Evening Star Newspaper, January 20, 1930, Page 22

The Week’s Attractions in Local Theaters Reviews of New Photoplays and Stage Productions ‘That ever tuneful and most melodious of Frmls light opercitas is with us again. -Vagabond King,” now playing at the National Theater, still has all the charm and appeal that it had when it Arst opened. ‘Time has dealt kindly with the musi- eal version of McCarthy's “If I Were King.” The plot and the music seem %o have mellowed, and the company that played it so capably last night brought with it evidence afresh that this story of Francois Villon's dream ‘tome true will never die. To say that pne could tear the book from the music, or the music from the book, without detracting_one from the other, is & considerable boast. And yet it is a true one. Each is a gem in itself, the combination totaling almost perfection. It is, however, the music that haunts after the enchaniment of the story is over. Long after the final drop of the curtain there remains the echo of “Only A Rose,” “Some Day” or the stirring “Song of the Vagabonds.” George Wintz's company treated it last night with & good deal of the respect, that it deserves. Paul Keast, in spite of having Dennis King's miraculous performance hanging over him, ' was everything that one could have hoped for. His voice brought all the stirring characteristics that are ess:cnllul ltd) famous “Vagabond's Song,” an fi: l‘cflons were (Kiefl. and intelligent. Vida Hanna, in the role of the lovely Katherine, although considerably ham- red by an uncertain orchestra, sang g:r songs competently. Adrienne Mur- ray and Marian Stuart bestowed be- witching smiles upon their lesser parts, and Joseph Miller as the sour Louis was good to the point of perfectiom. On the whole the audience seemed to be pleased with the production. Chorus numbers and dance numbers are well polished, and all the voices sang out with considerable gusto. NATIONAL “The_Vagabond King.” NEWMAN—On “Argentina. Argentina was the subject of the first Newman Traveltalk presented yesterday afternoon at the National Theater, and Mr. Newman, only recently returned from there, seemed to be as delighted with his topic of cvi:nvernuon as his ience was with him. ‘u;’xe began by exploding the theory that Argentina is a wilderness and the abode of Indians. That its wealth and modernness is something to be reckoned with, Mr. Newman illustrated from the beginning. He urged future travelers into this much-ignored land, however, to beware of their sailing date and not go in the middle of the Winter, unless they wanted to be burned alive from the blistering rays of the sun. The climate, he caationed, is the exact opposite .to our own. re was a pleasant element of mfiln running all through Mr. New- man’s talk. He interspersed such amus- topics Fo e on the boat into l:‘r%aln(;.\;; uator and the enormous wine c: fi(ha Argentine, which brought forth prolonged applause. He had a most ap- propriate climax, too, in his pictures of President Hoover being welcomed last year in the City of Buenos Aires. Besides showing the modern build- ings, streets, shops and automobiles in the capital of the Argentine, Mr. New- man took his audience to the races,| clajmg to a foot ball match, to a golf tourna- ment, to the vast fields known as the pampas, and even included the burly physiognomy of the t Firpo dem- onstrating his capabllity as salesman for the Stutz car. R-K-O KEITH'S “Hit the Deck.” merry, musis cal comedy of the United ahm Navy, this time on the talking screen at R-K. where it regales the patrons with a vivid transcription of this well loved old w. The out-of-door scenes in the motion pictures are photographs of the real thing, with the fleet riding at anchor, boats plying back and forth to the wharf. The camera lens can rove much farther than the eye of man planted in & theater chair. ‘The love story carries a bit more than the average musical comedy interest, and Jack Okie, now well established on the screen, and Polly Walker, in the leading roles, are decided hits. ‘Technicolor sequences, especially in the dance finale, are effective, and lead to the question as to, if and when all big pictures will be done throughout in this exquisite medium. Among the outstanding features of the show are the “Hallelujah” chorus of a Negro meeting and the big “Shore Leave” number. In addition to the leads others in the . cast include Marguerita Padula, Roger Gray and Franker Woods, Ethel Clay- ton, June Clyde, Wallace MacDonald and others, During the past few years FOX & new figure has appeared “A Song and apparently become es- hed in the theater— Kentucky.” the master of ceremonies. ‘To the Fox must go the credit for having employed in this capacity & gentleman who promises to raise it from the low estate into which it has fallen in the estimation of many, simply by acting naturally, with a rea- sonable human dignity and respect for the intelligence of the audience. He doesn’t wise-crack. He doesn’t cut any funny capers. He attends to ‘s busi- ness of introducing the acts and direct- ing the performance without trying to hog_the attention. When he sings, he “Hit the Deck,” that tuneful Burchell’s Bouquet Coffee Famous for Forty Years 30¢ - N. W. 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Mr. Calum, for example, is just about the opposite type of character from that of Jerry Reavis, the hero of the feature plcture at the Fox, entitled “A Song of Kentucky.” As for this picture—well, there is springtime in Kentucky, soft moonlight, lovely ladies, fast horses, lingering musie, love, proud old Southern aristocracy, and whatever else you can ask for the price of admission. Jerry Reavis, who started life as a newsboy on the East Side, is really a genius. By the time the story opens hard work, pluck and ambition, with the help of this real genius, have lifted him to the point where he can produce without batting an eyelid such lovely and pro- found lyrics as the following: “Sitting by the window, that's all T do, Sitting by the window, lonesome and blue, Sitting by the window, thinking of you.' He sings this exquisite bit of senti- ment so wonderfully expressed at a talking picture theater one night that the heroine, beautiful ward of a rich and proud old Kentucky family, falls head over heels in love with the genius. Under the inspiring influence of love the genius ascends still further the heights of lyric ecstasy until he can write a lyric so expressive of the deep, elusive, profound, sad passion of life as the following: LNl ne'er forget the night we fell in love, The moon Was watching from above,” ete. ‘The girl thinks the stuff is good and loves Jerry more and more. Her family, however, doesn’t think much of a Tin Pan alley song writer and snubs Jerry. The part of Jerry is played by Joseph ‘Wagstaff. Lois Moran is the beautiful daughter of proud old Kentucky who appreciates true genius. Those who like the picture, it is probable, will not be enthusiastic over Alexander Callum, and vice versa. PALACE _ It's New Year all over & again at the Palace. The ‘Their OWn mjlennium seems to have Desire.’ descended, sponsored by the cherublc Wesley Eddy. If you don't believe this, try to get in. Once there, you will ind Mr. Eady smiling as buoyantly as ever. There seems little doubt that he is the Rudy Vallee of Washington—or rather, be- cause their mode of attack is quite dis- tinct, he is the idol of his own pal- pitating army, which refuses to let alone. It is extraordinary, too, inas- much as Mr. Eddy's voice is small and not_especially alluring; yet it has that fever quality which is catching to say e least. Wesley has brought with him a good show, too. “Les Parfums” has a very soothing quality. It is worth the price of admission alone to see those Adagio dancers, Adler and Bradford, come near to dashing out their brains. The latest Norma Shearer picture, “Their Own Desire,” is not what it ought to be, recruiting as it does the services of Lewis Stone, Belle Bennett and Robert Montgomery. Although it the great distinction of not having a theme song, it has almost everything else, including a polo match, & gray-haired, tear-stained mother, a blonde breaker-up of the home, a violent storm (obviously fabricated in a tank) and the Lord’s prayer. ‘The story is one of those “whimsies” built on the divorce idea, the depth that it reaches being about puddle deep. Miss Shearer is knocked out in a polo game, for no apparent rea- son, she is subjected to another knock- out—this one mental—when she finds that her father is going to leave home in favor of a blonde vampire. The hapless girl sides with her bereaved mother, although why she doesn’t hit her over the head instead is a ques- tion, and the two of them go off to the meuntains, where in the place of rest and quiet Norma finds the son of her father's future wife to fall in love with. After that the plot loses track of itself. Norma Shearer, in spite of being coy and self-conscious, gets away with it by retaining her bathing-suit figure. Lewis Stone in the beginning tries hard with the role of the father, but glong about - *“Duco” for Autos and S Prices. Furniture Roof & Garage Paints paints, stains, etc. COLUMBIA Maurice singie” presentations Queen Louise. voice. The major portion of the come- dy relief falls to the lot of Lupino Lane and Lilia support, as does Edgar Norton as the THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1938 the fourth mintte gives up completely: Belle Benhett, in a wig ‘that Was pre- sumably somebody else's, is about the best example of irritating motherhood to be seen anywhere. It remains for With & pleasent. Ga wCoogebe e of a leasanf ary r saying thfnn. he does everything he can to keep the picture from sinking. T “So Long, Letty,” brings E,;/\RLE the inimitable Charlotte So Long, Greenwood to the Earle Letty.” Theater this week in her sound film debut. The lanky young comedienne and her overwhelming _popular stage hit have lost nothing through transference to the silversheet. The Greenwood voice, the Greenwood swagger and the Greenwood legs, performing amazing gymnastics with an air of doing the everyday thing, are keeping capacity audiences in gales of laughter at eac showing of the Warner Bros.’ Vita- phone production. Two scenes stand out for their high comedy lights—Let= ty in the beauty salon and Letty sell- ing an irea to the irascible Mr. Davis. Excellent support is given the star in the performances of Claude Gilling- water, Grant Withers, Bert Roach, Harry Gribbon and Hallam Cooley, who carry the major male roles, with splen- did ‘contrast furnished by Patsy Ruth Miller as the other wife in the marriage quartet. Helen Foster and Marian Bryan are adequate in minor parts. A special musical program introduces Milton Schwartz, violinist, in a minia- ture concert of familiar melodies. He is accompanied by the Earle orchestra, Daniel Breeskin conducting. A high- ly amusing sound cartoon, Mickey Choo Choo,” brings another laugh. Other subsidiary attractions include a Grantland Rice Sportlight, “Interesting Tails” The Evening Star-Universal Newsreel with some intimate glimpses of the newest royal bridal pair—Crown Prince Humbert of Italy and Princess Marie Jose of Belgium—and a Pathe newsreel, The irrepressible faurice Ghevalier, & about whom the crit- The Love jcs wanted to say Parade. something nice, but couldn’t when he made a rather un- impressive talkie debut in “The Inno- cents of Paris,” comes back in a far more ambitious and exhilarating pro- duction, “The Love Parade” at the Columbia this week as another of the Loew January festival features. In this one he is a knockout. “The Love Parade” is one of those sophisticated romances, set to music, in musical comedy style.. It might also be described as a musicomedy. It's Chevalier’s talents and his personality which dominate this work, however, and not the musical setting or -the story it tells. The story, what there is of it, is fairly absorbing, but the music, aside from being inadequate for such a pre- tentious undertaking as this picture, lacks that haunting, lilting punch which identify so many of the recent talkie- ‘The theme song, “My Dream Lover,” is catchy and the lyrics cute. In addition there are sev- eral other numbers which may be popu- larized if the radio musicians get to work on them, but Chevalier probably will never put them over. “The Love Parade” is superbly pro- duced and finely directed. It will stand as a tribute to the handiwork of Ernst Lubitsch. Gorgeous settings and all the pomp, pageantry and ceremonial of a toy kingdom e among its assets. 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In their love passages, particularly, Dorothy Sebastian and Willlam Boyd are quite delightful. The story is one of those “dramas” of & young man who is sent West to funfi! wine, women and song. Once there he plunges into another affair, this one quite “different,” because, of course, the girl involved is obviously “the one and |only.” That it is necessary for the im- patient lover to join the ranks of the army in order to be within hailing distance of this daughter of the colonel, that he does so—at first with total disregard for the dear old army spirit— and that he finally creeps up in_the ranks to a lieutenancy, is one of those situations which _doesn't come exactly as a surprise. Furthermore, that the girl gives in to his strenuous love cam- paign is not to be wondered at. Still, it is nice to see them get there, even if there were a good many moments when one would have prefe:red to be | outside throwing snowballs. ‘The co-star of the picture with the genial William Boyd, is’a young lady of the mature age of 6 who unfortunately is unlabeled. The “shots” of the cavalry i race and the grand parade of the troops are excellent. The remainder of the program is composed of some very good “shorts,”| including the Rooney family and “Roswald the Rabbit,” with, of course, The Evening Star-Universal News Reel. METROPOLITAN oo Crack” “General Crack.” that mas- | ter fighter and tempestuous lover of the romanti eighteenth century, continues to con. quer his enemies, ladies of royal and gypsy blood and Washington audiences generally at the Metropolitan Theater this week—its second week, by the way. ‘The gay adventurer owes his suc- cesses, it must be admitted, to one John Barrymore, whese debut in talking films'is a triumph from start to finish. ‘The owner of the screen’s most-famous profile becomes in this production the | istrionic artist he really is—unham- pered by lack of speech or restrictions, moreover, of the legitimate stage. Con- sequently he rises to heights of drama not heretofore accessible even to a Barrymore. Marian Nixon, as the charming sister of the Emperor, is all that could be desired. Lowell Sherman is the Em- . 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