Evening Star Newspaper, September 21, 1932, Page 18

SIS TESTIABISS IO What's What and W here Attractlons Soon to Be Szen in Washington Theaters “Strange Interlude” Priday at the National. UGENE O'NEIL'S prize-winning lay, “Strange Interlude,” comes e ning fora 10-day z ment in & film version featuring Norma Shearer and Clark Gable. Start- ing Saturday this will be shown twice & day, with all seats reserved. In this production, di- rected by Robert Z. Leonard, Metro- Goldwyn - Mayer have placed many of their best stars — including May Robson, Alexander Kirkland, _Ralph Morgan, Maureen O'sullivan, Robert Young, Tad Alex- ander and Henry B. Walthall. This, incidentally, is the second time that Gable has played opposite Miss Bhesrer - They. LT, ‘were paired together - ee L Gable plays the role originally created by Glen Anders on the stage (that of Dr. Darrell) and Miss Shearer plays the Lynn Fontanne role—the al-important Nina Leeds. Seats are selling now at the National. Norma Shearer. Rialto Reopens Thursday With “Back Street.” PENING its Fall and Winter motion picture season, the Rialto Theater will present tomorrow night at 8:30 o'clock the film version of Fanny Hurst's “Back Street” featuring Irene Dunne and John Boles. Under the direction of John M. Stahl, this film has an inter- esting supporting cast which includes Zasu Pitts, George Meeker, Walter Cat- Jett, Maude Turner Gordon and others. The picture will be run on & Tegular daily schedule, starting Friday. Tomor- Tow night will be in the nature of a gala performance. “Hell's Highway” Begins Tomorrow at Keith's. ‘A DRAMA of American prison camps, entitlea “Hell's Highway.” is the coming attraction at R-K-O-Keith's be- ginning tomorTow—one day _anead of the usual opening. Richard Dix is star- red in this new film, which also in- cludes Tom Brown, Rochelle Hudson and C. Henry Gordon. Said to be & “blistering drama of chain gang life.” this is Mr. Dix’s most recent starring picture. “The Night Mayor” at Earle; Olsen and Johnson on Stage. (QLSEN and Johnson, popular comics of the screen and the radio, will appear in person this week at Warner's Earle, beginning_ Friday. The screen feature will be Columbia’s “The Night Mayor,” with Lee Tracy and Evelyn Knapp. Other players in_this include Fugene Pallette, Warren Hymer, Bar- bara Weeks and Gloria Shes. The stage show will be devoted to Messrs. Olsen and Johnson in their miniature Tevue entitled “Atrocities of 1932,” with 30 well known entertainers, and to oth- er acts, such as Gracie Barrie, Sid Tracey and Betty Ray and Maxine Doyle, mistress of ceremonies. Triple Star Stage Show— *Hat Check Girl” at Fox. IRENE BORDONTI, James Barton and Borrah Minnevitch, three noted stage eelebrities, are heading the stage show at Loew's Fox this week, beginning Fri- day. Goss and Barrows, dancers and comedians, and the Crystal Trio, roller skaters, complete the stage offering. The film attraction will be “Hat Check Girl,” featuring Sally Eilers, Ben Lyon and Ginger Rogers. Other players in- clude Monroe Owsley and Henry Armet- ta. Phil Lampkin will present one of his popular overtures as another Xu!urel of the bill. “Drifting Souls” At the Columbia. A NEW Tower production, “Drifting Sonls,” with Lols Wilson and Theo- dor von Fltz, will Be shown at Loew’s Columbia, starting Friday of this week. Chief among the performers in the pic- ture, other than the two principals, are Raymond Hatton, Gene Gowing, Gwynn ‘Williams, Bryant Washburn and Ed- mund Breeze, Louls King directed the film. “Blessed Event” Remains Another Week. EMENT has been made lessed Event” will be held er week at Warner's ropolitan. In_ this picture, which taken from the stage play of the same name, are such well known play- ers as Lee Tracy. Mary Brian, Ruth Donnelly, Ned Sparks, Emma Dunn and others. The program also includes a Burns & Allen comcdy, entitled ‘Your Hat,” and & N an travel talk. *Grand Hotel’ ‘At Palace a Second Week OEW’S PALACE THEATER 1 hoM- ing over “Grand Hotel” for & second week, starting Friday. Players in this well known picturisation of Vicki Baum's novel and stage play include Greta Garbo, John and Lionel Barry- more, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery and a score and more of others. “French Frolics” Coming to the Gayety. . BHIGHTER‘ breezier and better bur- lesqu the revue “French Froll This glorious mattress can be made out of your old one for only $9 and up. See those resilient tempered springs that are embedded in downy felt. They prevent the mattress from ever flattening out—in- sure yeats of sleep comfort. We sterilize your old mat- tress, clean the felt or hair, put on charming new ticking— make a truly new one out of it. ZABANS 903 E Street N.W. National 9411 E MATTRESSES, noxEmM OEW'S POX gave the press and a few invited guests their first glimpse of Eugene O'Neill's “Strange Interlude” in cinema form last night, at a preview party which proved as as the play itself. ned from five to two hours playing time, the production kept even the afternoon paper scribes awake and cheering until 2 a.m. At that hour the personnel of “Strange Interlude” wrote finis to several decades of a tough life, and the Fox curtains yolled back to Teveal a repast that was something else to cheer about. The cinema version of “Interlude” has retained all that was essential of psychology and plot in the play. Those compelling characterizations, which saved it from turning into a mere cold- blooded, laboratory study of humanity, appear, likewise, ‘in the picture, this time in sucecinct form. It is true much of the complexity, depth and profundity of the personalities O'Neill created has been sheared away in Hollywood, but enough remains to keep Nina Leeds, Sem Evans and Charlie Marsden vivid- ly alive. The fourth principal of the drama—Ned Darrell—is almost inert and void because Clark Gable is mis- cast in the role. Had Norma Shearer been a fraction less competent in her portrayal of Nina Leeds, it might have been said emphasis in the movie “Strange Interlude” had been shifted from persons to plot. Be- cause she is both beautiful and sincere in her role, Miss Shearer is able to eradicate that charge. She gets excel- lent support from Alexander Kirkland as Sam Evans and Ralph Morgan as “dear old Charlie.” Morgan occasion- ally lampoons nervous Nellie Marsden, but for the purposes of the film his in- terpretation is satisfactory. R. B. P, Jr. st JUNIOR BARUCH WEDS Miss Mann of London Bride and New York Will Be Home. 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