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Show Attractions At The Theaters Capping his triumphs in "The Buccaneer" ai3 "Spawn of the North," Akim Tamiroff heads the big cast of "Ride a Crooked Mile" new thrill-drama, which will have its first local showing next Thursday at the Ritz theater. Tamiroff," who is now being hailed hail-ed as . the screen's outstanding master of character parts, plays a wild ex-Cossack chieftain in an exciting story of a racket-chief's attempts to control the life and romance of his son by the same means he uses in the underworld. In his latest picture Tamiroff shares the spotlight with a pair oT the screen's most sensational younger players. They are Frances Farmer, whose triumph on the New York stage a season ago in Clifford Odets' "Golden Boy" caused hard-boiled Broadway critics to hail her as the most promising actress of the last decade. de-cade. She ' is teamed with her husband, handsome Leif Eriksonj another star-who' divides his time between Hollywood and the stage. Miss Farmer is cast as a tempestuous temp-estuous Russian emigre girl, and Erikson will be seen as the son of Tamiroff. High adventure along one of the world's last frontiers is thrill-mgly thrill-mgly depicted in "Heart of the North," the Warner Bros, pic-turization pic-turization in technicolor of a tale of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police which comes to the Ritz theatre next Friday. Authentic in every detail, the picture "debunks" many a widespread wide-spread misconception of the operations oper-ations and daily existence of the Canadian "Mounties," but the actuality, as vividly portrayed in "Heart of the North," turns out to be even more thrilling and certainly more interesting than the popular delusions. This technicolor production was done on the same large scale as all of the previous Warner Bros, color pictures and it has a cast so liberally sprinkled with outstanding names that any one of at least half a dozen players could with equal justice be called call-ed the star of the troupe. The hero is Dick Foran, big, red-headed star who is most effective ef-fective in outdoor pictures, and there are three girls who could each be nominated as heroine. They are Gloria Dickson, Gale Page, and little' Janet Chapman, six-year-old starlet, who recently recent-ly captured the hearts of a host of fans in "Broadway Musketeers." Musket-eers." - : |