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Show n POWELL GETS DOPE ON CARD TRICKERY "When I left home for the first time, my father told me never to play cards with strangers, and now I know why!" Thus spoke William Powell, recently, re-cently, when sitting at a "dummy" poker gamo with John Cromwell, director, di-rector, and Fijank Terry, technical advisor for Powell's first shirring picture, "Street of Chance." Powell, in his debut as a star, is cast as Broadway's greatest gambler a man who cheats in life, love ami cards. Terry, who knows the secrets of "stacking the past-boards " had been assigned by Cromwell to teach the suave William all the tricks of the crooked professional gamblers' trade . The things that Terry showed Powell brought amusement to the turbable actor ,and called forth his reflection upon the parental advise. Paramount spared no expense to bring all the reality of the Times Square anil Broadway bells of New York into full relief in this picture. Regis Toomey, whose excellent work in "Alibi" landed him a Paramount Para-mount contract, is cast as the leading lead-ing supporting player for Powell in this intensely interesting drama-romance of big city life. Kay Francis, who scored personal success in "The Cocoanuts," "Gentlemen of the Press" ami "The Marriage Playground," Play-ground," is seen and heard as the svelte wife of the gambler Powell. Jean Arthur, recently seen and heard with Clara Bow in "The Saturday Sat-urday Night Kid" and with Buddy Rogers in "Half Way to Heaven," is cast in the role of the young and guileless wife of Toomey. Coming to the Victory Theatre Sunday, Monday ami Tuesday. |