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Show Attractions At The Theaters - Thousands of feet of r.cvii-reels r.cvii-reels made during the height of the devastating Mississippi flood were scanned by Director L. A. Dupon and other production executives ex-ecutives to establish the absolute abso-lute authenticity of settings in Paramount's flood drama "On Such a Night," coming Friday to the Ritz theatr.e An actual relief station for the flood sufferers was reproduced for the picture and the 1000 extras were also checked to represent true-to-life characters who were victims of the catastrophe. clous things aa' "I Am A Fugitive Fugi-tive from a Chain Gang," "Little Caesar," "Anthony Adverse," and many others. LeRoy won't touch a story that is dull or routine. Now he presents pre-sents one that certainly is neither. "They Won't Forget," is the film versions of "Death in the Deep South," a novel ,by Ward Greene that is second in southern interest in-terest only to "Gone With the Wind" . . .and is far more controversial. con-troversial. It presents the argument that a politically ambitious district at- torney, by building up a cnauioi circumstantial evidence and at the same time craftily stirring anti-sectional . hatred can send to death a perfectly innocent man accused of murder. In "They Won't Forget" Claude Rains is the villainous prosecutor. prosecu-tor. Edward Norris is- his victim; a young Northern school teacher. Gloria Dickson a new film girl drafted from a federal theatre project stage play is the victim's vic-tim's wife; Lana Turner, a 17-year-oid Hollywood high school girl, is the one that's murdered; Otto Kruger, of stage and screen fame, is the Northern lawyer that tries to save Norris and a splendid additional cast completes com-pletes the roster. Karen Morley, Grant Kicnarcis, Edfuardo Cianelli, Roscoe Karns, Alan Mowbray and Milli Monti play leading roles in the flood drama. The picture was directed by E. A. Dupont. A new mixture of mystery, romance, and comedy comes to the screen in "She Asked for it," which opens Sunday at the Ritz theatre. The picture, one of the season's most refreshing bits of film fare, presents a new star, the beautiful Orien Heyward, who plays opposite William Gargan. "She Asked for It" is Miss Hey-ward's Hey-ward's first film, and advance reports re-ports are most enthusiastic about her work. The picture was directed di-rected by Erle Kenton and the cast includes 'viviene Osborne, Richard Carle, Roland Drew and Harry Beresford. Paul Muni, whose most recent film, "The Story of Louis Pasteur." Pas-teur." won for him the coveted gold statuette of the Mion Picture Pic-ture Academy as the best actor of 1936, comes to the Rivoli theatre thea-tre Sunday in another epic story, "The Life of Emile Zola." Directed by the same genius who guided the making of "Pasteur," "Pas-teur," the celebrated William Dieterle, the Zola movie is declared de-clared to excel the previous masterpiece. mas-terpiece. It begins with the early struggles strug-gles of Zola as a novelist, carries him along to wealth and fame, and goes thoroughly into his magnificent crusade on behalf of Captain Dreyfus, the army officer of-ficer who was falsely accused of selling military secrets, and was unjustly convicted and sent to Devil's Island. Muni, of course, plays Zoia. Another splendid actor. Josepn Schildkraut, portrays the unfortunate un-fortunate Dreyfus. The rest of the cast is practically all-star. Gale Sondergaard. who had such i a sensational success in "An-I "An-I thonv Adverse." is Madame Drey- fus; Gloria Holden is Madame Zola, and Erin O'Brien-Moore is "Nana" the girl of the streets about whom Zola wrote his first great novel. That daring and successful producer pro-ducer and director of photoplays, photo-plays, Mervvn LeRoy, sends thru Warner Bros, his latest sensational sensa-tional movie. "They Won't Forget," For-get," to the screen of the Rivoli theatre Friday aand Saturday. LeRoy is the young man who made for the films such tremen- |