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Show Attractions At The Theaters "The Devil's Saddle Legion" with the popular Singing Cowboy, Dick Foran, as chief legionnaire will be presented by Warner Bros., as the feature attraction at the Ritz, Sunday and. Monday. The Legion consists of a group of young men living in, the; old Indian Territory in its lawless days, who have been persecuted and wronged by an outlaw band, and who vow to avenge the many crimes of their enemies and to establish law and order in. their home region. . . They succeed, after much hard riding, . many hand-to-hand encounters, en-counters, and considerable pistol-play. I Kenny Baker, whom every radio fan knows and likes, makes his screen debut as a full-fledged movie star, at the Rivoli and Ritz, Thursday. He appears in the title role in "Mr. Todd Takes the Air," a story which, appropriately enough, deals with a radio singer of .Kenny's .Ken-ny's own type- The picture was produced by Mervyn LeRoy and is released by Warner Bros. In all Erich Remarque's novels his writing reveals the turmoil that went on in his head ever since 1914. He had to write down his flaming experiences, so his mind would be at peace. His vibrant narrative. "."The .Road' Back," burned .with electric thoughts which compelled, Remarque to write. These- ideas were ''retained I when R. C. Sheriff did the screen play. from, his book. The Universal film; . directed by, James, Whale, will be shown at the Rivoli theater thea-ter .today ' for a 2-day run. " Remarque, descendant of a-fam-j ily of French emigres who settled,- in the Rhineland during the French revolution, left ' school : at 18, -arid went into the German army during the World war. During Dur-ing the conflict his mother died and his friends were killed. In 1918, following the ' close of the war, he became a teacher, but the quietness of the life, after soul-searing soul-searing years in the trenches, gave him no peace. In the effort to throw off this burden by giving expression to itj he wrote, "AU Quiet - on the Western Front," in 1929. ... ';. A glance back at motion pictures pic-tures for the last decade reveals the rather surprising fact that most of the big, epoch-setting films were stories of the sea. "Down to the Sea in Ships." "The Sea Wolf." "The Sea Beas" "Captain Blood." "Mutiny on UN Bounty" and "Captains -Courageous," are a few films which bear this out. Now comes . another., as big and as epochal as any 'the powerful, dramatic and beautifully beauti-fully filmed motion picture "Souls at Sea," which opens at the Rivoli theatre Friday. Here is a motion picture, taken from an actual nccurrpTirp in iia- tory, so skilfully directed and acted and so masterfully produced and photographed that its place among the great motion pictures of all time is assured. The cast is headed by Gary Cooper, George Raft and Frances Dee, which should be enough to lift it into the top ranks at once. But its dramatic, well-told story, rugged In its appeal and massive in its scope, transcends even what the skillful cast could do to make it a perfect entertainment. "Souls at Sea" is based on a famous trial in the last century which concerned the guilt of one "Nuggin" Taylor, a sea captain, who assumed command of the bark "William Brown" when the vessel took fire at sea. . Becase of the paucity of lifeboats Taylor held a trial while the ship was sinking, to determine who was to be permitted to escape into the lifeboats and who was to remain re-main and go to the bottom with the ill-fated vessel. He included himself in the number assigned to the lifeboats not, he' pleaded to the court later, because he wanted to save his own .life,, but. because somebody had to go along . to navigate the boats and he was the only seaman in the lot. |