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Evening star., 1928-10-14
A Good Bad Man.

ROBERT ARMSTRONG, Pathe
~ player, has created new style
bad man" in pictures. but in real life
is said to be one Of the incest. most
domesticated husbands and sons in the
film colony. Yet he is the baddest bad
man in Hollywood now and the most
sought after for crook roles, in films.
Bootlegger, gangster, prize fighter.
roughneck, crook or gambler, Armstrong
revels in the characterization.
He plays golf, is in love with his wife,
1as his mother in his home, lives SIM
ply and is just a regular fellow. Nancy
Smith, his press agent, says, instinct
tempts me to say he goes to church on
Sunday, but refrain"
Armstrong is now working opposite
Phyllis Haver in SHADY Lady," as the
gambling hall manager. His previous
picture was Ned McCobbs Daughter .
in which he played the bootlegger. Irene
Rich was the leading lady. Leather
necks" will be the next, with Arm
strong, Bill Boyd and Allan Hale as
Marines travelling the world Next will
come "The Getaway" and then "The
Elevator Girl" both giving gangster
roles to Hollywood's favorite crook,
Robert Armstrong,
Evening star., 1928-10-14
Mel Klee s Revue

THE Stewarts-Rosalie and Lee
= gained their experience as sponsors
of revues with the Broadway produc-
ton, "a La Carte" They have now
put this experience to vaudeville pur-
poses, and, it is claimed, with exceed
ingly satisfactory results.
The StewartS placed Mel Klee under
contract, and the spectacular conbi-
nation of fun, dance, song, scenery,
girls and costumes with which they have
surrounded him is pleasingly preferred
as Mel Klee in his Own Revue appears
at B. F. Keith's Theater this week.
Mr.. Klee is we'll known in vaudeville,
having given good account of him
self in several offerings. He is de-
clared an ideal revue comedian. He
has a company drawn from every walk
of the theater.
His revue is in nine scenes, with a
thread of story, strong enough to
carry a varied assortment Of revue
material LIZ.
ttfs ~ n
Evening star., 1928-10-14
Rialto Reopens.

r ESUMING as haven of entertain
ment after Summer cessation, the
Rlalto, Carl Laemmle's Ninth street mo-
ton picture theater, reopens tonight.
"talkies."
Redecorated at an expense of $50 600,
the Rialto is fully equipped to present
the newest in both Vitaphonc end
MoVletone productions. A strict fea-
ture policy will be followed, as it Is Mr..
Laemmle's intention to offer the finest
sound and talking pictures available.
Among the added attractions, ac-
cordipg to r. G. Wood, the new major
domo Of the house, will be a stage band
OF an entirely new type. suited to what
ever added stage features the house
may play\
Evening star., 1928-10-14
RIALTO-"Lonesome."

For its reopening feature the Rialto
this week announces Universal's sound
and talking picture, Lonesome" CO.
starring Barbara Kent and Glenn Tyron.
Gripping dialogue, elaborate sound
effects and musical setting to an un-
usual story are promised.
There is no villain of the conven-
tional type and no plot complications
other than the threatened separation
Of g. boy and a girl who have met at
Coney Island, known one glamourous
day together and fallen in love. A
slight accident occurs on the scenic
railway, and in the rush of the crowds
they become separated. They search
frantically for each other, but without
success. and, driven under cover by q
thunderstorm, are forced to go home
alone. The separation Is a tragedy for
each. but happiness eventually comes
in the powerfully dramatic climax of
the picture.
Evening star., 1928-10-14
PALACE-"The SawduSt Paradise.
Stage Features.

Esther Ralston in Paramount sound
production, 1.-THE Sawdust Paradise, -
will be the feature screen attraction at
Loew's Palace.
The picture is slice of life from the
colorful career of a carnival girl. 1t
has novel angle, demonstrating how
girl with real sl1owmanship ability
uses circus ballyhoo, steam calliope
and all the trimmings to put over an
evangelist's meeting, and how she incl
dentally acconplishes a great deal of
good. She has been saved from going
to Jail by the evangelist, played by
Hobart BoSworth. Her sweetheart
played by Reed Howe, purchases a car
ntval for himself, and Esther and the
original show, with his new carnival
and series of revival meetings open
in the same town. So interested is she
in her new work that she cannot go
back to her old life. But when a rival
burns down her Sweetheart's carnival
he and she resolve to start life anew.
On the stage Wesley Eddy and his
Palace Syncopators are presented in
Frank Cambrias latest Loew-Publix
production, "Beaux Arts Frolic," fea-
turing Earl and Bell, Paul Kirkland,
Nino Fucile, Bryant, Rains and Young
and the Gamby-Hale Girls.
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.
Evening star., 1928-10-14
Now a Stunt Aviator.

ROD LA ROGUE takes to the air
~ in capt. Swagger," a new Pathe
picture, in which Sue Carol is fea-
tured
In the earlier sequences of this story
the star is seen as an expert in tall
spins and nose dives, who does his part
to make the world safe for democracy
as flyer with the Lafayette Escadrille.
Evening star., 1928-10-14
Next Weeks S Photoplays
WEEK OF
OCTOBER II

Next Weeks s Photoplays
KEITH'S - "Craig's Wife,"
with Irene Rich, Warner
Baxter and Lilyan Tash-
man.
FOX - Mother Machree,"
with Victor McLaglen and
Belle Bennett.
EARLE-"The Night Watch"
with Billie Dove.
PALACE-"While the City
, Sleeps" with Lon CLANCY.
METROPOLITAN - Lilac
Time" with Colleen Moore.
COLUMBIA-'Two Lovers"
with Wilma BAnky and
Ronald Colman (probably)
RIALTO-"Melody of Love-"
with Walter Pidgeon and
Mildred Harris.
Evening star., 1928-10-14
Photoplays This Week
I'M PHOTOpLAY THEATERs THIS WEEK.

KEITHS-"Captain Swagger" This afternoon and evening.
FOX-"The Air Circus" This afternoon and evening
PALACEhe Sawdust Paradise This afternoon and evening
EARLE-Sate Street Sadie This afternoon and evening.
RIALTO-"Lonesome." This afternoon and evening.
METROPOLITAN Singing Fool" This afternoon and
evening.
COLUMBIA-"Our Dancing Daughters" This afternoon and
evening.
LTTLE"The End of st. Petersburg" This afternoon and
evening.
Evening star., 1928-10-14

1t Is reported from Salt Lake City
that Raoul Walsh Is in danger of losing
an eye as the result of having a tack
rabbit hurled through the windshield
OF his automobile near Cedar City,
Itann \ - 4 i "a r sa..a,s - s. \. ~
Evening star., 1928-10-14

Patterson McNutt has filmed on the
stage of the Maxine Elliott Theater,
New York, a 2.000-foot version Of his
play, "The Thing Called Love-" and
the film and script Of the play are be-
ing sent to London producer. This
experiment Is expected to be a factor
In future sales Of foreign rights to
playa
Evening star., 1928-10-14
KEITH-"Captain Swagger," Mel Klee.


The stage production this week at B.
F.. Keith's Theater will be headed by
Mel Klee, prince of blackface comedians,
in his own revue, with Morey Barton
and Harry Young, AL Borde, Grace and
Coly Worth, Kay Mckay, Harry Weber's
Pompous Revue, Gertrude Kenny and
Jack Haisler's girls. The revue is in
nine scenes, begins in the greenroom of
the theater and carries on with
comedy scenes and numbers in real
revue fashion, concluding with the
ninth episode in a dressing room back
stage. There is thread of a story,
strong enough to carry the varied ma
terial.
On the screen will be presented the
latest Pathe thriller, Captain Swagger," :"
starring Rod La ROGUE and featuring
Sue Carol.
The supporting cast includes Richard
Tucker Victor Potel and Erich Haupt.
There is an airplane battle, cabaret
hold-up, and thrill follows thrill. 1t is
wholesome romance bubbling and
sparkling with youth and high spirits,
filled with dramatic action, humor and
suspense.
There will be supplementary screen
features.
Evening star., 1928-10-14
FOX-"The Air Circus"-Stage At
fractions.


fractions.
Three young Americans, two boys
and a girl, actually conquer the air in
"7'he Air Circus" the screen feature
opening today at the Fox Theater. 1t
is Fox talking picture.
These youngsters are David Rollins,
Arthur Lake and Sue Carol. They
operate their own planes, doing the
-the-loop, falling leaf, spirals and
other stunts.
The story deals with young Americas
attempts to emulate Col. Lindbergh,
having to do with commercial aviation
Seventy-five per cent of the picture was
taken in the air over Clover Field, Santa
Monica. Howard Hawks and Lew
Seller were the directors. Hawks was
pilot during the war.
The two principals of the stage pro-
gram will be Lillian Bernard and Flor
ence Henri, who when they have surg
song that song is sung. John Grit
fin, who recently sang Laugh, Clown
Laugh" is returning for special en-
gagement.
The Fox Grand Orchestra will pre-
sent symphonic jazz concert, preced-
ing the Sunday opening, with Meyer
Davis as guest conductor. The Fox
Movietone News will have many inter-
esting world events in sound.
Evening star., 1928-10-14

which constituted the fare
at the Fox during the past week,
is a shining example of a really
tlrSt-claSs picture which does not
reach spectacular heights and
cannot be placed in the category
of super-SpecialS." The enter
tainment value of the picture is
all that a photoplay audience
could desire; it has everything
that goes toward giving the peo-
pie what they want" a phrase
which has been more or less over
! worked by the producers and di-
rectorS. Madge Bellamy, who dur
ing the past has appeared ir
| lighter pictures, is given her bis
chance. Her work is we'll done
Louise Dresser holds to a high
standard in the important mothel
role, a part for which she is eSpe.
! klelly fitted -'---....-....---.-.
w. .s.ss
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! Favorite for 40 Years.

EOR 40 years prominent member
. of the American acting profession,
expert in roles ranging from Shake
speare to Shaw, William Faversham is
returning to role favored with the old
days of his first appearance on the
stage as Jim RalSton in Jim the PEN
man." the famous old crook drama,
which George G. Tyler has revived.
In the same year that young Faver-
sham was making his initial bow before
an American audience in Pen and
Ink" A. M. Palmer's Madison Square
Co. was making Jim the Penman" the
biggest hit of the decade. The Ameri-
can public liked the tall, handsome
young Englishman and he performed the
feat, unheard of in that day or this, of
getting three good roles In his first year
in the country After two seasons with
Mrs. Fiske, then just beginning her ca
reer as the bewitching Minnie Mad
dern, he made a great hit on his own
as Valentine Day In a now-forgotten
piece called "Featherbrain."
1.-THE Importance of Being Earnest"
Under the Red Robe" Romeo to Maude
Adams Juliet, and Diplomacy" are
only a few of the vehicles in which
Faversham established himself still
more firmly as one Of the most valuable
actors on this side of the Atlantic. He
received his initial starring role as Don
Caesar m "A Royal Rival" Then 1.-THE
SqiiaW Man. came along and with it
one of his most famous roles.
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Strange Interlude" Coming.

EUGENE ONEILL's extraordinary
~ nine-act play, Strange Interlude,"
should interest Washington, for, coming
direct from New York, it will be seen
the week Of December % at the Ma
tional Theater, opening Sunday after
noon at $50.
One of the unique features of this re-
markable production is its starting time.
It begins promptly at $50 in the late
afternoon and five acts are given up
to TAO. Then comes the now famous
"interlude" dinner hour, which has be-
come fad In New York.
The telling Of this tense tale of
O'Neilps starts again at o'clock, when
the final four acts are enacted. One
may call his motor vehicle for IL
o'clock.
It has been q notable fact during the
10 months that Strange Interlude" has
been running In New York at the
Golden Theater that never has there
been an empty seat at o'clock. There
may be some tardy folk at $50, but
never at o'clock.
Strange Interlude" is presentation
of the Theater Guild of New York. The
leading role, the woman Nina Leeds,
will be played by Pauline Lord. Three
other widely known players in support
will be Ralph Morgan, Donald Mac
donald and Henry C. Bennison.
The Theater Guild Of New York
wishes it stressed that unless the audi
ence is seated by $50 every afternoon
they will miss many thrills and joys of
what has come to be considered quite
an important literary and theatrical
work Of the American stage.
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New Standard Is Set
In Current Entertainment
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

magnificent Statuaries. In spite
of the multitude of names that
designate performers whose clev-
erneSs should earn each one Of
them many pages of compliment
airy description, it is strictly an
Eddie Cantor show, which he can,
if he likes, stop at any moment
with jest or a gesture.
The cutting necessary when a
production is found to be too
lengthy occasions many pangS.
Every moment of opportunity may
have ineStimable value for future
reputation. The talented Ameri-
can Indian chief who enactS the
role of Black Eagle has made it
a matter Of comment that when
ever his lines are reduced his "two
weeks notice" will be presented.
This rule Of the chief has re-
quired much diplomacy, and no
doubt some concessions to an ar
tistic temperament which is
linked with a truly artistic per-
formance.
1.-THE Road to Rome" has been
much travelled by expeditions US
ing the old billboards as sign
posts. The journey is not always
lengthy. It is not remarkable
that every one who has been as
ISOLATED with "The Road to Rome"
wishes to have that fact recalled.
Miss Cowl and Mr.. Sherwood have
found easy access to firSt-night
confidence. Mr.. Sherwood's play
on view last week, "The Queens
Husband" again finds him in
clined to trifle with the dignity CT
greatness and to employ the ex-
pedient, now the common property
Of many playwrights, of requiring
a frivolous king to abdicate in or
der that young SweetheartS, diff
ferent in social ranks, may marry
without interference. Where "The
Queens Husband" has only one
vanishing king, "Rosalie," assert
ing the privilege of a spectacle,
gave parade Of half a dozen.
X X
In spite of the tremendous op-
position which overwhelmed the
theater business of the town,
Charles Emerson Cook succeeded
in bringing in a buying line liberal
in numbers that increased as the
weeks went on. In one respect a
musical stock company engage
ment has it's advantage. No spec
tacle, however literally and artis-
tically designed, can absolutely
guarantee the production of song
hits. The melodies that linger
can be selected from the favorites
of by-gone seasons, and many an
auditor left the theater humming
1.-TWO for Tea" as happily as II he
had heard it for the first time in
his life.
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DARE-DEvILS make up most Of tn
~ neA a. IL

DARE-DEVILS make up most Of the
supporting cast of Moran of the
Marines" starring Richard Dix. At
least they are given that classification
by those who prefer a comfortable
chair and book for diversion.
They include Ruth Elder, the pretty
aviatrix who caused sensation last
year with her futile attempt to cross
the Atlantic Ocean by air.
Then there Is Capt. E. H. Calvert,
late of the United States Army and
a West Point graduate, who served the
colors in every part of the globe prior
to his entering motion pictures. During
the war he was given a colonel's COM
mission, and it was his duty to look
after his cameramen who made pic
torial record of every engagement in
which the Americans took part.
Even the story was written by a
harum- scarum young journalist who IS
as much at home in Page Page as in
New York City. This man. Linton
Wells, once held record for making
the fastest trip around the world, which
was recently broken by few hours.
Frank Strayer. the director, chased
submarines during the war aboard a
small craft in the middle of the
Atlantic. He held lieutenant's COM
mission. And last but not least is the
star, Richard Dix, whose daring eX-
ploits before the camera have made him
one of the most popular figures in
motion pictures today.
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7 OUISE FAZENDA halls from the
H Hoosier State, where she was edu-
Gated in convent. Later the family
moved to California and Louise was
graduated from high school in Los An
geles. Her interest in amateur dra-
MATES led to her attempting stage
career.
After a season with the Los Angeles
Stock Company, she drifted into mo-
ton pictures, making a pronounced
success in comedy characterizations.
Following a long series of two-reel
screen comedies, she was graduated into
full-length pictures, generally playing
middle-aged roles or grotesque domeS-
tics.
In. "Outcast," Corinne Griflth's pic
ture for First National. Louise. for the
first time In a cycle of screen centuries,
is being her age and playing her own
young, good-looking self.
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Notes of the Stage and It's People.

D. HOLSTER and Lester Lonergan, most
recently called THE House Unguarded,"
will have its first performance in New
Rochelle the thirteenth of this month
The locale of the play Is an Army post
in the Panama Canal Zone.
A stained glass window in memory
of John Drew, who died in San Fran
cisco a year ago last July, will be un-
yelled in the Church of the TranSf1g-
uration (the Little Church Around the
Corner) next Sunday
The musical version of EASY Come,
Easy Co." in which Eddie Buzzell will
have the principal role, is due in New
York late in January. With Richard
Keene and Roger Gray among those in
the cast, it will open In Wilmington,
December 81.
Contrary to printed reports, George
Whites Spring musical production will
not have Ed Wynn in its cast. Mr..
Wynn will remain on tour another sea-
son in Manhattan Mary"
A play known as Gasoline Gypsies,"
the title of which will probably be
changed, will be produced soon by
Is the author.
"Sign of the Leopard" q melodrama
by Edgar Wallace, is scheduled to open
in New York December "a. Mr.. Wal
lace Is the prolific English author Of
plays and detective stories, and this
will be the first Of his works to be
produced in this country. The prin-
cipal role will be acted by Campbell
GulIan, an English player, who like
wise played the part in London.
~
It will be "Judas Iscariot," not my
Public" which Dwight Deere Wiman
and William Brady, jr.,. will present in
New York as their next production.
This play, the work of Basil Rath-
bone and Walter Ferris, has gone into
rehearsal with Mr.. Rathbone in the
leading role. The same play was once
known as Render Unto Caesar"
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New Romantic Team.

a NEW romantic team will come to
"A the screen when Billie Dove starts
work on her next picture for First Ma
tional.
Rod La ROGUE has been chosen to
play opposite Miss Dove in "The Man
and the Moment" Elinor Glyn's story
of that name. a
This picture is to be a George Fitz-
maurice production, and one Of the big
pictures on First Nationals program for
the year.
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the animals have had months Of tire
less, patient training.
In all, the show bids fair to please
the children and grown-ups alike.
STRAND-"Nite Club Girls"
The show this week at the Strand
Theater, Mite Club Girls" Is billed
as one of the best on the Mutual wheel.
Evelyn Whitney, leading woman, and
Billy Tanner, who hurdles English In q
Dutch" dialect, are featured in the
company presented by Jake Potar.
AS its name suggests, 1t is a burlesque
of night life in the Roaring Forties"
and night clubs in general. Comedy In
many scenes, styles and humorous adj
vancementS make up the proceedings,
with Billy Lewis assisting Billy Tanner
in making the laughter, and an agile
chorus led by Miss Whitney, assisted
by julie Paulson, an attractive ingenue,
and Ray Allen, soubrette, and one OF
burlesque's real beauties.
One of the comedy scenes of par
ticuIar prominence is the trial Of the
girl who murdered 1.-THE Varsity Drag"
The book of the play is by Billy Tan
ner, the music and lyrics by Lew Austin
and the numbers and ensembles by Ray
Perez.
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~ UsTAv 1LUMs next produc-
ton, scheduled to open In
Y New York around the holidays,
will be "That Ferguson Fam
ily," by Howard Cheney.
Ward Morehouse has taken over
Russell Crouse's role in Gentlemen Of
thor of the play as well as an active
newspaper man.
A London production of Little Acct
dent" by Ernest Edelsten, Is announced
for April. Lynne Overman and Martha
Lorber will have leading roles.
zone Mile Up" mystery play, with
scenes laid aboard a Zeppelin, written
by McElbert Moore, Earl Croker and
Lowell Brentano, is announced for
Christmas production in New York. It
will be offered by new producer,
Jimmy Cooper.
Lionel Atwill will make his first
appearance on the musical comedy stage
in Earl CAROLS next production. At
will, who came to this country from
England some years ago. has been star
red in long series of plays, the most
notable of which was the Belasco pro-
duction of "Deburau." Mr.. CAROLS
show, which is due early in February,
deals with Venetian royalty in the
eighteenth century. Mr.. Atwills role
will be that Of a prime minister.
1t has finally been decided by Jed
Harris that he will star Ina Claire in
Children of Darkness" written by
Edwin Justus Mayer, author Of "The
Firebrand." The play will open in
Newark Christmas eve.
Ruth Gordon and Constance Collier
are to have the principal roles in
Serena Blandish," a dramatiZation by
S. N. Behrman of the anonymous novel
of that name. It will open In Phila-
delphia January z, and then goes into
New York week later for run.
Mr.. and Mrs. Coburn intend to keep
their production of 1.-THE Yellow Jacket"
running another two weeks, and after
that they will produce "FalStaff," new
comedy, by James PlaiSted Weber,
who, 1t Is understood, has based his
play on the famous ShakeSpearean
character. There will be incidental
music for the play, and it, together
with the lyrics, will be supplied by
Porter Steele and Brian Hooker.
Announcement is made by the Ac-
tors Theater, New York, that its
next Ibsen play, opening in January,
will be THE Lady From the Sea"
Blanche Yurka will head the cast.
1.-THE Right Angle" play by Len
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To Sing Theme Songs.

r ICHARD WHITING, composer, and
AZ Leo Robin, lyricist, will combine
their talents in writing theme songs for
THE Wolf of Wall Street." starring
George Bancroft, and wolf Song" in
which Victor Fleming is directing a
notable cast featuring Gary Cooper,
Lupe Velez and Louis Wolheim.
The song for 1.-The Wolf of Wall
Street" will be sung in the sound-syn-
chronization by Baclanova, the Russian
actress who is featured In support of
Bancroft. Lupe Velez, fiery Mexican
beauty, will sing the theme song in the
sound-synchronizat of "Wolf Song"
Miss Velez was formerly musical COM
edy favorite of her native Mexico City.