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Show JUDY GARLAND GETS TOUGH . . . Brings law and order to the wild and woolly west as one of the famous Harvey Girls in the picture of that name which starts Sunday at the Mario. John Hodiak, Angela Lansbury and Ray Bolger support her. Judy Garland Stars At Mario Judy Garland adds another triumph tri-umph to a success-filled career as the spirited Harvey House waitress on the rampage against gambling and crooked rule in "The Harvey Girls," brilliant musical-western which opens at the Mario Theatre Sunday. The story takes its inspiration from some of the early day exr periences of the famous chain of Harvey restaurants that pioneered pione-ered the West by the side of the Santa Fe railroad. Opposed to the law and order which one of these eating huoses brings to Sandrock, N. M are Ned Trent (John Hodiak) and Sam Purvis (Preston Foster), who array the forces of their dance hall and gambling establishment to effect the removal of the Harvy girls. They meet their match, however, how-ever, in Susan Bradley (Judy Gardand), who not only converts the bad element of he town into law-abiding citizens, but wins the love of Trent against the tough compeition of Em (Angela Lansbury), worldly wise star of the Alhambra dance hall. Although Director George Sid- ney has given the melodrama of the plot a tongue-in-check humor, there are many thrills, including a knockout brawl be- The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be. Socrates tween Hodiak and Foster, and a spectacular climatic scene in which the Harvey ' House is burned to the ground. The picture is filmed against picturesque Technicolor scenes of the pioneer west and boasts a widely varied musical score, in eluding the ever-popular "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe." Miss Garland is aided in her songs and dances by such stellar specialists as Ray Bolger, Virginia Vir-ginia O'Brian and Cyd Charisse. |