NEXT WEEK AT ROANOKE RAPIDS THEATRES

Lewis week-end with Mrs. Willie Ed- Mrs. H. D. Myrick Sunday. doo, George Cullom, Howard, Stone, Mickey Rooney And wards at Black Ridge, Va. John Moore the week-end Russell Lee Dick- ****** *#****** spent Fletcher, Teddie, Miss Irene Turner spent Friday here in the home of Mrs. J. F. ens, Raymond Butts, Eunice Green, in Richmond, Va. as the guest of Jones. Greeley Bryant, Forest Porter, Mr. LOCAL Mrs. W. E. Bowles. Miss Ellis Ballance of Roanoke and Mrs. J. A. Pittard, Lucy Dick- NEWS REEL Miss Mary Griffin of Wilson Rapids spent the week-end with ens. ******>****** spent several days in the home of Miss Rachel Myrick. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Pittard and Mrs. At Nettie Morris. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Etheridge and son, Donald, J. D. Pittard motored Imperial Monday and Tuesday Mr. and Mrs. Garland Hart of family of Roanoke Rapids were vis- to Goldsboro Sunday. F---- Emporia, Va. visited Mr. and Mrs. itors of Mrs. Frank King Sunday. Misses Sadie Shaw, Annie Mae “Judge Hardy’s Children,” with G. R. Jones Sunday. E. S. Jenkins of Va. Franklin, Faucette visited Margaret and Lewis Stone, Ce- the Mickey Rooney, spent week-end at his home Grace Pittard Sunday afternoon. cilia Parker, and the rest of the here. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Morris and Judge Hardy Family, comes to the H. S. Harper of Greenville spent daughter of near Halifax visited Imperial theatre Monday-Tuesday, the week-end with his family here. Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Hawkins Sun- as the sequel to “You’re Only [town day. Young Once,” and third of the se- • Arthur Hawkins of Roanoke ries. In the new picture Stone and TALK Calvary-Thelma ... * * Rap- ids visited Mrs. V. T. Hawkins dur- his family visit Washington, D. C. I ing the week-end. for amusing adventures amid lob- Miss Virginia Wilson of Rich- byists and in high Hubert Hawkins visited his aunt, society. Va. with mond, spent Sunday her Hawkins Mrs. B. S'. Hawkins, of Roanoke Mickey Rooney as the son Miss Chapel young parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. O. Wil- Katherine Mitchell of Roa- Rapids, flirts with a Tuesday. girl from the French son. noke Rapids was at her home here Mrs. Z. C. Hawkins and legation, Cecilia as the daughter George Nethercutt, Gene Shell of Sunday night. family were visitors in goes to gay parties with a State Littleton Wednes- Chapel Hill spent the week-end in Misses Virginia King, Mamie and Department Rev. Leo Pittard left day night. employee, lobbyists try town. Dorothy Jenkins and Charles Sil- Tuesday to use her as a “leak” on her fa- for Greensboro after spending a Mesdames Harvey Hazelwood, L. lery spent Friday afternoon in ther’s decisions, but the wise old few days with his parents, Mr. and Robertson spent Monday in Rich- Henderson. outwits Mrs. J. D. Pittard. NEW BODIES FOR OLD— judge nimbly them, daugh- Va. mond, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Myrick and Science’s ter learns about men and returns Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Hawkins were growing hope! Latest Mrs. Harry Clark is spending a son of Gatesville spent the week- to her real sweetheart and again the dinner guests of Mrs. Z. C. astonishing progress toward few days in Petersburg, Va. end with Mrs. G. H. Myrick. all is tranquil in the family. A- Hawkins and family Sunday. giving eyes that can see to the Misses Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood new mong the comedy highlights are Dorothy Johnson, Arleen Jenkins Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Hawkins and blind, legs and arms for Batton in and of Weldon were visitors lost new Mickey’s first tuxedo and his dis- spent Saturday Norfolk, family son, Leonard, visited in the home ones, healthy organs Va. of N. R. Jenkins for missal from dancing school for Sunday. of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Pittard Sat- those that have become teaching Jacqueline Laurent “The Irvin Dickens, Dave Fuller of Mrs. Millard Harrison of Roanoke urday night. worn out—and, maybe, even Wake Forest the week-end a few fresh young bodies for our old Big Apple.” spent Rapids spent days with her Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Hux of Roa- in father here last week. heads. A double page illustrated Miss Laurent, recently signed in town. noke Rapids, Mrs. Zonnie Dickens Miss Irene has returned article in The American Week- Paris, makes her screen debut as Taylor Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Mitchell and and Mr. Early Dickens visited Mr. from a visit to her ly, with Sunday’s WASHING- does Robert Whitney from tne N»w grandmother, family were visitors of Mrs. W. T. and Mrs. J. A. Pittard Tuesday TON HERALD-TIMES. York stage, playing Miss Parker’s Mrs .Joe Cannon, at La Crosse, Va. Mitchell Sunday night. night. sweetheart. Players adequately Mrs. C. R. Collier spent the week Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Harper and Frank Butts has returned home end with her Mrs. G. A. cast include Betty Ross Clarke, mother, daughter visited Mrs. E. S. Jenkins from C. C. camp after spending in Ann Rutherford, Ruth Hussey, Jon- Wicker, Lillington. Sunday night. several years there. William Andrew athan Hale, Janet Beecher and Henry Woodruff, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh House were Willis Hawkins spent the week- Leonard Penn. V. Rowinski of Fort Myer, Va. visitors of Mrs. Harry House Sun- end in Littleton. CHOCKOYOTTE were the week-end of Mr. sfc * $ sfc guests day night. On Friday night, Miss Laura and Mrs. Henry Woodruff. Mrs. Isles and children Bringing back one of the big pic- Edgar and Hux entertained a large number of Grade Leroy Morris returned to North Mrs. Lewis were tures of a year or two ago the Im- Pugh visitors of friends in the home of Mr. and Folk, W. Va., Sunday after spend- Mrs. M. B. perial Theatre will present Clark Glasgow Sunday after- Mrs. J. A. Pittard. Games were ing last week with his mother, Mrs. noon. Gable, Myrna Loy and William played and enjoyed by all. Re- Nettie Morris. Mrs. Powell in “Manhattan Melodrama” Harry House and daughter, freshments were served to the fol- Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Chase spent Patsy, spent with Mrs. C. Wednesday only, giving their many Tuesday lowing: Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Pair, Tuesday in Richmond, Va. A. Hardee near Enfield. fans a chance to see them again in Mrs. Zonnie Dickens, Mr. and Mrs. Miss Marcella Marks of Duke is Mrs. J. E. Mitchell this great picture and others their spent Sunday R. B. Hux, Judith Pittman, Grace. the with in the home of Ow4mm 1 iii 1 first chance. spending spring holidays Mrs. Whit Morris. Margaret Pittard, Esther, Virginia, PImn« her Mrs. B. Marks. Mr. * sf: $ $ s(c # mother, and Mrs. Wilbur Myrick and Clara Hawkins, Willis, Joseph, RUFUS C. TICK, M«r. Miss Ellen Taylor spent the son of Weldon were visitors A new era dawns! Gangsterism, of Leonard Hawkins, Willie, MacA- as a theme for motion pictures, has finally reached the stage where it can be kidded. That’s what happens in “A Slight Case of Murder,” a gaily hilarious • ROANOKE RAPIDS I burlesque which will win howls of laughter from audiences at the Im- perial theatre Thursday-Friday. Edward G. Robinson plays a beer baron of dry days, who when Re- peal comes along, turns “legiti- mate” brewer. His rum-running, THEATRES hi-jacking henchmen become his salesmen. They have to lay aside "The Best in Shows— their gats, wear clean shirts and go in for the daily shave. the Best in Sound" But the course of honest business doesn’t run smoothly. Eddie, tee- totaler himself, doesn’t know that APRIL his beer is very bad stuff. His PROGRAMS for WEEK of 11.1938 gunless salesmen can’t force it up- on the tavern-keepers. And no- body dares tell him the truth. to • • He loses money and is down PEOPLES IMPERIAL his last half-million when a rival gang tries to hi-jack this. They MON.-TUES. MON.-TUES. shoot each other up in the process Ruth Chatterton Anton Walbrook and Eddie saves his money. Then Lewis Stone Mickey Rooney he learns about his beer, changes THE RAT the formula and forward suc- JUDGE HARDY'S CHILDREN goes Added: MARCH OF TIME cessfully. Added: Roanoke Rapids News Review Throughout all this nonsense runs a WED.-THURS. pretty romance between the WEDNESDAY beer-baron’s daughter, Jane Bryan, Jackie Cooper Maureen O’Connor and a wealthy young suitor, Wil- Clark Gable Myrna Loy Wm. Powell lard Parker. BOY OF THE STREETS sjc * He * * * Manhattan Melodrama The Imperial Theatre will pre- FRIDAY sent Lane Chandler and Earl THURS.-FRI. Hodgins in “Heroes of the Alamo’’ Jack Hulbert Patricia Ellis Saturday only. THE GAIETY GIRLS Edward G. Robinson Jane Bryan Miss Virginia Belle Vincent spent A Slight Case of Murder Tuesday in Richmond, Va. SATURDAY SATURDAY Buck Jones Lane Chandler Earl HOW THE PROPHETS MAY Hodgins HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE. SUDDEN BILL DORN Time a dimension along which Added: TIM TYLER’S LUCK HEROES OF THE ALAMO you can look now and then, as you do into the distances—all of us probably do it occasionally, thus also explaining presenti- ments and uncanny but useful “hunches.” An illustrated fea- ture in The American Weekly, with Sunday’s WASHINGTON HERALD-TIMES.