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RECORDS IN “RHYTHM”
“Star Spangled Rhythm” continues to smash ideas of what good pictures will do. Tho Capitol, Halifax, and the Capitcl, Windsor, are two
houses that did sensational business with this outstand
ing Paramount filmusical. The run of “Rhythm” in both these centres outgrossed such pictures as “Road to Morocco,” “Reap the Wild Wind” and “Holiday Inn.”
“Star Spangled Rhythm” continues to do 50-100% better business than any previous Hope or Crosby picture. That indicates “Rhythm” at the register.
William Bendix, Loretta Young and Alan Ladd as they appear in Paramount's topical new picture, “China.” This js Alan Ladd’s last appearance before joining the colors.
‘Lucky Jordan’
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The Lowdown on the Production and Distribution of the Best Shows in Town!
Rings the Bell
For Lucky Canadian Exhibitors
Alan Ladd in “Lucky Jordan” is doing the kind of business
that is anything but “lucky.’
’ “Jordan” is doing the most
solid kind of business seen in the Dominion in some time.
It’s the kind of reception that
Cordova, Lamour To Co-Star
Arturo de Cordova, Mexican star now appearing opposite Luise Rainer in “Hostages,” was handed another stellar assignment by Executive Producer B. G. De Sylva, who announced that de Cordova will co-star with Dorothy Lamour in “A Medal for Benny,” original screen story by John Steinbeck and Jack Wagner which Paramount will film shortly.
De Cordova will play a Paisano youth who lives in California’s Fresno country made famous in Steinbeck’s stories.
the picture has been receiving in the States from San Franjcisco to Boston—just plain phenomenal.
And most of the success for the picture stacks up at the front door of a certain young man who's in the picture. Hotter than a tommy gun he carries in his next picture, “China’’; hotter, much hotter, than that mean pistol he toted in his first Paramount picture, “This Gun for Hire”— that’s Alan Ladd!
That is why he is the greatest asset, from the sales and exploitation angles, that his current picture, “China,” possesses. Costarred in this highly spectacular and exciting production with Loretta Young, Ladd's work in his last picture for the duration scintillates like the brightest star in the firmament.
You all know how he gripped the public’s attention in “This Gun for Hire.” You know what a sensation he was in the “Glass Key.” And you'll know by this time what he has meant all across the Dominion in “Lucky Jordan.”
But there is something perhaps you do not know. Alan Ladd was recently voted tops in popularity with both sexes in a poll conducted in one of the leading fan magazines.
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Bracken and Lamb New Comedy Team
Eddie Bracken, whose fan following Increased tremendously because of his performance in “Star Spangled Rhythm,” this year’s leading boxoffice hit, will
Technicolor comedy with its background in the South Pacific.
be starred with Gil Lamb in } “Rainbow Island,” a spectacular |
EXTRA patil hate = PLAYING TIME IS THE ORDER OF THE DAY WITH PARAMOUNT PRODUCT!
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WILLIAM BENDIX.
Bendix Gets Top Rating
After turning in exceptionally fine portrayals in “The Glass Key” and “Wake Island,” William Bendix comes into his own in “China,” drama dealing with an American civilian’s adventures in war-torn China before and after Pearl Harbour. The title gets its derivation from the banding of a couple of American oil salesmen with valiant Chinese guerrillas to rescue a pair of American missionaries and a large group of Chinese children from the Japanese.
Bendix is superb in the role of Johnny Sparrow, American truck driver. The other leading roles are interpreted by Loretta Young and Alan Ladd.
William Bendix came to Canada
ilast wéek and during an all too
brief stay made many, many friends. He is a very likeable chap, most unlike the Bendix in the “Glass Key.”
Coming to Montreal from New York, he was present at a screening of “China” for the press at the
Bracken is one of the stellar | Mount Royal Hotel, after which he galaxy in “Happy Go Lucky” | sat in with them for luncheon. In and also co-stars in “The Miracle | Toronto he was entertained at a of Morgan’s Creek.” ' broadcast, screening and luncheon,