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- br September 24, 1927 WINNETKA TALK 51 Shore Theaters News Brilliant Three Picture Program Billed by Village With "The C ountr y Doctor," "The | Unknown" and "The Heart of Mary- land" scheduled for the coming week, | the Village theater is presenting a program that is almost staggering in its proportions. Ary one of the three pictures is a production big enough to warrant a long run at any theater and that the three are listed for one week warrants comment. To those who have at some time lived in a small community, far from the splendid facilities provided in a city, the story of "The Country Doc- tor" will bring gripping memories. For those who have not been acquainted with the sacrifices of the "old family friend," it will be an immense drama of the touching realities of life. To both it will be a tribute te an unsung hero. In this picture of rural New Eng- land, the very threads of community existence are unraveled in the turning of the wheels of his old buggy. And the intermingled love theme centered around the doctor's patients and friends and the way he aids them in solving their many problems brings this picture very close to the throne of perfect achievement. It will be shown Monday and Tuesday. "The Unknown" has previously been reviewed. say that it is one of the greatest of Lon Chaney's pictures and that as the semi-demented armless wonder he ap- proaches a plane of production. equalled only by himself. It will be featured on Wednesday and Thursday. For. the remaining two days-of the week, #Theé Heart of Maryland". "brings Dolores Costellg to the Village screen ex y story of souflf; dur- elle Marland Ca the girl, "who, "while passionately Joving the south! found herself divided against love itself in loye forza sol- dier of the North. MINTURN PLAYERS « "Laff That Off," a clever comedy, is this week holding the attentioti'ef Min- turn Players fans at the Chateau theater, Chicago. Every member of the company is cast in this play, the plot of which ¢oncerns the "adoption" of an unknown' and charming young actress by three young bachelors.: All pledge themselves not to make 16ve to her--and all fall in love with her. One of them wins her--just which ones the fans are finding out for themselves. It should be sufficient to] | Evanston Players Score Decided Hit With "Thank U" I have have suspicions every once in --that Winchell Smith and Tom C ush- ing, co-authors of "Thank You," thc a very three act play presented by the Evans- | ton Players at the New Evanston this | week, at one time lived in a small town. Moreover, -that suspicion car- ries me still farther and I see in the play a very intimate knowledge of the workings of a small town church or- ganization. It 1s an excellently drama, "Thank You," a drama replete with human interest and whimsical little twists of character. It is-.well rounded in plot development and ends as well as it starts--which is, if you will allow me to tell a trade secret, not always true even of good plays. In the production of the Evanston Players I also detected just a tinge of the smoothness of "rewrite" in the lines that bespeaks somewhat of John Golden, the master producer that first presented "Thank You." So don't you see, "Thank You" just had to be a good play. And it was. And the Evanston Players displayed a keen insight into .the workings. of the authors' minds in their interpreta- tion of the meaning of the lines. Which, when you consider that there were two authorggfras' 'mot an easy task--despite . the "jdt that there was only one play. Imagine "you can, trving to out-think two cooks if you were a small boy and were trying to "borrow" a very small sugar cooky. Which is, of course, half sense but mainly nonsense: Ernest Woodward and Williams are a great team. written little Margery If you will remember back just a wee bit, you | will recall that last year I raved in column lengths over Margery, And don't think that I'm through "raving." As the little French girl in "Thank You," Margery Williams -displayed all of the old fire and originality in char- acterization that so delighted her aud- And Ernest Wood- | iences last year. ward was a splendid co-star, drawing down the full and spontaneous ap- proval of his audience. And they were excellently supported by the rest of the Plavers. But I'm not going to tell you a thing more about "Thank You," not 'even as to its nature. It should be enough to say that it sure is worth seeing. decided snspicions=1} a while | minz CHATEAU theatre BROADWAY AT GRACE STREET NEXT WEEK-- All this Week THE "MINTURN PLAYERS with HARRY MINTURN in "LAFF THAT OFF" "CRADLE SNATCHERS" Every Evening at 8:15--Mats. Sup, Thurs., Sat. at 2: 30 PHONE LAKEVIEW 7170 PRICES--AIl Matinees 25¢ ind s50c¢ Evenings 25¢, 50¢ and 75¢ : ag vi * Except Saturday, Sunday and Holidays' F J == DpveiERaig TT Ad \ 3 a2 Za tw WF DAR Lei O30 0 -- a "0 mn a 7 L Ernest Woodward | FER are two especially outstand- ing actors with the Evanston Players at the New Evanston theater this season. Margery Williams, the leading woman and Ernest Woodward, the leading man. Both have an old acquaintance of long time residents of the morth shore, having played in this vicinity some years ago. : [BALABAN KAT Z| NORSHORE | HOVARS AVE. neg, ~. CLARK Now Playing AL KVALE and his Jazz Collegians "AL'S HARUM SCARUM REVUE" PEGGY BERNIER GEO. DEWEY WASHINGTON and Others ' "BEAU GESTE" : RONALD COLMAN s -- Starting Sunday-- One Huge Hour of Joy With AL KVALE and his Jazz Collegians | in " Jazz'n the High C.s" with MILTON WATSON MARKEL 8 FAUN Florence Brady, Billie Gerber Abbots Co-eds --On the Screen-- "ADAM and EVIL " LEW CODY AILEEN PRINGLE THE NEW EVANSTON "EVENING AT 8:15 -- MAT. WED. 8 SAT. 'up in Paris. "NOW PLAYING THE EVANSTON PLAYERS With Margery Williams and Ernest Woodward In John Golden's Great Play "THANK U"' The scenes of "Thank-U" are laid in a little village in Connecticut, and have to do with the rector of a parish whose salary of $800 a year is so small that he is forced-- and expected--to eke out an existence by depending upon the donations of his parishioners. you' man, and the state of his servility utterly disgusts a niece who comes to live with him after having been brought You will remember this play always--See it! He is therefore a '"'thank- Mat. Wed. % Sat. 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