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Show FIRMAGETHEATRE In "The Casino Murder Case," coming to the Firmage theatre as part of Fi-iday and Saturdays bill, Paul Lukas, featured player of such successes as "Little Women" and "The Fountain," brings to the screen a third distinctive portrayal of Philo Vance, S. S. Van Dine's famous fictional detective. Rather than present a purely dramatic mystery Producer Lucien Hubbard has chosen to make the newest Philo Vance "thriller an unusually humorous yet mystifying story with rapid-fire action and sparkling spark-ling dialogue suggestive of the tempo of "The Thin Man," one of the year's outstanding pictures That the new picture has its funny moments is assured by the fact that the inimitable Alison Skip-worth, Skip-worth, who last scored in "Six of a Kind," is prominently cast as the domineering "Mrs. Llewllyn" around whom much of the action circles- Others who have prominent promi-nent roles in the production include in-clude Donald Cook, Rosalind Russell, Rus-sell, Arthur Byron, Ted Healy, Eric Blore, Isabel Jewell and Louise Fazenda. - Full of fun, excitement and red hot romance is "It Happened in New York," Universal's clever comedy drama coming to the Firmage theatre as the other part of the double bill for Friday and Saturday. An array of star names head the ca?t, including Lyle Talbot, Tal-bot, Gertrude Michael. Heather Angel, Hugh O'Connell, Robert 9 Gleckler and many others. A good- P natured, rough and lvady taxi driver becomes involved in the af- I fections of a famous movie star 1 from Hollywood, who is bore 1 jj with fame and fortune. Not so a group of nefarious thi-jv:;?. viv have set their eyos on '..? Ui 'y's I famous necklace. The j.l t hi4.cn n and races forward to a" unc'Cc-ei- I Oil and explosive clima--". no'.' vn B minndful of a n"tlritui! of hearty Q oniedj situations. 1 Red-letter this cvrn' on your 0 ralrjidar! The out tard iv: sci-eon news is that; America's master showman, George White, who has sponsored fifteen nn'xfrul hits on Broadway, has created a richer, more gorgeous edition of his popular popu-lar screen "Scandals." "George Whites' 1935 Scandal,"' setting new standards in scintillating entertainment, comes to the Firm-age Firm-age theatre Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Fox Film'- 1!)I5 version is said to be so spectacular that it. makes Broadway .-elf-conscious. It boasts haunting and peppy melodies, mel-odies, a rich stage extravaganza, a wealth of stars and beauties. All contribute toward sparkling entertainment for young and old. The picture holds a strong story that could alone sustain interest with its romantic element drawn from small-town Americans lured by the siren calls of Broadway and Hollywood. Suspense, excitement, and pathos pulse through the plot. The coming "Scandals" has for magnets a handful of stage and screen stars whose names have blazed from the marquees of Manhattan's Man-hattan's proud playhouses. Contributing Con-tributing to the gayety are Alice Faye, James Dunn, Ned Sparks, Lyda Roberti, Cliff Edwards, Ar-line Ar-line Judge, Eleanor Powell, Emma Dunu, Benny Rubin and George White, who conceived, produced and directed the entire production. The picture has seven extravaganzas, extravagan-zas, and six new song hits. Powerful, modern drama shot through with the brittle humor of Broadway, spiced with two distinct dis-tinct love stories running at the same time, the most important having the whimiscal "Thin Man" flavor that's an advance description descrip-tion of "Times Square Lady," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's new fast-moving fast-moving comedy drama which eomes to the Firmage theatre Wednesday and Thursday of next week. The cast includes a group of Hollywoods new stars "discoveries" "dis-coveries" who are expected to contribute con-tribute much to making screen history. They include Virginia Eruce, Robert Taylor, Pinky Tom-lin, Tom-lin, Helen Twelvetrees, Raymond Hatton, Henry Kolker, Jack Larue, La-rue, Robert Elliott, Russell Hop-ton Hop-ton and Fred Kohler. . "Times Square Lady" is a "different" story of New York night life, telling tell-ing of the adventures of an Iowa girl who outwits a group of high-powered high-powered characters of the sporting world. , |