The Archive · 1938

CURRENT FILMS

GRAND.—"The Invisible Menace."—

A gripping murder mystery with a government arsenal as setting and a killer who leaves no trace. Dramatic and thrilling. With Boris Karloff, Marie Wilson, Eddie Craven, Eddie Acuff, Regis Toomey, Henry Kolker and Charles Trow-bridge. Also stage show with Don Jose and his orchestra, Freda! Gabriel, vocalist, and Robert and Jean, speciality dancers, Opens today.

NANKING.—"100 Men and a Girl."—

Comedy-drama starring Deanna Durbin with glorious music conducted by Leopold Stokowski, famous conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra. The brilliant supporting cast includes, Adolphe Menjou, Alice Brady, Eugene Palette, Mischa Auer and Billy Gilbert. Reviewed yesterday. CATHAY.—"Love Under Fire."—An excitement-loving mystery girl and a devil-may-care Scotland Yard detective-careen into a thrill-packed war zone romance in battle-shattered Spain. With Loretta Young, Don Ameche, Frances Drake, Walter Catlett, John Carradine, Sig Rumann, Katherine de Mille and Borrah Minevitch and his gang. Réviewed yesterday.

RIALTO—"A Day at the Races"—Starring the Marx Brothers in one Of the grandest bits of nonsense in the whole Marx of Time Parade.

They are supported by Maureen O'Sullivan and Allan Jones.

CAPITOL.—"Varsity—Show."—Dick Powell and Fred Warings Pennsylvanians, with whom are associated Ted Mealy, Rosemary and Priscilla Lane. Opens to-day.

METROPOL.—Mei Lan-fang in Chinese dramas in aid of refugees.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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