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Show Attractions At The Theaters Everyone in the United States possessed of a radio has undoubtedly undoubt-edly heard that big weekly broadcast broad-cast called "Hollywood Hotel," supposedly ' originating from an immense and luxurious hostelry in the capital of Filmland, which has been the most popular air program pro-gram for the last three years. And now "Hollywood Hotel," in the form of a musical comedy, is coming to the Rivoli theatre next Friday as a presentation from Warner Bros. It is not merely an episode entertainment, like its namesake of the ether-waves, but a fully-plotted dramatic show with a star-studded cast. Dick Powell has the mast important im-portant part that of a young crooner who comes to Hollywood with promises of a movie job, and gets into all sorts of difficulties before he wins success. The Lane sisters, Lola and Rosemary, Rose-mary, have the leading feminine roles, the former as a temperamental tempera-mental movie star who refuses to appear at a premiere, and the latter lat-ter as a totally obscure 'hotel worker who takes Lola's place on the big night. Louella Parsons, famed dramatic critic and originator of the "Hollywood "Hol-lywood Hotel" air show, plays herself in the picture, acting as mistress of ceremonies and intro-! ducing a great number of stars to her audience in the famed "Orchid Room." Robert Taylor, supported by a group of film personalities who have achieved fame both here and abroad, including Lionel Barry-more, Barry-more, Maureen O'Sullivan, and such stellar British players as Vivien Leigh, Edmund Gwenn and Griffith Jones, comes to the Rivoli Ri-voli screen, starting Sunday, in "A Yank at Oxford," an unusual story of the experiences of an American college boy placed in the unfamiliar environment of an English university. Based on an original story by Leon Gordon, Sidney GUliat and Michael Hogan and on an idea by John Monk Saunders and directed by Jack Conway, who gave the screen such hits as "A Tale of Two Cities" and "Libeled Lady." the new Taylor picture has the distinction of being photographed in England against the authentic Oxford backgrounds. The story begins with Taylor's departure for England, having re-; re-; ccived a scholarship for Oxford. His arrival there, his difficulties in adjusting himself to the customs cus-toms and traditions of a university univer-sity far different from the college he has left behind, his feud with a rival undergraduate and his subsequent romance with this rival's riv-al's sister, make for a narrative ' which holds , excitement, humor, i novelty and a sympathetic unfolding un-folding of characterizations. |