Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03

play of the same name that thrilled
America in its day. 1t also contains
dialogue and you hear William Haines
speak for the first time in the moving
pictures. Leila Hyams. "Hollywood's
most beautiful blond" plays the leading
feminine role, and Karl Dane and Tully
Marshall have excellent characterize
lions, as fellow crooks of William
HaineS.
The story concerns the cleverness OF
Jimmy Valentine as a cracksman-how
he robs an express Office and establishes
an alibi Lionel Barrymore as the de-
tective is unable to pin the job on jim
my, who then decides to go straight.
He goes to a small town, where he Is
employed in the bank and wins promo
ton as we'll as the heart of the daughter
Of the bank president. One day his
Sweetheart's small sister Is locked in the
banks vault. No one can open 1t but
Jimmy. To open it, however, would re-
veal to Doyle, who is still on his track,
that he Is a craftsman. He decides to
save the child's life and opens the safe.
Doyle is convinced that the young man
is really going straight and does not ar
rest him. The final fadeout shows
everybody happy.
picture will be a Metro oldwyn Mayer
Synchronized, with sound and dialogue,
preservation Of the flight of the Graf
Zeppelin from Germany to the United
States. The picture is in three reels
and is said to be thrilling record of
the flight as reported by Lady Drum
mond Hayes, the only woman passenger
aboard the craft The Fox Movietone
News, the M-G-M News and the Co
lumbia Orchestra will round out the
program.
METROPOLITAN-"The Redeeming
Sim"
Paris is and will always be the city
Of romance and mystery. It is not only
the French authors who have found in
it's cathedrals and cobbled streets, its
avenues and shadowy courts, its under
ground passages and its gray. silent
river the locale for immortal stories
but writer's of practically every coun-
try have turned to it at one time or
another for colorful backgrounds
notably Dickens, in his Tale Of Two
Cities"
The Partisan underworld is the scene
of THE Redeeming Sin," Warner Bros
latest Vitaphone special, and this weeks
feature at Crandall's Metropolitan. In
Villaire, dancer in Montmartre cafe,
glittering, tempestuous creature, as
willing to fight as to trip the light fan
taStic-and the passionate protector OF
small brother Petite, who, without
Joan's knowledge, Is being trained by
Mitzi, an Apache girl. in the art of
thieving Letteur, a thief, dominates
Joan'S life, in so far as it can be domi-
mated. He it is who accidentally shoots
Petite. A young doctor, who has come
to practice among the poor, Is called
in and the course of Joan'S life Is
changed. The doctor, waylaid by the
jealous Letteur and his followers-after
the death of Petite-is wounded and
tossed into the sewers of Paris, from
which, however, he is finally rescued.
LITTLE THEATER-"Forbidde Tales"
THE American premier of a new
mystery film. Forbidden Tales"
will be given at the Little Theater
today: the showing will continue
star of "Caligari'' and THE Man Who
Laughs" heads the cast in Forbidden
Tales" which was produced in Ger
many by Richard Oswald, who made
'Lucrecia Borgia."
Forbidden Tales" Is described as
being entirely unlike anything yet seen
on the screen, as 1t is not one complete
drama, but a collection Of them. Four
Of the most mysterious Of the short
stories of such authors as Edgar Allan
Poe and Robert Louis Stevenson have
been brought together in this film. Ac-
cording to the Motion Picture Guild,
this is the first time that such an
anthology" has been produced on the
screen. Conrad Veidt, Reinhold Schun-
Eel and Anita Berber occupy the lead
ing roles in all the four tales.
Accompanying the feature picture on
there will be travelogue. wild Beasts
of Bcrneo." and comedy, Knee Deep
in Love-" in which only the hands and
feet of the nlavers are shown