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Show ANOTHER BIG FEATURE FILM COMES SUNDAY fc "Broadway to Hollywood," glit-terinj glit-terinj pageant of the theater, comes Sunday to the Rivoli theater, bringing a dazzling cavalcade that ranges from Broadway of the "Gay Nineties" to modern Hollywood with an all-star c:ail which includes in-cludes Alice Brady, Jackie Cooper, Jimmy Durante, Frank Morgan, Madge Evans, Eddie Quillan, Fay Templeton, May Robson and Russell Rus-sell Hardie. The new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture is a drama of three generations gen-erations in the theater, from the colorful days of Tony Pastor to the modern super-productions of Hollywood, with a theatrical family fam-ily troupiug proudly through a cavalcade of America's progress in entertainment. The stoiy was written for the screen by the veteran vet-eran vaudeville writer, Edgar Allan Woolf, and Willard Mack, who also directed the production. Fay Templeton sings "Rosie Posie" again, and Barney Fagan famous free-wheeling soft shoe dancer, treads the boards'. Alice Brady and Frank Morgan cover nearly sixty years of the theater in dramatic action, from youth to old age. Jackie Cooper turns "hoofer" and later his role is Hardie as a grownup by Russell Hardie. Eddie Quillan plays the grandson of the original stage pair, who becomes a Hollywood star. Jimmy Durante, Madge Evans, May Robson and several famous vaudeville teams all have a part in the proceedings. |