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Show Attractions At The Theaters "Prarie Thunder," an exciting melodrama of-the days when hostile hos-tile Indians tried to prevent the white man from linking Coast and coast with his railroads and teiegraph lines, will be offered of-fered Sunday at the Ritz theatre, thea-tre, with the handsome, hard-riding hard-riding Dick Foran as its hero. It is like all Dick's pictures, . a Warner Bros production. Those who have previewed the picture proclaim it the best of all the many that Foran has turned out within the past two-and-a-half . years.. He plays the part of a cavalryman caval-ryman whose assignment is to keep the rails and the wires intact in-tact and aid the progress of civilization across the wild places. He has a new leading lady in "Prairie Thunder," an 18-year-old beauty called Ellsn Clancy, who won her way into the movies mov-ies by sheer persistence (calling on the casting director every week for three years), and she makes her debut splendidly in this picture. Just what the title indicates is the story of "The Singing Marine," Ma-rine," which, with Dick Powell as its star, will have its local premiere at the Rivoli theater on Sunday and Monday. Dick is a Marine a modest buck private at the San Diego base and he can sing. So his comrades get up a purse to send him to New York to have a try at "Major Bowes" amateur hour. At the same time, on her own, Dick's sweetheart essays to enter her voice into the competition. This is Doris Weston, a lovely and talented newcomer to movies. She doesn't get by. The Major's famous ong stops -her. But Dick becomes a tremendous success. That was just too bad: It goes to Dick's head. Spoiled by the adulation of innumerable women, and the fawning chiselers who surround him, the young Marine forgKs his comrades out on the Pacific coast. . An unusual mystery plot is unfolded in Warner Bros, radio drama, "Love is on the Air," which is scheduled to have ita first local showing at the Strand theatre next week. It starts in a radio broadcasting broadcast-ing station, where the featured news broadcaster, played by Ronald Ron-ald Reagan, incurs the wrath of the sponsors and is demoted to the children's hour program. Introducing an innovation to pep up the "Kiddies Hour" he broadcasts the program as news, taking portable radio equipment to children's playgrounds. Befriending an urchin of the slums, "The Mouse," a kids' gang leader, he stumbles on a clue that leads to the solution of the mysterious mys-terious disappearance and murder mur-der of a prominent businessman. A thrilling gun battle between police and gangsters is the climax of the closing scenes, and excitement excite-ment runs high In this episode in the picture, |