op Star Team In
tyrital Comedy
flie desperate but funny
,jgle to live in crowded war
no Washington D. C., while
(ting for a government con
,(tis the nub of the comedy of
landing Room Only” which
wives Paulette Goddard and
fd McMurray in a battle of
is to survive the hectic situa
t5 which fall their way. In
sgay Paramount film, show
I at the Orpheum theatre Sun
y and Monday, they are ably
iped by Edward Arnold, Rol
| Young, Hilary Brooke
irie McDonald and Veda Ann
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ivtea iViac.VLurray, r.ne dusi
sexecutive, and Goddard, the
/etary, arrive in Washington,
y hire out as a “couple” be
iseof the shortage of help and
ween spilling the soup try to
mote their business deal. Fd
jd Arnold, as president of
icMunay’s company, really
3 his stride posing as a former
iseman for the Duke of Bel
ve and Roland Young plavs
srried husband, who is forc
torun the house while his
tis busy organizing a worn
i auxiliary for parachute
jps,
rom the opening, when the
rttaiy is unsuccessfully at
hing ears to donkeys, to the
e, when the subject of busi
es finally broached for lack
pair of pants, the picture is
Sd stream of laughs directed
;a lightness that matches
plot.
W5 Highlights
Continued from page 1)
Ha>mon.
lie force is also thought to
; hit Yokohama and Kobe
The Washington bulletin
the bases as in the Mar
is. Gen. Emmett O’Don
Jamaica, New York, 38,
w West Point football
Med the historic daylight
alt. First official announce
Is merely said “a sizable
force attacked industrial
U in Tokyo
kyo, acknowledging the as
4 hours after its U. S. an- j
cement, said 70 Superforts
ae southern and northern
lirts of the capital in early
noon and claimed the Su
-rts “failed to attain any
tile results but residential
os, including 1 hospital,
slightly damaged.” Tokyo
snM of the planes were
down.
sti Harbor—U. S. 9th fleet
»ps shelled Matsuwa, Jap
Kurile island b»ise in an
losed strike Tuesday. Amd.
* announced no American
were damaged and that
hes and explosions were
;ed during the bombard
Jap batteries on the fog
; coast were silent. This is
Notice
We now open in our new
across from Krafts
f department. Shoe re
all kinds. Ice skates
tied.
liak Shoe Repair Shop
the 3rd time Matsuwa has been i
bombarded with gunfire The
last time was June 12, a feint
before the landing on Saipan.
Philippines — Rain-pounded
American infantrymen captured
the Jap bastion of Limon &
drove 1000 yards south in a
sudden upsurge of battle that
practically destroyed the en
emy’s first division. The 32nd
division plunged through shell
shattered Limon Wed. in the
biggest advance of more than 2
weeks Gen. MacArthur had
identified Limon as selected ap
parently by Japs as site of their
major defensive to protect the
vital Ormoc corridor. Capture of
the town meant the Japs lost "a
critical defensive line.”
London—French armor clean
ed out the western part of Stras
bourg of Germans in a surprise
attempt to capture a bridge
there across the Rhine which
was frustrated. A violent Ger
man counterattack of 6 or 7 div
isions threw the British 2nd army
out of Hoven on the muddy
Cologne plain. Three miles
northeast Geilenkirchen was
captured with flame throwers
being used. 9th army offensives
in the valley of the turbulent
Roer river slowed to a sticky
crawl while Germans threw wave
upon wave of counterattacks at
the Allied lines.
Cologne—American 3rd army
beyond Metz captured Ober
luken & deepened its northern
wedge in gains of 2 to 4 miles.
Patton’s front edged slowly to
ward Saar, industrial rail center
15 miles from forward lines.
British troops in Holland moved
within easy field gun range of
Maas, a mile and a half away.
London—Russian 4th Ukran
ian army is on the move again
in eastern Czechoslovakia after
a 4-week fighting lull. Moscow
announced fiesh drives have al
ready ground out gains of 16 to
25 miles. The 2nd Ukranian
army is frweeping through Hun
gary with Petrov’s forees reach
ing Sobrance, 10 miles north
west of Ungvar.
Ottawa, Canada—The Can
adian government, after fighting
5 years of war with volunteers
only in foreign service, abandon
ed the policy in a tense Pailia
mentary session as a tidal wave
of opposition threatened to
sweep Prime Minister MacKen
zie King clear out of office.
Faced with dire need of rein
forcements in Europe, King
announced partial conscription
has already been ordered and
16,000 men made available im
mediately for foreign service.
BUY
WAR
BONDS
To Keep ’em
Fighting
On land & sea
j vfc in the air
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LAST SHOWING TONIGHT
Nancy KELLY
Directed by WILLIAM BERKE
Screenplay by Harwell Sham
A PARAMOUNT PICTURE
Sun. & Mon.
The hilarious
story of what a
girl will do to get
her boss a bed
in Washington!
Paramount Protonts
» PAULETTE GODDARD
I FRED MacMURRAY
i
EDWARD ARNOLD-ROLAND YOUNG
HILLARY BROOKE • PORTER HALL
Directed by SIDNEY LANFIEID
Screen Play by Darrell Ware and Karl Tunberg
News & Color Cartoon
Mon. 0:30-8:30
SUN. :2:30-4:30-6:30-8:30
® COMING ATTRACTION
"Cover Girl”
FUMED IN TECUM ICOIOU
Rita HAYWORTH
Gene KELLY
m
TUE. & WED
6:30 & 8:30
She said she’d marry ihe fus/ man 'll ho
walked in the house. ‘But—?!
‘Swing Out The Blues
i Bob Haymes
• Lynn Merrick
0 The Vagabonds
9?
THUR. & FRI.
6:30-8:4£
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shed Till The Rangebusters Come To Town!!
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river
RENEGADES
® PLUS A SECOND FEATURE ©
Screen Play by Griffin Jay, Leslie T. White * Directed by lew Landers • Produced by Jack Fier