Evening Star Newspaper, August 29, 1927, Page 11

OPENING ATTRACTIONS IN WASHINGTON THEATERS (Continued from Tenth Page.) her aunt in a boarding house and ends as the star of a Broadway show, is the outstanding performer of the production. Injecting plenty of not at all subtle humor. vivacity, action and heart interest into the show, she keeps it moving and holds the sym pathy of the audience from beginning | o end The young song writer is an impor- tant personage in his home town, but he finds it impossible to sell his lyrics on Broadway. He falls in love with | & girl whose aunt conducts the board- ing house in which he lives. The girl attempts to sell the boy's songs and she forcibly borrows a dress and calls on a theatrical producer, who agrees to try the song provided she becomes his private “bouncer” for too atten- tive actresses, particularly the star | of his show, who threatens to bank- | rupt him with her attentions. At the | same tima she is given a e in the | chorus. It is from this circumstance | that a large measure of the comedy | is derived. A short comedy, “Dr. Quack,” a newsreel showing the President’s Yel- lowstone Park trip, ssveral remark- able airplane views, and an overture by the house orchestra complete the program. RIALTO~"Cheating Cheaters.” Max Marcin's clever play, ‘Cheating Cheaters,” is presented in its screen version, starring Betty Compson and | Kenneth Harlan. | Although bordering on the mystery | most of the time, comedy is frequent and good. Betty is the director of a large detective'agency operating un- der her name. She plants herself with a gang of jewel crooks after be- ing arrested as a shoplifter. Her gang and another locate themselves at a fashionable resort, each intent on| stealing the others’ jewels. Kenneth, who was befriended by the leader of the rival gang, is posing as the son of the supposedly rich man, She is to infatuate the son, and the plan works out. 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Emil | Jannings as the bank cashier in-| trusted with bonds that are stolen h\v‘\ rag and a bone and a hank of | . only to e him outside the pale’ of his happy family, reaches new heights in the portrayal of the dr: mat While the plot somew strains credulity, the heart interest is intense, particularly when the father. | deemed dead, listens to his son, f: mous as a violinist playing his fa vorite cradle song, from a seat on the | uppermost _balcony. Jannings' acting is reward enough, but the unconventional ending of the production—an old man _plodding away from his loved ones in a bliz- | zard—makes it a picture apart, even though tears are dominant. The | olden melodies that accompany the offering on the organ add to the pro- | gram | The New M. G. M. news reel. comedy in a museum and the orchestra com- plete the bill. 1 LITTLE THEATER—"Forever.” The Motion Picture Guild this week revives a film at the Little Theater which recalls fond memories. In ad | dition to bringing back the heart- | aches of our own youthful days, brings back Wallace Reid and Elsie | Ferguson. It calls to mind forcefully that it is possible to make fast friends | through the medium of the movies | and shows those of us who care to admit it that Wallace Reid had an edge on a great many of the modern film stars, The picture is an adaptation of George Du Maurier's novel, “Peter Ibbetson,” a story fine enough to “put er” almost any actor, but one thy enough to be put over by | Reid. Elsie Ferguson, who has not been | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, AUGUST 29, KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES —Julie’s Thro_ugh—Almos!. T La.w T KNEW WHY THAT CHAP TED GERARD DIDNT KEEP THE DATE HE HAD wWiTH ME LAST SATURDAY! HE SEEMED TO B SUCH & NICE BOY AND S0 ANYIQUS TO SEE Me AGAN! WELL, TH NoT GOING TO LET \T WHAT: Do You neaw Youre THROUGH WITH tén FOR TH" REST OF YouR ufe FOR MG = JUST WHAT I SaiD Pa} NO nope Boy FRIENDS THen ! 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