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Show FIRMAGETHEATRE Friday and Saturday Laughs from the land of cotton, songs with southern charm and Harlem pep and romance under the moonlight and magnolias highlight Jane Withers hilarious and tuneful tune-ful new Twentieth Century-Fox triumph, "Can This Be Dixie ?" coming to the Firmage theatre Friday and Saturday. With the irrepressible, peppery and even dynamic Jane demonstrating her versatility and winning new laurels in a picture that surpasses even the best of her past hits, the film is a combination of hilarious fun lilting music, fast-moving dances and rollicking comedy and the fun really shines all the time. Slim Summerville heads the outstanding outstand-ing cast which supports "Ginger" Jane, including Helen Wood, Sara Haden, Thomas Beck, Claude Gill-ingwater Gill-ingwater and Donald Cook. "How To Vote" a comic reel and a Pete Smith specialty also will be shown. Sunday and Monday 1 "Winterset" foremost Broadway hit of 1935-36 which becomes the screen outstander of 1936-37 will be shown at the Firmage theatre Sunday and Monday. In presenting present-ing this unique offering, which was voted the best American play of the 1935-36 season by New York's dramatic critics, RKO Radio courageously shatters all picture precedents. Rarely has a story of such tremendous dramatic power been offered to f ilmgoers. Never ; before has such a story been por-I por-I trayed on the screen by the three j principals who made it such an overwhelming success on Broadway. Broad-way. Briefly, the story deals with an old miscarriage of justice which takes an innocent man to the elec tric chair and with the subsoil-. out determined efforts of the victim's son to clear the memory of his lather's name, only to find rimself involved in a strange poignant poig-nant romance among New York's: tenements. The picture is starring i Burgess Meredith and Margo in ! their original stage production roles and Eduardo Ciannelli, John 1 Carradine and Edward Ellis. A Silly Symphony cartoon in color and a Movietone news also will be shown. Tuesday and Wednesday j The activities of a self-appoint u Cupid, in the person of a roman-1 tic high school girl who believes it ; her duty to find a wife for her widowed father, furnishes the comedy situations in "Make Way for a Lady," which comes to the Firmage theatre Tuesday and Wednesday, with Herbert Marshall and Anne Shirley co-starred. Introducing Intro-ducing the flame-haired Anne in an up-to-date role, and teaming her with the popular Marshall in a sympathetic fathei;Miml-dau.fi liter combination, the new offering provides pro-vides a sparkling type of entertainment. enter-tainment. The supporting cast includes in-cludes Clara Blandick, Mary Jo Ellis, Frank Coghan jr., Taylor Holmes and others. Chapter 2 of "Secret Agent X-9" and "Sun Chasers" also will be shown. Thursday A four-star cast comprising Chester Morris, Fay Wray, Lionel Stander and ' Raymond Walburn, cavort through the leading roles of Columbia's romantic comedy-drama, "They Met in a Taxi", whiuh will be shown at the Firmage theatre thea-tre Thursday. The film opens when Miss Wray poses as an heiress heir-ess escaping an undersirable marriage mar-riage and enlists the aid of Chester Morris, a New York taxi driver, to get her out of the dilemma. When Morris discovers that the girl he is sheltering in his apartment first, isn't an heiress at all, but an unknown un-known mannequin; second, that she is accu.sed of stealing a pearl necklace from the girl whose identity iden-tity she has assumed; and third, that he was falling in love with her suspicions notwithstanding the fun really begins. Selected short subjects also will be shown. I |