Illinois News Index

Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 6 Jan 1928, p. 9

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· · full leaph on the dastF .ftoot.,PordJce, the .. more aeti·~ of 't he th~~. at ooee . begins a search for claes, h&nclic:apped "N-eW R.,J.e. """!ewhat by the saiJor't ridicuJou lillll .~ T.n antacs. . Naitla ..... 'IWa M-&L Su~denly they hear ~ n~·se-someone .... crawlmg across the roof. Fordyce puts out the light. A shadowy form Amateur detectives, cross-word puz- appeari at the skylight and lowers itzle fans, and anybody else who likes self' in. The sailor jumps for it, and . . . _. . to unravel ·deep, dark mysteries wiD a sc~ffte ensues. Then the lights go Mr. and :Mn. Geonre W. Lilly en· find themselves challenged to discover on, and they find · that the prowler is a . tertained a number ol their frieaids at· the secret of "Number 17" before the girL In the darkness, the body has their home, 122 Fourth atreet, ' last curtain goes down on the final act of disappeared. Wednesday evening. S~ 1ru the ~t.est North Shore Theater Guild Cirl .ia tM served and there was daac:iDj. · . oflermg. When t h e IJll' . 1 revaves, · . · she expIa. ms Thts play, by Jefferson ~ar)eon, that she and her father live in No. IS, . m·c: '?f the world s foremost wrtters of the house next door. Her father has thnlling mlstc:ry drama~ and a'!thor ~~ been missing for several days. In a many fasc:m~tang detectave st~nes, wdl search of the bouse, she discovered an be the guald s second .Productaon of t~e attic door locked, and breaking in, finds current season. It wall be presented tn a small disc on the windowsill, on Lake forest !aalUary 17 at Durand hall, which is imprinted, "No. 17." The fo~lowmg wttb perfor~ances at the plucky girl finds that she can reach the H·!fhland Park \Voman s. cl'!b, January roof of "No. 17" by crawling out of the 18, Central Sch~l audttoraum, <;len- window. She does so, and enters lllle aad Jeck.....a.ICIIIO coe, }a~uary 19' Jan~ Kuppenhen~er through the skylight, where the sailor Memoraal hall, Skokae school, Wan- captures her. · netka, January ~ and 21; Shawnee Fordyce is at a loss, but he does not Country club, Wilmette, !anuary 24; t'ell her of the body they have found. and the Evanston Woman s club, Jan- He sees written on the disc the hour nary 25 and 26. · :30. And at precisely 4:30 in the I.,..Uoua Plot morning a bell rings, and three In "Number 17," all the imt)lements strangers make their appearance. of dire melodrama are woven into a From here on the play is a maze of singularly ingeniQUs plot. A short pro- tangled clues and mysteries - secret Iogue introduces the mystery in a scene staircases, trap doors, screams in the that takes place .in front of an un- dark, and all the hair-raising .ingreditenanted house in London during a ents that go to make up an evening of dense fog. Two men are discovered delightful laughs and chills. . Eacelleat Cut conversing in low tones on the curb outside of Number 17. A sailor, wild "Number IT~ is ·entirely different with fright, comes running out of the from anything the North Shore Theahouse to say that he·s found a dead ter Guild has ever produced, arid man inside, presumably murdered. should prove a pleasant diversion for The two follow him to the attic-a . a cold, winter night. The c~st includes dark and dingy place. where cobwebs, J . .Williams Macy, Samuel S. Otis, falling plaster, and strange sounds pre- Mary A. Harding, }. Lincoln ~ Gibson, diKOYery of , a maa~·. left aretcbecl IJ," Pt. w... M,._,. .J· Eiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Bellrv we...tr··...,... aSons iJ Merchandise adtJertised in the Chicago papers is also on sale in oUr· Et~anston Shop. January Oearances Now in Progrm Throughout~,. Evanston Shop January Special Q · p u a h 0 t 0 Men's, Young Men's and Boys' 1 · 1 g r Suits Overcoats t v a p h. AD ewwr.. Shoes , Furnishings s_.,_ ...... 8 Sil Gainsboroaghs Regular Price $12 For Limited Time Only 1623 ~INGTON AVE. BERNIE'S TEL UNM!UITY.8tt8

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