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Show Attractions At The Theaters HILARIOUS RACING HIT "THREE MEN ON A HORSE" COMING Manager Ostlund of the Rivoli theatre has the answer for everyone every-one in town who happens to be in need of a real down-to-the-earth, guffawing event of fast and furious fun. He has booked "Three Men on a Horse," the First National screen version of the Broadway stage play which is well on its second year in New York and going strong and has already toured the country in seven road companies. The date for the local opening is Sunday. "Three Men on a Horse" is the side-splitting story of Erwin (pronounced Oiwin) a meek little writer of greeting card verses who has the weird gift of picking winners in horse races. He keeps that secret to himself, and as he rides to and fro to work from his home, he jots down in a little book his prognostications and imaginary winnings. His nagging wife finds the book, denounces him as a philanderer.and browbeats brow-beats him to the point of desperation. des-peration. Coming to the Rivoli theatre next Thursday and heralded as being one of the most interesting and exciting James Cagney pictures pic-tures yet made, Grand National's presentation of "Great Guy," based on the Johnny Cave stories stor-ies in the Saturday Evening Post by James Edward Grant, brings the popular redheaded star to the screen in a role which should appeal ap-peal to housewives everywhere. Something decidedly different in pictures with music comes to the Rivoli theatre Friday when Pickford-Lasky's "The Gay Desperado," Des-perado," begins a two day engagement en-gagement with Nino Martini, the great singing star of radio, opera and films in the title role, and Ida Lupino and Leo Carillo in supporting parts. A gay, colorful romance laid below the Rio Grande, this second sec-ond offering of the newly formed Mary Pickford-Jesse L. Lasky producing company completely disregards the usual backstage plot formula for pictures featuring featur-ing famous songbirds and presents pre-sents a thrill-packed, action-filled, fast-moving film story. The handsome Martini is said to give a great performance as the gay, swashbucking Chivo, whose glorious voice causes him to be kidnapped by a Mexican bandit chieftain (Carillo), who adopts American gang'ster methods, meth-ods, but is really a sentimental, music loving fellow at . heart. |