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Show Attractions At The Theaters Just about a year ago two people were placed on the Paramount Para-mount payroll for the first time. They were Bob Burns and Martha Mar-tha Raye. Today, the hilarious funmakers have reached stardom in a picture of their own. It's "Mountain Music," Mu-sic," the hillbilly comedy which opens on Friday at the Rivoli theatre. Millions on the air know Bob Burns as the hill billiest hillbilly of them all. So it was only natural natur-al that eventually Burns would be placed into his favorite locale of Arkansas and bring to life characters about whom he talks. The picture itself is a satire in which mountain feuds are kidded. kid-ded. In the picture Bob is a girl-shy girl-shy chap who can't resist a desire de-sire to work. His father inveigles inveig-les him into a position whereby Bob is scheduled to marry the daughter of another clan and thus settle a feud. The idea was great but Bob leaves her standing stand-ing at the figurative altar. In the supporting cast are such notables as Jan Duggan, lor five years the star of "The Drunkard," Fuzy Knight, who scored such a hit in "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine," and Rufe Davis, hillbilly sensation from the night clubs: ' ' Let nine comedians loose in a hotel as crazy as the house that Jack built and the resulting picture should be something. That's what Paramount has done in its newest comedy, "Hotel Haywire," Hay-wire," which opens on Sunday at the Ritz theatre. Headed by Leo Carrillo and Lynne Overman, the cast includes known comedians even in bit roles. Carrillo plays "Zodiac Zippe," astrologer and gentle racketeer, whose money-making activities include everything short of actual murder. Lynne Overman plays the role of a dentist who finds himself headed for divorce through a practical joke played on him by a poker playing friend.., Benny Baker, as a vaudeville actor turned detective, has an opportunity in "Hotel Haywire" to show how a detective should and shouldn't act. Assisted by his vaudeville partner, Collette Lyons, who makes her movie debut in this picture, Baker gets in Overman's hair while he and his partner trail both Overman and his wife, played by Spring Byington. "A Day at the Races," brings the Marx Brothers Groucho, Harpo and Chico to the Rivoli screen starting Sunday in what is described as the maddest, merriest:, mer-riest:, most amusing piece of Marxmania that these inimitable comedians have ever delivered to an expectant public. Directed by Sam Wood, who filmed the last Marx Brothers triumph, "A Night at the Opera," the new picture boasts a stellar cast of supporting names, including includ-ing Maureen O'Sullivan in the feminine lead, and Allan Jones, who sings several new song hits, among them "On Blue Venetian Waters," "Tomorrow Is Another Day" and "A Message from the Man in the Moon." Also prominent in the cast are Margaret Dumont, who has taken a lot of "punishment" from the Marx lunatics in previous pictures, pic-tures, Leonard Ceeley, Douglas Dumbrille, Charles Trowbridge, Esther Muir, Sigfried Rumann and Robert Middlemass. |