Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-29

action, are WALLACE NhCOOAdlup
Ernest billiard, George Fawcett,
Hale Hamilton, Michael Auer, Clara
Blandick, Florence Lake and Ann
Brody.
The Photographic work of this
production is as ingeniously carried
out as the plot itself, and offers
wide range of scenes. The improb-
ability Of some Of the developments
almost under the eyes of an Ameri-
can police department offers no
obstacle to the enjoyment OF
series Of incidents full of action and
reminiscent Of an entertaining book.
Among the short subjects of the
program is a typical soldier farce
featuring Slim Summertime. ana
offering a contrast to the more serl-
Gus business of the ruby-studded
drums on the necklace and their
fatal prophecies. Otto F. Beck plays
"The Palms" on the organ, there is
a travalogue in China, and Graham
NTcNamee explains his newsreel
D. G. @.
"Men Call 1t Love" Given
At Columbia Theater.
A SOPHISTICATED story of mod
"a ern marriage among the younger
society set gives plenty OF food Tor
thought in Men Call It Love-" this
weeks feature at Loew's Columbia.
The play, featuring Adolphe
Menjou and Norman Foster in the
leading masculine roles, and beauti-
full, blond Leila Hyams and brunette
Mary Duncan in the feminine leads.
has been well directed and skillfully
portrayed throughout.
The usual problem play of the age
has been given q new and interest
ing twist. For once, the screen
breaches an obvious moral that after
all, marrige is promise" which
should be difflcult to break. And
for once, subtle, smooth-mannered
Adolphe Menjou is given the role
OF q "patcher' Of a home, instead
OF the DESTROYER. True, in the open
ing scenes he Is depicted in his
usual part as a philanderer Of mar
ried women, but a happy ending
shows him in the strange character
Of the third" party helping to bring
about the reconciliation OF the two
others.
With a background Of gay, pros
porous house parties given for and
by the younger married set" OF
fashionable suburb, the story con-
Germs principally the problems OF
Jack and Connie Mills, the only
married couple In their set who ap-
pear to be in love with each other.
The opening scene shows a dance at
Cables" when Callie announces
she is to divorce her husband.
Laughter and congratulations ensue,
but Connie, dancing with her hus-
band, is disguised at the frivolity OF
Callie, and asks her husband to take
her home. In the meantime Tony,
q bachelor famous for his love, af-
fairs with married women, tries to
make love to Connie, having tired
of Helen, the frivolous, faithless and
beautiful wife of joe, a hard-work-
ing and devoted husband.
Connie has thoughts for no one
but her husband, and, although 1t
has been rumored that Jack was
attentive to a chorus girl. he denies
the rumor and Is obviously in love
with his wife.
An evening arrives when it is inn
possible for Jack to accompany
Connie to q party. Connie leaves for
the party alone, while Jack remains
to dress for a dinner with q business
man in the city. While he Is dress
ing, Helen calls at the house and
inquiries for Connie. Learning that
Connie has just left, Helen remains
in the house and deliberately
'vamps" Jack.
Jack weakly succumbs to her
charms, and while he Is holding her
In his arms, Connie returns uneX-
pectedly to the house. She will take
no excuse from her conscience
smitten husband. She also says she
will not divorce him, but viii remain
under his roof, and go her way"
while he is free to go his.
Connie calls up Tony, thinking to
forget Jack by an affair with the
bachelor. She succeeds only in max
ing herself very unhappy, as well as
adding to the misery Of Jack, who
really loves her, despite his moment
of weakness with Helen Tony,
skilled in the ways of women and
the world, realizes that Connie does
not love him. and succeeds in the
end in bringing about reconcilia-
ton between the young married
people.
Norman Foster as Jack, is con-
vincing and attractive as the hus-
band Of Connie, played by Leila
Hyams. Mary Duncan, as Helen,
gives a skillful portrayal Of the con-
scienceless, seductive little "vamp,"
who steals women's husbands with
out the slightest scruple.
In addition TO the feature, q Para
mount song picture is offered and a
clever, amusing Hal Roach comedy.
q. S. S.
"Dracula" Revived
At the Metropolitan.
THAT prince of chillers and
thrillers, "Dracula," which has
turned more faces pale and made
more hands clutch other hands with
horror and despair than almost any
other Aim on the market. is back
again in town and may be seen at
the Metropolitan Theater.
Those who like to feel themselves
freezing into cold numbness during
their entertainment will find this
very much to their hking-f they
haven't found it already. 1t is, in
fact, guaranteed to make q lugubri-
GUS impressions on the hardest Of
cinema goers, and TO wither the
palm and the pulse from its first
to its last drop.
Tod Browning has made more
than a worthy Aim copy Of this
Bran Stoker terror novel The thesis
of vampires and their allies and
the chase that is made for the pur-
pose of their elimination is as blood
curdling as 1t was in the book, or in
the play. Perhaps even more sc
Acted by an admirable cast, in
which Bella Lusosi is the ominous
gent who bites people ana Helen
Chandler the lady who does ditto
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