Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1931, Page 61

AMUSEMENTS? AMUSEMENTS. THE SUNDAY STAR, Thursday Joan Crawford Saturday Georee O'Brien s “Seas_Beneath." M seriat Wednesday Joan Crawford n “paid.” Vitaphone_subject. : Constance Bennett Robt. Montgomery i} into their hearts in Columbia Playerd “Ten Cents a Dance,” now at R-K-Q Keith's Theater. Bright lights and gay music, orous settings of a big city’s night I gorgeous girls, beautiful romance aga; the drab and eordid .:.l cheap dance s, syncopated action to the tempo of jazz bands all are found in this unique picture. The story centers about a girl, gene | uine and fine, forced by circumstances |to make her living as a dance hall | hostess, dancing with all comers at 10 | cents a dance. She finally discovers |love among the motley array of men | who pay the small stipend for the dance, | The love story is said to be very dife Monday Ben Lyon and na Munson RIALTO—“Stokn Heaven.” :"\TOLEN HEAVEN,” Nancy Car- Tuesday Ben Lyon and Ona Munson n “The Hot_Heires CGonstance Bennett Robt. Montgomery. in “'Sit Tight." “The Easiest Way.” “The Easiest W Short_subject. Shortsubjects. Short_subjects Myriene Dietrich and Marlene Dietrich and Helen Twelvetrees Emil Jarnings in Jannings in he Cat Creeps. “Elie Angel.’ e Angel.” Comedy. Comedy. _News. Cartoon. Jackie Coogan and Dorothy Mackaill and Niital, Green Lewis Stone leads and the comely chorines are de- Sunday clared' considerably above par in the matter of charm. Gertie Reed, brunette soubrette, sings and dances, with acrobatic interludes. Patricia Kelly, also a singer and stepper, and Nora Ford, personable young miss whos= forte is those teasing numbers, | are_featured. The comedy in, “Belles of Beauty Row” has been intrusted to Johnny Rags Ragland and Charles Bimbo Davis, a character delineator; Mervin Harmon | is {he straight man, Ray Parsons a sing- |ing juvenile of the Harry Richman school and Lou Costello a humorous funster. The chorus is much in evi- dence throughout the performane Fen Lyon and Ona Munson he Hm Heiress.” e E. Brown and Wmnh Lightner in “Sit Tight. Short_subject. BELASCO—Pinero’s “Dr. Harmer. HE fifth production of the Pro- fessional Players’ season in Washington, “Dr. Harmer,” the newest play from the pen of the famous British dramatist, Bir Arthur Wing Pinero, will be pre- sented at the Shubert-Belasco, opening tomorrow_night, with Philip Merivale Ronnld Eolmln n . fo Pay. roll'’s new. dramatic sensation now at the Rialto Theater, is a love story with a Cinderella motif. Two youngsters, poor and friendless, come together by chance. Through circumstances that are very dramatic they have an opportunity to live for a little while the way the very rich live, and protected ! against the glam- orous and alluring background of Palm Beach they enter into all its ____Vitaphone sublec John Boles and Evelyn Lave in “One Heav “Pald. ___Vitaphone subject. John Boles and Evelyn Lave in “One Heaventy Night.” Comedy. |an Twelvetrees in Philip Holmes and Moran and e Tat Greeps Cyrit Maude Tn° o+ 3, Harold Murray 1n ‘Com “Gru “Under Suspicion " Sarioon. Comedy. - ay. Come, Serial, H_B. Warner and enry B. Waithall and Joyce’ Compton er:n Ferguson in, in “Wild_Company." n Old, California.” Lawrence Tibbett & in ‘“The Hot_Heiress.” Joe E. Brown and Winnie Lightner in 628 H St. NE. Arcade Byattsville. Ashton Clarendon. Avalen .m» Conn. Ave. Dark. Comedy. News. "&aitoon. __ Ma. Harmer” was written six years 2go, when ?u Arthur was 70 years of and it Dark. Bgbert Stele in Joan Gramford in “Tom Sawyer.” Bernice Claire 1o “Kiss Me_Again.” Laurel-Hardy v Claire 1n PRiSs Me Again.” Laurel-Hardy Vitaphone ‘short comed. subject. Short_subject Vivienne Segal in ___ Comedy. Lois Moran comedy. Serial Janet Gaynor and would prove competent to cope with the dimcult title role of a most. unusual play. Philip Merivale ap- pears to have been the man of des- tiny. His many superb perform-f ances of and ‘es clally his able handling the central character in “Death Takes a Holiday’ son, won for him the distinction being chosen by the author as the ideal actor to interpret the role of “Dr. Harmer.” The story of the play revolves around young doctor, whose kind. ingrat ing ways make him beloved all who come within the charm of his presence. There is, however, a brief period each year when he absents him- | selt from all his friends and disap- pears for his annual “holiday 4 mys- | terious sojourn that is unexplanable | even to those whose lives touch his most intimately. These holidays do not appear to be periods of healthful recre- Philip Merivale. last sea- ation and freedom from care, but rather | do they have a contrary effect upon him and when he returns he is ill in both mind and body. However, he re- fuses all explanation of his conduct. Dr. Harmer is something of a dual character, a lovable doctor and the range individual whose mysterious “holidays” have such a far reaching effect. “Dr. Harmer” is described as “a contrast in scenes,” which Pinero, with all his customary skill and vigor, has !’uhlonefl into a strange and compelling Bupportln; Mr. Merivale is a fine| y of thespians, including Hal | J. Scott, Connie Graham, Helen Vin son, Viva Birkett, Roland Hogue, Wal- lace Erskine, Frank Greene, Olga Birk- | beck, Reginald Malcoim and Felici aill. The direction of “Dr. Harmer” is credited to Stanley Logan. NATIONAL—"Trader Horn.” 1 the critical may pick | flaws in “Trader Horn,” which is | announced for its final week at the | National, following a week of capacity | houses, twice daily, the made-in-Africa | talkie serenely continues cn. Wash- ington has not yet seen a picture that | has met with more flattering patron- age and commendation for its power to entertain and grip the attention. 1t takes a skillful blending of the es- sentials to make audicnces feel that their time and money Lave been well spent, and that very comfortakle feat | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the producers of “Trader Horn,” have been highly commended for their enterprise in sending an expedition of actors and technicians to Africa for the recordin of the strange narrative in authentic surroundings. Many were the times be- <fore the company returned that the roducers wondered whether the ven- was mnot fcolhardy, and they gladly would have Tecalled the trav- elers had it been possible. Reports came back of fevers and hardships en- countered, and_expenses n to pile up rapidly without any idea of what Tesults were being obtained. It was a different story, however, when the film began to urrive and | thrilling effects moved the stoical mag- | nates to_express their gratification by | cabling Directcr Van Dyke a contract that guarantees him a job for life. He has made three big ones in a row— “The Pagah,” “White Shadows n_the | South Seas” and “Trader Horn,” which far eclipses his previous efforts. The Hollywood cast deservedly shares the plaudits received by their director. | The real stars of the picture, how ; ever, are the fierce animals and the | grotesque savages that add the final touch of realism to a pageant of scenic beauty and wonder. “Trader Horn” both the majesty and the ter- | ror of Africa and its inhabitants. The National management announces aft- ernoon and evening showings during this, which is the final week of “Trader because other bookings GAYETY—"Belles of Beauty Row. “Bm.ms OF BEAUTY ROW,” a new Mutual Burlesque and vaudeville of | d | with g | cast at Constitution Hall. BURTON HOLMES—"“Rome,” ’ Thursday. HOLMES, at the National | Theater, Thursday afternoon, will | | begin a new eycle of pictured travel | | adventures, the series to cover five | Thursday afternoons, dueing which he is to picture and describe five distinctly | diversificd episodes in his recént Sum- | mer’s travel. The course will open Wwith a picture |of the Rome of today—a Rome now in | | transition under Benito Mussolini. The rebirth of this inexhaustible city of the Scven Hills is on: of the modern won- of the world, and Mr. Hoimes' pic will tell the story of this impres achievement. This will be followed, on March 26, “Oberammergau,” and its chief overtone, the Passion Play of 1930, pic- tured with a new natural-color process of photography, used for the first time | and showing the great tableaux and all | the principal scenes in this sth‘rmg re- | ligious drama. April 2 will bring “The North African Tour,” a visual record of a journey through a realm of strange | beauty and exotic romance. The fourth afternoon, April 9, will bring a rapid but comprehensive picture The Grand Tour of Europe,’ London, Paris, Brussels, Bruges, sterdam, Vienna, Flor:nce, Venice and other Meccas of the tourists will be vis- ited in turn, and on April 16 “Imperial Abyssinia” will be revealed in a series of marvelous pictures, including the re- cent spectacular coronation ceremonies of the Negus Ras Tafari Mekonnen as Lord King of Kings and Emperor of Ethiopia, a scene of barbaric splendor unequalled in the history of Africa since the days of the Pharaohs. JANET RICHARDS — Tomorrow. TOMORROW morning Miss Janet Richards, in her week talk on History in’ the Making,” will give & comphenhensive review of affairs inter- | national. In making a survey of the political activities in the principal world capitals, Miss Richards will in- clude the naval agreement between France, Ttaly and Great Britain as a | | substitution of co-operation for dis- trust, which may prove to be a_ vital factor in Eurcpean amity; the Turco- Russian Black Sea naval pact, as viewed by Greece; party strife in Great Brit- ain, with iis repercussions in India, and other vital questions of the hour. Large maps are used to clarify the dis- cussicns. These talks are given every Mon- day morning at 10: 45 a'clock in the Masonic Temple, Thirteenth street and New York avenue. URTON tu it | SETH PARKER, Tomorrow Evening. 'OR the last time this season Phil- ps H. Lord, creator of the ramaus role of “Seth Parker be morrow_evening with his entire rldlu This final “Sunday Evening at Seth Parker’s” will be quite a departure from the program rendered before a crowded house two weeks ago. Then, the aud! ence heard and saw only “Seth Parker” and the well known members of his ra- dio cast as they appear in professional life. Tomorrow night, however, after their simple, home-like program is ren- dered, just as it is on the air for mil- lons of “listeners in” on Sunday night, they will doff their costumes and ap- pear before the audience as they are in real life. ‘The Central Union Mission, under whose auspices they are appearing, re- ceived so many appeals begging for opportunity to see Mr. Phillips ouLé" his famous rale as well as in it, that the creator of Seth finally was pre- vailed upon to gh'e his consent. And L other familiar characters of the radio |known in homes from coast to coast all will be with him. Mr. Lord Has prepared new script for | his performance and a number of new hymns and old ballads will be heard. In response to numerous requests, Ruth | Redeheaver Thomas also is to take part in this final program. Her singing proved a popular part in connection with Mr. Lord's first appearance in Washington. Homer Rodeheaver, bari- tone and trombonist, will bz the “mas- ter of ceremonies.” Proceeds from these “Seth Parker” concerts are for the bencfit of the Cen- entertainment, appears at the Gayety Theater this week. The young woman tral Union Mission and its emergency work for children. White Princess in Africa. EDWTNA BOOTH, featured in “Trader | Horn,” talks enthusiastically of her | nine-month sojourn in darkest Africa. “Darkest Africa? Yes, that's the way ‘we talked of the country before we got there,” Miss Booth stated recently. “Brightest Africa would be a more fit- ting name for it. Yet, despite our hard- ships, despite the hard work, the coun- try has a fascination for me that no land has ever had before. Africa just | pours into one. Throbbing with life of | every sort—animals, insects, 10!1!19, | black men—it drifts lazily, feel it pulsating all about through you, saturating you with its feeling of eternal movement “There were dust and rain, sun and floods. One day I would be ill from the heat. The next night I would awaken to hear water rushing under my bed. My wash basin, my trick tub— they gave us folding iubs intended for acrobats, think—would be '",8} out into the Nile. ‘e landed at Genoa, spent a week | there, went on to Mombasa and from | there o Nairobi, whence we went ‘out | into the blue’ There were 30 in cur y. _Three. white women, including | . Harry Carey, Miss Josephine Chippo, script girl, and myself We had about 200 natives accompanyin “Our first stop on the safar! us at | Panyamur, on the shores of Lake Al- bert. Here we shot our first acenea.‘ and here I learned about doo-doos, in- | sects which bite you, crawl upon you and into your soup. “Next we went to the Rhino camp, then to Murchison Falls. We worked very hard there. At night we would turn the flashlights out onto the Nile onto crocodiles and pick up bright ‘crock eyes” We could hypnotize them momentarily by the flash of light. We could hear them swishing their tails in the water and eating fish. “From Murchison Falls we went into the Kongo, to get jungle scenes, to find elephant herds and photograph a real elephant charge. In the Kongo I saw pygmies. They were strange little people, not like midgets, not like any | dwarfs, just perfectly formed people in miniature. They lived far into the | Jjungle, where we could not go, and so the natives sent word to them by the talking drums for them to come to us. I never heard such weird noises as these talking drums made. They carry sound 35 miles, I was told. “In a day or two the pygmies began to arrive. An hour before they came in sight we could smell them. They ! have a pecullar odor of their own. “Yes, I shot a lion myself. I went out with a white hunter and a number of matives. I brought the skin home to papa, but he says I must keep it my- self. It is 9 feet 6 or 7 inches in length.” Only a Dog’ NO Cinderella tale, it is said, con- tains more drama than the true story of the rise from rags to_riches of Queenie, the dog in “Street Scene,” Elmer Rice’s drama of city life, which is coming to the Shubert-Belasco ‘Theater next week. Now an established actress, an aristo- erat of the profession, who nightly the theater gets a hand on her firs entrance, Queenie was once a nameless, homeless, sick and shivering mite, res- cued by the Bide-a-Wee organization from starvation in the streets and the chloroform route from misery to kind On Broadway, when the casting of | o famous play was in progress, the task filling the role of Mrs. Jones’ dol was delegated to the prop- erty man. He pressed his wife into service as aide de camp and made haste to the Bide-a-Wee Home. The room was full of do&s—nn! a few of them “exactly thety;: Mrs. Props urged the selection of the one dog that staggered from its pallet to inspect ihe strangers at closer range. “She's in- ulunnt—look at those eyes. She's friendly. Thal's lmpwunt in & big og s“Life. like ‘Street Scene, everybody has to pull together.” Queenie, though meagerly thin and { with but five hairs in-her tail, reported for renearsals, immediately became popular with the entire cast, and by the end of the first week knew all her cues. After the triumphant opening night | she shared the limelight of a hit, was interviewed, photographed, ~sketched, cartooned and her scrapbook of press clippings bids fair lu run into volumes. Swam Her Way to Fame, OTTIE MAYER, internationally known swimmer, with the Fanchon & Marco “Fountain of Youth” idea at the Fox Theater this week, uses the smallest tank ever used for a diving act on the stage. It holds but four and one-half feet of water, or 12 tons. She dives into the tank frcm a ehight of | company where | | Ga. Ave. & Farrazut i'mh_n s " Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell in 4The Man Who Came ck ' Short subi't | Ave. Grand 5n Pa. Ave. S. Cameo Mt. Raini Carolina 11th & N.C. Ave. S.E. { Central Circle 2105 Pa. Ave. N.W. Colony Dark. ® Ma. " Jackje Coogan and Mitzi | Green in " “Tom Sawyer.”_ eorge O'Brien in “Seas Beneath.” Vitaphone short subject arrell and ducing Short_subject Walter Huston and Ddrothy Rev I “The ¥ad M Dumbarton 1343 Wisconsin Ave. Charles Farrell in +The Man Who Came t. _ Back.’_Short subj't Gloria Swanson and Owen Moore in “What a Widow.” Comedy. _News. Jackle Coogan and Mitzi, Green “Tom Sawer.” Vitaphone. short subject " Gigria Swanson and wen Moore in What o Widow: Comedy. News. Belle Bennett and | John Halliday “Mother's Cry.” Joan Crn‘u(um n a Vitaphone short Bert Wheeler and Robert. Woolsey_in A in A Bl R ookl ke, Comedy. _Act._ ris Alice White nnd Paul Page —wdinic M.rm “and ] Grant Withers and Mary Astor in “Other Men's in Women “The Naughty Flirt.” Barbara Stanwyck n “Ticit.” Comedy. rge O'Brien in ‘Seas Beneath." Vitaphone short subject Buster Keafon in “Parlor, Bed Ri and Bath.” Short_subject. nn?bn-‘su? yek n “Tlicit " Comedy. harles Farrell and - et Gaynor in Eddie Cantor in “Wnoo The Man Who pee."” Came Back.” Jonn Wayne and a_Cherrill_in Demand Ex- Eddie Cantor in i pee.” ir citement.” “Whoopee. “Constance Bennett & Robt. Montgomery 1n “The Easiest Way." Comedy. ~ Conrad Nagel and ernice Claire arie Dressler and Polly Moran in “Reducing.” Short_subject T Walter Buston and Dorothy Revier in i Bid Man." “Numbered Men." vid Manners “Sweet Mamma.” Comedy. Short_subfect. Marjon Davies and Ralph Forbes in The Ba 3 Father.” Constance Robt. Montgomery “The Easlest Way."” Cnnwd) e w Vi rlmn\ Y etaer S “Girls Demand Excitement.” in “Under Suspicion.” our Gank comeds. “Viennese Nights." Vitaphone short subject. [ Bert Wheeler and Robert, Woolsey in Shot_at Sun- rise"_ Gomedy. SAeEs L ; ~ Charles Bickford and " Harry Lagzdon and Kay Francls Bessie Love in “Flee Ammrn Thirst. e Passion Flower.” uster Keaton in 4 “Parlor, Bed Room nd’ Bath.” Short_subject. Betty Compson and Kelth in " Helen Twelvetrees and P Holmes in Man. Sei id & Edmund Lowe in “Don’t Beton Women.” Boy Friend comeds._ Marie Dressler and Polly Moran Bernice Claire n Me Again.” Vitaphone short dy. _subject Louis Wolheim and Robert Mcntgomery Ben Lyon a James Hall Fairlawn Anac Hlppodrome 808 K St. N.W. in ) ell's Angels.” en Lyon and Jlmn‘ Hall 1n “Hell's Angels.” Comedy. News Ben Lyon and Dnrnth)' Mackaill James” Hall “Hell's ‘Angels.” Constance Bennett & Victor McLagle Kenneth McKenna i Mona' Marls in “Bin Takes a Holiday.” Devil With Women.” "Comedy: - A Comedy. _Act. Mona Maril Devil Co Ruth Chatterton “The Right, to Love.” Ruth Chatterton § “The Right to Love.” Comeds. Charles Rugeles and June Cellver in in “Charley’s Aunt.” “The Criminal Code. Cartoon. Comeds. | Victor McLaglen ona. s in *File i on. medy. Gt Comeds. Ruth Chatterton in “The Right to Love." Comedy. News. Wolhelm and ean Arthur in +Danger Lights.” medy. _Act Edw. G, Robinson & Doug. Fairbanks. 1., in “Little Caesar.” {Home Edw. G. Robinson & Lawrence Tibbett & Doug. Fairbanks. Jr. Grace Moore in in “Little Caesar."” “The New Moon Short_subject. Short_subject. Betiy compmn n me awrence Tibbett & b “The Boudoir Short_sabject. Ml'mn Davies in George O'Brien “The Bachelor in short_subject Ingomar Jesse 3100 18th St. Dark. “Wheeler & waolsey in S __Com Gartuon. News Tom Tyler, and Gonrad N._‘(u and Josepnine Hill' in , Genevieve Tobin in “West of Cheyenne.” Surren- Sevia._Comeds. _ders Com ot ¢ Woolsey in Alice White and T Whegler, &, T ¥xul Page in d fons. oo “The Naughty Flirt.” Comedy. Review. hers. Com. Cart>on. News. Domthdy Peterson and Eddie Quilian Sally Starr “Night Work. dy. _Hle; Conrad Nagel and Gepevieve Tobin in dy Eddie Quillan and !."’q. T in sNignt Com Manners in well Sherman | “Mother’s Cry.” “The Pay-Off." Comed._ Buc in Dot Vera;nnce"' Comedy. Laurel Buddy Rogers and Frances e “Along Game Youth. ews Comedies. Buddy Rogers and Frances Dee in *Along Came Youth. Comedies. _News. John ars Joan Bennett in Buck Jones in is Moran and i “The Lone Rider.” old_Murray in 'Y“vgder Suspicion.” Laurel. Md. Leader b & E Sts. N.W. ich and Cooper in ‘Morocco.” Comedy. News. Serial. Lupe Velez and John Holland in nubnnk- and 5 "Bic kiord 1n ing of the e of the. A VR Shrew.”_Comedy. Act. Lyric Dark. Galthersbure. Md. Palace 307 9th St Princess 1119 B St N Richmond Alexandria, Va. : Savoy 3030 14th St. N.W. NW. £ Cooper and ne Dietrich n foroceo.” nners in Mamma, Comeds. Short_subject Lewis A Ky Ssonnsen 1n “The Passion Flower. Comedy. News. Egmund Lowe end Bennett, In Comedy. Edmund Lowe and oan Brhnvud\n 1 Siner Teels. Cooper and Will Rog ne, Dietrich 7ill Rosers “Moroceo Joan Grawford “pald. Comedy. Joan Crawford n “paid.” Comeds. ack Oakie and .mm Arlmlr in “Gang_Bust __Comedy. @ rial. News Bob Steele in “Land of Missing en. Comedy. _Serial. ni n i xml Byron, o roadws Comedy. ‘Gartoon. Bob Steele in “Land, of Missing enc’” Comedy._Serial. Learned, About Women i “This Mad Worl Comedy. _Act Comedy. _Act. Talmadge and Doux. Falirbanks. d Nagel in and Anita Page in asgione " “Litsle Accldent.” “They Learned About Women “This Mad World R Richard Dix and Richard Dix and Hrehe Dunne.in Irene Dunne in Cimarron." Comedy._Other_reels. _ David Manners in ‘Sweet Mamma.” Comeds hort_subject “Cimarron.” _Comedy._Other reels Ben Lyon and James Hall in - “Hell's_Angels.” Dark. Seco silver Spring. Md. Stanton R T ot Comedy. News. ara_Bow in Jobp, Mack Brown, in “Her, Wedding e Kid.” e o Sidney and M in 5 1°F,.'r'nu§”ox O ens e Kellrs Broadway.” in_ Africa.” comedy. News. 5 __Comedy. bu B of_Pasgion.” Jo¢ E, Brown Joe E, Brown Sit Tight.” “sit Tight ' Tn'? e rotla. O " Other reels. Ben Lvon and e o Vl(aphnne shon n “Hell's Angels.” subjel Corinne Griftith in Alies of the Field.” Comedy. Ac Harold “Lioyd “Peet First > _Comedy. Act. _ Reginald Denny and d'Orsay in “Those Three French Girls.” Joan Crawford n “Pald.” Comeds. Buck, Jones “The Avenger.” Comeds. Cartoon. " Ben Lyon and Harry Langdon in “Soldier's Plaything." pBeg, Daptels, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolssy in Richard _Arlen in BEaike Fe Trai” and Phllnps Hclmes in Dancers. ,C,nt'\,*,'ly,, 6th & C Bts. N.E. Bethesds, Md. State Dark. Richard Barthelmess Richard Barthelmess The La: t in |, John Gilbert in mstanes B dey® “Way for & Sajor. arer and “Last of the Lon Ben Lyon and Raque] Torres __ “Aloha Bert Lytell in ne Fay Wray in “Capt. Thunder.” Kep Mavnard in Hon ARG Comeds. seriat News. Joe E. Brown Norma Talmadge in “Going Wild." ‘Mme. Du Barr. Sylvan B f’rfl:‘ifé'u’“ X 104 R. L Ave. N.W. arie Dressier a: liy gzumn in, u aught Sk Loy Chaney and la Lee in “Tne Upboly Three.” Gtis_Skinner in “Kismet.” e Ko e Hocque Novelty. Let e Be Gay. Naws. o z z e Gorttin.” seria)._ Cemedies Bert Wheele 358 Robert Woolsey in "nocé(‘. Line and Takoma Vheeles snd fi'zfléxl”mum i “Hook, Lin Walter Huston in ‘C‘nmmnl ‘Code. anct Bhiries Bickerd ‘Walter Huston in , “Passion Flower.” “Criminal Code. Kay ®rancis and Charles Bickford Ed_dle assion Flower.” ncentr Jeanette MacDonald s 14th & Park Rd. e E. Brown and St subleet. z Brown “avd Winnie Ligntner in c ¢ Tigl s Tubsect Short_subject. Bela Lt in “Dracula.” Comedy. Bela Lugosi in nd Edmund Lowe in 'Don t Bet on Women. " Z su..x “Dracula.” Comedy. __Bhort_subject. John Boles dw. G. Robinson & Doul Fairbanks, Jr., in “Little Caesa; Comedy. York Ga. Ave. & Quebec Character Man Raymond Bramley, who has been se- lected to play character parts with the Nationdl Theater Players, who open cay. Concentradon. CO'\CE NTRATION is considered a vital attribute to any player, espe- cially to one who is portraying a dra- matic role. It also effects an economic saving of film and unnecessary re- | takes in making a picture. Evelyn Brent has a clese-up in her new R-K-O talkie, “Traveling Husbands,” where, seated relaxed in an easy chair, she is seen to be smiling ironically at the off-stage wise cracks of Hugh Her- bert and Gwen Lee. Suddenly she | tenses, thinking she hears the voice of | the man who once double crossed her. The voice comes from the adjoining room. Evelyn listens, her look of sus- picion darkens into one of restrained hatred, and she walks out of the scene. “I don't see how you kept a straight face, Evelyn” Gwen remarked. “We put it on thick.” ‘I didn't hear & word you said,” Evelyn replied Wh s Director Paul Sloan ex- pressed it, “is concentration that is con- centration — ef'“ Vi ctor many feet—in fact, from way above the -drops back stage. Miss Mayer, it is claimed, holds the world’s record for long-distance swim- ing, which has stood since 1910, when she swam 28 miles in 5 hours and 16 minutes, LEW CODY their Washington seascn Easter Mon- | PT: M‘lAGlEN YOUTHS4e " THREE ‘ ROGUESA Edw. G. Robinson & Dnul Falroanks, Jr. e Gaesa d Lupe Velez in “The Resurrection. Bhort_subjects. John Boles and Lupe Velez in “The “Resurrection.” Short subjects. Vlnnhone short subjects. Joan Crawford in ely ai wThe Biver Horde. Vitaphone short Boy Friend subjects. comedy. | LENT may come and Lent may go.| yet, even in the very heydey of the triumph of a celluloid product in the halls of the legitimate, which, when not otherwise engaged, Manager Steve Cochran business manages, the astute young impresario is busy minding his own business. Another of those my | | New York is quickly followed by the | news that he has annexed a new ond character actor” for the hallmnh Theater Players. This time it is the clever Raymond Bramley, whose worth has been demonstrated in numerous | road shows that have come to Wash- ington, but never before has he been one of the resident players of the | famous National Stock Company, al | though he has played all over the coun- try in repertory organizations. 1t is important to keep Mr. Bramley |in mind because he is going to take the place of Romaine Callender, who is now playing with much success in New York's outstanding sensation, “Grand | Hotel,” the length of whose run no man | New York,” Another New One. He nn] be fnung 1‘11\ C‘YSI; n the National Players which al f\pa'isn éllfd with much distinction in the past by Edward Arnold, who, likewise is otherwise engaged. Mr. Bramley has “just cl they say, with the New ‘York production | of Robert E. Sherwood's play “This is under the management of Arthur Hopkins, a keen and discrimin- ating judge of dramatic worth. The erald-Tribune critic declared it was among the outstanding performances of the present seas Bramley has been seen here in he Barker,” with Walter Huston; “If I Were Rich,” “The Crooks’ Conventio Common Clay” and “Within the La He is said to rank with the profession as “an all-around thespian whose record proves him worthy of the best in his line.” And lest it be forgotten—as though | that were possible—let it be repeated, | the National Theater Players will pre- sent their premiere, “Let Us Be Gay.” Easter Monday evening, April 8, only | three weeks hence. may predict. osed,” as IR ARTHUR WING PINERO, the| celebrated British dramatist and author of “Dr. Harmer,” is now in his 76th year and has been writing plays for 50 years. He is greatly pleased, nnd yet not a little tremulous, over th spect of a Broadway premiere again | “It would be worth coming to N York for,” Sir Arthur is quoted saying in an interview, “but such a trip | would be too much for me. Why, T | haven't been there since 1885. I'd be lost and bewildered. Sir Arthur also said: “T am greatly | indebted to the New York meatrr—m-\ deed, far more so than I am to the | theater of my own country. America | has really dcne more for me. The | | American’ playgoer has a quicker mind | | than the English playgoer. He is quicker | lo grasp things: quicker to sppreciate | a good play. The New York stage has been vondsr(ul to me. I have great af- | fection for it.’ “Dr. Harmer” was written seven years | ago and is the last play completed by | Pinero. He is, however, working on oth- ers. shall always write plays,” he said, “I work very slowly now, and I do my work at night. but I _have no intention of actually retiring. Playuriting is all I k been my trade ever since I quit ciing. and that was before nearly everybody was born. I don't know how many plays I've actually written, I do know that there were defects in all of ‘ them. I can't say that I have a favorite play. I can say that I saw but few of | them ‘after they reached the stage. | When rehearsals were over my work was FANCHON / EMARCO'S % FOUNTAINA | | s,.\ LOTTIE MAYER: Disippeing mvmg Something of Pinero. The old Pinero successes are many in number, outstanding among them being “His House in Order,” “The Second | Mrs. Tanquera The Thunderbolt,” ‘Mid-Channel,” “The Gay Lord Quex,’ ‘The Amazons, “The Princess and the Buttel‘ y” and “Trelawney of the Wells.” Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, at 75, is a lonely man. Many, the majority, of his theater friends are dead. However, he sees occasionally such contemporaries as George Bernard Shaw, Sir James Barrie and Sir Johnstone Forbes-Robertson and r(g\llnrl) exchanges letters with Barrie. Vale Bob West. OB WEST, “playboy of the organ,” who has Mugm, the fans to “sing and be happy” at the Fox Theater, bids good-by to the Nation’s Capital this | week. Mr. West returns to the Fox | Brooklyn Theater, but it is expected he will return to Washington in the near | future. Mr. West is cne of the most popu- lar organists who ever came to this city. He has a way of putting across his songs and making his audiences get_the spirit of the occasion. He plays the modern jazz music, the dreamy waltz and the opera. No mat- ter what he played, his audience joined in the singing and helped put his spe- cialty acrcss. Mr. West is well known in the mu- sical world. He has played the organ in the largest theaters in the United | States, and also has worked with Rudy | Vallee and has written many a song with_him. TWO LOVERS AGAINU «-THE WORLD ., NANCY oh Wmu ‘g Jfa/m lmzr lolen rappiness it An Old-Fashioned Story. “THE HOT HEIRESS,” the First National and Vitaphone offering now at Warner Bros.’ Earle, despite its title is sald to be simply a delightful | old-fashioned love story in a snappy, | ultra-modern setting. | The courtship of a struggling youth | and a rich girl will continue to be in- teresting so long as people fall in love | —and when that story is beautifully | photographed the result ought to prove capital entertainment. Big Ben Lyon in it is only Hap Harrigan, a steel riveter, who falls in love with an heiress | | but still contends that a wife's place |is in her home, a home furnished and | maintained in keeping with her hus- | band’s income, and he wins his point. | Ona Munson, former Broadway star and | protegee of ‘Gus ‘Edwards, is the wife | who drops her Park Avenue friends to cook corned beef and cabbage in the kitchen of a three-room apartment. | Of course there is more that might | | be said, but the picture will do the Test. Aims at Artistic Effect. MARLENE DIETRICH, who has won | plaudits for her beauty since her American_debut in “Morocco,” is to | deliberately sacrifice that beauty in| certain sequences of her new picture, | “Dishonored,” in which she plays the role of an Austrian spy ordered to | service in Russia during the early days’ of the war. As a disguise she assumes the station of a peasant woman, a maid | in an old inn used as military quarters, | and her make-up is said to be as un- flattering as has ever been assumed by | an actress on stage or screen, according to James Collins, head of the make-up ‘depanmem at the Paramount studios. “Only a great artist would risk doing | what Miss Dietrich has done for these | scenes,” Collins declares. In the Josef von Sternberg story Victor McLaglen heads the cast, with Barry Norton, Warner Oland, Lew Cody and Gustav von Seyffertitz in suppos |~ Paramount evidently has not ovel | Tooked the praise that is being lavished upon Ruth_Chatterton, Greta Garbo {and Ann Harding for their acting | | ability, and it would seem that it is |going to try to repeat with Marlene | Dietrich. This is a radical departure in screen “technique,” which hereto- fore has seemed to center on the per- sonal charm of the star rather than upon her ability to play the plns assigned her. NOW PLAYING GEORGE BANCROFT 4, CLIVE BROOK-KAY RANCIS 1 scandal Sheet A Paramount Pucture A " 5 E +gITS of wn" end atler loew Weadlone Acls OM Ot 4 gayest activities— faced with a sui- cide pact when their money gone. The story has action, love and a great deal of sus. pense, all of which | g0 to make an en- | tertaining _picture. Red - headed Nancy Carroll_has the starring role, with Phillips Holmes in the leading male role. Stolen Heaven” has been recom- | mended by the critics and has been three-starred on the approved list by | one of the leading weekly publication Otto F. Beck presides at the orgai Graham McNamee on the Universal newsreel and a comedy round out the program. PALACE—Bancroft in “Scandal Sheef THE story of a newspaper editor who | had a passion for printing all the | news no matter whom it affected forms the besis of the story in G!‘orxe Ban. croft’s latest Paramount picture, “Sca: dal Sheet,” now current at Loew's Palace Theater. As the editor of the paper Bancron has but !wotgn&slons his work and his wife. Everything goes well until he is faced with the decision of printing or sul};dulng a scandal that involves his e Kay Francis plays a leading role, with Clive Brook, Gilbert Emery, Lucien | Littlefield and Regk ‘Toomey in support. “Scandal Sheet,” from the pen mr Vincent Lawrence and Max Marcin, is an original story. John Cronwell di- rected. On the stage Jack Benny, star of “Hollywood Revue,” is the headliner, with Evelyn Wiyon of George White's “Scandals” and many other Loew head- line acts on the bill. COLUMBIA—*“Reaching for the Moon.” | WEHEN Douglas Fairbanks sets out to make a picture he never lacks expert advice and when “Doug” began | work on his latest, “Reaching for the | Moon,” now current at Loew’s Columbia Theater, it seemed that all of the United Artists colony joined in to lend a hand to insure success. i Charlie Chaplin was on the set a| 800d part of the time to personally in- | struct in several special comedy routines that he had worked out himself. Harold Lioyd was a visitor also to advise in the comedy situations. Ronald Colman, | feeling that Fairbanks had not made a | picture with modern dress in such a long time, volunteered his expert | | authority on what the Wall Street mil- | lionaire is wearing today, and Greta Garbo showed Doug all the latest “holds” that a lover might want under | any and all circumstances In “Reaching for the Moon” Fair-| banks is seen as a young Wall Street | Naney Carroll, A ferent from what you might expeot, the finale having an unexpected Supporting Miss Stanwyck are Ricardo Cortez, Sally Blane, Monroe Owsley, Blanche Friderici and Olive Tell. Supplementing the feature will be a smart comedy and the current issue ol the Pathe Newsreel. EARLE—“The Hot Heiress.” COMEDY youth, songs and no end of fun are sald to be found st Warners' Earle this week in “The Hot Heiress” a rollicking comedy of an | ironworker who crashes high society. Gus Edwards’ Proteges head the stage show. Ben Lyon and Ona Munson head the cast in “The Hot Heiress,” a First Na~ tional and Vitaphone production com- edy of a husky young riveter who falls in love with a society bud, woos her by wisecracks and eventually wins her in spite of his bad manners. The stars are aided by Tom Dugan as Lyon’s riveting partner and Inez Courtney ss Dugan’s girl frien nd Walter Pidgeon as a staid man-about-town. In Gun Edwards’ Proteges, the new- est presentation of the well mfl producer who discovered Eddie Cantor, Georgle Jessell, Georgie Prixe, Armida, Lila Lee, the Duncan Sisters and Ona Munson, sgr of “The Hot Heiress” although EcWwards does not actively t.l.u part, he conceived and staged it. newest group of a dozen talented ynun‘ entertainers is sald to include some | fine performers. ‘The act is in two scenes and has been lavishly staged. Others who contribute to the fun- making include Charles “Slim™ Timw blin, “The Southern Cyclnne," Aassisted by Billy Raymond and Val Russell; Lillian Barnard and Flo Henrie, Song~ land’s Pennant Winners; the Six Cardos, famous novelty performers, and Maxine Doyle, mistress of ceremonies. Short subjects, the orchestral prelude and the Earle Graham Mc- Namee Talking Newsreel complete the entertainment. METROPOLITAN—Bebe Daniels in “My Past.” Y PAST,” the photoplay which introduces a new and more al- luring Bebe Daniels to her host of screen admirers, is the attraction this week at Warner Bros. Metropolitan Theater, where it will be presented until next Friday night. Pas’,” & Warner Bros. and Vita- phone photoplay, was adapted from a novel centering around the life of Dora Macy. The supporiing cast includes Ben Lyon, Lewis Stone, Joan Blondell and Albert Gran. The short subjects will include the Joe Penner Mirth-Makers in “Making Good”; the Graham McNamee talking newsreel and_the educational fun-pro- voker “One Yard to Go.” millionaire who eats, drinks and sleeps | his business—that is until the time the | lady of the story enters to drag him | chasing after her to Europe. The supporting cast is notable. Bebe Daniels leads, with Edward Everett Hor- | ton, Jack Mulhell, June McCloy and | others filling conspicuous roles. Ed- | mund Goulding wrote the screen story | that was adapted from Irving Berlin's music and story with the same name. Goulding also directed. An added attraction is an l]l-dog‘ comedy. “Who Killed Rover,” with all| the performers canine. FOX—“Three Rogues.” 'HREE ROGUES,” headed by Vic- | tor McLaglen, will hold the spot on | the Fox Theater screen this week. Aided by Lew Cody and Eddle Gribbon, these | three, though not exactly gentlemen, ap- | pear in what is announced as cne of the most entertaining pictures of the 1931 season. It marks the return to talking pictures of Robert Warwick and Frank- lyn Farnum, stars of the silent days. Fay Wray and David Worth lend the love touch. McLaglen, the star, is re- membered through his acting in “What Price Glory” and the “Cock-Eyed ‘World. ‘This time he is still chasing women, but is aided and abetted by Cody and Gribbon. Their mott> is women and gold. and they are always making a play | for both. McLaglen is a gunman of the West. Cody a smoothly polished gam- | bler of the old school and Gribbon a | cattle rustler. In their flight from the | law they join forces for new adventures | in new lands. Fanchon and Marco’s “Fountain of Youth” idea, a novel attraction, is pre-.| sented on the stage, headed by Lottie Mayer, nationally known swimmer, along with Eddie Hanley and company, comedians; Frank Stever, singer; Bob and Jack Crosby, banjoists; Ed Cheney, dancer; De Lara and Lclito and the Sunkist Disappearing Diving Beauties. In honor of St. Patrick’s day, Brusil- off’s Music Masters have a special over- ture, featuring Bobby Rollins, a new | member. Bob West has -rransed a special organ program for his last week | at the Fox, and Fox Movietone News and short subjects complete the bill. R-K-O KEITH'S—"“Ten Cents a Dance.” | ARBARA STANWYCK, who won| American theatergoers in “Ladies | dancing her wi o solth ““ A DANCE' with, A1 CARDO CORTEZ N CENTS SHE DANCED ON THE MAGIC CARPET OF LOVE A grore FOR THE MOON' with BEBE DANIELS wad G X ene Product: FUNNY! RIOTOUSH MIRTHQUAKING § vie. 5t Eomorrow-Tuesda. ALEXANDRIA. 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