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CEs .-- Bo WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1925 a HERE AND THER Reviews of the Week By Thespian STAGE "THE GREEN HAT" Selwyn Theatre Three clever people combine at the Selwyn to make "The Green Hat" a play that will be much talked about this spring. Miss Katherine Cornell, Miss Ann Harding and Mr. Leslie Howard are the three I mean. Each is a star so far as clever stage work is concerned and each gives his and her best to this production of Micheal Arlen's novel which has been so widely read this win- ter. The story is so well known by those who read that it is perhaps unneccesary to relate it in detail here. In the play we find a first act dealing with "Boy" Fenwick's death and with Iris casting a slur on her own life to save the idol her brother has erected concerning "Boy." It is apparent that she is just one of the "mad Marches" and Napier, who has loved her, seems to have no difficulty in persuading himself that what she seems to admit about herself is true, especially when his father adds his influence by refusing to listen to a marriage between them. By word of mouth at least, Iris becomes a notorious- ly wicked woman, during the action she nearly breaks up the impending mar- riage of Napier and Venice and the story ends as perhaps such a story would end when one considers the woman in- volved. Miss Cornell is fascinating as Iris. She makes the role of this unhappy woman seem entirely credible and her eyes, voice and manner are so carefully handled that one forgets the actress and lives the part with her. Miss Harding is a rare example of a game young wom- an and how she would act in the part of the young wife. Mr. Howard as the unhappy husband has a role difficult to handle but one which finds him not want- ing in ability. I liked him particularly in his moments with Iris. Mr. Paul Guilfoyle, as the boyish young March, also showed to good advantage as did A. P. Kaye as the practical doctor. "The Green Hat" as a play misses much that you found in the novel but it makes up for it in other ways and you will find it a gripping thing ad- mirably played by the best cast in town. "THE KNIFE IN THE WALL" LaSalle Theatre Here is an old story in new clothes; clothes which are interesting, as well as new. The man who hurriedly leaves for war after an hour with the girl he has just married, the report that he is dead, the soldier's unexpected return to find that his wife is apparently in love with his cousin--this has been a favorite theme of previous plays. But here one forgets the theme in contemplation of its surroundings and characters. For the play opens in the back stage of an Italian marionette theatre in New York's east side disrict, and through three acts it deals with what goes on there, includ- ing a most interesting exhibition of how the puppets are manipulated in a marion- ette show. Nicky is the young owner of the thea- tre, marrying Angela suddenly as he is called to war. Bruno, his cousin, also adores her and when word comes that Nicky is dead she loves Bruno in return. Deaf from shell shock, Nicky returns but fails to recognize the real situation until his hearing suddenly returns when he finds out what is going on, shows Bruno up as a coward and wins his wife's respect and affection. In and through it all there stalks the piano player, Frank, who is interested in in white slave traffic and has plans of his own in connection with Angelica. Also there is Sandro who runs the show, Mamie and others who manipulate the puppets and Rosa, who makes the dolls. There is considerable action, several tense moments and a cast that is well able to handle each situation without overdoing things. So far as I was con- cerned Mr. Ralph Locke took the major honors with a performance that rang particularly true. Frederic Burt, who was so good in "Minick" is "Nicky" and gives a good account of himself while seeming to struggle a little with an Italian accent. Frederic March is an earnest and plausible Bruno. Dwight Frye is Frank, the piano player, and in make-up and dramatic moments he is almost as bad as the "Lounge Lizard" of recent memory. In his quiet moments he is very plausible. Elizabeth Taylor as Mamie is a scream. Neighboring Theaters THE NEW CAMPUS While the leading comedy roles in "Cheaper to Marry," which comes to the New Campus theatre on Monday and Tuesday, May 4 and 5, are handled by Louise Fazenda and Claude Gilling- water, three other well-known comic folk of the screen will be seen in this Robert Z. Leonard production. Op- portunity to insert some humorous sit- uations was presented to Mr. Leonard while he was directing the scenes in an exclusive Women's Athletic club. Hank Mann, Mathilde Comont and Louise Carver were engaged to handle E ON STAGE AND SCREEN the fun making roles, and the results were exceptionally good. The leading players in the cast are Lewis S. Stone, Conrad Nagel, Marguerite - De La Motte, Paulette Duval and Richard Wayne. Wednesday and Thursday, May 6 and 7, William Fox's gigantic thrill | production, "The Cyclone Rider," a Lincoln J. Carter melodrama will be the attraction at the New Campus theatre. Hoot Gibson star of "Let 'Er Buck," Universal-Gibson special coming to the New Campus theatre next Friday and Saturday, May 8 and 9, really played two parts while the picture was being made. Possibly it is better to say that he played one part for the screen, and lived another for his own gratifica- tion, for the picture was made in a town where some years ago Hoot won a fame which he values more than he does his fame as a motion picture star --the fame accorded to him as all around cowboy champion of the world. So it was that when in September 1924, Hoot and his company that made "Let 'Er Buck," arrived in Pendle- ton, Oregon, virtually on the eve of the famous Annual Round-Up held in that city, he came as one who, by rea- son of former prowess had an un- qualified right to mingle with the pick of the country's best cowboys. "Let 'Er Buck" was adapted by Ed- ward Sedgwick and Raymond L. Schrock from Charles Wellington Fur- long's novel. Hoot thus able to star in a picture made on his old stamping ground, and scheduled events on the Round-Up program were incorporated in the story as part of the plot. VILLAGE THEATRE Milton Sills and Viola Dana are to- gether again. They will be seen in "As Man Desires," which comes to the Village theatre next Monday and Tuesday, May 4 and 5. It is a great picture, and something a little out of their usual lines. The salt tang of the South Seas mingles with the mysticism of the Orient in this strange romance, adapt- ed from Gene Wright's novel, "Pan- dora La Croix." Sill and Viola Dana occupy the center of interest. Unlike "The Sea Hawk," however. this production introduces Sills as a British army surgeon in the Indian service. It shows him falsely en- meshed in a murder by a woman whe had failed in forcing her love upon him, and compelled to flee for his life. It picks him up again as a swash- buckling captain of a dingy pearl fish- ing schooner in the South Sea Islands, giving two-fisted, six-shooting battle for pearl bed rights and hating all women because of the one who had betrayed him. A Christie comedy, "Fast and Furi ous" will be shown with it. Wednesday and Thursday the first National picture "If I Marry Again" will be seen with a truly all-star cast In this picture are Doris Kenyon, Anna Q. Nilsson, Hobart Bosworth, Myrtle Stedman, Frank Mayo and Lloyd Hughes. Some cast! With it will be shown a Pathe Review, Pathe comedv and Cross word puzzle. Wesley Barry, beloved of children and grownups alike will be seen Fri- day and Saturday in his "first real pic- ture," as it has been described. Wesley Barry, his childhood behind him but his freckles as prominently in the foreground as ever, has grown up to the dignity of long pants and a love affair. Though "Battling Bunyan" is a picturization of a Saturday Eve- ning Post story by Raymond Leslie Goldman, the role of the mechanic who becomes the fighting fool of the prize ring fits young Barry like the proverbial glove. Perhaps no other actor is so suitably endowed with the personality for the part. Molly Ma- lone, Frank Campeau, Chester Conk- lin, Johnny Relasco and two stars of the ring--Al Kaufman and Frankie Fields--play prominent roles in "Bat- tling Bunyan." Other features on the bill are a Gang comedy, "Goat Gettters" a Grantland Rice Sportlight and a Pathe news reel. NEW EVANSTON Frederick Lonsdale's immensely popular Broadway stage play, "Aren't We All," comes to the screen, at the New Evanston theatre next Monday as "A Kiss in the Dark," a Paramount picture featuring Adolphe Menjou, Lillian Rich and Aileen Pringle. The story, a highly entertaining comedy of marriage, is laid in Hav- ana and New York. Menjou is cast in the role of Walter Grenham, a regu- lar devil with the ladies. Because of his philandering ways, Janet Living- stone, played by Miss Pringle, refuses to take him seriously when he pro- poses. The arrival of pretty Betty King, in love with her husband and also in- terested in men in general and Gren- ham in particular, messes things up a bit. Betty, warned time and again by Grenham, refuses to discontinue the flirtation and the upshot of the whole affair results in her being stranded on the dock, after returning with Gren- ham to her hotel after a bag she had forgotten, while the boat with her hus- band and Janet aboard pulls out for the States. Even now Betty refuses to accept the situation as serious, rather she anticipates an interesting evening alone with Grenham. ; Here's the situation. Betty is on Grenham's hands. Janet, on the boat, believes that he planned Betty's tardy arrival at the dock and is furious. She sends a wire to Grenham saying that because of this latest escapade every- thing is at an end between them. How Grenham teaches Betty the error of her ways, manages to recon- cile the irate husband and patches things up to Janet's satisfaction makes "A Kiss in the Dark" one of the sea- son's big laugh pictures. Here's Menjou wading through the hearts of a dozen women. It's great stuff! Kenneth MacKenna, seen opposite Bebe Daniels in "Miss Bluebeard," heads the supporting cast of "A Kiss in the Dark," directed for the screen by Frank Tuttle. Others include Ann Pennington, Kitty Kelly and other prominent Broadway players. HOYBURN The movie extra is passing out of the picture. Either that or good supers are on the decline. Despite the vast army of people who try to break into the movies, suit- able extras are fast becoming "ex- tinct." It may come to the critical situation where producers will be compelled to use dummies when huge casts are nec- essary. M. C. Levee, producer of "One Year to Live," the new First National film to be shown at the Hoyburn theatre next Monday points this out apropos of the difficulty he encountered in getting suitable people to make up the large cast called for in the picturiza- tion of the John Hunter story. The type of extras who answered the producer's first call for people were not at all to his liking. They lacked the appearance and spirit of the extra of past days. "It seems that the kind we do not want are the neos most charged with energy and persistence," declared Levee. "The eligible material doesn't seem to have much tenacity and has been quietly slipping away during the past months. At one time we were over- crowded with good extras, potential actors and actresses. Now they seem to be waning." As proof of his discovery is the practice among Hollywood producers of placing extras under contracts for several weeks at a time as a means of insuring their availability throughout the making of a picture in which they are needed. Aileen Pringle, Antonio Moreno and Dorothy Mackaill head the big cast of "One Year to Life." HOWARD Tom Mix, often termed moviedom most popular star will be seen at the Howard next Sunday, May 3, in a film entitled "Oh! You Tony." Constance Talmadge has five lead- ing men in her new comedy, "Learning to Love," which will be at the Howard next Monday and Tuesday, May 4 and 5. Leading Man Number One is An- tonio Moreno. But Constance also makes love to Johnny Harron, Ray Hallor, Wallace MacDonald, Byron Munson, and is also suspected of mak- ing love to Alf Goulding. MacDonald plays the role of a love- smitten college professor; Ray Hallor that of a young college boy; Byron Munson, a coo-coo French count; and Johnny Harron, a very earnest young man who carries business into his love- making and stands for no nonsense. Moreno, the fifth of Constance's screen sweethearts, varies the program by refusing to make love of any nature to her. When she forces him into marriage by trickery he even refuses to live with her. Whereupon she goes to Paris for a divorce. In "Learning to Love" Constance shows modern girls the various ways to capture a husband. The new comedy is a First National attraction written for Joseph M. Schenck Produc- tions by John Emerson and Anita I,oos. Sidney Franklin directed. Buster Keaton will be seen in his hilariously funny film called "Seven Chances" at the north limits theatre next week-end Friday and Saturday. Joseph Schenck presents this up and coming voung funny film funny man in "Seven Chances," which is a Metro Goldwyn picture based on David Be- lasco's famous stage comedy by Roi Cooper Megrue. In it Buster has been given 24 hours in which to win a bride. There is a crowded church of willing women. And but one man to be the husband. Explosions of mirth are bound to burst forth at this point. It is claimed that there is a laugh in Buster's every step toward the altar. PRESENT "MARY THE THIRD" On the evening of May 18 at the Highland Park Woman's club, the North Shore Theatre Guild will present "Mary the Third" with the same cast that produced it so successfully last season. Revive "Fashion" The Drama League of America, with headquarters in Chicago, will present the North Shore Theatre Guild in its suc- cessful revival of "Fashion," by Cora Mowatt, at the Eighth Street theatre, Chicago, Tuesday, May 5, a* 8:30 o'clock. Commencing on the forthcoming per- formance, The Drama Magazine has the following to say: The revival by the Provincetown Play- ers of New York and by the North Shore Theatre Guild of Chicago, of one of the earliest American comedies, Fash- ion, by Anna Cora Mowatt, met with such great success that the latter group of players is soon to give another pre- sentation of it in Chicago under the auspices of the Drama League of Amer- ica, the National organization. The author of this most amusing and satirical comedy was born in France of American parentage in 1819. When she was still a child, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Ogden, returned to their former home in New York. The young- ster, christened Anna Cora Ogden, was destined to become better known under the name of Mrs. Mowatt. That she was a precocious young lady is evidenced by the fact that her marriage took place when she was fifteen years old and the following year she published her first novel. By the time she was twenty-one, she had published her first play which, so far as is known, had only private presentation. Afte™ that, during the next few years, she turned out several novels. Just when she wrote what was to become her great success, Fashion, or how long a time she spent on this play before it was produced, is not known. The important fact is that the comedy was given its premiere at the old Park Theatre, New York, on the twenty- fourth of March, 1845, where it ran for three weeks--which at that time was regarded as sufficient to label the en- gagement as a successful one. (In this connection it is interesting to note that the population of New York City at that time was between 300,000 and 500,000, with, one fancies, a compara- tively small percentage of theatregoers). Although later, Mrs. Mowatt herself became an actress, she was not a mem- ber of the original cast of Fashion. Her debut was made as Pauline in Bulwer- Lytton's The Lady of Lyons, and nine NEW cAMPUS Fountain Square Evanston Con. from 1:30 to 11 P. M. Mon., Tues, May 4-5 Lewis Stone Conrad Nagel Marguerite De La Motte in "CHEAPER TO MARRY" Walter Hiers Comedy News Weds., Thurs.,, May 6-7 Lincoln J. Carter's "THE CYCLONE RIDER" Bobby Vernon Comedy Pathe News 1 Fri, Sat, May 8-9 Hoot Gibson's Greatest Success "LET'ER BUCK" Added Review in Colors Aesops Fables Go-Getters Pathe News May 13-14-15-16 Buster Keaton in "Seven Chances" years later when she made her farewell appearance, it was as Pauline. In the meantime, however, she did play the joy- ous role of Gertrude, the governess, in America and in London. Fashion, or Life in New York, con- tains all the characters that apparently were dear to the play-goer of the mid- dle-nineteenth century. There is the as- piring social climber who wishes her daughter, a modest violet in love with a hero, to marry a so-called count. You know when you look at the Count that he is a bad 'un; he has that dirty look. There is the honest American husband of the climber. He loves his "little girl" and wants her to be happy. And then, most important of all, there is Gertrude, the governess. That Gertrude is a lady (Continued on Page 16) Village Your Home Theatre J. B. Koppel Managing Director Mon. and Tues.,, May 4 and 5 Evenings, 7:30 and 9:00 Matinees, Tues. and Thur. 3:30 Milton Sills and Viola Dana mn "As Man Desires" "Fast and Furious" 2-reel comedy Wednesday and Thursday Doris Kenyon in "If I Marry Again" Pathe Review and Comedy Cross-Word Puzzle Friday and Saturday Sat. Matinees, 2 and 4 p. m. Wesley Barry in : " "Battling Bunyan Our Gang Comedy "Goat Getters" Pathe News and Sportlight Newell & Retchin HOWARD Continuous Every Day--2:15 to 11:15 N. W. "L" Station at Howard Sunday, May 3 Tom Mix "OH YOU TONY" Monday and Tuesday Constance Talmadge "LEARNING TO LOVE" Wednesday and Thursday Virginia Valli "UP THE LADDER" Friday and Saturday Buster Keaton "SEVEN CHANCES" Saturday Matinee in addition to the regular show Art Hoxie "ROARING ADVENTURE" Shore Trains Stop at Howard All North New Evanston Mon, Tues. and Wed. Adolphe Menjou Lillian Rich "A Kiss in the Dark' Comedy--Review--News Thurs., Fri. and Sat. Jack Pickford "Waking Up the Town" Comedy--Sports--News Hoyburn Mon., Tues. and Wed. Antonio Moreno ""One Year to Live" Comedy News | Thurs., Fri. and Sat. Virginia Valli "Up the Ladder" d an Lloyd Hamilton in "Good Morning" Daily Shows at 2, 4, 7 and 9--Saturday Continuous 2 to 11 P. M. £