DRAMATIC HIT-"DEAD END1’ ON MONDAY & TUESDAY HEADS WEEK AT CAKUMN,
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“Where is Tommy?” Sylvia Sidney pleads with the slum kids who
loyally conceal her little brother’s hideout when he gets in trouble with
the cops in the dramatic hit, “Dead End” showing Monday and Tuesday
at the Carolina theatre. The Dead End kids front the original New
York stage cast arc in this screen version. Featured players besides
Sylvia Sidney are Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, and Claire Trevor.
Spine tingling adventures in a house o.' terror is “The Bat Whis
pers" at the Carolina Wednesday and Thursday. Phantoms, weird
noises and strang® disappearances attend the daring exploit3 of an arch
criminal. An amazing rapid fire entertainment is the "Bat Whispers"
with Chester Morris, and promises to make you laugh, shriek, and throb
with excitement.
Beautiful Ann Harding will grace the screen of the Carolina Friday
in one of her greatest portrayals, “Gallant Lady.” Included in the ca.-,t
are Clive Ilrook, DicKic Moore, and Otto Krueger.
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This time Ken Mavnard is protecting the settlers in the
who have como to make then homes there under the famous
■ict It all happens in ‘‘Between Fighting Men, and Ken
lives up to his reputation of bring quick on the trigger and quirker
his fists. The picture plays Saturday at the Carolina.
> Caroiina Gets j
“Head End” Mon.
i _
i Opposite Types of Society
Pot-fiayed in McCrea
Sidney Film.
* ” 1 End," Samuel Goldwyn’s
* film product ion based on the
Broadway stage hit by Sidney
. K ingsloy, tomes to the Carolina
* T!; :ttit* Mondan and Tuesday with
J SylvhT Sidney and Joes MeCrea in
t the scarring roles.
. This powerful drama of a day in |
1 thr lives of a handful of humans |
J who inhabit a “dead end” city |
* street, where fashionable apart- j
" ntenis rub elbows with the squalid
J t iieitK Ills of the waterfront, which
* set records in its Broadway run
j and was t he. red from Coast to
i < set, ■■(•aches oven greater heights
* in tile film version.
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> Sylvia is seen as Dvina, the slum i
J girl who is battling desperately to
i raise herself and her small brother ,
‘ Tommy to a better life; MeCrea
J plays Dave, the poor architect she
i loves, who, in turn, loves Kay, i
1 (Wendy Barrie), who has found a I
| tvay out of the slums into luxury ,
i and won't return even for love; j,
* Humphrey Bogart is seen as Baby j.
] Face Martin, the gangster with aj.
i price on his head, who braves j,
' death in the slum where he was
[ spawned only to find that his own !
■ mother hates him and that Francey .
' Theatre Mem
Sunset Theatre
Monday, Tuesday. Wednesday
j Robert Taylor and Eleanor
i Powell in “Broadway Melody of
] 1938.” Vaudeville short and Bill <
i Corum Sportlight.
Thursday and Friday
I, Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold )
1 and Ray Midland in “Easy Liv- i
' ing.” Fox News and Pete Smith
i Specialty, “Pigskin Champions. ’
Saturday
Dick Foran and Jane Bryan in
"Cherokee Strip.” Silly Sym
phony cartoon, “Little Hiawa
tha. ’ Jungle Jim No. 10 and
Painted Stallion No. 3.
Capitol Theatre
Monday and Tuesday
Donald Woods and Jeanne ]
Madden in “Talent Scout.” j
Crime Doesn’t Pay Short, “Soak
the Poor.” News and Pictorial
Review.
Wednesday and Thursday
Simone Simon and James Ste
wart in “Seventh Heaven.” Len
Manning and Mitzi in "Vaude
ville Hits.”
u Friday and Saturday
Joe E. Brown and June Travis
in “Earthworm Tractors.” Para
mount News and Comedy,
“Thirst Aid.”
Super-Salesman
Joe K. Brown is back in the lole
of the super-salesman, Alexander
Botts, in ‘‘Earthworm Tractors.” At
the Capitol Friday and Saturday.
(Claire Treavor), his boyhood
sweetheart, has taken life the
easiest way. Allen Jenkins is seen
as Hunk. “Baby Face’s" henchman,
and the Dead End kids from the
original New York stage cast,
Billy Halop, Gabriel Dell, Bobby
Jordan, Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey
and Bernard Punsley, relive their
famous characterizations of Tom
my, “T.B..” “Angel,” Dippy,”
“Spit” and Milty.
Old Time Thriller
Carolina Saturday
A forceful, old-time action pic
ture with plenty of punch is show
ing Saturday at the Carolina Thea
tre.
“Between Fighting Men,” starr
ing Ken Maynard, deals with the
tragic feud of the cattlemen of the
western range and the sheep rais
ers.
Depicting faithfully the war
fought by the cattlemen to save
the grazing lands for their cattle
and the fight by the sheepherders
i to gain more grazing lands, “Be
tween Fighting Men” is packed
: with thrills. Audiences at the
Theatre are welcoming this well
made outdoor romance with hearty
applauses at each showing.
With Maynard are Ruth Hall,
Wallace MacDonald, Josephine
Dunn, Albert .1. Smith, Walter Law,
James Bradbury, Jr., and many
others.
93.000 Jews Leave
Berlin.—(/P)—Jewish emigration
from Germany since Adolf Hitler
came to power in 1933 totals 93,
000 persons, accroding to the Jew
ish Agency. Of the total, 38,000
Jews have gone to Palestine.
Mon., Tues., Wed.
Eleanor Powell
Robert Taylor
Buddy Ebsen
‘Broadway Melody of
1938”
Thursday, Friday
Jean Arthur
Ray Milland
“Easy Living”
Saturday
Dick Foran
in
“Cherokee Strip”
Cartoon and Serials
Monday. Tuesday
Donald Woods
Jeanne Madden
“Talent Scout”
Wednesday, Thursday
Simone Simon
Jas. Stewart
“Seventh Heaven”
Friday, Saturday
Joe E. Brown
June Travis
“Earthworm Tractor*”
Bank Night Thursday
Robert Taylor Has
Photographic Eye
Robert Taylor has a photo- j
i graphic eye.
Although it has often been ob- I
served on the set that the popular j
young star rarely blows up in his |
; lines and is letter perfect even in i
difficult and lengthy scenes, Roy j
I Del Ruth, the director, suggested
an interesting reason.
"Bob has what is known as a
photographic eye,” said Del Ruth,
who directed Taylor and Eleanor
Powell in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s
“Broadway Melody of 1938,” It’s
a rare gife and I have come in con
tact with only one or two other
actors who have it. Bob can read
a page of script once and know it
perfectly.”
Taylor, who is extremely rapid
at “study,” admits that learning
his lines is no problem.
‘I’ve always* had a good mem
ory,” he says, “anil 1 can retain
a good deal of what I read the
first time."
He smiled at the photographic
eye idea.
“I learned to concentrate in col
lege," he explains, “and I think
memorizing is a matter of train
ing.”
Harding Stars
In “Gallant Lady*
In “Gallant Lady,” Ann Harding
outdoes all her past performances
on the screen in scaling the heights
of emotional artistry.
Showing Friday at the Caro
lina Theatre, the story deals with
the experience of a young and un
wed mother who is forced to as
sign her child for adoption im
mediately after its birth. Later,
having become a remarkable suc
cess as' a business woman, she ac
cidentally meets in Paris the child
for whom she has never ceased to
yearn. Faced with the possibility
of being reunited with her boy, she
is compelled to decide between
keeping silent regarding her real
identy as the child’s mother in or
I der to be with him, or revealing
the facts in order to play fair with
the man she loves with the poss
ibility of wrecking the little fel
low’s future.
The role gives Miss Harding j
ample scope for the exercise of her
unique talent for the portrayal of
deep and sincere emotion, and the
scene in which she makes the de
cision which affects not only her
future but that of her son is
fraught with a pathos and tender
dignity that has seldom been
equalled.
An exceptional fine cast to sup
port Miss Harding includes such
names as Clive Brook, Otto Gruger
and Tullio Carminati.
“The Bat Whispers” I
Here This Week
There are gasps and chills,
laughs and shivers when “The
Bat Whispers.” There is seat
clutching tension, high - powered
interest, and rib-tickling merri
ment as Roland West’s great hair
raising drama crashes through
scene after scene of breathless
climaxes.
A puzzling perplexity of phan
tom apparitions, weird noises, and
uncanny fascinations, that will
keep you spellbound and leave you
hanging in midair while one of
the most smashing surprise de
nounements you have ever wit
nessed is revealed on the talking
screen.
Just think of this cast. Chester
Morris plays the gallant detective
and Una Merkel, brilliant star, is
the girL The balance of the cast
consists of names of seasoned vet
erans, sueh as Gustav Von Sey
ffertitz, Ben Bard, William Bake
well, Richard Tucker, Hugh Hunt
ley and others.
Just imagine a man and a girl
pitting their brains against a
fierce and resourceful arch-crim
inal who has defied the best po
lice minds in the world. If you
will listen closely when "The
Bat Whispers” you will hear him
say—
“Here ia a ripping, tearing,
melodrama that crashes through
scene after scene of gasping ad
venture, thrilling surprises and
rib-tickling laughs. Don’t miss it.
It ia a hammer!”
In “Broadwav Melodv of 1938”
The greatest array ol real talent ever cast together has gone into,
the making of “Broadway Melody of 1938.” Eleanor Powell, Robert
Taylor, Buddy Kbsen, Judy Garland, George Murray and Sophie Tuck
er. This musical masterpiece is (Haying three days al the Sunset start
ing Monday.
Kibbee Resents
Tractor Chasing
Practical jokes on movie sets,
have always been of the hardy va
riety, but Guy Kibbee thinkrf
chasing people around with trac
tors is going a bit too far.
Unless you're acquainted with
small, lively tractors which cart
turn on a dime, and also with the
players Joe E. Brown and Direc
tor Raymond Enright assembled
for the filming of the First Na
tional picture, “Earthworm Trac
tors,” which comes to the Capitol
Theatre on Friday and Saturday
you can’t fully appreciate Guy’s
qualms.
Joe himself Isn’t averse to bron
co-busting a tractor around and
chasing you with it. Another
stunt, according to Guy, is to bury
a thin rope just under the surface
of the ground.
One end connects with your
folding canvas chair, in which you
sit comfortably waiting for your
turn to act, or perhaps catching
a wink or two of sleep. The other
goes to a baby tractor some dis
tance behind you.
When the tractor starts sud
denly for somewhere else, your
chair goes with it, and you sid sud
denly on the earth.
“Earthworm Tractors” is a rol
licking comedy romance based on
the famous stories by William
Hazlett Upson. Besides Joe E.
Brown and Kibbee, the cast in
j eludes June Travis, Dick Foran,
Carol Hughes , Gene Lockhart,
Olin Howland and Joselph Crehan.
Simone Simon At
Capitol Wed., Thurs.
So superstitious is Simone Si
mon, sensational screen find, that
she insisted on wearing her own
“lucky dress” in her first starring
role in American films, as Diane
in “Seventh Heaven,” at the Cap
itol Theatre Wednesday and
Thursday.
The volatile actress was wearing
a simple black, light-weight wool
dress with a white lace collar when
she was adked to take the screen
test in France that won her a film
contract with Twentieth Century
Fox. Every since, Simone has con
sidered the dress her lucky one.
When Darryl F. Zanuck, studio
production chief, told Simone that
she was to be co-starred in the film
with James Stewart, she won per
mission to wear the “hack dress:"
The white collar changed a trifle to
give the dress the simplicity neces
sary for the role of Diane.
Daring the World War allied
submarines did patrol work m the
gtrait of Dover, the Baltic and Ad
riatic seas. , -v
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Hollywood
By BOBBIN COONS
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Hollywood—Mrs. Paul Muni is
the guiding light in the Muni car
eer in a very practical sense. Un
obtrusively, she observes his work
on the sets, sits in on story con
ferences, and especially on his
contract sighing.
This Degan some years ago—I
believe the story has never been
told—when Paul came home one
evening, enthusiastic after several
disheartening experiences at his
studio. He had made a couple of
starring talkies for the old Fox
company, the second of which was
probably the worst film of his car
eer, “Seven Faces.” This evening,
however, he felt cheered.
Unsigning The Papers
He had signed for a picture
again. He was to play in “Liliom.”
“What role?” asked Mrs. Muni.
“Second lead to Charles Farrell,”
said Paul.
"No,” said Mrs. Muni, with final
ity. “Second lead to a woman star,
yer,—but to a man, no.”
“But I’ve signed the papers,”
protested Paul.
“We’H have to un3ign them,”
she said.
And they did. And Paul Muni
Carolina
Theatre Program
Monday and Tuesday
“Dead End” with Sylvia Sid
ney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey
Bogart, Wendy Barrie, Claire
Trevor, and Allen Jenkins. Abo
sports reel, “Sunk Chasers”; a
color cartoon, “Sing Monkey,
Swing”; and latest news events.
Wednesday and Thursday
“The Bat Whispers” with
Cheater Morris and Una Merkel.
Also musical act, “Hollywood
Screen Test,” and a Popular Sci
ence reel.
Friday
Ann Harding in “Gallant
Lady” with Clive Brook and Dic
kie Moore. Also Silly Sym
phony cartoon, “Peculiar Pen
guins”; and Andy Clyde come
dy, “Gracie at the Bat”! and an
other new Stranger Than Fic
tion reel.
Saturday
Ken Maynard In "Between
Fighting Men”. Also chapter 11,
•of Johnny Made Brown in “Wild
est Days”; a 3 Stooges come
r, “Grips, Grunts and Groans";
a Scrappy cartoon.
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went back on the stage and came
back fo’ “Scarface” and the seem
ingly permanent place he has made
in pictures as the screen’s leading
supervi dng his taking of pen in
hand.
Ra Mould, the Austrian lad
who has been compared to Freddie
Bartholomew in all his pictures,
is on ih_> Metro contract list now
that Freddie’s fighting. Ra’s new
name is Ronald Sinclair.
The Unseen Star
Exactly what is a “Lubitsch
touch?” From ‘Angel,” some ex
amples: the conversation between
Herbert Marshall and Melvyn
Douglas revealing subtly that in
the war they had something in
common, namely ciose acquain
tance with a certain French girl;
the sly digs at European diplo
macy, especially as reflected in
the conversation between those
gentlemen’s gentlemen, Ernest
Cossart and Edward Everett Hor
ton; the pictruhing of a ticklish
luncheon scene of the principals
in the triangle—Dietrich, Mar
shall, Douglas,—entirely through
the kitchen reaction and conver
sation of the servants; the race
track arrival of Cossart, the but
ler, and his bride, during which
he points out. with elaborate im
portance, the friends he has among
those .vho serve the famous and
well-bred; the general tongue-in
cheek approach to the pretentions,
the moibles, and the elegances of
the species.
“Angel,” after what seemed to
me a slow satrt, picked up consid
erably and because an engrossing
version of the old three-cornered
love story. Marshall got the pre
view audience 'hand, but Douglas
was liked equally, and as for Mar
lay-nah -I thought she was less
languid, more intelligent, and less
prone to flutter her lashes aimless
ly than in the days of her von
James Stewart and Simone Si
! men are returning in the tender
love story, “Seventh Heaven," at
the Capitol Wednesday and Thurs
day.
! Sternberg puppetry.
As in every Lubitsch film, how
I ever, the reai star is unseen. Thai
| is Lubitsch, with his “touches.”
Hugh Herbert has natural sul
phur springs on his new 200-acrt
place in the valley. Has an offer Ac
bottle and sell it as “woo-Woo
ter.”
Many of London's biggest movi.
palaces show double features.
Tufts of feathers form the
“horns” of horned owls.
Power
GEO. O’BRIEN
‘WIND JAMMER'
Jean Arthur
Charles Boyer
“History is Made
At Night”
Ileal English mutton chops i
from five to six inches thick.
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Spine tinglingest spooky thriller ever
made!
“The Bat Whispers”
Wednesday and Thursday
Ann Harding
in
“Gallant Lad31”
FRIDAY
Ken Maynard
“Between Fight
ing Men”
Saturday
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