Evening Star Newspaper, April 27, 1930, Page 25

From the Front Row Reviews and News of Washington's Theaters. “Such Men Are Dan Or What a Beauty Doctor Can Do. 'OMEN of advanced age had better look to their con- sorts, for Elinor Glyn dis- closes the astonishing fact in “Such Men Are Dan- fgerous” that the male has even more possibilities of rejuvenation under the glnnc surgeon’s knife than the dou- le-chinned female. Indeed, this most entertain- proves that Faust could have done an _ even better “job” in this “tin- pan” era, and in- stead of being wafted to the earth'’s innards might have fol- lowed his Mar- guerite up to a pearly heaven. All of which is a kind of a pro- logue to saying that Warner Bax- ter in this fabulous yarn by the author of “Three Weeks" is metamorphosed by a clever surgeon from old age into youth, and that, of course, no one, not even his lovely wife, who had deserted him on their wedding night, could recognize him. Furthermore, not only does Warner make love to the wife again under another name, face and figure, but he convinces her that with these more sylph-like trimmings he really isn't such a _bad fellow after all—which, fi': Warner Baxter, is quite be- v ‘The story begins with Catherine Dale Owen, who is a very close sec- ond to the blonde Joan Bennett, marrying & man with the largest fortune and the most tortoise-like face around. Such a complete antithesis 15 he to the mildest re- plica of a presentable, man that Catherine, on her wedding night, de- eides that she must leave him. So leave him she does. And the poor man, suddenly discovering that money cannot buy a woman’s love, hires himself an airplane and disappears— very much after the fashion of the late Capt. Loewenstein. After that begins the fun with the plastic sur- geon, and from then on the film be- comes more and more incredulous, until finally with a “happy” ending, one is convinced that Mme. Glyn's imagination is about as elastic as ‘was Mr. Milne's when he wrote “The Ivory Door.” Warner Baxter is, as usual, ex- eellent. Miss Owen has a few good moments and Hedda Hopper is as sociletyish as is her custom. Fanchon and Marco's idea of what goes on in the Far East is produced Wwith much elegance on the stage. Those who seemed particularly ap- preciated were Nee Wong, doing a grand imitation of Cliff Edwards; zo::nn and Gray and M. Sanami Alexander Callam did the intro- ducing as cautiously as ever, sing- ing perhaps with more vim than he has heretofore, and the Sunkist beauties did Oriental steps with un- Oriental grace. The orchestra re- minded one that not many hours have flown since grand opera was on the boards at the Fox, and all in all the occasion was most pleasant— especially the picture, which has - Euch good, clean, unbelievable spice it. E. de 8. M. “Free and Easy” Makes Them Laugh. Il' shrieks of laughter are a crite- rion of a comedy’s success, then “Free and Easy,” at Loew's Palace Catherine Dale Owen. | this week, featuring Buster Keaton, freely at ease in his first talking p(culx_ll;e, may be pronounced & genu- e hit. Serious, comical and laughingly awkward, Buster is seen in a de- cidedly new role—that of comedian in a screen musical comedy, in which he proves himself a very clever dancer in the terpsichorian number, “Free and Easy,” from which the play derives its name, Buster loses none of his funny qual- ities by reason of the lines which he speazs in the play. In fact, he adds to his ability to portray his foolishly striped character, always doing the wrong thing, by speaking in a voice quite as expressionless as his face. Buster's monotone voice is but one more comical feature in the long list of funny things seen, done and heard in “Free and Eas In ridiculously exaggerated cos. tumes, one as an aviator and an- other as a clown, he shows a chorus of hootchy-kootchy desert dancers how they really should dance and arouses roars of laughter merely with his absurd appearance. The plgy has the usual loosely woven plot of all musical comedies. Elvira Plunkett travels as Miss Gopher City Kansas, from her home town to Hollywood with her mother as chaperone, and Elmer Butts (Buster Keaton) as her manager. Trixie Friganza, as the .mother, is a close rival to Buster as a come- dian. The inevitable occurs. El- vira’s prettiness fails to impress the Hollywood producers. Her mother and Elmer, however, eventually be= come grest successes. Elvira wins as & husbsnd the screen hero, whom she first meets on the train going to Holiywood. Several scenes “shot” in Hollywood's studios, showing well known stars not “on the set,” are merely a few of the interesting fea- tures of the picture. The vaudeville this week shares honors equally with the picture in the excellence of its entertainment. Wesley Eddy returns after an a sence of three months and is mt ter of ceremonies for an unusually good program, featuring “Days o' Yore” with three Kings, dancers; Chevalier _ brothers, accomplished acrobats; Edna Howard, Nat Spira, tylish stout” chorus, designated a “Ten Tiny Tots,” and a Chester Hale chorus. Hearst Metrotone News and short subjects complete the program. “Ingagi” at Keith's Leaves Audience Limp. 'l‘HE most amazing record of prim- itive life yet exploited by the camera of man in the jungle of Africa is visible at R-K-O Keith's Theater under the title “Ingagi” & film, which purports to be the Venl\u’as of Sir Hubert Winstea F. R. in the wilds of the Congo. It is Lhe most pictorially vivid reva- iation of man's savage ancestor, the gorilla, yet brought before the pub- Hie. Through the last half, which is distinctly not for juvenile con- sumption, the audience seems scarcely able to breathe, so intense is its dramatic vitality. Congo Pictures, Ltd.,, which is re- sponsible for this film, has chron- icled its uences with one of the most vari collections of animals ever seen outside of Noah's Ark— lions, leopards, pythons, rhinoceroses and, seemingly, all crawling beasts of the earth. Not only do they Ip- pear for a brief moment to t their stuff across the stage, they are pictured with -uruu\: naturalness. One of the most thrilling moments -of-mll-is the attack of & lion on one of the men of the expedition—an attack which is said to have proved fatal to the man later. ‘The “piece de resistance” is the THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, ictorial revelation of & of the tribes in this primi try offers up one of m women as & u;rt of ice ln eHnT‘m to the “Ingagl,” the gorillas. s episode is one of the ‘most_frightful night- mares ever depicted on the screen. It has, the power, seemingly, of electrifying its audience—which, at yesterday’s first performance, g peared more dead than alive by the time it was over. Injecting considerable drama into a big-game hunt picture is no easy feat. But Sir Hubert Winstead has accomplished it with splendid, it grim, results. If there are moments when the authenticity of the film seems to tremble in the bll-nce it is only fair to say it makes “enter- tainment” that leaves one limp at its close. Short sound noveltles with Fred- die Clark doing nobly by his R-K- ?lllns completes a certainly “dif- erent” program. K. de 8. M. “Puttin’ on the Rits” Fine Enough to Repeat. G PUTTIN' on the Ritz"” continues blithely for a second week at the Calumbia Theater. For those wan mortals to whom life has be- come pretty much a scramble of in- come tax worries and radio head- aches the music of Irving Berlin and the features of Joan Bennett should da much to revivify them. Indeed the latter is said to have caused more pleasurable relaxation than any blonde Hollywood sylph since the exotic Miss Garbo came from the 1and of the iceberg. The star of the picture is Harry Richman, former maestro of George White's “Scandals,” singing the way he has always sung, which is good, if not perfect. His admirers, and they seem to be legion, should be well satisfied with what he does. The other legion who don’'t seem to care for him so much also seem to be satisfled. And then, since there is Miss Bennett to look at, if you want to forget about him altogether, that is quite possible, too. Apart from these two lumi les, ‘who first ran into the spotlight along Broadway, Filyan Tashman and Jimmie Gleason contribute much to a plot that needs all the trimmings it can get. Somehow the story of the struggles of a couple of couples backstage has been heard of before. Perhaps one doesn’t really expect Harry to go blind on account of a sip of Four-and-a-half street bever- age—but one certainly does expect everything to come out quite all right in the end, which of course, it does. ‘The music in this film, as has been suggested before, is excellent, and some of the colored sequences are most stimulating to the eye, especially the “Alice in Wonderland” number, in which, need it be said, there is to be found Joan Bennett. The Columbia Orchestra, the news- reel and an entertaining short comedy complete a dlflllnc(ly engaj ing program. E.de 8. M. “Captain of the Guard” Good Entertainment—and Why. THE fact that some folks seem to have been worried by the ir- reverent treatment of history in “Captain of the Guard,” at the Rialto, does not in the least detract from its being good entertainment. This dramatization of a legendary conception of how “La Marsellaise” came to be has a great deal of vim, fire and vigor in it. Just because the characters say things that other fam- ous people said ‘before or after them does not mean that the picture isn't good entertainment just the same. And 50 & visit to the Rialto for those who do not mind their history. shaken up in a fanciful dramatic cocktail may be recommended with- out fear of the consequences. It will come perhaps as a surprise that the fiancee of Rouget de 1'Isle turns out to be an eighteenth cen- tury Joan of -Arc, and that it was because she was in one of those pit- like cells of the Bastille that most of the Revollition came about. 8till, . when Rouget comes marching up grim nnd Upper: Miss Jacqueline Foster of Mec- || Kinley High School, who won honorable | | ntion in the textile llvhllm of the || m scholastic awards, a group prizes amounting to over $4,500 in llm-znre and art, conducted by the Scholastic, a natfonal high school magazine. Lower: Fred Maynard of Central High School, who won honorable mention in the essay division of the contest. from Marsellles, at the end of a young lrn&, all bursting with the new song that he has composed for France's freedom, one forgets every- thing except the music—and that the“ might have had a tough time ey had had the “Star Spangled Banner” to fight on! This Universal film, which is to give place Thursday to the cherubic Paul Whiteman in “The King of " has much of the romantic in . It is, moreover, immeasurably helped by the fine singing of John Boles and a few nice “shots” of Laura La Plante, metamorphosed for the nonce into a brunette. One of the most enjoyable moments is when Mr. Boles, “ dllhblnl with history, shouts “La Marsellaise” into the ears of the laconic Louls XVI. Apart from the feature film, which runs its course lengthily but not un- interestingly, there is a Pathe Revue called “Sixteen Sweeties,” and Gra- ham McNamee pulllngl!a into c1 rent events in The enln[ Star- Universal news reel. E. de S. M. o Many heavenly bodies have been dis- | covered by photography. Light has a | continuing action on a sensitive plate, | |} which will record it, no matter how | aint it may be, if the exposure is long enough. In this way stars invisible even through the most powerful scopes are marked on charts of the heavens. 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Caldwell of the nt in Washington. party returned to New York in Lhe lnue afternoon to rejoin Miss Yoshi- ka Matsudaira, who caught cold yes- terday and was {omdden by physicians to venture into New England. Another member of the party was stricken with influenza shortly after arriving in Cali- fornia and was forced to remain there. The girls start for the Land of the Rising Sun next week. CANADA RUM SALE POLICY CRITICIZED Board of Evangelism of United Church Says Liquor Use " Has Increa By the Assoclated Press. TORONTO, April 26.—Government control or sale of liquor was criticized at the annual meeting of the board of evangelism and social service of the United Church of Canada, which rec- ommended a three-fold policy on Semse perance. “Government control,” declared e board, “still leaves the manufacture of liquor in private hands, making the provincial government the merchan- dising distributer for distillers an@ brewers. 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