April 8, 1927 WILMETTE LIFE 45 AT THE EVANSTON THEATRES Stage and Screen News and Reviews VILLAGE THEATRE 'Boy Scouts Plan Big Demonstration Gathering May 6 ' The date of May 6 has been set for the hig meeting of the year for the North Shore Area Scout council. All I. memhers of committees, council mem"Easy Picking·" bers, and other men interested in Boy Do you like mystery? Doe s your Scout work on the north shore are spine tingle deliciously as trap door~ invited to attend · the Spring council creak and strange figures ste<i.l through ' meeting which will be held at 6:30 the gloom? · ! o'clock in the evening, in the New If you do, you'll be thrilled by "Ea ~ y Trier High school dining room. FolPickings," First Nationa l's new myslowing the dinner and business meettery-drama, coming to the Village on ' ing a public demonstration and Court Monday and Tuesday. or Honor will he held in the school Anna Q. Xilsson is featured ,and I auditorium. there is romance and comedv as well I The troops wiil be inspected, and as mystery in thi s picture which ! the neatest troop announced as the George Archainbaud directed and winner of honor i1,1spection. The Elmwhich wa s produced under the manI hurst Boy Scout Drum and Bugle corps agement of Frank Griffin. will furnish several musical numbers. "Blind Alleys" Even·one of the more than 600 scouts "Blind Alleys," Thoma:') ).[eighan\ (l II in the .thirty troops of the council are I.lt('st . . P·,tramount proc1uct1011 ne , wou be . . .s 1 10\\'Jllg . < imagine, IJ . .to look ld at her, f . \\·or k' ·lllg 1 1ar d so tl1a t tl 1ey nla'"' J on \Vedne sday and Thursda .'is an ex- 11 lal ·~ 1anon . avlt:s. wou pre et among the fayorcd ones to receive ,' t'ng f t ~. , clramat1c roles m beautiful clothes, and awards at this l>ig Court of Honor. 1 1· cl>leclol7ll ms<:eot)< ratmda o ti\\'O fit~etop 1 .e h't" 1 lOf nn·cr Indulge in come<h·. But on the . f e ara c on 1c 1r mg o . . Aclmi -.s ion to this event 1s ree. 1 1 01 tl lelr · 1 t l1n'II s, ; th 1one ymoon. All so r t s o f . · C(lntran. · · e tamou sk H:auty1 1 t lC h Fatl1crs a11d 111others, .. brothers and sis· Ju cI'lllg a secoiH 1 \\'Oman, en t er 1n · t r· "c n ·ct l prctL·rs to ma · e Pt:OP tcr. s, Sc s and their friends are inme h .e aug.' 1 - . ot1t . it before the final fadeout. EvelYn and "ac~illcL·" her. 1oob t? ac 1eve t 11s \'ited. Brent and Greta :\isse n arc featun·cl. re:--ult ! 111 H' and tlln.e ~galll. · 1 In .. fhl· l{l'<i ).[Ill, her new Cos- , Frank Tut t],, \\'a s at the mcgapl1onc. nwpolita n Yt:hick com in~ to the VilNEW C. OF C. MEMBERS "The Red Mill" ]af.!t' Fr iday . .,lJl' \n·ars pigtails and St.:vcn ne\\' members have been add~farion Davie s piays a coioriul ,,< 11 ·dt·n ,; lwc-- a~ a Dutch heroine; at- ed to the roster of the \Vilmette Dutch heroine. in pigtails and wooden '"'\:-- her iace t<· b e irozen o\'er in one Chamber of Commerce, it was anshoe s, in tl1c "Hed ~rill ." an clahora·c .,rl'JH' - ju"t I<· "L' I a lau~· h. nounced this week. Those whose ap.... ' filmization of th e famous stage hit (Ji : · · -- -- · plications were accepted recently were· tlte sa me name by Henry Dl osso m and \ ·ict or Herbert, one <Jf th e dramat ir j ll :- t I ·I'\' i orm. It ha s s'ince become a ]. E. Roy and J. \V. \Villiams, of the "ensations of a few seaso ns ago. :\ n.llional Yacation ground through the Breakers Beach club; Harry C. Kinne, I lawyer: Pa\'lik Brothers, machine not able cas t is seen in the production . !H·pularity it attained from the 15,000,· - shoj); S. J. Burman, manager, \Vilincluding Owen ).I oore a s the her(l. (1()() rt:adL·r:-- of tlw \\'right story. shot:e Bond and ~fortgage company; George Siegman as the \'illain. Loui . L' :\ casual \'i~it to this particular unFazencla, Snitz Fdward~. Karl Dan e, kn0\\'11 country showed the author its Cliuk and Nick, Service station, \Vil\\rillia111 Orl amond. 1\us:-,t· ll Po\\'ell. Jll)~sihilit ies and he remained to write mette and Ridge avenues: Stephen Fred Gamhold and othrrs of note. a q u n · of the everyday life in that Shimonek, gasoline and oil station, "Red ).f ill" \\·i ll be presented on Fri- sL ·c tiOI;. The story is now read · in 1428 Sheridan road. da _ , . and Saturday. t.:Ycn· land. The picturesque and sturily mountaineers, "Preachin' Bill," THE NORSHORE "Young 11att," and "Old 11att," "\\'ash Gibbs." "Little Pete," "Sammy Lane" _ 11 Tell It to the Marines" and all the other quaint char~cter:; ~re l.otl Chancy, portrayer of weird crip- introduced .in the sta~e vers10~ wh1ch pk s. a ~ a dogged fighter-leading a I abounds \\'tth romant:~ ~le~;t mterest, force ot United States Uarines in a and a ~harm of the Htlb one candesperate encounter \Vith Oriental not t:aslly forget. bandits-this is one of the rcmarkabl e -.--- ..--.. -..-----,-,_-_-,-,_-,_--,-..--o---=-,.!· \'ariants ior the famous actor's usual ·,!· --NOW PLAYING-activities-in "Tell Tt to· the ~farines," · in which he play-; a veteran sergeant in , . ~felro-Gold\\'yn-~[ aye r'. spectacular ~. "rE LL . c· f t I1c 'f . I L :\1 ~. I .. 1 · ' ep1c .\ anne orps, commg nn ~unday to the Xorshore theatre. The picture, filmed with Governin ment co-operation, was made on bat- · _ tlcships. in ~farine barracks, and in 9rient.al. locales. with rcgula.r ~fari1~es 111 thnllmg hattie scenes, shtp practice ~: \'our nome Theuter and other. det~1ils of . ~fari.ne life. · George Hill dtrected 'tt, \\'lth Lon .r. B. 1\nJ·pel. ~lanaghur Ulrt>etur ,From Victor Herbert's I Chane\· in the role of a veteran scr-, ~l'hone Wilmette BH _ laughing operette ,gcan t .' \Vi tliam Haines as a recruit, _ . 1·· ;111 EHillngs 7:no; )Int. Tues., Eleanor Boardman as the heroine, a satnrtlay ~rats.: ! u11d -1 STAGE EVENTS navy nurse, and Carme l ).Iyer . Eddie ~,Gribbon. Frank Currier, ~[auricc · - STARTING SUNDAY}I on. a nil Tut·s., ..\ )lrll 11·1:! Kains, ~1 itchell Lewi~. Daniel C. Tom- · TWO IL\ \'~ ox L y Iinson and ot hers in the cast. Several ~ The sensational thriller of 1111 a CJ . Xllsstm _ Kt·JIJH·th llarlau hundred regular ~farinr~ take part in lu _ America's fighting lovers. the production. 1 ,I VARSITY "Pride of the North Shore., FRIDAY ~ SATURDAY BUSTER KEATON m His Laugh Riot I "THE 1 GENERAL" Varsity Concert Orchestra Giant Geneva Organ ·varsity News Even.ts Mon., April 1 1-Colleen Moore "ORCHIDS ~ ERMINE" . Wed .. April 13-Marion Davies "THE RED MILL" Continuous 2 to 1 1 :3 o. Come Anytime. NEWEVANSTON NOW PLAYING Clyde Elliott 1 Village Theatre I f \\ · L" c . I. 1 i I I I f 1 1 1 I Marion Davies Owen Moore · Ptesenis THE MINTURN PLAYERS with "THE RED MILL" Harry Minturn Margery Williams 1n Jane Cowl's Success t 1 I I I 1 ··EASY II i"Tl!t· ~t·rh·s 1 . . I 1:J-1' i t 1\ "" 1 centers about Harold Bell Wright's faThnmas Jlt·ighun in mous novel "The Shepherd of the = ~~BLIND Hills" a dramatization which will be 1 a given by the :\f inturn Players. at thl'l ~.\l1>0o ~ew Ev.ansto. n theatre, uncl~r the per- : ··Li:-tt·n Lt·tut" :! HHI :\J··rmuftl ~onal dtrectiOn of 11r. M111tun:. al~ ( 'omt·tiJ 11114 1 l'utht· Rnh·w next week. A story more. typ1~alt.' 1 1 Fri. nnil ~at., .\Jlril 1:.·16 American could hardly he tmagmed. : . TWO IUY~ O~J , Y The scenes are laid in the Ozark ! 'larinn Uarit·s in mountains of Missouri, a rcgi?n ,,·hich i ~~THE i may be said to have been cllscovered = ! l)v Mr. W right, as it was little known I Also "Bu)iff'r's J,rizt- ·whuu·r·· 2 Ut·t>l to the aver.age p~r.s~n. be\'ond those in ( 'umetly auul rathe Xews the imm<'dtate VIC11llt.\', before the ad- : vent of "The ~hcph~nl of the Hills" ·!··-·-~~-·- -·-~~-~~-·-·-·-~~-.:· A "~~r~ ;,~:~he:n ~i~t~~~a~ ill::;c mI I 1 1 I MINTURN PLAYERS PICKINGS" Ht·lnl"-it~11 s1~t tht ('olleglnus I I "SMILIN' THROUGH" - STARTING MONDAY- "-r'\~;'· ')N' f~· N! ~:~ un4l l'u.the ~ t·ws 1 1 I Lon Chaney in ·LLEYS" I I "Tell It To The Marines" Eleanor Boardman William Haines - STAGE PROGRAMSAM ROBBINS and his Baltimoreans The Grear Anthony whi.stler favorite. Harold Bell -Wright's I I "SHEPHERD OF THE HILLS" Evenings at 8: 15· Prices SOc, 7Sc and $1.00 Matinee; Tuesday, Thura. A: Sat. I RED MILL" I I 1 I ZSc,SOc PHONE UNIVERSITY 8500 .