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Show New Crosby Film, "Dixie," Due Soon With Dot Lamour At long last Hollywood Is giving us a real minstrel show! And from everything heard about it, it's been well worth waiting for. Thanks to Paramount, the jitterbug generation genera-tion is going to have a chance to see and hear what young America Amer-ica was dancing to and singing a hundred years ago, when Bing Crosby's great new musical, "Dixie," "Dix-ie," comes to town next Sunday for the entertainment of the Rivoli Theatre patrons. Bing plays the role of Dan Em- him, he's another out-of-work boarder, Dottie falls for him and vice-versa. However, there's another girl in Bing's life Marjorie Reynolds, his sweetheart of "Holiday Inn." The romance that evolves is played to the tune of six old hits and six new contenders for the Hit Parade Par-ade "Sunday, Monday or Always," Al-ways," "If You Please," "She's From Missouri," "A Horse That Knows the Way Back Home," "Kind'a Peculiar Brown" and "Laughing Tony" all of them written writ-ten by Johnny Burke and James Van Heusen. From all accounts, "Dixie,,, which is Bing's first picture in Technicolor, is a musicalulu that ought to provide a very pleasant respite to those smart enough to take advantage of it. mett, the banjo troubadour who wrote "Dixie," the song that comes near to being our national anthem, plus many other tunes. There are six old tunes in the picture that Bing sings, including "Dixie," "Old Dan Tucker," "Turkey In the Straw," "Buffalo Gals," "Last Rose of Summer" and "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot." The movie tells the story of the form?tion of the Viiginia Minstrels by Bing, as Dan Emmett, with Billy de Wolfe, Lynne Overman and Eddie Fey, Jr., rounding out the original quartette that subsequently subse-quently grew to a minstrel troupn of forty count 'em forty men. New Orleans, the scene of their first triumph, is where Bing meets Dorothy Lamour who is co-starred with him in the film. Dottieplays the part of Millie Cook, unsympathetic unsympa-thetic landlady of a boarding house for deadbeat actors. Of course, it's difficult to be unsympathetic to Bing for very long and in spite of the fact that when she meets |