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Show HIT THE DECK' BIG FEATURE BOOKED HERE Although the sUge version of "Hit the Deck" was admittedly one of Broadway's biggest hits, it only could suggest the immense scope, color and narrative appea! of Radio Pictures' screen version, coming to the Rivoli theater Sunday air.' Monday. For instance, the "Hallelujah' song on the stage was a solo. In the picture it has grown into a negro spiritualist meeting inter-ers inter-ers and dancers. Four new songs prete by a chorus of 100 negro sing-have sing-have been added to the original score. The entire naval base at San Diego, Cal., is used for a background, back-ground, which, on the stage, was represented by a painted back drop. Tha legitimate cast numbered about 100 the screen has utilized approximately a thousand. Three of the largest motion pic-. pic-. ture sets ever built . . a life-size village, a replica of the deck of a battleship and a negro tabernacle, by comparison were only suggested on the stage. As a finishing touch, "Hit the Deck" is partially screened screen-ed in techrnicolor. It is the unwritten law of talking pictures that Broadway's biggest favorites will sooner or later become be-come the favorites of America's millions everywhere. The most recent example of this is the case of Clayton, Jackson and Durante. Here are three geniuses of amusement who are probably more the exact type of the kind of performer per-former Boardway breeds .than any other particular group of actors. They have been trouping their way forward by the night club route for seven years. In Paramounl's all-talking laugh-riot, laugh-riot, "Roadhouse Nights," the team that Broadwayites have raved over gets irf; chance Ho do its stuff for the rib-tickling benefit of the millions who have never, had the opportunity of becoming Broadwayites. Broad-wayites. Helen Morgan and Charles Rug-gles Rug-gles are co-featured in the romantic leads, Helen as a bootlegger's sweetheart a girl whose man done done her wrong and Charlie is the same type that made him famous on the talking screen, the drunken reporter type of "Gentlemen of the Press." It's ail red-hot, sock 'em and rock 'em rioting, and it is coming to the Rivoli theater Wednesday and Thursday next. |