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Show Attractions At The -Rivoli No matter how much you liked "Naughty Marietta." that musical sensation of 1935, you're sure to like "Rose Marie" even more. Again co-starring Jeanette Mfic-Donnld Mfic-Donnld and Nelson Eddy, this Metrc-Goldwyn-Mayer production at the Rivoli theater Sunday, Monday Mon-day and Tuesday. Like its forerunner, "Rose Marie" was directed by W. S. Van Dyke and produced by Hunt Strombcrg, who again combined their talents to give this picture one of the finest productions to come out of Hollywood in a long time. Replete with haunting music, a tender love story, magnificent photography and backgrounds, it is truly the film sensation of the yea i Miss MacDonald plays the name role, an opera star who travels disguised into the wilds in search of her dissolute brother, a criminal crim-inal from justice. Nelson Eddy portrays Sergeant Bruce, as fine a "Mountie" as ever rode a horse. Assigned to bring the criminal to justice, there is the thrust of personal duty when these two meet and fall in love. With all its outdoor scenes made against natural backgrounds of surpassing beauty in the mountain-lake country of the Sierra Nevada's, "Rose Marie" is a pictorial pic-torial work of art. "Rose of the Rancho," Para-mount's Para-mount's new musical romance which comes to the Rivoli theater on Thursday, boasts the first original orig-inal operetta-type score ever written writ-ten for the screen. And the picture pic-ture has more new songs than any other film ever made eleven, to be exact, plus four Spanish dances. "Rose of the Rancho" marks the screen debut of Gladys Swartbout, beautiful Metropolitan opera star, and of the new comedy team of Willie Howard and Herb Williams. Mis.s Swarthout sings five, songri while Jnhn Boles, who plays opposite op-posite her, has three, and they sing a duct together. Willie Howard How-ard has two songs. The picture represents' an entirely en-tirely new technique in screen musicals. Heretofore motion picture pic-ture producers have been somewhat some-what baffled by the difficulty of presenting songs without .slowing .slow-ing up the story, but Composers Ralph Rainier and Leo Robin have overcome this problem. They wrote the songs to tie in directly direct-ly with the dialogue. The music becomes a natural extension of the lines. |