Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24
Variety of Attractions in
The Capital Playhouses

and Fox Movietone News complete the
bill.
EARLE-DeugIas Fairbanks, Jr, "The
Forward Pass"
All the thrills, glamor and romance
of a college foot ball season are prom
ised in the current program at the
Earle Theater, which is celebrating
college week with presentation OF The
Forward Pass" the First National Vita
phone epic of the gridiron and campus.
AS a special in the college week
program, the Stafford Pemosrton
dancers, in the various college colors,
will be seen In q dazzling stage feature.
A quartet and a cheer leader to the
campus spirit, and the Earle symphony
Orchestra viii help to stir up this
Jolly connection of fun with special
overture of college songs, arranged by
Daniel Breeskin, conductor.
THE Forward Pass" is the story OF
a quarterback who developed yellow
tendencies and had them shocked out
of him in a novel and effective manner.
The shrewd coach and the campus firt
had a great deal to do with it.
Douglas Fairbanks, jr., and Loretta
Young head the cast, while Quinn VIII
liams, Peanuts" Byron, Allen Lane,
Phyllis Crane and others are seen In
important roles.
supplementary hits will include the
Vitaphone Varieties and The Evening
Universal and Pathe Newsreels.
RIALTO-Glenn Tryon, skinner Steps
Out"
A roll licking comedy depicting young
couples efforts to get on IN the woflo,
skinner Steps Out" talking COMEDY
feature, is this weeks attraction at the
Rialto Theater. Glenn Tryon Is starred
in It, by Universal, with Merna Ken
nedy. -
hero at home and dub" at the ONCE,
and Tryon makes the role q gale OF
humor, admirably relieved at intervals
by flashes of poignant pathos. MISS
Kennedy plays the part OF the young
wife, who, through unquestioning belief
in her husbands ability, finally makes
a social and business success of him. A
capable cast includes e. j. Ratcllne,
Burr Mcintosh, Lloyd Whitlock, William
Welsh, Katherine Kerrigan, Frederick
Lee Jack Lipson and Edna Marian.
William j. Craft, who has welded the
megaphone on many of Tryon's pictures,
directed skinner Steps Out" which is
based on one of the famous Skinner"
stories by Henry Irving Dodge.
A special added feature will be Jack
Whites first talking Educational COM
edy entitled Gold Shivers." Other
short reel novelties and The Evening
STAR Universal News reel will round
out the program.
R-K-O KEITHS-Bebe Daniels and
John Boles in Rio Rita" Third
Week.
R-K-O Keith's Theater has announced
that Radios screen extravaganza, Rio
Rita" with Bebe Daniels and john
Boles in the featured roles OF Flo
REM ziegfeld's famous stage success,
will be held over for third week TO
meet the demand.
AS the first operetta in sound and
color, "Rio Rita" opens up great new
vista of entertainment. 1t is musical
comedy lifted bodily from New York
stage and set upon the audible screen,
in q gorgeous production that, for pic
torial sweep and freedom from ltmlta-
lions of the man-built theater, is most
impressive. Luther Reed has graSped
all the possibilities of the book and
score and presented them in language
that only the screen can speak.
Bebe Daniels appears in the title role
with her new-found voice, and John
Boles. musical comedy star. give excel
lent performances. Bert wheeler, Dor
othy Lee and Robert Woolsey give to
the show a generous share of comedy
and contribute much to- its dancing and
singing. Helen Kaiser, one of the girls
Ziegfeld ''glorifled" In the stage version;
Don Alvarado. George Renevant. Nick
De Ruiz and Eva RoSita are others who
add to the appeal.
High lights of the show include the
Pearl Eaton chorus Of 100 Of Hollywood S
most beautiful dancing girls, the Cinini
grand chorus of 80 voices, Victor Bara-
S,aNnsr cI,x,oy,koVay Ornbactro and a NIGHT
club show, introducing speciality acts,
club show, introduce speciality acts.
COLUMBIA--"Taming o. the Shrew."
Heralded as the lace of all comedies, y
Shakespeare's famous farce 1.-THE Tam
ing OF the Shrew" is continued for its
second week at Loew'S Columbia, with
Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks
co-starred for the first time in history.
It Is an all-talking picture, which re-
veals the speaking voices Of Doug and
Mary.
Mary plays the part of Katherine, the
shrew, lady of beauty and wealth. but
with a nasty temper and mean dispo-
! sition. While her younger sister has
| plenty of wooers, the men pass Rather
| inc up, fearing her fiery nature. The
staggering Petruchio, played by Doug
arrives in Katherines native city OF
Padua, hears about the young damsel
and decides he will win her for his own
and the young mans strenuous, If err
ratio, wooing carries the day, not only
winning a pretty bride, but effectively
reducing her to an amiable and lovablt
submission. Indeed, at the wedding feas
Katherine explains to the other ladie:
assembled that their duty Is to theil
| husbands, but her Injunction Is accom-.
panied with an understanding wink.
The Hearst Metrotone News, a toul
through Hollywood with Sammy Cohen
the screen comedian: Charles King, II
| a Metrotone Colortone Revue, and TIT
Columbia Orchestra complete the pro-
| gram