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Evening star., 1928-12-30

and the happenings of the story
were discussed and curiosity kept
warm with reference to how it
would all be worked out.
It is a gloomy revelation dealing
with human nature that moves in
turbulent unreStraint. Tt goes
even SO far in a defiance of ordi-
nary critical standards as to turn
a play of tempeStuouS violence
which seems to point only to
utter emotional catastrophe into
a reminder that in this Interlude
of life between two eternitieS the
moraliStS have a certain vindica-
ton. The elaborate schemes of
highly developed intelligence are
liable to crash and leave the in
nocent and faithful one alone
secure in happiness; even though
the bliss is that of ignorance.
If "Interlude" is to be accepted
as typical of the spirit of the hour,
the public must learn to laugh all
over again, and the Savoy Co. went
back not merely to the musical
frivolity of Fred Rankin and
Baldwin Sloan, but beyond them
to Mother Goose herself. and
fairyland interpretations for "The
Gingerbread Man" and his
coterie of Christmas playmateS.
1t was a merry mosaic in reminis-
cence of the Christmas pantomime
as an invariable feature of the
holiday season. Some of the
music tinkles with echoingS of
more substantial operas and even
the libretto goes straight to Faust
for the character of a MephiSto
so malevolent as to jump from
behind a scene and scareS little
children by saying "Boo!"
X \ 4 X
Perhaps there was a philan-
thropic intention to afford relief
from the Sombre experience OF
"Interlude" by the presentation OF
We'll, Well, Well" It was at
least an invitation to laugh
heartily at trifles; leaving it to
the individual to decide as he
looked ana listened whether OF
not he would accept the invita-
ton on terms of hilarious unre-
Straint.
A commercial tendency led uI
to an extraordinary result in the
| theater itself. In demanding gooo
value for good merchandise, the
managers have incidentally faceo
the necessity of providing what
will be accepted as worth the
money. Assuming that comedian
such as Eddie Cantor demands
unprecedented compensation, Gar
assumption quite plausible), the
natural response from Mr.. Zieg.
field is: VERY well, if you car
demonstrate your ability to bring
the extra money into the theater
you can have it," Up go the
| prices at the box Office, and, a!
usual, it is the public that pays.
| X X x
The necessity is felt of Offering
stupendous productions in music
or Stupendous novelties in idea
hard to find and expensive il
royalties. So playgOers are taugh
to wait for the big thing and otter
pass by offerings that are mos
meritoriouS, sincere and delight
full.
Evening star., 1928-12-30
The Three Musketeers"
Coming to National
WITH Dennis King as its star, Flo

WITH Dennis King as its star, Flo
REM ziegfeld's gorgeous operetta,
THE Three Musketeers," will be the at
traction at the National Theater for the
week beginning Monday night, Janu-
ary Il. It comes here from Phila-
delphia and almost direct from the 46-
week record-breaking run at the Lyric
Theater, New York City, to play re-
turn engagement, for it was at the Ma
tional Theater that the first perform
ance was given on February 81. 1928.
It is coming with the original New
York cast practically complete, but one
or two minor changes having been
made. Furthermore, it will now be
shown here as f1awleSs performance,
the rough edges always noticeable on an
opening week long since having been all
ironed out.
The marvellous Rudolf Friml music,
the gorgeous settings of Joseph Urban,
the beautiful costumes of Harkrider, the
Albertina Rasch ballet, together with
one of the finest acting and singing
casts ever welded together, all tend to
make this operetta stand out among the
Ziegfeld masterpieces. For exactly 46
weeks 1.-THE Three MusketeerS' ran
neck-and-neck with "Rosalie" and
"Show Boat" In New York.
The cast Is brilliant, headed by Den
mis- King as D'Artagnan, the fiery young
Gascon always ready for feat at arms,
or a bout at love, and including Lester
Allen, the split-pint comedian, as the
clever Planchet, valet to D'Artagnan,
with prima donna honors shared be-
tween Vivienne Segal and Yvonne D.
Arle. Others include Reginald owen,
Harriet Hoctor, prima eballerina; John
Clark, Joseph Macauley, Douglass r.
Dumbrille, Detmar Poppen, Ruth Lyons
and many others.
Evening star., 1928-12-30
NORMAN ANGEL. Thursday.
christmas Tree Lane. -

THE famous natural Christmas Tree
Lane" of Pasadena, Calf, Is to
make its debut in motion pictures.
For the first time the 2-mile road Of
big evergreens, a Landmark of "The
Millionaire City, that stretches from
the edge of town up sharp incline to
the foot of the mountains, is to figure
in celluloid drama.
1t was the scene Of "road shots" In
First Nationals THE Children of the
Ritz" which co-features Dorothy
Mackaill and Jack Mulhall.
Each year, weeks before Christmas
time, Christmas Tree Lane is decorated
by the city, its hundreds of towering
frs being covered with colored lights
and huge "icicles." Tourists from all
parts of Southern California come to
see the sight, and it is necessary to post
motor cycle officers at each end of the
lane at night for several hours to reg
ulate traffic. Cars are allowed to go
down the lane with their lights off, so
that the tree lights may be seen to adj
vantage.
Children of the Ritz" is a $4,000
prize magazine serial by Cornell Wool
rich, 21-year-old author. who wrote the
story for both fiction and film usage.
Evening star., 1928-12-30
In theNeW York Theaters
BY PERCY HAMMOND.

with all the lovely sounds and noises of
an angry nightingale singing at tea
time. Wings Over Europe" is an in
telligent and an exciting theatrical
pamphlet, teaching us that we are
slumbering upon a VOLCANOES brink.
7 HESITATE to compliment Miss
Barrymore upon her performance i'll
1.-The Kingdom of God" for fear that
she will regard my oblation as insult
f1cient. Still am bound to say that
in a drama remarkable for its inertia
she is beautiful, eloquent, magnetic
and holy. At the beginning of the play
she Is believably humorous social
worker aged 10, catering to the senile
eccentricities of the inmates of home
for the aged. In the next act she is 20,
the lovely and sympathetic superintend-
ent of haven for unmarried mothers
and their illegitimate offspring. At the
end she Is to be seen and heard as a
sagacious abbess 10 years old ex-
pounding to the hungry orphans in her
impoverished asylum, the doctrine of
the kingdom of God. The play. written
by Sierra, composer of Cradle Song" I"
is a puny religious vaudeville. and if it
were not for Miss Barrymore's appear
ance in it THE Kingdom of God"
would be dull tub-thumper, preaching
slow and affected sermon.
Evening star., 1928-12-30
What Won t the Movies Do?

A LICE WHITE has been sent to
college-incog. Not really. but
only in her next First National picture,
a college story by Robert Carr called
Hot Stuff
ITO refresh her memory" and get
''up-to-the- minute" atmosphere from
the co-ed's point of view, it had to be
done.
So, having friend at the University
of Southern California. the gay Alice
plotted with her to stay several days in
a dormitory and In general to take part
in college life.
Her name became "Miss Black!
Moreover. she took advantage of the
movie ''quick-change" methods to turn
her blond hair dark with a temporary
dye.
No one recognized her, not even the
rabid movie fans of the campus.
Not so long ago. 1t is claimed. Miss
White really attended school at Roa-
neke College in Virginia.'
Evening star., 1928-12-30
Arliss' Memoirs Brailled.

"T IP the Years From Bloomsbury" !"
the autobiography of George
Arliss, Is being brailled by Miss Ferris
of the Westchester, N. Y, country of the
Braille American Red Gross depart
ment, and by Miss Catherine Pomeroy
of the Waterbury, Conn, chapter. One
of these copies win go to the New York
Public Library and the other to the
Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.
So far as can be ascertained no other
actors biography has been Transcribed
for the blind. Titles of books for Braille
are suggested either by blind readers,
the tranScriberS or member OF the
committee. In the case of the Arliss
book, it is explained, Edna r. Smith
proposed it, after which it was ap-
proved, as all suggestions must be, by
the committee.
Such a volume Is said to be literally
priceless. The first Braille was written
in France in 1929. Since then the sys-
tenn has passed through many changes
and has become the universal type for
the blind.
Braille is a system of raised dots,
representing letters, groups of letters,
figures and punctuation marks, en-
bossed in sufficient relief to be read by
touch. The embossing may be done by
hand with a simple apparatus, by which
method only one copy can be made at
one time. 1t also can be prepared on
thin metal sheets with a stereotyper,
and from these numbers of impressions
may be taken on paper. This pres"
Braille is so expensive that it makes
handicapped Braille a necessity.
+ For such work volunteers are trained
| by. the Red Cross director of Braille
transcribing of the Library of Congress,
| Washington, D. c. The devotion of
these voluntary Braille writer's is evi-
denced when it is said that the 9x11-
! inch page, the standard size, contains
only about half the text of a printed
page of an ordinary 8vo book.
The usual novel makes from seven to
nine volumes as large as can be con-
veniently handled. Because of the bulk
and cost of Braille books, there are few
private collections.
Evening star., 1928-12-30
West of Zanzibar. "

THERE are educational angles to
"West of Zanzibar" Lon Chaney's
newest Metro Goldwyn- Mayer picture,
as we'll as mystery and drama such as
no other CLANCY picture has possessed.
The locale for most of the action Is in
the tropical jungles of equatorial Africa
where Dead Legs" the character Cha
ney portrays, becomes master of an
ivory colony by displaying his stage
magic to bewilder the natives. The
picture is both extraordinary and STAR
Ting in its realism.
The story introduces. in a novel way.
a native custom of healing men who
have become victims of the terrific heat
malaria and the poison of insects which
live in swarms over the Shiny swamps.
Also it refers to a native custom OF of
fering the daughter of a dead native
father as a human sacrifice on the lat
ter's funeral pyre. Interesting bits OF
voodooism also are introduced in the
development of the plot.
Tod Browning, who directed "West OF
Zanzibar" has given the original screen
story a novel Photographic treatment
throughout. .-
Evening star., 1928-12-30
Home of the Unattached.

THE roster of free lance players now
= working at the M-G-M studio reads
like blue book of Hollywood's unat-
tached, plus few borrowed" celeb
rites.
Among the players now doing work
on this lot are Lily Damita, Olive Tell,
Lowell Sherman, II. B. Warner, Ray
mond Hackett. Charles Bickford. Kay
Johnson, Carol Lombard, William Aus
tin, Don Alvarado, Willard Mack, Bea-
trice Banyard. Jane Winton, Sylvia
Field, EstellS Taylor and Lupe Valezs
Evening star., 1928-12-30
How It Happens.

THREE months ago Larry Banthim
was a deck hand on San Fran
cisco tugboat which was pressed into
service for atmosphere when they were
making atmosphere" for Dorothy
Mackaill and Jack Mulhalrs picture,
Waterfront"
But Heaven didn't intend Larry to be
deck hand. Somebody discovered that
he was really movie material and she
was tried out in several other First Ma
tional pictures.
Now Larry really belongs to the gang.
First National has signed him up and
he is going to be seen with no less a
beauty than Billie Dove in THE Man
and the Moments .-
Evening star., 1928-12-30
NEW YORK, December 20. 1928.

@ HESE are darksome hours for
show business and there is little,
if any, dancing in the Broad
way streets. TheaterS that once
were full Of shoppers are now
empty and the intake of the box offices
is not commensurate with the overhead
and the upkeep. Where recently the
drama reveled in profits, it is at present
Frustrated by losses. Red numerals
indicating bad Investments, spread
themselves across the Muses. ledgerS
and warn the showmen that it is time
for them to go into conference. How
portentouS," said one of them to me
yesterday, quoting his favorite night
thought. "How portentous is prosperity
how cometlike it threatens while 1t
shines!"
Hard-boiled economists of the drama
seem to be of the impression that the
art is fundamentally sound as q COM
mercial proposition, but that it Is suf-
fering from imitation. Realtors. desir-
ing to do their bit for culture, have
built so many playhouSeS that the sup
ply has become greater than the de-
mand. Their enthusiasm results In a
surplus of theaters too large for the
meager product of the dramatists. In
efficient entertainments are, therefore,
called upon to stock the vacant shelves.
Gypped by these shoddy wares, the Gus
toners have become cautious in their
purchases. Having bought 1.-The Sign of
the Leopard" "Potiphar's Wife," "One-
Way Street." 1.-THE Lady of the Orchids"
or THAT Ferguson Family" they figure
that drama going is too precarious to
spend time, trouble and money upon.
Every uninteresting show breeds a
!, dozen drama-haters, and the current
season has been remarkable for unin-
teresting shows.
MIR. ZIEGFELD with "Whoopee, !"
AVA Mr.. Belasco with Nina" Mr.. Hop
"The Front Page" Mr. Rogers with
Three Cheers" and the Theater Guild
| with Wings Over Europe" are doing
their best to stay the wave of indiffer-
ence wings Over Europe" Is one of
the cleverest of the guilds shrewd and
| intellectual stunts. In 1t the British
cabinet Is brought face to face with
| the end of the world by birdlike
scientist who has invented means to
| destroy the universe in less than the
six days required by God to construct
il. This frail giant is so powerful that
all he has to do is to whistle and the
cosmos will crumble into ruins as cha
otic as Mr. Belasco's internal machinery
| in Nina"
wings Over Europe" is stimulac-
ing prospect. It's British cabinet min
isters, think, are burlesqued too
vividly; but that, no doubt, Is a con-
cession by its English authors to the
greedy humor of American audiences.
It might have been a saner fantasia If
it's leading character had been of the
| type of Byrd or Lindbergh, calm ad
venturer into the unknown, instead Of
hysterical imitation of the poet. Shell
ley Mr.. Alexander, plays the destroyer
Evening star., 1928-12-30
STRAND-"Parisian Flappers."

According to custom, Manager Burk-
.hardt of the Strand Theater announces
an extra performance of Partisan
Flappers" on New Year eve tomorrow I,
his current weeks attraction at the
Ninth street burlesque playhouse. One
of the high spots in this show, it is
explained, is the Tunney-Dempsey fight,
with its long Chicago count. Another
outstanding scene amid routine of
several "bits" and comedy encounters
introduces golf for its inning, with the
girls of the chorus lined up in cos
TUNES unlike those worn by link en-
thusiasts on the green.
In the comedy scenes Frank Ander-
son, tramp comedian, Is featured. but
the star Is Flossie de We're, who leads
the feminine contingent in many as
saults upon the optics Of the fans"
Evening star., 1928-12-30
From Pulpit to Prison.

IRON an evangelist's tent to jail is
the step which Esther Ralston takes
in transferring from THE Sawdust
Paradise" to Josef Won Sternbergs
production, THE Case of Lena Smith" !"
now being filmed at the Paramount
West Coast studios
Miss Ralston played the part of a
woman evangelist in THE Sawdust
Paradise" AS the Hungarian peasant
girl, Lena Smith, who is stripped of
her child, Esther Ralston Is thrown in
Jail,
Evening star., 1928-12-30
Jeeue e7829xr IAWoMAN Of ofAFFArRs-CoIumbia
A Public Artistically Bullied
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

In spite of the reports announc-
ing Strange Interlude" as a
drama of phenomenal power and
unprecedented interest, there was
a lingering spirit of skepticism
when it first began to unfold its
series of scenes on the stage of
the National Theater, whose de-
monstrations during the season
have been so comprehensive and
versatile and have set some ex-
ceedingly high standards for COM
parsons.
* X \ X
Descriptions freely given out,
both from the press departments
of the Theater Guild and by con-
tributionS in critical print, COM
ment ranged from extraordinary
admiration and through a state of
confessed bafflement and then to
uncompromiSing condemnation.
The presentation had defied all
accepted rules of playmaking,
some of them honored through
centuries past and some no less
rigid because they relate to the
tyranny of custom which a slight
departure from the usual estab-
fishes if it has made success.
At the outset a nine-act play
seemed impossible except when
given in language of it's own in
a Chinese theater. The idea of
starting a play at 5 o'clock in the
afternoon with intermiSSion at
T::30 for dinner and the notice to
the audience that it would have to
stand up during an act if it re-
turned later than 9 o'clock, did
not imply a very favorable pros
pect. To sit through five acts of
the play and then leave a con-
genial dinner table to return for
four more acts seemed a little too
much to demand. The so-called
"aSideS," which are, in fact,
Soliloquies, some of them very long
indeed, inspired little faith when
described in advance. In fact, at
the opening of the play many a
heart sank as the character dear
old Charlie" consumed the better
part of an act reciting with small
conversational variation of inflec-
tion apparently to an empty stage.
Audiences accustomed to the
most deferential invitations to
lend their kind applause were
never before SO bullied and brow
beaten. They were reduced tC
abject submission and studied the
program admonitions amounting
in effect to retain your seat stub
so that you won't get lost" also
keep your door checks as identi-
f1cation tags" and due notice that
late comerS will not be seated
while the curtain is up" In some
cases patrons brought luncheons
SO as to be sure of being on hanC
at 9 o'clock when the delivery o1
the second installment was to be-
gin. IntermiSSionS extended
minutes, in one case 5 minutes
in another IL and in another 13.
X X X X
NO plan OF CONSTRUCTION COull
have seemed more formidable il
ponderous eccentricities AS work
ed out by O,Neill genius, thu
drama proved neither ponderou
nor eccentric The SoliloTuie
were revelations of the inti i
mental workings of the chara E
More was conveyed than I
possibly have been gathered t. IN
stage conversations relying en-
tirely on terms of voice, on geStur,
and on facial expression to hin
at what goes on in secret thought
Everything counted in the cours
Of the performance Even tn
intermissions, including the lonl
one for dining, were not merel
blank spaces, but were periods 0
suspense during which character
Evening star., 1928-12-30
Betty a Hula Champion.

RETTY COMPSON, who plays with
- Milton Stills In First Nationals pic
ture, THE Barker" is reputed to be one
of the most accomplished hula dancers
in Hollywood. Clad in the usual grass
skirt, she danced by the hour in front
OF the side-show tents for this picture.
Evening star., 1928-12-30

This charming entertainer, it is stated,
won stardom by sheer force Of out
standing ability, Miss de We're embodies
in her work every element that conSti-
tutes a burlesque queen"
In this seasons offering of Partisan
Flappers" many cid favorites grace new
situations, with new associates in the
persons of Harry Left, Dick Richards,
Gladys Lockwood and Jackie Ryan. The
chorus, scenery and lighting effects are
promised to please the most critical
holiday show shopper.
JANET RICHARDS, Tomorrow.
Miss Janet Richards will give the
second talk in her course on public
questions, home and foreign, tomor-
row morning at the Masonic Temple,
Thirteenth street and New York avenue.
In addition to the usual review of
recent developments, both political and
international, Miss Richards will give
an account of her observations as
visitor last September to that part OF
the old Austrian Tyrol which since the
World War has been under Italian
control.
Prospective legislation by the lame
duck Congress will also be touched
upon. The talks begin at 1850 am.
and are aided by the use of large maps.
NORMAN ANGEL, Thursday.
The Community Institute of Wash
ington will present the noted political
speaker and writer, Norman Angel, In
lecture, Crises in Democracy" at
Central Community Center, Thirteenth
and Clifton streets northwest, Thursday
evening, at 8:15 o'clock. This is the
fifth in the series of 10 events offered
this season by the institute.
Norman Angel ranks among the
great of English pamphleteers, and is
an outstanding authority on interna-
tional politics. He has lectured at all
the big American universities, and also
at prominent English, French and Ger
man universities.
Tickets may be had at the Willard
newsstand. the American Automobile
Association and at the door of Central
Community Center Thursday evening.
Evening star., 1928-12-30
Attractions in Washington
PlayhOuses This Week

IN WASHINGTON THEATERS THIS WEEK.
NATIONAL-The Wooden Kimono mystery play Opens this
evening.
BELASCO-"Lady, Good" musical comedy Opens this
evening.
POIIS-"Burlesque," comedy. Opens tomorrow evening.
STRAND Fappers burlesque This afternoon and
evening.
Evening star., 1928-04-01


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Evening star., 1928-04-01
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