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Show Attractions At The Theaters i "North of the Rio Grande," latest lat-est of the "Hopalong" Cassidy outdoor out-door romances, opening Tuesday at the Rivoii theater, is from the Clarence E. Mulford novel "Cottonwood Gulch." William Boyd plays the role of "Hoppy." The cast also includes George Hayes, Russell Hayden, Bernadene Hayes and Stephen Morris. A new hit tune from the pens of Johnston and Burke, the team that gave the world "Pennies From Heaven," will be heard for the first time in "Midnight Madonna," faramount's story of a court battle bat-tle waged for the custody of a child, opening on Sunday at the Ritz theater. The song is "The Plain Old Blues," and is sung by beautiful Mady Correli, New ifork stage beauty who makes her film debut in the picture. She sings it as part of her role as a night club entertainer enter-tainer against a brilliant Lack-ground Lack-ground of New York's night life vis9 Correli plays the motner role in the film. Little Kitty Clancy, described as the year's most sensational sen-sational film "find," plays the child role. The cast is headed oy Warren William and includes Robert Baldwin, Jonathan Hale, Edward Ellis and many others. "Michael O'Halloran," forthcoming forthcom-ing attraction at the Rivoii and Ritz theaters, is a production anticipated an-ticipated with great enthusiasm by local theater goers. Republic has budgeted much time and money to make it an adaptation worthy of the Gene Stratton-Port-er original, and from advance reports, re-ports, their efforts have been well spent. Readers of the delightful novel will recall that it deals with the power of a small boy to regenerate regener-ate his foster parents and bring happiness and contentment to everyone whom his life touches. Jackie Moran takes the part of the orphan waif, and Cnarlene Wyatt effectively portrays his little lit-tle invalid sister. Tnese two youngsters young-sters sprang into sudden prominence prom-inence as the juvenile team "Valiant "Val-iant Is the Word for Carrie." Vina Delmar, author of the bestsellers, best-sellers, "Bad Girl," "The Marriage Racket" and other best-sellers of modern youth and its problems, brings a powerful, provocative ana highly entertaining story of Amer-ioan Amer-ioan family life to the screen in "Make Way tor Tomorrow," the drama which opens at the Rivoii theater Sunday. "Make Way for Tomorrow" is the story of revolt between the generations. Not only does it present pre-sent the case of a girl in her 'teens, daughter- of a modern bridge playing mother who hasn't the time to sympathize with and understand her daughter, but it also turns a frank and searching light upon the relationship which i exists between the generation represented rep-resented by the mother and the generation represented by the mother's parents. In this it is an important m,otion picture with a real message despite its light-hearted light-hearted humor, gaiety and genuine genu-ine "homespun" qualities. The girl in the story is charming charm-ing Barbara Read, the brilliant young actress who soared to stardom star-dom over night with Deanna Dur-bin Dur-bin in "Three Smart Girls." Because Be-cause of her parents' indifference, Miss Read is forced to find her own amusements, unguided, a state of affairs which lands her peiilously near real danger. |