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: L -- 'WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1924 215 HERE AND THERE ON STAGE AND SCREEN Reviews of the Week By Thespian STAGE "Abie's Irish Rose" to have a Sequel With the profits of her play, "Abie's Irish Rose," at the Studebaker, running into large figures, Ann Nichols, her mother and sister departed for Europe. For Miss Nichols, however, it will not be on a vacation, as she is already at work on a sequel to Abie. This will pick up the story with the two infants brought into the third act of the or- iginal. Souvenirs to Mark 100th Performance "Fasy Street," at Woods', is nearing its one hundredth performance in this city and its author and producer, Ralph Thomas Kettering, is promising souven- irs as celebration of that occasion. Harold Orlob, the man who wrote the books and lyrics as well as the music for "A Trial Honeymoon," the new musical comedy at the La Salle, has had ten of his compositions produced here in that many years. Most of his plays have been La Salle shows, too, among them being "Heartbreakers," "Miss No- body From Starland," "The Prince of Tonight," "The Flirting Princess" and "The Goddess of Liberty." Some of his other important successes are "Hitchy Koo" and "Listen Lester," both of which have been seen in Chicago in late years. SCREEN "BROADWAY AFTER DARK" Warner Bros. Production Chicago Theatre According to reports, this film is bas- ed on the play written by Owen Davis. It tells a "Cinderella" story of the blase New Yorker who finds the heroine in a cheap boarding house and decides to make her a lady and "put her over" on New York society. Your first thought is that he is doing it for the sport of fooling his friends but of course it soon develops that he is fall- ing madly in love with her. Probably the most interesting things about the picture are the glimpses given of New York life from the Bowery to the Actors Equity Ball. As has been done jn previous pictures, nated people are paraded into view. Here they in- clude such as Fred Stone, Elsie Fergus- son, Frank Tinney, Paul Whiteman and Irene Castle. Adolph Menjou is the hero and is the life of the party. At first you think of him as being out of his element but gradually he impresses one as being re- markably well cast. He is the sophis- ticated New Yorker in every way. His hunt for change and excitement is real and natural. You like him but you al- so like some of his helpers. Norma Shearer, for instance, is clever. So al- so is Anna Q. Nilsson. "Broadway After Dark," is an inter- esting film although Menjou and the backgrounds will probably impress you more than will the story. "MLLE. MIDNIGHT' With Mae Murray McVickers Theatre This picture produced by Metro di- vides itself into a prologue and a story. Although containing much that is of in- terest and in some spots exciting, it was apparently cut out to fit the measure of Miss Murray. She has her many ad- mirers who will doubtless find much to applaud in her efforts here. Ample opportunity is accorded her to dance, wear fancy clothes and to defy those who cross her path or her desires. The story is an odd affair concerning a Mexican beauty who inherits strange characteristics. During the day she is perfectly normal. At night she does a lot of things a perfectly normal young lady usually does not do. She is lock- ed up at night and trouble starts. There is fighting, considerable shooting and some lively business in all of which Miss Murray figures prominently. Although not an ardent admirer of Miss Murray I found something to in- terest me in the rather excellent photo- graphy and settings surrounding the star. Others in the cast were worthy of mention. Monte Blue, Robert Ede- son and Otis Harlan did some very good work. VAUDEVILLE An unusually well rounded bill awaited the patrons of the Majestic this week. In fact it was hard to find a really weak act. An excellent magician opened things and a good juggler ended the entertainment. In between were Billy Farrell and company, a young couple doing some clever dancing as- sisted by an older couple whose an- nounced ages were seventy three and sixty nine. Then, also, there was Bar- tram and Saxton who practically stopped the show with their harmonizing of popular songs. Following them came Pisano and Landauer, two character comedians displaying some wares of other days but making a hit just the] same. ey --_--. | Neighboring Theaters HOWARD As a dancer, Barbara LaMarr becomes known as "The Whita Moth." She dances into the hearts of many patrons and especially into a young American millionaire's. She in turn has a slight fancy for this American's brother (Con- way Tearle), who although he despises her marries her to save his brother. This picture, "The White Moth," will remain at the Howard theatre Friday and Sat- urday, July 11 and 12. "The Perfect Flapper" which will be the feature attraction at the Howard, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, July 13, 14 and 15, has some interesting subtitles which give opinions on the flapper. Reed Andrews, the part played by Frank Mayo, finds disappointment in his per- fect flapper and rebukes her when it comes to considering a wife. "You want someone who will laugh when you throw the mud of indecency over every bit of sweetness, purity and real feminine re- finement that nature gave you--you couldn't be happy with anything else." Colleen Moore as Tommy Lou has the following to say to uphold her behavior. "You want to drag us through mud, but we mustn't get soiled. You want us to drink, but we mustn't get drunk. You want us to let you take any liberty that gives you a thrill, but we mustn't be in- decent." For four days starting Wednesday, July 16, the Howard will show "Thy Name Is Woman," starring Barbara La Marr and Ramon Navarro. Here Miss La Marr has the opportunity to display some of her ability in expressing and repressing her feeling as a woman sought after and at another time, some- what neglected by one whom she really loves. ADELPHI The Adelphi theatre has booked for Friday and Saturday, July 11 and 12, "Women Who Give," that story of the Cape Cod fisherman. Barbara Bedford and Renee Adoree are the women who give much of their happiness while their men devote their lives to the sea. There are a number of risky scenes in this picture which involved careful pho- tography and delicate action in the roughs of the water. A battle with a swordfish was almost a costly affair, in human lives. A shipwreck scene is so realistic that one can well be satisfied that he took part in this catastrophe. Since her role .as Madame DuBarry in "Passion," Pola Negri has not shown as much fire and action in her pictures as she does in "Men," her latest starring vehicle which will be at the Adelphi, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, July 13, 14 and 15. In this picture she develops from a waitress in a small Paris restaurant to a much admired dancer. She has her first love which does not turn out favor- ably at first. Here and there are scenes which remind one of the Pola Negri of the impressive scenes of her former pic- ture. Wednesday and Thursday, "The White Moth" will be on view at the Adelphi, with a cast including Barbara IL.aMarr, Conway Tearle, Ben Lyon, Charles de Roche, Josie Sedgwick, Edna Murphy, Kathleen Kirkham and William Orla- mond. NEW EVANSTON A sailing ship, whose decks ran red with the blood of a mutinous crew more than 51 years ago, was used by Para- mount in filming scenes for "Code of the Sea," in which Rod LaRocque and Jacqu- line Logan are featured. This old three-master, in the heyday of its glorious youth, was known as one of the smartest schooners plying the Pa- cific shipping lanes. Once on a trip around the Horn with a cargo from San Francisco to New York, a heavy storm made its crew anxious to abandon the vessel. The captain and a few of the loyal seamen fought the mutinous sailors into submission. This schooner was re- named "The Chink" and is used as the background for many of the vigorous scenes in "Code of the Sea," which comes to the Evanston theatre for three days, starting Monday, July 14. Agnes Ayres is featured in the princi- pal role of "The Guilty One," which will have a three-day run at the Evanston, starting Thursday, July 17, with Edward Burns, Clarence Burton, Cyril Ring, Craufurd Kent, George Seigman and others in the supporting cast. Joseph Henabery, who directed this picture for Paramount, predicts that this picture will start the movie field hunting for mystery drama. Its vogue on the stage and in the short story field, make it probable to attract the movie pro- ducers. ; ; HOYBURN The first half of the week, starting Monday, the Hoyburn will have as its attraction "The White Moth." This pic- ture which has been drawing the attrac- tion of the motion picture patrons in Chicago and the suburbs, is a variety of the low life and the gilded shades of the entertainers of the music halls and the CAMPUS FEATURE cafes, and then the touch of human feel- ings that exist among the more for- tunate. la Barbara La Marr, who 'was a dancer before she came to perform for the screen, has some chance of showing a bit of her terpsichorean training. She be- comes a famous dancer and is desired by a young American millionaire who is engaged to another girl. To break up this romance between the dancer and this betrothed man, the American's brother marries the White Moth, though he dis- likes her. But after the marriage, the man who married for spite, finds him- self greatly infatuated with his wife. For three days, starting Thursday, July 17, the Hoyburn will feature "How to Educate a Wife." The cast for the screen version of the "Night Cap," the stage play of Max Marcin and Guy Bolton, includes James Kirkwood, Madge Bellamy, Rosemary Theby, Tom Wilson and Zasu Pitts. "Ann's an Idiot," the popular novel by Pamela Wynne, is being adapted for the movies by James O. Spearing, who did "The Signal Tower." During the filming of "Daddies" at the Warner studios, Mae Marsh and Harry Myers were both endeavoring to gain the affection of little Priscilla Dean Moran. od "Whom do you love today, Priscilla?" asked Harry. "I love Miss Marsh," Priscilla answered. "But yesterday you said you loved me?" i % "Yes," replied Priscilla, "but I've de- cided it was best for us women to stick together." Kathleen Norris' novel, "Butterfly," is one of the attractions that Universial places in its topnotchers for release. Laura LaPlante is starred with Norman Kerry in the male lead. HOWARD Friday and Saturday "The White Moth" with CONWAY TEARLE and BARBARA LaMARR Sunday, Monday and Tuesday "The Perfect Flapper" with COLLEEN MOORE and FRANK MAYO Wed., Thurs., Fri. and Saturday "Thy Name Is Woman" BARBARA LaMARR and RAMON NAVARRO NEWELL & RETCHIN Pick of the FPletures I ADELPH 7074 North Clark St. Friday and Saturday "Women Who Give" FRANK KEENAN and BARBARA -BEDFORD Sunday, Monday and Tuesday POLA NEGRI in "Men" Wednesday and Thursday "The White Moth" The North Shore's Most Representative Theaters *T HE 619 Davis Street . 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