Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-28
From the Front Row
Reviews and News of Washington Theaters.

out" at the horse races in Mexico,
now has one Of the most successful
roles since her appearance in the
vehicle which first gained her rec
ignition, 80 Long Lefty"
The play concerns the marital
complications of Sally. Eve, Tom
end Chubby. played by Charlotte
Greenwood, Leila HyaunS. Reginald
Denny and Harry Stubs.
The husbands, Hollywood Million
aires, are putting on an independent
motion picture, and, although they
love their wives, they can still APP
preciate the beauties of the femi-
nine stars in their company.
Sally and Eve get tired OF spend
ing evenings alone and decide to
step out" a bit themselves. They
leave for q few days pleasure trip
to Mexico, and Tom and Chubby,
thinking their wives are safely away,
invite Cleo and Madge to come over
to Toms for a little fun. In the
meantime, Toms and Chubby's law
yer arrives and advises the two men
that they have taken o great risk
in making the independent picture,
and that the only means OF safe
guarding their wealth Is to make 1t
is an assured success. Thinking
the wives will never know, Tom and
Chubby sign the papers and Tom
puts them away In the safe.
Eve and Sally return unexpectedly
and find their husbands disporting
themselves In bathing attire with the
two little movie actresses. Eve goes
to the safe to get her jewels and
finds the papers giving her and Sally
possession of their husbands prop
erty. She takes the papers and de-
parts with Sally for Mexico, leaving
their distracted husbands to discover
their wealth is gone and that they
have been caught in a compromising
situation with the film stars.
In desperation they follow their
wives to Mexico. where Eve and
Sally are freely spending their hus-
bands money on Paul (Clif Ed
wards) and Hal (Kane RichmondD.
The way the husbands induce
their wives to return to them, and
bring back the family fortunes at
the same time. gives rise to one up
roarious complication after the other.
The final penetrating shrek of
the audience comes at the closeout,
when Charlotte Greenwood, her
long. thin torso in ridiculous con-
trast to pudgy. short Harry Stubbs,
rides piggy back" around the SWIM
ming pool with Harry as the piggy.
There is no effort In laughing at,
and with, Stepping Out" one of the
most amusing farces seen in town
for a long time.
The ninth in the series of "Ad-
ventures in Africa" a Graham
McNamee news reel and two short
reel comedies round out an enter
tanning program. G. S. S.
THE Lawyers Secret"
Deserves Its Second Week.
TN The Lawyers Secret" now in
its second prosperous week at the
Columbia, Buddy Rogers grows up.
Forgetting for the nonce his ami
cable expression of boyish enthu-
siasm and his prediction for a new
suit with every new mood, Mr..
Rogers definitely shows that he is
about to become an actor-and a
consistently good one at that
Paramount has concocted in this
neat exposition OF misplaced justice
a drama that is out of the ordinary,
and one that is far above the aver
age of the normal program picture.
With fair amount of sinew and a
100 per cent cast but for Fay Wray,
who somehow doesn't register any
thing at all-the producers and the
director end the entire staff have
done we'll by a film which is short,
intense and lacks nothing but q
punch to a rather tepid ending.
Feminine cohorts throughout the
city should find more than a salts
factory cinematic diet in the album
dance Of "Rumeos" let loose during
these sequences. Besides the ideal
lied Mr. Rogers-whose expression
Of cowardice Is genuine theatrical
iSm-there is the sturdy Give Brook,
handsomely rugged in a stiff
lawyers shirt; with Richard Arlen,
doing excellently in the role of a
sailor who gambled not too wisely
and not too well. For the opposite
sex, the appearance and tie per-
Torrance Of Jean Arthur is especial
ly recommended, as Is the rest Of
1.-THE working out Of the plot being
good to the last drop. E. de S. M.