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Show : FIRFIAGETIIEATRE Friday and Saturday Viennese gayety and music, whimsical comedy and lilting musical sequences mark "Escapade," "Esca-pade," Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer's new continental romance coming to the Firrnage theatre Friday and Saturday, and in which William Powell is introduced in an entirely new type of role. The picture has many interesting surprises. It brings to the screen the golden voice of Enrico Caruso, amplified from existing records into the most lifelike replica possible of his actual voice, for a great opera sequence. It introduces to the American screen as Powell's leading lead-ing lady, Luise Rainev, Viennese stage star, acclaimed in the Old World as a great dramatic actress and owner of "Europe's Most Beautiful Eyes." Its cast includes Frank Morgan, Virginia Bruce, Mady- Christians, Laura Hope Crews, Reginald Owen, Henry Travel's, Mathilde Comont and others of note. A great Vienna state ball, a lilting evening in a Viennese music hall, anj a Caurso premiere at the Imperial opera, are among its spectaculor musical highlights. Shown also is a Laurel and Hardy comedy, "Thicker Than Water" and a Fox movietone news reel. Sunday, Monday and Tuesday A delightfully refreshing bit of romantic tomfoolery, "Two for Tonight," comes to the Firrnage theatre Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, with that grand crooner of love songs, the incomparable Bing Crosby, in the top role, leading lead-ing the fun, music and romance in his latest and most exhilarating comedy. Provided with a set of top notch hit tunes, a gay piece of business for a plot and an admirable admir-able supporting cast, "Two for Tonight" rises high, wide and handsome above ordinary screen entertainment. Crosby is at his best medium as a singer and light comedian. Aiding him considerably consider-ably in monkeyshines is lovely Joan Bennett, the inevitable hilarious hil-arious and uncomprehending Mary Boland, that dependable funny man, Lynn Overman, the grand character domedian, Ernest Cos-sart, Cos-sart, and the beautiful Thelma Todd, not to mention James Blakely, Douglas Arndt, Charles Lane. This picture is a lively, sparkling romantic comedy, with music, centering around the hilarious hi-larious events that happen to a struggling crooner who turns playwright. Many amusing complications com-plications develop as he begins writing' the play, among them an uproarious seltzer water siphon squirting scene, a laughable jail sequence, and a series of other mirth-provoking events before the finale. There will also be a Silly symphony comedy "Water Babies" Ba-bies" and a Universal news reel. Wednesday and Thursday Reproducing a "face lifting" operation by make-up; building a state penitentiary; filming running run-ning fights between gangsters and secret service operatives at a speed of seventy miles an hour; driving an automobile through a flooded river these are just a , few of the difficult location and technical details that went into the making of "Public Hero Number Num-ber 1," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's drama of the fight against organized organ-ized crime, which comes to the Firrnage theatre Wednesday and Thursday. Some of the most amazing thrills of automobile pursuit pur-suit and battle ever filmed went into the new picture. This picture deals with the pursuit of a notorious notor-ious public enemy by a government govern-ment operative, with the weight of the secret service behind him. Much of the action occurs within a state penitentiary and its pulse-stirring pulse-stirring episodes, including the sensational jail break, are said to be the most realistic and exciting scenes of prison life to be proto-graphed proto-graphed since the memorable picture pic-ture "The Big House," in which Chester Morris scored one of his first big hits. Counterbalancing the more grim aspects of the narrative nar-rative is a romantic angle in wheh Morris and Jean Arthur overcome a dramatic obstacle to the fulfillment fulfill-ment of their romance. The cast is headed by Lionel Barrymore, Morris, Joseph Calleia, Miss Arthur, Ar-thur, Paul Kelly, Lewis Stone, Sam Baker, Paul Hurst and George E. Stone. There also will be shown chapter 5 of "The Roaring Roar-ing West", and a cartoon "Good Little Monkeys." |