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Show Attractions At The Theaters Either because Pat O'Brien owns an Irishman's instinct for bfintf intfraliuLintf, or because (Mtfht years as a husband in one ol Hollywood's most happily married mar-ried families has taught Pat a deft domestic "approach," this actor was able to improvise a piece of 'business" that gave u distinguishing distinguish-ing touch to one of his scenes with Joan Blondell in "Off the liccoid," the Warner Bros, picture pic-ture coming to the Ritz Theatre next Tuesday. In the story Pat and Joan play newspaper reporters. After being, ci azy about each other for some ' time, they blithely get married. But they have a disagreement shortly after the ceremony. That night Pat return to the .ipartment, carrying his suitcase, the new latchkey which Joan gave him. and a sheepish grin. Walking through the apartment building's lobby, Pat spies a big vase filled with gladiolas, placed on a table tnere by the apartment apart-ment building's lady manager. Pat lifts the bouquet out of the ! vase, bundles the flowers under ' his arm, fits the latchkey into the lock, and marches triumphant-, iy into the honeymoon flat, whistling whist-ling and reaching the flowers toward to-ward Joan. "Going Places," the Warner Bros, picture which opens Thursday Thurs-day at the Ritz Theatre with Dick Powell and Anita Louise heading the cast, is a hilarious farce whose action is interspersed with some highly original and tuneful song numbers. In this production, Powell is given another fine chance to demonstrate dem-onstrate the talents as a comedian which he revealed to such good effect in "Cowboy From Brooklyn." Brook-lyn." and the supporting cast is largely made up of actors whose fame as funny-men has long 'been well established, notably Allen Jenkins, Walter Catlett, Harold Huber and Thurston Hall. Playing slightly more sedate roles are Ronald Reagan, Minna Gombell and Larry Williams, while the musical burden is shared with Powell by those two great colored stars, Louis Armstrong, the world's premier hot trumpeter, trumpet-er, and Maxine Sullivan making her debut in motion picture's who is the reigning sensation among swingy singers. Among the four new songs written writ-ten for the production by Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer, one is a romantic -ballad, while the other three are all highly diverting novelty nov-elty numbers. In the presentation of one of these numbers, "Mutiny in the Nursery," Powell, Armstrong Arm-strong and Miss Sullivan all collaborate col-laborate and are uacked up by a colored swing band and chorue. The humor of the piece revolves about the masquerade by Powell, really a timid sporting goods salesman, as a famous steeplechase steeple-chase rider. He is forced to make good on his 'boasts by riding one of the meanest and wildest horses ever foaled in the Maryland Steeplechase. Naturally for this is a farce things get very complicated, com-plicated, but he does make good by calling sweet music to his aid. How this is done constitutes one of the most original as well as one of the funniest episodes ever filmed. |