The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-03-17

FRITZ Scheff, May Robson, Bur-
ton Churchill, Stanley Logan
and others. The play IL woven
around d thrilling love theme ana
In the background Is an Expose
Of the underworld, police methods
and department store conditions.
BlELASUO- Anne Nichols laugh
ing success, ''Abie's irish Rose, /"
which returns to the shubert-
BelascO for d week, beginning
Sunday night, teaches no lesson
save that Of charity for neigh.
bofs; there are no ''big" scenes:
no ar1tl.climaxes. 1T might be
considered d Slice Of real life. cut
from the whole which we have
all experienced. When the Jew.
ish father attacks the freshman
he expresses sentiments that
everyone has felt and the same
can be said Of the Irishman in
his discOtirse on the Jews.
KEITH'S-AIiss Babe Hgan ana
her Hollywood Redheads will head
line the bill next week. These
girls present niirth and rhythm.
each member Of the organization
being an expert on one or more
Instruments. They do not offer d
concert, but b routine carnival Of
syncOpatiOn. Dolly Con01y; 'sPrima
Donna" Of song viii be heard in d
song series.
Tex Mcleod, known al the viii
Rogers, Of the European stage,
having made many tours through
England and the Continent and
even South Africa, will be seen
for the week spinning ropes and
yarns. Gilbert and French. who
were brought to America as 4
part OF the All-Engiish bill that
has become an annual event 1t
the Palace Th&ater, New York,
will Introduce Themselves. The
Rogers Sisters, Jane and Ginger,
will do harmonies as they sing
them in Missouri. Jim McI,augE.
lin and Blanche Evans will be
seen in . skit. ''Back Stage"
GAYETY-Next week finds the
Pretty Babies holding forth ct
the Gayety AS the name suggests
it's q grille production with sing
ing and dancing 1assies leading the
action. Peggy Mayo, stars in her
melodies and dainty dance bits.
Murray Cash has the leading COM
edy role and backing him up will
be Jack Baker, George clark and
Benl1iA P1aft.
EARLE-One Of the screens
appealing love stories told with
the Ozark Mountains as a back.
ground, Is 1.-THE Shepherd Of the
Hills which viii be the screen
feature at the Earle Theater
beginning Saturday. The stage
offering win Introduce Leon
Navarro, & pianist ana stage enter
tainer as master Of ceremonies
in q new Lyman production
Cabaret Navarro Is assisted
by Tom Brown and the six Brown
Brothers who need no further
introduction.
F0N Jetta GoudaI, supported
By Joseph SchiIdhraut, in 'sThe
forbidden Woman, will be the
screen feature at the Fox COM
rl1encing Saturday. while on the
stage win be presented d Mardi
Gras syncOpatiofl In which win be
featured the stage band Of Jan
CARRIER.
Miss GoudaPs picture gives her
another exotic role In ''Zita," q
secret service agent Of the Sultan
or MOROCCO. who Iflarries one
brother only to win the love Of the
other. both officers In the French
army. Locale OF the story is both
MOROCCO and France.
Fox program will be divided into
two iflterludes: First, d Mardi
Gfas OF syncopation in which Jan
CARRIER ana his new and greater
orchestra is featured and, second,
9 st. Patrick's Day "ComaIye''
RTALTO-''Buck Privates'' \
humorous photoplay OF the
American Army Of Occupation In
Germany, co-starring Lya De
Putt and Malcolm McGregor,
comes to the HiaItO starting Sat.
urday. The story concerns the
adventures, mostly comic, Of John
Smith, q buck private in a little
German village. He falls in love
with Anne, daughter of the stiff
and proud Major Won Hartmann,
in whose home he is billeted. The
following sequences are full of
surprise twists, excitement, speed
and happy ending.
As an added attraction b RS
vival OF Harold Lloyd in Grand
mas Boy" il announced. Many
consider 1t to be his funniest and
greatest comedy.
PALACE---"D oomsday," by WAR;
wick Deeping, author Of "SorrelI
and Son." is the feature in which
Florence Vidor and Gary Cooper
will be seen as co-stars at the
Palace Theater beginning Satur-
day, st. Patrick's Day. The
stage presentation will be Frank
Cambria's "Galloping On" in
which Wesley Eddy and the
Palace Syncopators are featured
among a long list of singers,
dancers and comedians, including
Miriam Lax, soprano; Robert Cloy,
tenor; Ben Blue, dancing come.
dian. and many others.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Fairbanks
as the Gaucho is the screen attrac-
ton at the Columbia for a second
week. The locale of Doug's new
photopIay is the pampas Of the Ar
gentine, and the story deals with
q beautiful shrine city, whose
wealth II coveted both by a bandit
chief and a cruel dictator. Doug
appears as the Gaucho. the leader
OF several hundred wild spirits of
the pampas. The mountain girl
will be impersonated by Lupe
Velez, and Eve Southern as the
girl Of the shrine.