Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-23


The Fox Orchestra in an overture
based on the works of Sigmund Rom
berg and the Movietone News will COM
plete the bill.
RIALTO.-"UndertOw.
Mary Nolans beauty and ability to
act made her favorite in silent pic
lures, and the advent of the "talkies"
disclosed that she has a distinctly at
tractiVe stage voice. Her first talking
picture, Shanghai Lady" achieved i'm
meoiate success and won for her
Iong-term starring contract. Her sec
ond picture, "Undertow. is the current
attraction at the Rialto Theater.
Undertow" Is the story of a girl
married to man of many misfortunes.
Inc young woman thus finds herself
exiled from the world of pleasure and
living a drab existence, but still Loyalty
loving her husband Their complete
separation from society comes when her
husband loses his sight and retires to
lonely lighthouse on a rocky coast.
braVely trying to forget her troubles
IN helping her husband with his work.
the girl decides to accept her fate, when
destiny brings back her former sweet
heart as a lighthouse inspector. Then
the drama really begins.
Ihis picture was directed by Harry
Pollard, who directed "Show Boat" In
the cast with Miss Nolan are Audrey
Ferris, Robert Ellis, Churchill Ross and
John Mack Brown, formerly a national
loot ball idol on the University of Ala
baHna.
An atmospheric feature. GLORIOUS
Vamps," the first reel of its kind. was
produced by United Artists: a good
talking comedy, a special cartoon. an
all color singing reel and The Evening
star Universal newsreel, with Graham
McNamee announcing, will be supple
mental attractions. special overture
by the orchestra completes the program.
EARLE-"The Aviator"
On the Earle screen this week is THE
Aviator. Warner Bros. and Vitaphone
production, designed as the funniest
flying thriller ever filmed. It features
Edward Everett Horton, with Patsy
Ruth Miller, Johnny Arthur, Lee Moran
and other noted comics.
The story concerns a writer whose
publisher plunges him into q host of
serio-comic complications by aScribing
to him the authorship of 4 book ofs
aviation. The Notifying writer is called
upon to make good his unintentional
boasts, and some hair-raising air stunts
result. The picture ends happily, the
most serious injury to the hapleSs au-
thor being heart trouble, with matri-
mony lurking in the ofiing.
Robert L. Ripley, author of Believe
II or Not" will be the outstanding fea-
ture on the stage in an offering intro
ductng the latest "queerioSitieS" he has
picked up from all parts Of the world
biological, historical, literary and chem
ical oddities. Ripley is exploiting his
latest finds in his first vaudeville APP
pearance. Drawing as he talks, he illus
trates wide variety of subjects, rang
ing from quasi-religious customs of dis
tant chimes to curiosities of sport in our
own country.
Short films will include Vitaphone
Varieties, The Evening Star Universal
and Pathe Newsreels and music by the
Earle Orchestra.
JANET RICHARDS, Tomorrow.
Miss Janet Richards, at her weekly
lecture tomorrow morning on Public
Questions: Home and Foreign" will re-
view and attempt to clarity several of
the political puzzles of the hour, In
GLIDING the effort of the American
delegation at the London Naval Con-
ference to put teeth in the Kellogg
peace pact by the so-called "implemen.
tation" Of the pact, as suggested by
Ex-Secretary Hughes, Secretary Slim
son, and other leading American states
men, and presumably. concurrCd in by
Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald.
Other political puzzles nearer home,
including Muscle Shoals, Boulder Dam,
and other congressional delays, and
why, viii be discussed. The leftover
subjects from last week will also be
brought UP to date.
These talks are given every Monday
morning in the Masonic Temple,
Thirteenth street and New York ave-
nue., at 1o:45 o'clock.
WOOLLCOTT TALK-TOmOrrow
Alexander Woollcott, well known dra-
matte critic and writer, will talk on the
Confessions of a Dying Newspaper
Man" tomorrow afternoon at 4:30
o'clock in the small ball room at the
willard
Washington has not had the oppor-
tunity of hearing the brilliant Mr..
Woollcott In several years. His appear
ance on the platform in one Of the series
of lectures given under auspices of the
Junior League of Washington, therefore,
should excite unusual interest. AS dra-
matte critic at different times Of three
Of New York's leading newspapers and
with an enviable record of two years in
France during the World War, in which
he served as a private, Mr.. Woollcott's
admirers are legion.
Tickets may be secured at the Will
lard social bureau or at Junior League
headquarters.
ROBIN HOOD PLAYERS-Tomorrow
The Robin Hood Players will present
THE Dead Of Night" by ]. C. McNul-
len, a mystery play in three acts, at
st. Paul's hall tomorrow and Tuesday
A children's matinee has been arranged
for Sunday afternoon at 8 O'Clock.
The cast will include Peggy Schneider.
in the feminine role, supported by
Frank Mannarino; Helen Sheckells,
winner Of last years Community Drama
Guild prize for individual acting; Stella