Evening star., 1933-01-29
NATIONAL-"Of Thee I Sing"

~)F THEE I SING" with its
~ original cast, featuring VIII
liam Gaxton, Lois Moran
~ and Victor Moore, comes to
the National Theater for an
engagement of one week, starting To-Day.
In sending "Of Thee Sing to visit
the leading cities of the East, MIR. Harris
has introduced another innovation in
road tours in that not a single change
has been made in the New York cast,
which, in addition to William GaXton,
as the dashing president Of the United
States; Lois Moran, as the petite Mary
Turner, who becomes the Presidents S
wife under amusing circumstances, and
Victor Moore, as the wistful Vice Prest-
dent. with the name no one can re-
member, includes Grace Brinkley,
Dudley Clements, June O'Dea, Florenz
Ames, Sam Mann, Edward Robbins.
George Murphy, Harold Moffet, George
E. Mack, Ralph Riggs, all aided and
abetted by splendid singing and dane
ing chorus.
GAYETY-"Tom and Jerri Girls"
TERRI McCAULEY will be welcomed
- home ior an extended engagement
today by Manager Jimmy Lake when
she returns to the Gayety Theater with
her Tom and Jerri Girls" Miss Nc
Cauley has Just closed an engagement
lesque theaters of the Middle West and
is returning to Washington, the scene
Of her greatest success. An al-neW
cast of well-known artists, in an all-new
show, will support this popular star,
among whom will be found Gladys
Clark. Sid Gold, Rose Marie, Nora Sui
livan. Jimmy Dugan. Bob Sardbers.
Sam Raynor and Birnbo Davis.
New and beautiful scenic and e.ectri-
cal effects Will be introduced. Monday
is gift night. wednesday is money night
and Friday is amateur night every week
at the Gayety Theater.
PALACE-"The Kid From Spain"
HTHE KID FROM SPAIN Eddie
Cantor's third starring vehicle
for Samuel Goldwyn, is now the feature
attraction at Loews Palace Theater.
This is Eddie's annual screen song
and-dance comedy. 1t is the story OF
a button-eyed lad, who, getting kicked
out of school with his roommate, gets
involved in a bank robbery and escapes
to Mexico disguised as a prominent
bullfghter, there accepting the acclaim
due to the man he is imperSonatlng
until forced to go into real bullf1ght.
The story itself is Eddies own idea,
but its elaboration was done by Mr.
Goldwyn. He brought in William
Anthony Mcclure. Bert Kalmar and
Harry Ruby TO write the book and
music.
There are three distinct divisions in
that cast. LYDIA Roberti, electric Broad
way comedienne, plays opposite Cantor
Ruth Hall and Robert Young are the
ND he vii
john MILAN, Carol Naish, Noah Beery
and Stanley Fields. There's a fourth
division, too. this being Sidney Franklin,
world-famed bullflghter. who portrays
the role of Sidney Franklin. world
famed bullfghter.
R-K-O KEITHS-"The Big Drive"
"THE BIG DRIVE" currently show
ing at R-K-O Keith's, rolls back
the years and reveals, for the first time,
the true story of the great conflict of
all time, the World War. Assembled
and compiled by Albert L. Rule, The
Big Drive" is a complete history Of the
World War culled from the secret
archives of eight of the warning nations,
these including both the allied nations
and the central powers.
The motion picture is unusual in that
it is, instead, stark reality. No par
ticular hero is high-lighted. 1t is rather
the story of all the heroes of all nations
The Big Drive" is synchroniZed with
descriptive lecture by Mr. Rule, who
presents the feature without any at
tempt to add to or take away anything
from the impression it may leave with
those who view this is a straight
away account of great world happen
ing photographed on the field of action
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Jumper
For the current week Warner Bros.
Metropolitan Theater presents a
combination thrill and laugh program
The major screen offering is First Ma
tionals parachute Jumper with
Douglas Fairbanks, jr., and Bette Davis
in the featured roles. Marie Dressler
and Polly Moran, two of the screens
most popular condolences, arg seen in
the complimentary feature, Danger
GUS Females HILARIOUS laugh-maker,
cause of its popularity.
Parachute Jumper" is a comedy
romance punctuated with thrilling air
scenes. 1t tells the story of two dare
devil pilots with the United States Ma
rines, in Nicaragua, who capture a
whole band Of bandits after having
been shot down. 1t follows their ad-
venturous career to New York City,
where the job-hunting experiences of
the two soldiers Of fortune, after team
ing up with wise-cracking typist, also
broke and out CT a job, provide many
amusing sequences, which are replete
with thrills. Besides Fairbanks and
Bette Davis the cast includes Claire
Dodd, Sheila Terry. Harold Huber,
Thomas E. Jackson and George Collins
The program is completed by the new
issue o. the Paramount Sound News.
EARLE-"Ha-d to Handle"
JAMES CAGNEY returns to the screen
- this week at Warner Bros. Earle
Theater in Hard to Handle" Warner
Bros. comedy romance. This is said
to be one of the freshest. breeziest love
romances of the screen. 1t shows Jimmy
as a publicity promoter who starts with
a marathon dance contest in which an
actual dance marathon was used as a
background, and ends up with 18-day
diets, treasure hunt-without treasure
and two blondes. Cagney's romantic
partner is Mary Brian and the cast is
further enhanced by Ruth Donnelly,
with Allen jenkins, Claire Dodd. Gavin
. Gordon. Emma Dunn, Robert McWade
and Matt McHugh.
The stage portion of the program
also serves to welcome back another
star. in the person of Helen Kane, the
original op-Boor-a-DooD girl. She