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Show "Crackup" Drama Deals 4 With Art Thieves and Murder Campaign International art thieves, committing com-mitting murder to get Old Masters are on a rampage in RKO Radio's suspenseful drama, "Crack-Up" starring Pat O'Brien, Claire Tre- vor and Herbert Marshall. The startling mystery drama is thrill-packed thrill-packed with hard-boiled realism. O'Brien as an art expert at a New York museum incurs the wrath of the crooks when he plans to X-ray some priceless paintings, a sure method of detecting forgeries. forger-ies. As some of the pictures are copies, the thieves must put a stop to O'Brien's activities. They hesitate hesi-tate killing him, but take him for a ride on a train and he is picked up suffering from insane delusions, his career at the muse-, um terminated. O'Brien determines deter-mines to get to the bottom of things but has to work from undercover un-dercover when he is sought for the murder of the museum curator. cura-tor. Helping to clear up the tang-, led webs of mystery are Miss Trevor, Tre-vor, as O'Brien's fiancee, and Marshall Mar-shall as a Scotland Yard investigator investi-gator posing as an art expert. The supporting cast is headed by Wallace Ford as a lieutenant of police, Erskine Sanford, Damian O'Flynn, Mary Ware, Ray Collins and Dean Harens. At the Rivoli Theatre Friday and Saturday. Don't miss it! |