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Show COMING TO THE RIVOLI The delicate tracery of Eugene O'Neill's drama with its poignant humanness, its down-to-earth simplicity, sim-plicity, and its dynamic dramatic power is vividly caught on the talking screen in "Ah Wilderness" Metro-Gokiwyn-Mayer's film transcription tran-scription of the great stage success, suc-cess, playing at the Rivoli theater Sunday and Monday. Acclaimed on the stage where it was played both by George M. Cohan and the late Will Rogers, the film version now adds the lavish lav-ish scope of screen production to the dramatic story. Its location scenes in the quaint New England town of Grafton, Mass., its charm-home charm-home sequences, and its camera effects add a sense of reality that only the talking screen could achieve. Wallace Beery plays one of the greatest roles he has ever given pictures as the ineffective, alcoholic alco-holic but lovable Uncle Sid, running run-ning the gamut from comedy to poignant tragedy with Aline Mac-Mahon, Mac-Mahon, who plays the spinster aunt who loves but cannot marry him. Lionel Barrymore, in the role played by Cohan and Rogers, gives a performance that rivals his famous fa-mous delineation in "A Free Soul." In the scene where he tells Eric Linden that which every father must tell his son as the youth stands on the threshold of manhood man-hood he has one of the mightiest might-iest dramatic moments in his whole career. I SYLVIA SIDNEY Sylvia Sidney reaches the top of her form as a dramatic actress in her latest starring vehicle, "Mary Burns, Fugitive," a gripping, grip-ping, romantic drama of an innocent inno-cent girl hunted by the law, which opens at the Rivoli theater Tuesday. Tues-day. An emotional revelation of a girl's tragic experiences, Miss Sidney's Sid-ney's histrionic talents are given full dramatic power. Caught in a web of circumstantial evidence, an innocent victim of circumstances, her portrayol of "Mary Burns" is sympathetic, sincere and distinguished. |