Evening star., 1928-10-15
OPENING ATTRACTIONS In WASHINGTON
THEATERS
THEATERS

week. While the pictures Is a "talkle
IN the earlier part, the house orchestra
fills in for more than the last half
leaving only the few final shots to the
| mercy of the Vitaphone and dialogue
writer. Otherwise, the synchroniZation
is as near perfect as it has been to
date, and while it is used to advan-
tage. the voices being excellent. the
most exciting and effective sequences
are left unsynchronized.
Myrna 10y is quite capable in the
title role. less exotic perhaps, but far
prettier than usual. However, she puts
over bit of the old Myrna in the
parts wnere she impersonateS no.
torious gang women and uses her flare
for the bizarre and mysterious. Conrad
Nagel, the twin brother of suicide
who aids the police by taking over his
brothers identity. uses his exceptionally
fine voice and his equally good acting
talents in a difficult role. The part of
the chief, around whom the whole
plot revolves, a gangSter with the in
evitable sense of grim humor and a
weakness for peanuts, is assigned to
William Russell. George Stone, the
end man of numerous gang pictures, is
also in the cast in a role which should
swell his fan mail considerably
If one can overlook some forced
situations, "State Street Sadies" should
prove a real thriller" The picture has
several things to recommend it. 1t is
fairly restrained, has number of orig
inal gags" and has no theme song.
The first synchronized AeSop Fable
is shown this week with Score that
is humorously done. A Slapstick bit
about a chiropractor who is also
Jealous husband, and patter songs by
the popular vaudevillian, Kitty Doner,
complete the Vitaphone attractions.
The news reel affords some excellent
glimpses of the Episcopal convention,
and the orchestra plays southern
Rhapsody" of HoSmer. the usual col
lection of Southern airs ending with
Dixie
PALACE-"The Sawdust Paradise"
Esther Ralston is starred in THE
Sawdust Paradise" a Paramount sound
picture founded upon the rivalry be-
tween a travelling circus and an old
time religious revival On the stage
Wesley Eddy and his Palace Synco-
pators present Frank Cambria's ex-
uuisite Loew-Publix production, "BeauX
Art FrolicS."
Miss Ralston as Glory, ballyhoo
girl, is arrested for cheating her gull
lible public. Her fiance, Reed Hawes
tries to save her from the ignominy of
Jail sentence and fails. Then the
white-haired evangelist Robert BoS-
WORTH, who has a rival show, but of
a different kind, intercedes in her be-
half and the Judge paroles her to him
for a period of 80 days.
Glory comes under better influences
than she has ever known before and
she becomes Rev. Isaiah Morgan's most
Jealous assistant. A woman, bearing
all the marks of extreme poverty. dies
soon after her conversion and leaves
baby in Glory'S charge. Ut may he
said here that this chubby, open-eycd
tot proved to be one of the most nat
ural and popular actors seen on the
screen for some time.)
Tom Mcclure. Mary Alden and Alan
Roscoe appear in the supporting cast.
Sound devices are used very effectively
to give the atmosphere appropriate in
circus and in revival meeting, al
though no dialogue is used.
"Beaux Art Frolics" features Earl
and Bell, hilarious comedians; Paul
Kirkland, Nino Fucile, Bryant, Rains
and Young, adagio dancers, in an act
of unusual merit; the Candy Hale
Girls in two splendid numbers, and
ends with an especially spectacular
finale.
Supplementary attractions include the
Fox Movietone News, M-G-M News, the
Palace Concert Orchestra, under Harry
Borjes, and an organ novelty by Charles
Gaige.