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Show Blue ami Cold," opens Sunday at the Rivoli thralre. Tiie novel, steeped in colorful traditions of the institution, was written by George Bruce who also adapted it to the screen. The picture is headed by a strong cast including Rol.ort Young, James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore, Florence Rice. Billie Burke, Tom Brown, Samuel S. Hinds, Pad Kelly and Barnett Parker. It portrays the poignant devotion devo-tion of cadets pledged to their country's service, the heartches of stern, character-building discipline, dis-cipline, the thrilling sportsmanship sportsman-ship of the navy's "titanic football foot-ball games, and the love of twit players for the sister of their quarterback pal. Attractions At The Theaters Presenting a fascinating mixture mix-ture of sparkling comedy and gay romance, Universal's "Prescription "Pre-scription for Romance." has been booked for the Rilz theatre, to te shown on Sunday and Monday. Mon-day. "Prescription For Romance." offers Wendy Barrio. Kent Taylor, Tay-lor, Mischa Auer. Frank Jenks. Dorothea Kent, Gregory Gave and Henry Hunter in leading roles. The story tells the wild flight of an American embezzler to Budapest Hungary, and the maze of complications that ensue when a detective tries to run him down. Wendy Barrie and Kent Taylor furnish most of the romance while Mischa Auer. as the penniless penni-less Count Sandor and Frank Jenks, as the impetuous and brash newspaper correspondent furnish scores of laughs. Two generations of an American Amer-ican family, laid against the most colorful period in American history, his-tory, are traced in Paramount's tribute to the men who connected con-nected California to the East in early pioneer days "Wells Fargo," which opens Friday at the Rivoli Ri-voli theatre. The family is that of Joel Mc-Crea, Mc-Crea, man of vision, who goes to the West for the purpose of growing with it, and of establishing estab-lishing a "lifeline of empire" between" be-tween" the East and the sprawling sprawl-ing settlements on the Pac:fic coast, and his wife, played by Miss Dee, who loves him but fails to grasp the bigness of his dream. The film traces their fortunes, from the time of their marriage after a chance meeting on a country road, a rift brought on by the War between the states and when aging, they are brought together by their children. The background of tlrs romance is supplied "by the inspiring story of the Wells Fargo express business, busi-ness, predecessors of the Railway Rail-way Express Agency. This enterprise, enter-prise, which was started in the East, was among the first business busi-ness ventures in San Francisco after the discovery of gold and its destinies are closely linked with the history of the entire West. The Wells Fargo pony express riders, and later its stagecoaches stage-coaches and messengers, were the first to carry mail into the remote re-mote mining camps and to come back laden with gold for shipment ship-ment to the East. Acclaimed by naval officers the most authentic story ever written writ-ten about the historic United States Naval Academy, "Navy |