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Show GAIETY THEATRE The exclusive official motion j pictures of the Max Schmeling vs. Joe Louis heavyweight fight will be shown on Thursday. Fri-j Fri-j day and Saturday at the Gaiety Theatre as an added attraction with the regular feature picture, "THE WITNESS CHAIR", starring starr-ing Ann Harding and Walter Abel. As a woman who accidentally kills a man when she attempts to prevent a fraud against his partner whom she loves, Ann Harding is said to have her greatest great-est dramatic role in "THE WITNESS WIT-NESS CHAIR". Reminiscent of "The Trial of Mary Dugan," Miss Harding's outstanding stage triumph, chiefly chief-ly because of similarity in backgrounds, back-grounds, "THE WITNESS CHAIR" has been acclaimed as a deeply engrossing courtroom drama. From Rita Weiman's Cosmopolitan Cosmo-politan magazine story, "THE WITNESS CHAIR" opens its intriguing in-triguing plot in the dead of night in a huge office building. Paula Young coolly faces Stanley Stan-ley Whittaker. She undertakes to force a confession of an embezzlement em-bezzlement that lie had the accountant ac-countant attribute to his partner, part-ner, James Trent, the man she loves. Under the muzzle of an automatic he scratches his name across the bottom of the confession. con-fession. As Paula picks up the page to examine the signature, Whittaker grapples with her. .A shot! Then he falls over in a heap. Paula is terror-stricken. From this exiting opening, the drama of "THE WITNESS CHAIR" moves through a series of gripping episodes. Circumstantial Circum-stantial evidence indicts James Trent as the slayer. |