. NEW ANDY HARDY FILM
WEEK'S FEATURE; GWTW
IN AGAIN AT PEOPLES
Mickey Rooney puts a good show
on as a ladies’ man in “Andy
Hardy’s Double Life” which plays
at the Peoples Sunday, and the Im
perial Monday-Tuesday. His brash
behavior provides loads of enter
tainment for the entire family.
The fun never abates in this latest
series of adventures of the Hardy
character.
Rooney has received an excel
lent cast for his support in the
film. Lewis Stone again is his
first-rate father. Cecelia Parker,
9 Pay Holden, Ann Rutherford, Sara
Haden, Susan Peters, and William
Lundigan are others who lend val
ued assistance to Rooney. The
Misses Rutherford, and Peters are
the young ladies in his life.
0 The screenplay is concerned with
Rooney’s college problem. His fath
er wants him to attend his alma
mater. The thought that the school
is not co-ed pains the young buck.
_ A lot of action has to do with
9 the youth’s efforts to keep his
father from accompanying him to
college. A pleasant surprise is in
store for Rooney at the end when
he discovers that the ^college has
gone co-educational.
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Monday and Tuesday Clark Ga
ble and Vivien Leigh will be co
starred in “Gone With The Wind”
at the Peoples.
It seems only a few months ago
£that better theatres all over the
country were repeating showings of
“Gone With The Wind” with the
slogan "nothing cut but the price.”
And, in spite of the fact that
momentous film will have its four
®th showing in the city' when it
comes to the Peoples for a special
two-day engagement on Monday
and Tuesday of next week, it has
been quite a while since it has
been shown locally.
£ It seems there are a few people
who have seen “GWTW” once who
would not like to do so again, and
strange as it may seem, it is possi
ble many have never seen it. If
you fall in either of these groups,
0you will have another opportunity
to view “Gone With The Wind”
when it returns to the Peoples
next week.
The film in its entirety will be
shown with the original cast and
0 story, precisely as it has appear
ed in the city and all over the
country at previous showings.
The story part of “Gone With
The Wind” is too familiar with
residents of the southland to re
J^.peat here, so suffice it to say
that the big picture returns once
again to the screen of a Roanoke
Rapids theatre, and we venture
there will be "standing room only”
at the Peoples for the two days
^it re-appear there, on Tuesday and
Wednesday, of next w&ek.
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A picture with a Cinderella
theme and a novel romance is
“Slightly Dangerous,” which will
^appear at the Peoples Wednesday
WThursday, co-starring Lana Tur
ner and Robert Young. Among the
ace character actors in the sup
porting cast are Walter Brennan,
Dame May Whittey, Eugene Pail
lette and Allan Mowbray.
Miss Turner turns out to be a
small-town girl who rebelling at
a soda fountain job and the
general meaningless of her life,
leaves for the big city after pen
^ning a farewell note which hints
at suicide and makes her boss,
Robert Young, suspect. An accident
in the city provides the opportun
ity for her to pose as a victim
of amnesia and she is accepted by
fthe wealthy Brennan as his long
lost daughter. Young pursues her
with the objective of clearing her
name and the pursuit ends in
real romance between the two.
£ Mrs. Charlie Price, Jr., spent
the week-end in Norfolk, Va., with
her husband who is in the U. S.
Navy.
TOWN TALK
Crowed Out Last Week
W.J. Dunning retuned to Camp
Perry Tuesday after visiting his
wife and mother.
Sergeant Barry Jones, of Nor
folk, Va., and Mrs. Barry Jones,
of Baltimore, Md., were week-end
guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Con
nor.
Mesdames Fleetwood Sullivan,
H. C. Wirtz, Louise James, Char
les Ogletree and Iris Faye Sulli
van spent Tuesday in Richmond.
Mr. John Matkins spent Wed
nesday in Richmond.
Lieutenant Carlton Cannon of
Camp Lee, was the week-end guest
of his mother Mrs. J.C. Smith.
Mrs. Ike Rochelle and Mrs. J.
C. Smith accompanied Lieuten
ant Ike Rochelle to Richmond
this week. He was returning to
Nebraska.
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Susanne, retuned from Durham
Tuesday after visiting Mr. and
Mrs. E. A. Hughes.
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Clary and
daughter, Mrs. Wallace, and Mrs.
Devenport, spent Saturday in
Richmond.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Jeffers spent
the week-end in Petersburg and
Richmond.
Miss Lottie Allen spent Satur
day in Richmond.
Jamie Brown, Jr. of Camp Lee,
has undergone an operation there
this week.
Mrs. Scott Lassiter of Franklin,
Va. spent Monday and Tuesday
here.
Willie Gay has returned to San
Francisco, Cal. after being home
on a thirty-day furlough.
Mrs. J. J. Williams and Marga
ret Williams spent Saturday in
Richmond, Va.
Pvt. Jesse L. Ellis left Tues
day night of last week for Ply
mouth, Mass, after spending his
furlough here with his wife, Mrs.
Ruby Ellis.
Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Cross, Miss
Kathleen and Otto Cross, Mrs. J.
V. Beckman and daughter, Joann,
and Mrs. Alice Jones spent Sun
day at Fort Bragg, visiting Beck
man’s son, Pvt. William S. Davis.
Sgt. Bessie Bell of Fort Des
Moines, Iowa visited friends here
during the week-end.
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nesday from Baltimore, Md. where
he attended the Sedar services,
which is the beginning of the
Jewish Passover Day.
Aulton McElvan of Portsmouth,
Va. visited friends here during
the week-end.
Ed Luter, who is employed at
the Glenn L. Martin Plant in
Baltimore, Md. spent the week-end
here with his wife.
Mr. and Mrs. Benny McCrary
and son, Jimmie, of Newport
News, Va. visited Mrs. Dora Hawk
ins during the week-end.
Miss Peggy Walters returned
Thursday from a visit with rela
tives and friends in Washington.
She also attended the graduation
exercises at the Bath High School
and was present at the address
of Governor Broughton.
Calvin Warren left Wednesday
for Camp Perry.
Mrs. Calvin Warren returned
to Aurora Friday after a visit with
Mrs. Fred Warren.
Marvin Barnes Enters
Air Force Technical
School At Amarillo
Marvin E. Barnes has been pro
moted to Private First Class at
the Amarillo Army Air Field in
Amarillo, Texas. He entered the
Army on January 22. He received
his basic training at Keesler Field,
Miss, and has now enrolled for
a five months training period at
the Army Air Forces Technical
School at Amarillo.
Before entering the Army he
was an employee of Rosemary
Manufacturing Co. He is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Barnes
of Pleasant Hill, and has several
brothers and sisters here. He also
has a brother, Lowray Barnes,
in the Army at Camp Adair, Ore.
Mrs. Paul Ray spent Sunday in
Richmond, Va. with Mrs. C. I.
Walke and Mrs. James Harris.
Grover Edmonds, of Burlington,
was the week end guest of his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey
Edmonds.
Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Sledge and
daughter, Christine, of Greens
boro, were the week end guests
of Mrs. Sledge’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. S. Jenkins.
Pfc. Arthur Pair of Dodge City,
Kansas, is spending some time
here with his wife and parents,
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Pair.
Miss Mary Clary of Ports
mouth, Va., spent the week-end
here with Miss Margaret Clary.
Miss Edith Phillips spent Sun
day in Branchville, Va., with
friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Proctor
have returned to their home in
Wallace, after spending some time
here with his mother Mrs. J. A.
Proctor.
Road Jobs Go On
In Spite Of War
Hampered by wartime priorities
on materials and shortage in man
power, the State Highway and'
Public Works Commission never
theless managed to build or im
prove 770 miles of highways in
1942 and increased the total mile
age of hard-surfaced roads in
North Carolina by 1.5 per cent.
James S. Burch, engineer of
statistics and planning, pointedi
out that in addition to this th*
commission also maintained 58,
508 miles of rural roads, 1,922 miles
of city streets and about 18,000
bridges, many of which were wid
ened during the year.
The majority of new construc
tion projects were for access roads
to newly developed military camps
and bases and new war-production
plants. The number of miles of
highways improved during the year
was about 30 per cent of the aver
age in the busy years of 1940 and i
1Q41
Burch said about 380 miles of
road, generally improved, were
added to the rural county road sys
tem. Application of asphalt and
tar surfacing was curtailed sharply
because a shortage of tank boats
and tank cars cut down on delivr
eries of the asphalt and tar.
The job of maintaining the high
ways became more increasingly im
portant because of an increase in
bus and truck mileage, although
generally traffic fell off sharply,
Burch pointed out.
Mesdames Doyle Davenport,
George Wallace, C. E. Ivey and
R. E. Clary spent Tuesday in Rich
mond Va.
1111 I PROGRAM WEEK OF MAY 2, 1943
PEOPLES
1 SUNDAY
Mickey Rooney - Lewis Stone
ANDY HARDY'S DOUBLE LIFE
Added: Walt Disney Color Cartoon
Shows at 1:55 - 4:00 - 7:30
MONDAY - TUESDAY
Clark Gable - Vivian Leigh
GONE WITH THE WIND
Admission
.Matinee - .17 & .40c Inc tax
Night - .17 & .50c Inc. tax
Qlinwa at . O.ftft X 7.3ft P M. I
WEDNESDAY - THURSDAY
Lana Turner - Robert Young
SLIGHTLY DANGEROUS
Added: Latest'News
FRIDAY
Lupe Velez - Eddie Albert
LADIES DAY
Added: Musieal Featurette
SATURDAY j
Russell Hayden - Bob Wills
SADDLES AND SAGEBRUSH
Added: Valley of Vanishing Men
IMOCQfM
SUNDAY
John Sutton - Gene Tierney
THUNDER BIRDS
Added: Selected Short Subjects
Shows at 2:00 - 3:35 - 7:30
MONDAY - TUESDAY
Mickey Rooney - Lewis Stone
ANDY HARDY'S DOUBLE LIFE
Added: Walt Disney’ Color Cartoon
WEDNESDAY
Richard Travis - Ruth Ford
TRUCK BUSTERS
Added: Selected Short Subjects
THURSDAY - FRIDAY
Andrews Sisters - Robert Paige
HOW'S ABOUT IT?
Added: Musical Featurette
SATURDAY
Bill Elliott - Gabby Hayes
CALLING WILD BILL ELLIOTT
Added: G Men vs. Black Dragon Sjij
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