Evening Star Newspaper, August 5, 1929, Page 19

\ OPENING ATTRACTIO METROPOLITAN—"The Hottentot.” Genuine comedy is offered this week | t the Metropolitan Theater, in “The | Hottentot, with Edward Everett Hor- ton. who rides a vicious horse to win | both the steeplechase and the girl, and | extracts the last drop of fun from a | lot which puts him in the position of turaily timid man obliged to do ing which he is mortally afraid he cannot do. In this picture he must (and does) ide “The Hottentot,” a horse which has never been successfully ridden be- | fore. and he is pictured as a man who Is very much airaid of even the most docile” of horses and who knows as little as possible about riding them. His great atfection for “the gul’ (Patsy Ruth Miller), however, enables him to do or die, and he rides “The Hottentot” to victory in the turf classic of the season, with glorious result. The comedy in the picture, a talkie, | is largely based on the facial expressions of the leading man, and he rises to | meet the occasion in truly artistic fash- ion. The picture moves rapidly from beginning to end, containing none oi the “slow” spots which mar many com- | edier. Others in the cast are Edmund | Breese, Edward Earle, Stanley Taylor, Otto Hoffman, Dougias Gerrard and | Maude Turner Gordon. A Vitaphone specialfy. featuring Wil- ‘ lie and Eugene Howard in “His Peo- | ple.” provide some excellent singing. | There is included also the regular Pathe newsreel, PALACE—"Wonder of Women.” The popular belief that artists suffer | 8 serious decline in their creative capa- bilitiez as soon as they assume regular domestic habits like other human beings. instead of lividg constantly on the sweet edge of Bohemia, is again given cinematic support in “Wonder of Women™ at the Palace Theater this week. A similar thesis was set forth, it may be remembered, in Adolphe | Menjou's “Fashions in Love,” which, however, treated the matter more Jovially than the latter film. It is scarcely the function of this re- view to plunge into the philosophical aspects of such a theory. In so far as It is lucidated in “Wonder of | ‘Women" it fails of conviction, though | the picture has many moments of real | strength. The composer, Stephan | Tromholt, is here presented as a man whose vearning for romantic freedom refers more to his social than his spiritual life; he is hardly in the com- pany of the musical immortals in_his | rebellion against the shackles which hold ordinary men to their homes. In | such an artist as Shelley or Be‘thoven the protest might seem legitimate: not in Stephan Tromholt, whose conquests in love were suave and practiced, with no_rucged sincerity whatever. There are scenes, in “Wonder of Women.” such as that in which Bri- gitte, Tromholt'’s wife. comes home to the discovery of her child's death, which are deeply moving. The whole action, up to the revelation of Trom- holt’s decline under the yoke of do- mestic felicity, is lucid and arresting. With the introduction of the results of his surrender (Tromholt has deteriorat- ed into hack writing), the tension sags badlv and loses its thread of logic. The talking sequences seem clumsily sus- tained. A { Lewis Stone, in the role of the com- poser, sets the tempo of the action only fast as the director and the story will allow him. There is little flash about his work; not really as convincing in its style as Menjou's was. Paggy Wood. playing Brigitte. gives touches of the most exquisite understanding to her portraval. Her future in the films war- rants attention. Leila Hyams, symbolic of release from dull care, plays smooth- 1v. George Pawcett has a smaller part and Mack Swain of old comedy fame is amusing in a * “Radio Romance” holds the stage at the Palace this week. Sunday evening's saudience received it with such enthu- siasm and applause as threatened to hoid up the show several times. Among those introduced by Mr. Rawlinson in the course of the tunefulness are Laura Lane. a singer and dancer; Ross and Fdwards. comedians: Paul and Ferral, tap dancers: Larry Adler. a vouth who plays the harmonica like a virtuosn; Alan Lowe and the Dave Gould Girls in popular routine. Fox Movietone News, the M-G-M reels, short subjects, the Palace Orchestra and the organ con- tribute to the program pleasantly. FOX—"Hard-Boiled Rose.” “Hard-Boiled Rose,” Warner Bros. talking picture starring Myrna Loy, and with the late Gladys Brockwell, | John Miljin and Willlam Collier, fr., | prominent in the supporting cast, is the current screen attraction at the Fox Theater. Rose Duhamel (Myrna Loy) at- tractive daughter of a proud old New Orleans family, comes from boarding srhool to attend the Mardi Gras, and as she and her father's handsome young secretary, John Trask, are ready | to depart for the fun and frolic, her | father is found dead in his room. Within 24 hours John is arrested for the theft of $200.000 worth of securities from the Duhamel safe: he refuses to talk and it is assumed that he is guilty. Rose learns a few facts from a colored servant, surmises more and at once sets forth to save her lover's good name, To do this it is expedient for her to become an habitue of a notorions gam- bling den across the bav owned by Julie de Malo (Gladys Brockwell), and after a lively battle of wits between the hard- boiled Julie and Hard-Boiled Rose Miss Duhamel is now known to | one in this ecircle) John is ex- | onerated and everything ends happily. | Miss Loy has a pleasant speaking | voiee which, unlike many feminine voices, can easily be understood over the microphone, and to at least one ob- server, is charming and convincing in this role. Others in the cast are Lucy | Beaumont, Edward Martindel, Ralph | Emerson and Otto Hoffman. The stage revue offers a diversity of | talent, costumes and acts. The open- | ing number is a Dutch dance by the 16 Foxettes, wherein the wooden shoes of the Hansels and Gretels click with precision, grace and vim. Chie Ken- nedy, in an outrageous rig, sings that | old-timer, “God Will Protect the Work- | ing Girl” and Kathryn Irwin, more | bocomingly garbed in modern attire, sings “I'll Always Be in Love With You.” The Fox Orchestra, Leon Bru- siloff conducting, plays a medley of songs popular when we were all sev- eral years younger; Toots Novello and his speechiess and expressionless but very agile “lady friend” give a dance: Jaek Rose does acrobatic stunts with his head pointed toward China; Wil-" liam Lacey rides a unicycle (no, not a bicycle) and plays a violin at the same time, and Clifton and De Rex pull off | slapstick comedy. Oh, yes, it may be added, John Irving Fisher introduces most of the entertainers! Fox Movietone News presents Georges Clemenceau. war-time “Tiger of France"; shows the first of a series of pictures taken aboard ships of the United States Navy, this one being the U. 8, §. Wyo- | ming, and an interesting demonstration of the use of an emergency parachute, | The 10 winners of the Post-Fox movie | wltcsc are .also pictured in the news- | reel. | EARLE—"The Time, the Place and | the Girl.” An amusing comedy, losing nothing from its renovation from the attic-store of early collegiate comedies of legiti- mate stage fame some years ago, brings 8 breezy laugh to the Earle Theater this week under the caption, “The Time. the Place and the Girl.” During the | renovating process it has been thor- oughly sprinkled with up-to-date college humor, and therefore comes to us as fresh as a new-picked daisy. | Back in the old days Cecil Lean played the super-egoist, and played him | well. Today - Grant Withers struts the | part, and there was never a more thor- | oughly concsited young saphead gradu- ated from the gridiron cum laude than this same Withers in the role of the Stanford star. Jimmie, having fin- THEATERS THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1929. 19 e e s | o o, Rkard Arin i T for | oot neuciin ot put neaca, | PRISQNILOSSIS173,000. | io hare boen rasd sawey to maks [of macking the wiedous:at (4" ctan- NS IN WASHINGTON | | mother-in-law of no uncertain ide “Mickey Mouse” disports himself in a sound cartoon, “The Plowboy.” Para- mount sound news makes its bow, with President Hoover himself, giving it a send-off. The President broadcasts a greeting and congratulates Street a treat by allowing himself to be- come connected with a big bonding | word ‘of house. It would seem at first that as a Adolph Zukor, president of Paramount, bond salesman, Jimmie is going to make | in launching his articulate news ven- a fine coal heaver, but once he has | ture. The introductory scene takes place found his “meat.” the ladies, he breezes | in the White House. right along, skilifully avoiding a crash | Exclusive views of Senator Bingham's on the turn when some naughty wise trip and historic landing at the Capi- guys try to make him the goat. Inci- | tol Plaza in an Army blimp, are shown dentally, some of the conceit gets also. Organ interludes fill in’the in- knocked out of him when he goes over termission gaps. the bumps. Needless to say, ‘Jimmie — p doesn't even miss it. He had plenty | COLUMBIA—Clara Bow in “Dangerous in_reserve | Curves.” Gertrude Olmstead is good in the role of the adoring co-ed who later becomes stenographer for the same house, and | after that—but, why spoil the story? Anyway, Gertrude is keen. Betty Comp- son, as the wife of the broker, is not “Dangerous Curves,” held over for the second week at the Columbia, s not what its name seems to imply. With such a title and with Clara Bow as its star, one might be led to expect up to her usual mark, though she's not |a show of feminine pulchritrude, and hard to look upon at that. | the little red head brimming over with The show is well directed gnd the | pep and personality, but the picture | has none of this. Clara for the first time forsakes the {role ‘of the “It” girl to portray that of a coy, demure one, and she does it fairly well. It was, however, discovered in this plcture that Clara Bow has dramatic ability. Her best bit of act- voices come across distinctly. Al in all, it's an_excellent hour's entertainment ‘Auxiliary attractions are headed by the Norman Thomas Quintet. from Har- lem, featuring a trap drummer with the | combined tricks of all other trap drum- | mers sewed up in his bag. 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(Radio Store, Main Floor, The Hecht Co.) d the old college racket, gives Wall The picture as a whole lacks humor, the second time spurned her love for although there are many instances that of Kay Francis, his Iate partner in the highiwire walking act. As long | where it might have been added to| New York Commissloner Reports as Clara keeps her good looks she needs | advantage. The only laugh-drawmg | gtate’s Expense in Riot at Clinton. but little else to draw the erowds. Along | scene Is when Clara tries to do Arlen's | i with her good looks Miss Bow has a |act on the high-wire, awkardly walk-| NEW YORK, August § UP.—Ray- volce that fits is perfecly with her |ing, stumbling and falling, until the mond F. C. Kelb, State commissioner of screen personality, for it is clear. and correction, announced yesterday that a she uses it with & vim and vigor that is | al Roach | complete_inventory showed the loss at convincing. | ta | Clinton Prison as a result of the riot crowd was in an uproar. ‘The subsidaries include a 1king comedy, “The Snappy Sneeger,” Richard Arlen plays the masculine | featuring Charlle Chase and Thelma July 22 was $173,000. Figures on the lead to perfection. = His egotistical man- | Todd, and is fairly funny. Irving Aar- | total loss at Auburn Prison, where the ners seem to come naturally. In only |onson and his singing orchestra, to- | inmates rioted on July 28, are not com- one part does he falter, and, that is in gether with Bob Nelson, vaudeville | plete. his depiction of the drunkard. Kay | headliner, complete the musical off: Francls, in her usual role of the vam- | ings. M, G. M. and Fox newsreels pire. wins additional laurels. Miss Fran- ' round out the program. ! 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