Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-19

WORD has come from the Natlona
w Theater that D. w. Grifith's
abraham Lincoln" is to be continued
up to and including Sunday night
October 26.
The artistic success of the Grifnth
Lincoln" is undiSputed. The "Old
Master" of the films has again rung the
bell by offering production that Is at
once dignif1ed and reverent in its atti-
tude toward the Great Emancipator
While Mr.. Grifith has taken certain
liberties with history (due doubtless to
the enormous task of condensing the
entire career of Lincoln from the cradle
to the grave), he has produced a motion
picture which stands out as a monu-
ment to Americas directing genius of
the silver sheet.
impersonation, despite certain physical
drawbacks, which places him surely in
the highest rank of our leading motion
picture stars. Una Merkel as Ann
Rutledge is tender in her portrayal of
Lincoln'S boyhood sweetheart. Others
In long cast who deserve special men,
ton are Hobart Bosworth as Gen. Lee.
Henry B. Walthall as Col Marshall,
Frank Campeau as Gen. Sheridan, Kay
Hammond as Mrs. Lincoln, Ian Keith
as Booth, the mad actor; James Brad
as Stephen Douglas, Fred Warren as
Gen. Grant and little Gordon Thorpe
as Tad Lincoln.
PALACE-"Her Wedding Night"
a VERY HOLLYWOOD, king of romantic
farce, author of Fair and Warmer. -
THE Gold Diggers," Ladies Night"
THE Bat" Little Miss Bluebeard" and
what-not in the way Of Broadway sue
cesses, has given to the talking screen
his latest in the line Of farce, "Her
Wedding Night" now current at Loews
Palace. Clara Bow plays the leading
part. The picture is said to be fairly
saturated with complications and riot
Gus laughter.
Ralph Forbes, star Of Beau Geste":
Charles Ruggles and Skeets Gallagher.
along with Natalie Kingston, Geneva
Mitchell and Rosita Moreno, all lend
their aid in making Her Wedding
Night" one Of the outstanding film fun
attractions Of the year.
The story: An American movie star
in trying to escape her many suitors in
Paris fees to Southern France. She
and Skeets Gallagher are marooned in
small town, and upon being mistaken
for an clipping couple, are married.
Gallagher, using the name Of a friend,
really acts as a proxy, and so Clara Is
Charles Ruggles enters the picture here,
and the complications he causes brings
the story to Whirlwind climax.
With the pageantry Of medieval cere-
mony, the coronation Of King Komedy
is celebrated in this weeks stage pres
entation Royal Revels," from the Cap
itol Theater, New York, featuring the
famous clown prince of dance, Ben
Blue. Adding beauty and more hilarity
are Margie Greene, acrobatic dancer,
and Albertina Vitak, Queen Of Toe
Dancers" with Fortunello and Cirel-
limo, acrobatic clowns; Ben Blues two
man army and "a of Chester Hale
Ladies In Waiting. The Palace Synco-
pators furnish the music. The Palace
Orchestra will play Morning, Noon
and Night in Vienna" as the overture.
METROPOLITAN-"The Squealer."
1.-THE SQUEALER," Columbia's latest
talking screen drama, is featured
now at Warmers Metropolitan Theater,
and presents Jack Holt, Davey Lee and
an entirely new aspect of bootlegging
and night life activities, with their ac-
companying gangs, racketS and crime
machines, and shows how the entire
social structure may be honeycombed
with the leaders and minions Of
crookdom.
Holt plays the role Of an energetic
man Of good antecedents and with good
social position and wonderful home
life who Is drawn into the rum racket
because Of its staggering returns. OS-
tensibly a successful real estate. man
with a beautiful home and charming
wife and young son, he Is really at
death grips with rival bootleg leaders.
He deals swift justice to o squealer,
walks into his rivals lair alone to FORE
stall the death Of his favorite hench-
man, and then he walks out alone,
leaving behind him a dead gang leader.
The story leads UP to an impressive
climax
Dorothy Revier as the wife Is CO.
starred with Holt. Davey Lee, who
rose to fame in roles with Al Jolson, is
seen as the little son, who innocently
"squeals" and tells. enemies Of Holt
where his father is in hiding. Others
in the cast are Matt Moore, Zasu Pitts,
Robert Ellis, Mathew Betz and many
others.
The supplementary program includes
Ruth Etting, the Ziegfeld star, in the
Vitaphone Variety "Roseland"; the ed
ucational cartoon comedy, entitled