Evening Star Newspaper, August 22, 1927, Page 12

IE_EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. €. MONDAY. ATGUST 22 OPENING ATTRACTIONS IN WASHINGTON THEATERS Seeley and One of those rare bills that bob up every now and then @t Keith's, and the patrons were quick to grasp the knowledge and crowd the popular house to the doc Jast night. The head with B Blossom Seeley, nd the pair registered one of i whipped Law in ente in good rdial reception dou! her nal sons effe lds is a great ¢ of coon songs. At the end of act the lights had to be lowered away. topliner is without Miss yecle 2ht, br nd her ¢ t il ene: h the clever mono cou Frank who is act-| Ing as “master of ceremonies” in his | own or! al way. He has im |'(\\v\|“ in his wor and rarely hesitates for | & bright bit in introducing the dif ferent numbers, Later on he ha an @ct of his own, and here again the | #ights had to be lowered to get him | away. He carries a boy and girl with him’ who have improved won derfully in their work, and the trio created no end of laughter. Another good act is provided by te and Frank Gill, assisted 1w Charley Barnes, with sonzs and pinno playi This couple also have Aded to their act much 1t hey inue dancir original style. Margueri has been a favorite with ville patrons, always putting forward efforts to please. Many cur 1ain 1s rewarded the trio, A newcomer, Hope Vernon, who has been starring in musical comedy, re. ceived a splendid weleome. She has a good voice, a pleasing personality and registers a hit with but little | effort. Raymond Pike opens the program | with_a clever § ng and tumbling act, Leo Beers follows with songs and | piano plaving, Lew Reed and Paul le Vere win favor with their guitar and violin plaving and clever d ing and the Taketas in baanc feats. The house attractions plete the program. At is new con their own always vaude- g | com EARLE—"The Acid Test.” | “The Acid Test.” a oneact playlet | by Monta Bell, noted screen director, heads the bill at the Earle this week. Although similar in many respects | to the usual run of short sketches, this act presents a new and unusual solution for the age-old marital tangle, “the eternal triangle.” A fine per- | formance is given hy a cast consi ing of John Hoffman, Maurice H. Jarvis, Mildred Meneau, and Iarold Allen Long. Quite the most popular bit on the program is the skit by Primrose Semon, who produces a brand of comedy that convulses her audicnce. Her songs were particularly well re. ceived. An excellent dance act is offered by ©Oakes and Delour, with their Imperi Mavimba Orchestra, Anita Winograd, dancer, and Lenore Puron, violin: as additional features Art Petley and company present an unusual aerial exhibition, both comic and clever, providing many thrills, and Jack Conway and company is seen in his new sketch, “Twisted,” while June Shirley Blake performs with acrobatic_dance steps. Edward Burke in the role of Master of Ceremonies draws many laughs by his announcements between the vari- ous acts. White Gold,” starring Jetta Goudal. 13 the film attraction. It depicts a feud between a wife and her jealous father-inaw, culminating in disaster for all concerned. Other members of the cast are Kenneth Thompson, George Bancroft, George Nichols, Clyde Cook, and Robert Perry. “Kilograms” and the usual features conclude the program. hous GAYETY—"“Bozo” Snyder. The Gayety Theater opened its in- augural performance of the season Saturday afternoon with “Bozo Snvder and his own show. “Bozo” is, of course, the predomi- nating figure throughout the per- formance, with able assistance from Sam Green, Rae Davis and Beatrice Tracy. Walter Kelly and Charles Judson offer a few novelty dance numbers and received considerable applause. Judson's specialty was extremely good. The versatile Miss Davis gave sev- eral pleasing dance numbers. Her novelty dance, “the Strut,” being really mew; it won a hearty hand from the spectators. The audience laughed very at “Bozo” and big Sam Green in “Paperhangers,” a comedy -sketch. Here “Bozo” gets in a bit of the old slapstick and throws paste at ran- dom, much to the delight of the on- Jookers. This skit scored the hit of the show. Fannie Palmer and Joseph Murphy danced the black bottom; Jim Brown. Frank Donaldson and Al Loraine sang several popular songs and re- ceived a rousing hand, two of their best numbers being “Me and My | “hadow” and “At Sundown” | by alwa sinzs a few numbers and dance novelty that proved heartily COLUMBIA—"The Way of All Flesh.” Emil Jannings vises to great heights at the Columbia this week in his fir: American-made picture, “The Way of All Flesh.” It may be stated, fairly, HAY FEVER it has been adopted as the stand- ard Hay Fever treatment. Ercolin contains no harmful or habit- forming drugs and is prescribed ysicians for young and old. It is now available at drug stores. Ercolin neutralizes proteins, the irritant common to all pollens. It is uniformly successful in break- ing up Hay Fever attacks, show- ing a record of 967 success in one Massachusetts hospital where is on this week | | changes wrought < | for : : | interpretation that has stamped him Tunnev in his training camp. { with | with his memories | wife and eight children | week, { to hold the inter | zoes to live in the supposed freedom | Rogers T | week. | pieture and gives it a quality which | tiful | best this week at the Palace, appear- that it is one of the finest pictures on the screen today. The action of Jannir hort of tremendous. roles, or rather three nothing threw yals of in a man’s life by | and tragedy, he never 1t loses that subtlety of Playi port circumstance an insf the mark of genius. Running the gamut of human emotions—love, | pathos, passion, tragedy—he so ab-| himself in his part that he chieves a character study to which | his por 1 “Variety” and | aval i Last Laugh™ must concede the dely, the settir “The Way of All in keeping with the artistry of its st Belle Bennett, who plays the part of blonde vampire, that causes the tr E ormation of Jannings a_ great- | hearted head of a happy family to a | roistering fellow out on a lark and ultimately to a broken old man alone urpasses her ex- ella Dallas.”” The remainder of the cast is fortunntel chosen. 'The early scenes of the pic ture, representing the family life of 1 prosperous burgher, content with his cellent work in Kind fates, or perhaps the exercise | of rare judgment on the part of the | American producers, have achieved the appropriate in subtitling that is in hing with the artistic integri a picture. The new M. G. M. News Reel and a liverting comedy round out a prog: pleasant to see and even pleasanter to recall. METROPOLI T A\ N—"Lonesome . \ture pie- Metropolitan this is like a circle—it begins and ends in the same way and at the same place. Several humorous situa- tions, with excellent acting by Lewis Stone and Anna Q. Nillson in the feminine lead, and arming as aver as Mrs, John Fosdick, combine “Lonesome 1 ture at Cran the ma John ] concerns and Mr The story troubles of Mr. dick, who after 3 ried life are beginning to be exceed- - bored. The husband is content pend the evening behind a news- . but the wife is not; and into tmosphera of boredom a young one of the sweethearts of younger , throws the park needed to produce an explosion. Despite the “vamping” of the widow, Stone remains faithful to his wife, but she, refusing to believe so commonplace a fact, leaves him and of a bachelor apartment with five other men. She soon tires of this' and wants to go back home, but is pre- vented by the “friendship” of one of the women, who tries to win the af- fections of Stone for herself. After several situations that sparkle with humor, a reconciliation is cffected, and the play ends in the same room in which it opened, with the husband and wife content, but still more or less bored, each with the other’s company. An excellent Bobby Vernon com- edy, an interesting newsreel, a Will s travelogue and a pleas- ing overture complete the bill. RIALTO—"“Back to God's Country Starring Renee Adoree, Carl Laemle presents ‘“Back to God's Country,” adapted from the novel by James Oliver Curwood, at the Rialto this The scene is laid in northern Can- ada, with the usual studio blizzards, the unshaven faces and the profusion of firearms and cutlery which always signify northern Canada in motion pictures. “Back to God's Country” is a rather mild melodrama, of the North- west, with some very good comedy work by those in minor parts. The animals in the picturg are excellent. Renee Adoree is beautiful, as always, and although she is not at her she nevertheless puts life into the makes it quite charming at times. The climax of the story comes when the villain is pursuing Renee and her fiance through one of the worst snow- storms Canada has ever seen, or ever will see. It is then that the faithful wolfdog does battle with the pursuer and throws him in the river. At this point the hero, who is suffering from a broken leg and exposure to the storm, smiles cheerfully and_clasps the girl strongly in his arms and they ride on to the next village. The Rialto Orchestra, with Rox Rommell conducting, presents a beau- overture from “Rio Rita” and Gertrude Kreiselman gives an organ solo, “Only a Rose,” painted with mel- odies. The usual comedy and news reel complete the program. PALACE—“After Midnight.” Norma Shearer is at her lovable ing in a picture that portrays a cross section of New York life after most people are abed. It's called “After Midnight” and is marked by splendid photography. The plot deals with the reformation of a crook. Many plots have done =0 before. hut Norma_handles her crook FIRST MORTGAGE MONEY At 6% Interest L. W. GROOMES, 1416 F St, by pt . and all of them are amalsamated s o a beautiful picture i ut e likes to theorize assiof a nd ponder on the wavs of the world. If T ihe picture is important. 1t seems that D0 alWayE| 6 every lond Who Bas o voice in:the 1 system of the country could few such pictures Passion,” | things might be very different both it home and abroad. the story zives an insight, not correct in all its minor details, of course, hut accurate * and an overture hy the round out the bill, lot the Da house orchestra in an unusual manner, and the pic 7 ture contains several oviginal situa wder Hour, tions that help to make up a divert- ing film. The star plays the part of . cigarette girl in a cabaret, and the cast of but four principa zood. Phil Spitalny and his orchestra, playing an extra week, present a new program containing several excellent descriptive numbers. “Navy Blue” is pecially pleasing. Roscoe Arbuckle appears as the other stage attraction. The new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer news pictures of the Dole cellent views of Gene “Topics lution which perhaps has not yet sub TIVOLL—"“The sided s b o L1 Billie Dove and Ben Lyon are the dall's Amb Theater the first skt e T $ WERL lture feature at Crandall’s Tivoli Thea | National’s production Lonesome The comedy is fine. the drama subile the first two days of this week, | Ladies,” starving Lewis . Stone amd ind touching, and Pola Negti is s Is a First National production,fdnna Q. Nilason i e nene i; ’_ ola 'LHI 8 at \hich is supplemented by Lloyd Ham " rex best, but ‘Bmil Janninzs i better. fion in’ his y One S | CENTRAL— y day Mornin Minor pictures and | Alberta Va ¢ Romantie Age,” Lloyd Hamilton in “P pipe organ music by Otto Beck wd to the program Oscar” and a new issue of the Grant land Rice “Sportlight” comprise the picture entertainment at Crandall’s Central Theater the first two days of | ments the feature of the bilt at ~rana one who LITTLE TH As ¢ pants ssfon,” at the Little Theater this week is a picture well worth any one's time. From the standpoint of pure entertainment cert nly it is as good a film as has been shown in the st several weeks It has all the inall its hackgrounds. into the move- clements of what the writer of this ment which we call the French Revo-| the Little Theater Trio has an over-| Robby Vernon in the Chris . n ; o A il oatriaimmen: dhoul’ Miion, HIGH Tealy o el feial e that Huthes (HE SInaI It . rert e D he e e e el e e e e e e »oli ce comed ing for the styles worn on Broadwa if for nothing else. 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