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Show FIRMAGETHEATRE Friday and Saturday Fierce conflict between a girl's loyally to her gangster brother and her love for a man sworn to stamp him out, provides an exciting, excit-ing, suspenseful romance between Margaret Callahan and Richard Dix in the latter's new picture, "Special Investigator", coming to the Firmage theatre Friday and Saturday. The husky star portrays a gangland gang-land lawyer whose brother is slain by racketeers. The picture unfolds his dangerous adventures when, in a white heat of contempt for himself him-self and fellow criminal lawyers--who have indirectly caused ' the slaying by helping the killers beat their raps on previous cases he ejects all his mobster clients, and becomes a G-man special investigator investi-gator to avenge his brother's death. The lovely Miss Callahan appears as the sister of the mob leader Dix is seeking. The picture was adapted from "Fugitive Gold", by Erie Stanley. Owen Davis jr., Erick Rhodes, Sheila Terry, Joe Sawyers and others are included in the cast. There will also be two comedies shown these nights. Sunday and Monday Sylvia Sidney and Spencer Tracy are the brilliant co-stars of "Fury", the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture to be shown at the Firmage theatre Sunday and Monday. And in this powerful screen play, they give performances that will linger long in your memory. The narrative, nar-rative, based on an original story by Norman Krasna, has to do with the tragic circumstances that separate two young lovers on the eve of their mar-riage. Tracy, as the man, is arrested as a kidnap suspect and apparently burned to death by a mob that storms and fires the prison in which he is held. His life wrecked, and his mind twisted by the horror he has been through, he goes into hiding and contrives to have twenty-two of the mobsters convicted of his mur-3er! mur-3er! .As a hard-hitting indictment of a national shame, "Fury" stands out as one of the fine picture of the year, for its power lies in its altogether objective approach to the subject of mass lawlessness. Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot, Edward Ellis and many others aTe included in-cluded in the wonderful cast. A movietone news and also "Swing Banditry" will be shown these nights. i Tuesday and Wednesday "Things To Come," Alexander Korda's thrilling production of H. G. Wells' amazing forecast of the future, will be shown at the Firm-age Firm-age theatre Tuesday and Wednes-( Wednes-( Continued on last page.) HRMAGETHEATRE (Continued from page 41 day. The film, the first work the famous novelist has written directly direct-ly for the screen, depicts the world as he predicts it will be in 2036, after our present civilization has been destroyed by the next war. Cities will be subterranean, flooded flood-ed with artificial sunshine and conditioned con-ditioned air; houses will be glass and windowless; clothes will be simple and beautiful; wrist-radios and television sets will be a fact; the working day will be cut to two hours and human beings will be shot to the moon from a "space gun" 250 feet higher than the Em- pire state building. Raymond Mas-sey, Mas-sey, Ralph Richardson, Sir Cedrie Hardwicke, Pearl Argyle, Margar-etta Margar-etta Scott and Patrica Hillard head a cast of 20,000. Chapter 10 of "New Adventures of Tarzan" and a Micky Mouse comedy will also be shown these nights. Thursday Mirth in the ultra-modern manner man-ner is the keynote of Damon Run-yon's Run-yon's engaging story, "The Three Wise Guys," which Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer brings to the Firmage theatre for Thursday only. Robert Young is co-featured with attractive attrac-tive Betty Furness in a tale of reckless youth as amusing and pleasant as might be definitely anticipated from the mind of Run-yon, Run-yon, whose ideas and people are as fresh as today's news. The story relates the adventures of a spendthrift spend-thrift boy, who, while traveling on a deluxe train, meets a charming girl. The fact that she is living on the dangerous edge of socitey drawn toward respectability by the innate fineness of her character, swayed to the half-world by outside out-side influence lends drama to the wealth of humor. Certainly they fall in love and the three wise guys who would circumvent the romance are hopelessly defeated in a swift-paced swift-paced battle of wits and wisdom. The supporting cast includes Raymond Ray-mond Walburn, Thurston Hall, Bruce Cabot, Donald Meek, Herman Her-man Bing, Hervey Stephens and Harry Tyler. Selected short subjects sub-jects will also be shown. |