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Show FJRHAGE THEATRE A new type of comedy, different from anything the screen has seen before, is unfolded in "Baby Face Harrington," new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture which comes to the Firmage Theatre Friday and Saturday, Sat-urday, August !) and 10. Una Mer-kel Mer-kel and Charles Butterworth are featured as a comedy team for the first time, in story written especially espec-ially for their joint talents. Raoul Walsh directed. The cast includes Nat Pendleton, Ruth Selwyn, Harvey Har-vey Stephens, Eugene Pallette and others. Bing Crosby can't figure it out. The Paramount star can't understand under-stand how romances ever developed develop-ed in those "romantic sixties", now that he's had , a glimpse of that period in his new picture, "Mississippi", which is coming to the Firmage theatre Sunday, Monday Mon-day and Tuesday. Crosby is starred star-red with W. C. Fields and Joan Bennett. "With hoop skirts and pantalettes for the ladies", says Crosby, "and mustaches and silk waist coats for the gentleman, romance ro-mance must have been something of a problem in those days. I raised a tasteful and highly dec-ora'tive dec-ora'tive set of 'Dundrearies' for my role in 'Mississippi.' And, in the picture, poor Joan Bennett has to love me with a face like that. And, for my part, I have the problem of making love to a girl whose costume is such that 1 can't get within three feet of her. No wonder the dandies of the day kissed their fjair ladies' hands They couldn't have reached their lips unless they were contortionists." contortion-ists." o |