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Show short-term prisoners sentenced from the great metropolis. The screen production shows how big shot racketeers sent up tc Blackwell's virtually ruled the o-rim hull; of a prison; how they had their own servants, their own SDecial food, their own entertainment entertain-ment inside the penitentiary walls. It shows how a young reporter re-porter played by Garfield got himself sentenced to the Island Is-land so he could gather firsthand first-hand information and expose the -worst prison in the world." and it re-enacts the spectacular raid that put an end to the evil conditions. con-ditions. The raid occurred back in February, Feb-ruary, 1934, when a considerable supply of narcotics was uncovered, uncover-ed, together with hypodermic needles, blackened spoons and gouges with which inmates without with-out syringes gashed themselves in order to administer narcotics. Sixty-eight prisoners, the commission com-mission found, virtually ruled the penitentiary. They had organized or-ganized "rackets" within the prison pri-son walls, selling choice vegetables vegeta-bles and meats to 500 of the inmates in-mates who were able to pay for them. The rest of the 1200 prisoners pris-oners had to exist on greasy cold stews. Attractions At The Theaters Dorothy Lamour's many local fans will see their favorite star with a new leading man and a highly original screen story, when the Paramount romance with music, "St. Louis Blues," opens next Friday at the Rivoli theatre. Teamed with rugged Lloyd Nolan, Miss Lamour plays a dazzling theatrical celebrity who runs away from fame and glamour and finds love on a Mississippi Mis-sissippi river showboat. The story, by John C. Moffitt and Malcolm Stuart Boylan, two writers who know the Mississippi region from first-hand experience, experi-ence, plots Miss Lamour's exciting excit-ing experiences from the dramatic dra-matic moment when she debels against her manager's insistence that she always appear in public in a sarong, palming herself off as a South Sea native, and decides de-cides to make her getaway once and for all. From this point on, most of the action of "St. Louis Blues" takes place aboard Nolan's rather down-at-the-hoels showboat, one of the few such crafts remaining on the river in 1939. Not knowing know-ing who Miss Lamour is when she arrived in a much bedraggled state, the hard-boiled Nolan gives her a job as a singer. The showboat sequences offer Miss Lamour and other membsrs of the cast ample apportunities to sing Hollywood's newest and most popular song hits, written esecially for the film by such outstanding tunesmiths as Leo Robin, Sam Coslow, Hoagy Car-michael, Car-michael, Frank Loesser, , Matty Malneck and Burton Lane. The five new numbers are: "Kind'a Lonesome," "I Go For That," "Blue Nightfall," "Junior" and "Let's Dream in the Moonlight." "St. Louis .Blues" boasts one of the year's most talented casts of supporting players. Tito Guiz-ar, Guiz-ar, the charming young Mexican who won feminine hearts everywhere every-where in "Tropic Holiday," plays a Mississippi planter in love with one of the showboat troupe, Mary "Punkin'' Parker. Maxine Sullivan, the dusky songstress who has made swinging the classics a national pastime, renders ren-ders her versions of "Loch Lomond," Lo-mond," and the famous Russian folk song, "Dark Eyes." "Blackwell's Island," the Warner War-ner Bros, picture starring John Garfield, which opens next Thursday Thurs-day at the Rivoli theatre, is based bas-ed on the cleanup of New York's city jail back in 1934, when Welfare Wel-fare Island, formerly known as Blackwell's Island, housed all the |