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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 30 Mar 1928, p. 57

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"40J()()O Miles With Lirul~erth.. T_elllro I aters ' News Radio Favorite to · Une .. Q .. News I Visit Kvale at the : N orshore Theater The program arranged by Teatro del Lago for the coming week contains some interesting pictures. The · foltowing paragraph comment will allow you to formulate an idea of what they are like and about. A T9m Mix film, a Richard Dix presentation, 'Several comedies and possibly. most interesting of. aU, M-G-M's chronical of "Lindy's" great flight, "Forty Thousand Mile~ with Lindbergh.." are included. Tom Mix rather enjoyed making "The Daredevil's Reward," it is said, because it follows closely some of the incidents that occurred early in his life when he w:t.i with the Texas Rangers. Followers of Tom Mix will enjoy this fil m. NO~E other than Sir Harry Lauder as. to make an apP_earance at .the Ol!~P·c th~ater on April ,2."Just thm~: th1s as a'am Mr. Lauder s Last Tou~ of A'!'enca: . Bu! reg~rdless o~ Str Har~y s per1~1cal I!Jten.tJOn to retare to a. prav~te exastence, an h1s befo~ Scottash. h1ghlands, ~e II !Velcome S1r Ha!YY agam and . agam. With an .unvarymg amount of mtens1fied enthus1asm. · · · William T. Hodge in "Straight Through the Door" begins the third week at the Princess this Sunday. · · · "The· Vikings at Helgoland," an Ibsen play, begins its third week at the Goodman Memorial theater. · · · Productions that terminate their runs "Finders Keepers" is a film featuring in the city this week are "The Letter·· Laura LaPlante and based on a story at the Olympic, and ··Diplomacy" at the by Mary Roberts Reinhart. When you Blackstone. say that Laura becomes a private in a man's army that about tells the story. "Excess Baggage," an excellent piece It's genuinely humorous and a good well acted and staged, starts its sixth evening's fun. week at the Garrick next week. B·ll for Thurrtlay Lewis Sto~e. Ricardo Cortez and Maria Corda, the latter a Hungarian actress of both the stage and screen and making her debut in American films with this one, are the three principal clowns in First National burlesque, "The Private Life of Helen of Troy." It is not the satire of Erskine's novel but a hilarious comedy of Homer with wise-cracking title·s. "The Leopard Lady" is an excellent story with a new slant and a surprising ending. The action of the play takes place in a continental traveling circu5. Jacqueline ·Logan gives a splendid performance and is strongly .. Sidewalks of New Yoi-k,"' with Miss sut>ported by Altan Hale and Robert Ray Dooley, will replace "Simba" at Armstrong. the Woods on April 8. · The children's favorite, Bob," who broadcasts every evening over "KYW," the Chicago Evening American radio station, will visit with AI KYale and his Jazz Collegian.; during the week beginning April 1, at the Norshore theater. He wilt sing and tell stories, much · in a similar manner as when he broadcasts. Accompanying him during that week AI and his gang will be host5 to a group of talented artists, in a jazzical stage production of an odd nature. It wilt be confined to "blue" melodies, and will be entitled "Blue Revue." This gay jazz jamboree, with its tantalizing syncopation and tripping maidens, is credited by AI with being one of the most colorful and crooning productions of lhe year. Beautiful Joan Crawford, reputed to possess the most perfect form in filmland, will come to the Norshore screen the same week in her latest starring film, "Rose Marie." This is the ·screen version of the famous stage play which so thrilled play-goers during its ..Good News," at the Selwyn, a clever performance here. It is carried much song and dance production. begins its farther in the film, with its capabilities to reproduce the grandeur of mounse\·enth week Sunday. tains. and the general atmosphere Miss Ethel Barrymore starts her which is such a big part of the profifteenth and last week in "The Con- duction. stant Wife" at the Harris. It is a Miss Crawford ha-.5 an all-:star supbriHiant performance. porting cast, which includes James Murray and House Peters. "Artists and Models" replaces "A Mrs. Elmer L. Young of 218 Duoee Night in Spain" at the Four Cohans on place entertained at a large bridge April 8. nartv at her home last night. "Don't Count Your Chickens!.. whh Miss Mary Boland, will open at the Harris Qn April 8. AND Hll JAZZ COLLBGIANI .. 'Tiae Blae . . .' . KY1V IWio ,.,.,. FREDDIE MAllTIN JOHNNY DUNN SYMPHONY POUR CULLY W O..AIU UNC~E ,..,..,.., . BOB · ·· · · · JOAI CIAWFOID in "ROSE MARIE" JAMES MURRAY UJilb HOUSE PETUS ·· · ··· ··· .. .. BVAMSTO TONIGHT AT 8:15-MATINEE WED. 8 SAT. MARVELOUS COMEDY SUCCESS "Sporting Goods" is one of the verv best of the recent comedies. Richard Dix is cast in a typical young American role, that of a happy-go-lucky golf suit salesman who gets into tremendous difficulties when he allows a girt to think he\s a millionaire. ..She Stoops the Blackstone on April 9. ·· · to Conquer" wilt · · · ··· be at "Four Walls" comes to the Adelphi on April 9, replacing Africana," a Negro show with Miss Ethel Waters, which is now in its fourth week. · ....... Mite.. with Liatl7" What one of the few million Lind,fans needs more than a casual introduction to the film "Forty Thousand Miles with Lindbergh"? It can almost he termed an historical document. Start ing with his preparations for the New York to Paris non-stop flight and ending with his return to St. Louis after a successful termination of the goodwill tour of Central American republics, every detail is ·shown in this film and explained by means of charts and graphs. See it by all means. Harold Lloyd's "Speedy" is scheduled to - make its Chicago debut via Messers Balaban and Katz' Roosevelt this Sunday. Ann Christy is Harotd·s leading lady in the film. The screen version of "The Patsy," with Marion Davies, is one of the releases in the city next week. How does it compare with the stage production? Dun no. ·· CAM BOJUr' -AS PRESENTED BY THEWith an All-Star Dramatic Cast lacladin1 ··· BVAR8'fOR .LAYBa IIAIIG&IIIIT I1JLLD .. aoB·R'I LOWD JOAN PEERS - ROBERT WHITE - BEATRICE LIEBLEE-RICHARD WARD-ANN DERE-LEW · WELCH-KARL WAY AND GEORGE PEMBROKE. EVENING S0-75-Sl.OO-MATINEE 25-50-TELEPHONE UNIV. 8500 FOR SEATS. .. "The Legion of the Condemned," another story of the War from the standpoint of aviation, succeeds "The Patent Leather Kid" at McVickers next Monday. COMMUNITY HOUSE -Hub.. Only one program will be presented at Community House next week, the usual Friday shows being omitted because of the observation of Good Friday. On Tuesday Ken Maynard's "The \Vagon Show" will, be featured with an "Our Ganr;{" comedy as the added T·e.., A,r. I attraction. "The Wagon Show" is a western picture with a circus backIe· ground, a story combining the thrills. GOOD Clrcue Story romance, daring stunts and trick rid"'111£ FRIDAY ing of the twD. As Ken Maynard WAGON ~oent many years with· Barnum and Bailev and Ringling Brothers' circuses SHOW' and the scenario was writtten expressou aa.. c.-. lv for Ken Maynard, the play naturally is not a poor one. ··· COMMUNITY HOUSE ··r·d G ANNOUNCEMENT OFPEIUNG THE GltEATBST ... ...... ....... AMUSEMENT VALUE IN. AMEIUCA WILL BB MADE SOON-:,.WATQI. POa ITI

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