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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 7 Sep 1928, p. 43

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September '/, 928 Theaters T eatro del Lago to Eddie ·Cantor Will Show Screen,s Best Appear at Granada Pictures Next Week Theater in Person Revival week at the Teatro del Lago Marks Brothers have proclaimed a begins this Sunday, September 9, to Greater Show season at their Granada run for seven days. During that time some of the best pictuers in the history and Marbro theaten which started of the screen will be shown. The sche- last Saturday, September 1, when the dule for tbe week is "Ben Hur" this first ·of the special star shows an<J Sunday, "The Big Parade" Monday, greater photoplays was brought to the ·"The Way of All Flesh" Tue sday, pubhc. The · Greater Show season will "Beau Geste" Wednesday, "The cover a period of three months, during Hunchback of Notre Dame" Thursday, the course of which time twelve great "Chang" Friday, and "The 13th Hour" stage stars and twelve photoplays, Saturday. most of them "talkies," will be selectThe magnificent plot, fine charac- ed. The stars will be brough.t to the terization, and beautiful love story are public in groups of three, and the first among the outstanding reasons whv group started with John Steel, Amer"Ben Hur" has gripped the imagina- ica's foremost and most celebrated tion of America for fifty years. In the tenor, who has been appearing at the motion picture the splendid portrayals Granada this week in Benny Meroff's of Ben Hur by Ramon Navarro, "Welcome Benny," a special stage Esther by May McAvoy, Mother of , show with Clemons and Darcy, Stutz Hur by Claire McDowell, and Tirzah~ and Bingham, and other noteworthv by Kathleen Key, add to the effect and performers. · enhance the r'omance. These players The second star in the ··first Greater tiv~ th.e _romantic side . of the story, Show season group will be Eddie whtch IS JUSt as engross.mg as the sea Cantor, Florenz Ziegfeld's inimitable artist who has not been seen in Chibattle or even the chanot race. Great War Picture cago for many years. He will come to "The Big Parade," adjudged the best the Granada theater starting Saturday, picture of the year 1925, will he September 8, in a stage show that will brought back to the Teatro del Lago be entirely different from the usual · next Monday. The :-eality of war. its band show production . . It will be horror, its tragi-comedy, and its rom- called "Very Good Eddie," and Charles ance have in this· instance been woven Kaley will preside with his baton. into a . true epic. Yet the story of the There will be a ballet of twenty and film ·c~m be told in a single sentence- Eddie Cantor will bring a new selecan American doughboy goes to France. tion of songs, a!lecdotes, and dances. It is a revelation of character, rather than complication of plot, that gives the film its superior merit. John Gilbert's portrayal of Jim Apperson, the doughboy, has been called one of the most amazingly true and vital portraits ever contributed to the silver sheet. As a mud-covered hero of the trenches. he remains profoundly hu man. virile, and romantic throughout. No Jess delightful is Renee Adoree as STARTING SATURDAY his peasant sweetheart. Miss Adoree ~ Days Onlt--tis herself a native of France. Tbe Kids TJaemselves "The world's greatest character actor in the most painstakint?"ly oerfect char-StartiDa Sundayacterization of his life." That was one critic's comment on the work of Emil Tanning-s in "The Wav of All Flesh." Featured with Tanninrrs ~rP Belle Bennett and Phvllis Haver. Mis s Bennett. who~e "Stella Dallas" was a sensation of 1926, plavs a syrnoathf'tic mother role-a sweet and apoealing wom::m who shares the lovf' of Tanning-s, the Hal Roach's Baseals father. and their six children, with a wholesome graciousne ss and a sacrificial rlevotion that made scren Farina, "Fatty" Cobb, history. Phyllis Haver, the colorWbeezer, Jean Darling, ful, conscienceless Mavme of "The Mary Ann Jackson, Harpy Wav of All Flesh." scored her Spear, Pete, the Doa c.hief success ::~s the blonde hoyden in "vVhat Price Glory." In the ,Tannings . FRANKIE MASTERS vehicle, it is her beautv, her wilf's, and her g-lances that shatter in a nig-ht the and Jazz Collegians In hao,.;v life of the God-fearin~. home"ICY-HOT JAZZ" loving .T annin~s. "Beau Geste" Beat in 1926 -On the ScreenIn 1926 "Beau Geste" was awarded the Photoplay medal for the best oicture of that year. The storv is of the Fay Wray. G~ Cooper Frettch Foreign Legion. The action · hinges on the wonderful devotion of three voung Englishmen, each of ·SPECIAL whom decamps from horne in order DELUXE MATJII(~ES that the hlarne for the theft of a famDally during the engage· ous saophire may fall on him althomrh ment of "Oar Qa)lg." he believP.s one of his brothers to b~ Brlnr tbe eblldren after · p-uitty. Ron.a ld Colman as "Beau" school. First stage sJaow 1tart1 gives a portrayal which manv arP. . m re at I:U P. ](. to plac.e above his work in "The White Rist~r." the p~cture that st::~rted him on · the road to success. Rivatin~ (;olrnan are N~il Hamilton and Ralph Forbes. the other two brothers. THURSDAY ·a FRIDAY SEPT. 6-7 JACK MULHALL GRETA NISSEN Comedy Newa ~UG. FAIRBANKS, JR. Newa SAnJRDAY ONLY SEPT. 8 Comedy MO;N., TUES., WEI;)., SEPr. 10, _ ll & lZ I LAURA LA PLANTE· l . . . .. ~., ""Rome .James" Cartoon Novelty Subject Newa ATTEND THE BARGAIN MATINEE DOORS OPEN 1:30 P.M. All' Tlaia Week MEW EV AMSTON THEATRE BBXI'OBD BELLAMY MANAGER BELLAMY PLAYERS ·~tOUR GANG" , ' 1M PERSON A Loop Show at lj3 Loop Prices Directed by Auguatua Tborae General Staae Director Anne Nichols ._._ABlE'S IRISH BOSE" Nights $1-7Sc-50c Matinees SOc any seat Tues., ·Thur~. & Sat., _ 2:45 P. M. . PUSBIIU "'The Fhtst Kiss" ! . I Pboae Ualve..81t)' asoo. lo.. Seat8 MBX'l .PLAY ttttT&ke My Adviee" A Delightful Comedy-drama··~· : ....:. · rec:eatly produced at the Belmont Theatre, New Y orlr, aacl wlaicla the Bellamy Pt.7er1 h.ve plaJ'~ t!' .,.c:kecl ,Jaq--. ~ two ~ . . .

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