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Show BROADWAY HIT FEATURE HERE NEXTJDNDAY Metro-Gold wyn-Mayer's cinema version of "When Ladies' Meet," one of Broadway's biggest hits of the current season, will be the attraction at-traction starting Sunday at the Rivoli theater. The Cosmopolitan photoplay version of the successful Rachel Crothers play was directed by Harry Beaumont who was given an unusually generous freedom in selecting prominent stage and screen artists to fill the principal roles of the comedy-drama. Ann Harding and Robert Montgomery Mont-gomery have the co-starring roles and the other principals are Myrna Loy, Alice Brady who makes her first talkie appearance in this picture pic-ture following her recent stage triumphs in "Mademoiselle" and "Mourning Becomes Elect ra," Frank Morgan who contributed a memorable portrayal to "Reunion in Vienna", Martin Burton and Luis Alberni. Both Miss Harding and Miss Loy recently scored in "The Animal Kingdom," while Montgomery's latest hit was the submarine drama ,"Hell Below." The thesis of ''When Ladles Meet" is based on the conclusions of what would happen when the wife of a philandering husband meets the woman on whom this husband is now lavishing his attentions. atten-tions. The plot achieves its originality orig-inality on the fact that its situations situa-tions are so Ingeniously arranged that neither of the rival women is aware of the other's identity. Add "Pleasure Cruise" the new Fox film comedy that opens at the Rivoli theater Friday and Saturday, to your list of pictures that are distinctly dis-tinctly worth while seeing. It has Genevieve Tobin and Roland Young in the leading roles and has a generous gen-erous content of all the ingredients that go to make perfect entertainment. entertain-ment. "Pleasure Cruise" relates the story of a young woman who decides de-cides to inject some romance into her married life by taking a cruise on one of those liners whose principal prin-cipal cargo is a group of pleasure-seeking pleasure-seeking passengers. Her husband, a timid and credulous gentleman, isn't entirely enthusiastic about his wife's taking a trip for the trip's sake. So, with benefit of disguise and a somewhat changed personality, personal-ity, he manages to become a steward stew-ard on the very ship that is to carry his wife on her quest for diversion. The man has the dubious satisfaction satis-faction of seeing his wife pursued by all manner of men, and of learning learn-ing that she is not completely averse to the chase herself. Thee are a number of times when he would like to call the whole thing off. but finds that midocean is a bad place to do that. |