f NEXT WEEK AT ROANOKE RAPIDS THEATRES
"DOWN ARGENTINE
WAY" FEATURED
FILM NEXT WEEK
"South of Suez"
and "The Letter"
Both At Peoples
Don Ameche and Betty Grable
will come to the Peoples Theatre
in the featured film of the week,
"Down Argentine Way," for the
Sunday show. It will be shown at
the Imperial on Monday and Tues
day.
This color musical is plentifully
supplied with ingredients calculated
to take an audience's mind off what
îs happening in Europe. It is tune
ful and entertaining.
The screenplay, treats of horses
and those who love them, primarily
of a boy and a girl, respectively
South and North America, who find
themselves in love despite objec
tions on the part of the boy's father
to the girl's family, based on. an old
fancied slight involving another
woman. Treated, also, is the con
version of father's favorite horse, a
jumper, into a flat racer.
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"South of Suez", story of dark
plots and intrigues in the diamond
country of Africa, starring George
Brent and Gernldine Fitzgerald,
will have a two-day run at the Peo
ples Theatre on Monday and Tues
day of next week. In the support
ing cast will be James Stephen
son, George Tobias, Lee Patrick and
others. j
The story casts Mr. Tobias in
the role of a ruthless and cowardly
mine owner, hated by the wife who
married him for his money, enact
ed by Mijs Patrick. At her urg
ing, he hired the adventurer depict
ed by Mr. Brent as foreman. By
constantly throwing herself at him,
the woman forces Brent off the
place, and be becomes foreman for
a dissipated Englishman whose dis
covery of a huge stone causes his
murder. Accussed of the crime,
Brent flees to England, where he
falls in love with the Englishman's
daughter; is caught, but finally ex
onerated.
******
Called Bette Davis' best, "The
Letter" will be shown at the Peo
ples Theatre here next Wednesday
and Thursday. Herbert Marshall
will take the lead opposite Miss
Davis.
The picture, which has just been
released, has not been reviewed.
The "letter" about which the story
centers annears below, however:
"Robert will be away for the night.
I absolutely must see you. I shall
expect you at eleven. I am desper
ate and if vo'i don't come, I won't
be responsible for the conse
quences. L"
The story is based on a novel by
Somerset Maugham.
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One of the r~ost dramatic of
stories eve»· to with 'teen-aere
girls, "Girls Under 21" will be
shown pt ..to'"-' tv","tre
Friday only of next week. Star
ring Paul Kel'v and Rochell Hud
son, it te'].» of a one-man battle
against a ree»nerate group of hard
boiled gangsters.
The fi'm onens with Frances
White, played by Miss Hudson, re
turning to her home in the Yancey
Street slums after receiving much
newspaper publicity as the wife of
a notorious gangster. Announcing
that she is finished with her rack
eteer husband, the girl gets a job
in the neighborhood department
store. Johnnv Cane, local high
school teacher, is both overjoyed
and dismaved at her return. He
is overjoyed because he can again
go out with the girl he always
loved, but di«maved because the
younger girls in the community, led
by Frances' sister, Jennie, start pat
terning their behavior along the
lines of Frances' newspaper publi
city, openly fllouting Cane's plans
for their betterment.
******
"Men Against The Sky", starring
Richard Dix and Wendy Barrie,
will come to the downtown theatre
for the Saturday show only of next
week. Reviewers have said that it
is one of the soundest of pictures
yet filed in the story of the present
day re-armament program.
There is humor in the manufac
turer's financing of his enterprise
and there is romance in the story.
There is drama in the telling of
how a down-at-heel pilot supplies
the construction formula needed
for success and dies when his para
chute fails, as well as in two fights
made, but there are no mock hand
Hng of the material evoked, more
applause and approval from a pre
view audience than all the flag
waving in all the other flight pic
tures made since "Hell's Angels."
Visiting Parents
Miss Daisy McCommons arrived
here last Thursday night to visit
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. L.
McCommons. Miss McCommons, a
registered nurse, has been on duty
at Puerto Rico for the past two
years. She will visit here before
enlisting again for duty after
Christmas.
Miss McCommons made the trp
from Puerto Rico to Miami, Fla.,
by plane. She came to Roanoke
Rapids from Florida by train.
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Birthday Party
Mrs. Pat Ogburn entertained last
Saturday night at her home on
Madison Street, honoring her sister,
Miss Louise Peffer, on her fif
teenth birthday. Games were play
ed after which candy, peanuts,
cakes and Pepsi-Cola were served
to the following: Misses Beulah
Ogburn, Becky Grant, Joline Kay,
Ernestine Warrick, Dorotny Wil
liams, Lucille Edwards, Mary
Lynch, Ruth Wrenn, Rosa Clyde
Bryant, Adell Blue, Hazel New
some, and Messrs. Bennie Vester,
James Ticklc, Jimmy Webb, Carl
Messer, Preston Blue, William
Price and Ralph Scearce. Miss
Peffer received many useful gifts.
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Misses Le lia Webb, Evelyn Baird,
Lib Goodfellow, Madge Smith, and
Marvin Smith attended the Duke
CJarolina game Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Hobbs and
Frank Emery of Emporia, Va., vis
ited Mr. and Mrs. P. O. Hobbs Sun
iay.
Mrs. Ezelle Carstarphen and H.
Γ. Moore spent Sunday in Boykins,
Va., with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hol
land.
Mrs. W. R Teele has returned
from Lynchburg, Va., where she
has been with her daughter, Mrs.
E. L. Crowder, who has been ill.
Mitchell Ray of Lumberton spent
the week-end in the city with rel
atives.
Mr. and Mrs. Wylie Hawkins
spent the week-end in La Crosse,
Miss Dorothy Finch left last
week for Baltimore, Md., where
she will enter training in Spring
Grove Hospital.
Stanley Keeter of Portsmouth,
Va., visited relatives in the city
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Pete Ferrell and
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Hutchinson
spent Sunday in Tarboro with Mr.
and Mrs. F. P. Vaughan.
Bennie Radcliffe of Norfolk
spent Sunday in town
Miss Lily White Boseman of
Tarboro visited her sister, Mrs. H.
C. Johnson, Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Lee spent
Sunday in Scotland Neck with rel
atives.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Bridges of
Gumberry spent Monday with Mr.
and Mrs. Will Hux.
Miss Lucille Carlon spent Friday
in Richmond, Va.
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PROGRAMS
FOR THE
WEEK OF
NOV. 24th
I PEOPLES
4 SUNDAY
Γ Don Ameche-Betty Grable
♦ DOWN ARGENTINE WAY
MONDAY-TUESDAY
George Brent-Geraldine Fitzgerald
SOUTH OF SUEZ
WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY
Bette Davis-Herbert Marshall
THE LETTER
FRIDAY
Paul Kelly-Rochelle Hudson
GIRLS UNDER 21
SATURDAY
w Richard Dix-Wendy Barrie
I MEN AGAINST THE SKY
■ Added: King of the Royal Mounted
(MOCQIAL
SUNDAY
Henry Fonda-Jackie Cooper
THE RETURN OF FRANK JAMES
MONDAY-TUESDAY
Don Ameche-Betty Grable
DOWN ARGENTINE WAY
WEDNESDAY
Roger Pryor-Anita Louise
GLAMOUR FOR SALE
THURSDAY-FRIDAY
Gene Autry-Ann Miller
MELODY RANCH
Added: MARCH OF TIME
SATURDAY
Roy Rogers
THE RANGER AND THE LADY
Added: Deadwood Dick