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Show ) : Attractions At The Theaters The very title "Over the Goal" Identifies the nature of the Warner War-ner Bros, comedy-drama of college col-lege football iife that opens Sunday Sun-day at the Ritz theatre. You're right it's a gridiron picture. They come every year and apparently they're liked every year, better and better, even though they're all won in the. last minute of piay! Well, why shouldn't they be ? That's the most thrilling part of the old ball game! June Travis, sportswoman herself her-self and daughter of the vice-president vice-president of the Chicago White Sox baseball gang, is the leading lead-ing romantic gal in this picture. Opposite her is a big good-looking boy called William Hopper, son of the late comic-opera star, De Wolf Hopper, and altogether adequate on his own acting ability. abil-ity. There's a lot of college life, and several collegiate songs by the hit-writing team of Jerome and Scholl. Then figuring as the rival football teams there are some real players, chosen from the varsity squad of the 1937 University of Southern California gridders. The composite photograph, as a scientific development of the modern blackmailer's methods, is exposed for the first time on the screen in Grand National's "Here's Flash Casey," which opens at the Ritz theatre on Friday, with Eric Linden and Boots Mallory in the featured roles. The story of "Here's Flash Casey," which is the first of a series of four thrilling film features dealing with the adventures of a newspaper news-paper candid camera man, recites how such a picture is made and used by a blackmail gang, taking tak-ing a perfectly innocent photograph photo-graph and super-imposing upon it the figures that will compromise compro-mise their prospective victim. In the picture, Eric Linden, as Flash Casey, the newspaper candid cameraman, first becomes an innocent tool of the blackmailers black-mailers and almost ruins his journalistic career. Then, by one of those lucky coincidences in which a cameraman is sometimes some-times on hand, when a news event occurs, he saves his reputation, repu-tation, scores a major journalistic journal-istic scoop, and is enabled to convict the criminals with his candid photos. Again given a photoplay that has plenty of scope for her unique uni-que emotional talents, Bette Davis comes to the Rivoli Friday and Saturday in "That Certain Woman." Adventure romantic love martyrdom mar-tyrdom mother-love are all portrayed by blonde Bette in the course of this exciting drama, which was both written and directed di-rected by the celebrated Edmund Ed-mund Goiding. Her part in the play is much more important than the one in her recent "Kid Galahad," with Edward G. Robinson, Rob-inson, and the role is even more tense and engrossing than the one she had in "Marked Woman, with Humphrey Bogart. "That Certain Woman," is a story about the widow of a slain gangster, who despite the scorn of the world and the persecution of enemies, wins . her way to business success and to the af-Ifcctions af-Ifcctions of a worthwhile man. Henry Fonda carries the male romantic interest, while others in the cast include Ian Hunter, Anita Louise, Donald Crisp, Hugh O'Connell, Mary Phillips and Herbert Her-bert Rawlinson. Locales of the action include Monte Cario, with some very striking sets, London, Paris and various other Old World capitals, as well as New York City. There has been an increasing tendency of late to give Bette Davis the very best stories that the Warner Bros, can find, and the result has been evident in the increasing popularity of her fiims. This story was written for her and nobody else, by Edmund Goulding. He even composed the music for it. Miss Davis won the Academy Award for the best performance in 1935, and her enthusiastic fans are saying that her present picture may put her in line for another one for 1937. |