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Show I VICTORY THEATRE I j Comedy with a bang and tlie last laugh on America's racketeers racke-teers are packed into "The Gay Bride," story of post prohibition "big shots" that was filmed recently re-cently by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios and comes to the Victory theatre Friday and Saturday Satur-day of this week, alonir with "Wednesdays Child" as the usual twin offering-. Carole Lombard and Chester Morris are co-featured in leading roles of the picture. Miss Lombard, who proved herself an adept comedienne in "Twentieth Century," plays a luscious blonde who is just a bit too clever for the self-styled "super-men" of gang-sterdom. gang-sterdom. She shows them up as cowards and blockheads. The picture pic-ture is based on the widely read Saturday Evening Post story, "Repeal," "Re-peal," by Charles Francis Coe, written as a hilarious farce lampooning lam-pooning the essential dumbness of gangsters. Some of the most lavish costumes yet created by M-G-M designers are part of the wardrobe of nineteen special dresses worn by Miss Lombai-d. Among t'le unusual innovations are costumes of "cellophane velvet" vel-vet" and heavy "metal cloth" fitted fit-ted to the body like armor.. Supporting Sup-porting players in the notable cast include Nat Pendleton, a gunman gun-man with more wealth than sense; Leo Carrillo, as Mickey, his body- ' guard with a heart as hard as bul-Mets; bul-Mets; Zazu Pitts, a wardrobe girl in a musical show, and Sam Hary, I r. gang chieftain. j Mischievous, gay, spectcular ar.d glamorous, RKO-Radio's musical comedy, "The Gay Divorcee" coming com-ing to the Victory Sunday, Monday Mon-day and Tuesday, will provide wholesale amusement for local theatregoers. It is a high-speed entertainment with no time for parking and co-stars Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, the delightful pair who made such a hit in "Flying "Fly-ing Down to Rio." In the story Fred meets Ginger under strange circumstances, too amusing to rob of its punch by telling, and he chases her hither and yon in a frantic effort to clinch their romance. The climax is a happy one, and the story is so ; entertaining it could stand even j ; without the remarkable song andj 1 dance feature. The catt includes Edward Everett llorton as a dumb English barrister; Alice Brady, who causes him to try every de-vice de-vice to avoid marrying her; Wil-j 1 liam Austin as a "meaney hus- band", Erik Rhodes as a debonaire professional Romeo, and Eric : Blore as the funniest English but-j but-j ler seen on the screen in ages. I Boasting a cast of "Grand ! Hotel" proportions, one of the finest directors who ever handled a megaphone anil one of the grandest stories ever written in 'novel form, Columbia's "The Captain Cap-tain Hates the Sea" comes to the Victory theatre Wednesday and Thursday of next week. The cast, which is a very large one, includes Victor McLaglen, John Gilbert, Wynne Gibson, Alison Shipworth, Helen Vinson, Fred Keating, Val- , ter Connolly, Leon Errol, Walter Catlett, Luis Alberni, John W:.'ay, Andre Beranger and others. While .filming the picture, Columbia studios chartered a liner and spent many weeks at sea shooting tho exterior shipboard scenes. One hundred and twenty players and technicians cruised the waters of the . Pacific while cameras ground out scenes for the picture. The plot concerns related incidents which occur aboard ship. It deals largely with the attempts of Schulte, a detective, played by Mc- Lagen, to outwit a very clever crook who has in his possession stolen bonds worth a quarter of a million dollars. The situations are for the greater part hilariously amusing. |