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Show Attractions At The Theaters Katharine Brush, whose best-sclling best-sclling novel, "Young Man of Manhattan," was made into a motion picture hit, has scored again with the adaptation to the screen of her original story, "Mannequin," "Man-nequin," co-starring for the first time Joan Crawford and Spencer Tracy. The picture opens a two-day two-day showing Sunday at the Rivoli theatre. With the New York Miss Brush knows so well as an exciting background, back-ground, this is the human, realistic real-istic tale of a girl born in a Hester street tenement, who winds up in a multimillionaire's penthouse. pent-house. Jessie Cassidy, played by Miss Crawford, asks for nothing more in life than three clean, comfortable rooms and the man she loves, but fate takes a hand when ' two men battle for her. The first- is Eddie Miller, portrayed por-trayed by Alan Curtis, Hollywood's Holly-wood's newest leading man discovery. dis-covery. The second is John L. Hennessey, a part which gives Tracy a rugged characterization as a wealthy steamship owner, who rose from Hester street. Surprising Sur-prising story twists lead to a dramatic dra-matic climax when Hennessey goes broke and Jessie, finallly finds happiness in three rooms. ! A gay comedy of the eighteenth century, "The Great Garrick," starring Elian Aherne and Olivia de Havilland, comes to the Ritz Friday. While it is a costume play the period bMng the 1750's and t'he locale the theatres of London and Paris It is not drama, nor is it a serious biographical sketch of David Garrick, who was at that time the world's greatest actor. In the words of Mervyn Le-Roy, Le-Roy, who produced it, " 'The Great Garrick' is just a whole lot of fun." He made it for pure entertainment, en-tertainment, and those who previewed pre-viewed it say ''it has nothing else but:" David, it would seem, was a gay, rollicking fellow, as well as a great artist, and he speeds 'happily through a great number of adventures especially a pleasing romance with lovely Miss Ui; Havilland, |