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Show ViCTORY THEATRE j A different, but extremely fasci- nating Sylvia Sidney, free for the J time of the necessity of appearing J morbid, unhappy or frustrated, may be seen in Paramount's - delicious J comedy satire "Thirty-Day Princess" J which shows at the Victory theatre Friday and Saturday as part of the J double bill. As the little actress who was hired to impersonate a prin- ! cess, and wound up wishing that she i were a real princess, so that she j could hold the love of the handsome J newspaper publisher, Miss Sidney is easy to look at, beautiful garbed, and J refreshingly witty. Topping the supporting cast is Cary Grant, who J could overcome any woman's resist- ance, as the handsome impetuous 1 publisher. Edward Arnold, Lucien J Littlefield, Henry Stephenson and j Edgar Norton are excellently cast in j the supporting roles. For the first time since George O'- Brien has starred in western dramas, j he has for his leading woman a na- tive of the west. Irene Hervey, who J plays opposite him in Zane Grey's thrilling story, "The Dude Ranger," ( coining to the Victory Friday and j Saturday as the other double feature, ( was born in Los Angeles. Since none J of her people were ever on stage or screen, she might have missed her ( opportunity had she been born fur- J ther from the cinema metropolis. She 1 can ride as a western girl should; she doesn't squint when she pulls the 1 trigger of a rifle or six-shooter, and , though her voice is innocent of the j accustomed drawl of the southwest- 1 erner, it has freshness and warmth. "Miss Hervey does't have to give an 1 impersonation oi a self-reliant, young , lady of the west," says Edward F. 1 Cline, director. "She is that kind of 1 a girl in her own right easy on j the eyes, what's more." 1 "Here Comes the Navy," Warner Brothers smashing drama of Uncle ' Sam's jack-tars afloat, ashore ami in the air, shows Sunday, Monday and j Tuesday at the Victory with James 1 Cagney and Pat O'Brien in co-star- , ring roles. Based on Ben Markson's ' exciting story which combines ro- 1 mance, rollicking comedy, rapid fire action and breath-taking thrills, the picture is said to be one of the most tremendous productions ever put out by Warner Brothers. Cagney and O'Brien, O'-Brien, two seamen, are the bitterest of enemies, Jimmy having joined the navy just for a chance to get even with O'Brien who has knocked him cold in a fistic encounter and stolen his girl, a part played by Dorothy Tree. To add fuel to their hatred, Jimmy falls in love with a beautiful girl (Gloria Stewart) who turns out to be his hated enemy's sister. For the first time in pictures, the whole gigantic Pacific fleet is seen, weighing weigh-ing anchor and steaming out of its harbor for the Atlantic coast. Other scenes are with the company on location loca-tion at the Naval Training station at San Diego, California, and at the navy yards at Bremerton, Washington. Washing-ton. Others in the cast include Robert Ro-bert Barrat, Willard Robertson, Guinn Williams, Howard Hickman and George Irving. "Madame Du Barry," heralded as one of the great pictures of the screen, with Dolores Del Rio heading an all star cast, is scheduled as the Thanksgiving feature attraction at the Victory Wednesday and Thursday Thurs-day of next week with special matinee mati-nee Thursday afternoon. Edward Chodorov, the author, throws an entirely en-tirely new light on the famous beauty and favorite of King Louis XV, whose many love affairs and madcap pranks were the scandal of the continent. conti-nent. In the present picture, which is based largely on Mme. Du Barry's own mimoirs, the little milliner's apprentice ap-prentice is not so much the astute and scheming politician of history as she is a woman filled with the joy of living, gay, capricious, irrepressible, whose very' nature demands love and luxury and laughter. Novel and , beautiful dances were created for the j picture by Albertina Rasch, in which 1 her beautiful coryphees romp before the king and his court in fluffy noth- ings. There is an unusually large and , talented cast in the principal roles ' with hundreds of extras playing the 1 parts of ladies and courtiers and the vast crowds to bee seen in the pro- 1 duction. Dolores Del Rio has the , role of Du . Barry, with Reginald j Owen playing opposite her as King 1 Louis XV. Miss Del Rio has a bril- liant cast of stellar names in 1 "Madame Du Barry." They are Re- , ginald Owen, Verree Teasdale, Os- 1 good Perkins, Victor Jory, Dorothy 1 Tree, Ferdinand Gottschalk and Anita Louise. |