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Show ! Attractions at j The Rivoli Thrilling race track scenes, filmed at the famous Santa Anita track, scene of the annual $100,-000 $100,-000 handicap, are incorporated in Columbia's "Panic on the Air," which features Lew Ayres and 'Florence Rice, and is showing Tuesday and Wednesday at the Rivoli theater. Also to be seen in the same production are highlights of the recent world's championship baseball base-ball series. Ayres is cast as a news and sports commentator broadcasting a daily program of the most interesting in-teresting events in the world of sports or news. The race-track and ball park sequences are those in which he is seen announcing the progress of the contests in the line of his daily duty. Five years have elapsed since Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper starred together in "Morocco." They again share stellar honors in "Desire," Paramount's romantic roman-tic comedy at the Rivoli theater Tuesday and Wednesday. It is the story of a sensational jewel robbery by a breath-taking beauty, beau-ty, and an ardent romance. Miss Dietrich enacts the siren, and Cooper an. American engineer determined to be romantic. John Halliday, William ' Fraw-ley, Fraw-ley, Ernest Cossart, Akim Tam-iroff, Tam-iroff, and Alan Mowbray head the - -A- supporting cast. The capable direction di-rection is by Frank Borzage. Once again the matchless genius gen-ius of Frank Capra has asserted itself and brought to the screen a triumph of the highest calibre. There can no longer be any doubt that Mr. Capra is in a class alone so far as motion picture direction is concerned. He makes a few pictures, but they bear the unmistakable un-mistakable mark of technical perfection. per-fection. To this director's last three films "Lady for a Day," "It Happened One Night," and '"Broadway Bill," each of them fine enough to warm the heart of an ordinary director for the duration of his professional life i3 added now "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town," which opens Sunday at the Rivoli theater with Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur in the important roles. |