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Show : j "Chasing Rainbows" Coming To j 1 1 Rivoli Sunday and Monday j i With a cast of all-star players headed by Charles King and Bessie( Love, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's new all-talking offering, "Chasing Rainbows," Rain-bows," opens Sunday and Monday at the Rivoli Theater. It is a glamorous glam-orous and tuneful romance of life back-stage. Charles F. (Chuck) Riesner, who directed "The Hollywood Revue of 1929," filled a similar post in the filming of this stirring picturizi-tion picturizi-tion of the joys and sorrows that are seen only behind the curtains. Jack Benny, who plays his first straight role, is splendid as the stage manager who acts as cupid in the romance between King and Miss Love, although secretly' loving lov-ing her himself. The picture is abounding in melody mel-ody and mirth with dazzling stage spectacles, screened in technicolor, lending a kaleidoscopic background to the swift action of the plot. King sings three of the five' song hits in the show and Miss Love, in a whirlwind tap dance routine, is featured in a dancing ensemble of breath-taking beauty and movement. move-ment. Sammy Lee, who staged . the dances for the "Hollywood Revue," worked out the stage ensembles with superb skill and understanding. understand-ing. Marie Dressier and Polly Moran are hilariously teamed in the new picture and the supporting cast includes in-cludes Gwen Lee, George K. Ar- thur, Nita Marian, Eddie Phillips, sjind Youcca Troubetskoy. Bess Mcredyth wrote the original story, which Wells Root adapted for the screen. William Powell, whose versatility is admired by millions of enthusiastic enthusi-astic talking- screen fans all over the world, is coming to the Rivoli theater on Wednesday and Thursday, Thurs-day, in another of those splendid characterizations of his. It is a picture in which "big time" professional gambling is held up to the mirror of reality. Powell is the central character, "Natural" Davis, lord of all the gamblers, who nightly night-ly gather in green shaded hotel rooms to stake their fortunes and sometimes their lives on the deal of a poker hand. "Framed", an all-talking drama of metropolitan life featuring Evelyn Eve-lyn Brent, will have its initial performance per-formance at the Rivoli theater Tuesday. Produced by Radio Pictures, Pic-tures, "Framed" is said to be one of the most thrilling stories brought to the screen since the advent of sound .pictures. Evelyn Brent, particularly suited for this type of story, rises to new dramatic heights as the daughter of a slain racketeer who swears revenge re-venge against the police for the death of her father. Regis Toomey, who scored talking picture successes suc-cesses in "Alibi" and "Street of Chance," plays opposite Miss Brent. |