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Show IDEAL SCREEN TEAM COMING IN GREAT FILM "Ideal starring teanV'is what the theatrical and screen world said when it was announced that Slyvia Sidney, wistful, dark-eyed star of "City Streets." "Ladies of the Big House," "An American Tragedy" and -.'-Madame Butterfly;" and George Raft, smooth, slightly sinister sin-ister star of "Night After Night," I'Undercover Man," and "If I Had a Million," were to play together to-gether in a picture. The film is c "Pick Up," an adaptation adap-tation of Vina Delmar's Red Book story, a B. P. SchuLberg production, which comes to the Rivoli Theatre Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Both players hail from New York City; both share many characteristics char-acteristics of background and tern-perniament tern-perniament in common; both emigrated emi-grated to Hollywood from Mew York stage. Miss Sidney's specialty special-ty in roles that of the deepiy-in-love woman ready to sacrifice every-l'.iing for her man is regarded re-garded as idealy suited opposite Raft's speciality the reticent male with deadly effect on woman in general and one woman in particular. particu-lar. "Pick Up" centers around the two, who meet under strange circumstances. cir-cumstances. Miss Sidney, freed from prison after being "framed" by her husband, who still rrmains behind the bars, finds hereself destitute des-titute in The city. Cold and soaking soak-ing wet on a rainy night, she lakes refuge in a cab. Raft, the driver, is soon as deeply in love wilh her as she is with him. Their purchase pur-chase of a garage in tlie suburbs sets them well on the road to prosperity. pros-perity. But when Raft begins paying pay-ing attention to a wealthy socialite who is floored by his charm, Sylvia rushes to a lawyer; finds rfho can easily secure an annulment of her marriage to her convict-husband. Hut the very day the papers come Ihrough, her husband appears on the scene, fiesn from a jail break in which he has killed a guard, and feverish in his determination to get revenge noi only on Sylvia, but on Raft. The picture comes to a breathless breath-less climax in Sylvia's attempt l :;ave the life of (he ni;iti slie luvoy. |
