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IH2X!XnZ3ZIZ23IEIEE , t >'rt.uiLLu:uj.; j.rxtaf. £r.JX.&ZZ:rtr±LLLJllL t.\UUklK^4 Sports ENTERTAINMENT IMovies rr.’r;rr:'r'rr,'r,'T7Tsrrr-rn y i wiwram ‘7r.Tr ’rrvrrrrr,- ■ i ■ r.TfP^i»iT,-”r;iTiiTi>nTnv7-:T;T7rr Perilous Picnic On WildWesiFroniier “Stagecoach Buckaroo," coming to Plymouth Theatre next Saturday, pictures thrilling adventures follow ing the opening up of the stagecoach lines on the western frontier. It is a new Johnny Mack Brown action drama. Featured with Brown are his two film partners, Fuzzy Knight and Nell O'Day, with Anne Nagel, bru nett starlet, and Herbert Rawlinson portraying leading roles. The Guardsmen Quartet, famous concert,screen and radio enselmble, present several original song num bers and two western ballad classics. The screen play is based on an orig inal story, "Shotgun Messenger," by Arthur St. Claire. The two actresses set out for a picnic and get into lots of trouble when they are kidnapped by stagecoach bandits. Battles with stagecoach raiders on the wild fron tier trails of the old west furnish thrills and excitement. i i ; »i i 111111111111 NOW SHOWING AT PLYMOUTH THEATRE | He’s the secretary, she’s the boss. An unusual circumstance in the office, perhaps, but not so exceptional in the home. If interest to learn how it works out take a slant at them on the screen today or to morrow. p LYMOUT THEATRE H “Plymouth’s Community Asset” THURSDAY-FRIDAY NOVEMBER 5-6 Female boss wants male secretary-office-experience unnecessary —must be good at home work—hours from 5 p. m. until Rosalind Russell - Fred MacMurray "TAKE A LETTER DARLING" with Constance Moore - Mac Donald Carey - Robert Benchley Added Treats “Porkey’s Preview" Latest News Events SATURDAY NOVEMBER 7 Shows Continuous From 1 I’. M. Mile-a-minute action in this story of a rangeland bandit and the cow poke who battled him to the finish. Johnny Mack Brown in "STAGECOACH BUCKAROO" with "Fuzzy" Knight - Neil O'Day Added Treats Chapt. 2 “King of the Mountics” Meet John Doe SATURDAY NIGHT—OWL SHOW—10:30 P. M. Fighting nature to supply the nation's war lumber needs was hard enough . . . and when saboteurs arrived the job became herculean. Leo Carrillo - Andy Devine in "TIMBER” with Don Daily Jr. - Marjorie Lord Added Treats Edgar Kennedy in “Cooks and Crooks” SUNDAY NOVEMBER 8 pictureTtarrtns EDDIE BRACKEN with June Preisser Betty Rhodes ■ Phillip Terry Fteida Inescort Nils Asther William Henry • Johnnie Johnston Screen Play by Eve Greene • Additional Dialogue by Robert Blees Based on a Story by Beulah Marie Dix and Bertram Millhauser Added Treats Olive’s Birthday Prcsink” “Show Dogs” MONDAY-TUESDAYY NOVEMBER 9-10 When three meddlesome old gals undertake to play Cupid any thing can happen . . . and docs. Marjorie Main - Zasu Piiis in "TIS H” with Maine MacMahon - Lee Bowman Added Treats “Cab Calloway’s Jitterbug Party” Latest News Events WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 11 Bargain Matinee and Night Half-Hour He. was a pretty good detective for a cub reporter ... he smelled a rat . . . and hunted him down. Faye Emerson - Van Johnson in "MURDER IN THE BIG HOUSE" with George Meeker - Frank Wilcox -Added Treats “Chapt. No. 4 “Don Winslow of the Navy” ‘Football Highlights” Marjorie Main and Cronies In Riotous Comedy - Romance -® Famed Fiction Character “Tish,” Brought To Screen In Hit -eft Marjorie Main, who has heckled Wallace Beery in many pictures, comes into her own in a role that might have been especially written for her as the redoubtable Letitia Carberry in “Tish,” based on Mary Roberts Rineheart's beloved fiction character, coming to Plymouth The atre Monday and Tuesday. As the domineering spinster of the Rinehart stories, she is teamed with Zasu Pitts and Aline MacMahon. The three cronies decide to do a little matchmaking, believing that Lee Bowman and Susan Peters ought to fall in love, arrange a camping trip and go '‘hunting" and fishing to leave them alone together, having numerous adventures and finally be ing arrested and jailed, while the ro mance works out not according to their schedule. The picture has many comical and dramatic complications which a hi larious climax finally straightens out. The three commediennes provide one of tfie funniest teams ever to come out of Hollywood. “Three feminine musketeers" they have been called and they come up to expectations, cri tics say. The picture has been pro nounced artistically photographed. DR. C. W. BAILEY Rocky Mount, N. C. Announces the removal of his office from over Rose Drug Store to the new Professional Building 147 North Main Street Practice Limited to Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat. Office Hours: 9 to 5 Telephone 1171 Eddie Bracken and June Presser In Mystery Fun Film “Sweater Girl” Abounds In Music, Beautiful Girls And Gags Called a mystery musical of cam pus life, “Sweater Girl," hailed as one of the season’s brightest picture of ferings. comes to Plymouth Theatre next Sunday. It is ladened with hit tunes, laughs and beautiful girls. The cast includes Betty Jane Rhodes, Phillip Terry, Nils Asther. Frieda Inescort and Ella Neal, and of course. Eddie Bracken and June Preisser. Four tunes by Frank Loesser and Jule Styne, including the number one hit parade torch song, T Don't Want to Walk Without You," will be heard, Betty Jane Rhodes singing the torch number. Eddie and June sing "What Happens Now" and also are teamed in a burlesque Apache dance. "I Said No," sung by Betty Anne, is another outstanding number. “Swea ter Girl" is sung by Eddie Bracken and a chorus of co-ed lovelies. Beginning with the slaying of the campus columnist during rehearsals for a college show, the film moves swiftly from thrill to thrill and from laugh to laugh. It is more than a musical melodramas. It's a first class mystery, with bevies of beautiful co eds, plenty of gags and fun and some exciting dances. Threat To VilalWar Project Is Filmed Andy Devine, the big fellow with the squeaky voice and easy-going manner, appears again in “Timber.” picturing the threat of sabotage in our great forest preserves, at Plym outh Theatre's Saturday night Owl Show. Actual war-time significance is attached to the tale in that Ca rillo, mill boss, and Devine, logging chief, are threatened with the loss of an important war contract if persis tent work slow-ups are not stopped. Leo Carrillo, Dan Dailey, jr., and Marjorie Lord, stage beauty, and Edmund Mac Donald have outstand ing roles. Cariilo portrays the ope rator of a lumber mill, Devine is a “bull of the Woods,” or logging fore man on a timber project which is menaced by saboteurs. Dailey is a scrapping undercover G-Man as signed to investigate mysterious ac cidents which, especially, are hinder ing the production of lumber for mu nitions industries. Of breath-taking interest is the devilishly clever method the sabo teurs employ in disposing of great truckloads of lumber careening down a steep grade to the mill. PLEASANT GROVE Mr. and Mrs. Dillon Worsham and Mr. Will Worsham, of Norfolk, were the week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Swain. Mrs. J. C. Tarkenton, Mrs. L. D. Collins and Mrs. Effie W. Gurkin were in Elizabeth City Friday shop ping. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. White and Mrs. W. B. Chesson went to Lake Phelps, Sunday for the afternoon. Mis. H. E. Nixon and Mrs. Annie E. Chesson, of Elizabeth City, were IT WILL TAKE MONEY! Every loyal American’s money is buying War Bonds and Stamps—to the tune of 10 per cent of his and her pay every pay day. Make that your per sonal Victory program—and keep sav ing, too! ★ ★ ★ ★ Branch Banking & Trust Company ‘THE SAFE EXECUTOR” PLYMOUTH, NORTH CAROLINA SOUND BANKING AND TRUST SERVICE FOR EASTERN CAROLINA IT IS JUST A YOUNG MAN’S FANCY Marjorie Main lectures Lee Bowman on how a young man should treat his wife in a light moment, from M-G-M's “Tish." now playing at Plymouth Theatre. Also in the cast are Zasu Pitts, Aline MacMa hon and Susan Peters. HORSES -® To save gas and rubber, more than 125 saddle horses are being used by Indian Service Extension employees on at least 14 Indian reservations in this country. the guests of Mrs. W, B. Chesson Fri day. Capt. D. P. Pharr, of Richmond, and Mrs. Pharr visited Mr. and Mrs. William Phelps this week-end. Miss Myrtle Tarkenton and Miss Nellie Tarkenton of Plymouth were the dinner guests of Mrs. T. L. Wynne Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Tarkenton re ceived a telegram Saturday from Co Columbia. S. C.. announcing the ar rival of a grandson James Clinton Tarkenton. III. Mrs. W. B. Chesson, Mrs. J. C. Tar kenton, Mrs. Effie W. Gurkin, Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Collins, Misses Myr tle and Nellie Tarkenton, Miss Era Chesson. Miss Christine Hodges, Dennis Chesson. Walter White, Jack Gurkin and Norwood Spruill attend ed the Quarterly Conference at Mackey's, Sunday morning. All of the churches of the Roper charge gave splendid reports, and paid up in full for the passing year. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Furlough re ceived a letter from the headquarters of the Coast Guard service in Wash ington. D. C. stating that their son Dock Furlough had been given a very honorable promotion. Rev. and Mrs. Wilson, of Creswell, were the dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Barnes Sunday. CHERRY —§— Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Phelps, of Washington. D. C,, Mr. and Mrs. 1 Henry Phelps. Mrs. J. H. Strickland and little daughter, Jesse: Lester Phelps, of Norfolk: Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Herrington, of Plymouth, spent last week here with their fa ther, Milton Phelps, who is very ill in the Columbia hispital. Mr. Phelps is improving at this time. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Davenport, of Ocean View. Va., and Mrs. Essie Brown, member of the school faculty, of Swan Quarter, were here for the week-end with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. U. G. Davenport. Mr. and Mrs. M. O. Spruill and children, of Newport News, spent the week-end with their mother. Mrs. E. F. Spruill. Charlie Phelps and Eric Spruill spent a few days at home last week with their parents. Mrs. Wendell Spruill and little son spent Saturday night with Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Spruill. Kie Sprui.: i visiting hi family for a few days. Mrs. Raymond Gibbs ha.s been un able to leave her home the past week on account of an attack of rheuma tism. The Rev. R. N. Pitts preached his last sermon before conference at Mt. Hermon church Sunday. Rev. Mr. Pitts goes to conference Tuesday. He will carry a good report from Mt. Hebmon as all claims have been paid. EXPRESSION OF SYMPATHY The Eighth Grade Victory Club of the Plymouth Colored Schools wishes to extend its deepest sympathy to the family of Mr. Ledford, recently de ceased.-—Eighth Grade Victory Club. m Those Who Demand the Best Know That Here’s a Product Which Cant Be Beat LIGHT WHITE FLOUR H. E. Harrison Wholesale Co. PLYMOUTH \--r ESTABLISHED 1937 WEST WRECKING Co. WILSON STREET EXTENDED WE BUY JUNK CARS SCRAP IRON 45c Per Hundred RUBBER 50c Per Hundred (ALL MATERIALS DELIVERED) ...You can spot it every time IN making a bull’s-eye or making a soft drink there are no short cuts to “know-how”. That’s the explanation of why so much satisfaction is packed into the pause that refreshes with ice-cold Coca-Cola. Fifty seven years of knowing how to blent Nature’s choicest ingredients ex plain the different kind of refresh ment you get in Coca-Cola. 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