Evening Star Newspaper, February 18, 1929, Page 21

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Virginia Fox, who plays the title role of the show this week, sings well, dances well and is overflowing with the magnetism of youth. “Rose Marie” has come to be tradi- tion in the American theater in the five years of its youth, age, or whatever it is that a show has after its innova- tion has become the common property of the producers. When it was sud- denly popped upon gasping Gotham about five years ago, it took the town by storm. There is less of the storm now, but there is still that aimost uni- versal appeal to the show and undoubt- edly those few who still go to see 1t { for a real evening’s diversion were out | again last night. ‘The Capital was one of the earliest homes of “Rose Marie.” It opened in Atlantic City and thence came straight to Washington, where it received all the acclaim that was its due. Since then there have been several “Rose Marie” companies back in town. The present company, which still has one of the original members of the cast in Charles Meakin, in the role of the sergeant of the Canadian Royal North- west mounted police, has no apologies to make to any of those other organi- zations. In Paul Donah, who plays the more or less leading part, the show has a finished performer and singer. Donah is Jim Kenyon, a rugged fellow of the North. Peggy Pates, as Lady Jane, the bar- maid of a rough-and-tumble saloon of the far North, is another performer who found favor with her public last night. She is well cast. Mira Nirska in the Wanda of the present show, the halfbreed lass, on the side against the well-being of our heroes and hero- ines, and she is altogether a lovable little miscreant. The music is perhaps better known by this time than the show itself, with “Rose Marie” and the beautiful “Indian Love Call,” probably the best two songs of the lot. SHUBERT-BELASCO—“No, No, Nanette.” Cecil Lean and Cleo Mayfield, shin- ing lights of the musical comedy world, have come to Washington and joined Charles Emerson Cook's Savoyans in a presentation of “No, No, Nanette,” com- parable to any road show. It seems that the addition of these two clever and altogether delightful performers was all the Savoy company needed to insure it another substantial stretch in its marathon engagement at the Shu- bert-Belasco. Bringing & new breath of life, new stage tricks and, above all, their own winning ways to the local cast, these guest artists have made a surprising improvement in an organiza- tion whichehad already scored heavily with the theater-going public. Miss Mayfield is an old friend of Washington audiences. Her pleasing personality and drawling voice were never displayed to better advantage than in the opening performance last | night. She was stunning in the last act and drew well merited encores with her - “Where Has My Hubby Gone ues.” Mr. Lean as Jimmy Smith teamed up well with Robert Capron in the princi- pay fun-making roles. Little Virginia Marvin, in the role of Nanette, displayed unusual skill as a dancer and sh She was charming in the song * for Tw Frank Gallagher as Tom Trainor, Nanette’s lover, gave an im- pressive performance. ~ Others who came in for a share in the applause were Beatrice Lee as Pauline, a maid; Renee Hamilton, Thelma Parker and Gladys Huntington, the three light o’ loves of the philandering Smith. New scenery and costumes add mate- rially to the presentation, and the or- chestra does its bit to produce a good evening’s entertainment. NATIONAL—Newman Lecture. From the southwest corner of Eng- land up through the highlands of Scot- land, Mr. Newman carried his audience yesterday in the final lecture of his Washington series. London was not visited, as an entire lecture had been devoted to a tour of the British capi- tal a week ago. From the quaint little fishermen's cottages nestled among the rocks near Land’s End, to the great turrets and towers of Scotland’s historic castles, the pictorial tour was intensely interesting, enlivened by the lecturer's ready wit in deseribing characteristic details and amusing incidents connected with the many fascinating spots visited. Remark- able views of a storm at sea, taken at the cost of much discomfort to Mr. Newman, who was forced to rope him- self to the bridge in order to remain on deck until he had “shot” the scene, were included in this lecture by special re- quest, Starting at Canterbury, Mr. Newman's “party” was conducted -~ through the Broads of Suffolk and Norfolk, to the seashores along the southern coasts, to Cornwall and Penzance, immortalized by Gilbert and Sullivan. 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The home of Bobby Burns, Abbotsford; the home of Sir Walter Scott, lads in kilts, the Scotsmen at play in #hire famous Cale- donian games—castles and the modest cot and vine—all brought before the eyes in a wealth of color and beauty. It is indeed with regret that we bid farewell to Mr. Newman and his magic carpet which has carried us through BSpain, and Germany, into Morocco and Algiers and for two delightful rambles over Great Britain. STRAND—"“Frivolities.” “Bimbo” Davis, widely and favorably | known to burlesque patrons, is here at | the Strand this week with the genuine | “Frivolities” company and a fine bur-; lesque show, to which Tangara, a sen- { sational dancer, gives an additional ; tang. While it’ is expected that the | stars of a burlesque entertainment shall | receive first consideration in a review, it | orthy of note that the “chorus” of | ‘Frivolities” is well worthy of attention | and it might be added worthy of extra | applause. | A number of new and very catchy | songs are introduced during the presen- tation of the program, and the humor looked for at all times is above the | average and most entertaining. Ade- laide Parks is a singer and dancer who | stands out in popularity, and Jlmmyl Hall, Jean Fox and Johnny Cook, an eccentric, contribute nobly to the cause, but there are others in an excellent en- tertainment to make a visit this week to the Strand worth while to any burlesque ; lover, i METROPOLITAN—“My Man.” With a speaking and singing volce that records outstandingly well in the audible sequences and her own winning theatrical personality throughout, Fan- nie Brice makes of “My Man,” at the | Metropolitan this week, a fresh and en- tertaining picture. The story carries ! along with sufficient content to be in- teresting at all times. | Earl Carroll, in writing a record of | the peregrinations of his new plnyx “Fioretta” before it reached New York, noted that Miss Brice, one of the stars | in his spectacle, hied herself io see “My Man” in whatever towns it hap- can imagine her sitting in the dark watching and listening to her first photoplay; it must haxe pleased her immensely; she has a definite quality of naivete despite four marriages (it is four, isn't it?), and it glows through her work on the screen as it does on the stage, most pleasantly. Yet, there is more to her portrayal in “My Man” than merely the “nut stuff” and broad gaucherie which have popu- larized her on the legitimate. It is a spirit of pathos which rings very true, and not without its subtlety. For one thing, it is not forced. One can say that she never overplays a situation. It is the ultimate test of good taste, and so few can meet it. The look of stricken, dull hurt on her face when she finds her man clinging to her own treacherous little sister with unmistak- able ardor the night before their wed- ning is not a matter of facial gymnas- tics to imply grief in the better-known Hollywood manner. It is grief, just as her later fury when she turns this sis- ter from her home is unmasked and un- sentimentalized fury. The climactic scenes when ‘“a broken heart sings bravely through tears” are typical movie stuff, but they are in the story and must be done. Miss Brice does them— and does them well. The Vitaphone recording is, as far as clarity and exact synchronization are concerned, splendid, The spoken dia- logue is, in several instances, much too loud; a gross discrepancy is noticeable when Miss Brice, supposedly singing un- accompanied for her co-workers in the costume sewing room, or, in later scenes, with a single piano or piano and violin, has actually a full orchestra to accom- pany her. Of course this heightens the effect, but it is scarcely literal. The sound-recording of the Brice song style is excellent; not an inflection is lost. Her skit, “Mrs. Cohen at the Beach,” is highly effective, and won Sunday's au- diences completely. Gwynn Williams, playing Joe opposite Miss Brice, is a stiffish young man and the talking sequences (the film is about 50-50 dialogue and silent) add nothing to his laureds. Edna Murphy plays the harsh little sister. Fannie Brice is enough to recommend this picture to your attention; she is far from being simply a comedienne; in her unselfconsciousness before the lens in the positive projection of personality above and beyond the savoir faire which one might expect of her stage back- ground, she comes startlingly close to being a dramatic actress of impressive stature. Added features on the Metropolitan's current bill are a varied newsreel and a talkie on Richard Barthelmess' coming “Weary River.” COLUMBIA—"The Trail of *98.” In its transition to the screen “The Trail of '98” has caught all of the powerfully glaring realism of man’s in- tense struggle with the elements in his mad desire for the great god gold that the vivid novel of the Alaskan stam- pede by Robert W. Service depicts, and from which the film was made. It is realism done on a spectacular scale, calling for the lavishness generally associated with cinema epics which have come to medn the expenditure of huge sums and the employment of a long list of featured players. “The Trail of '98 is essentially a pic- ture of successive gigantic scenes, deal- ing, of course, primarily with the sur- mounting struggle endured by those who undertook the adventure into the wastes of the Klondike, but which, for the sake of a story that includes a thread of romance, a particular boatload is traced from its sailing point, San Francisco. So heavy and obvious are the strokes with which the film is drawn that perhaps It wants a little subtlety, albeit the fact that it is exciting, al- most thrilling entertainment without it. Dolores Del Rio and Ralph Forbes are cast in the romantic leads with pleasing enough effect, while the comedy, crude as it may be, is handled for the most part by Karl Dane, and the heavy, “bad man” role is assumed by Harry Carey, who plays with a technique reminiscent of the melodrama villain of some years back. There follows other and many minor characterizations, in wh&‘ec(}ll that of Tully Marshall should be noted. The major added attraction accom- panying the lengthly feature presents Johnny Marvin in songs, which give him another opportunity to play his ukelele and steel guitar. It is recorded by Metro Movietone. Two very interesting news reels, one with sound from the Fox office and the other silent from the M-G-M studio, the latter including shots from the opening of the New Empire Theater in London, at which was shown the studio of M-G-M, along with some of the stars of that com- pany, and which seems to be more in the nature of an advertisement than a feature. A tuneful thematic prelude is presented by the Columbia orchestra under the baton of Claude Burroughs. Speci'al Coty Combination Package Your Favorite Face Powder and Lovely Compact pened to be playing on their Toute, One STAR, WASHINGTON, FOX—“Captain Lash.” ‘When Victor McLaglen played Capt. Flagg in “What Price Glory?” he brought a new type to the screen, huge, awkward, ribald and likeable, with plenty of brawn to make up for any possible lack of gray matter. In “Cap- tain Lash,” McLaglen is in his element, playing the sort of role that is S0 natu- ral to his type that it isn't acting at all, and so fitted to his peculiar talents that it is impossible for him to fail. To be sure, the current picture is not his greatest by a long way, but what- ever weak spots the film has are cer- tainly not due to his thoroughly satis- factory performance. “Captain Lash” is the story of a coal stoker with a calling list in every port and a “steady” tucked away in Singapore. A woman comes along, so- cially, at least apparently so, from an- other world. She matches her charm against his brawn and converts him into a love-sick slave. Before he has time, however, to go to a finishing school to learn the social niceties his new love requires, he discovers his mis- take, and it is this mistake and its out- come that furnishes the plot for an average melodrama of crook smugglers. The, Singapore background is done with an eye for sinister fascination— a medley in the white, yellow and black of human driftwood. Aside from McLaglen's performance, Clyde Cook, in a comedy bit that isn't all comedy, does a surprising character study with no little bid for honors. Claire Windsor comes back as a clever bionde. As the Singapore “steady, Jane Winton shows no litle flair for comedy. If one likes his melodrama furious, his comedy broad and his hero “he- mannish,” then “Captain Lash” i8 a safe bet. “Broadway Frolic,” the stage revue, is done against an artistic backdrop, and offers syncopation in all its vari eties. Buddy Page, a youthful master of ceremonies, has a piano novelty that is really the whole show. Yara Lee is next best with the audi- ence. Nat Spector does a slapstick bit of contortionism; the Criss Cross Tumblers give a series of marvelous turns and Al Fidare attempts to “out- Cantor” the well known Eddie. The first musical comedy via the Movietone features Lois Moran and Clark and McCullough in “The Belle of Samoa.” It is spectacular and funny and reveals a versatile Moran. ‘The holiday season is patriotically ushered in with a historical Movietone episode and the orchestra’s playing of Herbert’s “American Fantasy.” EARLE—"Annapolis.” The Earle has gone Navy this week with the Pathe release of “Annapolis.” Even the ushers in uniform fit admir- ably into the scene. “Annapolis,” writ- ten by Royal S. Pease, professor of Eng- lish at the United States Naval Acad- emy, and directed by Christy Cabanne, a graduate of that institution, presents an authentic survey of the daily life of our future admirals. In the prologue a chorus of sailor las- sies in white uniforms sing the class song, “Annapolis,” while marching and dancing, and these stirring strains are repeated at appropriate intervals throughout the synchronized film, to- gether with “My Dream Girl.” The principal characters, Herbert Duncan and Willlam Curtis (John Mack Brown and Hugh Allan), class- mates, become rivals when Betty Mont- rose (Jeanette Loff) appears at the an- nual hop. The erstwhile girl-shy Dun- can is immediately smitten with the blond beauty of the Washington girl, and of course, it ends with a wedding marclr under crossed swords. “Skeeter” and “Bulge” add their bit to the human interest of the story. This picture, filmed at the Naval Academy, commands especial interest in scenes of the chapel, Bancroft Hall and Carvel Hall, the spirited music of the Navy Band, the fine appearance of the boys on di parade, graduation exercises and dancing in the gym, sail- ing practice on the bay and a fleet of seaplanes rescuing the hero. ‘The topical review shows Edison act- ing as host to the Hoover party, Amer- ican gobs invading the shops in Panama, investing in strange pets and souvenirs; Lindy returning from his 4,000-mile trip, carrying 12 bags of mail in his Sikorsky amphibian plane, and the Prince of Wales showing an interest in the plight of the jobless miners. A film of curiosities reveals the meth- ods of gathering truffles, a delicacy which retails for $25 a pound; Mis. Winchester's haunted house of 153 rooms at Palo Alto, Calif.; pearl plant- ers of Japan who know their oysters, and an exhibition of televox. The bill ends with an all talkie screaming farce, “\Joy Riding.” THE PALACE—“Wild Orchids.” Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone and Nils Asther represent the three corners of another domestic triangle in “Wild Or- chids,” current attraction at Loew's Palace Theater, with Stone as the hero, Asther as the villain and Garbo, sleekly and sinuously enchanting, as the con- tested prize. In Java, the scene of most of this picture, where “orchids grow 2 85¢ The favorite Coty Shades and the following odors: L’ORIGAN EMERAUDE Tormerrres, First FLooR, PARIS CHYPRE LA ROSE Woopwarp & LoTHROP 107 11" F axp G STREETS Beginning tomorrow—Coty, in celebrating his twenty-fifth anniversary, offers this exceptional value. You purchase your favorite face powder at the regular price and you receive a lovely silver-toned Metal Compact as a complimentary gift. The compact in the same shade and odeur as the powder you purchase, selling at the price of the powder alone. L’AIMANT D. C, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, wild,” the intense heat drives reason from men’s minds and elemental emo- tions hold sway. While the plot offers little to insure the picture’s longevity and the action drags at times, vivid photography of luxuriant tropical veg- etation and the sumptuous splendor of a princely palace, pictorial and sound reproduction of native songs and dances, together with skillful direction of the histrionic accomplishments of the Gar- bo-Stone-Asther trio, have produced a picture that engages one’s interest from beginning to end. By no means unde- serving of favorzble comment is the tiger hunt scene, where one hears what seems to be a faithful reproduction of the jungle war cry. ‘The stage performance, “Varieties of 1929,” put on by Wesley Eddy and the Palace Syncopators, is well worth see- ing for unusual beauty of lighting ef- fects, settings, costumes and the high quality of the varied forms of enter- tainment. The Dave Gould Girls put pep and skill in three striking numbers, Miss Lewis sings, Cunningham and Clements, ballroom dancers, demon- strate the maximum rate of speed of movement for homo sapiens, and the Six Lucky Boys thrill the audience with several acrobatic demonstrations. Last, but by no means least, Johnny Perkins, fat and rosy, evokes peals of laughter and later leaves the field of the ridicu- lous and sings a song of his own in more serious vein with equal success. Fox Movietone and M-G-M News give a view of Thomas A. Edison’s eighty- second birthday anniversary celebration and a few spoken remarks by the in- ventor on his new project of making synthetic rubber, a sound picture of a spirited feline hackfence controversy done with striking realism, pictures of the Prince of Wales’ visit to the impov- erished English coal miners’ homes and a picture of Miss Anne Morrow. ARTHRITIS! 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