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Show Attractions At The Rivoli With M.mrcen O' Sullivan and Frank Lawton in the juvenile leads, Mctro-Goldwyn-Maycr's new mystery of the Paris Svuctc, "The Devil Doll," opens at the Rivoli theater Thursday. In the new picture, starring Lionel Barrymore, Lucy Beaumont J plays the mother. Miss O'Sullivan j the daughter, and Lawton her, lover. Collet, the villain, is'played by the usually ccmical liobcrt Greig. Grace Ford, dancing teacher from Tulsa, Oklahoma, discovered as a screen "bet, " plays the mysterious Laschna, who aids in the weird plot of a mad scientist, and Arthur Ar-thur Hohl, Henry Darnell, King Baggot and Fred Warren are others in the cast. The stcry, bas-Hl on A. Mcrritt's "Burn, Witch, Burn," was see-narized' see-narized' by Richard Schayer and Garrett Fort, and dialogued by : John Lee Mahin. It concerns a Devil's Island prisoner, wrongly accused, who escapes and returns to Paris armed arm-ed with the weird secret of a mad scientist, which he uses to revenge re-venge those who wronged him and clears his name, in a bizarre mystery plot. j I "Mary of Scotland," spectacular spectacu-lar photoplay dramatizing Mary Stuart, whose glamorous and tragic career is one of the richest rich-est chapters in the turbulent 16th century, will open Sunday at the Rivoli theater as the product of an unusual array of talent. Katharine Hepburn and Fredric March co-star as the hapless Scottish Scot-tish beauty and her lover, the Earl of Bothwell roles that give full scope to the brilliance which won for them Academy awards in respectively "Morning Glory" and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Nor are the stars of this production produc-tion alone in having had the highest critical recognition of their brilliance. The story is dra wn from the sta ge hit by Maxwell Anderson. It was directed direct-ed by John Ford whose work on "The Informer" won the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Sci-ences directorial award for 1035. It was adapted to the screen by Dudley Nichols, winner for the 1935 academy adaptation award for his screen play for "The Informer." In-former." The film treats of the later years of Mary's life which were made as dramatic and thrilling as any, fiction by the intrigues of Elizabeth of England, the murderous murder-ous treachery of her own nobles, and denunciations by Scotland's fiery religious zealot, John Knox. It builds to its climax as Mary, proving more a woman than a queen, gives these ruthless enemies ene-mies the opening 'hey need to 1 blast her from her throne by losing her sense of statecraft in her reckless romance with Bothwell. |