Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1932, Page 48

2 Good Stories * Casts Featured in This Week's Array of Pictures Mane DX‘ESSICT Takes a Emma Over—On the V FOX—"The Gay Caballero.” HE Fox Theater program s top- ed this week with the personal arance of that famed come- n El Brendel. On the screen y Caballero,” with McLaglen and Conchita Montel in the leading Toles *The ro"” Gay Ca- is adapted ington xeiting plot is based on O'Brien leaving foot ball field for the West to begin life where his fathe mance colorful to_the love The _support feature. Others in the c C. Henry Gt made audiences 0 "Sunnyside Up. 7 Lemon of Orange” ers, El Brend| ured a skit on the stage n and Marco offer their “Ab idea, featuring Ted and Al Waldman, Max and His Gang, Den Dova, Paul Olsen, Joe Pasco and the Sunkist Beauties. Al Mitchell, conducting the orche Movietone News cc EARLE—“Shanghai Express JARLENE DIETRICH heads week’s progra: ‘Warner Br Earle in “Shanghai Express,” a Para- mount picture directed by Josef von Sternberg, who also directed the star in “Blue Angel,” “Mor: " and other suc- cesses. It is presented in conjunction with a vaudeville bill featuring Evelyn Wilson, recently with George White's “Scandal: ‘Shanghai Expre: & mysterious woman mer sweetheart on a train train reaches its destination Marler s a wise woman of the world, not only shows how much she still loves t man, but also changes the lives of a dozen other persons. Clive Brook is the man of her heart, while Warner Oland is the cause of all the trouble. Other members of the cast are Anna May Wong, Eugene Pallette and Louise Closser Hale. | Evelyn Wilson, who heads the vaude- ville, offers a new group of humorous songs; the Three Swifts present a com- edy skit; Abbott and Robey continue the fun-making, and_Johnny Pastime and his “Dancing Sweethearts” are seen in song and dance novelties. Maxine Doyle is mistress of ceremonies. The program is completed by Graham MacNamee news events. a new release of the popular Tovel reels, song “Battling Bosco” and orchestral prelude | by the le orchestra. KEITH'S—“The Lost Squadron.” HE LOST SQUADRON," starring Richard Dix, and with the cast| including Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Robert Armstrong, Erich von Stroheim and Hugh Herbert, is the feature at- traction now at R-K-O eith’s. Itisa story of those phantom thrill make: the Hollywood stunt aviators. The story was written by Dick G'?C? who seemingly is the possessor of & charmed Jife and who is famed for his stunt fiving. He creates all of the sensa- ticnal thrills which go to make up the this new * is the story of ) meets her fo Before the On the stage the R-X-O vaudeville program is headed by Irene Rich, mak- sonal sppearance in a presen- an compan the new program incluc (Aldo Bomcnto) radio fame. anley, Will Aubry ¢ \the News and other supple- films round out the program. ‘Who METROPOLITAN — “The Man Played God.” (JEOR(;E ARLISS in his Warner Bros. picture, “The Man Who Played God,” has been held over for a second week. The engagement will end Thursday nig “The Man ed God” is the Who P! hose *Jddrn deaf- PROF. AND MRS, ACHER Class and danc nday v 8 GARY. STIDIO 20 PR KW Decatut PHIL HAYDEN Classes Now Forming in Tap Ballet Acrobatic For Both_Adults and Children Six Dupont Circle NOrth 8594 " THAYER STUDIOS New classes now forming Teaturing instructions in Ballet, Tap, Musical Comedy and Acrobatic Dancing Adults and Children Call this week for a guest lesson. No charge. Connecticut Ave. Dec. Miss Ellen Waller Dancing_ Masters wmnl\ BALL ROOM & STAGH 5430 a. Inc DANCING ry hou [ Rihdiv. 2619 141k i DANCE SMARTLY —and add to your Popularity! Zverybody admires and culti- vates the friendship of tre fin- ished, up-to-date dancer. Mr. Thn)ers talented instructors e a reputation for correcting Its, teaching steps that are the last word in smartness, in- stilling confidence in an unusual- ly short time. Call this week for a ten-min- ute guest lesson and dance analysis—no charge. Studio open until 10 p.m. Leroy H. Thayer Studios 1226 Connecticut Ave. Decatur 5470 v MUSEMENTS —Three Fx]m Attracnons AX‘C Hcld and Star D Herent SOl’t 0{ Rc]e m audeville Stages. | m: persons more unfortunate. A brilliant cast supports Arliss, including Violet Heming. Bette Davis, Ivan Simp- son, Donald Cook and Louise Closser Hale. “Washington, the Man and the Cap- ital,”” Warner Bros.' Bicentennial film, ill also continue on the program. Clarence Whitehill, Metropolitan Opera ys the part of Washington. The the Paramcunt sound | news completes the program. | GEORGE ARLISS “The Man Who Played God Metropolitan. PALACE MARIE DRESSLER is to b~ seen at | Loew's Palace this week in her| on, “Emma. ‘The pic- | ture is a tale of the life of an even | day American family, with Miss Dress- ler playing the role of the family ser- vant, who has been responsible for the rearing of a large family. Jean Her- | . Richard mwell, Myrna Loy, \oll Pratt, John Miljan and others e important parts. the Palace stage Loew's vaudeville vue is featured in seven big acts, in- ne Bob Murphy, Al _and Ray sels, Johnny Hyman, Dave Tan- the Chester Hzle giris and others. | 1atest prodt In play Contest. ’I‘HE opening contest of the 1932 Dis- trict of Columbia one-act play tournament, conducted by the Com- munity Center Department, with the co-operation of the Drama Guild, will e place Tuesday evening of this veek at 8 o'clock in the auditorium of East Washington Community Center (Eastern High School), Seventeenth and East Capito! str: Four plays will be presented on that evening and three plays will be pre-| sented Thursday evening. M 3. also at East Washington Community Cen- ter. The four plays to be given on the | opening night will be “The Trying Time," to be played by the North C lina Avenue Players, directed by Frances G. Donovan; “The Rest Cure” pre- sented by the Women's City Club Drama Unit, directed by Mrs. B. M. Foote; ‘“‘Overtones,” played by the Jewish Community Center Dramatic Society, directed by Dorothy Abrams, and “Deceivers,” presented by the Woodlothians, directed by Robert Hal- sted Thursday eveninf's plays will includ “Martha Washington at Valley Forg: presented by the Rebecea Dial Studio | Players of the Institute of Musical Art; “The Stoker,” played by the Pierce Hall Players, and “Quare Medi-| cine,” played by the Columbia Players. 1 Tickets for all prelim: Mv 3 of the 1932 one-act play are on sale 1o the " public e { T Arthur Smith Bureau, 1330 G street, | and at the Community Center Depart- | | ment, Thirteenth and K. as well as at| the door of East Washington munity Center on the evenings of the plays. COLUMBIA—"Hell Divers.” arring Wal- Gable, re- mains a second week at Loew’s Colum- bia, where it has been thrilling audi- ences with its romance of the naval | aviation service. Conrad Nagel has an imp supporting part in the cast th: ides Dorothy Jordan. Mar- jorie Rambeau, Marie Prevost, ,Cliff Ed- wards and John Miljan. | RIALTO—"Murders in the Rue Morgue.” (V'HE MURDERS IN THE RUE| MORGUE" remains a second week at the Rialto, where it has been to capacity audiences. The per- ces of Bela Lugosi, who pl , and Sidney Fox are ac the finest of their respective e s. “The Murders in the 1e Morgue,” directed by Robert Florey, porting cast that includes Leon Waycoff, Brandon Hurst, Betty Ross Clarke and Bert Roach. The scene of the picture is the Paris of | 1840, which Poe knew so intimately. | In addition, the Rialto offers Graham | Vamee with the lates Universal News and a group of selected short sub- Jects. Gets Long Contract. = Whiteman Coming. A RRANGEMENTS have been com- pleted for an early appearance of | Paul Whiteman and his band at R-K-O | PBETTE DAVIS, George Arliss' in- genue lead in his latest Warner | Keith's Theater. Whiteman,- known throughout the has not Bros. picture, “The Ma yed | sl he Man Who Played | o 1375 the “King of Jazz,” Ged,” which is on the screen for & sec- | plaved vaudeville for some time, but | ond week at the Metropolitan, has been | his musical activities over the broad- rewarded with a long-term contract as | Casting networks have supplemented a reputation earned when he had no a result of her portrayal of the ingenue | competition in the band and orchestra role in the picture. | fleld. With Whiteman _will _appear | | Mildred Bailey, the Romancer’s, the | on yl\ssfla}? n:;sm&ags z‘é"l‘fie"lc?e'ifi,‘”&fm'.’”i Jesters, Arlene and Norman Selby and brief experience on the New York stage, | CGoldie” “the King's 14-k Clown. | where she appeared with Richard Ben- | Another important early booking for [ mett. father of Gonstance. Joon and | the Fifteenth street theater is Miss Lee Barbara. Upon her areival i Holly. | Morse, whose crooning melodies have wood Miss Davis became a “bit player.” | brought her world fame, too. Her small parts, however. were acted 0 | ~—— well that she was singled out by George Arliss to play an R Bxbllcal Drama. “The Man Who Played God.” THE young players of the First Con-!| iss’ faith in the dramatic sbdmes gregational Church will DI’CS(’I‘ ! | of ‘the blonde Bette was justified and | another biblical drama, entitled “James | Warner Bros. accordingly presented her | of Galilee,” at the First Congregational Church, Tenth and G streets. at 8 | with the long-term contract which as- | sures future appearances in important | o'clock, next Sunday evening, March 6 el Tudor Whiton has been cast in the § role of James, Gail Whiton, as Esther, James' wife, and William Taylor will take the part of Zebedee. Other par-| | ticipants are to be Mary Jane Benson, | | John Homer Smith, R: McAfee, Viola | Buhrow and Dorothy Blaisdell. These | players present a “biblical drama” once a month. No admission is charged The public is cordially invited. Has Played 400 Roles he Man Who Played God” also in- cludes in its cast such well known stage and screen performers &s Violet Hem- | ing, Ivan Simpson, Louise Closser Hale, Donald Cook, Oscar Apfel, Andre Lu- guet and others. John Adolfi directed this picture, which has already been chosen by many metropolitan critics as ong of the “10 best” of 1932. known of UNDAY STAR | her. | playhou WASHINGTON, D. C, FEBRUARY 28 Just Personal Opinions Of Various Movie Stars This Writer Admits That He Hears Little News From Ho“ywood but Hc Has His Own Ideas About Garbo, Bow, Swanson and Others. B Robert E Sherwood | gossip. The most conspicuous of them !t the present m ent is probably Lupe | Valer, 'who keebs. . the typewriters of the rumor-mongers clicking merrily with her mercurial love affairs Aided by Gary Cooper, John Gilt and lately by a new recruit named Randolph Scott, Lupe has kept the | home fires burning with a somewhat suspicious persistence. She has not | shrunk from publicity; she has even ap- | cared to court it, aciing on the sound | theory that the public is delighted to be provided with verification of its | views on the flery nature of the Latin temperament. | The exact opposite of the Senorita | Velez might well be found in the strange character of Gloria Swanson, who has been providing provocative news items for the past 13 years. I am in no position to talk about Miss Swanson—indeed, I have no real right to talk about any of them, so complete is my ignorance of boudoir conditions in Hollywood; but while I am theorizing thus personally, I may well express the conviction that never was an_exterior semblance more | utterly deceptive. On the outside, Miss Swanson is ex- ely lavish, exotic, orchidaceous. irthermore, her two moest recent mar- | riages, to M. le Marquis de la Falaise | VERY sional writes Iack of hot news retailed herein. “Give us fewer dull theories and more snappy facts” is the popular cry “Tell us more about the > lives of the film stars and less the artistic significance, or lack of of their pictures.” This is pretty em- barrassing. The demand for hot news from Hollywood strikes a thoroughly re- sponsive chord in me, as I should like nothing better than to be in possession of many items of gossip that I could pass on to the read However, I am des sessions. Al I know is what and as every one else can con. same fascinating sources, I h that I could get away with reprints of their rumors. So there's nothing for | t but to fill this column with theories. At the same time there’s no reason why these theories should always have to be concerned with stic significance, or lack of same.” They might be ap- plied—discreetly course—to the home lives of the lamentably overex- and Hun some occa- mr mn now such pos- 1 read. i1t these dly think ute of begin with Greta Garbo, for thy world's 1 most subject of rum that is printed about her is est speculaticn for no one seems to know any positive facts. Cc off-screen ac- | de la Coudrave and to Michael Farmer, tivitles, one man's guess is another |have identified her conclusively with | man’s poison. It is my guess that the | the glittering nobility of old Europe endless talk about the mystery of Garbo | and therefore with supreme sophistica- is bunk. There is no mystery about | tion. She is just precisely what she| Nevertheless, I firmly believe that in seems to be- p y sensitive artist. | the depths of her simple soul the elab- with a deep-rooted, almost pathological |grate Gloria is an incurable home girl. aversion to the ballyhoo of press agentry. | I believe that the thing for which she | | | instance. There 1s, I believe, no obscurely excit- | has been striving through one doomed ing reason for her shrinking from ad- | vertisement: she is absolutely honest in her desire to be left alone. Similarly honest, in my estimation, is that other prime favorite of the gos- sipers—little Miss Clara Bow Here is a girl who has done t what countless other girls would ne in her position, and w doesn't care who knows it: with refreshing dor she b romance after another is nothing more than the most commonplace respec- tability; happy marriage, babies, con- tentment. But because she is the great Swanson, glamorous, regal, seduc- tive, she has never gained fulfillment of the humble wish that is her heart’ desire. She is one of the most disillusioned of mortals, and at the same time one of the most determin- ily hopeful. Desp\te her seeming sophistication, she will always be an| y victim for persuasive men. It's a shame that she hasn't more of the worldly wisdom of Lupe Vales, or, for that matter, of Marie Dressler. | Under pressure, I m\kld express sim- | ilarly unofficial opinions® about some others of the goldfish of Hollywood— but fortunately the limitations of space prevent any further theorizing for this week at least. (Gopyright. t of the op- fame and for- tune have This exc tated her ties, and it | fall; in s everlastir opinion. precipi- 2 of difficul- e ceused her down- , it stands to her in my unreliable ® s THERE have always been in Holly- wood certain stars who have thrived and prospered on_scemingly damaging _ Revival of ° Ten Nights” Is Burlesque Performance 1932) New Yorkers See Show Boat Troupe Bring Back| Bar Room and Evils of Another Day. Comedian Has Fun With Cash Customers. T seems to be the impression of | few of the many that cause the sea- those who are attending Billy | son to be reasonably glorious: Bryant's show boat performances | Leslie Howard as a gay youth turned that the actors are ‘atroupe of | morbid by problems of integrity, etc., countryjakes, unused to the ways | propounded in Philip Barry's stimula~ of a great city: that their interpre- | ting “The Animal Kingdom.” tation of “Ten Nights in a Bar Room” | Alexander Woolcott as a physically is the mnocent eflort of rustic “hams” | otiose but mentally diligent fat man who realize their incompetence and ac- | in “Brief Moment.” i cept Jeers of th nces withbe- Miss Mary Ellis, impersonating a coming humility smart woman of the world with a pas- cal drama-lovers er for diamonds and a diamond thief companions are sc artis re at than lowly town hall c circuit. In Cincinnati, where their boat is anchored, they are recognized as expert spoofers, as they are in Chi- cago, another haven Fresh from the hing nfluences of those urban cap- . they burlesoue poor old “Ten Nights in a Bar Room” with all the glee u{ a city ng a hay- h ‘there they turned loon into Nigel Bruce as an earnestly comic personality in the English farce, “Springtime for Henry.” Philip Merivale, in “Cynara,” repre- senting a prudent man in the throes of a tragic imprudence with a shopgirl, not his wife. Also Miss Adrienne Allen, Miss Pnoebe Foster and Henry Ste: phenson. Miss Diana Wynyard as & frank and beautiful lady undergoing temptation of one sort and another in “The Devil a Broadway ld be in a nd linnet HARLES WALDRON, who is | 1 as the tyrannical father | Barretts of Wimpole in which Katharine 1 appears et th> Belasco > week beginning March as acted 400 characters on the stage, one must admit is an impressive it does from handsome ainous rogues. Per- thing he has done has im- iences quite so deeply as his of the elder Barrett, who all k ruins the lives of his children through his_impregnable idea of love and power. The contrast between Barrett's father and the title role of “Daddy Long Legs" suggests the r Waldron has accomplished. L is, of course,” says Waldron, een presenting a an imaginary one footlights. In the former must be limited by what is the man, elther through biography, records of the period or his own_self-revelations. amplified by the pla: is shown in Mr. Barrett's ego-complex circumstances the actor W his own experience in life as w his creative powers if he has them “In_everything I have played I be- lieve I have incorporated something o people 1 have mel, though never h I studiously reproduced detail by det an actual personage; rather have I us: bits and pieces of various men as the fitted into the character I was to act. | In the case of Barrett, Mr. B: him in so fully that there was little leading ‘men to ¥ express what the author had put down Guthrie McClintic, in directing t play, gave me extraordinary ass i performance, for which I am very grateful. | “Playgoers affect an actor even more y realize. Not only does that intangible power of the audience reach | 1 actor the moment he comes onto the stage, but it will in part control him throughout the performance. If the! spectators are antagonistic the actor is| put to it by all the knowledge and art | at his command to change their mood | to sympathy. Audiences act in a criti- | cal function. They even may be able to alter an actor's performance. Perhaps | they may not change his fundamental conception of a role, but they by their | reaction show the actor where he has| gone wide of the mark in his ‘n',‘!prrui tation | “There is much being said and writ- ten about criticism as it appea in the newspapers. 1 always read what the critics write, I am sure most act d If they don't, they should. The onl complaint I have to make is that while I am grateful to them when they point | out my mistakes, I wish they \\l)\lld A'l me how to remedy them. Any actor| who seriously regards his calling has given many weking and even sleeping hours to his work before he brings it before the public. If he then fails he | would rejoice to get a suggestion as to | how he could turn his performance into rida 2 new d for the National Thea- shanehat, L Losed b | * Loving Oniy One’ 'MRRLENE DIETRICH In Joset Von Sternberg's Dramatic Hit for Paramount SHANGHAI EXPRESS METROPOLITAN SECOND WEEK! His Greatest Personal Triumph GEORGE ARLISS In & Modern Drama of Real Life | hams.” for me to do but to my best ability to | Passes. Paul Muni, i a comparativel ed by a trick . est Truey, playing a reluctant villain in the comic poison-pla “Whistling in the Dark.” Miss Katherine Cornell Barretts of Wimpole Street.” The objections to Vincent Youmanst new opera, “Through the Years,” are| that it tries to be funny and isn't. If, | it is compleined, the authors had | omitted their deadly comedy from the book, Mr. Youman's songs might have | revived ane Cowl's old romance | “Smilin ") as pleasantly as other | thmg; of its kind have been revived. | As it is, the desperate critics of even so friendly a comedian as_Charles Winninger are an intrusion. The music is pretty without being sensational, and cne number, “Drums in My Heart,” has outetanding qualities of melody and mylhmv RO w<eiITHS ISTH. AND C STREETS NOYV The Juggsrnaut of Thrills THE LOST SQI;IADROE RICHARD DIX JOFL McCREA—MARY ASTOR Stage IRENE RICH in Person Headlining Gala RKO Va “Counselor-at-Law." v York has honest lawyer pur- It is he, addresses the audi- 1 of his compa ties, admitting that they are of cld-fashioned, With a gu selling corn from the tail-gate of a medicine cart, Mr. Bryant hypnotizes his hearers into he belief that he is in earnes He ites the city folk k near L on tality accepted by every one in a spirit of big town prankiness. John Golden, unde Bryant visits gue a resem- of, Wul bunch in “The & com- their It is laughable, of o hear come from th the villair mustachios, him prance about with the thrower. But it g were the written. Now, g the perils Shnon Slade stressful ribaldr benes and gestures m))(hl role to Mr Bryant senior, recog of over derision, s without an exaggeration, and is yet one of the most interesting items in the entertainment. 'The elder Mr. Bryant's biography, by the way, informs one ti 76 years he has been a Jay d; an itinerant c brewed and the skipper of hree snow boats, one of which he towed up and down the rivers himself, having no money to buy a mule. * x > VVERE one disposed to make a list of what Hiram Motherwell, edi- tor of calls the Theater Guild Magazine, “exciting and fructifying experi- ences,” one might well include the playing of Sam Byrant and Mr. Carle- ton. Then one might continue with the names of the following, whose feats of excitation and fructification are a ' JATIONAL Eves. Sic to $2.50. Wednesd: Saturday Mat: SEATS SE) mnmnnv HUNTING - LIFE... RIDAL WISE RI.BERT HHCKETTMFRRHCES GOOPRICH (cHuthora. of "UP pops THE DE hi m m herbs, ville Coming Dorothy Stone—Pat Rooney On the Stage COM. MONDAY MAR. 7 “MAN WHy PLAYED GOD Also Bicentennial Film “WASHINGTON, MAN AND CAPITAL" ALLEN KEARNI AND - CAST -OF - FARCEU | Universal, | of | be announced. | were | Palace. { March 1 1A A A and Willard Hotel. PART FOUR AMUSEMENTS. | | | Katherine Cornell and Madge Kennedy Bring in Newest Plays Next Week photop]a\' Attractions Also Promise to Be Above the :\vcra_dc = Movies Obtain Some Real Headline Vaudeville ‘Attractions. beg:nning M: of the high sp. in Washingto: fairs. Her play, Wimpole Street,” by Rucolf Besier, won | instant success in New York, where a | year's run just been concluded. al af- LILLIAN DIXON D o Who heads the cast at the Ninth street burlesque theater this week. “The Road Back.” B, cable and long distance telephone Carl Laemmle, jr., Universal's pro- duction executive, has engaged R. C Sheriff, British playwright, to come to Hollywood in March to prepare the screen adaption of “The Road Back,” slated to be Universal's biggest pleture since “All Quiet on the Western Front.” Sherifft won world-wide attention & few years ago when his first play, “Journey's End was produced in London, and after a year of success, was translated into a dozen different languages, played in a score of coun- tries and made into a fim play by James Whale, director of its British mier and now under contract to American t trasting ct by an and thorough ap- prenticeship. After five years of act- ing on the road, in | stock, and in Lon- | don, over night she | became tae talk of New York by her performance of Sydney in Clem- ence Danc's “A Bill of Divorcement Since en she has been scen in “Wil' Shake- speare,” “Candida,’ “The Green H “The Letter,” “The | Age of Innocenc Lady.” In “The Street” she she hither | bethh Barrett, the poet Rudalf Besier tells one of famous love staries in histor: Barretts of Wimpole Street the romance of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett, t against ground of parental t essentials Mr Besier has fc thentic acco court wedding, m s ial taken from the letters that pass tween the two po: The cast include: galo Gilimore, Ch: Carey, Myra Hamptc John Buckler, George Riddell, Marshall, Ian' Wolfe, Vernon Dow Frederick Voighi, Leslie Dennisc Emery, Richard Lambart, Robert C piain and Flu: With Erich Marim Remarque, author “All Quiet on the Western Front,” as the creator of he Road Back, and Britain’s outstanding war play- wright to adapt it, Laemmle, jr., be- lieves he has assured Universal a film drama that will in its filming become the equal of the sensational picture which won its makers five awards. eriffl. is now in London, but ex- pects to leave for America within a few weeks, according to his latest cable to the studios. Upon completion of Sheriff's adaption of “The Road Back” director and cast, which have already been given considerable concern, will Katherine Cornell. Dishonored of Wimpole ip and being sed be- | . Camera Stunts. F!l\‘llN(" scenes on a floating studio in which camera and apparatus and even lights were mounted on rafts on a lake; swinging cameras over the heads of the participants in a vivid court room scene and moving them {about on especially designed trucks some of the tricks used to ob- tain distinctive filming in “Emma, Marie Dressler's latest starring hicle which is now current at Loew's Brian Ah Madge Kennedy, comedienn: blished here, of the new come: ional Theater previcus to being cone on The play is “Bridal Wise,” pens of Albert Goodrich, who wrote the | and successiul “Uy s Ken ample opportunity to display her com: 2 of far: d “Fair and <he first gained country-wide recog- nition. Her moct recent appearances Washington were made in “Private Lives. _The supporting cast has been par- JANET RICHARDS | Affairs Political ant! International Every Monday at 11 A.M. Willard Hatel (Small Ball Room) Admission, 35¢ Incidentally, these camera and mi- crophone noveltics caused _Clarence Brown, who directed the picture, to hark back to earlier days. Brown was an engineer before he entered the di- rectorial field. He used this engineer- ing knowledge to invent the mechanism by which the camera operated mys: teriously through many of the “shots” in the Dressler picture. that DriCilbe s Teres JNDER the auspices of the Com- munity Institute of Washington Herbert Adams Gibbons, internationally known publicist and speaker on con- temporary politics, will deliver a lecture. “Wider Horizons,” at Central Com- munity Center, Thirteenth 2nd Cliftor streets northwest, Tuesday evening, Dr. Gibbons has studied world problems all over the globe d ing the past 25 years, and he has closely followed all national movements since the World W Tickets are available at the T. Arthur Smith Bureau, the MISS RlChEl’d! Lecturer ISS JANET RICHARDS, in her weekly talk tcmorrow morning on flairs Political and International,” will review the most important events of the past fortnight. including de- velopments in the Chinese-Japanese imbroglio: progress at Geneva, the pos- sible serious consequences of impend- ing elections in several European coun- tries, and affairs congressional. The tallc’ will be given in the small ball m of the Willard Hotel at 11 o'clock. . T. Arthur Smith, Homer L. Kilt's. Doors close B:45 until intermiss; PHILHARMORNIC OCIETY OF NEW YORK. 25 B2echam. Condactin Symoiony, mphany, Symp: ‘Natl. Theater, Tues., Mar. 15, 4:30 YUSHNY'S .USSIAL E. “THEBLUE BIRD” Sexts Mrs. Greene's Coneert Droop's, 1300 G St. Dist. G493, GAYETY—BURLESK | LILLIAN DIXON (The Charming Charmer) AND NORA FORD he Gal from the South” “Modern Poetry and Its Makers” Informal Readings by NE S. GRIMES Each Friday Morning, 11:20 O'Clock The Kennedy-Warren Admission, 75¢ RIALTO-—-NOW ! Edgar Alian . oe’s FRANCK! Buresw. Bela Lugosi—Sidney Fox —NOTE— Thousands have scen this picture. Will you be one of the few to miss it? VAUEVILLE F SHUBERT - BELASCO LEE AND J. J. SHUBERT GILBERT and SULLIVAN COMIC ™ GONDOLIERS = The First Washington Civic Opera JEAN HERSHOLT-MYRNA lOY % A GREAT LOEW EVUE MATINEE BAT. ONLY at 2:30 to $1.30 In Deference to the Clergy Seat Sale Opens 1 P. M. Today Instead of 12 Noom KATHARINE CORNELL THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET SHUBERT ELASC ONE WEEK 50¢ ‘to 82.50 Mon., Mar. 7 Nights & Sat. Mo 4 | picture. ticularly well chosen. Allen the featured member with a role opp site to that of the star. He will remembered for his parts in “Little Jessie Jame: “Very Good Eddie,” ‘Girl Crazy” and other light comedy hits including “Tip Toes.” Also in the company are Rachel Hartzell of “Little Accident” and “Cloudy With Showers”; Jchn Litel, twice leading man for Jane Cowl; Harry Sothern, nephew of E. H. Sothern; Virginia Morgan, niece of Ralph and Prank Morgan: J. Arthur Young, Ben Lackland, Sara Perry, John Frost, Ella Gordon and Lew Payton. The title of Maurice Rostand's play, “Broken Lullaby,” has been changed to “The Man I Killed” for screen pur- poses, and 1t comes to the Metropolitan Theater following the George Arliss Ernst Lubitsch, the director, heads the cast with Lionel Barrymore and in support are N carroll, Phil- lips Holmes, Zasu Pitts fen Little 7 is Carter and Marshall. of Fred success, vaude- o Rooney and Pat Young at Keith's next week, beginning Saturday, March 5. The screen attraction scheduled is a version of “Fannie Hurst's “Symphony of Six Millions.’ William Powell appears as the star of “High Pressure,” the screen attrac- tion at the Earle beginning March 5. The Gus Edwards Radio Understudies, a group of 12 youthful players will head the vaudeville program. Others on the bill are Jim McWilliams, the Three Rhythm Dancers, Claridge and Downey and Maxine Doyle. stage hare Beginning next Fri Ronald Col- man 1 be starred in rrowsmith” at the Columbia. The picture, which is caid to be an especially fine piece of work, is taken from the Sinclair Lewis best-seller novel, Clark Gable and Marion Davies are co-starred at the Palace next week in “Pelly of the Circus.” On the stage Al Wohlman v\fll head the revue, “Make “Ben Lyon Week” will be celebrated at the Fox, beginning next Friday, as this star will head the picture cast and also lead the stage program. The pic- ture will be “The Big Timer,” and Lyon is making only four personal ap- pearances east of Hollywood—in 8t. Louis, New York, Philadelphia and Washington. NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF WASHINGTON. D. C. HANS KINDLER, Conductor SOLOISTS ¢ ANNE HULL, MARY H.WE, HELEN LEIKL PIANISTS And THE NASHIIGYON‘L‘.K&IAL FESTIV ASSOCIATION CHORUS CONSTITUTION HAL! 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