Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-09

water, Edna Murphy, Reed Howes and
Phyllis Crane. The picture is a Warner
Brothers Vitaphone talking production.
John irving Fisher, master of cere-
monies, will introduce many Broadway
entertainers, including Doris Vinton,
star Of Lucky Girl; Don Cummings,
with his lariat and a line of chatter
that Is always productive of laughter;
La CeliSe Brothers in a character study
that has graced many musical revueS,
and Mario and LaZarin, the singing
troubadours. in new cycle of songs
These singers were held for a second
week, 1t is announced, in response to
many requests.
In addition, Leon Brusiloff and the
40 Fox JaZzrnanians will offer a novel
orchestral number, besides furnishing
musical accomplishments, and the gor-
geouS FoxetteS will be seen in new
dance routines. The Fox Movietone
News. presenting world events in sound
and picture, will complete the program.
PALACE-"A Mans Man."
William Haines in the Metro-Gold
wyn-Mayer sound picture, "A Mans
Man" IS the screen feature at Loew's
Palace this week. Haines is supported
by cast including Josephine Dunn,
Sam Hardy and Mae Busch.
AS soda singing hero, Haines Of
fers Characterization of a serious
young man. The fountain where he
works is next to fashionable Holly
wood theater. From this vantage point
he revereS the movie folk. He sees John
Gilbert and Greta Carlo, as we'll as
other stars, attending a premiere. but
his particular interest is conferred on an
assistant movie director whom he con-
siders his friend. Josephine Dunn is
movie-struck country girl who thinks
she looks like Greta Carlo. She meets
the soda clerk, and in short order they
marry. The clerk has two ambitions in
l1fe-one to join the Elks, and the
other to develop a personality. In so
doing he neglectS his wife. The assist
ant director friend sells him some
worthless stock for 200 and also takes
the young wife out by promising her
stardom in the movies. Discovering he
has been fooled and that his wife has
been duped, he sets out for revenge, is
badly beaten by the director, and goes
back to his apartment, about to leave
his wife. A whimsical scene follows
with the result that he again goes out,
his wife with him, and really thrashes
the director, thus proving himself to be
"A Mans Man"
On the stage Herbert Rawlinson,
"Hollywood's Ambassador of JOY" is
presented in Circus Cabaret" with the
Palace syncopatorS. Other featured en-
tertainers in this presentation. which
embodies the sensation and thrill Of
circus with the life Of a night club. are
Waller and Dyer, Evans and Wolf,
Fink and Ayers. Vera Van and Sixteen
Foster Girls. The Fox Movietone News,
the M-G-M News. short subjects and
the Palace Orchestra will complete the
program.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Ark"
Warner Bros "Noah's Ark" with Do
lores Costello in the stellar role, follow
ing very successful first weeks en-
gagement at Crandalls Metropolitan,
will be held over for the second week.
great spectacle. its Vitaphoned talk
ing sequences and symphonic accom-
paniment and sound effects have stirred
capacity audiences to applause and
cheering. Extraordinary spectacular ef-
fects have been achieved upon the
screen in the making of this picture.
The dialogue sequences are impressive
and dramatic and the musical accom-
paniment played by the Vitaphone Sym
phony Orchestra, directed by Louis Sill
Vers, adds much to the colorful drama
OF the flood sequences.
There Is modern introduction to
the BIBLICAL MOOD, In which fragments
Of the action of the embattled armies
IN the Great War are depicted, the
food Of blood that overwhelmed mod
ern civilization leading the chief char
acters in the drama to that great food
Of water in Noah's time, which, accord
ing to Biblical accounts, overwhelmed
the world.
Dolores Costello, seen as a young
German girl; Mary, dancer in trav-
cling troupe, on the Paris CONSTANT
nople Express, with Travis, a care
free young American, and his friend,
AL Nickoloff, Russian officer, when the
train runs upon a wrecked bridge and
its cars are sent tumbling down the
story.
Later the characters are seen in
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