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XMUSEMENTS.” NHE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, Gilbert Miller has called Will H, Hays “the highest salaried nit- wit in America.” Don C. Seitz accuses him because “the flms are too immoral”; Miller because they are “too moral.” Ivan Abram- to the courts and asks Son goes that Mr. Hays be disciplined for a pathetically atrophied moral sense. HO is the most abused man in America today? And are the morals of the Nation closely allied with the photoplay? In answer to the first question, Will H. Hays, “czar of the mov- ies,” may claim special attention. At the -present time he stands between a cross fire of photoplay roducers and several church eaders. Canon William Sheafe Chase marched at the head of the latter group. Among the pro- ducers, Ivan Abramson of the Graphic Film Co. is now appeal- to the courts to reprimand “"Mr. Hays for a grotesquely ex- aggerated moral sense. And one . Rev. Dr. Guy Emery Shipley as- certains that Mr. Hays is “a| * smoke screen to hide the filth of the movies.” Canon Chase indicts Mr. Hays because he passed the picture, “Old Ironsides,” claiming the film was “an appeal to the gutter in- stincts of humanity.” Producer Abramson is making an effort to have the courts broaden the mind of the movie “czar” because Mr. Hays banned his two film prod- ucts, . “Enlighten Thy Daughter” and “Forbidden Fruit.” It seems, from this viewpoint, that the object of the present controversy is to get rid of Mr. Hays. He is the target for bitter attacks from writers and direc- < tors who resent the ban on H i i i ! : H s H H H i i H ' : i H H H i H 1 ! H H i H H ¢ H H H ! H 11 H themes that are freely handled in literature and on the stage. He is assailed for letting the “rough stuff” in and keeping the “rough stuff” out. In some of the cities complaint is made that there are not more pictures like “The Cock- Eyed World,” and in the small towns the theater owners com- Lfih}tfint there are any pictures e it. One class of intellectuals at- tacks the motion picture industry because, in its extreme activity lving offense, it has gr;}ftic:lly deprived i{.:elf (‘:‘f” thlel t of free speech. It avoids a! burning questions of controversy, and wm Hays lists among his achievéments che fact thlt the films have been entirely free trom wet and dry Pml;:filnd& producers are naturally connected with the industry for one F only—they desire profits. For thls reason ‘many of them consider that Mr. Hays has banned entire- ly too any profitable movie themes.+ Producers make the claim that the “wicked” pictures carry the. “virtuous” ones. For instance, “Old Ironsides,” made at the ret}uest of the Navy Depart- ment ost_a million and a half the producers. “Rough Riders” mt on the red side of to a tune of eight hun- fty thousand dollars. -the North” never re- eelved the reception it deserved. “Chang” .and “Grass” did not make money for producers and stockholders. The flapper pic- tures pay; for those of the educa- tional vn.rlety ‘When. the Indiana statesman took cha of the movie indus- try eight years ago, he went into office with high hopes. One of his first projects was the exploi- tation of .an educational series of pictures. . tion picture patrons rel\med o pay their cash to see G the pictures. In the same way Mr. Hays has discovered that one section of the country may com- plain of a certain picture as “raw,” while another section says the work is Victorian, expurgated | and insipid. What on earth is Mr. Hays to do? He reports that his office| maintains contact with church | circles, that special workers have been assigned to the Hollywood | studios to work with directors and nroducers and that “editorial %oards” have been appointed to| properly interpret good taste and | the proprieties by helping to! shape pictures properly—to en- courage the production of really fine photoplays. * x ¥ ¥ ARL LAEMMLE, Universal head and one of the pioneers | of the motion picture industry,| comes out with a flat proposition | to remake the silent pictures of other years into the new talkative variety. This has been done with a number of films, but it cannot HELD OVER 4 BY C. E. NELSON= |are being trained for dancing {have parts in “His Woman.” be done with all of them. Some |! stories, obviously, are suited for sound pictures, while others— many of the old ones—cannot D. C., FEBRUARY. 2, Photoplays at Washington Theaters This Week 1930—PART FOUR AMUSEMENTS. | be forced into the realm of noise. Laemmle points out that his plan will alleviate the present shortage of material for talking pictures. Looking at the matter from the exhibitor’s standpoint, they might become the- largest beneficiaries from such a scheme, for they figure that the successful silent film must necessarily become a successful sound picture—the same big feature with renewed strength—and that good screen material, like good music, is worth more than one presentation. But the plan has many pit- falls. It must be carefully handled; there should be no effort for a_wholesale turning over of the old silents into sound pro- ductions. Such a plan is doomed before it is really started. * kX * 'THE movie finds a new use in Hollywood, for chorus girls parts by the use of the cinema. Larry Ceballos of the First Na- tional staff has rigged up a pro- jection room in connection with the reherasal studio, and dance numbers, close-ups of steps, slow- motion analyses of dances and even moving line sketches illus- trating the dance from a movie point of view are exhibited. It is planned to collect a library of dance films for this particular studio, and experimental reels are taken from some of the new pictures, “Sally,” “Paris,” *“No, No, Nanette,” “Spring Is Here,” “Bright Lights” and “Show Girl in Hollywood.” First National's dancing chorus consists of 127 girls, and it is estimated that an average of 12 new girls are trained each week. g * ok ox % METRO~GOLDWYN-“AYER is planning something entirel, new in the way of a movie serial, with sound. A revue, “The March of Time,” is to take up three phases of American enter- tainment in history—the past, present and future. The story will be covered in three sections, each an inclusive unit. The first part, recently completed by Direc- tor Charles Reisner, includes nine stars of the Weber and Fields, De Wolf Hopper, Louis| Mann, Marie Dressler, Fay Tem- | pleton, Barney Fagan and Jo- | 2% . FEBRUARY 2 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Congat nee, nd Conral Nagel and Gonrad Nagel and Monte Blue in Monte Blue I Rpdy valiee in The Richard Dix In “8even AII b d 5 Lila Lee Lila Lee in kin ‘Skin Deep. Vagabond Lover.” Keys to a.mnm | assal I‘ “The s-md Flame. ““The Sacred n-me “The Sacred Flame."’ vnuhone variety. vmphnne vmety Vitaphone variety. Vitaphons Comedr.____ Comedy. Comedy. medy. Com Com edb-“ Color "reel. | '—g, fels_an 'F ebe_Daniels and uanel Barrymore T LiGhel n.rrymon T~ Oreta Garbo h Grant Withers~ | Apoll e "su L b ohn Boles Mysterious “The, Myaterious “The Kiss" Grant’ Withers | pollo % 7oy n aphone variety. ‘In the Headlines." | 624 B St. NE, “Rio Rita." “Rio R - __Vitaphone variety. ___Vitaphone varlety. _ — Vitaphone: ariety. g S Costello in Tude Lawrence 1 Everett Horton | valon “gtreet Girl reet Girl." vitaphone veriety. vu.nnom Variety. Vluphone variety. Jnhnny_mm “The Bap.” 5612 Conn. Ave. _ Vitaphone variety. V::nhonn varief Com: T R e Tg:d: 4= W [ Ve son e Chatterton an rn, Chatterton 35d ™ Willlam 5 Ave. Grand ST et R{'v'fx'u.m Powell in William Powell vy Bl SR ve. “treet Girl" “Street Girl." OATnE Sinners.” “Oharmine Snners ' Vitaphone ta “The Battie of Paris.” €45 Pa. Av. 8.E. __Vitaphone variety. Vitaphone variety. _ Para. short subject. Para. shor ect. Cartoon. Cartoon. ununom varietie: Conrad N = Conrad Nagel Belle Baker in “Song of Love Ho od Revue." Cameo Dark. P A R O (AR “Dynaite.” “Dgname.” o g Mt Rainler. omedy. Jomedy. Pox Players. hagles Farell and - Oharles Farrell and Chagles Fartell and harles Farrell and Janet Gaynor 1e in Lenore Ulric in Carolina — Foord /el g ey o s Pustiee “Frosen Justice’" 105 11th st. S.E. - ide _ UD - ‘Sunny_Side - “‘Bunny £ Slde Up." “Sunny_Side Up. e i ove _UD kford Charles Rogers i Billle_Dove ‘Billie "Dove Mary Pickford and e TR ngel.” “The Pi ” irbanks ll’\ “H d Revue. “Halfway to Heaven Central oty fiel Tne Somedy. Asiel DTfl:r'ni.l:l SR Bhtew” PRAing of the Shew? ToUywoo Vitaphone variety. Vitaphone 425 9th St N.W.__Vitaphone variety Vitaphone va Yaviety, Comeds. _Variety. Comedy. "Comedy. Raae o e George .vemx #id " Mofton Downey and Cir Ann_ H Paul Muni in, Harold Lloyd in Harold Lioyd in Tha B cle T I e HeE Prve e “Seven Faces.” “Welcome Danger.” “Welcome Danger.” L6y NL'lve 'tnd k’ ";',"‘l:"’ 2105 Pa. Are. N ¥, cky_in_Love." L ores Costello in Dos‘:;'" Sl Th Betty Compson Betty Compson Willlam Haines Wlllllrr:nlhmps Liogel Barrymore in ‘Second Choice.” ond * Choice.” e, o » e Mysteriou: . ir1 “Navy Blues Navy Blues oSt F’?.lo:.y e TSPToBA: VATALty. Mo = b Vvitpehenn Ev".'mzy e i lvo’nen\:ll'flr" Vitaphone_variety. Eac o T ¥ e TR 3 Jack Holt and K Holt and e 1343 Wis. Ave. “Jass_Heaven.” “Jazz Relven S “Flight. l'hzhtv" T “Tonight at 12.” Joseph Schildkraut ocque m 1 Rgbert, Monteomary in Robert Montsomeryln Eddie_Quillan in Fairlawn Tl Llerd D O el “The Miislssiopt Is ‘Collere.” S0 This 15 College. “The Delishttul “The Sophomore.” Anacestia.D.C. Jambler. Georee Jesse A S gm Lmn Ao Bob Custer in o ‘Z:'}.“ le?'r'-‘:g';u"g “Coores: Wathingion ‘Younger Generation.” “Bye, Bye, Buddy " Rainbow. Lone " “Boyble” Attion Fllmly Four Devi Sonen. ‘Comedy. Cartoon. ‘Western reel. Fable. ‘Comeates. sSomed; i cnmeam Hws. Comedy._Sportlight. s g Mband G sy Comear. Moran ard Mack in Richard Arlen Richard Arien Glggdsige Colbert fn Clgudette Colherl T Olive Forden in.. Moran and Mack I T f ¥ ] 2., ’ Wiy Bripe TURWhY.Brpe Thet© L B, pners. “Pour Peatners.” Tound atte oty act: “Chasiin comeds. Hippodr'me 23 Comedy. _Color_reel. “Comedy. ‘Comedy. Comedy. 21K St. N.W._Cox Ann Harding and Georre Bancroft el Bsnmu (AR Chatterion Gharles Rogers Y fn i Home R domned “The Mighty.” “The Mighty " thu Teel. “Haltway 10 Heaven" Vitpa hone variety. N.E. Vitaphone variety. Vitaphone Vll’ltl’ Vitaphone variety. medy. Comedy. Iath & € NE. Norma Talmadge in Mary Dunc Janet Gaynor and w-mn n-xm n l-\lcnud "Ihe Dove." AR ierene Oharies "')g"'" T “Speakeasy.” a4 l.zl(‘er es. Lucky Star." M|rlon mxon in Comedies. News. “Four Feathe ‘Comedies. “Geraldine. ‘omed: oth & E Georgn Jessel in Tim MV.CQY in Charles Farrel m and “The Rivei Buddy “Degert Rider. “Halfway to “Love, LI' Liby & Comedy. et Rews. 1419 N. Capitel T o T Renee Adoree in 8 Tom_Santchi_in Ranger, the dof. in Dolores m" t3il ““Tide of the | lmnm i Panny Brice in “The Hsunted Ship.” 7] Law.'" - “My Man.’ ‘Comedy. Serial. Revelw. Princess Feapeds. ews Eomedy. 1110 B St. N.E. 7y e William Bovd Dark. ‘hd :'v‘c‘r'}%oli'; 'ha lveryho‘dy “Show of Shows.” “Show of Sho P n i R'chmond Happy?’ Act. Comedy. Act. ‘ome« ‘His Pisrt Command. |l dris. Va. Comeay, N--- Comedy.~ News. St sy Alexandria. 1 Davi Belle Baker ty mpson Bob Sa: e Jmnmr“‘ Du:n u:“:}lnn: oz Sone 6F Love.” mtreet’ qirlr OO"P°% 'M Sulfuw - o » “Red Hot Rhythm." . ; L X g ,...'?.’.. N.W. %fp‘rfone \!'-r'fl'x'; Viiaphone. variety. rtoon. Comedy. Comedy. harl rrel] in George Arliss In George Arliss in “‘Seven Paces. State Dark. BiteSyan e, ovagls B Ao S R Bethesda, Md. NAnci Carroll in sephine Sabel. Several acts are presented as originally done at the famous old Weber & Fields Music | Hall more than 25 years ago.| These include the Weber and Fields pool room episode, Louis' Mann'’s telephone scene and spe- cial acts by Mann and De Wolf Hopper. The link between the | present and the future will be made by two sets of toastmasters, | Bobby Rubin and Buster Collier, representing the present, and | Dickie Kilby and Baby-Gronsky | as the future. The main idea seems to be the evolution of the | screen as an entertainment me- | dium, but with a thought of pay- | ing particular attention to many | of the former well known stage | attractions. * % % % Short Flashes. THE First National studios are busy with four pictures being filmed at one time. Dorothy Mackaill is being starred in “Bright Lights,” under the direc- tion of Michael Curtiz. Frank Fay, Eddie ‘Nugent and Noah Beery are in the cast. Corinne th has the lead in “Back Pay,” and in her supporting cast are Grant Withers and Montague Love. Monte Blue, Lila Lee, Betty Compson and William Boyd ilalll Bil- lie Dove is being starred in “Other | Men’s Wives,” and Sidney Black- mer is her leading man. Richard Barthelmess now goes into_aviation. His next picture for First National will be adapted from a story called “The I"Rght Commander,” by John Monk Saunders. Howard Hawks will direct. Chester Morris has been as- signed by Roland West to play the leadlng role in “Love in 1- cago,” which will be made for United Artists. Fox has purchased a story. “The Princess and the Plumber . written by Alice Duer Miller, as a starring vehicle for Janet Gnynor and Charles Farrel. 2nd Big Week BY POPULAR DEMAND TECHNICOLO | ! * A METRO-GOLOWVN- | CHARLE MARIE DRESSLER JACK B A6 60/mma//r/t ot Doors Open Sunday 1:30 ROEWS COLUMBIA " NOow PLAYING (HASING RAINBOWS wWLMc same stars that . BESSIE, LOVE ES KING TALKING- SINGING - DANCING FRITZ LEIBER, | Who ccmes to Poli's next week in the Chicago Civic Shakespeare Society’s presentation of “Hamlet.” Lily Losing Her Accent. ' YNAMIC blonde importation from France, Lily Damita, who now is to be seen any night on the stage in “Sons o' Guns,” is soon to be back on | the screen, The revelation of this pleasant bit of news comes from Mr. Goldwyn's office. Incidentally, Mr. Goldwyn holds the ends of the strings which allow her to function in the theater. That he is about to draw her back to Hollywood is part of the con- tract to which she must adhere. ‘The fair Lily, who is said to have the most distinguished bald-headed row in New York winking at her nightly, is to lend her vivacious talent to one or two musical-comedy movies, That she isn't we g much about the future is apparent, but that there is some- thing very much on her mind is also apparent. This is how she explained it recently to an interviewer: “Have you noticed I am losing my accent? That is bad. I must get it back. It is not clever to lose one's accent. Look at Maurice Chevalier, how clever he is. I am quite qure that he speaks better English than I do, but when he goes on the screen how French he is! I am practicing now. You will see how French I will sound in my next picture.” MAVER PICTURE POLLY MORAN ENNY rqu/fl Loew, pm.'ss | is known by no other name. ' titles were thrown in, and over it went Harold Lloyd 1 Geo Arli i 1s Joap Crawtord . JoanCramiord 1t AR M8 Ree "W:l'c%me Blnu'r‘,v- *Blsraellr S arnet Ken .{.;\n.éfi n Billie Dove in in od La Rocaue i Red Ta Rocaue 1 Boyd in nnnyW-lm ] “Tne Batated - Ang el.* e Bainted A L a TS, ““Locked Doors is Pirst Command.” ““The " Nn el Vlu'hfllt 'nle Vlllphon! vlfl( anngon‘em\,“lrl Y. Vlllphone v:n:ly Vlun&o'm flv’lrlfl! Cartoon. y. "~ “"Cartoon. Cartoon. m ord _and M mmra and " Dofores Costello 1 ot ed Lewis i ‘Bebe_Daniels and By oAnleles ™ Doutlas’ Esihents in Dousles Faitbapka'in *Second Cholce.” "'1{,'"" u""i' # kS lve;ly:mdny John_Boles n “Taming of the Shrew” Tihe Shew” Vicabhone variey. Vluvhnne ariety. s «Rio Rita* “Rio Rite.” Comedy. Variety. T&meds. Variets. Comedy. ‘m,,mn, Y ite. Ga. & Quel 3 [[teiber in “mamie || Mrs. Fiske in Repertory. In Play Tonight 'HE new comedy, “The Family play a fortnight or more in each of the Blues,” which Mrs. Piske is now | principal cities of the country, present- | rehearsing, will be preunted in New |ing several plays during the engage- York the early &m February, and | ment, instead of remaining but one will be included the list of plays for | week and in only one play. her tour next season. Comedy will predominate. The plays| For many years Mrs. Fiske has been | will lnclude besides “Ladies of the building toward the repertory idea.|Jury,” by Fred Ballard, at least two | Next season will find it functioning.|other plays to be selected from past | Not since William Gillette played his successes, like “Mrs. Bumpstead-Leigh,” last transcontinental tour in a reper- | “Helena’s Boys” and “Wake Up, Jona- tory of his famous chnrnct,enzfauons has thnn.r wml\ pe‘rhlps an occasional mati- star played a repertory from coast nee of a classic. |35 coast. " Tis, hovever, was Bot sa| My Plbes new play, “The Family | exceptional procedure with stars of a|Blues,” is by Hatcher Hughes and Alan | decade or so ago. | Williams, the former author of the| In re-establishing the repertory sys- Pulitzer Prize play, “Hell Bent for | | tem-Mrs. Fiske is making a worthy de- | Heaven.” Mr. Willlams is a fiction parture, one worth watching. She will | writer. This is his first full-length play. “Poverty Row” No More. OLLYWOOD has just discovered | that it has lost one.of its most picturesque_aspects. “Poverty Row” is no more. Only its ghost remains—the Ghost and “Dad’s” restaurant, which verted from every sort of small business house now is studded here and there with the huge concrete studios of the big producers, the ones who can afford to make the talkies. Poverty Row is where, once upon a time unknowns crashed through to brilliant prominence and fat contracts with the big motion picture producers. It was the source of the “quickies,” which were made in ¢ day and peddled through the countryside to whatever theaters would accept them. Usually they were made with a “bor- rowed” star from one of the big studios. He was photographed for a few hours in all sorts of activities. Then he went blck to his own set, and the struggling “quickie” producers‘ would concoct a story to match the scenes. Then the Prefers Screen to Stage. ANN HARDING, fine actress that she is, but “the exotic blonde,” as the movie press agent terms her, has quit New York for Hollywood, and intends to make the departure permanent. She so confided a recent interview in Los Angeles. Contrary to the expressions of many stage people that they're “merely in the talkies for the money,” Miss Hard- ing insisted that she likes the screen because it gives her a chance to do what she always wanted to do but couid not on the stage. “I like pictures,” she said. “I never want to go back to the New York stage as long as I can be successful here, “I never could do what I wanted to on the stage, and so far on the screen I have had extraordinarily interesting roles to play.” Miss Harding and her husband, Harry Bannister, who also has gone into the talkies, have built a home in the hills beyond Hollywood. The actress was a stenographer for a life insurance com- pany in New York, doing scenarios for Famous Players on the side, when shc went to the Provincetown Playhouse one night, determined to seek some minor role in that group’s forthcoming production. Instead of a minor role, she was almost immediately given the feminine It to the office of some independent dis- tributor. Once in a great while one of these pictures would be discovered to be a hit. It would reap thousands for the Dl‘oducefl. who sometimes also “grad- uated smnemneu the unknown players the film depended upon would achieve huge success. It was so with Ken Maynard, the “Western” star; with the late Fred Thomson and with the splendid Betty Compson. But_the talkies wiped Poverty Row out. It could produce a silent picture sometimes at no more than the cost of the materials—but talkies cost money. The street that once was peopled by ihese screen gamblers and which con- tained only makeshift studios con STARTING SATURDAY THE CASE Philo Ve in i $3\a °na"§§saf?.%°us sty MRS. mm SKLIRAKIS, Who plays the leading dren of the ‘World” at the Nation: the supreme bled in Washington for the annual meeting. The proceeds go to the Greek Sunday schools of the city. Sylvia Lent Gives Recitals. QYLVIA LENT, now among the lead- ing violinists of this country, will give a recital tomorrow evening in| Chester, Pa. when she will be accom- | panied at the piano by Mildred Kolb | Schulze of Washington. Although Ml&l' Lent spends much of her time on con- cert tours, she and her mother retain their Washington home, where Miss Lent was born. Mrs. Schulze is also a native of the District, and will go with Miss Lent to Altoona, Pa., where they | will appear Tuesday evening. Mrs.| Schulze will return to her Washington Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson.” “Across the World With Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson,” a thrilling trav- clogue embracing some rarely visited spots in the South Seas and Africa with week's _engagement starting Sunday night, February 9, with two showings daily thereafter at 2:30 and 8:30 p.m. The territory covered by the picture includes unfrequented isiands in the | South Seas, where the camera snared hitherto unphotographed headhunters, “devil-devil” men and other strange denizens. In addition to the jungle scenes and the strange and eerie things that_transpire, there is a sequence of “civilization,” showing the Johnsons presenting the high lights of their trip to friznds at their New York home. Thls incidentally, allows for conversation | from Mrs. Johnson, who demonstrates she has a finely modulated voice which might land her in the ialking dramas if bigger and more realistic drama didn't call her to the far reaches of the earth. It will be remembered that “‘Simba,” the intriguing history of the lion, was a Johnson picture, but *“Across the World” is the first of their product to have the pictures explained through the use of sound devices. This will be the second time the National Theater's magnificent sound apparatus has been brought into play since its installation last Summer. POLI'S—Shakespearean Repertory. Fritz Leiber and the Chicago Civic Theater Players will be presented for a week at Poll's Theater, starting Febru- ary 10, by the Chicago Civic Shake- speare Society, a non-commercial or- ganization headed by prominent Chi- cago financiers, academicians and social leaders. The repertoire for the week will bv:: “Hamlet,” Mond-y night ‘Tuesday night; “Othello, Saturday matinee, Saturday night. The Chicago Civic Shakespeare So- ciety, making possible here the appear- ance of Mr. Leiber and the players, has on its membership list Harley L. Clarke, president of the Utilitles Power & Light Corporation of Chicago; Dr. Wal- ter Dill Scott, president of Northwest- ern Universny. Dr. rt Maynard Hutchins, president of University of Chicago; Booth Tarkington; Rufus C. Dawes, brother of Gen. Charles Dawes and head of the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, and John M. Manly, professor and head of the English department of Uni- verslty of Chicago since 1898, { the players Mr. Leiber wiil hrtnl th him to Washington—men and women who have won lndeull laurels for clear-cut interpretation of Now Playing Marilyn MILLER The Brightest of Stars in i 'nt resdway Fak ‘"‘0 or [Warres M[TROPO[IIAN SO DELICATE IN THEME WE DO NOT RECOMMEND T ~ FOR CHILDREN/ " studio Wednesday morning. Cupid KO with ROB! WILLIA BASIL RATHBONE LEILA HYAMS ad. ROLAND YOUNG~ T IN FEBRUARY means that again Loews Elarlaasce 1?ml Columb |ea remam in etr'\‘t :oré'?ir r entertainm fr‘e‘sgrr'\el’r;.%:g but all months ~ ~ ~ ol A~ ON THE STAGE A0V HOLTZ *THE BARD OF BROADWAY" qwqmpe&de of 4orgeou.s. A\CIE ILANID A Loew Productionv. FROM THE ‘CAPITOL' TO THE CAPITA, LUCILLE SISTERS of Women Haters MAE CLARKE GEORGE MacFARLANE Presented by Willlam Fox Fanchon and “FEMME Vercell Sisters s a Couple this star cast ERT AMES. M HARRIGAN Marco_id FOLLIES” Mile. NOREE Hatt l.ld Herman Miriam Hoffman MARY MARLOWE L d Her Melody Malds ENGLISH ‘l‘l"ol.l GIRLS "C" the aid of a lecture delivered by Martin | Johnson and synchronizzd on a _disc, | comes to the National Theater for a | Coming Attractions NATIONAL—"Across the World With Shakesp:are — are | Marie Carroll, Collier, Virginiu Stevens, John Burke, hflulés Ll(ion Hall, Philip Quin, Lawrence ‘ec! | Robe: hold | did | playes ciple and how. | filler, Zicy | tion, feld ingtor Thi do is Tecov surror prese; ducti ‘This clude: Puck Jules matinee; “Twelfth Night,” Wedn.sdlv L o : night; “Merchant of Venice,” Thursday | /o Fes 0. March 3, in & reper- night! “Julius Caesar,” Friday night; | tor® o SISKesheare plays. The com- pany “Frivolities,” next week’s attraction at | the Gayety, ranks among the burlesque | shows that are able to maintain a firm trons. ZIEGFELD' | Edna Ferber’s romantic novel, will rlay a_return engagement at the Natonal Theater the week of February 17, will be yemembered that this jargest of all extravagant outputs from the Zieg- the nineties to the present day, car- ries an absorbing love story in a highly scaled musical setting. All one has to Despite its record run in New York, “Show Boat” is promised with the ever- ger, Irene Dunne, Edna May Oliver, Eva A not far-distant | booking for the National will bring the Stratford-on- morial board of governors at Stratford. Virginia Bronson, Vera Allen, Kathryn < Robert Strauss and Thayer i GAYETY—"Frivolities.” on the affections of burlesque pa- It promises to live up to splen- ideals, with the co-operation of rs such as Frank Harcourt, dis- of fun; Adeline, dancing wonder, Ethel Albertini, who sings, and And a chorus that is an eyc- to say the least. SHOW BOAT” February L., gfeld's mammoth musical proc:ic- “Show Boat,” dramatized fiom It ateller had its premiere in Wash- n and made box-office history. is colorful tale, extending from to remember “OI' Man River” to er impressions of what a musical unding “Show Boat” can boast of. nt freshness and verve that pro- lons sponsored by Ziegfeld boast of. also applies to the cast which in- s Howard Marsh, Charles Winnin- and Sammy White, Aunt Jemima, Bledsoe and the Jubilee Singers. comes under direction of the me- THE CEN' SYL!' OPE! STA' STA' COL STR. EMPI NEL! T T IMPERIAL—Bru PALACE—Frostburg, HA! LDOIEA) nugnoln"'n A TODAY and TOMORROW-! Warner Bros." District of Columbia. EARLE—13th and E sts. n.w. RIALTO—9th near G n.w. AMBASSADOR—18th and Col. rd. n.w. APOLLO—624 H st. n.e. AVENUE GBANHH Pa. ave, se. 'TRAL—9th s AVAI.ON—CGI!II. lve. and McKinley. COLONY—Georgia ave, and l'nrunt nou—-mo C st. ne. JESSE—3100 18th st. n.e. TIVOLI—14th and Park rd. n.w. 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