Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-13

Dressler, and the scarcely less capable
Polly Moran.
A great many people will probably
remember what success Seven Keys
to Baldpate" was on the stage. II they
take the trouble to see what has hap
pened to 1t on the screen they will dis
cover that it has been treated with
reverence and considerable skill.
Richard Dix, in the role of an author
who makes a bet that he can write
novel in "a hours, is, as usual, genial
and naively entertaining. If he suf-
fers, perhaps, from an overdose of
profile it is not his fault. He brings
to the picture a refreshing quality of
spontaneity. which is what it deserves
and what any audience should be CRATE
full for. The male element in the cast
has the Jump" on the female-prob-
ably because their parts are in sense
juicier-still the old Hermit, or Her
mie," as he is called, manages pretty
nearly to steal the picture from every
body else.
News reels and travel talk on Spain
conclude the program.
And-don't forget Marie Dressler's
shoulderl E. NJ.
EARLE wr Mlliiaa Helen p0E Kane a and
Pointed SkeetS Gallagher are all
Heels mixed up in merry
stage story of true love
and other things this week at the Earle.
and the story, for no good reason ~
ali. is titled Pointed Heels" Perhaps
they had run out of titles for the
talkies when this picture had its turn.
The film is another of those show life
stories, of which there has been some
what of plethora" of late. Back
stage stuff chorus girls. formal and in
formal. producers and directors, with a
love story of the principals running
through the glitter.
But Paramount has given slightly
new twist to this one which is refresh
ing. The producer turns out not to be
a villain at all. and We have the sur
prise of seeing and hearing William
Powell, who has villained SO well and
so often, playing "magnanimous. He
loves the lovely lady played By Fay
Wray, but when he discovers the true
love between her and an idealistic
young chap she has married, and is
supporting so he can write symphonies.
well. the plot is different from the
run of movies. 1t goes to show the
film magnates are evidently trying to
inject into the per-sophistication of
the sound screen a vein of the soft
sentiment which rampaged so freely
across the silent screen, but which has
been horse-laughed off the talkie
screen by many an audience. It goes
all right at the Earle this week.
Helen Kane. with her baby talk,
"boop-boop-a-doops" it. Cor however
YOU spell it,; Skeets Gallagher joins
her in a man-and- comic act,
which at times is subtle and again wild
ly slapstick. Fay Wray stands around
and looks beautiful, and the idealistic |
youth with whom she is supposed to |
be so deeply in love does his best to |
look handsome.
One of the best things on the pro-
gram, in these days of canned music,
is the Earle orchestra, under the able
of Daniel Breeskin. 1t plays
several from Victor Herbert. The Eve
ming STAR Universal and Pathe news
reels and comedy complete pleasant |
bill of entertainment. H. r.
Three PLAYERS give
a remarkably fine ac-
dynamite count of themselves |
in Cecil B. De Miles |
first talking picture, Dynamite" now
They are Kay johnson, recruited from |
the stage; Charles Bickford and Conrad |
Nagel.
This trio makes the picture, literally |
speak. Even in the traditional De Mile |
elaborate, many peopled |
scenes which stamped the De Mile |
product on the silent screen-one never |
forgets that the story is entirely in the |
hands of these three persons, the woman |
and the two men who seek her love.
Kay johnson is the unmarried, ir-
responsible, somewhat wild" young
thing, whose hours all have been spent
in play, surrounded by score or so
who likewise have nothing else to do.
In the course of things she has fallen
in love with a rather restless polo-play-
ing husband, Conrad Nagel. It develops
that If she is to continue living as she
has, and II she Is going to have the
man she wants, she must marry i'm
mediately-under the terms of her
grandfather's will. She appears to solve
this tangle by marrying a man con-
demned to die for murder within
short time The man in this role is
Charles Bickford, and he plays 1t adj
The condemned man, how