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Show Attractions At The Theaters "Guns of the Pecos," First National's new Western melodramatic melodra-matic thriller, comes to the Ritz theatre on Friday and Saturday, with Dick Foran, the Singing-Cowboy, Singing-Cowboy, in the stellar role. The picture is set in the days just after the Civil War when that part of Texas which was known as the Pecos, was infested with outlaws, guerifias in Indians. In-dians. Cattle rustling and horse stealing was an every day occurrence, occur-rence, with frequent lynching parties. America's most versatile fun-maker, fun-maker, Joe Cook, "the one-man circus," stars in the title role of "Arizona Mahoney," a hilarious travesty of life on the plains with trimmings which begins on Tuesday at the Rivoli theatre. The famous comedian plays the role of a carnival show operator, stranded in a typical western cow town, who assists his bashful assistant, as-sistant, Robert Cummings, in his love affair with beautiful June Martel, the Chicago society girl who was recently given a long term contract by Paramount. Larry Lar-ry Crabbe, an amiable bandit chief and cattle rustler, is also in love with Miss Martel. An elephant, a trained goose, a 22-inch 22-inch cannon and a load of frying pans, copper kettles, washboards and soup pots are used in working work-ing out the triangle, with plenty of clowning, juggling, acrobatics and dancing by Cook. The tender love which existed between two of the hardest characters char-acters of the old West, "Wild Bill" Hickok, two fisted, hard-shooting hard-shooting exponent of law-and-order as the newly opened territory terri-tory knew it, and "Calamity Jane," a beauty who packed a pair of six-guns and drove a six-horse six-horse stagecoach over what then passed for roads, is the basis of Cecil B. DeMille's latest screen masterpiece, "The Plainsman," which begins on Friday at the Rivoli theatre. History relates how Hickok, played by Gary Cooper, was retained re-tained by the government to investigate in-vestigate gun-running in the West because he was among the most-feared of the bold and toughened characters of a region known for its hard and brave men, when that region was first opened open-ed for immigration, around 1870. It also relates that Hickok never wounded an adversary. It was always a sure hit, and with this reputation as his letter of introduction, intro-duction, the handsome soldier-of-fortune went into the Far West to find out who was selling rifles to the Indians in express violation viola-tion of a government order. |