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JAMES CAGNEY IN PEOPLES LINE-UP FOR COMING WEEK "The Invaders", Newest Hit, Also On Program If Hollywood had known months ago that events in history were to weld the United States and Canada into a unit source of sup ply dependent upon by the United Nations to furnish the planes de pended upon to crush the Axis, and had set out to make a picture to dramatize that unity in terms which the citizens of all nations could not misinterpret nor fail to have filmed a picture more finely thrill to, the film capitol could not fitted to the mood and need of the moment than “Captain of the j Clouds”, starring James Cagney i and Dennis Morgan, which plays at the Peoples theatre on Sunday and at the Imperial on Monday and Tuesday. This picture is no mere waving i of flags. It is a telling of a story about plain people caught up in. the train of events and do what plain people are expected to do and are doing, according to Lyle Wilson, manager of the local the- j atres. This is no mere tale of two fliers in love with the same girl and fighting about it, with time | out occasionally for some attention j to official duty and fancy flying. , It does tell of two fliers and a girl who, worthy of neither of them,, is wedded by the discern ing one for purposes of thwarting her designs on the other, then in- , formed frankly by her bridegroom 1 that this was his purpose in mar rying her. The story is about the Royal Canadian Air Force, its part of the present conflict, its relation ship to Canada, to the United States and to Britain. Many of the characters in the picture are in fact officers and men of the RCAF, who act and speak for ; themselves. , The scenes, in technicolor, are• aulhenic and the undertakings, i climaxed by a mass flight of bom- 1 bers to Britain, are lifted bodily j from the world of reality and the ] period of now. What happens has ; been happening, is happening and - will continue to happen. The pic- • turing of the incidents carries the ; impact of experiencing them in i person. j James Cagney, Dennis Morgan, i Alan Hale, George Tobias, Regi- 1 IMlJd Denny and Brenda Marshall I ate the principals in the picture ; too powerful to be dominated by < any individual of group. ! This is, for the above reasons ; and many more, the best and i timeliest aviation picture ever pro duced. * * * * * * , Monday and Tuesday’s contri-11 button to the Peoples program is one of these pictures that presents delightful and completely entertain ing comedy, with a message to all who see it. Starring Henry Fonda and Oivia DeHaviland, “The Male Animal” is truly one of the best pictures to come out of Holly wood this year. In the picture Fonda plays the role of a college professor who finds his life disturbed and his established intellectual convictions sadly treated when the college's greatest football hero, played by Jack Carson, returns for a huge college rally before a big game, rt just happens that Fonda mar ried Miss de Haviland some years before and took her right out from under Carson’s nose. In one am using scene after another, Fonda fights his way out of one martial circumstance after another, but he finally wins out in one of the most hectic fights to keep his love ly wife that any man ever put forth to keep his home fires burning. It is said that Fonda in this picture turns to comedy such as le has never played before, and arings forth a picture that is good anforfainmonf fr\r» ontr v>i riwi Km- ri f the family. * * * * * $ Occasionally Hollywood sends out i picture that is so timely, so oreath-taking, so humanly interest ing, that it merits more than “spec ial attention”. Such a picture is 'The Invaders”, which has been scheduled for showing at the Peo ples Theatre on Wednesday and Ihursday of next week. This early showing of “The Invaders” weeks n advance of the regular play late it will be shown in most Eastern Carolina Theatres, and vas arranged for at no little tro ible on the part of Lyle Wilson, oooking manager of the Roanoke ilapids Theatres, who had the good ortune to see a preview of the aim the first of the week in Char otte, “the film capitol of the Car >linas.” “The Invaders” is so “hot out of he can,” which we are told in he vernacular of showmen means t is almost pre-release, that com pete details necessary to give it i review on this page are not a ailable. However, when Wilson is :o impressed with a film that he fives it his "unqualified endorse nent” you can pretty well bet it s a good entertainment from very standpoint. Moreover, the hing about "The Invaders” is hat it is so timely that it could dausibly happen to our own North Carolina shores; that is what Showman Wilson said in a tele gram to the Herald the first of he week. The film stars Leslie Howard, rtaymond Massey and Lawrence Oliver. The story starts when a tfazi invaders’ submarine is sunk in Hudson Bay. Six survivors led by Eric Portman, captures a trad ing post. Lawrence Oliver, a French-Canadian trapper, rejects the Nazis’ promise that Hitler will “free” his minority. It is the first of the ideological debats which intervene between action episodes. The trapper gives the alarm by radio and is shot. Five of the Nazis escape in a patrol plane aft er shooting pilots and Eskimos. They crash in the Manitoba wil derness. Four reach a settlement of Hutterites, a sect of plain folk. The Nazis are given haven with out question by the leader, Anton Walbrook. The Nazis, presuming on the German background of the Hutterites, preach Facism. The settlers reject it and Niall Mac Ginnis, most sensative of the sail ors, is won by their charity. He is shot by Portman as a traitor to the Reich. I a v uluh.oojj cue uucc icuiaimiig | Nazis rob and fight their way to Banff. There one is seized in the j Indian festival crowd and Portman 1 and the last sailor (John Chandos) flee through the Rockies. At Lake j O’Hara they find Leslie Howard, J a dilletante writer studying Indian lore in style, away from the world turmoil. The Nazis seize his equipment, contemptuously berate democratic r softness, and burn his books and paintings. Howard, angered,- fol lows them and barehanded cap tures the armed sailor. Lieut. Hirth escapes and heads for the still neutral United States. Raymond Massey, an AWOL Ca nadian soldier fights him as they cross the border in a sealed bag gage car. Portman surrenders to the U. S. customs guard and de mands to be taken to the German consul, exulting at having outwit ted all Canada. However, Massey convinces the guards that they have two items not on the mani fest. They wink and send the car back to Canada as the Canadian shows Portman how the democra cies can use their fists. * * * * * * Ray McDonald, Virginia Weidler and Leo Gorcey (he of the “Dead End Kids”) make up the cast of “Bom To Sing” which plays at the Peoples theater on Friday, for a one day showing. Filmed in the interest of humor, music and rost er of the younger Hollywood mu sical stars, makes this picture a refreshing, entertaining hour for theater goers. The story has to do with three youngsters who, without funds, at tempt to stage a musical show in order to raise funds with which to keep Miss Weidler’s father out of prison. Musical numbers ar ranged by the great Busby Berk ley, dancing master deluxe, stand out in the show, and if you re member the past performances of Geo Gorcey, you’ll want to see this one. A number of up to date song numbers are on the roster of those rendered in the picture, and the younger folk will go for this one. * * * * * * Saturday's attraction at the Im perial brings “Wild Bill” Elliot to the screen in “North Of The Rockies”, a bang-up Western pic ture that lovers of the old West I STARRING WCI FORM Hollywood’s singing star PRETTY PEGGY PEPPER (It’s her ranch —and does she run it!) THE PEPPER RAHGERS 6 singing cowhands, with a whole herd of tunesf Hear this sparkling 15 minutes of Western songs, mirth and melody, presented by DR. PEPPER, the exciting, taste-delighting bever age that uottr enereu abl wEr«t.WCBT6:45 pan. will enjoy. Another chapter of “The Sea Raiders" is also on the program. One License Is Ordered Revoked Only one driver's license was re voked in Halifax county during the period April 6 through 10th, the Highway Safety Division has an nounced. This was announced as William Freeman of Roanoke Rap ids, convicted in Halifax Recorders Court for driving drunk. Mrs. E. A. Parker of Rocky Mount, Francis Truesdell of Fort Bragg, Miss Becky Bounds of Raleigh, and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Bounds of Petersburg, Va., spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Bounds. DIAL R 394 PROGRAM WEEK OF APRIL HI, 1912 Laurel and Hardy GREAT GUNS MON.-TUES. Jack LaRue-Mary Hoaly HARD GUY YVED.-THURS. THE WISE GUY FRL-SAT. Buck Jones-Tim McCoy Forbidden Trails Added: Holt of Secret Service WESTERN UNION ^ ». C mkUm n»tt««M*IMIM J - —t.j.»iu»»,. -n-m—••»--•—■ —■■-— , mnmn—r 47 RD-FEU-CBM TS CHARLOTTE NCAR APR 13 1942 HOWARD HANCOCK-ADV MGR ROANOKERAPIDS HERALD ROANOKERAPIDS, NCAR HAVE JUST SEEN SPECIAL SCREENING OF THE INVADERS. IT IS UNDOUBTEDLY ONE OF MOST TIMELY FILMS OF THE SEASON. WHAT COULD HAPPEN TO CANADA MIGHT HAPPEN TO OUR OWN NORTH CAROLINA. WRITE SPECIAL AD FOR IT GIVING IT MY j UNQUALIFIED ENDORSEMENT. LYLE M WILSON Mr. Wilson’s wire is self-explanatory, and I believe is a better advertisement for “THE INVADERSstarring Leslie Howard, Ray mond Massey and Lawrence Olivier than I could possibly write. It will be shown next Wednesday and Thursday (April 22nd and 23rd) at the PEOPLES. It is the story of German submarines invading the Canadian Coast, and as Lyle infers “it might happen at Cape Hatteras.” You’ll be reading plenty about this picture, so see it at the Peoples next Wednesday or Thursday.
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