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Show : TOUCHDOWN' IS NEXT THRILLER : COMING HERE t To enjoy a football game as no stadium-sitter, even the most foot-ball-u ise stadium-sitter, could enjoy en-joy it is the privilege offered to audiences by the Rivoli Theatre in the presentation there Sunday, Monday and Tuesday of "Touchdown "Touch-down !" For this picture, devised and played by the most impressive assemblage as-semblage of gridiron and film authorities ever to be called into a "huddle" on a pigskin-screen production, pro-duction, takes the beholder right into the hearts of those excited heroes and near-heroes who prepare pre-pare and serve up the great American Saturday - afternoon thrill-dish. .No Kovrr Hoy Finale "Touchdown!" is a football story which (at last) does NOT attain its effects through a last-minute, heroic he-roic dash across the opponents' grimly-defended goal-posts. The glory, and exaltation rather, is wholly moral; and unattended by the customary winning of the crucial cru-cial game. In fact, in "Touch-i "Touch-i down !" the home team actually LOSES the final game. By employing the talents of men who know their football and who know their human - nature, Paramount Para-mount here presents, in effectively touchinig realism, the inside goings on, the fears and joys, the pain and glory of an heroic national pastime. Arlfii and Slnrrett Heroes; Richard Arlen, himself a college footballer before joining the aviation avia-tion forces in the World War, is the central figure in the story a coach who builds up a great team, and loses his final game because : of a moral precept. Colonel Tim McCoy, the screen's clashing western star and idol of j many a young boy, is appearing Saturday at the Rivoli Theatre in j "Shotgun Pass," a Columbia pic-i pic-i turc. It is a story of vengeance and romance in which range wars play ah important part in developing develop-ing and unraveling the plot complications. com-plications. A herd of stampeding horses is said to furnish much excitement. ex-citement. Production officials re-I re-I port that they were rounded up by Tim McCoy and a band of men from a herd of wild outlaw horses j who had strayed from small j ranches and were roaming at will f in the back ranges of the Sierras. ' Tim McCoy enacts the leading role that of a courageous young ranchman who, through the cowardly cow-ardly murder of his father, is precipitated pre-cipitated into a series of range wars. His hostile neighbors are , played by Joe Marba, Monty Van-( 1 dergrift and Ben Corbett. Virginia Lec Corbin, who will be remembered remember-ed by many for her charming contributions con-tributions to the screen as a juvenile juven-ile actress, plays the leading feminine fem-inine role. |