Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-08

Attractions i'm
Washington Tfeaters
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will be Emillie and Romaine, Charles
Br1igge, Helen Warner, Eddie Ray, La
Petit Marie and the chorus.
An overture of MoSzkowski melodies
FOX Movietone News will complete the
program.
R-K-O KEITHS-"Seven Keys to Bald
pate"
Richard Dix in his first Radio star
ring picture, Seven Keys to Baldpate,"
begins a weeks showing at R-K-O
Keith's Saturday.
For many years this George M. Conan
play has been favorite the world over.
When Earl Derr Biggers wrote his thrill
ling novel of an author's- adventures in
q deserted mountain tavern in the
middle of Winter Z" he must have fore
seen the coming of talkies, for the plot,
characters and situations are so easily
adaptable to the screen.
Magee. the author, is q novelist who
wagers that he can write a complete
book within "a hours. In order to OBJ
tain privacy he goes alone TO Baldpate
Inn, located on mountain top. The,
place is deserted. for it Is Summer
resort, and Magee visits 1t in the dead
of Winter. what transpires during the
"a hours Maeee spends at Baldpate en-
braces all the moods of the theater--
romance. comedy, melodrama. tragedy
and satire One by the one the char
acters Of the plot present themselves
to the writer at Baldpate. until he Is
from which it seems impossible to ex-
tricate himself.
The denouement brings a surprise.
Richard Dix Is supported by cast
which includes Miriam Seegar, Mar
garet Livingston, Lucien Littlefleld, De
witt Jennings, Craufurd Kent. Nellie
walker, Edith York and Joseph Allen.
EARLE-"Pointed Heels;
Pointed Heels" a comedy-drama OF
the show business. embelliShed with
songs, dances and massive revue scenes
in technicolor, will be presented At the
Earle Theater at the Friday midnight
premier this week. william: Powell,
Fay Wray, Helen Kane and skeets
Gallagher are cast in the leading roles.
Pointed Heels" IL said to have an
unusual story, devoid OF The artificial
situations. Its characters are neither
Roodie-Roodies nor lost souls--they rae
SHOW folks" no more and no less.
The story concerns the varied fortunes
OF two young married couples In the
SNOW puSlncSSs WIN hA. EOWcn' m
delicately shaded demi-villian role, pre-
siding suavely over their destines.
Phillips Holmes, Adrienne Dore. Eugene
Palette and many pretty girls are also
seen In Pointed Heels"
The bill will be supplemented by The
Evening Star Universal and PAthe News
reels, Vitaphone Varieties and music by
the Earle Orchestra. -
COLUMBIA-"Dynam
The second picture to be shown at
Loews Columbia during Loew's January
festival will be Cecil B. De Miles
Metro -Goldwyn- mayer talking produc-
ton, Dynamite" which starts Satur-
day. Conrad Nagel heads the cast that
includes Kay johnson, Charles Bick-
ford. Julia Faye, Robert EdeSon and
Scott Kolk. The main protagonists of
the production, three years in the max
ing. are q coal miner, condemned to be
hung in the first part of the story, a
young lady whose fortune depends on
her success through marriage and her
fAnce. With these ingredients. Mr.
De Mile has concocted q story which
presents scenes high up in the tower of
New York skyscraper, on the lawn
I Of country club, in luxurious home
in lady's boudoir and mile deep In
coal mine.
The Hearst MeCrOUOne news,
| comedy, Nom Movietone acts and
other filns will complete the program
RIALTO-"This Thing Called Love-"
Edmund Lowe will be starred at tn,
Rialto Theater Friday in This Thint
Called Love" The star Of the Cock
Eyed World" and other Fox productions
| this time plays a role more to hi
liking, enabling him to be seen anc
heard at his best.
Produced by Pathe, Inc, ~ Q dia
loeue production, This Thing Calles
Love" was selected by Roxy for q spe
cial engagement at his New Yorl
Theater, where 1t achieved remark
able record and was accorded flatterini
comment.
The story, visualized on the screen b!
Paul Stein. deals almost wholly will
married life, with a young, handsomt
lonely millionaire who seeks o wife II
New York; situation filled witt
genuine ifun1or. A. cast Of stage an,
screen stars, include Constance Bennett
4 zazu Pitts. Roscoe Harms. Carrneliti
Geraghty, Ruth Taylor, John Roch
and Stuart Erwin.
Specially selected short subjects vii
include The Evening Star universe
newsreel. with Graham McNamee an
nouncing the events zof: the world q
brought TO the screen.
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The first commercial telephone ex
! change In the u%fld, plAced In servic