Evening star., 1941-02-07

Alice Marjorie Woodwork
MIS- Newton Florence Bate
Wine ----W Willie Bes
Recounting a plot, George Jear
Nathan once said. is the last resort
Of reviewer who can think Of
nothing else to say Mr.. Nathan hac
not seen Road Show when he
said this. Had he experienced this
photoplay, which has now moved
in at Loew's Capitol, Mr.. Nathan
might have admitted that in some
cases recounting the plot is saying
all there is to say.
Consider:
Drago Gaines, millionaire play
boy. feigns insanity at the very
altar to escape Wedlock with a
fortune-hunter named Helen. Helen
is smart fortune-hunter, how
ever. and will have her revenge,
so she has Drago pitched into
villa for the goofy. He is
smart, too. and escapes, with the
help of one of the inmates, a Col.
Carelton Carraway. Now these two
find themselves involved in a travel
ing carnival operated by a pretty
girl named Penguin Moore. She
puts them to work a great trial to
both Mr.. Gaines and Col. Carraway.
Sundry law officers chase the poor
carnival away from every town it
attempts to play and things look
pretty black. From Col. Carraway.
Penguin learns to her amaZement
that Drago is really a famed lion
tanner, something which he learns
later considerably more to his
amazement. Anyhow she gets some
lions for him TO tame. a trick at
which he Is not eminently success
full. Now then, in its travels, the
carnival arrives. directed by Col.
Carraway, at the mammoth home
Of his nephew. one Harry Whitman.
and parks in the grounds. The plot
1t to raise prices and become solvent
by taking Harry's rich friends. And
all is going we'll until some hood
lums arrive and wreck the carnival.
So Col. Carraway has what is left
slowed in the barn that Harry has
burned down every week end so he
can race to the scene in his own
fire trucks, he never having gotten
over his desire to be a fireman.
Then the barn is set ahght and
everybody races to the fire behind
screaming sirens, only they don't
so there at ALL but to the next town
where the streamlined carnival
Drago has purchased for Penguin
Is ooirg full force
Love bursts forth in flame of
1ov.
This all is played with enthusiasm.
at least, by Adolphe Menjou. the
CCl CarrSWay: Charles Butter
worth. tl"a emateur fireman; Carole
Lands. tie Penguin. and a number
Of other pco0le Miss Lands Ger
t9in'V does not look like a penguin.
AL O. thee people. plus Patsy Kelly
End GcC""c E, stone, incidentally.
h9Fe l-'>9ck for slapstick. and if
YOU ha"e hcen looking for a feature
l-nTth I'm composed entirely of the
antics ycl usually find in a two
reel comedy, Road Show" is your
dish.
The Capitol's stage show this
week is another bright one, with
which it would be hard to find fault
even if one were trying. Headliner
Is ice Howard, the beloved veteran.
uho now is scoring another triumph
In what he is calling his farewell
performance. He makes you hope
he's only kidding about that.
Then there are such people as
Wally Brown and Annette Ames.
Wally being that rarity, comedian
who can hold an audience just about
as long as he wants to with his
daft monoiogue; Viyien Fay, one of
the ablest and certainly the most
youthfully exuberant of our ballet
dancers; the Kanazawa Japs, who
do those things only Japanese
vaudeville performers can do. and
the Rhythm Rockets The gals are
especially fine this week in their
Gold and Silver Ballet" and in