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Show ! VICTORY THEATRE I Three well-known actresses play 'opposite Jack Holt in Columbia's I "Whirlpool," which comes to the Victory Vic-tory theatre Friday and Saturday as ' part of the double feature. They are ! Jean Arthur, Lila Lee and Rita La-I La-I Roy. A fast moving and well-knit j plot concerns the career of Buck Rankin, a small-time carnival owner, wro, while wedding chimes are still loud in his ears, finds himself sen-. sen-. tenced to the penitentiary for twenty years on a charge of manslaughter, j For the first time in their screen career, George Bums and Grade Allen have roles that run all through the picture in Paramount's "Six of a Kind," coming to the Victory Friday and Saturday as the other feature of the double bill. They were used largely as comedy relief in the three other Paramount pictures in which they have appeared, but in this one they are featured with Charlie Rug-. Rug-. gles, Mary Boland, W. C. Fields and ' Alison Skipworth. The story in which these six comedians appear tells of an auto trip across the country made j by Ruggles and Miss Boland. To help i pay expenses they take with them 1 Great Dane dog. A fellow clerk in ' Burn3 and Miss Allen, with their the bank steals 0,000 and su-pic:un; falls on Rubles, who has gor.e away! and who, through a switch in vali-es.l really has the money with him, although al-though he doesn't know it. Detectives and the actual thief follow the party,' and finally caich up with them in Nevada, where they become involved with Fields, as a sheriff, and Miss Skipworth. Two types of love, one of which rises high above carnal intrigue, is represented in the novel dome-tic triangle in Ann Harding's current starring vehicle. "The Fountain" which comes to the Victory Sunday, Monday and Tteslay. Ann Harding is seen as a countess whose natural passion is unlocked by the love of an English aviator interned in Holland while her husband, a German officer,' is at the front. When the husband returns home disabled, his spiritual magnificence in accepting the situation situa-tion wins him the genuine devotion of his wife and his rival. In spite of this deadlock of situations a satisfactory satis-factory denouement results. Brian Aheme, English screen celebrity, is cast as a former sweetheart to whom the girl surrenders her heart. Paul Lukas, noted for his characterization of Prof. Bhaer in "Little Women," plays the husband whose generous philosophy lifts him above mundane sorrow. In the cast are Jean Her-sholt, Her-sholt, Violet Kemble-Cooper, Ralph Forbes, Sara Haden and twenty additional ad-ditional players of importance. Comedy, a detective mystery, and gripping drama mingle with the excitement ex-citement of the baseball field in "Death on the Diamond," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's new thriller which comes to the Victory Wednesday and Thursday of next week. The story is based on an original by Cortland Fitzsimmons, author of "70,000 Witnesses", Wit-nesses", deals with mysterious crimes in a baseball team during a pennant race. It was adapted to the screen by Harvey Thew and Joe Sherman, dialogued by Ralph Spence, famous comedy writer, and directed by Ed ward Sedgwick, noted for such sports pictures as Slide Kelly Slide" and "Love in the Rough." Filmed with the cooperation of the St. I.ouis Cardinals, who are seen in the picture, pic-ture, many famous baseball players appear, in addition to a notable cast. I Robert Young and Madge Evans play the romantic leads, and David Landau, Lan-dau, Paul Kelly, Tel llealy, Edward Brophy, Mickey Rooney, Ralph Hush-man. Hush-man. Pat Flaherty, Willard Robertson, Robert-son, Pat O'Malley and others of note are in the elaborate cast. |