The Washington times., 1927-07-02

NATIONAL - Love EN- and
Leave En-" the Broadway sue.
cess, authored by John v. A.
Weaver, whose poems, In Amer.
ica," are familiar to the reading
public, win be next weeks offer.
ing by the National Players. This
play ran for 200 performances in
New York at $3.50 top.
George Abbott, author Of THE
Fall Guy" collaborated with Weav.
er in making this piece one Of the
laughing hits Of last season.
The action passes chiefly in q
boarding house, frequented by de.
partment store clerks. There is the
shrewish landlady, her bald-headed
shiftless husband, jamie Walsh, a
pretty little vamp; Miss Streator,
the efficiency expert, who is always
organizing something, and dozen
other motley exhibits from Gins
berg's department store.
The prize laugh comes in the
third act when the employees re.
hearse the stores annual show"
In addition to the comedy, there Is
a. love theme and g. dramatic Sc.
ouence wherein the funds collected
for the annual production disap-
pear.
KEITH'S-Not satisfied with
starting the summer season with
Keith Koolies" and bargain mat.
inees, Manager Robbins, Of B. F.
Keith's Theater. has prepared q
triple headlined bill for next
week.
The first headliner is William
Kent and Company in his own
surprise comedy, "Shivers." The
second is the team Of sensational
society dancers, Margot and Ger
ry, who will appear with Meyer
Davis LIE Paradis Band. Cara
Jacobo, the operate star. Is the
third headliner.
The featured act for the week
is the team of Barto and Mann,
"ths Laugh Kings" Two more
comedians, Ed Lord and 81 Wills,
viii follow. They bill themselves,
Wanted by DISQUALIFICATION the
Police"
Comedy dancing will be offered
by Reed and Duthers..
Boganny's comedians will be
seen in Fun in q Bake Shop"
Murand and Girton, Variety Cy.
clists," will open the show and
the usual screen features will
complete the program.
EARLE-F'rank and Milt Brit
toms Brown Derby Band will
headline the Fourth of July week
bill at the Earle Theater begin
ming tomorrow. The Brittons will
supply the musical specialties and
Roy LOOMS will offer Q group
Of sensational dances.
The added attractions will be
supplied by O'Dunne and Daye
in cupid Behave; Watkins
Cirque Petite; Mae Francis, musi-
cal comedy songstress, and Ben
Rodero and Dan Maley.
The photoplay feature for the
new week win be Paradise for
Two" with Richard Dix in the
stellar role, supported by Betty
Bronson. The short reel comedy
subject will be "a Dogs Pal"
and Kilograms also viii be shown.
The program will be rounded out
by the customary house features.
PALACE-A young woman who
leaves broken box office records
land q few hearts, tool behind
wherever her name is placed In
burning lights, arrives at Loew's
Palace tomorrow in her second Par
amount picture, Cabaret" Who
is she? None other than Gilda
Gray!
On the same program will be
seen and heard two of Americas
foremost musical comedy stars,
Joseph Santley and Ivy Sawyer.
supported by a group of speciality
dancers in q musical fantasy en-
titled. Book Lovers"
As a night club entertainer,
Gilda plays a new screen role.
Cabaret" is an unusual tale Of
an unusual cross-section of an
unusual town. Gilda, the star
Of a midnight show, is loved by
a detective and bounded by a
gang leader who has a mysterious
hold on her young brother. The
production reaches its high point
when the boy shoots his nemesis
in self.defenSe and Gilda half
dances, half carries, the wounded
youth through a crowd Of revel.
ers, out the front door and on to
well, that will be disclosed when
Cabaret is shown.
An unusual novelty, staged and
lighted by Colby Hartman, and
played by Tom Cannon and
Loew's Palace Concert Orchestra,
will be an additional feature on
the program.
RIALTO-The Rialto promises
picture patrons that they will
chortle gloriously and continuously
when Charlie Murray and George
Sidney appear in their new comedy
screen feature, Lost at the Front"
today. According to advance
reports, it is one of the most hilari.
Gus comedies of the world war
ever made.
Such things as the radio inven.
ton that was supposed to aid Ger
many to win the war, the efforts
of a New York cop to get 1t away
from his friend, Krause, the saloon
keeper; their adventures in Rus.
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