Evening star., 1933-07-13
Picture Fare
Good, Puppet
Show Strong
Week New Offerings
at Local Theaters
Are Announced.
"PICCOLI" AMONG
HITS OF SEASON
Wess, Harding, Cagney and
Francis Are Names
on List.
BY E. DE S. MELCHER.

THIS is a gala picture week in
tCWn-What with La West, dla-
monds ct al, returning TO the
1 Metropolitan in hat FoWery
sizzler, She Done Him Wrong"
Ann Harding featured at kelth'S WIN
William Powell in Double Harness,
Jimmie Cagney making screen come
back in The Mayor Of He'll and lNd, Kay
Francis, Cne of the screens 1Oc' per
cent beauties, gracing the screen OF
LceWS Palace.
Other than that, the theater's most
exciting event Of the new week (Which
starts tOmCrrOWl is the appearance at
IOeW's Fox of The Piccoi,' one of the
seasons well deserved hits. Washing
tonians will recall that fashionable
Theater Guild patrons paid many odd
dollars to see this attraction when I'M
preSSari- HurCk first brought It 10
Broadway. Manhattan. in fact, took to
it with gusto. Less popular Gn num-
bcrS only was its reception here at
the Nationa.-although every person
who went to see came away Charmed
with its freshness and originality.
You will want to see this Variety
Show" It has everything that q regu-
lar stage show has. If you sit far
enough back-be sure net to get nearer
than the tenth rCW-you will never be
able to tell that this is machine
made show. run by man. The puppets
90 not merely wiggle, and bow and
scrape and bust each other ever the
head They are SO per cent human
and. bat for the fact that their enc
tiCnS are not deep, you would swear
that you might encounter any Of them
along Piccadilly, the Champs Elysee,
Fifth avenue or the Bronx.
h~OirVirC tomorrow
the local picture houses include the
following:
LOEW'S FOX-"The Man Who
Dared" This is a front page headline"
story. with Preston Foster and Zlta
C'TCmorrcw ard Tomorrow Johann
in the leading roles-plus plump little
Joan Marsh. The stage show, as men
toned at some length above, is the ex-
cel.ent "Piccoli."
EARLE-"The Mayor CT He'll" James
Cagney appears in this as ward
politician with soft heart. He is sup
ported by baauteous Madge Evans and
by a yCulg man named frankie Darro,
who is said almost TO steal the picture
from Mr.. C2gney. On the stage you
will find one of Washingtons favorite
com dams. Joe Ponner, as well as the
popular Pickens Sisters, Carl Shaw and
the Three Emerald Sisters. IoOkS like
good cid sisters week.
METROFOLITAN-"She Done Him
Wrong We have to put this one near
the top irGSmuCh as its one of favorlte
films. Its a revival you know of the
Mae West clasSic-in which Miss West
speaks sCme of the screen Shakespeare
OF the yea: Be sure rot to miss it. It's
tCugh. rough and rosy-but the kind of
a 1!lm that won't really shock either
grandma or greatgrandma-and we'll
bet that grandpa goes again and again
and again.
R-K-O KEITH H'S-'Double Harness. y
Anything that Ann Harding does is apt
to be good. This is her latest-and
Keiths gets it a moon or SO ahead of
the other theatcrs. William Powell pays
opposite Miss Harding-Gnd the COM
bnatiCn is said to be worth writing
hone about. Haven't seen it yet-but
rUmO- has it that it's swell.
PALACE-"Dawn at Daybreak" is
the new offering at this theater. Don't
know much about it except that Kay
Francis. rare and talented, dark-eyed
temptresS, plays the leading role-wh.le
Nils Asther and Walter Huston lend
her Their usual capable support. An
exc -pti0nalIy strong cast also includes
P-l4ipS Holmes. Jean Parker. Eugene
Pa c.,c and Louise Closer Hale.
CCLUMBIA-1f you wait till Monday
yell Sc Eide Cantor in 'Whoopee"
at his thcatCr Until then It's Great
to &c Alive" is holding forth there.
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