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Show 'DR. CYCLOPS' AT RIVOLI WEDNESDAY The picture Paramount made behind sealed studio doors from a secret script almost as cautiously cau-tiously guarded as the British crown jewels will be shown to local audiences for the first time next Wednesday at the Rivoli theatre. It is, of course, the widely-discussed "Dr. Cyclops," Ernest Schoedsack's technicolor thrill fantasy, which promises one of the most unusual movie experiences exper-iences oT years. "Dr. Cyclops," taking its title from the one-eyed monster of Greek mythology, is a modern, not to say futuristic, story, dealing deal-ing with a diabolical scientist who discovers a formula for reducing human beings to bantam creatures crea-tures one-fifth their normal size and the hair-raising experiences of four men and a girl upon whom he works his terrible experiment. ex-periment. The five victims two of them scientists, the other adventurers meet their fate when they dare, penetrate the doctor's weird laboratory labor-atory high up in the Andes mountains moun-tains of Peru. They have heard reports re-ports of his strange experiments with radium rays, with animals as subjects, but little suspect his real object. At first resentful at the intrusion, in-trusion, the doctor suddenly gets the devilish inspiration that here is what he has been looking for. Craftily he lures the unsuspecting fivesome into his laboratory, switches on his infernal machine, and with a shattering blast turns them into helpless bantams no more than fourteen inches tall. Dressed in the doctor's pocket handkerchiefs and frightened half out of their senses, the tiny creatures crea-tures awake in a horror-filled world where every once-familiar object is five times its accustomed size. A scissors, taken apart, provides pro-vides them with vicious-looking sabers. A housecat has turned into a ravening monster from which they flee in terror. A revolver re-volver is now a "Big Bertha" cannon can-non with which to make a desperate desper-ate attempt on the life of their hated master. Just as extraordinary as the plot was Paramount's method of casting for the production. To begin be-gin with, all big Hollywood names were automatically rejected, for studio officials felt that it would spoil the illusion if familiar players play-ers were shown in capsule size. Although the production is one of the most lavish of the year, the cast includes no star names, but is made up of players chosen solely for their fitness to play the unique roles demanded by the story. |