The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1930-05-03
PROGRAMS FOR
NEW WEEK In
THEATEPS

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en- Kimona." will be offered by
the National Players beginning
Monday night John Ford the
author, has realized harassing
situations can have their laughs
and has so contrived his dra
matte story that relief is fur
niShed by tightening comedy
There are congenial roles fol all
in the cast, and as for thrills.
Wooden Kimona." said the New
York Evening Journal, made THE
Bal" look like Pollyanna stuff.
RIALTO-P u | Whiteman's
first picture, a feature that has
been discussed as the greatest
ever produced by UNIVERSAL is now
playing. King of Jazz" was
directed by John Murray Ander-
son, used the full Whiteman
band, 800 elaborate stage crea-
tions, most of them in color,
Gershwin tunes and a cast which
includes Jeanette Loft, John
Boles, Myrna Kennedy, Billie
Kent, Brox sisters, Nell O'Day,
sisters G, and scores of other
Broadway notables. A surround
ing bill includes the Universal
news reel and selected shorts.
EARLE-Ri Arlen in
Zane Grey'S action romance,
"The Light of Western Stars" is
the main screen attraction now
playing. 1t is the first Grey talk
ing picture and featured are Mary
Brian, Fred Kohler, Regis Toomey,
Harry Green, William LeMalre,
George Chandler, and Guy Oliver:
A stampede of wild horses is a
feature of this outdoor western.
Vitaphone Varieties, the Earle
Symphony Orchestra and the Uni
versal news reel will complete
the program.
FOX-A new Bulldog Drum
mond," in the person of Kenneth
McKenna, comes in the screen
dramatization of Il. c. McNeile'S
novel, Temple Tower" opening
today. This picture, directed by
Donald Gallagher. has a note
worthy cast which includes Mar
celine Day. Henry B. Walthal,
Cyril Chadwick and Ivan Linow.
The new Fanchon and Marco
revue on the stage will feature
Alexander Callam, Red Donahue
and Pal, Rodney and Gould, Earl
Knapp, Jeah 4AcDonald, Brown
and wills, A. and Hal and Eddie
Lewis. The Fox Gran Orchestra
under Leon Brusiloff, Fox Movie
tone news reel and selected shorts
complete the program.
R-K.O KEITH'S-"Ingagi," the
sensational wild animal feature.
will be held over for a second
week. This picture adventure of
the expedition of Sir Hubert
Winstead into the wilds of Africa
is filled with thrills, particularly
where the hunters encountered
goril.aS and lions and succeeded
in filming some exceptionally
graphic scenes. The smashing
climax of the hunt picture is a
pictorial record of the yearly Gus
tom of tribes sacrificing a woman
to the apes Selected short fea.
lures and music by Freddy
Clark's R-K-Olians will complete
the program. The underlined
attraction is Bobby Woolsey and
Bobby in The CuckooS."
PALAC E-CharleS Buddy
Rogers in the Paramount feature,
Young Eagles" comes as the
main screen attraction today.
William Wellman. who directed
'Wings," also produced this fea'
ture, which is described as an
all-talking air epic, enlistS Jean
Arthur and Paul LukaS in the
supporting cast. Teddy Joyce, as
M. c., heads the revue unit on
the stage, an entertainment
which features Seed and Austin.
the Four Emperors of Harmony,
Josephine Davis and the Chester
Hale girls. Hearst-Metrotone news
reel, selected shorts and music
by the Syncopators complete the
program.
METR OPOLIT AN-Winnie
Lightner and Joe E. Brown in
Hold Everything" Warner
Brothers color feature made from
the Broadway musical is now
playing as the main screen at
traction. Abe Lyman's jazz band
is prominent in the musical in
terludes and assisting the chief
funmakers in a laugh-abounding
story are Georges Carpenter,
Sally O'Neil, Edmund Breese,
Dorothy Revier. Bert Roach and
Jack Curtis. The supplementary
program incluf Vitaphone Va.
rieties and new reel.
COLUMBIA - Norma Shearer,
In what comes heralded as the
best picture OF her career, The
Divorce" opens today. Chester
Morris, Conrad Nagel and Robert
Montgomery are prominent in
the supporting cast of photo,
drama said to TEEN with intense
action and interesting narrative.
TIL Tearct Netrotone News. short
subjects and the Columbia con,
cert orchestra, under the direc-
ton of Claude Burrows. will
complete the program.
LITTLE-The Little Theater is
living up to its name, for 1t is
too small to accommodate the
thousands of men who have been
trying to see Damaged Souls"
which is now in it's second week.