Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-28
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| With a sweeping view of the. she'll
SCARED battlefield, Of dog fights In the
clouds, thoughts roam back to the days
of the war and the heart Is ripped open
by the terriblenesS Of 1t all.
Machine guns splitting venomously,
barking, booming cannon, whirring
propellers and thousand other sounds
are heard through King Sounds ON
nipotent trumpet. One sees and hears
clouds, a bird of prey, to do battle.
The steady drone Of the motor; chang
ing to a pounding Stutter, is heard as a
bullet plowS into the belly of the plane.
Then the piercing whine of the craft
diving to doom, with comet tail Of
fame. $3.50.
The picture, depicting the struggles
and adventures OF two boys, inSepa-
rable pals, who laugh at death, Is
graced with tbs greatest aerial photog-
raphy of all time. Battles in the clouds,
with death as pilot, thrill one till his
heart pounds in time with the rat-tat-
tat Of the guns.
After heroic service lin the face Of
the enemy" the boys, always gay. are
given furlough. They make their way
to Paris, to the Folies Bergere, the
soldiers mecca where all lost joys and
pleasures are There the boys drink
their toastS to death, always laughing.
Then comes the big push and the fur
Tough is over The story finds its OUT
let at this point and Quickens to fast
pace. The most gripping of all scenes
are flashed In view, with the allies last
drive.
Richard Arlen and Buddy" Rogers
are the flying aces, and Clara Bow the
girl from back home" Gary Cooper
nf TriS1NaD I11a uc Tadnt THy11ifA Vyha
never carries a talisman for luck" The
acting is splendid Throughout. with
Lieut.. Dick Arlen Air Corps. U. S. A.,
perhaps taking the edge. Clara Bow
looks enhancing enough in a nurses
uniform to make any sick soldier we'll.
Supplementary features are Fox
MovietoneS, M.-G.-M news reel and an
overture by the Columbia Concert Or
chestra, Claude Burrows conducting. .
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Irish Rose"
Here for another week to continue to
please the public at large and to make
the highbrows tear out huge handfuls
of hair in deSpairing gesture, "Abie's
Irish Rose" granddaddy of all Hebrew
Gaelic tangleS, proceeded to pack them
in to Standing-room finish.
For, whether you are interested in the
story of q love that conquered two irate
fatherS-in-law and converted them into
smiling grandpapaS or not, q play that
netted its author a substantial five
million and delighted theater audiences
for an unheard-of number of years
commands attention for those two cold
facts alone.
But it is not hard to understand its
phenomenal success when one realizes
that neither art nor greatness of any
sort achieved it. but the human nk-
ableness, the obvious, but delightful
humor, and the thread of a 'homely
none too profound. philosophy running
through It,
Nancy Carroll as Rosemary is thor
oughly delightful, the most charming
Irish miss In the Hollywood colony, with
all the irrepresible vivacity Of her race
and fair for good acting besides. Her
singing, her dancing and her person.
atty put her easily at the head OF a
But, to be sure, everybody plays ex-
cellently, with Buddy Rogers making .
boyish Able and Jean Hersholt an ideal
Jewish papa.
The movies have done tho story In a
big way, have flashed back into the
early love affair Of Able and Rosemary
until the picture is nearly half over be-
fore it reaches the point where the
stage play started.
The war Is dragged in, which proves
that the epidemic Is still on in fact.
there are trench scenes. hospital scenes
and camp scenes galore, all done on a
lavish scale.
When the picture finally gets down