Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-06

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actors and actresses
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pronounced it one Adelaide Hibbard.
of the funniest
plays on the boards.
Nancy Sheridan and Stanley Ridges
win have the two outstanding roles,
but It falls to the lot Of Mrs. Hibbaro
to play the prize character role of the
play-that of the "old dowager," re-
tired actress, who watches her youngs-
tiers capture all the glory OF the stage.
Clifford Brooke, the director, because
Of his close association with the people
portrayed in this living drama. has pre-
pared a stage version OF The Royal
Family" that Is thought to equal the
original production.
Matinees will be given on wednesday
and Saturday.
Jimmy Lakes Show
Coming to the Gayety.
NEXT week Jimmy Lakes Black
and White Review will be seen at
the Gayety It IS heralded as super
production of the first magnitude, con-
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among them Johanna Slade and Jackie
Teeters, soubrettes and Miks Sacks and
Fred Binder, comedians of recognized
merit. Tuneful numbers that are new,
fiashy costumes that catch and hold
the eye, and Jimmy Lake himself Will
drop his role Of manager for the time
being, and resume that OF the actor.
TalIuIah Bankhead
In "Tarnished Lady" Friday.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD, the daugh-
= ter Of Alabamas senator-elect and
granddaughter Of q former United
States Senator from the same State,
will make her screen debut In Wash
ington Friday, when "Tarnished Lady"
comes to the Fox Theater.
Miss Bankhead is heralded as one
of the most important screen "discov-
toast of London during the past few
years she has spent on the English
This picture, made by Paramount
from q story expressly written for
Miss Bankhead by Donald Ogden Stew
art, Is said to display her dramatic
power and personal charm to a rare
degree. Opposite her In the. cast is
Give Brook. one Of the ablest Of
leading men. Other important stage
figures appear In the cast, including
Phoebe Foster, lately with Billie Burke
In THE Truth Game; Osgood Perkins,
featured currently in New York in THE
wiser They Are; Alexander Kirkland
Of the Theater Guild. and Elizabeth
Patterson
on the stage win be- Fanchon and
Marcos Moonlight Revels" idea, with
Joe Weston and Collette Lyons, musical
comedy and recording artists; Charles
Brugge, the three Melvin brothers,
Freda Sullivan, Curry and Brown,
Pierce and Lazelle and the Sunlcst En-
semble. Bob Hamilton will have an
other Of his organ novelties. which are
becoming quite popular, and Brusilof's
for special overture.
Palace
"Shipmates," Saturday.
"SHPMATEs." q Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer production, will be the fea-
ture picture at Loew's Palace Theater,
beginning next Saturday.
Robert Montgomery has found his
way to stardom after a meteoric rise
that began two years ago, and in
"Shpmates" he has the part of COB
who falls IN love with the admirals
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from South America. His rival is an
odncer in the service. and when the
two meet aboard, many things hap
pen.
The cast includes many well known
actors, among them Ernest Terrence,
Dorothy Jordan, Hobart Bosworth
Hedda Hopper and Edward Nugent.
On the stage Loew's new vaudeville
revue will hold sway. It comprises sew
eral Of the better known Loew acts.
"GOd's Gift to Women"
At Metropolitan Saturday.
GOODS GIFT TO WOMEN" a War
ner Bros. and Vitaphone comedy,
featuring Frank Fay as a modern Don
Juan of Paris, Will be the screen attrac-
ton at Warner Bros. Metropolitan The
alter for four days. starting Saturday
and continuing through Tuesday night
In this production Frank Fay IS sup
ported by Laura La Plante, Joan Blon-
dell, Louise Brooks, Yola D'Avril, Mar
garet Livingston. and the famous Sisters
@, as well as Charles Winninger Arthur
Edmund Carewe, Alan Mowbray Billy
House, Armand Kaliz and Douglas Ger
rard.
Frank Fay Is seen as a rich young
man about Paris. in love with all wom-
en- in general and a dozen or so in
particular. Many of the most capt.
waiting beauties OF the talkies provide
the suave gallant with the excitement
that he Graves. Fickleness Is, Of course.
trait Of this latest Of Don Juans, and
though ma'mselleS by the score do
battle for him, his heart Is set on win
ming Diane, an American girl whom he
has espied in 1azZy cafe.
short subject program Will in
clude the third Of series Of "Adven-
lures in Africa" Vitaphone Short Sub
jects filmed in the jungles Of Africa;
a new Vitaphone short featuring the
female star Of Fifty Million French
men" Helen Broderick, titled The
Spirit Of Seventy-sixth Street" and the
Graham McNamee News Reel.
Public Enemy
Coming to Earle, Saturday.
WARNER BROTHERS and Vita
w phones latest release, THE Pub
lie Enemy" will be the featured screen
subject Of next weeks program at
Warner Bros Earle Theater, starting
Saturday. A snappy stage show head
ed by Bob Hope and his Antics Of 1881
Is promised also.
THE Public Enemy is described as a
realistic picture Of gangland but the
type Of picture which hits at the senti-
mental preachy racketeer pictures, in
which the "moll' usually saves the day
for justice and humanity. The film
begins In the days of 1909. There is
history In 1t, too. The very beginnings
Of the beer racket are detailed. Those
who know their post-VolStead Chicago
history, It Is said, will Immediately rec
ognize In the characters Of Tom Pow
ers and Matt Doyle the well known
Chicago underworld figures OF Frankie
Lake and Terry Druggan, who operated
the first breweries and beer trucks after
prohibition.