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Show Dcbut of Powerful Team In Stirring Drama, "Days Of Glory," Rivoli Introducing a brilliant cast of new faces to the film-going public, Sunday and Monday, 'Days of Glory" stars the noted ballerina, Toumanova and Gregory Peck, a noted stage actor. This is a tensely tense-ly stirring picture of Russian guerillas gue-rillas inside the Nazi lines. In addition ad-dition the story encompasses a moving and passionate romance. Peck plays the role of Vladimir, commander of a guerrilla band having its secret headquarters in the underground passageways 0f a bombed monastery near Moscow. Mos-cow. Toumanova has the part of Nina, a ballet dancer who has been entertaining the troops at the front and, cut ' off from her party by a Nazi raid, is brought to the hideout by one of the band. The two stars are said to be sensational in their colorful roles, bringing to the screen the high romance seen in the heyday of romantic ro-mantic love drama. Maria Palmer as Yelena, Alan Reed as a quarrelsome quar-relsome soldier, Hugo Haas as a blacksmith, Glenn Vernon and D"-na D"-na Penn as a pair of patriotic youngsters, Igor Dolgoruki as a peasant and Edward Durst as a moody fighter, make up the membership mem-bership of the little band and turn in notable performances in their dramatic- parts. . Produced and written by Casey Robinson, two-time "winner of the Academy Award for film writing, "Days of Glory" is from the story by Melchior Lengyel. |