NEXT WEEK AT ROANOKE RAPIDS THEATRES
With The Hardys Starring
MICKEY ROONEY
& LEWIS STONE
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Fred March, Virginia Bruce at Peoples
“Freshman Year,” featuring Dix
ie Dunbar, William Lundigan, Con
stance Morre and Ernest Truex,
will be shown Sunday only at the
Imperial. As the title indicates,
the picture deals with the ex
ploits of a group of freshmen ex
periencing their first year of col
lege life.
The main story theme centers a
round three classmates who hit up
on the idea of writing “flunk” in
surance. One of them arouses the
ire of a professor, who gives a stiff
examination which causes practi
cally a whole class to flunk.
Faced with insurance claims far
beyond their means, the boys pro
mote a show to raise funds. But
even then they are beset with woes.
How they work out of their dilem
ma is one of the highlights of the
picture.
The management of the Imperial
Theatre has scheduled “Garden of
the Moon” as the feature attraction
Monday-Tuesday. The picture o
pens in brisker tempo than most
musicals close in and never misses
a beat. The music by Harry War-'
ren, A1 Dubin and Johnny Mercer
includes no single soft number and
the performance of it by Joe Venuti
and other name bandsmen making
up the orchestra headed by John
Payne, a romantic lead sure to go
far in films, is of a sort to send
jitterbugs into the aisles instanter.
Pat O’Brien plays the night club
proprietor in memorable manner.
Margaret Lindsay is a convincing
press agent who falls in love with
Payne. Melville Cooper, Curt Bois,
Granville Bates and Edward Mc
Wade make sterling contributions
to the comedy department. Jimmy
Fidler acts himself.
The dialogue is pointed, pithy
and timely as a newscast. Situa
tions are fresh and complications
never overstep plausibility. The
place is Los Angeles, the time is
now, and what happens not only
could but has and will again.
Wednesday only the screen at
traction at the Imperial will be
"Strange Faces.”
Two newspaper reporters—Frank
Jenks and Dorothea Kent—on the
trail of a gangster—Leon Ames—
Who has killed his double and has
assumed his identity to return to
Mason City as a local hero after a
10-year absence furnish some live
ly action on a small town back
ground. There’s more comedy than
gangsterism in the development of
the story.
Jenks makes a date to meet Miss
Kent at the marriage license bu
reau in New York and departs im
mediately for Mason City by auto
mobile. Miss Kent beats him there
and gets a job on the local news
paper where Andy Devine is editor.
In the meantime Ames has made
himself solid with the local citizens
and is on his way to stealing De
vine’s girl friend, Mary Treen, who
has inherited a fortune.
In the course of untangling the
complications, Jenks gets himself
arrested, Ames throws a man out
of a hotel window, both Jenks and
Miss Kent get into a comic mixup
in a garage, and the picture winds
up with an automobile chase in
Which Ames loses his life.
Bill Allsbrook will be featured
on the stage with his N.B.C. Or
chestra.
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Gay scenes of comedy, romance
and excitement in a dude ranch
over-run by grass widows high
light the hilariously intriguing pic
ture, “The Road To Reno,” which
Will be shown Thursday only at the
Imperial.
Starring Randolph Scott and
Hope Hampton, and featuring Hel
en Broderick, Glenda Farrell, Al
an Marshal and David Oliver, the
picture uses the gay, tempestuous
atmosphere of the nation’s divorce
capital as the background for
some of the funniest and most un
usual goings-on ever recorded in a
motion picture. They must be seen
to be really appreciated.
The film tells how Linda Halli
day (Hope Hampton), temperamen
tal grand opera star, decides to go
to Reno and divorce her young
rancher husband, Steve Fortness
(Randolph Scott), because he in
sists she shall give up her career
and live on the ranch near Reno.
Linda believes she is in love with
an attractive and wealthy young
stockbroker, Walter Crawford (Al
an Marshal), who follows her to
Reno in the hope she will marry
him when the divorce is granted.
It will be interesting to see all
the truoble she has trying to get a
divorce only to find when the
smoke and dust of battle subsides
that she is in the arms of her hus
band.
Friday only Joan Crawford and
Spencer Tracy will be shown in
“Mannequin” on its return engage
ment.
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Gene Autry will be presented to
the Saturday patrons in “Man
From Music Mountain.”
“Dick Tracy Returns” will be
added.
Miss Hattie Humphrey spent the
week-end in Greensboro. <
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Miss Alma Wyche of Durham,
rN. C. spent the week-end with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Wyche.
Mesdames W. A. Carter. R. W.
Carter, Bena Crocker spent Mon
day in Norfolk, Va.
Mrs. S. B. Pierce visited her
mother in Durham, N. C. last week.
Mrs. Forest Taylor and Mrs.
James Bendall visited in Tarboro,
N. C. Monday.
Dr. Robert Morehead of Wake
Forest, N. C. spent the week-end
with his mother, Mrs. R. P. More
head.
Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Hilliard
and Sterling Johnson visited Mrs.
Sterling Johnson in Duke Hospital
Sunday.
Mrs. W. J. Edwards of Weldon
was hostess at a club party last
Tuesday afternoon, with the mem
bers of her bridge club, and sev
eral invited guests present. At
tractive tallies directed the guests
to the four tables appointed for
contract and at the conclusion of
the games Mrs. N. J. Shepherd was
winner of the club prize, Mrs. J. S.
Selden, the guest prize, and Misses
Mary Wyche and Ann Joyner, each
remembered with dainty gifts. The
hostess served a salad course with
coffee. Those making up the tables
were Mesdames J. S. Selden, Over
ton Suiter, F. J. Bounds, R. C.
Cornwall, C. F. Gore, T. H. Holmes,
C. E. King, J. T. Maddrey, G. H.
Nash, B. G. Rodwell, D. W. Sei
fert, N. J. Shepherd, C. R. Turner,
C. S. Vinson, Misses Mary Wyche
and Ann Joyner.
Mrs. Macon Shearin of Weldon
was hostess to a number of friends
on Wednesday afternoon when she
entertained at bridge. At the con
clusion of the games Mrs. T. R.
Manning was winner of high score.
The hostess served ice box cake
and soft drinks to the following:
Mesdames Esmond Carter, Spencer
Woody, Luther Shearin, F. N.
Rowe, Malvin King, T. R. Manning
and E. S. Barnes.
Birth Announcement
Mr. and Mrs. Hyder Ferguson
Crawley of Lbenezer announce the
birth of a daughter, Doris Anne,
on Sunday, November 13, at home.
Mrs. Crawley, formerly was Miss
Madeline Pittard of the Hawkins
Chapel community.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Smith return
ed to their home in Raleigh Sun
day after spending the week with
their daughters, Mrs. R. I. Starke
and Mrs. W. E. Hawkins.
PROGRAM lor WEEK
PEOPLES
of NOVEMBER 27, 1938
(MPCQfAC.
SUNDAY-MONDAY-TUESDAY
I LEWIS STONE
MICKEY ROONEY
Out West With the Hardys
WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY
FREDRIC MARCH
VIRGINIA BRUCE
There Goes My Heart
FKIDAY-SATURDAY
Bob Hope Shirley Ross
Thanks For The Memory
SUNDAY
Dixie Dunbar Ernest Truex
FRESHMAN YEAR
MONDAY TUESDAY
Pat O'Brien Margaret Lindsay
GARDEN OF THE MOON
WEDNESDAY
Frank Jenks Dorothea Kent
STRANGE FACES
Bill Allsbrook On Stage
THURSDAY
Hope Hampton Randolph Scott
ROAD TO RENO
FRIDAY
Joan Crawford Spencer Tracy
MANNEQUIN
SATURDAY '
Gene Autry
Man From Music Mountain
_Added: PICK TRACY RETURNS