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Show VICTORYTHEATRE A hilarious jumble of burlesqued facts supplies the fun in RKO-Radio Pictuj-es' musical comedy, "Diplo-maniacs," "Diplo-maniacs," which comes to the Victory theatre Friday and Saturday of this week w ith the celebrated comedy pair, Bert Wheeler and Robert Wool-sey, Wool-sey, in the stellar roles. Hilarity begins, according- to preview reports, when Wheeler as "Willy Nilly" and Woolsey as "Hercules Glilb" open a barber shop on an Indian reservation. This eccentric- stunt by the boys makes the Indians believe they are dumb enoug-h to be excellent diplomats. diplo-mats. The Big Chief sends them to the Geneva Peace conference as Indian In-dian representatives. The production then soars into broad burlesque, staged in the conference halL The bickering and innuendo-hurling of diplomatic circles is transposed into actual physical encounters. You've beard Kate Smith sing! You know what that voice of hers can do with a song. But at the Victory Vic-tory theatre this coming Sunday, Monday ajid Tuesday, you'll fund out something else about Kate Smith. You'll find out that she's an actress, and she'll prove it to you in her first full-length feature picture, Fanny ' Hurst's "Hello, Everybody!" To be sure, Kate Smith sings in her picture. She sings her familiar and best-loved numbers, "When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain," and some catchy, tuneful new ones as well, the latter gToup including chiefly, "Moon J Song," "Pickaninnies' Heaven," "Out j in the Great Open Spaces," and j 'Twenty Million People." But she j also gives a finely modulated, sincere ' and moving perf ormance, as a girl from a California farm who sings her way to radio fame and fortune in order to get money enough to fight a power company in its efforts to gain control of her home valley. As a result of her first picture, it looks as if Kate Smith will not only not disappoint thousands of radio fans. She will win new ones. Randolph Scott and Sally Blane head the supporting sup-porting cast in the romantic leads, both giving exceptionally fine performances. per-formances. "Pleasure Cruise," gay romantic comedy . centering about a young wife's adventures during a marriage holiday, will be the family nigfcfc offering of-fering at the Victory on Wednesday, August 9, with Genevieve Tobin and Roland Young playing the leading roles. "Pleasure Cruise" relates the story of a young woman who decides1 to inject some romance into her married life by taking a cruise on i one of those liners whose principal cargo is a group of pleasure-seeking ; passengers. Her husband, a timid and credulous gentleman, isn't entirely entire-ly enthusiastic about his wife taking-a taking-a trip for the trip's sake. So, with the benefit of disguise and a somewhat some-what chang-ed personality, he manages man-ages to become a steward on the very-ship very-ship that is to carry his wife on her quest for diversion. The man has the dubious-satisfaction of seeing his wife pursued by all manner of men, and of learning that she is not completely com-pletely averse to the chase herself. There are a number of times when he would like to call the whole thing off, but finds that midocean is a bad place to do that. All the color and action of a luxurious cruise have been captuned in this picture, .giving a vivid depiction of high jinks on the high seas. |