Evening Star Newspaper, February 16, 1930, Page 56

AMUSEMENTS. ariétyf of Attractions in The Capital Playhouses NATIONAL—Mitzi in “Sari.” I.n; & week's engagement at the ‘N.floml heater, commencing tomor- row evening, is the announcement that Mitzi, the adorable and inimitable ‘comedienne of other days, will be seen as the star in “Sarl,” one of the best operettas ever written. “Sari” has a genuinely clever book and is an inter- esting play, with comedy, wit, romance and & touch of sentiment as well, Mitzi made her first appearance in #Sari” at the National Theater, and overnight became an international star. She has been looking forward to her Washington engagement, it is said, as if she were returning to her old home. In quaintness and genuine touches of humor she has never had a part that fitted her as well. The Hungarian dance “Ha-Za-Za," the liting walts number “Softly ‘Through the Summer Night,” “Love Has Wi " “My Faithful Stradivari” and “Love’s Own Sweet Song” will bring back the days when the music lovers of Washington would sit enthralled by Kalman's music. Other features of “Sari” include the Albertina Rasch dancers, and the varied calored t costumes and wonder- ful “Sarl” gowns that astonished when the operetta was-first produced. Mital's supporting cast includes Boyd Marshall, in the role of Paul Racz, the gypsy violinist, who had 30 sons, many of whom became more famous than their father; Marybeth Conoly, in the prima donna role of Juliska Fekete; Jack Squires as Gaston (Count Irini), Arthur Treacher as Cadeaux, the shadow, and a specially picked chorus of beauties who also were chosen for their singing voices. In a way one might say the company is nearly 100 per cent Hungarian, as is the music by Emmerich Kalman, the stage setting by Willy Pogany, the various dances staged by Albertina Rasch, the orchestra directed by Paul Yartin, and a real Hungarian orchestra, headed by Bencze Karoly. POLI'S—Eleanor Painter in “The Fortune Teller.” At Poli’s Theater tomorrow evening Eleanor Painter will appear in Victor Herbert'’s comic opera of Hungarian Romany life, “The Fortune Teller,” one of this prolific composer's most tuneful and romantic compositions. is a certain something in the very atmosphere of Hungary that ex- udes romance—the to phy of the country, the customs of people, the vivacity of their demeanor, their code of honor and their disregard of con- ventional observances—all of which stimulates the mind and energizes the strength of their romantic existence. Harry B. Smith wrote a consistent story around the fact that in Budapest at a dancing school there is an heiress who has a remarkable resemblance to a gypsy fortune teller of the loecality, and that the twin brother of the heiress, an officer in the Hungarian army, gets himself into a serious complication by leaving his regiment without permis- sion. In order to save her brother from disgrace, the young heiress mas- querades in his uniform and is, there- fore, the subject of many humorous and romantic episodes. Miss Painter is called upon to sing and play s triune role—Musette, the ballet dancer; Irma, the Gypsy, and Feder, the Hussar officer—three distinc- tive and characterizations, and in the res she is said to have made the most emphatic success of her artistic career. Prominent in her supporting com- pany are Eric Titus, recently here with Fritsi Schefl: Rol involved when he attempts to back a pretty girl in a musical show. Lavish stage scenes introduce a num- ber of brilliant dancing specialties. as well as several song povelties. A selected program of shorter fea- tures, including the popular Vitaphone varieties, supplments the picture. PALACE— Richard Arlen share honors at week. Arlen appears in the Paramount racing classic, “Burning Up.” a smile- -a-minute romance, with Mary Brian, Tully Marshall and Sam Hardy also prominently cast. Lou Larrigan aspires to be a great driver and when his boss goes broke and teams up with a crooked promoter he is given a chance to ride, an inno- cent tool of the plotters. He makes good and also wins the love of the local banker's daughter. The crooks induce the banker to bet $25.000 that Lou will win the race and in the meantime threaten him with all sorts of dire re- sults if he does, but Lou learns of the banker’s bet and determines to win re- gardless of cost. Allan Rogers, “America’s handsomest Iyric tenor,” as he is billed, returns in the Loew production “Blue Garden,” an exquisite presentation direct from the Capitol Theater, New York, in which Les Ghezsis, acrobatic marvels; Kaye and Sayre, fantastic funsters; Dodd and Rush, exponents of grace, and a ballet of Chester Hale Girls pro- vide splendid entertainment. “The Hearst Metrotone News, the Pal- ace Orchestra, Charles Gaige at the organ and short subjects complete the program. R-K-O KEITH'S—“Second Wife.” “‘Second Wife,” Radio Pictures’ grip- ping domestic drama, co-starring Con- rad Nagel and Lila Lee, and the feature at R-K-O Keith’s this week, was adapted from the Fulton Oursler play, “All the King's Men.” It depicts the antagonism between stepmother and stepchild, and the consequent reactions in the marital affairs of man and wife. A Xounl man, who devotedly loved his first wife before her death, has married again. His second wife is soon to become a mother. A brief cable- gram from abroad informs him that his son—the child of his first wife— whom he has sent away lest his pres- ence remind the second wife that she has not been the only woman in his life, is dying. He to Europe to be with the son who lies near death, but returns to his new wife again to find her hating him because he left her in her hour of need. The denoucment is sald to be both logical and gripping. A competent cast of stage and screen %“y:l" incfllud’:xdd?{lry Carr, Hugh luntley an eddie Burke Frede; . talented child player. b Burning Up.” and Allan Rogers Loew's Palace this i EARLE—“The Great Divide.” Accompanied by his complete radio broadcasting apparatus, Little Jack Lit- tle, radio singer and conductor of iS'-lrtlt!{l W;uw's :gigh! Club of the Air,” s featured on the stage at the Tl Theater this week. * it On the screen, “The Great Divide,” a First National and Vitaphone produc- tion, adapted from the famous stage play _and featuring Dorothy Mackaill, Ian Keith and Myrna Loy, is the pic- ture feature. The story concerns an Eastern clety girl who, bored with her mode of existence, seeks adventure—and finds it—in the untamed West. Little Jack Little, however, is stressed as giving a perfect reproduction of one of his radio broadcasts on the stage. Seated at a plano at one side, he sings into a microphone. A loud speaker at the other end of the stage brings his .| voice to the audience. Qq?mfl pulchritude. ‘The' New York production will be presented here intact. GAYETY—"Hindu Belles.” ‘This week’s show at the Gayety ‘Theater brings one of the most beauti- ful and talented stars on the burlesque -:g in- Hinda Wausau, who heads “Hindu Belles,” with Eddie Lloyd and George Murray featured in the fun- making line. Others in the big com- %mm Virginia Green, Nan Marie Forbes, Myles Bell and Maurice 3 “Hindu lles” has been winning new laurels up and down the Mutual mnm show is l;.ld‘:’sparkle , original comedy, no ex- pense has been spared on modern mfl! and costumes song, or snappy dancing, and the chafus has been recruited from among attractive women, quali- fled to adorn the production. Manager Lake announces two added features for Wednesday and Friday eve- | nings, the latter destribed as “Amateur | and Professional Night.” FOX—"“City Girl.” One of the outstanding screen epics of the year, “City Girl,” a Fox Movie: tone production, with’ symphonic o) chestral accompaniment, dialogue and sound, which features Mary Duncan and Charles Farrell, under the direction of F. W. Murnau, is next week’s attrac- tion at the P8x Theater. Those who saw “Sunrise” and “Four Devils,” Murnau’s two previous Fox films, have learned to expect the unusual in his cinema speclals. “City Girl” also in- cludes in its cast David Torrence, Edith Yorke, Dawn O’Day, Guinn Williams and Helen Lynch. The story concerns the hatred of a tyrranical wheat rancher for the city girl his son brings home as a bride. ‘The battle between the girl and her new father-in-law eventually roots out strife that has dominated the whole family since its beginning. In maki the picture Mr. Murnau ‘went with players and technical staff to the wheat belt just prior to harvest time and here obtained some unusual scenic “shots.” Alexander Callam will return as mas- ter of ceremonies with the Panchon and Mareo idea, this time “Jazz Cinderella,” a very modern version of the old story. Little is making a vaudeville tour, it is explained, as the result of requests from fans throughout this country and ‘anada. He sings a number of well liked old songs and several new ones, giving Washington audiences an op- portunity to hear some which may be- come leading hits of the season. RIALTO—“Woman to Woman.” T:‘Ifi Rialto Theater m‘mm"“ i‘l pre- senting & nneln' - plcture, “Woman to 'oman,” :f'-h Betty Compson as its star, which is based on a play written in a day when the emancipation of woman was a theory rather than a fact, and is said to have been the first of the plays of the stage to recognize the awakening of the new thought of greater freedom for women and to get away from the old idea that she belongs to “the weaker sex.” Juliette Compton and George Bar- raud appear in the cast in leading roles, while Betty Compson, the star, as a little Parisian cabaret entertainer, who never ceases to love the English soldier who has promised to come back and marry her, has rare opportunity to dis- play her singing and dancing talents as well as her ability as an actress. The supplementary offerings wili in- clude a Universal comedy, “Upstairs and Downstairs,” embellished with color and song, a nevel cartoon, and The Evening Star-Universal Newsreel, with Graham McNamee announcing. The orchestra under Ray Hart will furnish incidental music. COLUMBIA—"Devil May Care” Ramon Novarro and his tenor voice will continue to thrill the Loew's Co- lumbia audiences this week in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ~ musical ro- mance, “Devil May Care.” The sup- porting cast includes Dorothy Jordon, brary of Congress February 25, at 4:45 P.M. LIEGE STRING QUARTET of Belgium Tickets at T. Arthur Smith's, 1330 G St. N.W., beginning Monday, Feb. 17. Service charge for each ticket, 25 cents. No seats will be reserved after the con- cert_begins. DEBATE BETWEEN THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FEBRUARY 16, 1930—PART FOUR. Marion Harrls and John Miljan. “The e picture is rich And the number of st 1o caning ey f song hits it contains The locale of the story is in France at_the time N;raleon ’r: sentenced to exile in Elba. Novarro as Armand, his young lleutenant, is sentenced to death by the royalists, but suceeds in escap- ing. He rides to an inn pursued by and forces a beautiful young royalist to hide him. When she learns his identity she exposes him, but again he escapes. This time he goes to the castle of a friendly countess, who dis- guises him as one of her servants. The | young lady of the inn arrives and proves | to be Leonie, the niece of the countess. Armand woos her, and although he is supposed to be a menial she cannot resist him. From this on there is en- gaging and thrilling romance. The Hearst Metrotone News, an M-G-M “Our Gang" comedy, a talking picture with little Wheezer, which pro- vides laughter, and the Columbia con- cert orchestra round out the enter- tainment, LITTLE—"Passion,” | “Passion,” the powerful Ernst Lu- bitsch fmducunn. starring two inter- | national stars, Emil Jannings and Pola Negri, is the main feature at the Little Theater for one week only. This production has been made from a story known the world over and those | who enjoy the charm and beauty of | Pola Negri and the power of Emil Jan- | nings will spend an enjoyable evening | at the theater. The picture is a se- | quence of dramatic situations. The | romance of a wonder woman Wwho | reaches the zenith of her glory as ruler | of a king and finally arrives at her low- | est ebb in the shadow of the guillotine. NEWMAN TRAVELTALK TODAY. “Vienna and Buda-Pesth” will be the | theme of the traveltalk of E. M. New- man this afternoon at the National Theater. In a new group of motion pictures and color views many changes will be revealed. 'The radical form of govern- ment in Vienna has recently changed to a more conservative one with con- structive policies. The former gaycty of the city is now said to be returning. The sidewalks are crowded with thou- | sands of people seated on the prome- 1ades sipping the famous melange, Vien- nese coffee with whipped cream. The | famous rolls and bakery, which immedi- ately after the war had almost disap- peared are again a feature of cafe life. Opera is flourishing, subsidized by the | republic and the new bathing beach at Baden is thronged in pleasant weather. ‘The sadness of war is no longer on view. Mr. Newman has never before pre- sented Buda-Pesth, one of the most magnificent of European capitals, Its unusual situation on the Danube with two great cities, one on each bank, its promenade on the Frances Joseph Quay and the beautiful women seen at the ofnn air St. Gellert artificial wave-bath all are fascinating. WALPOLE-WILDER DEBATE, Tomorrow. Hugh Walpole and Thornton Wilder, two internationally known literary niuses, are to appear in a debate at nstitution Hall tomorrow evening af 8 o'clock, under the auspicss of the American Association of University ‘Women and the Community Institute. Both Mr. Wilder and Mr. Walpole | have ngmred in Washington as lec- | turers, but never in debate. Mr. Wilder showed his ability as a speaker in his college days, figuring conspicuously in forum debates. Mr. Walpole also is a finished and brilliant speaker. Both are noted for their keen humor and originality. The subject of the debate is “Re- solved that rudln{"zren fiction and | drama throws a better light on experi- ence than reading great literature and blography.” JANET RICHARDS—Tomorrow. Miss Janet Richards, at her weekly review of the outstanding questions of the hour tomorrow morning will bring | up to date the most interesting develop- ments in affairs congressional and in- ternational during the past week, in cluding secial mention of “The Opium Farce at Geneva—Greed and Hypocrisy in the Saddle”; “Juryless Trials, and Can We Reform the Jury System?” “Rivera and Kemal; the Way of the | Dictator Is Hard"; slow progress at the | London Conference and continued con- | gressional conflict. | The lecture will be given at 10:45 am. | in the Masonic Temple, Thirteenth street and New York avenue. “THE ROSARY"—Carroll Hall. “The Rosary” will be presented by the St. Mary's Players at Carroll Hail instead of at the National Theater, as | originally announced, Sunday afternoon | and evening, February 23, for the bene- fit of St. Mary’s Industrial School of Baltimore. “The Rosary” is a play filled with the | joys and sorrows that appeal to the | human interests. There are many | tense scenes, but dispersed throughout | there is much that gives it a pleasing | balance. | ‘The cast that will present this drema includes many who already have made their debut before Washington audiences in “My New Curate,” among them Margaret Kelly, Bernadine Kraus, Joseph Flynn, Francis McCormick and Frank Roberto. Those new to Wash- An alluring city miss, wise meets an unsophisticated spaces—and learns som AT THE NATIONAL THIS SUMMER MARION STERLY, Who has signed a contract as ingenue lead with the National Theater Players for the Summer months. From Manager Steve Cochran’s information that she is 5 feet 3 inches tall, womes {| are brown and that she tips the scale at press department , that her eyes and hair 108 pounds. 0 “A New Surprise.” MANAG!R COCHRAN announces “a new surprise” for his stock season. Surprises are generally new, but this surprise is quite new because she is a young 1 ue with a famous past in the matter of theatric achievement, and her name is Marion Sterly. quite a n';w one in the stock roster of Washing- n Marion only left the high school in 1925, but her apprenticeship in play- acting goes back to her dawdling days on the Pacific Coast. But 22, and that Manager Steve says is “honest,” Mi Sterly has already made the Australian- New Zealand tour and while in the 2 th!<‘¥finu¢ roles in Song an Dance ~“-." and “Meet the Wife.” In her ow.u homeland she has -prund in “Daddy Long Legs,” “Eyes of Youth,” and “The Littls Princess,” according to reports henldlnrflher coming. But it has been in both Summer and Winter repertory that the little la ington are Lilyan Murphy, Frank Mar- Jyn and Frank Saunders. The play is under the direct super- vision of Edward J. Meehan, formerly | of the professional stage and for years a director of amateur productions, Music will be furnished by St. Mary's Orchestra, chosen from St. Mary's In- dustrial School Band, under the direc- fon of Brother Simon. “Penrod” at Western High. | ‘The Western High School Dramatic Association will present Booth Tarking- | ton's “Penrod” in the high school au- ditorjum Thursday and Friday evenings, February 20 and 21. The stage adaptation to be offered is | taken from Penrod’s and Sam's ef- forts to become great detectives. Every reader of the book knows how well they succeeded and the reward which they collected. It should have an appeal to high school students for its s of youth and youthful hopes ard aspirations. of follow- The cast is oomsoled ing: Sam Samuel, ia Robey, Mar- jorie Stuart, Ray Millard, Billy Car- penter, Richard Kruesberg, ra “ANET RICHARDS to every trick of humanity, lad from the great open ething new about love! s | Co. this m Fox Presents sald to have had her widest and most valuable experience, and that experience has included season engagements with Henry Dufty, the theater lord of the West Coast, at Seattle, with O. D. Woodward, in St. Louis; with Marjorie Rambeau in Salt Lake City; with Chamberlain Brown in Greenwich, Conn., and with companies in Oakland, Calif,, Memphis, Tenn., and San Antonio, Tex., with managers such as Robert Warwick, Crane Wilbur and Edward Everett Horton, all attesting iss | the fine quality of her work. She ought, especially, to be popular with the Elks, for her uncle, Richard R. Sterly, one of the “Twelve Jolly d | Corks,” was one of the founders of the Elks lodge. With youth, beauty and the charm that carefully trained talents can givs her, Miss Marion Sterly ought to prove @ pleasant surprise in ingenue roles in Cochran's Washington Stock season. Pierce, Mary Whelchell, Vernon Hodges, Phillip Ferris, Leon vis, hran, Conkey, Rosamond Hunt, Voeth and William Rodfer. TGhe public is cordially invited to at~ nd. “THE IVORY DOOR"—Saturday. For their opening performance next Saturday afternoon at the Shubert Be- lasco Theater the Junior Theater has chosen “The Ivory Door” by A. ‘A Milne, a fascinating, exciting and whimsical romance with a beautiful set- ting, lovely costumes and a company of delightful artists. “The Ivory Door” was presented at the Charles Hopkins Theater, New York, for an entire season, and because of its success twice daily performances were found necessary to meet the demand for seats, The settings, said to be especially ap- ing, were planned locally by Mrs: . L. Rust, jr, art director for the Junior Theater. In the cast will be found William 8. Johnstone, Betty Beeman, Ruth Guiter- man and Elmer Potter, each with a background of experience with leading stars of the country. Ll’s TO .00, $2. Eves., 50c, $1.00, $1. Believes in the “Road SYI/HAT a joy it is to go on the road) ‘When I am asked what city 1 least like to play in, I always answer ‘New York.'” 'l!hls comes from Ethe] rrymore, “How few New Yorkers there are there today!” she goes on. “Broadwsy audiences have what percentage of New Yorkers? Perhaps 6. The interesting New an;e: is a curiosity. He is a]- most extinct, “I do not feel in New York the back. ground that I do when I play in Phila- delphia or Boston or Washington or | San Franeisco, which still retains much of its old charm and color. Plays with subtle lines are caught more read- ily on the road than in New York. The | attitude of New York audiences is more the ‘You've got to show me' challenge Other audiences are obviously in the theater to get enjoyment, to be taken out of themselves, and perhans tq get something of an inspiration. a “new | thought which will carry them through | their routine experiences. / come | to the theates to be entertained. They | come wanting to like a play. 1 New York they often come hopiig to ha . it!” Thus speaks Ethel Barrymore, vho is coming to Poll’s in the Shubert produe- tion of Lili Hatvany's “The Love el And Miss Barrymore should know. In a crowded career that began in her famous grandmothers company when Ethel was & schoolgirl, she trave eled from one end of America to the other in most of the plays in which she has acted. She, of course, realizes the necessity of regular engagemcnts in New York City. Only last season she opened her own theater there, the gSthel Barrymore, built for her by Lee Shu~ bert, and in that playhouse she is es- tablishing a permanent company with | a permanent repertory of significant plays. But this is to be her headquar- ters, not her sole and only home, " It Is “Shah-Ree." “TH!} ‘Wonder Child of Hungary,” Mitzi Hajos, to be seen this week in “Sari” at the National, declares | there are two things she would like to have her audience know. In the first place, her last name isn't to be thought of at all, and in the second place, ’n~ stead of saying “Sari,” it would be more polite to give this Hungarian rhapsody its correct pronunciation which happens to be “Shah-Ree.” Therefore, when the curtain rises tomorrow night, and the inimitable Mital is one once more to be seen do! the same “Mitziesque” drolleries that earned her fame and fortune years ago, all the witnesses will please remember to say “Shah-Ree.” For, not only Mitai herself, but more than a score of Alber- tina Rasch Ballerinas are genuinely Hungarian, and it would never do to have them hear a native word mis- handled by a Washingtonian idleness. Junior Theater I | WILLIAM: 8. JOHNSTONE, Who plays one of the leading roles in | “Janice Meredith,” the second of a ser of plays being give Shubert-Belasco by the Junior Theater | February 22. The first of the plays is | “The Ivory Door,” on the afternoon | of the same day. ALL LISZT PROGRAM e Thurs., Feb. 20, Italian Garden, the Mayflower Tiekets, T. Artl it] Moiet Sasower Do MORROW NIGHT MATS. THURS AND SAT. 50. Thurs. Mat., 50¢, $1.00, $1.50. ., 50¢, $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 ELEANOR IN THE FASCINATING end MELODIOU! W he Fo < EXCELLENT ENSEM rtune Tel AST - BEAUTIFUL BAL INTER S COMIC O ler’ LE BLE * GORGEOUS PRODUCTION ! AMUSEMENTS. On the Broadway Stage Reviews of the ANA BURNET, who has written many short stories for maga- zines, now turns up as the author of a sound little comedy, “The Boundary Line,” about the emotional difficulties of short story writer who married a very “con- ventional” girl who didn't sympathize | Miss with his tastes and the sort of life that appealed to him. Allan Fenway was something of a poet and was constantly pulled on by what, to save words, might be called the “gypsy trail” They had bought a farm in one of those neighborhoods| near New York where artists, writers| and others go to get quiet and fresh air and escape from the town. Here Dorothea Fenway hoped to have a home at last, to dig in—behind her fence, both literal and figurative—and be cor- rect and “respectable.” But their first child died and after that Dorothea didn't want children—indeed, she didn't want and seemed to fear her husband's love itself. A good-fellow newspaper girl, who had loved Allan for years without bothering him or any- body else about it, told him in a burst of impatience at the mess that he was making—or that was being made—of his life that what Dorothea really fear- ed in Allan was the poet in him. That was something she couldn't capture or control, the newspaper girl said, and Dorothea was setting about to kill It must have been difficult for Doro thea, too, for a more or less m hu band like hers was none too easy for & woman of her lox; “? ‘;t with., d then along came r Stul to-do, correct and uucul:,u who had a mind like a watch—as ene of their friends put it, “he winds it uj in the morning and it s running all day.” Sturgis bought a country place nearby and fell madly in love with Dorothea. Such, briefly, is the situation with which Mr. Burnet starts a story which he works out to at least one of its logical conclusions. The play is lack- ing offen covers up the lack of & real utrur gle such as faces everyday people in everyday life, and many may find it a bit_talky. | But there is real stuff in it and such honest and genuine acting as Otto Kruger gives the writer-husband's part | is rare on Broadway. It was a fine, | imaginatively felt and altogether just-| right peflomlr:ce.‘ s | IT is a sort of supermovie, melodrama de luxe, to which the very real gifts of Miss Katherine @ornell and an| excellent comrlny and all the rich) furnishing and suave lighting of a Gil- | | bert Miller production are devoted in| {Margaret Ayer Barnes' and Edward Sheldon's new play “Dishonored Lad: The heroine has wealth, social pos tion, brains. but, underneath all her other qualities and from time to time welling to the surface, an ungovernable appetite for men. 8he falls for an Argentine cabaret singer, and later murders him. Most of the plece might better be melodrama, perhaps, tha in the nature of a study in morbid ps! chology, and yet Madeliene Cary's be havior is so pathological that the authors find it e: lent to bring in references to heredity. It seems that her mother had a similar tpg:ma and, al situated to lead a happy and not life, drifted down from one more or less unworthy lover to another, Miss Cornell gives glamour, suthority and emotional eloquence to the un- sympathetic part—it is easily one of the finest performances of the Winter. All the other parts are well taken. It makes !an exciting evening, but the spectator Ithat he is seeing, finely played and elaborately uphélstered, something rather more in the Hollywood vein than usually associated with the Empire ‘Theater. b e JONALD OGDEN STEWAPT, hither- to known as a writer of parody, offers in “Rebound” his first full-length play, with the leading part taken by Miss Hope Williams, who came to the professional stage a season or two ago by way of amateur theatricals, in par- || NA theater fn POPULAR ED., 50c TO § The enly 2w 100 2%¢ ALBERTIN ONE WEEK ON Nishts: Oreh., 84.40; Baj PR OR in that glib theatricalism which so | — taken as straight criminal | n as lny'.hln;; can't be blamed, perhaps, for feeling | Wi effering exelusit Snd foreidn stare of the® Aret ARk, Newest Plays ticular the New York Club known as “The Snarks.” Mr. Stewart's plece was very amusing when the characters were “kidding™ each other in the author's characteris- tic and sophisticated way, and frail as “straight” comedy-drama, and, similarly, illiams was original and delight- ful when doing what she previously has done so well—taking the part of a special sort of likably sardonic, likably awkward, entirely “natural” and unthe- trical girl—and frall when she en- ored to go further. One of the success has “play- ing herself"—in a way, that she was the same sort of poised, ironical, extremely candid “society girl” off the stage that she is on it. She does in “Rebound” just what she did in “Paris Bound"” and does it delightfully, but it cannot be said that the plece reveals any more of her artistic rou bilitles. She has a real gift for irony, for singing “blues” and so on, and one got the notion that one of these days she might develop into something more in the vein of the English musical comedienne, Beatrice Lillie. * koK 'HE Cochran revue, “Wake Up and Dream,” has the casual style char~ acteristic of English musical shows as contrasted with our more tightly regi- mented and noisier pieces, one or two good tunes, some nice dancing and really & lot of gulleless fun. But for the stupid song, “Only a Schoolgirl,” which sounds like a sour echo from ene of the cheaper London music halls of a "nvr?!‘I:m ago, we enjoyed every min- ute of GAYETY THEATER HINDA WAUSAU and Her “Hindu Belles” Picture ous Masterpiece reathes’ On View Daily, Beginning Tomorrow 1417 G St. NW. (New Washington Bldg.) LECTURES The Junior League of Washington For Their Hospital Fund At the NEW WILLARD HOTEL 130 P.M. Mareh 10, Mareh 17, Mareh 2. “The’ Mareh”si. Faodern April 14, “The Thea Tickets for th erleero Singie. ticket. $1.50. Tl e Juhior “Leage Clib vent, 5 AY_RO of Fersonal Pleasies D. SCH! N room. 1900 o, Street_or the Willard Hotel Social Buresu. TIONAL Monday Night and Week 50c to $2.50 PRICE MATINEES 1.50; SAT., 50c TO $2.00 in The Perfect Overetta NCERS =~ § VuusiciAns® 100 A RASCH DANCERS LY, BEG. (3580, 88,00 o HUGH WALPOLE and THORNTON WILDER CONSTITUTION HALL 18th & D Sts. N.W., Feb. 1 s In the cast are Mae Usher, Billy Ran-, dall, AlbertsHugo, James Gaylord, Doro- | thy and Virginia and a new bevy of | Sunkist Beauties. The fourth special overture of the Fox Orchestra will cover the works of Ru- dolph Priml, and the Fox Movietone | News will complete the program. ; | METROPOLITAN—“No, No, Nanette.” | “No, No, Nanette,” a First National | and Vitaphone production of the fa- mous musical comedy, featuring the new team of the screen, Bernice Claire and Alexander Gray, is the attraction at the Metropolitan Theater this week. Glowing with gorgeous technicolor | scenes, sparkling with new melodies and i some of the best ones from the success- | ful stage show, “No, No, Nanette,” is| said to be setting a high mark for | tcreer. musicals. Its comedy is carried by a cast of ef- fective performers in the laugh-getting | line, among them Louise Fazenda, l';;ntcun Littlefield, Bert Roach and Zasu 8. “No, No, Nanette” is not a revue, but | the musieal story of the laughable com- glicluonl in which a millio e became DANCING. _ b CKSON, PRIVATE DANCIN ssons, $1: 6 for §5. Class dance every Fri #ay, 9 to i2 p.m. 1636 19th n.w. Pot. 0318. | ARE AND SISTER. ', $1.25, waltze: ractice 5 CITY GIRL An F. W, MURNAU production with MARY DUNCAN—CHARLES FARRELL Fox Movietone Accompaniment with Dislogue POLI’S Mo SEAT SALE WED, MAIL ORDERS NOW Nights, 500 to $3: Thurs, and Sat, Mats., 50c to §2.50, LEE SHUBERT Presents ETHEL HOWARD MARSH~EVA FUCK~SAMMY WHIT IRENE DUNNE-EDNA MAY OLIVER~ MARGARET CARLISLE ~ AUNT JEMIMA~CHARLES ELLIS arav CHARLES WINNINGER JULES; BLEDSOE ans JUBILEE|SINGERS) On the Stage ALEXANDER CALLAM Sensational Bavitone of "My Maryland” LAST CONCERT PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI OSSIP GABRILOWITSCH © tors, EFREM ZIMBALIST. Sololst FEB. 18, 4:45 °uii MR. GABRILOWITSCH, Conducting Fanchon and Marco Present The Tuneful Rollicking Frolic JAZZ CINDERELLA with MAE USHER BILLY RANDALL ALBERT HUGO JAMES GAYLORD DOROTHY & VIRGINIA SUNKIST BEAUTIES FOX GRAND ORCHESTRA Leon Brusileff, Conducting Fourth tn Series of Special Arrangements ©f the works of the great composers. RUDOLF FRIML melodies FOX MOVIETONE NEWS It Speaks for Itself! =) ¢ In & New, Modern Play LOVE DUEL By LILI HATVANY Adapted By ZOE AKINS yed 235 Times Ameriea ONE WEEK ONLY, BEG. MONDAY, MARCH 3d FIRST ENGAGEMENT IN WASHINGTON THE STRATFORD-UPON-AV FESTIVAL COMPANY FROM THE SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL THEATRE Incorporated Under Royal C| Patron: HIS MAJK! "THE KIX T NOTHING: MAmL i HERE AT LAST Gigantic Sensation of the Theatrical Year POLI'S Commencing Mon., March 3d—Mats. Thurs. & Sat. Extra School Performance Saturday Morning 10:30 Victor Herbert's ” BES IN TOYLAN 4 DGETS—ANIMALS—LILIPUTIANS 1 Persons on the Stage THR Nights, 300 o §; PRI 4 LAST CONCERT PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ot New York ARTURO TOFCANINI, Condueting M“AR. 4, 4:45 °njmte G. MONDAY, ING AND St NATIONAL THEATRE PLAYERS w l::?'ul Ma .aa)‘l'n‘-. gl .“.'ll or National 0801, EWMAN |TODAY at 3:30 TRAVEL TALKS VIENNA, sotion Hetied e i vitss | BUDA-PESTH L} 1 GIRADI DVI‘V.IMO nl.“lcll Class, Tiesd L’I 12. Me rth_0731. 31.' 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