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Show Attractions At The Rivoli j i The unfortunate course on which I one child is sent by the separation of his parents is treated with appealing effect in "Let's Sing Again," a drama with music which will be the new attraction at the Rivoli theater Sunday and' Monday. Mon-day. The subject of "Let's Sing Again" is Billy, an eight-year-old ; i boy gifted with a beautiful voice, : confined in an orphanage after his mother deserted her poor but j aspiring husband, a singer. Chok-ed Chok-ed with a desire for freedom to , express his endowed gift of voice, ; Billy flees the orphanage, and ! charms a tent show handyman, an , erstwhile opera singer, in sponsoring spon-soring him. Billy's voice is developed by his guardian, and the two come to New York for an audition. They wend their way to the home of a famous concert singer whose guest . of honor chances to be Billy's father, now a renowned baritone. Through the medium of a song the father used to sing to his son in the cradle, the pair are reunited re-united in a heart-gripping denouement. denoue-ment. Billy is portrayed by Bobby ' Breen in "Let's Sing Again," the debut vehicle for this child marvel whose voice has thrilled the radio audiences for many months on Eddie Cantor's program. Henry Armetta and George Houston head the featured cast in Bobby Breen's support in this RKO Radio release. Gay comedy, punctuated with terpsichorean and musical surprises, sur-prises, permeates Pioneer Pictures' Pic-tures' feature, "Dancing Pirate," the first dancing romance ever filmed in the new 100 per cent Technicolor. The story, beginning with brief action in Boston when that city had not yet got around to eulogizing eulo-gizing the bean, moves rapidly to early Spanish California and I humorously reveals a phenome- ' non, one very fastidious, decor- ; ous and esthetic young Bostonian becomes a swashbuckling, hard-fighting hard-fighting Romeo and wins the heart of a fiery Spanish beauty. The title role is in the hands and the feet of Charles Collins, Col-lins, the screen's new dancing sensation. The girl Is portrayed by Steffi Duna. The comedy is personified mainly by Frank Morgan, whose role as the "Alcalde" "Al-calde" (Mayor), is said to provide pro-vide him with opportunities equal to those he capitalized upon in i "The Affairs of Cellini." |