Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-02
From the Front .ROw
Reviews and News Of Washington Theaters.

for some time Q not too funny
foil for Miss DresSler--suddcnly
emerged ~ the ideal SISTER of mirth,"
and the happy choice of blubbering
Roscoe Ates as the third partner OF
the team, makes the combination
irresistible. Mr.. Ates. sleeping In an
incubator" Is Q riot, 50 Is Miss
DressleH in almost any moment. and
the sudden clubbing OF Miss Moran
when Hattie" has become Mayor
as the Commissioner of Garbage"
Is one of those things that should
linger long In the Summers laughter.
There's no use describing this, It's
all good. Particularly the scenes thaE
echo the "Lysistrata" theme.
E. de S. MELCHER.
Misses Fazenda and Oliver
In Comedy ut Earle.
UEAMILY week." now being held
= at the Earle Theater, in which
the management promised land the
promise Is fulfllled) entertainment
for the entire family brings to the
screen one new comedy team, Louise
Fazenda and Edna Mae Oliver; and
one which should 60 on working to-
gether Observation-Disclosures Green,
Jackie Scarf and Bruce Line,
1O-year-old newcomer to the Green
Scarf combination. Newly Rich"
based on the story, Lets Play
scenario full of humor and wit and
q thorough understanding of chill
dren.
With Louise Fazenda's return to
the screen after q short absence
comes that tittering laugh so prev
alent in her earlier talkie roles,
and, as for Edna Mae Oliver. every
one knows how many films she has
taken from under the stars lately.
Here is amusement in plenty for
the older folk. But 1t seems that
the little stars simply walk away
with the honors. And SO they
should. for the story is one revolv-
ing around hampered lives of three
famous children, one o king, the
others movie stars
Maddehed by the audacious re-
turn Of Louise Fazenda with her
son, Jackie Scarf, who has become
famous In the movies, and the way
Louise Fazenda high-hats her,
Edna Mae Oliver becomes deter
mined TO have her daughter star
also in the movies. So of to Holly
wood, where after much pushing
and shouting on the part of her
mother come to no results, little
MitM takes things in her own hands
and drives a truck across the lot
playing havoc with all the scenery
and ends with q bang) on the lot
where Jackie is making a picture.
She is then discovered by the direc-
tor. At FIRST the two are co-Starred,
at ~sNv- leo
throat cutting between Fazenda and
Oliver, MitSi is pushed TO the front.
To cope with this, Jackie's mother
announces she is going to London
to visit the Queen of Slovaria, and
her 9-year-old son Max. the King.
Touched This was too much for the
Oliver side, so Mitzi is whisked away
to London, too.
Once In London, both factions try
TO crash the Royal Suite with no
success. But Mitzi, seeing the King
on the fire escape and wanting
some one 70 play with. speaks, and
in q few moments they are fast
friends. All the while MitZi believed
Max was a bellhop, but, after COM
par.son Of their troubles and finding
them to be the same, always guarded
and never able to play like the other
kids, they decide to run away.
Jackie overhears them plotting and
threatens to tell II they do not take
him along.
On their way to nowhere, they
meet q gang Of tough kids who live
down by the wharf, and. after q
night, they join their forces. Along
about night all become homesick and
are ready to 60 home. Kidnapers
have recognized Jackie, however,
and hold him for ransom. Max and
Mitzi try to rescue him, but are cap
tured, too. Max escapes and gives
the secret call Of the gang. Kids
by the thousands pour onto the
docks and the rufnans are bested.
AL 60 back to their respective lives
and the King at last has had his
ardent wish. A wart appears on his
finger.
The Family Week" idea is
further carried out in the stage
show. A variety of entertainment
headed by Gautiers' Animated Toy
Shop Is presented. Keep your eye
on the little dog dressed in clothes
In the FIRST act. He is almost hu-
man as he climbs astride the
wooden hobby-horse Maxine Doyle
is mistress of ceremonies, and the
Forum Boys, fine quartet of voices,
and a song and dance travesty
featuring Roy and Romero complete
the vaudeville. j. N. H.
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