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Show FIRftlAGETHEATRE Friday and Saturday The whine of a high-power rifle bullet, a trace of a nameless, subtle poison, a forbidding waste supposedly tamed such is the setting when murder and romance meet thrillingly in the desert and an embarrassed detective goes to the aid of love, as Death Valley lives up to its name in the Twentieth Twen-tieth Century-Fox film, "Fair Warning," coming to the Firmage theatre Friday and Saturday as one of the pictures of a double show. The unusual story of secret murder and sudden romance in Death Valley's millionaire playground, play-ground, with J. Edward Bromlberg as a naive detective, features Betty Furness and John Howard Payne as the romantic pair whose love comes under the strange spell of the great desert. Harold Bell Wright's latest and greatest thrill-teeming story, of an easy going Easterner who makes the wild west wilder by out-bluffing and out-roughing the tough hombres who menace his romance, means exciting screen fare at the Firmage theatre, where "It Happened Hap-pened Out West", comes Friday and Saturday with Paul Kelly and Judith Allen in the featured roles. In keeping with ail Harold Bell Wright fiction, the story is a strictly .modern one of the west, a virile, fast-moving plot of the type that has made the author preeminent preemi-nent among outdoor adventure writers. A Metrotone news also will be shown. Sunday and Monday Hollywood has developed a brand new sort of musical movie that keeps time with your heartbeat. It will set the world awhirl with its rhythmic swing. The picture is Universal' "Top of the Town", which comes to the Firmage theatre thea-tre Sunday and Monday. "Top of the Town" sweeps along in the latest sparkling swing rhythm, with hilarious comedy and hund- reds of gorgeous dancing girls in ' brilliantly conceived settings. Gertrude Gert-rude Niesen, exotic Follies singing star, takes you on wings of song, : to the top of the town. You'll laugh until your sides ache, while you watch 10 comedians, including Hugh Herbeert, Gregory Ratoff, Henry Armetta, Mischa Auer and the Three Sailors go through their wild antics. YouTl enjoy George Murphy's amazing dancing and Ella Logan, the- comedienne. Doris Nolan portrays a girl, beautiful tut balmy, who inherited fifty-million fifty-million dollars and twice as many nutty ideas. A movietone news . and cartoon also will be shown. I Tuesday and Wednesday After several delays, due to the serious illness of Robert Donart, ' and the threat of the substitution of another actor in the title role opposite JMarlene Dietrich, Alexander Alexan-der Korda's filmization of the famous fa-mous James Hilton novel, "Knight Without Armor", has finally come ' to the screen of the Firmage theatre. thea-tre. No two stars in the whole film firmament could have portrayed por-trayed so perfectly this beautiful love story of a man and woman from different worlds who found love while seeking escape from relentless re-lentless forces that sought to trap and crush them. Others in the cast include Irene Vanbrugh. Herbert Lomas, Austin Trevor, and Basil Gill. Chapter 12 of ' "Wild West Days" also will be shown. Thursday Death takes a postman's holiday in "The Great Hospital Mystery" and stalks the morgue and corridors corri-dors of a great hospital to invoke the years most baffling clue-hunt for who could shoot a dead man? In this terror-stricken setting, thrills, chills and hilarity race side j by side to a super-surprise climax , as a nitwit nurse turns mystery I into hysteria in the Twentieth Century-Fox thriller coming to the I Firmage theatre Thursday. Jane! Darwell, Joan Davis, Sig Rumann.J Sally Blane, Thomas Beck and : others are in the cast. A comedy and two other interesting short subjects also will be shown. |