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Show features Ralph Bellamy, Alan Halel Lee Patrick, Allen Jenkins, Roseoe Karns and other noted comedy players. FLYNN STARS IN MYSTERY AT THE'RIVOLI Love is taking a back seat in the general scheme of things in Hollywood these days and action and comedy are coming into their own. Hollywood 'is busy providing giggles, guffaws, and gasps for audiences in those parts of the world where it is still permissable to laugh. It isn't the world-wide market it used to be but it will have to do until the war ends and common sense returns. Like love, laughter always has been a universal language and screen thrills are understood by all nationalities and creeds. But it is hard to deal with love alone on the screen when the daily papers pa-pers are screaming about war and invasion. Comedy is a better panacea pan-acea for the public in such times. Action pictures provide release of nervous tension. Even the Orientals Orien-tals and the Eskimos, who never kiss (poor things), know what is happening and when to cheer if Errol Flynn is riding hard on the trail of the villains who have done the United States army wrong, as he does in "Santa Fe Trail." This is presumably one reason why Flynn has turned to outright comedy in modern settings for his newest picture, called "Footsteps In the Dark,'" which opens Friday at the Rivoli theatre. The story is a fast-paced tale of a sedate young business man of the upper brackets, who writes detective stories as an avocation, and solves murders as a hobby. In order to lead this double life, he has to deceive his beautiful beau-tiful young wife, played by Bren-da Bren-da Marshall, and his skeptical mother-in-law, played by Lucille Watson. He also has to make love to a buxom blonde burlesque star, assume a Texas accent and submit sub-mit to an hour's worth of un-needed un-needed dental work all in the interest in-terest of murder and comedy. "Footsteps In the Dark" also |