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Show Attractions At The Theaters A thunderstorm starts off the outlandish goings-on in "Midnight "Mid-night Intruder," the film opening Tuesday, at the Rivoli theatre, wherein the destiny of a penniless penni-less adventurer is turned inside out, and in rapid succession he becomes an imposter, a detective, a lover and a writer. In this rollicking Universal comedy-mystery Louis Hayward, as a well-bred vagabond, breaks into a mansion to evade a storm. His hiding place is discovered by servants aid the fun begins when the butler says to him: "Welcome home, sir." Hayward poses as the mansion man-sion owner's son, and gets away with it until he meets the wife of the man he is impersonating! He falls in love with Barbara Read, but complications arise when he suspects her father of ting a murderer. Besides Hayward and Miss Read, the cast includes J. C. Nugent, Robert Greig, Eric Linden and Sheila Bromley. "Midnight Intruder" is a gloriously glori-ously romantic and dramatic entertainment. en-tertainment. Don't miss it! Double-barrelled adventure is paced by double-barrelled romance in the new Hopalong Cassidy action ac-tion drama, "Cassidy of Bar 20," which opens Friday at the Ritz theatre. Not only does "Hoppy" defend his boyhood sweetheart, Nora Lane, against a notorious gang of cattle-rustlers, but helps his pal "Lucky" get revenge on the murders of the father of his girl, Margaret Marquis. William Boyd is again Hopalong Cassidy, the Clarence E. Mul-ford Mul-ford hero he has -made a ranking rank-ing favorite. On his high adventures adven-tures he is accompanied at every moment by his loyal saddlemate, "Lucky," played by the familiar and popular Russell Hayden. Others Oth-ers in the cast are Frank Darien, Robert Fiske and John Elliott. Les Selander directed. With George Brent and Olivia de Havilland as its stars, "Gold Is Where You Find It," a thrilling thrill-ing melodrama of California in the 1870's, has its local premiere Sunday and Monday at the Rivoli. It is a Warner Bros. -Cosmopolitan production in technicolor and according to reports of pre-viewers pre-viewers is one of the really best pictures of the season. "Gold Is Where You Find It," deals with a phase of gold-seeking that has hitherto been untouched un-touched by the movies the hydraulic hy-draulic mining whereby tremendously tre-mendously powerful streams .of water ripped away hillsides, from the debris of which the miners sifted their metal. But this debris overflowed upon the lands of the wheat-growers and orchardists, and warfare resulted re-sulted a conflict that was prolonged pro-longed and deadly. The fight extended ex-tended over a number of years, nearly split the state of California in two, and was not settled until a court decision declared in favor of the agriculturists and made the hydraulic interests quit. Supporting Brent and Miss de Havilland are Claude Rains, Margaret Mar-garet Lindsay, John Litel, Mar-cia Mar-cia Ralston,- Barton MacLane, Tim Holt (young son of the famous fa-mous Jack). Sidney Toler, Henry O'Neill, Wfllie Best, Robert Mc-Wade, Mc-Wade, Harry Davenport, a score of others, plus thousands of extras. ex-tras. "Gold Is Where You Find It," was made on the actual locale of the ancient war and was directed by Michael Curtiz, maker of such successful action dramas as "Captain Blood," and "Charge of the Light Brigade." It is based upon Clements Ripley's novel. |