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Show ViaORYTHEATOE That expert exponent of outdoor action, Buck Jones, will head a promised pro-mised parade of thrills and excite ment when his latest Columbia production, pro-duction, "The Man Trailer," shows at the Victory theatre Friday and Saturday of this week as one feature of another big double bill. Buck, who numbers among his fans more than a million schoolboy-age yohngsters, enacts en-acts the role of an outlaw who breaks away from his renegade companions to become marshal of a little western west-ern town. Opposite Buck is lovely little Cecilia Parker, whose blonde charms are sufficient reason for any one to desert a career of crime. She is well cast in the role of a very attractive at-tractive but determined young lady, a character that sparkles with personality per-sonality such as is unfortunately, usually usu-ally missing in such supporting roles. A spinster schoolmistress from Iowa gives lessons in sleuthing to seasoned big city detectives and a police inspector when she solves the baffling murder mystery in "Murder on the Blackboard," with Edna May Oliver and James Gleason, shown as the other feature of the double bill for Friday and Saturday. . Stuart Palmer's popular mystery novel unravels un-ravels the murder of a pretty music teacher in a schoolroom. Hildegarde Withers, the mid-Victorian teacher, summons Inspector Piper, and together to-gether they turn up many clues and four suspects. Piper accuses the school janitor, but Hildegarde is wary. When she sees a musical exercise written by the victim before her death, she forms an opinion, sets a clever trap and nabs the killer after passing through harrowing situations. His wife wanted him to retire and play a little ... but all play and no work makes Will a wild boy. That, in brief, is the story of Will Rogers' latest picture, "Handy-Andy," coming com-ing to the Victory theatre Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Advance reports re-ports from the previews say this is the funniest comedy of his career. And the highlights of the story bear this out. Will is getting along comfortably com-fortably in his drug store, when his wife, Peggy Wood, persuades him to sell out. First he takes up pigeon raising, but he has to stop that when his pets fly all over the house. Next he takes up golf, with uproarious results. re-sults. Then his wife and daughter, Marv Carlisle, persuade him to at tend the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. That's when things really begin to ! happen. Will 'begs off from attending attend-ing the Comus costume ball. Wandering Wander-ing around alone, he gets acquainted with a fellow druggist and his dashing dash-ing girl friend, Conchita Montenegro. A few cocktails makes him change his mind about the ball, and he attends at-tends with Conchita, choosing a Tar-zan Tar-zan leopard-skin costume. A few more cocktails help persuade him to do an hilarious adagio dance with Conchita and the ball breaks up in a riot. With Elissa Landi, Joseph Schild-kraut Schild-kraut and Frank Morgan in the principal featured roles, Columbia's daring drama, "Sisters Under the Skin", comes to the Victory Wednesday Wednes-day and Thursday of next week. The production has for its central theme the love of a married man, a multimillionaire multi-millionaire business leader, for a showgirl with whom he goes to Paris on a vacation. He is approaching the fiftieth year of his life and due to the press of his affairs and an unsympathetic, un-sympathetic, socially-minded wife, has never had a recess from his toil. Frank Morgan will be seen as the modern industrial tycoon who seeks to escape from the grind of business, and Elissa Landi as the girl who accompanies ac-companies him on his trip. In Paris they meet a young composer, Joseph Schildkraut, with ' whom the girl falls deeply in love. She cannot go to him because of her sense of loyalty to the millionaire who has provided her with the happiest days of her life. a |