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In Capital Theaters (Continued From First Page.) Larson, the most feared man on the seven seas. Jane Keith and Raymond Hackett, with Mitchell Harris, Nat Pen- dleton and John Rogers, complete the cast. Beginning with the flerce battle be- tween “Wolf" and his brother and deadliest enemy, “Death” Larson, with picturesque scenes of Hakodate and the shanghaiing of the young waster, “The Sea Wolf” gets away. to a colorful and exciting start. Its drama revolves about the unusual triangle of the bru- tal “Wolf,” the boy and a girl of the port, who mysteriously ships aboard the 'Ghost. Intensified by roundings and the characters cooped aboard tie tiny schooner in midpacific, the “Wclf” continues his ‘merciless probing into the souls and characters of his victims. The drama thus rises to_tremendous heights Eddie Peabody, king of the banjo, makes his farewell appearance this week, and this will also be week for Bob West, featured organist. The Fanchon and Marco “changes” {dea is the stage attraction, featuring “Dock” Baker, lightning change artist Also on the program is Art Hadley, sensational speed cartoonist: Walzer and Dyer, in an unusual comedy oddity, and Muriel Gardner, with the Broad- way Beauties, all beauty contest win- ners. PALACE—"Good News." 00D NEWS,” the screen version of the sensational musical com- edy produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. is the current attraction at Loew's Pal- ace. The cast comprises Mary Lewlor, Stanley Smith, Bessie Love, Clff Ed- wards, Gus Shy, Lola Lane, Delmar Davis and Billy Taft, some of them from the original show. Coli.e spirit and alma mater loyalty are entertain- ingly mingled with hilarious mirth and music in the production Tom, the hero of the campus, cannot pass in astronomy until Connie takes up star-gazing with him and saves him for the sake of good old Tate. The pic- ture winds up in a technicolor sequence showing their marriage On the stage Dave Schooler, master of ceremonies, is featured in “Happy Landing,” a Capitol Theater, New York, revue. Rene Riano, international co- medienne and a “Greenwich Village Fol- lies” star, heads the cast, which in- cludes Harris and Van, Harlem step- pers; the Chester Hale Flying Dancers and the Palace Syncopators. The Hearst Metrotone News, short subjects, Charles Gaige at the organ and the Palace Orchestra complete the bill, RIALTO—"Little Accident.” ] ITTLE ACCIDENT,” the comedy- drama by Universal, and the opening attraction at the Rialto Thea- ter last Friday, continues as this week's feature. It is based on the stage play of the same name, by Floyd Bell and ‘Thomas Mitchell, and has to do with the difficulties encountered by a young man, who on the eve of his second wedding, learns that as a result of a secret marriage a year before and which | had been later annulled because of his wife's desire for a “career,” he has be- come the father of a son. Douglas Fairbanks, jr.; Anita Page, Sally Blane, Zazu Pitts, Joan Marsh and “Slim” Summerville have featured roles. Others in the cast are Rosco Karns, Henry Armetta, Myrtle Sted- man, Albert Gran, Nora Cecil, Bertha Mann, Gertrude Short and Dot Farley. “Little Accident” was directed by Willlam James Craft, who produced many of Universal's comedies. COLUMBIA—Marx Bros, in “Animal Crackers.” 'HE Marx Brothers in “Animal Crack- ers” is the current feature now at Loew’s Columbia. Adapted from the stage play, it is said to be much fun- nier than any of their previous efforts. The story is something about a so- cially prominent hostess, with a house the sur-| the last | | party on her hands at a palatial coun- |try estate. A big game hunter, just |back from an African expedition; his | secretary and two vagabond musicians | engaged to appease the musical ap- petite of the guests, intrduce Groucho, | Zeppo, Harpo and Chico, respectively. With their usual hurricane momentum they arrive at a time when the festive gathering is being diverted by a butler, weighing slightly less than a half-ton, with a feud being waged between the hostess and a rival matron over a fine painting, and in an atmosphere of beautiful girls in lingerie and bathing suits. The developments are said to dwarf superlatives necessary to de- scribe the hilarious. A United Ariist featurette, “Zampa'; a silly symphony cartoon, “The Band- master”; the Heart Metrotone News and the Columbia Orchestra will be added attractions R-K-O KEITH'S—"The Spoilers. “THE SPOILERS,” Rex Beach’s clas- sic story, which twice, as a photo feature made silent screen history, has been made into an “all-talking” picture for the first time and is the current attraction at R-K-O Keith's. It is a Paramount Pictures’ production and Gary Cooper, Betty Compson, Kay Johnson. James Kirkwood, Harry Green and “Slim” Summerville are featured in the cast. In_ addition there are | said to be more than 500 extras par- | ticipating in the big scenes. ‘The story, perhaps immortal, and | probably familiar, is thus outlined: | “Under the prestige of the law which they betray, administrators of ecivil statutes in Alaska, engage in a whole- sale “legitimate” despoiling of claims. As in the case whenever man-beasts | anywhere permit selfish motives -to sully statutes, mob revolts follow. Im- | plements £ dainty polished fem- | inine nails and hardly less polished and searing feminine wits, to the bone- crushing power of man-brute hands and blast of bulk-charge dynamite, are brought into play befare gold-crazed | men and their women—of one kind or another—relax to the less choppy har- bors of a sane conclusion.” | EARLE—“Maybe It's Love.” ‘BREEZY is the word used to describe i “Maybe It's Love” the Warner | Bros. and Vitaphone comedyv-drama | which is shown this week at Warner's | Earle Theater, an entertaining picture imparting the gayety and romance of modern college life. It will please young people, the announcement states, and the old-timers can sit back and enjoy |a few hours of renewed youth and | amusing memories. One of its outstanding features is a genuine “All-American” gridiron eleven. | This is the first time a real team of this distinction has appeared in a screen production. Furthermore, each boy has a role. And how they play foot ball! The story concerns a lovely young co-ed whose father, president of the college, is threatened with a forced | resignation because Upton has not won | a “big game” in 11 vears, The pretty d, who has been hiding her beauty ‘'neath horn-rimmed specs and prim clothes, suddenly changes into a ravish- ing flirt. This on the advice and with | the assistance of “Speed” Hanson, the campus clown. In this new guise she | vamps a star group of players to Upton College, pretends she loves them all and | really does fall in love with one, Tommy | Nelson. Of course, there are complica- | tions, but it's all fun and everything | turns out right for the lovers and dear old alma mater. | . Joan Bennett is the co-ed and James Hall is Tommy Nelson. “Speed” Han- | son, in the person of Joe E. Brown, has many hilarious moments in the film. | Added features include two new Vita- | phone varieties, “Many Happy Re- | turns,” a dramatic playlet with Walter Connely, Madge Evans and Ferdinand | Gottschalk, well known Broadway stage | celebrities;” “Scotch Love,” a farce of Scotch love and habits, and the weekly | news events. One Néver Can Tell. Amos’r every one who writes any- thing, whether its a poem, a novel or a play, believes he has turned out a masterpiece. Martin Flavin, author of “Broken Dishes,” did not entertain this notion, however, and he was completely overcome when the play developed into | & genuine success; for the day after its Broadway opening, it seems, the critics, without exception, seemed enthusiastic about “Broken Dishes.” Just how completely the author had underestimated his work was shown by the fact that the play ran for 28 weeks on Broadway, nine weeks ‘\1 Boston, and 1t was sought eagerly for stock and for the movies, not to mention its use abroad, although two foreign produc- tions are now pending, one in Amster- dam, the other in London. It might also be mentioned that the play had a long run on the Pacific Coast last Spring. Flavin is known far and wide among critics and students of the theater as a serlous playwright primarily. “Broken | Dishes,” his greatest success, however, is | pure comedy, written with no thought | other than to entertain. Flavin first attracted the attention of the critical fraternity several seasons back with a play entitled “Children of the Moon,” which drew encomiums from the intelligentsia but failed to click to any considerable extent with patrons of the box office. “The Criminal Code,” his stirring study of prison life, was put on the early | part of last season, and likewise drew |critical praise. The } 2y ran six months |on Broadway, and earned a neat penny | for its author. But its road tour began \nnd ended with a brief engagement in Philadelphia. Ledererfl\’orld Iiremiere. G!‘DRGE ‘W. LEDERER, whose return to the ranks of music show pro- ducers with the production of “All at Sea,” featuring Lester Allen, with Bar- Newberry, John Barker, Lytell and Fant, Mark Smith, Dick Keene and the Albertina Rasch Dancers, will bring his new production to the National Theater October 6. The importance of the announcement s enhanced by the fact that for the first time in more than a decade a musical show with a cast of stars will play this city at popular prices, and, be it not forgotten, Lederer is the father of the modern girl, music and Jaugh show, and he has chosen Washington as the city for the world premiere of his new production. For the past three years Mr. Lederer has been planning the production of “All at Sea,” which is described as an intimate, racy. witty and altogether gay and sophisticated girl and music show It was adapted by Harry B. Smith and himself from a Continental comedy by Rudolf Lothar, who wrote “The Com- mand to Love,” and Oscar Ritter. Co ditions in the theater, casting difficu ties and his own varied activities som how have caused the postponing of the venture. Early last Spring Mr. Lederer began selecting his cast and preparing the book, and when Lester Allen affixed his signature to a contract most of the pre- liminary troubles were over. Perhaps no man in theatrical history has been responsible for the success of | Announcement Extraordinary BEETHOVEN FESTIVAL By the Famous BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA With Its lllustrious Conductor DR. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY CONSTITUTION HALL FOUR PERFORMANCES DEC. 2, 3, 5, 6 The Boston Symphony Orchestra will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary With & great Beethoven Festival here in the Capital of the United States. Four and Bat. mi amo Beethoven works, the calebrated Ninth Symphony, with ‘soloists and a chorus o 250 Volces, will be given. i $13.00, $11.00, EASON TICKETS $9.00, $7.00, $5.00, $4.00, Mrs. Wilson-Greene's Concert ‘Droop’s, 1300 G St. Dis. 50 many young song writers as George Lederer. He was given carte blanche by Harms, the music publishers, to draw upon their staff of writers. His selec- tion of two comparative youngsters, | Philip Charig and Richard Myers, | caused a brief lifting of eyebrows among the wiseacres. The score that has re- | sulted from the Charig and Myers col- laboration is said to be a joy. Lyric- ally, Robert B. Smith and John Mercer merged their ideas into delightfully mad patterns of rhyme, rhythm and wit. Star Pigskin Squad. ‘' RACEHORSE” RUSSELL SAUN- DERS, star fullback of the Univer- sity of Southern California’s great foot ball team and an “All-American” selection for 1929, enacts the captain of the team in “Maybe It's Love,” the current film at Warner's Earle Theater. Further- more, the “All-American” pigskin squad in this picture is the selection of Grant- land Rice, New York Sun, and the com- bined selections of Coaches Jones, Rockne, Warner and Alexander, who comprise the Coaches’ Committee. e | BIRTHDAY | ¥ milton — S1L1s in Jack London's | s "' The I E” Yoo ReanOnY. ¥ Bos WEsT J;wmq("?u Reswir () N o Faneson E Maneo "2 4/ DO BAKER Worlds fastest charnge artist W HADLEY Jonatinal Speed Cartoonist ¥/ WALZER & DYER, | \DWAY BEAUTIES UNUIUAL COMEDY ODDITY | ¥ CHANGEABLE CRARMERS /MURIEL GARDNER, | 9 FOR GRAND ORCHESTRA P "GAACE an> seauTY: e vy KNOW YOU ING YOU SINNERS” COVBRNIENT |Vt o8B qnamame FOX FREE el S W'" MOVIETONE NEWS ' (CING SCHOX 40U G4LD ENROUALD' | Fairlawn Eys 1E SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SEPITEMBER 21, 1930—PART FOUR. PHOTOPLAYS AT WASHINGTON THEATERS THIS WEEK WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 21. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Saturday Ambassador 18th & Columbla R4. George Arliss in “Old English.” George_Arliss in George_Arliss in ol 1 Old English.” ‘Old English Norma Shearer in Norma Shearer in 4 “Let Us Be Gay “Let Us Be Gay. Joe Cook in “Rain or Shine.” Richard Barthelmess n “The Dawn Patrol.” _Vitaphone variet Apollo 624 H St. N, Richard Barihelmess RIchard Barthelmess n “The Dawn Patrol.” Vitaphone variety. n “The Dawn Patrol.” Tewis Mann_in Tewis Mann_in “Slns of the Chil- - “Sins of the Chil~ dren re; Vitaphone Vitaphone Avalon | ‘ 5612 Conn. Ave. Vitaphone variety. jit I Bar William Powell in in “For the Defense.” “The Dawn ‘omedy. Patrol.” Vitaphone variety. William Jack Holt “For the Defense.” Come: Vitaphone_variety. Bessie Tove 18 Rogers in “So This 1s London." Cartoon. Norma_Shearer in “Let Us Be Gay.” Vitaphone_variety. Ave. Grand 615 Pa. Ave. S.E. Ann Harding in “Holiday." Norma_Shearer in “Let Us Be Gay.” Ann Harding owell Willlam in in “Holiday. T “For the Defense.” Comedy. John Boles in Vitaphone variety. Vitaphone variety. Dark. Cameo Will Rogers in “So This 1s London.” Comedy. News. Wil Ro “So This 1s Lon in don.” Comedy. News. Gary Cooper in Man ) Robert Ames, Lila Jobn_Gilbert, Renee Lee and Montague C Van and_Schenck Lila LeAz and_Robert n “They Learned About Women. mes_in “One Embarrassing Night.”” Bally Starr “Pardon M. Comedy. T Lowell Sherman Hoot Gibson in n “Courting Wildcats.” i “Midnight ve in Double-cross Roads." demption. Lon “The Lon Chaney in s n_in “The Unholy “Sins of the Chil- Y dren. Three Vitephone _varie Vitaphone variety. Lewis Mann in “Sins of the Chil- dren.’ Vitaphone variets. ichard Barthelmess n “The Dawn Patrol.”” Richard Bar Frank Fay x‘nn‘gn; n Matrimonial Be *The Dawn Comed Patrol ‘omedy Vitaphone variety. _Eve John Gilbert, Renee Adoree, Gonrad Nasel, Eleanor Boardman ‘Redemption" Edmund Lowe Marguerite Churchell “Good _Intentions’ Oakie, “The Sap Jai rom _Syracuse’ Selected Subjects Jack The § ck Oakie, “The 8ap F Fro m Syracuse Antonio Moreno, ‘om _Patricola in “"One_Mad Kiss” in Varlety Inside_the Lines” Mt. Rainter, Md. . Robert Ames, Lila Carolina Lee and Montague 1th & N.C. Ave. SF. _“Double-Stass Roads. Unholy Central e Ot 425 Oth St. N.W. __Vitaphone varieties c- I J. };_n;o]ld) Murray, ircle Women 2105 Pa. Ave. NW. R Colony Ga. Ave. & Farragu Dumbarton 1343 Wisconsin Ave. omedy k Oakie in ~Sap Anacostia. D. C. Norma_Shearer William Powell in n T the Defense.” riety. Aphone variety. _ W Powell n “Bright Lights.” Vitaphone Comedy. Conrad Nagel in “Numbered Men." Comeds. Wm. Collier, sr., in “Comedy at Home." Comedy. Clive Corinne Grifith and weet- Ralph Forbes in hearts_and Wives’ “Lilies of the Pield” Comeds Comedy Jack, Qakie in William _Haines 8 » in From Syracuse” Way_Out West” ‘omed: Somedy ~Jack Oakie Jack Oakie i “Let's Go Native” Comedy J. Harold Murray and Fifi_Dorsay in Women Everywhere” medy in “Let’s Go Native." Comeay Charles_Bickford in “The Sea Bat" Comeds- Norma_ Sheare d La R Shotter in “'Oni Buck _Jones in “The Lone Rider” and te in Gay" ews. Tom Walls, Winifred e Night Fable Comedy’ William Powell in “~Shadows'" of the Law Sporting_Youth barrassing _ Ae Dennis King with Lillian Roth in “Vagabond King." Comedy. Hippodrome W. 808 K St. Van and Schenck n Lillisn Roth in ~ “They Learned About “agabond King.” Women Comedy. Comeds Strictly Van and Schenck in ; Unconventional.” Comeds. “They Learned About Women.” Comedy. Gary Cooper in Man From Wyoming. Wyoming.” Comedy._Fable. dy. William Haines in Home 18th & C Sts. N.E. “Way Out West." Vitaphone variety. William Haines in Way Out West." taphone variety. Norma Shearer in “Let Us Be Gay.” v Bebe Danlels in Norma Shearer in “Lawful Larceny.” “Let Us Be Gay.” omedy. Vitaphone variety John Boles in “Captain of the Guards.” Cartoon Jesse 3100 _18th Laurel Laurel, Md. Leader Sth & E Sts. “Holiday" Ann Harding st. mne. Dark. Warner Oland in “Return_of Dr. Fu “He Knew Women" Alice Joyce “'Way Out West" William Haines “Let's Go Nativ “Queen High" Jack Oakie Charles Ruggles “Traflin’ Trouble” “Lawful Larceny” (Serial) Hoot Gibson Bene Daniels Shearer and La Roaue in “Let Us Be Gay. __Vitaphone. _Comedy John Giibert Norma Shearer and Rod La Roaue in Let Us Be Gay.” ta Comedy. Norma Rod in Redemption.” Act._Comedsy. __Vitaphone. an_and Schenk in “They_Learned About “They Learned About Women.” Wom Comedy. _ Vitaphone El Brendel and Marjorie White in ‘Golden Calf." Comedy. _Ac Van K in ut en. Comedy. E] Brendel and Marforie White in Golden Calf.” Comedy. _Act. “Lils Lee and Robert Doubl Mona, Maris Ken Maynard n “One Mad Kiss.” Double_comedy “Song of Cabelarro.” Comedy. Fay Wray and Richard Arlen in “Borden ‘Legion.” Comedy. News Lyric Clara Bow in “Trus to the Navy." Whoopee comeds. News. Clara Bow in “Trie to the Nave."” Whoopee comedy. News Lon Chaney in Lon Chane, “The Unholy Three.” “The Unholy Three." Comeds. News. Richard Arlen and Mary Brian in “Burning Up." “Tarzan the Tiger.” _“Tarzan the Tiger." Gaithersburg, Md. Princess 1119 B St. N.E. Fox_Movietong “Happy Days." William Powell in Fox_Movietone # “Shadow of the Law." “Happy Days. Dixie Lee and Van and Schenck Anlonkz Moreno n n “They Learned About _ Women Betty Compson and Ralph Forbes n Inside the Lines Ken Mavnard in “Sons of the Saddle.” Richmond Dark. William_Haines 1n “Way Out West Vitaphone act. Comeds. William_Ha “Way Out West Vitaphone act. Comedy Greia Garbo with Gavin Gordon in “Romance.” phone_act. 1 in Vita- ct. Comedsy. Norma Shearer Rod L “Let Us Vitaphone. Norma Shea Rod La Roaue in “Let Us Be Gay." Vitaphone. _Comeds. Alexandrla, Va. Savoy 3030 14th St. N.W. Frank Fay in “The Matrimonial e Vitaphone varisty Frank Fay in Corinne Grifith in “The Matrimonial “Back : Pay e Gomeds’ Vitaphone variety Ann Harding n “Holiday." Cartoon. Corinne Grifith in “Back Pay.” Comedy. Vitaphone variety. Cullen_Landis Bernice Ciaire and n Alexander Gray in “Conyict’s Code.” “Spring Is Here." Comedy. Comeds. Dark. State Bethesda, Md. “Pyrd at the South_Pole. Comedy. News william Powell in, Al Jolson in i “Shadow of the Law.” “Mammy. ~ Marje Dressler and Po George O'Brien in 1y M in “Rough Romance.” Moran t_Short." “Recaptured Love' Belle Bennett Sylvallfi 104 R. 1. “Paramount on Parade All “Sarah_and Son” Stars Ruth Chatterton “Song of the Flame’ “Song of the Flame" Bernice Claire B ernice Claire Return of Fu Manchu” Dr “Trailin® ble’* Warner Oland o5 Gibeon Hoot Gibson Van and_Schenck in “They Learned Van and_Schenck Learned Jack Oakie in “Let'’s Go Nativ John_Gilbert and Jack Oakie in Conrad_Nagel “Let'’s Go Native" n “Redemption Reginald Denny in_ “Wnat s Man and John_Gilbert_and Conrad 1 an’” hildren of e onrad Nagel in Redembtion” MR 1 % Takoma Takoma Park.D.C. __About Women” Gonstance Bempett T2 magaon Clag." Vitaphone variety. g in “The Dawn Patrol.” Ga. Ave. & Quebec Cartoon. mon Clay.’ Vitaphone variety. ‘artoon. Common Vitaphone Cartoon. Joe _Cook n “Rain or Shine." itaphone variety: Joe_Cook in “Rain or Shine" Eric von Stroheim and Constance Bennett in “Three Faces East.” Vitaphone variety. Richard Barthelmess in “The Dawn Patrol.” Cartoon. Star cast in Constance Bennett “King of Jazz." “Three Faces East.’ Vitaphone variety Eric von Stroneim and in _ Vitaphone variety. Star cast in “Movietone Follies of o: Comedy. Vitaphone variety. Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell n High Soclety Blues." ner Bi in “Romance of the Rio Grande.” Comedy. Dorothy McNulty, one of the featured players of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Co., en route to the Hollywood studio for the day’s work. “Stolen Thunder.” pRODUCTION has started at Movie: tone City on ‘“Stolen Thunder, based on Mary Wilkins' story of the same name and directed by Hamilton MacFadden, youthful and eminently successful Fox director. “Stolen Thunder” brings to the screen a new combination of excep- tionally talented and popular leads in Jeanette MacDonald of “Love Parade” fame and Reginald Denny. Lynn Starling, former stage play- wright, and Philip Klein have pre- pared the screen play and dialogue, very much to the satisfaction of Fox notable with the inclusion of such names as Marjorie White, Warren Hy- mer, who is a riot in his current pro- duction, “Up the River,” Albert Conti, Bela Lugosi and Alison Skipworth. P it AODED AT executives, and the supporting cast is | “The Cocownuls. 'ANIMA CRACKERS' “BROKEN DISHES” at Belasco, “RROKEN DISHES,” a Broadway comedy in which Donald Meek has the leading role, will usher in the | season at the Shubert-Belasco Theater Sunday evening, September 28. The play is by Martin Flavin, regarded by | eritics as one of the leading play: of “Children of the Moon" and “Th Criminal Code.” “Broken Dishes,” which is the only comedy he has written, is said to have established him as having a real flair for laugh-provoking situations and comic characterization. The piece ran for the better part of last season on Broadw: and has proved to be Flavin's most{uc- cessful stage work. Donald Meek is credited with an’ in- imitable performance as Cyrus Bump- sted, who believes that a man's place is in the home, and who bows humbly for years before his czarlike wife. But when their beautiful young daughter falls in |love and the mother forbids the wed- ding, Cyrus, stimulated somewhat by his first drink of hard cider, asserts his manhood and dares for the first time in his life to oppose the will of his better half, The scene in which the young couple are married by a deaf old clergy- at a picture show is said to mark a real high spot in hilarity Bette Davis, a young ingenue of re- markable_promise, plays the daughter Marion Gering, who staged as well a produced “Broken Dishes,” has selected for the supporting cast an odd as- sortment of types who add to the mer- riment by their appearance as well as by their comic lines. FRED STONE AND “RIPPLES.” 'CHARLES DILLINGHAM will present his new musical extravaganza “Rip- ples,” at the National Theater, for one | week, beginning Sunday night, Septem- ber 28, and Washington theatergoers favorite comedian, the one and only Fred Stone, who will make his first appearance here since his aeroplane accident two Summers ago. Dorothy Stone is co-starred in this production, more beautiful than ever. ‘This Stone vehicle also marks the stage debut of daughter No. 2, Paula | Stone, pretty, charming and talented. The supporting cast also in- cludes Andrew Tombes, Billy Taylor, Maude Eburne, Charles Collins, Charles Mast, William Sellery, Cynthia Foley, Peggy Bancroft, Gertrude Clemens, a troupe of midgets, the Tiller Dancing NOW PLAYING jungle ollt%'bn e fr, #fi‘/f time f° 2 . TRACTIONS SILLY SYMPHONY CARTOO! UMITED ARTISTS FEATURETTE' HEARST METROTONE NEWS N “ZAMPA® e YOU'LL REMEMBER. SEFTEMBER EW'S A) Coming Attractions ights of the country and the author | of fCn) ¢ 3 e | A" “Flapper Follies” will begin an en- | man during the absence of the mother | will have the pleasure of seeing their | very | Girls, and a bevy of “the most beautiful | ‘flrls in the world” of the Charles Dill- | | ingham selection. Mail orders are now being received, first come, first served, at the National | Theater box office. Matinee on Satur- ay only. l “FLAPPER FOLLIES” Ahead. T the Gayety Theater next week gagement. It is described as one of | | the brightest, most _cheerful shows | | operating on the M. B. A. circuit. It | comes with more than its usual number | of special teatures. Of the big novelties, “The Living Curtain,” “Gold,” “Aviation” and “Rodeo” stand-out. They are said to be most engaging in picturesque effect and to offer opportunity for the clean kind of fun. The song and dance num- | bers have been lauded by the press. | Jack (Tramp) Montague, Alice Duvall, | Johanna Slade and Nanette Dally are featured. Lenzen and Zelig's sensa- tional teeter board act is the added | attraction. A nimble chorus helps the | fun along. s ompe SRR Rogers n nghtnm . THOUGH Will Rogers has been far from the studios, up in the Lake Tahoe region, filming his current star- ring picture for Fox-Movietone, “Light- nin’,” word persistently filters’ through from the north that “Lightnin’ " is go- | |ing to prove another Rogers triumph. Henry King is directing, and the very fact that Rogers' prior successes, “They Had to See Paris” and “So This | Is London,” are still popular through- | out, the country and that “Lightnin’ " will top the others, augurs well for the success of the picture, “Lightnin’ Bill Jones” is an ideal role for Rogers, and he just lives it in the picture. Louise Dresser plays his wife | and Helen Cohan, daughter of George | M. Cohan, his daughter, with a fine supporting cast. Reno and the di- vorce question are paramount in the | story. et > ‘i‘f‘gw | 'MAYBE iTs LOVE AWarner Bros. And Vitaphone Picture BENNETY ~in Warner Bros. Vitaphones Ma:gmr‘ g" ':UONN."QALS WORTHY'S 3 mous Play —— Old Englis — ADDED ATTR ACTIONS — s "THE LEGACY " & MicKeY € CARTGON Akar MORAMEE NEWS BARBARA LEE, Once a Broadway show girl and now one of the film beauties. She has a role in the Eddie Cantor picture, “Whoopee.” Signs Contract. AS 8 result of her work in “The Best People,” her initial screen play, Mirian Hopkins has affixed her signa- ture to a long-term contract with Para- mount. NOW THE PLAY THAT ROCKED BROADWAY DOUG. FAIRBANKS, Jr. Anita Page Zazu Pitts LITTLE ACCIDENT 9th at RIALTO:: 25¢11t01--35c 110 6--50c 6to 11 AMUSEMENTS. Next Week’s Pic_tures. HE new week, as everybody should know by this time, starts in the hig_ motion picture theaters on Friday and Satur- day, varying with the theater. Optimism and excellence are Lhe‘ watchwords for the week, which | starts Friday at the Fox and in !he‘ Wearner Bros. theaters, the Met- | ropolitan, and Sat- | urday in Keith's and the Lo!w’ theaters, the Pal-| ace and the Co-| lumbia. Never be- | fore has a more al- luring program of | screen attractions been announced in | Washington than that for the cur- rent week, and that the theater managers are keenly alive to the demands of the situation appears in their effort, as far as possible to duplicate this excel- lence during the week to follow. At Manager Hardie Meakin's Fox ‘Theater, omitting none of the songs and music and including all the di- alogue demanded by the attraction, Paramount’s screen version of “Heads Up,” the rousing Broadway musical comedy, with Charles Rogers and Helen Kane, the “boop-boop-a-doop” girl of fame, as the stars, will make its ap- pearance Friday. Victor Moore, stage comedian, also has an outstanding role in this production and laughs should be plentiful. Gloria Swanson, “the glorious Gloria,” in her new picture, “What a Widow," unless the Marx Brothers in “Animal Crackers” refuse to make room for her, will be the attraction at Loew's Co- | lumbia, beginning Saturday. Gloria | doesn't need mwuch publicity in Wash- | ington, and pretty nearly everybody ought to know by this time that her latest picture, “What a Widow,” is one of the crackerjacks of the new season. R-K-O Keith's, not to be outdone, will present Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, jr., in “Half Shot at Sun- rise,” starting Saturday, unless all signs fail. Need more be said? ‘Warner’s Metropolitan, starting Fri- day, will present “Sinner's Holiday,” a Wamner Bros.-Vitaphons. which has been heralded as “a composition of smoldering drama such as may be found behind the rigorous life of Coney Island barkers, grafters, whatnots and dancing girls.” Grant Withers, Evelyn Knagp, Lucille La Verne and Joan | Blondell will be found in the leadinzi roles—and the shadow of the electric | chalr in the background. | Richard Arlen as the star and hero | of “The Santa Fe Trail” ought to stir | the throbs of melodrama at the Palace next Friday, as both are announced as | the attraction there for the new week. “Man Trouble,” a “drama of the upper part of the underworld” as it i | described, will have Dorothy Mackaill in the stirring film fare announced for the Earle, starting Friday. Incidentally Milton Sills is an outstanding figure in the cast, along with Kenneth Mc- Kenna and Sharon Lynn. A girl in the clutches of the ruling power of the un- derworld, who is rescued by a man who “Buddy” Rorers. loew’s palace f street at 13th fall opening s now playing whirlwind whoopee at double time tempo! loves her, but rewards him by falling in love with someone else gives an out= line of the story Two Fox Productions. THE first week of October will witness the world premieres of two im=- portant motion picture productions from Fox Films Raoul Walsh's “The Big Trail” will have its initial showing. It is a ree enactment of the winning of the West, and was six months in the making. The company consisted of 93 featured players and many extras, who traveled through nine States and experienced all the hardships that their forbears, the original ploneer-wagon folk, encounter= ed. They suffered the blazing heat of the desert, the icy chills of rivers they had to ford, the terrors of snow and blizzards, and reached the end of their trail in the Valley of Dreams Five days followifig the premiere of “the Big Trail” Fox will stage the world premi of another production, “Just Imagine,” a DeSylva, Brown and Henderson musical-comedy romance. While “The Big Trail” goes back 100 years into history, “Just Imagine” goes forward 50 years. Seymour Felix, Broadway dance di= rector, officially brought “Just Imagine” to a close with the staging of the specs tacular numbers, “Monkey Business™ and “Dance of Victory.” For each number DeSlyva, Brown and Hender- son composed special music in the modernistic manner. David Butler, di- rector, has completed the work of super~ vising the cutting on the picture. “Just Imagine” again unites the creative artistry of the same group that produced “Sunny Side Up." 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A'R“TON 1543 Wisconsin Ave. Today and tomorrow, a metro-goldwyn- mayer picture | | adapted from the musical comedy hit with hessie love mary lawlor cliff edwards stanley smith lola lane gus shy the happiest, snappiest picture treat of the year and on the stage dave schooier the high flying m. c. in a capitol theatre, new york revue happy landing featuring renie riano greenwich village follies star harris and van chester hale girls and the palace syncopators oty hearst metrotone news M subjects as usual the best show in washington .. , just an old loew custom. you’ll remember september! doors open sunday at one thirty th &_Trviog Sts.” N.E. R, C. A. Photophone “HOLIDAY.” ANN HARDING. SYLVAN “hédafrfindn “LovE™ Ave. S.E. BELLE BENNETT. CAROLINA fOBshr atis Liia LEE _AND MONTAGUE iith & N. 3 LOVE in “DOUBLE CROSS ROADS." (*) Indicates Where Film Is Being Shown Today. District of Columbia EARLE—13th st. n.w. *METROPOLITAN—F st. n.w. AMBASSADOR—18th and Col. rd. n.w. | *APOLLO—624 H st. n.e. *AVALON—Conn. ave. and McKinley, AVENUE GRAND—645 Pa. ave. s.e. N eorgia ave. and F: EMPRESS—116 9th st. n.w. HOME—-1230 C st. n.e. JESSE—3100 18th st. n.e. SAVOY~—3030 14th st. n.w. | *STANTON—515 C st. n.e. *SYLVAN—104 Rhode Island ave. n.w, TAKOMA—4th and Butternut sts. TIVOLI—14th and Park rd. n.w. YORK—Georgia ave. and Quebec n.w. Maryland and Virginia MARYLAND—Hagerstown, Md. ARCADE—Crisfield, Md. ARCADE—Hyattsville, Md. ASHTON—Clarendon, Va. AUDITORIUM—Onancock, Va. BERKELEY—Berkeley Springs, W. Va. 'TO! Va. COMMUNITY—Ridgely, Md. CREWE—Crews, Va. EMPIRE—Pocomoke City, Md. EMPIR.~ -Saxis, Va. FIREMEN’S HALL—Willards, Md. GLOBE—Berlin, Md. IMPERIAL—Brunswick, Md. JEFFERSON—Brookneal, Va. LYRIC—Fishing Creek, Va. MARADA—St. Michaels, Md. MARYLAND—Kitzmiller, Md. MASONIC—Clifton Forge, Va. MELVILLE—Sykesville, Md. NELSON HALL—Lovington, Va. NEW—Aberdeen, Md. NEW-—Elkton, Md. NEW-—Hancock, Md. 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