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PAGE SIXTEEN Exciting Career Professor's Lot During Wartime Winnipeg (CP).--OCommando raids, airborne training and an escape | after the fall of France during the Second World War are only a few items from the book of experiences of Professor Jean L. Launay, chair- man of the Romance language department of McGill University. Prof. Launay came to Winnipeg to address a group of McGill graduates and the Alliance Fran- cais, 4 brarch of the Canadian Legion, at its Vimy dinner. Until the outbreak of 'war in 1939, Prof. Launay held a chair of English at the University of Ren- nes, in Normandy. Later he was called up with the French army, serving as liaison officer with the Second British Army Corps in 1940 and later with Bauman's division, Bauman's division was an unoffi- cially organized group made up of British soldiers stranded in France after Dunkirk; French soldiers re- turning from leave, and discharged hospital cases. Several of these unofficial groups existed for a short while before the armistice between France and Germany, Prof. Launay | said, adding that they took their names from their company manders. Prof. Launay escaped to Ports- mouth, England, in a tiny sailboat after the peace settlement between France and Germany. He was in- terned on arriving in England. "I was furious, but they very nice to me," he smiled. Launay escaped after being taken to an interment camp at the Ain- tree race course, and managed to enlist in the Royal East Kent Regi- ment, oldest unit in the British Army. Rose From Ranks He. enlisted as a private, rose to the rank of acting lieutenant- colonel by the end of the war. For a few months he was drill instructor, one of the few French- men to drill the Horse Guards at Buckingham Palace. Later, as an intelligence officer, he was the youngest of thé "bigot" men, as members of the small group who knew both the time and place of the Normandy invasion were then called. As a boy, Prof. Launay had play- ed on the Normandy beaches near Cannes; his knowledge of this area made him valuable to the invasion command, he said. "Bigot" men led restricted lives; regulations pre- vented him from drinking, entering hotels or writing letters to relatives. Tiny ribbons on his coat lapel indicate the gratitude of two na- tions for his war services. He won the award of the Knight of the Order of Leopold in a commando | raid on the coast of Belgium. The other ribbon represents the French Croix de Guerre, Prof. Launay considers teaching : an exciting life. "It keeps you young because you are in contact with young people," he said. able to settle down in France after the war, he decided to come to Canada because he did not want-- as he put it--to be "swallowed up in the mechanical civilization of the United States." His 18-month stay in Canada has coms- | were | Prof. | Un- | REGENT MITCHUM, JANE GREER "OUT OF THE PAST" | ROBERT | STAR IN | Revolving around the case of a de- | tective whose past shady career leads | him into a dramatic chain of con- | sequences, RKO Radio's 'Out of the | Past" co-stars Robert Mitchum and | Jane Greer at the head of a notable cast, which comes to the Regent | Theatre, starting Monday. Jeff Markham is sent by gambler Whit Sterling to bring back the lat- | ter's girl friend, Kathie, who ran off | with a big chunk of money. Jefl finds | her in Mexico, but falling for her | charm, double crosses Whit and takes her to San Francisco. Jeff's former partner. Jack Fisher, locates them, but Kathie kills him, and flees. Jeff learns | later that she has returned to Whit. | © Changing his name, Jeff settles down | to run a gas station in a little town, where he falls in love with pretty Ann | Miller 'and plans a normal life for | himself. But Whit's gunman, Stefanos, discovers Jeff's whereabouts, and Jeff is forced to see Whit who tells him that he'll forgive him if he will get some | incriminating papers for him from a els. Th knows he has been framed when Eels | is murdered, with circumstial evidence | pointing to himself. Desperately, Jeff makes a deal with | whit to clear him so he can return to | bis business 'and Ann. But Kathie, | fearing she'll be implicated, kills Whit | and compels Jeff to run off with her. | Realizing he can never escape now, Jeff deliberately leads Kathie into a | police trap, and both of them lose their lives as Kathie tries to shoot her | way out. Mitchum has a memorable role as the luckless Jeff, and Miss Greer scores impressively as the lovely but sinister | Kathie Featured are Kirk Douglas as Whit, Rhonda Fleming as a two-tim- ing secretary. and Richard Webb, Steve | Brodie and Virginia Huston. Jacques Tourneur directed the oro- duction by Warren Duff. Geoffrey Homes wrote the screenplay from his own novel, Build My Gallows High. BILTMORE SHOW ATTRACTION TAIRWAY TO HEAVEN" OPENS AT USUAL PRICES to. the "sStalrway honors__ already imax to Heaven, on The cl heaped the new | at the Odeon-Biltmore Theatre Mon- day, came when it was selected as the first picture to be shown at a Com- mand Performance in London. One of the most ambitious and spectacular films ever to be made, "Stairway to Heaven" is the sensa- tional story of a British airman in love with an American WAC, whose soul 1s fought for by the forces of heaven and earth. David Niven plays the lead- ing role. Hollywood's Kim Hunter, bor- Technicolor hit which opens | rowed for the part by J. Arthur Rank, is seen as the girl that Niven loves. Roger Livesey, remebered for his out- standing performance, as Colonel Blimp; Raymond Massey, as a Ssar- donic shade from the Other World: Marius yoring, the brilliant young English , and a large cast Of ex- pert play appear in support. Gigantic Escalator Among the many unusual production aspects of 'Stairway to Heaven," two that can be singled out for speclal | | | | REGENT--Co-Starring Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer, "Out of the Past" is RKO Radio's tense melodrama of a former lapse and its lethal overtones. Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Webb, Steve Brodie and Virginia Huston are featured, in this exciting melodrama which opens a three-day engagement Monday at the Regent Theatre. mention are a gigantic escalator reach- | ing from heaven to earth, and a huge amphitheatre where Niven pleads his case before a special tribunal in hea- ven. Both are constructed on a scale that was considered impossible just a short time ago. In all departments, this J. Arthur Rank production has fulfilled all the critical praise it received at a com- mand performance in England and as a roadshow in the United States where it played at advanced prices and re- served seat engagements. Through ipei the | | Osler, efforts of Manager L the new big production, filmed chromatic technicolor, awa at regular Odeon-Biltmore prices. in An outstanding program of featurettes | are offered on the same program in- cluding "Sportsman Playground" an interesting outdoor film in addition to a colored cartoon "Crowing Pains" sald to be one long chuckle from beginning to end. comes to Osh- | | | | Marks--"Blondie's Anniversary," i at 1.00, 3.15, 5.35, 8.05, 10.35. | "Smoky River Serenade," -at | 2.10, 4.25, 6.55, 9.25. Last com- | plete show at 9.10. | Biltmore--"Variety Girl" shown | at 1.58, 447, 7.36, and 10.25 | p.m. "For The Love of Rusty" shown zt 12.51, 3.40, 6.29 and | 9.18 n.m. Last complete show at 9.07 p.m. Regent -- "Wild Harvest" 1.30, | 330, 5.35, 7.35, 9.30. Last com- ' plete shown 9 p.m. MARKS THE GREATEST SEA THRILLER OF WORLD WAR II AT THE MARKS BIG SURPRISE HIT ON THE SAME PROGRAM. Go' next Thursday to the Marks if you want to see as tense a sea story as was ever made; a story with a plot, a story that took two years to make and the combined efforts of the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy to help. Whats more, there isn't a professional actor to be found throughout the en- tire thrilling length of the picture! In August, 1942, the Crown Film Unit began producing thelr and most ambitious film It is simply a story of a convoy, al lor | hazards longest | ® BOYD VALLEAU ® Louise Thomson ® Shirley Harmer Oshawa and District -- First Annual MUSICIAN'S BALL LOCAL 149 AF. of M. Featuring ORCHESTRAS of ® BERNARD TIERNEY With Vocals by ® VAN WALKER ® Walter Scott ® Steve Salmers convinced him the Dominion is an | ideal place, he said. NEW CARIBBEAN RESORT Port-of-Spain, Trinidad--(CP) -- Pointe Beleine, Gasparee, is to be | converted into one of thre most mo- dern liday resorts in the Carib- | bean according to reports here. WHALES HOLD BREATH Whales, being mammals, have to breathe 'air, but by expanding their enormous chests are able to stay under water for long periods. | Limited Engagement MONDAY IE DAYS Starts PRICES! engagements in New York, Boston and _Los Angeles! iy Tickets on Sale:--Box Office, Jubilee Pavilion; Mitchell's Drugs; Jury and Lovell, South Store; Detenbeck's Man's Wear; Dunn's Men's Wear; Kinloch's Men's Wear. CONTINUOUS DANCING 9-1. PER PERSON .. JUBILEE PAVILION FRIDAY, MAY 7th ILTMORE THE FIRST PICTURE T0 BE GIVEN A ROYAL COMMAND PERFORMANCE! | ARTHUR RA 'STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN" in New Chromatic TECHNICOLOR starring DAVID NIVEN - ROGER LIVESEY 2 KIM HUNTER - RAYMOND MASSEY SEE IT HYRE AT OUR REGULAR PRICES! JES MARIUS GORING Lde]:13°3 gl dele) | Added--"For the Love of Rusty". ' lifeboat with 20 survivors and a U-boat in the Atlantic. "The Raider" can _be said to re- semble no other sea film made, fiction documentary. 'The mountainous and difficulties which, right from the start, were implicit in the | project would have scared off any com- merclal studio. Pat Jackson, who at 26 had made two short original documentaries, de- cided to record in celluloid the glories of the Merchant Navy. He wrote his story, a fictional one, and decided that every actor was not only to be a real seaman but one occupying the rank Osier, the local t will be ODEON-BILTMORE--David Niven plays an RAF flyer who falls in leve with WAC Kim Hunter while recovering from an air crash in J. Arthur Rank's pro- duction "Stairway To Heaven" first motion picture to be Command performance and photographed in the pew Chromatic Technicolor opening Monday at the Odeon-Biltmore theatre. in the impressive cast. This sensational attraction comes to Oshawa first local showing direct from advanced-price, reserved seat engagements in New York, Boston and Los Angeles, but ill 1 { given a al Raymond Massey appears or its ue to the efforts of Manager L. E. patrons at regular Odeon-Biltmore prics. or station he would in the film. This meant six weeks casting in the Liver- pool Seamen's Pool, in clubs, pubs and missions, He was overjoyed at the material he found. Out of 2,000 he selected 50. "Pests then made confirmed his original theory that ordinary men doing their own job in their own environment would express emotion unselfconsci- ously. As nearly half of the story's action takes place in an open lifeboat in mid-Atlantic the twenty seamen he had chosen for this part of the film must force play theif parts in a real lifeboat in the real Atlantic. briefly, concerns twenty- four men survivors of a torpedoed merchantman, who spend fourteen days in a lifeboat in the Atlantic. But this is not the usual tale of privation and despair, with the usual happy ending. To be sure, fourteen days on a lifeboat on extremely meagre rations is no picnic. But the real anguish comes to these men when they find that they have been followed by a | German U-boat and are being used as bait to lure some hapless merchant- | man to their rescue. The story, Then it 18 that the true conflict arises, the struggle between self- preservation and the selfless mination to stand the consequences of warning a rescue ship away. The sail- ors mai the right decision; prepares to sacrifice 'their own lives to keep their mates from falling into the U- boat's trap: Their efforts are to no avall, however, and the submarine manages to get one torpedo home. There follows a surface duel be- tween the sub and the merchantman that kept an audience breathlessly hanging onto its chairs. Cunning and courage, trickery and bull-dog bravery, all are exhibited before the thrilling sea-battle comes to its rousing con- clusion, Seldom has so much action been packed Into so few moments-- moments that seem like eternities io a sympathetic audience. The remarkable feature of the plc- ture is that every member of the cast has, at some time, lived through al- most similar scenes. Their acting Is flowless. Needless to say, it is hardly acting; and the extraordinary realism of the picture affected the audience profoundly. By all means, see it. This is the real thing! It is an English Films, Inc. release. -- O.C.V.1. CONCERT ORCH (35 PIECES) AND ASSISTING ARTISTS ESTRA Fairbanks, Jr. has the most colorful thrill role of his career MARKS--Douglas "The Exile," which in Universal-International's outstanding current release comes to the Marks on Monday. (Watch for 'Miss Raiders' next Thursday). [¢ ] THRILL to the SPECTACULAR DARING OF THE KING OF ADVENTURE! Th® MARKS THEATRE PROUDLY PRESENTS MARIA MONTEL PAULE CROS HIN] 2 HENRY DANIELL y NIGEL BRUCE + ROBERT COOTE Oh the Same Program "MELODY STAMPEDE" With Spade Cooley & His Orchestra OI EEN ONO EH OI O EE OE O EES O EI O EI OX 0 Last Day! "Blondie's Anniversary" & "Smoky River Serenade" Be i A ii ll BE a A A Si Delicatessen Specials PRESENT In An Attractive Stage Setting, A "SPRING PROGRAMME OVERTURE - Festival March - von Weber ORCHESTRA - 2nd Movement from Sonata Pathetique - Béethoven SHIRLEY HARMER - Vocal Solos (a) The Way that the Wind Blows (b) Shauny o' Shay SAM PANKHURST - Plano Solos (a) Warsaw Concerto (b) Clair de Lune JIM SCAMMELL and CLIVE ALDWINCKLE Liebestraum (with apologies to Liszt) CLARINET QUARTETTE - Minuet (Fantasie Op. 78) - Schubert GLORIA GALLOGLEY LYLE BLAIR, RICHARD LLEAU LEONARD WITTERICK ELEANOR BOOTH - Vocal Solos (a) Oh what a Beautiful Morning - (b) Evening Star (Tannhauser) - ORCHESTRA - 3 A Gershwin "Rhapsody Specially arranged for the O.C.V.I. Orchestra by the Conductor Cornet Soloist - Lorne Seeley + INTERMISSION ORCHESTRA - Miserere (Il Trovatore) Trombone Soloist - Don Clarke Cornet Soloist = Ron Walker GERALDINE LEE - Piano Solos (a) Valse in E minor (b) Harmonica Player GORDON WITTERICK - Saxophone Solo Saxophobia - CLIVE ALDWINCKLE and JIM SCAMMELL - Serenade to a Jerk ORCHESTRA - Temptation - Nacio Brown SAM PANKHURST = Sousaplione Solo = Gone with the Wind SHIRLEY HARMER - Vocal Solos (a) Star Dust (b) I'l Dance at your Wedding ALEX DOBOS - Violin Solos (a) Gypsy Airs (b) Siciliano DIXIE LAND BAND .~- (a) (b) Addinsell Debussy. ) VA Rogers Wagner Verdi Chopin Guion Wiedoeft Sarasate Bach In the Mood Mood Indigo . ORCHESTRA - Espana GOD SAVE THE KING Waldteufel ay Collegiate, Auditorium TUESDAY, APRIL 27th TICKETS 50c--Available at Henderson's Book Store, from AT 8.15 PM. Collegiate Students or at the Door. Whether you salami, salted herring, dill pickles, pickled eggs, hot pep- pers or just a plain hotdog or it. Dron in tonight and give your- ham sandwich, we have self a treat. HARRY'S LUNCH 63 CELINA ST. PHONE 4712W (Behind The Times-Gazette) want pastrami, Sue--------__---A , A i" -- re -------- a ADULY ENTERTAINMENT QD ALAN LADD in *ONLY "Wild Harvest" (Adult) FAMOUS PLAYERS