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ox ap mer 5 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1924 a SCREEN HERE AND THERE ON STAGE AND Reviews of the Week By Thespian SCREEN "MARRIED FLIRTS" Chicago Theatre Louis Joseph Vance wrote the story from which this picture was made. He called the story "Mrs. Paramor" but for the purpose of "drawing them in" the change was made. There are a pair of married flirts here, one not being enough for one session. Pair number one consists of a "plain jane" wife who writes, wears unbecoming clothes and fails to understand her husband. He, fond of bright lights, tries a flirtation with a single girl with considerable success and the latter explains to the neg- lected wife that, "a woman who can't hold her husband doesn't deserve to have him." But times and scenes change and the neglected wife becoming the no- torious Mrs. Paramor has a few scenes of her own and with the former vamp's husband at that. And how she does turn the tables on her. If you would see how easy it is for married people to slide off the narrow path, here's your chance. It's a fairly interesting story, rather cleverly de- veloped and screened. It also gives opportunity to Miss Pauline Frederick and Conrad Nagel for some rather clever work. Miss Frederick is per- haps a little. too plain in the first scenes but she makes up for it in her portrayal of Mrs. Paramor. Mr. Nagel is quite competent and then there are Huntley Gordon and Mae Bush to lend a helping hand through- out the picture, The latter is especially good. Married Flirts may not be true to life but they make you think it is and that's saying a good deal for the director and cast. "TONGUES OF FLAME" McVickers Theatre The story for "Tongues of Flame" was taken from the novel by Peter Clark MacFarlane. It deals with one Harrington who is looked up to and respected by the Siwash Indians who own Shell Point. A prominent busi- ness man wants to buy the land but has little success till he employs Harrington to get the signatures of the Indians. Just as the papers are about to be registered Harrington learns that the great anxiety on the part of said business man to buy the land was due to the fact that there was oil beneath the surface. Oh shades of Tea-Pot Dome! Immedi- ately Harrington puts a monkey wrench in the machinery and the sale is off. But the business man is not through and the troubles he causes Harrington is quite sufficient. It ends all right, however. Thomas Meighan, one of the real actors on the screen, is playing Har- rington, and whether he be behind prison bars or in the midst of mobs and fires he is still the actor and a fine one. And then he does some kind of work that makes a big hit with the ladies including a switch in his affections from the rich young lady to the one who is poor but has an honest heart. Burton Churchill is Boland, the business man, and is entirely capable. The same, in the main, is true of Bessie Love and Eileen Percy. Cyril Ring handles a small part well. Altogether, there isn't much the matter with cast, direction or the picture in general and there are enough changes of scenes and ideas to keep interest well keyed up to the end. VAUDEVILLE Majestic Theatre Mae Dix and the Chicago Harmo- naders have top position on the Ma- jestic bill this week and their tunes bring forth some well merited ap- plause. Charles Kenna with his skit as the street corner fakir brings a laugh to those who have never seen him and a smile to those who are familiar with his act. The Wonderettes, a manikin act, well worthy of mention and those who pull the strings behind the scenes have worked out something of inter- est to grown-ups as well as children. It has many novel features. Ray- mond Bond and company, here on previous occasions, have a good sketch, "The Worm," that goes across in fine shape, while Pearson New- port and Pearson are the best of the song and dance artists on the bill. Neighboring Theaters NEW EVANSTON Pola Negri's latest production for Paramount, "Forbidden Paradise," di- rected by Ernst Lubitsch who made "Passion" and "The Marriage Circle," and featuring Rod La Rocque, Adolphe Menjou and Pauline Starke in the prin- cipal supporting roles, opens a three days' run next Monday at the New Ev- anston theatre. The picture is an adaptation by Agnes Christine Johnston and Hans Kraly of the popular stage success, "The Czarina," vy Lajos Biro and Menyhert Lengyel and marks the first professional reunion of star and producer since those memor- able post-war days in continental FEu- rope. "Forbidden Paradise" is said to be one of the most colorful and dramatic films which that famous pair have yet pro- luced. Adding to their experience and 'heir mastery of technique during the two years which have elapsed since they separated in Europe, both Pola and Lu- bitsch brought to the filming of "For- bidden Paradise" a strength and deftness unknown in their European days. In the story Pola is the queen oi a small Balkan principality, a masterful and efficient sovereign who meets the in- trigues and deceits of court life with an iron hand. She is a creature of extra- ordinary beauty and magnetism and poss- essing a decided penchant for handsome young men. Rod La Rocque is a soldier in the army at the front. Menjou is the queen's chancellor, her faithful servant and a diplomat of the highest order. Miss Starke is first lady-in-waiting to the Czarina. + A revolution is on foot and Ia Rocque, as Alexei, warns the queen, but the chancellor attempts to discredit him. The Czariana falls in love with Alexei. Anna (Miss Starke) is heartbroken. Alexei learns from his fellow officers that with the queen he is more or less of a plaything. He is filled with a loath- ing for the Czarina and joins forces with the revolutionists. ~The uprising is quell- ed and Alexei is imprisoned. How he is eventually treed and finds happiness with Anna should constitute one of the most interesting productions shown in Evanston in many a long day. Fred Malatesta, Nick De Ruiz and Mme. D'Aumery are among the more prominent members of a fine supporting cast. Lubitsch was loaned to Paramount by Warner Brothers to make "Forbidden Paradise." Jo HOYBURN Adolphe Menjou is looking for a new word ! The English language, rich as it is, doesn't seem to have a term which de- scribes the roles played by the noted Paramount actor. "Villain?" he asks. villains I" The dictionary gives many definitions but none seems to fit Menjou's interpre- tations. In the beginning the word "vil- lain" meant serf. "An ignoble or base- born person generally a boor, peasant or clown." Then it gradually came to mean a vile person, a law breaker. "I do not violate the law in a pic- ture like "The Fast Set,' for instance,' I obey the law but I am the arbiter of fashion and etiquette." In "The Fast Set," William de Mille's production, based on Clara Beranger's screen play of Frederick Lonsdale's stage success, "Spring Cleaning," Menjou ap- pears as a polished gentleman, who de- lights in sending a flutter through the hearts of women by sheer charm and personal magnetism. He appeals to their vanity. His gracious manners and ready wit make him the leader of the "fast set," a character as far removed from the accepted "villain" as are the poles. "The parts 1 have been most success- ful in have been of men of education and wealth. You may call them philand- erers, if you like. It is this kind of a part I play in 'The Fast Set' Obvi- ously, the so-called 'great-lover' in this picture, has had a college education and mingled with the best people. He wears fine clothing, carries a cane and smokes the best brand of cigarettes. He is al- ways master of himself and delights in "I don't play 'unmastering' others, if I may be per- mitted to use such a term. "Yet, because the public catalogues its stage screen characters, I am thrown in- to the heap marked 'heavy' meaning the stereotyped villian. I loathe the word, 'villain" I find myself pictured in the public mind as a bearded, sweaty and bare-throated victim of emotion, the kind of character which leers at women and frightens the frail, young things. "We must find a new term for this type of society figure. 'Villain' doesn't describe it." "The Fast Set," which is said to be one of the outstanding comedies of the season, features Betty Compson, Elliott Dexter, ZaSu Pitts and Menjou, opens next Monday at the Hoyburn theatre for a 3 days' run. Paramount Camp, in the Sierra Neva- das. If what happened here had occurred twenty years ago, in the days when the West was still new, each of the tiny little mining camps in the hundred-mile radius from this lonely spot would be a- buzz with conversation. But it happened today. And besides, all of those tiny little mining camps are skeletons, bleaching in the summer sun and buried by the winter snows, and the voices that spoke there twenty years ago are scattered to the four winds. What happened was the wrecking of a stagecoach, and it was one of the most spectacular and complete wrecks ever staged. Six horses, plunging madly over a nar- row mountain trail, dragged the coach to its doom in a narrow canyon that sheered away from the road's outer edge. On top of the coach rode Antonio Moreno, Paramount film star, presum- ably wounded in a battle with a band of outlaws called "The Border Legion." And the wreck of the stagecoach came within an ace of being Moreno's last ride. The horses, frightened and plunging, veered from the road and the coach struck 2n obstruction on the inside of the road. The coach went up in the air, and so did Moreno. Only he went about 25 feet higher than the coach and came down at the edge of the cliff just as the stagecoach toppled over. If he had delayed an instant, the fail- ing coach would have pinned him to the ground. So he rolled a 'fraction of an inch, hurled himself over the edge of the cliff, and let go. And after him, turning over and over, came the coach! They landed a scant ten feet apart in the bottom of the canyon, and the stagecoach gave one final roll as Moreno, to escape it, rolled into a creek that came straight down from the everlasting SNOWS. } ; After the cameras quit cranking--it was for a motion picture, of course-- Moreno got up, shook the water out of his ears, emptied his cowboy boots and examined himself. Aside from a sprained neck and more bruises and little cuts than any given amount of sticking plaster could cover, he was unhurt. But the stagecoach was demolished. In fact it hardly looked like a stagecoach at all. They left it right where it fell. The wreck was staged for one of the many punchful scenes in the Zane Grey- Paramount production, "The Bordar Legion," which is due next Thursday at the Hoyburn theatre. Moreno and Helene Chadwick are featured in the leading roles. Others in the strong sup- porting cast are Rockliffe Fellowes, Gib- son Gowland, Charles Ogle, James Corey, Edward Gribbon and Luke Cos- grave. William Howard directed the picture which was adapted to the screen by 'The House of Harmony NEWELL & HOWARD Every Day--2:15 to 11:15 W. "L" Station at Howard Sunday, Monday, Tuesday December 21, 22, 23 "GLENN HUNTER" BESSIE LOVE "The Silent Watcher" BOBBY VERNON "HIGH GEAR" Wednesday, Thursday BUSTER KEATON "THE NAVIGATOR" Friday, Saturday ELLIOT DEXTER BEVERLY BAYNE -"The Age of Innocence" Saturday Matinee Only In Addition to the Regular Show HOOT GIBSON "The Ridin' Kid From Powder River" Pick of the Pletures DELPH George Hull. Mutinees RETCHIN Saturdays, Sundays, Holidays 7074 North Clark St. Sunday, Monday December 21, 22 POLA NEGRI "The Forbidden Paradise" Tuesday, Wednesday BETTY COMPSON ADOLPH MENJOU "THE FAST SET" Thursday Xmas Day Special Matinee HELEN CHADWICK "CHEAP KISSES" THE GUMPS "Andy's Hat in the Ring" "GO GETTERS--No. 6" Friday, Saturday BIG FEATURE DAYS BERT LYTELL "BORN RICH" BUSTER KEATON "THE NAVIGATOR" The North Shore's Most Representative Theaters THE HOWARD "The Silent Watcher" is the title for Frank Lloyd's third First National pic- ture, the successor to "The Sea Hawk." The photoplay was adapted to the screen by J. G. Hawks from Mary Roberts Rinehart's recent Saturday Evening Post story, "Altar on the Hill," and features Glenn Hunter and Bessie Love. The story deals with domestic and political life and is regarded as one of the most timely dramas of the year. It will be screened at the Howard theatre Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, December 21, 22, 23. Buster Keaton, he of the ever non- smiling countenance, whom the old tim- ers among the vaudeville fans will re- member when as a lad old man Keaton used to throw his youthful offspring all over the stage ,and mother Keaton per- formed musically, will appear at the limits theatre next week Wednesday and Thursday in "The Navigator." Cigaret smoking is not among the many accomplishments of Beverly Bayne. This strange anomaly was revealed the other day when Miss Bayne attempt- ed to smoke a cigaret during a scene in Warner's "The Age of Innocence," to be at the Howard next Friday and Satur- day. As the Countess Olenska, she is supposed to smoke and drink with the nonchalance of a woman of the world. While the camera was clicking, Elliott Dexter offered her a light. "Stop," shouted Wesley Ruggles, the director. The star coughed and dropped the cigaret. After much coaching she was able to hold and smoke the cigaret with a sem- blance of sophistication. She said that she has only smoked three times during her whole stage and screen career. At the Saturday matinee, December 27, Hoot Gibson, in "The Riding Kid from Powder River" will be a special attrac- tion. Community HOUSE Pine St. at Lincoln Winnetka TUESDAY DEC. 23 COLLEEN MOORE mn THROUGH THE DARK DEC. 26 FRIDAY SIDNEY CHAPLIN OWEN MOORE in the comedy-drama HER TEMPORARY HUSBAND New Evanston Mon., Tues., Wed. POLA NEGRI "Forbidden Paradise" "w Mack Sennett Comedy Hoyburn Mon., Tues, Wed. BETTY COMPSON ADOLPH MENJOU "The Fast Set" Comedy News HELENE CHADWICK - ANTONIO MORENO "The Border Legion" Comedy News Daily Shows at 2, 4, 7 and 9--Saturday Continuous 2 to 11 P. M. or RDO CAGO ESTABLISHED ICH & Co. NEW YORK UR salesmen cannot call on every retail grocer, but we sell to merchants in every State. If your grocer does not handle Monarch Coflee, he can get it for you if he operates his own store. Please ask him to write to us. We do not sell to chain stores REID, MURDOCH & CO. 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