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Show Attractions At The Theaters On Sunday next, the Rivoli theater will open with one of the outstanding motion picture productions starring the number one actress of the screen Bette Davsi in "The Old Maid." Co-starring Co-starring with Miss Davis in this Warner Bros, 'screen production is Miriam Hopkins and George Brent. Edmund Goutding directed. direct-ed. Adapted from the famous stage play by Zoe Akins, "The Old Maid" first appeared as a serial story by Edith Wharton in "K.ed Book" magazine. Later it was published as a novel, which was widely read over a period of many years. "The Old Maid" won the Pultizer pTT2e award as the best play in 1935, after which it was purchased uy "Warner Bros, as a vehicle for Bette Davis. Dav-is. Other members of the cast, besides Miss Davis, are Miriam Hopkins and George Brent. The outstanding toughies of screen- history, James Cagney and George Raft, are teamed in "Kach Dawn I Die," a Warner Bros, picture dealing realistically witTr life in a big prison which opens Friday at the Rivoli theatre. the-atre. It is a frank, grim brutal and tremendously exciting story to which these two premier bad men of the screen have lent their talents, tal-ents, and if they were tough before, be-fore, they are veritable hell cats now. Each in his own way outdoes out-does everything in the line of vicious characterization he has ever done before. At the outset of the film, the characters portrayed by the stars are poles apart, Cagney being merely an altruistic and aggressive aggres-sive newspaper reporter with not the slightest trace of viciousness in his make-up, while Raft is the same hard and callous criminal that he seems to be until the very end. Their paths cross when the young reporter is framed on a manslaughter charge and sent to Lhe state penitentiary for a long term. Raft, who is a big shot in the underworld, has finally been caught and is up for the rest ot his life. Rebellious from the outset out-set because of the injustice done him, Cagney is a difficult prisoner prison-er for the authorities to. handle. |