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Show RRMACEJUEATRE Sunday and Monday "Keeper of the Flame," I. A. R. Wylie's deeply significant story of contemporary American life, has heen brought to the screen. The picture version, starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, will come to the Firmage theatre Sunday and Monday. The drama presents Tracy as a newspaper man sent to cover the funeral of one of America's most loved figures, a man who had been hero, patriot, benevolent philanthropist and industrialist. Miss Hepburn is cast as his widow. Suspicious circumstances ' surrounding the death of the hero prompt Tracy to investigate further and his discoveries dis-coveries lead him into a whole-souled whole-souled love for the dead man's wife. A cartoon and the latest news also will be shown. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday Bette Davis' newest starring picture, "Now, Voyager" comes to the Firmage theatre Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, as an event which spells entertainment plus to film audiences. Co-starred with her is the romantic Viennese actor, Paul Henreid, with a brilliant bril-liant supporting cast made up of such favorites as Claude- Rains, Gladys Cooper,. Bonita Granville and Ilka Chase. Miss Davis has a role that calls for the finest of acting. In "Now, Voyager," the story of a New England girl who rescues herself from her inhibitions, inhibi-tions, she is unattractive to start with but later becomes a charming woman of the world who, through love, finds the courage to rebel against her tyrannical mother. The latest news and a cartoon also will be shown. Friday and Saturday A series of wacky complications, laugh-a-minute romance and roar-nig roar-nig adtion are skillfully blended in Hal Roache's latest farce comedy, "The McGuerins From Brooklyn," which comes to the Firmage theatre Friday and Saturday Satur-day a's one of the pictures of a double feature show. The story highlights the breezy adventures of two wacky Brooklyn cab drivers, who have made a fortune and now ride on the crest of a wave in high, wide and handsome fashion. !It's Oriental intrigue vieing with the machinations of gold-crazed gold-crazed desperadoes for the hidden treasures of a long vanished raoe on ' the great American plains which call "Hopalong" Cassidy, the screen's greatest cowboy, into the saddle for his latest action romance, ro-mance, "Secrett of the Wastelands", Waste-lands", which comes to this theatre thea-tre as the other picture for the double feature show. |