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WILMETTE LIFE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER S, 1924 HERE AND THERE ON STAGE AND picture fame, also has a good act, ture she is making her position more Not since "Hollywood" has there The drum seeaes ia " e·--- · ' "billing herself as a chatterbox. An- secure. been as much irony in a film on the Horsebaelt"' tdo an;,t1aia other good act this week was the " Lovers' Lane" is the path of ·heart's 010ving picture industry as there is in ilar ~;~ature ever pw 011 "Circle H . Octette," eight young men desire and everybody will have it "Open All Night." Raymond Griffith Very Ill io pict singing several old and favorite songs Wednesday and Thursday at the hopes to be the greatest lover of the dre ms with uc rea and doing it well particularly as a Howard. The main theme is young screen and distributes his picture and group. Yillel!> and Renn were also on Dr. Tom Singleton's devotion to his pushes himself to the front whenever Gloria Swanson has her opportunity the bill. They dance, sing and play people and desire to live a life of newspaper flasHes are made, but to show her poise it! the part of a STAGE manner good, fair and indifferent in a service; even at the sacrifice of love. royal personage in...Her Lo·e Ste1r7.· loses hope wh~n Valentino comes "DIXIE TO BROADWAY" Altogether a well It winds up with a denouement of back. reapectively. Ian Keith is her leadina man. Great. Northern ThetJlre rare interest. The cast is headed by -;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;:;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;.;;;;;;;;;; Not so long ago some one conceived rounded bill. Robert Ellis and Gertrude Olmstead, 1 the idea of producing a music·l comSCREEN in this screen version of Clyde Fitch's edy with principals and chorus made "S~CRvTS" play of the same title. . up entirely of members . of the colored .:o ~ Marie Prevost will be seen in two PirJt NatiMIGl Picture race. It was a distinct·success. Foldifferent ch!llracteri~ti~s in "Corlowing it have come one or two others Chicago Tluatre nered," which was directed by Wiland of the se "Dixie to Broadway" is In reality the story of a woman's liam Beaudine and which wift be at Startiq Moaday Moe., T...., W..L, _. perhaps the best. life, "Secrets" takes you from baby- the Howard Friday and Saturday. Like many of the so-catted reviews hood almost through to the end. It The story tells of a double who unJOHN BARRYMORE DOROTHY DEVORE it has no plot but is a rapid succession gives you a picture of },{ary Carlton did herself. The dual role is taken by of scenes, monologues, dances and as a somewhat adventuring girl, elop- Marie Prevost. She is Mary Brenia The female Harold Uo,.d songs. Two acts and twent.r-five ing and with her husband suffering the nan, pal to the underworld denizens, scenes comprise· the offering. There dangers and hardships of life in a new and Margaret Waring, heiress to mitin are seven or eight snappy songs, sev- country. It leads you on through a lions. The supporting cast include eral unusual dancing numbers and two different environment which includes Rockliffe Feltowes, Raymond Hatton, or three skits that are clever and many of the luxuries of life. Then John Roche, Cissy Fitzgerald, Vera funny. into old age with some appealing Lewis and others. One can hardly help liking these scenes at the bedside of her husband colored people as they strive to put and some words of wisdom to her ADELPHI Comedy aa4 Newa their act s across. Certainly they are grown children about her fifty years of Pola Negri blends her physical sincere hard workers with the addi- married life. charm and elemental passisions to her tiona! asset of being clever. They It is the secrets 'of those fifty years portrayal of the girl who experiences Friday aad Satanlay dance with utter abandon showing that justify the title but it is the ex- the life of a book clerk, a wife of a HELEN CHADWICK steps seldom seen. They sing beau- cellent work of Miss Norma Talmadge colonel and a member of a Bohemian ti fully, especially in group attempts. as Mary Carlton that makes the pic- set, in a European setting. Her maria nd they have a rare sense of humor. ture worth an hour of most anyone's riage to the colonel brings fame, but :Iorence Mills is the particular time. She makes an interesting picture she is in love with one of the cadets. star of the entertainment. Ad- whether it be as a care free girl or a A duel, friendships made in the set of tsed as the world's greatest colored tottering old woman. Working with artists, brings about a separation of abo entertainer, she lives up to that rather her is Eugene O'Brien who is also Lily and her cadet lover. But they Baby Pqo ComMJ strong statement in no uncertain man- excellent. find each other only to be separated Comedy and News ner. Her voice is a wonder and shows There is plenty of action and sus- by other obstacles. It is good enterequally well in the near-cJassical pense throughout the picture and tainment with Pola Negri at her best, numbers or the essence of "jazz." Of these coupled with moments of ro- in "Lily of the Dust," at the Adelphi Dan,. Slaowa at z, 4. 7 aad .....SU....IaJ' C_tia_. 2 to II P.M. the former, a number called "Dixie mance and beautiful scenes make it for three days , starting Sunday. Dreams" seemed to be best liked while worth seeing. Photographic effects of rare beau~y her rendition of "I'm a Little Black"Secrets" will be shown next week have been achieved in Thomas H. bird" was so good the audience just at the Riviera theatre. · !nee's "The Marriage Cheat," booked couldn't get enough. for the Adelphi theatre for WednesThen there is the colored boy, She!- ~;,!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!i!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!i!!!!!!!!!!!==~~ day and Thursday. Much of the ac,.,...___ tion in the film was photographed in ton Brooks, who comes as near to ~ filling the shoes of the late Bert WilNeighboring ~neuters the South Seas, where the fitful, misty rainfalls peculiar to the region enIiams as any one of recent memory has <lone. He is particularly effective abled the camera men to make a Kattnee· Conttnuoua in a monologue and in the "Bert WitNEW EVANSTON variety of artistic shots. The sea in Saturda}'a, Sund&J'.. Holla.Jte Every Day-S:lli to 11:11 Iiams" number. "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," its many contrasted moods, alse con117f N..tla Cull St. N. W. ·L· Statloa at How....l The dancers are numerous and the massive and much heralded film tributes many gems to the pictorial clever. One pair that made a tre- production of Victor Hugo's story beauty of the production. s-··7· ·-··,. ... ~7 A man who goes through the sort menduous hit was Thompson and Co- masterpiece will be the feature at the s ····,........,. ··· van who had several new and diffi- New Evanston theatre for one week of life that William Farnum goes 8e.t. r-s-· through in "The Man Who Fights cult steps. The chorus is large, well commencing Monday, September 8. POLA NEGRI CORINNE GRIFFITH drilled and interesting. The colored Never before, is is said, has there Alone" is generally given some extra "Zicgfield" has chosen well along that been offered a picture production rep!! attentiOtl. In this role, Farnum is "Lily of the Dust" MILTON SILLS resenting so stupendous a cost, $1,SOQ,- different than in the parts he has line. HENRY. B. WALTHALL Her LatHt S..aatloa One can readily see why they found ()()(), never a film so exact in its de- played in the past. He is not the it desirable to transfer the show to the tails, so ~~trtistic in its concepti~n and physical giant of other pictures, but Great Northern from the Garrick when 0 fine in the band\ins of the \arce it a more poweriu\ penoo than lo w ......,. ··· Tla. . . . .7 OUR GANG COMEDY the latter was reqp~ for 1)reviout scenes. most of his portrayals. "The Man ings. It will undOUbtedly run for Lon Chaney, the excellent inter- Who Fights Alone" will be at the ·sEEING THINGS" "The Marriaae Cheat" time. preter of unusual character roles, plays Adelphi Friday and Saturday, Sepwttlk the part of Quasimodo, the deformed tember 12 and 13. WMae!NaT ··· T·anMiaT AROUND THE THEATRES bell-ringer of Notre Dame, with AUDITORIUM LEATRICE JOY GERTRUDE ·oLMSTEAD The captivating "Blossom-Time," Ernest Torrence as Clopin, the underworld king and 'Patsy Ruth Miller as ELLIS ROBT. ADOLPH MENJOU which ran so successfully last year at the Great Northern, is back again and Esmeralda. "Lovers' Lane" The re-creation of the cathedral of PERCY MARMONT drawing capacity audiences to hear the beautiful Schubert music and to view Notre Dame has been praised as perFrom Clyde Fitcla'a Immortal the story drawn around the life of that fect and true, according to descripStaae Pia,. rrWa7 . . . la~J' tions and pictures of the cathedral in composer. It is well worth a visit. 1482. Seldom has there been such WM.FARNUM Fri··T ··· l!latanlaT fine architectural and technical work LA SALLE in scene building in the movie reMARIE PREVOST "Early To Bed," George Choos' "The Man Who Fiahta laughing comedy with a fine cast in- productions. Nlpu and Momlat to keep Quasimodo, the hunchback, as Alone" cluding Ada Lewis, continues on its "Comered" them Clean, Clear aod Healthy Chaney presents him, is a grotesque successful way. Write for Free "Eye Core" monster, and yet under the forbidding or "E,e .Beca.uy" Book aspect makes him human an-i pitiful. GARRICK M.n..C... De~~t.B.S.,91.01oieSt.,CIUc..· Thea~-. Arthur· Hammerstein's new musical His daring poses, the hazardous swinging on the bells and the castigaplay, "Mary Jane McKane" with Hal tion in the market place are bits of Skelly and a large singing and dancing chorus opens tomorrow night after the work done by Chaney. The James Kozak orchestra has five months at the Imperial theatre in been engaged by the New Evanston New York. management for the seaso!l an~ a n~w Wurlitzer Grand organ ts bemg tnVAUDEVILLE stalled, to furnish the music. MAJESTIC THEATRE The most expensive animal act in HOWARD vaudeville is the way they bill "Odiva Corinne Griffith, Milton Sills and and her Seals." If there ever was an interesting group of trained seals here Henry B. Walthall work their way it is. They are as nearly human as through some fine acting in "Single one could imagine and do some marve- Wives" which will be shown at the lous tricks. Odive, a shapely young Howard theatre for three days beginlady, is herself an accomplished ning Sunday, September 7. Miss Grifewimmer and performs in the tank fith has been gradually climbing to the top of the ladder in the movie h them. lly Moran, erstwhile of moving world and with the role in the pic- udio Dette Zll ·· New Evanston Hoyburn n.. 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