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Highland Park Press, 8 Jan 1942, p. 2

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Mrs. C. M. Williman, Greenwood avenue, will entertain her club at her home tomorrow. ind ... 4o haa ues 100 is Gr20 THURSDAY TELEPHONE H. P. 2400 HIGHLAND PARK, ILL. COMING: "NEW YORK TOWN", "SMILIN‘ THRU®, "HONKy TONK®, "SHADOWS OF THE THIN MAN", "BIRTH OF THE BLUES" A L C Y O N It has EVERYTHING . . . Comedy, romance and music! Junior Floor Lamps Choice of finishesâ€"handsome shades. 4s low as $9.95 6â€"Way I. E. S. Floor Lamps For efficient indirect lighting. . . As low as $12.95 Swinging Arm Lamps Perfect for reading. . . . . . As low as $12.95 m‘-dflm.u“ Delicate shades of crepe, silk or rayon. Useful anywhere in the house. . . As low as $1.95 .. . AND ELECTRICITY IS CHEAP! J. EDWARD BROMBERG _ Your rangeland melody King greets you again! DOROTHY LAMOUR _ PRESTON FOSTER GENE AUTRY _ _ SMILEY BURNETTE "THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIER" "KISS THE BOYS GOODBYE" JANE WITHERS _ JOHN SUTTON TO thrill you with laughter and song! DON AMECHE _ _ MARY MARTIN "A YERY YOUNG LADY" WARD BROMBERG MJ "THE DEVIL parys Off" "MOON OVER BURMA" MOVIES AND AMUSEMENTS FITZPATRICK TRAVELTALK .& NEWS "SIERRA SUE" Mr. and Mrs. Francis Schessler, Chestnut street, entertained at a New Year‘s eve party. SELECT SHORT SUBJECTS As low as $5.95 As low as $2.65 JAN. 0â€"10â€"11â€"12 JAN. 13â€"14â€"18 SAM GIALLANZA USES ‘CALLED TO ARMY* SIGN Sam Giallianza, 18 South First Street had a sign in his front winâ€" dow, last Wednesday which read "Called to the Army." He operates a tailor shop at the same address and lives at 37 North Green Bay road, He was sent by County Board 1 to selecâ€" tive service headquarters for a physiâ€" cal examination, and used this means to let his customers know where he was. If he passes his physical he will probably be called into the army withinlfiday»â€"sihhsi‘n'ilthfll read "Gone to th@ Army." GLENCOE "BURMA CONVOY" Frank Albertsonâ€"Charles Bickford Marjorie Weaverâ€"George Reeves "BAD LANDS OF DAKOTA®" Richard Dixâ€"Frances Farmer "UNFINISHED BUSINESS" Jan. 11, 12, 13, 14 Jan. 15, 16, 17 Nov. 9 & 10 Other local lamp dealers are also offering unusual values? Sunbrock claims he has added all new and different features to the thrill studded sixty event program which features Superman Ted Anderson leaping his car over a Transcontinental Bus indoors at the International Amâ€" phitheatre. Other features will be the "Fall of Tokyo," champion cowigoys and cowgirls competing for $10,000.00 in prize money in the Rodeo contests of bronc riding, wild cow milking, and a new Rodeo event, a cowboy‘s basâ€" ketball game on horeback. Some of the greatest circus acts in America such as Gregoresko, "the man who hangs himself and lives to tell the tale," the sensational Torrence and Victoria, Bee Kyle the internationally famous high diver who will leap 90 feet into a pool of flaming oil, are some of the outstanding circus thrillers to be seen at the Amphitheatre on Sunday, January 18 to the 25th inâ€" clusive. Midget auto, motorcycle and jalopy races are all to be held im adâ€" dition to the Rodeo and Cireus, accordâ€" ing, to producer Sunbrock, when his producer who staged the combined Wild West Rodeo and Thrill Circus will bring his entire group of 962 perâ€" formers to the International A-fi- theatre for an eight day run, beginning Sunday, January 18 to Sunday, Janâ€" uary 25 inclusive. The rodeo will also include the faâ€" mous Graham family, consisting 0§ ten children ranging in ages from six to sixteen. big show begins its cight day engageâ€" ment on Sunday, January 18th to 25th inclusive at the International Amphiâ€" theatre in the Stock Yards at Chicago. Sunbrock‘s Rodeo And Cireus To Be January 18â€"25 Who‘ll play who that night was a bit of a mystery this weekend because the four players are engaged in a round robin series to determine the professional title and the original schedule was upset when Fred Perry did a tumble in the opener at Madison Square Gardens and put his right elâ€" bow out"of commission for a few days. However, he‘s reported to be all in one piece again and back at the old stand tonight in Syracuse. Ernest Jacobsen, Ole Bescberg, George Gunderson and Narovitz broâ€" thers, Art and Bob, Edward Syvertâ€" sen, Robert Anderson, Russel Vastine, I(arfi-Whne-:J‘mM work out twice daily on the Ishpemâ€" ing hill and jump, one of the highest and best in the country. The training will not ofly help to get the Norge members in shape for their meet, but will accustom the Chcago skiers to the local hill for the meet that will be presented in February as one of the main attractions in the winter Basketball Doubleheader Saturday Night Tennis Match At Chicago Stadium January 14th N. S. Sunday Eve Club Will Hear W. A. Scharffenberg Eleven of the finest skiers in Chiâ€" cago, all members of the Norge Ski club, arrived in Ishpeming to go into training for theâ€"coming Norge Ski club meet in Fox Riven Grove, Illinois on Sunday, January jumping at Fox River Grove and two intraâ€"club jumps had to be cancelled and the skiers then headed northward for two weeks of training. The nation‘s finest skiers compete annually in the Norge meet and the Chicagoans want to meet them on even terms mhen they tackle the tough Norge slide. Doubleheader basketball in colleâ€" giate circles moves back into the Chiâ€" cago Stadium again next Saturday night, January 10th after being away from the "Big House" for last night‘; stand at the Coliseum. This week three out of town teams will be preâ€" sented on the Saturday night show with James "Robbie" Robertson‘s Bradley Tech five from Peoria comâ€" ing here in the role of a home team to play host to Duquesne in the first game of the two, while DePaul, the only school to compete in all of the doublcheaders, meets the tallest team in the nation, the West Texas State Teachers, who don‘t have any players less than six feet one inch in height and whose center, the rangy Charlie Halbert, is six feet ten inches. The current tour of the professional tennis greats, strictly a male organiâ€" zation this year, will hit Chicago on Wednesday night, January 14th when Bobby Riggs, the former National champion, Frank Kovacs, the new stormy petrel of the net world, Fred Perry and Don Budge play three matches, two singles affairs and a doubles set in the Chicago Stadium. Next Sunday night January 11, at the North Shore ‘Sunday Evening Club, in the New Trier High School Auditorium, the speaker will be Proâ€" fessor W. A. Scharffenberg, recent director of the Institute for Oriental Studies in Shanghai with branch inâ€" stitutions in Tokyo, Singapore, Manila and Hongkong. He has reâ€" cently returned from ‘22 years in the Far East. He will speak on the Orienâ€" tal situation. Skiers Train At Ishpeming For January 18 Meet Dr. T. Z. Koo was scheduled to speak at the North Shore Sunday Evening Club on this date. He was supposed to take the Clipper plane in early December for Hawaii ard has not been head from since, If he is still in Hongkong he is not likely to reach this country for some time. Prior to the lecture by Professor Scharffenberg next Sunday night, 20 minutes will be devoted to a showâ€" ing of the many pictures of birds made by Dr. Davies Lazear of Winâ€" netka. These pictures made in, color are said to be of most unusual inâ€" terest. A great deal of time and inâ€" finite patience were required to take them in the bird‘s natural environs. Chick Davies, the Duquesne mentor, has another of his unusually fast and tricky teams and should give Robbie Robertson and his boys more than a few anxious moments in their debut on the doublcheader cards in the Staâ€" dium. The program of next Sunday night â€" the bird pictures and an authoritaâ€" tive lecture on such a noted subgect as the Far East. __ : _ By VIEGINIA VALE Hm LAMARR‘S going to have that long bob done in little pigâ€"tails for a scene in "‘Tortilla Flat," acâ€" cording to an official anâ€" nouncement from Mâ€"Gâ€"M. She‘s also, in that picture, ingtoluveanotherqpotz nity to show that she really can act when she is given a chance. rent picture, does all right by her in that respect, though the picture itself is rather disappointingâ€"someâ€" how, not quite so good as it should have been. When the Armistice was signed, 23 years ago, Wesley Barry was a bey acter, and Al Green was an assistant director. They were workâ€" ing together in a Mary Pickford film called "Daddy Long Legs." On the day when America entered the present war they were again workâ€" ing togetherâ€"this time at the RKO Radio studio, in ‘‘The: Mayor of 44th Street," the film musical starâ€" ring Anne Shirley and George Murâ€" phy. This time Barry‘s assistant director, Green‘s director. The Mexican Spitfire comedy seâ€" ries rolls right along, with Lupe Velez and Leon Errol; the fifth one try over, Rosalind Russell wanted to do something useful in the presâ€" ent emergency; she‘d taken a Red Cross course, but felt that she could is ‘Mexican Spitfire at Sea‘; eviâ€" dently the combination of the rub» berâ€"legged comedian and the fiery make splints. So she‘s Private Rosâ€" alind Brisson now (the new busâ€" band‘s name being Brisson, rememâ€" ber), of the Beverly Hills Women‘s Emergency Corps, and is spending It‘ll be a new version of "Down to the Sea in Ships* for Jean Gabin, the talented French actor, if 20th Centuryâ€"Fox sticks to present plans. Gabin is now working in ‘‘Moonâ€" tide."" The other story was prepared two years ago for Tyrone Power, but never went into production. The of Rudy Vallee‘s Thursday evening radlo show. She‘d been in vaudeâ€" ville before she struck gold in Holâ€" lywood; Vallce saw her‘ radio possiâ€" bilities, gave her a single guest apâ€" pearance, and now she‘s headed for the top, if she follows in the footâ€" steps of other Vallee discoveries. take an ambulance apart and put it together again. When she finishes ‘Take a Letter, Darling," she‘ll enâ€" studio‘s lucky; sea stuff, for backâ€" ground, was shot last summer off the Mexican coast; couldn‘t be done Just for the record: ‘‘Twoâ€"Faced Woman," the new Garbo picture, has been revised, and the Legion of Decency has rated it "B," instead Francia White, the soprano star of the Monday evening telephone hour concerts, is an air raid warden. Her instructions are, in case of an alarm, to warn people met to use the telephone! roll in the radio course. he organized a band, and he‘s been through his engagements at one of New York‘s smartest night clubs. Now his music will be featured on a new series of radio programs, over the Mutual network. of the "What‘s On Your Min g‘-&::-‘huvâ€"fi'-:; e eoie se Sazst Peremonut hages to 20 "Pooife send in the questions used in the sarall rele in his nest picture . . Fred T on use i aprigan hoii ne ie aer oc deainaadts o inA ;-h-nn'c--mu-.) h-o:hl&-- door gymnasium at her home for her ing his For five years Ted Stracter has ODDS AND ENDS Joan Davis, the film comedienne, January 8, 1942

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