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Show bv Clark Gable. In the this reviewer, it providf, wood's leading- male sta.' 8 part unlike any he hajr Iff fore and one in which h. 1.5 his real artistry. pa ' , Irishman, speaks with a ly American accent, but be remembered that he this country and learned the language but the i and mannerisms; moreo; . mother was American " Myina Loy portrays y, v orous Katie O'Shea, the Parnell loves to the excl all else. It is a difficult . she plays it with a re depth of understanding i ( porting cast, with 75 ( loies, is one of the fim assembled for a picture i- Attractions At The Theaters DO YOU KNOW That John M. Slahl, who directed di-rected Clark Gable and Myma Loy in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Parnell," now at the Rivoli theatre, thea-tre, ran away from home when lie was fourteen to make his theatrical debut with Mrs, Leslie Carter in "Du Barry"? That Myrna Loy in "Parnell" at the Rivoli theatre, changed her name from Williams to Loy because of its French origin ? It was her aspiration to play French roles on the . screen, but casting directors believed her name to be Chinese and insisted on her piaying Oriental parts. oOo That Clark Cable in "Parnell," at the Rivoli theatre, dislikes being be-ing called the "Great Lover," and says that playing romantic scenes on the screen embarrasses him ? the Rivoli theatre, which also marks her debut in costume films ? That Clark . Gable's portable dressing room used in "Parnel now at the Rivoli theatre, is made of plain pine boards, has an old dressing table, a dilapidated couch and one plain chair, but no carpet, car-pet, pictures or other decorations decora-tions ? oOo That Myrna Loy, co-starring with Clark Gable in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Parnell" at the Rivoli theatre, had 150 bird houses erected on her Coldwater Canyon estate ? That many of the male players in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Parnell" "Par-nell" at the Rivoli theatre, wore beards from three to six inches in length, and for that reason Director John M. Stahl ordered that each of them use a twelve-inch twelve-inch cigarette holder? oOo That every Irish actor in Hollywood Hol-lywood who was not under contract con-tract to another studio was interviewed in-terviewed by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer casting office for roles in "Parnell," now showing at the Rivoli theatre? That Myrna Loy . . . starring with Clark Gable in "Parnell" at the Rivoli theatre, drives her own car and has never had a chauffeur? oOo That Mrna Loy has played every type of screen role, Oriental Orien-tal siren, vamps, straight romantic ro-mantic parts and whimsical sophisticated so-phisticated women, and almost every nationality, but is an Irish girl for the first time in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Parnell," at "Parnell," which opens Sunday at the Rivoli theatre, is of course, a story of the Irish people peo-ple primarily, but actually it is a narration of great love and sacrifice that transcends all racial rac-ial boundaries. It takes the man, Charles Stewart Parnell, as a symbol of all the courageous, reckless men of history, to whom love was a greater thing than fortune or fame or power. It endows him with many of the human weaknesses weak-nesses and some of the human virtues that endear a man to his fellowmen. The role of Parnell is played |