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Show UNUSUAL STORY. "LOST WLLKEND" MADE INTO FILM Hollywood, which is always doing do-ing surprising things, has never done anything more surprising than filming Charles Jackson's extraordinary book, "The Lost Weekend," which is due to arrive next Sunday at the Rivoli theatre. If you were among the many thousands of people who read the best-seller about the now famous five days out of a man's life, you have probably shared in the general gen-eral astonishment that any studio would have the courage to depart so drastically from the conven-1 tional as to put the soul-search-in story of "The' Lo,st Weekend" on the screen. j Ray Milland is cast in the starring star-ring role and as Don Birnam, report re-port has it that he rises to amazing amaz-ing dramatic heights. It is a difficult dif-ficult part and demands the finest histronic ability. It is actually Milland's opportunity to show what a truly great artists he is, and his many fans should look forward with real anticipation to seeing him in The Lost Weekend. Co-starred with Milland is lovely love-ly Jane Wyman. They are supposed suppos-ed by Philip Terry, Howard da Silva, Doris Dowling and Frank Faylen. It tells the dramatic story of a man's struggle with a tragic weakness for alcohol and what happens to him during five days when he gives himself over to it completly. According to reports, nothing like it has ever been seen on the screen and Milland gives a dramatic performance that has marked him one of the great actors ac-tors of our time. |