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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 13 Jul 1928, p. 51

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July 13; 1928 WILMETTE LIFE Shore Theaters I -a·a··-·-·-~J-.J·a·-JII!I··a· News Eni'J' Friday Night "AMERICAN VENUS BEAUTY CONTEST" Come a& t P. 11. - - - - - - a - · · · ( t . . . _ , _ a ____ - ·a-...,. Community House Will Jack and Jill Players Varsity Announces Show "Old Ironsides" Perform at Drake Hotel Pictures for Week The Jack and Jill Players are preLike a mighty chord played to a Starting Saturday stirring memory the guns of "Old Iron- senting "Mercadet," a comedy in Motion pictures to be shown at the Varsity during the coming we~k include "The Magnificent Flirt," 44 His Tiger Lady," and "Diamond Handcuffs." "The!Jagnificent Flirt" is the first of the offerings. It is a picture in which Florence Vidor plays a game of wits, and it will be shown at the Varsity this Saturday, July 14. Adolphe Menjou and Evelyn Brent play the principal roles in "His Tiger Lady," coming to the Varsity next Monday and Tuesday. Others in the cast are Rose Dione, Emil Chautard, Mario ·c arillio, Leonardo de Vesa, and Jules Ban court. The locale of the picture is Paris and the story is of a stage "super" who, gorgeous in a rajah's costume, falh in love with a duchess. The duch~ss comes night after night to see, not the play, but one act in which a man enters a tiger's cav,e. The lady, you learn, worships bravery. The "rajah" meets the duchess and the duchess falls for the "rajah." "Diamond Handcuffs," which will be shown at the Varsity next Wednesd'ly and Thursday, is a swift drama of greedy men and lovely women. It is ond is the mena cruel story. A diam_ ace-a horrible. devastating menace which brings unhappiness and death to those who covet its possession. 'The picture is done in three episodes. Eleanor Boardman, Conrad Nagel, Gwen Lee, Lawrence Gray, and Lena Malena ar.e the actors and actresses. sides" thunder again. The old wartime picture will be shown on the Community House screen next Tuesday, July 17. · Sashed pirates no longer roam the Mediterranean, but Stephen Decatur and the powder-grimed Yankee heroes of 1804 are not forgotten. Wallace Beery, George Banqoft, Johnnie \Valker, Charles Farrell-and, of course, Esther Ralston-must feel signally honored. They play some of the principal roles in the picture. To those who know Syd Chaplin only through the amusing female impersonations in "Charley's Aunt," "The Man on the Box," and "Oh! What a Nurse," we recommend a visit to the Community House next Friday, July 20, where he will play in the screen version of "The Better 'Ole." In this picture Syd is Old Bill, famous old soldier of the Bruce Bairnsfather cartoons. Adapted by Charles Reisnel:" and Darryl Francis Zanuck from the stage play by Bairnsfather and Arthur Eliot, "The Better 'Ole" makes perfect screen material, and is excellently acted by a cast that includes Harold Goodwin, Doris Hill, Theodore Lorch, Ed Kennedy, Charles Gerrard, Tom McGuire, Jack Ackroyd, Tom Kennedy, K. Morgan, and Arthur Clayton. The pr~rluction was directed by Charles Retsner, who used to write the gags for the Charlie Chaplin pictures. three acts by Balzac, at the Jack and Jill theatre in the Drake hotel, Chicago, this week and the early part of next week. Three performances have already been given and three more are scheduled, one each on the evenings of July 14, 15, -and ·18 at 8:30 o'clock. The pl(!yers are under the direction of Marie Agnes Foley. Another three act comedy, "The Ladies' Battle," by Scribe and Legouve, will be presented on tJte evenings of July 21, 22, 25, 28, 29, ~nd August 1. The Younger Jack and Jill Players have also been (!Ctive recently. They_ gave two performances of "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp" last Saturday and Sunday. Successive performances of this play will be given at 3 o'clock on the afternoons of July 14, 15, 21, 22, 28, and 29. Ruth Elder, who tried to do what Amelia Earhart did, will play opposite Richard Dix in the latter's new starring picture, "Moran of the Marines." This picture is from an original screen story hy Linton Wells, newspaper man and aviator. STARTING SUNDAY FRANKIE MASTERS and the Jazz Collegians in "Frankie's Follies" -On the Screen- "THE DRAG NET" GEORGE BANCROFT EVELYN BRENT WM. POWELL Every Saturday-Deluxe Kiddies' Coo-Coo Club Matinee, 3 :oo P. M. Bring the children. Ravinia Opera and Concerts $eventeenth Season June 23 to September 3 Box Oftlce Open 9:10 A. 11. Until 10 P. M. Dally & Sunday Telephone Highland Park 1717 Garden of Allah Books Fred Hamm's Orchestra Coming back to Chicago from a year as headliners on the Keith-Albee vaudeville circuit, Fred Hamm and !1is Collegians opened at the Garden of Allah, Glenview, Ill., on Thursday, July 12. Fred Hamm is one of Chicago's original dance and radio favorites, having broadcast several years a(J'o from stations WLIB and WGN. The orchestra was also well known through its many Vi_ ctor records. Following its Chicago ru11 the Hamm orchestra journeyed eastward and became so successful in vaudeville, that the KiethAlbee circuit built up an entire unit shQw aro_und it. Primarily a dance orchestra, specializing in sweepi11g rhyj:hms and melodies, the Hamm orchestra enlivens its prog-rams with a speedy succession of novelties, singing and diversified entertainment. The Garden of Allah, where the orchestra is now playing, is located on Waukegan road at Lake avenue, fi~~ miles directly west of Lake Michigan. Illinois has 1,000,000 fowls accredited as standard-bred-as many as all other states combined. German War Picture to Be Shown at Playhouse For the first time, Chicagoans will have an opportunity to see a motion picture account of "Germany's Side of the War," the title of the picture which will have its premiere and only showing in ~hicago at the Playhouse theater beginning- Sunday, July 15. This film is the fir st authentic, unbiased account of the hardships, the adversitie3, and the forlorn hopes of Germany. Battles on all the fronts are shown and among them, the battle of Warsaw where millions of Russian soldiers were defeated. It is generally conceded by those who have followed the motion pictures of the war, that thi~· is the most thrilling, compl~te, and convincing picturization of a battle ever recorded by the camera. The result of this battle was instrumental in bringing about the overthrow of the Czar an.d his government. One reel is also devoted to the portrayal of the mane~vers of Germany's most dramatic under-sea craft, the U-35. WAUKEGAN ROAD AND LAKE AVE. - GLENVtE'W , ILL. -THE SHOW SPOT OF AMERICA- ANNOUNCEMENT! Complete Change in Policy! NOW PLAYING! FRED HAMM AND HIS COLLEGIANS Acclaimed by AU Eastern Critics Chemistry Institute to Hear Eminent Scientist Dr. Harry N. Holmes, head of the department of chemistry at Oberlin college, will give a series of lectures at the institute of chemistry of the American Chemical society to be held at Northwestern university.. July 23 to August 18. Dr. Holmes is well known to chemists as a teacher as well as a research worker in the field of colloids. His lectures will be given as a pa .. t of the course in teaching methods which is being organized by B. S. Hopkins, of the University of Illinois. Illinois ranks third among the states in the production of oats. COMMUNITY HOUSE Tues., J'uly 17 "THE CREAM OF THE AIR" The dance Ooor baa been doubled in size u weD u other improyements for your pleasure! The new Garden of Allah now resembles a bic beauti· ful Doll Houae! Special attentioa to Golcl Coast patroul Only a few mile. OD perfect roatb J "Old Ironsides" Wallace Beery Esther Ralston George Baneroft Charles Farrell (From the Immortal Poem by Oliver Holmes) "Trail of the Tiger" · Fri., J'uly I Sid Chaplin In "The Better 'Ole" From the Play by Balnsfarther and Arth·r EIUot Oswald Comedy Bruee I'F YOU CAN'T BE PRESENT-TUNE IN ON WBBM

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