Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27

pictorial revelation Of q grim and
horrible fable that each year one
Of the tribes In this primitive coun-
try offers up one of its women as o
sort of peace offering to the
"Ingagi," the gorillas. This episode
is one of the most frightful night
mares ever depicted on the screen:
1t has, the power, seemingly, or
electrifying its audience-which, at
yesterdays first performance, ap-
peared more dead than alive by the
time 1t was over.
Injecting considerable drama into
a big-game hunt picture Is no easy
feat. But Sir Hubert Winstead has
accomplished It with splendid, II
grim, results. If there are moments
when the authenticity Of the MIN
seems to tremble In the balance. 1t
is only fair to say 1t makes enter
tainment" that leaves one limp at It's
close.
Short sound novelties with Fred
die Clark doing nobly by his R-k-
Olians completes certainly "dif-
ferent" program.
putin on the Ritz"
Fine Enough to Repeat.
UDUTTIN' on the Ritz" continues
blithely for a second week at
the Columbia Theater. For those
wan mortals to whom life has be-
come pretty much a scramble OF in
come tax worries and radio head
aches the music of Irving Berlin and
the features of Joan Bennett should
do much to revivify them. Indeed
the latter is said to have caused more
pleasurable relaxation than any
blonde Hollywood sylph since the
exotic Miss Carlo came from the
land of the iceberg.
The star of the picture is Harry
Richman, former maestro of George
Whites scandals" singing the way
he has always sung, which Is good, If
not perfect. His admirers, and they
seem to be legion, should be well
satisfied with what he does. The
other legion who don't seem to care
for him so much also seem to be
satisfied. And then, since there is
Miss Bennett to look at, II you want
to forget about him altogether, that
is quite possible, too.
Apart from these two luminaries,
who first ran into the spotlight along
Jimmie Gleason contribute much to
q plot that needs all the trimmings
1t can get. Somehow the story OF
the struggles of a couple of couples
backstage has been heard of before.
Perhaps one doesn't really expect
Harry to 60 blind on account of a
sip of Four-and-a-half street bever-
age-but one certainly does expect
everything to come out quite all
right in the end, which Of course,
it does.
The music in this film, as has been
suggested before, is excellent, and
some of the colored sequences are
most stimulating to the eye,
especially the alice in Wonderland"
number, in which, need it be said,
there is to be found Joan Bennett.
The Columbia Orchestra, the news
reel and an entertaining short
comedy complete distinctly engag-
ing program. E. de S. M.
captain of the Guard"
Good Entertainment-and Why.
THE fact that some folks seem to
= have been worried by the ir-
reverent treatment of history in
Captain of the Guard" at the
Rialto, does not in the least detract
from its being good entertainment.
This dramatization of a legendary
conception of how ia Marsellaise"
came to be has a great deal of vim,
fire and vigor in it. Just because the
characters say things that other fam
Gus people said before or after them
does not mean that the picture isn't
good entertainment just the same.
And so O visit to the Rialto for
those who do not mind their history,
shaken up In fanciful dramatic
cocktail may be recommended with
out fear of the consequences.
1t will come perhaps as surprise
that the fiancee of Rouget de rIsle
turns out to be an eighteenth CEN
! fury Joan of Arc, and that It was
because she was in one Of those pitt
like cells of the Bastille that most
Of the Revolution came about Still,
when Rouget comes marching UP