Evening Star Newspaper, January 3, 1927, Page 20

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Red pills for bdd hours, blue pills for even and green pills in the meantime help to keep the mnervous one thoroughly wrecked and on the road to a “decent | material for the stirring airs and col- burial” until he forgets his *hedule | orful melodies woven into the piece. | in the discovery that he is elopins | With Fi is Villon, the vagabond With the fiancee of o two-gun sheriff ! poet of France, as the romantic cen- | Nothing ) n Itral figy v moves swiftly | than an elopement, but since he is in through suc of spirited | for it, he does the job up thoroughly, scenes. and develops Into i two-gun man The music is by Rudolph Friml, the | himself with all the trimmings of a book and lyrics by W. H. Post and | desperate Lochinvar Brian Hooker. The augmented o v and Schenck are enthusi chestra and singing are under the di | Astically received in their song rection of Anton Heindl. Edware | sketches. The additional features in Nell, jr., carr his role of V' clude toon comedy, the Metro splendid poise, at once the swaggerins | politan world survey of news events “king of the vagabonds” and the hum- and an overtur “Victor Herbert ble, tender lov rolyn Thomson, | Favorites,” 1y skin's concert opposite him, a beautiful Lady | orchestra Katherine. | - RIALTO—"“The Cheerful Fraud.” KEITH'S—Will Mahoney. The affa newly rich family The large audience at Keith's last POLI'S—“The Vagabond Kin, Russel Janney’s production of “The bond King” goes info its second week at Poli Based on Justin Hunt story, “If I Were King, 1e offers fin with plenty of comedy and tense moments, en the ttention of patrons of the Rialto this week when vie Reginald Denny in Cheerful Fraud.” There is zing of a skeleton from the f cupboard hour and he landed lights were turned the comedian n evening. M: oney is one of the hardest workinz | cupboard, on the std In addition | of identit great dancer and good | Amusing situat he is rtist in facial contor- | some Sir Micha ‘As a headliner, he occupies that | Denny, sits in peace with the girl e on the bill without a question, ©of his choice on the rain-soaked steps in the fadeout. The picture has plenty of action and features a fig in a powerful automobile in a down- pour of rain at night. The battle winds up in the middle of a haystack Al Lavine, “Broadway's youngest ong writer,” and his_ entertaine supply an abundance of s music. One of the prettiest effects achieved in this presentation is dur- ing the playing of a love melody from ‘Rose Marie,” with the Inc maiden silhouetted against a moun tain landscape. The “Mirthquake," giving details of a college base ball ume; Rox Rommell, the orches ductor, presentin he Vagabond King": the organ logue and Rialto news events com | plete the bill. for a good ha such a hit that th down three times befor before the h being a drlie, plaved by The French comedienne, Ann Codee, has too much talk to her act and not enough action. Ann sings songs dances very little and then finishes up \lking appeal to the audience sort of ed ¥ the pro- Frank Orth is her chief com and, working along quiet lines, materially toward the success the offering. Deno and Rochelle put on a big dance number, being assisted and Dilworth and a splen- did string orchestra of five pieces. The stars of this act do some clever danc ing, their posture offerings being ex- tremely diffitult and sensational while the latter couple go through 5 SRR ey S straight dancing in a graceful man-| PALACE—“The Flaming Forest. ner. - The audience was particularly | If the attendance at the Palace The- Dleased with the artistry of the musi- | ater durinz the remainder of the week clans. |is in keeping with that of*yesterday The program is opened by Ora, the | afternoon and night record will femalepgvgnnas w}‘:oso work on the | probably be broken. Long before the trapeze and borizontal bar was very |oPening of the show yesterday after- good. “The Four of U a quartet | noon standing room was at a pre- Ot Bood singers and banjoists, had lit- | Mium. and this situation continued tle trouble winning the audience with | throughout the day 3 their harmonizing. Carlton Emmy has | The principal “attraction fs a dozen well trained dogs that go l“\d»‘“"-,_ “;m has played in the through their tricks with pleasing | CaSUCT O the stage for man accuracy. Florence Vernon and com- | P0¢ '-“d he same »\n;'r- of ¥ pany put on a_dancing and comedy DY and was accorded act, in which Mile. Codee and Orth | tion Yesterday and la. puts over her songs in a fine manner use atts B O iy ouse attrac|and recelved a number of encores at each performance. The other feature of the bill is the film “The Flaming Forest,” with An tonio Moreno in the leading role. It i v of the early frontier days She is also responsible for revue the end and is a Nora “big The Earle Theater this week has another one of its variety bills, which | is are becoming very popular. The bill | of was greeted with a crowded house and well played. A feature is the yesterda Headlining is “Misses | color scheme brought on in several of and Kisses,” a minature revue of | the pictures. nine scenes staged and produced by | There is a comedy cartoon, and Lewis Hopper. It is entertaining, the | Dick Liebert presents a song attrac- songs pleasing and the dancing above | tion. The Palace Orchestra contrib- the average. The cast is headed by | utes several excellent selections. Bernie Hart, Bailey and Miller gand | Kathleen Goodwin, and there is a | COLUMBIA—“We're In the Navy chorus of comely misses. The act | Now."” was helped by the elaborate settings | The comedy, “We're In the Navy and costumes. | Now,” featuring Walla Berry and Juva Marconi, Italian dancer, and | Raymond Hatton, continues fo at- her ballet girls have a dancing act | tract Capacity crowds in its second which, is appreciated by the audience. | week at Loew's Columbia Theater Miss Marconi s a graceful dancer |Laughs are as plentiful and loud and her balloon dance is especially | they were on the first night, with good. The ballet girls give a good|the two comedians continually amus- conception of “the Black Bottom.” |ing the audience by getting in an The comedy of the bill is furnished [out of humorous and unusual situa- by Fred Delmar’s lions in “Fun at |tions. Both Berry the Circus.” The comedy begins when | ing the part of Zero and his buddy undertake to |rather governed i tame the lions. Lillian Roth, “the | fate, in the succession of events, with Winsome Miss,” has an offering of | Dame Fortune pushing them too songs, and she is at her best with “I | closely to permit their initiative to Wish I Had My Pal Back Again." |assert itself and change their des- Stan Kavanaugh and Company enter-| tiny. They also had gotten into the tain with some juggling. | Navy through no d The feature photoplay is a rollick- Nickel Hoppers,” another comedy ing comedy starring Johnny Hines, | also shown last week, continues to He is supported by Mary Brian, Wil- | attract, with the latest Pathe ne: liam Gaxton, Lee Briggs and Ed.|reel furnishing the only new feature aond. Bieacs. RS Shol | for the first 1927 bill at the theater. concerns | Jonmny Rooney, who aspires to be. | AN orchestra overture completes the At his hoard- program. Molly Taslor, | wARDMAN PARK Josephine.’ The premier historic motion pic | ture production of France, “Napoleon and Josephine,” has returned to the | Wardman Park Theater this week. The intimacies of Bonaparte's struggle with his emotions and love for Josephine, his divorce and second marriage to Marie Loulse, are inter mingled with impressive military pomp and vivid reproductions of the Napoleonic _campaigns, all cleverly combined. The producers have clung The Strand Theater’s permanent | to historic fact, and yet they have set musical revue company is doing itself | forth an appealing romance. Im proud this week with its snappy holi- | personations of Napoleon, J day attraction, Victor Hyde's synco-| Marie Louise, Tallyrand and other pation comedy, “Around the Clock."| characters of the period are artful which is replete with pleasing tunes, | originations of modern make-up. lively dance numbers and unique cuses for laughter. Irvin B. Hamp, TIVOLI—"“The Ace of Cads. the Strand comedian, is in his elo-| Agolphe Menjou. suave and pol ment, and with Lew Lewis and Earl | ;4 is the pictured star of the bill Root gathers in much of the applause | poirc’ presented at Crandall's Tivoli and laughter. There is an Egyptian | (it two days of the . dance that scores a knockout, while | {1 piimount's production of *“The the mollycoddle men and their scared | xvo of (ads,” adapted from the novel little wives in “Turning the Tables” | op tne same name by Michael Arlen crowd near the top of the honor roll. | o114 dealing with the experiences of a Kathleen Butler, with her song, ‘T|pounder who lost the only girl who Made You Happy When I Cried.”|ayer mattered and then had a difficult and the 12 girls of the dancing chorus | {007 fatting her back through the and Hatton, play- 'green gobs are the picture by search of apoleon and Johnny is put up for assemb for his district against Frank More land, also after the hand of Moll Johnny finally wins in spite of More- land's unscrupulous methods and he also captures Mar The remainder of the bill is comprised of regulat house short-reel features and mu by Floyd Wheeler's Orchestra and Alexander Arons, concert organi: STRAND—“Around the Clock. who is the Follies Bergere Girls in their | 50 er. The dancing specialties. A brilliant finale, | }.f:;:m'i:ok;f,’;, ":“,’,‘1]—: 8 by Al “An Oriental Fantasy,” introduces | 00" "o oallent cast appear: Billie La Monte and an Egyptian en- | 20¢ & semble in vari-colored « BOEL. el';t;‘r;;ga! g vy a"‘i‘!;:fi‘::";f('_”’.\\'onk i “Snookum’s Merry Xmas, Cody and Carmel Myers, is the photo. | 2P3, & mew lssue of the play feature, in which Roy DrArey, [ Mo #MOnCC0 Crony Marcelline Day, Malcolm MeGregor | SO0 (e (PH ") and Dorothy Phillips appear. It is an | DY the Hane it Bb0 @ des supplied by amusing story of a Parisian matinee | T xSkl et b idol Clarke, associate. GAYETY—"Sliding Billy” Watson. The long popular burlesque comedi an, “Sliding Billy” Watson, returns to the Gayety Theater for a week’s e; gagement He is supported | clowning by Jack Heath and Mallahan. ~Carlita and have good voices and sing everythir from grand opera to The chorus is charming in_its singing and danc- | e o fevents and other abbreviated camera work. Jusper Stroude puts over sev. | SUPICES g 1 songs In tenor. Benny Platt is |’ it dontl | the funny hotel keeper and Ella John- | 77501 40N 6%Ge R ng in her | phe outstanding attraction songs and ste through Tuesday is Al Christie's is_difficult to pick the feature. Smusing picturigation of Owen Day specialty by the “Worldwind Four,” | gage comedy. Sl {negro exponents of the jazz type of |in which th i impor- music, is a creditable performanc: B e dato Ford. The settings and electrical effects are | phyllis 1 especially attractive. | Swain, Hobart Bosworth, { man, Charles Gerrard, | son and Clarence Burton and a com- | plete review of which will be found in_conjunction with Crandall's Metro- politan Theater i A principal : Joyee land Ida V. AMBASSADOR—* Wreck. Adams is the I's Amb: Nervous chief ador Jimmie fur the foremost of the supplemen features of the excellent program, | new tworeel comedy bearing the e pressive title of “Beauty a la Mud. A new issue of ‘the pictured wor rgan METROPOLITAN—"The Nervous Wreck.” Crandall's Metropolitan starts the right with a hilarious Al Christie comedy fedture, “The Nerv ous Wreck,” on the screen and the | CENTRAL—“Marriage License.” popular song duo, Van and Schenck, | Alma Rubens and a supporting cast Ask for Children's Musterole. Better than a mastard plaster featured behind the footlights in aof excellent selection occupy the | series of dialect song: |screen at Crandall's Central Theater Harrison Ford, Phyllis Haver and first was further from his mind | '|NEW ELECTRICAL éNGINE. poy | selections from years. | orthwest Canada, full of action | | | ' { | | ! urrent weelk | also are well up In the ranks, with|geyjous course of making desperate | in sup- | umes with | "inpo (omedy for the first bill of the | est round out | I'the first two days of the week «\!vx- | “Long Fliv the King,” in which|| | Charlie Chase, one of silent flramn'sf | yryl!able comics, 18 the pivotal figure. | Fine support and a real idea make this one of the laughing hits of the rason. The bill is rdded short-reels of diversified Inte | est and appropriate pipe organ music | 1ite's pl - {soul is wearing bells. zood as wheat, it's a_ fair | STAGE HALL OF F)\ME. z Ginger Peppercorn. pleasant ay,” he | Ootto Kah: Ll | ahn Heads Movement for|ects say American Gallery. j rishte | strong, | W YORK, January | | Plans for the creation of the first American theatrical hall of fame were announced here yesterda Otto H. Kahn, finur { patron_and national cha 00,000 actors’ fund | the erection the actors on S en 1Isl | that contributors to the fund will he | {allowed to vote for playwrights and { stage and screen stars of the past jand present generations bt | Forty-four names of cach group— | meet “ StKe and screen stars : rs of the past—wil ibed on the tablets. . g there will be a bitter winds will by will be ushered in " away I | &rowing pale, and I ninst me who Why predict a beastly present is so good? it's @ s wood - Y as a yearlin ter till_the storm shools its bolt. 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