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December 24, 1937
The Southern Israelite
Page Five
“Land Of Promise”
To Be Shown Here
Ho lly wood High ligh ts
The film epic of a people who
turned a wasteland into thriving
cities and fertile farm areas, “The
Land of Promise,” will be shown
at the Rialto Theatre on Sunday
morning. January 9, as 10 o’clock.
Announcement of the special book
ing of the film was made today by
the Atlanta Zionist District and
Hadassah. under whose auspices it
wil be presented.
• The Land of Promise” played
for a period of 6 weeks at the Astor
Theatre in New York and was
cheered by capacity audiences. It
is acclaimed by critics as a stir
ring picturization of Palestine to
day.
The Atlanta Zionist District and
Hadassah are presenting the film
as part of an educational program
designed to acquaint Atlanta Jew
ry with life in Palestine. In order
that everyone may see “The Land
of Promise,” tickets wil be priced
at twenty-five cents each.
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Republic Studios. Capitalized to
the extent of $100,000, Harry Sher
man’s Visual Education Pictures.
Inc. has been organized in Holly
wood. Production of 16 mm. films
for educational purposes will start
soon. Organizers of the new com
pany are Harry Sherman, Sam
Berkowitz and J. D. Trop. The
nation’s first outdoor Hall of
Fame was opened with elaborate
ceremonies recently on the es
planade outside the Carthay Cir
cle Theatre in Los Angeles and the
first statue placed in it was a
bronze sculpture of Paul Muni in
the role of Emile Zola.
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Art* Hollywood Correspondent
akarkus. is taking violin lessons
as he has to play n solo in his new
THEATRE FARE IN ATLANTA
Hollywood: Miss Fanchon, Para
mount film producer, started her
famous theatrical career with her
brother, Marco, in a piano and vio
lin musical act. An ex-professor
is producing motion pictures for
Paramount. He is Albert Lewin
and he holds degrees from three
universities, is a member of Phi
Beta Kappa, and formerly was on
the faculty of the English depart
ment of the University of Missouri.
Sally Eilers will play the heorine
nurse in “A Nurse from Brooklyn"
when Universal makes this screen
play from a dramatic magazine
story. Miss Filer’s splendid work
in a previous film, "We Have Our
Moments,” won her this coveted
role. Boston’s pride and Joy in
the entertainment world, Parky-
MISS FANCHON
k The Hurricane”
Thrills At Grand
The most spectacular film since
"San Francisco” is Samuel Goid-
wyn's production of “The Hurri
cane,” taken from the novel by the
authors of “Mutiny On The Boun
ty,” which is being shown as the
Christmas week attraction at the
Loew’s Grand.
Jon Hall, a newcomer to films,
plays the part of the young native
on the Isle of Mankura and Doro
thy Lamour is seen ns his swee-
heart. Hall is imprisoned by Ray-
mon Massey, as the cruel Gover
nor. makes his escape when a
hurricane strikes Mankura. The
earth shakes, buildings crash, and
desolation is left in the wake of
nature’s uncontrollable forces.
John Ford, one of Hollywood’s
greatest directors, has captured the
spirit of a happy people who suffer
under the yoke of the white man’s
tyranny, in “The Hurricane." The
supporting cast includes Mary As
tor and Thomas Mitchell.
the Dead End Kids. Friday and
Saturday.
UHLAN
"Thin Ice,” starring Sonja Henie
as a skating chnmpion and Ty-
1 rone Power as a prince masquer
ading as n reporter, Sunday and
Monday. Double feature bill.
| Tuesday and Wednesday: Virginia
I Bruce and Kent Taylor in “When
Love is Young” and Victor Moore
and Beulah Bondi in "Make Way
for Tomorrow." A romantic com
edy, “Love Under Fire,” with Don
Ameche and Loretta Young as a
couple fleeing from war-tom Spain,
Thursday and Friday. “Dead End,"
a gripping drama of a gangster
who returns to his home in the
slums, with Sylvia Sidney, Joel
McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, and
Claire Trevor, Saturday.
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“THEWOMEN”
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SUNDAY & MONDAY
“THIN ICE”
Sonja Henle-Tyrone Power
THURSDAY ONLY
“BLONDE TROUBLE"
Johnny Down*-Eleanore
Whitney
WEDNESDAY ONLY
"IT’S ALL YOURS"
Madeline Carroll and
Francis Lederer
THURSDAY & EntlDAY
"LOVE UNDER FIRT”
I.oretta Young-Don Amerhe
SATURDAY ONLY
“DEAD END
Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea,
and Humphrey Bogart
hilanN
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SUNDAY A MONDAY
"THIN ICE"
Sonja Henie-Tyrone Power
TUBS, and WED.
BIG DOUBLE BILL
Two Full Learth Features
THURSDAT AND FRIDAY
“LOVE UNDER EIRE”
Don Ameche-Lorretta Young
SATURDAY ONLY
New Years Day
• “DEAD END”
Sylvia Sidney-Joel McCrea
—SUNDAY A MONDAY—
"THE TOAST OF NEW
YORK”
Edward Arnold and Frances
Fanner
—TUESDAY ONLY—
“MIDNIGHT MADONNA”
Warren William-Mady Correll
—WEDNESDAY ONLY—
“SING AND BE HAPPY”
Anthony Martin Dixie Dunbar
THURSDAY A FRIDAY—
"EXCLUSIVE”
Fred MacMurray and Frances
Farmer
—SATURDAY ONLY—
"SAN QUENTIN” .. _ 1
Pat O'Brien-Ann Sheridan
. RKO picture. Speaking of music,
LuLse Rainer has resumed her
! study of the piano and she claims
; she practices two hours every day
We are told that Miss Rainer has
, played the piano since she was a
child and her reputation in Europe
I as a concert artist almost ranked
with her ability as an actress. In
cidentally, Luise is letting her hair
grow long and trail past her
shoulders. No more windblown
bob for LuLe. Director David
Butler hits gone into raptures over
a $100 silk lounging robe presented
to him by the cast and crew oJ
"You’re a Sweetheart” which he
just completed for Universal. Au
tographs of all his fellow workers
are sewn into the robe in whit/*
silk.
Bach Theatres
Offer Hit Films
Miss Bailey Feted
At Surprise Dance
Mr. and Mrs. I. Bailey honored
their niece, Miss Margaret Bailey,
at a surprise dance on her six
teenth birthday at their home on
Ramona Avenue.
Assisting in entertaining were
the honoree’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. A. Bailey, Mrs. M. Airov and
Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Goldstein.
Those attending were Misses
Mollie Airov, Minnie Dubrof, Shir
ley Tennenbaum, Goldie Goncher,
Rosalind Laber, Edith Beeber, Lil
lian Beeber, Mildred Skott, Syl
via Levy, Esther Newman, Estelle
Cole and Doris Weinkle.
Joe Press, of Chattanooga, HI
Rubin, Marvin Schoenberg, Mar
cus Danneman, Michael Bailey,
Herman Bailey, Sidney Newman,
Hymie Newman, Ben Horowitz,
Mack Beerman, Morris Kaplan,
Harold Friedman, Sidney Fried
man and Ernest Janko.
PONCE DE LEON
"The Toast of New York," star
ring Edward Arnold and Frances
Farmer in the story of a Wall
Street magnate whose love for a
beautiful woman was his undoing,
Sunday and Monday. Mady Cor-
rell and Wnrren William arc the
stars of “Midnight Madonna,"
Tuesday. "Sing and Be Happy,” a
gay musical with Atlanta's own
Dixie Dunbar, Toriy Martin and
Leah Ray, Wednesday. A gripping
newspaper drama of a girl who
hated journalism and beat the man
she li ved at his own game, "Ex-
clunivc," with Frances Farmer,
Fred MacMurray and Charles Rug-
gles, Thursday and Friday. "San
Quentin," a prison drama with
Pat O'Brien and Ann Sheridan,
Saturday. ,
CENTER
“Thin Ice,” the delightful ro-
mantir story of a skating star who
falls in love with a prince, starring
Sonja Henie and Tyrone Power,
Sunday and Monday. The comedy
of a song writer hooked by a gold-
digger, “Blonde Trouble," with
Johnny Downs, Eleanore Whitney,
and Lynn Overman, Tuesday.
Francis Lederer, Madeline Carroll
and Mischa Auer co-star in "It’s
AJ Yours," the romance of a shy
secretary and a playboy, Wednes
day. "Love Under Fire,” co-star
ring Don Ameche and Loretta
Young, a drama of a beautiful spy
in Spain, Thursday. Twenty-four
hours of life in big city slums are
depicted in “Dead End," starring
Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea and
The Women,” Stage
Hit, At Erlanger
Claire Boothe’s “The Women,"
the sensational New York stage
, hit, with Lois Wilson in the lead-
i ing role, will come to the Erlanger
Theatre Tuesday night, Wedncs-
: day matinee and night. December
I 28, 29.
The 40 characters in the play
are all women and the action runs
from drawing room to the kitchen
pantry. Sharp tongues lash out
in “The Woman,” causing the
heroine to lose the happiness she
has found and become another of
the embittered females who are
legion in New York.
Seats for the production, which
is being discussed all over the
country, are now on sale at the
Erlanger box office. Capacity
audiences at each performance of
"The Women" is indicated by the
tremendous a d v a n c e box-office
sale.
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MASADA TO HOLD
OPEN MEET HERE
Delegates attending the South
ern Regional Tournament of AZA
have been invited to attend an
open meeting of Masada to be held
on Sunday, December 26, at the
Jewish Educational Alliance.
The meeting, which will begin
at 2:30 o’clock, has been called for
the purpose of acquainting the
visitors with the aims of Masada.
Religious Rights
Group Protests
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possible of solution by the govern
ment directly concerned and which
inevitably breeds local disturbanc
es and international good will. But
it is neither just nor humane to
seek a solution by persecuting the
Jews.” , „ ,
The Christian clergy of Poland
are urged “in the name of their
religion and in the interest of jus
tice and righteousness to demand
of the nation adequate protection
for all minorities and the cessation
of this anti-Semitic agitation
which, unfortunately, is being car
ried on by people most of whom
profess to be Christians. The spi
rit of true Christianity demands
the recognition by the new Poland
of a willingness to help solve the
political and economic problems
inevitable in this present world.”
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