Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-11
Local Stage and Screen.

The weeks movie bills offer a sue
culent diversity. Any one going the
rounds Of the FIVE main houses, as many
do in the Summer time, would find APP
peasement for even the most voracious
appetite for variety. Everything, in
fact. from Sophie fuckers coon shout
ing" at the Metropolitan, working up
through the graduations of spice in
Twin Beds" at the Earle. to the pastel
emotions so eminently championed by
Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell In
Lucky Star" at the Fox. In. between,
or little off to the side are Bulldog
Drummond" at the Columbia. and
chinatown Nights" at the Palace.
Ronald Colmans "talkie baptism" in
Bulldog Drummond" has sent the re-
viewers in other centers ScurryinR for
new words of praise. If there is one
dependable leading man on the screen
today, 1t is Colman. His work on the
silent screen had a quality OF unas-
sumption and straightforwardness that
offered tremendous refreshnent in con-
trast with the more flamboyant heroics
of MANY of his confrere5. Colman,
leaning toward the light touch of
comedy in the current picture, is said
to gain innmeasurable stature through
sudibility. and through his departure
from carbon copy romantic roles.
Lucky Star" initiating the public
into mountaineering with the vocal
persons of Miss Gaynor and Mr.. Far
rell, appears. from advance notice, to be
suitable and characteristic vehicle for
their particular capacities. Though
much is sinister, little Is sin, and there
is poetry and stainless In quantity. How
their voices will take with Washington
audiences remains to be seen; New York
was tepid on that score.
Jack Mulhalrs appearance in Twin
Beds should excite some interest. The
National Theater Players have popular
tied the piece here most recently, just
a week or so before their final curtain.
Many people WIN remember the per-
Torrance sufficiently well to make COM
parsons.
The. eerie doings of Mr. Berry could
one say the eerie Berry doings?
against a Chinatown and tong war
BACKGROUND promise q chill or two to
combat the weather, and Sophie Tucker
Is enough of an old-tinler to put "Honky
Tonk" across in cyclone OF sound,
whatever it may lack In the more subtle
histrionic trappings.
Hardie Meakin of the Fox Theater
discloses that they are trying to wangle
"The Cockeyed World" to washington
for the week of September II, which VIII
be anniversary week at the Fox. He
announces further that the picture. Is
breaking records at the Roxy in New
, York, rIecessitating. for the first time
In the history Of Mr.. Rothafels gilt
tering temple, the giving Of midnight
performances.
The local movie scribes and handful
of other guests pre-viewed THE Cock
eyed World" Tuesday evening. To this
reporter 1t looks like strong, strong
bidder for standing houses when 1t ar
riyes in September. The Fox here mas
a rigid one-week rule. Has any one
ever solved the problem Of what hap
pens when a body Of irresistible mo-
mentum meets an immovable object?
Guesses are again in order.
I At all events THE Cockeyed World
, is as fine rowdy frolic as the audible
screen has yet offered. The Anderson
! Stallings story III you can call the
strung together incidents a story Is
slightly attenuated. but 1t never lacks
speed The rangy, clustering nag OF
: victor McLaglen Is again. as In What
! Price Glory2" q glorious target for Ed
rnund Loves sardonic Quirt. From
/ Russia to the tropics, via Brooklyn, they
snarl at one another, melting in one
scene, where CURT has what looks like
a mortal fever, into the brothsTy love