The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-20
What's Just
Ahead In
Heaters

Three years ago an entirely new
school of stage slang was orig1
mated when a certain comedy
called us Eat SOP" was disclosed
to q gaping public. Since then
James Gleason, who wrote 1t III
collaboration with Richard Tabor
has branched out on his own
and written THE Shannons OF
Broadway which Crosby Gaige
and Earle Boothe will present at
the Shubert -Belasco Theater for
an engagement of one week be-
ginning Sunday night, October rs.
This snappy saga OF two vaude-
Williams stranded in thick"
town is in the matchIess colloquial
tradition established by Gleason
and fairly coruscates with bril-
liant and striking inventions Of
language. These are. provocative
OF as much mirth as the delightful
situations, and are fully az mem
orable.
Next week the Fox will play Its
first Warner Brothers Vitaphone
picture, Women They Talk
About The theater has been
equipped since its opening with
both the Fox Movietone and the
Vitaphone apparatus and have
selected the Warner picture be.
cause OF its reported particular
merit as the first TO be presented
with the Vitaphone talking
sequences. The picture Is what
I is commonly known as taller.
Next weeks attraction at the
Strand Theater. billed as THE
Social Maids" brings with 1t
record OF success in other cities.
and III said to be replete nth
snappy songs. clever dancing,
and rapid.fire comedy. Chuck
Wilson and Betty Abbott are
featured, and there is chorus Of
20 hand-picked beauties.
For the week beginning Satur.
day. October "a. the Metropolitan
Theater will offer as its major
screen offering the epic OF the
air, Lilac Time" featuring Col
leen Moore and Gary Cooper.
This Ia the picture which recently
scored a big hit at the Earle The
alter and will be presented at this
theater for one week only. Mu-
steal accompaniment and sound
effects add to the effectiveness of
the picture.
Dorothy Mackaill and Jack Null
hall will be the pictured screen
stars at the Earle Theater for the
week beginning with the midnight
Waterfront. Added Vitaphone
showing Friday. October 26. in a
First National comedy special.
subjects and the usual house fea.
lures win complete the program.
Bebe Daniels will be seen at
Loew's Palace next week in her
latest Paramount picture. Take
Me Home" On the stage, Charles
Niggemeyer's unit Bars and
Stripes" will present Wesley Eddy,
his Palace Syncopators, and
cast of well.known artists.
The most sensational sound pic.
ture yet produced, white Shad-
ows,'' will be the next attraction
at Loew's Columbia. The picture
is having long run at road show
prices in New York now. 1t was
filmed in the South Seas.
One of the most famous stage
melodramas has been brought to
the screen as a sound picture in
1.-The Whip" the First National
picture. which comes to the RialtO
for the week starting Saturday,
October q.
Dorothy Mackaill plays the fea-
tured feminine role with an un-
usually strong cast of supporting
players, including Ralph Forbes,
Lowell Sherman. Anna Q. Neils-
son, Marc McDermott, Albert
Gran and others.
The Vitaphone experimentation
and sound effects are said to be
finely executed in The Whip.
"Dracula," comes to Washington
at the National Theater. October
20, with an international stamy
of approval, having ran for four
years in Europe and one one solid
season at the Fulton Theater,