Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume], July 05, 1945, SECTION B, Page 7, Image 19

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"THE AFFAIRS OF SUSAN,"
AT PEOPLES THREE DAYS
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, at
■the Peoples, “The Affairs of
Susan,” a sophisticated comedy,
that will provide grand entertain
ment and stars Joan Fontain,
George Brent, Dennis O’Keefe,
Don DeFore, Rita Johnson and a
cast of others.
This time Joan Fontaine is a
comedienne. She is also dressed in
the mode of the day and on her
it is be coming. Her affairs are
three, disallowing one husband
€ho is George Brent, and involve
on De Fore, Dennis O’Keefe and
Walter Abel, in the order named.
No. 3 thinks he is going to marry
her, but a—diences will be wiser.
As a successful actress, Miss Fon
taine is entitled to her whimsi
calities and her moods, but the
problem is Abel doesn’t know
what they are. Having met Brent,
De Fore and O’Keefe, he turns
most ungallant and pumps them on
the ground he intends to profit by
§heir errors. And so, they tell him.
Brent, stage producer, unfolds
the first episode, which returns
the sophisticated and glittering
Susan to the simple life of an is
land off Rhode Island. In flash
back, he narrates how he discover
ed her latent dramatic talent and
her devastating allegiance to the
truth regardless of storm or calm.
He marries her, makes her the
toast of Broadway, discovers when
^jher truthfulness precipitates the
jams which complete fidelity to
facts automatically suggest.
But Susan learns her lesson,
which, therefore, does not em
brace the truth or much of it,
and that is where DeFore, lum
berman turned Broadway angel,
enters. Third in due time is
O’Keefe, author whose pattern is
wolf but never husband. Susan
surmounts them all, including Abel,
jjand eventually returns to Brent.
By all odds, audiences will want
WAV.
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
and Saturday: In “Nob Hill,” 20th
Fox has added another to its im
posing list of sumptuous, eye-fill
ing technicolor musicals devised to
satisfy an audience.
Not the least of the picture’s
attractions is an abundance of
Jlmusic reflecting the lusty spirit
and gay abandon of the San
Francisco of the turn of the cen
tury. _
The yarn tells of the owner of
the Barbary Coast’s top gay spot
who momentarily forgets his af
fection for his star entertainer to
sample love with a Nob Hill beau
ty The guy coon finds himself be
yond his depth and returns to the
faithful gal of the Barbary Coast.
} George Raft and Vivian Blaine
are the Barbary Coast lovers, Joan
Bennett being the Nob Hill gal.
Peggy Ann Garner adds a touch
ing note as a homeless Irish lass
befriended by Raft and Miss
Blaine. Highly decorative as well
__ —that’s Miss Blaine.
Edwards Is Pfc.
Private Sidney C. Edwards of
, Roanoke Rapids, who is in the
Enlisted Detachment of the 1850th
Service Command Unit, Station
Complement, a unit of the Army
Service Forces at Camp Chaffee,
Ark., has been promoted to the
rank of private first class, ac
cording to the camp public rela
tions office. His sister, Helen Ed
wards, lives in Roanoke Rapids.
S/Sgt. and Mrs. Garland Lewis
and son, Randy, of Newport News,
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
H. E. Cameron and other relatives.
w—
PROGRAM FOR
NEXT WEEK AT
THE IMPERIAL
Sunday at the Imperial will be
a return picture, “Moon Over Bur
ma,” starring Dorothy Lamour and
Pnnofrvn TTofif n n
Monday and Tuesday: Fred Allen
and Jack Benny will play in “It’s
In the Bag." Especially for the le
gion of radio fans, "It’s in the
Bag” offers top-notch comedy en
tertainment, provided by Fred Al
len, Jack Benny, Jerry Colona
and Minerva Pious (Mrs. Nuss
baum), utilizing familiar material
with which they have become iden
tified on the airlanes. This merry
madcap farce, combining the popu
lar elements of mystery and ro
mance, is built around a slender
story frame which serves adequat
ely to keep the action rolling at a
fast and hilarious rlin *
To enhance the prestige of the
picture and to augment its box
office possibilities, William Bendix
with Don Ameche, Rudy Vallee
and Victor Moore are added as
part of a singing quartet with
Allen. The cast also includes Bin
nie Barnes, Robert Benchley, John
Carradine, William Terry and Sid
ney Toler in the main body of the
story, which is completely domi
nated by Allen. It all adds up to
a swell 87 minutes of rollicking,
mirth-provoking film fare.
Formality is dropped in the very
first frame when Allen appears
and proceeds to, upset the tradi
tional presentation of screen cred
its by pointing out that most of
the cast are relatives of the pro
ducer and could easily be dispen
sed with. The story offers Allen
as Fred Floogle, proprietor of a
flea circus, who learns through
newspapers that he has inherited
$12,000,000 from an eccentric grand
uncle who has met death sudden
ly under mysterious circumstan
ces. Without waiting to collect the
money, Allen, his wife. Miss Barn
es; his daughter, Gloria Pope, and
his son, Dickie Tyler, start to
splurge, only to discover that the
entire fortune has been dissipated
by his uncle’s crooked associates,
leaving but five antique chairs.
His widely-heralded ‘good fortune’
has provided Allen with unlimited
credit, however, and among other
things he is able to put Benchley,
a four-flushing insect extermina
tor, whose son is in love with
Allen’s daughter, in his place. Allen
is suspected of murdering his un
cle in the additional complications
which ensue, with the remainder
of the action dealing with the
search for the five chairs which
Allen’s young son has disposed of
through an auctioneer.
Establishing the footage is the
favorite Allen routine of going to
the movies where there are sup
posed to be plenty of seats inside;
the constantly emphasized Benny
parsimoniousness and Mrs. Nuss
baum’s quaint .. conversations.
Bendix’s role is that of a racketeer
with a mouse-like disposition. But
this is a Fred Allen film from
start to finish.
Wednesday: Gertrude Michael
and Charles Gordon will play in
“Three’s A Crowd.” Pamela Blake
as the beautiful and wealthy heir
ess who is suspected of the mur
der of one of her two suitors ac
quits herself only front the stand
point of appearance. She is not
yet quite ready for a heavy part
of this nature.
Three murders and the death of
the guilty party are painfully por
trayed before the happy couple is 1
exonerated. Gertrude Michael, '
Pamela’s sister-in-law and the
most innocent looking of them all, '
is the murderess.
Laurel and Hardy will play on
Thursday and Friday in "The Bull '
Fighters.” This is a tailored to '
measure Laurel and Hardy movie
with plenty of fun for the team’s
fans.
This time Mexico is the scene 1
of the Laurel-Hardy blunderings. <
They are private detectives from
the States in search of a lady
criminal. Laurel is inveigled by .
Richard Lane, manager of a
famous bull fighter, to take the \
place of his client who is late in
arriving from Spain. It must be
explained that the buii fighter and
Laurel are look-alike. The fun goes
into high gear when the real bull
fighter arrives sooner than ex
pected. The mistaken identity busi
ness is worked for all it is worth.
Saturday at the Imperial will be
Don "Red” Barry in “The Chicago
Kid.”
I
Poindexter
Discharged
S/Sgt. William D. Poindexter has
been honorably discharged from •
the army on the point system, 1
having a total of 137. He returned
to the states on June 17, after serv
ing in the European Theatre for
one and a half years. Poindexter
entered service in September, 1940,
as a member of the local National
Guard, and was later transferred
to the regular army, 30th Division,
105th Medical battalion. He re
ceived his basic training at Fort
Jackson, S. C., and in February,
1944, he was shipped overseas. He
has been awarded the Bronze Star,
the Good Conduct Medal, Pre
Pearl Harbor Medal, American De
fense ribbon, the ETO 5-Cam
paign-star ribbon, and a Presiden
tial Citation with an Oak Leaf
Cluster.
Sgt. Poindexter is the husband
of the former Arlene Cooper, and
he has two brothers and a sister
in service. They are S/Sgt. Rob
ert Poindexter who is in the army
and landed in the states last Sun
day after serving overseas duty;
S/Sgt. Albert Poindexter with the
Marine Oorps in the South Pacific,
and Pvt. Hilda Murphy who is at
the Foster General Hospital in
Jackson, Miss.
Dr. and Mrs. E. D. Harbour
have returned from Greensboro
after a few days visit on business.
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PEOPLES
X SUN. . MON. - TUES.
♦ Joan Fontaine - George Brent
I THE AFFAIRS OF SUSAN
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WED. . THI RS. - FRI. - SAT.
Joan Bennett - George Raft
NOB HILL
IMPEQfAC.
SUNDAY
Dorothy Lamour - Preston Foster
MOON OVER BURMA
MONDAY ■ TUESDAY
Fred Allen - Jack Benny
IT S IN THE BAG
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" WEDNESDAY
Gertrude Michael - Charles Gordon
THREE'S A CROWD
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i THURSDAY - FRIDAY S
Laurel and Hardy t
THE BULLFIGHTERS [
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SATURDAY Z
Don “Red” Barry - Z
THE CHICAGO KID |
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