ar x \ April 9, 1927 WINNETKA TALK = 45° Stage and Screen News and Reviews VILLAGE THEATRE "Easy Pickings" Do you like mystery? Does your | spine tingle deliciously as trap doors creak and strange figures steal through the gloom? | If you do, you'll be thrilled by "Easy | Pickings," First National's new mys- | tery-drama, coming to the Village on | Monday and Tuesday. Anna Q. Nilsson is featured and there is romance and comedy as well as mystery in this picture which George Archainbaud directed and which was produced under the man- agement of Frank Griffin. "Blind Alleys" "Blind Alleys," Thomas Meighan's latest Paramount production, showing on Wednesday and Thursday, is an ex- citing melodrama of two people who become separated on the first night of their honeymoon. All sorts of thrills, including a second woman, enter into it before the final fadeout. Evelyn Brent and Greta Nissen are featured. Frank Tuttle was at the megaphone. "The Red Mill" Marion Davies plays a coiorful Dutch heroine, in pigtails and wooden shoes, in the "Red Mill," an elaborate filmization of the famous stage hit of the same name by Henry Blossom and Victor Herbert, one of the dramatic sensations of a few seasons ago. A notable cast is seen in the production, including Owen Moore as the hero, George Siegman as the villain, Louise Fazenda, Snitz Edwards, Karl Dane, William Orlamond, Russell Powell, Fred Gambold and others of note. "Red Mill" will be presented on Fri- day and Saturday. THE NORSHORE "Tell It to the Marines" | Lon Chaney, portrayer of weird crip- | ples, as a dogged fighter--leading a force of United States Marines in a| desperate encounter with Oriental | Village Theatre WILMETTE, ILL. * Your Home Theater J. B. Koppel, Managing Director Phone Wilmette 1441 Evenings 7:30; Mat. Tues. 3:30 Saturday Mats, 2 and 4 Mon. and Tues. April 11-12 TWO DAYS ONLY Anna Q. Nilsson -- Kenneth Harlan i "EASY PICKINGS" Also "The Relay"--7th of the Collegians Series and Pathe News Wed., and Thurs,, April 13-14 TWO DAYS ONLY Thomas Meighan in "BLIND ALLEYS" Also "Listen Lena" 2 Reel Mermaid Comedy and Pathe Review Fri. and Sat., April 15-16 TWO DAYS ONLY Marion Davies in "THE RED MILL" Also "Buster's Prize Winner" 2 Reel Comedy and Pathe News @ | geant, bandits--this is one of the remarkable | variants for the famous actor's usual | activities--in "Tell It to the Marines," in which he plays a veteran sergeant in Metro-Goldwyn-M aye r's spectacular epic of the Marine Corps, coming on Sunday to the Norshore theatre. The picture, filmed with Govern- ment co-operation, was made on bat- tleships, in Marine barracks, and in Oriental locales, with regular Marines in thrilling battle scenes, ship practice and other details of Marine life. | George Hill directed it, with Lon Chaney in the role of a veteran ser- William Haines as a recruit, Eleanor Boardman as the heroine, a navy nurse, and Carmel Myers, Eddie Gribbon, Frank Currier, Maurice Kains, Mitchell Lewis, Daniel C. Tom- linson and others in the cast. Several hundred regular Marines take part in the production. MINTURN PLAYERS "The Shepherd of the Hills" A particular sentimental interest centers about Harold Bell Wright's fa- mous novel "The Shepherd of the Hills" a dramatization which will be given by the Minturn Players, at the New Evanston theatre, under the per- sonal direction of Mr. Minturn, all next week. A story more typically American could hardly be imagined. The scenes are laid in the Ozark mountains of Missouri, a region which may be said to have been discovered by Mr. Wright, as it was little known to the average person, bevond those in the immediate vicinity, before the ad- vent of "The Shepherd of the Hills" in story form. It has since become a national vacation ground through the popularity it attained from the 15,000,- 000 readers of the Wright story. A casual visit to this particular un- known country showed the author its possibilities and he remained to write a story of the everyday life in that section. : | | ALABAN&KAT Zz ORFHOR HOWARD Pa\"4 hegpr CLARK |B --NOW PLAYING-- Marion Davies Owen Moore "THE RED MILL" From Victor Herbert's laughing operette STAGE EVENTS --STARTING SUNDAY-- The sensational thriller of America's fighting lovers. Lon Chaney "Tell It To The Marines" Eleanor Boardman William Haines ---STAGE PROGRAM-- SAM ROBBINS and his Baltimoreans The Great Anthony whistler favorite. HT AUTH TUTTE HIT for Sheridan LATTE LNT Watch This Space! Opening Announcement of Cleatro Del Lago No Man's Land Between Wilmette and Kenilworth PO LUBITT) the Road-at LETT TT SHE AT THE EVANSTON THEATRES VARSITY 'Pride of the North Shore' FRIDAY #¥ SATURDAY BUSTER KEATON in His Laugh Riot! "THE GENERAL" Varsity Concert Orchestra Giant Geneva Organ Varsity News Events Mon., April 11--Colleen Moore "ORCHIDS #¥ ERMINE" Wed., April 13--Marion Davies "THE RED MILL" Continuous 2 to 11:30. Come Anytime. NEWEVANSTON NOW PLAYING Clyde Elliott Presents THE MINTURN PLAYERS with Harry Minturn Margery Williams in Jane Cowl's Success "SMILIN' THROUGH" --STARTING MONDAY-- Harold Bell Wright's "SHEPHERD OF THE HILLS" Evenings at 8:15. Prices 50c, 75c and $1.00 Matinee, Tuesday, Thurs. & Sat. 25c¢, 50c PHONE UNIVERSITY 8500