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lovely Wanda Mckay, Frank Jenks and Rick Vallin.
 On the same program is another smash hit, Song of Texas starring your western favorite, singing cow boy Roy Rogers with Smiley Bur nette. Bob Nolan and the Sons of the Pioneers, Shelia Ryan and others.
 Tonight the Strand brings to a close the engagement of the Dead End Kids and the Little Tough Guys in Keep Elm Slugging' and the full-length March of Time feat ure, We Are The Marines
 Bring the entire family down to the Strand and join in the hilarious Hullabaloo Frolic presented on our stage every Monday evening.
 7e"ul leogar
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Up And Down Broadway
BY JACK GAVER United Press Drama Editor

of the fabulous figures show busi " circulation continuing the latter phase of his which
 with pay and asey undaped girls Sor ,i,n . G -
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dove dancer, still depends on her the altogether. There are other acts galore.
 The war and it's attendant ra- tioning don't faze Fischer. People have money to spend on entertain ment and, although the Follies Der gore represents heavy investment, he thinks he has what it takes to turn a handsome profit.
 THEM as has, gets. Rudy Vallee,
 ! for example. The tremendous current popularity of the song, "As Time Goes By. as result of the in clusion of this 12-year-old number from an unsuccessful musical con- edy in the film "CaSablanca" is bringing Vallee an unexpected in- come from royalties of recording birds to keep her from appearing in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-11
FIRST CARPET SWEEPER

First practical carpet sweeper is said to have ben invented by Mel vile R. Bissell, Grand Rapids, Mich in 1876.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-11
ROMANCE RUMORS

Those nightly telephone calls be- tween Bette Davis and Arthur Farnsworth belle the divorce ru- mors. Perc Westmore is cele- brating his 20th year as a Hollywood makeup man. But he's never been able to make up with his four eX- wives. .. Surely Cesar Romero's in terest in Arthur Murray dancer Irene Conway can't be for rhumba lessons in which he eXcels. .. Little Heather Angel will be the first act ress to shoot down Jap plane with an anti-aircraft gun on the screen
 It happens in the film version of "Cry Havoc" Just try to walk gracefully in a 1814-style hobble skirt, says Irene Dunne, who's wear ing che in White Cliffs of Dover Her steps can't be over five inches long if she wants to look graceful.
 Typically Hollywood: Brazil born Carmen Miranda speaking English and New York born Alice Faye speaking Spanish for scenes in "The Girls He Left Behind" ..
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-11
ALAN LADD TOPS
 IN FILM, 'CHINA'
Screens Tough Guy in War Romance at State
 Theater

Alan Ladd, acclaimed the smoo- thest tough guy in the movie busi- ness, adds new laurels to his fame in the spectacular war romance China" currently at Warmers State theater.
 Ladd's co-star is the lovely Lor- etta Young and the main support ing player is William Bendix, who jumped to fame as a brawny, love- able Marine in Wake Island.
 Hailed as Cne of the most thrill ing war films yet to come out of Hollywood. China" is essentially a powerful love story against a back ground of battle and high adventure in the war torn Orient.
 Ladd and Bendix are cast as American oil men thrown by cir cumstance into the heroic struggle of the Chinese people against the Jap invader. Miss Young, an Amer ican teacher, enlists their aid in evacuating Chinese girl students to safety ip the face of Japanese ad- vance. There's plenty of excitement | and suspense in that situation with Ladd turning in the greatest per formance of his career.
 Salute for Three" a melodious romantic comedy, is the second hit of the current program and stars Betty Rhodes and Macdonald Carey with such favorites as Mary May, Cliff Edwards, Lorraine and Rognan and Dona Drake and her Girl Band
 Topping the new show coming Wednesday to the State in Hunt Stromberg's Lady of Burlesque' which stars Barbara Stanwych and introduces a talented and handsome newcomer in Michael O'Shea.
 Loaded with action, suspense, beautiful show girls, smart songs gay, fast-moving dialogue and a thrilling chilling mystery Lady of Burlesque" was adapted from Gypsy Rose Lees best seller exposing back stage burlesque life, e. String Mur- derS."
 Enchanting the story is a smart entertainment program studded with gorgeous chorines who present a stunning girly-girly burlesque show in gay song and dance.
 Prelude to War, a full-length feature released through the Office of War Information, will be the sec ond hit of Wednesdays new show The film was produced by the Spec ial Service Division, Army Service Forces, War Department, in CO., operation with the U. s. Army Sig nal Corps. It has been an essential
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 Clifford c. Fischer is the volatile gent in question and his current enterprise is the Follies Bergere, night club set down in the ballroom of the Hotel Edison. One of the handsomeSt clubs in town, too, and the show offers your moneys worth of vaudeville turns and beautiful chorineS in costume created by LadiSlas Czettel that will make your eyes pop.
 This Fischer, who was born in Belgium. son of German father and English mother, seems to make a speciality of popping up on the American scene and creating a big success and then disappearing for a period during which you gradU- ally forget he ever was around. Then he comes back and it is as if he never had been away
 Fischer, now 60, first appeared here about 43 years ago when he brought over from Europe an act consisting of woman, her horse and three dogs. He quickly branched out in the vaudeville tal- ent business and became big 1ig- ure 'n the importation of European acts He sponsored American ap- pearanceS of Sarah Bernhard and Harry Lauder, among many others. Ee had falling out with the Vau deville powers before the first world war, which queered his pitch for a lime, then he was tied up with cab aret opera tionS. and wound up by leaving the country fiat for the friendlier streets of Paris where he was an aSSiduous booker Of Amer ican talent and made a reputation with the famous Cafe deS Ambas- sadeurs club, It was 1894 before he get back into operation on this side, first in Chicago with thea ter-reStaurant during the last year of the fair there, and then in New York. where he tcol: over the Earl Carroll theater and made 1t into the French Casino. a place which those who like big cabarets still re- member fondly. Fischer and hls packers established similar casinos ill Chicago, Miami and London and the shows mace the circuit. After aoout four years ot this Fischer again faded from the local scene and this is the first time he has cut q figure here in five years.
 And his current establishment enables him to cut quite a figure. lie still has his flair for putting on cyc-catching show numbers that do not interfere too much with the attendant eating, drinking and talking. Paul Gerrits. who gradu- ated from a vaudeville rollers -Skat- ing turn to master of -ceremonying, i5 on hand to introduce the acts. 1mogene Coca does some of her sa- tric songs, and Rosita Royce, the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-11
ROLES REALLY MIXED

How's this for a miX-up i'll roles? In White Cliffs of Dover, Irene Dunne plays both mother and sweet heart to Alan Marshal. The love story tells of an American girl who goes to England for short tour only to remain for her entire life. It opens in 1914 with Miss Dunne and Marshal the sWeetheartS of the piece Twenty five years later, Mar Shal is Miss Dunne's son!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-11
FIRST SILK MILL

First successful silk mill in the United States was founded by the Cheney brothers, in South Man chester, Conn, in January, 1938
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-11

he made of the song when it first came out The ban on new record ings by the musicians union finds the Vallee record and one made by Jacques Renard the only ones available to meet the heavy de- mand
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-11

part of the basic training of all service men.
 Other attractions coming soon to the State include Action in the North Atlantic with Humphrey Bo- gart and Raymond Massey; a Five Graves to Cairo" with Franchot Tone and Anne Baxter; Back ground to Danger, with George Raft and Brenda Marshall; and among others "Bombardier" with Pat O'Brien, Randolph Scott and Anne Shirley
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WHAT happens when couple of
 W night club operators get to- gether besides a comparison of the previous nights crosses? Well, if they happen to be Lou Walters of The Latin Quarter and Monte Pro- ser of Copacabana they are apt to cook up a show production deal, which is what these two floor show impresarious have done. Walters has acquired the famous musical revue title, Artists and Models v and, which Proser as partner, is going to offer a revue on Broadway come Autumn Maybe with Joe E.. Lewis as the star.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-11
VETERAN PISTOL

As the cowboy from Texas hero Of Warner Bros Saratoga Trunk, Gary Cooper carries the frontier six shooter that has been his favorite since he used it to kill Trampas in his early success, "The Vir- ginian."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-11
Hollywood Gossip

Spike Jones will use a new type ot daffy musical instrument called the "Busterphone" for his sequence in Metros Meet the People" It was whipped up by Buster Keaton and consists of mallets and bells.
 SEEN ON THE SETS
 Camera characteristics observed on the set of "The Mad Ghoul' at Universal: Evelyn Ankers, playing a cafe scene in whic hshe is seated at a table dressed to kill" isn't wear ing any shoes. They hurt, so she kicked them off, but you'll never know it when you see the picture.
 Director James Hogan, starting every scene, bellows "CameraWh" loud enough to be heard out in tho street At the finish of every scene he likes, he roars, "Ill buy that one" Upon completion of parti- cularly good scene. he says, Any body who wouldn't but that scene doesn't know home cooking when he sees it.
 SUNSHINE OR FREE NEWS . An afternoon newspaper in St. Petersburg, Fla, is free every day on which the sun does not show itself before the paper goes to press.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-09
MARICNY WITNESS
STRIKES A SNAC
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PLANTATION. II was very nervous
then
Adderley, pointing out that every
page was signed by de Visdelou
read another passage:
"While at Westbourne July II
de Marigny reminded me he had
called to me about the cat. l didn't
recollect this until he reminded
me. l don't remember whether
de Marigny called me from the
bedroom or not. There was some.
thing about a cat"
Chief Justice Sir Oscar Bedford
DAILY grew impatient when de Wis
delou swore that his police state.
ment about his early life was cor
rect
How can you go through all
that about Paris and London" he
demanded, "but become vague on
happenings only a couple of days
old?
II now give you an opportunity
to explain how your memory be-
came vague on the happenings OF
July 81
81 cannot explain, your honor, :"
said the flustered witness.
Chief Defense Attorney Godfrey
Higgs came to his aid by reading
a paragraph from the police state
ment which Adderley had not
quoted:
"About 100 de Marigny came
upstairs and asked if he could take
my girl friend home"
did you say that?" the chief
justice asked.
eyes, I said that" came the
reply.
Higgs interposed question:
THE only statement you don't rec
ollect is that of the cat?''
Eyes, about the cat" said de
Visdelou.
'You are not saying this just to
support the case of the accused?"
asked the chief justice.
mo, your honor" the witness
declared.
Next on the witness stand, Capt.
Maurice B. O'Neil of the New Or
leans police declared:
II can say positively Exhibit J
did not come from that screen. "
Thus he took issue squarely with
Capt James O. Barker of the Mi
ami police who testified that the
fingerprint in evidence-Exhibit J
was lifted. from the bedScreen.
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L0ND0N'S RESCUE
SQUADS T0lLINC
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and injured into the roads. Two
British and one Belgian soldier
died before they could be moved
to hospital.
At several hospitals, til sur
geons operated all night and the
day nursing stats came back to
work an extra shift.
The dancehal band was playing
white Christmas 'when a bomb
struck it.
In the milk bar downstairs, re-
counted one of three girls who
were perhaps the only ones in it
to escape, There were about 80
people and most of them were near
the ounter.
1--WE had just got inside the bar
when it collapsed about us. The
only thing left standing seemed to
be the doorway and we dive
through it We fell into the road
en- our faces"
Only half a dozen German planes
crossed the coast last night and
but one got through to London. II
probably was one of the Germans
40O-mph fighter-bombers, ME10s.
Unlike the Catford school trag
edy when the planes hit before the
sirens walled, there was no sug
gestion of insufficient warning last
night. But the dancehall band KEEP
playing and the crowd, accustomed
to raids, kept on dancing.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-09
AUiedAm1iesHanm
T0ward The Eternal CITY

mapping by the great fleets which
steamed into the Mediterranean
a year ago today and seized jump
ing off places for the present cam
paign.
The rush to dismautle Gaeta har-
Dor was viewed here as sign
of the enemy's extreme lack OF
confidence in his ability to hold
back the Allied tide. Perched near
the end of a promontory forming
the gulf of the same name, Geata
scarcely is nearer Rome than the
Fifth Army's present front line
near the mouth of the Garigliano
river, but its harbor is of inn
mense strategic value. With the fall
of Geata the battle would carry
quickly into the Pontine marshes,
which have been flooded by the
Nazis.
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HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS
TO AID BUSINESSMEN
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season are working smoothly, anc
the money solicited from the mer-
chants will be used for radio and
newspaper publicity to encourage
early shopping, and for supplies
to be used at the two free mailing
centers.
One mailing center will be To-
Gated in the Chamber of Com
merce office as it was last year,
and the other will be more cen
trail location. At these places
packages will be wrapped, free
of charge, for anyone desiring to
mail them, and a regular post Of
flee clerk will be on hand to
weigh the packages and accept
them. There will be no gift wrap
ping. These wrapping centers will
be open 80 minutes after the clos
ing of the stores which have de-
cided to close at Z pm. each night
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REDS NEARING
POLISH BORDER
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Nazi Army was fighting bitter de-
fensive battles against superior
forces"
The special Russian announce.
ment giving details of the battles
for Kiev said IL German divisions,
two of them tank divisions and one
motorized, were routed.
In addition to the 21,2O0 troops
lost by the Germans, Moscow gave
this toll of enemy equipment:
Destroyed-244 German tanks, 126
aircraft, 174 field guns, including
4e self-propelled guns, 1873 mortars,
246 machine-guns and 2S stores OF
various kinds.
Captured - thirty German air
craft, AZ tanks, 314 field guns, in
GLIDING 70 mobile guns; 140 NOR
tars; $40 machine-guns, $50 trucks
700 carts; over 1000 horses, "a
munition dumps, and Is radio
transmitters.
1A1CV, ilOWNVCA, OllSC l1lC IllOo
beautiful city in Russia, is now a
scene of devastation, the news
paper Pravda said.
While the Red army refrained
from firing a single shell or drop
ping a single bomb on the city in
the hope of sparing it, Pravda said
the Germans Systematically de-
stroyed it, beginning their demoli-
tion with the wrecking of Kresh-
chatiki-the city's boulevard re-
garded as a symbol of modernity
The enemy also blew up the IA
nous Uspensk cathedral, and the
Fechora monastery after looting
them of all gold, pictures, precious
robes, and other fixtures. The wa
ter and utility systems also were
blasted.
The Soviet communique did not
mention the progress of the cam
|paign inside the Dnieper bend near
Krivoi Rog or along the lower
stretches of the river at Nikopol,
Berislav and Kherson, where units
of Gen. Fedor Tolbukhin's Fourth
Ukraine army have reached the
river opposite those cities.
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Montgomerys crushing drive, is
the Adriatic terminus of the most
valuable lateral road in central
italy - the main highway cross
ing the peninsula through Avezza-
no to Rome. The Germans were
launching repeated tank attacks in
unavailing efforts to halt this SER
ious "back door" threat to the
eternal city.
Scarcely less serious from the
enemy standpoint was the seizure
by General Clark's Americans of
drive opened the way for thrust
heights around Mignano. This
behind the Aurunci mountains and
up a broad valley to Cossino along
the Via Casilina, main inland
route to Rome. Some German
units fighting in this sector were
reported here to be veterans of
the Russian front.
There was much evidence that
he Nazls were caught off balance
~ the weight of the new Allied Of
.enSive, Just as thew were caught
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-09
CHEST WILL HELP
. FRENCH WAR FUND
Relief Organization One OF
Campaigns Recip-
tents

Contributions to Wilmington
and New Hanover county's com
munity War Chest Campaign Will
cover a federation of agencies
stretching around the world. TWen-
ty-seven agencies are included IN
this campaign which is in its pre-
lirninary stages in Wilmington ana
New Hanover county. One OF these
agencies is the French Rele1
Fund, Inc.
France must maintain her place
among the great nations OF the
world. A civilization to which the
French people make no contrlou-
ton would not be a civilization.
But to this end America must 90
her share. In order that the max
imum aid of the American people
may be enlisted for their age-olo
friend and present ally, the French
Relief Fund, Inc, has been form
ed by two American agencies now
engaged in French relief work =
the Coordinating Council OF
French Relief Societies, Inc, and
the Fighting French Relief Com
mittee, Inc. Monies contributed tot
the French Relief Fund. Inc, will
be employed in the following ac-
tivities carried on by the two
component agencies in the inter-
est of the French people:
Packing and shipping food par
cells and cases of clothing under
the auspices and supervision of the
American and International Red
Cross organizations for the use of
Frenchmen who have been sub
jected to the moral and physical
hardships of German imprison-
ment since June, 1910.
Making clothing, and contribut-
ing to feeding and general welfare
programs for French child vic
Tins of the war who have been
fortunate enough to find refuge
outside continental France. The
Establishment of clinics for mo-
Tiers and children in North Afri-
ca.
The aim of all concerned is to
aid to the utmost Frances fight
ing forces, her prisoners. and her
civilian populations in the strug-
gle for liberation and in the pres
ervation of her people, her homes.
and her influence for the future
benefit of Europe, the United
States, and the world at large.
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NELSON SAYS REDS
WILL REPAY DEBTS
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of Russit is assured beyond ques-
ton. Because the Russians are
confident of a peaceful future, he
said they are putting incredible
effort into the cause of complete
victory in this war.
JOSEPH E. Davis, former ambas-
sador to Moscow, spoke on the
same program, saying:
"Truth ultimately always pre-
walls. Respite either the prejudice,
the hatred, or the venality of will
full or little men, who challenged
it, the good faith and the integrity
and purpose of the Soviet leader
ship and the Soviet people have
been demonstrated for years and
are now again being irrefutably
established in Moscow"
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REYNOLDS REFUSES
TO RUN FOR 1914
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there after, continue to champion
those principles which I have felt
were to the best interests of my
state and my country"
Reynolds, now SO, was born in
Asheville June 10, 1884 and still
makes his home there. He was
educated in public schools in Ashe-
vile and attended college at the
University of North Carolina. Be-
fore his election to the Senate
in November, 1882, for a short
term, he served as prosecuting
attorney for the Fifteenth Judi
cial District of North Carolina and
was prominent in Democratic
circles throughout the state.
He is now serving as a men,
Der of the District of Columbia,
Foreign Relations and Territorial
and Insular Affairs committees in
the Senate, as well as holding the
important post of chairman of the
Military Affairs committee.
Prior to Pearl Harbor, Reynolds
published the American Vindica-
tor" a periodical which vigorous
ly opposed our entrance into the
war. Classed as an 'isolatiopist,"
he was one of the five senators
who recently voted against the
Connally resolution pledging this
country to international coopers-
ton after the war.
An amendment to that resolu-
ton. which he introduced, asking
that the country pledge itself to
freedom of all conquered countries
including Estonia. Latvia, Lithua-
MIA and Poland-all of which Rus
STA has eyed with view toward
annexation-was defeated without
record vote in the Senate.
1t was learned from a usually
reliable source in Washington that
the senator is considering the es-
tablishment of a law practice is
Washington after the expiration
of his present term.
He went into office in 1912 after
receiving the largest majority
ever given a candidate for a ma
jor office in Democratic pri-
mary in North Carolina.
His retirement is expected to
throw the eastern senatorial race
wide open," probably giving
definite edge to former Governor
Clyde Hoey, who already has an
nounced that he will seek the
office.
The only other announced can
didate is state Rep. Marvin Ritch
of Charlotte.
Others who have been mention
ed as candidates are Maj. L. P.
McLendon of Greensboro, former
CONGRESSMAN William B. Umstead
of Durham and U. S. Rep. Gamer
on Morrison of Charlotte
Morrison announced recently
that he would not run again for
representative, saying at the time
that his friends had urged him
to seek the senatorial post held
by Reynolds but that he had not
made decision on that point.
Incidentally, it was Morrison
whom Reynolds defeated-2Oo.2o1
to ITO, s3o-in the 1882 Democratic
primary. Reynolds toured the state
in s'tin lizzie" to beat the man
who had served as governor, l92l-
Is. and u. S. Senator. 1881.
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REVIVAL CONTINUES

The revival services are be-
ing continued throughout the
week at the Sixth street Advent
Christian church with the Rev.
w. F. Jamison as the evange-
list. Reverend J. F. Warren
will be the speaker Tuesday
NIGHT at 7:45 in the absence OF
the evangelist. The public IS
cordially invited to atteno
these services.
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December II through Daco.,

December II through Decemb..
"a. '''9
A weekend holiday will BE- =,
served December IS and 2s ~,
stores will reopen the Follows V
Monday. The post office urr.'
people to mail packages befor.
December 10, and the mercba0t'
join in this warning. N'''N's
-V-
sheep have been known to A.
!st for weeks even though bn, tA,
in snow drifts. "1I4ed
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-09

An entomologist caught 80 va
rieties of insects atop the Empire
State building in New York city,
1900 feet up,
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