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Show VICTORYTHEATRE Her beauty fanned the flames of jealousy in the hearts of two men who loved her! One tried to win the love which she gave so freely to another and their three lives were almost ruined by the spectre of suspicion! This dramatic theme receives a poignant treatment in Columbia's "Jealousy", ' which shows as the Victory theatre Fri day and Saturday with Nar.cy Carroll, Car-roll, George Murphy and Donald : Cook in the principal roles. One moment of jealousy ar.d a lifetime life-time of anguish lived in ten seconds! sec-onds! Briefly, the story concerns I the dramatic consequences result- ' ing from a prizefighter's suspicion' that his wife is unfaithful! An 'exciting blend of romance, comedy and pathos makes up the film. After an absence of more than a year from American pictures, Anna May Wong, Chinese-American star, returns to the Hollywood screen in Paramount's "Limehouse Blues," featured with George Raft. The picture comes to the Victory theatre as the other feature for Friday and Saturday. In the supporting sup-porting east of this picture, which is set in the sinister and shuddery confines of the most famous of occidental oc-cidental Chinatowns, are Jean Parker, Kent Taylor and Montagu Love. Described in advance accounts from Hollywood as the finest to date of Will Rogers' notable series of American character portraits, the Fox ' film production, "The County Chairman," will be seen at the Victory theatre Sunday, Monday Mon-day and Tuesday. "The County Chairman" is a screen adaptation of the famous play of the same title, by one of America's foremost humorists, George Ade. Opening on Broadway in the year 1902, "The County Chairman" ran there for a year with Maclyn Arbuckle as its star and then toured for the next three seasons. "The County Chairman," it is said, is' a story of smiles and heart tugs, rivalling the hugely successful "Judge Priest" and "David Harum" as a vehicle for Rogers. In the new film he s seen as a wily, lovable county boss, half-diplomat, half-rustic. He wins elections and arranges love matches with equal skill and no one, not even his rivals, can resist him. A notable supporting cast includes such players as Evelyn Venable, Kent Taylor, Louise Dresser, Berton Churchill, Mickey Rooney, Frank Melton and Stepin Fetchit. So-called yellow journalism is j revealed in a'.l its sordid ramificu-. tions in Columbia's "White Lies," which coines to x'.:e Victory t'K-atrc We hies, lav and Thv.r-day of next week with Waller Connolly, lay. Wray and Victor Jory in the fea-: tured roles. Connolly is seen in , one cf the most dramatic roles of his screen career as the headline-mad headline-mad editor who sacrifices every-; thing for a story. The picture readies its high point when Connolly, Con-nolly, still true to his insane pursuit' pur-suit' of news, is forced to print a story that places his own daughter in the light of a murderess. "White Lies" is said to be one of the strongest dramatic pictures produced pro-duced this year by Columbia. The cast includes, besides Connolly. Miss Wrav and Jory, Leslie Fen-ton, Fen-ton, William Demurest, Robert Allen, Irene Hervey. Oscar Apfel and Katharine Clare Ward. |