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Show Attractions At The Theaters All the weird mystery and stark terror of the steaming Malayan wilds, from which few white adventurers ad-venturers have ever come out alive, are brought to the screen in "Booloo," Paramount's romance of the jungle. It is a land where ferocious animals attack human being for food, voodoo-mad natives na-tives make human sacrifices to their tiger-god and white men battle to find out the secrets of the jungle. "Booloo," which opens next Friday at the Ritz theatre, was produced and directed by Clyde E. Elliott. Join the navy and see the girls! That's a fair picture of a sailor's sail-or's life, at least when the fleet's in, according to Paramount's new marine comedy, "Give Me a Sailor," Sail-or," which opens Thursday at the Rivoli and Ritz theatres. With Bob Hope, Martha Raye, Betty Grable and Jack Whiting playing the leading roles, the picture tells a rollicking story of two sailors who pursue the same girl but change their minds when the girl's Cinderella sister turns out to be the winner of a national beauty contest. C of taking an annual vacation from love. It works. Bubbling with the humor and naturalness that made the original orig-inal Kate Douglas Wiggin story one of the best-sellers of its day, the film version of "Mother Carey's Chickens" opens next Sunday Sun-day at the Rivoli theatre. Closely following the book, the film deals with the interesting careers of the Careys. The head of the family, a naval officer, dies during the war with Spain, and his wife and four children, left penniless save for a scanty pension pen-sion fry to carry on as their father would have wished. Through the efforts of a young school teacher who is in love with the older daughter, the Careys leave the tenement in which they are living and take over an old, tumble-down house in the country. coun-try. They remodel it as a teachers' teach-ers' boarding house, but unforeseen, unfore-seen, complications arise just as they complete the task. The climax cli-max fs charged with hilarity as the family adopts a unique method meth-od of dispossessing an unpleasant couple who claim their house. Against this background are played interlocking romances between be-tween the two daughters and their respective admirers, all thoroughly steeped in the colorful atmosphere of the late nineties and enriched with Miss Wiggin's sparkling comedy. For the first time in history, all Hollywood studios have pooled pool-ed their stars and resources for the making of a picture, a two-reel two-reel snort titled "The World Is Ours," in the interests of the entire en-tire industry. It was made with a cast selected se-lected from the various studios, and with a collaboration of writers, writ-ers, director, producer, musical director di-rector and other technicians to illustrate the slogan of Motion Pictures' Greatest Year campaign, "Motion Pictures Are Your Best Entertainment." The picture's story cast includes Anne Shirley, Dorothy Peterson, Samuel S. Hinds, Charlie Grape-win Grape-win and Johnny Walsh. Also included in-cluded in the production are shots of virtually every star in Hollywood Holly-wood as well as much of the fascinating fas-cinating and authentic background back-ground of picture making itself. Directed by Basil Wrangell from the script by Lou Harris and Herman Hoffman, it was produced by Frank IWhitbeck. It is being shown at the Rivoli and Ritz Wednesday. Dennis O'Keefe and Florence Rice, two young players who have made rapid strides toward stardom in the past six months, are teamed for the first time in "Vacation from Love," new comedy com-edy which opens at the Rivoli and Ritz theatres next Wednesday for an engagement of one day. The story is a romantic comedy of the adventures encountered by a young couple in love and wedded in their attempt to solve the secret sec-ret of happy marriage. Miss Rice and O'Keefe, as the young couple, : try everything to save their matrimonial mat-rimonial bark from disaster until they hit upon the happy thought |