Evening star., 1934-03-25

a I this week presents Jimmy
wv Cagney's newest laugh hit,
Jimmy the Gent" as the
screen comedy romance
which concerns two crooks who are
both trying to expose the other to i'm
press the girl they love. Bette Davis
is the feminine lead opposite Cagney
and the girl over whom both Cagney
and Alan Dnehart battle. Alice
White. Allen Jenkins and Mayo
Methot are said to supply much of the
comedy element although the fast
talking and fast acting Jimmy always
turns up with his share. Other prom
inent members of the cast include
Arthur Hohl. Phillip Reed, Hobart
Cavanaugh. Mayo Methot, Ralfe Har-
olde, Philip Faversham and Nora
Lane.
The stage portion of the bill is
headed by Lee Sims and Ilomay
Bailey. radio song and piano team,
making their first Washington stage
appearance IN an offering entitled
Modern Song Presentations. Otner
acts are A. Robins, the walking music
store; Sidney Page and his Pages
OF Fun" and the Six Danwil,s, Ring
ling Bros circus stars.
Specially selected short subjects, the
newsreel and the Earle Orchestral
prelude complete the bill.
~ Owe BIRDS" now playing at
the Rialto Theater, r~esents Slim
Summerville and Zasu Pitts as its
stars. Authored by Clarence Marks
and Dale Van Every, Love Birds was
brought to the screen under the di-
rection of William Setter, who
screened the production after a film
treatment of the story by Doris
Anderson. The cast that supports
Mr.. Summerville and Miss Pitts in
cludes Frederick Burton, Mickey
Rooney, Emmett Vogan, Dorothy
Christy, Maude Eburne, Hugh En-
field. Arthur Stone, Ethel Mandell,
Gertrude Short. Clarence w. Wilson
and John T. Murray. The Rialto
Theater has surrounded this feature
with number of shorter screen nov
elites and the latest Universal News
with Graham McNamee as the talk
ing reporter.
7 OEW'S PALACE THEATER is cur
rently presenting Eskimo Wife
Traders" a Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer
production that was two years in the
making. Based on the novel by Peter
Freuchen, it was directed by w. S.
Van Dyka. 1t is a thrilling saga of a
strange people and tells the gripping,
poignant and thoroughly human story
of a native, who, robbed of the love
Of the wife he loves by white man,
goes out to seek vengeance. An all
native cast is featured.
News events. a comedy and short
subjects are added.
"CALLANT LADY" with Harding
portraying a splendid role in
a picture that offers a poignantly ap-
pealing and dramatic story is the
current screen attraction at Loew's.
Columbia Theater. The story deals
with beautiful young woman who is
forced to give up her child at birth,
and agree never to see it again. As
the years pass she becomes phenom-
enally successful in business, and, at
the height of her fame accidentally
meets the child whom she had counted
lost to her.
Miss Harding's cast includes Give
Brook, Tullio Carminati, Otto Kruger
and Dickie Moore.
WARNER BROS METROPOLI-
w TAN is currently presenting an
other of its popular 2la-hour shows.
he-feature of the program is "Once
to Every Woman" starring Ralph
Beliamy and Fay Wray, a screen YER
sion of A. j. Cronin's Kaleidoscope
in x" which appeared as a novelette,
in a magazine last year. Those who
are. familiar with the story will re-
member how the lives of some dozen
persons became fatefully enmeshed
in the love affair of a beautiful and
highly talented young woman. Fea-
tured in the large cast with Miss Wray
are Walter Byron, Mary Carlisle,
Walter Connolly, Kathrin Glare Ward
j. Farrell Macdonald and Rebecca
Wassam.
The short subject program consists
Of Is minutes of newsreels, depicting
the worlds latest news events; a
novelty reel, Society Cheaters," star
ring the wizards of bridge, Mr.. and
Nzs. Ely Culbertson: Broadway