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Show SUPERB FILMS ARE BOOKED AT RIVOLI THEATRE In casting for "She Goes to War!" which comes to the Rivoli theater on Sunday-Monday Henry King had in mind but one idea. He ; would cast his people for the pro- ; duction from the ranks of screen , players but he would cast them first from the angle of the individual individ-ual performance for each rcle. This naturally necessitated much more time and care than is necessary neces-sary for the average motion picture. pic-ture. But it was nevertheless very successful. King selected Eleanor Boardman to portray the role of Joan Morant, the featured feminine player in the cast. Joan Morant is a very distinctive dis-tinctive character in that her wealth, social distinction and prestige pres-tige in the small town wherein she resides, mark her an individual of unusual interest. In her own social set she reigns as queen and is looked upon by her townsfolk as about the very highest type of young woman. But there : are occasions when she does display what might be a trace of snobbishness. snobbish-ness. Then, too, when she undertakes to enter war work, another of her personal traits reveals 'itself and so on until the spectator is permitted per-mitted to catalog her entire personality. person-ality. John Holland, leading man for Miss Boardman, who plays the role of Pike, is practically new to the screen. In him, King saw the typical typ-ical American leading man, Holland Hol-land has a personality that reflects ' from the screen and "smacks" the spectator right in the eyes and his role is one that is marked with many touches of "humanness." God's gift to the ladies and the devil's present to his enemies! That's "The Flying Fool," who, ir the person of William Boyd, will dc his stuff at the Rivoli theater foi two days, Wednesday and Thursday. Thurs-day. From advance reports this all-talking all-talking air drama is a thrilling dramatic dra-matic and humorous entertainment that is just about the best thing in which the Pathe star has appeared this season. It is said that the role fits Boyd perfectly and, with an excellent ex-cellent supporting cast, including Marie Provost, Tom O'Brien and Russell Gleason, he gives a performance per-formance that is full of dramatic high lights as well as hearty laughs. A realistically sustained terror and a grim suspense make "Desert Nights," John Gilbert's new M-G-M film with synchronized score and sound effects, which opens at the Rivoli theater Friday ad Saturday. It tells a vivid and gripping story of three individuals at the mercy of the primitive wastes of an African Af-rican desert. Writhing in anguish, for the want of a little water, and suffering untold agonies of fear, these three are gripped in a veritable verit-able orgy of terror. The film depicts de-picts their suffering and their fear with a start lingly dramatic realism real-ism and it also carries a most unusual un-usual love theme. Each of the three characterizations stand out in bold clear-cut lines. "The Desert Rider," vivid drama of the early west, as Tim McCoy's new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture, coming Tuesday to the Rivoli theater. thea-ter. It is a tensely interesting story of the white settlers in lower California Cali-fornia shortly after that state was admitted into the union and deals with an amazing mail robbery. Raquel Torres is the heroine, and Bert Roach, Edward Connelly, Harry Har-ry Woods and others of note are in the cast- Nick Grinde directed. |