Evening star., 1934-04-19

"HE new weeks entertainment
calendar Is of more than usual
interest. This is due to the
4 National Theater's winding up
its New York to- Washington
season with Theater Guild offering.
an event unparalleled in this city's
annals; to the sudden arrival of Miss
Hepburn over the equally sudden de-
parture of Catherine" (who did not
do so well by half as the R-K-O
chiefs predicted); to the return of
Night; to the whoops and cat-calls
of maestro TarZan this time with
mate), and to one or two other things
which are not necessarily headlines.
The following is brief recounting
of what you may see that is new
today and tomorrow in the film houses
and Monday at the Legitimate"
tbeaters:
sNATIONAL-"J Saw" This is
Dawn Powell comedy. in which the
ebullient Spring Byington plays
lively widow and in which Ernest
Truck. not seen locally for a season
or two. helps to make matters worse.
The scene is a fashionable Fifth ave-
nue hotel suite. The plot How to
make your shady friends seem re-
spectacle. Time: The present. And
the Theater Guild cast includes Cora
Witherspoon Elliot Cabot, Gertrude
Flynn, Shepperd Strudwick and others
BELASCO-"The Second Man"
This will be presented by the Wee and
Leventhal firm instead of Big
Hearted Herbert" as previously an
nounced. inaSmuch as the latter had
a 14-year-old boy in the cast who. of
course. is not allowed to appear on
the stage locally. The Behrman
comedy will be played here by Bert
Lytell Tone time star of Brothers
and by Lora Baxter whom We re-
member rather pleasantly in the New
York cast of The Animal Kingdom"
RIALTO-Lew Ayres and Patricia
Ellis will appear today at this theater
in Let's Be Ritzy" a comedy of
small town folk who have sudden
yearning to be elegant. The cast
also includes Frank McHugh Ia grand
funny NAM. Isabel Powell, Burton
Churchill, Hedda Hopper and Betty
LaWford.
PALACE-"Tarzan and His Mate"
We've told you already that there
are II major thrills in this There
are also IT minor ones. Since the
last Tarzan film Maureen O'Sullivan
has fattened up a bit and Johnny
Weissmuller has learned a couple Of
Tho rnSl1lt iS htOhlu
satisfactory. Go as a child and
you'll have swell time.
EARLE-This theater is not only
pleased to present Bebe Daniels and
Lyle Talbot in Registered Nurse" mot
q, sequel to Men in White, but also
a reissue of one of Joe Penner's pop
ular screen comedies. The stage
show will be headed by Grace Hayes
and also includes that Ray Huling
Seal. arrangements are being made
for Miss Seal to have tea with Mary,
The hippo appearing at the Palace.
some afternoonD
R-K-O KEITHS+Hepburn in Spit
Are That's all the posters say.
That's all anybody should have to
saw. II you like Hepburn you'll go.
II you don't like Hepburn you'll go
anyway.
LOEW'S FOX-"Good Dame" with
Sylvia Sidney and Frederic March.
Sounds very unlike them both. But
we shall see what We shall see. Both
Of them are particularly
March-and so was Miss Sidney until
she became broken blossom in
Butterfly" The stage show will offer
Spices Of 1894" with a fan dancer,
ct al. And Phil Lampkin (whO We
saw heading for the tennis courts
this morning at SOD will have one
Of his better overtureS.
COLUMBIA-Return engagement Of
'Riptide" with Norma Shearer. Robert
Montgomery, and best of all, Herbert
Marshall.
METROPOLITAN Our favorite
film. 1t Happened One Night" with
Colbert and Gable coming back to
town with flags flying under the War
ner Bros. banner