Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-06
EARLE-"Stark Mad"

EARLE-"Stark Mad"
The Earle Theater. beginning with g
midnight premiere the coming Friday
starting at II 80 pm. will present Wa:.
ner Bros all-talking Vitaphone produc-
ton, Stark Mad" which features H. B
Warner. with Louise Fazenda. Jaqueline
Logan, Henry B. Walthall, Lionel Bel
more, Claude Gillingwater, Andre Be-
ranger and John MILAN in the cast.
| The story, an original. by Jerome
Kingston, concerns the thrilling adven-
lures of an expedition sent to locate a
| hunter lost in the Central American
| jungles. Vitaphone records all the
dialogue and the weird sounds of the
| jungle, presenting also symphonic &C
| compartment
| All the hair-raising machinery of the
unknown is employed to make the play
| thrilling and at the same time ludicrous
in the extreme.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. River"
Weary River" now drawing capac-
tan Theater, will be held over for a Sec
ond and final week from Saturday. The
engagement will really end Friday night
of next week. Richard Barthelmess,
who has for 10 years been one of the
most popular male stars on the screen,
Is thought to rise to even greater heights
in Weary River" which is First Ma
tional-Vitaphone talking picture
Weary River" is the story of a sing
ing convict, and contains an abundance
of action along with sentimental in
terest It was directed by Frank Lloyd,
who produced THE Sea Hawk"
The short subjects presented this week
will also be held over. They include
two Vitaphone short reels and the Met
ropolitan Topical Review.
COLUMBIA-"The Doctors Secret.
The Paramount 100 per cent all-talk-
ing picture, The Doctors Secret" will
remain at Loew's Columbia Theater,
together with subsidiary features, for
another week. The picture, adapted
from Sir James Barries play, Half an
Hour" features the following stars
Ruth Chatterton, H. B. Warner, Robert
EdeSon and John Loder.
The story revolves about self-made
man who has bought and paid" for
his society bride. He does not hesitate
to tell her this, until she is driven to
run off with lover by his cruel taunts,
but a half an hour before they are to
sail for Egypt the lover is killed, and a
doctor brings the body to the apart
ment where the woman awaits him.
There she tells the doctor her story.
Later she returns to her home to find
that the same doctor is one of the
guests of her husband at dinner. The
doctor does not tell, and the wife sue
ceeds in recovering the note she had
left for her husband
Jack Pepper acting as master of
ceremonies, will introduce Frances
White, the Ponce Sisters, the Reynolds
Sisters and Joseph Regain in a Metro
Movietone Revue. Jan CARRIERS Band,
an organization of speciality artists in
beautiful settings, will be presented in a
Metro Movietone act. The Fox Movie
tone News, the M-G-M news and the
Columbia Orchestra, under Claude Bur-
rows, will complete the program.
LITTLE THEATER-"spies."
The new owners of the Little Theater
announce as the next offering of the
Spies" which was brought to this
country aboard the Graf Zeppelin.
This picture is said to be replete with
mystery SO constructed as to build upon
itself climax after climax. It deals with
the deeper, blacker Vaccinations known
only to the bands of super-criminals
whose lack of interest in the smaller
plots leads them toward the breaking
down of nations with the constant
gnawing at the foundations of their
victims.
Spies" was directed by Fritz Lang
who will be remembered for his excel
lent work Metropolis" The cast is
headed by Rudolph Klein Royce, known
as the continental Lon CLANCY, who
plays the role of the master mind. OPP
posite him is Gerda Maurus, an actress
whose efforts have carried her from the
music halls In Vienna to the leading
motion picture studios of Europe.
The program will be completed with
an explosion of the theory that fish are
-blooded animals, entitled Fishes
in Love-" and added to this a humorous
film of Max Davidson creation, "Pru-
dence"
BELGIAN ORGANIST-Tomorrow.
Charles Courboin, distinguished Bel
gian organist, will give recital in ST.
Stephens Episcopal Church, Sixteenth
and Newton streets northwest, tomor-
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