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Edmund Lowe, Wendy Barrie Co-Star
THE WITNESS
VANISHES
Thursday and Friday at the Imperial
The management of the Imperial
Theatre is bringing back "Andy
Hardy Gets Spring Fever” for the
Sunday only feature attraction.
Mickey Rooney will be seen as
Andy Hardy and Lewis Stone as
the father along with the other
Hardy family members in their
Usual role.
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"Swanee River” (reviewed on the
opposite page) will be shown Mon
day-Tuesday at the Imperial. Don
Ameche and Andrea Leeds play the
leading roles in the story of Ste
phen C. Foster’s life.
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“Thou Shalt Not Kill,” starring
Charles Bickford and featuring
Owen Davis, Jr. and Doris Day,
Which will be presented Wednesday
only at the Imperial, presents a
sympathetic portrayal of a city
youth, misunderstood by young
people of Freedom when he comes
to live among them.
Lonely, and eager for companion
ship, he turns his attention to
Julie, a girl of questionable char
acter employed as bar maid for a
local tavern, and as a result is
“talked about.”
The boy, played by Owen Davis,
Jr., ultimately meets and falls in
love with a wholesome village girl,
Mary, but her parents arbitrarily
condemn the union.
They are forced into a position
Where they have to accept him,
however, when the boy provides the
blood for an emergency transfusion
Which saves the life of Mary’s
mother.
Encouraged by this reversal in
their attitude, he aspires to marry
the girl, but alter he breaks with
his old girl, Julie, she is mysteri
ously murdered under circum
stances which point to him as the
killer.
Enfield Party
In Enfield, Mrs. W. B. Burchette
entertained at bridge Friday eve
ning having as special guest Miss
Helen Williams, of Seaboard, who
was her week-end house guest.
Mrs. James Harris won the high
score prize, and Miss Mable Powell
the second highest. Miss Williams
was presented an attractive re
membrance.
Mrs. Burchette served a sweet
course to the following: Miss Helen
Williams, Miss Mable Powell, Mrs.
R. W. Baugham, Mrs. Henry Cuth
rell, Mrs. Harold Burrows, Mrs.
Bennie Bobbitt, Mrs. Collins Cuth
rell, Mrs. Jack Whitehead, Mrs.
James Harris, Mrs. D. B. Barns,
Mrs. Robert Ivy, and Mrs. H. C.
Futrell.
Program On Mexico
The pupils of the first and sec
ond grades of Enfield gave a Mex
ican program in the school audi
torium Thursday morning. Miss
Blanche Moss, the teacher, compos
ed the play and put it on from
ideas originating from her travels
in Mexico last summer. She was
assisted with piano accompaniment
by Miss Dorothy Flanders, and they
opened the program by all singing
"South of the Border Down Mex
ico Way”.
The children, in costume, sang
Spanish songs, and told of the cus
toms, homes, occupation; demon
strating the “Donkey”, a “Chicken
Fight” and “How Christmas is Cel
ebrated” there.
Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Lynch and
children, visited friends and rela
tives at Brunswick and La Crosse
Sunday.
G. W. Brewer, Jr., and Britchforc
Schulthorpe spent the week-ent
with parents at Brunswick anc
Charlie Hope.
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Rev. D. D. Broome and children
were dinner guests of Mrs. V. T.
Hawkins Sunday.
The Christian Endeavor social
was held at Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Pit
tard’s last Friday night. A large
number was present.
Mrs. G. W. Morgan returned
home Sunday from Richmond aft
er spending a few weeks with her
daughter, Mrs. Georgie King.
Miss Esther Hawkins spent a
few days last week with Mrs. Mag
gie Pierce, near Halifax.
C. W. Hawkins and son were the
dinner guests of Mrs. B. S. Haw
kins Sunday.
Miss Esther Hawkins was the
dinner guest of Lorena Hux Sun
day.
Mrs. C. W. Hawkins and Georgie
Arrington were visitors in the home
of Mrs. Z. C. Hawkins Sunday.
Rev. D. D. Broome and family
of Littleton charge, have made
their home in Aurelian Springs
community, near the Aurelian
Springs High School.
Z. V. Hawkins and Willis Haw
kins were the dinner guests Thurs
day of Mrs. F. C. Porter of Little
ton.
Mrs. Z. C. Hawkins and Mr. and
Mrs. F. C. Porter were visitors In
the home of J. H. Hawkins and
family last Thursday night.
Mr. and Mb’s. E. M. Bidgood and
| daughter, Ann, of Portsmouth, Va.,
spent the week-end here with rel
atives.
a Kinaiy local minister inter
venes, and saves the boy from the
death sentence at the risk of his
own life, which is threatened in a
highly dramatic manner.
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Edmund Lowe and Wendy Barrie
Will be seen in the leading roles of
'‘The Witness Vanishes,” which
Will be the feature attraction at
.the. Imperial Thursday-F'riday.
The story deals with a London
newspaper publisher, who had been
railroaded to an insane asylum—
, twenty years before the story opens
—by four crafty but prominent
business men. With his escape,
comes the front-page news that he
is bent upon murdering all four of
them. The advance obituaries of
all of them are printed—each with
the date and hour the ex-publisher
has set for them to die.
Three of the group meet their
deaths exactly as specified, in spite
of the personal guarding of the vic
tims by Scotland Yard. The fourth
member is ready for his rendez
vous with the murderer on the ap
pointed night, when the situation
is thrown into an entirely different
light by the finding of a rival
'newspaper reporter.
“Taming of the West” with Bill
Elliott in the leading role will be
shown Saturday only at the Im
perial.
“Overland with Kit Carson” will
be added.
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PROGRAMS
FOR THE
PEOPLES
♦ SUNDAY
♦ ' Don Ameche-Andrea Leeds
I SWANEE RIVER
♦ MONDAY-TUESDAY
▲ Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.-Joan Bennett
X GREEN HELL
X WEDNESDA Y -THURSDAY
7 Margaret Sullavan-James Stewart
I SHOP AROUND THE CORNER
X FRIDAY
7 Preston Foster-Ann Dvorak
f CAFE HOSTESS
Y SATURDAY
♦ Gene Autry
| COLORADO SUNSET
♦ Added: Zorro’s Fighting Legion
X EVERY FRIDAY IN THE PEOPLES AND IM1
(MPCCHAL
SUNDAY ♦
Mickey Rooney-Lewis Stone T
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever |
MONDAY-TUESDAY ♦
Don Ameche-Andrea Leeds X
SWANEE RIVER |
WEDNESDAY
Charles Bickford-Boris Day
THOU SHALT NOT KILL
THUKSDAY-r^aJAY
Edmund Lowe-Wendy Barrie
THE WITNESS VANISHES
SATURDAY
Bill Elliott
TAMING OF THE WEST
Added: Overland With Kit Carson
>ERIAL THEATRES IS DIVIDEND NIGHT