Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-24
Attractions in Washington Theaters
EARLE-Alice White in Broadway
Babies"

EARLE-Alice White in Broadway
Babies"
Broadway Babies" a singing, talk
ing and dancing picture. which stars
Alice White, is announced as the fea-
ture attraction at the Earle Theater
next week, beginning with the Friday
midnight show this week.
Broadway Babies" is a First Ma
tional Vitaphone production. with dia-
logue and music throughout. @oecial
musical numbers. written Just for this
picture. include Broadway Baby Dolls"
the theme song; Jig, Jig. Jigallo,"
Snappy dancing number. which Miss
White sings, and Wishing and Wait
ing for Love-" another fast-moving
dancing number. A chorus of so dane
ing girls is seen in the musical comedy
scenes with Miss White. The Vitaphone
orchestra. directed by Louis SilverS,
provided the music.
The story is adapted from Jay Gel
1ers novelette,, Broadway Musketeers,"
and concerns the experiences of three
little dancing girls on the Great White
Way. Miss White portrays one, OF
course, and the others are played by
Sally EilerS and Marion C'PeanutS')
Byron. Charles Delaney is seen oppo-
site the star, and the cast includes also
Fred Kohler, Louis Natheaux. Tom Du-
gan. Joselyn Lee, Maurice Black, Henry
Otto and Bodil Rosing.
Broadway Babies" was directed by
Merwyn lie Roy, graduate Of the musi-
cal comedy and vaudeville stage.
FOX-"Masquerade."
Another Fox Movietone talking pro-
duction, Masquerade" will be fea-
fNfr at he
Saturday of this week. It's leading play
ers are Leila Hyams. Alan Birmingham,
j. Farrell Macdonald and Clyde Cook.
Masquerade" is described as a COM
edv drama, dealing with complications
which arise when a wealthy young New
York clubman falls in love at first
sight with a lady burglar" and
society bandit discovers he so closely
resembles the rich young man that he
can impersonate him.
Alan Birmingham, Fox recruit from
the speaking stage. plays the dual role
OF clubman and gentleman crook. Clyde
Cook has the role of an amusing cock
ney valet. Others include Arnold Lucy
and Rita lie Roy, a new find" The
story is from the novel The Brass
Bowl" by Louis Joseph Vance.
The stage program. with John Irving
Fisher as master of ceremonies, will
present the Sixteen Gorgeous Foxettes,
the Forty Fox JaZzmanians and other
entertainers.
The Fox Movietone News. Fox silent
news and other subsidiary features will
round out the program.
PALACE-"River of Romance"
Charles t"Buddy"l Rogers. Mary
Brian. June Collyer. Wallace Berry and
Henry B. Walthall are comprised in the
list of stars in Paramounts talking pic
tlIrization Of Booth Tarkingtons IA
nous story. Magnolia" which arrives
at Loew's Palace Saturday. 1t offers a
new kind of a role for Buddy. who APP
pears as a soft-mannered youth who
returns to his paternal home on
Mississippi plantation to be confronted
with duels and feuds. Refusing to
fight, he is branded a coward. On a
river boat he accidentally gets the
better OF a we'll known killer, and when
he returns to the plantation he is
received with open arms, his reputa-
ton having preceded him. There also
he finds his true love in Mary Brian.
the sister OF the girl he thought he
loved
On the stage Herbert Rawlinson will
guide the Palace Syncopators and in
troduce the entertainers in the C.. A.
Niggemeyer production. Lets Co."
which features the musical comedy team,
Heller and Riley; the Five Brachs. the
Risley Quartet. Al and GusSie Blum.
Four Fast Feet and the Dave Gould
Girls. the gliding dancers
The Palace Concert Orchestra.
Charles Gaige at the console organ. the
Fox Movtet~ he News. the M-G-M News
and usual house features will complete
the program.