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WILMETTE LIFE · December . 28, 1928 De - Reviews Do~ores in **No Mm1a LGnd1 ' At the · North VARSITY OFFERINGS "Show Folks" Now Showine-"The Home Townert," All· Talkiq Comedy Comiq Monday for Three Days "Show Folks" ... ........ ·... . ... Varsity "Revenge" ... . ................. · Norshore "Beware of Bachelors" · · · · · · · · · · Teatro S·nday, December 30 "Revenge" ... . ..... ... .... ... .. Norshore "Honeymoon Flats" .......... . ... Teatro Monday, De~ember 11 "The Home Towners" .. .... .. .. Varsity "The Racket" ... ... .. .. · · · · · · · · · · Teatro "Revenge" · · · Fog" · · · · · ·.. · ·Community · · · · · · · · · Norshore "Caught in the House Tuesday, New Year'l Day "Revenge" ........ . ..... . ...... Norshore "The Man Who Laughs" · · · · · · · · · Teatro "The Home Towners" .. .. ....... Varsity · WednesElay, January ! "Show Folks" ... .. .... .. ......... . Teatro "The Horne Towners" .......... .. Varsity "Revenge" .. ... ............. . . .. Norshore Thursday, Janua:.-y 3 "The Crash" · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Teatro ~·Revenge" Frlday~ . January . '4.. Norshore "Warming Up" ...... Community House "Revenge" · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Norshore "The Crash" .. ... .... .... . ........ Teatro &heridm ROIUl Betwten Wilmette and Kenilworth Ph. Kenilworth 3980-3981 MATINEES SATURDAY. SUNDAY SATURDAY tf SUNDAY Doon ()pta 1 :)o Show Starts 2 p. m.. Coatiaaou Ewninga During Weei Doora Open 6:30 Show Start· 7 p. m. :Prorram Startlar De~. tt Sat·rda,., Dee. it ROD LA ROCQUE and AUDREY FERRIS "BEWARE OF BACHELORS" "Til· Old Gray Horse"-O·r Ganr "Bir Game"-Aesops Fable ReTiew . ADDED MATINEE ONLY PATSY RUTH MILLER "Bed Riden Of Canada" S·nday, Dee. It GEORGE LEWIS and DOROTHY GULLIVER .. Madamr DuBerry" Great Event "Spartan Dlet"-SportUght Dally N~w~ and Klnogram N~wl Monday, Dee. II THOMAS liEIGHAN and LOUIS WOLHEIM "BODYMOON PLATS" "THE RACKET" "Be My Klng"-Luplno Lane Par81Blount News Tuesday, Jan. ht. 1t!t SPECIAL 1lATINEE NEW YEAR'S DAY CONRAD VElDT and MARY PHILBIN '"THE MAN WHO LAUGHS" "Deline It Or Not"-Chorns Girls _ _ _Paramount News Wt'dnesday. Jan. ! EDDIE QriNLAN and LENA B.~SQUETTF. "SHOW I'OLKS" "Jim Janltor"-Handy An!IJ' Klnogram Nt>"'" Th·rs · .t Fri ·. Jan. S-4 .MILTON ~ILLS and THELliA TODD "Calford On Horst>baek" Paramount Xt>1\'S Saturday, Jan. i JACK HOLT and NANCY CARROLL Colle~lans Jam~ "Show Folks," another yarn about the struggles of theatrical people, is now showing at the Varsity theater in Evanston. . Its run will continue through this Saturday, December 29. Those who go to see the picture will find the personality kid, Eddie Quillan, amusing. Lina Basquette takes a large share .of the honors in this piere. Dolores del Rio in "Revenge" will Hers is the role of partner to the vaube on the Norshore screen. Miss del devill~ hoofer who is Mr. Quillan. Rio gives a vivid performance as the Robert Armstrong has an appealing fiery, passidnate, ecstatic Rascha, part, and Bessie Barriscale puts over who is the bear taming daughter of some good scenes. "Show Folks" is a a bear tamer. She despises all things good picture. that are tame and yearns for a man "A triumph of both acting and to conquer her own wild self. The men she knows who adore and serve her sound" was one leading Chicago criwin only her contempt. tics' comment on "The Home TownThe Hero of the picture is Jorga, ers," to be shown at the Varsity next who rides up on a white horse and fulMonday, Tuesday, and Wedne sday, fills her wish. LeRoy Mason plays· December 31, January 1 and 2. A small cast of characters, a good hasir this part. situation, worked into a neat plot. Gypsy camp fires flare in "Revenge." Extra Picture Matinees at amusing, pointed speeches-these arc Gypsy dances, gyp.sy rites, gypsy loves, Community Next Week the materials which go into "Tl1<· hates, costumes and customs fill the film with color and movement. The The Community House in Winnetka Home Towners" and make of it a are thown against a background of has announced a special program of bright and unusual entertainment . Prize All-T allring Film glorious mountain scenery. (Th~ pic- pictures for next week. In addition to "The Home Towners" is one of the ture is staged in the Carpathian the regular 4 p. m. and eve.ning permountains, the boundary line between formances on New Year's day and Fri- first stage plays to come to the screen Hungary and Roumania.) day, there will be special matinees on with most of its lines intact. The con versation in this Geor~e M. Cohan play The part of the untamed gypsy girl both days at 2 :30. is much better than the bits of dialog in this Konrad Bercovici story is well ~ay McAvoy and Conrad NageJ, which have been inserted into most of suited to Miss Del Rio. She makes of two young people who have the favor Rascha a vivid, flaming, picturesque of fans everywhere, are starred to- the so-called talking pictures merel" creature of primitive loves and hates. gether in "Caught in the Fog," the to give the plavers something to s<nHer gypsy dances are amazingly well 1\ew Year's day attraction. This pe?- in some of the scenes. In thi s the done. py and amusing comedy was ada,Dted speech is as important as the acti nn. both in developing the plot and porThe photography is rarely beautiful to the screen by Charles R. Condon and the direction is smooth and expert. from a story which Jerome Kingston traying the characters. "Revenge" is in every way a first class called "The Fog." The scenes of the play are laid principally aboard a of fun and fury as the film works up picture. classy yacht off the Florida coast. A to its climax. uwarming Up." a first class hase k1ll Charles Rogen will have the leading sheik bandit comes with his lady aide to rifle the boat of the Vickers jewels. movie, with Richard Dix in the leadmale role in "Close Harmony," being The lady, an amateur at such work, is ing role, witt be at the Commun it~· screened by Paramount from the story Miss McAvov. The two no sooner House next Friday, January 4. Dix ha-. by Elsie Jan is. It is a tale of the enter the cabin than Bob Vickers, son the part of the busher who mak e;; stage base!! on experiences recalled by of the owner, arriyes . (Bob Vickers is good with the Yankees and wins th e Miss Janis. · Mr. Nagel). A fight ensues between girl . from the villainous Pittsburgh <; tar him and the sheik, the latter scaping. pitcher. He is at his extremelY lik e"The Mirac1e" is the tentative title The !adv confronts the master of ·!he able best. Jean .Arthur, Philo McCul for a Tiffany-Stahl picture in which craft and at once feels her purloining lough, Wade Boteler. and Ro scor F.ve Southern will be starred. desires waniug. There is a wild furore Karns are the main cogs in the ca-.t. The picture was ranked as one of the six best several months ago. After a week's vacation Al Kvale will be back at the Norshore theater beginning this Saturday to take charge . J C ll · AI h as preo f h ts azz o egtans. pared a huge Christmas frolic, entitled "The Doll Shop." It is going to be a colorful and extraordinary stage show, according to word received this week from the north side theater. del Rio in Bill-0-Fare "Revenge, Comes to Norshore Saturday · - -------saturday, December 29 Fi tUI La gn of by me: COl Ba vel ke fr< sh1 lie: ab Be biJ th hi! va di< ga ch ex no th g sh he \\'1 YC y In bi· hi w lll d~ t "il h; to ta k fa H d 0 cl J ·a "THE CRASH" Arrange a Party and Start Your Celebration NEW YEAR'S EVE -tthe- Richard Barthelme5s, who is w 0rl:inrr on "Wearv River." has s!gned anoth rr <'Ontract ,~ith First National. Tt call-. for three pictures a year for two years. Ronald Colman wilt m~ke a talking nicture called "Bull DoP" Drummoncl" for United Artists. "Bull Dog Drttmr nwnd" is an English crook melodrama. All characters witt talk in "T~1r Canary Murder Case" now being filmr(l hv Paramount. Louise Brooks, .T amrs Hall. Jean Arthur, and William Po,\'cll are prominent in the cast. Bessie Love, star of "Salty of the Scandals" and various other picttt r<" . l1as sig-ned a lon'r term contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,, ·says a Holt~· wood report. Steam turbine electric generating companies of 111inois produced fi02.~ J45,000 kilowatt-hours of energy dur· ing October, and ranked third am ong the states in the Union. By circulatinQ' more than a million h~oks during 1927, the Chicago Public Ltbrary established a world's record. a I I h p "THE WATER BOLE" "The La·ndrymaa"-Aesops Fable Comedy and Rnlew ADDED MATINEE ONLY RALPH LEWIS "Crooks Can't Win" Sunday, Jan. I JOIINNY BURKE "The Goodbye Kin" COMING ATTRACTIONS Mon. T·es ·· Jan. 7·8 ":Manhattaa Coektall" Wed. Jan. t "The Farmer's Da·ghter" 'Tb·n. and Fri. Jan. 10·11 John Gilbert ".Masks Of Tile Devil" Sat., Jan. 11--"Silks and Saddles" Marton Nh:oa S·n., Jan. 11-"Brotberly Lon" Karl Dane and Jeaa Arthu Moa. aad T·e. Jan. lf·U "Tile O·teast"-cortnne Grlftltll Wed., Jaa. l~"His PriTate Life" Adolph . MenJo· Tltwn. A Fri.. Jan. 17·18 Rleltard Benaett "TJae Hoae Towaera" NEW EVANSTON THEATRE T elepbone University 8500 for Seat Reservations! ~d seeTHE. REMARKABLE NEW COMEDY OF YOUTH t c s ""COMPANIONATE MARRIAGE" By JEAN ARCHIBALD Author of Belasco's "Call the Doctor" Dlreet from a re~ord·breaklng five-month ru Chicago. With the original "Loo;,a!a:~e Cort theatre, ONE WEEK ONLY-MATINEE TUES WED SAT (Regular New Evanston Prtee"s> STARTING MON., JAN. 7TH ., · KARL WAY PLAYERS in 'WHITE CARGO' ETenlngs at 8:U-i0e·7ie·Sl.OO; Matinee, Wed. and Sat., !:SO-Iie·iO~