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Show Real. Holly wood Seen In Newist Erwin Picture . The -real- Hollywood, Its Heart--breaks, iis glamor, its wild striving striv-ing for story-book success, its tinsel and fanfare, its comedy as seen through the eyes of hundreds of our young men and women who have been there to try for fame and who have failed or won. That's the picture which Paramount Para-mount brings to screen audiences at the Rivoli theater with the opening open-ing there of "Make Me a Star," on Sunday and continuing Monday. Based on the internationally famous fa-mous real-life novel by Harry Leon Wilson, "Make Me a Star" gets to the humanities of America's film capital in a way that no story has ever done before. Like "Touchdown" which probed the heart of American football and "Skippy" which glimpsed the fun and pathos of the American boy, "Make Me a Star" tells its story in a way that brings joy and heart-tugs to all who will behold it. Joan Blondell and Stuart Erwin head the featured cast with ZaSu Pitts and Ben Turpin. Others in the cast of this splendid splen-did comedy-romance-drama are Charles Sellon, veteran character actor; Florence Roberts, Ruth Donnelly, Don-nelly, Frank Mills, Polly Walters, I Arthur Hoyt and Dink Templeton. "MILLION DOLLAR LEGS" j Playing Tuesday and Wednesday at the Rivoli theater is Paramount's 1 Olympiad farce, "Million Dollar Legs,' said to be one of the most i insanely funny pictures ever filmed. Not even the various comedies in which- the . Four Marx Brothers have appeared roach so high a pinnacle pf sheer, nonsensical buffoonery buf-foonery as does this picture according accord-ing to advance rcpoits. It is laid, in the mythical Republic Re-public of Klopstokia, where all the girls are named Angeda and all the men George; where it is a jail offense of-fense not to kiss a pretty girl; where the runners are so- fast that they trip over frightened rabbits and have to hurdle fleeing doer; where the women are so beautiful that all the men find it totally impossible im-possible to keep their minds on their work except the president, who is a woman-hater. Jack Oakie, as the 'clown prince ", is the man who leads Klopstokia to a thrilling victory in the Olympics. Olym-pics. To W. C. Fields, Andy Clyde, Ben Turpin, Hank Mann, George Barbier, Hugh Herbert and little Dickie Moore all tried and true farceurs has been entrusted the rest of the comedy. Such beauties as Lyda Roberto. Susan Fleming, Geneva Mitchell and Nadine Dote cheer on the noble athletes and how! Edward CUne, whose comedy experience dates back to the days of the old Keystone Kops, directed "Million Dollar Legs." |