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"City Without Men"
To Be Presented at
Owl Show Saturday
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Linda Darnell and Edgar
Buchanan Head Cast
of Stirring Drama
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L;nda Darnell, following in the
footsteps of Claudette Colbert, Clark
Gable, James Stewart and other
stars who left their “home” studios
to make a picture for Columbia, is
said by Hollywood to achieve as dis
tinctive a success as her "loan-out"
predecessors. In Columbia's '“City
Without Men,” which comes to the
owl show Saturday night at, the
Plymouth Theatre, Miss Darnell
heads a cast of top-flight merit in a
drama of explosive force.
Story of women who wait for their
men, the new Columbia film was di
rected by Sidney Salkow from the
screen play by W. L. River. In the
cast cuporting the beautiful Miss
Darnell are Edgar Ruchanan. Mi
chael Duane, Sara Allgood, Glenda
Farrell, Leslie Brooks and Doris
Dudley.
"City Without Men" is set in a
prison town, to which come the wives
and sweethearts of innocent men and
guilty, murderers, thieves, embezzl
aanans
ers. They have come to wait, some
in quiet hope of a pardon or a mira
cle, some in defiant expectation of
"springing" their men. one—a mo
ther—in patient resignation at the
tragic knowledge that her son will
soon be "out,” electrocuted for mur
der. These women, spurned by the
"better" hotels in the town, assemble
in the rooming house maintained by
a woman whose husband has been
sentenced to life imprisonment.
Into this atmosphere of determina
tion. of memories and longing, comes
Miss Darnell, as a school teacher
W'hose fiancee has been falsely ac
cused and jailed. She works in a
laundry in order to pay fees to a
shyster lawyer, hoping that he can
prove the boy’s innocence.
‘‘City Without Men," even as its
cameras are focussed primarily up
on the women, goes inside the prison
walls to present phases of peniten
tiary life; in particular, one phase of
pentitentiary life never before ex
plored by the cameras—the prison in
wartime!
Buchanan, who was last seen as
the fighting small-town lawyer in
"Talk of the Town," apears as the
shyster in "City Without Men." A
newcomer to the screen, Michael
Duane has the leading romantic role
opposite Miss Darnell, whose per
formance is said to be superb.
New passenger autos rationed to
buyers from March 2, 1942, to March
1, 1943, totaled 305,876 cars.
LYMOUT
THEATRE
“Plymouth’s Community Asset”
THURSDAY-FRIDAY JUNE 10-11
The most amazing mass of talent seen in a picture in a long time
. . . Nineteen Stellar names, 18 features players and three producers
appear on the screen.
Bing Crosby - Bob Hope -
- Ray Milland - Eddie Bracken In ‘
"STAR SPANGLED RHYTHM"
with Mary Martin - Dorothy Lamour
Added Treats Latest News Events
SATURDAY JUNE 12
Continuous Shows from 1 P. M.
Straight-shooting and hard-riding Tim Holt goes galloping into a
new round-up of peril with his pals “Smokey” and “Whooper" to
match daring with a fugitive two-gun girl.
Tim'Holi - Ray Whitley in
"LAND OF THE OPEN RANGE"
-Added Treats
Chap. No. 6 “Dare Devils of the West”
“Too Weak To Work'
OWL SHOW—SATURDAY NIGHT—10:30 P. M.
Drama with the wraps off . . . And a feminine battle with all rules
off . . .as reckless women prove what unconquerable love is capable of.
Linda Darnell - Edgar Buchanan In
"CITY WITHOUT MEH"
wilh Glenda Farrell - Leslie Brooks
Selected Short Subects
Added Treats
SUNDAY JUNE 13
As American as apple pie ... A tale of a Supreme Court Justice
who deserts the Cloistered Halls . . . To teach the citizens of a small
town a lesson in Democracy.
Frank Morgan - Richard Carlson in
"A STRANGER IN TOWN"
with Jean Rogers - Porter Hall
Added Treats “Seein’ Red”
MONDAY-TUESDAY JUNE 14-15
A pirate captain and the Governor’s daughter . . . United under
the flag of the Jolly Roger.
Tyrone Power - Maureen O'Hara -
Laird Cregar in
"THE BLACK SWAN"
with Thomas Mitchell - George Sanders
Added Treats Latest News Events “Brief Interval”
WEDNESDAY JUNE 16
Bargain Half-Hour Matinee and Night
If one Russian js funny, You should see all three in this film.
Bert Gordon (Mad Russian) -
Margaret Lindsay in
"LET'S HAVE FUN"
with John Beal - Constance Worth
Added Treats Cliapt No. 12 Secret Code Prof Small and Mr. Tall
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Thomas Mitchell seems to be trying to break up the romance between
Tyrone Power and Maureen O’Hara in this scene from Rafael Sabati
ni's “The Black Swan,” new Technicolor hit coming to the Plymouth
Theatre next Monday and Tuesday. However, Tyrone does more than
all right with the fiery redhead in the picture.
Tyrone Power and
Maureen O'Hara in
Feature Next Week
“The Black Swan” Shows
at Plymouth Theatre
Monday-Tuesday
The master story-teller's most ex
citing story of the sea, Rafael Saba
tini’s “The Black Swan," has been
translated by 20th Century-Pox into
a rousing adventure film. Said to
retain all the lusty tang of the book,
the film looms all the more glorious,
in its swashbuckling way. thanks to
the gift of blazing Technicolor.
Starring Tyrone Power and Mau
reen O'Hara, the film coming Mon
day and Tuesday to the Plymouth
Theatre features a cast fully equal in
magnitude to the richness of the
story—Laird Cregar. Thomas Mitch
ell,, George Sanders, Anthony Quinn.
George Zucco and hundreds of
others.
Rafael Sabatini's breath-taking
tale is a classic, of course. Tire book
has yet to be written that can match
“The Black Swan" in virility, in the
tempestuousness of its romance, the
breakneck pace of its trubulent ac
tion. the fury of its stirring charac
ters.
The film's tory is known to vir
tually all. It hold a nautical teles
cope, so to speak, over the whole
era when villainy wore a -sash and
cutlass, and the only political creed
in the world was love, gold and ad
venture, It tells the saga of the
freebooters, those bold seafarers
turned loose by greedy princes to
waylay other greedy princes.
The dashing role of Capt. James
Waring, a bucaneer who plunders a
ship's prize or lady’s lips with equal
abandon, would seem to be tailor
made for Power. And who better
for his two-fisted brother brigands
of the sea than the cinema’s most
hissable character actors—Liard Cre
gar, Thomas Mitchell, George San
ders, Anthony Quinn and George
Zucco? Incidentally, “The Black
Swan" marks the first romantic pair
ing of Power and Miss O'Hara.
Farm Equipment
Items Released
From Quota List
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Will Be Rationed on State
Wide Basis Instead of
By Counties
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In an effort to move all available
equipment into active production as
quickly as possible, several kinds of
farm machinery and equipment have
been released from county quotas
and will be rationed only on a state
basis, it was announced today by W.
D, Phelps, chairman of the County
USDA War Board.
The release of this equipment was
provided in an amendment to Food
Production Order 3, which authorized
the State USDA War Board to re
lease items on which there now is
an aquitable distribution between
counties, the chairman said.
The itmes released by the State
War Board include: tractor-darwn
or mounted boldboard plows, tractor
drawn or mounted plows, one-way
tillers, transplanters, garden trac
tors, soil pulverizers and packers, ro
tary hoer. spring tooth harrows, pow
er take-off tractors mowers, power
sprayers, traction spray pumps tpow
er), power dusters, traction dusters,
hammer mills, and burr mills.
"This action does not release these
itmes from state quotas,’’ Mr. Phelps
declared. “Manufacturers still will
be required to follow the original
pattern set of rthe state. However,
they are authorized to affix a tax in
dicating only that the machine is to
be sold in the state of North Caro
lina. The release of these itmes from
county quotas does not mean that
they can be sold to farmers of any
other state if they were manufac
tured for sale in North Carolina.”
He said county farm machinery ra
tioning committes may issue pur
chase certificates for these items and
dealers may honor the certificates
regardless of county designations
and regardless of county quotas.
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More Than 40'Top
Stars In Picture
Now Playing Here
“Star Spangled Rhythm’’
At Plymouth Theatre
Thursday-Friday
More than forty top ranking stars
in one picture is something of a
record, even for fabulous Hollywood,
but that is the score Paramount
runs up with its show of shows,
‘Star Spangled Rhythm." which is
due to entertain Plymouth theatre
fans Thursday and Friday at the
Plymouth Theatre.
Definitely the field day of field
days for movie fans, "Star Spankled
Rhythm" boasts among its players
Bir.g Crosby. Bob Hope. Fred Mac
Murray, Franchot Tone. Ray Milland.
Victor Moore. Dorothy Lamour. Pau
lette Goddard. Vera Zorina. Mary
Martin. Dick Powell, Betty Hutton.
Eddie Bracken. Vetronica Lake, Alan
Ladd, and Rochester, with William
Bendix. Jerry Colonna. Macdonald
Carey, Walter Abel. Susan Hayward,
Marjorie Reynolds. Betty Rhodes
Dona Drake. Lynne Overman. Gary
Crosby, Johnnie Johnston. Gil Lamb,
Cass Daley. Ernest Truex. Katherine
Dunham. Arthur Treacher, Walter
Catlett Sterling Holloway, the Gold
en Gate Quartette. Walter Dare Wahl
and Company.. And if that weren't
enough to amaze and delight movie
goers, they will also be able to see
three top Paramount directors turn
ed actors for the accasion—Cecil B.
DeMille. Preston Sturges. Ralph Mur
phy!
With a lineup of talent such as
that listed above, it is easy to believe
reports that ' Star Spangled Rhy
thm" is the greatest, truly all-star
musical comedy ever produced by any
movie studio.
The story kernel of "Star Spangled
Rhythm" concerns the efforts of
Paramount studio gateman. Victor
Moore, and telephone operator Betty
Hutton, to build themselves up to
Moore's sailor son. Eddie Bracken, by
deceiving him into believing that the
old man is head of the studio, and
Betty his secretary. The deception is
a cinch by correspondence by it be
comes something less than that
when Eddie and a group of sailor pals
show up in Los Angles on shore leave.
Eddie promising his friends the time
of their lives at the studio.
Betty conceives a crack-brained
idea of how to continue the decep
tion for the duration of the boys’
leave, as well as to put on a show
for them with Paramount's roster
of stars participating. Betty's idea
backfires hilariously in Moore's face,
although the show does go on. stu
pendously.
In seeing "Star Spangled Rhythm”
fans will not only be treated to what
promises to be a really sensational
show, but will enjoy what amounts
to a personal tour of the Paramount
studio, and in these days of travel
curtailment, its a great convenience
to be able to visit Hollywood by
simply buying a ticket to the Plym
outh Theatre.
Incidentally, there are seven hit
tunes in the film.
After July 1. luggage will be made
in 7 basic types and will be dras
ticallv limited in size and design.
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Beef Poinf Values
Upped This Week
Raleigh.—Preferred cuts of beef—
such as steaks and roasts—will now
cost the housewife substantially more
red stamps, although fewer points
will be required for numerous items
of lamb, veal and variety meats, it is
learned from studying the third of
ficial table of consumer point values
for meat. fats, fish and cheese.
The new table became effective.
Sunday June 6. The increases in the
point values for beef, ranging from
one to three points per pound reflect
continued large consumer demand
for these itmes in the face of lower
production, the office of' Price Ad
misistration points out.
Consumers who purchase more of
the lamb. pork, and veal, and variety
meats, some of which have been re
duced in point value, will be able to
maintain their weekly meat consump
tion at present levels. However, those
who continue to use most of their
red stamps for beef will find that
they are eating le~- meat the OPA
points out.
The point value on this table is
effective from June 6 through July
3 and, barring unforseen emergen
cies. no additional changes will be
made during this period.
THURSDAY-FRIDAY, JUNE 10-11 AT
PLYMOUTH THEATRE
starring
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Hop*’ *
William Bendix * Jerry
★ Macdonald Car«y
Oekker * Walter Abel
tan Hayward ★ Marjorie
noldt ★ Betty Rhodes
Drake * lynne Overman
A Johnnie Johnston
lamb * Cats Oaley * Ernest
uex ★ Katherine Ownham
Treacher * Walter Catlett
Holloway ★ Colden
Quartette ★ Walter Dare
Company ★ Cocil
★ Preston Sturges
Ralph. Murphy
id by fiC0R6C~MARSHALL
Stress Ptsy by Harry Tugead
Perimont Picture
RAY MILLAND
VICTOR MOORE I
DOROTHY LAMOUR
PAULETTE GODDAR
VERA ZORINA
MARY MARTIN
DICK POWELL
DETTY HUTTON
EDDIE DRACKEN
VERONICA LAKE
ALAN LADD
ROCHESTER
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