Evening Star Newspaper, May 22, 1929, Page 25

NATIONAL PLAYERS—“The Spider.” Beginning next Monday, the National Theater Players will revive the mystery play of three seasons ago, “The Spider,” which paved a new path in the realm of the mysterious. So original was the | idea developed on the first night of its presentation, the audience is said have believed themselves in the wrong theater. They were under the impression they had gone to See a mystery play, as advertised, and instead had landed in a vaudeville house. The Play opens in this way. A regular vaudeville performance is | on when the mystery play itself opens, | 20 that there are two performances in | one. John Halliday played the lead Tole in the original cast, taking the part of a master magician in the vaude- ville show. Washingtonians saw “The Spider” for one week in the sesson before last, when the original company disbanded here after a long run on Broadway. After its Broadway run, the play had & road tour throughout the country. Excellent parts are provided all the players and Addison Pitt, director and an adept at staging mystery plays, is busily engaged with the many con- trivances and contraptions which are, to be utilized to keep up the fast pace necessary in the pla: THEATER ARTS SCHOOL PLAYS— | ‘Tuesday. | Players of the Theater Arts School will present three one-act plays and one entr’ acte at Pierce Hall, Fifteenth and Harvard streets, Tuesday evening, May 28, at 8:15. The first play depicts characters of history—Peg Woffington, George Anne Bellamy, Sir Philip Dill, David Garrick and the Duchess of Queensberry. The scene is in Drury Lane Theater, London, in 1743. The second play, “Their Husband,” by Alice Gertensberg, is a modern drama; the entre acte a comedy scene from “The ‘Hunchback,” by James S. Knowles, and the third play “The Slave With Two Faces,” an allegory, by Carolyn Davies. The plays are under direction of Lucy Ann Rogers. HOFFMAN-HOSKINS' Friday. Hoffman & Hoskins will present their | kiddies at Keith's Theater Friday and Saturday at 8:15 pm. The show is ar- ranged in 10 scenes, representing the 10 holidays throughout the year, which gives the youngsters plenty of opportu- nity to show their talent and versa- tilit. Gorgeous stage settings are pronflsed, with costumes as lovely as those in Broadway productions. For the past 10 years the popularity of this kiddies' show has been steadily owing with the Washington public. 'he revue boasts of a baby chorus of 30 tots, all under 5 years of #¢e, as Zulu maids. A military tap dance by the larger girls will be one of the fea- tures. Eighteen group dances and solos of novelty and charm will make up the program. DANCERS. TCHERNIKOFF-GARDINER, Friday. Una Ralph, one of the featured dancers on the program of the Tcher- nikoff-Gardiner recital to be given Priday and Saturday nights at Ward- man Park Theater, will go to New -York immediately after the recital to train with Albertina Rasch. Miss Ralph had a tryout in New York a few days ago with Zeigfeld and, it i3 said, is to put in one of his two new luctions, “Show Girl” or “East Is West.” Miss Ralph will dance her Russian gypsy dance, and will interpret the part of the poet Alfred de Musset, in the Chopin ballet, arranged by Miss Gardiner espe- clally for thia Fecital. Two unusual selections will be the interpretation of a Negro spiritual, and the “G Major Prelude” of Rachman- Gardiner, who in the prelude. i seen in solo in two preludes, both Debussy numbers, “The Dance of Delphi” and “Veils.” The first: “Arabesque” of Debussy is to be repeated by request, and Paul | ‘Tchernikoff will nt _two newly arran numbers, “Harlequin,” = to music by Gooskins, and a “March” of Tchaikowsky. * 'C] y. . Four of the pupils who will be seen in solo—Christine Stewart, Faye Rogers, Catherine Mullowny and Clayton Estes —will sail June 9 for Europe with Miss Gardiner to study this Summer with Mme. Tresilo Tresilona, whose Russian School of Dancing is famous in Europe. FOX—Fox Movietone “Follies.” ‘The management of the Fox Theater, in announcing the appearance of the first film “Follles” at that house, Satur- this week, states that the pro- duction, costing more then a million was produced with Marcel Sil- ver of Paris directing the song and dance revue numbers and David Butler directing the book. Con Conrad, Sid- ney Mitchell and Archie Gottler wrote the words and music, although William K. Wells, who wrote the book for George White's “Scandals” and for “Manhat- tan Mary,” is the author of the book. The orchestra leader is Arthur Kay and the orchestra contained 60 musicians. Many of the costumes were designed by Rose O'Neill, for many years the de- signer for Dillingham, Erlanger and other producers. ‘The cast includes Sue Carrol, Lola who origi- john Bree- Lane, Saron Lynn, Dixie Lee, the “Varsity Drag’ Was Washington Salesrooms 419 Tenth Street N.W. be | exciting moments is promised at the G AS AP don, Stepin Fetchit, the colored come- dian of “Hearts in Dixie”; David Rollins; David Percy, “golden voiced bariton Frank Richardson, Warren Hyner, Arthur Stone and De Witt Jen- nings,” with others, numbering up to| 100" persons, including. the ‘“cream of Hollywood feminine beauty. The production, which was started in October, 1928, and completed in April of this' year, contains songs, dances, fantasies, comedy and novelties that will appeal to every taste. Its world premiere is announced to take place at the Fox Theater in this city simulta- neously with the Roxy Theater, New York. These are the claims made for the first of the screen “Follies.” PALACE—“Where East Is East.” Grim jungle wilderness, desperate ad- ventures and battles ®vith wild beasts, with the exotic and bizarre surround- ings of an Oriental paradise, are ele- ments of “Where East Is East” a| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer sound picture, | featuring Lon Chaney, which comes to Loew's Palace Saturday. In the sup-| porting cast is Lupe Valez, Estelle Tay- lor and Lloyd Hughes. | The story finds Lon Chaney, a for- mer circus performer, engaged in secur- ing wild animals for circuses. He lives happily with his daughter, whose mother had deserted her years before. A young American showman appears and falls in love with the daughter,| who returns the love. Chaney is| pleased. All goes well until the mether | apears as a sinuous Oriental .charmer and makes love to the young man. The girl's ‘father warns her, but she per-| sists, and so he decides to let a huge captive gorilla loose on his former wife, | but at the last moment he tries to save her. She is killed and he is mortally wounded, but the daughter and her new hu(s)bnnd are happily married. n the stage Herbert Rawlinson, as “Hollywood's Ambassador of is presented in “Seashore Fol- a production staged by Frank Cambria, which features the Palace Syncopators, Ed and Morton Beck, the Darling Twins, Prosper and Moret and the Dave Gould Boys and Girls. The -G-M News, the Fox Movietone News, Charles Gaige at the organ, Harry Borjes with the Palace Orchestra and short subjects will complete the pro- gram. EARLE—"Hot Stuff.” Alice White, called the youngest star | — in Hollywood, is the attraction at the Earle Theater next week, beginning with a Friday midnight show this week, in her latest jazzy screen opus, “Hot Stuff,” a First National-Vitaphone pic- ture, adapted from Robert 8. Carr's college story, “Bluffers.” Marvyn Le Roy was the director. “Hot Stuff” deals with the adven- tures of a gay group of college stu- dents, and particularly of a boy and a girl who pretend they are worse than they realiy are. It also provides a pretty romance, with plenty of college atmosphere in the background. The cast includes many well known players, including William Bakewell, opposite the star, and Louise Fazenda in the leading_comedy role, together with Ben Hall, Doris Dawson. Charles Sellon, Buddy Messinger, Andy Devine and Larry Banthim. RIALTO—“The Last Warning.” A complete assortment of thrills and Rislto, beginning Saturday, in “The Last Warning,” & mystery drama with dialogue and effects. Laura La Plante, the olia in “Show Boat,” and John Boles, the golden voiced singer in “The Desert Song,” are featured. “The Last Warning” is a screen adaptation of one of the imost success- ful mystery plays ever seen on Broad- way. The story is lald in a theater which has been closed sinee the disa) pearance and murder of the star in the midst of a performance. After five years the spooky old theater is re- opemed for rehearsals of the same play by the same cast which had originally layed it. Strange things happen as the ghost of the dead star begins to walk and warns the players against re- enlalng the play.. The last. warning, from which the picture gets its title, is given just before a big gala opening. The play goes on, but with starfling results. : COLUMBIA—"Coquette.” . “Coquette,” featuring Mary Pickford in her first talking picture, will remain t Loew's Columbia for a second week. It is a United Artist talking picture, adapted from a well known stage play, in which a new Mary is seen as a gay flirt, the modern daughter of an old- fashioned father, whose dancing feet into grim complications. Norma Besant is a belle in a Southern town who lajighed her way in and out of countless love affairs and thrilling flir- tations. Life moved for her in a gay whirl of kisses, dances and congaests. Then came the day when Norma stepped outside the pale of her own social world and met Michael Jeffrey, a carefree, hot-headed adventurer from the hills. With determined sincerity, Michael refuses to become another vic- tim of her wiles, refuses to play with her the game of make-believe, and sud- denly, for the first time in her life, Norma realizes that she is truly in love. Forbidden by her father to see the man, es from a whimsical girl to THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1929. Photoplays at Washington Theaters Next Week | shots and light effects, particularly one | just larned that the clock has never of every-day people that revolves sround the lives of Bill, an under« ground porter; Nell, a shopgirl; Kate, & seamstress, and Bert, an electrician. Brian Aherene is cast as the under: ground porter, with Elissa Landl in the| part of Nell, the love interest of Bert The picture -was actually photographed in the London subways, and introduces some unique camera of a glittering train fading into thei The well known ‘“assassins of grief,”| Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, “hash gs up” in a comedy, “From Soup to Nuts,” which, with the news reel-and | overture by the Little Trio, will com- People who have been passing West- minister Abbey, London, for years, have had a minute hand, and gives only the famous DREER - ROSE- BUSHES v C&C Flower Stores We .re' fe.nturiu the 98¢ - 807 14th St.. N:Wa: Franklin 5#42. - 804 17th St. N.W. 3 ~7 FrankINF-1039T T Screen : Paint. It wonderfully. WEEK OF B VAT 6 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thurgday Friday . 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She persuades him to take her to his mother’s cabin, so that they may talk in seclusion. While leaving they are seen by two of the town's gos- sips, and when Michael goes to Norma's father later to ask to marry his daugh- ter, in a fit of rage the father kills the boy, and Mln&y makes the greatest sacri- fice of her life. Ukulele Tke entértains with his hum- ming and strumming, as do the Ponce Sisters, in Metro Movietone acts. The Fox Movietone News, the M-G-M News, the Columbia Orchestra under Claude Burrows, a Stan Laurel-Oliver Hardy M-G-M comedy, and Janet Coon, win- ner of the Mary Pickford. “Coquette” contest, in whistling numbers, complete the program. % METROPOLITAN—“The Desert Song.” Screen operetta is now a fact— the magic of the sound pic- ture “The Desert Song,” which is now shown on the stage, and has with all its original glory. an ex the setting pw lotta Kll!;g Jan, M Martindel, Otto Hoffman, Guzman and Myrna Loy, with a Beige or white kid is, indeed, ¥ charming in this flattering creation —an entirely new model in smart footwear. Choice of high or low spike heel, $14. Sheér Chiffon Hosiery, $1.65 to $275 INDUSTRIAL PITMAN ECONOMY FRYING KETTLES Only one kettle is now n ing fat with the new Pitman Economy Fryer. All kinds of food can be cooked, one taste or odor from one permeating the other, assuring a saving of 30% in fat as well perature is assured at all tim trol. 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NEW BUSINESS DEPARTMENT—Industrial Division of the most tuneful musical plays ever brought to the'screen on a scale im- possible in the theater, Sigmund Rom- A its magnificent choruses and beautiful solo numbers, has been reproduced by Vitaphone in The scenes throughout the picture are especially beautiful, ranging from nsive French military post m Morocco to encampments of the Red Shadow and his band of native Riffs in rocky passes of the mountains with far-flung vistas of the rolling sands of the great African desérts, the Riffs singing as they go, riding their mag- nificent horses. at” breakreck speed into The cast of “The Desert Song” in- cludes John Boles, Louise-Fazenda, Car- Johnny Arthur, John Mil- Welis,” Jaok *Pratt, Edward Robert E. been chorus | ning Saturday of this week. It was directed by its author, An- thony Asquith, who also directed “Shooting Stars,” and is a British pro- for’the screen by Harvey H. Gates. 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