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Show "Street Girl" With Betty Compson Is Rivoli Attraction A spirited an tuneful drama that clearly shows the possibilities of the new-form musical film, enter- : tainment is the Radio Picture, "Street Girl," which opens Tuesday Tues-day for a three-day run at the Rivoli theater. The picture is distinctive dis-tinctive in that the movement of the story and the musical sequences se-quences are naturally dependent and correlated. Betty Compson, who has reached new heights through tho. medium of talking pictures, heads the cast of well-known players. This talented tal-ented star possesses a rich, sweet voice and a wealth of dramatic power. Her role in "Street Girl" is regarded as the greatest characterization charac-terization of her career. Miss Compson is seen as a girl of the streets who obtains employment employ-ment as a violin player and entertainer enter-tainer in a small Hungarian cafe in New York's East Side. The abilities abil-ities of the little group of musicians with whom she works is finally recognized rec-ognized after an unpromising start. Success obtains for them a night club of their own after a series of disheartening experiences. Miss Compson is wall qualified to play this particular part, for she started her professional career as a violinist violin-ist on a western vaudeville circuit. "Street Girl" was adapted from W. Carey Wonderly's story, "The Viennese Charmer,' a dramatic and I realistic tale of that little kiown, but intensely human district, New York's "Little Hungary," Jane Muffin Muf-fin wrote the dialogue, and through it brought a poignant and authentic transcription of life in that section, sec-tion, i . I Life backstage in thrce-a-day vaudeville, where the painted smile is erased and the mask of the footlights foot-lights is dropped, where puppets of pleasure become human beings again, is strikingly portrayed in a .manner that reaches right to your heart in Universal's "Melody Lane," starring Eddie Leonard, minstrel king, with Josephine Dunn, which opens Friday and Saturday at the Rivoli theater. ' "Melody . Lane,' written by Joe Swerling whose play "Kibitzer" was a recent New York success, is an exceptionally human story blended with Leonard's minstrel and ballad singing which served; to introduce three new song hits, "Beautiful," "Sugar Cane 'Round My Door" and "The Bogie Man Am Here.' What is declared by sound engineers engi-neers to be a veritable triumph for Fox Movietone was achieved with the successful recording of the first sound and dialog scenes ever filmed on a moving railroad train. This will provide new and thrilling sound sensations for motion picture pic-ture audiences throughout the world. Johnny Mack Brown and Marguerite Mar-guerite Churchill, playing the romantic ro-mantic leads in "The Valiant," were the principals in the poch-making event, which was engineered by William K. Howard, prominent Fox Films diroctor. "The Valiant" is to be a forthcoming attraction at the Rivoli theater Sunday and Monday. |