Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 August 1939 — Page 8

Everything goes in cycles and that includes child stars in the movies. .One of the first of the present crop was Deanna Durbin.

Now

she’s growing up and will have two boy friends in her next picture, They are Lewis Howard (right) and Robert Stack.

same—Charles Previn. -

"The latest to get a bow from Hollywood is Gloria Jean, 11-year-old red-haired miss from Scranton, Pa. man who found Deanna--Joe Pasternak—and her music ‘coach was the

She was discovered by the same

N Just about the same time Universal Studios was introducing Gloria Jean, Paramount Pictures presented Linda Ware, 14-year-old orphan, in “The Star Maker” with Bing Crosby. her good friend and supporter, Walter Damrosch,

She’s rehearsing here with

in the recently rele

A strong contender for the Durbin honors is Metro-Goldwyne Mayer's Judy Garland. Just under 16 now, she made her biggest hit with Mickey Rooney In Tave Finds Andy Hardy.” “Wizard of Oz.”

She made stardom

MOVIES ‘Winter Ca

Comes’ Are

By HARRY MORRISON /

rnival,’ 'When Tomorrow Unreeled on Screen Here

APOLLO—

“Daughters Courageous,”

with John Garfield,

Claude Rains, May Robson and the Lane Sisters. Directed

“by Michael Curtiz.

7 “Naughty but Nice,” with Ann Sheridan, Dick Powell and Helen Broderick. Directed by Ray Enright.

CIRCLE—“When Tomorrow

Comes,” with Charles Boyer

and Irene Dunne. Produced and directed by John M. Stahl. “The Forgotten Woman,” with Sigrid Gurie, Donald Briggs and Eve Arden. Directed by Harold Young.

LOEW’ S—‘“Winter Carnival,” with Ann Sheridan, Richard

Carlson, Helen Parrish and by Charles F. Reisner.

Robert Armstrong. Directed

“Miracles for Sale,” with Robert Young, Florence Rice and Frank Craven and Henry Hull. Directed by Tod Brown-

ing.

CIRCLE

Take the grace, voice and sudden laughter of Irene Dunne. smouldering charm of Charles Boyer.

Add the Mix it with direction as good as

that of “Love Affair” and you will have a popular picture, “When Tomor-

row Comes.”

I have an overpowering desire to have the boy get the girl, however. That’s why I must say I was disappointed.

We could stand the sweet sorrow of “Love Affair.”

were gasping at the finish everyone In this picture we aren't sure. I think most of us are too earthy to believe much in a love that says: “I may come back some happy day "in May.” And that’s what Mr. Boyer says to Miss Dunne just before leaving for Europe. ; Considering how unhappy that couple can contrive to be, it isn’t giving away too much to tell you that. Incidentally, with the things the way they are over there now, Miss Dunne’s chances are pretty slim. Intelligence Wins

Miss Dunne is a waitress. She waits on a handsome man who gets to know her pretty well and follows her to g union meeting. She makes .an inspiring speech. Being a Frenchman he is inspired hy what he never knew existed before—intelligence in a woman. He takes -her yachting. She thinks he is E What with the yacht and t and things I couldn’t figure that out, either. He is a great pianist. She discovers that at the same time he discovers she can sing. They both discover they love each other. Boyer a Fine Actor I could listen for a long time to Miss Dunne’s singing. Mr. Boyer is a fine actor. His voice, appearance, movements of hands and shoulders make him good to watch. The music is in tune to the movie. The movie has pace and the storm scenes are real. I still think it wil* be popular. But I can’t worry about much these days except rediscount rates in London and which way the bear is going to jump. An Experiment

The other movie is something in the way of an experiment. Like many experiments it succeeded in its failure. This discovered what Sigrid Gurie cannot do. They discovered she cannot take heavy parts. She will be used henceforth in Dannielle Darrieux roles. The movie is, called “The Forgotten Woman,” / which is. at least significant. ‘

LOEW'S

There doesn’t seem to be any way of getting around saying “Winter

Carnival,” in my estimation, was].

not good. It has its moments. They all ‘happen when Ann Sheridan is in camera range. Miss Sheridan is like the man that carried the message to Garcia. She may get there someday, but it looks as though when she does, the movie wars will all be over and Hollywood will be nothing but a couple of cans in New York’s Museum of Modern Art.

Batted About

Everyone takes punches at her. It’s fun to back the loser. That's why I nominate her for real (I don’t mean publicized) some day. Let's hope it’s soon. “Winter Carnival” should have - been wonderful. Aside from those £heridan moments there are the skiing scenes and .the fireworks ‘and night displays at the carnival. “Winter Carnival,” you know, gets its name from the yearly winter

sports fandango held at Dartmouth

College. Everyone takes a couple of weeks off from schoql and goes to the mountains. ; So Richard Carlson is a profes-

sor who loved Jill Baxter many years 4 a : .

stardom

Although we went away happy.

ago. She was the campus flirt and later married. He stayed nome and got ahead. Here she is, divorced and tired at 25, fleeing to Montreal and a gay round of worthless pleasures at Deauville. She inadvertantly gets off the train at Dartmouth. He inadvertantly meets her and they inadvertantly run through the rest of the picture. The highlights (again excepting my protege) are Robert Armstrong’s good work as a reporter and some amazing shadow boxing by Mr. Carlson.

That Isn't All—But , . .

In a couple of scenes with Miss Sheridan he is very, very good. In one scene in particular he is very, very bad. There's a lot more to the story, too, but nothing that can’t be misunderstood pretty easily. The other picture is called “Miracles for Sale.” It has a miraculous cast for a second picture. There are Robert Young, Frank Craven, Henry Hull, Florence Rice and Lee Bowman. There are other supporting players good to watch. The story is about a man who was in the magicians’ racket but got out of it to sell rackets to magicians. It has a lot of laughs and some scares, including a couple of murders and a trick in which a girl catches a bullet in her teeth. It isn’t too scary, though. Just when things look pretty bad, a cop falls down a trap dbor and you can laugh. The kids at Loew’s yesterday liked it a lot. There’s an especially good Donald Duck there this week, too.

APOLLO

“Daughters Courageous” is being taken over from the Circle. We said last week we thought it was a little better than “Four Daughters.” We said John Garfield took hold of the show and kept it through the performance. The other movie 1s “Naughty But Nice.”

Pony Comes to Riverside Park

A baby pony has been born to the

there, announced today.

en, park officials said.

State Fair.

Now Playing at

DEN-ZELL

The One and Only

PINKY PORTER

and His Orchestra Chicken—Steak Dinners

Bes : of Mixed Drinks No Cov r Charge Eacevt Sat. One Mile "Nort heast of 38th St. ON ROAD 67

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Riverside Amusement Park and will be brought to th: recreation center soon, Quincy Miller, track manager

A last minute rush to the park before the autumn school term

starts has raised attendance figures. Last year’s records have been brok-

. Preparations are under way to accommodate a big crowd over Labor Day and during the first part of the

LET HOLLYWOOD WHISTLES BLOW

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 26.—The day of the thousand factory whistles may be over but Hollywood slavedrivers don’t know it. It’s the cameraman who blows the whistle on the movie sets here. And each has a different signal. Karl Struss, Bing Crosby cameraman, has an old-fashioned automobile horn. Victor Milner, on “Our Leading Citizen,” has a miniature siren. Theodore Sparkuhl, on “Rulers of the Sea,” also has a siren noise. He makes it with his mouth. The top man is George Barnes. When it’s time to go to work he plays “Stars and Stripes Forever” on a sweet potato.

WHEN DOES IT START?

APOLLO |

“Daughters Courageous,” with Garpeld.. Giuss Sae A 1 bec 6:18 and 9:57. Rhters, at,

“Naught But Niece,” with Ann Sheridan sand Y Dick Powell, at 1:09, 5 is

CIRCLE

“When _ Tomorrow Comes,” with Charlest Boyer and Irene ~Du s T1040, 4:35 7:35 and 10015, ne. 8b “The Forgotten Woman,” with Sigrid gure and po Bonald Briggs, at 12:40, 3:30,

LOEW'S “Winter Carnival,” with Ann Sheridan and Richa hard ‘Carlson, at 12:24,

3:49, 6:54 an “Miracles a Sale,” with Robert Young and Fayence Rice, at 11:27, 2:32,

5:37 an

NEIGHBORHOODS

12,000 Local Children Are Members of | Theater Clubs—They Must Have Fun

The first club was founded about 1931 by Earl Cunningham at the Fountain Square. He calls it the Birthday Club, sends birthday cards to the members. They can bring the cards to the theater and see a free show. The Strand is the smallest, but is probably the most active. Its club has a regular baseball team in the summer and a basketball team in the winter. Members have treasure hunts in the parking lot—what fun—and they make up their own games. They elect a boy and a girl president by popular applause once a year. There are more boys than girls by a six-to-four raito. Manager Claude Allison estimates that half-price admissions amount to about 35 per cent of the total take at a neighborhood theater. The high: point of each year’s activity is the annual picnic each theater holds for its club members. The Rivoli and Emerson will have its picnic Wednesday. Members will meet at’ the Rivoli at 10 a. m. for a free show. Then they'll go to Brookside Park to play games and eat ice cream and watermelon. “There’ll be a police escort and a safety lecture by Sergt. A. G. Magenheimer of the Accident Prevention Bureau. The Strand Theater was to have its picnic today. The program would be about the same, with Sergt. Magenheimer on deck there, too. A # ” » OTES with one eye open: Watch for that youngster at the Oriental Theater who lives the parts on the screen. He follows the serials. He sits in the front ‘row and when someone is shot he grabs his stomach and yells: “Ouch!” .. . Jim Kennedy has a new policy at the St. Clair. Instead of changing shows three times a week he’s cut out the smaller productions and runs two big movies. Family nights come Monday through Wednesday. . . . Carl Niesse has just finished the busiest week of any year. He’s been buying 1940 pictures for the Olson theaters and his own Vogue. . Harry Markun of the Talbott and a friend stopping to get a drink of soda pop and locking the keys in his car. Trying all kinds of devious means of getting in and: finally seeing a policeman do it with a crooked stick... . Claude Allison of the Strand got five bass yes- . terday. One was five and a half pounds. They were all caught within seven miles of the City limits.

s ” » HE week-end schedule follows:

AVALON—Toni ht: “Kid From Texas” and “King of hinatown.” Tomorrow through uesday: ‘‘Only Angels Have wines: and ‘Jones Family in Holly-

BELMONT—Toni ht: “Gracie Murder Case’ and “Five Came Tomorrow through a uesday: Finds a Son’ and “Mikado.

CINEMA—Tonight:

Allen Back.” “Tarzan

Da Like It

AN § PRISCILLA LANE | ROSEMARY LANE LOLA LANE GALE PAGE

ANN GHERID

HERE are about 60,000 Indianapolis folk under 14 years of age. There are almost 12,000 of them in kiddie clubs in the city. They are represented primarily in four theaters—the Fountain Square, with an enrollment of 5000, the Rivoli and Emerson with the same number and the Strand with 1700.

Hot” and “Man With 8 a Hundred Faces.” Tomorrow throu ugh day: “It's a Wonderful World” and i Bay Friend.”

DAISY—Tonight: “Charlie in Reno’ and “Lone Star Pioneers.” Tomorrow and Monday: “The Sun Never Sets” and “Five Came Back.” EMERSON—Tonight: “No Man of Her Own’”’ and ‘Street of Missing Tomorrow through Wednesday: Like It Hot” oy “Invitation to Happi-

ness.’

FOUNTAIN SQUARE—Tonight. hough Tuesday: “Tarzan ds and “Missing Daughters.” GRANADA—Tonight and tomorrow: “Kid From Kokomo” and ‘‘Sweepstakes Winner.” HOLLYWOOD. Toniehts “Cassidy of Bar 2” and “Disbarred.’”” Tomorrow ifrouth, I Tuesday: Tea and ‘Some e es TonlghEs “Man of Conquest” and '‘The Gorilla.” Tomorrow and Monda, “Only Angels Haye Wings” and “Charlie an in Reno ‘ PARAMOUNT—Tonight: “Tore y Runs for Mayor” and “Durango Vallgy Raiders.” Tomorrow and onday ‘‘Alexander Graham Bell” and “Romance of the Redwoods. REX—Tonight: “Let Freedom Ring” and “Mr. Moto on Danger Island.” Tomorrow through Tuesday: ‘Calling Dr. Kildare” ay % Invitation to Happiness.” RITZ—Tonight: “Susannah of the Mounties” and ‘‘Whisperin, Enemies. 3 Tomorrow through: Wedne esday oodbye, Mr. Chips’ and ‘““Tell No Virales. 2.L RIVOLI—Tonight: a Vacation” oe Last show only: Tomorrow throu From Kokomo” and * ST. CLAIR—Toni ht and tomorrow: “Tarzan Finds a n' and “Man of Conquest.” : SANDERS—Tonight: “Family Next Door” and “Lone tSar Pioneers.” Tomorrow and Monday: “Only Angels Have Wings” and “On Trial. SPEEDWAY—-Tonight: ‘Some Like It Hot” and ‘‘Trouble in Sundown.” To= morrow through Auetdays “You Mr. Lance and ‘Girl From Mexico.” RAND—Tonight and tomorrow: aren Finds a Son” and ‘‘Goodbye, Mr.

“The Family Next and “Souls Sea.” Tomorrow through Tuesday: ’ «Calling Dr. Kildare and “The Gorilla.’

TALBOTT—Toni nt: Happiness” and Tomorrow through Taesday: and “Stunt P.

a or You Can't Get Away With Murder” and ‘Boy Friend.” Tomorrow through WW ednesaay Wa of Fear” and Tarzan Finds a

UPTOWN—Tonight: * 2 Son "About Town’ and “Undercover Doctor.” Tomorrow through Wedne sday: ‘‘Tarzan Finds, a Son” and ' ‘Gracie Allen Murder ase

VOGUE—Tonight: “The Beachcomber” and ‘“The Lady’s From Kentucky. morrow through Wednesday: Wonderful World” and ‘Boy Prien

ZARING- Tonight! “Huckleberry Fone and ‘Hound of Baskervilles. ” Tomorr through Wednesday: ‘‘The Mikado” Pd

“The Sun Never Sets HALVES OF $100 Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 26. — “The Roaring Twenties” was the scene today of much back-slapping when James Cagney and Frank McHugh Sompared halves of the same $100 ill. The “till we meet again” gesture started several years ago .when Messrs. Cagney and McHugh “were working in “Here Comes the Navy.” They started with a $5 note and in-

creased the ante with additional successes.

DANCE. SWIM \

WESTLAKE

Louie Lowe’s Orch. -

Dancing Nightly Except Monday

“Mr. Moto Takes “Missing The Hawi. o ch Ey and the Haw we,

Wednesday “The Mikado.”

TACOMA—Toni htt Door’

Mara ation to n Who Dared.” “San Francisco”

Matinee 2:15 Two Shows

HOLLYWOOD

By PAUL HARRISON

Producer Who Believes World's Too Sad Puts Laurel and Hardy in Silly Symphony

it is a comedy in music, the latter being as much of a universal medium as pantomime. “These are troubled times,” said the stocky Russian, “and there is in the world enough sadness already. So I am not making a picture with a message and with everybody dying in it. I am making what is like a Silly Symphony, using human actors. © “If this picture is not good, 1 will not lose much. The proper music, I think, a few strings or a harmonica even, can take the place of many big, expensive sets. But I think it will be good.” 2 8 = T will be good if the spirit of the company can make it so, because this unit is working in a - co-operative fashion never seen Before in Movietown. The director, Eddie Sutherland, the cast and the crew will all have a share in the profits, if any. ‘And they all have a hand in the production, not alone as workers, but as idea men. Mr. Morros’ office door is always open and anybody from the messenger boys up can walk right in with a suggestion. ; Each evening, after the day's shooting, cast and crew crowd into the office to discuss ideas and bits of dramatic business to be woven into the next day’s sequences. Electricians, makeup men, script clerk —all are invited to Speak up, and they do. The other day Mr. Morros grave= ly passed around for their inspection some sketches of new costumes for Jean Parker. A carpenter said he thought one of the gowns was a little too fussy. Others agreed. The designer removed some of the frills. This company is never confused in its work by the filming of disconnected scenes. “The Flying Deuces” probably is the first film in 20 years to be shot faithfully in sequence and cut as it goes along. : 2 8 8 “rP there are any retakes,” sald

“we make them at the time and not after the picture is supposed to be finished! This way, there is no mystery, and even the least performer knows what is going on, “But this music—take for instance our jail scene: Laurel and Hardy are in this jail waiting to be executed at sunrise, and they are talking, and pretty soon Hardy begins kind of picking at the springs on his cot, and he finds it gives off notes like a harp. So he plays ‘The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise.’ Of course we got a harpist on the set to play the “music really.” Maybe all this is good business. It certainly is a refreshingly new spirit.

TRACY SINGS AGAIN

Spencer Tracy, playing Maj. Robert Rogers in “Northwest Passage,” sings his first song since “Captains Courageous.”

PARA Partita) ELST 55

THE BEST PICTURE OF THE YE Robt. Donat, ‘‘GOOD-BYE, MR.

LOU AMBERS [HENRY ARMSTRONG

NEL WEIGHT CHA

LUCILLE ABBEY WITH

JAZZTIME REVUE

+ "AND CHORUS OF LOVELY GIRLS

and 9 P. M. Continuous on. Sunday

Mr. Morros, pounding his desk, #

e Ravel, “Mr. Wong n "Chinatown" ?

OLLYWOOD, Aug. 26.—After more than 16 years at Paramount ‘as musical director and an associate producer, Boris Morros now is making his own pictures. . He always thought of himself as a show’ man, anyway—a view shared by the rest of Hollywood. So now Mr. Morros has his own producing outfit, and his first picture is a Laurel and Hardy comedy. By no means a musical comedy,

Lasky Seeks Local Talent

Producer to Audition (Here On Sept. 16 and 17.

ducer, will visit Indianapolis Sept. 16 and 17 on his third “Gafgway to Hollywood” talent hunt. Mr. Lasky will be preceded by Terry Turner, who will interview

prospects in the Indianapolis area. The producer intends to pick nine girls and nine boys from the 12 cities included in the tour. They will be given trips to Hollywood with all expenses paid and a $25 a week allowance. In Hollywood they will be given additional dramatic and voice training and will get screen tests. The two winners will be given $125 a week contracts with RKO Pictures. every opportunity, according to Mr. Lasky, for screen tests and contracts with other companies.

Jesse L. Lasky, cintaols pro-

Mr. Turner said Mr. Lasky is|=

particularly interested in persons from little theater groups. He listed three requirements: = Applicants should have the ability to read prepared lines clearly, with some notion of the dramatic value; they should have good looks and. a passable physique, and personality. Both Mr. Lasky and Mr. Turner will make their headquarters at the Claypool Hotel. They will give public ‘and private auditions.

The other 16 will have|

Train Woes Halt Norma ,

'Stranded' in South France, Mayer Told Via Phone.

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 26 (U. P.) — Norma Shearer informed Louis B. Mayer, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer vice president, by trans-Atlantic telephone yesterday that she was stranded in south France because of difficulty in obtaining transportation out of the country. Mr. Mayer reported he reached the actress by telephone after two days of trying to reach her. Miss Shearer informed him she had been trying for days to obtain’

from Antibes, but the number of trains available to the public was restricted and she could not get a place. The actress said she had a tentative reservation on a train leaving Sunday and if nothing happens she will be in Paris Monday. Miss Shearer said she had been trying to arrange passage on a hoat back to the United States but thus far she has found, all accommodations are taken. Mr. Mayer reported he talked to the actress for about 12 minutes, after which the overseas operator

reservations on a train ‘for Paris|

cut them off without explanation.

GOLDWYN LOANS JAMES ROOSEVELT

a—— HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 26 (U. P)~ Samuel Goldwyn loaned the serve ices of his vice president, James ° Ropsevelt, to the Association of

: Motion Picture Producers today to

make a special survey of the Hollye wood studios’ problems. - Mr. Roafevelt, eldest son of the President, .will study problems cone.

fronting ‘the motion picture proe ducers. ‘

YOUNG TRAGEDIAN

When he s only 15, Robert Preston played the title role of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”. .in Mrs. Patia Powers stock company.

CIRCLE

RENE CHARLES

JILL PIs 3, V V/A QS th “Forgotten Woman”

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TONIGHT AND TOMORROW

Johnny Weissmuller

“TARZAN FINDS A SON”

Robert Donat—Greer Garson

“GOODBYE MR. iid

Hugh Herbert—JSoy Hodges “THE FAMILY NEXT DOOR” Geo. Raft “SOULS AT SEA

Sunday—Lew Ayres—Lionel Rarrymore

“CALLING DR. KILDARE” Ritz Bros. “THE GORILLA”

Paramount 'N. Jersey & Wash.

Glenda Farrell Barton MacLane “TORCHY RUNS FOR MAYOR” And “DURANGO VALLEY RAIDERS”

3 SMASH UNIT SHOW 1—Peter Lorre—Jos. Schildkraut “MOTO TAKES A VACATION” 2—Richard Arlen—Rochelle Hudson Isabel Jewell “Missing Daughters” 3—Tom Kennedy—"“Quiet Please” .

EXTRA ‘died fo tus Fredric Mareh—Cary Grane 8 Carole Lombard—Jack Oakie “EAGLE AND THE HAWK” Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Pat: OBrien—Wayne Morris “KID FROM KOKOMO” Gilbert & Sullivans’ “THE MIKADO” Kenny Baker

: Clark Gable-Carole Lombard “N F HER OWN” “STREET OF MISSING MEN” And! L. Friel “MAIOR

Sun. Thru W. ‘SO! J “INVITATION TO HAPPINESS”

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UXEDO Warden Lawes “Can’t Get Away Wi » Jane Withers “BOY FRIEND” Sunday “HOUSE OF FEAR” “TARZAN FINDS A SON”

SOUTH SIDE

“MAN OF CONQUEST” Ritz Bros. “THE GORILLA”

unday—Cary Grant—Jean Arthur “ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS “C. C ‘IN 'RENO”

“NE/OHB ORHOOD 3

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NORTH SIDE

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To All Cronight “Love Star Pioneers” Synday—Cary Grant—Jean. Arthur”

: “ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS” Jo “ON TRIAL”

Pros. & thurtehman Adults, 15¢; cuit,

— Ava lon Dennis O’Kee

“KID FROM TEXAS” “KING OF CHINATOWN”

ngay—Cary Grant—Jean Arthur £. ANGELS HAVE WINGS” és Family In Hollywood”

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DAY—Continuous m. 1: As ADULTS, )Se——KIDDIES, J. Weismuller—M. O’Sul HT

3 Hs SON

hard Dix—Gail Patrick

“MAN OF CONQUEST”

Matinee Sunday—Adults 15¢ Till 2

Chas. Laughton WANE “LADY'S FROM SENTUOKY”

. & Delaware Lies Ro Cinema “shi ws “SOME LIKE IT HOT’, “MAN WITH 100 FACES” Continuous Daily from 1:30 si hs SB BY ACTER EEA SUSANNAH OF THE MOUNTIES”? “WHISPERING ENEMIES”

UPTOWN 42ND & COLLEGE J. Benny “MAN ABOUT TOWN” “UNDERCOVER DOCTOR”

31st & Northwestern Air-Conditioned Nelson Eddy

“LET FREEDOM RING” “MOTO ON DANGER ISLAND” Sun. “CALLING DR. KILDARE” “INVITATION TO HAPPINESS”

Zaring Central at Fall Crk.

key Dooney alter . “HUCKLEBERRY FINN" “HOUND OF BASKERVILLES® Sunday—Kenny Baker—Jean Colin “THE MIKADO”

“THE SUN NEVER SETS”

TALBOTT TUE 31 a ed urra “INVITATION TO HALE S’ y. Jane Bryon “THE MAN WHO

_MAN_WHO DARED”

~ WEST SIDE

BELMONT *=iiaies

“GRA ALLEN MURDER : conc Morris FIVE CAME BACK”

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