Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-12

llIlSeIIldllS ana
Loretta Young. raising and
shutting their
eyelids with soulful expressions that
come only from rapture. Mr.. Os-
borne being, however, a shrewd
Snowman, refrained from playing
any more, and left on wave of en-
thusiasm that lasted fully min
uteS after the curtains had snapped
to close. In other words, this radio
magician and his skilled band are
one of those things known as
hits" and if you have any doubt
about it. just try to find vacant
seat.
1.-The Road to Paradise" is the
cinema feature that follows fast on
the heels of the elusive Mr.. Osborne.
In it Loretta Young is caught by the
camera in So different poses, and in
all of them she is the perSonifica-
ton of youth and loneliness. Pos
sessed, as yet, of none of the dis
rupting characteristics of the vet
eran actreSs-indeed, she is far from
that-lnclined to overdo a slight
twisting of the lower lip when the
director calls for anguish" she is.
on the whole, a pleasing new per-
sonality whose method of attack is
fresh and often convincing.
In this film Miss Young is called
upon to play dual role. With the
help OF an ingenious camera, which
pictures ner talking to herself and
holding her own hand, she is both a
society girl and young crook, who
Is meant to rob her own sisters
home. In the end, of course, the
threads of the narrative are brought
together in the manner that the
audience likes best-and so it is per-
haps unfail to tell the final WINS
and wherefores. The picture.
though, impossible as it is, is illogic-
ally amusing and pleasantly handled
throughout. Raymond Hatton is
the living image of what one
lmagines a crook might be like
IN a nightmare, and Jack Mulhall
Is the boy friend who transfers his
aiiectlons from one Loretta TO tn
other III record time
The Vitaphone varieties add little
10 the program, but the Earle Or
cheStra, playing various kiss" Sc
lectlonS, and Graham McNamee
making the current news interesting
III Inc Evening Star Universal News
reel pep up what is really a good
"i-alouuo Dill. L. de S. NJ.
Fiji DOrSay Stars
Amid Excellent Acting,
A THOUGH Women Everywhere
- this weeks attraction at the
Fox, Is something of Beau Gesture
as far as the play is concerned. ex-
cellent acting by the two principals.
FIN DorSay and j. Harold Murray.
makes 1t well worth seeing. And Fiji
takes the laurelS from Murray. de-
spite the Ziegfeld stars great sing
ing.
Clyde Cook plays a strong sup
porting role, with many hearty
chuckleS and outlaws wrapped up in
his part and also in other places in
the production. At times, however,
the laughs weren't supposed to be
there, but the audience evidently
had a different view from that of
the director Several of the best
bits are found in the love scenes,
dripping with "pash," which are
more enthusiastic than realistic.
One fault sticks out. The title
should be Woman Everywhere" in
stead of the plural. Fiji, the cabaret
singer Is the whole thing, as far as
the woman angle goes. She is
everywhere" in presenting her
characterization of the sweetheart
of the Foreign Legion.
Murray's singing is much better
than his acting, but there is no par
ticular fault to be found with that.
Either the recorder or the talkie
broadcaSter is at fault in some
scenes, as Murray's voice, ordinarily
clear and true, is made to sound in
spots as II he were warbling with
mouthful of mush
There's plenty of sand in the pic
ture. Murray, playing the role of a
gunrunner who is delivered into the
hands of French authorities off the
Morocco coast by a traitor aboard
his ship, eventually gets into the
Foreign Legion, after much peril in
which Fiji hides him on his escape
from the officials.
Then come the typical desert
scenes, the inevitable babe in arms"
type of soldier of the Legion, the
charge of Bedouins. or whoever it is
that charges, and the assignment of
three to the sure-death post as rear
guards. Murray is one of the trio,
but like all celluloid heroes. he isn't
killed, only wounded, and everything
ends happily.
The desert idea is carried out on
the stage. also in the Fanchon and
Marco production Desert Ideas"
but there's a slight difference of
some 5000 or so miles between the
deserts.
Cropley and Violet open with an
entertaining and difficult lariat and
dancing act; Chief Eagle Feather,
the hard-shoe dancer, won a great
hand for his clever stepping. as did
Mural Stryker, and Eddie and
Morton Beck, comedians, were given
many laughs for their foolishness
and singing, the latter decidedly of
the sort that incites laughter. The
best part of the stage production,
however, is the hoofing of the
chorus. The Caria Torney girls,
with some new steps and drills, got
the biggest token of appreciation
from the audience. Sam Jack Kauf-
man, the master of ceremonies, con-