The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-09-04

q. j. N. appra1SeS Mae West
thusly:
what the movie audiences
had uniformly been privileged
to see before, over . period Of
years, had been nothing but an
endless succession Of imported
Lesbians, spindle-Shanked, flat
cheSted flappers, 4O-year-Old
Baby Dolls, beauty-parlOr imita-
tons of women, and Sylvia mas
Saged string beans, in not one Of
whom there was enough real,
genuine hOneSt-tO- God female
to interest even a vegetarian
cannibal. In the midst of this
dearth, the Mile. West came
like a rainfall. a veritable tor.
rent, upon a dry desert. Here,
Enthusiastically, whatever anyone
might think Of her art, was .
woman, q female. No little
dried-up cutie, no pretty little
narrow-ShOuIdered skeleton Of .
chicken, no parched and skinny
pSeud0-vamp, no trumped-up
artificial siren, but a good,
large, full, sound, OId-time, 1890
model woman, with "WOman"
up and down and sidewise writ
ten plainly on her every feature
and all other places"
Gene Sees Sally
Managing7director Gene Ford Of
the Fox is down in Maine and
Monday night. looked over the
Lakewood Players production Of
RAIN" with Sally Rand, the
graduate fan dancer, as Sadie
Thompson.
: What a dancer" writes Gene
which, by mental processes, I
elaborate into a three-word dra-
matte criticism.
BY the way, who would be the
Reverend Davidson for Miss Rand
but that well-known E Street
trouper, Raymond Bramley.
Washington is the one key city
that has never had welcoming
committee for the darling of the
fans and the bubbles. While she
was blazing her way to the head
lines, the Sally Rand management
discovered that the police women
and the United States District At
torney frowned on her hide-and-
seek dances and were prepared to
see that she performed in mack.
intosh if given a local booking.
So Sally stayed away.
Bars Oui Oui Show
The French Casino show, which
is touring vaudeville. has also
been thumbed away from Poto-
mac shores.
This vaudeville revue. which was
born in the night clubs, depends
much upon near-nudity for its
appeal. If covered up and the
snap taken out Of it's cabaret
humors, not much is left to JUS
tify the $4,000 a week asking
price.
A Critics Movie
Dramatic critics and motion
picture Scribes are frequently be-
labored when they roast shows
or screen features and challenged:
Gould you write one as good?"
I think, Of course, that they could,
just as I am morally certain they
couldn't do worse.
Anyway. Elise Finn. motion pic.
ture critic of the Philadelphia
Record, took 'em UP. She wrote
Love Song" and Radio Is pro-
ducing it as the first starring
vehicle for Lily Pons. Better even
that that is the fact that James
Cow is responsible for the screen
adaptation. Cow used to be movie
critic for the departed New York
World.
Hardly had the ink dried on our
Will Rogers story yesterday than
Loew's Inc. decided to play Will
Rogers Steamboat Round the
Bend" at Loew'S Palace Theater
the week of September Is. They
had been holding off to see what
the public thought about the late
Rogers releases.
Just an afterthought on that
picture. Nick Altrock can surely
resign his boosted title of homeli-
est man. For Irving Cobb, who
plays the river captain, under the
candid camera wins all the water
melons. Nature worked overtime
to give Mr.. Cobb a great mind but
something happened when they
were molding his features.
Actor AdO0te S+raue