Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-21
RIALTO-"ShOw Boat"


"Show Boat" Carl Laemmle's Movie
tone pictorial pageant based on Edna
Ferber's novel and Florenz Ziegfelds
stage production, comes into port Tor an
international premiere" at the gala
reopening of the Rialto tomorrow night.
The debut of this elaborate combina-
ton screen version of the Ferber story,
with its songs and music, dialogue and
drama and the ziegfeld's extravaganza,
promises to be quite a brilliant affair.
The list of seat reservations is said to
contain the names of many persons
prominent in governmental diplomatic
and social circles. Many notables of
the screen and stage also will attend
the opening in person, including Carl
Iaemmle, president of the Universal
Pictures Corporation; FlorenZ ziegfeld,
the famous producer of the stage sue
cess; Billie Burke, one of the foremost
stars of the legitimate stage, and Helen
Morgan, star of the play now running
on Broadway.
The Show Boat" music of Jerome
Kern is ranked among the most char
acteristic music ever written <or dra-
matte musical stage entertainment, and
it is said by those who have been privi-
legged to witness a preview Of the pic
ture to be splendidly fitted for the
screen production.
Helen Morgan, Jules Bledsoe and
Aunt Jemima sing in the picture the
song which made them famous, and the
audience will both see and hear Helen
Morgan singing "Rill' and Cant Help
Loving That Man." Jules Bledsoe sing
ing "Old Man River" and Aunt Jemima
and the Ziegfeld Plantation Singers
rendering Hey, Feller'' and Come On,
Folks"
For the premiere performance tomor-
row night all seats may be reserved IN
advance, as only one performance Will
be given, starting promptly at $3.50 pm.
For succeeding days and during the
entire run of the picture, after the open
ing night, the performances will be con-
tinuous from 2 until II pm, with the
popular prices prevailing.
The picture, it Is announced, VIII De q
forerunner of a series of super-special
pictures to follow in establishing new
era for the Ninth street playhouse.
James Carrier is the newly appointed
managing director of the theater, with
Rodney Collier acting as house man
ager.
PALACE-"Spite Marriage"
This being "all laugh week" at Loew's
Palace, the program starts appropriately
with Buster Keaton's latest Metro
Goldwyn-Nayer sound production Spite
Marriage" with Leila RyamS and Dor
ot1y Sebastian in the cast.
Buster Keaton is presser in tailor
ing establishment when the picture
opens, and to make an impression on
the girl of his dreams, an actress at the
local theater, he wears his customers
fine clothes, and the girl takes him for
a millionaire. When her boy friend
seems a trif1e cold toward her, she mar
ries Buster for spite. After she is mar
ried his troubles begin. After seeing
the thirty-fifth presentation of the show
he knows everybody's lines, and SO, when
one actor is obliged to leave, he takes
the part, and the comedy that follows
is hilarious and original. His troubles
range from wrecking the set on the
stage when he tries to act to shipping
aboard rum runner and being rescued
at sea in storm, with the ship afire.
The stage unit also provides laughs
for the laugh program. 1t is Charles
Niggemeyer's Loew-Publix production
Say 1t With Flowers" Wesley Eddy,
in his seventy-third week with the Pal
ace Syncopators, is very much present
in the musical comedy of April showers
and May flowers. Featured in the unit
is Sammy Cohen, the doughboy comic
OI WIldG IIICt (lOly: AdLllS, Ia pei
son; the Stone Vernon Foursome, sensa-
tional adagio dancers; Maxine Hamil-
ton, the personality princess, and the
Dave Gould Girls. The Fox Movietone
News, the M-G-M News, short subjects,
a comedy of note, Charles Gaige at the
organ and the Palace Orchestra, under
Harry Borjes, complete the program.
FOX-"Speakeasy."
After three weeks stay at the Roxy
Theater, New York, "Speakeasy" is now
being shown at the local Fox Theater,
announced as the first picture to re-
produce the actual sounds of Manhat-
tan, in an all-talking production, ac-
tually taken in New York City, in the
subways. on the elevated railways and
In theaters. cabarets. 'speakeasies" and
within the Madison Square Garden.
"Speakeasy' is a slice of life as lived
In the biggest town in the world. Ten
thousand fight-crazed enthusiasts are
heard cheering; as also the monoto-
nous cry of the candy butchers" and
hustle and hustle of that great railway
terminal.
Through the film runs an absorbing
story presented by a cast the two
principal players of which, Lola Lane
spoken stage. It also brings to the
talking screen the first appearance of
Henry B. Walthall.
"Whoopee Week." as the current
period is entitled, will mark the advent
Of the Forty Jazzmanians, the Fox
Grand Orchestra transplanted to the