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Show zzz: lll' Attractions At The Theaters The first "Hopalong- Cassidy" outdoor action drama ever to be named after a popular song is "Silver on the Sage," which opens Tuesday at the Ritz theater. Its title, taken from the sensational Robin-Rainger ballad featured m "The Texans," Paramount's recent re-cent epic of the Old Southwest, was given it by Producer Harrv (Pop) Sherman, who thinks the number catches the real spirit of the West better than anything to come along in many a year. "I'm not much of an authority on popular music." says Sherman, veteran producer of action films. "But when I heard 'Silver on the Sage' in 'The Texans' I realized that here was a song destined to rank with the greatest of all frontier fron-tier ballads. My tribute was to name a picture after it the first chance I got. The song has a sharp Western tang to it that few other ballards can equal. It brings back a great longi'.ig for the range." "King of Alcatraz," Paramount's thrilling new drama, which opens next Tuesday at the Ritz theater, hangs up this season's record for the number of "first times" in it! To begin with, in this picture both Lloyd Nolan and Porter Hall, two of the screen's outstanding "heavies," appear together in sympathetic sym-pathetic roles for the first time. Although the two have scored together to-gether as bad men in a laree num- ber of films, among them "The they are not cast as two of the Plainsman," and "Wells Fargo," they are now cast as two of the heroes of the story. Nolan is a young radio operator who courageously cour-ageously foils the attempts of an escaped convict to steal a steamer and make his getaway to Central America. Hall has the role of a Scottish ship-owner. Another "first" in '.'King of Alcatraz" Al-catraz" is Gail Patrick's role as nurse. 'One of Hollywood's best-dressed best-dressed women, both on the screen and off, Miss Patrick now exerts her charms without the aid of a beautiful wardrobe for the first time- As the ship's nurse and sweetheart of Nolan, she goe; through the entire picture in a white, stiffly-starched uniform. And, what's more, she likes it, as it gives her her biggest chance to date to show what she can do with a wholly dramatic part. During the past season. Miss Patrick has had big roles in Jack Benny's "Artists "Ar-tists and Models" and "Stage Door," the backstage drama. Famed producers of the screen's most notable all-time shockers. Universal studios reassume the position as leader in the field of spine-tJ.igling dramas with "Son of Frankenstein," new, powerful production which makes the flesh :reek and at the same time smerges as a dramatic triumph. Opening at the Ritz theater. "Son of Frankenstein" surpasses ill other efforts at blood-curdling film fare. It combines the stars if the original "Frankenstein" and the equally shuddery "Dracula," Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. rriumbh for Kathbone Basil Rathbone assumes the nantle of Baron Wolf von Frank-snstein, Frank-snstein, possessor of the dread ner.vage or tne family, a destructive destruc-tive monster, rn one of his most difficult roles, that of a doctor torn between love of his wife and daughter and scientific fervor for his sinister experiments. Rathbone wins new laurels. The story, penned by Willis Cooper, opens when the new Frankenstein figure returns to his ancestral castle twenty-five years after his father's death, as stipulated stipu-lated by the elder Frankenstein's will. He stumbles upon his father's fath-er's grim creation, the hair-raising Monster of destruction, played by Karloff. Lionel Atwill. Josephine Hutchinson, Hutch-inson, Emma Dunn, four-year-old Donnie Dunagan, and Edgar Norton Nor-ton are outstanding in supporting roles, Atwill as a police inspector whose arm has been torn off by the Monster and Miss Hutchinson as Frankensteins wife. |
