Evening Star Newspaper, August 4, 1929, Page 53

| Theater, Screen and Music . e MYRNA LOY and LUCY BEAUMONT, ° . Fox. : ‘ ?H&toplays This Week SCREEN FEATURES OF THE WEEK PALACE—Lewis Stone, in “The Wonder of Women.” This after- noon and evening. EARLE—Grant Withers, in “The Time, the Place, the Girl.” This afternoon and evening. FOX—Myrna Loy, in “Hard Boiled Rose.” evening. This afternoon and METROPOLITAN—Edward Everett Horton, in “The Hottentot.” This afternoon and evening. COLUMBIA—Clara Bow in “Dangerous Curves.” This afternoon and evening. PALACE—Lewis Stone in “The Wonder of Women.” “The Wonder of Women,” a Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer production, with talk- ing sequences, is the feature picture at Loew's Palace this week. Its cast is headed by Lewis Stone with Leila Hyams, Peggy Wood and George Faw- cett. Stone portrays the part of a German composer who has just attained fame and who also is noted for his flirtations. On the train he meets a pretty widow, the mother of two children, falls in love with and marries her. In order to pro- vide for the family he writes popular music under an assumed name. His Bohemian friends miss him and_insist that he join them at a party in Berlin. He does, and there meets an old flame, Lefla Hyams, for whom an old infatua- tion is renewed, His wife follows him to Berlin and while there her baby dies. He takes her home, but a letter from Leila convinces him he will leave his wife for the other woman. When he goes to tell his wife he is leaving her, he finds her dying, and it is only then he realizes his love for her is the only love—but it is too late. However, he “carries on,” inspired by her memory. On the stage Herbert Rawlinson is resented in “Radio Romance” with the alace Syncopators. Heading the radio rambles are Ross and Edwards, Wash- ington favorites; Paul and Ferral, Laura Lane, Alan Lowe, Lawrence Adler and the Dave Gould Girls. The Fox Movie- tone News, the M-G-M News, short subjects, the Palace Orchestra and Charles Gaige at the organ complete the program. EARLE—Grant Withers in “The Time, The Place and The Girl.” A comedy adapted from a famous stage play, “The Time, the Place and the Girl,” by Frank R. Adams, Will Hough and Joseph Howard, is_t! week's screen feature at_ the Earle Theater. It is & Warner Bros. talking picture, with a cast of noted principals, and added and greater scenic effects and settings than are possible to the stage. Howard Bretherton has been h!g%lly commended for his direction of the picture. Grant Withers as Jim Crane, college gridiron hero, becomes a bond salesman and is used as a catspaw by a New York broker to sell worthless stock to a num- tty Compson is the wife of the broker, in love with Jim Crane, who threatens for a time to steal him away from his college friend, | Mae Ellis. Gertrude Olmstead, a pretty, sympathetic college friend of the grid- fron hero, whose devoted love he over- looks in favor of the adulation of the wealthy Long Island matrons. But when Jim gets into trouble, in both love and finance, it is Mae who helps him out and in the end llm'I:l'le other three of the quartet of so- clety women who pursue Jim are acted by Vivian Oakland, Gretchen Hartman and Irene Hllmm;i éa};n&v:mdmwr s s R. W - L J-rl,.n'l’nd Gerald King and 1 B%% Roaeh complete the cast. FOX—Myrna Loy in “Hard Bofled Rose.” Myrna Loy in “Hard Boiled Rose” is the screen {tmcuon at the Fox this week. Miss Loy has established her- self in the field of talking pictures during recent months with such pro- ductions as “The Desert Song” and more recently with Victor McLaglen in “The Black Watch.” e sees where happiness | o that no one can ride, enacts the “heavy.” And Hottentot is said to be more vil- lainous than any of the human “heav- fes” of the screen. In direct contrast to the wild and uncontrollable Hot- tentot is the meek characterization of Edward Everett Horton, who heads the cast as a supposedly expert horseman. ‘The major part of the comedy revolves about Horton's timidity on the subject of horses. He poses as a famous steeple- chase rider and is forced to climb into Hottentot's saddle and ride the terrific beast in the race, fearing that he is to win or lose in the race of love also, ac- cording to results. Adapted for Vitaphone by Harvey Thew from the well known Mapes- Collier play of the same name, “The Hottentot,” also has in its cast Patsy Ruth Miller, Edmund Breese, Edward Earle, Stanley Taylor, Otto Hoffman, &u las Gerrard and Maude Turner rdon. COLUMBIA—Clara Bow in “Dangerous ~ Curves.” “Dangerous Curves,” Clara Bow's latest talking picture, which will remain another week at the Columbia Theater, is the romance of a tight-rope walker and a.little bareback rider in a circus, who loves him, although he loves an- other woman, his partner in the act, who, in turn, loves & man who has only a minor part in the act. ‘The little bareback rider is so carried away with her love that she actually learns the art of rope walking to be near her beloved, while the other woman whom he loves simply makes a focl of him, ultimately driving him to a3 at one time, to such a point that the little bareback rider, even at the risk of her life, has to take his place in the performance to save his name and repu- tation. Then, and not until then, does he realize that her love is the worthier, his | after all. Bob Nelson, vaudeville headliner, and Irving Aaronson’s Commanders will be presented in two Metro Movietone acts, and the Fox Movietone News, the M-G-M News, short subjects and house features' complete the program. Ina Likes California. JOHN GILBERT and Ina Claire, en route to a_ European- honeymoon, lf%ped off in New York recently. 'hen Miss Claire was asked if she missed Broadway, she thought a minute. “And do you like California?” some one iped up during the pause. “‘Obviously,” she repri.ed, at her husband, adding cryptically, look- g at her husband: “It's & at State!” o bert interposed, “I'm blush- Miss Claire announced herself as an nt advocate of travel by air. beauty of it, not only ’rt‘.’he e coast, and by _rail, it's the most tedious.’ In Europe there will be no thought of work, for the trip is purely"one of pleasure, and, says Miss iire, thefr n;l? purpose i to' have “just loads of fun.” Burlesque Opens Sept. 2. T}m Mutual burlesque season is scheduled to open Monday, Sep- In “Hard Boiled Rose” Miss Loy ap- | m¢ pears as a girl of New Orleans. - This is a w-me% Bros. Vitaphone talking icture. To save her father and her jover, she becomes & mp of the gambling houses for which the old New Orleua.-‘s‘e was famed. g gi=g8k, AMUSEMENT SECTION he Sunday Star. -WASHINGTON, D. O, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 4, 1929. BRUSILOFF Director of dhe JAZZMANIANS Outdoor Attractions GLEN ECHO PARK. Glen Echo Park, daily and nightly, is fin operation for all-day ouf . From early in the morning until late in the evening cars of the Wi Rail- way & Electric Co. tribute crowds on every trip, while the Condult road is well dotted with motorists on their way to enjoy the many features of ‘Washington’s free admission amuse- ment resort. ‘The dancers hold full sway nightly except Sunday in the baliroom, from 8:30 until 11:30, to music by McWilliams’ musicians. For the youngsters and for those who do not care to dance the thrill producers are the coaster dip, the Derby racer, aeroplane swings, old mill, carrousel, whip and other amusements. icnic parties find the “Welcome” signs displayed at all times, and there are numerous shady nooks, with com- fortable chairs and benches arranged for their especial comfort. MARSHALL HALL. Coo), Potomac breezes sweep the decks of the steamer Charles Macal- ester on its trips to and from Marshall Hall. At the manse there are a variety of amusements and recreations, such as aeroplane swings, roller coaster, shoot- ing galleries, free dancing over the Po- tomac, -etc. The broad, shaded acres of the estate make it ideal picnic ground, with plenty of chairs and tables situated in cozy, cool spots everywhere. ‘The Macalester makes three ;;:YI daily and Sunday to Marshall 1, leaving the Seventh Street Whart daily at 10 a.m., 2:30 and 6:45 p.m. and on Sundays at 10:30 am., 2:30 and 6:45 pm. CHESAPEAKE BEACH. Evening excursions to Chesapeake Beach for office workers, the daily pic- d of Summe in ample time for a refreshing swim in the bay, and, with. ‘:rpemu ‘whetted by the tang of the salt air, & sea food dinner while watching the sh pass up the. CI e, and as Moon slides into the picture. they trip out to-the boardwalk pavilion for a cool LEWIS STONE and PEGGY WOOD Palace GRANT WITHERS and GERTRUDE OLM -Earie - Belasco Stagecraft little home in the suburbs, and in act BY DEMING SEYMOUR. (Associated Press Feature.) dance to music by Ralph H. Garren's | pattie clownish Carolinians. A scamper to the train at the toot of the 10 o'clock train whistle and every one may reach home I before_the clock ‘in the hall s 12. Fair enough for.an evening’s entertainment, and the novelty of the thing is said to ‘be gripping the younger set. Selling Talkies ‘Abroad. REO, realising thiat foreign markets business done by 3:'&'3{5“ companies, wmthe mt‘m‘ o{ er talkies abroad, a project rendered ok s compesiy's Mavest] of the - -~ have engaged leaving behind them a single’ i little girl, who sat on & step in the cén- urotm:lmnmammmw upon Y sicnt s, | purcel logues and | €Ity i H § R ] JH 15 | i i 8. il i i i i : luced even to fiapjack juggler in the front window. The Great Storm Scene. In “The Girl of the Golden West” the ¢ | to increase the size of in | 6% inches by “The EDWARD EVERETT HORTON and PATSY RUTH MILLER, ; Metropolitan. PAUL and FERRAL, \Palace. (stage) TEAD Playdoers. Incnrporated MONG the news items that came laygoers, rily this would seem to in- dicate that the pla themselves had organized with the express purpose of reviving a decadent theater, or of reaching a decision upon a substitue. And either would be momentous. But—there is a but—the purpose of the o dfl“i:nn v;u merely to d!dflz’ upon of a new program for the theater. After all relating thereto had been said and done, it was decided the program to 914 inches, and to call it ,” no matter where it appears as an organization program. Rej ntatives of 80 theaters of the :fin::n brand, it is od reading matter in the peri be standarized and consist of the same matter issued practically will be programmed theaters where those plays may pre- sented, bzfil of which are more or less i i i 88 i5id égng' E ;EEE ta i ON THE BROADWAY STAGE A Review of Theatrical Affairs Along the White Way By Richard Watts, Jr. T is the most perfect proof of the essential optimism of the drama lovers that they accept the Mid- summer announcements of the Broadway producers with straight- faced seriousness. About this time each year the coy theatrical magnates break down and confess to a few sturdy drama reporters that they are planning a pro+ duction or two for the coming season. These conscientious observers thereupon compile a long list of jhe plays we are destined to see during the im?endlnl year and every one seems to believe in it. Forgetting the twin facts that each producer announces at least half a doz- #n more offerings than he plans to pre- sent and that a study of dramatic his- tory proves, with reasonable conclusive- ness, that about one out of six promised works reaches the tryout period, the edi- tors, reporters and drama lovers insist on taking these madcap lists with gal- lant earnestness. ‘These announcements, despite the la- bors various wm‘gl.ku devote to ihem, ate, of course, expression of wild hopes rather than of serious intentions. Nevertheless, there is a certain definite value in such lists, if only as hints con- cerning ambitious trends, and in addi- tion there is welcome lure for the drama lovers, both professional and amateur, who must live on hopes for the future, no matter how precarious. Perhaps you will forgive me, therefore, if, accepting the current announcements with decent reservation, & list is appended anticipat- ing some of the more alluring exhibits, both with naive acceptance of the pro- ducer’s intent and with some hasty crit- ical attempt to consider the worthiness of the ambitious offerings that are so hopefully announced. For example, it is pleasant for a pro- fessional drama lover, who must live on prospects for a new season, to recall that the newest Bernard Shaw comedy is on its way; that such additional for- eign talents as those of Werfel, Piran- dello, Galsworthy, Ervine and Noel Cow- ard are to be offered us, and that the local prophets are to be represented in the labors of Behrmann, Paul Green, Ricl Sherwood, Sophie Treadwell, Philip Barry and Sidney Howard, among others. It is alluring to be told that the Messrs. Lardner and Kaufmann are to collaborate on a play and it is pleasant o note that there will be a new Helen ; that Cole Porter has usical comedy score and again. The prom- ises of the magnates are replete with thr;:l??‘m}m thrll.!smle and abominations, ant possf not to contemplate them with interest, even if you lrepxure that no more than a fraction will re- * ok K as the Theater to contem- plate its promises as being, on the whole, not far from the most poten- tally - s iting currently offered. z‘hem is, for example, the Shaw play, 'The Apple Oart,” which has so far been seen only in Warsaw. Advance reports on it are fairly vague, but they suggest that it is one of the most con- troversial of the ahywfl:m‘ sermons and that it presents the acceptedly re- publican dramatist as a de!en&r of roy- alty and a leou.r‘!s of the democrats, as well as the advocate of Anfl ammlnn ulgl.r:. Tuled “London. ‘wright has grown d u‘:t. there l’:.lc ;In:’h be n,” Wl loesn’t sound attractive until it is described as the latest play by*Pranz Werfel. 'Only those who remember “Jusrez and Max- imilian” and “Schewiger” as among the most eloquent’ of modern dramas, who have admired the sensitive originality of the novel tn'?l.!::ed into English as umm Re\mlon.. ,’ ‘who feel, as does LT gt fii for A%m u.dfnh,“flk’ which hero and heroine never meet, can be made into a play, we cannot help trusting that an alliance between Mr. Lardner and George Kaufmann will result in a grand work. This is true, though we suspect that “June Moon,” even if it is intended as a satir- ical title, is as bad a name for the play as one could well hope to avoid. * x % x I URNING for the moment to the in- teresting list of promises offered by Gilbert Miller, it is somehow impos- sible to avoid at least a nominal excite- ment on hearing the vague news that there may conceivably be & new play by R. C. Sherriff, who wrote the heart- breaking “Journey’s End.” It has so frequently been said that the war drama was instinct, that Mr. Sherriff had lumped in one grand effort every- thing he had to say for the theater, that some of us who have found more than an accident in his writing debut are bound to wait both with trepidation and a trace of confidence for his next offering. Then there is the news that the long-awaited “Berkeley Square” is to be presented, and the information that we are to see that fascinafing mu- sical comedy performer, Miss ae Lawrence, in & straight drama called “By Candlelight.” In the promised musical comedy fleld there stand particularly Noel Coward's operetta, “Bitter Fleld,” and Cole Por- ter's revue, “Wake Up and Dream.” The former should almost inevitably offer distinctive virtues, and we wno treasure Mr. Porter's painfully briel appearance as a composer and lyricist are certain that he will offer something worth waiting for in his production. Another promising contribution is th Gershwin-Ziegfeld “East Is West.” Since Mr. Gershwin failed us in “Show Girl,” it seems inevitable that he will come back forcibly in his coming effort. Recalling Miss Sophie Treadwell's “Machinal,” we feel reasonably sure that her new work, “Ladies Leave,” will be worth seeing, and those of us who were unfriendly to “Holiday” are ex- pecting that Mr. Barry will confute us in his next comedy. Elmer Rice's sair- ical “See Naples and Die” sounds im- pressive; Mr. Sherwood's satire on the crusades, “Marching as to War,” gives evidence of being worth waiting for, and the dramatization by the poten- tially transcendent Arthur Richman. of the novel “The Latitude of Love” seems promising. Here are but a fow reasons why the season which is prac- tically upon us offers some pleasant possibilities. Vic in the Big City. VZCK'OR MCLAGLEN had two prin- cipal reasons for going to New York City on the first vacation he has had in five years, and the press agent disclosed them both. One was to spread himself on an elaborate wardrobe, and it was not long before he had tossed off $1,000 worth of orders for fashnonable apparel. Every- thing from beach gowns to fancy vests and something nifty for almost every hour of the day. ‘The second object of his Gotham pil- was to see the Metropolitan ness. Under the guidance of a New York Dewspapet man he visited the 'zhm )u:dd. e press agent says, Was B especially with Rodin’s s'.l‘hl vm star was “struck by the tall furthi relished of the The usual sign “Don’t talk to the con- ductor”. failed to impress him parently, for he is duly o ha “con! ‘with several of thes the high lights of Mr. Mc- visit to New York. el Miss Compson's Complex. ‘Thus, Laglen's L