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Evening star., 1934-03-24
DIVERS TALE
is MATERIAL
IN FOX FILM
Edmund LO,re and
McLaglen Share
Play HOnOrs.

ONE type Of entertainment which
" arouses its own particular re-
sponse from an audience is that Of
presenting couple of familiar
motion picture faces in an unaccus-
toned roughness of setting. The film
at the Fox Theater. NO More Wom-
en-" enables Edmund Lowe and Vic
tor McLaglen to give their versions of
deep-sea divers in a love rivalry which
involves a rapid succession of violent
incidents.
Those who have seen the two actors
in immaculate attire. with appropri-
ate gestures, are likely to find much
to interest them in the new roles. 1t
is difficult to forget that they have
been different, and could still be
different but for the requirements
of the studio. yet their work under
new circumstances has quality. and
reveals versatility Mr. Lowe is the
deep-sea diver with poise. and Mr..
McLaglen upholds the requirements
of the ocean life, while maintaining
his capacity for action that carries
weight.
Routine in the diving business Of
fers much variety for the embellish-
ment of a tale, and when these two
characters employ the direct action
that is appropriate to a pair Of hard
workers in the physical realm. there
is some peril, with plenty of real
conflict. The play is made piece
of realism through the introduction
of all the mechanism of divers. it has
the salt air of the coastwise world, and
it takes a natural attraction from the
scenes of a search for treasure, and
examples of treachery below the sur
face.
The stage performance at the Fox
is headed by pretentious and at
tractive act provided by Phil Spitalny
and his big group of women musicians.
The leader is we'll equipped for his
part in a very musicianly and varied
assortment of numbers. in which. in
addition to the orchestral numbers
played, several soloists in song and
violin are introduced. and also are
presented in groups, with vocal and
instrumental skill The act is new
and is worth seeing.
Other features on the stage pro-
gram include Pete, the intelligent dog
of Our Gang" comedies, which has
a good collection of tricks that are
the more appreciated because the ami
NAL is so well known to the average
audience; the three Slate Brothers,
who are expert dancers and mix their
performance with comedy, and Lee
Murray and the Sinclair Twins, who
are song-and- dance performers, and
Introduce a well arranged piece of
skill, which is accelerated by pre-
tended intoXication.
Phil Lampkin and his orchestra
celebrate the third anniversary of the
popular leaders introduction to Wash
ington, with repetition of one of his
special successes. ID. C. C.
Evening star., 1934-03-24
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time Of Showing.

Belasco-Jacqueline Logan in Three
and One at 2:3o and $50 pm.
NationalHJane Cowl in Sweet Bells
tangled" at 23O and $50 pm.
PaIace-"Eskimo Wife Traders" al
11:l5 am, l:50, 4;25, Z and 935 pm
Rialto-"Love Birds" at 1882 am.
1:16, 3. 4:44. 6:28. 8:12 and 9:56 pm
Fox-"No More Women" at 1890
a m. 1:15, 400 7:25 and 1910 pm
Stage shows at 1905, $40, 6:l5 and
9:05 pm.
Gayety-"H Hollywood Babies at IL
noon, 2:l5 and 8:l5 pm.
Columbia-"G Gallant Lady" at 1920
IN, 1:25, 3:3O,. $50, 1885 and 9:35
pm.
MetropoIitan-"Once to Every Wom-
an" at 1906, 2;35, ), 7:25 and $50
pm.
R-K-O Keith's-"It Happened One
Night" at 1l:15 am, 1:l8, 3:21, 5:24
1927 and $50 pm.
Earle" Jimmy the Gent" at 1915
am, 1890. $50, $40, 7:45 and 1905
pm. Stage shows at ll;40 am, 2,
AIS, 6:55 and 9:l5 pm.
TivoIi-"Lone Cowboy" at 2. 4,
sos, 7:50 and $40 pm.
Ambassador-"So of the Desert,
at 2, 4:10, $40, ano $50 pm.
Evening star., 1934-03-24
RECITAL OF
DE Blu SS Y'S
COMPOSITIONS
FelidnGarzid
Program Before
Arts Club.
BY ALICE EVERSMAN.

A rare insight into the delicate
beauties of Debussy was afforded the
appreciative audience which gathered
last evening for Felian Garzia'S piano
recital of that masters works at the
Arts Club. Mr.. Garzia's informal
manner of giving this recital at once
established the intimate mood where
in Debussy is best presented. slight
Introductory remark, sometimes a re-
lating of personal impressions OF Sit
uations which fitted in with the COM
position to be played, was made by
Mr.. Garzia before each number in
such a fashion that the listener was
transported into the atmosphere most
appropriate for the understanding Of
the composition.
There is no better means OF de-
velopment for musician than 10
study the delicate, illusive moods OF
Debussy. A painter in sounds. he
understands the expressive color OF
single notes as well as a harmonic
combination of original import. The
Interpretation of his music calls into
play the superfine sensibilities of an
artist and touches the opposite eX-
treme of the spectrum of piano color.
The customary method OF effect is
valuelesS in Debussy and the inter-
prefer must seek out and feel with
the subtle inferences he conveys.
Mr.. Garzia showed last evening that
he could commune with DebuSSy on
an equal plain. He understood and
shared the fantasy of the composer
and united to this fraternal feeling
a true gift for mechanical nuance. He
brought out the shadowy pictures De-
busy has sketched into the open with
the proper light at the proper mo-
ment never disturbing the grace and
impresSloniSm that was the essence
of the composition. Thus the deli
cately woven pattern of the two Ara
besques," the quiet color of Clair de
Lune." the faraWay bells and organ
music of the Cathedral engloutie,
the gay variety of the "Danse" and
Ministries" and the water life of
"Poissons dor" and "Ref1ets dams
Teau" were stressed with sensitive
perception.
It was beautiful picture Of De-
busy that Mr.. Garzia presented in a
program which contained his often
heard but rarely understood compost
tions. The audience. completely i'm
mersed in the atmosphere created,
Nv
responded with two encores. the de-
lighttul "Gollywog's Cakewalk' and
1.-THE Little Shepherd"
Evening star., 1934-03-24
Cagney Reveals Old Racket
In Film, Jimmie the Gent
Tells How Clever Manipulators
Get Cash With Ancient Scheme Davis
Plays Opposite the Star at Earle.

Mr.. Cagney walks off with first honors
in both competitions. To accomplish
this he gets free a murderer, who is
to inherit 100000. by having him
marry the States chief witness, and
then he uses his part of the inherit
ance money, a 100000 check, to un-
mask the oily Mr. Wallingham as an
out-and-out thief.
In supporting roles are Alice White
as giddy-heaoed miss and Allen Jen-
kins as the right-hand man of Mr..
Cagney who takes all the knocks.
The stage show features Lee Sims
and Ilomay Bailey, radio piano and
song team. in their first stage appear
ance in Washington. Miss Bailey has
a good voice and Mr. Sims has very
talented fingers. but. notwithstanding
other arguments against the use of
microphones on the stage, their act
should include a mike" because her
voice barely carries to the first row
of the balcony. Their rendition of
Ravel's "Bolero" is worth hearing.
even without the microphone.
The Six Danwills, European aero
bats. rush through a series OF amazing
somerSaults. Abe Robins, the walking
music store, pulls everything but the
kitchen sink out of a trick coat, and
Sidney Page carries on with a trio
of stooges.
A Vitaphone comedy featuring Ben
Blue. a cartoon featuring THE Man
On the Flying Trapeze." a Universal
news reel and the Earle Orchestra
overture playing medley of popular
musical comedy tunes completes the
bill. NJ. w. B.
Evening star., 1934-03-24
DRAMA GUILD PRESENTS
PLAY BY LAZL0 F0D0R
II Love an Actress" Is Well Done
by Large Cast of Wash
ington Amateurs.

George was splendid. At least that
is the impression he left with many
as he raced through the four acts of
Lazlo Fodor's spicy and interesting
Il Love an Actress" last night, at the
tiny Wardman Park Theater.
George is the hero of i Love an
Actress" which is the fourth play of
the season given by the Drama Guild
of Washington. Otherwise, and in
private life, George is Marvin Beers.
young and talented actor of the guild.
Eva Sander, in private life, is Vir-
ginia Rand. but on the stage she is
the personification of how a young
and lovely actress should act when
pursued by an impetuous and un-
dauntable young man she finds she
likes more than she should.
Last nights performance Of this
comedy was as good as the play itself
is risque, and all it should have been
when led by such an able couple as
the above. Nor were they the only
able actors in the cast. supported as
they were by Grace Peters Johnson.
who wears a wig very becomingly and
whose Caroline could not be dispensed
with; Ruth Parrott. who does not
need a wig for the role of Marianne,
and Harold Weinberger. who is always
good, with or without his newly ac-
quired mustache.
If, by any chance, you should hap
pen to be at the Wardman Park
Theater tonight, some time along in
the fourth act you should meet that
venerable local actor, Frank Jameson,
in the guise of a nervous professor
who does not like to ride trains. His
CONSERVATION about them is one of
the delights of the evening. Others
in the cast include Martha Fisher,
Ruth Lewis. Ruth Hartrick. Helen
Connell Pearl Weinberger, Wayne L.
Brown, Allan c. Minnix, Aldrich
Hambleton, John l.. Stewart, Herbert
Eby, Betty Sleeper, Virginia Dyer.
Esther Cloyd, Roy D. Bateman,
Howard Frederick, Augusta Machen,
Jeanne Bateman, Thomas Cahill,
James o. Porter. Eugene F. Smith,
Florence SHADING, Eleanor Cham
bers, Eldred Wilson, Kent Dyer, Ben
ton Brooks and Willie Allgood.
Special mention should be made OF
the scenery designed by Ruth A.
Lewis and her staff of artists, and the
costumes by Dorothy Croissant.
J. N. H.
Evening star., 1934-03-24
ARTS CLUB RECITAL.

Mary liant Couch gave the last of
a series of Adventures in Music" last
evening in the women's City Club.
when she was assisted by Marcel
Ancher, 'cellist of the National SYM
phony Orchestra. The music room Of
the club was well filled with interested
listeners and the program lasted about
an hour. Mrs. Couch gave short
talk on Brahms. spoke of his personal
appearance, touched briefly on his
background and read interesting pass
ages from the recent biographical VOL
ume. The Unknown Brahms
Mr. Ancher and Mrs. Couch then
played Brahms "E Minor Sonata" the
three movements given without inter-
ruption. Mr.. Ancher, who is a COM
parative newcomer in Washington,
has been heard several times in re-
cent weeks, always playing with
rich warm tone and showing an ample
technic. Mrs. Couch also plays with
generous warm tone and has a clear.
crisp, almost sparkling technic. Her
work in the piano part of the sonata
was exceptionally good.
Mrs. Couch made a plea to those
in the audience for aid toward the
maintenance of the National SYM
phony Orchestra. for which a drive
will open Sunday for the completion
of the guarantee fund. Mr.. Ancher
closed the program with the playing
of two compositions by Edward Pop
per. "A Serenade" and "Gavotte." in
which he was accompanied by Mrs.
Couch.
After the program Mrs. Couch and
Mr. Ancher held an informal recep-
ton for those in the small company.
K. B.
Evening star., 1934-03-24
DRAMA FOUND
IN OPERATION
At HOSPITAL
Ralph Bellan,ya and
FayWrayPlayat
Metropolitan.

CENTIMENT which takes It's force
- from the excellent acting of Fay
Wray and Ralph Bellamy permeates
the play, "Once to Every Woman"
which is presented at the Metropolitan
Theater. Without seeing this strong
drama. the average theatergoer might
doubt that a moving production could
be built about the routine of hospi-
tai. but this has been achieved with
much credit to the featured members
of the cast Both of them have ap-
peared with some distinction in other
motion pictures. but in the present
offering Miss Wray maintains a fine
reputation, while Mr.. Bellamy has
probably his best piece of work in a
fairly large number of movie appear
ances.
Patients in one of the wards of an
institution are seen in action, with
more or less comedy to tighten the
play, while the operating room is fur
nished with a gallery from which the
hero of the story is seen in the act Of
performing in way that brings fame
in the surgical world Sincerity to
high degree is characteristic Of the
leading roles, kind which is hard to
produce in the films. and there is
surging influence which touches the
minds of onlookers as the younger
surgeon violates the rules. pushes his
superior aside and saves life which
he knew to be doomed unless he
changed the course of events.
The Metropolitan also presents a
series of attractive short films. one of
the most interesting of which is a
miniature play dealing with cheaters
in bridge, conducted by Mr.. and Mrs.
Culbertson. 1t has dramatic force,
and introduces the playing of prob
lem in cards in such way that the
expert can follow the successive steps.
Another interesting film deals with
Jerusalem. the Holy City, with special
attention to the Easter ceremonies of
the Greek Church. 1t is one of the
Newman musical journeys, and shows
a long succession of events involving
the big crowds that assemble on such
occasions. The Vincent Lopez Or
chestra plays the Sky Ride" and
Stormy Weather" with striking ef-
fects. and Gribbon and Sweet present
long comedy which abounds in their
type of vigorous humor. The news
reel also has its special features for
the week ID. C. c.
Evening star., 1934-03-24

Director >. .. van Dgke tOoh lwo
wears to make this film. He did it
apparently in good faith, moved by
story he had read of the Esk mos, and
fortunately being able to find Ma!a,
the hunter, young Eskimo who be-
haves himself before the camera as
though he had bounced into its very
teeth at birth.
Mala, who speaks no English, and
Is understood only by John Lee
Mahin's subtitles, is responsible IN
great part for the pictures success.
Whether he is throwing a harpoon
into the toughened hide of North
land trader. thus avenging the death
of his young wife, or whether he Is
strangling a wolf with his two bare
hands. or singing his little prayer to
the high heavens by doing nice little
Eskimo Jig, he is curlouSly unaHecueo
and easy in his actions, and you would
swear that the last thing in the back
of his mind was that he was making
this for the cinema.
WHILE, dramatically speaking, the
w picture does not attain the
heights which perhaps it should, there
being many instances when it seems
to get its second wind and start all
over again, it is nevertheless done IN
the grand pictorial manner and is
often sincerely human and appealing.
We give you as evidence of this
Mala's entrances and exits into his
igloos, when his young family clusters
around him, and when. after his first
wife dies. he asks simply and pathetl-
cally, "Why?" These brief, almost
monosyllablic expressions of grief,
which are about all these Eskimos
seem to be able to express, are Curl
ously enough more effective so far as
the spectator is concerned than many
Ruth Chatterton's cloudbursts. And
when Mala. as a prisoner of the white
men. lies chained to the wall in his
two-b -four prison and fights long
fight ridding himself of his shackles,
Evening star., 1934-03-24

in the curriculum. Imagine the en-
barraSsment Of all concerned in max
ing her stardom complete to find local
columns featuring little jibes almost
daily about her meetings with juve-
nile player whose prediction for the
little ingenue is giving his wife some
very, very bad moments.
Action will undoubtedly take place
In the first case sooner than in the
second. The first lady involved has
survived couple of divorces and kept
her popularity intact. But the per-
petual ingenue can't pull another
divorce court appearance-having sur
vived one as the outraged wife-with-
out suffering the loss of her follow
ing When careers and life romances
conflict there is a great to-do.
w. G. Fields, that comedian with
deep philosophic vein running beneath
his humor, is going on into bigger and
better things with every picture. His
own life story, Grease Paint" will
soon be made with Fields in the prin-
cipal role And I understand he is
to be intrusted with some ambitious
ventures during the coming year.
Copyright 1884. BY the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc1
Evening star., 1934-03-24
HIGH SCHOOL PLAYERS
IN A ROMANTIC DRAMA
Students of Eastern Stage "Come
Out of the Kitchen" Story
of Uir0iy,ia

of Virginia.
The Eastern High School Dramatic
Players added another success to their
list of productions last night with the
presentation of A. E. Thomas ro-
mantle love tale of the South. Come
Out of the Kitchen" AS its name sug-
gests, however, it was not without
hun1or, which proved quite pleasing
to the near-capacity audience.
The roles of Paul, Charles, Eliza
beth and Olivia Dangerield, played
by Robert Duke, Richard Murphy,
Lois Ernest and Margaret Myers, re-
spectively, were performed smoothly,
and with the audience as judge, in
very entertaining style. Frances
Blatt. as Amanda, Dwight Brown as
Randolph Weeks. Charles Collingwood
as Burton Crane, Mildred Hearne as
Mrs. Falkener, Ida Minovich as Cora
Falkener, Harold Greenberg as Scion
Tucker and Charles Grunwell as
Thomas Lefferts, did equally as well in
cOIiSlueIdllOll VI lAlC OPPOA SSAAtSJ -
fered by their roles.
The three-act presentation, staged
at the Dangerfield Mansion in Vir-
ginia, had attractive props and fur
nishings. Particularly pleasing was
the dining room scene, in which the
student players discuss the interesting
topic of the day. Mixed with its
mirth and love angle, the production.
done in excellent style, proved very
entertaining and was received well
by the audience.
Miss Glen I. Orr, assisted by Miss
Florence Murray, directed the per-
formance Ruth Dorsey and Jane
Castell assisted in the properties ar
rangement. The Central High School
Orchestra played the accompanying
music. A repetition of the play will
be staged tonight at 8 o'clock in the
school auditorium. w. E. P.
Evening star., 1934-03-24

n reveals several nice scars
wv on the back of his head
and the same rapid-fire
line of slang, James Gag
ney plays another tough guy part in
Jimmie the Gent" the Warner
Bros film that is holding forth
this week at the Earle. In it the star
demonstrates the ins and outs Of a
racket. known as heir-chasing.
Heir-chasing consists of hunting
down lost heirs to inherit unclaimed
estates, with the catch being that the
chaser gets one-half of the estate
And to provide a field for this new
racket. you are supposed to under
stand that there are a large number
of rich men dying every day whose
heirs cannot be located other than
by chiseling genealogists, such as Mr..
Cagney and Alan Dinehart portray in
the movie.
If one will discount the questionable
plauSibility of this inheritance racket
as movie plot. and again if one gets
tired of Mr.. Cagney's Brooklyn Eng
lish and will concentrate on pretty
Bette Davis, who is mixed up in this
shady business as the smart secretary
of ultra-refined heir-chaser James
Wallingham ALAN DineharU and as
the inspiration for Mr.. Cagney to be
gent" there is enough action and
comedy in the show to warrant being
entertained by 1t.
The story has to deal with the cut
throat competition waged between
Wallingham and Jimmy Corrigan
James Cagney) in the heir-restoring
racket and in winning the affection
of Miss Davis. AS is to be presumed,
Evening star., 1934-03-24
TECH CLUE PRESENTS
OPERA "GONDOLIERS"
Young Singers Handle Gilbert
and Sullivan Compositions
in Fine Style.

Gilbert and Sullivan'S operetta,
THE Gondoliers," chosen by the Tech
Opera Club of the Mckinley Techni-
cal High School for their annual
Spring presentation, had its initial
showing last night before a large and
appreciatlve audience in the schools
auditorium.
The production, which tells the
story of lost king in the days OF
1850, is decidedly credit to its direc-
tor and to the opera club as well. The
players were we'll selected and cast.
The singers carried the performance
through in smooth style. Adding
largely to the success of the produc-
tion was the elaborate costumes and
setting.
The dramatic portrayals were all
done in excellent style, the audience
showing particular approval OF the
Spanish dancers. Encores were fire.
quent throughout the performance,
one of which was extended Esther
Galbraith, as the Duchess of Plaza
Toro. Herbert Staiger, as the duke of
the same province, and Richard Hill
der were also received with enthu-
siasm. Others having ma or roles
were Frank Numbers, Marvin Fisher,
Robert Kinney, Harry Pitzer. Henry
Herbert, Charles Dondero, Robert RI
coosin, Eugene Schiavone, Winitred
Bowman, Mildred Carson, E.eanor
Gallogly, jeanette Cough, Marie Bur-
ton, Adeline Mercer and Grace Lowell.
Through the complicated arrange
ment of the program the names OF
the players, except in a very few cases,
could not be determined. Therefore,
without naming the players, the right
fully born King of Barataria, his
chosen love, and the two gondolier
kings, are TO be congratulated for
their performances.
Credit for the success of the pro-
duction should also be extended to
Jessie Gearing and Dorothy Cain Tor
their managerial endeavors. Mrs. Coe.
Mrs. Rush, Miss Bailey and their CO.
workers. The play will be repeated
tonight at 8 o'clock. P. N. J.
Evening star., 1934-03-24

it is all you can do to bear with him
in his struggles, so strong is his will
and so true his bitterness which has
arisen out of the broken promises OF
his gaoleIS.
Malas history through all this is
the history of the Indian and of all
primitive tribes who have been over
ridden by what is called civilization.
Whether for good or for bad, you can
not but help sympathize with the
weaker element and be sad when
simple virtue is rewarded with mis-
understanding and cruelty.
WE DON'T know where Mala
Sprang from, or where he is now,
but we do know that he is a better
Eskimo than was Frances Lederer,
known on two continents as an ace
matinee idol, and one who recently
did as well as he could, with Man OF
Two Worlds" Mala is very much
man of a single world. We hope he's
still up there, unspoiled by the Cana
dian Mounted Police and pursuing
those caribou and fish with the might
that has made him famous. We hope
that little Iva, his second wife is there.
too, and that his first wife didn't real
ly get killed. They are all very swell
Eskimos. and the kind that you would
be delighted to meet if you went up
north on a visit.
II you are patient and are able to
spend almost two hours watching
them in this simple chronicle of cour-
age and faith and occasionally out
rageous disaster, you will be rewarded
by some extremely beautiful photog-
raphy and some very easy acting by
Mr.. Mala. 1t isn't the sort of thing to
go to as a brief afternoons frolic. 1t
takes certain amount of fortitude.
But in the long run, and 1t is long
run. you will have seen something
that you will want to remember, and
becomes acquainted with the chivalry
of a people whose habits and codes
you have perhaps wondered and Won
dered about.
Evening star., 1934-03-24
DURANTE EN- ROUTE.

Jimmy Durante. owner of the most
famous "schnozzle" in history and the
screens new passion exponent, has
been booked for a week of personal
appearances on the stage of Loew's
Fox Theater starting Friday, April 6.
Durante is now playing his second
week at the Capitol Theater in New
York where box Office records are said
to be toppling daily. His latest screen
appearance is in George Whites
Scandals" which opens this coming
Friday at the Fox.
Washington, according TO the wire
sent Carter Barron. Loew's city man
booking, will be one of the very few
cities to be so favored.