WAKE ISLAND
BACK AT THE
IMPERIAL SUN.
The ingenuity, resourcefulness
and bravery with which American
Marines met the attacks of the
Japs by land, sea and air is re
enacted with compelling realism
in “Wake Island,” the film drama
tization of the Leathernecks’ in
spiring stand against the enemy
for fourteen days, which provides
the Imperial’s Sunday-only film.
The clever ruses used to outwit
the Japs and stave off invasion for
two weeks form part of the story
told in “Wake Island,” with Brian
Donlevy, Robert Preston, MacDon
ald Carey, Albert Dekker, Walter
Abel, Barbara Britton and Wil
liam Bendix in the leading roles.
Full credit is given to the Marines
for this picture for the credit line
reads “Original Story by the Unit
ed States Marines.”
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“The Immortal Sergeant” will
move to the Imperial theatre Mon
day and Tuesday for a two-day
showing. A synopsis of this film
is carried on the opposite page.
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The story of the hothouse lad
of wealth who sets out to prove
that he can make his way in the
world on his own has been revived
in “Highways by Night,’” a fairly
entertaining melodrama crowded
with action and exiitement, which
finds time for a laugh or a smile
here and there, will come to the
Imperial Wednesday for a one-day
showing next week.
Richard Carlson plays the rich
lad who comes out of his cotton
to find out about life at first-hand
when he can no longer support
the taunts of his uncle (Ray Col
lins). The lad learns more about
life than he bargained for. In no
time at all he finds himself mixed
up in a melodramatic situation
that draws out all the manhood in
him. Gangsters headed by Barton
MacLane, are trying to wreck a
rival outfit being run by Jane Ran
dolph, her brother (Gordon Jones)
and her grandma (Jane Darwell).
Carlson accepts a job with Miss
Randolph’s company, hoping to
learn who is at the bottom of the
villany. After risking his hide he
unmasks the villains and returns
to uncle as a full-fledged man.
Carlson employs breathing spells
in thej melodramatic action to car
ry on a romance with Miss Ran
dolph, to whom he becomes engag
ed in the end, after breaking off
his betrothal to a society snob
(Renee Haal).
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“Young and Willing” has sprung
from “Out of the Frying Pan” (its
stage parent) right into the fire —
that is as far as the audiences will
be particularly concerned, when it
comes to the Imperial Thursday
Friday. The treatment is so ju
venile that the appeal of the pic
ture version is primarily for young
people, who may get excited over
the mad cavortings of a bunch of
thespic incompetents angling for a
stage break.
The yarn has to do with the at
tempts of the young hopefuls to
interest a producer (Robert Bench
ley) who lived in the apartment be
low theirs in his lean days. Their
hopes arise when the producer
moves back into the apartment for
sentimental reasons. They try ev
ery ruse to get the fellow to give
them a break. As a last resort
they stage a murder play for him
in their apartment. Their per
formances are so bad that the pro
ducer is inspired to put their play
on as a burlesque.
The cast has in it William Hold
en, Susan Hayward, Eddie Brack
en, Robert Benchley and Martha
O’Driscoll.
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Johnny Mack Brown is starred
next Saturday at the Imperial in
“The Old Chisholm Trail.”
Miss Marie Merritt of Richmond
visited her mother here Sunday.
Mrs. N. D. Cox spent last week
end in Norfolk with Mrs. T. E.
Cox.
Mrs. F. R. Kendrick visited her
son, Walter, in Norfolk last Sat
urday and Sunday.
Clifton M. Cutler
Finishes At Army
Technical School
Keesler Field, Miss., March 4 —
Trained as an expert airplane
mechanic, and qualified to service
and maintain the United Nations’
huge B-24 Liberator bombers, Pvt.
Clifton M. Cutler, son of Mrs. Rosa
Cutler, 213 Madison St., was grad
uated today from Keesler Field’s
Army Air Forces Technical Train
ing Command School.
Now ready for the important
job of keeping Allied planes in
good flying condition, Private Cut
ler and other members of the grad
uating class soon will be assigned
to tactical units for active duty
“on the line.” In school they were
trained in B-24 maintenance, struc
tures, hydraulic systems, fuel sys
tems, engines, electrical systems,
instruments, propellers and inspec
tion.
The last phase of the 17-week
course is an eight-day training per
iod under simulated combat condi
tions. The students must know
how to service and repair their
planes under mock attack, camou
flage the ships, and even provide
their own shelter against attack,
as no buildings stand in the train
ing area.
The B-24’s, which these men will
maintain, are the largest-combat
bombers used today by the Army
Air Forces.
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
Mr. and Mrs. T. Wallace Stall
ings of Henderson announce the
birth of a daughter, Linda Kaye,
on Sunday, Feb. 21st, at Maria
Paraham Hospital. Mrs. Stallings
is the former Miss Kathareen
Overby of Norlina. Mr. Stallings
is former Roanoke Rapids route
man for Jewel Tea Co.
Mrs. Dora Hawkins and Mrs. Lu
cille Cherry were visitors in New
port News Sunday.
Masonic Meeting
To Be Conducted
Thursday, Mar. 11
Announcement is made this week
that Widow’s Son Lodge No. 519,
A. P. & A. M., the local Masonic
lodge, will hold its annual Past
Master Masons Night on March
11th, to which all Masons in good
standing are cordially invited.
Local Masons in charge of the
meeting say they have secured a
good speaker for the evening, and
refreshments will be served. The
meeting is scheduled to start
promptly at 7:45 p. m. next Thurs
day, March 11th.
County Woman
Died Feb. 26th
Near Littleton
Mrs. Elizabeth DeBelle Young,
of Enfield, 73, died at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Virginia Y.
Crawley, near Littleton, Friday
morning, February 26th, at 6:30
o’clock. Interment was at Fair
fax, Va., Sunday.
Survivors are the following chil
dren: Mrs. Elizabeth Young Bru
baker of Lebanon, Pa., Mrs. Vir
ginia Y. Crawley of near Littleton,
and Aubrey D. Young of Shaffer
town, Pa.; two sisters, Mrs. J. Ed
win Tietjen, and Mrs. Annie Gantt,
both of Newmandstown, Pa.; two
brothers, John T. DeBelle of Clif
ton Station, Va., and Dr. A. W.
DeBelle of Malden, W. Va..
Mrs. J. B. Barrett returned home
Monday after spending the week
in Henderson.
Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Atkinson of
Rocky Mount were visitors here
Saturday.
Miss Mildred Lee Moore spent
last Monday in Richmond.
Robert C. Brown
Is Patient In
Naval Hospital c
Mrs. Ida Brown, received a tele
gram Saturday informing her that
her son, Robert C. Brown, was a
patient in the United States Naval
Hospital In Charleston, S. C. He
was injured aboard his ship.
STARRING
WCK FORM
Hollywood's
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PEGGY PEPPER
(It's her ranch
—*nd dooo
oho run it!)
THE PEPPER RARBERS
6 singing cowhands
with a whole herd of tunes!
Hear this sparkling 15 minutes of -
Western songs, mirth and melody,
presented by DR. PEPPER.
RADIO STATION
WCBT — 6:45 p. m.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
THE
ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. a
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PROGRAM WEEK OF
MARCH 7, 1948
SON.
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MARJORIE MAIN
JACKASS MAIL
Shows at 2:00 - 3:45 - 7:30
MON.-TUES.
GINGER ROGERS
ray muxand
THE MAJOR AND
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WED.-THUB8.
MARY CARLISLE
RICHARD CROMWELL
BABY FACE
MORGAN
FRL - SAT.
BILL “RADIO” BOYD
TUMBLEWEED
TRAIT.
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