The Washington times., 1929-01-05
FOR
NEW WEEK TN
THEATERS

Leon Enrol, Lionel Atwill and Fan.
ME Brice, opens at the National
Sunday night for weeks engage.
ment. Tessa Kosta is the prima.
donna lead. Mr.. Carroll promises
Sc of the most gorgeous girls in
captivity, a male chorus and
symphony orchestra. Other fea-
tured principals are Dorothp
Knapp, George Houston, the Lo-
Gust Sisters, the three Demon
Dancers, Snow and Columbus,
Theodore Karle and Giovanni
Guerri.
with Washington's own Kate
Smith will be the attraction be-
ginning Sunday night. This is
been offered at popular prices.
Thelma Parker, Edward Metcalfe,
Jack Closson, Rosa Snowden will
play the principal roles. Kate
smith will sing the famous
''Hallelujah" song and the other
hits of the Vincent Youmans
and Herbert Fields score includ-
ing, sometimes I'm Happy"
will be heard assisted by the big
Belasco chorus of beauties.
POLTS-Washington will have
a closeup of the interior mys.
teries of a Zeppelin for the latest
thriller, "One Mile Up" is con-
cerned with happenings in the In
terror of a huge air bag of the
dirigible type. The "Barbarossa
is said to be a marvel of stage
craft and a novel scenic embellish-
ment. Peopling the airship and
concerned with the mystery drama
are professors. crew, school teach.
ers. passengers, statesmen, and a
leper. In the large cast of prin.
cipals are Charles Able, Rose Ho-
bart, Wallis Clark, Alfred A.
Hesse, Julian Noa, Joan Marion,
Raymond Walburn, Zelya Talma,
Priscilla Knowles, and Paul Gull.
foyle.
PRESIDENT-"Unw Chill
dren," the problem screen feature,
has registered SO successfully it
is being held over for a second
week, beginning today. In this
picture an age-old discussion is
presented as the groundwork of a
most entertaining picture. 1t IS
provocative, but none the less in
teresting, in its graphic delinea-
ton of a moot problem. Conrad
Veidt, Mary Ellis and Werner
Kraus play the leads with remark
able work by some clever child ac- :
tors. There are daily matinees.
STRAND-"Step Along" is the
title of the new Mutual burlesque
show which bows into the Strand,
beginning Sunday matinee. Lena
Daily. known the length and
breadth of the land by burlesque
patrons, heads this new attrac-
tion. She is abetted in comedy
and melody by Lew Lewis, Flor
ence Trotman, Charles Smith,
Harry Harrison and Dave Gard
ner. There is a large chorus and
'Step Along" promises to surpass
any show on the Mutual wheel
in the number of laughs provided.
EARLE Colleen Moore in her
latest First National comedy,
Earle beginning today. 1t is the
story of a little Virginia girl who
has an ambition to be a great
actress but fails because she is un.
acquainted with real life. She de-
cides to get acquainted and there
in lies the fun. Synthetic Sin"
is adapted from the stage play.
Antonio Moreno is Miss Moores
Gertrude Astor, Edythe Chapman
and Kathryn Mcguire are seen
in support of the star.
METROPOLITAN-"on Trial"
the Warner Brothers all-talking
picture, made from Elmer Rice's
stage play, has scored so em.
phaticaIly it is being held over
for a second week at the Metro
politan, beginning today. The
scenes of "On Trial take place
In a courtroom with flash.backs
to the action of a mysterious
death. Lois Wilson, Pauline Fred
erick, Bert Lytell, Holmes Her.
bert, Richard Tucker, Jason Rob.
ards, Johnny Arthur, Vondell
Darr, Franklin Pangborn. Fred
Kelsey, Edmund Breese and Ed
ward Martinez are in the large
cast OF talking actors.
COLUMBIA-The initial pres.
entation of Paramount's first all.
talking picture, interference"
takes place at Loew's Columbia
today. The voices Of William
Powell, Evelyn Brent Doris Ken
yon and Give Brook will be
heard with distinctness and dra-
matte appeal. The added attrac.
tions include Eddie Cantor and
Ruth Etting in Movietone. the
M.G-M News and the Columbia
concert orchestra, Claude Bur-
rows directing.
FOX-F. w. Murnau's sun.
rise," a Fox feature which has
been widely heralded as among
the best pictures of 1928, comes
to the Fox, beginning today.
Janet Gaynor and George
OBrien are featured in this inter
esting tragic story Of husband
stealing. The stage portion of the
program will be called Doctor
jazz and will introduce a group
of entertainers who will live up
70 the IlLiSs Leon bEuSloLI, NSdu'
ing the Fox grand orchestra and
the Movietone News will complete
the program.
PAI4ACE-Clara Bow. in Three
Week. Ends" her latest Para.
mount picture. heads the screen
program for the new week, begin.
ming today. Neil Hamilton
and Harrison Ford assist the little
star in this feature which has
been directed by Clarence Badger.
On the stage Wesley Eddy and the