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George Jessel, starring in Love,
Live and Laugh" Fox Movietone
all talking drama will be presented
at the Oxford Theatre Friday and
Saturday.
The popular stage star of "Jazz
Singer" and 1.-THE War Song" has
the role of an Italian immigrant
who leaves his American sweet
heart to return to Italy when his
father is near death. He is caught
up by the war, and lands in a hos
pital, badly injured and blinded.
His sweetheart reads that his en-
tire company has been killed, and
later marries a DOCTOR in a hos
pital where she is a nurse. When
Jessel returns to New York, he
becomes a hurdy gurdy man and
goes about seeking his lost love.
Through chance he discovers her.
only to learn of her happy mar
rage. Her husband takes an in
terest in the young Italian, operates
and restores his sight. Jessel, see-
ing his former sweetheart is hap
Ply, sings a gay farewell although
his heart is broken at the blow fate
has dealt him.
Laws of Nature Reversed In Film
December in sunny California
doesn't in the least suggest the
tropics. While it is true that the
icy blast and snow that mark East
ern winters are absent, there is a
decided chilliness in the air-par-
ticularly on the sound stages of the
motion picture studios. These
stages are barn-like structures and
are full of draughts.
To look hot in such an atmos.
phere is an art. This was demon
strated during the filming of wen
geance," columbia all talking drama
of the Congo which comes to the
Oxford Sunday and Monday.
Scant costuming added to the diff
fculties Of the situation. All the
men wore the regulation tropical
outfit-linen trousers and white
shirts open at the neck. The ex-
tras who enacted the roles of ma
tives wore next to nothing.
Hollywood Revue" Dazzles With
It's Array of Screenland Stars
The greatest cast of celebrities
ever assembled on any stage or be-
fore any motion picture camera are
to be seen in ''The Hollywood Re-
vue," which will be seen at the Ok
ford Tuesday and Wednesday and
Thursday, March II, IL and 10.
Marion Davies makes her bow as
a song-and-dance coincidence in the
revue as Tommy Atkins on Pa
rade" with a male ensemble of six
footers as dancing bodyguard.
Norma Shearer and John Gilbert
co-star in a modernized Romeo
and Juliet" skit and Bessie Love
again wins honors with her immit-
able clowning and acrobatic dane
ing as we'll as participating in nov
ell song numbers with Polly Moran
and Marie Dressler. Cliff (Ukelele
Ike) Edwards wins fresh laurels
as a screen artist and Karl Dane
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to the festive film.
Jack Benny, vaudeville star, acts
as master-of-ceremoni and intro
duces Conrad Nagel as a singer.
Anita Page shares the act with
Conrad, and Charles King, of
broadway Melody fame again
croons lyrical ballads. Stan Laurel
and Oliver Hardy join the show as
magicians and the Brox Sisters
again burst into song. Gus Ed
wards sings one of his original
numbers with an appropriate Choir
us.
Joan Crawford does neat song
and dance turn with The Round
ers lending a tuneful background.
The Albertina Rasch Ballet is
charming in a technicolor scene
and the Natova Company thrills
with a daring adagio. William
Haines and Buster Keaton add
merriment with featured skits and
Gwen Lee is included in the elab-
crate cast of fun-makers.