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Show FIRMAGE THEATRE Friday and Saturday Described as a merry, mad whirlwind of mirth, "Merry-Go-Round of 1938", most recent of the comedy musicals, comes to the Firmage theatre Friday and Saturday. Satur-day. Hollywood has reached to Broadway and the airways for top-line talent with which to make, "Merry-Go-Round of 1938". In the principal featured roles of the production are BiJIy Hjbuse, Jrmmie Savo, world-famous clown and pantominist; Bert Lahr, Joy Hodges, sweetheart of the airways; air-ways; Mischa Auer, Alice Brady, Louise Fazenda and John King. A Popeye cartoon, a Metrotone News and another of the series ol special films of American progress pro-gress also will be shown. Sunday and Monday Before you do another thing because nothing can be as important import-ant as a laugh fest like this gather up the family and go to the Firmage theatre Sunday ,or Mcnday where "Stand In", Walter Wanger's hilarious comedy about Hollywood, is to be shown. Leslie Howard and Joan Blondell heati the roster cf stars in this hysterical hysteri-cal screen version of Clarence Budington Kelland's Saturday Evening Eve-ning Post story. The charming Leslie emerges as a simply swell comedian in the role of Atterbury Dodd, the shy, bespectacled banker bank-er who goes to Hollywood to take over the $10,000,000 Collossal studios and run them by the science of mathematics, and Joan is grand as the stand-in of the title who helps him over the Hollywood Holly-wood hurdles, helps him foil tht conspirators. Tuesday and Wednesday "Some Blondes Are Dangerous", coming to the Firmage theatre Tuesday and Wednesday, is the story of a prizefighter whose spectacular rise to fame blinds him to the true value of life. As result, he throws over the fine and loyal girl he really loves and marries mar-ries a glamorous grasping gold-djggerr gold-djggerr whose real aim is to use him as a means by which she may climb to fame on the Broadway stasre. In defeat, he regains his perspective and is reconciled with his bcyhood sweetheart, but only after he has tasted the dregs of humiliation and defeat. Principals in the cat include Xoah Beery jr.. William Gargan, Dorothea Kent, Nan Gray and Rowland Drew. Char-tor 2 of "Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars", and a cartoon also will i be shown. ' Thursday Gladys Swarthout, John Boles and John Barrymore head the cast of a witty comedy studded with j brilliant songs in "Romance in the Dark", which cornea to the Fir-j Fir-j mage theatre Thursday only. Miss Swarthout, in the role of the singer, sing-er, who must fir-it turn housemaid . and then princess to get her big , chance, and Boles, the stage favor-1 favor-1 ite who creates a bewitching Cinderella Cin-derella who later conquers his i heart, sing their way to romance while John BarrymoTe adds Mi comedy to the piece. Two come-, come-, dies also will shown. |