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positive assurance that Barbara STAN
wyck's new Columbia picture, THE
Miracle Woman" q Frank Capra pro-
duction. adapted from "a Broadway
success'-also "daringly original and
modern in theme" with David Manners
supporting the star. will be the feature
at R-K-O Keiths next week." starting
Friday of this week, in the absence Of
unforeseen circumstances to prevent.
Sam Hardy and Beryl Mercer also ap-
pear in The Miracle Woman"
The brief announcement comes from
the Fox Theater that transatlantic"
with Edmund Lowe. Lois Moran, John
Halliday. Greta Nissen. Jean Hersholt
Myrna 10y and Earle Foxe, will be the
screen feature for the new week start
ing Friday. The stage program will
present the Fanchon- Marco Talent"
idea, with Harry Savoy. George P. Will
son. Adele Beers. Jeanne Carr. Six
Marinelli Girls, Harriet Nawrott and
boys
Leow's Palace Theater. starting Sat-
urday, will present Son of India" with
Ramon Novarru as its star, as "hit
number two in the August parade Of
hits" On the stage New York Capt.
tol Theater revue is promised.
Paramount's gripping murder nnys-
terry, Murder by the Clock" a Aim
version of Rufus Kings story Of q
man who was murdered twice in a
single evening, will be the screen fea-
ture at Warmers Earle for the new
week beginning next Saturday. The
stage program will be headed by Billy
Glason, Broadway jester. in rapid-flfe
songs and stories, and will include
Sandy Lang. Patti Lee and the
Eneralde sisters, the six Lido ladies
In acrobatics and Maxine Doyle.
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Sinclair Lewis Fools Folks.

THERE are two sides to Sinclair
Lewis. the Nobel prize winner for
literature, according to his friends. One
is his personal side and the other is his
public side.
Don't you understand" Lewis re-
Gently said, that it's myO mission in
life to be the despised critic, the fault
finder? I must carp and scold until
every one despises me. That's what I
was put here fer
But the vitriolic author of Main
Street and Rabbit" believes this in
his first effort since winning the Nobel
prize, by writing a penetrating tale Of
childhood, the humorous story of a
child screen star. Critics were amazed
at this departure from his iconoclastic
theme. Its title is Let's Play King"
but as it appears on the screen at the
Earle it Is Newly Rich"
Lewis is credited with stronge sense
of humor. At private affairs he Is often
described as the life OF the party. He
has a well developed sense of mimicry
and on the slightest provccation can do
first-class limitations or haif q dozen
nationalitieS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-02

TT is disappointing. therefore, 10 us
pious disciples OF the theater to
discover that Haywood Broun has
4 less faith in us as playgoers than
he has in US as newspaper readers.
He made his debut as an actor-man-
ager last week in Shoot the Works"
cooperative vaudeville contrived TO
diminish unemployment among the
players. Ready to his hand were many
upper class artistS-Irving Berlin, Peter
Arno, Dorothy Parker Nunnally john
son, Ira Gershwin and others similarly
to be depended upon for true blue rec
reation. Yet with all these advantages
he produced an entertainment distinctly
inferior to his daily column. It con-
tanned such items as that moldy Winter
Garden Skit wherein a betrayed hus-
band orders breakfast for his wifeS
lover who Is hiding under their bed.
And a shabby bath room joke that was
old 80 years ago when Chic Sales re-
viVed it In the variety theaters and
made it the foundation of his cult. Mr..
Broun would not print things like these.
But as a Snowman he feels that he
must stoop to amuse the playgoers. be-
lieving, with Mr.. Shaw. that upon en-
tering a theater they leave their intel
ligence in the check room with their
hats So Shoot the Works" Is not 0f
high caliber and 1t is a bit OF evidence
in discouraging proof Of the charge that
the drama is more Of a vice than a
virtue
Some Of Mr.. Broun's critics have said
that Shoot the Works" is handicapped
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-02
"Shoot the Works" Ranks
A Bit Below the Average
Old Jokes and Moldy Skits Have Place in New
Yorks Musical Offering -Columnist Does
Little to Aid the Lowly Theater.
By Percy Hammond.

by the too frequent appearances Of Mr.
Broun himself. With those expostula-
tionS 1 am in disagreement. AS the
dominating personality Of ne revue he
is afraid and retiring, proud only OF his
baggy pants. his wrinkled socks his un-
shaVen jowls and his shirt tails oozing
demply from his liberal waistline To
his dignified brother journalists at
least he Is an enjoyable sight as, bulky
perspiring and cumbersome, he accepts
the warm cares5es of his cool chorus
girls-a timid Silenus reveling bashfully
in q bevy of Times Square nymphs.
As indicated above. Mr.. Broun fol-
lows the advice Of Mr.. Shaw to shift
your standards" Thus while he Is
heavenly as a newspaper columnist, he
is earthly as q theatrical impreSario.
His essays are full Of hope and peSSi-
mism; his Shoot the Works" is just
another $3.50 honk-a-tonk 1t is said
that Mr.. Broun himself invested the
$4,000 necessary to the production of
the revue, and that the first nights re-
ceiptS, at 81 per orchestra chair, more
than covered the initial expenses. This
is pleasant news, for hidden among the
lyrics Of the play is a whispered verse,
which feared was Subtly symbolic. It
was sung in a sinister Groom by Jack
Hazard, recently replaced by julius
Tanner, and it went something like
this
We took him for buggy ride,
Forty bullets in his hide.
And we buried him beside
.. the Lincoln Highway.
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Discourtesy to Patrons.

THE New York stage would not be
losing its talent and patronage to
talking pictures II 3 had been courteous
to its patrons and attended to its own
business Of developing talent, according
to Stuart Walker, for years noted as q
theatrical director and stage manager
for David Belasco.
"A year ago." said Walker-now at
Paramount's Hollywood studio u
stated that never would leave the
legitimate theater. I felt that talking
pictures and stage plays would each
benefit the other. Today, only motion
pictures are benef1tting The condi-
ton of the American stage has been
brought about by itself.
1.-The New York theater insults the
patrons on whom it is dependent. Box
ONCE discourtesy is proverbial. If you
want to get seats for a successful play
you pay high premium. II the show
is a failure, you can get all the seats
you want.
THE stages great weakness is that 1t
is not developing playwrights or actors.
A bad cast can ruin good play: a
good cast cannot save a bad play.
Broadway has q married scarcity of
both.
when the plays are better, the
actors more capable and the prices are
reduced, the theater will come back Of
ITSELF"
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Photoplay Attractions

and corruption by calling out the woman
voters. This arouSes the wrath of the
male voters. Marie will not be beaten
however, and calls the wives out on strike
until the husbands see the error of their
ways.
Roscoe AteS. remembered for his
suffering in THE Big House" and Billy
the Kid" in this production is Miss
Moran'S barber husband. Karen Morley
and William Blackwell supply the love
interest. Others include Joan Marsh,
Tom MCGUIRE. John MILAN and Mary
Arden
Selected short subjects complete the
program.
FOX-"Their Mad Moment"
THE Fox Theater's current screen at
traction is Their Mad Moment"
featuring Warner Baxter and Dorothy
Mackaill, supported by ZaSu Pitts,
Nance ONeil, Lawrence Grant, Nella
Walker, Mary Doran and Leon Janney,
and the Fanchon and Marco "Moroc-
can" Idea is the stage attraction. The
Idea features Hadji Ali. called the
worlds most famous miracle man;
Gaylene, dancer: Ali Hassan's Blue
Streaks; James Gaylord. singer Sherry
Louise. coloratura soprano; Gayl Bert
and Daro, dancing team: Ferdna and
Eva Nightingale, besides line of Sun
kist Beauties
Their Mad Moment is the story
OF an American girl at Biarritz who is
seeking a rich husband. She meets
Warner Baxter, maSquerading as a
DOOR chap; falls in love with him on
the eve of her marriage to a titled
Englishman and runs away to Baxter's
mountain home.
An added attraction at the IL am.
and $50 pm. shows only will be the
second installment of THE Vanishing
Legion" serial. Bob Hamilton, organist,
has arranged special overture while
AL Mitchell will conduct the orchestra.
R-K-O KEITHs-"The Common
CONSTANCE BENNETT. Pathes
- star, in 1.-THE Common Law" con-
tinues as the featured attraction at
R-K-O Keith's Theater, in response.
1t is announced, to demand, after a
weeks phenomenal run in which mid
January records were broken.
In this picture she is seen as a beau
tiful model with modern ideas about
love. Her artist lover has modern
ideas about everything but love. She
sacrifices herself to insure his fame in
story with a background of gay
Partisan life.
John Farrow is credited with bring
ing the story up to date for the screen,
and Paul Stein was the director. The
action unfolds against the background
of the Paris Latin Quarter, and the
Four Arts Ball is shown.
Supplementary attractions include
current issues of R-K-O Pathe News.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-02

T Owe MAKING on the stage and in
- pictures is different. Ralph Bel
larny, young Broadway actor, has dis
covered. Bellamy makes his bid for
screen honors with Ruth Chatterton in
THE Magnificent Lie"
One of the amorous climaxes in the
dramatic story would have lasted q
couple of minutes II Miss Chatterton
and Bellamy had been playing It on
the stage. The same action on the
screen, however, necessitated filming Of
scenes from early in the morning till
late afternoon. And the fervent dia-
logue, embraces and kisses were re-
corded under batteries of blazing sum
arcs, with directorial staff, cameramen
and other members of the cast watch
ing from the sidelines, and a dozen
electricians gazing from overhead.
1.-THE stage was never like this" Bel
lamy remarked after several hours
love-making.
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T%HE new Eddie Cantor song-and-
gag festival, "Palmy Days" Is
not quite complete, but those
4 who have had look at its open
ing scenes are prepared to iden-
tify it as a gorgeously imaginative en-
tertainment. The first thing to hit the
eye is a huge modernistic bakery, filled
with young girls who cannot be de-
scribed in cold type These fortify the
conviction that Hollywood ranks first
among all the communities Of this earth
asa dwelling place of beauty. Solomon
in all his glory, nor Ziegfeld in all his,
never collected such bevy as this.
Led by Charlotte Greenwood, the girls
repair to the bakery's gymnasium and
then indulge in an elaborate musical
number, entitled Bend Down, Sister. "
Here again description IS baf1led, SUI
flee 1t to say that this number Is
thrilling, eye-filling and various other
participles.
After the last ounce Of rhythm has
been squeezed from Bend Down, Sis
ter the scene shifts to a. Spiritualistic
seance in which Eddie. Cantor provides
the off-stage noises. 1t is one of the
funniest acts he has ever performed.
1t may be that after the first two
reels "Palmy Days" trails off into bore
dom. Perhaps it is transformed from
thanks largely to the director. Edward
Sutherland, those opening scenes are
exciting enough to establish the fact
that celluloid musical shows are here
for, the Fall and Winter season.
x*
THE sorest problem in screen comic
opera is how to introduce the
songs Great directors and eminent
authors have sat for days and nights
in conference trying to find graceful
way to lead from a sequence in West
minister Abbey into big musical num-
Der containing conjectureS as to what
will eventuate When a Guy Like Me
Loves Girl Like You"
In "Palny Days" two numbers that
I heard were introduced abruptly, with
out apology. This Is an effective
method, as 1t avoids the embarrassment
OF overelaborate preparation. When
the scene in the gymnasium opens
forth With the verse of Bend Down.
Sister, And again, when Miss Green
wood and Mr.. Cantor collide with each
other suddenly. they waste no prosaic
words; they start right of singing a
song, the burden of which is You Give
Me Goose Pimples."
In the three LubitSch muSicalS-"The
Love Parade" Monte Carlo" and THE
Smiling Lieutenant"-the events lead
ing up to each lyric have been incred-
IDLY complicated. You will remember
how in Monte Carlo" the wheels of
a speeding locomotive were used to
start a. rhythm which was caught up
vocally by jeanette Macdonald (sitting
in a first-claSs carriage) and then
swelled by a chorus of peasants laboring
in fields and waving on the boat to the
passing train.
1t seems to me t. : in 1.-THE Smiling
Lieutenant" Mr.. L"bitSch shows signs
Of having grown ed of this form Of
invention. Every 1g In the picture Is
injected for no gocs, reason as an I'M
welcome interruption - the swift COM
edy. After Miriam Hopkins and Clau-
dette Colbert have played really bril-
liant scene together 1t is depressing to
learn that they are beginning to re-
peat themselves In lyrical form.
The preparation Of movie musical
shows Is painful and costly process,
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Coming to Washington.

. A soon as he finishes with 0reta
"A Carlo in Susan Lenox, Her Fall
and Rise" Jean Hersholt plans to visit
New York and Washington, D. c., to
confer with committees in charge OF
Danish events at the 1882 Olympic meet
which is to be held in Los Angeles.
Hersholt has been appointed head OF
the general committee in this country
by the King Of Denmark, and will make
the trip East to contact with the various
units.
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with its theme of
the clash between
society and the
lower order of life:
between law and
crime, and the love
of a man for a
woman who is far
below him in every
sense of the word.
Nancy Carroll is
seen as an enter
tainer in a cabaret
Of low reput e.
March already has
caused her mother
to be sent to prison
and the young dis
trict attorney de-
termines he will
Sfan1n ont pino in
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Worlds Star Screamer.

THE world star "screamer" got a
break" recently ct Paramount's
Hollywood studios. She is Lillian
Worth, who does the screaming in a
scene of Women Love Once" which
shows little Marilyn Knowlden, aged
four, struck down by an automobile
while chasing the picture stars.
Miss Worth has been specializing in
screaming. shriekjng and bowling in
talking pictures during the past year.
Her voice is said to be so strong that
she has to stand so feet from the
microphone when she unleashes her
lung capacity.
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follow Marie Dress
ler's Politics" the
current attraction,
when and If the
Dressler pic tur e
leaves the Column
bia. The joyous
information is add
ed that. although
THE S m Hing
Lieutenant " was
shown in New York
at the So rate,
the regular scale
of prices" will pre-
vail at the Column
bia, when the pic
ture reaches Wash
ington.
From R-K-O
Knitb'c cOpoee the
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On the Horizon
Pictures Announced to Fol-
low Current Attractions

I OEW'S COLUMBIA is announcing
an August Parade of Hits" start
ing the month with the second hit, no
less that Maurice Chevalier's new pic
ture, The Smiling Lieutenant" to
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MORGANTOWN- ON-POTOMAC
n HANAGER CRAERIN OF Morgan
WILSON LINE OUTINGS.
THE herald for the healltafIli steamer

City of Washington confines his
announcement for the week to joys that
are dead and into the deep bosom of
the ocean buried, including excursions
Of the Veteran Marine Corps Legion,
the Society of Virginia and the Sodality
Union. However, the steamer continues
trips to Chapel Point and Colonial
Beach. with many extra delights added.
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GLEN kCHO FAhA
- LEN ECHO PARK takes issue
with the poet in August in
Y having water, water every
~ where" all that is required
for drinking, and veritable
oceans of 1t in the new Crystal Pool,
where countless bathers never are in
doubt as to its use Indeed, the new
pool has almost taken the spotlight, as
the theater folks say, away from the
thrill, frolic and fun entertainment OF
the big outdoor park where the adnlis-
sion is always free, and where parking
space is always available to motorists.
Here indeed, may be found everything
a great outdoor park can offer for the
delight of the entire population, young
and old. Like the famous pickles of
old, "flfty-Seven varieties" Of pleasure
would not begin to enumerate them.
dodgems, whips, dips and what-not
among the thrillers; the Midway for
surprises, and the Old Mill for ro-
nance; all are there. Even a breeze
swept pavilion" where dancers may
lose themselves-all on the Maryland
hillside up the Potomac.
SEASIDE PARK.
7 APPED by the idle waves of CheSa-
- peake Bay, just an hours ride by
fast and f1eeting cars from the District
line, lies Seaside Park, the new pleasure
ground, with swimming canoeing,
yachting. ard other cooling sports,
along with dancing in another of those
"breeze-swept pavilions," to modern
music that makes you dance, and with
even a miniature railway and a spe-
cial playground to delight the juvenile
heart.
Today, as a special attraction, Ray
Woods, champion high diver, will do his
stunts from ladder 100 feet in air,
while the roller coaster and airplane
swings are stirring the synthetic breeze
to action for those in search of ways
to cool of.
MARSHALL HALL.
nOwN the picturesque Potomac, with
~ its historic spots dotting its wooded
shores. goes the Steamer Charles Ma
calester every day at 10 am: and 2:30
and $50 pm. to Marshall Hall, another
beauty spot with q historic halo, sup
plemented with numerous joys of the
outdoor park; and again the breeze
swept pavilion with an orchestra that
knows how to keep the graceful feet in
motion. Here the dancing privilege is
without charge. And then, too, there
are roller coasters, shooting galleries
and lot more coaxers to good time.
The announcement adds, as a sort of
after-thought. that this morning and
every Sunday morning, the steamer
starts at 1890 o'clock, instead of 10
am.
MORGANTOWN-O N-POTOMAC.
MANAGER CRAERIN OF Morgan
AVA town, which once was known as
Lower Cedar Point. where the salt
water begins, announces bathing, fish
ing and the peace that comes far from
the maddening crowd for picnic parties
and others in search of a quiet days
outing. The werm, the weary and even
the hungry will find cordial hospitality
and comfort on the pine-clad shores,
besides the cooling waters. Group pic
mic parties have been finding their way
to Morgantcwn more frequently since
the sun has begun to shine more
brightly in the Capital, says the genial
manager with q theatrical twang to his
announcement.
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his city. 1t is natural that they meet
during his battle, and the climax comes
when the two realize they are in love,
but that very little can be done to over
come the difference in their stations in
life. Phoebe Foster. Alison Skipworth
Alan Hale and Hubert bruce form the
supporting cast.
On the stage, Allan Rogers returns
for one week in "Stardust," Capitol
Theater, New York, revue, assisted by
Chiffon and Thomas, late of AL JolSon's
Wonder Bar" and other Loew acts.
EARLE-"Newly Rich" Family Week. {.
HEAMILY WEEK" Especially created
entertainment for the entire fam
ily) is being celebrated this week at
Warner Bros Earle Theater Newly
Rich" described as Ian riot from
start to finish, is the screen feature.
Freda and Palace head the stage fes-
tivitieS.
Paramount's Newly Rich" introduces
a new comedy team, Louise Fazenda
and Edna May Oliver, to screen fans.
Also, it shows how Edna and Louise,
Eeighbors, come to hate and fight each
the other. especially when one of the
children suddenly becomes a movie star
Edna is determined to get her child also
into the movies. and between the two they
nearly wreck HollywcR'. The child stars
are played by MitZi vreen and Jackie
Scarf. The story was adapted from
Sinclair Lewis novel Let's Play King"
The stage program, headed by Steve
Freda and Johnny Palace, character
comedians, contains family appeal
throughout. Other entertainers are
the Forum Boys, a singing and instru-
mental quartet familiar to radio fans;
Roy and Romero in song and dance
traveSty, Gautier's Animated Toy Shop,
o group of clever dogs and ponies, and
Maxine Doyle, mistress of ceremonies,
together with Bobby Jones ninth golf
lesson, The Driver" the Graham Nc
Nance Talking Newsreel and d special
orchestral prelude by the Earle Or
cheStra.
COLUMBIA-"PoIitic
MARIE DREssLER and Polly Moran
A'A appear in Politics" at Loew's Co.
1umbia. It is heralded as the funniest
and most entertaining production of
these two funmakers to date.
Politics" is Miss Dressler's first pro-
duction since she was awarded star
ring contract, and every attention. 1t Is
said, has been given to insure her a
story that would combine the comedy
of Caught Short" and Reducing" and
the drama and patl1os of Min and Bill"
and Anna Christie"
Miss Dressler as an everyday house.
wife becomes disguised with the local
political situation, decides to run for
oflce herself. throws down the gauntlet
to the local political organization and
declares she, will clean out the gangsters
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PALACE-"Nixht Angel"

PALACE-"Night Angel"
. FANCY CARROLL and Frederic
M March are the stars OF Might
VI Angel" the screen feature now
L current at Loew's Palace Thea
ter and the first Of the Loew'S
,arade of August hits. Edmund Could
ng wrote and directed Might Angel"
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DANCING.

PzEEE9sS ssN sTEUP4FSSsklE sb. S Ssiss
TanGo, Etc Privste lessons b.. appointment
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Vicki Baum Movie Writing
Now.

N1CKI BAUM, author Of the Broad
way stage hit, Grand Hotel" has
arrived in Hollywood to join Para
mounts staff Of film writer's. Her first
assignment will be to prepare a story
for Maurice Chevalier.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-02
Artist of Camera to
Picture Movie Star
Hal PhyGe Will Produce Studies of the Leading
Players-His Probable Value as
Director of Sound Pictures
By Mollie Merrick.

r HOLLYWOOD, Calf. August L.
IL There are many places we may
go with the worlds newest AIT
Il 4 and yet It seems find one Of
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OUT.OF-DOOR RESORTS
River, Bay and Shady Wood
lands Invite to Recreation.
GLEN ECHO PARK

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