Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-14
From the Front Row
Reviews and News of Washington Theaters

union, plays a great supporting role
in the comedy. But Fiji helps to
save the day and the $780, 900 after
tracking Victor down from his
abandoned perch on a New Orleans
building to a higher one in New
York, where she finally rivets him
with ring
Those who saw 1.-The Cockeyed
World" know how funny McLaglen
can be. Those who didn't see it
and want to enjoy good evening
Of laughter, should see him in "On
the Level"
Sam Jack kaufman, new master
of ceremonies, arrived this week with
a goodly number of vaudeville at
fractions, headlining Frank Hunter
was well received, brought down the
house with his piano playing. He
drew music and laughs from every
thing but the top of the grand.
Hunters foolishness with rope,
in which he candidly admitted that
VIII Rogers was pretty good. too,
kept a big laugh and some steady
chuckles pouring from the audience.
Donald Joy, who bounced about in
an eccentric dance in which he ap-
peared to be all joints, was APP
plauded roundly as were Ruth Ham
ilton, Sylvia Shore and Helen Moore
Ruth Hamilton'S dancing, acting and
singing won for her a big hand,
while Sylvia and Helen, between be-
ing tossed about among the chorus,
stepped in diverting fashion.
Bobby Agnew, the laughable film
comedian, appears in French
Kisses" a short talkie comedy. The
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presentation of marionettes, the Fox
Movietone News and Leoncavallo's
'Pagliacci," in a special arrangement
by the Fox Orchestra. D. j. K.
"The Flirting Widow"
One of the Seasons Best Comedies.
WARMERS Earle Theater is bris-
ting with laughter this week.
The reason for it is The Flirting
Widow" which proves to be one of
the most genial of this seasons
comedies.
Coming with none of the usual
ballyhoo, this unpretentiouS film.
after few faltering moments, de-
velops into one of those highly i'm
plausible farces that gathers strength
and humor as it progresses. The
situations are of themselves thor
oughly satisfying, the plot brimS
over with appealing condolences,
and there is never a moment that
takes itself seriously-for which
Allah and the great god Brown"
be praised.
The cast is responsible for making
this film often Historically funny.
Dorothy Mackaill, Basil Rathbone,
Claude Gillingwater and Emily Fitz-
roy squeeze the utmost out of their
parts. Miss Fitzroy, who in the
good old days used to look down on
the little "waif" Lillian Gish, for
the first time is cast other than as
a stern spinSter. In Marie DreSsler
fashion she shows Just what she is
capable of doing with a bottle of
brandy most entertainingly.
Miss Mackaill again takes the prize
for the most satisfying figure this
side of paradise, and Basil Rathbone,
in spite of insistent ''ums" and "ahs,"
IS a believable lover in a Six-hour
courtship.
The plot, which is grand, taken
from Green Stockings" tells of a
stern English father who refuses to
have his youngest daughter led to
the altar until his eldest is safely
yoked in nuptial bondage. Dorothy
MackaiIl, being the daughter who is
keeping her sister from marriage,
pretends that she has become en-
gagged to a colonel who has been sent
off to Arabia. All goes well until
the letter that she has written actu-
ally reaches such person in Arabia.
After that the fun begins. And there
is lot of it.
A o-interesting- -it-might-be
chronological history of the motion
picture entitled Evolution" news
reels and the orchestra playing III
Guarani" completes good program.
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