Evening Star Newspaper, March 31, 1929, Page 51

coz.wma—m Broadway Melody.” ening. K. | Moniaay METROPOLITAN—“The Divine Lady.” This afternoon and | FOX~-“Hearts in Dixie.” 'This afternoon and evening. = PALACE—“The Duke Steps Out.” EARLE—“Children of the Rits.” LITTLE THEATER—“The White Sister.” “The Divine Lady,” a First National's Vitaj is the current at- etropolitan_Theater. ith has a role of un- Lady H-mutnn," ra uubo thump‘:‘ after whom - ture is titled and about whom the plot revolves, h'n;m is no more fascinati psm e r history or literature besutiful Lady Hamilton. Without too et it vl e hrough her eventual rise to fame ence as the wife of Lord iton. Her idealistic romance with Lord Nelson, England’s great naval hero, and her final years of oblivion and ob- scurity when she sent Nelson back to command. the British flect make a dra- | ;; E‘Aficuuh'vmhmorywhlmnnmm- mnkmur%:e:h the director-and his elson's fleet :‘f grips_with e R are "’x"fi spect - as any of type ever attempted. ‘ Splendid suj is given by Victor ‘Varconi as Lord Nelson and H. B. War- S, S, B o '3 etic .role Charles urevgfllo, whnm‘%nmn loved be- fore she met Lord Lady. Hamilton adds lighter moments to the Ire, Dorothy Michael Vavitch, Helen Jerome s Montagu Love and at least a dozen other players complete the brilliant cast. “The Divine Lady” is based on E. Barrington’s novel. COLUMBIA—“The Broadway Melody.” afternoon and evening. This afternoon and h-nnmmd!nmuhdemfidynfl the Fox combined | £ “The Broadway Melody,” Metro-Gold- | beefs wyn-Mayer's talking, singing, dancing and dramatic sensation, is the feature at Loew's Columbia - for the current week. This is the picture now being shown to capacity at the Astor Theater in New York City at $2 prices. here at regular “Loew” prices. Featured in the cast are Anita Page, Bessie Love ?nd Charles King of musical comedy [ame. o Miss Love and Miss Page appear as two sisters who have just wgn from small-time ‘vaudeville to show Broad- f the team, who is going to land it in “big time” through the in- flxuenee of mw{e{n'mvd. Charles King. lowever, r ven a tryout, they !lflmtlohmlk: ';hiu ‘Msh: ‘The Jounger put W as a model and makes good. King falls in love with the younger girl. sense the situation. The younger dis- courages y going out with the “stage door Johnnies,” while the older girl, seeing-that King really loves the she never cared for . ith ‘her heart breaking she takes another partner and goes back to the sticks. Robert Ames and Carroll Nye are Presented in a Metro Movietone one-act drama of the World War, “Confession,” which was directed by Lionel Barry- more.- The Fox News, the M—G-H‘Nea and the Columbia Or- chestra, Claude Burrows, com- plete the program. FOX—"Hearts in Dixie.” “Hearts in Dixle,” a ; singing, dancing _motion pl:wrehlk:?' the old Southl is this week’s feature at the Fox ¢ 1t is also an outstanding current success aththe Galety Theater in New York City. The dpens from slavery, .has not yet discovered Jus: how to'find “himself. But with it come the bld-time parties, the cue, the wedding of Caroline Day, the shiftless Stepin Fetchit, and the Bill- brew Chorus of 60 voices Lucky ce and Sally Hicks and Gladys Hart. Both girls | daugh! ‘Wesley Eddy 18 back inthe Dave Gould production “Rainbow Trail,” whose cast includes Jean Boydell, comedienne; Bud lell, rope artist; Marie White, toe dancer; Ossman and Schepp, banj; team; the Bachelor Four and the Gluck- Sorel girls. The Fox Movietone News, the M-G-M News, the Palace Orches- tra, under Harry Borjes; Charles Gaige at the organ and short subjects com- plete the program. EARLE—“Children of the Ritz.” Jack Mulhall and Dorothy Mackaill, that popular romantic “team,” will offer an example of what modern really is in their latest First National Vitaphone picture, “Children of the Ritz,” this week at the Earle Theater. In this sparkling Vitaphone picture of upper and lower cmsg life i:kNew e York City the heroine is a millionaire’s u);.m;hgommmune 3 pent “ b ey S an’ e Rhi.? of modern democracy. (e”wur . only one element of the interesting | « Carnel plot, which is based rich’s _celel 11 Wool- lebrated _$1 or John Francis Dillon nu: story. and it features, besides the Wmfi James 'Ford, Ka M b Dawson, Edward Burns and Lee Moran. LITTLE THEATER—"“The White . Sister.” “The White Sister,” one of the great glomm of Lillian Gish's career and Colman’s first picture, is the {featured attraction at the Little ‘Thea- ter this week. The on 0,000 “in_the period just|and following. bo“‘ihe Clvil War, ‘when ‘the newly Negro of that period, freed | g barbe- | ing heen vows of the Order of the only to find immediat her lover has escaped the Turks, who had l‘:'eld him captive. Her battle Harlem’s Colored Talent. P, in Harlem, New York’s colored section, ‘where more than 200,000 promine :h;:fl:tm folk m army of en Y entertained nightly by the torrid types of songs and dances. Far into the night, and, often until the sun is well up .1051“:1 the East River, the adyenturous Broadway prods ent. nlllnm-eeeu‘m&smm- a Broadway producer of nof covered really fine artists, who . have subsequently been sensations in the Great White Way and who haye ad- vanced so far in the fleld of entertain- ment that their names have flickered for weeks and weeks at a time in bril- A fomired onty one vilt to Havlem one 's cabarets to cont Carl Van Vechten that here was'an ui material for a novel. dancing floors of raucous blares of small which raise s tumult entirely out of ing world excep! Harlem. - S0 Van Vechten wrote his reservoir of lights, crude the tale, including 2 | Prin 1) are also ent 5'38 Epls b £. Apiii 8 g.?iiilg il an g K, quaint cmnebrgm and for. tic and artistic settings. - STRAND—“Nite Life in “Nite Life in Paris" will week’s Mutual circuit burlesque tion ln"t.h’;de. Theater, : g L1 S { % Delano, roduction is rounded of unusual beauties. “Cinderells,” April 12-13. One hundred and sixteen Girl Re- serves of Wi all mmhm-m is being produced by of grade school girls, will appear in the fing and_ dasces’ of Wortn- Loomis’ fair operetta, “Cinder- n - | ella,” when it is given for the three per- | formances in Barker Hall at the Young Women's' Christian Association, Seven- teenth and K streets, on Friday snd Saturday, April 12 and 13. Much attention is being designing and execution of the.three scenes, which tell the of the fairy : Cinderella’s kitchen, ce Charming’s palace, and the exterior of the stepmother's home. Girls who achieved success in last sea. son's presentation of the “Pled will be seen in im) plece, which is Alice Sigworth Morse , and B. Ireland. Tickets for the three per- formances are now to be had at the Young Women's Christian Association: . ROBIN HOOD PLAYERS—April 24-25. Paul Messink, d directar duction of plays which, while tertaining. He is planning to stage several pro- ductions of xomuu appeal during the s%m and Autumn. The first be e Back,” a problem “puy to be m;ed at St. Paul's Hall April 24 The cast has been theatrical talent. Fra) ), Stella Nicro, James Ferraro, Barbara Hesse, Helen Scheckels, and Mr. ‘Mes- sink himself. - % An All-Villain Cast/ ERHAPS for the first time in film Cage, First National-Vitaphone is Among the noted acreen ains in- cluded in the g tion aré Matthew 'Betz, Ralph , George Stone, Lucien Littlefield, Robert T. Haines and Charles Sellon. NOW-PLAYING .Come Behind . ==of Broadway,where this IodiousBig Parade of the G ind the Scem._ Whise Way! sound photoplay. The Moving Picture cAlbum By Robert E. Sherwood. VERY mfl important per- sonage & statement on the decline and fall of the drama. to bring TEITTG Efgn - E' il <HE $e The newspaj dg 5 _and are full of announce that the drama is i e ay un| p I Teip ‘i‘:nt'huemm Tesponse the public murmurs, “I know it was sick,” and continues, in forebodings, didn't even (31 58 : EQEEE;;_ Bels HEqeoagt i §§g§?§§§ i i f15; =3 bilns al Interlude” as & cess show. “Strange Interlude” sure-fire attraction o since * “Able’s fi fgfiigi'; [ g2 §§§§E§ Please Keep Away. 3 APIW mw the Pirst Na- tional-Vita) Studios placed a beacon on the water tower there as a for night flyers, to warn them of peril of “the nearby Hol!gl'oad Mountains. Guiding signs, pointing to the nearest were on the Irish Rose.” It has been managed with lines land at this field, one of the big- gest and finest in America. ‘The problem.with. the officials now is in | to “shoo off” these phnn:mwhm i&g g7 fE § i § : STH BET. F AND G ONE WEEK ONLY LILLIAN GISH and | RONALD COLMAN “THE WHITE SISTER” P AT FOURTEENTH THe OLD sOuTH ALK SING Sensational T’?“""" wau Musical Drama of the Real DIXIELAND 1 WITH CAST OF 200 3 BILLBREW CHORUS OF 60 avo STEPIN FETCHIT The Lasiest Man in the World For. the First Time in History HEAR and SEE On the Motion Picture Screen .. The Crooning Workers “in“the Cotton Flelds ‘The ‘Weird . Voodoo, Ceremonies. e in the Uplands The Good Ship ‘Nellie Bly,” '~ _Pride of the Misslssippt -~ </ MAKE YOUR ENTERTAINMENT A PLEASURE Enjoy the Outstanding Screen Entertainment in Washington at the Stanley-Crandall 4t our regul e Tome Bme” New York 4 saying (4 Vitaphone Hn'i‘l‘l to Vivid Life the World’s Most Beautiful Enchantress A 'First National Vita- ‘phone Picture so Tre- mendous It Forces an Entire New Conception of the Scope of Cinema 7 Art. ( Vitaphone Acts THE FOUR SYNCO-PETS An_ Instrumental Quartette in “MUSICAL MOMENTS” NOW PLAYING A Story by Youth, for Youth and With Youth. JACK MULHALL DOROTHY MACKAILL . The Screen’s Greatest Love-Team in Their First. Vitaphone First National Pict AND TO COMPLETE THE PROGRAM 4 Paramount Al-Talking Comedy “POST MORTEMS” Vilaphone Presentation “THE PARAGONS” IN “IN THE TROPIOS" TALKING 0 SOUND PICTURES Will Be Inaugurated in Two More of the Stanley-Crandall Residential Theaters Ga. & Fo lb.l.'.to-bo,d.d’hla “LIGHTS OF “THE SINGIN N\ NEW YORK” ~ FOOL” 91 H St. NE. TOUREROF ol 2T s T i T Gt T PURRRRY ol TEY