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Highland Park Press, 2 Jul 1942, p. 2

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He was so impressed by a girl whom the camera caught kissing a young man goodâ€"by at a railway station that he offered her a screen test. She was Evelyn Scott, of Salt Lake City. She accepted, but didn‘t show upâ€"she‘d married the man she kissed! Betty Rhodes, one of the top singâ€" ing stars in radio, will be Bing Crosâ€" by‘s leading lady in his next Paraâ€" mount picture, a radio story tentaâ€" tively titled "Manhattan at Midâ€" night."" She has her own halfâ€"hour weekly radio show, singing over a 90â€"station network. Busan Peters is the happiest girl in Hollywood. She was just one of a hundred ambitious young acâ€" tresses, with a small role in "Tish" secend feminine role in "Random Harvest," starring Ronald Colman and Greer Garson, and a new longâ€" term centract with Metro to boot. A local girl, she‘d been trying for two years to get a start in pictures. Recently Jack Holt visited his son Tim on location for ‘Pirates of the Prairie." Seeing some cowboy exâ€" tras he‘d played with, Jack sat down on a bench in front of a saddle shop to talk with them. A shot was made of Tim riding byâ€"and later it was discovered that, by mistake, Jack appears in his son‘s picture. *~" are now being collected for our fighting men. The movement is headed by Kay Kyser, Kate Smith and Gene Autrey, and endorsed by Ginny â€"Simms. Lily Pons, Benny Goodman, Guy Lomâ€" bardo and practically all the ofiu:putchcnhmuie. Used broken records will be converted into scrap and sold, and new records bought for U. S. army camps, forts, naval stations and maâ€" rine bases here and overseas. The American Legion and the Legion Auxiliary will do the pickingâ€"up. If you‘ve got a man in the service, you know what a fine thing this is. ‘ Director Alexander Hall sent & camera crew around the city to phoâ€" tograph kissing shots for a trailer Lana Turner is cheeringâ€"she won the dramatic role of the young wife in Metro‘s "Marriage Is a Private Affair," based on the book of that name. It‘s a rich and sympathetic role, the sort that young actresses dream of getting. Amelia Earhart‘s favorite racing plane, the one in which she broke several national records, is being used by Pat O‘Brien in his role of a dare â€" devil pilot for Columbia‘s "Flight Lieutenant." It had been rented for spectacular film scenes in which O‘Brien is supposed to customers for its "Sweet and Hot" with the announcerhent that two highly popular coastâ€"toâ€"coast proâ€" grams will appear in the forthcomâ€" ing Tim Whelan musical, which coâ€" make test dives. It was not until O‘Brien saw Miss Earhart‘s signaâ€" ture scratched on the instrument panel that be learned the plane had greatest grid greats, Bruce Smith of Minnesota and Frankie Albert of Stanford, on the lot in films based on their own lives. Two Allâ€"Ameriâ€" can teams will figure in each picâ€" had sterrific "mike fright" until â€"#am to p:-.:: en io ie ts q‘u_-nqu_gq_:\'-_.. his broth stars Lucille Ball and Victor Maâ€" ture. Charles Victor and his ‘"‘Court of Missing Heirs" program, and Ralph Edwards and the "Truth or Consequences‘‘ company have been signed up for the picture. or‘s place on the V alloa !mhâ€"gw By VIRGINIA VALE Reloased by Western Newspaper Chaliapin Jr., son of the femous Rus siah bese, has a short but Tok Th of Linthi in "Tar Fhom Columbin has two of last season‘s RKO added a potential 26,000,000 and Klisabeth Patterson . . . Feodor LUCILLE BALL In addition to six directors from North America, the following Rotarâ€" ians elected to the board of directors of Rotary International for 1942â€"43: P. H. W. Aimy, Torquay, England ; Richard R. Currie, Johannesburg, Unâ€" ion of South Africa; Dr. Manuel Galâ€" igarcia, Havana, Cuba; Don Armando Hamel, Santiago, Chile; Francis A. Kettanch, Beyrouth, Lebanon; and C. J. Steiger, Zurich, Switzerland. Delegates representing 5,100 Rotary clubs in some 50‘ countries of the world, at the final session of the 33rd annual convention of Rotary Inâ€" ternational, today elected Don Ferâ€" nando Carbajal of Lima, Peru, Roâ€" tary president for the year beginning July 1. Mr. Carbajal is viceâ€"president of the Peruvian Telephone Company in Lima and is former State Engineer of Peru. ‘Good Night The 7,000 Rotarians and members of their families in attendance at the convention listened to a 4â€"day proâ€" gram of addresses by prominent speakers from many countries of the world, headed by His Excellency, the Earl of Athlone, Governor General of Canada. The 34th annual convention of Roâ€" tary International will be held in Philâ€" Ladies‘ At Blackstone Peruvian Elected President Of Rotary International Adoiph W. Norvik, son of Mr. and Mrs. August Norvik, 1747 Broadview Avenue, enlisted in the U. S. Marines and is now attending the officer‘s training school at Quantica, Va. Mflnpbdfib-‘t.dbp“ stage success of "Good Night Ladies the howling farce comedy playing to recordâ€"shattering audiences at the Blackstone theater, coâ€"starring Buddy Ebsen and Skeets Gallagher with a large supporting cast, « Before this West Coast enterprise was a week old in its Blackstone enâ€" gagement the standing room only sign became a regular decoration and it has been in constant use ever since. National magazines, Time, Newsweck and Variety, the show world‘s bible, pronounced the attraction the phenoâ€" mena of the American theater over a period of 22 years. "Good Night Ladies !" affords Buddy kbsen and Skeets Gallagher with their first stage vehicle in several seasons after attaining a niche in Hollywood‘s film productions. Buddy‘s last Broadâ€" way appearance was in the musical coâ€" medy hit, "Yokel Boy," while Skeets has not appeared behind the footlights since his tour with Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyons six years ago. acclaimed . "Good Night Ladies!" in peans of praise, citing it generally as the outstanding laugh entertainment of many seasons. Metropolitan Chicago newspaper reviewers summed up their unstinted approval in phrases that swiftly started off the local run with virtual capacity audiences. Here are some samples of the‘first night press notices : Wolie Kaufman in the Chicago Sun : "I laughed my fool head off." Ashton Stevens in the Herald Amerâ€" ican:; "More lovely ladies than I could hope to catalogue." Cecil Smith in the Tribune: "I sat all â€" evening howling with© laughter wlong with the rest of the audience." C. J. Bullict in The Daily News: "First nighters were loud and boisterâ€" ous in their laughter," Robert Pollak in The Times : "Good Night Ladies!" is a winner. It is makâ€" ing people laugh and laugh loudly." William Leonard in the Journal of Commerce: "It rolled the audience in paroxysms of glee." GLENCOE "The Lady is Willing‘ Marlene Dictrich, F. MacMurray ‘Castle in the Desert‘ "JUNGLE BOOK®" Sidney Toler, Arieen Whelan "Two Yanks in Trinidad" Pat O‘Brien, Janet Blair, Brian Donlevy Relox in Cool Comfort in Technicolor with Sabu ., Fri., Sat. Rudyard Kipling‘s MOVIES AND AMUSEMENTS â€"3â€"4 Sgt. Hugo L. Schneider Jr., Camp Polk, La., has arrived in Highland Park to spend a several day furlough with his parents at 439 Oakwood ave. THE POCKETBOOK of KNOWLEDCE : opens Tuesday evening, June 30th COUPON BOOKS NOW ON SALE Coupon Booksâ€" Books containing eighteen coupons are now on sale for $10 plus Federal tax of $1.44, a total of $11.44. E‘dl mupfl ' a C GIOCR IN UBC ARCENCOHE cash value of 85¢, the cost of admission to the park, or of a reserved seat in the pavilion for any regular concert â€" an actual saving of $3.86 on each coupon book. Coupons are transferable and can be used for any concert during the season. They will also be honored during the seventh week of chamber music and will then include an unreserved seat in the pavilion. As usual, more than one coupon may be required in exchange for reserved seats for gala concerts with special soloists. Coupon books can be secured from the Ravinia Festival Chairmen, a committee member, in your community, the Banks or Stores listed below. %, RAVINIA FESTIVAL COMMUNITY CHAIRMEN % WAUKEGAN GLENCOE F . LAKE BLUFF Miss Juliette Brown, 540 Scranton Ave., Lake Blu# 1526 T H. C. Kimbrough, 198 Forest Avo., Winnotka 2691 LAKE FOREST Mrs. Dutton Morshouse, 1190 Edgewsod, Lake Forest 1816 Seraarie "~~% * *A oo t S HIGHLAND PARK + Miss Frances Schoidenheim, 804 Forest Avo.. Wiklmette 14 THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF WAUKEGAN We (iinois mmmamm un"&%mo:mwrm Thie FRST NATIORAL BANK OF WINNETKA um'?zmnm RAST NRTIONATE BANK AND TRUST COMPANY Mrs. Charles Z. Henkle, 17 Brittany Road, Park 4382 mu.u.u-..mwum:. will be sold July 5th No Coupon Books You Can Save $3.86 on Each Book by Purchasing Now Mrs. Emmst C. von Ammon, General Chairman 568 Em Street, Winnotka * T Save Money â€"â€" Buy Coupon Books Now! Robert William Dean, son of Mr. and Mrs. Melville Dean, 458 Lincoin Ave., has enlisted in the Marine corps and is in training at San Diego, Calif. RAVINIA FESTIYVAL COUPON BOOK SALES COMMITTEE AGAIN Ravinia Festival will welcome music lovers to Ravinia Park for a summer of great music. A brilliant season opening on Tuesday evening, June 30, will offer you six weeks of twentyâ€"four concerts by the Chicago Symâ€" phony Orchestra under the baton of celebrated guest conductors, with soloists of world acclaim, and a seventh week of performâ€" ances by the famous Budapest String Quartet. Festival concerts will be given on each Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday evening at 8:30 o‘clock, and on each Sunday at 4:00 o‘clock in the afternoon. COUPON BOOK AGENCIES Great As Screwball As Elizabeth Madden, the brightest light on Broadway, Miss ‘Dictrich inâ€" vests her characterization with all her natural glamour and, in addition, turns gaily giddy to introduce a scintillant new facet of her manyâ€"sided talents. She kidnaps an abandoned infant from a policeman and, in order to adopt the youngster, proposes to and marries a young medico after he has recomâ€" mended her to a psychiatrist, and genâ€" erally comforts herself with gloriously Tackling her first screwball come« wlamorous Marlene today introduced a "new Dictrich" to Glencoe Theatre audiences. In Columbia‘s "The Lady Is Willing," hilarious new funfest coâ€" starring Fred MacMurray and introâ€" d:xi-:lurgliulinkw¢ old who rates his accolade of "wonder baby," Miss Dictrich appears. to pcr-‘ fection as a dizzy Broadway star, giv= en to sumptuous apartments, insane hats and the borrowing of adorable inâ€" iants who don‘t belong to her. Mitchell Leisen produced and direcâ€" ted "The Lady Is Willing," investing its romantic and antic highâ€"jinks with a wealth of colorful, captivating coâ€" medy. A topâ€"flight character cast asâ€" sists Leigen and the stars in bringing to the screen the sharp nuances of cinâ€" insanity at its most delightful. Aline MacHahon, Stanley Ridges, Roâ€" zer Clark and Arline Judge are the major featured players of the film, whose production was delayed for seâ€" veral weeks when Miss Dietrich cracked one of her million dollar 1egs cn the set during filming an especialâ€" ly hectic sequence. Dietrict STATE BANK AND TRUST COMPANY __ __ Retail Stores, Chicago, Osk Park, Evanston, Lake Porest Mirs. Norman Parker, 1841 Hinman Ave., Greenloat 7791 RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION es __!_-_-_l_.;_â€"'lll.““flup 251 e Drake Motel, Chicage Tol. Winnotka 262 Public Lawn > lParty To Be Held |At Laubenstein‘s ‘The public is cordially invited to attend a garden party to be held Tuesâ€" day, July 7 from 2 to 5 O‘ciock on the lawn of Rev. and Mrs. Lester l..-l:.-auh. 24 McCovern street. * your knitting or sewing and spend a pleasant afternoon. Refreshâ€" ments will be served and a small adâ€" mission fee charged. 4 Aerial Axis Busters Rehearse Y.M.C. TO PLAY SATURDAY Fledgling : fliers of the Army, . Air Force fighter pilot school at Foster Field, Texas, fly their single engined advanced training planes in this spectaâ€" cular echelon formation atop the overâ€" cast. Pilots of these win their wings today and will be ready for conibat against Jap zeros or Nazi Messerâ€" schmidts. 4 The Highland Park Young ‘Men‘s club baseball team will play the Fort Sheridan Saturday at Sunset park. The game will begin at 3 p.m. elightful disregard for convention or reputation. 4 MacMurray is equally fine as the young medico who prefers research to romance, rabbits to babies. He finds that babies and romance have a way of overâ€"shadowing all else, particularly when Miss Dictrich personifies: the one, and a captivating youngster named Baby Corey embodies the other. This Baby Corey, seven months.old, is curâ€" rently being called Hollywood‘s "wonâ€" der baby," and no wonder! Cute, capâ€" tivating, chinâ€"chuckable, he‘s easily the year‘s greatest "heart"â€"find!

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