s March 25, 1927 WILMETTE VILLAGE THEATER LIFE 45 Enthusiastic Audience . Greets "The First Year" By HUB '.'The First Year," presented by the M!nturn player~ at the New Evanston th1s week, warrants in very way the high favor that has been accorded it by the theater-going public. It ·ran for over two years in 'New York wh~rc it was fi.rst introduced, and achteved a corresponding success in Chicago. It opened at the New Evanston, , Mon~ay night, before a full house. . The story of the play deals with the first year of married life; its troubles and tragedies, its sunshine and shadows-most of them comic as reviewed !n after life. As Dr. Anderson said m the play itself, "They're · sort of mat,rimonial measles, everybody has them and it's better to have them young. You get over them quicker and they seldom prove- fatal." The characters are a veragc American people, playing the scenes from actual life, both in action and in "lines." You know, every time I review a play presented by the ~{in turn company, a statement by an old colored man comes to my mind. It v\'as· about the time automobiles were first sho\\'ing up in the south and as I was watching- one puff hy the old da.r ky came up to me. Said he "Mista Hub ain't that suah enuf de quality?" Th~ ~finturn players arc "suah enuf de quality." Take 1Iargerv Williams for instance, one could ha~dly live a 'part more comnletely than she (lid the part of the wife. And \Villis Hall as Dr '\f ~~ron Andcrs::m, ·presented the first honcs_t characterization of a physician that 1t ll'as rver he en my privilege to sre on the stage. ~ancy Harris, as "Hattie." tl1c little colored maid. played into hrr part hv far the hest that she has done in <;ny play that I haYc seen. The other members of the compan~· were at their usual high ~tan(larcl. s e s [1 s y s I '· ~. l' g d NEW EVANSTON "Spooks" .c"' tl t tl 'f' t I 11ot 1 1 . ._ 1a 1e ·' m urn pavers are pre ·cnting "Spooks" at the New Evanst<'m next week. Intcre ting play. Tt is about everything that. one could desire in the type that it represent:': a masterpiece of mystery-play composition, moving rapidly from curtain to curtain. and carrying a romantic thrme intermingled with comrdy thr()ughout. It has a gripping · 1 1 · · . OJWllll!g an< t 1e mterest IS sustamed until the last second. Presented hY . a compan_\' like the ~finturns. it should merit a full hottst> everv night. .. --------IIIinois spent twice as much for electrical goods-excluding- radio equipment and refrigerators--as for motion pictures, during 19~6. the picture is said to be on.e of the most dramatic vehicles the star has Rubber Tiatea eve.r attet;npted. Again the orchid-like A motor car without a motor is the beauty of Miss Griffith is set off in newest "freak" to find its place in mo- robes of European court life. tion picture. · · Th~ "engit~eless - , flivver" figures prommently m "Rubber Tires " a screen version of Frank Condon's WILMETTE; ILL. hur:torous story of the auto camps, NOW PLAYING whtch Alan Dale directed for Cecil B. -DeMille, and which comes to the Village. theatre Monday and Tuesday. Harrtson Ford, who · plays the male lead, if he is to follow his sweetin tht Comtdy Scrtam · heart, Bessie Love, who has motored Westward via the auto camps with Your Home Theater ' her family, must have an automobile. J . ..JI. Koppel, Managing Dlret!tor , . He has only $25, but with this small Ph&ne Wilmette UU sum he is able to buv· a Ford wreck ETenlngs 1:110; Mat. Tues., 1:10 with Jobyna Ralston which boasts no engin~. He purchases Saturday Mats., t and 4 the car, and pulling the broken dO\vn BIG STAGE PROGRAM automobile stall, works his way across lfon., Toes., }larch !8·!9 country with the aid of unsuspecting TWO DAYS ONLY and gullible motorists. Jlarrl&on Forll nn~ Bessie Love tn STARTING SUNDAY "A Kiss in a Taxi" llewitching Bebe Daniels, the sue""RUBBER A drama, ric~ and btautifulcess of whose screen efforts seem to i Also ptrftct sttting for "Tbt · a be a predetermined factor, launches ! "Around tht> Base"-6th of the ('olle¥1nn Series Orchid of tht Scrttn." · another Paramount triumph with her and Patl\e :News latest ·starring vehicle, "A Kiss in a Taxi," to be shown on Vvednesday and Wt>d., Thurs., llarch 30·!U Thursda\-. · TWO nA '\'S O~LY . In thi~ fast-stepping French farce i Debe Daniels In adapted from the ,recent Broad,x..·ay ""A KISS IN AT AXI" stage success of the same title Behe in With Chester Conklin is cast as Ginette, handsome, ' highAlso tempered waitress of the Cafe Pierre "Wedding Yells"whose disapproval of amorous ad~ 2 Ueel Tuxedo Vomedy vances is !,expressed in showers of n nd I·a.t he Re,·lew glassware directed at the heads of :Fri., Sat., AI,rll 1·2 gentlemen so ind'iscteet as to attempt 1'WO DAYS O~LY STAGE PROGRAM to kiss her. · Kt>n lluynard In "The Overland Stage" HEWITT ~ HALL Riding stunts which absolutely top OVERLAND Songbnd's Favoritt Sons anything ever attempted for the screen are a feature of Ken MaynST~~E" . ORVILLE ST AM f1 CO. anl's performance in "The Overland Dashing, Dancing Duo lllll Uoy In "Funny t 'oc·t·"Stage," to he featu.r ed Fridav and 2 Ueel JuHnllt> ('omedy Saturday. One of these is Ma)·nard's nnd Phth.- ~ews leap to the near horse of a runaway ,_,.t._.,· team, going at breakneck speed. He intentionally falls-for purposes of the story-bel\\'een the t\\'O running horses, braying their flying hoofs, and I having the wagon pass over him, after \\'hich he sits up in the road and gazes f 1 f · Louis XI II Drawing Room a ter. t 1e ast-flym_g teat~l. .. .. Thts hrcath-ta.kmg }ml for sm~tde \\'a~ .all accomplished m_ on .c co~tmu ott~ seen~'.- so. that no ca_mera-tn&ery could po~~lhl~ he emplo~ eel. ·-vm;g~~Th-;tr~-'i I I I t I I I Harold Lloyd "The Kid Brother" I I I I I I I ! TIRES" CORINNE GRIFFITH "The Lady in· Ermine" ""THE I .. _t .--4t._~._..._,...._.,., 1 THE NORSHORE L d -. E · , I (' onnne . '"ThGe 'ffial Y kin rm·nel · t 1. n0\\'11 as 1e II 1 t'f 1 · tl - 'I"" · u :'·oman.. til . le ,,·or u SI!1CC ~-ther.ty ee~_ly 51-nt ltts hcvauty eclttor 111 S<.'arc 1 ot a moe ern . enus, r~turns to the Norshore next Sundav tn a ne'" \\'ar picture, "The Lady in ·Ermine," produced by Asher, Small and Rllgers for First· National release. The tale of a true episode of the . war between Austria and Italv in 1810, J~att I r . r rt t lll<Y~t DRY CLEAN FOR EASTER Not all of us can afford to buy ~ew clothes for Easter Sunday. but there is not one of us who can't afford to have our best and next to best suit and top coat dry cltantd and pressed to look like new. Do not hesitate to phone for our collector to call for tht clothes you want to have put in order for Easter. Apartment Living-Rooms shoul~ be all that the name Implies. At The Georg1an, great care and thought was shown ln designing of this most important room. Light, sunshine and air are amply provided for by llberal window space. 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