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Show ."Give My Regards to Broadway",,, and "Over There." One of the picture's biggest thrills and what must have been one of the most important days in George M. Cohan's life, was the Congressional Medal of Honor given giv-en him by President Roosevelt in recognition of having written "Over There" and "You're a Grand Old Flag." "Yankee Doodle Dandy" i Plays At Rivoli Beginning Next Tuesday The year's most spectacular film is on its way to the Rivoli Theatre. Yet, spectacular m its true sense, does not describe Warner's War-ner's "Yankee Doodle Dandy. The picture has and does several things which make it a fine film, but the warmth of its story makes it great. "Yankee Doodle Dandy' tells the life story of America's greatest great-est showman, George M. Cohan. And it tells that story in the grandest way possible-through the songs and plays that he wrote his vaudeville and legitimate legiti-mate stage career and through the inspiration he gave to others. It is the life story of a man, but it is also the life story of show business from the 1880's until today. niovo hp role of james agncj. George M. Cohan, and advance reports re-ports say that he fits it in every detail. His hoofing is perfect and his talking of songs rather than really singing them, which was always al-ways Cohan's way of putting over a number, makes the characterization characteriza-tion perfect. The cast is made up of a fine group of performers. Joan Leslie is cast as Mary, a naive girl who wants to get on the stage. She meets George M. Cohan and he gives her a chance to do a song and dance act. However, he decides de-cides she'd make a better wife than a' vaudevillian, and she becomes be-comes Mrs. George M. Cohan. The Four Cohans, which in the Gay Nineties was famous in every town that was large enough to have a theatre, was made up of Jerry Cohan, played by Walter Huston; Nellie, his wife, played by Rosemary Rose-mary DeCamp;,Josie, George's sister, sis-ter, portrayed by Jeanne Cagney, and George himself. Sam Harris, the theatrical producer who played a very important part in Cohan's life, is portrayed by Richard Whorf. Fay Templeton, who was the country's heart-throb at the turn of the century, is played by alluring Irene Manning, whose charming soprano voice does full justice to Cohan's lovely tune, "Mary's A Grand Old Name". All George M. Cohan's unforgettable unforget-table melodies are played, including includ-ing "The Yankee Doodle Boy," |