Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 20 Jun 1924, p. 15

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WILMETTE LIFh, FRIDAY, JUNE ~. 1924 HERE -AND THERE Reviews of the Week to an AMATEUR I regret that an error crept into this column last week in connection with the dates for the performances of "Officer tXJS" ~hicb will be presented at the Wmnetka Community House by a group of well krfown amateurs. The play will be given on Thursday and Saturday evenings of next week with· the following cast: Officer tXJS ·····.········ Richard Bull Gladwin. .......... W. C. Boyden, Jt. Barnes ................. Chatles Matz The Crook ...... Charles J, Eastman Hel~n Burton ...... Mrs. S . .B. White Sadte Small ,... Miss Harriett Nichols Mrs. Burton ...... Mrs. Richard Bull Watkins ................ D. D. Fuller Batelto ............... John Coolidge Captain Stone .......... Robert Elmer Kearnc:y ............·. Ernest R. Cole Ryan .................. S. S. Beaman Proceeds from the performances will go to The Cradle, an Evanston in. stitution caring for the welfare of babies. It is· anticipated that the attendance on each evening will be large. The play itself is a funny melodramatic affair, full of action and was a. hit some ;years ago on the profesSIOnal stage. finding brass instead of diamonds, tiaa. aft1!1" &eeing tbe ~~ woa1d be grows disitJusioned and heartsick and on the type of a muaical comedy title. stands on the brink of the abyss. ready ,.;:,I:t:'s=So==Bee:c:;a:u:se:n:;zi';I~-:SO.:;"~:;i;;i;~;:z:~ to fall to ruin. Love brings the story to a normal end. The cast inchkles Mary Carr, Charles EmtMtt ack, Tyrone Powert Mildred Harrit and Ir~eortorolifl iMd .Accr#dil'd othl'rs, and wdl be seen Thursday, A N MW'~ ltUiilulioiJ Friday and Satutday, June 26, '1:1· and Fine profe~JioQal traio~u. 28, at the Ca~pus. recent - ct.vel6plnedts in and kindergarten work covering every Von Stroheim's production of "Blind phase of c:hild-iitt- from infancy to Husbands" will be reissued .by Uni- twelve years. . . versal-Jewel. .,.· StrOft#l ~r tmwltl. · Pradictal .,.,.-., . t. uocltMg. Booth Tarkington has another of Higll officitJ,~ ntdorsehis novels adapted fot the screen. Mntu b)l ftl~. eivic Gild cDIII"The Turmoil" has found its way to fetJdCt'S. the celluloid drama with a cast inPw sociGI qlrit flltl Poa-f~· cluding George Hackathorne, Eileen sltit ita .W tloriltllories. ., · ·· Percy, Pauline Ca'l'son and a number B"lhliGStic s~tfll WJ ol Jltl. of other prominent tllm stars. Ct~J~IifluotU grOtlllll 6Gud ·tMJ IIU dntuMd for ils ,..,_,. drwitag J8 "The Signal Tower," a story by ,ars. Wadsworth Camp, who is a frequent . Hich school cracluates ac-; c~ntributer to the fictio!l magazines, wtll be released by Umversal. V:ir- credited schools admitted without ex, ginia Valli has the leading role, with amination. Two and three ,_,. cliploulu, four a supporting cast including Wallace Beery and Rockliff'e Fellowes. year degree. For Caldlogw, Boob of YNtl.r ~ The "Werewolf," 'the stage attracGrtultuJt· Rollw, .Ur'u: l"neWeat . . _ Deea ...._. tion at the Adelphi theatre in Chicago, is a sophisticated comedy of N....a K.ia'r 'P!'=. European birth. A young lady who .-EI I~C.U... saw the show suggested .that a title in everyday English wouJ be CHICAGO. ~· "We Are All W oJves." Our suarses- ::;j · ·· f'oli;.g, .._.,.Y · · · from ·· · lood .......................... a SCREEN with Mae Marsh, is the story of a famous college bachelor club which "THE PERFECT FLAPPER" decides to do things in the adopting With Colleen Moore. game. It will be at the Adelphi SunChicago Theatre day, June 22. Clp NoYel Filaae4 The theme behind this picture seems "Bluff," starring Agnes Ayres, will to be that if a young lady would be be the attraction on the Adelphi screen popular she must needs be a flapper. Monday and Tuesday, June 23 and 24. At least th\! heroine thinks so, decides Wednesday and Thursday, June 25 to try it out and in the end declares she .isn't just sure it's the right idea.I--------... - - - - - - - - and 26, will be Elinor Glyn days at the Adelphi. Her famous novel, MJss Moore portrays the quiet, prim home happy, but she is the im- "Three Weeks," whicb created food girl ;-a wall ftower at her own party-, the portant source. "Cytherea" will be for conversation for old and young, who has a taste too much of the for three days at the Howard, will be seen on the screen. This is flowing bowl and through force of cir- shown Sunday, June 22, with Irene one of the best of Miss Glyn's stories. cumstances comes to the conclusion starting Rich and Lewis Stone in the leading that by doing a little flapping on her roles. · CAMPUS own account she can avoid the loneWomen Who Give some winter evenings. Harold Bell Wright's novel of the With the rugged New England coast And flap she does tiJI she finds as a background, Reginald Barker has West, "When a Man' a Man," has rethat it doesn't fully do the trick. Then produced a motion picture that fairly tained its flavor in the screen version she switches back in order to win the tingles with romance, drama and which will be shown at the Campus man she loves. thrills, in "Women Who Give." It is theatre Monday and Tuesday, June There is a lot of fun throughout the an adaptation from Sarah P. McLean 23 and 24. This is a story of a weak picture and if you don't take it seri- Creen4'£ U..c¥ oi ~riDa -.-~....t wed\iro'nrnent'Oi -the West. oust!r it -·kea pretty good ehtertatn- the women who await the return of man 1~ mellt. If you 'nsist on analyzinJr it. -their Joy-ed ~· with th fi.thin· i-ts. It is one of Mr. Wrig-ht's big stepping of course you can quite readily pick Renee Adoree and Frank Keenan are stones in story making. A scene showing an auto racing a flaws. However, you are quite like'\y featured in the screen story, which to agree that Colleen Moore makes will be at the Howard Wednesday train at night; a storm of rain and wind; aeroplane stunts in mid-air; a flapper of the first order. She is and Thursday, June 25 and 26. beautiful shots at a great resort; scene here, there and everywhere, into in a palatial banquet hall with danceverythinll and out of everything ADELPHI ing and diving girls, a marriage on a about as fast as any human you ever Did you ever wonder what thoughts broad expanse of lawn-these are saw. The assistance is good, Syd are in the minds of film machine opersome of the scenes which were sucChaplin and Frank Mayo being valuable in putting the picture across. ators as they run off a typical movie cessfully photographed for "Mine to The direction was in the hands of melodrama six times a day in a little Keep," the Ben Wilson production to John Dillon and he did a good job. stuffy booth in the back of the local be at the Campus, Wednesday, June Buster Keaton has taken 25, with Mabel Forrest and Bryant In less capable bands it might have theatre? their mental wanderings as a basis for Washburn in the cast. been a "dud." his new Schenck-Metro comedy, Other Caaapua Offeriaaa "The Daring Years" are the years "Sherlock, Jr.," which will share the bill with Herbert Rawlinson in "High of adolescence, according to the latest "CODE OF THE SEA" Speed" at the Adelphi theatre, Friday Daniel Carson Goodmen's dramatic Paramount Picture sensations. Youth is the period in and Saturday, June 20 and 21. McVicktt'S Tlualt'e which one dares anything and every"Dadcliee" at Adelphi Another story of the Sea. A lad, Adopting war orphans is somewhat thing. Youth, spurred on by our mad whose father in the distant past had of an undertaking for a bachelor. era of jazz and drink, maddened by the deserted his ship, hearing of it on But when the "orphan" turns out to furious pace set by the upper strata every hand, has the stamp of coward be triplets, or a beautiful young lady- of smart society, ventures into the byso strongly impressed upon him well, that's different again. "Daddies," ways and high-ways of Broadway, an~ that he tl.l'rns and runs on the slightest provocation. Until one day. the supreme moment arrives when he can show the world, and incidentally prove to his sweetheart, that no braver man lives. · E Reels and reels are used to show just E how a coward is "made." Many more reels to show those terrible storms at sea and then the dramatic climax. Phone for Demonstration Rod LaRocque and Jacqueline Logan do the best they can to maintain interest and their work is very good. George Fawcett has done better things than the sea captain but his work is always interesting. EVANSTON The picture starts slowly, drags all 1825 Benaon. Ave. Phone Evan. 2341 t):te way and seems to me to be a secSALES SERVICE ond class feature. NEWELL & RETCHIN HOWARD ADELPHI N. W. "L· Statioa at HowaN ........· ., . . . aet11'1'Aa7 Friday ...t Satunlay BUSTER KEATON Ia MAE MARSH ·· ·sHERLOCK JR." ·HIGH SPEED" MAE MAilSH "DADDIES" "CYTHEREA" '*ith ......, .. .. .... "DADDIES" ay Irene Rich aDd Lewia St.ooe Weda....y a;a. Tluu... 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