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Show I THREE GREAT FILMS COMING TO RIVOLI THEATER SOON j I- - JUlpl. ,,OSk. l ent. policy of variety in making the thrilling pictures that have placed him on the pinnacle of western stardom. In his various pictures he is portraying the romantic west in both its old and new phases. He broke with the old western picture tradition by introducing automobiles, motorcycles and airplanes air-planes when he thought they added to interest and excitement. He was the first western star to make use of airplanes In his pictures. "THE BISHOP MURDER CASE" In selecting "The Bishop Murder Case" as its next mystery film to be shown at the Rivoli theater Wednesday and Thursday Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is said to have taken into consideration the two most important factors involved in entertainment of this type, namely, the character of the script, and the plot. There is no trite situations in the plot of this new all-talking thriller and It is happily devoid of forced coincidences and of murders suddenly sud-denly introduced in the last reel while the poor audience has been deluded into believing it had its choice from the. group of players it had been watching throughout the major portion of the picture. Originality Orig-inality in mystery films draws audiences au-diences quite as quickly as syrup gathers the proverbial flies, a fact of which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is apparently fully aware. Psychologists have long argued the relative influence of environment environ-ment and heredity on the development develop-ment of individuals. Exhaustive research re-search has unearthed confusing . Jala and still the argument continues con-tinues wherever specialists in such .subjects foregather. A general study of the world's lit-eiature lit-eiature concerning this moot question ques-tion seems to give environment as the preponderant conclusion of scientists, psychologists and others interested in the evolution of man. First National Pictures have just pi oduced u remarkable screen drama that bears heavily on this theory, weighing the scales in favor of environmental deduction. And because of this picture, the controversy contro-versy is likely 'to be renewed. The production is "Son of the Gods," a ' screen version of Rex Beach's novel, with Richard Bar- , thelmess staring in the title role. It will be seen at the Rivoli theater Sunday,. Monday and Tuesday. The structure of the story is founded upon the idea of an Amer- , ican boy raised by a Chinese family fam-ily in the belief that he himself is of Chinese origin. The idea teems with dramatic potentialities,- and great care was taken to preserve the mood and outline of the Beach novel. As Sam Lee, Richard Barthel-mess, Barthel-mess, believing himself a Chinaman, China-man, is confronted with racial differences dif-ferences and he finds himself reacting react-ing in accordance with his environmental environ-mental background. HOOT GIBSON COMING Hoot Gibson adheres to his policy of "change of pace" in "The Mounted Stranger," strring Universal Univer-sal all-talking action picture coming com-ing to the Rivoli theater Friday and Saturday. j Gibson is carrying out a consist- |