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WINNETKA, WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1923 Shows Work Nec Necessary For Amateur Play & BY JESSIE ROYCE LANDIS Editor's note: Accompanying is one of a series of articles concerning the pro- duction of amateur plays, Mrs. Landis, author of these articles, is director of the North Shore Players, and one of the best known dramatic artists and in- structors in this vicinity. The moving picture i industry has brought one fact forcibly to i our attention in late years that few folks in the audience ever {properly appreciated. _ That is the amount of work and time and energy that is devoted "behind the scenes." Moving picture magazines have shown us sets and locations . and the other arts Jessie R. Lanais that go to make up a scene from the Klon- dike, the Riviera, the Saskatchewan or the Amazon; the whirling snow of "Way Down East" or the thunder, lightning and tropical hurricane of a shipwreck in the vicinity of the Isle of Yap. When you stop to consider that ail of these scenes are "shot" within a few miles of Hollywood, or wherever the studio is located, one begins to realize that there is an art behind the scenes as well as in front where the actors por- tray their parts. Many of you recall the storm scene in "Peg O' My Heart" presented by the North Shore Players at several of the North Shore towns last season. There were almost as many people em- ployed in operating the mechanical de- vices of this storm scene as there were The rain effect was produced by means of a small teeter-totter; tom of which was covered with wire netting. Inside of this box were sev- eral hundred of dried peas. By tipping this teeter-totter the peas were caused to roll along the screen thus producing the rain effect. Lightning was made by rubbing a file on a piece of carbon at- tached to an electric circuit. Two men were necessary in order to produce the thunder. One worked what 1s known as a thunder-sheet and the other a bass drum. The drum gave the crash while the thunder-sheet the roll that follows. Another man was necessary to work what is known as the dimmer: This caused the light to grow dim as the storm came up. And all of this phen- omena had to be handled and timed to a nicety to co-ordinate with the move- ment of the play. The bane of amateur productions lies in the unexpected comedy that is so often unwittingly presented. We see Hamlet stalking before the footlights in solemn majesty, only to trip over a mop handle carelessly left on the center stage by an overworked property manager. Or we hear the heroine say dramatically "This pistol shot will end all," the cliek of the hammer on an empty chamber and two minutes later the belated tap of the basedurmmer waking up from a reverie. The work and the men behind the scenes have just as great an influence on the proper presentation of a play as the ability of the actors before the foot- lights and unless both are properly co- ordinated no play can be successful. State Congregational Head Speaks in Winnetka Sunday Tomerrow morning at the Winnet- ka Congregational church the sermon will be by the Rev. Charles C. Merrill, state superintendent for the Congre- gational churches of Illinois. Mr. Merrill has recently come to Illinois from the superiutendency of Vermont, and before that was doing a national work on the Apportionment plan of the demonstration. He is one of the most sagacious church leaders in America, and Rev. James A. Rich- ards, local pastor, states he is pleased actors on the stage in front. that Winnetka is to have this oppor- tunity to hear him, ) NN MATINEE 4:15 mama Emma SN ae COMMUNITY HOUSE FRIDAY, FEB. 16th EVENING 7:15 and 5:45 RHUBARB AS THE VIOLA NN A Et Ee oO eo SN NSN NN AN UNA SES NAN NN » AN "MUD AND SAND" ALSO "Love in the Dark" CNN A SSS NNN NN NG NN NN NNN NNN NNN VASELINO SHREIK DANA AN NNN NNN SNR NN NEN NN ANN ANNNNN ANS Company Tonight? Hurry over and get one of our tasty steaks or roasts. Either will make the dinner a real success and a credit to the hostess. PETERS MARKET A. PETERS, Proprietor Phones 920 - 921 - 922 734 Elm Street WINNETKA the teeter part being built like a hollow box, the bot- EMANCIPATING POWER OF TRUTH, 15 SUBJECT Winnetka men "will find feud interest in the topic * "The Emancipating Power of Truth," the subject for the lesson and discussion tomorrow at the Men's Sun- day Morning class meeting at 9:30 o'clock in the Neighborhood room of Community House. This is only one of a series of topics which the laymen of the community are finding of so much practical value and are doubtless re- sponsible for the reflection one hears in remarks and earnest discussion on the trains and at the station each day. These meetings are for all Winnetka men. The only responsibility attached is to try and bring a friend. All men and their wives of the Con- gregation church are cordially invited to a social gathering from 6 to 8 o'clock in the Assembly room of Commurity House before church services this Sun- day evening. WITH PERRIN, REALTOR Mr. L. B. Sherman. Jr., 575 Sheridan road, Winnetka. is now associated with A. C. Perrin, realtor, in Win- netka. E. C. Weissenberg Basks In Sunny Florida Clime || Dear f{riends--permit us to an- nounce that while we are shivering with February's snow and blow, our mutual acquaintance and townsman, E. C. Weissenberg, is basking withir the sun-showered precints of Miami, Florida. 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