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Show "Keeping Company" Presents Newlywed Problems The trials and tribulations of young newlyweds, and particularly the danger of their first quarrel, becomes the subjeqt for a gay, romantic ro-mantic comedy in "Keeping Company," Com-pany," with Frank Morgan, opening open-ing Friday at the Rivoli theatre for an engagement of two days. John Shelton and Ann Rutherford, Ruther-ford, two of the outstanding young players of the screen, and both rated as strong probabilities for future stardom, appear as the youthful bride and groom. It means the formation of a new romantic ro-mantic team on the screen and a big step upward for each of the young players. Teamed are Morgan and Irene Rich, repeating their dramatic success of "The Mortal Storm," as Miss Rutherford's screen parents. par-ents. Thirteen-year-old Virginia Weidler and youthful Gloria De Haven play her younger sisters. The story, in brief, is that of a boy and a girl and their marriage. After much plotting on the part of the girl's father and kid sister, the wedding takes place. Then trouble appears in the person of the boy's ex - sweetheart. She persists in hounding the boy, which is called to the bride's attention by all of the gossipy villagers. When her jealousy reaches fever pitch, the newlyweds have their first quarrel, with the result that she returns to her home and he rejoins his mother. mo-ther. It takes some wholesale plotting after that, on the part of both families, to get the two back together again and pull them safely safe-ly past their first crisis. The antics of Morgan and little Virginia Wiedler keep the picture a riot of fun, especially when they try out their various harem-scarem schemes to benefit the young newlyweds. new-lyweds. A strong cast includes Gene Lockhart, Virginia Grey, Dan Dailey, Jr., Henry O'Neill, and Sara Haden. Even under selective army service, ser-vice, we don't suppose the superstition super-stition will be wholly abandoned that if the recruit is an A-l electrician, elec-trician, he can cook. o Industrial activity is at the highest level in country's history. They say a bomb of a new type, dropped by the R. A. F. on Emden, blows a house as high as an old- j fashioned mistake in home brew- 1 ing. j o Hong Kong's defenses are now ready for war in the Pacific. |