Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-05
From the Front Row
Reviews and News of Washington s Theaters.

fees, she is forced to forsake her
love for Jack Whiting) and stand
with her father for service in the
French Intelligence, while Jack, mis-
understanding her motives, in des-
peration joins the French Air Force.
His first assignment is to fly mem
Der of the French secret service into
Germany for the purpose of COM
municating with operative Ms.
Having gotten behind the lines the
agent is killed and Ames takes his
commission in hand. Following in
structions to enter the villa If he
hears soft. slow music. he finds MS
is none ether than Madeleine Au-
bert. On his second trip, after his
request that he may become an
agent was granted, he finds the Ger
man intelligence has prepared re-
ception for him and he is unavoid-
ably betrayed by Madeleine. In the
party of German officers Is one Eric
Won Coberg, at one time a tennis
opponent and great friend OF Jack.
berg and a kindly German colonel.
the two have to pay the price of
death. to which they go together
fearlessly.
Man Eaters" the eleventh Of the
Adventures in Africa" series, a
comedy and a Graham McNamee
Universal Newsreel complete the
bill. J. N. H.
"I Take This Woman"
New Feature at Palace.
A DMIRERS of Gary Cooper will
find him with more of tired
look, gaunter, and given less to a
smile, in his new film II Take This
Woman" now current at the Palace.
It is the kind of role, however, a
rough, rugged, rowing role, which al
lows him the meticulous drawl and
the "Virginian" accent which tossed
him so high in cinema favor. which
suits him best, and at yesterdays
first showing the audible signs of
pleasure from the female legions in
Dictated that he was being muchly
appreciated-and how!
Most to be wondered at is how
cadaverous Mr.. Cooper looks in
heavy cotton pajamas and how odd
he looks when he wakes up in the
morning. (The description of this
scene will have to stop here, but it
Is the one which caused the most
murmuringS yesterday He and
Carol Lombard spending a Winter
in the woody west Everything seems
to be West this week around town.
are as strange and handsome a
couple as one will find happily
automatically married anywhere
even though a calf had to come
and live with them and Miss Lom-
bard eventually gave up her hus-
band and ran back home in the
East.
Not much original about this. But
1t Is all done in carefree way
rising neither particularly to one
thing or another. 1t is the old
Great Divide" story of debutante
who married her fathers ranchman
in q romantic moment. and then
had plenty of time to get tired of
him afterwards. In the end, al
though a divorce looms in the off,
ing and although wine, song and
other men come back into her life,
the girl realizes what her man"
means to her. So she follows him
into, the very teeth of a circus,
WoOSAACo AhLi IluC Ill GAClLlDR TO
dec" ride and then, when he takes
a tumble, convinces him that she
would like to nurse him back to
health, happiness and their little
home in the West.
Mr.. Cooper will please the ladies
in this and Miss Lombard, the
conference.-the rest of the actors
being pretty generally dreadful.
On the stage Dave Schooler plays
classical music, with the orchestra
hobbling along in the background;
the Phelps Twins sing prettily and
look even better; the Three Swifts
show you the latest impossible steps.
and the Three Jacks (maybe these
"threes" have been reversed do
about the cleverest juggling ever
seen on these boards. Then there
are 80 young ladies who do a splen-
did dance to When the Night Is
Young" and an assortment of news
reels, etc., to round out the full
two hours siesta. e. de S. M.