Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-01-28

YOEL EDWARDS Design for
N Living" with starring trium-
VI virate of FTedric March, Gary
/ Y Cooper and Miriam Hopkins, is
currently holding the screen
spotlight at LoeW's Palace Theater.
This film is an adaptation by Ben
Hecht of the brilliant and highly sue
cessful Broadway play of the same title.
The story is a most absorbing one of a
young American girl who falls in with
two young musketeers of art in the
Paris Latin quarter. Ernst Lubich
one of the ablest of Hollywood's direc-
tortal masters, has given this film deft
and brilliant direction. Edward Everett
Horton heads the supporting cast.
Hearst Metrotone News, Shanghai
Mickey" Walt Disney Mickey Mouse,
and a travel cartoon are added.
luke ELLINGTON and his famous
Il orchestra and Warner Bros. Easy
to Love-" comedy drama starring
Adolphe Menjou, Genevieve Tobin and
Mary Aston, share stage and screen
honors on the current bill at Warner
Bros Earle Theater. Easy to Love"
a Warner Bros. picture, is a revelation
in marital mix-ups presented in
hilarious vein. The picture has an eX-
ceptionally strong all-Star cast, headed
by Genevieve Tobin in the role of neg
lected wife, with Adolphe Menjou play
ing opposite her as the philandering
husband. Mary Aston and Edward Ev-
erett Norton have the roles of the other
woman and man, and Patricia Ellis
and Paul Kaye are the younger players.
Duke Ellington and his famous Or
ef1estra, whose playing at the Cotton
Club in Harlem, New York, won them
the title Of "the hottest band on EARTH
are the lleadliners of the stage show.
Among the group of entertainers who
are with the Ellington band are Ivle
Anderson, blues singer; Ford, Marshall
and Jones; Snake Hips" Tucher and
"Honey' Texas. Falls, Reading and
Boyce, in Versatile Doings," complete
the stage bill.
I'll BRENDEL and Walter Catlett, two
II accomplished funSterS, bring film
farce to Loew's Palace Theater screen
currently in "Olsens Big Moment" In
this story FL Brendel is elevated for the
first time from position OF sup
porting comic to that Of principal per-
former. Barbara Weeks and Susan
Fleming are the two heart interests In
this Fox film which Malcolm St. Clair
directed from a story by George Mar
shall. Brendel is seen as an innocent
janitor of a SWanky apartment building
who is caught up in mess OF romance,
racketeering and adventure. Others in
the cast are John Arledge, Maide1 Tur-
ner, Edward Pawley and Joseph Sau-
ers. Henry Johnson and James lyman
adapted the story for screenization.
MERICA, with its winding roads, its
"a throbbing cities that line these
highways. the landscape beauties and
= eyesores that fill the open as well as
the crowded spaces-such is the back
ground of Universal Pictures unique
production, "CrosS-Country Cruise in
which Lew Ayers is starred and which
Is playing at the Rialto Theater. Stan
ley Rauh and Elmer Harris wrote this
story. Edward Buzzell directed the pro-
duction and the supporting cast in
cludes June Knight. Alice White, Henry
Armetta, Jean Fenwick, Robert Nc
Wade, Peggy Terry, Nina Gombell and
Alan Dinehart.
= II AUCKLAND GIRLS" with bur-
II lesque's outstanding comedians,
Billy Foster and Leonard Kramer,
assisted by a host Of the better known
burlesoue stars. open at the Gayety
Theater for a weeks enga cement, start
ing with today's matinee. The young
and youthful chorus is an outstanding
feature of this new deal'' in burlesque.
The amateur nights have been re-
Vumed every Friday night in conjunction
with the regular show at no advance in
prices.
The early matinees, at IL noon and
$50 pm, will be continued through the
balance Of the season.
WILL ROGERS, in Mr. Skitch," and
Nv and a star-spangled vaudeville
program that headlines ]. Harold Muir
ray, baritone and screen celebrity, and
the international maestro, Alex Hyde,
and his orchestra, is the current pro-
gram at Loew's Fox.
The ever-laugh-provoking viii Rogers
Il funnier than ever as the head OF the
Sktch household, having for his screen
wife Zasu Pitts. Rochelle Hudson,
Charles Starrett, Harry Green. Eugene