Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-09-23

~ KO Keith's Is continuing THE
- Count Of Monte Cristo" for an
additional week. This United
L y Artists perturbation of the
Dumas immortal novel Of ro-
nance and adventure is breaking
records at the Fifteenth street theater.
Robert Donat, English actor, first seen
on American screens as Culpepper,
the lover, in Private Life of Henry
VIII" has emphatically scored as
Edmond Dantes, who later becomes
the Count of Monte Cristo. ELISA
Landi, o. P. Heggie, Sidney Blackmer,
Louis Calhern and all Of the others
of the practically all-star cast are also
being accorded high praise for their
respective performances. The sup
Elementary features of the Keith pro-
gram, the technicolor cartoon, Pastry
town Wedding" with the new issues
of Pathe News, as released, are also
continued.
NICK POWELL, one of the most
popular young stars on the screen
today, is making a personal appear
ance on the stage at Warner Bros.
Earle Theater this week. He headlines
stage program which includes the
Albertina Rasch Girls from Hollywood,
Collins and Peterson. and Ray and
Sunshine. Desirable" new Warner
Bros. picture starring Jean Muir,
George Brent and Verree Teasdale, is
the screen attraction. This is a
stirring romance in which a young
and unsophisticated school girl who
has been kept in seclusion in finishing
school by her mother, a reigning
favorite on the Broadway stage, is
swept off her feet by. the glamor of
the society world with which she
comes in contact for the first time,
but who finally awakens to its shams
and flies to the arms of a man with
whom she had strong friendship, not
realizing she is really in love with
him. George Brent has the role of
the man to whom the girl eventually
turns. Verree Teasdale appears as the
Broadway star, while others in the
cast include John Halliday, Charles
Starrett, Russell Hopton, Joan Wheeler
and Pauline True.
The program is completed by Good
Morning Even" a technicolor short
with Leon Enrol and Maxine Doyle,
latest issue of the news events, and the
Earle Concert Overture with Bert
Granof as vocal Soloist.
DERRY MASON, celebrated criminal
lawyer and shrewd Investigator,
makes his screen debut at Warner
Bros. Metropolitan in The Case of the
Howling Dog" Warner perturbation
of the Liberty Magazine serial by
Erie Stanley Gardner Warren Will
liam and Mary Aston head the cast
in this new production, a murder
mystery drama Of an altogether diff
ferent type. The highlight of this
picture is a spectacular court room
scene in which Mason wins freedom
for his client, b beautiful society
woman accused of numbering her
husband. Two other murders are I'M
covered by the lawyer in building his
case. Warren William has the role of
the noted criminal lawyer and crime
investigator, while Mary Aston plays
the part of the society woman accused
of killing her husband. Helen Tren-
holme, stage star, makes her bow in
pictures with this production. Dorothy
Tree is the States star witness.
The program is completed with
"Paree, Paree," a two-reel Vitaphone
musical comedy featuring Bob Hope
and Dorothy Stone; Little Jack
Little in a Vitaphone Pepper Pot
speciality and IS minutes of world
news events.
X X X X
NORMA sHEARER, Frederic March
and Charles Laughton, three
Academy Award winners for brilliant
acting" are brought together on the
screen for the first time in The Bar
retts of Wimpole Street." now playing
at Loew's Palace Theater. In this love
story Miss Shearer gives considerable
vitality to the role of Elizabeth, the
poetess, who is in love with the poet
Browning. Charles Laughton appears
as the father whose children are shut
OF from happiness and love and are