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Show 4 Landlubber Ladd Started At Sea Alan Ladd goes to sea, cine-matically cine-matically speaking, for the third time in his Hollywood career, in his new starring role in Para-mount's Para-mount's "Two Years Before the Mast," coming Sunday to the Rivoli theatre, in which Ladd shares top billing with Brian Don-levy. Don-levy. William Bendix and Barry Fitzgerald. The actor, whose sensational rise to scrien prominence has made him one of the top box office names in the nation, plays a rich shipowner's ship-owner's son who is shanghaied and forced to sea in the film version of Richard Henry Dana's famous story. Alan's first motion picture 1-ole was as a sailor in Frank Lloyd's 'Rulers of the Sea'' and, although it was only a bit part, it won him the plaudits of the critics. This part in 1939 gave him the encouragement encour-agement and confidence which eventually was to carry him to the top of the Hollywood ladder. The following year he made his second appearance in a marine picture, "Captain Caution." Is wasn't much of a part, either, but the young Ladd was definitely on his way up. In the intervening years until "Two Years Before the Mast" the actor has remained a landlubber while climbing to stardom. But he hasn't forgotten that his start as a movie actor was nautical. Ladd has an entirely new Hollywood Holly-wood personality for his leading! lady in "Two Years Before the Mast." She is Esther Fernandez, Mexico's outstanding actress, winner win-ner of that country's equivalent to Hollywood's "Oscar," and a lovely "good neighbor.'' |