The Washington times., 1928-10-22
LON CHANEY IS
FEATURED In
GREAT BILL

Hats OF to Mr. GndHSyS WHO'
"While the City Sleeps" flat
foots into Loew's Palace for the
current week. sans makeup other
than a few more lines in his
already deeply lined face.
Metro-G Goldwyn.Mayer, playing
the mode for the so-called under.
world pictures, strikes OIL
dozen mediocre screen offerings
of the type In this newest addi'
ton to an already long list.
The story is of that little.knoWn
group of men. deadly Toes to the
gangsters. the plain clothes men,
picked from all ranks or life,
and in this Instance a hard
yisaged. keen-minded. straight.
shooting. Irishman, Dan Coghlan.
whose methods are rough, but
sure. and whose heart is as corr
respondingly gentle. Orders are
to get certain murderer. and
the execution of the orders be.
comes exciting reality to the
audience, as this Coghlan follows
a nunch through unseen danger,
danger that almost screams its
presence; but Coghlan, with ach-
ing feet and grim determination
goes dogged1y on until the net
closes and gets his man.
The picture is packed with
thrills, the scent OF danger. and
such situations as are highly
probable under stress OF this
nature. The picture is almost a
one-man picture, for while the
characters are numerous, and the
police, much in evidence at the
psychological moment, we, are
spared that racing roaring bat
TALON of armored cars and num-
berless machine guns, that
climaxed so many similar films.
The love interest. and comedy
relief to the tenseness of the
drama, are plentiful.
Lon Clancy. always to be de-
pended upon to give the charac-
ter deep understanding and in
sight. tells his story in simple,
forceful and direct manner.
Anita Paige, who has done SUR
prisingly well this last year, and
Carroll Nye, who reminds one of
the lamented Bobby Harron, are
sincere and appealing as the
young lovers. Wheeler Oakman.
looking startlingly like the one
and only Gilbert. gives smooth
performance. as the gangster.
Polly Moran. as Mrs. McGinnis.
who runs a respectable roomin'
house, furnishes the laughs that
balance the picture.
The synchronization Is almost
perfect. This reviewer saw the
picture through and then. from
the Promenade, followed the story
by sound only, checking at the
end OF 20 minutes to find the
tally o. k
Mr.. Eddy leads the Palace Syn
copators through the John MUIR
ray Anderson production, Blue
Grass" in his usual snappy man.
ner and gives a demonstration OF
the versatility OF q plain, wood
cutting saw that gives both Mr..
Eddy and the audience couple
of chuckles. Blue Grass" is all
about Louisville and the Ken
lucky Derby mot to be confused
with a certain w. k. brown One)
The Foster Girls. about a dozen
of them, do clever number that
is in the nature of a surprise; the
Slate boys Ia trio) give some of
the best tap-dancing Of the year:
Coleman Goetz hands out line
of chatter that gets not a few
round laughs; George Griffin sings
and Rosette does a toe dance;
Irene Wolfe sings the title song,
and for a finale we are permitted
to see a real horse race.
Fox Movietone News gives shots
of current events, Mr.. Gaige at
the console. renders the theme
song for the Palaces feature,
and Mr.. Borjes and his men oblige
with selections from Rio Rita"
Last, but by no means least. is
a short feature film from UFA,
called killing the Killer" and it
is the most remarkable bit of nat
ural history that has, so far,
reached the screen. Almost an
epic I'm it's intensity.
This is a big show and "com-
plete entertainment" is a good
slogan for this weeks offering at
the Pa1ace.-T. K. 7.