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Show VICTORYTHEATRE Three Musketeers a man, a maid and a gigantic white ape, ' going hand-in-hand into a lost land in search of buried treasures of an ancient an-cient civilization, is the tale unfolded unfold-ed in "Son of Kong," RKO-Radio pictures' sequel to "King Kong," which will show at the Viitory Friday Fri-day and Saturday of this week. Robert Ro-bert Armstrong, the hero of "King-Kong," "King-Kong," is again featured, with Helen Mack and a cast of more than thirty well known players, including John Marston, Clarence Wilson, Frank Reicher, Victor Wong and Lee Kohl-mar. Kohl-mar. The story opens with Armstrong Arm-strong seeking buried treasure on Skull Island, land of prehistoric monsters, accompanied by a girl (Helen Mack) who smuggles herself aboard his ship. Off the island his crew mutinies. They force Denham and the girl ashore and flee with the ship. Ashore Denham finds the Son of Kong, a gigastic white ape, sinking sink-ing in quicksand. He rescues the creature and the grateful giant attaches at-taches itself to the party as a self-constituted self-constituted bodyguard and a servant, and a startling series of adventures follow, climaxed with the destruction of the island by an earthquake and flood. It is a spectacular sequence, during which the efforts of the beast to save its human companions presents pre-sents a startling bit of drama. Elaborate settings, amazingly authentic au-thentic costumes and a true reproduction repro-duction of the original story characterized char-acterized RKO-Radio's dramatization of Louisa M. Alcott's classic, "Little Women," starring glamorous Katharine Kath-arine Hepburn and featuring a notable not-able cast, which will be shown at the Victory Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Tues-day. Without the conventional dramatic dra-matic license, the production is Louisa M. Alcott's story "in the flesh," the same sweet story of ideal American home life, its pathos, romance and tragedies. Even the locales described by the author have been studiously reproduced, including includ-ing the famous old Alcott home in Concord, Mass. As in the original story, Jo's double romance, first with Laurie, the rich boy next door, and later with the lovable Fritz Bhaer, provides the main plot, while the romances of Meg and Amy and the sweet life and tragic death of little Beth, the kindly deeds of the mother, Marmee, the kind heart of gruff old Mr. Laurence and the grumblings of tyrannical old Aunt March contribute the counterplots. Miss Hepburn enacts the role of Jo, Douglass Montgomery is Laurie, Paul Lukas is Bhaer, Frances Dee is Meg, Joan Bennett is Amy, Jean Parker is Beth, Spring Byington is Marmee, Henry Stephenson appears as Mr. Laurence and Edna May Oliver interprets Aunt March. All the other characters of the book appear ap-pear in the production, even down to Aunt March's dog and parrot. Skillful, tuneful and delightful: That's "Jimmy and Sally," the new Fox film release which shows at the Victory Wednesday and Thursday of next week and proves to be a highly diverting and entertaining comedy romance with music. And the story strikes us as being ideally suited for James Dunn and Claire Trevor who I are co-featured in this up-to-the-minute picture of the American tempo. In fact both principles are excellently cast, and do justice to their particular roles. The story describes de-scribes the love and sorrow of a typical American pair of love birds. It delves deeply into their lives, and touches gently and sympathetically on their numerous misunderstandings. misunderstand-ings. James Dunn as Jimmy and Clair Trevor as Sally give fine performances. per-formances. Dunn, who sings for the first time on the screen, renders a sparkling song, entitled, "It's The ! Irish In Me," with a delightful ap- .' j peal, while Miss Trevor proves to ! be both charming and appealing in the role of Jimmy's new sweetheart. i The remaining members of the cast acquit themselves admirably: Harvey Stephens. Lya Lys, Jed Prouty, Gloria Roy, Alma Lloyd and John Arledge. James Tinling did a shrewd directorial job. And we repeat, re-peat, we recommend it, without qualifications. |