The Washington times., 1929-11-09
PROGRAMS FOR
NEW WEEK in
THEATERS

comes GOA the NaGlonal 1neaCer
next Monday night, the New
York Theater Guild presents
Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fon.
tame in its most successful
touring attraction. Alfred Lunt
has the role Of a romantic
lawyer and Lynn Fontanne ap-
pears as an exasperating sweet
heart. Others in the cast are
Lily Cahill, Douglas Montgom.
cry, Caroline Newcomb, Geneva
Harrison and Leonard Loan.
The play was adapted and
staged by Phillip Moeller, with
settings designed by Aline Bern.
stein.
POLPS = Little Accident"
comes for a limited engagement
opening Sunday night. This
play by Floyd Dell and Thomas
Mitchell, with the latter as its
acting star, comes after a full
season on Broadway and Crosby
Gaige presents it with the
original cast. It Is somewhat
spicy but humorous in the tell
ing of an interesting dramatic
story. The supporting cast in
cludes Susanne jackson, Betsey
Lindsey, Madeline Barr, vii
liam Wadsworth, Fleming Ward,
Jane Traylor, Cara Gould, Lora
Hays, Susan Conroy, Harry
Forsman, Marilyn Howard,
owen Martin, Adrian Rosley,
Ann Heilpern, Jane Seymour,
Rachel Hartzell, Katherine
Hastings and Jane Marbury.
R.K.O-KEITH'S Radio Pic
lures offers it's outstanding hit
of the 1929 movie season, Rio
Rita" with Bebe Daniels and
John Boles as it's main screen
attraction beginning with the
performances today. This is an
adoption of Ziegfeld's highly
tuneful operetta and Hollywood
has transformed it into a color
full spectacle with Bebe Daniels
/ surprising everybody by a
marvellous screen voice. Bert
Wheeler and Robert Woolsey
play the comedy roles with
Dorothy Lee. Helen Kaiser,
Georges Senavant and Don Al
varado in featured roles. Harry
Tierney composed the score
which is heard with Cirnini's
grand opera chorus of 80 voices
and 100 beauties frolic in the
Pearl Eaton chorus. A short
bill of subsidiary screen features
completes the program.
FOX-Lenore Uric in her
first talking picture, Frozen
Justice" will be the main screen
attraction at tie Fox theater
beginning today. It is q Fox
picture in which the exotic
star of Zulu Eeiie" and other
. Belasco dramas is seen in a
far north locale, with pictur-
eSque polar backgrounds in a
story that invo;: eS mystery and
excitement in the rough and
rugged gold country. On the
stage will be /; new Fanchon
ana Marco revue, Fiesta"
with Eddie Hill, the RomeroS,
Amanda Chirct. Jose Mercado
and June Worth. John Irving
Fisher will pr.S'de as master
of ceremonies. The Fox grand
orchestra with Ieol. Brusiloff
conducting will offer an inter-
pretative overture and the
Movietone will complete the
program.
COLUMB Moran and
Mack in ''Why Bring That Up"
will be held over for a second
week, opening today. The
1.-TWO Black Crows" are seen
in a humorous story by OctavuS
Roy Cohen in which there are
inserted many of the side-Split-
ting antics for which the burnt
comics have won a national
reputation. Evelyn Brant is
seen as the feminine menace
who causes havoc with the
partnership. Added attractions
will include an M-G-M color
tone revue of unusual beauty,
Frances White in a Movietone
short, the Hearst Metrotone
News and the Columbia concert
orchestra under the direction :
Of Claude Burrows.
PALACE-Joan Crawford in
her latest Metros Goldwyn re-
lease, "The Untamed," will be
the main screen attraction
opening today. The picture
adapted from the fictional
story of Charles E. Scoogins,
has a South American and New
York locale and in the support
ing cast will be seen Robert
Montgomery, Ernest Terrence,
Holmes Herbert, John MILAN,
Gwen Lee, Edward Nugent and
Gertrude AStor. On the stage
AL Evans and his Syncopators
will back up q new unit. THE
Song Shop" introducing Hal
Sherman, Carlton and Bellew,
Maureen and Sonny, the Foust
Trio and the Dave Gould girls.
The Hearst Metrotone news,
and selections by the Palace
concert orchestra wfll complete
the program.
RIALTO-Mary Nolan, ap-
pearing in her first starring pic
ture, Shanghai Lady," comes
for a weeks showing '0egin-
ming today. Shanghai Lady" is
described as a colorful, dramatic
story Of the Orient, admirably
SIlited IN the dazzling heaiItV