Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-12
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girl who has to choose between her boss,
with love in the ONCE, or q poor clerk,
who offers her nothing but marriage.
Frederic March is the employer and
Monroe Owsley the clerk. The produc-
ton is said to offer an entirely new
slant on the question of love and mar
riage. Some critics who have seen the
picture describe it as one Of the most
vital, gripping dramas the screen has
yet offered. For comedy relief Charles
| Ruggles and Ginger Rogers have been
Included in the cast that also presents
| Avinne Taylor, Pat O'Brien and Janet
| McLeay.
On the Palace stage Bert Frohman
holds sway in a unit titled "On Your
Toes" which features a number OF nov
city acts and comedians.
FOX-"NIen on Call"
Tue to the grand opera performances
starting Tuesday, the Fox Theater
announces the following program for
today and tomorrow:
Edmund Lowe will be seen in Men
on Call" a picture somewhat different
from his "Cock-Eyed World" and What
Price Glory?" However, it gives the
star a chance to deliver terse, robust
dialogue
It is the story Of a man who stiles
his love for a woman because he mis-
takingly believes her guilty of an earlier
indiscretion. His own chum then falls
in love with her, and then the hero
discovers that his suspicious of her are
not justified.
On the stage will be Fanchon g.
Marcos "Enchantment" idea, featuring
Oriental specialties, including Jue Fong,
distinguished Chinese tenor; the Three
Mevakos, Sensational Togo; Jack
Lester, said to be the originator of triple
rhythm; Sanay and company and 16
Sunkist Beauties.
As a special added attraction the
famous George Washington University
Gles Club will sing. Last year it won
first intercollegiate honors in competi-
ton with university glee clubs from
nearly all parts of the country. The
club consists of 80 members, and is
directed by DR.. Robert H. Harmon.
COLUMBIA-"City Lights"
CHARLIE CHAPLINs great picture,
~ "City Lights" will continue at
Loew's Columbia for another week
Upon the assumption that truly great
productions advertise themselves, the
advance notices for "City Lights" ap-
pear extremely modest.
All the world knows that Charlie
Chaplin, the master pantomimist Of the
screen, doesn't talk in his pictures.
Rather he prefers to let them talk
themselves in a silent language that
never fails to reach everybody who
might be interested by spoken words.
Despite the adverse opinion of appar-
emily the remainder of the entire film
producing world, Charlie sticks to this
notion and critics are approving his
judgment.
But the great pantomimist has not
chosen to rely alone upon silence and
his own drawing powers. Virginia
Cherrill, his new leading woman, con-
City Lights" and Harry Meyers, as
the eccentric millionaire, with the star
easily keeps the merriment alive.
city Lights" is q picture that is not
to be missed, II one likes pictures at all.
METRoPoLITAN-"TOO Young to
Marry"
0TOO YOUNG TO MARRY" q
comedy romance concerning q
girl who has to fight her entire family
before she can win the man she loves,
is the current screen feature, for the
first time in Washington, at Warmers
metropolitan 4AledCcIs AOLctbA 4Ouu6
has the leading role
This First National and Vitaphone
romance concerns the adventure Of an
impetuous girl and laundering boy in
their fight for happiness. 1t is said to
contain romance, drama and pathos.
The girl who lis too young to marry"
succeeds in doing so while her mother
is at the movies and her father a DIT the
worse as a result of clandestine visit
to the lodge. Grant Withers Is the
husky young lover. The supporting
cast includes o. P. Heggie, Emma Dunn,
j. Farrell Macdonald, Lloyd Neal,
Richard Tucker, Virginia Sale, Alleen
Carlisle and others.
I'm Conference" an Educational COM
edy; the Vitaphone short subject,
Girls We Remember" and the Graham
McNamee Talking News Reel complete
the entertainment.