Evening Star Newspaper, May 4, 1935, Page 30

B—14 Mr. Arliss Back in Town As “Cardinal Richelieu” The Star Gives His Usual Smooth Perform- ance in Palace Film—“The Case of the Curious Bride” Featured at the Earle. BY E. de S. MELCHER, HE smooth, silken acting of George Arliss is seen to good advantage in “Cardinal Richelieu,” which opened yesterday In a role which theater audiences have at the Palace. enjoyed for many a day T trod the National’s boards not so long ago, Mr. Arliss’ fashionable mimickry is at its best, making the soldier-clergyman a likable, erafty and greedy old man with the soul of France at his finger tips. ‘The Twentieth Century Film Co.,, now one of Hollywood's major studios, has decked Mr. Richelieu out in a good deal of glory, Historian Cameron Rogers making him probably a little | nicer than he was and Bulwer- Lytton’s famous scene of the magic circle still as exciting as it was a couple of score of years ago. Hand- somely acted, splendidly staged and written with sly elegance (only one or two of the speeches smacking of today rather than yesterday) “Richelieu” is An impressive if sometimes ponderous picture and one that should appeal not only to our grandsires, but to their children’s children. Hollywood is, of course, flinging Mr. Arliss across the history books. His characterization of famous men now begins to rival the collection of celebrities in the Eden Musee. It won't be long before he will have traversed every kingdom and outlined every na- tional hero—and while all of them will have a good deal of Arliss about them, they will all be drawn with intelligence if not always with truth. Such care, however, has been taken with the pageantry of “Richelieu” that, for instance, that brief wedding scene, where Maureen O'Sullivan be- comes the wife of Cesar Romero is particularly rioting. Before the ring is lodged on the fourth finger of the left hand it rests briefly on the other three—a custom of the year 1630. And other small details have been handled with that care which one has come to expect of all Arliss films and which makes them just that much more worth seeing. The story of Richelieu's ambitions, his bickerings with Louis XIII and Queen Anne, and his triumphs on the battlefield as well as in the church scarcely need repeating. They are treated here with a gentle hand as well as a neat humor, and they are faultlessly acted by the entire cast. | Particularly excellent is Edward Ar- nold as Louis. Others who stand out include Violet Kemble Cooper as the Queen (she is rapidly becoming one of Hollywood's important actresses) and Frances Lister as the greedy younger brother. Laurel and Hardy come either be- fore or after “Richelieu,” ¥ x x5 TH:E Clue Club mystery this week at the Earle, “The Case of the Curi- ous Bride,” is probably superior to most of its brothers and sisters. has, of course, that debonaire Perry Mason (Warren William), whose culinary skill is a match for his crime solving ability, and it has a good many other things with which to be- guile the minds of the also curious. Its theme is full of exciting inuendos and the arrows point to one murderer after another, While the conclusion is not so diabolic as you may have wished, it shows how a man may murder himself without much incon- It AMUSEMENTS and in which Walter Hampden | venience and how even so humble & | thing.as & mirror on the wall may do its work toward blotting out un- desirable citizens. Margaret Lindsay, who seems to have a long lease on Warner Bros. | appears as the “bride” who is a | cused of busting her ex-husband over | the head with a poker. She is helped | by the immaculate Warren William, | who does & small amount of William | Powelling, nipping a highball here | and a fish dinner there. He eventually | solves the killing, much to every- | body’s pleasure, and soon after em- | barks for China with the handsome | Claire Dodd, who is never around long | enough to suit this department. | Members of the tough brigade who | distinguished themselves in this are | Allen Jenkins, Barton MacLane and ‘Warren Hymer. * e “IE SHOULD like to devote a whole | page to & brief Paramount film in color which is now appearing at | the Earle. It is called “The Woman in the Shoe.” It has an excellent | tune, some excellent color and pre- | sents the woman in the shoe with a| | swell group of “cartoon™ children. | | It lasts only about three minutes, | | but it’s the best thing in the show. | ¥ X X % US ARNHEIM'S revue at the | Earle is, however, no slouch this | week either. It has one young man | whom you man remember from “Ro- | berta.” He's the fellow whose thumb | | got stuck in that banjo. His name's Gene Sheldon and, as he savs, he can | | talk—but he doesn't. His gift of doing practically nothing and doing it very | | well is something to see. | Mr. Arnheim plays the new tunes | | agreeably and has with him a crew of talented performers such as Edna and John Torrance, whose “College Romp™ | gets one of the biggest hands in the show; the Downey Sisters, who are both easy on the eye and on the ear; | Jimmy Newell, who also sings; Max- ine Tappen, who also sings, and two members of the band, who sing also. The whole show is just about as it was in its Cocoanut Grove (Holly- wood) heydey. That means it’s good. IN “CRADLE SONG.” Final rehearsals will be held tonight by the Blackfriars Guild of Martinez | Sierra’s convent drama, “Cradle Song,” which will be presented tomorrow aft- | ernoon and Monday night at Gonzaga Hall for the benefit of the Manresa Laymen Retreat Movement of Wash- | ington. The cast includes Adah May Brady, Helen Nordstrom, Mary Black, Jeanne Bateman, Frances Shea, Edith Oriani, Adele Endres, Kathleen Crowley, Eli- jah Sidenberg, Helen Haltigan, Edgar | M. Ford, Elinor Sgueo, Leo Murphy, | Mary Ann La Covis, Catherine Lester | and Margaret M. Myers. Miss Lucy Ann Rogers is director. | -— DAILY SHORT STORY. GRAVE Phyllis Was One Girl Who Wasn't Too Squeamish to Be a Good Wife BY ALICE COSTELLO. 'ORTHCH E S- TER was a small town, but it boasted a medical college. So Harry and Phyllis Barclay had .chosen Northches- ter as the spot in which te settle down to the busi- mess of acquiring Harry's M. D. They had just enough money to live on for the re- quired number of years. Just ex- actly enough, per- mitting no extras of any kind. They rented an atomic cottage on Ceme- tery street, so- called because it led to the old set- tlers’ graveyard then being con- verted into a park by the city fathers. All went well for more than a year, barring the fact that Phyllis fell sick and had to have her tonsils removed. “I'll make up for it,” she promised. “We'll eat beans and codfish and bread pudding for half a decade—if you can stand it.” “I can if you can” said Harry. ‘We'll come out even somehow.” *“But don't worry, Phyl, darling. Then one day Harry came home from the medical college noticeably _ depressed. Phyllis pestered until he * told her what the matter was. “Old Doc Schwartzkopf says that everybody in his osteology class has got to have a skeleton. He's going to teach everybody their bones or break ‘em. He'll do both to me.” “Are skeletons expensive?” asked Phyllis naively. Harry glowered at her. “Can Dr. Schwartkopf make you buy one?” persisted Phyllis. “He can flunk me if T don't.” “When must you have it?” “Before next quarter.” “Oh, heck! That's a long way off. Forget about it until after your birth- day anyway.” The mention of his birthday re- minded Harry of another topic. “Are you coming with me to visit the folks?” “No,” replied his wife stubbornly. “Your folks would rather have you to themselves, so we might as well save train fare.” “Suit yourself,” shrugged Harry. Across the street from the Barclay's was another minute cottage, occupied by the Berry sisters. Nothing ever happened on Cemetery street, but the Misses Berry always sat in their front window, just in case. “Bhouldn’t be surprised if that Mrs. Barclay had some callers, now her husband’s away,” said one Miss Berry with a spinsterish sneer. “She looks like the type,” agreed the other Miss Berry. But they were disappointed. No one came near the Barclay cottage all day long. At dusk, however, Phyllis went out, pulling a little red wagon. “That’s the Mack child’s red wagon!” exclaimed one Miss Berry. “Now where in the world is she going with it?’ “The only place she can go, up that way, is the old settlers’ graveyard,” “‘Why the socks?’ asked Harry.” AFFAIR for a Doctor, Anxiously they watched for Phyl- lis Barclay's re-| turn, and when | she did come back | it was so dark they could scarcely see fier. The little red wagon was heaped with some- | thing. “Dirt for her| flower pots,” the | Misses Berry con- | cluded. i ‘They would have been willing to let | it go at that, but | Saturday evening, again at dusk, | Phyllis sallied forth with the little red wagon, this time with a long plank placed across fit. She was gone longer than before, | but the Berry sis- ters sat patiently in the darkness waiting for her. When Phyllis re- turned they looked carefully, but they could make nothing of the object on the wagon except that it was long enough to cover the entire plank. “Do you suppose——?” began one Miss Berry, but she hadn’t the cour- age to complete the supposition. Late that night a light burned in the basement of the Barclay cot- tage. “She’s certainly filling a lot of flower pots, if it is flower pots,” ob- served a Miss Berry. It was Sunday evening before Mr. Barclay returned to Northchester. He was in the house only & short while before the basement light was switch- ed on. With one accord the Misses Berry put on their coats and hastened across the street. They felt that the extraordinary circumstances fully justified their peeking in the' win- dow. N “Meet an old settler,” Phyllis was saying. “His descendants forgot to call for him when the aldermen de- cided to have him turned out of his last resting place.” The Misses Berry nearly screamed aloud, for on the floor lay a skull and a few dozen other large and gleaming bones that they had no desire to iden- tify. Five black socks flanked this gruesome array. I “Why the socks?” asked Harry. “Four have the bones of the legs and arms,” explained Phyllis, “and one has the vertebra. That's 50 you won't have so much trouble putting them together. This is the second old set- tler I boiled. The first one got all jumbled up and part of it got lost on the way home, so I had to go back and start all over again.” ‘This was enough for the Berry sis- ters. They crept home shuddering. Harry looked at his wife with un- qualified admjration. “To thifik that I used to say women were squeamish!” he chortled. (Copyright. 1935.) Tomorrow: “Sheriff’s Boots,” N. L. Robinson, tells the story of a smali-town police officer whe tripped over his own feet in tracking down a Ry #$readth. This she followed with the by | director of the Pianists’ Club, pre- FEODOR CHALIAPIN, Noted singer, who plays the leading role in “Don Quixote,” opening its | week’s engagement at the Belasco today. [ Naughty Marietta” Wins ‘Top Rank Among Musicals Tuneful Operetta From Pen of Victor Herbert Stars Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald. | Dave Apollon Returns With Stage Show. ITHOUT excessive chest- thwacking or preliminary beating of tom-toms, the Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer people have loosed on a sullen world the most exhilerating musical picture of the current year.| An adaptation of Victor Herbert's | “Naughty Marietta,” this winsome | cinema returned yesterday to Loew's Fox, where some months ago it was previewed by a group of first nighters |in the presence of the star, Nelson | Eddy. and W. S. Van Dyke, the di-/ | rector. | “Naughty Marietta's” claim to fame | is based, as the statesmen like to say. on four salient points. The first of these is the unveiling of Mr. Eddy, a genial and gifted songbird heretofore unwillingly shrouded in obscurity. M-G-M gave him his first chance to shine in the role of a handsome screenland balladier, and in solemn‘ gratitude he never missed a trick. Those who know their carols and cadenzas agree that Mr. Eddy has a fine set of vocal pipes and uses them with audacious skill, while his miming is pleasantly unpretentious. As a melodious _coonskin warrior in the wilds of Louisiana, he assists Miss | Jeanette MacDonald in emphasizing | the second important feature of the film, which is Miss MacDonald’s blos- | soming into a radiant screen canary, free of the unhappy mannerisms which once held in thralldom her work before the camera. Miss MacDonald and Mr. Eddy as a | team also do their share toward round- | ing out the four-square gospel of this sermon in celluloid, proving beyond the shadow of a doubt that M-G-M LAST PIANO CONCERT OF TWELFTH FESTIVAL Two Artists Presented Last Eve- ning by Washington Pianists’ Club. The last concert of the twelfth festival of pianoforte music given by the Washington Pianists’ Club as a prelude to National Music Week was heard last evening in Calvary M. E. Church. The audience was the larg- est of the festival, the three other concerts having been given this week in the same church. The soloists last evening were: Dorothy Hobley, pre- sented by Alice Burbage Hesselbach, and Martha McAdams, artist member of the club, who played the Schu- mann “Concerto in A Minor” as the closing number on the program. Miss McAdams was assisted at the second piano by La Salle Spier, who presented her at the festival of 1926. She has since won four successive scholarships with Rudolf Ganz at the Chicago Musical College. Her performance last evening was worthy a much older pianist, for she played with ease, remarkably good technique and gave an understanding and poetic in- terpretation to the Schumann musie. Her tone is warm and clear and the brilliance of her. scales, cadenzas, ar- peggios and trills was-stirring. The singing quality of her tone enhanced the beauty of the theme and the delicacy of her finger work was beau- tiful. Miss McAdams prepared the concerto to play at the festival last year and was prevented from com- ing to Washington. Miss Hobley, who opened the con- cert last evening, gave her fifth re- cital in these festivals. She played the Bach “Prelude and Pugue in F Minor” from the “Well-Tempered Clavichord” with clarity and delicacy 43 ‘well as artistic shading and Beethoven “Rondo in G Major, 51, No. 2" equally well done, marked difference in the form of com- position from that of the fugue being ‘well brought out. Equally distinctive was her playing of Ravel's “Sonatine” and Liszt’s arrangement of the “Spin- ning Song” from Wagner's “Flying Dutchman” was a brilliant and fin- ished bit of piano playing. Miss Hob- ley’s ;locmg number was the Grieg “Conderto in A Minor,” which she gave with the same ease, finish and good technique which characterized her earlier numbers, Mrs. Hesselbach playing the orchestral part at the sec- ond piano. Katharine McReynolds Morrison, Opus the zented honors at the end of the pro- gram to each of the eight pianists who gave the feséval programs this week. BB can make a successful musical (which the wiseacres denied) and that Mr. Van Dyke is one of Hollywood's most versatile directors, equally able with operettas or opera-hat mystery yarns. No busy scholars of this day have mentioned it, but there is good reason to believe the lost portions of early Athenian drama consisted mostly of musical comedy plots. Or rather, of the plays which, reinvented by later scribes, have forever after served as a shaky framework for some composer’s ballads of love and the lighter whim- sies. The more appealing the songs, of course, the less need for a story— a maxim which automatically excuses any and all of Victor Herbert's defi- ciencies in dramaturgy. “Naughty Marietta” is perhaps a bit less plaus- ible than the average, while retelling the adventures of a royal French | princess who escaped to America in| /& boatload of gifis exported to New | Orleans to become wives of the col- onists. Fleeing from a family-arranged marriage with some noble dolt, she found herself entangled in love's tough webs shortly after her arrival in Amer- ica. The swain was none other than Mr. Eddy, a pirate fighter and bari- tone of the first rank. His conceit and the princesy’ pride led to some pretty quarrels, pouting, reconcilia- tions and duets, all admirably directed and diverting, but “Naughty Marietta” ends on a rather phoney note, with the hero and his bullet-eaters march- ing off with the princess, one and | all chanting “Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life,” which is not exactly the song of the bayou. In all other respects, however, the tale is as legitimate as any historical romance is apt to be, and much more pleasing to the ear. Dave Apollon’s ingenious “Interna- tional Revue” makes its second visit within two months to the Fox stage this week, presenting the indefatiyuble M. Apollon and a troupe of capable singers, dancers and instrumentalists. Notable among these are Gene, De Quincy and Louis, who have fun with an adagfo routine; Danzi Godell, & tap dancer; Luba Malina, who puts lots of Russian moanin’s low into her song numbers; the Seven Arabian Sheiks, a tumbling act; a Danny Dare chorus and Apollon’s famed Hawailan gui- taristas. M. Apollon does every- thing—sings, dances, plays and makes himself agreeable. R.B. P, Jr. NINTH ANNUAL PLAY. The ninth annual Shakespearean production of the Dramatic Club of | American University, “Much Ado About Nothing,” will be presented next Friday night in the gymnasium audi- torium. Will Hutchins, professor of art and ‘dramatic h, is putting the cast of 32 players thfough its final rehearsals. Betty Gray takes the leading feminine role of Beatrice. Duane Covert of Washington plays opposite Miss Gray. Randall Book takes the part of Clau- dio and Ruth Martin Simpson, the role of Hero, while the comedy will be handled by Edward Hopper and Arnold Fort. A student staff assists Prof. Hutch- ins in managing the show. Betty Wheeler is stage manager; assistant stage manager, Frances Page; mistress of properties, Frances Feljows: mis- tress of wardrobe, Jeanne e; as- sistant mistress of wardrobe, Esther Smithy carpenter, William Thompson, and electrician, Herwil Bryant. COLLEGE BAND PLAYS. The College Band of American University will give a concert to- morTow afterncon in the open-air amphitheater on the campus, begin- ning at 4:30. ‘This is the first of a series of an- nual concerts by the college band, and there is & ility that next season the organization, which has been making noteworthy progress, may play a series of weekly concerts. The band of 25 pieces has been under the direction of James M. Thur- mond for the past two years and has played for several college funce tions, but this is the first time it has presented a public program at the outdoor amphitheater. DRAMATIC SOCIAL. Terminating its current-season of activities, the Blackfriars’ Guild will hold another dramatic social Sunday evening at the Burlington Hotel. The program will include an address on the drama, the presentation of a one- play, musical entertainment and % " Glee Club in Reci BY ALICE EVERSMAN, CONCERT donated toward the Longworth Foundation A brought the Cleveland String Quartet to the Library of Congress yesterday afternoon, This organization, composed of Josef- Fuchs and Rudolph Ringwall, violins; Gomez, cello, was added to the list of prominent chamber music groups heard at the Library this year. A particularly happy atmosphere pervaded _the program, which the quartet emphasized by its manner of playing. Haydn's “Quartet in c, Opus 54, No. 2,” was played first, followed by Beethoven's “Quartet in F Minor, Opus 95” and the charming Dohanyi “Quartet, No. 2, in D Fiat, Opus 15.” There is a joyous quality |in this quartet of Haydn's that in- vites participation by the listeners and its exurberance was the chief point never lost sight of in the under. standing reading the four players gave to it., Also full of vitality but expressed in less flowing phrases was the Beethoven number, a positive ex- position of an idea in which little of Beethoven's ordinary poignant feeling is present. In contrast, the Dohanyi work is poetical in the extreme, its first movement immediately carrving one along with its fancy and lyric melody. Throughout the three divi- sions to which the composer confined his writing the same lyric essence moves with a surity of impulse and great grace. The Cleveland organization is com- posed of earnest musicians with a well interwoven unanimity of idea. The concerted tone is unusually mel- low in color, which gives a decidedly human quality to their playing and which was well adapted to the select- ed numbers. It would be interesting to hear them in another type of pro- gram, for there is a youthful flavor in their work that arouses conjecture when considered in relation to more exacting interpretations. As_it was, they provided a recital whicfi placed the audience in a mood of pure en- joyment, one especially welcome at the | end of a rich musical season. * ¥ ¥ ¥ beth Somers Glee Club gathered a rge, friendly audience together for Carlton Cooley, viola, and Victor de | "THE annual concert of the Eliza- | Cleveland String Quartet In Concert at the Library Orgénization Giveg Splendid Program: of Chamber Music—Elizabeth Somers tal Last Evening. the last time in the Elizabeth Somers residence of the Y. W. C. A. last eve- ning. Plans are under way for a new home to replace this popular residence and the concert took on the nature of farewell, as the change to the new | home will probably be affected before the next concert is scheduled. This group of young girls has been well trained by Mary Burnett, who, besides her many activities, has de- voted herself to the formation and development of this choral group. She | has succeeded in retaining the fresn | purity of the voices while interpreting | works of demanding technical pro- ficiency and the harmony of the part | singing is delightful to the ear. Last evening commemoration of three famous composers on which attention is focused this year marked | the program. Handel's “Wher'er You | Walk,” from “Semele,” and Bach's “Deck Thyself, My Soul, With Glad- ness” were given as part of the natal composers, and Sir Edward Elgar's “As Torrents in Summer” commemo- rated England's most outstanding musician. Two numbers by Amer- ican writers, Mrs. H. H. A. Beach's “The Year’s at the Spring” and An- | nabel Morris Buchanan’s “April” were used to open the program. For a cen- ter group Cesar Franck's “The First Smile of May,” Mendelssohn's “The Skylark's Song” and Liza Lehmann'’s “There Are Fairies at the Bottom | of Our Gardan” were chosen, and the | evening concluded with a “Sanctus,” | by Harold Milligan on themes from “Parsifal.” | The soloist of the program was Stanley Sprenger, pianist, whose wife was formerly a member of the Glee | Club. Mr. Sprenger gave a group of Chopin numbers and Ravel's “Jeux | d’eau,” the Moussorgsky-Rachmani- noft “Hopak” and the “Staccato Etud | anniversary celebration of these two |, AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. . G.W. PABST'S "DON QUIXOTE” Sung and spoken in English with George Robey and Sidney Fox “Ome domand i DAVE APOLLON SINTERNATIONAL VARIETIES z “BABY FACE HARRINGTON* with CHARLES BUTTERWORTH EARL CARROLL VANITIES LIONEL BARRYMORE- Ve MARK £ VAMPIR! with ELIZABETH ALLAN by Rubinstein, adding two encores| by request. Mr. Spenger is a well | equipped pianist, playing with a per- sonal enthusiasm and intuitive mu- sicianship. Except for uneven tempi, his interpretations followed the ac- | cepted line and were received with real pleasure and appreciative ac- claim. A short address by Miss Bur: nett and Mrs. Edwin B. Parker con. | cluded the program. WHERE VAMPIRES BITE THE VERY BEST PEOPLE Film at Columbia Shows Habits of Mythical Creatures That Chew Necks. “Mark of the Vampire,* which opened yesterday at the Columbia, is a “horror” picture. It will completely horrify every good citizen who keeps an eye on the works of Hollywood and feels the products of that village should have merit. The film s a fine example of the manner in which the “ broducers of our magic lantern operas | can, on occasion, take an unimpor- +ant story, mount it haphazardly and in this proces obtain inanimate photo- play which will arouse you neither to righteous wrath over its faults nor to high glee over its good points if any. It all starts out when there is a murder, the poor victim being dis- covered with those marks on mis neck which are put on people’s necks by vampires. Some professor comes on | the scene (how or why the story neg- lects to tell) to take charge of the investigation, which he does by giving ordinary orders in a rather mysterious some such brand of flora about the house to ward off the vampires. | bat-weed does not seem to work. how- ever, as the vampires continue to in- notion, the daughter of the murdered man, who has been attacked several times, even becoming so “sold” on the process she is no end happy when the lady vampire drops around for a bit of vamping. Now about the time the daughter learns to like being vampired, things | take a strange twist and people you thought were somebody turn out to be somebody else, and along comes the climax they're bragging about in the ads. But, “Please, don't tell the climax,” ask Messrs. Metro, Goldwyn and Mayer and the Loew family. All this is performed by some very capable players who act for all the world as though they were making a really important movie. Lionel Barrymore does, of course, a rather superb job as the professor who solves the thing. Bela Lugosi is also excel- lent as the boss of the vampires, impolite people who get up in the middle of the night to go around biting folks on the neck. Elizabeth Allan, Jean Hersholt, Lionell Atwill and Donald Meek are some of the other martyre. Tod Browning di- rected. —H. M. Where and When Current Theater * Attractions| and Time of Showing. National—“Accent on Youth,” at 2:20 and 8:20 p.m. Loew’s Fox—"“Naughty Marietta,” at 10:15 am.; 1:05, 4, 6:55 and 9:50 p.m. Stage shows at 12:05, 3, 5:55 and 8:45 pm. Belasco—“Don Quixote,” at 12 noon, 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 pm. Palace — “Cardinal’ Richelieu,” at 11:15 am,, 1:20, 3:25, 5:30, 7:35 and 9:40 pm. R-K-O Keith's—“Bride of Franken- stein,” at 11:15 a.m., 1:08, 2:51, 4:34, 6:27, 8:10 and 10:03 p.m. Earle—“Case of the Curious Bride,” at 10 am., 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:45 and 10:05 p.m. Stage shows at 11:25 a.m., 1:55, 4:25, 6:50 and 9:10 p.m. Columbia—“Mark of the Vampire,” at 12:25, 2:20, 4:15, 6:10, 8:05 and 10 pm. Little—“War Is a Racke.” at 10:30 am., 12:30, 2:30, 4:30, 6:30, 8:30 and 10:30 p.m. Metropolitan—“Go Into Your Dance,” at 11:10 a.m., 1:10, 3:15, 5:20, 7:25 and 9:30 pm. Tivoli—George White's “Scandals, at 2, 4:05, 6:15, 8 and 9:50 p.m. Ambassador—“Love in Bloom,” at 2, 4, 6, 7:50 and 9:35 pm. Howard—“Go Into Your Dance,” at 12:30, 3:55, 7:05 and 10 p.m. Stage shows at 2:40, and 9:05 pm. D T, AT THE GAYETY. Clyde Bates, Jack: Hunt, Lillian Dixon, Mary Weldon, Fred Bishop, Parker Gee, Harry White, Lew Black, Margot Lopez and .Irene Ross will be featured in the I. B. A. burlesque pro- duction, “Broadway Babies,” coming to the OGayety Theater for a one-week beginning | fashion and by scattering bat-weed or | This | vade the chalet whenever they take a | Ingenue | ELINOR SGUEO, Who plays the ingenue role in “Cradle Song,” which the Black- friars’ Guild will present tomorrow afternoon and Monday night at Gonzaga Hall. THE JOLSON FAMILY TRY A SECOND WEEK | Al Jolson ventures before the camera without his blackface disguise in “Go | Into Your Dance,” now at the Metro- | solitan, portraying the role of a Broad- ;‘wny song and dance artist, who has | gone into reverse on the ladder of suc- cess. Popular as the Chinese leprosy with producers and unwilling to harken unto the sage advice of the actor's best friend, Miss Glenda Far- rell, this flippant fellow, Al Howard, is winging into a tailspin, when who should pop up and save him but a lit- tle specialty dancer (Miss Ruby Kee- ler), who has long adored him from afar. The two of them score a great hit in a Chicago night club and eventually Al opens an eat-and-ogle cabaret in New York, after braving some excit- ing complications. It may also be noted that in the end Mr. Jolson and Miss Keeler discover that, like Mr. Coward’s three people, they love each other very much. We regret to say Miss Keeler has to get shot to proge this point, but the bullet only hurt a little bit and she surely didn't mind, since she was right there to watch Mr. Jolson pull a very fine Pagliacei in the final scene, smiling through his tears as true love flowered in his heart. ‘Jolson still is at his best in this film in the black-face numbers, while Miss Keeler shines as she never shone before. Her acting shows much- needed improvement, and she is per- mitted to skip through every sort of fling, fandango and polka in the dance directory. She is,- after all, primarily a dancer, and this is the first chance she has had to prove it. Two important bits in the picture are devoted, rather stingily, to Patsy Kelly, the ace of femme comedians, and Helen Morgan, who tears one sweet song to bits even as she once shredded handkerchiefs. There has also been a great deal of time and mone§ spent on some elaborate but uninspiring chorus routines. 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Leave 3 W Arthur Gedfrey In person and his 12-piece band. FREE PARKING POTOMAC RIVER LINE 6th & Water Sis. District 4248 AT WHARF . C 14th Biennial Exhibition American Oil Paintings Open Un#il May Sth ~ PYUS ADAMS MARVELITE No Better Paint Sold Painters Recommend It The Quality Insures Low Cost NA. 4174 A Complete Selection in Stock See Us for Your Blank Books Phone Waihington Fairfax 37 E. Morrison Paper Co. }Ml Pa. Ave. Phone NA. 13 Scenario by Paul Morand of the ten best of the year” =N._ Y. Herald.Trivune ~Literary Digest Plymouth Theater. “ACCENT ON YOUTH” Next Week Beg. Mon. Seats Now. Broadway’s Reigning Farce Success “PETTICOAT FEVER” THE CROWD And You’ll Land at the 40-Acre MORE THAN FIFTY ATTRACTIONS Including 7 Peppy Rides And the NEW HIT “THE PRETZEL” From ONE 'Til Midnite THREE-HOUR DANCE SESSION STARTS 9 P. M. Gentlemen, ine. tax, 50c; Ladies, 28e A Also JOI “THE LAW | _Final Chapter. ASHTON SCA! HN. WA ESS FRONTIER. _“The Law of the W{ld.” SLARENDON. VA, = N _BLOOM.®USerial and Fopeve. o 11th & N. CAROLINA 12 & X.'c. Ay C. A A MODERN HERO.” CIRCLE BUR: e | _J;‘(‘o%l*%ligleé%}aS‘ m-“TK!: SQUARE “THE Bwrfi%%zg%o"sy ke’ o B IRE PRINCESS MYRNA %xg{yfinzdl.nn PM 3 and CARY GRANT in “WINGS IN THE DARK.” “‘Red Rider.” No. 13 Comeds. " Cartoon. News, e COMIng Next Week— ROMAN MANHATAN. _6th and C Sts. N.E. Finest Sound Eauipment uous From 1:00 P.M TOR and RUTH ETTING in ROMAN SCANDALS " TIM McCOY in “THE WESTERNER. Chapter_11. “The_Law_of the Wil Cont: EDDIE CA Theal B9 Minc. - Aveic Bethesda. Md. 30 P.M. Continuous. W. C. FIELDS and BABY LEROY In IT'S A GIFT.” | Continuous From 1:00 P.M. “WEST OF THE PECOS.” IRENE_DU! i _“AGE OF INNOCENCE.” HIP_E)?DROME“ Near 9th SHIRTEY TEMBLE and Lionel Barrymore in “The Little Colonel.” 1 - MT. RAINIER. Double Feature m McCoy. “Prescott Kid. av Robson. “Mills of the Gods ™ Starting Tomorrow for Five Days SHIRLEY TEMPLE in “The Little Colonel.” Cont. Daily, 6 to 11 P.M. Cont. Sun., 3 to 11 P.M. ARCADE ™3TTRVREE, Buck Jones. “The Crimson Trail. Prances_Drake._“Transient Lady." A RICHMOND Atexa Ronald Colman AMBASSADOR i BURNS and ALLEN in __BLOOM.” _Mickey Mouse. APOLLO %47 5t Double Feature Show Starts EDWARD_G. ROBIN: - il M irection of SIDNEY LUS =] WARNER BROS. THEATERS ___ “BABOGNA AVENUE GRAND 3¥' 17 A% L1 ble Feature Show Starts 1: McCOY in “REVENGE VALLACE PORD, S 0Y 4t St & CoL ma N.W. SAV “SEQUOIA.” 'nvoLl 14th “i:gl.hl:n-o. R4.N.W. Matinee, 2:00 P DUNN and ITE'S SCANDALS oOF JEL PARI 2 JESSE THEATER g% ¥z RICHARD ARLEN. HELLDORADO. BOB STEELE in ' BIG CALIS BERNHEIMER’S ‘ w3 < SALLY EILERS in “CARNIVAL. TOM BROWN in “BAC R OF ARTS” Matinee 1:00 P.M. * PALM THEATER = F*® SHIRLEY LIONEL BARRYMORE in. “The Little Colonel.” Matines at 3:00 P, I3