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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 5 Apr 1929, p. 73

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Apr~l 5, 1929 Sh·~;·~·--T·b;-;t;~-;·-r··-N~·;·~·-·-··1 -~----~---....-....a-a_a_L_D_D_a_n_n_D_D_U_D_D_D_D_I. -~-~-~-~-~-~ .-~-~-·-·-·· WILMETTE LIF.E COMMU'iiTY HOUSE Tusday April t MYSTERY AT VARSIT· Y Mae Murray, Stage Two Who-Did-It Filma 'o'n Bill for Coming Week, "Can&rJ Murder Caae" and "The Laat W arnina" Two mystery films are on the Varsity theater bill of fare for the coming week. In "The Canary Murder Case," Varsity attraction for this Saturday, April 6, the chief question to be solved is: who killed the "canary?" Louise Brooks is the canary, \Villiam Powell a super-detective, and James Hall is suspected of the crime. Similar questions must be answered in "The Last Warning," the Varsity's offering for next Monday and Tuesday, April 8 and 9. Laura LaPlante has a leading role, and this much may be said about the plot. During the enactment of a stage play the leading man is murdered. When the police arrive on the scene, ·the body has disappeared. Question No. 1-Who killed John \Voodward? Question No. 2What happened to his body? "Abie's Irish Rose," featuring Charles Rogers, Nancy Carroll, Jean Hersholt, and }. Farrell MacDonald will be at the Varsity next Wednesday and Thursday, April 10 and 11. The story is about the difficulties that beset the path of Abie Levy and Rosemary M urphy_who meet and love overseas, where one is a soldier and the other a cabaret entertainer. Thev come home. marry secretly. and have an Irish and a Jewish father to contend with. as those · who saw the play will remember. Next Friday anrl Saturda,·. April 12 and 13, the Varsity will present Richard Dix in "Redskin." the color picture about Indian s, photographP.d nrincipally in the heart of the Navajo Indian reservation in northeastern Arizona. . and Screen Star, comes to Granada French Doll," and last but by no means least, "The Merry Widow," with John Gilbert. COL TIM McCOY . "THE BUSHRANGER" "Tarzan" News ID GIVE HIM A HAND Frankie Masters, popular young master of ceremonies, is having his 2,500 performance celebration at the Tivoli theater, Chicago, this week. North shore people became better acquainted with Frankie during the few weeks of last summer when he presided over the stage shows at the Norshore while Kvale was at the Oriental. "White Lilacs," operetta based on the melodies of Chopin, is in its last week at the Selwyn theater. Mae Murray, . Princess M'Divani, stage and screen personality, will make personal appearances as a Greater Sho,w season star at the Granada theat~r starting this Saturday, April 6. She will be the feature artist in "Beautiful Princess," an elabroate stage production which is being prepared by Marks Bros.' production department, and whic\1 will feature other noteworthy artists. Mae Murray will bring with her her entire Marimba band, under the direction of Frank Padillo, and she will be assisted by William Moffa. The act which she will present will be an entirely new one, never before seen in Chicago, and it was natural for Miss Murray to select a dancing vehicle, for it was as a dancer that she first attained fame on the stage. A number of her photoplays were also featured by sumptuously staged dance sequences. It was while dancing in a New York cabaret-night clubs were unknown in those days - that Miss Murray attracted the attention of Flo Ziegfeld. who signed her for the "Follies." She remained with Ziegfeld for several seasons, fqllowed by starring roles in other productions, among them "Her Little Highness." Then came her screen debut in a series of exotic pictures that quickly advanced her to the front rank of film favorites. Among her outstanding photoplay achievements are "Peacock Alley," "Circe the Enchantress," "On vVith the Dance," "J azzmania," "The MARKS BROS. GRAM ADA SHERIDAN & DEVON-MATINEE DAILY APRIL 6-12 . Tim McCov Has Neu' Role in C. H. Film for Next Tuesday Tim McCoy, hero of thrilling Western drama, comes to the Community House, \Vinnetka, Tuesday, April 9, in a new style of role, when he drops the characters of the West to play an Austalian Robin Hood in "The Bushranger," vivid romance of the Australian plains. With boomerang and bullwhip Mc~oy battles his way through a thrillIng series of adventures incidental to a charming love story. Marian Douglas, herself an Australian, plays the heroine. The picture is the first all-Australian film ever -produced in America. I Sue Carol, Arthur Lake, and David Rollins have the Qrincipal roles in "The Air Circus," which will be shown at the Community House two days next week. Friday and Saturday, April 12 and 13. . , "The Air Circus" deals particularly with the course of training in a school of aviation. Rollins and Lake play the two boys who enroll in ·the school, and their · adventures as fledg1ing aviators will especially entertain all other boys who hold similar intentions. There is no real romance in the plot of this film. although there is plenty of banter and fun. Community House has arranged an extra showing of "The Air Circus" for Saturday afternoon, April 13, at 2 :30. MAE 'MURRAY Princess M' Divani -NOW PLAYINGAL KVALE JOHN and His Jazz GILBERT Collegians in Mary Nolan IN PERSON The Famoua Beauty o' the acreen and atage in _an entirely new act a11iatecl by WM. MOFFA and her "FOOT· LIGHTS" "DESERT ~IGHTS" -SATURDAY- ALKVALE And His Jazz Collegians in 11 GUATEMALA MARIMBA BAND She appears in STOP THIEF" with a cast ol 4 o -On the Screen- "BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS" RICHARD DIX TULLY MARSHALL GLADYS BELMONT CHAS. KALEY'S Latest Staae Production "REDSKIN" Filmed in Gorgeou1 Natural Color·, with Sound Extra: Orcheltral Production Norshor~ Thut~r Symphony Orcb. -----TALKING ROMANCE _ _ _ _. . Every Friday 1!vening at g:oo p. m. "Northwestern Niaht" HERE'S REAL THRILLE·R And for those who like )nystery olays-"Dracula," now playing at the Blackstone, is said to make all other such plays look like bed time stories. PHYLUS HAVER in "SHADY LADY" WITH LOUIS WOLHEIM aad ROBERT ABJISTBONG VITAPHONE AND FOX MOVIETONE

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