Evening star., 1933-04-02
Current Attractions

includes Alan Hale, Tom Brown, WI
lard Robertson. Rollo Lloyd, Russell
Hopton, Stanley Fields and Noel Madi-
son. The Rialto completes its current
program with the new Universal News.
with Graham McNamee as the talking
reporter and selected shorter subjects.
R-K-O KEITHS-"King Kong"
TO have something on which you have
worked for almost two years prove
an outstanding success is indeed grati-
flying. That is what has come to Mer-
ian c. Cooper, now producing head OF
R-K-O Radio Pictures. 1t was just q
little over two years ago that Mr..
Cooper had an idea-that idea was
worked on with the late Edgar Wal
lace in the framing of the story, and
then with Ernest d. Schoesdack in the
actual production of the picture That
Is King Kong" which Is now well into
its second week at R-K-O Keith's.
The story Of king Kong" takes
motion picture party to an mcharted
sisland where the natives have erected
a mighty barricade to keep 50-foot
ape from destroying their village. Each
year these natives sacrifice their most
beautiful maiden to Kong. With the
arrival OF the motion picture party, In
cluding beautiful white girl Fay
Wray), to make a picture, the natives
steal the girl and place her on ths
| altar to Kong. Then the exc.teravct
commences.
On Friday R-K-o Keiths will ter
inmate the run of King Kong" bring
ing in the new Katharine Hepburn
production, Christopher Strong"
EARLE--"Girl Missing"
MORTON DOwNEY- headlines the
A'A Earle Theater program this week,
which has among its other offerings
Warner Bros comedy, Girl Missing"
| featuring Mary Brian, Glenda Farrell,
! Ben Lyon and Lyle Talbot.
Pam Beach, the playground of wealth
! and beauty, and the hunting ground
| for opportunists of both sexes, is the
| locale of the film, and the central figure
is quick-witted golddigger whose nim-
| BILE mind and lunches solve love n1yS-
terry that has baffied experts.
| The stage show is headed by Morton
Downey, one of radios greatest singers,
who presents program Of song hits
| of 1888. The RimacS, Cuba'S newest
sensations, with the Havana Rumba
Orchestra featuring Giro Rosary and
| Charley Boy Rimac, are also seen on
the stage. Others are Jack Pettet and
Buddy Douglas, Two Gobs on Leave;
Georges Campo, international panto-
mlIIllSG ana mimic, ana MdAlne OOyie.
Completing the program is a special
selection of short-reel subjects, which
include the Graham McNamee newsreel
and the Earle Orchestra prelude.
METROPOLITAN Sign Of the
/ Cross"
"THE SIGN OF THE CROSS" Cecil
B. DeMille's spectacle, which has
been playing to large audiences at
Warner Bros. Metropolitan Theater, win
continue its current run through Thurs
day night. The film is a spectacle OF
pagan Rome, reaching its fullest express
sion in a Roman holiday at the Circus
Maximus, where the gladiatorial contests
| and all the brutal games that delighted
Nero serve as a prelude to the sacrifice
of the Christians to the lions. The
cast is led by Frederic March, ELISA
Landi, Charles Laughton and Claudette
Colbert, and consists of Vivian Tobin,
Ian Keith, Nat Pendleton, william ".
Nong, Tommy Conlon and scores OF
others. The program is completed by
the showing of the Paramount sound
news.