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Show Attractions At The Rivoli Robert Emmet Sherwood's stage hit, "The Petrified forest," which ran all last season on Broadway to crowded houses, comes to the Rivoli theater Thursday in the screen version produced by Warner War-ner Bros. Leslie Howard and Bette Davis who gave such sterling performances perform-ances in "Of Human Bondage," are again playing the stellar roles in this picture. They are supported support-ed by a brilliant cast which includes in-cludes Genevieve Tobin, Dick For-an, For-an, Humphrey Bogart, Joseph Sawyer and others. The story is set in the picturesque pictur-esque and colorful background of the Arizona Desert, the scenes taking place In and about a wayside way-side gas station and eating house a few miles from the real Petrified Petri-fied forest. In this strange locale are gathered gath-ered a group of the world's misfits, mis-fits, held there by a band of killers who are hiding from a posse searching for them, awaiting theii chance to escape over the bordei into Mexico. At this strange gathering, How-ard, How-ard, in the role of an unsuccessful author, disillusioned with " life, awakens to the fact that he can become of some use in the world by dying to give the girl he has suddenly fallen in love with, a chance to realize her thwarted desires. de-sires. Howard had this same role in the stage production. Miss Davis is the erotic, discontented discon-tented girl who longs for a fling at life, which her misfit father and her crabbed, miserly grandfather deny her. |