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Show FIRMAGEJUEATRE Sunday and Monday It's a laugh hit at the Firmage theatre Sunday and Monday. Living Liv-ing up to the intriguing promise of its title and exciting star combination, "The Bride Came C. O. D.". with James Cagney and Betty Davis, easily walks away with top comedy honors. The two stars have pooled their considerable consider-able talents to make this picture hilarious entertainment. Cagney approaches his comedy role with an effortless savoir faire that is a joy to behold. As for Miss Davis, playing her first light role in several years, she proves that comedy is just as much her forte as drama. The latest news and another technicolor service short, f'The Fleet's In," also will be shown. Tuesday and Wednesday Merle Oberon and Melvyn Douglas Doug-las are co-starred as the hlissfully happy couple who discover they have no right to be happy in Ernest Lubitsch's light-JheaVtold comedy, "That Uncertain Feeling", which comes to this theatre Tuesday and Wednesday. As a matter of fact, this picture is as American as the alarm clock seen in one of the sequences se-quences and . as modern as the psychoanalyst who almost succeeds suc-ceeds in breaking up a perfectly delightful marriage. The mood of the picture is sprig'htly and gay, though sometimes daffy. A news reel and . a comedy also will be shown. Thursday and Friday "Li'l Aibner", high-ranking newspaper comic, has been brought to the motion picture screen as an ambitious feature comedy with living actors for the further entertainment en-tertainment of the Dogpatch character's char-acter's millions of fans. As a picture, pic-ture, "Li'l Ahner" is totally different dif-ferent from any film ever made. It is a combination of fantasy, romance, ro-mance, action and slapstick comedy, com-edy, yet so convincingly done that audiences finds themselves transported trans-ported to Dogpatch. This picture comes to the Firmage theatre as one of a double feature show. As the other picture for Thursday Thurs-day and Friday, "Robbers of the Range," starring Tim Holt, comes to this theatre weaving its exciting excit-ing plot about the schemes of a band of crooks and gunmen seeking seek-ing to enrich themselves through the construction of a railroad across the plains. Saturday Drama whose locale might have ibeen any one of our large cities in the past decade is enacted in "A Man Betrayed," which comes to this theatre Saturday only. It is the story of a big time political boss a type now nearing extinction. extinc-tion. Edward Ellis portrays this man, whose empire crashes about him as a result of the shrewdness and honesty of a small town lawyer, law-yer, played by John Wayne. Frances Dee is also in the cast. Chapter 7 of "Red Ryder" and a short subject also will be shown. |