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IF YOU THINK it's been hot this last week, wait until the last two weeks of this month. It is then that Old Sol will beat furiously on Hoosierland and we'll see the hottest weather of the summer, according to Rushville's weather prophet, Mark Purcell. “The 73-year-old self-styled weatherman forecast last March that the summer would be unsettled with an abundance of rain and cool temperatures. He sald then, “If you want to have good old summer sun for your vacation, take it the last two weeks in August.” Mark, most of Rushville'’s 6000 people call him by his first name, has been handing out weather reports since ‘the winter of 1910. He claims 95 per. cent accurdcy in all of his predictions.

Began Work at 16

HE SAYS his weather predicting actually started in the fall of 1917. . “I was waiting in a loca] barbershop to get a haircut, watching an elderly gent having his whiskers shaved. When the barber finished the elderly man

“got out of the chair, took a bite from a plug of

chewing tobacco and said, ‘Get ready for one of the coldest winters we've had in a long while. “I made a mental note of it and waited,” Mark gald, “and.durned 1f the old gent wasn't right.” Mark said the next time he saw the elderly man he asked him how he judged the weather so accurately. a “Just watch the winds during the two equinoctial periods, March 21, 22 and 23 and Sept. 21, 22 and 23. That's the secret of it,” the elderly man said, “The following year I tried it,” Mark said, “and hit the weather right on the nose. Since that time 1 have been 95 per cent right,” A life residemt of Rushville, Mark was one of a family of 11.

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Hoosier Profile.

“It isn't unusual to get more than 100 telephone calls about the time of my prediction,” Mark says. “They all want to know what the weather will be like, and I tell them.” Mark gets his weather material from three weather vanes located in Rush county. One is at his sister's farm, Mrs, Margaret Gale, located two miles north of Rushville, the other two at different ends of the county. “In short,” Mark admits, “it's fairly easy to make the prediction the way I do it.” During the equinoctial periods, if the wind is from the south it will be a warm summer and mild winter, If the wind is from the north it will be varied in summer and disagreeable in winter. If the wind is from the west, it will be windy and stormiy in both summer and winter, and if the wind is from the east it will be disagreeable both summer and winter. Mark thinks Indiana is very likely to have a late fall this year, but doesn't want to be held to the prediction, “It's just my personal opinion,” he says. There's nothing official about it.” (By George Weldon.)

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starting Wednesd

PREVIEW—Starting at the top in this preview of the coming week's attractions, you have (left to right) Mary La Roche, one of the 16 Roxyettes in the Olsen & Johnson show opening at 8:30 p. m. tomorrow at Butler bowl; Chick Johnson, in Russian peasant: woman disquise, being- terrorized by Cossack Ole Olsen, same show; and Peggy Cummins and Victor Mature in “Moss Rose,” opening Thursday at the Circle, Van Heflin lower left) is behaving like a

cad to Joan Crawford in "Pos.

sessed,” opening ‘Wednesday at the Indiana; Deborah Kerr, caught 4in a spy ring, wakes from uneasy sleep in "The Adventuress,” the Lyric's Wednesday offering, and James Lydon carves the symbol of love in the bark of a trysting tree for Elizabeth Taylor in "Cynthia," at Loew's.

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Offers Super Dramatic Role

By HENRY BUTLER T LOOKS as if Joan Crawford will furnish the biggest dramatic moments in next week’ $ films when “Possessed” opens Wednesday at the Indiana. Miss Crawford is accustomed to roles in which she takes punishment. In “Pos-

sessed,”

the film's synopsis. a » »

IN THE FILM, she's in love with Van Heflin, who portrays a fickle and cynical playboy. The type is familiar, He's the kind of guy who says, “Sorry, Honey, but it's all over.” This time the playboy picks the wrong victim, Miss Crawford marries her wealthy employer, Raymond Massey, hoping wealth may prove a lure to hard-hearted Heflin, It doesn’t. After some stormy scenes, Joan calls on Van to have a showdown. When he brutally says the answer is finally and positively no, she shoots him. That settles that, and poor Joan is in for a long period of retribution, with some faint glimmer of hope in the future. Seems like they might give Miss Crawford a film in which she has a real good time for a change, # ” ” LOEW'S 18 bringing in a revival of “The Great Waltz” and “Cynthia,” a new film about young love, also on Wednesday. “The Great Waltz,” as fans will remember, has to do with the musical and romantic career of Johann Strauss, whose music turned the muddy, gray Danube to beautiful blde in the popular imagination. It stars Luise Rainer, Fernand Gravet and Miliza Korjus, that remarkably fine singer, “Cynthia” is the story of a teen-age girl of delicate health who rebels against being treated as an invalid. Elizabeth Taylor has the role, with George Murphy and Mary Astor as her parents sort of an odd combination, Young James Lydon is Cynthia's lively boy friend,

| whose influence helps Cynthia overcome the tyranny | of kindness at home. 8, Z. S8akall, Spring Byington

and Gene Lockhart are also involved in the pleas-

| antly sentimental proceedings.

» ” » . ONE OF THOSE complicated espionage films the British do so well comes to the Lyric Wednesday. It's “The Adventuress,” starring Deborah Kerr, last seen locally with Clark Gable in “The Hucksters.” In this J. Arthur Rank thriller about Nazi spies

she strikes back, for a change, and you can hardly blame her, judging from

OS —_———————————————————————————————————————————- operating through Eire during the war, Miss Kerr

has the role of a violently anti-British colleen. Since the film was made in England, it's not sur-

/ prising that Miss Kerr's sentiments change before

the end.

Meanwhile, she's been through some harrowing adventures with Trevor Howard, the co-star. Among other things, she burns up a little black book containing detailed plans for the allied invasion of Europe. It's a good thing she does, or we might still be fighting.

Also on the Lyric's coming menu Is “Heart aches,” & musical-murder-melodrama, With Sheila Ryan, Edward Norris, Chill Wills, Ken Farrell and James Seay in leading roles, the film has to do with radio-contract racketeering and such pleasantries as attempted murder in a studio during a broadcast. It features the “Heartaches” fune we all heard incessantly for weeks on our favorite Greasy Spoon's juke-box some time back. . »r w ETHEL BARRYMORE IS on the screen again in “Moss Rose,” which opens Thursday at the Circle. With a setting in London about 1005, the story concerns a Cockney chorus girl (Peggy Cummins) who falls in love with a wealthy aristocrat (Victor Mature), The interest seems to be mutual, There's only one minor difficulty. Girls Victor pays attention to in the film have a way of getting murdered, So in comes Scotland Yard, with Vincent Price, that he-demon of other films, as Inspector Clinner. Interesting clue: Beside each victim is a Bible with a significant passage marked by a moss rose. Not to point any finger of suspicion prematurely, Miss Barrymore has the role of Mr. Mature's Jealous mother. = On the same bill is “The Big Pix, " a picture about racketeering in sports, starring James Brown and Sheila Ryan, A The Times amusement page today and next Wednesday will list, as usual, current attractions in neighborhood theaters,

Shubert Brothers Plan New Shows

NEW YORK, Aug. 2~During the|1t will be up to the old pros to, Among the Shubert {imports from

war years, when money was sotkeep Broadway humming — and, plentiful that almost anyone could |ificidentally, the Shubert houses asand did become a theatrical pro-|sured of occupants. ~ Lee Shubert is just back from content to collect the rent from | Europe, his first trip since 1939, their many theaters, They didn’t|with a trunkful of production plans, function as producers often enough |and brother J. J. left for the other ‘ side almost immediately, But all that is going to be among the Shubert. productions will | revue changed this coming season. when be a new edition of the “Ziegfeld | drama Without |. it looks as though there won't be Poilias” which is planned for Oc- Gh Eh tn The show wil play "The Scuddievaigs.” :

ducer, the brothers Bhubert were

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Britain will be “Under the Counter,” a highly suécessful musical starring Cicely Courtneidge, who will come over here; a {arce comed, success called “ ‘Rush In" Novello’s ‘musical, “Perchance Dream,” to be done with the 8 o

Foremost | don cast; “Plecadilly Hayride,” a

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At Bowl

‘Laffing Room On’

Opens Tomorrow Ni: USIO takes & holiday strings next. week at E Bowl With the “Alda” costumes back to New York mothballs, { niclans today are preparing Bowl stage for Olsen and John" “Laffing Room Only,” openin seven-day run at 8:30 p. m Morrow. Hoosler “Ole” and his par’ “Chick,” In this second editic “Laing Room Only,” con what they started in shows “Hellzapoppin'” and “Sons 0’ ] It’s wholesale insanity in the ater, with ‘the element of sw predominating, But the pr show 1s more than just gags includes production. numbers, : as’ thet 16 Gae Foster Roxy:

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OTHER FEATURED perfor include Jung Johnson, “Chi daughter; Billy Young, Sha: Dean, ‘the 8alici Puppets, 1

Franklin, the Three Pitchmen tricia Basso, Leonard Sues, Ch: Seéfina, Michael Edwards, F Cook, J. C. Olsen, Florian La Fry

Don. Tompkins and Mason Cur.’

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