Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-29
PALACE-a1ts a Wise Child"


MARION DAVIES newest picture,
tits Wise Child" now at Loews
Palace Theater, is said to be the most
mirth-provoking picture of this popular
stars career.
tits Wise Child" was purchased for
Miss Davies use because film executives
believed that this long-run Broadway
stage hit would provide the screen star
with an ideal film story. After the pur-
chase Of the stage play, Laurence E.
johnson, author of the play, was en-
gagged to prepare the cinema adaptation.
ITS a Wise Child" was a David
BelaSco stage production and a stand
out hit during its engagement at the
BelaSco Theater in New York. This
story Of the embarrassing effects caused
by gossip in small town has been
praised by dramatic critics as one of
the best farce comedies of the theater
Those who have seen the picture de-
clare that it is even funnier.
Miss Davies was directed by Robert
q. Leonard. who directed THE Bachelor
Father" Sidney Blackmer, James
Gleason and Lester VaY. all of whom
won recognition on the legitimate stage,
are in the cast.
On the Palace stage Ted Lewis. the
Negotiated tragedian Of song, holds
forth with his musical clowns In a spe-
c1al revue that includes speciality artists
OF all sorts whose names are well known
in the vaudeville world.
FOX-"The Conuuering Horde"
"THE CONQUERING HORDE" Pa
ramounts picture story of men
without law. Of the days when carpet
baggers infested and almost seized con-
M Ia l., Al.
Fox Theatre. Emerson Hough, author
OF THE Covered Wagon" wrote it.
In 1t thousands of cattle thunder
across the screen. Six-guns, flashing
at a word, bark spasmodically through
conflict that marches through the
story. Richard Arlen and Fay Wray,
enemies through force of circumstance,
find themselves drawn into one Of the
most touching Of love stories.
Fay Wray, as the owner of a great
herd OF Texas longhorns, is fleeing be-
fore the marauders of the plains, and
yet rejects the help of the man she
loves because she belives he is a traitor,
not only to her native South, but to
herself. Out of this misunderstanding
Is woven a story that continually
strengthens in dramatic power against
reckless, melodramatic background.
Claude Gillingwater, Ian MacLaren and
James Durkin are also in the cast.
Contrasting sharply with this pic
ture Is the Fanchon g. Marco, "Way
Back When" idea. Bicycles, bustles,
hoop skirts, and other things remin-
1scent of the kerosene lamp days reap
pear in brilliant and humorous satire.
Bob Hamilton and Bobby Rollins.
and BruSiloff'S Music Masters enter
tanning from the pit, are other features.
R-K-O KEITHS-"LONELY WIVES"
p-K-O KEITHS THEATER this week
offers Pathe's Lonely Wives" a
screen adaptation of an A. H Wood
stage success, which is described as a
sophisticated and screamingly funny
farce comedy.
A tangled plot is said to evolve one
humorous situation after another in
such quick succession that laughter is
breath-taking, with dialogue that fairly
Sparkles, and an all-star cast, includ-
ing Edward Everett Horton, Laura La
Plante, Patsy Ruth Miller and Esther
RalSton. Maude Eburn, as the stern
mother in-law, and Spencer Charters,
as the bibulous butler, round out the
cast
The story revolves about the dual
personality Of a staid and conservative
lawyer by day, who blooms" and be-
comes a gay Romeo at night. Remark
able photography and double exposures
are said almost to mystify the audience.
The program also includes the second
of the Johnny Farrell golf series, in
which "slow motion" shows how a
champion can place his shots and gives
Johnny'S comments as pointers for all
golfers whose form will stand improve