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Show tire, and has sold his last herd of cattle to a member of the community who is a gambler, and head' of a band of outlaws. out-laws. When the transaction has been complete, the retiring rancher departs for Sacramento with his wife and daughter. The gambler and his band waylay the stage coach, murder the man, and repossess re-possess the money. "Hoppy," who has long suspected the gambler of robbery, now decides to make travel safe. i Although Bogart has played featured roles in many successful success-ful pictures among them ''Racket ''Rack-et Busters," "The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse," and the sensational "Crime School" he has never before actually been a star. "King of the Underworld" marks the climax of his swift rise to the top. In this picture he is a half villainous, half humorous gang leader with enormous conceit so much, indeed, that he makes prisoner a young novelist to write a eulogistic biography of him. He wants the world to know him as the Napoleon of crime. All this is reported to be very funny. On the other hand, he doesn't hesitate to make a prisoner of Miss Francis, a noted surgeon, so that she may dress wounds the gangsters receive in their conflicts with the police. Bogart 's characterization of "Red Gurney," the mob leader, is salTi to be one of his finest cf-: cf-: forts. But he is outsmarted in the end by the woman doctor, and lands behind the bars. Attractions At The Theaters Bobby Breen's latest photoplay, "Fisherman's Wharf," is enhanced en-hanced witli a picturesque background, back-ground, a thorough story and a supporting cast of seven of Hollywood's Hol-lywood's most capable performers. perform-ers. Added to this is the music of Victor Young and Frank Churchill. The locale of the story is colorful color-ful Fisherman's Wharf of San Francisco and the storybook city itself that part of the metropolis that isn't on the map; the things of the city that guide books only hint at! The San Francisco o'r cable cars that whisk you up sunny terraced streets on a bell-ringmg bell-ringmg excursion over the hills. The pale blue boats of Fisherman's Fisher-man's Wharf and the nets that are mended on Sundays and the owl-eyed sea bass that come from the nets. It is a locale that has never before been touched in celluloid. cel-luloid. The story itself is a rare one lor these days! It is a simple tale of a boy and his father and their great companionship, a companionship that even an intriguing in-triguing pretty woman could not break. It is a tale of w'himsical humor, of fine-threaded pathos and of simple folk. The settings, for the most part, are out of doors, with the picturesque San Francisco Bay, the famous Golden Gol-den Gate bridge and the open sea as backgrounds. Best of all of the always-good "Hopalong Cassidy" films, to date, is "Sunset Trail," which comes to the screen of the Ritz theatre Tuesday. "Hopatbng," played again by the popular William Boyd, is the man who gambles with his life while seeking to make stage coach travel to Sacramento safe for law al-iding citizens. Before "Hoppy" comes on the scene, a respected member of a smalt cattle cat-tle community has decided to re- |