Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-20

| the fourth minute gives up completely.
| Belle Bennett, In wig that was pre-
sumably somebody elses, Is about the
best example of irritating motherhood
to be seen anywhere. 1t remains for
Robert Montgomery to be excellent.
With a pleasant Gary Cooper way OF
saying things, he does everything he can
to keep the picture from sinking.
EAKLE the inimitable Charlotte
80 Long, Greenwood to the Earle
Lefty" Theater this week in her
sound film debut
The lanky young coincidence and her
overwhelming popular stage hit nave
lost nothing through transference TO
the silversheet. The Greenwood voice,
Greenwood legs, performing amazing
gymnastics with an air of doing the
everyday thing, are keeping capacity
audiences in gales of laughter at each
showing of the Warner Bros Vita
phone production. Two scenes stand
out for their high comedy lights-Let-
ty in the beauty salon and Lefty SELL
ing an urea to the irascible Mr.. Davis.
Excellent support is given the star In
the performances of Claude Gilling-
water, Grant Withers, Bert Roach,
Harry Gribbon and Hallam Cooley, who
carry the major male roles, with splen-
did contrast furnished by Patsy Ruth
Miller as the other wife In the marriage
quartet. Helen Foster and Marian
Bryan are adequate in minor parts.
A special musical program introduces
Milton Schwartz, violinist, in minia-
ture concert of familiar melodies. He
is accompanied by the Earle orchestra,
Daniel Breeskin conducting. A high
ly amusing sound cartoon. Mickey
Choo Choo," brings another laugh.
Other subsidiary attractions include a
Grantland Rice Spotlight, Interesting
Tails The Evening Star Universal
Newsreel with some intimate glimpses
Of the newest royal bridal pair--Crown
Prince Humbert of italy and Princess
Marie Jose of Belgium-and a Pathe
newsreel.
The irrepressible
COLUMBIA Maurice Chevalier,
.r, about whom the crit
Inc Inc Love les wanted to say
faraoe. something nice, but
couldn't when he made a rather un-
impressive talkie debut in 1.-THE limo
cents of Paris" comes back in far
more ambitious and exhilarating pro-
duction, THE Love Parade" at the
Columbia this week as another of the
Loew January festival features. In this
one he is Knockout.
THE Love Parade" is one of those
sophisticated romances. set to music, in
musical comedy STYLE. 1t might also
be described as a musicomedy. It's
Chevalier's talents and his personality
which dominate this work, however, and
not the musical setting or the story
it tells. The story, what there is of it,
is fairly absorbing, but the music. aside
from being inadequate for such a pre-
tentiouS undertaking as this picture,
lacks that haunting, lifting punch which
identify so many of the recent talkie-
single" presentations. The theme song,
my Dream Lover" is catchy and the
lyrics cute. In addition there are sew
eral other numbers which may be popu-
larized If the radio musicians get to
work on them, but Chevalier probably
will never put them over.
1.-THE Love Parade" is superbly pro-
duced and finely directed. It will stand
as tribute to the handiwork Of Ernst
Lubitsch. Gorgeous settings and all
the pomp, pageantry and ceremonial
of toy kingdom are among its assets. |
jeanette Macdonald of musical come |
dy fame is pretty and charming as the |
Queen Louise. She also has good
voice. The major portion of the come
dy relief falls to the lot of Lupino Lane |
and Lillian Roth, who give admirable |
as does Edgar Norton as the |
punctilious master of ceremonies in the |
Sylvanian palace.
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