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Show ! FINE FILMS BOOKED AT RIVOLI; ! j ; "THE LOCKED DOOR" AMONG BEST j The unlimited oppoi tunitics now .awaiting unknown aspirants to I screen fame with the advent of the I talking picture ai e apparent in "The Locked Door." George Fitz-maurice's Fitz-maurice's United Artists' produc-: produc-: tion which comes to the Rivoli theater Sunday and Monday. As it was filmed with dialogue from ; . tart to finish, Director Fitzmaurice I insisted that every member of the cast have a voice with good tonal qualities and a full emotional range. In combing the lists of screen notables suitable for parts in the production it was soon apparent that the search would have to be carried on outside the field of the motion picture. Some of the parts could have been cast perfectly as to type and appearance but . the players had no voices. Other film, players with ideal recording voiced were unsuitcd to any role in the-picture. the-picture. Director Fitzmaurice instructed his casting directors to assemble a company which would first do full justice to the different characters. charac-ters. The picture scouts furrowed through the ranks of the legitimate legiti-mate actors to r.ound out the cast which could be o.ily partially filled in Hollywood. The completed picture justifies this painstaking care, for "The Locked Door" has been enthusiastically enthusias-tically received at all its advance screenings. Thrii'ls, suspense, mystery and romance are some of the highlights to Richard Dix's first staring vehicle ve-hicle for Radio Pictures, "Seven Keys to Baldpate," which has. its first local showing at the Rivoli theater Friday and Saturday. Audicncos will bo "on their toes"' every minute during the screening of this fast-moving all-talking melodramatic melo-dramatic farce, which is one of those cinematic rarities that combines com-bines thrills and laughs in rapid succession. ; Dix gives one of the finest performances per-formances of his long screen career as Magee, tho novelist who meets with many adventures while spending spend-ing the night in a deserted tavern tiying to write a novel. A distinguished cast of stage and screen favorites will be seen at Rivoli theater when, "Hqr Private Affair," Ann Harding's star Pathc dialogue picture, has its opening next Wednesday and Thursday, until un-til recently the foremost dramatic actress of the New York stage. Miss Harding, who proved a son?a-tion son?a-tion in her, first screen venture, "Paris Bound," is said to suipass herself in the thrilling sequences of this gripping story, which was adapted for the-screen by Francis Edwards Faragoh from Leo Ur-vantzov's Ur-vantzov's Austrian sensation "The-Right "The-Right to Kill." A note of the romantic was injected in-jected in the selection of tho cast for this picture by the choice of Miss Harding's real-life husband, Harry Banister, for the role of her I mate in the screen . drama. Mr. I Bannister, .who completed a year with the Theater Guild presentation of "Strange Interlude," shortly before be-fore beginning work in "Her Private Pri-vate Affair,'1 is said to do excellent excel-lent woi k in his initial film. |