Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-02
METROPOLITAN-"UncIe Toms
Cabin"

INSTRUMENTATION Toms
Cabin"
Uncle Toms Cabin" heralded as
one of the greatest of the photoplays,
will be seen for the first time on
Washington screen this week at Gran
dalls Metropolitan.
Over 100000 was spent in making
Universals photo-dramatiZation of Har-
riet Beecher Stoves novel and it re-
quired 10 months for the actual film
ing. More than five thousand players
appear in the massive production.
Harry Pollard directed uncle Toms
Cabin" which also is noteworthy in
that it is presented with complete
movietone synchronized musical accom-
paniment and with sound effects.
The most pretentious sets ever erect
ed at Universal City, exact replicaS of
actual homes in the South, were made
for the Shelby, st. Clare and Legree
plantations.
The cast is noted one, headed by
Margarita Fischer, Arthur Edmund
Carew, George Siegmann, Lucien Lit
tlefield, John Roche, Gertrude Aston,
Nelson Mcdowell and James B. Lowe.
PALACE-"Moran of the Marines"
Richard Dix in Moran of the
Marines" is the film attraction now at
Loew's Palace. Ruth Elder, the pretty
aviatrix, is seen opposite Dix, who
plays the part of an irresponsible
youngster who excites his uncle's ire
by getting into Jail. He wants to go to
China because the girl he has fallen"
for Is going there, so he selects the
United States Marine Corps to send
him there. What he hasn't discovered,
however, is that the young lady is the
daughter of the Marine general. He
gets court-martialed for kissing the
generals daughter and it is only after
a thrilling fight with Chinese bandits,
when he saves her, that he is restored
to the good graceS OF all.
On the stage Wesley Eddy is cele-
brating his first anniversary as master
of ceremonies by being featured in John
Murray Anderson's production "Stars,"
in which Jack Powell, Evans & Perez,
Lyndon & Farman, the Gamby-Hale
Girls, the Palace Syncopators and
others participate.
Added attractions include an overture
production by the Palace Concert Or
cheStra, prologue number, Charles
Gaige at the organ, the M-G-M News,
the Fox Movietone News and other
features.
FOX-"Win That Girl"
Way back in the old days in the
small college towns many an author
there secured the inspiration for the
then best sellers. A more modern au-
thor wrote a story that recently ap-
peared in the Saturday Evening Post.
He called 1t Father and Son." William
Fox purchased the motion picture
rights, and the Fox Theater gets the
film version today as win That Girl"
Youth in all its glory dominates
every moment of the feature. Sue Carol
and David Rollins are the principal
players.
The stage portion of the program will
take on added interest in the advent of
another group of 16 dancing girls re-
Gently featured in one of the bigger
Broadway revues. In "Mirth Festival"
the current attraction, in addition to
the featured dancing girls, will be Hall
and Leslie, comedians: Ray Evans, laugh
producer; Stroud Twins, dancing stars;
Roy Shelton, an acrobatic dancer; the
Four MoSconi Dancers, and Mildred La
Sale, singer of blues.
A colorful overture and many inter-
News, which speaks for ITSELF" will
complete the bill.
COLUMBIA-"The Woman Disputed"
Norma Talmadge, Gilbert Roland
and Arnold Kent are featured at
Loews Columbia for second week in
the United Artists Synchronized pic
ture, THE Woman Disputed" The
story revolves around the triangle, two
of them dear friends, one q Russian
and the other an Austrian, and girl
of the streets. The men befriend the
girl and take an interest in her, and
she, under their influence, turns
towards reformation. When war is
declared between the countries of the
former friends they find themselves,
also, for both love the girl. Later the
one who has lost her seeks to revenge
himself on the one she loves. How
the girl saves her country is unfolded
in the climax.
Johnny Marvin, Victor recording
artist, featured in musical novelties,
and Odette Myrtle of musical comedy
fame, appear in two Metro Movietone
acts. The Fox Movietone News, the
M-G-M News, a color classic, When
Dreams Come True" and other bits
complete the program.
LITTLE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Of the
Bear"
This afternoon there comes to the
Little Theater the latest production of
the Sovkino studios of Russia, the or
ganization that has given to the film
world "Potemkin," Gear Ivan the Ter
rible" and THE End of st. Petersburg"
1t is called 1.-THE Marriage of the Bear"
described as a daring study of a strange
and mysterious passion encountered
centuries ago in certain family of the
Russian ariStocracy.
The film is claimed to bear a close
resemblance to the novel, "Dracula,"
being laid in the same locale, and also
being adapted from an ancient legend.
The story concerns the Counts of
Shemet, one of whom. his mother hav-
ing been frightened by bear before
his birth. grows up with the character
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