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Show Toppers' lives. The production is a United Artists release. Jackie Cooper and Freddie Bartholomew are cast as friendly enemies, in their dramatic -new Universal picture, "Two Bright Boys," which starts Wednesday at the Rivoli theatre with Alan Dineharl;, Dorothy Feterson, Melville Mel-ville Cooper and J. M. Kerrigan. Said to be the most powerful story in which either of the young stars have appeared in recent re-cent months, "Two Bright Boys" is described as a stirring drama of human hearts. Told in the colorful atmosphere of the Texas oil fields, it pictures the swift tragedy which may come when one places confidence in dangerous danger-ous companions. Advance reports indicate that the story moves at rapid-fire tempo through every reel with a plot which includes action, laughter and tears. Cooper will be seen as the fiery tempered Irish boy who stakes his courage and wits against the qvil schemes of a ruthless oil promoter, played by Alan Dine-hart. Dine-hart. Bartholomew has been given giv-en the co-starring role of a young English stranger who is forced through circumstances to become a menace to Jackie's plans, then displays the bravery to help avert disaster. Melville Cooper, who last appeared ap-peared in "The Sun Never Sets" has the role of Freddie's father, a former English gentleman who has been reduced to gambling for a living. Dorothy Peterson, the nurse in, the Dionne Quintuplets' films, portrays Jackie's mother. J. M. Kerrigan, noted character star, has a strong human role. attractions At The Theaters Hailed as one of the truly-great truly-great motion pictures or all lime, Darryl F. Zanuck's production pro-duction of "The Rains Came," the sensationally successful novel by Louis Bromfield, opens Sunday at the Rivoli theatre, with Myrna Loy, Tyrone Power and George Brent sharing stellar honors. This powerful story of human emotions at the breaking point and human lives at the climax while the untamed force of nature na-ture ravaged the earth, 'has been faithfully retold in this 20th Century-Fox film, in which all ot Bromfield's colorful characters are brought to vivid life. Myrna Loy is seen as the amorous amor-ous Lady Esketh, Tyrone Power has his most romantic role as Major Rama Safti, and George , Brent plays the world-weary Tom Ransome. Brenda Joyce, star-maker Zanuck's Zan-uck's newest discovery, interprets inter-prets the role of young Fern Simon, while others featured in the great cast are Nigel Bruce, Maria Ouspenskaya, Joseph Schilclkraut, Jane Darwell, Mar-jorie Mar-jorie Rambeau, Henry Travers and H. B. Warner. I Three fantastic clues confront the master-detective of fiction in solving the super-crime of his arch-enemy, the criminal genius Moriarty, in 20th Century-Fox's "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," opening Friday at the Rivoli theatre. Basil Rathbone plays the great sleuth, with Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson, featured fea-tured with Ida Lupino and Alan Marshal. The clues are: an omen, an ancient an-cient Inca funeral dirge, like the cry of a puma; a threat against the fabulous "Star of Delhi" emerald; em-erald; a murder, by an unknown weapon that strangles, crushes, then disappears! Hal Roach's hilarious screen comedy, "Topper Take A Trip," sequel to "Topper," one of last year's biggest laug-h hits, opens on Wednesday at the Rivoli theatre, thea-tre, with Constance Bennett of the latter production again cast in a light comedy role which permits per-mits her to go through a series of "dematerializations." The new film, based on a dcreen-play by Eddie Moran and Jack Jevne, was directed by Norman Nor-man Z. McLeod, who also staged "Topper" and other notable film productions. The supporting cast, reading like a tfluebook of Hollywood Holly-wood celebrities, includes Roland Young, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray, Mow-bray, Alexander D'Arcy, Verree Teasdale, Franklin Pangbom and Paul Hurst. The story of "Topper Takes A Trip" concerns the mad, merry antics of Constance Bennett, as I Marion Kerby, and Roland Young, I as Cosmos Topper, on the sunny sands of the French Riviera, whither Miss Bennett has gone to "do a good deed" and where, instead, she almost upsets the |