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Show "A Yank At Eton" 4 Comes To Rivoli Theatre Mickey Rooney provese again why he is Hollywood's number one star in "A Yank at Eton." The new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film opens Sunday at the Rivoli theatre thea-tre and is acclaimed as another triumph for the inimitable Rooney. As a typical American boy in England's most exclusive school, Mickey has some of the most hi larious scenes of his film career, and some of the most dramatic. He plays American football and English Eng-lish cricket. He runs a steeplechase. steeple-chase. He leads twelve little Eton boys in a slapstick brawl vith four husky waiters of a. roadside inn. And he licks the Eton bully. In short, there isn't much that Rooney doesn't do. After a few preliminary events in American, and a shipboard romance ro-mance with cute, red-haired Tina Thayer, the action really gets into full swing when Mickey arrives in England and is enrolled at Eton. Resolved to dislike his new surroundings, sur-roundings, he gets into one scrape after another. Then, when Freddie Bartholomew, as his English step- rorotner, is suspected of stealin the housemaster's car and wreclf ing it, Mickey "takes the rap" and is "sacked." But, when he learns that Freddie isn't guilty, he sets out to prove his own innocence. He does it, too just in the nick of time, to b'e reinstated re-instated and run in the big steeple! chase which he wins from the school bully. While Mickey is his usual bril-liant bril-liant self as "The Yank," Freddie Bartholomew, playing in his fifth picture with Rooney, also is outstanding. out-standing. Now a full head taller than Mickey, he is hard to recognize recog-nize as the little boy who once starred in "David Copperfield." |