The Washington times., 1929-08-03

laundering hoofs; dangerous
race course; terror-stricken and
ludicrous rider wearing his sweet
hearts colors, desperately trying
to make the high jumps; an un-
comfortable horse, ''The Hotten-
tot" dashing to the finish line;
the glory Of achieving great
victory
Such is one of the many color.
full sequences in Warner Broth
ers latest all-talking Vitaphone
production. 1T he Hottentot,"
adapted for the screen from the
celebrated stage hit by Victor
Maps and William Collier, to be
shown at Crandalls Metropolitan
for the week beginning today.
All the clamor and glamor OF
the steeplechase and the fascina'
tion of watching trained and
spirited horses forging to the
front are brought to the screen
with sound and dialogue. a."
Edward Everett Horton heads
the allstar cast, appearing in the
role he portrayed with such re-
markable success on the stage.
The cast also includes Patsy Mil
ler. Edmund Breese. Edward
Earle Stanley Taylor, Otto Hott'
man. Douglas Gerard and Maude
Turner Gordon.
EARLE-WalI Street is not all
q round of Rolls Royces and cham
pagne for the college heroes
who storm it's sinister walls as
bond statesmen.
THE Time, the Place and the
Girl" the screen version Of the
musical comedy success, directed
bv Howard Bretherton for
Warner Brothers, at the Earle
Theater shows some of the things
that might happen to a gridlron
star who is a front-page splash one
day and just plain want-ad the
next.
Grant Withers plays the part of
young college man who boldly
enters this proverbially cruel
world and while he imagines he
is on his way to fortune Is really
doing double quick to The
hoosegow.
There is a girl, Of course-the
girl, played by Gertrude Ohm.
stead. and there are a number of
merry wives of Wall Street and
elsewhere, headed by Betty Comp
son, who takes a Well-meant Maud
in his undoing.
The cast includes Betty Comp
son, James r. kirkwood Vivian
Oakland, Gretchen Hartman,
Irene Haisman, Bert Roach and
Gerald Ring.
FOX-Myrna 10y will be the
star of the Fox Theater screen
feature, Hard Boiled Rose" open
ing today.
1t is a Warner Brothers Vita
phone talking picture with> ro-
mantle New Orleans as it's locale.
Hard Boiled Rose" has a cast
including William Collier. jr.; John
MILAN, Gladys Brockwell, Edward
Martindel. Lucy Beaumont, Ralph
Emerson, Floyd Shackelford and
Otto Hoffman.
On the stage, John Irving Fisher
will continue as master OF cere-
monies. Toots Novello and his
brother, famed in the music halls
of Europe and the vaudeville the.
aters of this country are the head.
line attraction. katherine Irwin,
soprano, will continue for another
week in a speciality with Mr.
Fisher. Chic Kennedy, radio and
stage star, will be brought back
for a return engagement. Clifton
and Durex, a comedy singing and
dance offering, and Will Lacey
with his unicycle, along with Jack
Rose, the 16 Gorgeous Foxettes.
and Leon Brusiloff's Forty Fox
'Jazzma mans will round out the
stage program. Fox Movietone
New will also be an important
unit.
COLUMBIA-Clara Bows "Dan-
gerous Curves" will remain at
I.oew's Columbia for a second
week. The picture is an all-talking
Paramount production of life
beneath the canvas with Richard
Arlen in support of Miss Bow and
Kay Francis as the female menace.
Clara with her usual vigor, enthu-
siasm and charm also reveals her
ability as a dramatic actress in
her latest opus,
She is pictured as spangled
bareback rider in the circus who
Is deeply in love with Arlen. a
tiEht.rops performer. So that she