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fIW^UROAY—MARCH 28, 1942 ChTVOBBSmMr MOUNT CLEMENS. MICH. Th# Womon In Tki Com MAKS ... *•AKY "'lt A * V Local Theatre Attractions i fAf a ML,VWMT 00 MOU WPBCt/) I it's OMJuliJttMato Muuriy ffihmT, aocuu. outcast/ H tfIR fIOMS "Shut My "THE FLEET'S IN" MBHF V /WDUND^iL^—J "Shut u||||iii|ji// JB'~i sounue wue / ’’Ttv-miwYti Big Mouth" Jo# X. Brown rtturns to tho Macomb Theatre screen next Tuesday in Columbia's "Shut My Big Mouth," a laugh-loaded comedy of the wide open faces. Hollywood *• ¦ / Hailed by as a rodeo *'> mL / / -, . flf of roars, in which the cave- r . mouthed comic appears as a fun- totin’ fool who licks a gun-tot- in’ band of range renegades, >«.. "Shut My Big Mouth” also serves • * • • k. to introduce one of the screen’s k* , y loveliest and most talented new- I K

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• * •• v . \ _ ;- **, Musical is held together by a *,, m f / breezy yarn about a book-loving sailor who is cast into the spot- light after his picture appears in the paper kissing a movie star. ¦PBT II Sailor was taken unawares but his reputation as Casancfta grows and the sailors bet he cannot kiss the Countess, singing star of a Frisco dance hall. Sailor ends up marrying the girl and his pals collect. The Countess is played by Miss fj I | Lamour who clicks big. Her vo- cals, especially, “When You Hear

get grav ' tat ors . TANARUS,. motheb4 j ,/ v co»» »ci»vct me t m tta u*- ? the Time Signal,” and “Not Mine,” are rendered in swell style. William Holden is good as Singer much and often, by her fam- "One day she iss a great vio- again, and this fellow the sailor who becomes the Casa- ily’* inferiority; by her linist; the next day she cannot got a gun and shot into the nova. mbxmBBSBhBBmhSBBBH sense of of gate." father telling her she must play! 1 do not understand!" gang—just outside his Brighter moments of the film •The two men talked, each "Any of them seriously supplied by Eddie work hard —harder—harder, or are Bracken, Th.? danger entailed in keeping supplies rolling over the will Kings Row say?” somewhat surprised after years hurt?” who scores in his comic role. "What the the topical passed the asylum once. of acquaintance at what he "He killed two of them, Dr. Film supplies a blonde bomb- famed Burma Road to Chinese armies furnishes I remember the barred win- found in the other. Herr Ber- Mitchell." shell of mirth in keynote to the new M-G-M drama, “A Yank on the Burma my dorff was a little, to Parris was favorably im- energy and talents as a a dows vividly. I asked distressed whose Road , opening next Friday at the Macomb Theatre for two crazy,” Herr Berdorff said. what the place way, and in Parris a strain of some- pressed with Mr. Whitehead. comedienne are virtually breath- the KINGS BOW TTBANNY father find intelli- day engagement. I .amine Day and Barry Nelson have lead- XXXI “Mr. Llchinsky pull* his hair, he it was there they ‘lock- thing that seemed at times not The young lawyer was taking. She’s solid in three spe- CHAPTER said ing roles in the adventure film, with Keye Luke, Sen Yung acutely surprised Vera says she cannot up crazy people who quite bitter, but perhaps verg- gent-looking, quick and sympa- cialty song numbers and looks Parris was Parris. ed ain't prominent actors lending to find an entirely new and play. Cannot playl” smart no more’. I decided then ing near it. Sometning a shade thetic. He seemed to understand like a good screen bet if she con- and Phillip Ahn amng the Chinese strange feeling about Kings Parris sat in the little living that I knew why my father disillusioned and doubtful. Benny’s case almost as well as tinues on the more subdued side. authenticity to the story. Bow. room above the Jewelry shop was so afraid I wouldn't be These darker tones in Parris Parris, although Parris review- for him the boy’s early per- What held him here? The where the Lichinskys had liv- ‘smart,’ and do well with my were deepened when Herr Ber- ed • hospital? Was it Drake and ed ever since Parris had first fiddle. Simple in a way, isn't dorff returned to Germany. His secutions by Fulmer Green’s opinion with, “It is our duty to what was happening. He had Bandy? Was it Dr. Nolan? Was known them. Vera's fine strong it?" little congregation did not want gang and others; Madame von hand this murderer over to the smiled and looked interested Busch Alumni It his memories of his grand- hands lay rather inertly in her "Ye-es. Childish fear. But him any longer. They wanted Eln’s employment of Benny; the arm of the law, and beyond that through the whole day, while mother, of Renee lap. It was to believe, as you learned soon enough what someone was less devoted Colonel’s interest in him. Ben- to trust in the mercy of the Lord Fulmer Green ranted, rabble- and Tom hard who for Carr, and Cassie, and of peo- she told him her story, that this ‘crazy’ meant. Wasn't the fear to music someone more of a ny had worked on Mrs. Jesus Christ.” roused, made jokes about the to Stage ple like Colonel Skeffington? poised, lovely young woman gone then?” pastor. Skeffington after the Colonel Parris arose and bowed slight- evidence, clowned, played for No: he was clearly convinced was the colorless little Vera "No, Parris. The things 1 Parris had begged him to died. ly. the death of a human being. Ful- again, Easter Party that It was no one of these who used to slump awkwardly feared are not in Kings Row, stay, to take the chair of Ger- The commission appointed to “You have helped this mer's gang behind him after- Randy. things, or even all of them. It along the street with her violin but here inside of my own man at Aberdeen. examine Benny Singer and pass to a helpless man over Parris told Drake and CENTER LINE Anticipat- his noon hand The pack— closing in the ing reception was something less easy of ac- case under her arm. head! I have broken a con- "Parri s!" Herr Berdorff’s on his responsibility for to legal murder. I seem to recall for last an enthusiastic of less tangible maybe, some- *T canceled my tours. I nection between my fingers voice was stern. "I am a preach- acts consisted, to Parris’ ex- judge in circum- time. this year’s Easter Party, the antagonis- that another thing that had to do with the couldn’t play," she said. "All at and some hidden source of mu- er. My real work that is for treme dismay, of an stances not entirely dissimilar “They’re wild animals who sponsoring Busch Alumni will early making of him which, as once I seemed to hear myself sic which was what had been God. I could not do something tic doctor, a pompous one, a first washed his hands. I doubt, have a thin coating of civil be- stage the big annual event in fasent sett, held him fast aa if—as if I had never heard called my talent. I cannot else—never.” substitute professor of psychol- Dr. Cole, that such a simple pro- havior,” he went on. “Drake, I the spacious clubrooms of the r They had stayed on, those myself before. 1 asked myself play.” Parris stood up. "I hav# to ogy, a law partner of Fulmer cedure would serve to cleanse hate their kind of tyranny—a ty- new Center Line U. S. O. Build- Wha were here before him. S question —and I couldn’t "Do you want to play?" go. I can’t talk now. I’ll cry Green, the new prosecuting at- your own.” ranny laid on the mind of man. ing, April 4. Berdorff, dangerous. Wtn lonely, perhaps answer it—and thee, I couldn't "Yes." Sh> spoke the word like—l'll see you tomorrow." torney, and the Reverend Mr. color faded partly from It s deeply Cole does The affair will be open to idyllic any had The religion and homesick at times for the play more." out of an immeasurable de- Parris hurried away. At the Cole, with whom Parris the minister's face. He half chok- it through cant. Ful- alumni, friends and the public, 0 stop- re- flpmany he remembered; Isaac "What was the question you spair. gate of the parsonage he had word* when he first his words as he faced mer Green docs it with demago- and will start around 8:30 p. SRefftagton, Kings ed over that talking of the civ- couldn't answer?" "It will come back. ‘You’ll ped and looked out across the turned to Row. Parris. gic methods are as old as the m. fUiSd charm of country life in "I— I simply asked myself rest, then begin again, lower part town where most world. Somebody has to stand have to of Parris, acting chairman, con- “Do you realize that you are An unusual and varied pro- his Virgin!*; own great- why played a passage just the quietly, simply, like a of the professor's people lived. with greatest up and call these things by their his I child." trolled himself the actually likening this idiot mur- gram has been scheduled by grandfathsr way did." "What I seem be "Fools, —thickhead— de- right names once In awhile.” Mitchell bred in I to most fools difficulty through the courtroom this ridicu- Bill Ladd, Alumni President *» exacting waited quietly. "And of, Parris, asylum derer to Christ in—in fastidious end life Parris afraid is the structive fools!” proceedings. The discussion was insulting comparison?” There was no saving Benny. and general chairman. Assist- family then?” Kings Row. I’ve taken • * • personal, vindictive, lous and Sam the gallows. iW#W*t tradition hese in unintelli- simple Winters built ing Ladd with prepa tions for hR them. They stayed on. "I tried to play again and it a street zo that Berdorff had been gone gent no “Dr. Cole, some of the Parris with Benny up to Margaret es room in Carrier Herr and stubborn. Parris had world—simple walkcl the lavish affair are bed time in wouldn’t go any way at 1 I can look right out on it all tw’o days and was burn- hope conciliating these inex- people of this but one balmy INI all. Parris of wisdom—al- them afternoon in Harris, in charge of favors. Ag- - Tragedy and dis- sounded suddenly like a child the time. I've got to stare it ing with a wearisome mixture plicably prejudiced men. Yet he deep and rich in early May. holding his arm fend Tieche, directing the decor- ways speak of the mentally de- nes aarly. He had —a beginner—no meaning.” down. I can’t let it get the of resentment and regret when elaborated his thesis of temp- talking quietly. ation motif, Joe and Mike Hu- as ‘God's children.’ You field of young Vera teemed to understand better of me, Parris!" Cary Whitehead called him. orary insanity, basing his argu- ficient Benny at dak and Gerald Benson, hand- • • • • man looked down the why it had ell happened. As e Whitehead, a lawyer with Col- ments on Benny’s life as he had may remember that the ling publicity Harry you use rather reck- grim of upturned faces. Fulmer and Don- Straightened but child she was a prodigy, play- Parris was disappointed in onel Skeffington* old firm, known it from the days in prim- whose name Wardlaw, William Muirhead, in K:iil lessly said: ‘ln as much as ye did Green was there edi- ovan and PMEltfaiMmr he knew ing wholly by intuition, but his efforts to aid Vera. Her had called at the suggestion of ary school. He argued hospital the A charge of tickets. it not to one of the least of these tor of Chronicle* small without real education. Later, family considered her trouble Mrs. Skeffington, who hoped and rehabilitation against prison crowd had gathered on the roof ye it not to me.” Remem- Tickets may be secured from Abroad, she tried to fill in her an "unwillingness to go on” he might be able to do some- or gallows. He reminded them of did of Hoxey’s feed store overlook- background ber?” any of the committee men with reading, the- and united against her in a kind thing for Benny Singer. society’s duty to the weak and ing the enclosure. A little of the named, suggest making to staring group who ater, exhibitions, things she of inquisitorial persecution. It "Doctor, he’s in serious trou- the deficient. He turned the bewildered look came back to early reservations to help the lemaed a greet artist long before Vera shut ble,” Whitehead aaid. "Seems They were tight-lipped, un- of men. “Good afternoon, gentle- should was not Benny's eyes and then he smiled committee - complete arrange- Mo. Tat these arts expressed up for good in the lit- that s gang of half-grown kids yielding. Dr. Cols, indignant and men. I trust that all of you may childish, welcoming hersalf sleep tonight.” —a almost ments. grief, pain, love, tie room on Carrier street. around Jink town. have been self-righteous, pivoted his Judg- be able to well smile. fMßeas ' explained nagging Paying jokes and on e chance to repay Par- Parris elbowed his way out of ssmw that she hid never ' Parris to Herr Ber- him. ment “Hello, everybody,” he said. 80 species of fish are BgkkMed. She bed only been dorff, who spread his hands the like for a long time. This ris for that old altercation. Dr. the crowded courtroom. About * Benny really realised (1b Be CsetbMi) able b gtvo sisstrli BssMm. os o little girl. with * gesture of incredulity. afternoon they were at it Cola finished his sxnrasslon of had not