Evening star., 1932-10-09

production of the play.
The cast is one of unusual merit. II
includes ALA Nazimova, Earle Larlmore,
Henry Travers, Jessie Ralph, Sydney
Greenstreet, Clyde Franklin, Marjorie
Wood, Edward Nannary, Sabene New
mark, Kate Morgan, Beverly Sitgreaves,
Philip Wood and more than 30 others.
LOEW'S FOX-"WiId Girl"
DRESENTING a picture of California
in the DAYS Of the gold rush Wild
Girl" starring Joan Bennett and
Charles Farrell, is the current cinema
offering at Loews Fox Theater. The
stage show is headlined b. Jack Denny
and his radio orchestra. The film IS
the screen adaptation OF Bret Hartes
novel. "Salomy James Kiss.
The cast includes Ralph Bellamy,
Eugene Palette, borrowed from Para
mount for the picture: Minna Gombell,
Irving Pichel and Willard Robertson.
The director was Raoul Walsh.
With the exception of a few brief
sequences made at the studio, nearly
all of the production was filmed in the
giant forest" in Seq':oia National Park
on the slopes of the California Sierras
within e few miles of the locale of
Harte's original story.
Jack DennyS orchestra consists OF
13 musicians and girl featured sing
ers. His routine includes popular mu-
sic and modern arrangements of clas-
sical selections.
Next on the bill are those four COM
edians, Brems, FitZ and the Murphy
brothers. in a straight comedy act OF
nonsense. Frank Conville, the song and
rangement of tunes and taps. Edith
Bow, the party girl" has her songs
and comedy, and the program IS be-
gun with the aerial offerings of Winnie
and Dolly. Phil Lampkin leads the
Loew's Fox Concert Orchestra in an
overture to complete the bill.
PALACE-"Smilin' Through"
NORMA SHEARER, in the romantic
~ picture. "Smilin' Through" with
supporting cast headed by Frederic
March and Leslie Howard, is the screen
offering at LoeW's Palace Theater this
week
In this film Miss Shearer duplicates
the feat of Jane CoWl, who starred in
the original New York stage show. She
portrays both the tragic Moonyen in the
hoopskirted Victorian scenes and Kath-
leen Sheridan in the modern sequences
around which the happier romance of
the tale centerS.
Frederic March, borrowed from Para
mount especially for the part of Jeremy
Wayne; Leslie Howard, Ralph Toroes
and O. P. Heggie, all of whom are head
line performers in their own right, are
in the supporting cast, as are Beryl
Mercer, David Torrence Forester Har-
vey and Margaret Seddon. This is
tro-Goldwyn-Mayer production, di-
rected by Sidney Franklin. The screen
play is by Ernest Vajda and Claudine
West. Donald Ogden Stewart and
James Bernard Fagan handled the dia-
logue.
RIALTO-"An American"
THE spirit of the season is aptly
characterized in "All American"
the foot ball film classic now playing
at the Rialto Theater. Richard Arlen
Russell Mack's direction, by Gloria
Stuart, Andy Devine, James Gleason,
John Darrow, Merna Kennedy and
June Clyde, together with the 1881
All-America foot ball team.
Thirty grid luminaries are in "All
American: Marchmont Schwartz. Chris
eagle, Alhie Booth. Frank Carideo,
Gaius Shaver, Gerald Dalrymple, Tom
Yarr, Clarence Mum, John Orsi, Ernie
Nevers, Ernie Pinckert, Russell Saun-
ders, Lee Hanley and Christy Walsh.
The Rialto, in addition, offers
comedy feature, the last edition of the
Universal News with Graham Nc
Nance and miscellaneous briefer films
to round out the program.
KEITHS-''That's My Boy"
THE current program at R-K-O
Keith's brings to the screen the
foot ball story That's NV Boy" from
the novel of the same title by Francis
Wallace. This is the story of ma
tional foot ball idols trials and tribu-
lations when collegiate commercialism
threatens to bring him eternal dis
grace. Richard Cromwell portrays the
leading role, while Dorothy Jordan Is
his sweetheart and Mae Marsh his
mother.
In addition to the cast, which in
cludes Arthur Stone, Lucien Lttlefield,
Douglas Dumb-ille, group Of gridiron