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Show VICTORYTHEATRE The torpedoing of a British freighter in the North Sea is one of the amazing and hitherto unscreened un-screened sequences included in the Fox Film production, "The First World War," at the Victory theatre thea-tre Friday and Saturday of this week. Many secret films from the archives of Europe have been used in the creation of this remarkable motion picture. Lawrence Stal-lings, Stal-lings, who edited the sensational volume of war photographs, "The First World War," published a year ago, has done a similar service ser-vice for the picture. In Paramount's picturization of Zane Grey's outdoor romance, "Home of the Range," coming to the Victory theatre Friday and Saturday as the other double feature, fea-ture, Jackie Coogan and Evelyn Brent, both of whom have been away from the screen for a long time, return to Hollywood films again. Jackie Coogan, now a strapping, six foot man, makes his adult debut, and Miss Brent returns, re-turns, after more than two years, in another of her typical "bad-girl" "bad-girl" roles. Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger, Fuzzy Knight and Ann Sheridan are also featured. "Home on the Range" deals with the efforts ef-forts of a band of smoots crooks to do Randolph Scott and his brother, Jackie Coogan, out of their ranch and race-horses. With the money from the sale of his cattle stolen, and the mortgage on his ranch in the hands of the ring-leader, Scott seems in a tough spot. But the girl accomplice of the crooks, Evelyn Brent, falls in love with him and turns the table on them. The amazing Frank Capra, di rector of "Lady For a Day" and "It Happened One Night," has undoubtedly un-doubtedly surpassed all his former glories in his newest Columbia comedy sensation, "Broadway Bill", which come? to the Victory theatre Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Tues-day. With uncanny genius, the inimitable in-imitable Mr. Capra has produced a beautifully human and appealing romance that is sheer delight. Based, on a story by Mark Helling-er Helling-er and written for the screen by the aame Robert Riskin who col-loborated col-loborated with Capra on his two previous successes, "Broadway Bill" sets a standard in screen entertainment that will not easily be reached. No little of the film's supberb qualities can be attributed to the splendid performances registered by Warner Baxter antt Myrna Loy in the two starring ! role. Ba:u-rV "Pan Brooks" i : his finest sc.-c n c.'.-.racu ration since Cisco Kid in "i n Old Arizona." Ari-zona." Myrna Loy is a uelighuul revi-:a::on, a new ami greater tv.xen per.--.nr.::'.y. Toe-ptber as n ivmantic ' team, both Baxter and Loy are rear perfect. Other fine performance :.rc lunie.'. in by Walter Connolly as the father, Helen Vinson us the selfis'i wife, Clarence Muse. Lyme Overman, Margaret Hamilton. Frankie Dar-ro, Dar-ro, George Cooper, Lougia- Dum-brille, Dum-brille, Charles l.evison. Ward Bond, Harry Todd, Paul Harvey, Charles Wilson and Edmund Breeze. Precede! by .the most glowing of advance reports, Fox films comedy with music, "Lottery Lovers," will show at the Victory theatre Wednesday and Thursday of next week. Preview audiences v in Hollywood, it is .-aid, have called this film one of the most delightful of a decade. Its sprightly spright-ly story concerns a crew of carefree care-free young cadets on their first leave in Paris and its notable cast ' includes Lew Ayves, "Pat" Pater-: Pater-: son, Peggy Fears, Reginald Denny, i Alan Dinehart, Walter King, Sterl-I Sterl-I ing Hollow-ay and Nick Foran. At the very feet of the cadets, as j their training ship swings into harbor, a garter falls from the I skies. And the one girl-shy . lad J ' in the whole roistering outfit draws the winning ticket to woo its owner, glamorous queen of the j Parisian revues. In the role of the fascinating star of the "Folies , Bergers," Peggy Fears, "most ' talked-of-woman in New York," makes her screen debut. i |