The Washington times., 1929-07-18

day Midnight Premiere.
1t Is a story OF the activities
OF the United States Marines and
takes its principals to Russia and
China. William Boyd, Alan Hale
ard Robert Armstrong are seen
as the "Three Musketeers" Of the
marines.
Diane Ellis, blonde beauty, who
has not been seen in many pic.
lures, does q remarkable charac.
terization in THE Leatherneck."
Ralph Block produced this picture
for Pathe under the direction OF
Howard Higgin, Elliott ClawsOn
wrote the original story and also
adapted it for the screen.
PAI4ACE-I.on Clancy opens
Saturday at Loew's Palace in one
of his finest pictures to date. 1t
is a romance of railroaiing and
In this picture, Thunder" Chaney
gets away from his weird roles to
play the part of a grouchy
engineer whose sole purpose in
life seems to be to keep the
trains moving-and on schedule.
In the supporting cast are
Phyllis Haver and James Murray.
Phyllis, late for a. show, hides
aboard a locomotive Of which
CLANCY Is the engineer and his
son, Murray. the fireman. The
girl and the boy become chummy.
The old engineer loses one son
in his efforts TO keep the trains
moving and his family turns
against him.
He loses his job. His remain.
ing son quits railroading. The
leVees give way along the Mis-.
sissippi. and the father ani son
again find themselves as a crew
on a locomotive. They keep the
trains running and save an entire
village.
On the stage Herbert Rawlin-
son will come to the front in
"Over the Top" a Jack Parting
ton production. Johnny Burke,
willie headIiner, is featured. Doris
Roche. the Bernie Brothers. Don
Rowan. the Tiffany Singers and
the Palace Syncopators complete
the cast.
Short subjects, the Fox Movie
tone News, the M.G-M news, the
Palace Concert Orchestra under
Harry Bories and Charles Gaige
at the organ will comprise the
subsidiary attractions.
FOX-Another alI.talking Fox
Movietone production that has
proven highly successful where.
ever shown is Pleasure Crazed"
the next attraction at the Fox
Theater.
Described as a society drama,
the story discloses a young wife
married to an attractive man of
wealth and social position. She
carries on a love affair which is
drawn to her husbands atten-
ton. He attempts to break 1t up
by taking his wife for a long
voyage as the lover again ap.
pears.
From this groundwork is de-
veloped highly dramatic
story.
Featured in the cast In Dorothy
Burgess, the "Tonia" Of I'm Old
Arizona Co.featured will be
Marguerite Churchill, another
stage player recruited by Mr.. Fox
and who was recently seen with
Paul NUM- in THE Valiant"
Kenneth MacKenna, also from
the stage, plays the male lead.
The Is gorgeous Foxettes ana
John Irving Fisher will be
featured in the stage program.
Leon Brusiloff and his 40 jazz
manians will also be an import
ant factor while another list OF
entertaining artists will be pre-
sented. Fox Movietone News
continues to be a highlight OF
every Fox program.
METROPOLITAN will be
welcome news to many who were
unable to gain admission to the
Metropolitan Theater in the last
two weeks, that the first 100 per
cent natural color, singing. talk
ing and dancing picture, "On With
the Show will be held over for
third and final week.
"On With the Show" a War
ner Brothers natural color pic
ture, is story of backstage life
with a musical comedy, q story
about a play and the players in
it, besides being the first sound
production entirely in natural
colors
The brilliant cast includes Betty
Compon, Arthur Lake, Sally
O'Neil, Joe e. Brown, Louise
Fazenda, Ethel Waters, William
BakeweIl. the Fairbanks Twins,
Sam Hardy, Lee Moran, Wheeler
Oakman, Harry Gribbon. Thomas
Jefferson, Harmony Emperors'
Quartet, Josephine Huston and a
ravishingly beautiful chorus Of
100.
Words and music are by Harry
Akst and Grant Clarke, dance and
stage presentations by Larry Ce-
ballos. Alan Crosland directed.
COLUMBIA-Dolores Del Rio, in
the role of Evangeline, remains at
Loew's Columbia for a second week
in Longfellow' immortal love epic
of the same title.
In this production, one of the
Glen Echo
Glen Echo Park, always de-
hghtful, is particularly SO in the
hot summer days, when Wash.
ingtonians as well as visitors,
fhora find ra0raofjou ava ~aIinP