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

made.
COLUMBIA-"The Doctors Secret"
The Inaugural week program at
Loew's Columbia has as its outstand-
ing attraction the all-talking picture
produced by Paramount, The Doctor s
Secret" with a cast including well
known players. such as Ruth Chatter
ton, H. B. Warner, John Loder and
Robert Edeson. The picture was
adapted from the famous play by Sir
James NJ. Barrie, Half An Hour" and
concerns London high society and a
wealthy self-made man who regards
his bought paidfor arStocratic
wife with no little contempt. She plans
to find happiness with the other man"
and her carefully laid plans go wrong.
One of the outstanding merits of the
picture is said to be the perfect repro
duction of the human voices.
Briefly, the wife decides to run away
with her real lover, and joins him a
short time before he sails for Egypt
He goes out to buy her clothes and is
brought back dead the victim of an
automobile accident. She tells the doc
tor who brings him in about herself
but does not reveal her name. That
evening, after she has returned home
she had left for her husband she is
surprised to find the doctor the guest
of 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. Another movietone
act produced by Metro will feature Jan
CARRIER and his band. with elaborate
settings and specialties. The Fox
Movietone News, the MG-M News and
Columbia Orchestra, under Claude Bur-
rows, will complete the program.
Midnight performance will be given
tonight and Monday
LITTLE THEATER-"Behind the
German Lines"
Behind the German Lines" UFA's
presentation CT Germanys side of the
war, has been held over at the Little
Theater for the second week, includ-
ing today.
This is claimed to be the only pic
ture ever made in which there is no
cast-and in which some of the most
noted persons in the world play promi-
nent roles-including, in part, the for
mer Kaiser of Germany, Baron Won
Hindenburg, Gen. Ludendorff, Won Tir-
pitt, Joffre, Lloyd George, President
Woodrow Wilson, Marshal Foch and
Gen. Pershing.
Unusual is the aspect that this film
was taken from no script. It Is a story,
told day by day. of the war from pic
lures and statements taken from the
official records of the Imperial German
government. Unlike the tale expected
from the vanquished, this story Is no
excuse fog their having lost to the
allies, Notwithstanding there is exhib-
tied the official dispatch taken from
the files of the German war Office
showing that the American entry proved
too much to combat on the Western
front.
Added film fare will include killing
the Killer" UFA production which
presents the battle Of mongoose with
a deadly cobra, in which the little rat
like animal wins; also the Tragedy OF
a Morphine Fiend" and 1.-THE Great
Gulch Mystery" said to be the only
moveless movie ever released.
PRESIDENT-"The Birth of a Race"
THE Birth of Race" is now at the
President Theater, with showings daily
at |, 8, 5, and 9 pm. 1t has a big
theme, mankind's struggle for the ideal
of brotherhood through the ages with
its romance, its smiles, tears and thrills
reaching back to the Garden of Eden,
thence to Noah and the Flood and en-
comprising the life Of Moses, the life Of
Christ, the landing of Columbus, the
Declaration of Independence, Lincoln
and his Emancipation Proclamation
down to the great World War and to
the sunshine of peace.
The scenario was written by George
Frederick Wheeler, Rudolph de Cor
dova and John W. Noble and directed
by John w. Noble, producer Of a num-
Der Of noted film features. The art
titles by noted artist, Ferdinand
Phinney Earle. and the musical score
was composed by Joseph Breil.
Among the film celebrities who con-
tributed characterizations to this pro-
duction are: Jane Grey, Anna Lehr,
Anita Cortez, Will H. Gregory, Phillip
Van Loan, Charles Graham and Belle
Seacombe