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Show 'Lilac Time' is One of Fine Offerings Coming To Rivoli j Acclaimed everywhere as one of the greatest film epics ever produced, pro-duced, "Lilac Time," First National's Nation-al's Colleen Moore-George Fitzmau-rice Fitzmau-rice special production, based on the ! tage play by Jane Cowl and Jane Murfin. has been booked for a fea. tured run at the Rivoli theater Tuesday and Wednesday. "L ilac Time" is by all odds a great special and the most pretentious in which Miss Moore has appeared to date. Already known as the screen's foremost comedienne, her role in this production establishes her on the topmost pinacle as a dramatic actress. The tenderness, pathos and realism of her characteriza- : tion of the little French girl makes , "Lilic Time" one of the most dis- cussed pictures of the year and the Rivoli is indeed fortunate in ob-taining ob-taining such an early booking. There are three places a man has a natural dislike of visiting ... a barber shop, hospital and prison. But Karl Dane and George K. Arthur had to go to all three places in the filming of "Brotherly Love," which is at the Rivoli theater as a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer comedy, Sunday Sun-day and Monday. In the opening scenes the famous funmakers are seen in a lady barber shop. They next are in a hospital and finally meet again in a colle-gite colle-gite penitentiary. A football game' between rival prisons furnishes the high-lights of the new laugh riot and Dane and Arthur, as gridiron gladiators, battle bat-tle for the honor of their "alma ma-ter" ma-ter" and the hand of the warden's pretty daughter. Jean Arthur (no relation to George) is the girl. Glenn Tryon, known as "the happiness hap-piness boy' comes to the Rivoli theater in his Universal-Jewel hit, "How to Handle Women," on Thursday Thurs-day only. Tryon is one of the newest stars to gain game in comedies and Carl Laerhmle, the head of Universal Pictures, rightly predicted that in a snort time ne wouia oe among the most popular players in the country. His brand of humor is absolutely original. Audiences who remember him In "Painting the Town" know his gifted gift-ed personality, while those who haven't seen him yet have a new and pleasurable treat In store for them. The part of the peanut-eating cartoonist in his new production produc-tion is by far the best thinp: he has done before the camera and one of the funniest film portrayals of the year. Airplane flights across the angry oceans being the vogue of adven-1 turesome spirits since "Lindy" proved so readily that the feat could be accomplished, it was inevitable that a photoplay packed with thrills, hazards of every nature and the fast action that delights the average spectator should be written around such a hop. A warm welcome is therefore anticipated an-ticipated for "Captain Careless." a melodramatic screen offering which comes to the Rivoli theater on Friday, Fri-day, presenting Bob Steele, FBO's popular athletic star, in the title role. |