THEATRES to owe cosmetics
♦CONSTANCE BENNETT, beautiful, alluring screen star, is shown
above using some of her own private brand of cosmetics, which will be
offered lady patrons of the Imperial on each Wednesday afternoon and
night, and of the Peoples on Friday matinee and night performances,
starting next week. The entire set, comprising 15 articles, will be
available on a one-a-week basis for a small service charge of 10c.per
item, to cover the cost of packing, shipping and Federal tax. Complete
details will be found in an advertisement on this page.
IMPERIAL THEATRE
PROGRAM FOR WEEK
HAS MUCH VARIETY
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It has always been the policy of
the local theatres to bring back
for second showings all outstand
ing pictures that proved popular
with theatre audiences here. With
this in mind, the Imperial theatre
management announces the return
here for a Sunday showing of “The
Birth of the Blues”, starring Bing
Crosby and Mary Martin.
A review or this picture isn’t
needed in Roanoke Rapids. But
a one-day showing is needed in
order that those who missed it
during its run here last Fall can
see it./
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Monday and Tuesday’s offering
at the Imperial bring a two day
run of “Woman of the Year", star
ring Katherine Hepburn and Spen
cer Tracy. A complete review of
the picture will be found on the
opposite page.
“The Confessions of Boston
Blackie’’, another of those enter
taining gangster pictures plays at
the Imperial for a one day show
ing Wednesday. Chester Morris,
Harriet Hilliard and Richard Lane
are the principal actors, and the
story is one of the best of the
year for its type.
Morris plays the role of an e
lusive ex-safecracker, George Stone
plays the role of his assistant,
Richard Lane is the police in
spector who has a tough time
matching wits with Boston Blackie,
and Harriett Hilliard, the beauti
ful wife of Ossie Nelson, plays the
feminine role.
In the story a murder is com
mitted but no body is found. The
finger points to “Blackie”, who is
really innocent. In trying to clear
himself, he searches for the body
while dodging Lane. He finally
proves his point but finds himself,
Lane and Miss Hilliard locked in
the basement of a building with
little chance of escape. The cli
max of the story is gripping and
means excellent entertainment for
those -who see it.
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Another of those rib-tickling,
side-splitting comedies starring
Jimmy Durante comes to the Im
perial theatre on Thursday and
Friday in "You’re In the Army
Now”. This time Jimmy Durante
has an equally famous comedian
as his sidekick in Phil Silvers, a
long, lanky fellow who made a hit
for years on Broadway in comedy
roes.
Durante and Silvers, two sales
men, try to sell a recruiting ser
geant a vacuum cleaner, but wind
up as enlistees. They find Jane
Wyman as the colonel’s daughter
and she asks their aid to convince
her father to submit to mechaniza
tion of his outfit. Both Miss Wy
man and Durante are heard in
songs in the picture. Such comedy
scenes as a tank running wild with
Durante at the controls, an inno
cent visit to the target end of a
rifle range, a house being dragged
through the streets by a runaway
tank with Durante at the controls
and the occupants of the house
thinking there is an earthquake
underway, and other scenes of
this sort make “You’re In the
Army Now” one of the best com
edies to come to the screen in
years.
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Saturday finds a newcomer to
the Western ranks on the screen
at the Imperial. George Houston
plays the leading role in "Lone
Rider Fights Back”, a Western
that is really a honey. Added:
“Dick Tracy vs Crime, Inc.,” chap
ter.
Mrs. Joe Crewe, Mrs. H. F.
Bryant, Lillian Earl Gore, Priscilla
Gore, and Mrs. Alice Cullin were
Sunday guests of Mrs. Willie Mc
Cabe in Norfolk, Va.
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DEMOCRAT
DINNER
PROGRAM
Following is the official program
to be given at the Washington Day
Dinner, scheduled to be held for
counties in the Northeastern Di
vision, in Hotel Joseph Hewes at
Edenton on Saturday night at 8
o’clock.
The meeting will be called to
order by Division Chairman E. W.
Spires; Song, “America”; Invoca
tion, Editor Herbert Peele, Pas
quotank; Dinner; Presentation of
gavel to W. I. Halstead, Camden,
master of ceremonies; Recognition
of delegates from each county;
Vocal selections by the Chowan
High School Faculty trio; Address
of Welcome by Judge John W.
Graham of Chowan; Response by
Carroll L. Wilson of Halifax coun
ty; Introduction of speaker by
Hugh V. Horton of Martin; Ad
dress, by J. A. Pritchett of Ber
tie. The Edenton high school band
will give a concert in front of
Hotel Joseph Hewes from 7:30 to
8:00 o’clock.
The Washington Day dinners in
the nation are being held to raise
funds for defraying the costs of
the last Democratic campaign. A
number of delegates will attend
from Halifax county.
Grcisp Singing
Mew ScliooS Class
A program of group singing has
recently been included in the Sea
board High School curriculum.
'■ Meeting in the auditorium one
I period every day, the members of
the student body sing various types
of songs—old favorites, patriotic
songs, hymns, and popular songs.
Plans for the singing are made
by the student music committee,
composed of Virginia Stephenson,
Blackwell Stephenson, Andrew
Taylor, Edward Bottoms, and
Frances Bobbitt. At a meeting
on Monday, February 16, the mu
sic committee decided to devote
one singing period each week to
a Religious Defense Program, con
sisting of prayer for the nation
and religious songs.
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DIAL R-394
PROGRAM WEEK OF
FEBRUARY 22, 1942
SUN.
Grace HayesrPeter Lind Hayes
ZIS - BOOM - BAH
MON.-TUES.
Dick Foran-Andy Devine
The Kid From Kansas
WED.-THURS.
Michael Redgrace
Valerie Hobson
SONS OF THE SEA
FRL-SAT.
Tom Keene-Evelyn Finley
Dynamite Canyon
Added: The Iron Claw
One item each week of
the Complete Set of fif
teen luxurious cosmetics
to all ladies attending
the Imperial on Wednes
days and the Peoples on
Fridays' with, the compli
ments of —
Starting Wednesday, Feb. 25th at the Imperial
and Friday, Feb. 27th at the Peoples Theatre
— and continuing for 15 Weeks! —
Fifteen Marvelous Beauty Aids, including Beauty Milk,
Lipstick Rmliant and Lipstick Lustre, Cleansing Cream,
Champagne Astringent, Cheam Rouge Radiant and Cream
Rouge Lustre, Powder Radiant and Powder Lustre, Glow
Base Radiant and Glow Base Lustre, Five-Minute Cream,
Eye and Throat Cream, Vesper Cream and Complexion
Mask.
From her own experience Constance Bennett is convinced
that the best way to win new friends for her beauty aids is to
give every woman an opportunity to use them. That is why
she makes this unusual offer — NOT JUST SAMPLES — but
a a full retail sine package of each and every item in her com
plete matched cosmetic set — just like those she has on her
own dressing table.
To cover the cost of packing, shipping and the Federal Tax
a small handling charge on each item will be made of
Remember, starting Wednesday, Feb.
25, every Wednesday is ‘Cosmetic Day”
at the
IMPERIAL
THEATRE
Effective Friday, Feb. 27, every Friday
(mat. & nite) is ‘Cosmetic Day”
at the
PEOPLES
THEATRE
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