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Show WILL ROGERS COMES SUNDAY 'DOCTOR BULL' Will Rogers adds another memorable mem-orable characterization to h' growing gallery In "Dr. Bull," the j Fox picture which opened at the j Rivoli Theatre Sunday for a three j day run. It's a portrayal worthy j to rank with his work in "State ' Fair" and "Connecticut Yankee." The picture is 'based on "The Last Adam," the best seller novel by James Gould Cozzens. It was Mr. Rogers, himself, who pre-suaded pre-suaded the Fox company to change the title to "Dr. Bull." The character charact-er of the New England doctor gives Rogers an even better opportun-itv opportun-itv than he had in "State Fair." Through Dr. Bull's eyes one sees the joys and sorrows of an entire town. He is always helping some youngster out of a scrape, even when it conies to playing cupid. Throughout he preserves a mellow humor. It is a stirring story and it has been brought to the screen with artistry and verve. The picture rises above any individual star although o course Rogers dominatesto dom-inatesto become life as it is . . human, amusing, interesting. The romantic interest is well maintained, maintain-ed, as it was in the novel, but there isn't too much of it. It is a good picture precisely tveause the director, dir-ector, John Ford, has maintained a fine perspective. The settings include in-clude some beautiful old Georgian houses. A new Marlene Dietrich, different differ-ent than her millions of screen admirers have ever glimpsed in her previous pictures, will be seen in "The Song of Songs," her new Paramount picture, coming to the Rivoli theater next Wednesday and Thursday. Miss Dietrich, who hitherto has appeared as a sophisticated, worldly world-ly woman, is revealed, in her new production as an innocent young country girl of rare beauty, who goes to Berlin, and. Jilted by a handsome young sculptor, runs the gamut of tragic experience. She marries a rich and elderly Baron, whom she does not love and, following their divorce, she becomes bitter and disillusioned, and a notorious woman in the gay German city's night life. "The Song of Songs," adapted from the literary classic of Hermann Her-mann Sudermann, was directed by Roubcn Mamoulian. This is the first Dietrich film which has not been directed by her discoverer, Josef von Sternberg. |