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Show V1CT0RYJHEATRE Proving that modern day life can be just as filled with thrillinc; adventure adven-ture as any of the "good old days" about which fiction writers rave, Columbia studios have produced "Hold the Press," a yarn about a live-wire newspaper reporter, and have put into it as much excitement and drama as was evt-v packed into even the most lurid of the old-time, western thrill-melodramas. The slogan slo-gan "Get the News" for newspapermen news-papermen and the equally demanding demand-ing ".Get Your Man" for the police, po-lice, makes them hand in hand combatants com-batants against thievery, graft, racketeering and other nefarious practices. "Hold the Press," which comes to the Victory theatre Friday and Saturday of this week, presents Tim McCoy in the stellar role, that of a newspaper reporter who gets on the trail of a hot story and doesn't leave it, erven thouah it leads him through a veritable shower of machine ma-chine gun . and slugs and embroils him with the toughest characters of the underworld. Hei even spends thirty days in prison in quest of the information he seeks. In the supporting sup-porting cast are Shirley Grey, Bradley Brad-ley Page, Wheeler Oakman, Jack "Long, Henry Wadsworth and Oscar Apfel. The most ambitions attempt ever made by a motion picture studio to .bring an adventure story to the screen has just been completed with the filming- of "Tarzan and His Mate," new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer thrill picture featuring Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan and coming to the Victory theatre Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Efforts Ef-forts to surpass all previous jungle pictures made necessary the creation of a hundred acre area packed densely with trees and undergrowth into which African animals of all kinds were released. Beasts that are shown in action include a herd of more than twenty elephants, more than fifty lions, a man-killing rhinoceros, chimpanzes, monkeys, wunder-beeste, gazelles, hippopotami, boa-constrictors, and hundreds of other specimens of rare jungle life. The new story continues the adventures of Tarzan, played by Weissmuller, when a safari of white men attempt to raid the "elephant's burial ground" of millions mil-lions of dollars worth of ivory. Tar-zan's Tar-zan's attempts to protect the sacred jungle hoard get him into breathtaking breath-taking hazards that far surpass the thrills of "Tarzan the Ape Man." Of special interest in the picture are scenes taken underwater by a special process that has recorded the strangest strang-est sight ever seen by human eye a battle between a man and a giant crocodile. The notable supporting-cast supporting-cast includes many players remembered remem-bered for their roles in "Tarzan the Ape Man," also filmed by M-G-M, including in-cluding Neil Hamilton, Forrester Harvey, Doris Lloyd, of the original cast and Paul Cavanagh, William Stack and Desmond Roberts added. Fay Wray learns that one's first love is not necessarily the sweetest in the Columbia production, "Once to Every Woman," which is scheduled schedul-ed to show at the Victory theatre Wednesday and Thursday of next week. In love with Walter Byron when the story opens, Miss Wray learns of his infidelity and discovers that the less flamboyant, but more sincere devotion of Ralph Bellamy is much more enduring. Based on the A. J. Cronin novelette, "Kaleidoscope in 'K' ", "Once to Every Woman" was adapted to the screen by Joe Swerling, Columbia's ace scenarist. Lambert Hillyer directed, while in the supporting cast are Walter Connolly, Con-nolly, Mary Carlisle and Walter Byron. |