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Show FIRMAGEJHEATRE Friday and Saturday One of the most amusing and dramatic court cases in history comes to life as poignant, gripping drama, in "The Voice of Bugle Ann," based on MacKinlay Kan-tor's Kan-tor's famous novel, and incidentally incident-ally gives Lionel Barrymore one of the most gripping roles since "The Copperhead" and "A Free Soul." Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's colorful story of Missouri hunters and their famous hounds will be shown at the Firmage theatre Friday and Saturday. Barrymore plays Spring Davis, the old farmer who kills a man to avenge his dog, and makes a dramatic plea in court for dogs as man's best friend. The dramatic drama-tic action is played against an interesting background, for with a pack of actual Missouri hounds, thrills of fox-hunting are staged. There is a love romance running-through running-through the graphic story, in the hands of Eric Linden and Maureen O'Sullivan. Richard Thorpe directed the picture pic-ture with deft skill that brings out all human touches and shows the great attachment between the hill people and their hunting animals. Barrymore makes an eloquent appeal, ap-peal, in which some of Senator George Vest's tribute to the dog adds drama to oratory. The cast includes Spring Byington, Charley Grapewin, Henry Wadsworth, Dudley Dud-ley Digges, James Macklin and others. Ai Our Gang comedy and a colorde cartoon will also be shown. Sunday and Monday Comedy, romance and adventure go on a nmd rampage in the new gay attraction, "Love on a Bet," which comes to the Firmage theatre thea-tre Sunday and Monday, with the feminine heart accelerator, Gene Raymond, and the comely British newcomer, Wendy Barrie, teamed. Raymond, a young man-about-town, seeks $15,000 with which to produce a play with a seemingly impossible plot; a penniless young man leaves New York City garbed only in underwear, and arrives in Los Angeles ten days later, with a new suit, a hundred dollars and betrothed to a beautiful girl. His uncle Carlton agrees to sponsor the opus if Raymond accomplishes this feat of fiction. The uncanny ingenuity which he exhibits to snare the money, a sweetheart and apparel makes his cross-country jaunt a thing of thrills and perilous peri-lous adventure galore. Others in the cast are Helen Broderick, William Wil-liam Collier sr., Morgan Wallace, Eddie Gribbon, Walter Johnson, Addison Randall and William R. Davidson. There will also be a Charley Chase comedy. Tuesday and Wednesday What Happens when a spirited Southern beauty marries into one of New York's "first families" and is ruthlessly sacrificed in the battle bat-tle to preserve their crumbling grandeur is depicted in dramatic fashion in "Splendor", the new Samuel Goldwyn film which brings Miriam Hopkins to the Firmage theatre Tuesday and Wednesday. Joel McCrea, last seen with her in "Barbary Coast," again appears opposite the star in this Rachel Cothers' story. All that remains of the once-great House of Lorri-more Lorri-more is its Fifth avenue mansion, dominated by the imperious and embittered old Mrs. Lorrimore, whose schemes to recoup the family fortune by marrying her son Brighton to an heiress are shattered when he brings home his pretty but penniless southern bride, Phylis Manning. The story reaches a gripping climax when the selfish and ambitious dowager pushes the girl into an affair with a wealthy and influential man and wrecks her marriage. But love comes to the rescue and brings the young husband to his senses and the film fades out with the pair finding ineffable splendor in the prospect of facing the future together to-gether in a two-room flat. Prominent Promi-nent in the supporting cast are Paul Cavanagh, Helen Westley, Billie Burke, David Niven, Kath-erine Kath-erine Alexander and Ruth Weston. Chapter 3 of "Flash Gordon" will also be shown. Thursday What happens when a girl who thinks that she is the world's fin- est actress learns that she is the world's worst? And when her tender little heart is on the verge of breaking becaus the one she has come to love failed to check her over-enthusiastic ambition? These two poses are answered in the powerful climax to "Chatterbox", the new starring picture of Anne Shirley, coming to the Firmage theatre Thursday only. Jenny Yates comes to New York, her heart laden with ambition and hope and love for Philip Greene. Her hopeless efforts to prove herself her-self an actress are greeted, with derision and almost destroys her romance with a young artist be cause he did not halt her urge to act. Phillips Holmes heads the cast of "Chatterbox" as Jenny's fiance, with Edward Ellis, Erik Rhodes and Margaret Hamilton in other important featured roles. There will also be shown Thursday a colored traveltalk "Cherry Blossom Blos-som Time in Japan" and a comedy. |