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Show VICTORYTHEATRE Wise-craekmjg mythological characters char-acters strut across the screen in "The Warrior's Husband" for one of the brightest of any of the film comedies presented in years. If you can imagine imag-ine a situation in which women completely com-pletely dominate the male and it is -he woman, really, who wears the trousers, then you have imagined only half of "The Warrior's Husband," Hus-band," at the Victory theatre Friday and Saturday of this week. The dialogue dia-logue is as sparkling as Burgundy and equally as refreshing. This Jesse L. La.ky production for Fox presents l-"rnest Truex as the diminutive male ivho is dominated by a race of brut-i-h Amazons who find their love .vhere they take it. There is no vatery courtship here, no romancing of the nuxlern type, for if a group of six-foot women, led by Elissa Landi, Marjorie Rambeau and Helene Madison, Madi-son, choose to raid a man's habitat, they descend upon him for the love of it and nothing el3e. Helene Madison, Madi-son, Olympic swimmer champion, :nakes her feature picture debut as a -Tgeant of the guards in "The Warrior's War-rior's Husband." "The (Whie. SL-terf" Metro-Gold- "yn-Mayer's new talking picture version ver-sion of F. Marion Crawford's undying romance, will be the attraction at the Victory for Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Helen Hayes ami Clark Gable are co-starred for the first time on the screen in the classic love tory and a prominent supporting ca.-t features Lewis Stone, Loui.-e dosser Hale, May Robson, Edward Arnold ami Aln Edwards, under thej direction of Victor Fleming, whoi filmed the successful Gable-Jean i Harlow talkie, "Red Dlift." In the! pre.-ent film. Miss Hayes plays the role of an aristocratic 'Italian girl .vho turns down the suitor of her father's choice in favor of a young "fficer in the Italian air force. When notified of his death at the front, .-he enters a convent. The story rises to a sensational climax when the lover returns and finds the girl's religious re-ligious vows and olstacle to hi" happines-s. Clive Brook, George Raft, Alison Skipworth and Hek-n Vinson are co-featured co-featured in "Midnight Club," picturi-zation picturi-zation of E. Phillip'' Oppenheim's melodrama of that title, which shows at the Victory Wednesday and Thursday, Thurs-day, October 11-12. The story is a breathless, rapid-fire tale of London society, upper-world an.l utvler-world, utvler-world, and centers about the efforts of an American dctedtive to break up a great y-wel-theft ring which has bepn preying with impunity on lord', md commoners alike. Raft, who heretofore here-tofore has always been portrayed as a "public enmy" on the screen, is this time on the sjde of the law. He plays the role of the detective. I'.iooks, too, does a compMo reversal i,l characterization. Always a "righteous" "right-eous" gentleman, he is this time cajt .-is leader of tho ring. Miss Vinson is the girl who work-s with him. Miss Skipworth has nn amusing rolo as a doughty duchess. Much of thi; act inn of the piece takes place jn the dipper club wlu'ch tho gang u.-s as a "front" for rts operations. Raft comes here, poking as nn American crook, and, after outwitting lirooks and Mi-;.--Vinson on several attenrpted thefts, i'ets himself accepted as a member of thc ring. His plans go awry when he finds hinviclf falling in love with tli'' girl, however, ami tho developments develop-ments from that time on are highly dr arrtat ic. n |