Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1926, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS KEITH'S—The Meistersingers. The Melstersingers are heading the Bill this week at Keith's, and It is | & debatable question have ever recelved a more hearty welcome ‘than that accorded last night. The organizition is made up af four male quartets of “old boys™ who know the art of blending their splendid _voices into one harmonious Whole. The varied numbers on their 4 Program went over with splendid suc- cess last night, especially the popular selections. The old-timely songs were shelved, and in_their place the latest contributions from “tin-pan” alley were offered. Cameron Steele made his usual hit with his deep and me lodious bass in “Old Pal.” and Harold Tripp sang effectively the tenor solo, “My Heart Will Tell Me S “The Indian Love Call,” from “Rose Marie,” scored strongly. and numerous encores were given in response to continuous applause. At intervals Spanish dancers have appeared at Keith's, but it remained for La Torricella, on last night's pro- gram, to whow us a ‘“real” dancer from the Tand of sunshine and wine. With unusual grace, La Torricella presented several original numbers that won_unstinted applause. Ivan Naproy, Jamie Delval and Nadelles' 8y orchestra, also add strength | the offering. Nat Aver and Margaret Wilson, newcomers to Washington, put over a clean-cut number of songs, both having good voic nd pleasing per- sonalities. Sergt. Franklin and Ruby Royce open the program with expert rifle shooting, Bahy Henderson does some clever dancing, Joe Keno and Rosle Green offer a rough song and dance number, Claudia Coleman pre- sents her well known types and was well received. and Mel Klee tells storfes and sings to applause from start to finish. The house attractions fill out the bill. EARLE—Joe Fehr Orchestra. Joe Fehr and his orchestra supply the heacline attraction a¥ the Earle this week with a program of instru- mental numbers that are pleasing. especially some Hungarian dance numbers that particularly delight the ears of music lover he act also in- troduces a charming young woman with a pleasing voice, and two clever dancers. Due to the pear, the mar Klee, a blackfa to fill in ippears ‘with so; new jokes and kept the audience in | laughter while on the stage. The skit of James Anna Fran & Co., also is good for some laughs. It would have been better, however, if the encore number had been omitted, Capt. Betts and his trained open the program with whether they ure of one act to ap- gement rushed Mel playing at Kel is type usually f it was the v _n seal Holden' & King in d with wise crack singing. Zaurie, Moore are due to go on today with a dance | novelty, photoplay is 1] puppet crowds, (Milton show, later i hand of the great married to An hefore sailing protection of his cc 10 fall in love with he far as 1o fake a le death. Nicky return: Short reel pictur Alexander Aro complete a fah runs the puppet z a4 puppet in the zod war, STRAND—Eva Fay. started off on a new with five acts of va- Fva Fay, who has to read what: she doesen’t see and to teil peopie what they want to know. They write a question on a_piece of paper. show it to a chap in the aisle, put it _in their pocket and pretty soon I3 tells whether or not this or that going to come true. One man wanted to know what he did Saturday night after passing out and she told him. “Secrets of 1926," another act, is well equipped with talent. Starting with a eyelone hoofer it ends with the prologuing little damsel who wears a wicked twinkle in_her head- lights. A spanish dance fairly sav: oring of tamales and chili isn't the only - theatr lollipop they serve. Burns and vre sing well and future audiences are warned not to bine handkerchief in front of © the sight of one in “I nd brought the house « 1 gs flying. Redford and Wallace serve a bit of very tidy and amusing juggling and the photo- play called “Dame Chance” helps out in a fine bill. METROPOLITAN—"Pals First." “Pals First,” the screen comedy adapted from the late Frances Perr) Elliot's whimsical novel, proves a delightfully humorous attraction to head the Crandall's Metropolitan bill this week, which also includes the famous Jazz kings, Waring's Penn- sylvanians. The Elliot story, an undoubted suc cess on the screen, gives promise of even greater things as a spoken drar Some of the subtlity of the WILKINS BREAKFAST COFFEE | heen a author’s humor, which make his works unique, is quite naturally lost in the silent production. However, enough of his Imaginative plot and pietur- esque settings are retained in the transmission to the gilver sheet to mark the production as an exception- ally entertaining bit of artistry. The story centers around the sup- posed death at sea of a young son of Southern aristocracy and the subse- quent selzure of his estates by a ne’er do well cousin who fails in his attempt to annex the boy's sweet- heagt because she refuses -to belleve him”dead. Enter three ‘‘gentlemen of the road” who have a peculiar habit of finding property that was never lost—and then the fun begins. One of them is mistaken for the missing heir by an old family servant, and the three are welcomed into the very home they had planned to rob. All sorts of complications arise from the remarkable resemblance of the con. fildence man to the girl's lover and rightful master of the extensive plan- tation which forms a picturesque setting for the action of the drama. An unexpected turn in events leads to a happy denouement, with its characteristicly whimsical 'twist, evi- dent in all stories from this Southern author’s pen. The leading roles are playved by Lioyd Hughes. Dolores del Rio, Alec Frances and George Cooper, support- ed by an excellent cast. Waring’s Pennsylvanians. augment- ed to 1R syncopater offer a pleasing program of popular numbers, served up in an original fashion, and an amusing comedy featuring Lloyd Hamilton, a Pathe News reel and Breeskin's svimphony overture, com- plete the bill. COLUMBIA—"Forlorn River.” Another Zane Grey story is the at- traction at the Columbia this week, the author this time having taken for his theme the horse rustler, lay- ing his narrative in the period when these daring thieves ran wild throughout the Western count ing their trade wherever they saw fit. Jack _Holt. Edmund Burns and Ar- lette Marchal have the romantic leads, the former as Capt. Jack, the head of a daring band of horse rustlers, who have committed such outrages on the cattle owners that they call in every rancher for miles around and form posses to go after them. Capt. Jack has not alwavs rustler, hut he hecame em- bittered and vowed revenge when he was forced off his homestead by Government agents. In trying to es- cape from the sheriff's posse he is shot and promptly deserted by his partner, Bill Hall. who takes the only good horse and leaves him on the desert to die. Here he is found by a rancher, who takes him to his cabin, where he is nursed by Ida Blaine, a frontler girl whose father is at the head of the movement to rid the éountry of the horse thieves. As Jack hegins to recover ne ees that his rescuer loves his pretty neighbor, and though he loves the girl himself he tries to plead the other’s cause. Ida proves her love, however, for when she hears the plans at her father's home for catch- ing the rustlers she slips out and ides to warn him. e succeeds in warning Capt. Jack only to be caught herself and young {held by the rustlers for terms with ranchers. and how Capt. Jack of Wer plight rides hard the country to her rescue, the I | which Le effects in the most thrilling ck Holt plays with his custom- ease and po Arlette Mar- handles her role with becom- ling kill, Bdmund Burns is good as “other man” and Raymond Hat- takes e of the comedy relief his usual succ ‘There are some exquisite scenes which it is said were filmed in Nevada and Utah, the original scenes of the story. A varifed group of short features and orchestral musice complete an entertaining bill. the ton with RIALTO—"Poker Face: Any one who has ever had a really good fall on the rug in the living room, or even in the hall. is going to appreclate the irritation shown by Idward Horton, the hero of “Poker Faces.” when he attempts to make a dignified exit after an_annoying spat with the heroine, Laura La Plante, at the Rialto this week. Miss La Plante, by the way, was prob- ably one of the original reasons for that expression, “Why men leave home,” and her blond loveliness so enthralls the important client of the play that he quite forgot his as- sumed role of millionaire in his de- termination to guard her from any and all masculine admirers. Practically every onegin ghe audi- ence is delighted to find that he is the bigg kind of a crook, and ply- | | final THE EVENING when the husky prizefighter hands him a few gentle taps in the dark, under the mistaken impression that he is the poker-faced hero, thé sat- isfaction on the face of that young gentleman is amply reflected on the faces of the movie fans. One rather remarkable thing about the play is the astonishing speed with which Henry Curlew, the senior partner of the firm, played by Tom Ricketts. drops off into a deep sleep at a critical moment. The inference is that poison has been administered by the villain, or at least drugged coffee, in order to put him away for a few convenient hours. But evi- dently his hearty constitution is able to overcome® mere sporifics, as he arrives In the nick' of time to sepa- rate various combatants, and he really is so effective in his perform- ance that it is a little dificult to be- lieve there is no Henry in real life. Even if you hate the movies, hate to laugh at all and simply can't stand fancy exhibitions of the Charleston done extremely well by a very pretty young girl, you will enjoy the songs of Sehora Milla Dominguez. Moving picture houses are hardly notable for the high quality of their songstresses, but in this case the Rialto is to be congratulated on hav- ing an able singer who is the owner of a real voice. The audience ap- plauded her tumultuously until she was obliged to offer a number of en- cores, and, though the theater is large, there was a complete lack of strain and effort that was most re- freshing to real music lovers. PALACE—"Battling Butler.” Buster Keaton of the poker face stages a fight in the film at the Pal- ace this week that will go down in his record as one of the best bits he ever achieved on the screen. “Bat- tling Butler” as a mdvie isn't the greatest in Keaton's career, but the fight scene, in which he wallops the lightweight champion of the world to a fare-thee-well, inone that must rank with the best. “Battling Butler,” acted against a setting of the everalluring padded ring, is a vel neat comedy, light, alry and providing an entertaining two hours. It concerns the affairs, love i.nd fistic, of a young enemic who is en- tirely too rich to take any concern over his physical condition. His father, disgusted, orders him to the mountains to camp, hunt and fish and become a man. While there he meets a beautiful hill girl who falls in love with hii Her husky father and brother obj to the alllance on the ground of the young man's lack of physique. but his valet fixes it by ving the young man is the light- weight champion of the world. The deception is made less difficult by a similarity of names. After the marriage the husband's fear of his father-in-law and brother- inlaw makes it necessary for him to car on the game. This necessity involves him in a training camp with the real lightweight champion and lands him in actual combat with that terror--a battle that simply must be seen to be appreciated. “Battling Butler” is a well cast. well acted picture above the recent Keaton standard. Its plot is sub- stantial with flashes of real vigor. something that has been absent in the immobile comedian’s recent out- put. A comedy dealing with love and cannibals in the South Seas, a news reel and some mighty fine music by Tom Gannon's Orchestra complete the bill. TIVOLI—"The Show Off.” The Loomis Twins, this week's spe- cial stage attraction at Crandall's Tivoll Theater, repeat the success they scored in earlier weeks at Crandall's Metropolitan. These youngsters dis- play uncanny ability in song, dance and comedy, Virginia, the smaller of the two, giving to her solo numbers the dramatic Intensnty of a mature emotional actress. In the absence of an orchestra the Twins were acoom- panied by Milton Davis at the piano. The screen offering the fist two days of the week is the camera ver- sion of the stage comedy, “The Show- Off," depicting the adventures of the nervy bird from “West Philly,” with Ford Sterling, supported by Lois Wil- son and a cast that includes Louise Brooks, Gregory Kelly and Claire Mc- Dowell. Mack Sennett's “Hay Foot, Straw Foot” and pipe organ music complete the entertainment. Although the screen bill changes four times during the week, the Loomis Twins will continue the en- tire week. AMBASSADOR—"Pals First."” First National's release of Edwin Carewe's production of ‘“Pals First,” adapted from the stage play of the same name, with Lloyd Hughes and Dolores Del Rio as co-stars, and Lloyd Hamilton in “Jolly Tars,” a two-reel laughmaker, are features of a fine bill at Crandall's Ambassador Theater the first three days of this week. Overflow crowds attested its popu- larity vesterday at all performances. CENTRAL—"The Silver Treasure.” eorge O'Brien, stalwart motion pic- STAR. WASHINGTON, D. € ture hero, is featured at Crandall's' Central Theater the first two days| of this week in *“The Silver Treasure,” ! Willlam Fox's plcturaization of the! novel “Nostromo,” by the late Jo- seph Conrad. The actlon is vigorous throughout and the climaxes are vivid. The supporting cast is excellent. “Going Crazy,” featuring Ligee Con- ley, In the laughmaker, and, with the third Jesson in the Charleston, short reel subjects and excellent pipe organ music, rounds out an Interesting en- tertainment. WARDMAN PARK — “Peter the Great.” Revivals are always charming, for anything that survives long enough to be revived is in itself worthy. But “Peter the Great,” one of Emil Jan- nings’ first successes as a great Ufa star, which is being shown at the Wardman Park Theater the first half of this week, is more than that. It is ome of the industry's greatest works. Brought back by the Moving Pic- ture Guild, which is seeking to give the public once more the truly great pictures of other days, “Peter the Great” shows with historical accuracy the relationsHip of the founder of the Russian Empire and Catherine, the glirl whom he found in the ruins of a warstricken village and raised to Czarina and who later became Cath- erine the Great. The characterization of Peter is remarkable, and the pic- ture as a whole proves that facts and the plot of a story need not be dis- torted or maimed by a director to achieve success. The guild is presenting “Emil Jan- nings wWeek" at_the theater at pres- ont as a tribute o the great German star whose Influence has done much to bring about the revival of these films. The Guild seeks—and some of the patrons of motion pictures, at least, hope it will succeed—to create a new intellectual interest in film drama of the highest type. A minor factor, but one which shows the care taken by Emil Jannings to | make his Peter the Great a reincarna- tlon of the great Czar. is that the writer on returning from the theater last night was impelled to look up an old history nd was rewarded by find ing the resemblance of Jannings to the etching in the book to be exact in likeness. A delightful comedy, burlesquing the knights of old, precedes the fea- ture film. i Who says the Summer is waning? 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