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Show Attractions At The Theaters The all-too common occurrence of newlyweds with just enough money to buy a vine-covered cottage cot-tage and furnish one room is the hilarious opening theme of the Jones Family's newest 20th Century-Fox hit, "Love On A Budget," Bud-get," opening Tuesday at the Rivoli theatre. Jed ' Prouty, Shirley Deane, Spring Eyington, Russell Gleason, Kenneth Howell. George Ernest, June Carlson, Florence Roberts and Biliy Mahan are in their usual family roles, with Alan Dinehart, Dixie' Dunbar and Marvin Stephens also featured. After a run of several years in New York, London, Paris and various var-ious other world capitals as a stage play, "Tovarich," a comedy dealing with a Grand Duchess and a Price who were exiled from their native Russia by the revolution, now comes to the screen. It will have its first local showing at the Rivoli theatre Friday. Warner Bros, made the picture and endowed it with a splendid cast and many magnificent settings. set-tings. Claudette Colbert plays the Grand Duchess and Charles Boyer the Prince. Other notable performers perform-ers in the cast include Basil Rath-tone, Rath-tone, Anita Louise, Melville Cooper, Coop-er, Isabel. Jeans (imported from England for the picture), Morris Carnovsky, Montague Love, Reinc Riano and Heather Thatcher. Anatole Litvak, famous Russian-born Russian-born director remembered for his sensational picture of a few years ago, "Be Mine Tonight" guided the making of "Tovarich." Although the main characters are Russian, all the action of the picture takes place in Paris, to which city the erstwhile nobles have fled. They have brought with them, in trust, 40 billion francs in gold. They become servants in the home of. a rich Frenchman in order to live, and the story revolves re-volves around the efforts of various vari-ous elements to get hold of the fortune, which the Grand Duchess Duch-ess and the Prince will not touch themselves. There are no revolutionary scenes and no warfare in "Tovarich." "Tova-rich." It is continuous high comedy. com-edy. The screen adaptation was made by Casey Robinson from the original French play by Jacques Deval and the English version of the stage success by Robert Sher-j Sher-j wood. Proclaimed as the greatest motion mo-tion picture ever made with an undersea boat as its subject and locale, "Submarine D-l" has been booked as the feature attraction at the Rivoli theatre, opening next Sunday. It is a Warner Bros, melodrama melo-drama co-starring Pat O'Brien and George Brent, and featuring featur-ing Wayne ("Kid Galahad") Morris. Mor-ris. In the making of it the United States Navy department deserves as much credit as the movie folk, for it threw open to the Warners its submarine establishments at San Diego, Cocos Coco in the Panama Pan-ama Calan zone, and Newport, R. I. The most modern of submarines, officially called the D-l and also bearing the title of Dolphin, was used in all diving and surface-running surface-running scenes. It was impossible, of course, in the limited space aboard a real submarine, to. find room for camera and light crews. So the movie-makers built at the studio a duplicate of the D-l, cut into ten different sections, and outside the ends of these sections the technicians were able to operate oper-ate their apparatus for closeup shots. The stoi-y of the D-l was written by Commander Frank Wead, U. S. N., who was the author of "Ceiling Zero," and other stage and screen hits. Technical Tech-nical advisors were present at ail times during the making of the picture, and guaranteed its authenticity. au-thenticity. Pat O'Brien and Wayne Mor-rs Mor-rs play a couple of young submarine sub-marine crewmen who have developed de-veloped two great inventions a device to shoot men safely to the ocean's surface if a ship is sunk, and another device to raise the U-Boat itself. In the story the D-l is rammed and sunk during some war game maneuvers, and the boys' inventions inven-tions get a chance to show their worth. They are successful in saving the sub's whole crew and its heroic commander. |