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Show VICTORYJUEATRE j I.iltin;r romance and uproarious comedy amid the gay American colony in Paris comes to the Victory screen Friday and Saturday in "Paris Interlude" as part of another twin bill. The new picure has an elaborate cast. Dealing with Paris at the time of the arrival of Lindbergh, the plot follows the fortune of a group of newspaper correspondents, a girl fashion writer and other expatriates in the festive French capital. One of the spectacular details of the new-picture new-picture is a great fashion show, with beautiful mannequins displaying the latest finery in a replica of a famous Parisian salon. Another is the huge masquerade ball given by the artists in the Latin quarter. The famous American bar and other haunts of tourists also figure in the engaging blend of comedy and romance. Madge Evans plays the heroine, as the American tourist who, jilted and stranded in Paris, wins her way to fame as a fashion writer. Otto Kru-ger Kru-ger plays the philandering news-gatherer, news-gatherer, and Robert Young the faithful friend with whom the heroine hero-ine eventually finds happiness. Una Merkel is the comedy foil to the heroine, as the fast-talking and cynical cyni-cal illustrator. The cpmedy episodes, which run all through the picture, are in the hands of Ted Healy as the American bartender, Edward Brophy as the blundering newspaper reporter, and Bert Roach as the perpetual inebriate. Louise Henry, George Meeker, Richard Tucker and others ire in the cast, directed by Edwin L. Martin. The landing of Lindbergh t Le Bourget field is shown at the sensational opening of the picture, pic-ture, and following this the plot de- velops at a rapid rate. Deft direc- i lion turns every dramatic sequence : off into an episode of comedy, in a new technique developed by the di- ' rector. j "To the Last Man", is the other of- i t'ering on the big twin bill for Friday : jnd Saturday. i That rarity of motion pictures, a feature that walks alone without the supporting crutch of a triangle is j to be shown Sunday, Monday and ; Tuesday at the Victory. Its title is : 'No Greater Glory," a Columbia pro- i duction. This picture proves, beyond . a doubt, that there are other human ' emotions and activities on which j vivid, convincing vital drama can be : based. The story on which "No : Greater Glory" is based, has its settings set-tings in Budapest, Hungary. The people of the drama have the joys and sorrows, the ambitions and disappointments, dis-appointments, the struggles and triumphs tri-umphs which are the common fate of humanity. The main action is based on the struggle of rival organizations organi-zations of youths to get possession of a recreation lot, which to them assumes as-sumes an importance as great as any nation. After the manner of their elders, they take the position that what's worth having is worth fighting fight-ing for with results which are not easy to imagine. The cast includes Ralph Morgan, Lois Wilson, George Breakston, Frankie Darro, Egon Brecher, Jackie Searl, Jimmie Butler, But-ler, Donald Haynes and Rolf Ernest. Studded with ridiculously funny situations) R K O-Radio's breezy comedy, "We're Rich Again," will come to the Victory Wednesday and Thursday of next week, with a cast of mirth-provokers that includes Edna May Oliver, Billie Burke, Joan I Marsh, Marion Nixon, Reginald Denny, Buster Crabbe, Grant Mitchel and Gloria Shea. It is the screen adaption of the stage successes by Alden Nash, "And Let Who Will Be Clever." It tells the story of a demure de-mure country girl whose ambition is to be of service to others. In helping them, she also helps herself. And how! She finds her aristocratic city relatives besieged by persistent process pro-cess servers, and at the same time in the throes of preparing for the wedding, wed-ding, three days hence, of the oldest daughter. The harassed household consists of a dumb but. likeable swimming swim-ming champion. The prospective bridegroom, and good looking, arrives ar-rives simultaneously with the country cousin and from this point on things begin to hum. The locale of the story is Santa Barbara, California, but the scenes were filmed against the background back-ground of one of the lovely homes in Beverly Hills. Incidentally, Buster Crabbe, champion of the last Olympic games, does some beautiful diving and swimming in the picture. |