The Washington times., 1928-08-16

NATIONAL. George M. Cohan's
comedy. The Home Towners,
win Be- the new attraction ii the
National beginning Monday night.
In this drama Of laughs Conan
contrasts the big town boy and
the small city fellow with the
lighter side Of his stage pictures
mingled here and there with =
tear.
Miss Leona Powers, the leading
lady Of the National Theater
PLAYERS: Howard Miller the lead
ing man: Mrs. Hubbard, Helen
WaIIace. Robert Brister, Edward
Arnold. Charles Hampden. ana
the new ingenue, Mary Loane,
All have forna-kitting parts IN
The Home Towners.
EARLE william Boyd will be
the featured screen star for the
rev week beginning Saturday.
IN The Cop. stirring film
drama with the underworld az
background The story was writ-
ten BY Elliott Clawson and the
screen version BY Tay Garnett.
Not duh moment, Ii the adj
vance announcement. On the
stage will be d George Choos pre-
sentation bearing the title The
Freeborn FrOIic, with b cast OF
is entertainers Baby Dorothy
johnson, S.year-old musical mar
vel Is prominently featured. The
added attractions include short
screen subjects including the
Earle topical review and an over
ture by the Daniel Breeskin con-
cert orchestra.
PALACE-Ramon Novarro in
his latest picture, Forbidden
Hours comes to provide the main
screen attraction beginning Satur-
day. Navarro plays a young king
in & modern kingdom In Europe.
On the stage Wesley Eddy and his
Syncapators will preside for one
of the new presentation, Bitter
Sweet Blues" devised by Charles
Niggemeyer. Featured entertain.
ers are Dezzo, Grace DuFaye,
Wells and Winthrop, Wilson and
Washburn, the Gould Boys and
Girls and Ginger" Rogers. The
Fox Movietone news makes its de.
but on the Palace screen and sup.
plementeaI short features with an
M. g. NJ. news reel complete the
program.
FOX-The Fox Theater screen
attraction for the coming week Is
a William Fox production starring
Lionel Barrymore, Road House
The picture is described as an
expose of the snares in the way
of dancing feet. The greater part
of its action takes place in a road
house from which the title IL
taken.
The supporting cast includes the
new Spanish beauty, Maria Alba.
Julia Swayne Gordon, Joe Brown
and Warren Burke, a new Juvenile
find"
The stage attraction for the COM
ing Fox program has been titled q
gay dance and song revel. 1t will
have as its principal feature the
36 Fox Melody Masters with
another program of symphonic
syncopating melodies and a group
Nofe notable stage entertainers.
A new Fox Movietone News,
short screen subjects and the over
ture OF the Fox Grand Orchestra,
complete the program.
INTERCOLLEGIATE story of
the fighting Marines will occupy
the screen for the new week. 1t
is United States Smith" and
featured roles go to Kenneth
Harlan and Eddie Cribbon. The
girl in the exciting story Is
played by Lila Lee.
The Vitaphone presentations
for the new week will be an
Eddie Peabody presentation. In
a Music Shop" in which this sen'
sational banjo player, assisted by
Jimmy Maisel, gives a great les
SON on what can be done with
common stringed instruments
Another Vitaphone subject will be
Lieut.. Gitz-Rice, the popular
composer and singer. The pro-
gram will be completed by the
latest issue of the Metropolitan
News and music by the Metro.
politan Concert Orchestra, under
the direction of Alex Podnos.
COLUMBIA - Corinne Griffith
In her first United Artist pic
ture, comes to Loew's Columbia
Saturday in ''The Garden OF
Eden" The picture takes its
name from the gardens of the
Hotel Eden, near Monte Carlo,
not the original playground OF
biblical fame. But there il .