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Show Attractions At The Theaters mg are such leading figures as Ted Healy, Lee Dixon, Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Buck and Bubbles, Walter Catlett, Johnny John-ny Davis and Roy Atwell. Busby Berkeley, known for his imaginative imagina-tive and lavish production numbers num-bers in past Warner Bros, musicals, musi-cals, outdoes himself in "Varsity Show" with a smashing finale that climaxes more than an hour of supreme fun and amusement. The plot of the picture deals with the efforts of Chuck Daly (Dick Powell), a Broadway producer pro-ducer temporarily on his uppers, to stage the annual Quandrangle George Arliss dons a turban for the first time since "The Green Goddess" and comes to the Ritz theatre Friday and Saturday Satur-day as a Sultan in "East Meets West," a thrilling story of romance ro-mance and political intrigue. The tropical country of Run-gay Run-gay is the glamorous and colorful color-ful background for this story of the struggle between England and an Eastern power to obtain treaty rights in the harbor of Rungay. This port is ruled by a crafty and suave Rajah who sees a way to make both countries pay for Club show at Winfield College. Daly, himself a Winfield alumnus, is induced to return to the college col-lege to rescue the varsity show from the hands of Professor Sylvester Syl-vester Biddle (Walter Catlett), faculty advisor, who is all for art and nothing for modernity in school presentations. The funniest, fastest, tuniest hit of the year with the dizziest, daffiest comedians ever starred in one grand jamboree of mirth and merriment! That's "Life Begins in College," Twentieth Century-Fox musical smash starring the comedy-mad Ritz Brothers and featuring Joan Davis, Tony Martin and Gloria Stuart, and a tremendous cast, which opened Friday at the Ri- vnli Ihprttrp his signature on the dotted line, and in such a way that they will have no alternative except to keep the peace. He is also engaged in a plot to keep his son, the handsome Price Nezim, from eloping with the unhappy wife of an English Custom's official. It is not in his plans for his country that its future ruler should take a European Euro-pean wife. Four would-be money barons set out to make a million: Bing Crosby as a crooner on the bum, Martha Raye as a dance cutie who just can't resist that certain cer-tain "swing" . . Andy Devine as a golfer, and William Fraw-ley Fraw-ley as a phoney business man. But they do not reckon with r: - i t1.-nq1r "MtlT-ir Hurli-Slp. DIJIgJij llCdl luitan, j ' who gets into the race with all her heart as the tape breaks in "Double or Nothing," the gay comedy which comes next Thursday Thurs-day to the Rivoli theatre. John Barrymore returns to the screen in the new mystery film. "Bulldog Drummond Comes Back" which opens Sunday at the Ritz theatre. The popular star plays the role of Inspector Nielson of Scotland Yard, and dons several interesting disguises for the part, in addition to Barrymore, the cast includes John Howard, who plays the title role, Louise Campbell, Reginald Denny and E. E. Clive. "Vaisity Show." Warner Bros, filmusical extraordinary, has its local premiere Sunday at the Rivoli theatre. Starring the ever-popular ever-popular Dick Powell and introducing intro-ducing in grand manner to motion mo-tion picture audiences. Fred Waring War-ing and his nationally famous orchestra, the Pennsylvanians. "Varsity Show" marks a new-high new-high in mus'ca and comedy entertainment. en-tertainment. Included in the stellar cast besides be-sides Dick Powell and Fred War- Augmented by the sensational song hits of Lew Pollack and Sidney D. Mitchell which include "Why Talk About Love?" "Big Chief Swing It." "The Rhumba Goes Collegiate." "Our Team Is on the Warpath," and "Fair Lombardy." together with "Sweet Varsity Sue" by Charles Tobias. Al Lewis and Murray Mencher. "Life Begins in College" moves along on a tidal wave of giddy gags, gorgeous girls, songsters and steppers. The mad mcrryrian;acs of "Sing, Baby Sing," "On the Avenue" Ave-nue" have the time of their lite in a three-Ritz circus of the wildest maddest gags ever put over. They're pants pressors working their way through college col-lege and they upset ail past traditions with their riotous antics. But that's only the beginning of the fun. Comic-faced Joan Davis is on a heart-hunt for a poor Indian with ten thousand dollars a day to spend, and during dur-ing thf chase staggers around on her rubber legs in a manner that incites rib-tickling laughter. It's red-headed Joan's greatest role. |