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Show VICTORYTHEATRE With George O'Brine in the featured fea-tured role and a setting of gay, scintillating scin-tillating background, "Ever Since Eve," comes to the Victory theatre Friday and Saturday of this week as one of the big double-header shows. Its bright, breezy, rippling love story develops amid the high spots and the gay spots of Broadway. There is color life and overtone of frivolity frivol-ity and music as George O'Brien dons a dinner jacket and acquires the nonchalance of the man-about-town. It is a new George O'Brien who takes a fling at society asd emerges with a flashing debutante as his bride. Mary. Brian has the feminine lead opposite O'Brien. The supporting support-ing cast that is headed by hilarious Herbert Mundin and the famous : Betty Blyth, also includes Roger Im-; Im-; hof, Russell Simpson and George Meeker. If you aire interested in the grief you will entail should you lie to the "little woman" in order to get away for your lodge's convention, see Laurel and Hardy's full-length comedy feature, "Sons of the Desert," which comes to the Victory as the additional feature for Friday and Saturday. It is a funny story and the comic pair makes it even funnier. As the husbands who have to deceive their wives in order to attend the "Sons of the Desert" convention in a distant city, Laurel and Hardy keep their audience convulsed as comic situation after comic situation unfolds un-folds to their extreme discomfort in each case. Charley Chase, Mae Busch and Dorothy Christy are in the supporting sup-porting cast. Two men who so closely resemble each other that one stepped into the fighting political career and love of the other man's wife provide the famous dual roles of "The Masquer-ader" Masquer-ader" for Ronald Coleman at the Victory theatre Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Involved in the puzzled affections and loves of Colman's two roles are Elissa Landi and Juliette Compton and a big cast headed by David Torrence, Helen Jerome Eddy, Creighton Hale and Halliwell Hobbes.! As a background for Coleman andj the strange human problem of "The Masquerader," Samuel Goldwyn has' provided a production that gives new life and a bright modern touch to the famous English melodrama. Political turmoil, riot and the threat of revo-l lution, financial and government crises taken from today's headlines are the storm clouds that drive one nian from his position at the helm of, state and from the love of his wife to drugs and debauchery. Pride of family, patriotism and love of adventure adven-ture and fight summon his unknown cousin to the rescue. His two roles give Colman an opportunity to contrast con-trast drunkenness and sobriety, sanity and fitness with debauchery and depravity. Warner Baxter comes to the screen of the Victory Wednesday and Thursday Thurs-day of next week in Fox Film's latest release, "As Husbands Go." The film is taken from Rachel Crothers ' successful Broadway play. The picture pic-ture is described as a romance for women that men will like. It deals I with the wife who is undecided whether or not she should give up a devoted husband for what at the moment appears to be a glamorous, new romance. While on a pleasure jaunt in Paris, she becomes infatuated infatuat-ed with a young Englishman. Before depaitiiv; for home she promisese to divorce her husband so that she may be free to marry him. At home, her husband's charming manners and de-votedness de-votedness prove too much of an ob stacle for her to overcome. The young Englishman's arrival makes the situation more embarrassing and leads to some interesting situations. Helen Vinson plays opposite Baxter. Other members in the cast are Warner War-ner Oland, Catharine Doucet, G. P. Huntley Jr., Frank O'Connor, Eleanor Elea-nor Lynn and Jay Ward. |