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he a sof B WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1925 13 Reviews of the Week and Priscilla Bonner. Wizard of Oz", featuring Larry Semon |to-goodness reporters went out so By Thespian STAGE "PUZZLES OF 1925" Harris Theatre Miss Elsie Janis is the most ver- satile woman on the stage today. Some 20 years ago she laid the foundation for that statement when she was at the old Colonial in "The Vanderbilt Cup." Natural ability, charming per- sonality and good hard work have been the factors responsible for the devel- opment. Today one finds her a peer- less entertainer with a following of "Janis" fans worth a good slice of any- body's money. She can dance beauti- fully, sing appealingly, act when occa- sion requires and is unquestionably our greatest mimic. In addition she is something of an author and director. Four of the musical numbers in her new show are products of her fertile brain. "Puzzles" is a more or less intimate revue. It lacks the elaborate effect and undraped chorus frequently as- sociated with entertainment coming un- der this heading. But there is a good chorus, working hard, there are num- erous sketches, dances and songs, a comedian or two of the first rank and Miss Janis doing things in her in- imitable way. It is smart entertain- ment, smartly presented, At least five of the scenes find Miss Janis occupying the center of the stage. From "The Undecided Blues," sung with Mr. Jimmy Hussey, she jumps into a splendid bit of character work in "Tra-la-la-la." Later, her "Je Vous' Aime," which she has made so pouplar, comes in for much applause. And to end the show with a bang she saves her impersonations for the clos- ing moments of the performance. And what wonderful impersonations they are. Those who have seen her do Eddie Foy, George M. Cohan and many of her old ones will be amazed at the ease with which she gives you John Barry- more, Will Rogers and Fanny Brice. The last named is a classic. Nor should we overlook some of her assistants. Jimmy Hussey, a good comedian, helps out in several scenes and the audience liked him. The slap- stick comedy "The Plasterers" was very funny as was the comedy dancing of White and Manning. A jazz band, probably one of the best on the stage today, includes a quartet which renders several popular songs. The tenor stop- ped the show with a solo number and one wonders why he is not given more to do. This especially in view of the difficulty experienced by Mr. Thomp- son in arousing the enthusiasum of the audience to his work as a soloist. The balance of the cast, including Miss Broderick, work hard and successfully with the possible exception of John Hartley whose attempts to enunciate as an announcer are subject to much improvement. I urge you to see "Puzzles of 1925." It is clean, fast and decidedly entertain- ing. An outstanding show with a star whose admirers are legion. Neighboring Theaters THE NEW CAMPUS The attraction at the New Campus, next Monday and Tuesday, September 7 and 8, will be Hoot Gibson in "Spook Ranch." Wednesday and Thursday, "Drusilla with a Million" will be shown featuring Kenneth Harlan, Mary Carr oe When Hoot Gibson stumbled on a gang of ruffians holding a man prisoner, he waited until the bandits left and then freed the man and team- ed up with him in an effort to frustrate the plan of the gang to steal the secret of a hidden mine which Gibson was trying to protect for a pretty girl with whom he had fallen in love. But the man turned out to be the leader of the bandits and seeking both the girl and the mine. The resultant action makes an exciting photoplay out of "Spook Ranch," the latest Universal Jewel production coming to the New Campus theatre on next Monday and Tuesday. "Drusilla with a Million" in its skil- ful screen version of the Elizabeth Cooper novel which swept like a prairie fire over the book world a year or two ago, comes to the New Campus for a run of two days on next Wednesday : and it proves a tasty dish of pathos and comedy stirred up in just the most appetizing proportions. With an unusual plot, distinctive treatment by Director Harmon Weight, and the splendid interpreta- tion of a cast headed by Mary Carr, Kenneth Harlan and Priscilla Bonner, "Drusilla" moves on rolling up charm and freshness like a snowball. The whole thing is as refreshing as an ocean breeze, taking up the difficulties which beset a kind-hearted old lady who has suddenly inherited a million dollars after spending most of her lifetime as a charity inmate of an old ladies' home. THE NEW EVANSTON Florence Vidor, Tom Moore, Esther Ralston and Ford Sterling are featured players with the film called "The Trouble with Wives" which is an- nounced as the attraction at the New Evanston theatre the first half of next week, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednes- day, September 7, 8 and 9. For the last half, beginning Thursday, the New Evanston will feature Bebe Daniels in "Wild, Wild Susan". Florence Vidor, Tom: Moore, Esther Ralston and Ford Sterling, of comedy fame, are featured in the principal roles of the Paramount comedy, "The Trouble with Wives," which will be the feature at the New Evanston theatre on Monday, next. Malcolm St. Clair, who made "Are Parents People?" directed the production, an original screen story by Sada Cowan and How- ard Higgin. Miss Vidor, who had trouble with her husband (Menjou) in "Are Parents People?" and "Marry Me!" is at it again in this one. But she wins him back. She'll win you over, too. Miss Vidor is specializing in gorgeous gowns these days. She wears some real novel creations in "The Trouble with Wives". Tom Moore, as the henpecked hus- band, is exceptionally well cast. Enter the female Sherlock in the person of Bebe Daniels in "Wild, Wild Susan," her newest Paramount starring picture, which will be the feature at the New Evanston Theatre on Thurs- day, to remain for three days. "Wild, Wild Susan," adapted for the screen by Tom Geraghty from the Liberty magazine story, "The Wild, Wild Child," by Stewart Emery, has to do with Bebe as Susan Van Dusen, a wild New York society girl whose prim and proper sisters and staid parents bore her stiff. "Wild, Wild Susan" was directed by Eddie Sutherland, who made "Coming Through," starring Thomas Meighan, and who was connected with Charlie Chaplin as assistant director on "A Woman of Paris" and other pictures. VILLAGE THEATRE Monday and Tuesday, September 7 and 8, there will be an all-comedy bill, when Douglas Maclean is seen in his HOYBURN FEATURE & ; 4 - Robert Frazer.» The Scarlet West] latest, "Introduce Me," together with a two reel comedy, "Fares Please". In addition a Pathe news reel will be shown. There will be special matinees at 2 and 4 o'clock in the afternoon on Monday, Labor Day. Wednesday and Thursday Eugene O'Brien and Virginia Valli will be seen in "Siege," with a comedy "Good News" and a Pathe re- view, and Friday and Saturday "The Desert Flower," with Colleen Moore will be the feature attraction. "The Love Bug," a Gang comedy, and a Pathe news reel will complete the bill. "Introduce Me" is the first picture from an original screen story which MacLean has produced since he formed his own company and it is apparent that he has saved up the best of his funny gags for some years to cram them all into this one great effort. The story opens with scenes along the fashionable boulevards of Paris and drifts with startling suddenness to a little chalet high in the Swiss Alps where an international mountain- climbing contest is being held. THE HOWARD Sunday, September 6, for the one date only, the Howard will offer "A Slave of Fashion" with Norma Shearer featured. On Labor Day and the Tuesday following the Howard theatre will offer Larry Semon, Bryant Wash- burn, Charles Murray, Dorothy Dwan and Mary Carr in the screen version of I. Frank Baum's delightful children's story, "I'he Wizard of Oz". Running from Wednesday, September 9, through Saturday, September 12, the amazing and startling film, "The Lost World" featuring Lewis Stone, Bessie Love and Wallace Beery, will be the Howard feature attraction. Lew Cody is establishing a new type of hero on the screen. Not the goody- goody leading man, nor yet the arch villain, but instead the polished man of the world. It is the most realistic type of lover. He plays such a role in "A Slave of Fashion," the Hobart Henley Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production coming to the Howard theatre next Sunday, September 6. An entire village was constructed solely for the purpose of being demol- lished by an artificial cyclone in Chad- wick Pictures Corporations "The Newell & Retchin HOWARD Continuous Every Day--2:15 to 11:15 N. W. "L" Station at Howard Sunday, Sept. 6th "Slave of Fashion" Norma Shearer Mon. and Tues., Sept. 7-8 Larry Semon m "The Wizard of Oz" Wed., Thurs., Fri. and Sat., Sept. 9-10-11-12 Lewis Stone, Bessie Love and Wallace Beery "The Lost World" All North Shore Trains Howard Stop at New Campus COOL AND REFRESHING Fountain Square Evanston | Con. from 1:30 to 11 P. M. Monday and Tuesday Hoot Gibson in His First Special Comedy "SPOOK RANCH" Mack Senett Comedy "SNEEZING BEEZERS" Wednesday and Thursday Mary Carr Kenneth Harlan "Drusilla with a Million" Ralph Gravers Comedy Friday and Saturday A. S. M. Hutchinson's "The Happy Warrior" With an All Star Cast Mack Sennett Comedy Aesops Fables-Review This is a Greater Movie Theatre rs oS Village Theatre Your Home Theatre Always Cool Here J. B. Koppel Managing Director Evenings, 7:30 and 9:00 Matinee, Tues. 3:30 Monday and Tuesday Douglas MacLean "INTRODUCE ME" "FARES PLEASE" Educational Comedy Special Matinees Monday, P. Labor Day, at 2 and 4 M. Wednesday and Thursday Virginia Valli and Eugene O'Brien "SIEGE" Educational Comedy "GOOD NEWS" and Pathe News Friday and Saturday Colleen Moore "THE DESERT FLOWER" also "THE LONE BUG" Our Gang Comedy GREATER MOVIE SEASON Worme at the Howard theatre. And speaking of strong casts, "The Lost World," to be shown at the How- ard theatre next week, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, has the strongest in film history. THE HOYBURN The Hoyburn feature for the first of the week will be a picture entitled "The Scarlet West" with Clara Bow as the feminine star. "The Scarlet West" will run Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, September 7, 8 and 9. When the cast of a motion picture is "on location," its members must necessarily be satisfied with rough and ready accommodations quite unlike their luxurious studio dressing rooms. The actors and actresses in such cases consider themselves fortunate if they are able to find a box upon which to place their mirrors while they make up. It's all "in the game" and they do not grumble. Clara Bow, the leading feminine player in "The Scarlet West," the First National picture coming to the Hoy- burn theatre next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, enjoyed a unique ex- perience while with the company in Colorado, where the production was filmed. "FOURTH ESTATE" IN FILMS! So much criticism has been levelled at motion picture producers and direc- tors in the past for their inaccuracy in reproducing scenes showing newspaper offices and reporters at work that J. Gordon Edwards, who directed the Fox special production, "It Is The Law", used the city room of one of the New York papers as his model in building a newspaper office scene for the pic- ture. He even went further than that and enlisted the services of several genuine New York reporters to appear in the scene. The section of the newspaper office which will be shown reproduces a busy corner in the office of the Morning Telegraph. When the call for honest- many of them showed a suppressed desire to get into the movies that Di- rector Edwards hadn't room for them all. RAWLINSON FINE COP Herbert Rawlinson is back in police uniform again and, with Madge Bel- lamy as his co-star, is duplicating in "The Man In Blue", Universal-Jewel, the big hit he made in "Jack O' Clubs." However, there the similarity ceases for "The Man In Blue" has nothing else in common with "Jack O' Clubs", un- less it be the big fight which is one of the smashing scenes in both pictures. This later starring vehicle is the drama of love and intrigue and heroism sur- rounding the romance of an Irish po- liceman walking a beat in the Italian quarter of New York City, and a little Italian flower girl, who feels that the Signor Cop represents everything great in America. The fact that her uncle thinks other- wise has little effect on the girl. But the machinations of those who work in the dark and against the laws of the land of their adoption bring grief to the girl, and to the stalwart arm of the law. In fact the opposition of the uncle is augmented by the knowledge that the big padrone of the quarter's underworld desires the girl for his own wife--and he almost gets her. SPEED OVER SNOW On their trip up into the snow wastes of the Continental Divide in Colorado, members of the Reginald Barker com- pany who filmed "The White Desert" for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, came to know the true value of a radio. During the entire time that the com- pany was on location, 30 miles from the nearest town, the radio supplied their only entertainment. The cast of the picture is headed by Claire Wind- sor and Pat O'Malley and includes Robert Frazer, Frank Currier, Mathew Betz, Trixie Friganza, Snitz Edwards, William Eugene, Sidney Bracey, Pris- cilla Bonner, Roy Laidlaw, David Dun- bar, Sojin, Milton Ross and Bert Sprotte. b= = NEW ' EVANSTON HOYBURN Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Florence Vidor Tom Moore "THE TROUBLE WITH WIVES" Bobby Vernon Comedy = Thursday, Friday, Saturday Bessie Love Warner Baxter "A SON OF HIS FATHER" and TUXEDO COMEDY Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Robert Frazer Clara Bow "SCARLET WEST" Comedy News Thursday, Friday, Bebe Daniels Rod La Rocque 'WILD, WILD SUSAN' It's Greater Movie Season Saturday LET'S GO! o NN | Daily Shows at 2, 4, 7 and 9--Saturday Continuous 2 to 11 P. M. J nt Next Tuesday 4, 7:30 and 9 P. M. Zane Crey's "The Thundering Herd" Mat. 15¢, Eve. 25c Sept. MATINEES Friday 4 P M. Saturday 2:30 All seats 25c "QUO VADIS" Community House Friday--Saturday A new gigantic produc- tion from the novel by Henry K. Sienkiewicz. Produced in Rome on the exact historical spots by the Unione Cinematogratica Italiana. Emil Jannings, as Nero, the tyrant. 11-12 EVENINGS Friday-Saturday 7:30 and 9 All seats 35c