Evening star., 1933-11-05

"HE National Theater Is hold1ng
over the film play Dinner at
Eight for second week. with
performances slated today for
2:45. 6 and 8:45 tonight, TINS
all-star production will continue to De
shown twice daily thereafter at 2;4o
and 8:45. All seats are reserved.
In the pictures cast are Marie Dress
Ter. John Barrymore. Wallace Beery,
Jean Harlow. Lionel Barrymore. Lee
Tracy, Edmund Lowe, Billie Burke
Madge Evans. Karen Morley, Jean Her
sholt, Phillips Holmes, Louise Closer
Hale and May Robson.
Herman J. MankieWicz and Frances
Marion adapted the play for screen
purposes and the noted humorist.
Donald Ogden Stewart, spiced the play
with added dialogue. George Cukor, one
of the outstanding young directors, dl-
rected 1t.
BROADWAY and Harlem, two OF the
ID Nations most colorful sectors. pro-
vide stage and screen entertainment
currently for patrons Of LoeW's FOX
Theater. The Fox screen graphically
discloses in broadway Through Key
hole" a musical drama of the main
stem, with a cast OF celebr1tles ora"n
from the stage, screen and radio ana
from Harlem's hOt-bed OF entertain
ment comes the original Cotton Cluo
Revue with so gifted sepia artists NIL
ing the Fox stage with a scintlllatlngs
presentation of the stormy Weather
revue. Adelaide Hail. the Grooming
maid who made such a phenomenal hit
as the star of "Blackbirds. and George
Dewey Washington, outstanding Negro
baritone are the principals in the cast.
Constance Cummings, Russ Columbo,
Texas Guinan, Blossom Sceley, Francis
williams Abe Lyman and his band
Paul Kelly, Gregory ItatOf, Eddie F'oy,
IT.. are the leading members of the
cast of Broadway Through a Keyhole." "
MAE WEST. screendom's current SEN
W sation continues at Loew's Palace
Theater. where the record breaking Il m
No Angel" is being held over for a
second week,
The story was written by the Cur
yacious" blond herself, and was di-
rected by Wesley Ruggles. In the cast.
tall. dark and handsome" sweetheart
to whose charm and avowal OF love she
eventually succumbs. Kent Taylor, Ed
ward Arnold. Dorothy Peterson, Nat
Pendleton, Walter Walker, Gregory
Ratof, Ralf Harolde. Irving Pichel and
the new DEAL lady of the screen.
XXIARNER BROS Metropolitan Thea
w ter is currently offering "Footlight
Parade" Ruby Keeler Dick Powell and
,Tames Cagney head the cast OF stars.
Inis new and mammoth spectacle is
said to surpass its predecessors in the
originality and beauty of its ensembles,
its songs and its romantic love interest.
"Footlight Parade" tells the story Of a
young musical comedy director who
loses his job when talking pictures sup
plant musicals on the stage and turns
to making prologues for motion pic
ture theaters on a large scale. TWO Of
the big surprises in this vast production
are the singing and dancing of James
Cagney, who really started his career
as a hoofer. Four gigantic musical
numbers are staged by Busby Berkeley.
The outstanding song numbers are
Honeymoon HOTEL Shanghai Lii
"Ey A Waterfall" Sitting On Back
yard Fence" and "Ah, the Moon Is
Here" Besides the four stars the cast
includes Claire Dodd, Hugh Herbert,
Frank McHugh, Guy Kibbee, Ruth
Donnelly, Arthur Hohl, Phillip Faver-
sham and scores of others.
THE screens pictorial recreation Of
the "livest mile on the face of
the globe" which animates all Of those
rugged personalities of turbulent era,