Evening Star Newspaper, January 30, 1928, Page 19

G ATTRACTIONS IN WASHINGTON THEATERS ¥ POLI'S THEATER—"Gay Paree.” % “Gay Parce,” the New York Winter arden show, which opened last night Poli's Theater, presents one of those ‘probiems that take the joy out of a re- viewer's life. It is a serious question whether to stress the clean, side-split- ting comedy of Chic Sal>s, the excellent ginging of Jennie Beach, Paul Davin and Eric Titus: the ususual and excel- Jent acrobatic dance of Irene Cornell, the snappy work of a well trained cho- rus, the beautiful. spectacular settings of some of the main numbers or to con- demn the revue for the “dirt” that runs The production is a piece en hung out in a soft coal- g neighborhood. If you can see girls presenting clever Orlentals in music of Japan. “Bacchanal,” overture by the Palace Concert Orchestra, Harry Borjes con- ducting: comedy, and M-G-M News complete the program. RIALTO—"Finders Keepers.” A condensed version of the musical comedy “Little Jessie James” is the stage presentation at the Rialto this week, while Laura La Plante delights the eye with her beauty, and throws the audience into hysterical mirth in the stellar role in the picture “Finders Keepers.” Saturday afternoon the Rialto inau- gurated its new plan of presenting con- THOE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, JANUARY 30. 1928. V% PALALS ROYAL ear End Pre-Inventory Clearance Until Store closing tomorrow night every section of the Palais Royal offers you unusual the National Theater yesterday after- noon. ‘With opening impressions of Nizhni- Novogorod, an important Russian city, a Volga steamer gave ing views or arrivals at some river cities and brief glimpses, in picturesque turn, of Sara- tof, with its German colonles; Astra- khan, a_city 57 feet below sea level where Persians, Kalamuks, Khirgez and other Orlentals gave colorful vari- ety to its streets, and a caviar fleet which gave evidence of “where we ob- tain caviar.” Also a view of the moun- taineers and strange costumes in the Republic of Daghestan and the tre- mendously rich oil fields of Baku. In the Caucasus, a great demonstra- tion was given of types and customs, which included a dance by a pretty girl, who might have been some young Jocal amateur in fancy dress. The voyage had for variety a ride along the Georgian military road, which the speaker, from his globe-circling beauty beneath, dis rding the " experience, declared to be one of the eauty beneath, disreRarding the | Gensed versions of musical comedies | SRR REGAAC O AT Ghe Sorld. e e e Svorth. | With its feature pictures. “Little Jessie | Tigis "the clean and beautiful capital Shfle procuction should b besmirched | James” is sald to have had a full sea- | ;¢ Georgia, revealed astonishing thor- B o he revamped . off-color | SON'S Tun at the Garrick Theater in|oughfares, also blond Georgians and | y | New York, with an artistically costumed | fair-skinned Circassians. At the Turk- | opportunities to save. All the small lots—odd groups—and remainders of a busy sea- son’s selling are marked at prices to clear them out in a hurry. - OQur new year begins stories that are interpolated in it. | First and foremost stands Chic Sales. thout him the revue would be flat. h, written by Ida M. Tarbell, | an Who Knew Lincoln.” is one t things ever produced | udience on the verge of | n a real ably s Ben Holmes, who appeared with hi number of times, was adequats chanal.” “Ori- " & ‘Grand Finale” out far off the ordinary. beautiful al- in one or two instances in-| artistically scant, and the music was | catchy. The revne was staged by J. C. Huf- man and shows the touch of a master band. KEITH'S—Harry Carroll Revue. ! Patrons of Keith's are expected to be most enthusiastic over this week's program _as it is the first showing of the “exalted vaudeville” over which the New York and Boston papers have been raving for some time. Harry Carroll has gathered about him at least 25| er people. distributed them into and as a result presents an evening's entertainment of rare excellence. From the opening to the closing number there is a display of hearty co-operation and energy that kept the large audience applauding continuously. The star of the evening is Ken Mur- ray. who acts as the master of cere- monies. Of the several comedians who have appeared at Keith's last season and this, Murray ranks up at the top along with Jack Donohue, the king of | them all. His introduction at the open- ing of the bill, showing Murray playing golf at Rock Creek, through the cinema; his hurried dash downtown in an auto- mobile and his rush for the stage, was | unusually interesting and novel. The opening number, “In the Gym,” brought out a half dozen pretty girls who go through health exercises until Murray arrives, and he then makes them dance, with the result that the goes down on a peppery act that proved a good start for the eve- ning's fun. ‘The California Collegians follow with | pan; a mixture of music and clownish actions | that are put over so cleverly as to make | the audience applaud in spite of itself. ‘Then comes Ann Greenway in a special song cycle. After singing| snatches from several of Carroll's com- | positions, she branches into some of | B!ll;‘.ln'i best. omer B. Mason and Marguerite Keeler follow with their old act. “Money, Money, Money.” Both clever actors| were well received. Harry Carroll's Revue and Ken Murray take up the last half of the program. Six scenes are necessary to show off the strength of the company and all are good. The regular house | attractions are used as fillers, complet- ing the strong bill. EARLE—“Valley of the Giants.” Peter B. Kyne is a great writer, and | Milton Sills, to all but the few Whg feel they have scen him too often, is & great actor. Therefore, Q. E. D., “The Valley of the Giants” is a great P here 15 romance aplenty. and all of us know, although many riiuu to ad- mit it, that that 15 what we like about our movies. It is the type of romance colored with dignity and action. picture was made in the midst and lively-stepping chorus. ‘Two impecunious youths, strong- willed society mothers and furniture men, appearing at embarrassingly inop- portune times, furnish & full hour of good entertainment. The plot centers around the nimble-witted Jessie Jamie- son, who arrives in New York fresh | from the cornfields and oil wells of the West and begins to_turn things in gen- 1 upside down. Bernadine Brady in stellar role clearly demonstrates just Jess! wumed after the other Jesse James, who used more primitive methods of geiting what “he after " Pearl Hight, as Jessie's excitable | and ostensibly nouveau riche mother, " | creates much laughter and received well merited applause; Eddie Keenan, as Tommy Tinker, does very well, although the entire cast more than did justice to the several parts. Edith Davis and Burr ‘Wahn do some very creditable dancing. The picture is a screen version of Mary Roberts Rinehart's war story of life at Camp Evans. When the beauti- ful but strong-willed only daughter of a colonel falls in love with and decides 10 marry a mere private in papa's regi- ment, considerable drama, humor and pathos may reasonably be expected, and Judging from the titters and giggling heard from the audience, the story gives all that it promises. John Harron, as Private Carter Brooks, fully justifies Barbara Hastings’ (daughter of Col. Hastings) extreme democracy, and Ed- mund Breese, Arthur Rankin, Willlam Gorman, Eddie Phillips and Joe Mack give excellent support to the star. The International News Reel completes the program. FOX—"Silk Legs.” “Silk Legs,” at the Fox Theater this week, is good entertainment, with Madge Bellamy and James Hall co- starring. The picture has to do with a sales- | man, a saleswoman and silk hose, with | Miss Bellamy and Hall making efforts | to win for their respective houses the! custom of a certain retail concern. The determination of each not to be outwitted by the other lends action and amusement to the performance. The story is climaxed by the success of both in the selling game and later in the game of matrimony. Sophie Tucker, one of stageland's great comediennes, and Ted Shapiro, late star of Broadway attractions, offer a group of amusing songs, with Miss Tucker getting over her “Red Hot Mama” role and Mr Shapiro accom- ying on the piano. “The Four Mas- ters” offer a pleasing group of old-time ! songs that draw applause, and the Fox Ballet and Choral Assembly are prom- inently cast in a picturesque sketch en- titled “The Ballet of Roses,” which is tuneful and refreshing with songs and terpsichorean numbers. An excellent overture by the Fox Orchestra, under the supervision of Alexandria Oumask, rounds out the program. COLUMBIA—"“The Student Prince.” “The Student Prince” second week at Loew’s Columbia and | bly indicated | Knickerbock: was filled to capacity. Ramon Novaro is the Student Prince and Norma Shearer an appeal- | ing Kathi, his swee theart. There is human interest in the plc- ture from the very start, when the hildren think “it must be great The of the big redwoods of California and|the scenes, geals with the lumber industry of the West. It is as fine a plece of photog- Taphy as has been seen here for some time. And its story, of course, is one that will hold any man’s attention. ‘The stage presentation is worth the money. The best feature is “Jazzing the Blues Away,” which is much better than its name sounds. Russ Morgan is the boss of this outfit, but Billy 3:’:;“ mmde‘ the deepest impression person in the audience at least. Theo Alban has a fine voice and goes over big, but the Berova dancing girls are the kind that take the eye. The dancing treat is enhanced by Johnson and Hewitt in “some acrobatics” and Tommy Monahan, whose step is faster than the eye, The stage band is great. A scenic novelty also is presented, under the title “In Holland,” and the | onehest overture is the famous| the Hours” | reel. Claude Burrows leads the orchestra h popular gems from “The Stu- dent Prince” operetta, and these un- questionably add to the effectiveness of the film. Supplementary film features include s travelogue and an unusually inter- esting news reel. METROPOLITAN—"“The Patent Leather Kid.” Richard Bartholemess struts into his third week at Crandall's Metropolitan Theater in the role of the Patent Leather Kid, the combination prize fight and war picture which has com- manded capacity audiences for the past To alike—"The Patent | makes a strong appeal, pleasing, and the doupt but that the ever- formance 5o been packed at every per- | portrays his part with skill. But, nev- | ertheless, the picture is not overbur- dened with originality of theme or set- ‘Bright Eyes.” urlesque Assoclation f comedian, | way of putting the t gets many laughs. | expression makes | oil for Levine's comedy. | ting. As a study of the paradoxical traits in human nature, the picture is interesting—but the study could have been clothed in a less trite costume. Bartholmess, perhaps, has never before been called upon to ride in so hack- neyed a vehicle. And yet for two weeks at least his picture has packed the Metropolitan. The swry opens in New York. An East Bide youngster with a handsome sWpped the show with his | 18C€, Plenty of egotism and a winning Y num eccentric | s of c | George B | oice and | g tenor e oon- | Spite his faults en does o | Jevine 15 & c work. Ruth n with songs Yooks sr.0 bers sparii PALACK A romar Mee v grounc Woman and Sin” s ger A v P o gt door or arvund not very tar eway " e : s of the son of & wou v & woni s 800 ek " ot by psw hore ? it not, the & roum of 8 new o TepreT His unsucee vward a rich e ¢ pons e vefiected n b ntatustion for the ity eQin of i . wnd he i lea v kill turn T Jururious mony of e s plices the young i mately e ] bidl, and tue Uiree Meyskas and geishs " dancer of now. | unch, becomes a great prize fighter, ut unpopular with the crowd because of his “dude ways” His hair is al- i ways in place and his clothes in style | Along comes a girl who loves him de- Then comes the war. ! Courageous in a fistic encounter, the Kid, nevertheless, shrinks from the thought of guns and bayonets, but, once forced into action, proves himself not Jacking In courage. Wounds, & hospital, the girl as nurse, and deco- ons. of course, follow—enter patri- c service and exit egotism. “The becomes & worthy object for his sweetheurt's love and all ends happlly. | Beceuse of the length of the film | the wuxillary features are brief, includ- g & news reel and vitaphone overture. LITTLE. THEATER—""Peter the Great.”—Moana.” UFA production, “Peter the starring Emil Jeunings, con- tnues its run st the Little Theater for secund week, U 15 one of Junning's st productions, but his role s first great Czar of Jussia won g national and International recog- nition in the motion pleture world Junnings plays the role of Peter, the yreat Czar of Russi, the bullder of & Iussian empire, the man thut threat- ened e ussian Church and exiled its priests, the man that gave the Blave thelr first knowledge of modern civiliza- ton. “To hold Russis under his rule he wae forced W kill his treacherous son Alexis, und send his first wile into exile in ® eonvent “ Hobert J Flaherty's 1dyll of life in | the south seas is pictured in “Moana,” | an wdded feature. It i& sn onginal Letory of the Bamoan ratives, with & | besatitul tropical background A newiereel of recent activities center- g around Washington completes the inogram goes | is started its | thing ter | her husband. The latter has awakened ish boundary, the lecturer defied the police and ‘took photographs of the beach at Batum with its subtropical climate and waving palms. Following the coast of the Black Sea to Yalata, an added revealment of the passing of the older was mark- ed by palaces of grand dukes turned into homes for workers and peasants, and the cultivation of tobacco in Tartar villages showed how Soviet women work in_the fields. ing in the entire tour, however, d in interest a visit to the Jew- trations of the progress and splendid spirit of the people, their crude begin- nings developing into the cons'ruction of schools and homes, and iatensive | cultivation of the soil. | A serles of pictures showed, also.| that in the harvesting of wheat. and | other activities in the Rosenwald col- ony, named in honor of the Chicago| philanthropist, both men and women | are vigorously industrious, the results being prosperous_homes, fields herdeclI with cattle and horses and farmyards crowded with milchcow, chickens, ducks and geese. ! For climax a pilgrimage was paid| to Balaklava—“into the Valley of Death. | where rode the Six Hundred.” The| pathetic British cemetery—the stone crosses to Sisters of Mercy whose care | of soldiers on the battlefield brought | them a soldier's death, together with a motion panorama of the beauty of the Crimea, brought to a close a travel- trip that for general interest was even more compelling than the concentrated tenseness of “Moscow.” “Leningrad” will be the traveltalk for next Sunday afternoon. PETROVA ON “CENSORSHIP.” The distinguished actress, Olga Petrova, who has been starred in both stage and photoplay productions and also has written both screen and stage plays, appeared personally before a large audience at the Jewish Com- | munity Center last night and gave an in‘eresting talk on *Censorship.” Mme. Petrova was featured in the Lyceum course, in which most of the programs have been musical. She was assisted by the George Washington University String Quartet, a local | ensemble, which gave a pleasing rendi- | tion of the andante movement from one of Schubert's string quartets. | Mme. Petrova's talk was illustrated | with colorful scenes from her newest | play, “Who Knows?” and the audience enjoyed the unique pleasure of scemg{ scenes which had been cut from the public performances of the play by the British censors when it was first planned to produce the work in Lon- don. The actress made all the differ- ent characters involved in turn, each seeming true to life and of easily 1, ypes. It is the story of a woman who is| the daughter-in-law of a stern leader | of a Purity League, and who has mar- ried a man who has never been any- to her but a distant companion. She falls in love with a sculptor who urges her to return to the city witn him. She hesitates, but finally follows him and is found in his apartment by to his own unfair neglect of his wife, but his appeal for a second chance is turned down. He and the sculptor have a terrific fight while a storm is raging outside. A flash of lightning kills both the men. -Later the woman turns to a sister who is a spiritualistic medium and tries to get a message from her lover, who, before he died, vowed he would come back to her. The sister tries to concoct a hoax that will allay ' the woman's tense waiting.‘ It falls, however, and then the woman has a of her lover and his message, and as she looks upon it she dies. It seems that the play was censored by the British on three grounds— blasphemy, due to the espousing of a special creed for dramatic uses; re- flection on the organizations emblemized in the Purity League and its characters, and on the ground of being a bad in- fluence for public morals. Finally, after some discussion in American papers, the British production was en- tirely canceled. Mme. Petrova made a strong plea that there should be no censorship of plays ‘except by the public. She says: “If people don’t like a play they are perfectly free to get up and walk out. ‘The poor drama is being crushed in so many ways it seems too much to add the burden of censorship by a few In- dividuals.” IT STOPS THAT COUGH JUNIPER TAR COMPOUND GIVES QUICK RELIEF FOR Colds, Coughs due to Colds, and Common Sore Throat DON'T EXPERIMENT! This eld relieved thous ande It will relleve you. Ask Grandma----She Knows! 35c At All Druggists AL Stop that Itching Nothing short of mirsc- ulous, mecording to many, is the QUICK- LSS with which Kese ecremas relieved by the soothing, healingaction of this famous oint- ment. 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