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Show 'FINGER POINTS' FEATURE FILM OPENSTONIGHT The management of the Rivoli theater is pleased to announce that tonight and Friday brings to Springville "The Finger Points," Fiist National picture, starring j Richard barthelmess. "The Finger Points" is based on 1 a notorious case of gang rule which j recently startled the country. The thrilling melodramatic romance is I the result of the collaboration of John Monk Saunders and W. R. Burnett, authors of "The Dawn Patrol" and "Little Caesar." No present day writers are more familiar famil-iar with the inner workings of the underworld. "The Finger Points" is a newspaper news-paper story and the technical staff included several of the most prominent prom-inent newspapermen of the west coast. The adaptation for the screen was done by Robert Lord. The remarkable photography is the work of Ernest Haller. John Francis Dillon directed. Mr. Barthelmess plays the part of Breckenridge Lee, a young southerner who comes to the Big Town with high ideals as to the duty of the press to the public. He gets a job as police reporter on a crimcrcrusading paper and at first refuses the hush money offered of-fered by the gangs to withhold incriminating in-criminating stories. H.s resistance to temptation is finaPy broken down by the fact that he has fallen fall-en in love with a pretty "sob sis-ter" sis-ter" on the paper, whom he is unable un-able to marry because of his small pay. He sells his honor and with the help of Blanco, a go-between, grows in wealth and power. The big comedy smash of the season sea-son is coming to the Rivoli theater on Sal unlay- next. 1 "June Moon," a faithful film version ver-sion of the play by the same name, has every quality necessary fo." never-lagging amusement. It has comedy in abundance, heart-interest aplenty, and a gorgeous array of highly amusing character portrayals. por-trayals. Jack Oakie has the stellar role that of the young song-writer from false, and that1 as a song-writer Oakie is a complete washout. 1 His money almost gone by the night-club route, Oakie learns that he has earned $2,500 royalties on his "June Moon" number. Schwartz persuades him to take the money and his best girl back to Schenectady. Schenec-tady. It is good advice, and Jack acts upon it. Frances Dee is the loyal girl friend. Harry Akst is the kindly Schwartz. 4, ,. Schnectady who goes to New York to make a fortune in "tin pan alley." al-ley." It is the role established by Norman Foster on Broadway before be-fore Foster became a full-fledged talking screen performer with Paramount. Keene Thompson, veteran scenarist scenar-ist who wrote the adaptation, adhered ad-hered closely to the original material mater-ial as far as is possible in converting convert-ing a three-act play into the great number of scenes required for film technic. The story is based on a famous short story, "Some Like 'Em Cold" by Ring Lardner, one of America's leading humorists and fiction-writers. fiction-writers. Oakie is seen as the small town boy with $1,200 and a tremendous sense of his own importance as a lyricist who goes to Manhattan isle to bowl over the natives and to clean up a fortune in music. Instead, In-stead, he is very nearly cleaned up himself when the gold-digging folks he meets get to work on him. But Maxie Schwartz, veteran song-writer, becomes sympathetic, and finally shows Oakie that the flattery of his "friends" is entirely |