Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25

The picture was directed by JOSEF
Won Sternberg, one of Paramount's most
capable directors, who went to Germany
to make this picture for the German
Morocco" the Hollywood success in
which Miss Dietrich played the FEM
mime lead.
1.-THE Blue Angel" is a picture, it is
said. to be best described as soul
searching drama that will be talked
about long after its last tense scene
fades from the screen"
On the stage the Fanchon & Marco
Idea Is built around the beautiful melo-
dies of Americas own composer, Victor
Herbert. The cast includes Buddy
Howe, Walter Powell, the Electric Duo
the Victor Herbert Trio and the Ernest
Belcher Dancers.
Bob West offers song fest at the
organ, and the Fox Music Masters
under Brusiloff, with the Fox Movietone
News and short comedy, will complete
the program.
RIALTO-"The Birth Of a Nation"
AN interesting event took place wher
1.-THE Birth of Nation" which In
sound effect form is now being shown
at the Rialto Theater, was ready for its
1t was in the form of a reunion Of
David w. Griffith and nine members oil
the original cast which filmed THE
Birth Of a Nation" 16 years ago. Mr.
Grifith was host and the occasion oil
the strange gathering of film celebrities
Of a bygone day was to celebrate the
rebirth of this famous masterpiece into
sound and music.
Mr. Grifflth told of his hardshipS ir
financing the great production, in which
$4,000 people and 5000 horses tool
part, and which had been witnessed
since by 55,o00,000 people in every STATE
and country on earth. Mr.. Griffith paid q
high tribute to Henry B. Walthall
whom he called the greatest Juvenile
star ever discovered by the camera.
The producer introduced the follow
ing members of the historic cast MAJ
Marsh, the little sister: Mary Alden
the mulatto girl; Donald Crisp, Gen
Grant; Henry B. Walthall, the little
colonel Spottiswood Aitken, Col. Cam.
ercn; Joseph Henabery, Abraham Lin.
coin; Walter Lang, Gus, the colorec
soldier; Ralph Lewis, the elder stone
man, and Tom Wilson, who played
many colored roles.
The only absentee of the star mem.
berS of the original cast were Lillian
Gish, who is playing on the stage In
New York, and wallace Reed and
George Seigman, now dead.
R-K-O KEITH'S-"The Gang Buster
WITH Jack Oakie's wisecracks per-
w meating the action, the patrons Of
R-K-O Keiths theater are being re-
called with THE Gang Buster smart
crack at American gangdom in which
the contagious comic of Sap From
Syracuse" and 1.-THE Social Lion" lets
loose innumerable laughs.
THE Gang Buster" turns big city
racketeering into a joyous jamboree Of
laugh moments, and swirls the big-guns
Of the underworld around pretty little
romance that manages to fight its way
out of series of breath-taking action
scenes. Jean Arthur is the sweetheart
of Americas Joy-Friend" in THE
Gang Buster" and William Boyd, re-
Gently seen with Gary Cooper in THE
Spoilers" George Bancroft in "Derelict'
in the chief menace role and Francis
Macdonald, the suave, likable villain Of
many successful hits, in another menace
part are features of the cast
In 1.-THE Gang Buster" Oakie is in
troduced as a cock-Sure small town in
surance agent transferred to large city
because Of his boosted ability to get
business" His insurance selling is
handicapped, however, by the activities
of the gangsters who put all his clients
ION the spot" Bewildered, Oakie
stumbles into, a hotbed of gangdom