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Show j At The Theaters For the first time in three years Clark Gable and Joan Crawford, who have co-starred with memorable memor-able success in five films in the past, team again in "Strange Cargo," which comes to the Rivoli Theatre Sunday for a three-day engagement. Picturization of the Richard Sale best-seller, "Not Too Narrow, Not Too Deep," "Strange Cargo" presents Gable as convict Verne Andre, incorrigible iconoclast in a South American penitentiary, and Miss Crawford as Julie, cafe entertainer en-tertainer in the penal colony, who become fugutives after a prison break. In the supporting cast are a group of the most distinguished character actors in Hollywood. Ian Hunter has his strongest role to date as Cambreau, the mysterious stranger with a bible, about whom revolve the fates of all the principals. prin-cipals. Peter Lorre portrays the repulsive libere, Monsieur Pig, Julie's persistent suitor. Paul Lu-kas Lu-kas is the wife-murderer, Hessler; Albert Dekker, the Cockney safecracker, safe-cracker, Moll; J. Edward Brom-berg, Brom-berg, the fear-ridden murderer, Flaubert; Eduardo Cianelli the demented Telez; John Arledge the weakling, Dufond; -Frederic Wor-lock, Wor-lock, the prison governor, Grl-deau; Grl-deau; Bernard Nedell, Marfeu; and Victor Varconi as the fisherman fish-erman who must aid the survivors of the prison break. The story tells of nine men who escape a tropical prison and head for the seacoast, where a sloop is to carry them to safety. Seven persons reach the boat, including Julie, who has been picked up by Verne en route. Four reach the appointed haven. ' But each one who perishes meets a splendid, repentant death through the influence in-fluence of Cambreau. Through one of the most compelling dramatic dra-matic stories ever written for the screen runs this underlying spiritual spir-itual theme. Frank Borzage, twice an Academy Acad-emy Award winner, directed the screen play. Telling the story of one period in the life of the real Abraham Lincoln as it never has been told before, the long - awaited screen version of Robert E. Sherwood's Pulitzer prize play, "Abe Lincoln Lin-coln in Illinois," will hive its first showing here at the Rivoli Theatre Thea-tre Friday and Saturday. Raymond Ray-mond Massey, star of the stage play, is seen in the title role. The picture is said to adhere closely to the stage original which had sensational success on Broadway Broad-way prior to its road tour of the country. It thus takes rank as one of the most important pictures ever made, and as a brilliant and searching drama of the real Lincoln Lin-coln during his formative years. Raymond Massey, who stands within an inch of Lincoln's own six feet four inches, and who bears a considerable resemblance to him, is said to give an amazing performance in the title role a role made infimate to him in the eight months he played it on Broadway before starting the picture. |