Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-27
COLUMBIA-"Wings."

wings playing at Loew's Columbia
is duplicating its success in Washington
as in the other cities as a production
synchronized with music and sound eff
fects and at popular prices for the first
time In Washington. For that reason
the picture is being held over for the
second week
With the synchronization one is able
to hear the planes in action, the bark
Of the machine guns, the tramping of
feet, the music of the band, the fall OF
the doomed plane and thousand other
sound sensations.
Clara Bow, Charles Buddy" Rogers,
Richard Arlen. Gary Cooper and other
we'll known actors comprise the cast.
The story is about two boys who leave
their girls behind to join the aviation
forces of the Army. 1t shows them at
the training camp. and depicts their
struggles in the period preceding their
first flight. Gradually you see their
transformation from care-free boys 20
grim, relentless men. The picture is
presented with realism, inaSmuch as the
director, William Wellman, and the au-
thor. John Monk Saunders. were both
aviators in the war. Critics have been
lavish in their praise Of the gigantic
spectacle.
LITTLE THEATER-"Peter the Great"
Emil Jannings will be pictured at the
Little Theater today and for a week in
one of his most interesting characteri-
cations. the title role in Peter the
Great" the UFA production which the
Motion Picture Guild has brought back
at the request of many patrons Of the
Little Theater.
Peter the Great" reveals Jannings
as the mightiest ruler in Russian his
tory. Gar Peter was the man who COM
blned debauchery and patriotism. for
while he lived a gay and far from
blamelesS life among the satellites OF his
court he also welded the various Rus
sian tribes and factions into a great
empire. Peter the Great" the picture,
depicts the famous Car in both his
military and domestic career and con-
tains the romantic story of his love for
Catherine, the peasant girl who after
ward became Empress of Russia.
Appearing in support of Mr.. Jannings
are Dagny Servaes, Bernhard Goetzke
and Walter Jansen.
The program will include also Harry
Langdon comedy a beautiful techni-
color subject depicting life under the
sea and other unusual subjects.
"CYRAN0 DE BERGERAC"-Friday
Under the auspices of the Community
Institute of Washington the Aim YER
sion OF "Cyrano de Bergerac" will be
presented as an extra attraction to the
10 outstanding evening events on the
Institutes regular program, the after
noon of Friday, February 1, at 8 o'clock
in the auditorium at Western High
School, the performance being especially
arranged in the interest of students,
with an admission fee of 35 cents. and
the same evening at Central High Com
munity Center at Sis o'clock, the ad-
mission being so cents and balcony IS
cents
There is plenty of physical action to
make the picture version of Rostand's
drama "Cyrano" most interesting and 1t
Is not only authentic in historic back
ground but is beautifully filmed in
colors. 1t is an excellent production
and has aroused great admiration
wherever it has been presented.
In assuming the difficult part of
Cyrano. Pierre Magnier presents the
glorious triumphs and deep tragedy of
the Gascoigne cadet in such a way as
to make the character very real and his
portrayal of the role, in which Mans
feld and Hampden triumphed, most
impressive