Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume], October 29, 1942, SECTION B, Page 8, Image 16

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SONJA HENIE DOES’HULA'
ON ICE; IS STARRED WITH
JOHN PAYNE IN NEW FILM
After viewing “Iceland,” feature
attraction at the theatres here
next week which will be shown
Sunday at the Peoples then moves
uptown for a couple of days, you
may truly say that you have lived!
You will have seen Sonja Henie
do a “hula" on ice skates. Yes
sir, it’s a new and novel routine,
even for the versatile Miss Henie,
and she not only does a hula, but
a tango and a cute little Chinese
number all the while circling and
whirling in a spotlight with such
speed that it makes you dizzy.
To any marine who has ever been
to Iceland, the film will no doubt
prove to be a surprise, for the lo
cale is more like Hollywood —
loaded down with swank hotels,
festivals, carnivals, quaint people
in peasant costumes (to say noth
ing of Sammy Kaye) but after all
there are few locations cold
enough to allow Miss Henie to be
queen of an ice carnival. She has
already covered Switzerland and
the Scandinavian countries (before
the war) and every notable spot
on these United States where ice
carnivals come off. So, Iceland is
about the only spot left.
The story is too, too reminiscent.
The Marines land, John Payne
meets Miss Henie, five minutes
later they kiss, he tells her,
“There’s only one you.” Being
happy-go-lucky, Payne won’t pro
pose. Sonja wants him to because
she loves him, also because she’s
getting a heckling from her fam
ily. There’s a little custom that
forbids a younger daughter to
marry until the oldest has been
hoked. And Sonja’s little sister >s
all set with a rich fiance and
wants to get things going.
Well, Sonja wheedles and shows
her dimples, gives everybody the
merry runaround with little white
lies, confronts the camera every
reel or so with the blank confused
look that means she'll have to
make up another story. Toward
the end she and Payne have ban
died the subject of marriage about
to such an extend that you don’t
care whether they get hitched or
not.
Meanwhile, Jack Oakie is funny
- —- —I
exactly as he is always funny, and
inevitably takes tumbles on the
ice while learning to skate. Felix
Bressart, a fine character actor,
parodies himself and the whole
situation as Sonja’s papa.
******
We haven’t seen any nasty gang
sters in the movies in quite some
time now, but there are a couple
of mean ones in “The Glass Key,”
which comes to the Peoples for
their Monday-Tuesday attraction
next week.
This big hunk of oneriness por
trayed by William Bendix gives
Alan Ladd as tasty a beating as
anyone ever got on or off the
screen. If Ladd hadn’t bounced
through a window and down to
the roof of a shed below, he would
not have had enough breath left
in him to move a toy windmill.
Ladd takes his thrashing be
cause of his loyalty to Brian Don
levy, big political boss. The cops
are trying to pin a murder charge
on Donlevy and Ladd is certain
his pal is innocent.
Because of love for Veronica
Lake, the daughter of a tycoon,
Donlevy decides to support her
father for the governorship on a
reform ticket. Donlevy is some
thing of a crook and a gambler
himself, so when he decides to go
in for some uplift, some shady
characters get quite peeved. It
isn’t long before most everybody
is trying to head Donlevy in the
general direction of the electric
chair. How the circumstances are
worked out will prove to be a
very satisfactory evening’s enter
tainment, we believe. At any rate,
“The Glass Key” is a lusty “who
dunit” with a swell cast.
If you have been looking for a
film without even a hint of war
in it, “Seven Sweethearts” which
comes to the Peoples for their
Wednesday-Thursday program next
week is your dish.
It’s “tulip time” in a little Dutch
American community in Michigan
and a newspaper reporter arrives
to write about the celebratory
festival. The hotel is run by a
man who has seven daughters. He
had always wanted sons — but,
well, there are the girls, and hus
bands have got to be found for
them. It is a custom among the
Dutch for the younger girls to
wait until the eldest has been
married before they grab them
selves a man. So, the youngsters
are mighty happy when they
think the reporter, Van Heflin, is
sweet on Marsha Hunt, the oldest
daughter. Then we come to find
it is sweet Kathryn Grayson (the
youngest) who has taken his
tough heart into her gentle hands.
All of which is told in a charm
ing, gracious manner with the
story stopping long enough for
Miss Grayson to sing three fetch
ing tunes. Van Heflin is splendid
as the reporter, so is Miss Grayson
as Billie and there is jimdandy
make-believe turned in by S. Z.
Sakall, a most excellent actor;
Marsha Hunt, Isobel Elsom and
Donald Meek.
******
Julie Bishop and Richard Travis
are co-starred in the new film,
“Buses Roar” for the Friday-only
feature on next week’s Peoples
program. Roy Rogers appears in
“Sunset Serenade” for the Satur
day film.
ATTEND ZONE MEET
Among those from here who at
tended the Northampton County
Zone meeting at Concord on
Thursday were: Mrs. R. D. Taylor,
Mrs. H. D .Taylor, Mrs. J. J.
Taylor, Miss Annie Taylor, Mrs.
G. W. Kee, Mrs. M. B. Stephenson,
and Mrs. T. J. Kee.
Governor Asks
School Change
Raleigh, October 29 — Governor
Broughton has issued a statement
strongly supporting a proposed
constitutional amendment to uni
fy administration of public schools
under a new State Board of Edu
cation.
The Governor said the amend
ment was designed to remedy “a
condition of admitted confusion
and overlapping in the adminis
tration of our public schools."
The amendment, which will be
ratified or rejected by voters in
the general election Nov. 3, would
set up a new State Board of Edu
cation to replace five boards and
commissions which now adminis
ter various phases of public school
activitv.
“There is nothing partisan or
political in this proposed amend
ment,” the Governor said, pointing
out that “It has received the pub
lic and emphatic endorsement of
a very large number of public
leaders, Democrats and Republican
alike.
The Governor recognized a grow
ing cloud of opposition to the pro
posed amendment by saying:
“A number of our outstandingly
able and public spirited citizens,
including some in the field of edu
cation, have expressed sharp oppo
sition to the proposed amendment.
Their views are entitled to great
respect, and it is fortunate for the
state in matters of this sort that
there should be the fullest dis
cussion.”
Objections Made
Broughton said that these op
ponents usually objected to two
features of the proposed amend
ment: Provision that the state
superintendent should continue to
be an elective official instead of
providing that he be appointed by
the board, and a provision that a
majority of the members of the
new board of education “shall be
persons of training and experience
in business and finance.”
The proposal that the state su
perintendent should be appointive
instead of elective “Would seem
to be out of harmony with the
Democratic trend of the times and
it is doubted if the people of the
state will ever surrender the right
to elect the state superintendent of
public instruction.”
In connection with the second
objection, Broughton pointed out
that “This board will have the
administration even under present
conditions of more than $30,000,
000.00 a year,” and he asked:
“Is it unwise to require that
this amount of the taxpayers’ mon
ey should be handled by men of
business experience such as mer
chants, bankers, manufacturers,
farmers and others trained in bus
iness?”
BIRTHDAY PARTY
Mesdames Marvin and Otis
Pearson were hostesses at a sur
prise birthday party in honor of
Mrs. J. E. Pearson’s birthday Fri
day evening, October 10th, at the
home of Mrs. Otis Pearson. Bingo
and other games were enjoyed af
ter which the hostesses served a
salad plate with coffee. Mrs.
Pearson was then presented with
many lovely and useful gifts.
Guests included: Mesdames Rob
ert Lee Powell, A. M. Powell,
C. W. Cooke, Wesley Fulghum,
A. L. Garner, T. H. Cooke, Nolie
Fulghum, Dora Hawkins, Pat
King, W. S. Jenkins, J. M. Gar
riss, Leonard Allen, Edward Allen,
Johnnie Morrison, Sam Powell,
Florence Robinson, Raymond Gar
ner, Lillian Smallwood, William
Hazelwood, Alice Windbury, Min
nie Medlin, Mr. and Mrs. Elvyn
Garner, Rev. and Mrs. W. F.
Walters, Claude Garner, Sidney
Hawkins, Marvin and Otis Pear
son, Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Pear
son, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Garner,
Mr. and Mrs. Waverly Pearson,
Misses Eva Mae Powell, Helen
Jenkins, Alice and Florine Pear
son.
THE
ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C.
DIAL R-394
PROGRAM WEEK OF
NOVEMBER 1. 1942
SUN.
Frances Langford - Ken Murray
SWING IT, SOLDIER
MON.-TUES.
The Dead End Kids
TOUGH AS THEY
COME
WED.-THURS.
Maureen O’Hara - John Payne
TO THE SHORES OF
TRIPOLI
t frl-satT*
Johnny Mack Brown
FIGHTING BILL
FARGO
Added: Perils of the Royal
Mounted
SUNDAY
Sonja Henie John Payne
ICELAND
t -
MON DAY-TUESDAY
| Brian Donlevy Veronica Lake
j THE GLASS KEY
WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY
Kathryn Grayson Van Heflin
SEVEN SWEETHEARTS
j FRIDAY
Julie Bishop Richard Travis
BUSSES ROAR
SATURDAY
Rov Rogers ....
SUNSET SERENADE
*■
ADDED: Jr. G. Men of the Air
*
SUNDAY
Madeleine Carroll Stirling Hayden
BAHAMA PASSAGE
MONDAY-TUESDAY
Sonja Henie John Payne
ICELAND
WEDNESDAY
Julie Bishop Michael Ames
I WAS FRAMED
TEURSDAY-FRIDAY
Laurel and Hardy
A-HAUNTING WE WILL GO
SATURDAY
Gene Autry
COWBOY SERENADE
Added: GANG BUSTERS