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Show Attractions At The Theaters "Forlorn River," the outdoor romance which opens Sunday at the Ritz theatre, is a new story by Zane Grey. The cast is headed head-ed by Larry Crabbe and June Martel and includes Harvey Stephens Ste-phens and Chester Conklin. When Dad Jones turns high-pressure high-pressure stock salesman and America's favorite folks dream of sudden wealth from a wildcat oil-well oil-well boom, there's a gusher of laughter for Jones Family fans everywhere in the Twentieth Century-Fox picture, "Big Business," Busi-ness," fifth in the famous series, which opens Tuesday at the Ri-voli Ri-voli theatre. In the face of the family's get-rich-quick dream, the kids keep on dreaming of love and romance, and in the end it is the kids who save the family from losing' all when the oil hoax is exposed. An excellent cast of funmakers and character actors has been assembled by Paramount pictures for the new Paul Gallico comedy, "Wild Money," which opens on Sunday at the Ritz theatre. Headed by Edward Everett Horton, the funmakers include Lynne Overman, Lucien Little-field Little-field and Benny Baker, while the character players number Porter Hall, Ruth Coleman and Colin Tapley. Romance and beauty beau-ty is supplied by Louise Campbell, Camp-bell, a gorgeous brunette from the New York stage who makes her film debut in "Wild Money." Music and laughter are equal ingredients mixed in liberal proportion pro-portion in "Turn Off the Moon," Paramount's newest musical comedy com-edy hit which begins on Friday at the Rivoli theatre. Charlie Ruggles heads the cast of movie and radio stars assembled assem-bled for this latest 'must' on your movie list. He is aided by Eleanore Whitney, Johnny Downs, Kenny Baker, Phil Harris and his orchestra, Ben Blue, Marjone Gateson and the Fanchonettes. The latest Paramount musical mirthquake marks the debut of Fanchon, famous for her Fanchon and Marco stage units, as a full fledged motion picture producer. Under her expert supervision, dance director LeRoy Prinz has created a new terpsichorean craze "Jamming" that Hollywood expects ex-pects to be as popular as the famous Charleston. "Turn Off the Moon' is an original orig-inal screen play by Marguerite Roberts, Harlan Ware and Paul Gerald Smith. In a light vein the story kids astrology as a roya aid to romance and an additional headache to Charlie Ruggles frustrated sweetheart. The music was written by Sam Coslow and includes three songs that are bound to be successes That's Southern Hospitality, "Turn Off the Moon" and "Jamming." "Jam-ming." What would you do if you returned re-turned home after an absce of ten years, to find your own father fath-er and' most of his neighboring ranchers brought to the verge ot ruin by dishonest renegades operating oper-ating under the cloak of the law? This is the situation which confronts con-fronts Ricardo Cortez in Harold Bell Wright's "The California, dramatic outdoor screenplay released re-leased by Twentieth Century-Fox which opens Tuesday at the Rivoli theater. The story is laid in the western state in the year 1850, after Mexican Mex-ican rule has been superseded by American. Mining claims, ranches and livestock have been confiscated confis-cated in lieu of exorbitant taxes levied by a crooked sheriff and his henchmen, and once-prosperous landowners have been reduced re-duced to poverty. Those two dispensers of maniacal maniac-al comedy, Bere Wheeler and Robert Rob-ert Woolsey, are seen as a pair ot deranged dispensers of pills in then-latest then-latest RKO Radio comedy, "On Again Off Again." When they drive their entire office force to the verge of insanity in-sanity by continual fighting between be-tween themselves, the nerve-wracked nerve-wracked company attorney persuades per-suades them to hold a wrestling match, the winner to operate the business, the loser to work as the other's valet for a year, a situation situ-ation which gives rise to most of the hysterical action. Directed by Edward Cline the new comedy features in support of Bert and Bob, Marjorie Lord, Patricia Wilder, Esther Muir, Paul Harvey and Russell Hicks. |