Evening Star Newspaper, September 24, 1928, Page 20

OPENING ATTRACTIONS IN WASHINGTON THEA NATIONAL—“Wings.” “Wings,” Paramount'’s screen epic of {he American air service in the World ‘War, opened its second week at the Na- tional Theater yesterday. A mighty spectacle, with thousands of persons ond millions of dollars in war ma- chinery emplo; in its filming, “Wings” brings dly to the audience the daring hravery and glorious achieve- ments of the world heroes of the air. Although secondary to the thrilling srenes of aerial warfare, the plot is strong and well enough developed to | inject into the picture a dramatic tense- ness which adds a strong human appeal | to the story. The story of the devoted comradeship of two young aviators, both in love with the same girl; of their lovalty to each other in the terrible circumstances of war's hardships, cap- tures the heart. And this has been ce- veloped with such careful direction as to make their story an intensely real and beautiful theme. The outstanding feature of “Wings" is, of course, the spectacular air scenes. These have ' been filmed with such technical accuracy and with such con- summate detail as to stamp them as probably the most thrilling as well as the most horrible photographic repro- duction of warfare ever screened. An important item which adds greatly to the gruesome atmosphere of the air scenes is the fact that all the scenes are filmed amid the clouds, which accentuates the ominous atmosphere. Of the large cast employed, the out- standing featured roles are enacted by young players. The outstanding parts are those of Charles Rogers and Rich- ord Arlen as the two aviators, Clara Bow as an ambulance driver and Jobyna Ralston as the sweetheart. All of them give fine interpretations. The atmosphere of the picture is greatly enhanced by an elaborate musical ac- companiment and by backstage repre- sontation of noises attending the pictorial action. KEITH'S—Frankie Heath. An exceptionally entertaining pro- gram is offered this week at Keith's, the vaudeville acts meeting with enthusi- astic favor and the picture, “Man-Made Women,” being good. Frankie Heath, always a big favorite with vaudeville patrons, never appeared to better advantage than last night. Her descriptive songs were all new and her manner of presentation being en- tirely original. Miss Heath has a voice finely adapted for her talking songs, while her gestures and grimaces created no end of laughter and applause. Her impersonation of a mother trying to sing her baby to sleep and at the same time direct the movements of several children in the room. is a gem of the first water. As an encore she presented the neglected wife so cleverly in her way as to create an uproar of laughter, the lights being lowered to get her off the stage. The burlesque work of Harrison and Dakin in “An Operetta for Two” scored a big hit with the audience. Harrison is very clever in the finer points of his work and Dakin helps out splendidly as a foil. Several encores rewarded the act. Dave Vine, from “Just Up the Street,” comes back with a large collection of new stories and jokes, and even a couple of old ones went over big. He is a fast worker, knows his audience and had little trouble keeping his hearers laughing. A good dancing act is that of Mayris Chaney and Edward Fox, as- sisted by Earl Paull and Milton Murray. It was well received, the costumes were unusually rich and in good taste. Both the leaders are fine dancers and do their steps in a elean-cut manner. The Four Casting Stars opened the variety turns with a sensational tossing of two of the men through the air from clevated bars, to applause hearty at end. Harry Delf’s old sketch from hich “The Family Upstairs” cropped out is back in tabloid form as “Any Family.” Helen Beresford and Harry Hammill, who were in the original presentation, continue their splendid characterizations and the other mem- bers of the little company are satis- factory. The audience rewarded the act with hearty applause after laugh- ing throughdut the presentation. Leatrice Joy is always pleasantly re- called for her work in the movies, and in “Man-Made Women” she has an- other fine chance to display her beauty and acting ability. The story is that of a woman who has become enamored of the gay life. She married a com- nanion of her speedy days, but when he wants to settle down to the hum- ENTERPRISE SERIAL BUILDING ASSOCIATION 7th St. & La. Ave. N.W. 60th Issue of Stock Now Open for Subscription Money Loaned to Members on Easy Monthly Payments James E. Connelly James F. Shea President Secretary Office “usiness 'heatre solf Tennis College School WALK! TO Shopping Convenient to All Car and Bus Lines. Live in The Bradford 1800 K St. N.'W. Furnished and unfurnished apartments, 1 room and bath to 7 rooms and 2 baths. Elec- tric refrigeration. - 24-hour tele- phone and elevator service. Manager on Premises. Geo. W. Linkins Rental Agent Auxiliary Heat For These Cool Mornings Radiant Gas Heaters $1 O.oo Electrical Heaters $3.50 Fireplace Fixtures ce....$2.75 ...$4.25 ...$3.80 ii Andirons Fire Sets. .. Spark Guards. Fries, Beall & Sharp TERS drum demands of a quiet home life, the hitch occurs which nearly swings off to a tragedy. The husband, played splendidly by John Boles, finally for- gives and forgets, all _ending happily. Aesop’s Fables and Pathe News Pic- torial fills out the program. STRAND—“The Big Revue.” “The Big Revue” is the apt title of the burlesque show at the Strand Thea- | ter this week. And big it is, indeed, as burlesque shows go. There is a copious ampletiude of catchy tunes, side-split- ting comedy, swift action and pretty girls. | Clair Devine is the prima donna, and | she has only to trill on a high C to| bring down the house. Lillian Dixon soubrette put on some clever stuff. W. Jerry McCauley presents an eccentric dancing act of some note, while Fred Reeb and George Murray are the comedians, and manage to keep the customers in a merry mood. COLUMBIA—“The Patriot.” Although the past achievements of Emil Jannings and Ernest Lubitsch as actor and director, respectively, have been such as to entitle them to undis- puted places in the hall of fame of moviedom, each scems to have eclipsed himself in “The Patriot.” the feature picture on_this week's bill at Loew’s Columbia Theater. The photopiay is based on the play with the same name by Alfred Neu- mann. It was produced in Berlin with marked success and last Winter was brought to New York, where an elab- orate production of it died a speedy death, despite the excellent work of a well chosen cast headed by Lyn Harding. That Lubitsch should take a chance with a siory which proved a financial failure on the American stage and turn it into a success as a film is the greater tribute to him. Although billed as a “historical” pic- ture, “The Patriot” does not adhere very rigidly to. historical facts. The mystery and intrigue surrounding the death of Czar Alexander I in 1801 have never been cleared up, and rather than present established facts, “The Patriot” gives Neumann's conjecture of what may have been the facts, just as “The Road to Rome” was a conjecture of what may have happened to Hannibal when he was at the gates of Rome. ‘The plot, tersely told, is that Count Pahlen, minister of war, believes the insane Czar must be killed as the only way of saving Russia from ruin. Al- though he is the one man in Russia whom the Czar trusts, he carries out the regicide with elaborate ramifica- tions, places the Czar’s son Alexander on the throne, and then, having saved Russia by betraying the Czar, commits suicide by ordering his servant to shoot im, The facts of the case are that Count Pahlen was not minister of war, but military governor of St. Petersburg. In- dications are that he was not so much in leve with Russia as he was_anxious to further his own ambitions. Whether or not he was the leading spirit in the movement against the mad Cazar is still a matter of conjecture. As Paul, the microphile who spent more time counting the buttons on his guardsmen’s uniforms than attend- ing to matters of state, Jannings is excellent, It is safe to say that no man in Hollywood could play the role of this imperial lunatic as well as he. as the ingenue and Jane Vitali as the | Lyn Harding, in playing the part on The CAROLYN JUNIOR dress with “tuck in” blouse buttoned to the skirt is of soft tweed. (sketched at right). Side pleats are very smart. In tan or orchid. Sizes 13,15,17. $25 ® In printed or solid col- ored transparent velvet, the CAROLYN MODE sketched at left is strik- ing. Note the unusual gather treatment. In brown, black, or claret. Sizes 36 to 44. $39.50 ® store, only, in this city. 734 10th St. NNW. Main 1964 | | ‘z e FEATURED IN CAROLYN MODE S-cb- tainable at this THE FBVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. . MOXDAY. SEPTEAMBER of 1008 i ; the spoken stage, had a tremendous advantage in being able to bring out the disordered conditicn of the Czar's| mind by rambling talk, yet Jannings does it better in pantomime. But Jannings is not the only actor to score a triumph in the picture. Lewis Stone’s delineation of Pahlen, the lithe, efficient master mind of Rus- sia, is a fine piece of acting. And Florence Vidor is adequate as the| Countess Ostermann, whom Pahlen | uses as a snare in his intrigue. EARLE—“The Man Who Laughs.” The picturization of Victor Hugo's classic, “L'Homme Qui Rit,” with Movietone synchronized accompaniment and sound effects, is the feature at the Eorle this week. In it the German | actor, Conrad Veidt and Mary Philbin | are co-starred. Supplementary attrac- | tions are the Earle Topical Review and | a Vitaphone picture of the Indian | baritone, Chief Caupolicon. | i its showing in New York * sold | Its locale of Eng- | land in the seventeenth century, when | Queen Anne ordered subjects who had fallen from royal favor tortured and killed by the “iron lady.” Not so much to laugh at in picture— tragedy rather than comedy—but a story of gripping interest, well acted and well directed. Old-time costumes® concerts in the royal palace and the boisterous revelry of the people at Southwark Fair form an cffective background. Conrad Veidt does a wonderful piece | of acting as a perpetually grinning clown, whose condition is the result of the surgery of a campricho doctor, member of a band of gypsies, who kid- naped English children, maimed them and later sold them as freaks to trav. eling circy The clown, however, “merrie” Joves and is loved by his foster sister, | Dea, blind from the time when he found her in the arms of her mother, frozen to death in a snowstorm on the coast of Corwall. The role of Dea is played by Mary Philbin, and well might it have been created especially for her, so well does she fit into it.! Olga Baclanova again proves herself one of the screen’s leading actresses with her characterization of the reck- less, unscrupulous young Duchess Josiana, whose disregard of court com- mands antagonizes the queen. Brandon Hurst and Caesare Gravina earn high honors in their respective parts as court jester and Ursus, the philosopher showman and foster father of the laughing man and Dea. Josephine Crowell, as _Queen Anne; Stuart Holmes, San De Grasse, George Sieg- mann and Zimbo, the police dog, con- tribute no mean part to the success of the picture. FOX—"Four Sons.” A picture of especial merit, “Four Sons,” showing this week at the Fox ing a box of cheer for her boys at the Theater, is evolved from the joy, pride, sorrow and heartache of motherhood. | luctantly with the blacl The opening scene presents the peaceful, happy village life in a little Bavarian town where the Herr Burgomaster, the Herr Schoolmaster, the innkeeper, the postman and all are on friendly terms. Frau Bernle (Margaret Mann), whose Graduate McCormick Medical Glasses Fittea College Eyes Examined DR. CLAUDE S. SEMONES Eyesight Specialist Phone Main 12) 409-410 McLachlen Bldg. th and G N, Room for two persons, S60 A month and up. | Rates for tran- sient guests, $§2.50 per day and up. Spe- cial rates for individual suites or dou- ble, or single \rnnms. and are 683 From Paris... “Gathers Share Honors with Pleats” | The COX-CARLTON (former-. ly the Carlton Apartments), now under new management, provides that De Luxe Service Atlanta’s Di{z‘iflctive Hotel for lifework is bound up in her home and ‘ wildered little mother that her boys are children, is so proud of her four strap- | never coming home. Then increasing ping, handsome sons. She thanks the | hardship, dire want, the breadline; but Lord for her blessings as she serves|the worst of all, they take the remaining their food prepared by her ow hnnds‘snm who also dies in the German and sends them off to their daily toil. | trenches and is recognized by his Her mother heart is large enough to |brother Joseph, who enlisted with the embrace the children of the vilage, who | Americans, as he calls out “Mutter- now cluster around her door, shouting | chen.” Alone the mother lives with her “happy birthday,” and are rewarded |memories and is hardly able to dis- with chunks of honey cake. Later in |tinguish the reality from her drcams, the day all the friends flock in to offer |but a new lease of life opens up for birthday felicitations; the young folks |her when her grandchild calls for dance and the elders feast and visit. | grandmother and peace again comes to The first break in this happy family ihe mother heart, and she thanks the occurs when Joseph sails for America, | Lord for her blessings. the land of his dreams, and his letters | This is Margaret Mann's first starring are eagerly awaited by all who are glad | picture and with her are James Hall, to learn of his prosperity, his marriage | Francis X. Bushman, jr.; Charles Mor- and the baby. | ton and George Meeker; also a daughter Then comes the war and Franz, her | first born, and Johann the Strong, are sent to Russia, leaving the youngest, | Andreas, alone with the mother. Then | follow the tragic years we have grown so familiar with, hopes deferred and stark realization. 'In the midst of pack- | Anywhere—Anstime MENU PEAS Will Satisfy. Ask Your Grocer JAMES M. DENTY Wholesale Distributor front the sorrowful postman comes re- | bordered letter | and Andreas has to The ideal all year drink. Ladies and Gentlemen elegant surroundings which appeal so strongly to people of discriminating taste. is surprising how reasonable Yet it the rates, The ox-Carlton PEACHTREE STREET, ATLANTA, ‘GA. Under Personal Direction of CHAS. H. COX N. E. meaning to gathers pARlS has given new and pleats, as the new Carolyn Modes show. Gathers or pleats soften the sil- houette, giving it slender ease. Lovely, too, is the new detail . ..a bow placed over the shoulder . . . or a flower smartly posed Carolyn Modes. (Third to emphasize the line of the neck. It is flattering to one’s personal taste as well as to her appearance to select one of these Floor.) (TheHECHT Co Served Hot or leed, 165 DEwcrous/ A charming example of the vogue of tweed. Smartly man-tailored of a beautiful tan mixture. Cuffs of novel shape, a generous collar of raccoon are interesting details, $89.50. (Third Floor.) Tweed in clever com- bination with tan kid ...leather-covered Cuban heel. By I. Miller $14.50 (Fifth Floor.) - of Tom Mix, Ruth, and a son of Mme. Schumann Heink. The topical song, “Mutterchen.” sung by the famous Roxy Male Quartet, is an epic of filial devotion to the little mother represented by Josephine Bon- niwell in the blue mist of the stage. The overture, “The Beautiful Gal- atea.” by Fr: von Suppe, is well " (Continued on Twenty-first Page.) WHYTE-FOX Makes Soft, Velvety Skin— nd frees from Pimples, Sun Burns, Trehe as ik Lucky Tiges sives sostac] scalps and luxuriant hair o milions of Gvers ERS AND DRUGG VOGUE—Cleaners World’s Largest Dry Cleaning Plant There is Greater Satisfaction In Having Your RUG BLANKETS DRAPERIES Cleaned at the VOGUE Work called for and de- livered . . . No delays . Every piece of work is spected before it leaves our plant; it must please us before we let you pass judgment—and it costs no more for better work. . . Right here, in your own i i located the Largest Dry t . . . with es and thor- ough knowledge the VOGUE is eager to serve you and convince you of ~ it's superiority . . . Call Miss Gray—Atlantic 23 for Further Particulars and Prices /OGUE ;.- Cleaners 3 Phone Aflantic 23 APPSR A AT A AL L LNN N NN N AN A NAAN VNN NN VAN World's largest dry clean- ing plamt The smartest women seen at horse shows, polo games . . . at all the leading sports events wear tweed. It is endorsed by Parisian designers . . . the favored material for town and country . . . for street And rightly so . for caught in the woof and warp of its wear. aiile make up is a clean, colorful sugges- tion of the English downs . . . and . of all the Scottish moors . : Autumn out-of-doors. Exquisitely ombre tweed brown. pocket tailored of a new, feather-weight, .shading from warm tan to deep atures of note are touches of orange at matching belt and box-pleated (Third Floor.) Chenille stitching forms a pyramid de- sign on this back- strap pouch bag of tweed. $4.95 (Main Floor.) i Il ]. K o HECHT Co~Fst >