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Show "Daddy Long Legs" Anions Features Coming To Rivoli The hope of every screen actress is to get a vehicle that is perfectly suited to her talents. An excellent actress may by sheer technique and ability, play a role that "isn't quite the type" and make it real and convincingbut con-vincingbut she can always do infinitely in-finitely better if the part fits her. In the case of Janet Gaynor, however, this hope has been realizednot real-izednot once but twice. The first time was when she played the memorable mem-orable "Diane" of "7th Heaven" a role that might have been written writ-ten to order for her unusual personality per-sonality and her wistful appeal. Now the lightning strikes a second sec-ond time in her latest vehicle, "Daddy Long Legs," opening at the Rivoli theater Sunday and Monday. As the immortal "Judy," the little orphan girl whose courage wins her eventual happiness, Miss Gaynor again has a part that measures up to her own high standards of poignant poig-nant charm. "The Cat Creeps," described as one of the greatest mystery stories in the history of stage or motion pictures, and adapted by Universal for the talking screen from John Willard's famous play, "The Cat and the Canary," forms the next attraction at the Rivoli theater, opening its engagement on Thursday Thurs-day and Friday. This thrilling production presents an all-star. cast, headed by Helen Twelve trees, and including such wel known screen artists as Raymond Ray-mond Hackett, Neil Hamilton, Lilyan Tashman, Jean Hersholt, Montagu Love, Lawrence Grant, Theodore Von Eltz, Blanche Fred-erici, Fred-erici, and Elizabeth Patterson. The blande Miss Twelvetrees, a recent recruit to motion picture? had previously achieved fame on the New York stage. The picture was directed by Rupert Julian, maker of many outstanding successes. "The Lion' Hunt," third of Wy-nant Wy-nant D. Hubbard's "Adventures In Africa" series, now playing at the Rivoli theater shows in detail the dangers encountered by the adventurer adven-turer in trapping specimens of the King of Beasts. While on his two-year two-year expedition into Rhodesia and Portuguese East Africa, Hubbard caught practically every species of American animal and reptile except the giraffe, which is not found in that section of the mysterious Dark Continent. |