Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-12
Variety of Attractions in
The Capital Playhouses

he cannot write a novel in "a hours.
Magee accepts and departs for Bald
pate Inn, q deserted tavern, where he
seeks solitude for his work. The aged
caretakers, Elijah Zuimby and his wife,
make him comfortable and leave for
the night
While Magee is writing upstairs
Bland enters. Magee surprises him as
he is telephoning and locks him up
stairs. While he Is telephoning police
headquarters, Mary Norton and Mrs.
Rhodes enter, but Bland escapes from a
window. Mary refuses to explain why
she is there 1t develops that Mrs.
Rhodes is engaged to Mayor Cargan,
whom Bland was telephoning when
Magee discovered him. Magee falls in
love with Mary at first sight.
AS Magee continues writing, Peters,
the hermit, enters. While Magee Ques-
tions him pistol shots and woman's
scream are heard outside. Myra enters.
She tells Magee she is trying to save
her husband, Thomas Hayden, from be-
ing cheated out of $2o0, 600 by crooked
politicians. Mary tells Magee that Myra
is an impostor and pleads with him to
let her take the money from the safe
and expose the graft ring through her
newspaper. Mayor Cargan and Max
then enter and remove money from
the safe. Magee takes the money from
them and sends 1t to town with Mary
and Mrs. Rhodes. After she has left,
Thomas Hayden enters, followed q
short time later by Bland. Magee
herds the entire group into one room
and keeps them covered with a gun
while each accuses the others Of double
crossing. But the end is not yet-nor
the mystery. nor the thrills-a big cll-
max is reached-and what q climax!
The cast includes Miriam Seegar.
Craufurd Kent, Nella Walker, Margaret
Jennings, Joseph Herbert, Alan Ros-
coe, Carlton Macy, Harvey Clark and
Edity Yorks.
EARLE-"Pointed Heels"
A thrilling story Of the show business
garnished with comedy, songs, dances
and ornate revue scenes in Technicolor,
is the introduction given Pointed
Heels" the new screen attraction at the
Powell, Fay Wray, Helen Kane and
Skeets Gallagher in story of human
qualities.
Powell is cast as a wealthy theatrical
producer. While whipping a new pro-
duction into shape, Fay Wray. a show
girl in whom he is more than interested
quits the show to be married to a young
composer whose wealthy mother prompt
~ withdraws the young husbands al
lowance. The couple is forced to live
in modest fat-the boy working on a
the girl returning to her job
in the show. Gallagher and Miss Kane
are shown as q man and wife song and
dance team, related to Fay. They Scorn
her husbands musical endeavors and
their taunts force him to write a pop
ular number for them. Powell attempts
to separate Fay from her husband and
series Of rapid a and unexpected de
to the plot.
Phillips Holmes and Eugene Palette,
with Adrienne Dore and scores OF pref
ty dancing girls are in the picture.
The Evening Star Universal and
Pathe newsreels, Vitaphone Varieties
and music BY the Earle Orchestra viii
be added attractions.
COLUMBIA Dynamite"
Dynamite, Cecil r. De Miles latest
effort for Metro Goldwyn- Mayer, a
spectacular talking production, now cur
rent at Loew's Columbia, is the second
attraction ut that house during Loew's
January festival. A large cast includes
Conrad Nagel, Kay johnson, Charles
Bickford, Julia Faye and Robert Eide
son. as.s
BY the terms Of a strange will, ac-
cording to the story, Cynthia Crothers
must be married and living with her
husband on her twentythird birthday,
or she viii lose her grandfather's huge
inheritance. She wants to marry Roger,
but Roger is married to another woman,
who In turn is in love with Marco. The
two women make compact In which
Cynthia agrees to pay Marcia q sum of
money for the release of her husband,
and solely in order to gain her inherit
ance she marries Hagen Derk, who has
been convicted of murder. q few hours
before he In led to the electric chair.
Derk Is innocent, however, and just
before his execution the real murderer
confesses. Finding himself unwelcome
at his wife's home, he returns home. In
ever, Cynthia is required to live with
her husband. She then goes to the
mining town and Derk agrees to per-
NIT her to live with him II she will
agree to perform the usual duties Of q
miners wife. She agrees, but they soon
quarrel. Then Roger arrives on the
scene and Roger and she determine 10
60 away together. They 60 down in
the mine to say good-by TO Derk and
are trapped by q cave-in. Before they
can escape one must remain and dis
charge some dynamite. The men toss
q coin and Derk wins. Derk decides,
however, that the affair should be set
tied by the girl. He wants her to pick
the man to escape with, and what hap
pens furnishes Q thrilling dramatic eli
max.
RIALTO-"This Thing Called Love-"
Managing Director sharich Of the
Rialto Theater. now conducting q