Evening star., 1934-06-28
NEW WEEKS
VIDE RANGE
OF PICTURES
James Melton and Will
Mahoney Are Stars of
Stage Programs.


of Broadway characters will
~ inhabit the local motion pic
ture screens in the week be
ginning tomorrow, providing a laugh.
D leer or sob for the asking. Five
Of the downtown cinema houses in
troduce new attractions, while the
sixth brings back that scented bud
of pleasantly improbable romance,
Operator 13."
Joe E. Brown, the cattish-mouth
comedian, appears in a saga OF the
sawdust called Circus Clown" at
Warner Bros Earle, playing the role
of a funny man who becomes In
yolved in some exceptionally complt-
Gated intrigues with lion tanners.
bareback riders and female i'm
personator.
James Melton, the popular radio
tenor, heads a stage bill, Nncluding
Sibyl Bowan, Hollywood impersona-
tor: Madio and Raye. two woolly
Westerners. and Walter Dare Wahl,
the deft Ziegfeld Follies comedian.
Appearing with Joe Brown in the
feature film are Patricia Ellis, who
supplies the heart interest; Donald
Dilloway, Gordon WeStcott and others.
Beguiling Shirley Temple is the out
standing performer of Little Miss
Marker" the cinematized Damon
Runyon story going on view at Loew's
Fox tomorrow. Currently the talk OF
the film world, the child actress offers
more than her share in an imaglna-
tive yarn of a child who became the
adopted and secret idol Of Broad
way mob of bookies, race toutS, boot
leggers and gunner.
On the Fox stage Madcap Will Ma
honey is the headliner of bill num-
bering among its actors
Gertrude NieSSen, radio SongStreSS;
the Three Swifts, comedy juggling
team, and Mann, Robinson and Martin
in a song and dance act complete the
stage bill.
Adolphe Menjou. Charles Bickford
and the late Dorothy Dell we're also
members of the cast in Little Miss
Marker" and a large, exceptionally
well chosen group of supporting play
ers appear in the film.
X K X
THE knights of old and their ladies
come in for round kidding in
the new Bert Wheeler and Robert
Woolsey picture, "Cockeyed Cavaliers, "
the R-K-O Keith feature of the ap-
proa ching week. Aided by that best
of all comedy leading ladies, Thelma
Todd, and other outstanding players,
including Dorothy Lee and Noah
Beery, the new Wheeler -Woolsey
comedy tells of the adventures en-
countered by two vagabonds who be-
come entangled with the beplumed
lords and mobiles of the cavalier era.
1nterspersed among the insane doings
Of the vagabonds are some tunes by
Val Burton and Will Jason.
X * x x
TREATING the detective story as an
adult, well-motivated narrative
form, Dashiell Hammetts "The Thin
Man" comes to Loew's Palace as a
diverting novelty in the line of mys-
terry yarns. William Powell, Myrna
10y and a waggish, wire-haired fox
terrier supply most Of the amusement
and participate in a major portion
of the excitement surrounding an eerie
series of murders. In minor roles
are Nat Pendleton, Maureen O'Sulli-
van, Henry Wadsworth, Minna Com
bell and others.
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THE Broadway boys have an i'm
portant part in He Was Her
Man." the new James, Cagney-Joan
Blondell co-starring vehicle, which be-
gins the week at Warner Bros
Metropolitan. Irish Jimmie is at
tempting to escape a gang he has
double-crossed when he comes across
Mile. Blondell and their fates and
fortunes are tied together. Both Of
them thereupon strike dangerous
channels. but gallant Jimmie even
tually extricates his lady fair from
peril by a courageous gesture. The
Metropolitan not only has the Gus
tomary short subjects and news
reels 10 be seen at the other theaters,
but features an eXtra-length program
of this type.
GARY COOPER and Marion Davies
~ put on the glamorouS garb Of
Civil War days in Operator 49," the
Robert w. Chambers thriller, which
returns for second Washington en-
gagement, appearing this time at
Loew's Columbia. Concerned with
two handsome spies, one a Yankee
and the other Confederate, who fall
in love with each other as any one
might in settings so perfect as those
in Operator 49," the film has war
gayety and tragedy in its content
Ted Healey, Katharine Alexander and
the Four Mills Brothers contribute to
the production their excellent talents
r. B. P, Jr.