Evening Star Newspaper, March 25, 1929, Page 20

OPENING ATTRACTIONS IN WASHINGTON THEATERS STRAND—“Best Show in Town.” With a title that may prove a mis- nomer before the week is out, the Strand Theater started off yesterday in great shape with its Mutual burlesque aggregation bearing the alluring cap- tion, “The Best Show in Town,” and it lacked neither in patronage nor in ap- plause for the entertainment it had to offer. There is a bit of outstanding femininity operating under the name of “She,” a famous character of Rider Haggard, the novelist, in the years gone by, and “She” proceeds directly and thoroughly to gather in all the enthusi- asm bottled up in the audience. “She” is @ dancer. Anna Propp, an attractive little live wire and very popular, appar- ently, shares the honors of the show with “She,” but in a different way. She is attractive, and she sings and dances with vivacity and appeal. Billy Erickson is the leading comedian and, with Jack Marley and Billy de Grey, ably look after the comedy situations. A typical well drilled and industrious chorus and Marie North, a dainty singer, round out the personnel. The usual wrestling match with some “surprises” are promised for Thursday evening's performance. FOX—"“Making the Grade.” George Ade's comedy, “Making the Grade,” is the film feature at the Fox ‘Theater this week which contains many a good chuckle even if not overbur- dened with plot. The imaginative fancy of the great humorist leads us into the slums of Dodsworth, a typical home town, where we suffer with the leading citizen in his efforts to accom- plish a bit welfare work; on a con- vention wh he agonizes over a speech of welcome, and on a highly amusing tuna fishing trip, where our citizen does some more suffering—all in the interest of proving to his girlhood sweetheart that he is a useful sort of person despite his handicap of millions. Edmund Love is the gentleman in question. Lois Moran is charming as the childhood sweetheart. A well chosen cast supports them. A lively stage review augments the feature film, presenting Bert Forhman'’s Jubilee Review with a Springtime note in the artistically garbed chorus and & group of really amusing artists, espe- cially Rome and Haut, the long and short of it from Hyattsville. Florie Armstrong sings some songs, Olsen and St. John do their bit of acrobatic dancing and the “Two Black Blots from Dixie” show them how to tap dance. Chic Sale is seen in an auxiliary all- sound comedy, “A Ladies’ Man.” To this is added some very interesting Fox Movietone news features. Favorite melodies by Moskowski are played by the concert orchestra. METROPOLITAN—“Lucky Boy.” “Lucky Boy” is essentially one of those individual star shows, with the consequence that you will enjoy it very much or very little in accordance with your own attitude toward the efforts of ihe featured player, George Jessel, Fho ventures therein on his first !ull-length\‘ singing and talking picture. Before the Warner Brothers signed Al Jolson to appear and sing in their Vitaphone production, . “The Jazz Singer,” Mr. Jessel's stage success in a Topical Review, which is really the hit of the show, completes the bill. The Metropolitan will offer a mid- night performance of “The Divine Lady,” starring Corinne Griffith, Wed- nesday night, March 27. EARLE—“The Carnation Kid.” With a touch of civic pride we recom- mend “The Carnation Kid.” For away out in the wilds of Hollywood is one of our own “home-town” boys, Douglas MacLean, and in his latest picture he proves as never before that he has per- sonality, originality and genuine comedy sense. This is MacLean’s first “talkie” ven- ture, and as such is a highly promising one. For while MacLean has long capi- talized on his breezy type of fun, it has never registered quite so successfully as it does with the assistance of the spoken word. MacLean'’s voice is decidedly in char- acter, and his lines, which are really sparkling ones, are given with & hint of subtle humor. Also the story of “The Carnation Kid” is a fast-mov- ing, clever farce-drama and manages to sustain a lively interest throughout. This is the old mixed identity plot which the star has standardized, but it has a new twist and snappy lines to keep it going. Lorraine Eddy, a blonde with a weak- ness for machine guns, links arms with MacLean for honors, while Frances Lee does the same for the fade-out. stsi Eddy does a remarkable bit of work and dispenses baby talk, blond villainy and sirenish sophistication with no little resemblance to Lillian Tashman. As for Miss Lee—well, Miss Lee is| the charming heroine, and while she doesn't act much when she isn’t oves- acting, she manages to look quite stun- ning in her yellow roadster. Francis MacDonald also appears in the picture for a few, but necessary, suave lines and the usual police and “gang” forces are utilized in the manner of all good “crook pictures.” The list of “addeds” is quite long and includes in the sound features, & harmonizing sister trio, a novel skit featuring an accordionist with person- ality and a “surprise,” and a playlet that savors of the vaudeville of the old days. A tendency, noted of late, to accompany the sound features with the house orchestra or organ was much in evidence last night. A news reel is also included, and the orches- tra, in flowery mood, plays a medley of songs about roses. PALACE—“The Mating Call.” “The Mating Call,” starring Thomas Meighan, supported by Renee Adoree CORMS Stop Hurting in3 Seconds O matter the same opus seemed to make him, in the minds of many, the logical one for the role in the cinema version. What happened is history and surely few re- gret that the famous “mammy singer” received the call, least of all the Messrs, ‘Warner, In “Lucky Boy” there is “camera consciousness,” particularly on the part of the star. The general impression seems to be that the whole thing is too “movie.” However, if you enjoy Jessel's singing (as recorded by Tiffany ‘Tone) you will forgive all else. Margaret Quimby, a comparative newcomer, in the female lead; Rosa Rosanova and William K. Strauss in the parent roles and Gwen Lee in a so-called society part lend adequate support, with the performances of the mother and father being the most commendable, “His Night Out,” a Vitaphone short, featuring John Miljan, includes a few laughs despite ifs antique plot, and with how sore-- your corn, this new way dead- ens pain in 3 seconds. A touch of amazing scientific Nquid and corn shrivels up. You pick it off easily. Doctors use it and millions of others. It is the world’s fastest and safest way. 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On the stage Bobby Agnew, well known stage star, receives a hearty wel- come; Al Norman, eccentric dancer, takes the house by storm with his un- usual dancing and delightful .mimiery; the Aubrey Sisters give a mnovel doll dance that delights grown-ups as well as the wee miss; the Three Swifts do some interesting juggling feats, and the Foster Girls and six white ponies add their bit, by no means inconsequential, to the revelry. A Hal Roach comedy, “Wrong Again,” featuring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy: an orchestral prelude and M-G-M and Fox Movietone News complete the bill. COLUMBIA—"“The Bellamy Trial.” Attesting to its popularity of theme and skillful presentation, Metro-Gold- wyn-Mayer's sound picture, “The Bel- lamy Trial,” adapted from the novel by Frances Noyes Hart, is held over for a third week at Loew’s Columbia Theater. Here is a mystery story which chal- lenges the greatest exponent of the methods of Sherlock Holmes to solve. The solution comes .like a° bombshell after the trial of the suspected couple in the murder of Madge Bellamy is complete and the verdict rendered. A notable company of stars enact the roles, including Leatrice Joy, who is very effective as Sue Ives; Betty Bron- son, & _budding newspaper ?enms; Charles B. Middleton, the'district at- torney; Kenneth Thompson, George Barrand, Edward Nugent and Margaret Livingston. Subsidiary features, also held over, include a Hal Roach comedy, “When Money Comes”; Movietone News reels, and Metro-Movietone features, one in- trodueing Elsa Ersi, Hungarian singer, accompanied By Nat D. Ayer, in old WoobpwARD & favorites, and two comedy songsters, Gus Van and Joe Schenk. The Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Claude Burroughs conducting, enter- tains with an overture of popular airs. LITTLE THEATER~-“Homecoming.” It is not within the power of this reviewer to recall any picture he has ever seen which eclipses in values of realism those of the German UFA film, “Homecoming,” now showing at the Little Theater. What subtle craft is given the Ger- man directors (in this case one Joe May, & very American sort of name, as a matter of fact) to pack such eloquence into apparent trivia and thus to make a picture great cannot be readily ex- plained. It is not the sense of scene that lingers (as it does, for instance, in the realism of such pictures as “The Big Parade,”. “Beau Geste” and others), but the disturbing impression of emo- tional strife in the minds of the three “cast” actors. UFA made another pic- ture of the same type, “Backstairs.” It, too, had only three principal charac- ters whose destinies were based upon the eternal triangle theme. The two films have much in common, but “Homecoming” is even more ruthless, though there is no murder at the end to add a final shock. There is, instead, a very simple farewell between two men who had suffered unspeakable privation and hardship together; the switching of the affection of a woman from one to another had separated them irre- vocably. A very unadorned story, yet one that moves to its inevitable climax with the implacability of an approaching exe- cution. The title itself in one word carries the significance of the whole tragedy. A homecoming that had been looked forward to for more than two years, that had obsessed the husband through all the horror of persecution in Siberia as a prisoner of war, his one anticipation — this homecoming had crashed in one terrible instant, mak- ing the husband's suffering all in vain, leaving him a stunned empty figure with the sole ambition of forgetfulness. The acting is siperb. 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