Evening Star Newspaper, July 22, 1929, Page 5

" SENATORS BECIN REWRTING TARFF Smoot Hopeful Report Can Be Ready for Submission August 19. By the Associated Press. Republicans of the Senate finance committee focused their attention today upon the difficult task of rewriting the | House tariff bill. Party leaders are insistent that they finish the job in time to have a report ready for submission to the Senate when it reassembles August 19. Chair- man Smoot is hopeful, but not con- fident, that this can be done, although | he shares with other members of the administration group the desire to have the legislation out of the way on the statute books before the regular session of Congress begins in December. Comment Is Non-committal Incheasing discussion of the possi- bility that the committee Republicas may decide to cut down on an ex- tensive scale the increases in numerous duties voted by the House has brought only non-committal comment from the chairman, never going beyond his re- mark that “some will go down and some will go up.” While the Republicans are working out their draft of the bill, the Demo- cratic members of the committee, ex- cluded from those sessions, plan to meet in another room to develop their own program in preparation for the long, hard contest to come in the Senate. Democratic leaders have repeatedls) expressed themselves as having no de, sire to prevent enactment of the legis| lation before the special session ends but. they are determined to prevent, if ible, many of the increases which ave been proposed. To Work for Limitation. The Republican independent group, which does not include any of the members of the committee, is preparing, meanwhile, to work for limitation of up- ' ward revision of tariff rates chiefly to icultural products. Some members that group, recalling the success of 1ts coalition with the Democrats during the farm relief debate in forcing the House to vote on the export debenture proposal, are counting on obtaining support for their tariff position from the minority ranks. The first task before the committee Republicans today was consideration of the proposed changes in the basis of fixing valuations for the assessment of duties on foreign products. The House voted to allow the fixing of valuations on the basis of American prices in some instances, instead of requiring that they be based on foreign costs. RACING IN BOOTS. ‘Women to Run Half Mile at Fire- men’s Auxiliary Outing. More than 2,000 excursionists are ex- pected to visit Chesapeake Beach to- morrow on an outing by the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the District Fire Depart- ment, when a feature of the program be & half-mile race for women ‘wearing firemen’s boots. The excursion committee is composed of Mrs. G. H. Weitzel, chairman; Mrs. and Mrs. A. Allman. The ath- letic committee is composed of Mrs. B. Kennon, Mrs. Jasinonski, Mrs. Meeks and Mrs. Viernstein. Officers of the organization are Mrs. Helen Schultz, president; Mrs. Viern- stein, senior vice president; Mrs. G. H. Weltzel, junior vice president; Mrs. E. Newton, secretary, and Mrs. N. Albers, treasurer. \ SEE IT AT OUR SAFESROOM EARLE—“The Leatherneck.” Few pictures in this reviewer’s recent experience have opened with such an intriguing situation as “The Leather- neck,” showing at the Earle Theater this week. Three deserters from a Ma- rine outfit stationed at Tientsin reap- pear at headquarters, one fainting from worry and exhaustion, the second a stark maniac, and the third already dead, carried the last painful’miles by his buddy. What lies behind this curi-~ ous tragedy? It is unfortunate to have to record that the rest of the film betrzys the strength of the early scenes, sloping away to mediocrity and rising again to a climax, which, for stretching the long arm of romantic coincidence, makes the usual movie plot as credible as a bank report. One thing which militates against the picture’s success is the use of the court- room method (here in the form of a court-martial), a method of which the clamoring talkies have too generously availed themselves. We have the old fadeouts and flashbacks, with jodic returns to the courtroom, all of which creates a disturbance in the tellin what, if given consecutively, woul a thoroughly rousing tale. Against blemishes, which keep “The Leatherneck” from being as good as it deserves, one may place to its credit sev- eral sequences of ontstanding excellence, notably those in which the Russi revolutionists execute & string of pr oners against a wall, wherein a ma velous use is made of shadows against the grim background and certain flashes in the deserted potash refinery, one es- 1jcially in which Tex, the leading char- ¢} ter and hero, pumps three bullets into 1]ie corpse of his arch enemy, thus met- 1g out to him a posthumous revenge. ‘The story is woven about the ad- ventures of three buddies in the Marine ICorps, starting in France and carrying Manchuria and Tientsin. The main trouble starts, as so often happens, hen one of them decides to marry, and does marry, a lovely Russian gir], plaved with wooden insouciance by Diane Ellis. ‘The three Leathernecks are played with moderate talent by Willlam Boyd, Alan Hale and Robert Armstrong. Charles Hampden, formerly of the National Theater Players, appears ol the Earle’s bill this week as singer an raconteur, borrowing some of the tricks of the town's two best known masters of ceremontes, mainly of urging the audience to give So-and-so a big hand. Mr. Hampden's anecdotes, strung to- gether in facile monologue, met a gra- clous response from Sunday’s audience. His songs were delivered with assurance, rendered “straight,” so to speak, with- out emotional furbelows. Other features included interesting news reels and two Vitaphone shorts, one of Hope Hampton in “Manon” and the other a comic bit, with Ray and Dot Dean. The overture, under Danlel Breeskin's baton, was Suppe’s “Morn- ['ing, Noon and Night in Vienna. PALACE.—"“Thunder.” {(hem through chapters in Viadivostok, of seeing a picture so vibrant with pense id comedy from beginning to Seldom does one have the privilege | action and pulsating with thrills, sus-| NG__STAR, WASHINGTON, OPENING ATTRACTIONS IN WASHINGTON THEATERS end as does “Thunder,” starring Lon Chaney, at the Palace this week. The cpening scene, where a railroad train is tearing over a mountain in a snowstorm, is a rare plece of photo- graphic work. Lon Chaney is cast as “Grumpy” Anderson, veteran engineer of No. 2329 on the Chicago Northwest- ern Rallroad. His life motto is “keep the trains movin’,” and to do everything else on time to the minute. Grumpy's railroad claims the life of his son Jim (George Duryea), and his seemingly ex- clusive devotion to it estranges him from the widow and grandson, and his other son Tommy, and & long period of reparation and loneliness follows. But, when the Mississippl River overflows its banks in 1927 Grumpy's stubborn courage enables him to run his train, loaded with medicine and supplies, into the flooded area, where the little grand- son and his mother are among those saved from sickness and starvation. ‘With relief and gratitude upon her face, Molly turns to Davey and says, “Grand- pa ‘:fi right, after all. Keep the trains movin”.” ‘The subtitles, written by Joe Farn- f | ham, are deserving of special mention be | for their punch and rare wit. The love interest, which is subordinated to the main theme, is furnished by Phyllls Haver, as blondly and femininely at- tractive as ever in the role of a very peppy night club entertainer, and by James Murray as Grumpy's son Tommy. Frances Morris is cast as Molly An- derson, and Wally Allbright, jr., as little Davey. The Allbright youngster is one of the most attractive screen bables this reviewer has seen for many months. Charles Gaige presides at the console during the showing of the picture. The stage revue, “Over the Top,” featuring Johnny Burke, erstwhile screen comedian and vaudeville head- liner, is a novelty in that Johnny, Herb- ert Rawlinson, master of ceremonies, the Palace Syncopators and the chorus are all dressed in khaki and enact scenes from an Army camp, including rousing camp songs by the Tiffany Singers, the Salvation Army lass (Doris Roche), the hard-boiled sergeant, the awkward squad, the shooting and fire- ‘works and everything. Johnny Burke makes whoopee in an original manner, and the Bernl Brothers do some lively and skillful tap dancing. M-G-M News completes an excellent program. FOX—“Pleasure Crazed.” -goodness 100 per cent talkie with no lapses into captioned silences is offered in the William Fox presentation “Pleasure Crazed,” fea- tured at the Fox Theater this week. Althougl some of the dialogue is indis- tinct and the voice of one of the char- acters too harsh to be pleasing, still its all there as advertised. “Pleasure Crazed” is the absorbing story of a neglected young husband of the “upper ten,” the fair and unwilling accomplice of a pair of crooks who have designs on the husband’s fortune, or rather, his wife’s jewels; and an im poverished idler who laves rich men's wives 50 long as they remain safely wed. Glven these ingredients, a lively plot has been concocted with the set- ting on an isolated estate in California to which the husband has repaired with his pleasure-mad young wife in the hope of patching up their marital dif- ferences. These involve her flair for “affairs,” some of them harmless, but the latest (with a dashing but penniless polo player), of a more serious charac- ter. The polo player follows the wife from their New York haunts to Cali- fornia, and thereby hangs the tale. Marguerite Churchill, Kenneth Mac- Kenna and Dorothy Burgess play the leading Toles with distinction. —Their voices register well, but not so those of one or two of the minors. These flaws are to be expected in a venture as new as the talking films, however, and do not spoil one’s enjoyment of the pro- duction. Foxettes lead off the s ttractions as usual, with a catchy, gingham dress parade, accompanied by some keen foot- work. They appear twice, later as Easter chicks, and in the finale, ar- rayed in gay ostrich plumes. Chic Kennedy sings two character songs. The Morosco Brothers stagger through a perfect imitation of a couple of ine- briates inspired to terpsichorean effort. Then, there are the two flat-footed boys, Born and Lawrence, who assert that they sing songs and then do a little danc;; Just "??lprolvietll“' ?.ey are very _popular. e e chap—we didn't catch his name—who sings while performing gymnastic contortions to the accompaniment of John Irving Fisher on the plano, earns his pay check, too. Jazz numbers by Sam Gor- man’'s Gormanians and Movietone news reels complete the bill. METROPOLI:: ‘On With the ow.” “On With the Show,” that hardy ploneer among all-color talkies, carries on at the Metropolitan with unflagging vigor, and has continued for three weeks now to draw Entronnge in competition :vuh some other unusually good pic- ures. The essential reason for the success “Doll Up” the Car —Dbefore you start your vacation tour. Tt won’t cost much if you look to us for the necessary AUTO CLEANERS, POLISH- ES, PAINTS & LACQUERS. 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An invi- tation to see what science has done for phot -aphy in the treatment of the tones and .shades of the spectrum, as well as its essential colors, and a rec- ompense for all the times we have seen color used before with well meaning but futile enthusiasm. ‘The mere novelty of this eventually successful color photography is not all that recommends it to patronage. Its story, though about as stereotyped as the usual “behind the scenes” hard- luck yarn, is unfolded with speed and continuity, and many of the show scenes are legitimately spectacular, Both Betty Compson and Louise Fa- zenda, prominent among the players, are revealed as ssing effective talkie voices, especially Miss Fazenda, MONDAY, JULY 22, 1929. whose gift for low comedy has been augmented at least 100 per cent by her low-comedy voice. ‘The music to which “On With the Show” 1s scored may not cause any revolutions in the theme song trade, but it is always appropriately tuneful. COLUMBIA—“Evangeline” Edwin Carewe’s picturization of “Evangeline,” based upon the poem of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with Dolores Del Rio impersonating its heroine, after a week of almost un- ented patronage, is being held for another week at Loew's Columbia theater, except that during the current week it will not have the added glory of personal appearances by the noted young star. Nevertheless the charm and pathos of its story, and the beauty of its photographic pictures should be sufficient of selves to hold the public attention. All the world knows the thetic story of Evangeline and Gabriel, lovers separated by the cruelties of national enmities, who go on and on searching each for the other without meeting until the one as a sister of mercy, dis- covers the other, worn and broken, on his deathbed. It is a sad story, yet beautiful, if one has but taken the trouble to read the poem before viewing the picture. There are defects, perhaps, but idylls and ideals are seldom dupli- cated in a way to always satisfy. ‘The news reel, orchestral music and songs by the Revelers and Al Wohlman form the subsidiary elements of the; program. Two Die in Mexican Wreck. MEXICO CITY, July 22 UP).—Two were killed and 50 injured when the' passenger train yesterday from Jalapa to Vera Cruz was derailed at Lagapto, | Vers Cruz. Two second-ciass coaches | overturned. A rellef train was sent| from Vera Cruz. | The Retailing of Fine Dry Cleaning TIIERE are 175,000 places of business in the United States and Canada offering cleaning services to the public.” There are only 5,000 places of business which actually do dry cleaning. Others, with various side lines, and under various names, are merely dry cleaning agents who job your work out to wholesalers. 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