Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-17

Rita" for a second week ana possibly
longer was to be expected.
Rio Rita" is eye filling. 1t has every
thing that makes for interest In sound
films. 1t is lavish in Its scope, prodigal
in it's beauty, and has every right to
be classed as one Of the finest musical
extravaganzas yet to come via the
screen.
John Boles and Bebe Daniels head a
large cast of players, singers, dancers,
beauties and speciality performers. Bert
Wheeler and Robert Woolsey play the
comedy roles they created for ziegfeld,
and Dorothy Lee. the baby-talk girl of
"syncopation": Helen Kaiser, one of
Ziegfeld's "glorif1ed" girls; Georges
Renevant. French stage star. and Don
Alvarado are others of the featured cast,
Much Of the film was photographed in
technicolor, and the sets and costumes
are claimed to outrun anything seen on
the talking screen.
Harry Tierney, composer Of the origi-
nal tuneful score of Rio Rita" has
added two new song hits to the pic
ture. Cimint's grand opera chorus of
30 voices, the Pearl Eaton chorus Of 100
Hollywood beauties. the first stock
chorus in p1otion pictures. and a sym
phonic orchestra directed by Victor
Baravelle are other features Of the ilm.
LITTLE MISUNDERSTANDING Rouge"
moulin ROUGE" drama of the
Paris theater, starring Chekova,
the Russian actress. will be the featured
attraction on the screen of the Little
Theater in the coming week. It is a
silent film.
Photographed in London and Paris.
under the direction Of A. E. Dupont
well known as a director abroad,
Moulin Rouge" has number Of scenes
from the well known Moulin Rouge
Revue IN Paris. Chekova, the star, is
graduate Of the Moscow Art Theater.
JANET RICHARDS, Tomorrow.
Miss Janet Richards, at her weekly
talk on Public Questions-Home and
Forei gn,P tomorrow morning, in addi-
ton to her usual Monday review of the
high lights in the worlds work for the
past week, will speak especially of Presi-
dent Hoover's ArmiStice day address
and the reactions in both the home and
foreign press to his suggestion that in
future wars food ships be immune from
seizure. Consideration will also be
given to the coming naval parity con-
ference to be held in London in Janv-
airy and other features Of our foreign
relations.
The lectures are given weekly In the
Masonic Temple, Thirteenth street. and
New York avenue, beginning at 10:45
o'clock.
CLARA w. McQUOWN-Friday.
Friday morning Miss Clara w. Nc
Quown will give her second talk for
this season on questions of the hour in
national and international affairs.
She will continue her discussion of
the nreeant n01itiral tIoy, ~
United States.
She will give brief analysis of the
Bank Of International Settlements. and
will consider the question of American
participation.
Her principal foreign subject will be
Palestine, the growing Arab opposition
to the formation of a Jewish national
state and Great Britain's position as
the mandatory power
These talks are given every Friday
morning at IL O'Clock in the assembly
room Of the Washington Club, 1Oio
Seventeenth street. and are open to the d
public.
EASTERN HIGHS FALL PLAY.
Eastern High School will present It's
eleventh annual Fall show Thursday
and Friday evenings in the school
auditorium. The performance will in
clude one-act comedy, Gas, Air and
Ear" by Bertram Bloch: a vaudeville
number, Amazing Moments" pre-
sented by a group Of Eastern boys; the
Punch and Judy Troubadours, and an
operetta, Musical Moments with @.
and S."
The operetta will open the program,
with a cast including Frances Tucker,
Lillian Llewellyn, Howard Samsel,
Marguerite Hayes, Mary PAUL, Margaret
Bovey, Wilson Reed. Theodore Vincent,
David Poetker, Margaret Lenoarda,
Newell Lusby, Hugh PAUL, Franklin
Hayes, Edith Martin, Ernest Weaver
and Horace Gendreau.
Amazing Moments" viii follow, pre-
Senting "A Lesson in English" flour
moments Of wisdom, Don't Believe
Everything You. Hear" tthree moments
in darkness) and "A Sneezing Skit"
flour moments Of confusion). The
members Of the troubadours are Robert
Grant, Robert Mccormick, Hugh Barte-
man, Murray Bernhard, John Taylor,
Byron Anderson, Charles Wise, Charles
Chamberlain, Harold Beck, Thomas
Proctor, Clark Harper, James Holloway,
Gilbert Kennerly, John Mathews and
Daniel Sullivan.
Gas, Air and Earl" will be played by
Gwenllian Davis, Charles Jarrett. Mar
gareG Ieacnum, sylvia OonoFlIz, OuIh
Heintz and Newell Lusby.
Miss Ella Monk is in general charge
of the production, assisted by Misses
Olivia Taylor, Ethel Prince, Rosemary
Arnold, Marie Didden Gertrude Walter
and Louise Wood, Mrs. Carrie Byram
and Misses Catherine Lantel, Katherine
Bell and Freda Egbert.
FREE BUSINESS LECTURES.
Both stage and screen are employed
in his presentation by @. e. Marchand,
widely known business leader and edu-
Gator, of a series of programs at the
Masonic Temple, Thirteenth street and
New York avenue northwest, programs
designed to aid ambitious men and
women to greater success by the adop-
ton of new methods and ideas Of bust
ness building, which are made realistic
by the use of living models on the roS-
trum and through motion picture views.
The National University Society, I'M
der whose auspices these programs have
been presented in leading American cit
les, points out that Mr.. Marchand'S
illustrative methods are unique and that
they mark what Is believed to be the
most complete usage of stage and screen
in conjunction for educational purposes.
A large staff assists Mr.. Marchand in
his presentations.
There will be no admission charge
for the programs to be given tomor-
row, Tuesday and Wednesday nights at
the Masonic Temple, 1t is announced.