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Show New Picture Tells Exciting Story On A French Warship A tt ip aboard a French battleship with a number of exciting doings thereon, is offered on the screen of the Rivoli theater Wednesday and Thursday in "The Night Watch," a First National picture starring Billie Dove, which is the present attraction at-traction there. Almost the entire action of the dramatic story takes place in the stateroom, gun turrets and on the decks of a modern cruiser, cruis-er, and almost an entire battleship was built inside the studio for close up scenes of the production. Enough thrills and excitement to last a lifetime are packed into a few reels of film in "The Whip." FivM National's picturization of the fa-mous fa-mous stage melodrama which opens- at the Aivoli theater Sunday and , Monday. For sheer, mile-a-minute melodrama, melodra-ma, deep-dyed villains, beautiful ncromes, name ihm um aim an other familiar components of melodrama melo-drama of this type, "The Whip" can scarcely be surpassed. It has train wrecks, a hero with amnesia, an automobile smash up, numerous falls from horses both unintentional un-intentional and otherwise, .enought plots to start twenty South American Ameri-can revolutions and divers other accompanying ac-companying highlights. Few films produced this year can boast of a better cast or more perfect per-fect acting than "Judgment of the Hills," the FBO Gold Bond showing at the Rivoli theater Sunday and acting throughout is splendid, every member of the cast filling their role to perfection, and acting as if they really meant their roles. . s Little Frankie Darro is superb as the kid brother and manages through his appealing manner to invest in-vest a difficult role and series of situations sit-uations with a heart interest it would not have had without his excellent ex-cellent performance. Virginia Valli gives, what is undoubtedly one of her finest performances as the school teacher whom Tad loves, and who eventually manages to infuse some selfrespect into the brother. "Rinty of the Desert," a Warner Bros, production, starring Rin-Rin-Tin. comes to the Rivoli theater next Saturday. The rousing western thriller is a Harvey Gates adaptation adapta-tion of a Frank Steele story. Ross -Lederman. who directed Rinty in "A Dog of the Regiment" and "A Race for Life," handled the megaphone mega-phone in "Rinty of the Desert." The cast includes Audrey Ferris, Carrol Nye, Paul Panzer and Otto Hoffman. Hoff-man. Rinty is cast as a deserted dog who finds a home with old man Marlowe and his granddaughter Mary, keepers of a dime museum. |