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Show VICTORYTHEATRE The treasured romance of the American Am-erican theatre, "Madame Butterfly," modernized and done into a motion piatu're by director Marion Gering and a cast' headed by Sylvia Sidney, Cary Grant and Charlie Ruggles, has been booked for the Victory theatre, where it will open Thursday, June 22, continuing through Friday and Saturday .with a special matinee Saturday Sat-urday at 2:30 o'clock. . The story by John Luther . Iong and play by David Da-vid Belascg have both been brought up to date in the process of filming. B. P. Schulberg, who produced the picture for Paramount, and Gering, who directed,, nevertheless took pains to retain the spirit of the original. Miss Sidney, her dark eyes and eye-In eye-In ows slanted, her hair lacquered, her figure . droned in colorful oriental costumes, jjlays the role of Cho-Cho-San, the demure Japanese maiden wooed by the young American naval na-val officer stationed in the city in which she lives. Cary Grant, husky, virile Englishman who is treading Hollywood's path to stardom, plays the latter role. You've never seen a picture like "The Big Broadcast." the most talked talk-ed of 'picture production in years, which comes to the Victory for Sunday, Sun-day, Monday and Tuesday. You will probably never live to see again all the great stars of radioas you will have the privilege in this great picture. pic-ture. You have heard Bing Crosby, Burns and Allen, Kate Smith, the Mills brothers, the Bosewell sisters, Arthur Tracy, the street singer, and Vincent Ixpez and Cab Calloway and their orchestras now see them in as-tion as-tion in a truly wonderful picture. Don't miss it! It happens once in a lifetime! . Twenty-four dancers who equally combine expert dancing ability and beauty of face and body, appear in "The Half-Xaked Truth." RKO-Radio picture at the Victory, Wednesday of next week, the regular- family ni'jht The girls were sclented from a score of applicants by Director Gregory Ea Cava.- They are of . uniform height sin. I have displayed splendid grace in their dance routines, it is said," "The Half-Naked Truth" features them in j a Broadway musical comedy in which Lee Tracy, as a King of Ba,'lylwo, ha) placed his client - after .skyrocketing her-.to the front page headlines. Lupe Yale?, is -co-featured, and Eugene Pallette, Frank Morgan and Shirley Chandlers -are a'so cast in this original, orig-inal, story. by Ken ilarkson and H. N. Sv-anson. for-.which Bai'tlctt Cormack and- Corey. Ford wrote the adaptat'on The film was suggested by "Phantom Fame." a biography of the late Harry Reichenbach,. . Broadway's ballyhoo impressario. |