Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19
Marion Davies Latest
Featured at Columbia.

UEIvE AND TEN" at Loew's Co
Il lumbia this week. is an exam
pie of the virtues and the errata Hoi-
iywood can inject into a popular
tale.
On the side of pleasantly, the jo-
cose ouips of Leslie Howard, and
that esteemed actors poised charm
contribute immensely. Richard Ben
nett and Irene Rich-the latter with
a trivial exception-perform ably as
the parents of daughter and son
whose fortunes are the primary In
tereSts of the audience. while Marion
Davies. technically the star of the
production. pouts industriously and
is effective SometimeS-and some
times not.
The narrative of Five and Ten"
concerns the daughter of a chain
store magnate who, having come TO
New York from Kansas City, finds
the reputed cream of the city ex-
tremely Jealous of their hardearned
social prestige, and prepared to dis
miss her with the horrifying epithet
"nouVeau richie.
Despite liberal contributions to all
the charitable funds and an eager
willingness to play the game as or
dered. she is generally snubbed by
one and alb except the gallant Mr..
HoWard-who is a genteel WaStrel
and engaged to the most objection
able young lady in his set" Indeed
one is rather puzzled that he should
disoWn his love, Jenny Rarick-or
Miss Davies. if you will-for a mere
breach of confidence embarrassing
though it waS). when his fiancee.
known to him for years, obviously
possessed a character not Of the MIC
est sort.
Nevertheless. for the sake of the
plot this does take place. Berry, the
hero, casts off his true love and
obligingly marries his aff1anced.
Thereafter he regrets this inept bit
of Justice, and the plot involves it
self in the necessary complications
and final happy solution-for the
lovers.
For others in Jenny Rarick's fam
lily, the ending is not SO jolly. Avery,
her brother, we'll played by Kent
Douglass, becomes so overweight
because his mother attempts escape
from her busineSS-ridden household
into the arms of young mustachioed
Lothario, and at the prospect Of his
sister making similar Sub-rosa
flight with Berry, that he hires
plane and suddenly pulls it into
power dive by the use of the dual
control stick. Result, death of
Avery.
This death provokes most Of the
doubtful items in the story. At his
death bed he mutters some lines
about looking for his mother down
by the willows''-mother at that time
being on her way to join her gigolo
for European jaunt-and his moth
er is properly recalled just in time
TO save herself from ruin.
The next sequence after the Death of
Avery depicts the Rarick family as
they. embark for a European vaca-
ton. jovially joined together as the
deceased Avery had wished.
A Laurel and Hardy comedy and
the Paramount newsreel also are Of
fered on the program. II. B. P.
Girl Habit
Opens at Metropolitan.
CHARLIE RUGGLES' rise to stel-
~ lar heights in Girl Habit" the
new film at the Metropolitan, Is a
good deal less than satisfactory. A
genuine comedian in roles which,
by way Of contrast, jump from the
sublime to the ridiculous, he is sud
denly forced to assume the entire
burden Of consistent humor in film
which is notable for being humor-
less. He energies with somewhat Of
the aspect of a drowning man