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RIVOLI THEATRE.

"She Married Her Boss," now showing at the Rivoli Theatre, is claimed to be easily the best picture Claudette Colbert has made since the now immortal "It Happened One Night." It gives Miss Colbert every opportunity to display the piquant charm that has so endeared her to the movie-going public. The film is, in essence, a comedy, but enough of the dramatic runs through it to give it backbone. Headed by Melvyn Douglas and Michael Bartlett, Miss Colbert's two leading men, "She Married Her Boss" boasts also of the services of sterling players. As Julia Scott, a painfully efficient secretary to Leonard Rogers—played by Melvyn Douglas—Miss Colbert gets in trouble when she is careless enough to fall in love with and marry her boss. Rogers is a dyspeptic young man who has had an unsuccessful marriage; his life is being made further unhappy by an unmanageable, spoiled nine-year-old daughter and an old-maidish, bitter sister, who runs—and ruins—his household. All this, Julia Scott inherits when she unsuspectingly says, "I do." The second feature is "The Best Man Wins," an Edmund Lowe-Jack Holt undersea thriller. "The Best Man Wins" tells the exciting tale of two deep-sea divers, operating on opposite sides of the law, one a ciiver for an ingenious smuggling scheme, the other a member of the harbour police. Running through the story is a spirited romantic rivalry between Holt and Lowe for the hand of Florence Rice;

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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 4, 6 January 1936, Page 3

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RIVOLI THEATRE. Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 4, 6 January 1936, Page 3

RIVOLI THEATRE. Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 4, 6 January 1936, Page 3

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