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Show FIRMAGEJHEATRE Warner Oland's latest screen appearancee as the genial and philosophical phi-losophical Chinese sleuth, Charlie Chan one of the most completely captivating detective heroes in the history of book or screen, takes place Friday and Saturday as part of the double bill at the Firmage theatre, when Fox film's latest vehicle for the inimitable Warner Oland, "Charlie Chan in Egypt," begins an engagement there. In this picture, the eighth of the famed Chan series, Fox film has produced an ingeniously thrilling and baffling mystery. "Charlie Chan in Egypt" is the biggest and most pretentious Chan picture ever made and carries car-ries the interest from thrill-packed sequence to chill-packed .-e-quence with Stepin Fetchit adding much comedy. The story carries Charlie Chan to the- mystery-scented mystery-scented land of the Pharoaiis, in the Valley of the Kings, amid the splendors and riches of the last resting place of the mighty mon-avchs mon-avchs of thousands of years ago. It's news when a screen star, whom one has gri.T.h accustomed to seeing in a certain part, steps out into a different role, and reveals re-veals new facets of? personality. This precisely is what has happen- I ed to Spencer Tracy. In his new Fox film comedy, "It's A Small World," which shows as the othei part of the double bill Friday and Saturday, the popular star offers his fans something new in Spencei Tracy. It's the first time in hu-screen hu-screen career that he has a straight feature-length comedy role. Comedy scintillates from start to finish. In the past he haii serious roles faced, as it were with comedy. In this madcap comedy, Spencer has for leading woman the British beauty, Wendy Barrie. She is the charming wo-' wo-' man who played Jane Seymour, I the second wife, in "Henry VIII." Good work is contributed by the i supporting cast, notably by Ray-ijmond Ray-ijmond Walbarn, Virginia Sale, As-Jtrid As-Jtrid Allwyn, Irving Eacon, Charles Sellon, Nick Foran and others. J "Folies Ber?ere" is a half glam-1 glam-1 orous musical spectacle and half , "The Guardsman" atmosphered ij comedy romance and conies to the ; Firmage theatre Sunday, Monday 'and Tuesday. It presents Maurice . Chevalier in the more musical as- ' pects of the show, in the character which domestic audiences first knew him, a song and danco man. In the sustaining sequences, he is a zestful somedian. The picture is a story of a famous star of the ! Folies Bergere Theatre show. ' Those cast with Chevalier are , Ann Sothern, Merle Oberon, Erie j Blore, Ferdinand Munier, Walter : Byron, Lumsden, Robert Grieg and several other-s. . . ji i - . . 1 |