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> » - ix kl | | | | pb WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, JUNE 13 1925 15 HERE AND THERE ON STAGE AND Reviews of the Week By Thespian STAGE "ARTISTS AND MODELS" APOLLO THEATRE A good summer show is "Artists and Models" and it bids fair to remain un- til the fall season. In the first place the Apollo is one of the coolest spots in town so that one can be comfortable despite the torrid wave. Secondly, the proceedings, while fast and furious at times, have a cooling effect so far as costumes, or lack of them is concerned. But beautiful scenery, beautful girls, song, comedy and dancing always did make an ideal summer show and here you have all of them ready for your inspection. This is the 1924 edition of "Artists and Models" which has been for some time in New York. Famous artists and illustrators, some 20 in number are given credit for the book while Harry Gribble, Clifford Grey and Seymour Felix are listed as having handled the staging, lyrics and dances. Some 24 scenes in two acts constitute the tong evening's program and many of them are very fine. "A Wood in New Hampshire", "Good Night", 'The Un- veiling", and . "The. Lily Pool" are gorgeous pictures which cost a deal of money, took much time and effort and succeed in being most pleasing to the eye and ear. Comedy skits such as "A Model Laundress", "Honesty", "Insanity" and "American Drama" are interspersed and each contains many good laughs. The last named looked for all the world like a burlesque on "Fashion" recently shown by the North Shore Theatre Guild. Jack Hines, Marie Stoddard, Barnett Parker, Frank Gaby and Paula Tully are among the princi- pals who work hard and achieve the best results. Charles Massinger sings well and there is some good dancing by Miss Marlowe and Ewing Eaton. The chorus is active, well trained and good looking and the costumes seem fresh and are attractive. Golfers will be interested in a specialty by Alex Morrison the trick shot expert and you will also like Frank Gaby's good ven- triloquist act. VAUDEVILLE MAJESTIC THEATRE Eva Fay, who for many years has mystified and entertained with her mind reading act, is back at the Ma- jestic and succeeds as she has in the past. With equal prominence on the bill, an orchestra of young ladies styled "Musicland", seemed to make quite a hit with their assortment of tunes and songs. The "Jinja Revue" did not do quite so well although their acrobatic dancing and solo work was good. Three men and two women make up the act. Miss Canfleld, of the team of Allen and Canfield, proved to be an excellent cut-up and made a big hit. Emily Darrell, seen here be- fore, does a patter act with the orches- tra leader and her pet dog that went across in good shape. Wilson and Addie tried piano playing, singing and a little rough nonsense without any startling results. The week's bill was well arranged and very satisfactory. Neighboring Theaters VILLAGE THEATRE Three excellent pictures will come to the Village theatre during the com- ing week. The first, Monday and Tues- day, June 15 and 16, will be "The Goose Hangs High", the big stage hit which played in Chicago all last winter, after a phenomonal run elsewhere. There is an excellent cast in this production and it is said to be quite as good as the stage hit. Other features which will accompany it on the bill will be "Low Tide", a two-reel Mermaid comedy and a Pathe news reel. Wedesnday and Thursday, June 17 and 18, the feature attraction will be Nazimova in "My Son." Everyone knows Nazimova, the emotional actress, and this picture makes a splendid background for her unusual talent. Added attractions will be "Big Red Riding Hood", a Pathe comedy, and a Pathe review. That popular little star Viola Dana will be seen the last of the week, Fri- day and Saturday, in her latest picture "Forty Winks", from the stage success of the same name. Miss Dana has been returning to popular favor re- cently after what seemed to be a tem- porary retirement from the silver screen. The bill will include "Wild- Cat Willie", a juvenile comedy, a Pathe news reel and a Kelly Color reel. THE NEW EVANSTON Lois Wilson, heroine of "The Cov- ered Wagon," heads the cast of feat- ured players appearing in the new James Cruze production for Paramount, "Welcome Home," which will be at the New Evanston theatre next Monday to remain for three days. "Welcome Home" was adapted for the screen by Walter Woods and F. Mc Grew Willis from a play by Edna Fer- SCREEN ber (author of "So Big") and George S. Kaufman, who with Marc Connelly, wrote "Merton of the Movies," "The Beggar on Horseback." The story is one of an old man who comes to live with his son and daugh- ter-in-law in the city. His arrival is the signal for a general disturbance about the house. Warner Baxter, recently seen in "The Golden Bed" and "The Air Mail" and Luke Cosgrave, the spry old rheumatic in "Hollywood," also a Cruze picture, are featured with Miss Wilson in the principal roles. Cosgrave is Baxter's father in the production--a man of about 71 years, and a widower. In response to his son's request he comes to live with him and starts right off by poking his nose into everyone else's business. You'll feel sorry for the old boy and laugh at him at the same time. Old man Prouty strikes up an ac- quaintance with two inmates of an Old Men's Home, and they picture their life of ease so alluringly that he decides to go there to live, leaving his children with, "I"m sorry to make them unhap- py, but I've got to be with people of my own kind. My life is my own and I'm not going to waste it teaching any- body to play pinochle." Some big names in the supporting cast ofthe pictures includes Ben Hen- dricks, Margaret Morris, Josephine Crowell and Adele Watson. In this production Cruze is said to give the public another view of his un- canny directorial ability. Though her motion picture career started in the early days of the film in- dustry through all of the rapid changes that marked its progress, Alice Joyce is one of the few prominent screen players who had never appeared in a Paramount picture until "The Little French Girl," which Herbert Brenon produced and which will be shown at the new Evanston next Thursday, Fri- day and Saturday, June 11, 12, and 13. Miss Joyce has the role of "Madame de Vervier," the mother of the little French girl in the film version of Anne Douglass Sedgwick's popular novel, and is co-featured with Mary Bian, Neil Hamilton and Ester Ralston. To her studio associates and her friends Miss Joyce is a marvel of girl- ish slenderness and youth which makes it difficult to realize that she is the mother of two children, one six years old and the other three. As a fashionable Parisienne in this Paramount production, Miss Joyce wears a variety of smart costumes that are destined to set the mode for the coming season. She also displays the latest vogue in French bobs, which is worn close-cropped at the back and fol- lows closely the shape of the head, with only three large waves to relieve the severity of the outline. "The Little French Girl" is a screen version of the "best-seller" novel novel of the same name by Anne Douglas Sedgwick which set the world of litera- ture to talking. Mario Majeroni, Paul Doucet, Julia Hurley, Jane Jennings and Anthony Jowitt, a new "find" appear, among others, in the supporting cast. THE HOYBURN Hardly a ripple was caused in Bever- ly Hills when it was announced that Corinne Griffith had purchased a new home there. Already surfeited with queens of motion pictures and kings of finance the addition of another seemed no reason to break forth in celebration. So blase Beverly yawned, turned its head toward the mountains, pulled its feet in from the sea and went back to sleep. For this sleepy place houses the estates of our famous movie stars. However, if one might peruse the real estate pages in the local papers they would find that the renowned beauty and cinema queen had pur- COMMUNITY | : HOUSE TUESDAY JUNE 16 4 D. W. Griffith's Epic of the American Struggle for Independence "AMERICA" One of the Greatest Pictures of All Time AT REGULAR PRICES! FRIDAY JUNE 19 Ziegfeld's Biggest Hit Now J A Movie! At the New Campus Jackie Coogan in "MY BOY" chased a beautiful English residence surrounded by four acres of landscaped gardening and had paid $100,000 out- right for the estate. The following day she began work on the First Na- tional picture "Declasse," to be shown at the Hoyburn theatre next Monday for a three day engagement. "Kiss Me Again," the latest picture by the master of all directors, Ernst Lubitsch, is announced by the Hoyburn theatre as the feature attraction for next Thursday, Friday and Saturday, June 11,12-and 13. This time Mr. Lubitsch's genius for screen entertainment has concentrated on a Parisian comedy that smacks of de Maupassant in its sophistication. Remembering "The Marriage Circle" and "Three Women," which Mr. Lu- bitsch directed for Warner Bros., and the subtle, delightful tone of sarcasm that envelopes his productions, one's imagination plays riot with the thought of a vivacious French story in the hands of Lubitsch. There are to be only five characters in "Kiss Me Again," for the reason that Mr. Lubitsch is primarily interest- ed in individuals rather than crowds. He has chosen five stars for his cast-- Marie Prevost, Monte Blue, Clara Bow, John Roche and Willard Louis. "Kiss Me Again" is the third picture that Mr. Lubitsch has made for Warn- ner Bros. and this is the third time that he has featured Marie Prevost, who in his opinion, are three of the finest 'artists on the screen. Hans Kraely wrote the story of "Kiss Me Again." THE HOWARD Next Sunday the Howard will offer to its patrons a film called "Wild Fire", featuring Aileen Pringle. One is put at a distinct disadvantage when writing of Norma Shearer as an actress, for it is difficult to remember her as anything but a tremendously beautiful person. Miss Shearer is at the same disad- vantage in convincing anyone that she is a good actress also, for critics and public alike are apt to remember only LIV renin cipro mttpoaf] GORDON FIREWORKS for Country Homes All boxed ready for delivery. Private Lawn Dlsplays $10, $15, $25, $35 and $50. FIREWORKS of QUALITY For larger programs write or send for catalog. Gordon Fireworks Co. State Lake Building Chicago, Ill. Practically fool proof. Phones Randolph 0340 -- Winnetka 446 Clemmons sofiprasmipref'] that she has an unmatchable profile and glorious eyes. But for all that, Miss Shearer has convinced the majority of those who have seen her on the screen that she really is a very good actress, and in her latest role, in "Lady of the Night," which will come to the Howard next Monday, she has an excellent oppor- tunity to prove it. In this production, which is spon- sored by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and directed by Monta Bell, Miss Shearer plays two distinct personalities. One is a dance hall girl, educated in a reformatory and cast upon the streets penniless to make her own living, the other is a rich man's daughter. Flaine Hammerstein will be seen in "Every Man's Wife" the last of the week at the Howard, following "Lady of the Night." WOMEN MAKE BEST SCENARIO WRITERS Paul Bern, famous as the director of "The Dressmaker from Paris", and who has just finished "Grounds for Divorce", says that women make the best scen- ario writers. "Women", he says, "understand women better than men do and they also understand men better than men understand themselves. A woman writer of stories dealing with the two sexes can, therefore, put in touches that ring true and that men might never think of." Violet Clark wrote the scenario for "Grounds for Divorce", made from Ian Claire's big stage hit--a story of matrimony and alimony. DIX NOW A DARE DEVIL! Richard Dix has come down from his roost on the steel beams of an un- finished 32-story building on Manhat- tan and everybody at the studio is breathing naturally again. For three weeks this up and coming star has been filming scenes for his forthcoming pic- ture, "The Shock Punch" on projecting girders that offered a splendid view of New York's harbor and the Statue of Liberty. But the altitude of Dix's vantage-point also gave him unpleas- ant sensations when his glance hap- pened to drop streetward, with the ever-present danger that his body would follow that glance. However, Dix, who plays the role of an ironwerker has now completed the last hair-raising stunt, the cameraman, Al Ligouri, has photographed the last thrilling scene, director Paul Sloane has shouted his last order for the picture above the rush of the wind. The pro- duction unit engaged in making the picture is again learning to walk on ordinary levels without an effort to balance themselves on eight-inch sur- faces hundreds of feet above the ground. BEERY A MINE OWNER Noah Beery, well-known heavy in pictures, is half-owner of a gold-claim in Arizona. Some months ago, an old miner came to Hollywood, told Beery he had seen him play the role of a miner in "Wanderer of the Waste- land." He asked Beery to grubstake him. The actor did so. Now he is wondering whether the mine will prove valuable. ) Newell & Retchin HOWARD Continuous Every Day--2:15 to 11:15 N. W. "L" Station at Howard Sunday, June 14th Aileene Pringle in "WILD FIRE" Monday and Tuesday, 15-16 Norma Shearer in "LADY OF THE NIGHT" Wednesday and Thursday, 17-18 Elaine Hammerstein in "EVERY MAN'S WIFE" Friday and Saturday, 19-20 Rin-Tin-Tin the Dog Wonder in "TRACKED IN THE SNOW COUNTRY" All North Shere Trains Stop at Howard & oe 50 Village Theatre Your Home Theatre J. B. Koppel Managing Director Monday and Tuesday, June 15-16 Evenings, 7:30 and 9:00 Matinee, Tues. 3:30 "THE GOOSE HANGS HIGH" also "Low Tide"--Mermaid Comedy and Pathe News Wednesday and Thursday, 17-18 Nazimova in "MY SON" also "Big Red Riding Hood"--Comedy and Pathe News Friday and Saturday Saturday Matinees, 2 and 4 P. M. Viola Dana in "FORTY WINKS" also "Wildeat Willie"--Comedy, Pathe News and Kelly Color Reel New Campus COOL AND REFRESHING Fountain Square Evanston Con. from 1:30 to 11 P.M. Monday, Tuesday, June 15-16 "WILD FIRE" with Aileen Pringle--Edna Murphy Christie Comedy--News Wednesday, June 17 By Special Request Richard Barthelmess and Mary Hay, His Wife "NEW TOYS" Thursday, Friday, June 18-19 "STRONGHEART" The Wonder Dog in Jack London's "THE WHITE FANG" Educational Comedy--News Saturday, June 20 Fred Thomson and the Human Acting Silver King "THE BANDIT'S BABY" Comedy--Review--Fables--News Matinee Only Jackie Coogan in 'MY BOY' Horse ¢ ne -- = C-C w= : EVANSTON HOYBURN Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Lois Wilson--Warner Baxter | "WELCOME HOME" A James Cruze Production Comedy News Thursday, Friday and Saturday Alice Joyce--Mary Brian "THE LITTLE FRENCH GIRL" Comedy News Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Corinne Griffith--Clive Brook "DECLASSE" Comedy News Weekly Thursday, Friday and Saturday Mary Prevost--Monte Blue i "KISS ME AGAIN" Comedy News Daily Shows at 2, 4, 7 and 9--Saturday Continuous 2 to 11 P. M.