Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-21
LITTLE THEATER-"YOuthful
Ecstasy"

A highly emotional drama, over
emphasized in spirit and detail, present.
ing Camilla Horn of THE Tempest" and
Faust" in her first star role, holds
chief place on this weeks program at
the Little Theater The film, produced
BY the German UFA studios, is entitled
youthful Ecstasy" and concerns the
follies and disillusion of the younger
generation.
One unusual and remarkably handled
phase of the story is the corollary drama
of the ants and graSshoppers, prototypes
of the humans in the play, and better
actors by far than their biologic
Superiors.
Standard types and situations, the
sort that American audiences are accuS-
toned to seeing since the term fapper"
was brought into use, add no originality
70 youthful Ecstasy" The vlllalnles
and heroisms here are no different from
those of most former younger genera
ton" films. there is much heaVlng OF
excited bosomS and hanging OF guilty
heads. all so overacted as to leave no
possible doubt that excitement and
shame are in the air. There Is forged
note, an erring son, broken father,
good girl and a giddy girl, and a
Candida-like situation in which the girl
is told by the hero and the villain you
must choose between us; after ha'
choice dramatic logic is satisfied by
fist-fieht. To complete the sentiment
and index the whole spirit of the piece,
two subtitles announce for the needless
young people that Life is beautiful and
we are young" and Let us dance and
forget" The same sort OF thing was
flashed on American screens years ago.
In addition to Miss Horn, the princi-
pals in the cast include Gustav Froellch
and Warwick Ward, whose interpreta-
ton is. by far, the best of the lot.
An old-time comedy of Harold Lloyd's,
with Bebe Daniels as the leading lady; a
technicolor treatment of the Cinderella
theme and newsreels complete the cur
rent bill.
NEWMAN-"The Garden of Aiiah.
e. M Newman opened his twentieth
season here yesterday afternoon at the
National Theater with a travel TAX, III
which 1.-The Garden OF Allah was oe-
scribed and pictured at new angles III
acknowledgment, perhaps, OF tne Gus
ing of the second decade OF the lee
tllrer's yearly visit or more probably pe-
cause of the always historic value ana
art interest Of his travel talks Mr.
Newman yesterday was greeted oy an
audience of Ziegfeld proportions, TO
which was added welcome OF spon-
taneous applause.
s"The Garden of Allah is no longer
the restricted paradise OF fiction. Prog
ress has elbowed its way INTO the
Sahara to such an extent tnat motor
roads cross hitherto trackless SAND, and
luxurious hotels share the ancient well
H.
ern-towr facilities at Biskra and other
nlaces deep hidden in the desert, has so
Teyolutionized travel that transportation
has been made secure, where only
few wears ago no American or Euro
peans was safe.
The travel lecturer like Alexander,
has no more worlds to conquer, but IL
has been proved that descriptions ana
pictures of special points of interest In
countries already seen, either by tourist
travel or theater-seat route, possess a
charm that even SurpaSSeS the hltnerJo
more general but less intimate studies
of nations and their belongings.
Arriving at Tangiers the tour reached
out, as a beginning, to Marrakech, 1.-The
remarkable" where astonishing con-
trasts Of primitive Moors and their
snake charming and gorgeous hotels
give thrilling realization OF life in that
far section of earth. The Jewish quar-
ter shows racial claim to the section, IN
that each figure bears the patriarcnal
face and figure of the men of the Old
Testament, and then come phases OF
life "as seen only in Morocco where
the shops are like shallow boxes with
the tops off. When business closes the
tons are fastened on. At Fee, the an
Gent capital, the trip included a
snever-to-be forgotten motion tour
through its narrow streets, crowds and
life. It is where Jews have lived for
1000 years" With the AlgerianS in an
old, old city, there is a reminder OF
Paris. A ramble around shows where
the governor lives in sumptuous rooms,
and there is place Of rock and water
and Gagged walls where wild monkeys
give able duplication of the motherhood
of the female who cares for her nursing
baby while hunting her own food:
Farther east into Kabyle land, and
through a succession Of scenes that in
clude the "Defile of Death" and Con-
stantine. and its wonderful gorge, the
way leads to another tribute to the
marvellous art and industry of old Rome.
in the ruins of city built by Trajan,
where graceful columns still stand in
vincibly erect in defiance of time. AT
the oasis of Bou Saada there is a
glimpse of 'the Ouled Nails" and desert
dances-and, for last view there is
the Garden of Allah" as Illustrated IN
the Hichens' story, ending with bark
back to the old-time desert where
there are only space and sky and the
colOrS painted by nature"
Mr.. Newman's travel talk for. next
Sunday will be Spain"