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Show v Attractions At The Theaters Because a heavy wind blew a highway-warning sign reading "Danger Men At Work," into a i car in which Mack Gordon and Harry Revel were riding, the top-j top-j notch tunesmiths got an idea for j a new song. Because they know that most j popular songs have a romantic j theme, they changed the com-,.'"on com-,.'"on Warning phrase to "Danger LiOvt. ' At Worla'' and-wrote- a song by that title. Because the song suggested a swell title for a picture, production produc-tion chief Darryl F. Zanuck gave it to his newest comedy production. pro-duction. " .' And that's how "Danger Love At Work," hilarious farce starring star-ring Ann Sothern, Jack Haley, Mary Boland and Edward Everett Horton, which opens Thursday at the Rivoli and Ritz theatre, received re-ceived its title. Proving that the source of true love doesn't run any smoother in England than elsewhere, Fred Astaire's new vehicle for RKO Radio, with George Burns and Grade Allen, "A Damsel in Distress," Dis-tress," weaves a sparkling group of Gershwin songs and one of P. G. Wode'house's funniest stories stor-ies of British life into a brilliant piece of screen entertainment. ' The story revolves around a merry romance between Astaire, in the role of an American dancer danc-er in London, and Joan Fontaine, as a titled British girl who is 'being driven into an unwelcome marriage by her imperious aunt. Through the back-stairs . politics of the servants at Miss Fontaine's Fon-taine's ancestral castler Astaire is led to, believe that the girl is madly in love with him, and the complications build up to peaks of hilarity, interspersed with tuneful songs by the late George Gershwin and his brother Ira, and five spectacular dance numbers that reveal Astaire at his delightful best. Burns and Allen play a pair of press agents guiding Astaire's stage career, and such riotables as Reginald Gardner, Constance Collier, Ray Noble, Montagu Love, Harry Watson and Jack Carson have prominent roles in the gay offering. A remarkable castle setting forms the background back-ground for much of the picture's action. Based on one of the best-known of the famous Wodehouse stories stor-ies of English country life, the film was directed by George Stevens and produced by Pandro S. Herman. Ernest Pagano and S. K. Lauren collaborated with Wodehouse on the screen play. Ricardo Cortez, one of Hollywood's Holly-wood's most popular screen heroes, her-oes, provides another, outstanding portrait in "Talk of the Devil," ;B & D's new production which Gaumont is releasing next Sunday Sun-day and Monday at the Ritz theatre. Sally Filers, Basil Sydney Syd-ney and Randle Ayrton are other prominent members of the cast. Cortez is seen as a dapper American architect who comes to London on a visit, and during a wager that he can mimic any voice he has ever heard, discovers discov-ers that this power can be used for evil as well as good. "Talk of the Devil," was directed di-rected by Carol Reed from a scenario by Anthony Kimmins. |