Evening star., 1928-11-05
OPENING ATTRACTIONS IN WASHINGTON
THEATERS
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sordidness of everyday ranch life, anc
even the howl of storm terrified dos
are brought to eye and ear with ORA
matte realism.
Lefty receives the attentions of three
men, one an INSCRIPTIONS cattle trader
who confesses that he is married. and
Lige and Sourdough who at least are
honorable in their intentions and dis
! play an equal amount of ardor and
sartorial deficiency. Forced by hel
cousins wife to marry one of them
she chooses Lige liars Hansenn), and
then comes the mental struggle be-
tween the two whose temperaments are
absolutely incompatible: their com.
bined struggle against wind, famine and
human treachery and what one is ex-
pected to believe happy ending.
Lars HanSenn gives a very effective
impersonation of the character of Iige
Hightower and Dorothy Cummings and
| Montagu Love have prominent parts.
| Wesley Eddy, master of ceremonies,
was not able to officiate Saturday after
noon because of an attack of illness.
and Charles Manning. Loew-Publix rep
resentative, directed the stage orchestra
during the presentation of the stage
program, step On It." or "A Cruise
Around the World" Pail Mall black
| face artist, acted as master of cere-
monies and scored hit with his sing
ing of Sonny Boy" initiating AL Joison.
The Felicia Sorel Girls appear in sew
eral spectacular numbers, wearing at
tractlve Dutch costumes in one and
representing Roman warriors in an
other. Bud and Jack Pierson, eccentric
dancers, give two very good acts:
Burnoff and Josephine give two spIen-
dld demonstrations of grace and agility
one in Spanish costumes and Helen
Wright, soprano, sings A short reel.
"A Great Moment in Foot Ball" with
organ accompaniment, and the news
reels complete an unusual program
KEITHS-"The Street of Illusion"
Two headliners are offered at Keith's
this week, one silent, in the form of
an unsynchronized feature picture,
The Street of Illusion" starring Vir-
ginia Valli, and the other noisy being
general 'whoopee" revue with those
spontaneous clowns. Ole Olsen and Chic
johnson, who have their own way of
bring down the house"
The Street of Illusion" is heavy
drama. dealing fittingly enough with
back-stage life, in that the street" is
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which it is built is one of those obvious
triangle affairs where three are lust
one too many, with tragedy as the re-
salt Virginia Valli Ian Keith and
Kenneth Thomson play the three leads
convincingly, even to the point of max
ing the film tense and entertaining
In direct contrast to the gloomy effect
of the picture is the stage show, called
Merry Mad Minutes of Monkey Busi-
ness which turns out to be a series
of fast moving scenes with Olsen and
Johnson merrily mastering the bedlstn
ceremonies. These two wisecrackers,
who refresh our memories of the two
a-day when 1t was in its prime, lose no
time in starting the fireworks, and with
the aid of their confederates planted
all over the theater, soon have the
place filled with smoke, laughter and
what not. And if applause means sue
cess. then this revue should be crowned
king of them all, for it actually took
the customers by storm.
An unusually interesting Pathe News,
reproducing some of the more me-
morable shots" taken from 1911 to
1928. or from Theodore Roosevelt to
the Graf Zeppelin, and Mack Sennett
comedy complete the bill.