Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-24
Photoplay Attractions

machine-gun type, "Donovan's Kid" is
said to be a fascinating human story
of gang leader who on the death of a
pal was left a 7-year-old waif to foster
and decides to "go straight.
Marion Shilling, daughter Of Stage
| Director Edward Shilling and who has
several screen successes to her credit,
has the leading feminine role. Frank
Sheridan, a stage veteran OF so years;
Boris Karloff, Fred Kelsey and Bob
WILDER are others in the cast. Fred
Niblo was the director.
Additional attractions include an
R-K-O Pathe two-reel comedy, Twisted
Tails; screen snapshots, Aesop's fables
| and the R-K-O Pathe News.
RIALTO-"FIeIl Bound"
UHELL BOUND" a James Cruze
= = production, this weeks attraction
at the Rialto Theater, is described as
another "gangste- story with an unusual
angle" IT introduces a new type gang
leader-a sentimentaliSt-and a fast
moving melodrama with smashing
climax.
Leo Carrillo as the gang leader loves
the girl who falls into his care when
she is mistaken for a wounded girl
killer. She proves to be a chorus girl,
falls so in love with her that he dares
to hope to go straight and live a quiet
life in the country with her as his wife
But there Is a gang war on.
Lola Lane, the girl, sweetly sympa-
thetic and lovely. sings tuneful song
Lloyd Hughes is the doctor who is
forced at the point of gun to attend
the girl and then falls in love with
her. Ralph Ince plays the rival-gang-
n ID
Tucker, Gertrude Aston, William Law
renee, Marty Faust, Harry Strang and
Helene Chadwick. Walter Lang di-
rected the picture, an adaptation by
Julian JoSephson of the story "Plati-
num-" by Edward Deal Sullivan and
Adele Comandini
Short reels and a comedy, Otto F.
Beck at the organ and Graham Nc
Nance announcing the Universal News
Reel complete the program.
PALACE-"Ladies' Man"
WILLIAM POWELL and Kay Fran
els are seen this week at Loew's
Palace Theater in a screen romance
titled Ladies Man." the tale Of suave
cosmopolite whom the moneyed ladies
Of New York are mad about"
and when many of the cid men of the
town are mad about'-kut in a differ
ent sense. It is Powell's way with the
ladies" which causes the jealousy
among New York's elite which even
tually brings disaster to the fortunes of
cool and calculating hero-villain. AS
the favorite of the daughters of wealth,
Powell, who neither works, sells bonds,
nor has an independent income, gets
ahead in life by accepting gifts from
his admirlng female friends
OF the three more important women
who fall in love with him, there is one.
Kay Francis, whom he himself loves,
and 1t is her arrival on the scene which
calls for the danger signal The de
nouement is a fight for life between
Powell and a husband.
On the stage Bobby Grice headlines
the show composed of So young ladies
in "An All-Girl Revue"
EARLE-"The Maltese Falcon"
THE Earle Theater is now offering
what its management announces rs
one OF its finest stage and screen pro-
grams for some time. Bebe Daniels and
Ricardo Cortez are co-featured in
THE Maltese Falcon" Warner Bros.
Vttaphone picture, while the stage pro-
gram is headlined by Uncle" Joe
Laurie, jr., assisted by a company of
capable artists.
"The Maltese Falcon" concerns the
amazing Miss Wonderly, an adventures
who uses all the wfles known to femi-
ninity to lure different men who are try
to find out whether she is or is not
the head of the most bathing crime
gang known to the police. The clever
star Bebe Daniels is able to keep her
identity secret until the final fadeout
The picture is an adaptation of a story
by Dashiell Hanmett, who for years was
Pinkerton detective. In support of
Bebe Daniels are Ricardo Cortez Dud-
ley Digges, Una Merkel, Robert Elliott,
Thelma TODD, Otto Matiesen, Oscar
APPEL. Dwight Frye, Walter Long. Agos-
tino Borgato and j. Farrell Macdonald.
On the stage a fine program is head
lined by the famous Uncle Joe Laurie,
IT., and company of six in new offer
ing, RELATIVELY" The acrobatic dane
ing comedian, Maurice Colleano, and
his family; Vernon Rathburn, billed as
THE Paderewski of the Saxophone,"
and quintet in Eli Elmer. a comical
offering, with Fred Clarke's Earle Or
chestra music and short reel subjects,
complete the bill.