Evening Star Newspaper, June 25, 1930, Page 22

What’s What and W here Attractions Swon to Be Seen in Washington Theaters - N olores Del Rio , in “The Bad One” at the Palace. OLORES DEL RIO will be seen at Loew's Palace Saturday in United _Artists’ picture, “The Bad One” with Edmund Lowe, rough and ready Romeo of “Ths Cocveyed World,” as her weak- | ness. Lita, played by Miss Del Rio. has & goft spot in her heart for all man- kind, and especially the rollicking devil- may-care American sailor. Don Alva- rado also appears in the cast, as does George Fawcett. Miss Del Rio is | seen as a tem- u | pestuous entertain- 5 | er and dancer of the cafes who plays " at love with the & H saflors who fre- quent the wine shop. When the American sees her he deter- mines to make her his wife. ‘Then follow many amus- pelores Del Rio. | ing scenes, until the sailor finally wins out On the stage, Leavitt and Lockwood appear in a Capitol Theater, New York, revue, it Bits of 1930.” Others in | the cast of the miniature Broadway | show include Jones and Elliott, | and dance team; Ted Eddy’s Melodians, instrumentalists; Eleanore Wood: Dick | Jerry, jazzical jester, and the Lawson Girls. syncopation steppers. Dick Liebert will have his final week with his original organlogues. The Hearst Metrotone News, short subjects and the Palace Orchestra will com- plete the program. | “Numbered Men"” A Story of Love and Prisons. THE cause of penitentiary riots i ' said to be graphically and pitilessly depicted in an u'\u=ull and thnlllng romantic drama, “Numbered Me adapted from Dwight Taylor's “Jail | reak” and a Pirst National and Vita- | phone preduction, which comes to| ‘Warner Bros.” Metropolitan Theater Friday. The great Jail break, which is one of the major climaxes in'the picture, was adapted, it is explained, with aimost cruel fidelity from the accounts of | similar prison uprisings of recent | months. However, “Numbered Men” is not all stone walls and cropped heads. It carries alsé 'an appealing love story, and its romantic moments are declary mong its most interesting. In the cast are Conrad Nagel, Bernice Claire, Raymond -Hackett, Tully Mar- shall, Ralph Ince,. Maurice Black, Wil- liam _Holden, Blanche Frederici and Ivan Linow “Numbered Men” tells of the love of a convict for the girl who premised she would wait for him; of anothel man’s efforts to win her and to tempt the convict lover to try to escape from | prison. The working 8¢ the hcnor sys- | tem upon & humane and far-sighted | warden helps to unite the lovers and to defeat their foes. Additional features will include new and unusual Vitaphone Varieties and The Evening Star-Universal Newsreel, with Graham McNamee broadcasting latest events. sther Ralston “in Person,” Vith “A Notorious Affair” at the Earle. ‘ ASHINGTONIANS will have an op- portunity to see “in person” one | of their favorite motion picture stars at Warner Bros.’ Earle Theater during the week beginning Friday, when Esther Ralston, “the golden girl of the screen,” appears in a cycle of distinctive songs and dances on the stage, accompanied in"her offerings by Bruz Fletcher, com- /" George B. Seitz, veteran director of and Sidney d'Albrook. | the stor 4 the friendship of two convic | Ambassador vhich will be intraduced to Washington. | 18th will sing, and «iso for the new dances On the Earle screen will be seen Billle Dove, with Basil Rathbone and a notable cast, in.a smart, sophisticated romance of London society, entitled | “A Notorious Affair,” a Pirst National | Vitaphone production, which concerns | sgig con beautiful English society girl who surprises her friends by announcing her marriage to an obscure but brilliant | violinist on the eve of her impending | engagement to & member of the British | nobility. | Anxious for the success of her hus- | band, the girl so manages the affairs of the moody and temperamental genius that he attains wide recognition, in spite of the fact that he becomes infatuated with another woman. De- spite her humiliation, however, the | two work out their destiny. Selected short subjects will complete { the bill. \ | “Midnight My ‘ Thrill Drama at R-K-O Keith's, ¢THRILL-MYSTERY drama,” \\lh‘ a fresh novelty, is the promise of ‘Midnight Mystery,” a Radio Pictures’ production featuring Betty Compson | and Lowell Sherman, which comes to | R-K-O Keith's for a week, beginning | Saturday The storv has been adapted trom | Hawk Island.” & play of the stage, and is concerned with an oddly as set of guests at a house party in & castle | on a storm-beaten island off the Maine | coast. ~ Every bit of action is com-| passed within less than a 12-hour pe- | riod, the major part running through a | night of adventure. Based on the| “murder” of a ‘“dummy,” which later | proves to be more tragically real than | | the joker supposed, the picture offers the novel angle of letting the audience | into the secret before the char: N | themselves suspect what has transpired. | by which she can accomplish it gives | “Music of the Modern South”; an organ | Even so the element of mystery is mai | tained to the end. mystery films, directed the picture. The cast includes Miss Compson, Mr. Sher man, Hugh Trevor, June Clyde, Rita La Roy, Marcelle Corday, Ivan Lebedefl, Raymond Hatton, William Presley Burt { | “The Big House,” Prison Drama, at Columbia. "T'HE much-heralded Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer production, “The Big House, will be shown at Loew's Columbia Sat- urday. It is said to show the truth| about prison riots. A-distinguished cast | includes Chester Morris, Wallace Beer: Leila Hyams, Robert Montgomery, Lewis | Stone, George F, Marion and J. C, Nugent. Stark realism and men in the raw are contrasted with a love romance in A great prison riot, with a thousand mer quelled by machine guns and Army tanks, the pathetic stoty of , and the regeneration of one of them by love, and a boy, a first offender, who is thrown in the company of hardened criminals, be- coming worse than even they, are fea- tures of the picture. Chester Morris, Wallace Beery and Robert Montgomery play the central male roles, and Leila Hyams is the cause of one of them reforming. Laurel and Hardy in (he Metro-Gold- wyn-Mayer talking . Jaugh _provoker, “Below Zero”; the Hearst Metrotone News and the Columbia Orchestra will complete the program. “Not Damaged” At the Fox Friday. BEGINNING Friday, the Fox will pre- sent Lois Moran in “Not Damaged,” described as “a new twist in the old eternal triangle of one woman and two men.” The dialogue of the picture is said to be unusually frank. “What"hap. pens to a girl who wishes to advance THE . EVENING STAR, WEEE OF JUNE Sunday Monday Tuesday WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY. Wednesday Bernice Claire and Bernice Ciaire and .onrad Nagel | .Conrad Nagel in “Nimbered M 8. Comedy. Vitaphone, me Bernice Ciaire and _Conrad Nagel 1n, “Numbered Men. Vitaphone. Comedy. Ruth Chatterton in in “Lady of Scandal” “Lady of Seandal.” Cox Comed: Com Vitaphone Vitaphone. Comedy. Maurice Che\ alier in Dcnnll Kln' Apollo g Maurice Chevaller in in 12 pona.” “The, Vunbond n‘ B St NE. Rin-tin-tin 1 “Rough Water: ‘omedy Vitaphone variety. Dorothy Mackaill 1 ‘Strictly Modern.’ Vitaphone variety. Dennix King Dennis King in Ruth, cn- terton “The nd “The nd in “Lady of Scandal.” Vitaphone_variety. Bilte Dave in “Sweethearts and ves." Cartoon. ‘“The Big Pond." Vitaphone variety. Avalon Ave. Grlnd Prher 45 Penna. Ave. 8E.. sportiishi reel, ;axsbond Blanche Sweet Jack ‘u'fim-u in in “The Woman Racket.” “In the Next Room. Comedy. Comedy. Jack Mulhall Tn “In the Next Room Vitaphone variety. Ciffl_Edwards in Brricily Modern.” “Lord Byron of Vitaphone variety. “Broadw Comedy. Vitaphone variety. Monte Blie ta Monie Bl 1 Central \ n n “Those Who Dance.” ‘“Those Who Dance.” 425 9ih St N.W. Comedy *CComedy. Maurice Chevaller Maurice Chevalier bara Kent in n n “The Big Pond " “The Big Pond.” Vitaphone variety. Vituphoue variety. Norma Shearer Norma Shearer Jack Mulhall and and Concad Narel and-Conrad Nagel El_Brendel and Sue Oarol in “The Golden Calf.” Circle 2105 Pa. Ave. N.W. in n “The_Divorcee.” “The Divorcee.” Claudette Colbert and Claudette Colbert and Bebe Daniels and Maurice Chevalier in .Ben Lyon in Joseph Schildkraut in Maurice Chevalier in i “The Night Ride. ‘innie Lightner and Denni¢ King in “The Vagabond " Winnte Lightner and_ Brown in Joe E. Brown in “Hold Everyihing.” “Hold Everything. in “The_Big_Pond.” De Ben Rubin in, Sunny Skies. Vitaphone variety. Comedy. B sumnum and Wive: ure.” Comed: Vitaphone, - Comed Vulphonr variety. € Qaire and Bernice Claire and & Mexg;m??uy in Alexandsr Gray in . Dumbarton Fime whe ol CEey 1343 Wiseonsin Ave, Comedy Comedy. Evelyn Brent .nu Toom Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey in “The_Cuckoos. . Comeds. T Conway and Rod Vireinia: Vam i “The Logt Z i New! A Rocque and Doris Kenyon in eppel Beau Bandit.” Comedy. Joan Crawford Joan Crawford Buster Keaton Falrlnwn in i e, /8501 ‘Montana_Moon. ‘Montana_ Moon.’ Pree and Easy. Nofma Shearer in "Th! Dlvorcet." Ramon Novarro Dorothy Revier in 2y o “In Gay Madrid.” Murder on the Roof.” n Are Dangerous.” Gomedies. Coms Aesop Fable. §esop_Fable. Home HNorma Shearer 1n Norma Shearer in “Paramount on 13th 8 C Sts. N.E. e e Divorcee.” he Divorcee.” Parade.” tin Colll T, B bbelts. m “The \muuy Man." Ermine.” Comed Vitaphone variety. “Paramount on arade.” vu.pmm vlrltty. Charles Muiray and eorge Sidney in Cohens und Kellys in Scouiand.’ Ch-rlu Murray and _Edmund Lowe and orge Sidne Constance Benett in “Conens and s “The Thine, Calle in_Scotland.” Lov Princess I‘l’ fl !l N B Jack Oakie in “Past Company.” Olive Borden and Arthur Lake in “Dance Hall.” Marlon Davies in Gegrge Bancroft, In Not S0 Dumb.” “The Mighty."” Lupe Velez in “Hell's Harbor." -__Vitaphone variety. Savoy 4 “Hel's Harbor." 3030 14th_St. N.W _ Vitaphone variety. otg Wition and. P g Comedy. ymne Keener and Ken Maynard Norma_Foster in “Love at First Sight.” Variety. Comedy. George Bancrofi in “The Might: Comedsy. T Jsnet Gavnor and < Charlas Farrell _“Hizh Soclety Blues.” T Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell | Takoma in Takoma Park. D. C._ igh Society Blues.” Oharles Bickford and Fred Kohler Mayrice Cheialler, @ Mautice Gneyalier, in he_ Gibi he. Bik Fond.” " “Coutting Wildcats.” | Claudette Colbert in Ciaudette Colbert in “Younr Man of of Tivoli 14th and Park R4 Gary Coo er in Gary Cooper Dorothy Mackalll in The Texan.” “The Tlirting Vitaphone variety. Vitaphone variety, i ¢ reel. Sporilight reel. Vitaphone variety. York a. Ave. & Quebes in “Song of the Flame."” Comedy. Cartoon. Comedy. Cartoon. Barbara Kent in Billie Dove in “Paramount on “Dumbbells_in “Bweethearts an Farede.” Ermine.” Comedy. . Vitaphone variety. Varlety. | William “Boyd “Ofticer OHrlen L “Comedy. Come an idea of the story's drift. solo will be played by Morton Floodas, Walter Byron plays the man of wealth, | and the Fox Movietone News will speak Robert Ames. the boy without wealth, | for itself. and others prominently cast are Inez Sl il a TRk Courtn George “Red” Corcoran, Rhoda Cross and Ernest Wood. Band Concert Canceled. On Lhe stage Sam Jack Kaufmar| The United States Marine Band con- continues as master of ceremonies, Wi < Fanchon & Marco's “Ivory” Idea, de.| CTt scheduled for Thursday evening at scribed as_ colorful and elaborately | the Sylyan Theater has been canceled, mounted. It has a cast that includes | the band being detailed for other of Will - Aubrey, Four High Hatters, Hy | dutlest % i Myer, Betty Lou Webb, Geotz & Duffy, Peggy Carse and a bevy .of Sunkist G T Beauties. Granite is the 1 k Leon Brusiloff will direct the orches- | earth’s crust. l: lxot‘;lee"be:?rcock :f m: tra In a special arrangement titled | world. ——————————————————————————— The Daily Bath s Not Enough! Feminine Health and Charm Demand PERSONAL HYGIENE Thousands of particular women use this relisble prepara- tion in their daily douche because it retreshes, purifies and soothes. Key's Astringent Powder .. ..should always be in your medicine cabinet, ready for immediate use. 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