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Show STIRRING FILM WITH BEERY IS GREAT PICTURE i For those who like red-blooded j action in addition to the comedy J and pathos of a heart drama that j stirs the audience to tears, Metro-Gold Metro-Gold wyn-Mayer offers Wallace Beery in "Flesh," which opens Sunday Sun-day at the Rivoli Theater. Beery scored one of his greatest triumphs of his "career' in a prizefight prize-fight picture, "The Champ." His present vehicle, which deals with the wrestling racket, is a worthy successor. "Flesh" is more than a wrestling picture. 'It is a : drama' that goes behind the scenes. Beery, a great hulk of a man, is a wrestling waiter wait-er in a Berlin beer garden. There he meets Karen Morley, an American Amer-ican hoofer whose dancing partner has involved her in a crooked deal which lands both in jail. When she is released Beery befriends her and puts her up in the house where he lives with his friends who own the beer garden. Ernst Lubitsch's "Troubc in Paradise," which is said to establish estab-lish an entirely new technique for motion pictures, lias been booked for the Rivoli theater Wednesday and Thursday. Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall, Charlie Ruggles and Edward Everett Horton play leading roles in the picture, a witty farce adapted from the play by Laszlo Adalar, Viennese playwright. play-wright. Vvith easy good humor, the picture pic-ture first shows the establishment of business, social and emotional rapport between Miss Hopkins and Marshall, two super-super crooks who prey in suave fashion upon European society. .Then it follows them through their most exciting adventure the bamboozling of Miss Francis, svelte Frenchwoman who possesses more money than the Bank f France. After a six-months vacation spent hunting big game in Africa, Gary Cooper returns to the screen to co-star with Tallulah Bankhead in : "Devil and the Deep," which pluys Friday and Saturday at the Rivoli theater. The months he spent in Africa seemed less remote when he read the script of the picture. For the action of "Devil and the Deep" is set in a small port on the north const of that continent LTiarles Laughton, noted English character actor, making his movie debut, in the picture, is cast as J commander of a submarine based I at the port. He is insanely jealous J ; , of Miss Bankhead, his wife. |