Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-19
From the Front Row
Reviews and News of Washington Theaters.

vanity, for he had imagined him
self indispensable.
But mis- first wife had been clever.
Realizing that at last her husband
had discovered that he was out of
sumption that every man has his
price, she bought of 1.-The other
woman"-asked the husband for the
check-and peace and harmony once
more reigned in the home of the
tired business man, and he resumed
his place in the wheel of industry
as it went around and around. And
so the Mrs." supposedly typical of
the modern wife, solved the little
problem for her husband of just
what he did think-and Just what
he did want
Eddie Cantor, ever an attraction
and always good for a barrelful of
laughs, arrives on the talking screen
with comedy farce entitled "Insur-
ance." Just to see all those all
ments that Eddie has, to live through
with him all those excruciating pains
and to see that pretty nurse, spend
little of that honeywell, it's
worth ones while.
Graham McNamee broadcasting
the news events for The Evening
Star-Universal newsreel, Mickey
Mouse cartoon and technicolor
production-one of the Adventure
series, and interesting, thrilling,
even breath-taking, etc., complete
the bill. B. w.
Splendid Entertainment
At the Fox Theater This Week.
TWNEJTc 10 I,I,,a rTIobo,, ,x,nnl~ ~ &la
Fox Theater. What with Frank
Richardson literally dropping out of
the clouds to make the stage show
just about 100 per cent perfect. and
Edmund Lowe at his best in a screen
story about sartorially respondent
crooks, it can be positively said there
is never a dull moment during the
entire entertainment.
Mr.. Richardson especially deserves
eulogizing by himself. Refraining
from trembling remarks at the edge
of the stage, twittering forth how
"happy he Is to be here" ETC., he
bursts at once into the songs that
had made the "Fox Movietone Fol-
lies" and Sunny Side Up" the sue
cesses they were. His voice, SEEM
ingly couple of octaves higher than
usual, fills the vast reaches of the
theater with much gusto and clar-
ity. Furthermore, this non-reStive
gentleman most obligingly sings all
the songs that his audience want
him to sing, including Mona" and
"Walkin' With Susie" He was, in
fact, so completely swamped by ap-
T1laYlaa uacfordau that ha eaavaoH
little bewildered by it. But that
didn't prevent him from warbling-
and how!
There were other good things
about this stage show-really good,
not just tepid. Led into action by
the dramatic Sam Jack kaufman,
Huff and Huff demonstrated that the
art of the adagio dance is still on
the upgrade; Louise Manning did
considerable with a banjo and her
feet; Edison and Gregory produced
music from pumps, bicycle tires
and. saws; Jack Goldie was there
with really amusing diary and a
voice: Helen Hille contributed a nice
bit of her own, and Toots Novello
helped out the Sunkissed Girls in a
bright and novel dance arrangement
Thus and so-when 1t is considered
that the Fox Orchestra was most
effective in a splendid violin ar
rangement of Hubay's Here Kati,"
and that Ron and Don meant to be
at the organ yesterday afternoon,
but they weren't, there seems little
breath left to raphsodize over the
picture that followed.
This picture, GOOD Intentions"
restores Edmund Lowe to the kind of
role that suits him best. AS the very
polished leader of an equally poll
ished group of "silk-hat" crooks, he
plies his trade in gentlemanly fash
ion and Is ruffied only by the fancy
that he Is in love with q charming
society girl. Although thwarted in
his desires by a rival gentleman, who
spends his life playing polo, Mr.. Lowe
shows his affection for the girl up
until the last, becoming somewhat Of
a martyr in the final and tragic
fade-out.
There is much in this Aim to hold
ones interest. Even though some of
the dialogue is practically inaudible,
due to faulty mechanism, the pic
ture Is constantly exciting. Regis
Toomey, as Is his custom, does splen-
didly in small role, and Marguerite
Churchill Is well enough as the fem
mime foil. Furthermore, there is
grand scene concerning the method
of spiriting away man and his
money in the middle of first-rate
wedding.
All of which goes to prove that it
will pay you well If you save your
pennies and find out what it's all
about at the Fox this week.
E. DE S. M.