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Show FIRMAGEJHEATRE Friday and Saturday A new candidate for. stardom zooms across the film horizon in RKO Radio's "The Farmer in the Dell' which comes to, the Firmage theatre Friday and Saturday as one of the pictures of a double show. Now co-featured with Jean Parker is Fred Stone, for years a top-notcher in vaudeville and on the musical comedy stage. Today he comes to new heights as the hero of the Phil Stong story. Stone is cast as a kindly, lovable old farmer who is trnasplanted to Hollywood by a stupid, provincial wife whose greatest ambition is to launch their daughter in a screen career. However, on a visit to a studio, he is high-pressured into a leading role at $600 a week. Pa Boyer is a made-to-order role for Stone and he shows himself as a master of comedy and pathos. Esther Dale as Ma Boyer is ideally cast. Jean Parker and Frank Al-bertson Al-bertson play the young lovers who are temporarily separated bv a fake Russian count. The action unfolds against a background of an Iowa farm and a moving picture studio. The glamour of old western six-gun six-gun fighting is combined with the thrills of a modern police manhunt in RKO Radio's "The Last Outlaw" Out-law" which stars Harry Carey, and Hoot Gibson and features Henry B. Walthall, Margaret Callahan and Tom Tyler. This picture comes to the Firmage theatre as the other picture of the double show for Friday . and Saturday. The story traces the . adventures of three westerners two of them old-time gun fighters, one a daring young cattleman in pursuing a murderous band of city gangsters into the mountains of Oklahoma. Carry, Walthall and Gibson are the trio who pit six-shooters and carbines car-bines against the machine: guns, the modern murder tools. Sunday and Monday Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy, together , for . the third time cine-matically, cine-matically, are co-starred in a story that strikes deep and sure at love, "To Mary With Love". This picture pic-ture comes to the Firmage theatre Sunday and Monday. Ian Hunter, as Myrna's childhood sweetheart who still loves her, and Clair Trevor,1 Tre-vor,1 as the good-time girl who almost al-most disrupts the romance, are featured fea-tured in the cast which also includes in-cludes Jean. Dixon. A love-letter romance, "To Mary iWith Love," opens with the marriage of Baxter and Miss Loy. Best man is Ian Hunter who hides his regret with a grin, at seeing Myrna's happiness happi-ness in Baxter's arms. Making love lightly, yet loving deeply, they move through their honeymoon and then return to New York where Baxter plunges into the stock market, intent on accumulating accumulat-ing a fortune. Misfortunes happen hap-pen in their married and just as it appears that their marriage must break up, the market crashes and Myrna finds that her husband needs her more than ever. Hiding their hurts and holding back their tears, Myrna and Baxter rise gallantly gal-lantly and splendidly from their misfortune and find a new and greater love to reward them. A comedy, "Bold King Cole" .will also al-so be shown these nights. Tuesday and Wednesday Bringing James Oliver Cur-wood's Cur-wood's stirring story of a man, a ! girl and a loyal dog in the frozen i north to the screen, "The Country I Beyond" comes to the Firmage I theatre Tuesday and Wednesday. Buck, the giant St. Bernard sensation sen-sation of "The Call of the Wild," is the animal star of this new picture, pic-ture, with Rochelle Hudson, Paul , Kellv and Robert Kent headins the i stellar Hollywood cast. "The Country Coun-try Beyond" is the trackless wastes of northern Canada. Its hero is Robert Kent, playing a Canada mounted policeman. New to the game, he permits Rochelle Hudson and her father, Alen Hale, to give him the slip. Hale is wanted want-ed for a murder actually., committed com-mitted by Alen Dinehart, his partner part-ner in crime. While Kent's fellow "mountie", Paul Kelly, tracks Hale, he goes after the girl and heiJ faithful St. Bernard who is leading her out of the wilderness. The film follows their startling adventures, ad-ventures, their combat with Dinehart Dine-hart and Buck's timely arrival and savage fight to . the death with Dinehart's vicious dog. The close of the picture shows pursuer and captive happily united in the knowledge know-ledge of love. Chapter 2 of "Ace Dnimmond" and "Major Bowes Amateur Hour of the Air" will also al-so be shown these nights. Thursday "We Went to College" whether you did or not, is a post graduate course in the art of hilarious comedy and comes to the Firmage theatre Thursday only. It will appeal ap-peal to every type of theatre audience because it has a laugh for all ages. The story concerns a typical American basiness man who goes back to his old college to attend a reunion. Primarily, he wants to sell the trustees an order of bricks for a new building, but the occasion promises a "bust" on the side, for diversion. He takes his wife with him and joins the old gang. One of his classmates, now a staid professor,-is married to an attractive girl who has wearied of college routine. What begins as a flirtation almosf becomes a college col-lege scandal, but is averted by the humorous intrusion of a; loyal classmate. Selected short subjects will also be shown Thursday night. |