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Show FIRMAGE THEATRE Friday and Saturday The love of a son for a father whom he has never seen, and his pathetic attempt to make the world believe that his father loves him equally, will bring a lump to the throat of the most hardened fan in "Too Many Parents," which comes to the Firmage theatre Friday Fri-day and Saturday as one of the pictures of a double show. This picture with Frances Farmer and Lester Matthews playing the adult leads, features Buster Phelps, Billy Lee, George Ernest and Sherwood Sher-wood Bailey as the juvenile stars in this story of boys "without parents" thrown together in a military boarding school. One of the boys, ashamed to admit his father's neglect, gets into serious trouWo while lying to cover his Dad, and Miss Farmer is moved to recall the father to his parental duty. A romance results from this encounter ami makes a happy home for one of the poor little rich boys. A brand new idea in screen entertainment is coming to the Firmage theatre Friday and Saturday Satur-day with Harold Bell Wright's novel, "Wild Brian Kent", starring Ralph Bellamy and featuring Mae Clarke. For the first time a Wild West thriller has leading dramatic stars in its chief roles, and the result re-sult is a great outdoors action film equal in appeal to the finest dramatic dra-matic photoplay. Sunday and Monday Glamorous blond Marlene Dietrich Diet-rich and dark, romantic Charles Boyer bring one of the most exciting ex-citing love teams in film history to the screen of the Firmage theatre thea-tre Sunday and Monday as stars of David 0. Selznick's technicolor production of "The Garden of Allah." The immortal Robert Hichens love story offers Miss Dietrich her most colorful role to date as the beautiful Domini En-filden En-filden who flees to the Algerian desert to begin life anew and there meets the handsome and mysterious mys-terious Boris Androvsky (Charles Boyer) who is actually a Trappist monk who has fled from the monastery mon-astery after taking the eternal vows. A glorious romance develops under the spell of the desert moon and the story proceeds to a gip-ping gip-ping climax and an unexpected denouement. de-nouement. Basil Rathbone, C. Aubrey Smith, Tilly Losch, the internationally famous dancer, and Joseph Schildkraut are featured in the supporting cast which also includes in-cludes John Carradine, Alan Marshall Mar-shall and others. A musical short and a Movietone news also will be shown. Tuesday and Wednesday A new Mary Boland appears on the screen at the Firmage theatre Tuesday and Wednesday when the capable actress is presented in "A Son Comes Home", her first emotional emo-tional role since she quit the New York stage for motion pictures. "A Son Comes Home'' is a powerful power-ful drama. A mother gets word that her son who ran away from home, and from whom she has not heard in fifteen years, is in a nearby near-by jail charged with murder. Hurrying Hur-rying to him, she finds he is a pretender pre-tender and not her son. But this boy in -distress convinces her that he is innocent, and she takes him to her heart determined to find the man who is really guilty. Then she discovers the real murderer is her own son. In this dramatic situation she is torn between natural na-tural mother-love, a devotion to justice and the stranger she has vowed to befriend. Supporting-Miss Supporting-Miss Boland is Julie Haydon, Donald Don-ald Woods, Wallace Ford, Anthony Nance and others. Chapter 6 of "Jungle Jim" and a colored cartoon car-toon also will be shown. Thursday Stirring drama in the little known activities of United States postal inspectors and their incessant inces-sant fight against crime are viewed view-ed on the screen in "Wanted: Jane Turner." A brutal mail robbery murder calls into action the ace inspector of the United States postal department and his "girl Friday" in this RKO Radio photoplay photo-play thriller, with Lee Tracy and Gloria Stuart participating in the grim battle against a desperate mob of mail bandits. The capture of the ruthless killer-leader of the jang brings "Wanted: Jane Turn- er" to a thrill-packed climax and crowns the romance between Tracy and Gloria. Selected short subjects sub-jects also will be shown. |