Evening Star Newspaper, June 23, 1929, Page 49

:dnoD:mth: | Chadwick an: “Father and Theater, Screen and Music LA PLANTE- Rialto SCREEN ATTRACTIONS OF THE WEEK. COLUMBIA—“The Cocoanuts.” FOX—“Father and Son.” This “THis afternoon and evening. afternoon and evening. "AN—“The Gamblers.” This afternoon and evening. P. “The Idle Rich.” This afternoon and evening. “The Squall.” This afternoon and evening. RIALTO—“Scandal.” 'This afternoon and évening. LITTLE THEATER—"Simba.” This afternoon and evening. Affair,” Mr. Holt’s first .~ In the supporting cast McBan, one of the most actors now in the pic- Revier, with Helene Wheeler Oakman. Son” is one of the few ' stories of the screen that fllustrate the and sacrifice of a father. It is stori ines and “The 40 Fox Jazz- under Leon Brusiloff. Fox News will round out the COLUMBIA—“The Cocoanuts.” *The Cocoanuts,” the hilarious musi- eal comedy that ran in New York for over a year at & $6.60 admission price and which features the unique come- dians, the Marx brothers, considered by ranges from irresistible clowning to an enchanting performance on the harp. ‘When Harpo, the red-headed harpist, rforms he usually stops the show. en there is Chico, who plays the piano in a manner that would do most pianists proud, but still and always the clown, while Grougho, considered fun- niest of all the brothérs, and Zeppo, wE: piays straight, do their own spe- cial turns. ‘The music numbers of the productiod were written by Irving Berlin, and they are sung, in the picture, by Mary Eaton and Oscar Shaw. There is a light, flufly plot with a dash of romance which Mary Eaton takes care of, while the Marx brothers do their best to disrupt it. “The Cocoa- nuts,” gay, delightful and very funny, is probably the mos; enjoyable musical show yet to grace the talking screen. Claude Burrows, with the Columbia Orchestra, the M-G-M News, the Fox an ensemble of énjoyable entertain- ment, i ‘The screen version is said to adhere lay, which 3 tor was nowledge of Hung and gypsy hab- . Picturesque backgrounds add much uall” includes ta Young, Nicho- y to do the finest “The Idle Rich,” a Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer talking production adapted from a successful play, is featured at Loew's Palace this week, with a cast headed by Conrad Nagle, Bessie Love and Leila Hyams, a trio of well known screen stars. ‘The story concerns s young million- aire who marries his stenographer. a college uate, but the member of a poor and distinctly middle-class family. The young husband has the intention of moving her family into better surround- ings, but a cousin, Henry, living with the family. reminds him that he just happened to be born rich and that they did not want any charity. Under the conditions, the young husband decides to make his home with the family and meet, them on common ground. He also tries to secure a job in South America for Henry in order to get him out of the way. but Henry again upsets the plan. When William finally announces that he has given away his entire for- tune to the middle classes, & happy ul:lutlon is reached that clears up the clouds. On the stage, “Hollywood's ambassa- dor of joy,” Herbert Rawlinson, is pre- sented with the Palace Syncopators in the Loew-Publix unit’of bulls and bears, “Wall Street Blués.” Featured in the cast of entertainers are Jack Osterman, a Broadway star: Barnett and Clark, Kay McKay, Josephine Lewis and the Gluck-Sorel Girls. The Fox Movietone News, the M-G-M News, short subjects, the Palace Orchestra under Harry Bor- Jes and Charles Gaige at the organ com- plete the bill. METROPOLITAN—“The Gamblers.” “The Gamblers” is the screen offer- ln;kn Crandall's Metropolitan this week. The story is tense and was adapted from a play which held a Broad- way stage for many months and after- ward had a road showing. Michael Curtiz, the director, is sald to have caught in it original and interesting ang! and to have brought out the characters with a_realism that seems almost uncanny. It is the story of the “gambling Emersons,” stock brokers of Wall Street, who by questionable loans the &a:l.u;fmmvu within AMUSEMENT SECTION The Sunday Star. WASHINGTON, HARPO MARX and ARY EATON- Columbra BARNE: and CLARK-- Palace (S#ge) Current Attractions. NATIONAL PLAYERS-“Rain.” John Colton’s dramatio sdaptation of a short story by Somersét Maughan in the play called “Rain™ will be the at- traction at the National Theater this week, beginning tomorrow night. In the last five years “Rain” has been widely discussed. It was the star- ring vehicle for Jeanne Eagels for two successive seasons on Broadway and afterwarl on an extensive tour of the country. In the role of Sadie Thomp- son, Miss Eagels won her fame, This same role will be played by Edith King of the National Theater Players, who has played it in other cities and on the road. The play is so well known that it needs no description. A missionary, upon per- secuting the wayward Sadie Thompson, n “Rain,” it is anndunced, the Na- tional Theater Players-are unde one of the most difficult productions of their careers. The characters. in-the play are clear-cut and definitely drawn, and the locale of the story is Pi Pago, an island in the Far Pacific. An incessant rain is an outstanding fea- ture of the atmosphere. This steady downpour of rain throughout the ac- tion of the play has called forth extraordinary effort to give realism to the scene. The stage set erected for this purpose is said to be an exact duplicate of the original used by the Jeanne Eagels company and one of the most costly ever to be put on the stage of the National. Addison Pitt, the director, has given special consideration to thie assignments of the cast. .Edward Arnold will be the Innkeeper, the fat, slouchy creature who sits in front of the inn in Pago Pago, :genmng most of his time in fanning e flies away. Mrs. Hibbard, Charles Hampden and Helen Wallace also will be_featured. Matinees will ‘be given -Wednesday and Saturday. “THE MANDARIN COAT—" Wednesday. “The Mandarin Coat,” one-act play, American in spite of its ‘oriental name, will be presented by the Estelle Allen Players Wednesday evening at - the studio in Stoneleigh Court. Bernice Babcock, as Dorothy Mendon, plays the young wife, who takes house- keeping money to buy at auction a much desired mandarin_coat. Her husband, John, played by Lamport Hill, discovering it, suspects a former ad- mirer of giving it and becomes wildly jealous. Bobby, the former lover, buys the coat from Dorothy for Edith Ches- ter for an engagement present. John, however, sees the transaction and more complications ensue. ~All is ‘happily ended, however. Harold Long, Henrletta Stanley and Mary Gephart'will also appear in the cast. New Talkie “Follies." P S et reen, B of Jones and Gi 3 as “Bohemians, Inc.”, for the film the “Greenwich Village hllu'a‘klnd. D. T A‘Gl E an d SCREEN C, EDITH KING~ SUNDAY MORN NG, JUNE 23, 1929, 7t Simpa” v LitHe Theater Natiomal The Summer Shows By Percy Hammond. other tests undergo their se- verest examination. Many plays that are competent to entertain us on the “lone Winter evenings” fail to be amusing in the hotter hours, and they wither and fade away when sub- jected to Summer’s crucible inquiries. Only the most oaken of the exhibitions are able to survive the parching in- fiyences -of June, July and August, and those that do so are entjtied to be named in & list of human necessities. In such a catalogue the following shows, llYu and dramas have a right to be fnc luded. They have proved themselves m'renur to both heat and humidity, and they stand erect and E jumphant over the hostility of HYS is the time of year when the | dramas that have passed all temperature to art: ago “m in Hi '—In ‘which what a might have been a good play, by John D:l‘nk'l!fl', is turned into an obse- quious farce. “Whoopee”—Another Ziegfeld pano- rama, distinguished by pretty, un- ashamed Broadway girls and by Eddie Cantor, & prominent and expert revue comedian. “Journey’s End”"—A fine play about the British as they fought the World War, In it you see the drama in its best behavior, relating in a subtle com- bination of truth and tricks, some vivid incidents of Armageddon. Though not 50 lively as “What Price Glory,” it is the soberest of the pacifist war plays. “The Little Show"—This is & bright essay in urban revue, sponsored by Dwight Deere Wiman, a scion of the famous Deere family, which is re- nowned for its manufacture of agri- cultural implements. Though born and bred an agrarian, Mr. Wiman knows his way through the drama’s metropolis, and, with the assistance of a city chap, | wif, the junior William A. Brady, he gives an exhilarating show at a tenth of what t‘tvmu Ziegfeld, Earl Carroll or George “Street Soene”—The winner of the Pulitzer prize for the season's best circus. An_exciting superchromo of ashcan gnd hurdy-gurdy New York life, “Street Scene” is as good a carnival as Broadway offers. Its actors are con- scientious, its stage-direction shrewd, and in case you are not too fastidious, you will join the University of Colum- bia in acclaiming “Street Scene” as the winner of this year's Pulitzer derby. “The Perfect Alibi"—Graceful mur- dering in a mystery romance by A. A. Milne, who does his best to reconcile metropolitan diversion. The ferries and the Hudson tunnels, they tell me, are crowded these hot g&m with pilgrims anxious to get to ken, N. J., and the ‘Rialto Theater, in the vicinity of which are German refectors purvey- ing the beer and sausages compli- mentary to love of the drama. I hoj that Mr. Morley and his com- pan will venture into Times Square next season, where, I am told, they are i gl > QGirl, ", frame- 'halen’s careful police, is still ! ating in Times Square, pat ly by Joe Le Blanc's cut-rate cus- tomers and innocent drama-lovers from De'nAverN d: Sioux City. humor of its buffoons, prettiness ‘of its. dan deat! filth of some of i “Follow Thru” and “Hold Evs —Tuneful antics of the better musical comedy kind, overflowing with Broad- way fun, melody and sex. foregoing long list of shows that are strong enough to overcome the weather may be depended upon, since it has been by several depend- able Broadway actuaries. It is, I sus- ct, a record of which the drama may t in its modest way, claiming that it can be successful even in a contest with perspiration and the public’s de- sire to be in the open air. AT Wifely Help. WB!N Jimmie Gleason, author of “Is Zat 80?” “The. Shannops of Broadway” andl ether stage successes, feels & play coming on, he takes his e into his confidence and they talk the thing out thoroughly before the writing is n. It may be feminine intuition, or it may be something else, the actor-play- wright says, but experience has con- vinced him that Mrs. Gleason's judg- ment is usually unerring. She put the seal of approval on “Is’ Zat So?” long before any producer even knew Glea~ son was writing it and even picked out ‘what she considered the htest spots in the dialogue. Audiences vindicated her judgment and the same is true of “The Shannons of Broadway.” the American box office to English art. | hay “Let Us Be Gay"—Miss Francine Larrimore, the heroine of this work by Phillip Barry, is not so alluring as might be possible, disdaining, as she does, the counterfeit fascinations of the “Pm‘:k and rouge pot. So the honors of the play go to Miss Charlotte Gran- ville, who represents a huniorous dow- ager, with none of the routine gestures exm: from o nations of the we! “Let Us Be Gay,” worthy of attend- ance in e or in snow. th the Needle's “The Follles | Eye"—A Theater Guild enterprise and and will s oHor Sears ‘the” Foremmmien Villa, years b ge Follies” has been a New York theatrical institution. The first edition was put on in the season of 1919-20, Green and Al Jones, the pro- Morris ducers of the stage versions, will duce the . which (A xh'fre' s to & first-class triviality from the Conti- nent. It reveals Miss Mirlam Hopkins as an actress of ability when under the te | the ;| Glen’ Eeho is. Outd;or Amusements. ) aLE GLEN ECHO PARK. For the benefit of those who have nol'l.ls visited Glen Echo Park it may be stated that the park this year offers more than half a hundred amusements. Good roads ]l:;l. to its gates grom all it young and old alike. X In the one may dance to the strains of Mc ' _Orchestra Williams’ T | nightly from 8:30 until 11:30 (except Sunday), or take a ride on some of thrillers, or simply sit around and relax, looking at the merrymakers. also an . ideal place to plenie, with its mdg flwes, plent of benches and other facilities for suc! outings. MARSHALL HALL. ‘The steamer Charles Macalester makes three trips daily and Sunday to Marshall , lea the Seventh Street. wharf dally at 10 a.m., 2:30 and 6:45, with the Sunday morning trip at 10:30. Marshall Hall is located in a beautiful and historic spot on Potomac and presents many fun and entertaining features, such as the aero- plane swing, carrousel, coaster dip, etc. A popular feature is the free dancing in the pavilon. Picnic groves with tables and benches are available for all-day and evening family outings. “Sneeze Arresters. SNEEZE during the making of & silent version of a motion picture means the waste of some film footage and small amount of time if the sneezer happens to be in the path of the camera. uuA sneeze l‘a‘e‘rnre the microphone in making of. talking ‘pictures means the temporary paralysis of the’ studio, the possible destruction -of the record- ing apparatus, the blowing out of fuses and lights and the complete loss of the One of {he siringest sights yet found e s s e lan movl:g:m l:xll’{m have been noted urlnf ni recording of “The Squall” Two assistants and three Pblayers wore clothspins on-their noses when not actually at work, under the is | watchful eyes of Alexander Korda, the particularl; knows a laugh the minute she sees it in the script’of a play and this has been very helpful to me in my work.” Parsitheafmete ol Norma Sings. dmmmulrmkmmmmwm,m an unforeseen and _unsuspected talent in Norma Talmadge. sony makers, was called to sing & refrain & popular number in ane of the 8} of Mr. Moeller of the Theater|in uild, the deftest of the drama's ldflm -majors. director. A mild epidemic. of hay fever, a herif f the ha: - t‘lle‘-t:,e r'flul;l:dmmn married on Friday and on Monday Miss Claire was in the divorce court! But it isn’t as sensational as it seems, because, by coincidence, Miss record | first _scene in the. talking wiul “The the | house PAULINE GARONand - LOIS WILSON-Metropoliten - ; ‘LEE~-, | Fox(Sio9 Swan Song of Stock hand, who, it appears, is.likely to : more destructive even than the mos- quitoes, for he is.to deprive us of our popular stock company at the National program issued last Monday eve- 0 the audience that were to laugh over “Loose even h ] that The” National Siayers, would slss: thel season “for & vacatin until August 12" last perf “Rain,” company is much the same positien, for his scale of prices beyond which he may never go, limits the amount of his llg:ome. and when his "mfl‘wlg"heu: ground m under eet he 1f in the de ing wife’s. mood, except that can quit while the quitting is d it's nobody’s business but his own-—unless, perhaps, his many clients may have a feeling in the matter and set about finding & way to remedy things. It was stated recently in New York at a meeting of the stock managers, who all seem to be troubled with the inclined to attribute his th- | has been Ty b, contained the melancholic information, ZEE, Te H § i i L i i i g» gE E ga 1 g ; | ; i E Z I 53 1 g i o€ § F & \1 7 g § 555 i Bt £ g i 2Ee 3 gEaE g8 B | since the National Players to existence, says Mr. Cochran, in"the months of Nev- n E i obliged to employ, although he really did need and did not desire any, and the increased demands of his stage employes, not including the players, of course, have lmrosed upon him an in- créased cost of operation amount approximately to $12,000, an over] just that far ahead of any previous season. This, he states, makes it utter~ ly impossible to continue through July and August, except at a serious loss, and this really is why he is closing his stock season with the last-performance of “Rain,” next Saturday evening. As there is no probability that be curtailed in the sligh Th‘eater”Guild’s Plans. fi! ‘Theater Guild's plans for its first tion season here, at-the It is not possible at this time to give