Evening Star Newspaper, September 30, 1935, Page 42

C-8 AMUSEMENTS. Cecil B. DeMille Still Our Most Colorful Historian “The Crusades” Offers Ideal Material for His Genius—“Top Hat” Leaves R-K-O Keith’s BY ROBERT B. PHILLIPS, JR. ECIL B. DeMILLE, our most excited historian of Christianity, has produced an unforgettable spectacle in “The Crusades.” Without benefit of bathtubs or chicanery he has chronicled in heroic terms one of the most amazing punitive expeditions in history. Those who have always insisted that Mr. DeMille portrayed the sacraments whilst cocking one eye steadily at the box office will find only mild support for their argu- ments in his latest extravaganza. It< is perhaps the most straightforward | ,;,e nfega) “for the most outstand- of his ostentations endeavors, and by | |ing picture for family audiences,” the nature of its material fits more |lnd as & mark of distinction, & spe- honestly into a DeMille pattern than | his previous attempts to explain wnat | a tough life it was to be a Christian when the Roman emperors owned so many hungry lions. In other words, Mr. DeMille struck his happy hunting ground when he decided to depict that strange, half- religious, half-barbaric crusade tu re- capture Jerusalem from the Saracens. There was a virile, romantic and semi-mystical war, one in which thousands fought because they merely wanted to get into a scrap, and others laid down their lives in the fond be- lief that they were martyrs to # divine principle. It is in this mixture of worldliness end inspiration that Mr. DeMille finds the most satisfactory medium fof the expression of his genius. A Richard Couer de Lion ~—brawny, courageous, brusque, ul'er- nately tender and cruel, is the model hero for the DeMille epics. When his murderous conquests are crowned with | the humbleness of faith, he becomes the typical Titan not only of the | - classic movies but of all civilization. * R ‘HE CRUSADES” encompasses bat- 3 tle scenes simultaneously of such “ndless detail and infinite massiveness hat it is impossible to hint at their magnificence. that no war is so bloodthirsty as a holy war, and the producer of “The | Crusades” never forgets it. Neither does he neglect one element of the drama inherent in man-to-man com- bat (as opposed to the long-range methods of slaughter, which com- pletely obliterate millions and send millions of others home to write novels about foes they never saw). The pageantry of violence is the most beautiful in the world, and in warfare 1t becomes so intensified that even the gentle Robert E. Lee was once moved | to remark, after a spectacular battle | and victory, “it is good that war is so cruel, that we may therefore not learn to love it too well.” Although that is its most pleasing aspect, the whole of “The Crusades” is not devoted to battle. The picture at the National Theater this week also tells a pretty little love story of King Richard and Berengaria, Princess of | Navarre, whom he married because he wanted her father’s cattle for his army | and her father wanted the girl to be- come Queen of England. So bored | with the idea of a wife that he sends his sword to the wedding ceremony as his proxy, Richard later became en- amoured of the handsome French lass and decided that he must be fighting | for love of her. When she was cap- tured by the enemy's great Salndm‘ (who incidentally is by far the more | attractive of the two warriors), Rich- | ard plunged heedlessly into that lead- | er's camp, was himself taken, but| emerged again with his queen—on ac- count Saladin thought they were both nice people. Mere individuals are somewhat minor concerns in “The Crusades,” but Henry Wilcoxon handles the role of | Richard with some conviction and a generous splash of the heroic school of | histrionics; Loretta Young is still one | of the three most beautiful women on | the modern screen and likewise still not much of an actress, and the others | are quite equal to the tasks set for | them. * ok % x MORROW will offer your last | opportunity to see Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dance to Irving Berlin's music at Keith's. “Diamond Jim,” the film based on the life of | the Broadway figure of the late | nineties, opens Wednesday, and Hardie Meakin is expecting another long run. He has been getting phone calls for days asking when “Dia- | mond Jim” opens. The new Keith film stars Edward Arnold, who once was with the National Players. The month-and-a-day run of “Top Hat” does not equal the records set by “Roberta” and “It Happened One Night” for length of engagement, but 10,000 more people have paid to see it while it was here. Keith’s also will have the Dionne quintuplets short subject while “Dia- mond Jim” is being shown. . % % THE Metropolitan also deserts Fri- day as opening day this week, bringing in Claudette Colbert’s latest comedy success, “She Married Her ’ Boss,” to replace “Little Big Shot,” which seems to have Sybil Jason and not much else. The Colbert film opens tomorrow. * %k ¥ x MAX REINHARDT'S production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” has been awarded the Parent's Maga- Where and When Current Theater Attractions and Time of Showing. Loew’s Fox—"“Bonnie Scotland,” at 11 am, 1:40, 4:30, 7:15 and 10 p.m. Stage shows at, 12:30, 3:20, 6:05 and 8:50 pm. Earle—"Two for Tonight” at 11 am., 1:30, 4:15, 7:10 and 9:55 p.m. Stage shows at 12:30, 3:20, 6:15 and 9 pm. Palace—“Call of the Wild” at 11:75 am, 1:30, 3:30, 5:35, 7:35 and 9:35 pm. Metropolitan—“Little Big Shot,” at 11:25 am, 1:25, 3:30, 5:35, 7:40 and 9:45 pm. Belasco—“The Clairvoyant,” at 12:20, 2:19, 4:18, 6:11, 8:10 and 10:03 p.m. Columbia—“Thunder in the Night.” at 11:15 am, 1, 2:50, 4:35, 6:25, 8:15 and 10 p.m. R-K-O-Keith’s —"Top Hat” at 11:58 a.m., 2:22, 4:46, 7:10 and 9:35 pm. “March of Time” at 11:32 am.,, 1:56, 4:20, 6:44 and 9:08 p.m. Ambassador—“Two for Tonight,” at €:15, 8:10 and 10 p.m. Tivoli—“Alice Ad&ml. at 2, 3:50, 5:40, 7:35 and 9:35 p.m. ; 'ronr 'rszml “The Food' That Ppoes Not ‘Depend on Its Marvelous Atmosphere. Every Night Dinners, 85¢ & $1 Sunday De Luxe $1.00 Luncheon 80c.& Up Metropelitan 9428 There is an old saying | cial four-palm insignia has been added to the medal. The world pre- mieres of the film will take place in New York and Londgn on the evening of October 9, and the pic- ture opens its road-show engagement here October 27 at the National. * ok ok x TWO former Washingtonians have joined the Associated Actors’ Theater, Inc., which now is in re- hearsal in High View, N. Y., for its Fall repertoire and will later go on a cross-country tour which will take it eventually to the Pacific Coast. The Washington players with the group are Leonard Mikules, who was active in dramatics at Central High School, and Theodora Pleadwell, who for- merly was associated with Eva Le | Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theater. * kX ok NOTHER famous actor has retired. Flush, the pooch who co-starred | with Katharine Cornell in her pro- duction of “Barretts of Wimpole Street,” and who heretofore has ac- | companied the actress on all her tours, will not travel with the “Romeo | and Juliet” troupe. The retirement is to protect Flush's health, accord- |ing to Miss Cornell. STUNT FLYEI.% KILLED Norman Zuck’s Plane Dive to | Ground in Taking Off. | By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ga., September 30.— Norman F. Zuck of Cleveland, Ohio, | fiying in a two-day air show here, was | killed yesterday when his monoplane | | crashed as he was taking off for a | stunt flight. Zuck crashed in front of a large number of people gathered at the municipal airport to watch the show. Zuck’s wife witnessed his death. Ralp Swaby, manager of the air- port, said the ship went into a dive when it had reached a height of be- tween 150 and 200 feet, and crashed | nose first. | The plane burst into flames and the body of Zuck was burned badly before | | it could be removed. Silver Driven Out. An act of Congress of 1834 estab- lished the coinage ratio of 16 to 1 between silver and gold, which drove | silver from the country. Comes Here RUDY VALLE ‘Will appear personally with his orchestra at the Shoreham Hotel tomorrow night to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the opening. Valle and his Connecticut Yankees also played at the first night five years ago. Are best served at Wash- Avenue, largest plants in the East. Get our LOW esti- QUALITY BAM BOO ROOM We Have the BLANK BOOKS Stocl( at Popular Prices orruon Paper Co. Pa. Ave. l’hone NA. 29“ COAL | HUFNAGEL COAL CO. South Wash., Va., at Va. 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De Mille epic, which had its grand opening It will stay here a week. “COLLEGE CUTIES” SEEN IN GAYETY BURLESQUE| June Morgan, Dancer, Shows Ease and Grace in Her Fine Routine. “(OLLEGE CUTIES,” Independent Burlesque Association produc- tian, which yesterday came to the Gayety, will bring no new devotees to burlesque, but it may please the rabid fans who don't seem to want much and seem to be appeased if a couple of girls show off in the proper man- ner, and a couple of comedians tell the old gags which they understand. ‘There is just one performer in the cast who merits any superlatives and she merits them. This is Miss June Morgan, dancer, whose advance billing lives up to the word. Miss Morgan performs acrobatic and control rou- tines with an ease and grace that are a delight to the eye. She does one bit of control work that is near tops for any stage and you probably will not see her work topped at the Gayety this season. The rest of the cast is made up of $0-50 performers, doing a so-so show. The femigine specialty artists are okay and, that the boys (including this one) who made remarks about Ann Corio’s vocal efforts wronged burlesque’s lead- ing lady. Alongside these gals Miss Corio is a prima donna. The one who can deliver a song without sending chills up your spine is June Rhodes and the two others are Pat Morgan, upon the eyes, and Joan Collette, a EREEERENRE A RERERNRENRRENNSAREY KNOW THE TRUTH Leese’s B BENIRER About vour eves. the ordinary kind. =M. A. LEESE Optical Co. 614 Sth St. N. shirts, at 7 ‘week. Albert R. MacKenzie, Pres. {ndicated she was “sensational.” She | vith one exception, prove | & blond lass who is not at all hard | Washington favorite. ‘They all do pas- sably well. The comedy is by Jack La Mont, | Jack Rosen and Harry Reed, none of | whom does anything to indicate he is capable of taking the comedy lead in a burlesque show. Charlie Schuitz helps as much as a good straight man can help and Reed does a series of | imitations which are better than average. | “College Cuties” is well staged. the production numbers being done before attractive and lavish sets by a chorus which for the most part is decorative. The girls have bright, fresh costumes, | too, so the ensemble department of | the show is fine all around. H. M. Railroad Builder Dies. LOS ANGELES, September 30 (#) ~—John T. Twohy, 70, pioneer railroad builder, died here yesterday. construction firm of Twohy Bros. of Portland. During his association with the company it built parts of the Northern Pacific, Great Northern and West. DRAWN FROM | Special! CUSTOMERS SEWED,NO SKIMPING TRADE MARKED OAK Shoes Dyed i Any Coler 15¢ Grand Central Valet 1342 New York Ave. Ladi Heel EVERYTHING Washed and Ironed Ready to Use For Only 12¢ per Lb. 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Claude Rains is excellent in the Reading Peril. ONCE you accept the premise upon which “The Clairvoyant,” current attraction at the Belasco, is based, it | becomes an absorbing and dramatic | motion picture. The original basis for the film is| the clairvoyant power possessed by a voung vaudeville performer with a mind-reading act when he comes under the occasional spell of a per- scnable young lady, who seems to be quite nice otherwise. On certain occa- sions throughout the picture Claude Rains, who is the vaudeville mind- reader, looks straight into the rather of prediction, which enable him to foretell the winner of the derby and a couple of catastrophes. It is very hard to believe that all this actually could occur, and you no doubt would have to see it with your own (we eyes somewhere other than on the screen in a movie theater be- fore admitting the chap had powers of claairvoyance, but if you will agree for a moment that perhaps Miss Bax- ter is some sort of a she-Svengali and | perhaps Mr. Rains is rignt in tunc | with her. there will be entertainment suspence of “The Clairvoyant.” The eerie tale is swiftly paced and has 2 ot of thrills. Rains discovers his weird clairvoyant powers he foretells the wrecking of a train on which he is riding and pulls the emergency cord, stopping it. The train goes on, of course, and gets smashed into small nieces, whereupon the clairvoyant gent becomes famous. His next job is a small one, calling a 100-1 shot to win the derby, but the climax to his future-reading comes when he foretells a disaster in a tun- nel being constructed under the Thames. 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GAITHERSBURF, September 30 (Special). —The Alumni Association hold a benefit dance in the school auditorium here Friday evening, Oc- tober 5, from 9 until 12. Mrs. Rus- sell Gloyd heads the committee. AMUSEMENTS. court, looks him in the eye and he | | Miss Baxter is good in_her role and | of the Gaithersburg High School will | NTS. M’ADOO IS REPOR RECOVERING RA By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, September 30. Steady improvement was noted yes terday in the condition of Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, injured in an automobile accident Thursday. His nurses said that although if has not heen determined when hef will leave the Good Samaritan Hos. pital, his strength is returning fast. The Senator suffered a broken noé and chest bruises in the accident. Saturday he was given a telegram rom President Roosevelt which read: “Sorry to hear of your accident but glad to know it is not serious.| Regret you cannot be with us a Boulder Dam. Affectionate regards. | “FRANKLIN D. 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