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Show pered son of a millionaire who has never known the meaning- of work and worthwhile effort. Bound tor Europe on a super-liner super-liner he falls overboard and is picked up by a fishing dory manned man-ned by Spencer Tracy, the latter playing the part of Manuel, a Portuguese fisherman. This role, the most colorful that Tracy has yet had, rivals even that of the priest in "San Francisco." The boy is taken to the fishing- schooner "We're Here," captained cap-tained by Lionel Barrymore as Capt. Disko. His tale of being a millionaire's son is attributed to the shock of having fallen overboard. over-board. He is put to work and gradually his regeneration begins. be-gins. The hardy, honest Gloucester Glouces-ter fishermen make a man of him. Under the sponsorship of Grand National, Beniamino Gigli, held by many to be the greatest tenor since Caruso, will be seen for the first time in motion pictures, in "Forever Yours," the sumptuously sumptuous-ly produced musical film romance, ro-mance, which is scheduled to open at the Rivoli theater next Tuesday. Tues-day. The famous artist, who has been heard by concert audiences in every pai't of the world, since his withdrawal from the Metropolitan Metro-politan Opera a season or two ago, now comes to the screen in selections from some of his greatest great-est dramatic and lyric achievements. achieve-ments. In addition to his wonderful voice, Gigli brings to bear a magnetic mag-netic personality on his first screen part and reveals himself as an actor of no ordinary talent, in a story especially written for him, in which his song selections find a logical place. The story of "Forever Yours," has a real Pagliacci ring to it. Gigli plays the role of Enzo Curti, an internationally famous singer. He is a widower with a small boy, when he meets and marries Helen Carlton, secretary to a business man, who has just had a disappointing love affair. How they embark on a world cruise, after a whirlwind courtship, and how his wife's former romance is revived and their happiness nearly wrecked, through the scheming of a jealous woman, forms a screen story of distinctive distinc-tive interest. Attractions At The Theaters "Hitch the locket," "blow-off wire," "smoked lamp," "paper hanger. Do you know what they mean ? There is a comedy sequence in "Married Before Breakfast," which opens at the Rivoli theatre Tuesday, Tues-day, with Robert Young- and Florence Flor-ence Rice in the leads, in which they get into a conversation with a thug but can't understand his underworld jargon. The writers exhausted their supply of gangster lingo including such phrases as "at the spring" meaning "laced up in a straight-jacket"; straight-jacket"; "blow-off wire," which means "the last telegram from the mob"; "smoked lamp," meaning mean-ing "a black eye"; "paper hanger," hang-er," meaning a "bad-check' passer" pass-er" and "hitch the locket," a new underworld coinage meaning "to bash in somebody's head without killing him." Five new song hits are introduced intro-duced in the new Hal Roach feature fea-ture length comedy, "Pick a Star," which comes to the Rivoli theatre next Thursday with an all-star comedy cast headed by Patsy Kelly, Jack Haley, Rosina Lawrence, Mischa Auer, Lyda Roberti and Laurel and Hardy. The new songs include the title hit, "Pick a Star," written by R. Alex. Anderson, and also "I've Got It Bad," "Without Your -Love," "Night Club" and "Crazy But Baby Its Love," written by Fred Stryker and Johnny Lange. The musical direction was in the hands of Arthur Morton and Marvin Mar-vin Hatley, and the dances were staged by Edward Court. Columbia's "Roaring Timber," starring Jack Holt with Grace Bradley, Ruth Donnelly and Raymond Ray-mond Hatton in suppprt, will be the main feature at the Ritz theatre starting Sunday. Set against the awesome eye-filling majesty of the Rocky Mountain timberlands, the story of "Roaring "Roar-ing Timber" fells the dramatic taie of one man's battle against nature's fury and man's treachery treach-ery for supremacy in the north woods. Briefly, the film relates the story of Jim Sherwood (Jack Holt), two fisted kingpin to cut a record volume of timber within with-in six months. Before successfully completing his assignment he overcomes a forest fire, checkmates check-mates the plans of a scheming engineer (Willard Robertson) to wreck the project, and wins the love and respect of his lovely employer (Grace Bradley). One of the great sea stories of modern literature, Rudyard Kip-lings Kip-lings thrilling saga of the Gloucester Glou-cester fishermen, comes to the Rivoli screen starting Sunday, with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's pic-turization pic-turization of "Captains Courageous," Courage-ous," with Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore and Melvyn Douglas in the leading lead-ing roles. For the first time in his screen career Freddie Bartholomew plays a wholly American boy, a wide departure from any previous role. As Harvey Cheyne he is the pam- |