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Show j FMIAGEJ'HEATRE i Friday and Saturday j Sinister .shadow.-, vampires that iroam in the night, terror in its ultimate intensity, blend with sus- pen.se, thrills, romance and com-' ! edy in "Mark of the Vampire," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's amazing: detective thriller coming to the' Firmag-e theatre Friday and Sat-' urday, August 1G-17. Lionel Bar-' rymore plays the principal role as Professor Zelen, amazing student of demonology, who aids the po-j lice in ferreting out a vampire horde. Bela Lugosi, of "Dracula": fame, plays the horrific vampire, Count Mora, and Carol Borland is Luna, his vampire daughter. They! figure in bloodehilling episodes in- a weird old castle. Romance is provided by pretty Elizabeth A1-; lan and Henry Wadsworth as the lovers in terror. Jean Hersholt isi the dominating Baron Otto. There will also be two comedies, Wig Wag Blondes and Picnic Panic, and Fox movietone news. Sunday, Monday and Tuesday When a college dance band leader lead-er and an All-American football player design feminine fashions, look for something spectacular. You'll see them in "Roberta," the picture everyone has been waiting for, which comes to the Firmage theatre . Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Stunning creations embodying em-bodying every detail of feminine finery modeled by the most, beautiful girls in America. "Ro-j berta" is not only unique among musicals for an intensely interesting, inter-esting, thoroughly delightful close-knit close-knit story sufficient to make it rank as a hit production, but it has the superlative musical and; spectacular features which lift it into something unprecedented in amusement merit. Singing as she never has eung before, Irene Dunne pours a flood of golden melody in that hit of hits "Smoke Gets In Your Eye9"; "Touch of Your Hand," "Yesterday," and the new tune sensation "Lovely to Look At." Audiences get another delightful tingle from hearing the alluring Ginger Rogers sing the snappy lyrics of "I'll Be Hard to Handle," and listening to her exchange ex-change melodic repartee with Fred Astaire in "I Won't Dance." Each number is a masterpiece, composed compos-ed by that king of musical romance, ro-mance, Jerome Kern. There will also be a newsreel and comedy. Wednesday and Thursday Blazing a path as a pioneer of a new-type action picture George O'Brien's new starring picture, "The Cowboy Millionaire" comes to the Firmage theatre Wednesday Wednes-day and Thursday. In "The Cowboy Cow-boy Millionaire" the settings denote de-note wealth, and bespeak refinement refine-ment and culture. The women wear clothes befitting wealthy society. so-ciety. No cowboy shoots up the dust of the village street. No chases predominate the picture, yet this fast-moving film is pack ed to the hilt with action. Chapter eight of "Call of the Savage" and an Irvin S. Cobb comedy, "You Bring the Ducks," will also be shown. |