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HHH3B ViyiYl'.TTWTiTi'r BMILLmjf ENTERTAINMENT Movies vrtrsasxasxs. XV{t?T?r7rr^'nvr±vsvnvvsi,-’i'‘'i'‘'i,rt'i iiTiT. South Sea Islands Is Scene lor Film Today and Friday ^ Betty Grable and Victor Ma ture Featured in “Song of the Islands” Imagine blonde, lissom Betty Gra ble being made love to by handsome Vic Mature in a South Sea island set ting, and you will get some idea of the treat in store for moviegoers when they see 20th Century-Fox's Techni color musical “Song of the Islands.'’ at the Plymouth theatre Thursday and Friday. Filmed under the aegis of ace di rector Walter Lang, this latest musi cal adventure into the lazy, care-free life of the South Seas, offers practi cally everything in the way of top screen entertainment. With the rotund Jack Oakie hand ling the comedy, assisted by Thomas Mitchell and George Barbier, the film takes us to a small outpost of the Pacific where Mitchell and his dau ghter, Betty Grable, are striving to keep the island unspoiled from the encroachments of civilization. Tycoon George Barbier sends his son, play ed by Vic Mature, down to the island to take care of the cattle ranch which he owns. Vic’s side-kick, Jack Oakie, goes along for laughs. Under the spell of the tropical moon and in a setting of breath-tak ing beauty, Betty and Vic fall in love Women Golfers Organize and Plan To Begin Spring Tournaments Next Week Women golfers of the Country Club of Plymouth met Tuesday afternoon and perfected their or ganization and made arrange ments for the spring series of touranments, the first of which will be played next week. The rules were modified to per mit any two women golfers to play in the tournaments on eith er Mondays or Tuesdays of each week. It will not be necessary to ; to arrange for formal pairings for each tournament, but any two of the members will be allowed to play at any time on either of the two days. Scores must be signed and attested before being turned in to Ellis Maples, who handles the details of the tournaments. A fee of SI.50 is being charged for the spring series of tourna ments, which will continue thru April, May and June. The First event, to be played Monday and Tuesday of next week, will be a blind bogey tour nament. which requires no han dicapping. AH those who plan to take part in the tournaments are asked to turn in five scores as soon as possible, in order that handicaps may be worked out. All tournaments will be so ar ranged that everyone has an equal chance at the prizes, regardless of whether they are beginners or experienced players. Mrs. G. B. Curry is chairman of the women’s golf committee, and Mrs. E. L. Owens is treasur er. All women members of the club are urged to take part in the tournament program. to the strains of a number of smash song hits, written by Mack Gordon and Harry Owens for the picture. Also featured in the cast are Billy Gilbert and Hilo Hattie for some clev er comedy characterizations. Hilo Hattie is out to get her man—and her man is Oakie! With an assist from Gilbert, she nearly gets him—much to the amusement of all. -$ The new battleship USS INDIANA is the third of the name to be built for the U. S. Navy. p LYMOUT THEATRE “Plymouth’s Community Asset?’ THURSDAY-FRIDAY APRIL 9-10 The romance and splendor of the South Seas dovetailed into the romance of Grable and Mature! A musical like you have dreamed about! Belly Grable - Victor Malure in "SONG OF THE ISLANDS'" IN GORGEOUS TECHNICOLOR with Jack Oakie - Thomas Mitchell Billy Gilbert and the ROYAL HAWAIIAN ORCHESTRA Added Treats: Latest News Events — “Pre-Historic Porky” ' SUNDAY APRIL 12 Here’s Deanna Durbin again ... as a hat-check girl with musical ambitions . . . who winds up as a millionaire’s tonic. Deanna Durbin, Robert Cummings in "IT STARTED WITH EVE" with Charles Laughton - Guy Kibbee - Charles Coleman Added Treats: ‘‘Snowtime for Comedy” — “Sail Ho!’’ MONDAY-TUESDAY APRIL 13-14 America’s loveliest actress scores her greatest triumph in a story of hidden heartache! Claudette Colbert - John Payne in "REMEMBER THE DAY" —with— John Shepperd, Ann Todd, Douglas Croft, Jane Seymour, Frieda Inescort Added Treats: Latest News of the Day WEDNESDAY APRIL 15 BARGAIN MATINEE AND NIGHT HALF-HOUR! A lauRh for every member of the family . . . from start to finish! Jimmy Duranie - Jane Wyman in "YOU'RE IN THE ARMY NOW" with Phil Silvers - Donald McBride and Regis Toomey Added Treats:: Chap. 11, “Sea Raiders” — Selected Short Subject NOTE-LISTEN IN DAILY on your radio to Station WRRF, Washington, N. C., for Plymouth Theatre Daily Programs, around 12 o’clock noon. New Rookie Show Comes to Plymouth Wednesday Only Jimmy Durante, Phil Silvers Jane Wyman, “You’re in Army Now” Jimmy Durante, Phil Silvers and Jane Wyman star in new picture, "You're In The Army Now," which comes to Plymouth theatre, Wednes day. An all-out for the defense of fun comedy, the new Plymouth pic ture promises a real laugh-fest, with Durante and Silvers pooling their con siderable talents as comics in the story of two rookies who are just try ing to get along. Pretty Jane Wyman and Regis Toomey carry the romance and the supporting cast also includes Donald McBride, George Meeker, Joseph Sawyer and William Haade. There’s pulchritude aplenty in the Navy Blues Sextette, those six Holly wood lovelies, who got their title from their recent appearance in the musi cal “Navy Blues." The girls have de serted the navy for the time being, to join the hilarious goings-on in ‘‘You ’re In The Army Now.” Matty Mal nack and his orchestra are heard and seen in the musical sequences of the picture. Charles Laughton in Drama Here Sunday With Deanna Durbin “It Started With Eve” Has Galaxy Of Stars With Robert Cummings -<s> A completely new treatment of songs on the screen will be heard in Deanna Durbin’s new Universal film "It Started With Eve,” co-starring Charles Laughton and coming Sun day to the Plymouth Theatre. To introduce Miss Durbin's song numbers naturally. Director Henry Koster has done away with orches tral accompaniment for the star's five selections. Deanna sings and plays her own piano accompaniment, and the cus tom of bringing in an orchestral back ground whether or not an orchestra appears on the screen has been dis carded. "Music has always been incidental to the story in Deanna's pictures.” Koster explains. "We have felt from the start that Deanna is primarily a fine actress and secondarily a fine singer. "We felt that limiting the accom Effect Of Draff On Eastern Counties Is Revealed In Survey Facts Learned In Harnett May Apply To Wash ington County -3> In 7 percent of all Harnett Coun ty farm families, single men between 20 and 44 years of age constitute the only source of male workers of work ing age. Dr. C. Horace Hamilton, head of the Rural Sociology Depart ment of N. C. State College, found in a recent survey. Within certain limitations, this same condition may exist in wide areas of the State. Dr. Hamilton said Harnett is fairly representative Eas tern North Carolina county. The Harnett survey showed that if all single men 20 to 44 years of age were drafted for military service or if they left home to work in wartime industries, the county would lose 23 per cent of their male farm family labor between 14 and 65 years of age. However, these young single men of selective service age are concentrated within 30 per cent of the farm fam ilies of which they compose 53 per cent of the male farm workers be tween 14 and 65 years of age. The survey was made of 250 re presentative Harnett County farm families in 1940 before the selective service or war had begun to deplete the farm population. Making the survey were the State College Department of Rural Soci ology and the Agricultural Experi ment Station, under the auspices of the Harnett County Land-Use plan ning Committee. The study showed further that of all color and tenure groups, white farm owner families are the ones most seriously affected by the selec tive service or by other migration from farms. Thirty-six percent of these families have one or more sing le males between the ages of 20 and 44. -<s> Parents Smothered 18 Babies To Death In State in Month Board of Health Shows That 75 Infants Die This Way Annually -<s> Of the 446 babies under a year old who died in North Carolina dur ing February. 18 smothered to death while sleeping with parents, accord ing to reports made to the State Board of Health. About 75 such deaths occur in the State annually, most of them in wintertime. February deaths from influenza totaled only 48, as compared with 291 the corresponding month in 1941, while pneumonia deaths for the mon th dropped from 322 to 231. Measles claimed 11 victims, against 2 in Feb ruary last year. From January 1 through March 14, 1942, there were 10,865 cases of measles reported in North Carolina, against 3,243 during the corresponding period of last year and 1,070 in 1940. The disease, on the up-surge this year, is scattered throughout the State. Suicides are temporarily on the de crease, there having been only 15 re ported last month, against 25 in Feb ruary, 1941, while homicides for the month totaled 24. There were 28 re ported in February last year. paniment to the piano would keep the songs simple, but none-the-less ef fective.” Featured players include Margaret Tallichet, Guy Kibbee, Walter Catlett Catherine Doucet and Charles Cole man. WHERE? WILL THEY BUY Auio Accessories Clothes Groceries Furniture Auio Repairs Fuel WhereacLntbit,' ZhtS,’hat pe°P,e need? It i. smart ,o trade''"Plymouth? neighbors in times of y°Ur fnends and these. Look over th! !!re" and. strain like lore using gas and .merchandise here be tant points. tlres deling to dis PLYMOUTH merchants association i BETTY GRABLE STREAMLINES THE HULA BKKKKKKHnHBIKHmmmmmmMtrmmmKXHm99.lv,.... ,;-:wn —————— Betty Grable steps out in her own streamlined version of the hula dance, aided by Harry Owens and his Royal Hawaiian Orchestra in "Song: of the Islands," here today and tomorrow. Victor Mature and Jack Oakie are co-starred in the film. Film Based On Real Wild West The burning of Deadwood, S. D., the robbery of the famous Deadwood Stage, most held-up vehicle in the world, the charge of General Custer's famous Sev enth Cavalry, the killing of Wild Bill Hickok by “Buffalo" McCall and the discovery of gold in the Black Hills country of Dakota are a few of the highlights of Universal’s “Badlands of Dakota" coming to the Plymouth Theatre Saturday. The picture presents Robert Stack and Awn Rulherfogd as stars with Richard Dix, Frances Farmer, Brod Crawford, Hugh Herbert, Andy Devine. Lon Cha ney, Jr., and Fuzzy Knight, in supporting roles. It presents a story of Deadwood when it was America’s wildest frontier town, just after its founding, in 1876. Home-Living Plans During Emergency Washington, D. C.—Aware, at last, that this business of bombs falling on American cities is more than just a faint possibility, Mr. and Mrs. Am erica are beginning to make plans for home-living during emergencies. Paramount in their minds is the food question. Just how, they ask, should the family eat if public util ities are shut off, and the grocer down the street has decided to stay home for a few days, or at least un til he is sure that enemy raiders have been blasted from the skies and the “All Clear” signal is around to stay for a while. American Red Cross nutritionists offer this advice: Stock up a “war pantry,” and be sure that it contains the kinds of food that will supply the energy necessary to keep the spirits from flagging. To feed a healthy adult for a week during such emergencies the Red Cross nutritionists suggest the fol lowing foods: Two tall tins of unsweetened milk. Mixed with one part water, this will give two quarts of milk. Milk, by the way, is the best all-around food there is. One pound of whole grain crack ers. One can of pork and beans. There are lots of food value here; besides, it sticks to the ribs. One tin of meat, preferably pork, beef, spam, or the like. No chicken here. It’s too delicate. One-half pound of store cheese. There are few foods as nourishing as cheese. One small jar of peanut butter. Besides taking the place of butter, it is an excellent source of Vitamin B and iron. One package of dried fruit, such as raisins, prunes and apricots, to pro vide the all-important Vitamins A and B, plus iron. A chocolate milk bar, necessary because of its high caloric value. A can of vegetables, preferably peas, beans, corn or asparagus. Veg etables which can be eaten cold are first choice, since heat may be cut off by enemy action. These emergency war rations, Red Cross nutritionists say, are enough to keep the average citizen from having starvation pains, and they will provide the necessary vitamins and calories. But if more is desired by gourmets during emergencies, the nutritionists suggest adding such items to the larder as a tin of cocoa, dried soups which can be made by mixing with water, instantaneous coffee or tea, nuts of all kinds, tinned loaves of date-nut bread or Boston brown bread. .<M| If there is an invalid or a baby in the family, by all means, Red Cross nutritionists warn, keep some strain ed baby foods on hand. One other suggestion. Be careful not to keep any foods in galvanized iron or copper containers, which poison the food and produce serious consequences for the unsuspecting eater. All of the foods in the Red Cross “war pantry” can be obtained from the neighborhood grocer. They won’t take up too much room, and they will fill the breach in case of attack, providing, of course, Junior doesn’t raid the pantry before the bombers raid the nation. -$ TIRES Quotas of new tires released for passenger automobiles under OPA ra tioning in the first three months of this year showed a reduction of al most 95 percent from the total in the same months last year. ■-V The Navy has taken a prominent part in the development of earth in duction compasses, bubble sextants, and efficient propellers for aircraft. ARMORY STATE GUARD f “Nothing refreshes like the real thing ... Coca-Cola” All it takes to get the feel of refreshment is art ice-cold bottle of Coca-Cola. Its taste has the flavor of refreshment. And it leaves you with a pleasant after-sense of being completely refreshed. Enjoy ice-cold Coca-Cola. It's the real thing. You trust its quality Phone 227-6 BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY Of THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY COCA-COLA BOTTLING WORKS Plymouth. N. C.
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