Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-15
In Capital Theaters
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played by George Lewis, Dorothy Guilt
yer. Eddie Phillips, Hayden Stevenson,
Churchill Ross and Sumner Getchel.
The high light of the picture Is the
stirring championship foot ball game.
Great care was exercised to preserve the
continuity OF action in the game to.
enable the theater audience to follow
the ball and get the maximum suspense
from the game. This part Of the pic
stadium where the big East-West game
is played and oil the color and
excitement of the Vast arena and its
thousands Of foot ball fans have been
captured in the picture,
Other phases of college life also are
shown, including campus antics, frater-
nifty and sorority house festivities and
the feveriSh enthusiasm Of q big-game
rally and torchlight parade. Through
it all runs delightful love story and
the rivalry OF two popular campus
coed.
Hilarious cafe>scenes are shown with
entertainers, and tunes by the University
Of California Glee Club add zest to
many rousing sequences.
METROPOLITAN-Al JOlson In "Say
IL With Songs"
The Metropolitan Theater announces
that Al Jolson's Vitaphone singing pic
ture, Say It With Songs" in which he
is supported by his world-famous little
pal, Davey Lee, will be held over for
second week.
It's story opens In broadcasting sta
ton. AS Joe Lane, popular radio en-
tertainer and song writer, Jolson has
Jolson can sing. That Jolson is
Amaster Of pathos as well as comedy was
Shown in THE Jazz Singer" and 1.-THE
Singing Fool"
Say 1t With Songs" is an altogether
different type Of story from Jolson's two
| previous pictures, and 1t Is believed has
an even more universal appeal. It deals
with fathers love and sacrifice for
his boy. The boy, Of course, is Davey
Lee.
Lloyd Bacon directed Say It With
| Songs" and Marian Nixon, Kenneth
Thompson, Holmes Herbert and Fred
| Kohler are in the cast. It is based on
story by Daryl Frances Zanuck and
Harvey Gates.
COLUMBIA-Warner GLAND, 1.-THE
Mysterious DIR. Flu Manchu."
Mystery still continues at Loew's Co
| lumbia, where THE Mysterious DR.. Flu
| Manchu' will remain for the second
week.. The picture is Paramount
talking version Of Sax Rohmer's alb
sorbing thriller. Warner GLAND, the
veteran of many Chinese roles, plays
!! the part of the insidious DR.. Flu
! o. p. Heggie, William Austin, Claude
! King and Tully Marshall form an able
supporting cast.
| The picture opens with scenes from
| the Boxer uprising and shows the death
of F.u's wife and child from the fire OF
| the allied troops. 1t causes Flu to be-
come vengeful demon. He vows ne
will have life for every blood stain
| on his tapestry dragon. He arrives In
England with but three more deaths
| to avenge to complete his revenge. He
plans to make his beautiful white ward,
whom he has brought up from infancy,
an instrument of death. He makes her
his willing tool by the means OF
hypotism. The girl falls in love with
the grandson of one of her victims. and.
after Flu has done away with the
poses to have the girl bring about the
death of her sweetheart. The story Is
| brought to an interesting climax.
Added attractions will include Laurel
and Hardy in the Nom talking
comedy, "Unaccustomed as We Are;
/ Screen Snapshots, a tour through
Hollywood with Ham" Hamilton, VIM
cent Lopez in q Metro Movietone
presentation, the Fox Movietone News.
the M-G-M International News ana the
! Columbia Orchestra.
LITTLE THEATER-"The Passion OF
~ Joan Of Arc"
Mile. Falconetti, noted French actress,
/ portraying a new and daring Joan IN
| the film 1.-The Passion of joan OF Arc,
will be held over until Thursday OF this
week. at the Little Theater.
| Casting to the winds the usual LEGENDS
! of heroism, Mile Falconetti is said to give
a sincere Interpretation Of simple,
! human girl. The story deals entirely
| with the last six hours OF Joans NE,
| covering her trial and death.
Carl T. Dreyer was loaned by UFA 10
the Societe Generate des Films to direct
the production, which was mined at
| the Studio Clamait in France, with an
| entirely French cast, including Sllvan,
Ravet, Andre Berry and Antonin Artaud,
! all members of the Coincide Franchise
| of Paris. The scenario also Is by Dreyer
and Joseph Delten.
The short supplemental subjects IN.
clude Edgar Allan Poe's THE Fan OF
the House of Usher" made In Rochester
by Dr. j. S. Watson. jr.; Hidden Death
Traps" UFA's microscopic search into
| certain motives of nature, and MAX
! Davidson comedy, all Of which are silent
films, which are shown with ACCOMPANY
ment by the Little Theater Trio, under
| the direction of Mrs: Eula Conway.
|