Evening Star Newspaper, May 25, 1930, Page 11

Reviews and News of Washindton's Theaters. “Journey’s End,” at' Keith’s, Sincere Drama, Finely Fil HE screen has further im- mortalized ‘“Journey’s End.” R. C. Sheriff’s poignant drama of the war, now being shown at R-K-O Keith’s The- ater has been treated with the utmost veneration. It is all that the play was, It has the u}:m, gentlemanly spirit over the daily rations of food. 1t has just what one ‘expects to find in the talkies—a rest- almost a languid, quality, interrupted only occasionally by the din of trench warfare. James Whale, the director, who is responsible for having nursed this drama from its earliest infancy (it | was he who peddled it through the London producers’ offices for many @ week before its acceptance by | Maurice Brown), has transferred it faithfully and literally to the screen. The body, blood and soul of the original has been' incorporated into the -film, the only deviations that ocur being the necessary additicns of some of the fighting scenes, ad- ditions which In no way detract from the original. Everything else is' identical—even to the cockroach doing "its' mile” around the candle. ‘The ‘only complaint that can pos- eibly be made against it is that it | 48 I two hours long. ‘Those, ever, who found the play stimulating need not fear the terror of time. They will, in fact, be | tewarded with ut:m of the real Colin Clive, 'mc role of Capt. Stanhope, as | by Colin Clive—London's muuu Capt. Stanhope—is certainly one of the oustanding characteriza- of the year. A new person- y blessed with none of the Holly- mannerisms, his performance Mu'hout is nothing short of ’n\e ot.her members of the cast, nechlly David Manners as the m schoolboy, Raléigh, and Ian ren a5 “Uncle” Osborne, act their parfs with distinction. Only oy SR smiing ons ot toaTbest very irly spoiling one of S i e ourney’s Ind" is one of those things that must not be missed. It should have the attention of every one who is interested in seeing the fittest of the war plays transformed remiinder of the program is limited to the R-K-Olians and the newsreel. E De 8. M. >¥ye Lady of Scandal” Has Its Delicious Moments. Road,” it was generally mitted that was the best part of plece. In the led “The Lady of l,” now at the Palace Thea- ter, Ruth Chatterton takes to herself mbst of the honors. Otherwise, it uonIy a mfly diverting bit of en- tertainmen ‘Whereu the dialogue in the orig: 18 play fairly ctackled with Amu nonsense, the film seems to have -it outso t_very. little of mh& After a good which the thzme of stcry is b'rought to light, there is a rather long and sometimes dreary fashion. One knows from.the i " horror “noble” British family at ‘.h thought that their son is going to marry an actress is delicious. One ainot help feeling that Mr. Lons- is having a grand time at the of his countrymen, and that Kl W satire lnd foolishness of sees ohe “ihat the Brit- ish climate is sapping that stolid ld race. ’rhroudl ‘this light and often ro- | mantic comedy, Ruth cnmmm with her usual grace. thbone, as the duke who very ‘marries her, gives another of leek performances, and Geoffrey , 88 the grouchy old uncle who . fries to drink a cocktail in his bath, quite delightful. This week's stage show is among but. ‘The Michen brothers do seemingly impossible acrobatics; cni‘ jr., tells some funny muAur ‘?:doeremom:l is 3 nod pache dance, and & the Chester Hale Yes. MAm DRESSLER, heavyweight comedienne of the screen, and Polly Moran, her wasp-waisted part- ner, fight and unfight all the way through their first starring picture, “Caught Short,” now at the Columbia Theater. And, although these ener- fil ladies are often very, Very ny, it is only fair to report that . they dn not seem as funny as they E sudden uphe-nl of these two crous luminaries seems to have hiced stagnation in the directorial nnka To be quite plain, the com- has been woefully ‘“caught ' ;hort of material. Were it not for ! Eddie Cantor’s broad hint, in his treatise on the stock market crash, that many people found themselves “Jroke,” there would be no_story at.all. Taking this cue from Cantor the author has conceived the idea of having Polly. Moran try to persuade her friend, Mrs. Jones (Marie Dress- ler), to plunge all her money in i 'Wall Street. This is the thin peg { upon which hangs this story. It seems pretty wuk ice for the star- | Ting team o do their initisl skating on. Eve being tempted by the apple— whith s this Fake I8 e stock. mar- kflf—h the lfl. '.hll falls to Marie. | is tempted and she 1is not mnted She wins money, she takes family down to the sea (not in le). lnd she !fldl up a8 poor - ! WS the wn.h dim.n:bn, havem l.n Spite o the Tact that they have tried her _wax sentimental and us pver ber * Polly. mh much of the wuedy hlde beén scraped from the Wlnl ‘war-horses, sluwuch e n? a song which ! FE{EL1 L) if §is 3528 e i = very i, when Marie gives the cat 15 ¢ mwzr'" wait- romance- that plods along % from throughout an affair between Marie's dlu{ iter and Polly’s son is done in -kneed fashion, due partly to Anita Page’s impossible m-ke-un Charles Morwn tries his best in the role of the lover, and is as convinc- ing as he is allowed to be. ‘There are amusing short subjects on the program, and to conclude it the Hearst Metrotone newsreel and the Columbia orchntnl u:a th:lrubn. “The White Hell of Pitz Palu” Exceptional in Story and Grandeur. AN exlrlordlnll’y picture of death- Alpine climbers, the mlmlwfle of which is as immense as the lofty mountain peaks which furnish the inspiration for the story, is oflered for the first time in this country, in “The White Hell of Pitz Palu,” at the Rialto this week. Gripping and intense are the scenes which unfold themselves rapidly, from the beginning where two young Swiss honeymooners start with & companion to climb the north wall of the unconquerable mountain Pitz Palu, to the closing scenes of their rescue when lost in one of the mountain crevices. Throughout the entire picture one is consclous of being face to face with life and death itself—not the life and death of Hollywood scenes, but those actually experienced by the participants of the drama. It is realism itself which brings this conviction. ‘The picture, produced by a fa- mous German scientist, Dr. Arnold Fank, was made in the Swiss Alps, and was eight months in the m-k ing. ‘At numerous times the a narrowly escaped death in the mlk- ln& of the scenes. 0 more audacious nor magnificent alrplane flying has ever been pro- duced in a picture than the scenes in which the famous German air ace, Ernest Udet, loops the loop in an Alpine mountain crevice so nar- row that the icy walls on each side seem’ about to reach out and strike him. At times the plane used in the picture is apparently headed straight for a snow drift, when with a grace- ful movement it rises above the crash which appears unavoidable, and soars over an ice peak as easily and gracefully as it would on a land- ing field. A cast comprising excellent Ger- man and Swiss actors, not only su- perior artists, but adept skilers and mountain climbers as well, unfolds the thrilling drama. The role of Dr. Krafft, one of the principal char- acters, is played by a young German, . Gustav Diesel, who has one of the strongest and most exceptional faces Diesel's two years before had lost his wife in trying to scale the north wall of Pitz Palu. Prantic from his loss he hld rpent the entire time after her ith roaming over the mountains, hnpinc to find her body. The younl honeymooners are allowed company him upon one of hl-n expe- ditions up Palu, and in nearly lose their lives. The thaws which have set in cause an ava- side_of mountain, jtflnu 3 vae fo the ufln on the learn that Dr. mlrcd, luvlnl [y h"f'h‘:“ two years . story on 3 and “The White Hm fi“dmm a mmmnommumnum 8. 8. “Born Reckless” Good Enterfainment. AN entertaining, fast-moving pic-" ture, handicapped by one of those. rapidly increasing fallacles of the cinema world, its title, “Born Reckless,” is offered this week at the Fox Theater. Not a monotonous moment is experienced in witnessing this picture, whose scenes carry one rapidly from a bank robbery in New York on to France through the World War, the return ol ihll A. E. F. from overseas, the ga terior of a New York nl‘hl clllh the drawing room of a ancmy leader and then down to a rack- eteer’s hiding place on the shores of Long Island. Edmund Lowe, as the leading member of an East Side gang, pllyl his part convincingly and capably. Sound effects are unusually good and ‘& delightful bit of singing is offered by a qulr!et which, as soldiers of the A. E. F. in one of the War scenes, entertain the bud- dies with that old number, “On the Banks of the Wabash.” In the legion of war pictures which have flooded the country in the past 10 years, no more remark- able military scenes have been shown than those in this picture, depicting a battalion of field artil- lery charging over a battle-torn sec- tion, with shrapnel digging up the roads over which they are traveling. ‘That stirring artillery song, Wh!n the Caissons Go Rolling Along,” accompanies the Toll and the roar of the gun carriages, and makes a thrilling theme song for the occasion. Louis Berettl, played by Edmund Lowe, is one of that great New York underworld who at the beginning of the war is apprehended for robbery. He is about to be “sent up the river” with two companions when the judge gives him and his buddies a chance to go to the war instead. He makes good as & “real fighting man,” and returns from the war with several decorations and the decision to make an honorable living. He achieves success as owner and proprietor of & night club and avoids complica- tions with his old gang, until one of them kidnaps the child of a young woman, whose brother had been a “buddy” of Berett's in France. Beretti immediately suspects the gangster kidnaper. follows him to his hiding place, and after the smoke of the shooting rises the gangster is discovered dead and Beretti ‘wounded. but_content. Catherine Dale Owen plays the leading feminine role, although the feminine characters throughout the portant duties in the picture. Several short reel pictures, a Mer- maid Comedy, with Al St. John, and a>stage offering, “Black and Gold,” in which the Sunkist Beauties enter- dancing in _colorful cos- a cast of entertainers Inm(m g THE SUNDAY BSTAR, WASHINGTON, D. 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