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WILMETTE LIFE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1924 IE FAMILY It Him AND THERE ON STAGE AND SCREEN Reviews of the Week STAGE "WHO KNOWS' With Jane Cowl Selwyn Thealr~ rr.any varied experiences with four women. There is Carlotta, in love with him, iulietta, whom he marries only to have her kidnapped by outlaws, Estralla the dancer who means nothing to him and Dona Florencia, with three suicides to her credit, who receives the cold shoulder as answer to her advances. The story is by Rex Beach; it has many of the things which go to make JP an interesting picture even though he story is improbable and thin in spots. The thing of particular interest is that .t gives Mr. Valentino somethip~ to do Here and there he is given a chance to do a bit of acting and he responds to .he openings with good effect. . The film is beautifully set and coscumes are wonderful. Assisting Rudolph 1re Nita Naldi, Helen D'Algy and Dagmar Godowsky with minor roles well taken care of. For the type usually thought of in connection with Mr. Valentino this is a very satisfactory picture md in many ways I liked it better than "Beaucaire." "NORTH OF 36" , - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . which is based on Robert Herrick's novel, "Clark's Field." McVicktrs Thealrt Neighboring 'flteaterr On Sunday, De«mber 7, Consta~ Texas-1867-plenty of cattle, but no will a three "Her Night of begin Romance" at day the run an market-result: everybody broke !-and _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _..., :ratmadge with these few words one finds himself ard. The picture is said to be one wtth HOW.ARD well into the story of "North of 36." The story is an adaptation by James HamHer millions brought nne clothes, tra- plenty of "pep" in it and yet one that you ilton of the popular novel by Emerson vel, adventure, excitement, but they play- may safely take your mother or you~~« daughter to see, without fear,-provided Hough, author of "The Covered Wagon," ed a sorry trick on love. their constitutions are strong enough to and features Jack Holt, Ernest Torrence, Thus Bebe Daniels 'finds herself as stand ninety minutes of laughter. Lois Wilson and Noah Berry in the le~d Adele . C~rk in her nt'w Paramount picFor Friday and Saturday of next week, ing roles. turl!t :;)Jaogerous Money," .coming to the It is one of the wildest of adventures, Howard theatre next Wednesday and the management of the Howard theatre w1ll present Richard Barthelmess of led by Taisie Lockhart (Lois Wilson), Thursday, December 10 and 11, with red-headed, orphan and beautiful young t>verything money <;an buy, everything. "Way Down East" fame in "Classmate.'" owner of one of the largest rancncs in that is, except love, for Time Sullivan which Robert Edeson acted successfully Texas, across unmapped plains t~ Abi- i~ only a hard working contracting en- upon the legitimate stage some yars gineer and-welt, remember how you back. Also, Ben Turpin, he of the lene, the rr.arket to the north. strange and ludicrous orbs, in "A Real The difficulties encow1tered on the ~ay used to ·say to yourself, "Gee, but I wish Virginian" will complete the week-end are without number-Indians, stamJX'<IC!! someone would only leave me a million bill. floods storms. A trunkful of stol~n land dollars, then I'd be the happiest person scrip 'starts all the trouble, and Tai:.i,··~ ~o : ng !" But you wouldn't. Anway, DEBUT .IN FILMS own attractiveness almost wrecks n·at· Bebe Daniels wasn't and a trip to the Howard will show you why-when the Katherine Ray, beauty contest winnrr, ters time and again. l"lld bankroll comes in the front door whose "Girl in the Clock" number is ~ Holt, as Dan M'CMasters, is an eni~ love goes out the back. of the sensations of Earl Carroll's Vaoima ; his actions are often qu~stiomthk. "Dangerous Money" is Bebe Qaniels' tics in New York, last week made hei' D:d he steal the scrip? It couldn't be, first Paramount starring production. Tom debut in motion P!cture at the Paramowt for the picture closes with his and Moore, as Tim Sullivan, has the leading ~ng. Island s_tudJO. She was a m.um: Taisie's marriage, and Rualahaugh man's role opposite the star. William QUID an the Ftfth Avcn~e gown slhlp an (Berry), the villain, gets what's com- Powell is the scheming Prince Arnolfo 'Sidney Olcott's producttQO, "Salome of ing to him. The cattle are sold at an en- da Pesc:a who wects the beautiful Bebe the Tenements." She wore an after~ ormous profit and Texas is savl··l-anu through trickery. Mary Foy is Bebe's street .frock of blac~ velvet, a recent tmby a girl, and red-headed, at that. aunt, keeper of a boarding house where portat1011 from Pans. Ernest Torrence plays Jim Nahnurs. Adele (Bebe), before she falls into the Taisie's ranch foreman and self-appoir.t- million that is, toils daily in the kitchen. JOIN .. SA.LOME." ed guard"an, .and, even remembering h.i; Dolores Cassinelli, Charles · Slattery, Sidney Olcott has added Louis Mackcharacterization of the scout, Jack;on, 111 Peter Lang and Edward O'Connor com· intosh and Beatrice Gains to the cast of "The Covered Wagon," we do not hcsi- plete the cast. "Salome of the Tenements," which he it t:1te to say that this is one of his finest Frank Tuttle directed the picture directing at the Paramount~~ roles. Studio, from the story of AnZla Yezlerwhich was adilpted tg the screen by Julie For the skeptics who still think that Heme from the stery by John ~~sell, ska. the "Wagon" was merely a tla~h in the pan and couldn't be duplicated in a blue moon, we say "See 'North ·Jf 36' I" Its a splendid picture. I Ho~- It is a far cry from "Romeo and Juliet to "\Vho Knows." Quite a jump frorn pure white Juliet to scarlet Anna. And quite an undertaking for Miss Jane C o11l to attempt the one at matinees and the other each evening. One can almost imagine that sh~ was dared to try it that he might prov~ her versatility. "Who Knows" was written by Herr ~fax Mueller. 'fo the experienced theatre-goer it probably will be old stuff. Certainly there have been many previous attempts to show what happens to the girl of the underworld who tries to go strail{ht. In this play she is loved by a voUtl~ and innocet)t musical composer and she loves in return. He takes her in "THE SILENT WATCHER" spite of his knowledge as to· her past Chicago Theatre life. Three months develop the expected thing..; an'd the experiment is a failure. The "Silent \\'atcher" is one of the utterly it fails makes for a tempest· good pictures of the month notwithstandand thrilling third act. ing the fact that it is far from being a play is decidedly emotional and ~rfect story. In ·fact there are severare dramatic moments of much im- al places in it as it unfolds where onl! port. Whether you like a play ending .s inclined to say, "That couldn't hapas does this one or whether this particu- pen in real life. lar type of story is appealing, are matBut it brings again to the screen Glen ters of individual decision. There is no Hunter who was so excellent in "Merton denying the fact that one starts out with o[ the Movies." And it gives him a role some misgivings as to whether Miss which suits him perfectly and in which Cowl can handle such a part as is as- he does some remarkable work. In the signccl her here. But when she takes ~tory he is the private secretary of a it. hook, line and sinker, and makes of well known business man who is runthis girl of the streets a real and vivid ning for senator. To him, his "boss" is character doubts vanish and in their the world's greatest man and stick to him place is sheer admiration for an actress he will, and does, rega·rdless of conseso unusual. Her role is full of pit-falls, quences. But he is married to a young. in which many an actress might be prone charming girl who has some ideas of to fall. But Miss Cowl avoids them and her own about loyalty beginning at home. her weeping, her ranting and her exhi- Complications which ame and involve bit illll of passion and pain have the the "boss" with a lady of the chorus true ring of reality in them. Able a~ serve to make possible the last half of sistance is given her by Mr. Rollo Pet· the film and fill it with a number of ers as the young composer and the bal- tense moments. ance of the cast with a minor excepti.)n Glen Hunter, as intimated, is capital. is entirely satisfactory. He seems to sense the things required of There are those who raised their eye him and even if he stresses his pathetic brows at "Spring Cleaninf," who shied moments to the limit one can still forat "The Lady" and who actually bolted give him in admiration of the rest of his at "Red Light Annie." To them "Who work. Assisting him are such old faKnows" will seem an entirely unneces- vorites as Bessie Love and Hobart Bos~ary theatrical offering, to say the least. worth. The latter as the "boss" has a Others wiU pick flaws, particularly with nne part of which he makes a lreat teference to part <ri the story which deal. Mary Roberts Rinehart wrote the them do not ring true. But I ven- story as her contribution on the su!>lllre the prediction that the "crowds" jec:t of loyalty. Chances are you wtll 1rill go to see it and when they do they likeit. will have an opportunity, (regardless of their views concerning ·the story) of sharing with me the admiration I have for such ·an actr~ss as Miss Jane Cowl. VAUDEVILLE Majestic Theatre Harry \Vaiman and- his orche!ttr.\ c,f young women topped the bill at the ~~a jestic this week and on Mo!l<lay practh~ alty stopped the show. Thetr manr·~r of rendering popular music made QUI_~c. a hit Mr. Waiman obliged on the vwhn. Fotlight Fantasies introduced a com· pany of five who_ gave _imitations_ of lead.ing favorites mcludmg Galh Curc1, Sophie Tucker, The Dooleys and others. The Gilfoils, Mr. and Mrs., who h tve appeared here before, have a comedy skit with several laughs. Perr)· and Wagner were two other comedy people who received considerable applause. A rope swinger, ala Will Rofers and a Japanese tumbling act of merit, or~<.·ncd and closed a good bill. a· ow·AnaRD ADElPHI Contlnuou p;v .. ry Day-1:15 to 11:11 N. W. ·L· Stadoa at Hewtml aaturdaya, Sundaya, J;lol\4&71 MatlnMa NEWELL & RETCH IN 1174 Nortla Clark St. 8···1·7· lllo···l' ··· '1'8eM.&T Dee·.. lte· 'r, 81 ··· t s-··7· J. Dee··lter 'f. 8 ··· t ·-·~7 ... ,........, Conataace Talmadae wa...... JC-n... "Her Niaht of Romance" IWae DuMb "Capt. Blood" "\\' edaeM·l' . . . Til ......,. Flonac· VWor Walt· H'-s "Danaeroua Money" Fri41a7 Rs "Cbriatine of the Hunpy Heart" ~.,. a·· 811ta...·7 a·· .... ~,. Richucl 8artiMiaaela "DUMB AS A FOX" With Ravmond Hitchcock Great Nor then~ Theatre I am sure I would want to see Raymond Hitchcock if he were playing in l'ncle Tom's Cabin or Romeo and Juliet hecause I would know that at the end of the second act he would burst forth with a curtain speech which would make up for any deficiencies in the perfo_rmance. Not that there are any sertous defects in his present offering but the curtain speech is there and its worth going a long way to hear. For years Mr. Hitchcock has been associated with musical comedy, this being his first venture in a long time in the realm of straight comedy. The play is a farce comedy by William A. Grew and the producers in their printed program give space for the following statement: "This is not a Harvard Prize Play. It was scribbled solely for laughing purposes." There is no reason to dispute this statement. "Dumb as a Fox" is a vehicle through which Mr. Hitchcock is allowed to give vent to his many mirth New Evanston Hoyburn M-.. Tuea. aDii W... Moaday aa4 T....ay ..Cluamatet" S.T..,U. Aatoaio Moreao Hel. . Claarwkk "Border· Leaion" Our C... "Sundown Limited" BEBE DANIELS RICARDO CORTEZ BEVERLY BAYNE "The lOth Woman" W..lael4lay aJMI TlaurMaJ' "A Real Virainian" 'Argentine Love' Tlaur.. Fri. ... Sat. The Nortll Shore'a Maet ....IIIDtatiYe Theat.l Clara ~ Yoan· WANDA HAWLEY HARRY MYERS TULLY MARSHALL "A Wife's RoJDBDce" Friday -c1 Saturday Way "Reckless. Romance" COMEDY NEWS ENID BENNETt' HARRISON FORD Faster Time Best Service "Fools Awakening" COMEDY NEWS M 1f!lln~king qualities and assumes he does it hun-, cent. He theone role of !b~~D;a;i;ly~S;b;o;w;·~a;t~z.;·;·~7~a;acl~t-S==a~twda:::='=Co=:a:tia::.oae==Z==to=:l:l:P=:.:::': : : ; work. who has grPat ideas but This, much to the dismay and her sisters, not to mention the $18 \leT week husband of one of them. As and dissatisfaction of his young wife might be expected one of his great ideas, (a quite unexpected one to be sure,) fin- ' al/r bears fruit and he i able to turn the laugh back on those who had scoff- SNO Lv. Chic-co Ar. DM Moinee · t~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ $200 IN PRIZES For the best fireplace photograph. Send ln ph o tog rap h (kodak print will do) and win a prize. Flnt prize, $100.00, Second prize, $50 .0 0, t>lght other prl:1e1 totaling $50.00. Cont.-st closes January 5. Jn cast> of tit>, l:'llch get F 0 R D~~SCRIPTIV~:: Clll<'ULAR AND ENTRY BLANK. Later Departure Early Arrival ON.TIME TRAINS Throuah modem all-steel Pullman atandard aleepinc cars now operate daily via Chicago ll North Western Ry. between Chicaco and Dee Mo~s. 10:15 p.m. 7:20a.m. 10:00 p.m. 7:35 .. m. ed. p.North specialists work on For classes in · nstruction a lecture ~fr. Hitchcock is an entire show in himscli and there arc times when he is ahlc to keep his audience in smiles and laughtn without the apparent help of any ni his associates. But one or two oi thtm are not to be overlooked. Norva~ Ktedwell as the young clerk a~ <t.Uih himself creditably while Dons l~at·m and A. H. Vanburen are worthy oi 'Ptcial mention "Dumb as a Fox" \_1·ith 11r. Hitchcock in it is a good tonic lor the blues. Without him it would be an"thcr story. Lv. O..MoiQetAr. 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