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Show Attractions At The Theaters ly Phelps," "Uncle Silas," "Jeff Rutledge," "Jupiter Dunlap," "Sheriff Slocum" and "Old Judge Tyler," to name but a few. With Billy Cook and Donald O'Connor heading the cast, as "Tom" and "Huck" respectively, the players number such favorites favor-ites as Porte Hall, who has one of his rare sympathetic roles as the mild-mannered and unfortunate unfor-tunate "Uncle Silas," Elizabeth Risdon, who plays "Aunt Sally," Phillip Warren, Janet Waldo, Edward Ed-ward J. Pawley and ' Raymond1 Hatton. The story shows how the two stalwart country lads, "Tom" and "Huck,'' solve a murder which has an entire community baffled and save their preacher-uncle from the gallows. It includes such typically Mark Twain situations situ-ations as a plot by Mississippi River steamboat sharpers, the discovery of the murdered man's twin brother and a midnight search for clues in a graveyard. Bette Davis, who recently received re-ceived the award of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences for the best performance of 1938 for her work in "Jezebel-is "Jezebel-is the star of "Dark Victory," the drama opening at the Rivoli '. Sunday. Miss Davis also received the award in 1935. Playing op-"" op-"" posite her in "Dark Victory" is I George Brent, and the cast also m features Humphrey Bogart, Ger- aldine Fitzgerald, Ronald Reagan, "Henry Tra vers, . . Cora .Wither-)' .Wither-)' spoon, Dorothy Peterson and J many others. Edmund Goulding ' ' directed from the screen play by Casey Robinson, based upon the jtage play by George Emerson prewer, Jr., and Bertram Block. When Ralph Spence's play, "The Gorilla," opened on Broadway Broad-way the experience was com- pletely unique to all theatregoers. theatre-goers. So successfully did the , story combine hair-raising chills with sidesplitting laughs -that audiences never knew what to (If expect, which of course made the fun-and-fright feat even more . enjoyable. ' There's even more real spine-' spine-' chilling fright in 20th Century- ! Fox's new screen version of the j famous play opening Friday at , the Rivoli theatre, but then .' there's even more rolling-in-the-aisles laughter just look who are the detectives: the Ritz . Brothers! 4i " . The most bizarre pages irom v, the record of modern American crime have been formed into 0, one thrilling screen story in jl "Persons in Hiding," which opens ' Tuesday at the Rivoli theatre. The picture is based on an actual case related in J. Edgar Hoover's book, "Persons in Hiding." ' Although made up of incidents ' from the careers of a dozen fall fa-ll mows crminals, the story plugs a 1 single exciting theme the terrific ter-rific influence of beautiful young women who supply the brains and inspiration for some of the i country's most feared and des- pi-rate gangsters. Two new hit tunes, slated to rank well up in the list of the 'S ' nation's favorites, are leatured in , "Some Like It Hoi," that grand iUi new comedy with a swingy slant which opens on Friday at the Rivoli theater. The songs are "The Lud.Vs in Love With You," ' t'y Frank Loesser and Burton ( Lane, and "Some Like It Hot," J1 by Gene Krupa, Remo Biondi and Frank Loesser. "Some Like It Hot" stars Bob Hope, Shirley Ross and Gene Krupa, the outstanding swing C summer, in the story of a liigger-tongued promoter who i wants to put himself and an orchestra in the big money, and almost loses the alloctiim ot tne girl he loves while trying to do is". George Archainbaud is rc- sponsible for Ihe uircction. Dozens of Mark Twain's most famous native characters, headed 'J by the inimitable "Tom Sawyer" f and his pal "Huckleberry Finn," j come to the screen In' "Tom S Sawyer," Paramount's new com- edy-drama, based on Twain's j 1 hovel. It opens locally next Fri- day at the Rilz theatre. i Against the colorlul back- ' ground of the Mississippi Valley during the halcyon days of the M last century, "Tom Sawyer, De- 'I tective," presents, in addition to j "Horn" and "Huck," such untor- " gettable characters as "Aunt Sal- |