Evening Star Newspaper, July 26, 1926, Page 10

i v i KEITH'S—Judith Anderson. i The young emotional actress, Judith nderson, who drew lavish praise for et splendid work in “Cobra” and {“The Dove,” is headlining this week gt Keith's in a playlet entitled “Thieves,” which deals with a tri- #ingle. The little sketch is crowded fvith tense moments, the shooting of the husband making it a tragic affair. Miss Anderson makes it especlally rexlistic in the struggle between her friend and husband for the possession @f-a telephone, whereby she seeks to | wotify her lover to steer clear of that | fomicile for a time at least. The cur- tain descends as the policeman dis- eovers a second shot has been fired ihrough the wall and a demented | woman is left on his hands. The sup- | sm'ung company is good. A half | dozen curtain calls reward the star| #nd company * | # One of the most entertaining num- rs on the program for a warm night | the Willard Roof Garden Orchestra | of seven, assisted by Roma Frances Medford, a bright little solo-dancer, Who made the audience sit up and take notice. Nat Brusiloff, the leader, is an energetic violinist, and his men @re talented to a degree, Tom Low éspecially, playing the banjo well, and be also sings and dances in & way to ghake one think he enjoys it. The lections are up to date, “What! No ‘omen?" being the hit of the act. A dozen encores were demanded and the orchestra stopped from sheer exhaus- tion, apparently. Will Morris opens the bill with a gomedy bicyele act; Eva Esmond and Fat Grant follow dances, the latter being mlly good stepper; Jack novel act enhanced by moving tures, showing what a man with a| good disposition can accomplish under | Bdverse Alice Zeppilli, & soprano with a beautiful voice, with Margot Price at the piano, entertains with opera airs and popular melodies, #inging with much feeling; Handers @nd Milliss do a sidewalk conversa- tion, ‘and Frank Reckless and com- pany, acrobatic stunts, their head bal- gncing being sensational. The house wttractions complete the program. EARLE—"The Volga Boy: Headlining the Earle bill this week “The Volga Boys,”~ a group of slan singers, in. a program of an folksongs. There are eight fn the group, each has a good voice, and together they present a program of enjoyable selections that merit the appreciation of music lc Tommy Russe!l and E vie with *“The Volga honors if anything can be judged from the applause they received last night. These two boys are masters of their instruments and play pop- ular selections including “Sweet Child,” “Horse: and “I Never XKnew,” that are ve entertaining. “The Purple Princ: is a strictly modern version of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” a burlesque of the play that combines comedy, jazz and even ghost slightly under thé weather. Good work is done by Dodette Lee, Sadie Banks and George Gould. Anna Chandler, singin comedienne, sings one or two songs well and geveral others not so good. With the help of the theater orchestra and a elever boy at the piano, however, it is a rather entertaining act. “The Three Rubes,” Bowers, Walters and Crocker, are good in tumbling, ec- centric ~dancing and rough and tumble comedy. The photoplay, “Meet the Prince, starring Joseph Schildkraut, support- ed by Marguerite De La Motte, Julia Faye and Vera Steadman, is the sto; of Prince Nicholas of Russia exiled to this country by the Reds. The prince wants to marry an heiress, but after many ‘comic situations, compromises by letting his sister mar money while he marries for love. Short-reel features and pipe organ music by Alexander Arons, complete the bill. STRAND—*St. Pat Revue.” Professional revuists could pick up valuable pointers from the St. Pat- rick’s Players “bigger and better per-| formance” with which the Strand Theater was re-opened yesterday. Father Hurney's talented youngsters, who need no introduction, have profit- ad marvelously by the direction of Raymond Perez, who has given to sheir production the touch that makes certain its popularity next week when it makes it bow on Broadway. There is no “home talent” flavor to the “St. Pat Revue,” beyond the fact that the boys and girls are pretty well known to nearly every one. When Mary Deery, the youngest of the troupe, dances the boys and girls who &o to school with her in the Winter time can proudly boast of knowing her—but they can't say they know A better dancer anywhere. Young Miss Deery was about as near the biggest hit of the revue as could be. There are some new names and faces in the revue this time, notably James .Barr, a new lyric tenor of pleasing voice. Mr. Barr doesn’t have 1o take a handicap from any one when it comes to singing popular music of the moment. F Naturally every one would expect the best from Orme Libby and Eliza- beth Gorman, and, just as naturally, Mr. Libby and Miss Gorman gratify every one's expectations. There seems 10 be nothing in the w of excellent dancing that this pair has not mastered. One of the outstanding bits 4s the comedy quartet number, with CIiff Cox, the Fegand brothers and Royal TFoster creating no end of merriment. Yes, Raymond Perez has done won- ders with this talented group. “Men of the Night, the photoplay attraction has merit, but loses the spotlight beside the headliner. PALACE—"Mantrap.” the current attraction ce Theater, for one WE SELL THE FAMOUS EASY WASHER o A Washing Machine that washes, rinses and dries all at the same ti 77 2% 72277 2 7 T 2% FREE! We will do your next wash free to demon- strate the won- derful advan- tages of this remarkable la- bor-saving de- vice. Sold on Time Payments < MUDDIMAN: AMUSEMENTS thing, if for nothing else, is notable for an outstanding characterization by Clara Bow of the Minneapolis flapper who married a Canadian trader and went to live with him in the back- woods. Though playing beside such able players as Ernest Torrence and Percy Marmont, Clara simply walks away with the picture. One day Joe Easter (Ernest Tor- rence) left his little store in Mantrap— somewhere in the Canadian wilds—for a sight of Minneapolis and its mani- curists. Another day, soon after, Joe Easter returns to Mantrap with a manicurist (Clara Bow) for a missus. Her name was Alverna, and she was a wicked flirt, as Joe soon discovered. Then, on still another d Joe brought home with him Ralph Pres- cott (Percy Marmont), a New York di- vorce lawyer, who was making a fizale of camping in the great open spaces, and Alvy started rolling her eyes, while Ralph started slipping. She | kept on rolling and he kept on slip ping, but he wouldn't fall. Then, \just as Joe had begun to worry. Ralph de- cided to go while the going was good— and he went. But so did Alvy. When Joe overtook the two fugitives, he and Ralph, manlike, started to argue, and Alvy settled things by leaving both. Ralph returned to New York and his divorce business; Joe to Mantrap and his potatoes, and Alvy—to Joe. Sinclair Lewis wrote ‘“Mantrap,” and he made of it good movie material, Victor Fleming directed it and made a good job of it, and yet withal, Clara Bow steals it away from both and makes a big leap toward stardom in doing it. Her pep, ability to win an audience and her comedy touches here | and there are rare in movie product. She makes Alverna Easter a living, | breathing bit of interesting humanity. And vet both Ernest Torrence and Percy Marmont do excellent work One of the cleverest of edies, “Long Fliv the Kin; 1 on costume pictures, with Charlie Chase as the king: Topics of the Day and the Pathe News complete a most enjoyable bill of entertainment. RIALTO—"Footloose Widows.” As welcome as the refreshing breeze which cooled our fevered brows yesterday, is the airy humor of “Footloose Widows” the Warner Brothers production which tops the bill at—the Rialto this week, aug- mented by a delightful quarter of an hour of ‘“Jazzology” by a_ group of “colleglans’™ from Maryland. Louise Fazenda, comedy queen, and Jacqueline Logan, who can be both »eautiful and dumb, form a pair which would be hard to beat in the roles of he two mannequins from New York who acquire_an_armful of beautiful gowns and a Big Idea simultaneously. Their escapades in Florida, where they pose as a wealthy young widow and her best.friend, result in a series of laughable predicaments which ends unexpectedly in & manner satisfactory to all concerned. N Miss Fazenda and Miss Logan are ably supported by Jason Robards, Neely Edwards, Mack Swain and a cast of clever comedians. Twelve youthful “jazz hounds™” from the Oriole city put on an at- tragtive group of numbers, “serving up” popular songs in original dress- ings. “Kit" Kramer, one of the 12, does his stuff on the ukkelele iike a post-graduate in jazzology. Mischa Guterson's orchestra ad Only ‘house, headed THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. classic note in. the ‘overture from “Willlam Tell.” Pretty girls parade across the stage while the audience expresses its approval in applause, by which means “Miss Washington” is. to be chosen this week to represent the Capital in the forthcoming, All-Ameri- can beauty pageant at Atlantie City. A Felix cat comedy and a news reel complete the program. COLUMBIA—“Desert Gold.” Proof of the author's unflagging popularity was seen in the crowds that greeted the showing of Zane Grey's new picture, ‘‘Desert Gold,” yesterday at Loew's Columbia. The story, a succession of thrills and hairbreadth escapes, is Jaid in the great Southwest, ciose to the des- ert and not far from the Mexican border. Here in the hacienda of her uncle lives Mercedes, betrothed to a young Cavalry officer, who, with his company of picked men,™is scouring the country in search of a band of daring outlaws who have left death and pillage In their wake, The lead- er, having seen the loveiy senorita, covets her and. watching his oppor- tunity, descends on the homestead and, after a short struggle with a feeble old uncle and his servants, gains entrance. He does not find his quarry, however, for old Yakia, a faithful Indian, who has watched over the girl from babyhood, escapes with her under cover of the shooting on two swift horses and the bandit lead- er does not discover the trick until théy have had a good start ahead. ‘The story then becomes a rapld suc- cession of thrills and adventures in which the girl is the center of des- perate conflict, the one side to seize her, the other to protect her. Some beautiful scenes of the wide open spaces add to the impressiveness of the picture and a fierce sandstorm, into which the girl and her pro- tectors must - ride to escape the | bandits. forms a tbrilling and realistic sequence. A realistic avalanche crowns the picture with a final thfill. Shirley Mason makes a_charming and convincing senorita. Neil Ham- fiton is good as the young Cavalry officer and. Robert Frazier is hand- some as the tenderfoot who finally wins the girl. Willlam Powell gives an outstanding performance in the role of the bandit leader. “The Cow's Kimona™ is one of the lesser attractions. METROPOLITAN—“Ella ' Cinders”— Saturday. Crandall's Metropolitan Theater re- mains closed until Saturday of this week, when one of the most preten- tious programs in its history is prom- ised in a newly rehabilitated play- v Colleen Moore, with Lloyd Hughes and a fine cast, in “Elfa Cinders,” a film version of “Cinderella in the Movies."” TIVOLI—"It's the Old Army Game.” W. C. Fields, veteran comic of the Ziegteld revues, is pictured at Cran- dall’s Tivoli Theater through today in his new Paramount release, “It's the Old Army Game,” which incorporates many of his stage comedy devices. The fun is appreciably added to by the clever asisstance of Blanche Ring, sister-indaw of Thomas Melghan; Mary ‘Foy, Mickey Bennett, George Currie and others of note. The storter comedy, an amusing contribution to the - of the program and excellent “Creeps,” 1s | pipe organ music {s played by Otto F. Beck and Ida V. Clarke. AMBASSADOR—"The Social High- wayman.” “The Soclal Highwayman,” a clever farce comedy, hegan its two-day run at the Ambassador vesterday. John Patrick and Dorothy Devore star as two modern workers on a jspewspaper staff who are attempting to capture a bandit and get a “story.” They come across him quite by acci- dent and stay with him incognito with the hope of luring this bandit into capture. He is finally caught, \also quite by accident, and the antici- pated clinch sbetween Johnny P. and Dorothy D. occurs, thereby satisfying even .those who are secretly old- fashioned and long for the romantic and the sentimentai. Although much of the comedy falls flat, some of it is extremely good and all of it spontane- ous. The picture is light comedy and as entertainment is not bad, not at all bad. A Hal Roach comedy “Never Too Old” provided hearty amusement for the children and the aged. WARDMAN PARK--“The Last Laugh.” “The Last Laugh,” this greatest pic- ture of Emil Jannings, who must be ranked with “the greatest actors of the screen afid perhaps of the stage, already has taxed the known superla- The Busy Corner Cthe new EASY WASHER same time. tives to fittingly describe it. There doubtless are many in Washington who haven't seen it, and they have the opportunity today and tomorrow at Wardman Park Theater, whére it is the feature the first three days of this week. If it attracted the audlence it de- serves the little theater would be filled to capacity at every showing for this U. F. A. production, directed by F. W. Murnau is one of the reai achievements of the silver screen. There are no subtitles in “The Last Laugh.” Even one would be super- fluous in thé light of its superb direc- tion, acting and photography. Supplemental features are of the usual varfety, no more and no less in- teresting, ‘but one will lose them en- tirely in the wonderful quaiitles of the bill's chief feature. CENTRAL—"Wild Oats Lane.” Viola Dana and Robert Agnew in “Wild Oatg Lane,” Producers’ latest release, are entertaining the first two days of the present week at Cran- dall's Central Theater in. a story of the underworld and regeneration. 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