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"Hold That Ghost" At ********** ** PEOPLES THEATRE ************ With Abbott, Costello _____ “Hold That Ghost”, which will be shown at the Peoples Theatre here Sunday, is in the vernacular of Hollywood “hot as a firecrack er”. It is to use some more ver nacular, by far the corniest comedy the Abbott-Costello duo has com mitted, but don’t get the wrong idea—for “corniest” is, in this case, a synonym for best. For this number the boys went back, back and back into the an tiquities of show business, beyond vaudeville, beyond burlesque as it is known today, and to the era of the medicine show, a prime and el emental type of entertainment which most of you are too young to remember. It was the show the bewhiskered “doctor” used to put on prior to sending his agents, usu ally the actors, into the crowd to sell your grandpappy a bottle of wonder-working her tea at a dollar a copy. His shows had to be good or it was no sale. By way of giving the picture some length and adding more names for the marquee, Universal has hitched to it, fore and aft, some material in which Ted Lew and his orches tra, doing the stuff in which he’s been unequalled for a quarter cen tury, and the Andrews Sisters, in songs, entertain. a. 4s * ik * :fc “You’ll Never Get Rich”, the Peo ples’ offering for next Monday and Tuesday, has something for every body and it sparkles in every de partment. It’s got Fred Astaire as a dance master enlisted in the Army and dancing more and better than he has in his last two or three pic tures. It’s got Rita Hayworth opposite Astaire both in dancing routines and as the other half of the ro mantic equation, and she’s by now a name as well as a performer. It’s got Robert Benchley in a comedy characterization that is good enough in its different way to carry any picture. It’s got Guinn Williams, Donald MacBride and Cliff Nazarro in still different comedy performances (Nazarro’s drilling of an infantry squad in double-talk is something to tie the audience in the same kind of knots it ties the doughboys) which gives the attraction full ben efit of the prevailing public appe tite for training-camp comedies. It’s got songs by Cole Porter, all up the Porter standard and one or more possibly of hit proportions, and it’s got dance routines, staged by Robert Alton, smooth as syrup and lively as popping corn. ****** The wholly ingratiating perform r ances of Robert Young and Ruth Hussey have much to do with mak ing “Married Bachelor”, which will be shown at the Peoples on Wed nesday and Thursday of next week, a screen comedy with much to offer in the way of light and engaging entertainment. Young, as the young man whose propensity for getting rich the easy way—but always within the law, and Miss Hussey, as his long-suf fering, but always clever wife, offer flawless characterizations, provid ing exactly the right touch of light ness and understanding to their roles. Picture’s c en t r a 1 development concerns Young’s difficulty when he poses as a bachelor writing astutely on marriage problems. It all comes about when his book-making activ ity hits a snag in the form of a $17,000 bet he owes Sheldon Lane, tough racketeer. Felix Bressart, timid professor, is one of his book making debtors, and Young decides to capitalize on the erudite manus cript on marriage problems the pro fessor has written. It goes over with a bang, including a bang in the marital relations of Young, who must necessarily pose as a bachelor. It is straightened out, but not without considerable diffi culty which is highly entertaining. ****** l^eilXUS U XVCC1C O.X1VX U uuiux derson have the feature roles in "Lady Scarface”, which is sched uled to be shown at the Peoples on Friday of next week. The familiar theme of the detective annoyed but helped on a case by a pretty young newspaper woman is exploited a gain by the producer, but a twist is given the treatment by the in troduction of a woman as the head of the gang. Judith Anderson is the gang leader, and she gives a stark grim performance which lifts the pic ture above usual productions of this nature. The police, in the per son of Dennis O’Keefe, are mysti fied by a Chicago robbery which appears to be committed by the “Slade” gang. Believing Slade to be a man, O’Keefe traces the gang to New York. He sells one of the gang who is in possession of the loot and purposely plants it in a New York hotel where he believes Slade will call for it. He is ac companied all the while by Frances Neal, a photographer for a picture magazine. Through mischance, a young honeymoon couple (Mildred Coles and Rand Brooks) register at the hotel and are given the letter containing the stolen money be cause the bride’s maiden name hap pens to be the same as the ficti j tious name used by the gang. O’ — Dr. PEPPER — PRESENTS — ★ SUNSHINE SUE over Radio Station WRVA Monday thru Friday "DR. PEPPER PARADE" WCBT—Tuesday 7 to 7:30 P. M. Eastern Standard Time TUNE IN ON THESE PROGRAMS! ■-- =- - ^=^.?ss^!8g^w^a Keefe suddenly realizes he is in love with Miss Neal while listening on a dictograph to the conversa tion going on in the honeymooners’ room. O’Keefe tmany runs down Miss Anderson but the honor of shooting her goes to Miss Neal. ****** Don “Red” Barry in "Death Val ley Outlaw” will be at the Peoples on Saturday of next week. Added will be “Riders of Death Valley”. Registrants May Appeal Classification Any Selective Service registrant who was originally deferred from military training and subsequently reclassified by his local board has the same right to appeal as when he was classified originally, Gen eral J. Van B. Metts, State Director of Selective Service announced to day. Stressing particularly its appli cation to cases of registrants whose periods of deferment for occupa tional reasons expire, Director Metts cited a memorandum recent ly issued by Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, Director of Selective Ser vice, which clarifies Selective Se lective Service Regulations affect ing the appeal rights of registrants. General Hershey’s memorandum to State Directors stated: “No classification of a registrant is permanent and any time prior to induction the case of a regis trant may be reopened and his classification considered anew. (A mendment No. 60, Paragraph 385 a, Selective Service Regulations.) When the case of a registrant is reopened and his classification con sidered anew, the determination of the local board upon such consid eration shall have the effect of a new and original classification even though the registrant is again placed in the class that he was in before the case was reopened. (A mendment No. 60, Paragraph 387 b, Selective Service Regulations.) Under these provisions there is no distinction in purpose and effect between the consideration of the original classification of a regis trant and the subsequent reopening and consideration of his classifica tion.” While General Hershey’s memo randum was issued primarily to correct a misinterpretation by some local boards of the phrase, “At the time the registrant is clas sified” as used in the Regulations I (paragraph 355 c) in connection DIAL R-394 PROGRAM WEEK OF OCTOBER 19, 1941 SUN. Ralph Bellamy-Margaret Lindsay Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime MON.-TUES. Madeleine Carroll Fred MacMurray One Night In Lisbon WED.-THURS. Wallace Ford-Marian Marsh Murder By Invitation FRL-SAT. Bob Steele Billy The Kid In Santa Fe Added: King of the Texas Rangers i with claims for deferment because : of dependents, State Director Metts pointed out that it also applies to all cases. involving reclassification. He said: “General Hershey calls to atten tion that some local boards have erroneously construed this lan guage to apply only to original classifications and this mis-inter pretation has resulted in the con tinuance of improper classifications and the refusal to change a regis trant’s classification where there has been a change in his circum stances. IJowever, it is timely also in its classification of the appeal rights of registrants who have been deferred for occupational reasons. “Local boards should bear in mind that when classifications of registrants who were deferred be cause they were contributing in their civilian occupations to the national health, safety and inter est—in industrial, agricultural, or professional activities—are recon sidered they must again be given notice of classification and ac corded the same right to appeal before induction as when they were classified originally.” While any registrant who is re classified may appeal within 10 days after his notice of classifica tion is mailed, Director Metts said, he urged that those who l ave re ceived occupational deferments, or their employers, to form illy re quest his local board for a i exten sion well in advance of the expira tion date if it is felt that an ex tension is justified. Kiwanis Club Speaker Talks About Russia The Rev. Francis H. Craighill, rector of ths Rocky Mount Epis copal Church, was the speaker at the Kiwanis Club meeting here last week, and made a very interesting talk on “Russia and the War’’. The guest speaker said that Rus sia would hold firm during the present conflict with Germany, and knew what to expect before the war broke out. The economic pact with Germany, he stated, was no more than a pacifier or trade a greement such as the United States had with Japan until recently. In the course of his remarks, the Rev. I Mr. Craighill stated that during | the Russian Revolution 85 percent j of the population was illiterate, j and that now 90 percent is literate, i The Russians are well-read, he claimed, and stated that country would have an ’ideal setup if it had Christian religion. The Rev. Mr. Craighill is a mem ber of the Rocky Mount Kiwanis Club, and the program here was in charge of Howard Pruden, member of the local club. Lawrence Clements won the club’s attendance prize. rii^ercsf Services F©r 1, F, Meacfeam B. F. Meacham, former salesman for a Richmond dry goods company and author of “Rhymes of a Cross Roads Man”, died at the home of a daughter in Petersburg, Va., last Saturday. Funeral services, which were at tended by local citizens, were held Monday morning at 11 o’clock from Blandford Church, near Peters burg. Interment was in the church cemetery. Mr. Meacham, who was well known throughout this territory due to the fact he covered it as a salesman for about 40 years, was known to his friends as “Big Boy” Meacham because of one of the poems in the book of verse he wrote. He often visited Mr. and Mrs. Billy Williams of this city after his retirement as a salesman. Funeral services were attended by Mrs. Billy Williams, and Alfred N. Martin of Roanoke Rapids, and Postmaster L. G. Shell visited the family at Petersburg on Sunday. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Julia Meacham; three daughters, Mrs. Everette of Washington, D. C., Mrs. Frances Davis of Bloom ington, Ind., and Mrs. Robert Hall of Petersburg, Va.; and two sons, Willie Meacham of Richmond, Va., and Harry Meacham of Baltimore, Md. y f JAN DEAN ffYlf Charming Mistress of Ceremonies K|| % M [ DRANE WOLTERS H M i The Chorns Girls’ Boy Friend ppJxSXpIt P'. CHUCK WINGO Pf|l k Public Nit-Wit No. 1 B BEAUTIFUL GIRLS psy^j SNAPPY STAGE BAND jgjjl
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