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Show Attractions At The Rivoli Jessie Matthews, the little lady with the big eyes and the tapping toes, is back in town with one of the breeziest, romantic musicals of the season "It's Love Again." Costarred with Robert Young, she reveals new finesse as an actress and tops her record for eye-opening routines with her sensational dances. There is an ingenious story about a talented girl looking for a chance on the musical comedy stage and a gossip columnist who runs out of news. Robert Young as the news sleuth gets out of his dilemma by inventing a glamorous lady reputed to be from India, one Mrs. Smythe-Smythe. The girl reaches the headlines in one bound by appearing in public as the lady from India. No one is more surprised than the reporter who with visions of libel suits before him, seeks out Mrs. Smythe-Smythe and finds that she is the big-eyed girl he has been romancing with. The pair patch up the dangerous aspects of the hoax and, working together, startle London with her amazing exploits. They happen to include stardom in one of the biggest revues in town. Mrs. Smythe-Smythe is a sensation. She warms up Asiatic dances with modern rhythms and invents some striking new routines. rou-tines. Cyril Wells is her dancing partner and their dance scenes highlight the picture. The top song hit of the show is Jessie Matthews' theme number "Got to Dance My Way to Heaven." Heav-en." Composers Coslow and Woods have written three other hit tunes for the show "I Nearly Let Love Go Slipping Through My Fingers," "Tony's In Town." Joe E. Brown comes to the Rivoli theater Friday in "Earthworm "Earth-worm Tractors," a First National production that is said to be his most hilarious comedy to date. The picture is based on a series of stories written by William Hazlett Upsom and which appeared appear-ed in the Saturday Evening Post. Joe brings to life on the screen the hero of these comedies, that blundering, and in his own egotistical ego-tistical estimation, natural born super-salesman, Alexander Botts, who somehow always wins out in the end despite his agregious mistakes. mis-takes. Joe has two leading women in the picture, one whom he loses to a rival when he leaves town and the other whom he finds is quite unwilling to play second fiddle when he stupidly tells her he would have married the first girl only he discovered that she already al-ready had become a bride. |