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Show '"Action In The North Atlantic", Sun., Mon. & Tues. At Ritz When Warner Bros.' "Action in the North Atlantic," opens Sunday Sun-day at the Ritz, it will bring to screen audiences the heroic story of the men of the United States Merchant Marine. They are the hardy, couragous, resolute men who make it possible to carry on a global war. They continue to "go down to the sea in ships," when every ocean highway is a road of danger from Axis raiders in the air, on the surface and un-derseas. un-derseas. According to the Office of War Information, the Merchant Marine in the first year of the war, lost 3.8 percent of itj total manpower in dead and missing alone four times the loss-ratio of the Army, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard combined! This, in the year of the surprise attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Philippines! Shown at the Ritz Theatre on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, this thrilling story on the screen will star Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Ray-mond Massey and Alan Hale, and. has a powerful cast befitting its hard-hitting theme. Cast as seamen sea-men are Sam Levene, Art Foster, Kane Richmond, J. M. Kerrigan, Peter Whitney, Dick Hogan and Dan Clark, a new "find" from the Broadway stage. Julie Bishop, attractive at-tractive blonde actress who was recently elevated to stardom, is cast as the girl Bogart marries and leaves behind when he ships out on a convoy bound for Murmansk. Mur-mansk. Others in the cast are Ruth Gordon, Minor Watson, Chic Chandler, Michael Ames, Iris Adrian, Ad-rian, Dick Wessel and Frank Puglia. r The screen play is by John Howard Lawson, and is based upon a story by Guy Gilpatric. |