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Show V1CT0RYTHEATRE Nothing was left undone to , make the big race sequences accurate ac-curate in Joe E. Brown's latest comedy for First National's "Six Day Bike Rider," which comes to the Victory theatre Friday and Saturday of this week. Frank Hagney, former Australian bike champ, was selected to handle the technical phase of the film. A group of the country's most prominent promi-nent bike racers also rode in the race sequences. Among them are Lou Rush, winner of the Los Angeles race; Cecil Yates, Tony Schaller and Steve Wagner all names familiar to followers of the spore. The Victory theatre has booked what is reported to be a colorful and excitingly romantic picture in "Men of the Night", featuring Bruce Cabot and Judith Allen, which comes to the Victory as the other Friday and Saturday feature. Based upon the problems of one of the five thousand girls who go to Hollywood annually from all sections sec-tions of the country in the hope of becoming motion picture stars, it blends tragedy, romance and excitement ex-citement into a story that is said to be a series of thrills from beginning be-ginning to end. In the cast, besides Bruce Cabot and Judith Allen, are Ward Bond, Charles Sabin, Walter Wal-ter McGrail, Matthew Betz, Lucille Lu-cille Ball and Arthur Rankin. When audiences see Francis Lederer struck down and run over by a taxi in one of the street scenes of "Romance in Manhat-tan,"coming Manhat-tan,"coming to the Victory Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, they will be witnessing a genuine accident that was not written into the script of the RKO-Radio romance drama. It happened when Lederer, who is a sticker for realism, insisted in-sisted that he be allowed to fight his way through speeding traffic in a street scene instead of having the scene "faked." As result, he was struck by a taxi, the wheels of which passed over his feet and ankles. By a stroke of luck, he received only a few bruises. A humorous touch was given to the incident by the star. He declared the only reaction to the car passing pass-ing over him, was to say to himself: him-self: "Goodness, I thought they were heavier." Ginger Rogers is co-starred in "Romance in Manhattan," Man-hattan," which has Arthur Hohl, J. Farrell Macdonald, Jimmie Butler, But-ler, Helen Ware and Eily Malyon in the cast. Although it first made its debut on Broadway in 1904, the play version ver-sion of "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Cab-bage Patch," which Paramount has just made into a film, and comes Wednesday and Thursday of next week at the Victory, remains consistently con-sistently popular throughout the United States. The play made its debut on the New York stage just thirty years ago, and ran steadily for eighteen months. Mabel Taliaferro, Talia-ferro, as a child actress, gained her initial fame in it, playing the role of Lovely Mary, before she went on to success in "Polly of the Circus." Featuring Pauline Lord, noted stage actress, who makes her film debut in "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch," in the title role, the film presents W. C. Fields, ZaSu Pitts, Evelyn Ven-able, Ven-able, Kent Taylor and five of Hollywood's juvenile stars in the supporting roles. o |