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fthe Taller, by Cregar; Kitty, tyyEoxy stage was for the openingEd Jivesters and Helen Forrest, eal Thriller Film day only. The regular stage show Harry James' former singing star, round out the program. iiene UDerun, xne rsunons, piayea by Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Sara Allgood, and John Warwick, as portrayed by George Sanders. The atmospheric effects help to make "The Lodger" a real thriller. the Roxy Screen is a lively affair.

The accent -s on boogie-woogie, with the Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street and Maurice Rocco as head-liners. Milton Cross and Jaek Durant, dancing Hal Leroy, the Four Lyttle Sisters, Whitey's Co- Sally Joy Brown will collect old clothes for unfortunate New York-its. Pickup service in Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn. Phone her at The -Veres. 2-1234.

By KATE CAMERON Laird Cregar's appearance on the C-i 8 thru Feb. 15 in conjunction wifh 4th WAR LOAN Jan. 1 BABIESlililEI ft I5 ENTER YOUR BABY'S PHOTO SUNDAY, JAN. 23rd GET FREE APPLICATION BIANKS AND RULES AT YOUR NEAREST RKO THEATRE TODAY u. Where to go Laird Cregar is "Tfte Lodger," sinister mys- tery man in Roxy's film version of fhe Marie story.

Merle Oberon is the feminine star and intended victim of Jack the Ripper. TODAY BROOKLYN and QUEENS ALDEN JAMAICA BUSHWICK DYKER utmt FLUSHING GREENPOINT KENMORE MADISON MIDWAY fOUSIWUS ORPHEUM PROSPECT REPUBLIC HEITH-S RICH. HILL STRAND" At tOOLAWA TILYOU gets his man and his woman in with JULIE BISHOP GENE LOCKH ART Warnr Bros. Hit Marie Belloc-Lowndes classic horror story, "The Lodger," has been made by 20th Century-Fox into a creepy thriller that sends chills up and down the spine of the beholder. The Lodger, 20th Century-Fox picture directed by John Brahm.

Screen play by Barre Lyndon from story by Mrs-Marie Belloc-Lowndes. Presented at Roxy Theatre. Running time, 1 hour, 23 minutes. THE CAST: TORRID 1 TEMPTING! TANTALIZING I AN CORIO CHARLES aUTTERWORTH FREDDIE FISHER HIS BAND M'-rle Oberon With Laird Cregar in the title role, the film is now on view at the Boxy Theatre, where squeals of fright and sudden laughs from released tension sweep over the audience at intervals. Cregar himself took to the stage after each exhibition of the picture yesterday ta re-enact a scene from the film and send the audience into further spasms of vicarious horror.

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Sheridin Sir Edirard Harris Wirr Publican -Erederk-k Worlo-k Olaf Hyttyn Campbell Harold De Beeker Bolster Billy Bevan centers around the activities and i personality of a beautiful London i actress, Kitty Langley, who is in the process of attaining the top rung of the ladder of theatrical success when she meets and be at mm comes the object of the lodger's nefarious designs. When the story was produced in f-l: ioes 1 7'? Mf Yard throws about him by jumping into the Thames. Kitty Is An Exception. The victims in this and the other film version are actresses, some of them past their prime and most of them on the road to oblivion. That is, all except Kitty, who lives with her aurJ: and uncle, the Burtons, and who is bepoming the rage of London when the mysterious Slade comes to reside as lodger in the Burton household.

The entire Whitechapel section of London is agog with the stories of the crimes, which occur at regular intervals, but Kitty's Aunt Ellen is the first to suspect that her night-prowling lodger might be the insane criminal all London is trying to catch. A good deal of suspense has been crammed into the telling of the gruesome tale and all the parts are well played, especially those of England by Ivor Kovello in 1928 and later shown in the United States, the British version stayed close to the novel, which in turn was based on a series of actual murders, crimes committed by a killer who escaped detection in spite of the vigilance of Scotland Yard and the constabulary of all London. The original was known as Jack the Ripper and his victims were always prostitutes that canvassed a certain shimmy section of London. In the 20th Century-Fox production, which was ably directed by John Brahm. the killer is finally discovered and escapes the net which John Warwick of Scotland yt si.

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