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Show "Casablanca Opens Next Thursday At Rivoli Theatre La Medina, the mysterious vice-infested vice-infested section of Casablanca, will soon be as familiar to American Ameri-can picture audiences as the Cas-ba, Cas-ba, the criminal quarter of Algiers, made famous in the picture, "Algiers." "Al-giers." For La Medina figures importantly import-antly in "Casablanca," the new Warner Bros, film, starring Humphrey Hum-phrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid, which opens at the Rivoli Theatre on Thursday. That section was recreated on the screen under the technical supervision super-vision of Robert Eisner, French army officer, who escaped the Nazi claw soon after the fall of France, and went to Casablanca, where "he remained several months before he obtained a passport to Lisbon and thence to the United States. La Medina, located in the northwest north-west section of Casablanca, Morocco, Moroc-co, is enclosed by a high wall, with its back to the Atlantic. It is the old Moorish part of the city and later became the refuge for underground under-ground leaders, political fugitives and escaped French, Czech and Polish army officers. It is with such refugees that the plot of "Casablanca" concerns itself. it-self. The action of the story takes place in Casablanca, with a flashback flash-back to Paris just prior to the German occupation, which tells of the love between Humphrey Bogart Bo-gart and Ingrid Bergman. Paul Henreid is cast as a prominent leader of the underground. |