Evening star., 1928-10-28

COLUMBIA-"TwO Lovers"
1.-TWO Lovers" the new United Artists
sound picture at Loews Columbia, pre-
sents Wilma Banky and Ronald Colman
in their last co-starring picture. In
this picture version of Baroness Orcxys
novel, "Leatherface. Miss Colman plays
the part of the Flower of Spain"
niece of the barbaric and schem1ng
Duke of AZar, commandant OF the
Spanish, who is depressing the Flemish,
and he is opposed by the Prince OF
Orange, leader of the Flemish. The
niece is forced into marriage with
Mark Van Rycke. son of the high
bailiff of Client. This marriage is ap-
parently intended to pacify the rela-
tions between the two countries. It's
real aim is to provide Lenora, played by
Miss Banky, facilities for spying.
Her forced marriage is made doubly
unhappy, soon after, when she learns
that her real sweetheart has been
killed by the unknown and mysterious
Leatherface, who is a follower and is in
| the confidence of the Prince of Orange.
| She prepares list of names important
| to the Spanish, and, accompanied by
| her husband, sets out to visit the duke.
| On this journey she finds that Mark is
] Leatherface and that his cause is the
| Just cause She Is, however, too late to
save him from her uncle, but she saves
| the city of Client for Marks people and
| they recapture Mark. The end of the
story finds them in each others arms.
| Added attractions include short sound
subjects, the Fox Movietone News, the
M-G-M News, the Columbia Orchestra.
conducted by Claude Burrows, and Sc
lected short subjects.
RIALTO--"The Whip"
Dorothy Mackaill, Ralph Forbes.
Lowell Sherman and Anna @. Nilsson
head the cast of "The Whip" which is
the feature at the Rialto this week.
Based on the famous Drury Lane
melodrama, first produced on the stage
almost century ago, it is brought up
| to date in setting and dress and syn
chronized with sound and effects.
The story concerns Lord Brancaster,
who on the eve of his marriage to Nine.
d'Acquila discovers she is marrying him
for his title and money. He overhears
conversation between Nine. d'Aquila
and Satoris which also shows an inti-
macy between these two.
| Brancaster leaves for his country
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automobile accident, the result of which
is amnesia. He is taken to the home of
Lord Beverly, with whose daughter
Diana he falls in love.
Satoris and Mime. d'Aquila, learning
of his lapse of memory, fake mar
riage certificate. They arrive at the
country home Of Lord Beverly, where
The Whip, Lord Beverly's horse, is
stabbed. Nine. d'Aquila produces the
fake marriage certificate and brands
BrancaSter as fraud.
The evening before the Ascot race,
when The Whip is being shipped up to
town, with Lady Diana and Brancaster
on the same train, SatoriS attempts to
wreck the train. Brancaster succeeds
in frustrating him, however, and The
| Whip later wins the race and all ends
WELL
Johnny Slaughter and his Rialto
Revelers offer new potpourri of songs
and jazzy orchestra novelties on the
stage. Vitaphone acts and international
Newsreel are added attractions.
EARLE-"Waterfront
The Earle Theater presents this week
Dorothy Mackaill and Jack Mulhall,
First Nationals cinematic team, in a
fast-moving tale of life around the
docks and piers of a big harbor, Water
'front.'" with Synchronized accompani-
| ment.
The famed Golden Gate Harbor of
San Francisco has been chosen as the
background for the story, in which Miss
Mackaill is cast as the daughter of a
tugboat captain, who yearns for life
on the bounding main. Her father
| (Knute EricSon) has seen enough of the
waterfront and wants to spend the rest
OF his life on farm. Dorothy seems
doomed for just such life after years
around the breakwater when Mulhall, in
| the guiSe of seaman, enters her life.
She falls for the handsome sailor, partly,
1t must be admitted, because she sees
an opportunity to stay by the sea.
Everything is knocked into a cooked
hat, however. when her sailor boy con-
fides in her that his greatest ambition is
| to buy farm and desert his ship.
How the question of their future Is
finally decided forms a climax FULL of
laughs and thrills.
Waterfront was directed by Will
| liam A. Setter and the supporting cast
includes Frances Hamilton, Ben Hen
bricks, Pat Harmon, James Bradbury,
sr., and Bill Bailey.
The bill is completed with three short
screen subjects, Charlie Chase in two
reel comedy, us Everybody Happy"
and two Vitaphone presentations, a
one-act playlet. THE Beast" and AL
and Vernie Stanton in Cut Yourself a
| Piece of Cake" The Earle Augmented
Orchestra, under Daniel Breeskin. will
offer as a concert overture, William
TELL" by Rossini
PALACE-"Take Me Home"