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Show "Watch On Rhine" Opens Thursday At Rivoli Theatre The "magic touch" team of Lillian Lil-lian Hellman as author and Herman Her-man Shumlin as producer-director, responsible for the stage successes, success-es, "Children's Hour," "The Little Foxes" and "Watch on the Rhine," was brought to Hollywood by Warner Brothers for the screen production of Miss Hellman's greatest play, "Watch on the Rhine," slated to open at the Rivoli Riv-oli Theatre on Thursday. New York Drama Critics Circle gave it its award as the best play of the season. President Roosevelt designated it for the annual "command "com-mand performance" in Washington. Washing-ton. Its star, Paul Lukas, had won the award of the New York Drama Dra-ma League for the best performance perform-ance of the season. So Warner Bros, could do no less than add the luster of its own two-time winner of the Motion Picture Academy Award, Miss Bette Davis, to co-star co-star with Mr. Lukas in the film. Stars, story and production are a triple guarantee of a superlative screen story in this intensely dramatic dra-matic narrative of a family united in defiance of a ruthless, relentless enemy. A top-flight supporting cast is headed by Geraldine Fitzgerald, Lucile Watson, Beulah Bondi and George Coulouris. Miss Watson and Mr. Coulouris re-enact their original Broadway roles. |