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Show Attractions At The Theaters John Wayne, Marsha Hunt and John Mack Brown head the cast of "Born to the West," the Zane Grey action romance opening Friday Fri-day at the Ritz theatre. It was directed by Charles Barton. Lynne Overman, popular comedian come-dian of the frog voice, appears in a leading role in the forthcqm-ing forthcqm-ing "Night Club Scandal," the new mystei-y film which will open Friday at the Ritz theatre. Overman Over-man plays the part of a newspaper news-paper reporter, Russell Kirk, in the picture. The cast of "Night Club Scandal" Scan-dal" is headed by John Barry-more, Barry-more, and includes, besides Overman, Over-man, Charles Bickford, Louise Campbell, Harvey Stephens, J. Carrol Naish, Evelyn Brent, Elizabeth Eliza-beth Patterson, Cecil Cunningham, Cunning-ham, Barlowe Borlaria and John Sheehan. The film was directed by Ralph Murphy. Cole Porter has put rhythm into the Army, swing into a girls' college, and a few hot licks into Europe. In other words, he wrote the score for the first International musical, "Rosalie" the ultra-lavish musical extravaganza, co-starring Nelson Eddy and Eleanor Powell. The spectacular film comes to the Rivoli theatre for a two-day two-day showing Sunday and Monday. Mon-day. ' Porter contributed nine numbers num-bers to the new musical, including includ-ing "Close," an instrumental number. num-ber. The title song, "Rosalie," is sung by Nelson Eddy as he stands outside the girls' college dormitory, dormi-tory, singing to his love. He also sings '"Who Knows," and woos Miss Powell with the ballad, "In the Still of the Nig'ht." Miss Powell sings and dances to "I've a Strange New Rhythm Rhy-thm in My Heart." Eddy is accompanied ac-companied by his West Point football squad in singing "To Love or Not to Love," and "It's All Over but ' the Shouting." Humanizing history has been met with all the resources of a major studio in the filming of "Conquest," the story of Napoleon Napol-eon and the Polish Countess who was his great love, in w'hich Greta Garbo enacts the tragic Marie and Charles Boyer the Emperor, forced to desert her to marry a Hapsburg princess for reasons of state. This is Ohe Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film which is to be shown Friday at Saturday at the Rivoli theatre. Reams have been written about Garbo. interviewers have trailed her overseas. Still, the Swedish Sphynx remains a world mys-. tery and less is known about her by the public than is known of the earth's center. Every now and then some little fact arise here and there from j w'hich her friends have compiled a Hollywood list of "Things I never knew about Garbo." Here are some of Hollywood's Garboans, as her new picture "Conquest," attracts the public to the Rivoli theatre: She picks up stray cats, takes them to her dressing room and feeds them. She has a maid only while at work on a picture. She wears an old Swedish knitted knit-ted shawl between scenes. She hates to dress up and laments la-ments that she had to make her living by doing it. At home she relaxes in her oldest old-est and most comfortable clothes. |