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Show VICTORYJflEATRE For pure, hilarious entertainment, one of the best pictures of the year is Paramount's "Ladies Should Listen", which comes to the Victory theatre Friday and Saturday of this week. The story, an original by Alfred Al-fred Savoir and Guy Bolton, is a Continental Con-tinental farce in which a young man-about-town in Paris gets into all sorts of complications with an option on a South American nitrate concession conces-sion and too many lady friends. The efforts of a telephone operator, who is in love with him, to extricate him from his troubles only help to complicate compli-cate matters further. In the principal princi-pal male role, Carry Grant displays great ability as a farceur, aided by Frances Drake who is highly pleasing pleas-ing as the telephone operator. Of more than passing interest is the role of the hotel doorman in which Charles Ray, former star of country boy roles, stages his film comeback. Other players who help to make this picture highly amusing are Nydia Westman, Edward Everett Horton and George Barbier. Judged by preview audiences on the coast as by far the most entertaining entertain-ing of the entire series of'Chan" thrillers, "Charlie Chan In London," will make its appearance at the Victory Vic-tory as the other feature of the double bill for Friday and Saturday of this week. Warner Oland, whose name has become synonymous with the character of Charlie throughout the series, again portrays the role of the bland Chinese detective. Advance reports indicate that Olahd's portrayal portray-al in this film is his most notable to date. In his latest adventure, Charlie Chan invades Sherlock Holmes' realm, and journeys to London to solve the most amazing mystery of his remarkable remark-able career in criminology. A man is doomed to hang for murder. His sister ibelieves him innocent. She pleads with Chan to take the case and try to find the real murderer and exonerate her brother. With only sixty-five hours remaining before the :nnocent man must meet his death, Chan gets to work. He finds he is working against time and a murderer who has the cunning of a fox. With only eight hours remaining in which to solve the mystery, Chan lays a clever trap, and snares his human fox wiithout the aid of hounds or horses. Drue Leyton, who will be recalled re-called as the feminine lead in "Charlie "Char-lie Chan's Courage", again portrays the role of the romantic lead opposite Ray Milland. Others in the cast are Mona Barrie, Alma Mowbray, Murray Kinnell, Douglas Walton, Walter Johnson and other well-known screen players. More than 200 years of acting experience ex-perience packed into one picture is the notable casting achievement for "Treasure Island," the most widely read story of pirate adventure ever written, that has been transferred to the screen from the Robert Louis Stevenson book by Metro-iGoldwyn-Mayer. The picture will be shown Sunday, Monday and Tuesday at the Victory theatre. Wallace Beery, one of the most seasoned veterans in pictures, pic-tures, is playing Long John Silver, one-legged pirate with blood in his eye and friendship in his heart. For more than twenty years "Wally" has made them laugh, cry and tremble ever since he first appeared as a Swedish servant girl in a two-reel comedy. Jackie Cooper adds his three years acting experience during which he has been acclaimed as the most phenomenal of all child stars. In his role of Jim Hawkins, boy adventurer, ad-venturer, he is said to have the finest dramatic opportunity of his career. Lionel Barrymore celebrates his twenty-fifth year on stage and screen when he started his portrayal of the immortal Billy Bones, henchman of Captain Flint, most bloodthirsty pirate pi-rate of them all. To Lewis Stone, stage and screen idol for more than thirty years, goes the part of Captain Smollett, the man who pilots the good ship "Hispaniola" in search of pirate gold. In leading character roles are Otto Kruger, Nigel Bruce, Charles "Chic" Sales, William V. Mong, Charles McNaughton, Dorothy Peterson and several dozen others. Barbara Stanwyck will be the stellar stel-lar attraction at the Victor theatre Wednesday and Thursday of next week in her latest Warner Brother picture, "Gambling Lady", a film based on the thrillingly dramatic story of Doris Mallory. Miss Stanwyck Stan-wyck has the gay and sporting role of a square shooting gambler who plays the ganie of life with a courage few persons "possess, even, to tossing away love to save her husband from a crime of which she knows he is innocent. in-nocent. The picture is set in the gay gambling halls where the idle rich are taken over the jumps for their money by a syndicate of gamblers that holds the city in its grip. The story is climaxed by a cold blooded murder carried out by the syndicate for which an innocent man is arrested. arrest-ed. There is a talented cast in which Joel McCrea and Pat O'Brien share honors as masculine leads and rivals for the love of the gambling lady. Claire Dodd plays the homewrecking role, a society girl who stops at nothing noth-ing to steal another woman's husband. hus-band. Others in the cast include such talented players as C. Aubrey Smith, Phillip Reed, Philip Faversham, Robert Ro-bert Barrat, Robert Elliot, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Arthur Vinton, Willard Robertson and Arthur Treacher. |