Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume], December 07, 1939, SECTION B, Page 9, Image 17

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NEXT WEEK AT ROANOKE RAPBDS THEATRES
JAMES CAGNEY &
PRISCILLA LANE
WEEK'S BIG FILM
Making its local debut at Peoples
Theatre Sunday and moving to the
Imperial for a two-day run, Mon
day-Tuesday, “The Roaring Twen
ties” will present James Cagney
and Priscilla Lane in the leading
roles.
“The Roaring Twenties” is the
autobiography of a nation on a
jag. The day of the flapper and
the speakeasy, of mob rule, of fan
tastic prosperity—in short, the most
glittering, gaudy and fantastic age
in history, is recreated on the
screen as the background for a viv
id and compelling story.
In France, as the war ends,
three soldiers (played by Cagney,
Jeffrey Lynn and Humphrey Bo
gart) make joyful plans for their
return to America. One plans to
go back to his job as garage me
chanic, another is going to start
his law practice, the third, scof
fing at talk of Prohibition, intends
to go back to saloon-keeping. Cag
ney is also looking forward to
meeting the girl who has been
writing him cheery letters through
out the war. But in the world to
which they return their plans are
no longer feasible. Cagney, whose
job has long since been filled, has
to drive a cab, and this soon puts
him on to the boot-legging racket.
Meanwhile he has met his unknown
sweetheart. He has also made con
tact with his wartime buddies and
Bogart, who has been working with
a rival boot-legging gang, joins up
With him. He retains Lynn to
handle the somewhat shady legal
end of his transactions. Riding on
the crest of the wave, they all rise
to the top with him but in the
crash, Cagney goes under first.
Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell
Will be shown at the Peoples Mon
day-Tuesday in “Day-time Wife”.
The story tells of the hilariously
romantic carryings-on of a hus
band who goes whistling under the
wrong balcony (his secretary’s)
and a perfect peach of a wife who
rests on her oars (but not for
long!)
Linda gets busy, with the aid of
her thrice-wed friend, Binnie
Barnes, and starts finding out. She
figures that if the proper study of
man is man—the proper study of
secretaries must be secretaries. So
she secretly gets herself a job as
secretary to suave Warren William
(whose office, incidentally, boasts
as a receptionist comedienne Joan
Davis.)
He’s a married man, too, so of
course he reverts to type the min
ute pretty Linda hangs up her hat.
The hilarity mounts in leaps and
bounds, climaxed by an unforget
table scene where Tyrone, Wendy,
William and Linda meet in a night
club.
Linda learns about secretaries,
Tyrone learns his lesson and all
ends happily—but not until Linda
has made Tyrone suffer plenty!
Graduating from the opera and
the race track, the Merry Marx
Brothers—Groucho, Harpo and
Chico—invade the realm of the cir
cus for their newest riot of com
edy, “Marx Brothers at the Cir
cus", which will be shown Wed
nesday-Thursday at Peoples.
A streamlined circus, novel in its
design, serves as the background
for the Marxian monkey-shines,
With a modernistic midway, a me
nagerie that pictures scopes of cag
ed animals in their nativje habitats,
and the varied back-so'ene activi
ties of a huge circus thrown in
for good measure!
The picture carried a weighty
cast that includes Kenny Baker,
Florence Rice, Eve Arden, Margar
et Dumont, Nat Pendleton, and
others. i
*******
The screen’s newest juvenile team,
Virginia Weidlei/ and Gene Rey
nolds, present remarkable per
formances in “Bad Little Angel”,
which will be shown Friday only
at the Peoples. The story is a
poignant drama of childhood and
tells of a little orphanage waif
whose faith and courage alters the
lives of a group of characters in a
quaint New Jersey village in the
early Nineties.
The cast includes Lois Wilson,
Ian Hunter as the waif’s foster
parents, Henry Hull as the town
drunkard whom the child reforms,
Guy Kibbee as the crusty million
aire who capitulates eventually to
the child’s charm, Elizabeth Pat
terson and Reginald Owen.
* * * * * *
Roy Rogers will be presented at
the Peoples Theatre Saturday in
“In Old Caliente”.
“Zorro’s Fighting Legion” will be
added.
Grass Fire In
Hornertown Mon.
A grass fire, thought to have
been started carelessly, in Horner
town, was the cause of the alarm
that was turned in Monday of this
week. The fire department arriv
ed on the scene in time to pre
vent the flames from spreading to
homes in the vicinity. With the
help of Hofnertown citizens, the
firemen soon had the fire under
control. Damages were negligible.
PROGRAMS
FOR THE
WEEK OF
DEC. 10th
PEOPLES
SUNDAY
James Cagney-Priscilla Lane
THE ROARING TWENTIES
MATINEE 10c-25o NIGHT 10c-3Sc
MONDAY-TUESDAY
Tyrone Power-Linda Darnell
DAY-TIME WIFE
MATINEE 10c-25c NIGHT lOo-SOo
BALCONY 20c
WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY
Marx Brothers-Florence Rice
AT THE CIRCUS
MATINEE 10o-26c NIGHT 10c-86c
BALCONY 20c
FRIDAY
Virginia Weidler-Gene Reynolds
BAD LITTLE ANGEL
MATINEE A NIGHT 10c-20e
SATURDAY
Roy Rogers
IN OLD CALIENTE
Added: Zorro’s Fighting Legion
MATINEE A NIGHT 10c-25o
BALCONY 20c
EVERY FRIDAY IN THE PEOPLES AND IM PERIAL THEATRES IS DIVIDEND NIGHT
IMPERIAL
SUNDAY
Lew Ayres-Slim Summerville
All Quiet on the Western Front
MATINEE Sc NIGHT 10c-20e
BALCONY 16c
MONDAY-TUESDAY
James Cagney-Priscilla Lane
THE ROARING TWENTIES
MATINEE lOc-260 NIGHT 10c-S5o
WEDNESDAY
Margo-Walter Abe!
MIRACLE ON MAIN STREET
On Stage: MANHATTAN REVELS
MATINEE 10c-25o NIGHT 10c-3ffe
THURSDAY-FRIDAY
Pat O’Brien-OIympe Bradna
NIGHT OF NIGHTS
MATINEE 10c-25c NIGHT lOc-SOo
SATURDAY
Three Mesquiteers
THREE TEXAS STEERS
Added: Overland With Kit Carson
MATINEE & NIGHT 10c-2£o
BALCONY 20c
TOWN
TALK
Miss Carrie Hudson spent the
week-end in Rocky Mount with
Mrs. M. T. Morrig.
Guests of Mr. and Mrs. N. A.
Cates Sunday were Mr. and Mrs.
W. D. Cates, Miss Frances Cates
and William Edward Cates, all of
Blackridge, Va„ and Mr. and Mrs.
M. O. Cates of Lawrenceville, Va.
Misses Eloise Hopkins and Lily
Belle Hardison of Williamston
spent the holidays with Mrs. J. H.
Williams.
Henry Hayes of Henderson spent
Sunday with Mrs. M. W. Black.
Mrs. Guy Brown and son, Tom
mie, of Plymouth, N. C., spent
Thanksgiving holidays with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mat
thews.
Mrs. Hayden Horne and son,
“Dootie” of Fayetteville, spent the
past week with Mrs. Horne’s par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Cr1-. nwell.
Jack Fanney and James Fanney
spent Monday in Rocky Mount on
business.
Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Christensen
of Norfolk spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. J. W. Fanney.
Mrs. Julian Glover and son,
Earl, spent Thursday with Mr. and
Mrs. W. F. Mitchell in Henderson.
Mrs. Ruth Hopkins, Elizabeth
Neal and Misses Lillian Stansbury
and Louise Height spent Saturday
in Norfolk.
Miss Gertrude Horne of Rocky
Mount spent Thursday with Mr.
and Mrs. J. H. Crasiwell.
Julian Glover left Monday for
I Plymouth, N. C., where he will be
' connected with the Plymouth Pa
per Co.
Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Collier and
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Coburn spent
Thursday in Richmond.
Marvin D. Collier, Jr., of Wash
ington, D. C., spent Thanksgiving
with his parents.
Henry Fitts, student at U.N.C.,
spent Thanksgiving with his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fitts.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dickens
spent Tuesday in Rocky Mount on
business.
Mr. and Mrs. J ,F. Welch, Alien
and Elaine Welch spent Thanks
giving in Concord and Charlotte
with relatives.
Reece Welch spent Thursday in
Henderson with friends.
Stanford West of Raleigh spent
the week-end with his parents, Dr.
and Mrs. J. Frank West.
Messrs. Ardell Hopkins, Henry
Ferrell and “Buba” Gay spent the
week-end in Danville, Va. with
friends.
Mrs. Hubert Parrott spent the
week-end in Rocky Mount and
Wilson.
Mrs. J. A. Caudle of Concord ar
rived here Sunday to spend the
winter with her daughter, Mrs. J.
F. Welch.
Mrs. F. M. Clarke, Mrs. A. C.
Zollicoffer and Miss Elizabeth
Clarke spent Thursday in Rich
mond.
Miss Mamie Stansbury spent the
week-end in Littleton.
Mrs. Mildred Fulghum, Misses
Katherine Armstrong, Ann Carter,
Estelle Chappel spent Thursday in
Richmond.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Brown of Ply
mouth were week-end guests of
Mrs. P. L. Matthews.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Durant of
Wilson were guests of Mrs. T. B
McLendon Saturday.
Birthday Party
Miss Ida Shaw with her mother,
Mrs. Jack Shaw, gave her father,
Mr. Jack Shaw a surprise birthday
party Sunday, December 3, 1939.
He was 40 years old. Those enjoy
ing dinner were as follows: Mrs.
Alice Shaw, Mr. and Mrs. Waverly
Shaw, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Shaw, Mr.
and Mrs. Jack Shaw, Mr. and Mrs.
O. C. Jenkins, Mrs. Maggie Pepper,
Mrs. J. W. Rook, Mr. and Mrs. W.
L. Pair, Mr. and Mrs. Luther Shaw,
Mr. Abbey Rogers, Misses Florence,
Ruth, Irene Pair, Blanch Rook, Lu
cille and Ida Shaw, Annie Jenkins,
Messrs. J. C„ Marvin and Bill Pair,
Joe and Francis Pepper, Paul Wil
liams, Howard Owen Andleton,
Warwick Hockaday, and Milton
Wall. He received many beautiful
and useful gifts.
Miss Garner Hostess
Miss Mary Garner was hostess
Thursday evening, Nov. 30, to a
small party honoring Mrs. Jen
nings Knight, bride of the early
fall.
The living room and dining room
were effectively decorated with
chrysanthemums and other fall
flowers. The Thanksgiving thought
was carried out in a delicious plate
consisting of dainty sandwiches,
cakes, mints and hot chocolate.
Mrs. Knight was remembered
with many lovely and attractive
gifts from Mary Alice Merritt, Mar
garet Robinson, Mary Woodruff,
Agnes Merritt, Helen Robinson,
Beth Matthews, Maxine Mason,
Carlton Grissom, Byron Gurley,
Pete Garner, Clifton Boyd, John
Murray and Elizabeth Wilson of
Asheville, N. C.