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Bob's got Spring fever and Martha's ghing him the works. A laugh toxic that'll cure any quse of old winter lines!

MARTHA RAYE BOB HOPE

NEVER SAY DIE

Andy Devine

Alan Mowbray

Gale Sondergaard - Ernest Cossart

Dicer1ëdhe tliott Huyane

Franz Schubert's "UNFINISHED SYMPHONY".

Conducted and Directed by Frederick Feber

SATURDAY

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WARNER BROS. SENSATIONAL SCREEN PRODUCTION

OF 1939.

EVERY SCREAM IS TRUE!

BLACKWELL'S ISLAND

.whäre a convict aime-czar ruled 2500 tortured souls! ...whore keepers took orders from prisoner-bosses! where you had to buy the right to live, in jailt

They made the rottenest prison on earth' a-model institution!-

JOHN GARFIELD

with

ROSEMARY LANE STANLEY FIELDS

Directed by WILLIAM MEGANN - Presented by WARNER BROS.

Play by Crasa Wiláné - Original Story by Crama Wilhar and Lon Krist

A Post National Picture

FOR SUNDAY-MONDAY-TUESDAY.

ANOTHER SUPERIOR FIRST RUN PRODUCTION TO BE SHOWN AT POPULAR PRICES.

"LITTLE MISS THOROUGHBRED

John Litel, Ann Sheridan, Frank McHugh, Baby Chapman.

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EDWARD G ROBINSON

- in the best picture he ever made

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Jean Arthur Wallace Ford Arthur Byron

JOHN FORD

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THE WHOLE TOWNS TALKING

TOMORROW

Robert Taylor Margaret Sullavan Franchot Tone

“THREE COMRADES”

KING'S:

Hongkong

"Straight, Place And Show"

QUEEN'S ::

“Never Say Die" ORIENTAL:

"Blackwell's Island"

CATHAY:

"Always Goodbye"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:

"Black Doll

STAR:

"Whole Town Is Talking" MAJESTIO;

"Listen, Darling".

Coming

KING'S:

"Stagecoach"

QUEEN'S:

"Honolulu”

ORIENTAL: **

"Little Miss. Thoroughbred"

CATHAY:

"Music "For «Madame"

| ALHAMBRA:

"Honolulu"

STAR:

JI

"Three Comrades"

""Paradise For· Two” MAJESTIC:

"Topper Takes A Trip"

CINEMA & GENERAL

ATTRACTION AT

MAJESTIC

A search for love on wheels, family life in trailer going across the country, and comical contretemps galore arising from experiments in 'matchmaking by. Freddie Bartholomew and · Judy Garlang furnish hilarity and romance in fast-moving" enter tainment in "Listen, Darling," now playing at the Majestic. Theatre with Mary Astor, Alan Hale and Walter Pidgeon as the experimented-with lovers.

The new picture tells the story

of a pretty widow, with a young daughter, who is about to marry the town banker (Gene Lockhart) she does not love to insure her. children's security. The daughter! (Misa Carland) enlists the aid of her schoolmate" "Buzz: (Freddie Bartholomew) and they "kidnap” her in the family trailer, secretly plotting to find an eligible bus- band...

WHEN RUGBY

LAUGHING JACKASSES

THAT DIDN'T LAUGH

A very laughable Incident occurred recently when four Australian kookaburras, or laughing jackasses, obtained at great effort and expenst, sat pa the limb of a frge the other day and, sntered at every effort of the members of Hai Ronch's troupe filming “Captain Fury" to make thêm laugh."

pets didn's like to have string around their legs,

The snicker of the kookaburras] is an important part of the ple- ture, which is based on frontier Roach ordered B cage big life in Australia, But these enough to contain a tree, camera- "animals, which look like crosses man and kookaburras. No bird between owls, mules and alligators cage ever was erected faster. The with feathers on them, simply kookaburras moved in, bút “still { weren't amused. They didn't laugh they wouldn't laugh. All hands, for the cameras that day, or the from Rouch to lowliest prop man, day before, or the day-after, ant were hoarse from laughter, which gave every indication of not [didn't sound funny to anybody. laughing again the following week, All day long they laughed. Mobley The costs mounted, the actors said it looked as though he't have laughed, the movie executives bit to call on Mrs, Mobley. She had their fingernails, even as they way with kookaburras, Only she attempted to tickle the poor was in Santa Barbara 60 miles burras under their business-like sway. Roach said. "Get her." beaks: No picture studio ever was

She arrived and immediately niore glum.

went into conference · with the kookaburras. She laughed at them and laughed untli she was ex- Roach had a dimcult job getting hausted. Property Man Joe Mc- the kookaburras in the first place. Donald dug up a phonograph "re- They are very scarce; there are cord of kookaburras laughing in only eight in the United States, their native heath. He played this He finally learned there were until the record was worn out. four kookaburras at the Catalina

And Then- Island Bird Park, valued at $1,500

By then 1,500 feet of cach and arranged to borrow track had been run off, and all them at $200 per day for the four the laughs it contained were those

Supt. D. L. Mobley brought them over to the studio in two cases. Lang, Mrs. Mobley, et al. The of Roach, Mobley, Aherne, Miss First day the kookaburras were

laugh experts scheduled to record their laughter.electricians switched off their sun gave up. The Mobley tethered them

limbs of

A Difficult Job

to

the

souna

an artificial tree. Hers. The assitant cameraman laughed at them hollowly. They put the cover on his lens. Roach wouldn't imitate him, Roach, with walked away dejectedly.

that $200 per day staring him in

the

eye, laughed, Everybody laughed and laughed. The kooka- burras sat there and blinked their eyes.

Su No Laughs

- Mobley thought maybe the artificial rht of the stage worried them.

whole The troupe, including Miss June and Lang, Victor McLazien Brian Aherne, went out on the 'back, lot where there was sun- light, but still there were no iaughs from the kookaburras, Mobley said he guessed his

The kookaburras looked at him, opened their months, and laughed until they almost split their throats!

Solution No 335 ACROSS; 1, Lacks. 5, Bight. 8. Topic 8, Mirior. 10, Alert. 11, Axe, 12, Sunny. 14, Cleaner, 17, Steady. 19, Scenes, 22, Message. 25, Acute. 28, Ram, 29, Globe. 30, Pause. 31, Noose. 32, Cadet. 33, Delay:'-

DOWN: 1, Lumps. 2 Canon. 3. Strayed. 4. Speech. 5, Scale. 6. Green, 7, Tutor. 13, Untle. 18, Ape, 16. Eject. 18. Ass. 20, Cramped. 21, Terror. 22. Magic: 23, Scold. 24, Agent. 26, Usual, 27, Enemy.

CROSSWORD

NO. 336

ACROSS

1 Place (4)

5 Fowl (4)

8 Light-

resisting (6) "Peal (5)

11 Female re-

lation (4)

SCENES ARE 12 Trouble (8)

Way

FILMED

News of the making of the ragby "scenes brought scores of requests from former followers of the rame to be permitted to watch the filming. Rugby once the big game in western U. S. A colleges and universities, but in 1915 it began giving way to the Ameri- can game of football now in vogue. While it is still played at all the major universities, it has Печет before been played in Hollywood proper.

For the first time in the history of Hollywood, a rugby game played |as an important scene for a motion picture when one of the early sequences of "The Duke of West Point,” an Edward Small production, got under WAY recently.

A huge lawn at the Small studios ́"was, converted into a feplica of the world-famous spot where.. Cambridge and Oxford hold their annual competitions in England Thirty English actors who played rugby "back home" donned uniforms and went into serum paritions to kick the ball bito play.

An Old Hand

Louis Hayward, who shares top acting honour in "The Duke of West Poit with Joan Fontaine, Tom Brown, Richard Carlson and Alan Curtis, is himself an old hand at rugby. He first played it

as a child in Johannesburg: South |-. Africa, where he was born, and Inter while being educated in England, Director Alfred E. Green was surprised to discover that be could handle himself like an ex- pert

The rugby scenes are among the most colourful of many almed, as part of "The Duke of West Point,”; El Haney rugby coach at the University of Southern California, was engaged to me that each play recorded on alm, was... technically correct.

15 Encounter

(4)

17 Wicked (4) 18-Lived (7) 19 Card (3) 20 Merri-

ment. (3) 21 Vegetable

(7)

3. Curve (4) 24 Com-

plaints (4) 27 Opening (8)

30 Row (4)

31 At no time

(5)

32 Falled (6)

39 Terminals'

(4)

34

Greasy (4)

DOWN

2 Vanity (5)

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7 Froth (4)

10Tiny pan

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13 Finger

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25 Smooth (5)

28 Certain (4)

28- Flower (4)

29 Release (4)

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SHERBELT

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Alway Goodbye

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RUDOLE FREIT

MUSIC for MADAME

Eleanor Powell

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Robert Young

in HONOLULU”

with George Burns

Grucie Allen

MAJESTIC

ETHEATRIZ

TODAY AND TOMORROW

YOUTH, LOVE AND Laughter In A ROLLICKING

BOMANCEN HASH

SEE Frekine art as Cupid's liti

Niclanet

GAILY YOURS!

Freddie and Judy pick a man for Mom...and "no drizzle

a puss need apply! It's grand!

Listen Darling

KREDDIE MAANA BUDY BARTHOLOMEW » GARLAND

Glary ASTOR-Walter PIDGEON ALAM HALE - SCOTTY BECKETT, Vected by EDWINE; MARTE: “Isduced by JACK CUMMINGS

HLAR JAY

Beat the tren23

Pat my hout

COMMENCING SATURDAY:

More Laughs ・・・ More Pranks

Than the Original **

HAL BOACH

* More Camera Magic

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TOPPER TAKES A TRIP

CONSTANCE BENNETT ROLAND YOUNG

BILLIE BURKEN ALAM MOHAAY

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