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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 10 Oct 1924, p. 15

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WILMETTE LIFE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1924 THERE ON STAGE AND ·S CREEN By Thes~ STAGE "APPLESAUCE" LaSalle Tlrralre It i- a fair prophecy that "Applesauce" b~ at the LaSalle for some lked On out; ~rth >een hen the the ents ical es a ent the ive in ·ceb hc rorc 1t packs up for New York. }'u;t h w it wi.ll fare on Bro:-d~ay is a matt~r n i conjecture; here 1t IS .meeting ,, it h much success and provmg . a great lit tle ·:laugh getter." . Tht: play IS an attempt at presentmg the ,,dl known characters of small town liic in .1 manner differing from previous cffnrt,; in that direction. In this, the author. Barry Connors, has achieved con-iderable success. There is much that n·m1mb one of previous plays and this ll'ith particular reference to the " ShowOff" now current in New York. But there i, a different "something" about it that i' quite satisfying to the average play-goe r. "Applesauce," it seems, is analgous to flatte n·. bla rney, hot air and other terms · ha1 ·c had their innings. Bill Me. r is the town's leading "appletxpcrt. He lives on the theory that a libe ral use of it makes other peo.ple h<~ppy and that there is more satisiact iPII in that than in striving to make mnney. Consequently he is a happy-goluckY ,art of individual who hates work and ·loi'C> "applesauce." Allan Dinehart, who plays the part nf Bill. Jnakes him a genial, college bred no account who u es his glib tongue with good effect and manages to get along ~umeway. He is the luckless aspirant i or th~ hand of the village belle. She, it seem>. ha s engaged herself to the sub-tamial and practical "catch" because he happened to a:.k her first. But Bj)!, thwu!!h three iunny acts, "applesauces" '"' 11 .1~ along to win the girl. the good 11 i, 1o .,j her parents and the blessing ui I n~ rich uncle. L"nlike many previous play' thi" one has a third act that ri ng> true. Hill does not fall heir to a fortune ur mend his ways. He is still the applesauce king as the curtain falls. H ~ transgresses playwriting rules. He ta1l · to n:form and the play is better for it. . Claihornc Foster, here not so long ago with l\lr. Dinehart in "Two Fellows and a Girl,' ' is the village belle. She has .aken iull account of the type of girl is called upon to play. Impetuous, sensible or blindly faithful as the requires, she gives a splendid ~rt<Jrnlan,ce. Jessie Crommette is the mother, and is capital. If you . lived t~o close t_o the bript lights all your life, she w 111 bring back memories and a realism that rings true. The rest of the cast, with one exception, is atisfactory. · " Applesauce" presents an evening of riotous iun and is wholesome and human. There is much dialogue concerning men, marriage and money all of which is filled with many comic phrases and easilv assimilated t' . sa ·re. "!II girl may be brought up in the refined atmosphere and under the guidance of a society woman who has suffe_re_ d, from strained finances: After prohibition, the mother becomes own er of a swell gambling house fre quented by the so- called "upoer crust." Here. iPnocently, comes the da~ghter and her fiance . The best act1on starts here and leads up to a successful conclusion. Dresser plays "Mother Louise O'Day" and make s a real character out of it. She seems to se nse the exact length s to which she should go in order that the part he not overdone. Assis tin g liberally are such good actors and actresses as Ricardo Cortez, Kathlyn Williams and Virgin~a Lee CorbiQ. The latter, graduatmg from the roles of little girls makes a sweet and fetching young lady. To top the picture off. McVickers put on a "jazz" week which was composed of numbers of that nature and some that more nearly approached the classical. It proved to be a popular feature with Charley Straight and his orchestra taking top honors. "Prodigal Daughters." "Shadows of Paris" and "Icebound"-to the time DeM ille saw in this player of semicharacter parts a type he wanted, the fla~per grown-up to marriage and senousness. "They tell me I have a w6nderful chance ," said the new "comet" at her home )Vhich is a block fr~m a big studio and where she was brought up. She was considered a tomboy in her childhood days and she thinks that she got "the opportunity because people all around the country liked my personality and I've got to stay just a~ natural as I have been in the past-or pouf 1-1'11 be blown right back where I came from." Featured with Miss . Reynolds in "Feet of Clay" are Rod La Roque, Victor Varconi, Ricardo Cortez, Julia Faye, Theodore Kostoff and Robert Edeson. ever before. James Kirkwood and right. Marie Prevost plays the doable Lila Lee play the roles of the un- role. happy couple who look to divorce for a c_hange, in "Wandering Husbands," wh1ch comes to the Hoyburn theatre I nonday and Tuesday, Oct0ber 13 and Which brings qltimate happiness the life of a butterfly or that of serv: ice and elf-sacrifice? Is love to be I considered in choosing our life's work? 1 These problems are touched on in Clyde Fitch's "Lovers' Lane," which was adapted for the sc reen and will have a showing at the Hoyburn Wednesday and Saturday. Friday and Saturday, "Cornered" will. be the attaction at the Hoyburn. It 1s the story of twin sisters who were separated in childhood and who were brought up in different environments. Fate takes a hand to effect a meeting of the girls and a most unusual complication arises. The heiress is held for a thief and the thief is taken for the heiress. The girls learn their · 'identify and affairs turn out s ________ s _______ _ uper· ucces Guaranteed New. method shows you exactly how to build your own Super.llieterodyDe with absolute guarantee of results . So simple you eannot fail , even if you have never built any kind of a set b~fore. Exact location of. every part, exact length and position of every wire so clearly pictured you cannot make a mista~e. Service and installation by experts at reasonable · prices. VAUDEVILLE Majestic TIJratrr (A) Belle Montrose and Co., the headline act, a comical young woman assisted by four people who sing and dance. Made quite a hit. (B) The Brambinos, two clowns who play old tunes on the oddest kind of instruments. (C) Ed Allen and Taxi. The latter is a well trained dog putting the act over single handed. (D) East and Dumke. Two portly gentlemen who harmonize using some new ditties. Neighboring Theaters er n HOWARD All roads lead to Rome. That famous line will have a real touch Sunday, October 12, when the Howard theatre will show as its feature picture, "One Night in Rome." Since the ret~rn to the screen '!f Rudolph Valentino, the talk of mov1e fans has been mainly on the showing of "Monsieur Beaucaire," which comes h.' the Howard Monday and Tuesday. In this picture Valentino upholds his position as the screen's greatest lover. Dealing with the court of King. Louis XV (:f:owell Sherman), the.re IS opportumty to show the . fla1r of the royalty of that day wh1ch seems to haye been fall of romance and ch,!valry. . In Holl,r,wood w1th Potas,h and Perl!"utter,, Saf!!uel Goldwyn s productl?n wh1ch w11l be the feature attraction at the .Howard Wednesday and Thur~day, d1~ers fro'!l the usual run of pictures m that .1t does not ~ave the hero and herome embrace m the final fadeout. Instead, the last sc~ne shows ~he famous cloak and su1t p~rtne.rs m a heated argument. ThiS g1ves a strong comedy twist to the finale. SCREEN Rin-tin-tin, the famous police dog, takes a number of good turns in "C!Tl' THAT NEVER SLEEPS" "Find Your Man ," which will be PaniiiiOIIIII Production shown at the Howard Friday and SatMcVickrrs Tlr~alrl! urday. June Marlowe. whom beauty !he picture is based on 'Valter experts have judged the prettiest girl \\ ood~ and Anthony Coldewey's adaptl?n of. the magazine story, "Mother in pictures, is in the cast. 0 Day. hy Leroy cott. It was diEV.1NSTON rected hy James Cruze. Th e story is not as new as some Vera Reynolds, the Cecil B. DeMille other~ you ha1·e seen but they put find, who plays the leading role in some real people in it and, aided by "Feet of Clay," which comes to the ~·xce ll cnt direction, makes an interest- New Evanston theatre Monday, Ocm~ picture. Mother O'Day is left a tober 13, became a star over night. w1dow with a saloon and a little Little Ver a got her chance as a ~Ia ughtcr on her hands. The business girl dancer with Wallace Reid and ·~ profitable and she has orne con- Cleo Ridgley in an earl y picture. Then ~ ld e.ra h le money in the bank but the the twelve year old, chubby, comical, ~n,· ·r?nmcnt in which the daughter disobeyed a father's mandates and I be·ng raised is far from what it unbeknownst to him played on comedy ld be. Yielding to the advice of lots for several years until his conshe gives up the daughter and sent to leave high school was finally nty thou sand a year that the little gained. Then came serious parts in I ADELPHI "You can't hurt your wife and hold her too. A woman may be facinated by a brute, but she can never res pee t him, and without respect love cannot last. This is the general theme of the picture which is different, "Open All Night," to be shown at the Adelphi theatre, Sunday, October 12, with VioLa Dana and Adolphe Menjou in the main roles. It is not infrequent that a woman must give up the man she loves to another woma-n. But how different it all is when that woman is her own daughter. Ernest Lubitch has created this u~usual situation in "Thre e Women,' which is billed for the Adelphi for Monday and Tuesday. May McAvoy as the wife of fickle husband, (Lew Cody), plays her part with charmirrg sincerity. While Pauline Frederick as the mother and former sweetheart of her daughter's husband has some strong emotional scenes. Mary Prevost figures as a third sweetheart to this mjl.n for women. Jack Holt has become one of the most popular of moving picture idols and continues to hold that place with the parts in his recent pictures of which "Empty Hands" will be shown at .the Aaelphi Wednesday and Thursday. "Foolish Virgins" as a title eems to favor the flapper, but only by seeing Elaine Hammerstien in this film which comes to the Adelphi Friday and Saturday, can one judge: safely. HOY BURN The divorce questio11 is one of the most important problems of the present day. Because divorce is more prevalent and because the divorce laws of each state differ the subject is ca using more Jiscussion now than Lncrea Ratio Senice Phone or write Cit? Hall S q - BulWba1 Chica1o c-araa ·t NEWELL & RET CHIN HOWARD ADElPHI Enry Day-1 :15 to 11 :11 N. W. ·L" Statioa at Howa... aad&J', Oetober 12 Contlnuou· i MaUne·· Batur«ay·, 8undaya, Hollcl&J'8 ,.,. N.-tla Clarlr St. ~aada,., ~tober 12 .. "ONE NIGHT IN ROME" Moada7' aad TuelldaJ', Oet. 13-14 "OPEN ALL NIGHT' !Uoada,. aad ........ ,., Oet, 11-14 RUDOLPH VALENTINO MONSIEUR BEAUCAIRE " "rd. aad Thal'll., Oet. 13-1e -··- MAY McAVOY PAULINE FREDERICK MARIE PREVOST LEW CODY · "THREE WOMEN" " . 9. ··· Tllan,. ~t. -··- POTASH and PERLMUTTER "IN HOLLYWOOD" Jo~rldaJ' -··- ta-te JACK HOLT "EMPTY HANDS" Frlda7 aad -··- and 8ata ...aJ', ~t. 17-18 RIN-TIN-TIN "FIND YOUR MAN" -··- ELAINE HAMMERSTEIN _.. _ ata... aJ', OC!t. 1f·18 "FOOLISH VIRGIN" The Nortla Shore'· Moet R.pr·eutative Theaten "CJotitgJ we rode in the nellJ d New Evanston Hoyburn Startia· Moaclay Monday aad Tue·day Cecile B. DeMille's LILA LEE JAMES KIRKWOOD "Wanderin· Husbands" Wedae.day aad Tlaur·clay »---~~ Wilt to PIERCE ARROW Serie.s 80 4-(----..c ODce yau .have ridden in the n· Pier;ce-~rrow &riu 80 you, too, will teD your friends of your experience. You will be ·ama.ecf dUll laCb a remarkably fine car il priced 10 moderately. This DCW Picrc. 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