is concerned with the gay and screwy advntures of two happy-go-lucky cowboys. |