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Show Attractions At The Theaters A thrilling western story photographed photo-graphed against high Sierra Nevada Neva-da mountains, Universal's "The Singing Outlaw," opens Friday at the Ritz theatre. Bob Baker, the crooning cowboy, cow-boy, and Joan Barclay, beautiful Hollywood and New York actress, play the leading roles in this picture pic-ture which was directed by Joseph H. Lewis, noted director of "Courage "Cour-age of the West." The picture tells the age old stoiy of the love of Miss Barclay for Baker under trying circumstances circum-stances in the early days of the West. No sooner has Baker made enough money in cattle ranching to buy larger properties and ask Miss Barclay to marry him, than he is mistaken for a rustler because be-cause of his presence, quite innocently, in-nocently, at the scene of a double murder. The finger of suspicion points squarely at him. I Baker and Miss Barclay are supported by Fuzzv Knight, the comedian, Rov Mason, Carl Stock-dale Stock-dale and a host of other talented Hollywood actors and actresses. The picture was filmed largely j in the high Sierra Nevada moun- j tains south and west of Sonoia, j California. Lavishly designed to be the year's top musical comedy romance, ro-mance, Paramount's "The Big Broadcast of 1938," which opens next Friday at the Rivoli theater, with a cast headed by W. C. Fields, Martha Raye, Dorothy La-mour La-mour and Shirley Ross, boasts seven of the most popular, "most-played" "most-played" songs of the past year. The songs, all planned to advance ad-vance the plot of the laugh-and-romance-filled story, are "Thanks for the Memory," "The Waltz Lives On," "You Took the Words Right Out of My Heart." "This Little Ripple Had Rhythm," "Mama, . That Moon Is Here Again" and "Don't Tell a Secret to a Rose," all by Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger, and "Sawing a Woman in Half," by Jack Rock. Shirley Ross and Bob Hope, radio star who makes his screen debut in "The Big Broadcast of 1938," play the parts of the leading lead-ing romance team, and are featured fea-tured in "Thanks for the Memory" Mem-ory" and "The Waltz Lives On," the latter being one of the most lavish and luxurious productions ever to be brought before the cameras. Old-time vaudeville makes it comeback in the most modern of swing musicals, "Everybody Sing," which opens a two day engagement en-gagement at the Rivoli theatre, Sunday. . Twelve famous teams of the twp-a-day era are featured in one of the comedy sequences of the new production which boasts an all - star cast including Allan The story concerns a mad family fami-ly composed of a playwrighting father and an actress mother. Their child, Judy, gets expelled from several schools because of her mania for singing "swing" in the middle of her classes. The family have a play ready for production pro-duction but can't get the money to back it. Judy gets together with the family chef, Jones, and they put on a musical. It's a hit and the family is saved from financial fin-ancial ruin. Nine lavish musical sequences are featured in the picture, which was, directed by Edwin L. Marin and produced by Harry Rapf. Dave Gould directed the dances. |