Evening Star Newspaper, July 19, 1931, Page 13

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, 1. LATINANERCAN. ROAD 1S FEASHLE U. S. Engineers Find Highway Can Be Built Through Costa Rica. C, JULY 10, W ° TWO NAVY MEN GIVEN LIFE-SAVING MEDALS Lieut. Creagh and Chief Electri- mren 00 sian's Mate McCollum Get Commendations. ‘They try hard, and they are some- times rewarded for their efforts—but by and long, the Paramount Cor- poration has given them a raw deal, and they might just as well have sat at home and atiended to the family darning. This should be, it seems, just about the last attempt to make pic- tures’ with nothing but humor. © As ;‘n“lhe auick rl);rko!‘llll Brendel and ually quick fall, after bein dowed with the spirit of penetrating | rushed to & perilous stardom. so Wit comedy, but so far as the require- Mr. Ruggles—he is funny in small ments “The Man in Possession” are doses. Jhen‘ however, he is photo- concerned, he is an excellent selec- raphed for the space of a long tion, for he has unvarying confi- flour, one must excuse him if his dence, is effective in action and is humor begins to die. In this yarn supplied by nature with the outward | he is seen as a young man of “nib- equipment of the well trained person | biing” habits—this is meant to be & :ntnmx:]e::dm( for a brief period as comic du{:)n for flirtatious—who is A engage a “saciety” damsel, and He is capably aided in the task by who can’t help his p.fn with an ex- Irene Purcell as the young widow in | aggerated Russian lady who has love Sale of $7.50 Hy-Bridge Engraved Frames Extra Special Ancbor‘Baneelh From the Front ROW Reviews and News of Washington's Theaters. e = Projram at Sylvan Theater, m at Sivan Theater. ENISHAWN dancing, always D reminiscent of the realm of story, and he 18 only moderately en- (7 DS RESONIR 4R ¥4l Two Navy men have been commended | by Secretars Adams and recommended | to the Secrétary of the Treasury for sil- | ver life-saving medals for rescuing per- | sons from drowning. \ They are Lieut. Gerard B. Creagh of | the Medical Corps and Chief Electri- clan's Mate James E. McCollum of Re- seda, Calif. | Creagh, on May 9, rescued a hospital apprentice when the boat in which they were sailing at Parris Island, 8. C., cap- Guaranteed Against Discoloration Nature and made impres- sive by poetic touch and the rhythm that gives it life, has added significance when per- formed in the open air. It was urider such con- ditions that a big | audience last eve- | ning, at the Syl- CROWN AND BRIDGEWORK s5 QUUUA) 5 Per Tooth Per Crown Tecth extracted. S1L.00: with G Plates Repaired While You Wait, By the Associated Press. United States engineers, enduring the hardships of jungle and mountain : wil o Latest style, beautifully engraved frames, fitted with comfortable pads CLEVELAND PARK SEMI-DETACHED Stucco-on-Tile ven Theater, wit- nessed the com- plete program of the Washington studio of this or- ganization, given under the leader- ship of Marian Chace and Lester Shafer, who ! themselves con- | tributed some of the case. Her equipment for the semi-social requirements is excellent and contributes to the successive items of humorous adventure. Char- lotte Greenwood as an eccentric maid and C. Aubrey Smith as the fercely genteel parent of the family are up to their usual high standard of artistic performance, while Beryl Mercer adds another motherly role to her long list in the movies.” Reg- inald Owen, Alan Mowbray and letters from him in her boudoir as well as a husband who is a gangster. Action follows quick and fast—and humor—not so thick and fast. The net result is tepld comedy, with an oceasfonal dash of salt thrown in. Other than the hardworking Mr. Ruggles, the cast consists of Tamara Geva, Sue Contoy, Margaret Du- mont, etc, none of whom do any- thing to remember them by. ‘The rest of the program has some travel to complete their survey, have found the proposed inter-American highway is feasible through the unde- veloped regions of Costa Rica. ‘The reconnaissance survey was a part of the plan to construct a highway from the Texas border to Panama City, passing through Mexico, Guatemala, Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama, at a cost of $50,000,000. The distance is 3,200 miles. Station at San Diego, rescued a woman bather at Tent City, Coronado, Calif., on March 22, €| sized. McCollum, attached to the Naval Air | ! “Horse-Trading” Day Gala. “Horse trading day,” observed in| Dixon, Ky., the day the Spring term of that do not cut or slip. 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Varlety in conception was characteristic of the series of dances, cach of which is worked out with evident signifi- cance and with a spirit supplied by the acting ability of the dancers. Solo numbers, arrangements for small groups and beautifully cos- tumed ensembles made up an eve- ning’s entertainment which was lib- erally applauded by the assembled admirers of this form of the dance. Much of the evening's group of dances had been seen previously at the Wardman Park Theater on the conclusion of the Winter and Spring season at the studio here, and the second showing tevealed even greater proficiency than in the former recital, which was observed at the time to possess much charm. Under the outdoor conditions there was an added quality that contributed to_the satisfaction of the audience. Divided into two parts, the pro- gram had two 'mpressive closing numbers, that of the first part being the “Gftek Wedding Festival,” resented by Mr. Shafer, with Anna oore Converse, Betty Chown, Ger- trude Ruzicka, Ruth Raine, Emma Snow, Frances Rands, Anita Pflucker, Fred Nagel and Claude Snow. The final selection of the evening, fea- turing the graceful dancing of Miss Chace, was the “Viennese Walts number, with Mr. Shafer in the initial movement. assisted by Ger- trude Ruzicka, Betty Chown. Ruth Raine, Louise Ward. Dorothy Perle, Emma Snow, Fred Nagel and Claude Snow. In addition to solos by Miss Chace and Mr. Shafer, there were similar contributions by Betty Chown, Margaret Townsend, Ruth Raine and Frances Rands. Others who par- ticipated were Helen Perle, Hazel Richards, Nancy Brock, Wilma Dinowitzer, Katherine Wessels and Marian Parrish. An excellent musical accompaniment was provided by George Cornwell. A wide range of composers was represented in the ineidental music . B L. Nothing Wrong With “Night Nurse.” “NIGHT NURSE" is good enter- tertainment. 1t is full of a number of legitimate surprises, and has a cast that handles these ex- ceptionally well. At the first per- formance yesterday at the Earle it seemed to please everybody — and should go on into the week doing precisely the same. The greatest surprise is when sud- denly it shakes itself out of a spirit of inane mirth and slides into the melodrama class. Once intrenched in & more somber mood, although one is forced to swallow a good deal of hokum *cold,” it isn't at all un- pleasant in the swallowing, and. of course, wouldn't be what it is with- out it. Barbara Stanwyck's performance is, as usual, excellent. The most easy-going of our modern actresses, she seems not to be able to make a wrong step in her celluloid career. Endowed with a grain less of beau- ty than some of her sister heroines, she yet becomes more appesling through a kind of natural dignity which becomes her to a “T.” Her picturization of an embryonic nurse who goes through all the “fires” of hospital work and then lands a case in a house where the mother takes dope, the young children are being killed slowly, and midnight parties are planned by Nick the chauffeur, is endorsed with fervor. Only a shade less admirable are Ben Lyon, as an easy-going boot- legger who breaks into a delicates- sen shop for some milk: Clark Ga- ble, as the villainous Nick, who ends up in the morgue, and Joan Blon- dell, whose occasional thoughts are interrupted by her eternal gum chewing. These actors, plus many others— Vera Lewis adds a neat touch—com- bine to make this always diverting if not exactly the sort of thing for the kiddies. Various hospital sub- jects and clinical episodes are not adviced for the budding undergen- eration. However, there is little to worry about, and certainly noth- ing to get mad at—and, in fact, a good deal that one can chuckle at long after, even and in spite of the jumble that it undoubtedly is. The stage show is not by any means one of the best, but there is Kitty Doner, one of the most not- able of our male impersonators, with ‘Will Aubrey, who is genuinely hu- morous_ (his “skirt” _joke is this week's best), and the Powell Troupe to enliven the bill, and the “Movie Mad"” skit, which is just about as insane as it says it is. Newsreels, orchestral overtures and such like complete a bill in which the feature picture is by all odds the best of the pudding. E. de 8. MELCHER. Montgomery in Comedy Entertains at the Palace. 'ORTUNE hunters and a reckless but cultured victim of the law enjoy & buoyant existence in the midst of luxuries, while creditors hover about the scene, in Robert Montgomery's ne Man in Possession.” The opening of the motion picture at the Palace initiated an entertainment of abounding comic incidents, most of which gain force from the historic stage device of the disowned member of the fashionable family who, in a spirit of irresponsible retaliation, further shocks upon the highly cultivated sensibilities of his rather dense relatives. Mr. Montgomery meets no exacting. demands the development of this Residential Lots Adjoining Massachusetts Ave. Park, tainigg over 10.000 sa. feet. with a wide frontl Property overlooks one of the finest_estates in the city. Priced very low. Can subdivide to suit purchaser. WHITEFORD & JAWISH, INC. SOUTHERN BLDG. L. T Ma Chaee. con- YOUR JEWELRY —8honld have same attention and consideration as your physical con- dition. 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Marion Davies' Latest Featured at Columbia. fiFlVE AND TEN,” at Loew's Co- lumbia this week, is an exam- ple of the virtues and the errata Hol- fywood can inject into a popular tale. < On the side of pleasantry, the jo- cose quips of Leslie Howard, and that esteemed actor's poised charm contribute immensely. Richard Ben- nett and Irene Rich—the latter with a trivial exception—perform ably as the parents of & daughter and son whose fortunes are the primary in- terests of the audience, while Marion Davies, technically the star of the production, pouts industriously and is effective sometimes—and some- times not. The narrative of “Five and Ten” concerns the daughter of a chain store magnate who, having come to New York from Kansas City, finds the reputed cream of the city ex- tremely jealous of their hard-earned social prestige, and prepared to dis- miss her with the horrifying epithet “nouveau riche.” Despite liberal contributions to all the charitable funds and an eager willingness to play the game as or- dered. she is generally snubbed by one and aly except the gallant Mr Howard—who is a genteel wastrel and engaged to the most objection- able young lady In his “se:.” Indeed, one is rather puzzled that he should disown his love, Jenny Rarick—or Miss Davies. if you will—for a mere breach of confidence (embarrassing though it was). when his fiancee, known to him for years, obviously possessed & character not of the nic- est, sort. Nevertheless, plot this does take place. hero, casts off his true love and obligingly marries his afanced. Thereafter he regrets this inept bit of justice, and the plot involves it- self in the necessary complications and final happy solution—for the lovers. For others in Jenny Rarick's fam- ily, the ending is not so jolly, Avery, her brother, well played by Kent Douglass, becomes so overwrought because his mother attempts escape from her business-ridden household into the arms of a young mustachioed Lothario, and at the prospect of his sister making a similar sub-rosa flight with Berry, that he hires a plane and suddenly pulls it into a power dive by the use of the dual- control stick. Result, death of Avery. This death provokes most of the doubtful items in the story. At his death bed, he mutters some lines about looking for his mother “down by the willows"—mother at that time being on her way to join her gigolo for & European jaunt—and his moth- er is properly recalled just in time to save herself from ruin. ‘The next sequence after the aeath of Avery dcplets the Rarick family as embark for a European vaca- jovially joined together as the deceased Avery had wished. A Laurel and Hardy comedy and the Paramount newsreel also are of- fered on the program. R. B. P, “Girl Habit” Opens at Metropolitan. HARLIE RUGGLES' rise to stel- lar heights in_“Girl Habit,” the new film at the Metropolitan, is a good deal less than satisfactory. A genuine comedian in roles which, by way of contrast, jump from the sublime to the ridiculous, he is sud- denly forced to assume the entire burden of consistent humor in a film which_is notable for being humor- less. He emerges with somewhat of the aspect of a drowning man clutching at a straw. There are a few infinitesimal snatches of comedy in this, supplied by the “star.” Unfortunately, how- ever, the entire story is one of those antique vehicles which pull out in- sanity far beyond the sticking point —and after about a half hour of it, one has had just about enough. This is not Mr. Ruggles’ fault—nor the fault of the rest of the cast. for the sake of the Berry, the | “GOLD RUSH” IS STARTED BY FIND OF NUGGETS Residents of Little Town in Central | Washington off to Hills With Pick Axes. By the Associated Press. ZILLAH, Wash,, July 18.—Zillah was in the midst of a miniature “gold rush” today after Robert Rosenkranz returned home from a hike into the nearby hills with nuggets that looked like gold. Late today more than 50 residents of this little Central Washington town had | departed with pick axes and grub hoes, | intending to stake out claims In the meantime Rosenkranz was looking for an assayer to determine if | his nuggets really are gold. LIGHTNING KILLS THREE PIEDMONT. Ala., July 18 (#).—Three persons were killed, five were injured and heavy damage to property Was caused by an electrical and wind storm, followed by a heavy rain, near here late today. The dead: Henry Arnett, 45 years old, his son, Otis, 20 years old, and Mrs. Frank Pearce, 52 years old. Arnett and his son were kilied and | five other members of the family in- | dinner of the Whi jured when lightning struck their farm home, Mrs. Pearce was killed by light- ning 'while feeding chickens at her home. Picnic Planned at White Oak. SILVER SPRING. Md., July 18 (Spe- cial).—The annual picnic and chicken e Oak Parent-Teach- er Association will be held at the school | on August 4. beginning at 5 o'clock. Mrs. | Mary Milstead has charge of arrange- | Accredited. cal cl Beei | EXAMINATION. every night up to examination time only 310 entire course. The | cal School. s.e. cor. 13(h and F sts. Business Courses, Golf. Member | Classes. 0000000000000000000000. Gov. 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