Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01

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O " aim peer
through the wheels of a prairie
schooner while Red men attack.
Their owners are an uncouth pair
of ancient scouts. Galloping savages
bent on massacre merely arouse their
sense of humor. Signs of weak de-
lenses In the caravan fail to over
come their hilarious laughter. They
count the foes as the latter are
picked of their horses. Each reg
listers surprise when horseman is
missed Then their incessant fire
puts the Indians to flight, but as
safety is achieved for the fellow
travellers of the wilds, one Of the
pair dies by a shot from renegade,
and the traitor is downed by the
second scouts gun just as an arrow
ends his own life. Typical specimens
fighting and living to the very end.
These two men, made heroic by
the simple joyousness of their daring
careers, are played with the perfec-
ton that is to be expected of Tully
Marshall and Ernest Terrence, but
matching them and holding the chief
place in the cast is Gary Cooper,
experienced player of the frontier
role, and with other good actors,
including the clever Lily Damita,
leading woman, in the large cast, Zane
Grey's Fighting Caravans" is made
impressive in its reproduction Of
days almost forgotten, in the period
Of the Civil War.
The picture has plenty Of action,
with an abundance of riding and
indian strategy, and is worthy of
the place for which 1t is intended
among the few in the broader group
of talking films dealing with the
growth of the Nation. Others In the
cast are Fred Kohler, Eugene Palette,
Roy Stewart, May Boley, James
Farley, James Marcus, Eve South
ern, Donald Mackenzie, Sid SAVIOR,
E. Allyn Warren, Frank Campeau,
Charles Winninger and Frank Hag-
ney.
The high point in the stage show
at the Palace is the acrobatic per-
torrance by the Honey family, in
addition to which JSn Toney and
Peg Leg" Bates contribute to the
program. The Chester Hale Girls
have more than the usual originality
in their costume and dancing num-
bers, winding up with an ensemble
employing drums with good effect,
The news reel adds to the bill.
D. c. @.
Woman Hungry
Featured at the Earle.
"WOMAN HUNGRY" at the
Earle isn't Woman Hungry
at all. It's THE Great Divide" done
to incidental music and a new coat
OF paint by the First National Cor
poration. Lila Lee has been sum-
moned to play the Judith who goes
0lIt IN the Ornaf
comes back SO changed; Sidney
Blackmer is the bad, bad bandit who
reforms and makes everybody hap
Ply, and Fred Kohler and Raymond
Hatton are the two tough guys who
gamble for Miss Lee and lose.
Just what Mr.. Moody would have
thought OF his classic being called
Woman Hungry" would possibly be
not so hard to say. Surely, If he
had been in the theater yesterday
and seen the wee, small credit that
he got for writing this and the
large adaptation label that went
with it, he would have risen in his
wrath and played Indian all over
the place. Taking scales here and
there wouldn't, however, have pre-
thus 1t went on yesterday as it will
for the rest of the week-just plain
Woman Hungry"
There is very little that is differ
ent from the stage version in tlNs,
except the rather nice settifss
which must have been ION location"
The ending has also been changed
TO shift the scenery O bit more
Taken all for all, 1t is an uninspired
version of this great favorite which
was said to have set up such a
precedent for shocking in by-gone
days, and it is notable in spots only
for being workmanlike reproduc-
ton of its ancestor. Miss Lee seems
not by any means the best Of the
Judiths, nor Mr.. Blackmer of the
Brants. In fact, the cast, as every
thing else, is adequate but not any
great shakes"
The stage show, introduced by
Miss Doyle in a new thank you"
green dress, includes those deserved
ly popular troupers. Eva Puck and
Sammy White-one of the 56
stars" of "Show Boat"-in a very
amusing skit of the bustle-and-
whisker days; Gracella and Theo-
dore, dancers, quite superlatiVe in
two dance creations" and the
five Jonsley-Risley experts, who got
as much applause as anA one.
z. de- 8. Melcher.