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Show Fast And Furious Pace Set For Gay Comedy "Getting- Gertie's Garter," a rollicking rol-licking comedy produced by Edward Ed-ward Small, will be whooping it up at the Rivoli theater beginning Thursday. It la a fast and furious tale of a young man grappling distractedly dis-tractedly and absent-mindedly with his past in an effort to save his future, and Is told with vim, vigor and hilarious sense of humor. Dennis O'Keefe and Marie McDonald Mc-Donald call the laughs in the parts of Ken Ford, an up-and-coming young scientist, and Gertie Ger-tie Kettering, the lady with the garter. In the days when Ken was wild and single he had given' Gertie, then the girl of his dreams, an inscribed bejeweled garter. Now, when he Is happily married to Patty, played by Sheila Ryan, and Gertie is engaged to his best friend, Ted Dalton, played by Barry Bar-ry Sullivan, the tell-tale garter pops up in a larceny case. And Ken is summoned to court to testify. He has just been elected a Fellow in an exclusice scientific society, and is horrified. Both his career and his marriage seem headed for the rocks. So he decides to obtain the garter from Gertie and destroy it. Jealously has reared its head, and poor Ken, already in the soup with Patty, flounders more and more deeply, gradually involving everyone around him in a mad mixup as he endeavors to secure the garter. One hilarious episode follows another, with the garter disappearing like Alice's white rabbit. Binnie Barnes and Jerome Cowan are owners at the country home where Gertie is to be married mar-ried to Ted, and gaily hold up their end of the shenanigans. |