Evening star., 1933-01-25

ella" who Cares" who Could Ask
for Anything Mere and "Of Thee I
Sing" are the smash hits that have
been whistled everywhere for the past
year.
parachute Jumper"
At the Metropolitan.
COMEDY and romance will share
honors of the special combination
program which will open Friday at
Warner Bros Metropolitan Theater
The major screen Offering will be
Douglas Fairbanks, jr., in First Ma
tionars parachute Jumper" with Bette
Davis. The supplementary screen offer
ing will be Dangerous Females CO.
starring Marie Dressler and Polly
Moran.
Parachute Jumper" tells the story
of two daredevil pilots with the United
States Marines in Nicaragua who cap
ture a whole band of bandits after hGv-
ing been shot down. 1t follows their
adventurous career to New York City
where the hunting experiences OF
the two soldiers of fortune after team
ing up with a wise cracking typist, also
broke and out of a job, provide many
amusing sequences. Besides Fairbanks
and Bette Davis, the cast includes Frank
McHugh, Claire Dodd, Sheila Terry,
Harold Hubert, Thomas E. Jackson and
George Collins.
Hard to Handle With
Cagney at the Earle.
0HARD TO HANDLE" Warner
= Bros. picture, is the screen attrac-
ton of the program which opens Fri
day, at Warner Bros Earle Theater. 1t
marks the return to the screen. after
vacation of seven months, Of James Gag
ney; Helen Kane, the girl who orlgl-
mated baby-talk, and known as the
"Boop-B a-Doop' girl. will headline
the stage portion Of the bill which also
includes the Radio Rogues, Reynolds
and White; De Wolfe, Metcaf and
Ford. and Maxine Doyle.
Hard to Handle" shows Jimmy as a
publicity promoter who starts with a
marathon dance contest in which an
actual dance marathon was used as
background, and ends up with 18-day
diets, a treasure hunt, without treasure,
and two blondes. The pictures wouldn
be complete if Jimmy didn't get his
blondes! Cagneys romantic partner is
Mary Brian and the cast is further en-
hanced by such favorites as Ruth Don
nelly, who shares comedy honors with
Cagney: Allen jenkins, Claire Docd,
Gavin Gordon. Emma Dunn, Robert
McWade and Matt McHugh.
BARRYMORE Film in
Special Opening Friday.
HCINCERITY is the keynote OF act
ing" So declares Lionel Barry
more, in explaining how he evolved his
conception of Rasputin, the Mad Monk
of Russia, whom he enactS in the f1rst
picture in which he, his sister Ethel
and his brother John have appeared
together. This is "Rasputin and the
Empress" a Metro Golywyn- Mayer pic
ture that will have its Washington
premiere at Loew's Columbia Theater
on Friday night.
Study Of history reveals varied views
of the man" says Barrymore. Some
hold he was a scheming trickster, rul-
ing the Russian royal family through
superstition. Others bslieve that he
was simple peasant, hypnotized by a
religious fervor and creed that man
can do anything he desires, be natu-
raj, and then through repentance reach
salvation. That was, of course, Ras-
putin's creed.
II am trying to play him as a SIM
ple man, who despite his sins, his gross
appetites, and his illiteracy, had a con-
slant faith that the Creator answers
prayers, and through this faith was able
to practically hypnotic others to his
belief
Ethel Barrymore, in her first talking
screen role, plays the fanatically re-
ligious Czarina, and John is seen as
Prince Paul, who eventually rids Rus
sia of the Rasputin incumbus. An elab-
crate cast includes Diana Wynyard,
Ralph Morgan, Tad Alexander. Gustav
Won Seyffertitz, Louise Closer Hale,
Brandon Hurst, Reginald Barlow and
many others of note.