Evening Star Newspaper, December 7, 1930, Page 63

~ BELASCO—*“Petticoat Influence.” ELEN HAYES, one of the most | charming comediennes of th2 American stage and one whom Washington always has claimed as its very own, will appear as the star in “Petticoat Influence,” which Gilbert Miller, the well known producer, will present at the Shubert-Belasco Theater tomorrow evening. Miss Hayes, whose performance in “Coquette,” & romantic tragedy of the South, will be remembered by American theatergoers for many years, had al- ready achieved stardom before she, Barri Brutus,” with Wil- liam Gillette, she very Wdo c-n e Knows” and “Coque “In Petticoat Influence” she again has & part—that of Peggy Chalfont—which calls forth all the appealing qualities of her delightful personality. Peggy Chal- font is a young wife who adores her husband, and who cannot bear to sce him unhappy because a woman’s in- fiuence has made him lose the long- coveted appointment to the governor- ship of Arda. Womanlike, she cannot resist the temptation to step in and try to straighten out the situation. Her method is to pay & personal call to the 1 of Darnaway, who should have ap- pointed her husband. The call gives rise to a series of unforeseen conse- quences that furnish rich material for an urbane, clever and irresistible com- edy of sophisticated Londoners. For months it been one of the leading theatrical ittractions in England. In support of Miss Hayes, Mr. Mil- ler has provided a cast said to be noth- ing short of brilliant. It includes, as "\ featured player, Henry Stephenson, late- ‘Dan ly seen in cing Partner,” in addi- tion to John Williams, Eric Cowley, ‘Valerie Taylor and Kathryn Hamill. “Petticoat Influence” was personally staged by Mr. Miller. NATIONAL—"In the Meantime.” THE Theater Guild will present for its second production of the Washing- ton subscription season “In the Mean- time,” a new play of American life by Claire and Paul Sifton, a$ the National ‘Theater tomorrow evening. ‘The Siftons are journalists, Mr. Sif- ton being Sunday feature editor of the New York World. Their play is a melo- drama of ideas and takes place on the night in which a woman is to be ex- ecuted for a celebrated murder. It shows how the ramifications of this case involve the members of a family whose only contact with the murder is the fact that the father was the fore- man of the jury that voted for convic- tion. The authors have intensified the excitement of the play by the continual sense of the violent intrusion of modern publicity into private life. The guild's distinguished cast in- cludes Glenn Anders, Linda Watkins, Prederick “TE!: PRINCE AND THE PAUPER,” the royal comedy by Mark Twain, will be the next offering of the National Junior Theater in Washington, Satur- day morning, December 13, 10:30 o'clock at the Schubert Belasco Theater. Henry Hull, jr., who played the title in “Tom A3 share the title roles, with David a new member of the company, who has pre- viously toured with Ethel Barrymore in “The Kingdom of God.” “'fhnemx:utblkt.htadm;huwdc‘ prank of a young prince of the royal family who changes clothes with a little street beggar enough like Sunday WEER OF DECEMBER 7 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Tharsday Friday Saturday him to be his twin. The jest is car- ried so far that the prince is sent to live with a peasent family and the beg- gar is retained in the castle. Bob de Lany, Henry Fonda, Mary Buckner and Clifford Adams lend sup- GAYETY—"Fine Feathers.” H RT GARDNER, Harry Levine and Margie Bartel are featured in “Fine Feathers,” this week’s burlesque attrac- tion at the Gayety Theater. Gardner Ambassador 18th & Columbia Rd.» ! Apollo 624 B St N.E. 8612 Conn. Ave. Nell Hamilton in “The Widow From Chicago.” Comedy. _Variety. Neil Hamiiton in “The Widow Prom Nel Hamilion Chicago. Comeds. Varlety. e Widow From Chicago. Comedy. Variety. Bpencer Tracy n “Up the River.” Vitaphone variety. “Up the River.” Vitaphons variety. Bpencer Tracy Conrad Nagel Edmund Lowe 1 - g Edmund Lowe d n “Scotland Yard " “A Lady Surrenders.” Comedy. Sportlight _reel. Vitaphone variety. Amos 'n' Andy in ““Check and Double Check. Vitaphone variety. mos "n’_ Andy i “Check ‘ani .p;uh?l Amos 'n' Andy in “Check and Double e Check. Vitaphone variety. Vitaphons variety. Kay Johnson in Johnson in Bl E “Madam Satan.” ‘Mada: an.” George Arliss X " Jack Hoit “Old English.” Comedy. 5 “The_Sauealer.” ‘omedy. Vitaphore variety. Dark. Betty Compson in “Woman to Woman." New: 8. Comedy. Zane Grev's ,“The Lone Star Special cast gbt Montgomery and 3 D i “White Hell of Pits Palu.” dan in “Love i Rough.” Mary Astor an Liovd Hughes in “The Runaway Bride. Lois” Moran in “Song of Ken- Amos n'_Andy in “Check and Doubls e Vitaphone variety. Amos 'n' Andy in “Check and Double heck. Kay Johnson in VitapSone ariety. by Johnson in BadoSehn® “way for a_satlor.” Vitaphone variety. John_ Gilbert Toretta Youns in n tucky.” Bert_ Lytell 1n “The Truth Abous “The Last of the outh. Lone" Woit." Comedy. Variety. is an experienced eccentric, Levine spe- cializes in Hebrew character comedy, while Miss Bartel is a toe dancing and acrobatic soubrette whose speed is flashily disp'ayed in an Oriental dance | in the “Fairy Bock” number. Other notables in the cast include Artie Brooks, a clever character player; Jack Wald, juvenile straight, with snappy songs and snappy steps; Le- ! onora DeAlba, ingenue; Ida Shaw, sing- ing and dancing beauty, and Billie Goodwin, soubrette number leader. Fields, Smith and Fields, just off the Loew vaudeville circuit, whose dancing | act features many types of dancing, are a special attraction. | ! Ave. Grand 845 Pa_ Ave SE ‘Cameo Carclina '1th & N.C. Ave. S.E. Central 1 425 9th St. N.W. Circle 2105 Pa. Ave. N.W. Ann Harding in “Girl of the Golden West. Vitaphone variets. Ann Harding in “Girl of the Golden _m‘-‘ani‘-‘m we “A Lady Surrenders.” Vitaphon Vitanhone variety. riety. Johnny Mack Browne n “Billy the Kid." Vitaphone variety. Conrad_Nagel in Lady Surrenders.” Vitaphone variety. “ Comedy. Bert Lytell I he Last of the | Lone Wolf. Comedy. Jopnny Mack Browss n “Billy the Kid" Vitaphone variety. Dark. Lew Avres and Louis Wolheim in “All Quiet_on t! Western_Front.” Lew Ayres and Western Front." Arthur Lake and Dixie Lee in “Chee: Up and Smile " Comady. Snapshots. Arthur Lake and Dixie Lee in “Cheer Up and Smile. Comedy. _Snapshots. Warner Baxter in “Renegades.” Comedy. Ser Johinny Harron and Betty Compson in “Czar of Proadway.” | Marx Brothers in “Animal Crackers.” Lawrence Tibbett “Ihe Rosue Sons.” Fue Carol and ur Lake Elste Ferguson in O etin “Scarlet Pages.” “She's My Weakness."” Comedsy. _ Act. nd Monte Blue T Ted_Lewis ai Anp Pennington in “Is_Everybody Happy. mos ‘n'_Andy In “Check and Double Cherk. Anita Page and Doug. Feirbanks. Jr., n “Little_Acciderit.” Amos i Andy In “‘Check and Double eck. Vitaphone variety. Johnny Mack Browne n “Billy the Kid.” Vitavhone variety. Johnny ul-'cx'm’own- n “Billy the Kid." Vitavhone variel Winnie, “The Party.” Vitaphone variety. T.ightner in Life of the Winnie Lightn “The_Lite of O n arty.’ “Scotl b . Vitaphone variety. oC:’r;\ded e Anita Paze d Doug. Falrbanks, ir » “Little Accident.” Trepe Rieh. B. Warner and mond Hackett.in n Your Back.” Amos and An in “Check and Doutle Check.”” Amos and Andy “Check_and Double Check.” Helen Twelvetrees. — Dorothy T Marjorie Rambeay and Milton Sills Ricardn Cortez in i “Her Man." “Man_Troub ‘The “Story Book” number introduces happenings on Broadway, and goes from that glittering setting to an i Colony | Gu. Ave. & Farragut Winnie Lightner in “The_Life of the Party.” Cartoon. Winnie Lightner in “The Lite of the S arty. Certoon. Lewis Ayres in “The Doorway to He! Comedy. TLoretta Young in “The Truth About Youth. Varfety. Comedy. Tewis Avres i “The Doorway to Hell. Comedy. Jack Holt in “The Squealer.” Vitaphone varfety. Comedsy. TUna Merkel in “Eyes of the World.” Vitaphone variety. y. Oriental palace, where the Oriental dance is executed. Mcnday, Wednesday and Friday eve- nings offer added special attractions. JANET RICHARDS—Tomorrow. MISS JANET RICHARDS will give her regular weekly review of “H s- at 10:45 o'clock in th> Masonic Temple, Thirteenth street and New York avenue. | This weelk Pre-ident Hoover's message | g DBumbarton ! 1343 Wisconsin Ave. | Fairlawn | Anacostia, D.C. Family tory in the Making” tomorrow morning 8th & G Sts. S.£ Hi % K St N.W. Milton Sills and Raymond Hackett n “The Sea_Wolt." Milton Sills and Raymond Hackett n _“The Sea_Wolf.” Edmund Lowe and Joan Bennett in “Scotland_Yard.” Amos snd Andy Amos and Andy n “Check _and Double Check."™ “Check_and Double Che: Walter Huston and Kay_Prancis in “The Virtuous Sin.” Comedy. Walter Huston and Francis in e Milton Eills “The Virtuous Sin.” Comedy. nd Dorothy Mackaill in “Man Trouble " Al comedy night “College Hounds." Kiddier Review. Other_subjects. Comedy. Carnival review. omeds. Dorothy Mackaill and Lewis Stone “Atrica Speaks.” n e : “The_Oflice_Wife ik Reginal Byt Denny and ay Johneon in “Madam Satan.” Jack Mulhall and Alice_Day_in “In the Next Room.” Comedy. Act. Players. Bernice Claire and “Song of Flame.” Comedy. _Cartoon Comedy. _Cartoon. Jeannette MacDonald Jeannette MacDonsid and Jack Oakie in “and Jack Oakie in “Let's Go Netive” . “Let's Go Native." Comedy. _Act. Comedy. _Act Bert_Lrtell in “The Last of the Lone Volf." Comedy._Cartoon. Comedy. _Serial Waiter Huston and Kay Francis in “Virtuous Sin." Com._Cartoon. News. ippedrome Weiter Huston and Kov Francis in “Virtuous Sin.” Com._Cartoon. News. Helen Twelvetrees and Pred Se “Swing High.” Comedy. _Cartoon. Helen Twelvetrees Robt. Armstrong and James Cleason in Act Comedy. _Cartoon. Comedy. Gary Cooper in “The Spollers.” Comedy. Act. Gary Cooper in “The Spollers.” Comedy. to Congress will furnish the subject for | - “Home Affairs,” including the various | recommendations to Congress and the Kay Jobnson in “Madam Satan.” react’ons to the message in the press,| 13th & C Sts. N.E. Ann Harding in Kay Johnson in “Girl of the Golden “Madam Satan.” West.” Vitaphone variety. Ann Harding in “Girl of the Golden Trene Rich in “On Your Back " st Vitaphone variety, Vitaphone variety. ‘omedy. TUna_Merkel in “Eyes of the World.” in Vitaphone variety. “Up the River.” Comedy. Comedy. both at home and abroad. Under “Foreign Affairs” attention will be given to Great Britain's latest llbori Ingomar Dark. ia, Va. Virginia Valll in “Guilt: Seriel. ® Comeds. Cliff_Edwards in “Lord Byron of Broadway."” Comedy. Cartoon. Claudia Dell in “Sweet Kitty Belairs." Comedy. Cartoon. Claudia Dell in Ken Maynard in “Bweet Kitty Belairs.” Comed “Song of Caballero. Comedy. crisis and a general survey of the out- | mndg:x events of the!sweek in the vari- ous ropean capitals. Lady Astor's dinner for the notable women of Great Britain will also be touched upon. The lectures are illustrated by the use of in Je“e “The Spoile; 3100_18th _st. ne. Eddie Laurel Laarel. Gary Cooper e Cantor_comedy. Gary Cooper Sue Carol and Arthur Lake in “The Epollers.” “She’s My Weakness.” Eddie comedy. Comedy. Dark. Ma. Ted Healy Ted Healy in in “Soup to Nuts.’» " Comedy. News. Comedy._Ne Corinne Grifith n “Back Pay.” Comedy. News. P4 mong n, and Buddy Rogers in Ben) s Lilys “Follow Thru.” & Sertal. John McCormick in “Song o' My Heart.” Comedy _Cartoon. John McCormick n “Song o' My Heart.” Comedy. Cartoon. Warner Baxter 2 Richard Arlen “Renegades.” in “Santa Fe Trafl.” Comedy._Seri: large maps. OLIVER LA FARGE—Tomorrow. “INDIANS ARE PEOPLE” is the title of a lecture to be delivered by Oliver La Farge at the Central Com- munity Center tomorrow night at 8:15 Leader Oth & E Sts. NW. Liberty 1419 N_Capitol 8t. George O'Brien in “Last of the Duanes.” Comedy. _Serial. Paramount News. John “Song o' My Heart.” Comedy. Cartoon. John McCormack 1n “'Song o' My Heart.” Comedy. Cartoon. cCormack In Louise Fazenda and Touise Fazenda and enny Rubin “Leatherneckin: Comedy. _Act. Benny Rubin in “Leathernecking.” Comedy. _Act. Kay Johnson in Milton Sills “This Mad World.” “Sea Wolf. Comedy. Comedy. Seri: Paramount _News. TLon Chaney in “Unholy Three.” Comedy. toon. Ton Chaney in “Unholy Three.” Comedy. Certoon wford in ___ Joai hing ““Our’ n Crawford in Blushing Brides.” Comedy. _ Act. “Fox Follles of 1931 Robt. Montgomery and Leila Hyams in “8ins of the Children."” Comedy. _Cartoon. Kay Jobnson in “This Mad World.” Comedy. toon. o'clock under the auspices of the Com- munity Institute. Mr. La Farge, scientist, anthropol- ogist and author of “Laughing Boy,” the 1929 Pulitzer Prize winner, is said to be eminently fitted to discuss this Palace 307 9th st. n.w. | Princess 1119 B _St. N.E. “Ingagl.” Comeds: Act. ‘ooper and June Collyer in “Man from Wyoming" Comedy. Cartoon. 1 ming" Comedy. Cartoon. Buddy_Rogers n “Bafety in Numbers.” Comedy. Act. Jack Oakie and Evelyn Brent in “'Social Lion." Comedy. Cartoon. Jack Oakie and Evelyn Brent in “Social Lion.” Comedy. Cartoon. Moran Tn’a'u-:x n “Anybody’'s War."” Comedy. Review. Charles Rogers and Nancy Carroll in “Follow_Thru.” Charles Rogers and Nancy_Carroll in, “Follow_Thru." Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey in “Halt Shot at unrise.” Bert Wheeler and Jack Holt and Ralph Graves n “Hell's Island."” Sue Carol and Arthur Lake in “She's My Weak- ness.” Buffalo Bl jr.. in “South of Sonora.” question by virtue of having lven most of his life to the study of t?‘l!"lndiln, A graduate of Harvard and a descend- and of such famous names as Benja- Richmend Alexandris, Va. Dark. George Arliss in Georse _Arliss “Old English.” “Old Engiish.” Vitaphone act. Vitaphone act. Comedy. Comedy. Ruth_Chatterton in “Anybody's Woman." Vitaphone act. Cartoon. Ruth _Chatterton in “Anybody's Woman."” Vitaphone act. Cartoon. Ruth Chatterton 1n John_Gilbert in ““Anybody’s Woman.” “Way for a Sailor.” Vitaphone Cartoon. Comedy. min_Franklin, Commodore Perry and the Bayards of Delaware, La Farge, at an early age liked to think of himself an Indian, and following his gradua- | n took up this study in earnest. He | went with the Peabody Museum arche- | logical expedition to Arizona and with | the Tulane University expedition to Guatemala and Mexico in pursuance of his studies. Mr. La Farge is regarded as one of the foremost authorities on Indian lore, | and his humor, romance and ability to present thoughts of haunting beauty in | simple language are said to make his Jectuire one of the outstanding features | Savoy | 030_14th 8t. N.W. Seco Silver Spring, Md, | State Bethesds. Md. Helen Kane in “Dangerous Nan McGrew.” Comedy. Helen XKane in “Dangerous Nan McGrew.” Comedy. Dorothy Mackail In “The Office Wife.” Comedy. Vitaphone variety. Lewis Ayres in “All Quiet_on the Western Front.” Sally O'Neil in “Kathleen Ma neen. Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey in “Half Shot at Sun- rise.” Variety. Com. Helen Ferguson in “In Old California.” Dark. Bpecial cast Marion Davies n in “White_Hell of “The Floradora Pitz Palu.” Girl.” Marceline Day and Ben) Ann Harding and ny Rubin Mary_Ast in in “Sunny_Skies.” “Holiday.” William Collier, Jr., in “The Melody Man.” Short_subjects. Thomas Jameson in “High Treason.” Art Mix_in “Lonesome Trail.” Dark. Gary Cooper 1 Gary Cooper in “The Spoiler: “The Spotlers Al Jolson fn Al Jnlson in “Big Boy.” “Big Boy.” Clara_Bow in “Love Amo: Millionalree T H,_B. Warner in “The i rie Pifi Dorsay in “Women Everywhere. Marx Brothers “Animal Crackers.” Cartoon. News. onstance Bennet in Cogommon Glay.” Takoma Park. D. C. Bernice Claire Marx Brothers in n Y “Sprine Is Here." Comedy. “Animal Cracker: Cartoon__Ne Richard T‘ammxmm n “Dawn Patrol.” News._Cartoon. Richard Bartheimess Gilbert Roland in “Men of the North." Serial Do?nihyl Mackaill n “Man Trouble.” “Lone Defender.” Ned Sparks and Benny Rubin Constance Benn o “Leathernecking.” "Common Clay.” Ned Sparks and Benny Rubin Anita Pa ind o Doug. Fairbanks, ir. “Leathernecking." in “Little _Accident.” Anita Doug. Fal “Littfe _Accident.” Bebe Daniels in “Lawtul Larceny.” 00t “Trailing_Trouble.” P iy of the Community Institute’s Winter course. Mr. La Farge will be the guest of | Tivoli 14th & Park R4. Eddie Cantor in ““Whoopee." Warner_Baxter Edgie Cantor 1 i Sdsiioicad Vitaphone variety. ‘Warner Baxter Robt. Montgomery in in “Love in the Rough.” “Renegades.” Vitaphone variety. Vitaphone variety. Robt. Montgomery 1n “Love in the Rough.” Spencer Tracy in Vitaphone variety. b o1 Up the River.” Commissioner Charles J. Rhoads of the Bureau of Indian Affairs at the latter’s home. en Tracey place, during his stay in Washington. CLARA W. McQUOWN—FRIDAY. Miss Clara W. McQuown will give her regular weekly talk on “Questions of the Hour in National and Interna- morning at the Washingoon Ciub, 1015 m al e ton Club, 1010 Seventeenth street. Miss McQuown will roview legisla- tion before Congress and analyze recent | events of outstanding importance in the | United States. Under foreign affairs| she will discuss the political situation in Germany and the persistent rumors of attempts to secure the revision of the| treaty of Versailles and what such re- vision would imply. Special reference will be made to the Polish corridor. These talks are given every Friday morning. . I Shaw’s Eccentricity. GWM! BERNARD SHAW, the rec- ognition of whose genius and great leave the false start, and I don't think York Ga. Ave. & Quebes success is commonpiace today the world | Tewis Avres in “All Quiet_on th ‘Western Front.” Ann Harding's Forte. NN HARDING has mastered the rare quality of making silence more eloquent than speech.” This is the tribute pald the popular young star by Edward H. Griffith, who directed her in “Holiday,” and who also will direct her in “Rebound.” “Paris Bound” and “Leaving her great beauty and un- questioned ability out of the discussion, would say that Miss Harding's most outstanding characteristic is her serene restraint,” declares the director, basing his conclusions on an intensive study of the Pathe star. “However,” Griffith adds, “this rare gift 15 not an artificially cuitivated one. Mics Harding's economy of movement and expression is part of her mental as well as of her physical self. frequently observed her sitting in a group at the edge of the set between the King and the Cabinet. I decided to, jcen¢s. She swinging her foot or twitching her I've was always curlously still. a restless, neurotic over, took nine years to get on his feet and find the medium of expressicn in which he afterward made his foriune. ‘The famous author and dramatist him- self makes this disclosure. “When you were a boy did you set out to be a writer? Did you know you were going to be a dramatist?” Shaw was asked. “Good heavens, no!” he ejaculated. “You don't taste water in your mouth. I wanted to be a painter, or a pirate, or an engine driver. I wrote because 1t was the only thing I could do. “But, to begin with, I had nine years of complete failure. I wrote five novels that no publisher would look at. The novels were written from 1879 to 1883. 1 worked, doing so much a day, like Trollope. After a time some of them 8ot into Socialist magazines when the editors would want something with whigh to fill up. “But there is this to be said for the novels—in doing them I taught myself how to write.” Asked if he carefully plans out the mc" of his plays before he begins writ- g, he replied with an emphatic nega-| tive. “If you had a careful plot to work to, 4t would be like creating a jigsaw puzale. A jigsaw puzzle may be awfully int-resting and entertaining to the man ma §ng it, but it is infernally dull to 1y one else. “When I began ‘St. Joan' I knew ly what form it would take. But Apple Cart’ I made a false had intended taking two parties, the Quakers and the but I found I could use only 'Adults ' Only a flower,” he added. alive. Having | growth in unfolding.” ‘World War. “You c about the war in 10 minutes. Shaw’s answer was typical: reason making with technique. Pathe Golf;fict\;es. | Farrell films and ras ass'gned Clyde E. Elliott, actual making of the subjects. e, | | CHICAGO' ACRST NATIONAL VITAPWONE 11T NEIL HAMILTON EDW. G ROBIN: ef FRENGHIE MELAN CHAMBERLINEHIMES | “You must allow a play to grow like “Then it becomes own it that way, critics sometimes declare the consiruction is | perfect. But it is perfect because of its | , Shaw said he is looking for a subject for a new play, and the interviewer sug- gested he might write a play about the say all there is to be said ‘Journey's End,’ for instance, gives you the monct- ony, the funk and the drink. The war | was just a piece of stupid blundering.” | Incidentally, Shaw revealed the only | he goes to “see films is that he desires to “see what prcgress they are JOH.NNY FARRELL, famous golf pro- | fessional, has gone to St. Augustine, Fla., where the Pathe series of golf pic- ' | tures will be made on the picturesque | course of the St. Augustine Country Club. Terry Ramsaye is producing the who directed the successful Knute Rockne foot ball pictures, to the | hand, but always delightfully quiescent. | At the same time she is vivid and | luminous, differing from her less se- | rene sisters as does a candle burning steadily in still air from one that flick- ers in the breeze.” | Sewar ol el oy "DO you know, I'm terribly handi- capped in giving interesting in- terviews,” sald Ed Wynn, between scenes of his first talking picture, “Fol- low the Leader,” at Paramount’s New York studio. “I was neither picked out of the gut- ter, nor brought up on doughnuts, nor was I” (and here his voice trembled with tragedy), “detected stealing the crust of bread from a toothless infant. “Why, I even had a pony cart when 1 was a youngster. In fact, my family | was in very comfortable circumstances. “After 1 was graduated from college and announced that I was going on the stage, I wasn’t greeted with a demon- stration of ‘The Pride ol the Family.’ Neither was I shown the door with the emphatic suggestion: ‘Never return, while through streaming tears I heard words like ‘blacksheep,’ ‘disgrace—to— the—family.’ “Instead my father said: ‘Well, well, Ed. Geing on the stage, you ray? That | fhc':fld keep you out of mischief. Good | lucl loull B of s Tewis_Avres n “All Quiet_on the Western Front.” Conrad Nagel in “A Lady Surrende; DEst her obvious youth, charming Helen dayes, whose newest play, “Petticoat Influence,” will be seen at the Shubert-Belasco Theater this week, has had a stage career of more than 20 years. She was only 6 years old when sbe accepted her first professional engage- ment—with the Columbia Stock Co. in Washington. The play was “The Royal Family"—not, however, even remotely connected with the recent Kaufman- Ferber hit. She was cast for the role of Prince Charlie, and she had to eat a large piece of cake with orange icing at every performance. She still recalls that as she sat in the glare of the foot- lights tasting the sweetness of atten- tion and of orange icing she decided the stage might really be a very pleas- ant profession. A few years later, after playing Claudia in “The Prince Chap” and small part in “A Poor Relation, “Little Lord Fauntleroy,” the Prances Hodgson Burnett tale, which brought about her first battle for supremacy. Rehearsals had not gone well. The part was longer than any she had un- retain its hundreds of lines. Others in the company were losing faith and whispering that she might never get through the first act. Three days before the opening the manager sent to New York for a sub- stitute actress, in case of emergency, to take Helen's place. This actress, all made up, was ready to go on in the second act if Helen showed any hesi- tancy. When this news reached Helen she bristled. Her fighting instincts were aroused, and she studied desper- ately, working on her lines hour after hour alone in her room. The substitute never had a chance. Helc : not only knew her lines but per- formed her part so admirably that the actor who had betn most doubtful of her abllity went to her and sald “That was great” This was her first hard- wen professional triumph. At the end of that season Miss Hayes’ | mcther was persuaded to take her to ¥ew York, where mana, were on the 1 Miss Hayes visions of A PARAMOUNT PICTURE HAROLD LLOYD .- s \JF QEBE T IR BARBARA KENT Oflm SELECTED SHORT SUBJECTS Story of Helen Hayes. ‘Uhe Sacred Heart academies in Wash- dertaken, and her memory refused to, Betty Compson in “The Czar of Broad- wa. Vitaphone Conrad Nagel in “A Lady Surrenders.” Toretta Yount T Joe Frisco in “The Truth About “The " Gorilla. Vitaphone variety. Comedy. out! Vitaphone variety. peared as if all of them were in hiding and that the stenographers in charge | could never say anything but “Sorry,| there isn't anything today.” For two dismal weeks the little girl and her mother made the rounds. On the last day before returning to Wash- ington they decided to call on Lew Fields. Once in Washington he had seen Helen do an imitation of a Zieg- feld “Follles” girl in a chilcren's show and had been very gracious. Would he remember her? They resolved to see. He did, and he gave her a job, and for four happy seasons she played under his management in “Old Dutch,” “The Summer Widowers,” “The Never Homes” and “The June Bride.” But little Helen Hayes began to grow up and had to go to school. Until her education was completed she left the stage and studied at the Holy Cross and ington. And after she had pinned up her hair on top of her head and had acquired smart high heels again she marched upon New York. George Tyler promptly engaged her to play the lead in “Pollyanna.” The | iclowing season she again achieved New York in Tarkington's “Penrod.” ‘Then she was loaned to Charles Froh- man, Inc, and it was with Willlam Gillette in Barrie's whimsy, “Dear Bru- | tus,” in the role of Margaret the Dream Child, she won a personal guccess for that delicate, romantic quality-wijich is ore of her greatest charms. Her work in Tarkington's “Clarence” so pleased the author that he wrote play especially for her, “The Wren. She then was featured in “Bab,” and shortly afterward, when still in her teens, she became a star in “Golden Days.” ‘Two years in George S. Kaufman’s and Marc Connelly’s “To the Ladies” as Elsie Beebe, then in Israel Zang- will's comedy, “We Moderns,” in “She Stcops to Conquer,” in “Dancing " in “Quarantine,” in “Caesar and Cleopatra,” in “Young Blood,” and in the Barrie play, “What Every Woman Knows,” catried her to a two-year success in the George M. Abbott-Ann Preston Bridgers drama, ‘“Coquette,” from 1927 to 1929, and brought her right up to date. #m FAMOUS STAGE PLAY o Roveh RINEHART & AVERY MARY ON THE o Slugs—Doesn't Sing. OUGLAS FAIRBANKS appears as | ou a New York stock broker, but he doesn't sing “Reaching for the Moon.” Mr. Fairbanks thus answers those of his fans who have asked if he sings during the film. He does not. Nor is his picture a musical. It is a modern, strong, quick-action comedy- drama during whieh two musical num- bers, a part of the story construction, are heard. Irving Berlin composed them, selecting them from a group of 20 _he composed in Hollywood. During one of the scenes in “Reach- ing for the Moon,” however, Fairbanks tackles seven ship stewards and Edward Everett Horton and Claud Allister in a rough-and-tumble reminiscent of the | high old days of “The Afericano.” He plunges and tackles and smacks like | Brill, Carideo, Schwartz and Mullins. And why not? Is not his trainer M. Bull Montana? Muezzin's Call to prayer. A CALL heard daily in the lands where the crescent of Mohammedanism is in the ascendant, is to be brought to | Western ears by the audible screen. It is the muezzin's summons to prayer, and the ritual has been fllmed with! faithful attention to authentic det'w! for Paramount’s “Morocco,” an adven- | ture story of the Foreign Legion, it is announced. Gary Cooper, Marlene Diet- rich and Adolph Menjou are featured in the film. Only the possessor of a powerful and beautiful voice may become a muezzin, according to Jamiel Hasson, the Arabian technical adviser with the film. “It is the duty.of this servant of the Prophet to call the faithful to prayer at certain periods daily. All witl the sound of his ringing voice are required to enter the mosque for worship, or, if that is impossible, to kneel with their faces to- ward Mecca and pray. “First, however, they must prepare themselves by cleansing their hands, cars, neck, face and feet. They also must Rurgc their minds of all but clean thoughts. Joseph Diskay, Hungarian tenor, was| secured to chant the muezzin’s call for | i i NOW PLAYING A uNiTeD AnTiSTS PrcTURI OfTER JomRs E Soveen AMUSEMENTS. FOX—Will Rogers in “Lightnin’.” OMEDY vies with drama in “Lightnin’,” Will Rogers’ latest picture, now being shown at the Fox, and “America's Con. gressman: large” gives a per- formance well worth se: as the habitually idle, whimsical old tippler and dreamer, Lightnin' Bill Jones. He does not rip wide A fast tempo is maintained threughout z:! ple- Henry King, man Who also pro- duced such out- standing screen a “The Winning ‘Will Rogers. Barbara Worth.” ‘The supporting cast, headed by Louise Dresser, who portrays the character of Rogers' wife, includes Helen Cohan, voungest daugh- ter of George M. Cohan; Joel McCrea, Juson Robarts, Luke Cosgrave, Frank Campeau, J. M. Kerrigan, Ruth War- ren, Sharon Lynn, Joyce Compton, Rex Bell and Charlotte Walker. The stage attraction is the Fanchon and Marco “Romance” idea, with Castleton and Mack, clever cntertain- ers; Myrtle Gordon, blues singer; Flo and Ollie Walters, comediennes; Rob- ert Cloy, tenor; Mary Price, acrobatic dancer; Three Brick Tops and the Mack Bissctt Dancers. Leon Brusiloff and the Fox Music Masters, with Ron and Don at the organ, and the Fox Movietone News complete the entertainment. of PALACE—“The Bat Whispers.” "THE BAT WHISPERS,” Roland West's comedy drama for United Artists, is the current attraction at Loew’s Palace Theater. Chester Morris has the leading role in this production that is based on the s hit “The Bat,” by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood. Una Merkel plays the love interest, with supporting cast composed of Grayce Hampton, Maude Eburne, Ben Bard, Gustav Von Seyffe- ritz, Will'am Blakewell, Spencer Char- ters and others. The entire production is shown on the Realife screen, which is reputed to bring flesh-and-blood reality to talking piciures. On the stage Trixie Priganza and Allan Rogers head the unit titled “Dream Garden.” Many well known names are included in this bill, with dancing as the predominating motif. A selected group of short subjects and screen novelties complete the bill. METROPOLITAN—“Mother’s Cry.” THE story of a mother’s love and her supreme sacrifice form the basis of “Mother’s Cry,” First National and Vita- phone’s version of Helen Grace Car- lisle’s notable story, which is now being hown at the Warner Metropolitan The- ter continuously from 11 am. to 11 p.m., and the announcement adds “there will be no reserved seats.” “Mother’s Cry,” a novel, highly in- dorsed by l.terary critics and which re- ceived special praise from Fannie Hurst, Theodore Dreiser, Franklin P. Adams, John Erskine and Alexander Woolcott, is a penetrating analysis of a happy family structure that tumbles to ruin as a result of an erring son. The moth- er's unselfish love for her four children, in spite of the fact that each child is distinctively different from the other, is said to result in a dramatic climax of su‘;tlln( intensity. Dorothy Pef cult role of the mother. players include Helen Chandler, Da: Manners, Edward Woods, Evalyn Knapp and Sidney Blackmer, RIALTO—Conrad Nagel in “Today.” Wml Conrad Nagel and Catherine Dale at the head of a cast of well known players, “Today,” the current feature at the Rialto Theater, is ex- pected to be one of the most discussed films of the year. “Today” deals with the case of a young society couple in comfortable cir- cumstances who are cleaned out of everything they own by the stock mar- ket crash. The husband grits his teeth, disposes of all his possessions to begin with a clean slate, and starts the climb o fortune all over again. But the wife cannot accustom herself to common- place existence. She longs for the parties, fine friends and beautiful clothes. A society friend fans the long- ing to an intense flame and there comes a breach between husband and wife. How the two come out of their differ- ence brings the picture to an unex- pected and thrilling climax. “Today” is based on the Broadway play by Abraham Schomer and George g]m‘dhm“ ‘William Nigh directed the m. . R-K-O KEITH'S—“Big Money.” EDDm QUILLAN, Robert Armstrong, James Gleason, Mariam Seegar and Margaret Livingstcn are featured in the Pathe dialogue comedy drama, “Big Money,” now at R-K-O Keith's. The story is as suspenseful as it is laugh- able and romantic, and it is said from every standpoint to be fine film enter- tainment. Eddie Quillan, who won his spurs as a star in “The Godless Girl” and “Sophomore”; Robert Armstrong, who has been seen in.numerous Pathe hits, is a bad man with a heart in this talker, and James Gleason was featured with Armstrong in “Oh, Yeah,” while Mariam Seegar, well known in big stage pro- ductions and as a leading woman for Richard Dix, Adolph Menjou and Regi- R-K-0 RIOTOUS SATIRE nald Denny, is seen as the girl wm loves, and Margaret Li Jo r‘.:n;‘l | Ma . vingston ) * loney" 1s described as an adrolt story that pokes fun at luck that never loses and the gangsters that pack a ;r?dlf' ";:encq its tmo! tic scenes that air} you_ou your chair incidents and wise cracks that eonm‘fi with laughter. !usp;‘ell'nenhry short sound pictures EARLE—“The Widow From Chicago.” IRV!NO AARONSON and his Com- manders; a famous entertainment orchestra, as the stage feature, and “The Widow From Chicago,” a screen drama of feminine doings in the under- world, are the attractions this week at ‘Warner's Earle. ‘The Widow From Chicago,” described as a blending of thrills with the more romantic side of gangdom, concerns a young girl who swears to avenge herself on the gang leader who killed her brother. "She falls in love, but also keeps her promise to her brother. Ed- ward G. Robinson appears as the under- world chiefta'’n and Neil Hamilton as he boy. Supporting players include Betty Francisco, Frank McHugh, Lee Shumway, Brooks Benedict and Harold Goodwin. Aaronson and his Commanders, known as a versatile and novel entertaining orchestra, do every'.hlns from heated rhythm to gagging and general son- sense. Another headliner is Marion Sunshine, comedienne, who with “Frenchie” Melan offers a serles of char- acterizations that include Lenore Ulric, Helen Kane and Maurice Chevalier. Peggy Chamberlin and Ross Himes, for- merly featured dancers in “Ziegfeld Fn_}l_hle!‘;[pruer%l m\u}fl of dances. ¢ Monge Troupe of seven Europe: equilibr'sts, with Earle News lv!n::‘. _l'!uth Etting in the Vitaphone lety, One Good Turn”; Bernard Granville in “Love a la Mode,” and a screen nov- elty, “Ihe Voice of Hollywood,” come plete the entertainment. COLUMBIA—"Feet First.” HAR.OX.D LLOYD in “Feet First” con- tinues at Loew's Columbia for an- other week. ~America's premier fun maker is acclaimed in this production as having turned in his best performe ance since “Safety Last,” the picture, it is claimed, that has been an accepted criterion in the film industry as a thrill- fun maker since its production. Bar- bara Kent has the leading role in this production, that has as a supporting cast Lillianne Leighton, Robert Mc- Wade, Alec Francis and Noah Young. The action of the picture is evenly divided between a Honolulu-bound boat and the side of a Los Angeles sk; um-lg:r. While the action on the side of the bullding is somewhat similar to that done in “Safety Last,” many new stunts have been injected that are re- puted to be sure-fire thrill getters. ‘ “Realife” or Wide Screen. **VWIDE film shown on giant screens W is the answer to a public demand ::L;:%m' “!n R:Ilofiodn picture enter- d.\l_'lo;gwr. 'ys Roland West, producer- at is why he used the new dimen- sion in filming “The Bat Whispers," f‘e:‘!l:xufln‘ Chester Morris, for United “Larger theaters are being built,” sald West, whose production is feature week at Loew's Palace. roitte larger screens because we the last magnitude of the old 35mm. film. It ters enlarge the narrow film it loses its sharpness. The new 65mm. film, on a huge screen, gives full detail. It also e:g:nm the stereo- mblg'egue:t lslo that there is no distor- n Dlayers to patrons sitf at '-hew extrem“ e ll%]ol a thu;fi.a" . ‘est was solely respons for film. ing “The Bat whlll"po photographic scale. ly pur- chased the wide-film camera which was used and assumed the burden of extra m needed to make the project a ive /, Were made for weeks under supervision before the production started. Special equipment was ordered. No projection room at the United Artists’ studios was large enough for the wide film and it was necessary to build a 38- foot screen on one of Ke huge stages, to run the “rushes” or daily scenes taker. A special projection machine was built for the purpose. The results are said to have justified West's belief in the value of ‘double- dimension entertainment. Better sound is also said to be a result. @b and C 8ts. N. Finest Soind Egninment PM. ation— ANCE STANTON Continuous from Matinec, 3 "CoMboN CLAY,. CONET ENNETT. LEW AYRES. AMBASSADOR ", TODAY AND TOMORROW-—-NEIL HAMILTON' in "WIDOW PROM 62 8 8. NE TORAY AND TOMORROW.--AMOS NDY ECK AND n DOUBLE_CHECK." Warner Bros.” Ave. and MeKiniey 8t. D. C TODAY AND TOMORROW-—AMOS AND ANDY in ~“CHECK AND DOUBLE CHECK." arner Bros.’ Pa. AVENUE GRAND gu & TODAY AND TOMORROW—ANN HARDING in_“GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST." Warner Bros.’ RAL.!I St. Bet. D and B TODAY AND TOMORROW-—-AMOS AND _ANDY in '‘CHECK AND __DOUBLE CEoK: " T Warner Bros COLONY Ga. Ave. & Farragut Bt TODAY_AND TDIIORMW—WN& LIGHTNER 'in “THE LIFE THE _PARTY." Warner Bros.' Ho 1230 © St N.E. TODAY AND TOMORROW—KAY JOHNSON in ‘‘MADAME SATAN.” Warner Bros.' 4 sAvoy Tth & Col. R4. N.W. TODAY AND TOMORROW_HELEN KANE in "DANGEROUS NAN Mc- th & Park R4. N.W. TODAY AND TOMOI '—EDDIE CANTOR in_“WHOOPEE." Warner Bros.” 'ORK G»- Ave & Quebes 8t N.W. T s A AL B o TR A in “ALL 2105 Pa. Ave. w me of the Mirrer Seress & pP, RAER: ANACOSTIA. B. 6. KAY FRANCIS in 'TUOUS _SIN. “COMMON CLA A 1