Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-25
NArIONAL-"A Connecticut Yankee"

NATIONAL-"A Connecticut Yankee"
"a Connecticut Yankee is announced
for one week at the National Theater,
beginning Sunday night, with matinees
Wednesday and Saturday. This attrac-
ton was seen in this city last season
and created a most favorable impress
sion.
A book more readily adaptable to
musical comedy than Mark Twain'S "A
Connecticut Yankee" would be difficult
Ito find. With its chief ingredients al
most made to order, and far removed
from the usual wishy -washy love theme,
the Fields Rodgers and Hart version Is
feast of fun and music. Some lloer-
ties have been taken with the original
book, such as undermining the phrasing
and the injection of familiar slang and
"wisecracks," but in the main the plot
and very humorous situations are pre-
sented. The settings are delight in
colorful costuming and the palace scene,
with its traditional grandeur and pomp
Of olden days.
The contrast is furthered by the fac
tory setting, which brings the present.
day inventions to status OF usefulness,
in a day far before their time. The
music is canny and fresh, and the
dancing numbers have the advantage OF
unusual ingenuity.
Impersonating the brassy American.
Richard Lane manages, like gooo
Yankee, to maintain the illusion OF
constant invention. Mary Adams is a
winsome Sandy, the Yankees Arthur1an
damsel Support is rendered by Mana
Bryant, Paul Everton, George E. Mack,
Gordon Burby. Bert Saunders, Starke
Patterson, Helen Gates. Francllla
Waterbury, Olive Bertram and chorus
of young men and women who put snap
and originality in the various numbers.
GAYETY-"Burlesque Review"
"Burlesque Review" is announced as
the attraction booked at the Gayety
\ Theater next week. Reports state 1t Is
replete with fun, jazzy singing and
snappy dancing and In Its latest scenic
, and costume effects. Its two biggest
scenes, better designated as parody
skits. are IAN American Rookie in
france" and The Plays the Thing"
both said to be filled with laugh cpl
sodes.
Harry "Pep" Pearce and Madlyn
Beatty are the leaders in all the revels,
supported by Eddie Simms, Frank
Kramer, Herbert Harris, Chef Knlhin,
nellie Cason, Evelyn Burke, Charlotte
Rae and the usual beauty chorus.
EARLE-"Hearts in Exile"
Dolores Costello in Hearts in Exile"
will appear for the first time in the
role of a Russian peasant girl at the
Earle Theater next week, beginning
with the Friday midnight performance
Of 1880 pm.
of love and heartbreak, laid among the
peasantry of Moscow and the great icy
wastes Of the Siberian prison camps.
"Hearts in Exile" also shows what
strides the Vitaphone has made since
the advent of talking pictures. The
sol1nd effects are said to be perfect-the
f1owling of the wind in the desolate, icy
country, the babble of the fish peddlers
along the water front of Moscow, and
the gay singing and music OF the
Bohemian peasants.
The little Russian girl who is torn
between marrying her peasant lover or
the grand nobleman, Baron PaIma,
marries the baron and situation re-
suits that reaches a dramatic climax IN
the dreary setting of Siberia.
Grant Withers is the stars leaoing
man. Other members OF the cast m
clude James Kirkwood, George faWcetC'
David Terrence, Olive Tell. Tom Dugah'
William Irving and Rose Dione.
FOX "No Defense"
Monte Blue and May McAvoy, CO.
starred in the screen attraction mo |
Defense" will be seen at the Fox The
alter Saturday
This Warner Bros. Vitaphone produc-
tim is a story of the development OF a
railroad in the West, the love that
springs up between an Eastern girl and
the Western engineer. and how that
love withstands the ridicule of the girls
Eastern friends when the engineer jour-
neys to her home.
In conjunction with this feature the
Fox will offer a Movietone appearance
of the eminent British author, A. Conan