Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-17
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| er, his nerves shaken by mounting
casualties, is relieved and Barthelmess,
In character, of course, takes his place.
But the spectacle of seeing the school
boys he sends up in rickety planes
shot down from the skies unnerves
| him. His best friend, a fellow flyer,
learns that his younger brother has
| been assigned to Barthelmess' squadron.
He pleads not to send the boy into q
dangerous air battle. The young COM
mander, however, has no choice. The
boy goes up and is killed. The friend
breaks of with him, but the command
er finds way to avenge the death of
| the lad in a grim and spectacular
flight over the German pees. The
climax is stark realism, unvarnished
drama.
Douglas Fairbanks, jr.; Neil Harnil-
ton, William Janney and Clyde Cook
also are in the cast.
Additional features include Vitaphone
varieties, the Earle topical news and
music by the Earle Orchestra.
COLUMBIA-"Let Us Be Gay"
NORMA SHEARER, in "Let Us BE
Gay" continues this week at Ioew's
Columbia, where with Marie DreSSler,
cast as an eccentric old lady, she has
been delighting. audiences the past
week. Rod La ROGUE figures as the
husband, and others in the cast in
clude Gilbert Emery. Hedda Hopper
and Raymond Hackett.
The picture, an adaptation of the
play by Rachel Crothers, revolves about
Kitty Brown, the dowdy wife Of Bob
and very much devoted to him and
her children. When she discovers him
In the arms of a more attractive wom-
an she divorces him. The next Few
years of her life she spends cultivating
feminine charms until men generally
find her alluring.
A Mrs. Beaucicault conspires with
her to vamp the man who is paying
court to her granddaughter. Kitty
finds this man to be her ex-husband.
He is more than surprised to see the
change in Ais former wife and falls
hopelessly in love with her once more.
Humorous episodes lead to climax In
which the granddaughter is saved for
the man who really loves her and Kitty
forgives Bob.
An M-G-M songwriter's revue, Holly
wood snapshots, the Hearst Metrotone
News and the Columbia Orchestra, un-
der Claude Burrows, complete the
program.
EXTRAORDINARILY Matrimonial
Bed"
THE spice and pep Of the. original
French stage farce, it Is announced,
have been retained in the film 1.-THE
Matrimonial Bed" now holding forth at
Warner Bros Metropolitan Theater
AS laugh maker 1t Is said to be q
constant scream from opening to fade
out. 1t gives a unique twist to an an
cient story.
Adolphe Noblet, supposedly killed in
a railroad accident five years before
the opening Of the story, returns to his
home in the capacity Of a hatrdresser,
but suffering from loss Of memory, and
like his former self only in his ability
to surround himself with adoring femi-
ninity. A hypnotist restores his MEM
DRY and he recalls his first wife (now
happily remarried), but forgets all
about a lately-acquired wife and two
sets of twins. What happens when the
women get going makes the story.
Lilyan Tashman, Florence Eldridge,
Vivian Oakland, Bery1 Mercer, Marion
Byron, James Gleason, Frank Fay,
Arthur Edmund Carewe and James
Bradbury, ST., are In the cast.
In addition the management has
booked 1.-THE Stein Song" q special car
toon singing novelty with Rudy Vallee
and his Connecticut Yankees. Rudy
Is not only heard singing, but also sup
plies the music of the foot ball game
caricatured. Harry Fox, well known
musical comedy star, In the Vitaphone
Variety, THE Playboy," and the Met
ropolitan newsreeI complete the en-
tertainment.