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Winnetka Weekly Talk, 18 Feb 1928, p. 38

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February 18, 1928 WINNETKA TALK 37 Shore Theaters News 0s! ame 0am oamo am (GD ()E--- (0. x 5 "Main Event" Showing Paramount production co-starring W. Line-O-News Saturday at Teatro|*- Fields and Chester Conklin, each Teatro del Lago has billed = "The |® favorite comedian in his own right, Main Event," "That's My Daddy," [is coming Wednesday. EVENTH Heaven," known among | "Sailor's Wives," "Two Flaming| In this comedy, an amusing series of the critics and producers as "the | Youths," and "The Valley of the |romantic and business complications, in perfect picture," has been recalled | Giants" for the coming week. which the owner of a side show and a "because of popular request" to the| "The Main Event," scheduled for |small town sheriff battle for the love Monroe theater where it was first |showing this Saturday, is a Pathe-|of a wealthy widow, the two have presented for Chicago optiences. That |De Mille feature with Vera Reynolds |roles well fitted to their abilities to might be said to again speak volumes |in the starred role. Miss Reynolds | create fun. on the beauty of this film. is said to do excellent work in the| "The Valley of the Giants," with a alo as the dancing gle] who 3 i Jove Milton Sills in the role of Bryce g 3 3 its | With a prize fighter. Rudolph Schild- [ Cardigan in Peter B. Kyne's great the 'ton Sims that he considers to be | kraut, Charles Delaney, Robert Arm- story of the Redwoods, has been se- most outsanding of those released dur- | Strong and Julia Faye are also included | lected for Thursday and Friday. If we'd put a Classi- ing 1927 in the March issue of that|™ the cast. fied Ad in this paper fication," H th 2 he | Reginald Denny wrote the plot for ec publication ere ey are, 'as THE NORSHORE for a nurse: we'dibe « "That's My Daddy," the picture in A i BANS) Th no Preference shown Sid which he is featured and which is the Alec B. Francis, the star of "The ii IN ol EEA program for Sunday. The picture is| Return of Peter Grimm," is coming able to take In one of "« . } yo » «Pog \r | delightful in its humorous situations | to the Norshore theater in "The the movies on this The King of Kings," "Patent Leather semter 2 Kid," "Private Life of Helen of Troy." which arise from telling a little white Shepherd of the Hills," First Na- todich "Oualit Strecl" "Sevenihi Heaven" lie for somebody else's benefit. It|tional's production of Harold Bell page tonight. «Stark 0 wad nice" "Underworld" | Plunges the being Denny into a laby- Wright's famous novel, in which Mr. « . " rinth of situations which require addi- | Francis plays the title role. and "What Price Glory, tions to the original lie to such an ex- There are four especially outstanding tent that Denny is no longer his real current releases in Chicago: "The Student Prince," with Ramon Novarro and Norma Shearer, opening at Mec- Vickers last Sunday; Victor Hugo's If sailors have sweethearts in every port, it is only logical to assume that sailor's wives look elsewhere for diver- sion while their sea-going husbands far famed "Les Miserables," to be, ¢ away from home. Such is the "CONTINUOUS 2 TO 12--COME ANY TIME" presented a he Roose £0 he ELEN EOP OI of Hi he Circus" iM a United characters in "Sailor's Wives," the fea- --LAST DAY-- ture for Monday and Tuesday based Artists theater this Sunday; and{on Warner Fabian's novel of the same W. C. FIELDS and CHESTER CONKLIN "Quality Street" with Marion Davies, | name. this week's release at the Oriental. "Two Flaming Youths," the initial --IN-- %ook % Al Jolson's "Jazz Singer" is schedul- "Two Flaming Youths" ed to close its run at the Garrick at == the end of next week. It is one of the sALABAN & KAT, THUR, FRI, SAT. most unusual attempts in feature pro- ductions of the year and is an excep- REGINALD DENNY tionally brilliant combination of the Hn ol on Soin ign should NO 13 o" IN as NEW MIRTHQUAKE " jee ih whether nowsy when sslsssed THAT'S MY DADDY ® % ok HOWARD ave." CLARK Picture Play for March carries an article by Myrtle Gebhart which an- Every Friday Night Is VARSITY ORCHESTRA nounces the third coming of "Ramona." po HWESTERN LOUIS LOHMAN AT THE GIANT ORGAN This ti the d tizati f th Non aH his time the dramatization o e famous Helen Hunt Jackson novel will Phi Delta Theta Frater- feature as stars Dolores del Rio in the ning, Feb. 11th, "College =COVINCIMONDAY title role, Warner Baxter as Alessan- Frolic begins at 8:30 "THE GORILLA" dro, the son of an Indian chief who P. M. wins the hand of Romona, and Roland Dew. "Twelve years ago," the article STARTING SUNDAY states, 'Romona' was made with Adda Gleason, Monroe Salisbury and Nigel de Brulier . ... Mary Pickford at one time also made a short film of it." EW EVANSTO Cast with such artists of the modern AND HIS stage, the new edition of "Ramona" JAZZ COLLEGIANS in "THE HOME OF THE SPOKEN DRAMA" should prove a delight. Ty 'HAPPY-GO-LUCKY' | THE VARSITY featuring EVANSTON PLAYERS Reginald Denny, star of "That's My o Daddy," which was scheduled to open Johnny Perkins PRESENT at the Varsity theater Friday, is be- a The Hilarious Comedy Riot coming noted as a screen writer as well The Ton of Fun y 5 "WEDDING BELLS" He has written two of his recent Harold Bell Wright's pictures and has thus solved the prob- iful Novel" lem of what to do with the so-called «SHEPHERD OF If you are--or expect to be married rest period between pictures which varies from a week to six weeks de- THE H " SEE THIS PLAY! pending on the production schedule. Denny, disliking the idle life between Molly O'Day --EVENING-- --MATINEE-- pictures, started writing screen stories. : In fact he liked them so well that he Alec B. Francis 3% Spars mig S180 So SEATS ee Se wanted to do them himself. Since the 200 SEATS ............\' SD "Bring the Children" director and Carl Laemmle also liked Every Saturday--Deluxe the stories, they were put into produc- Kvale Coo-Coo Club Spill | DES Vir "SPITE CORNER" My Daddy." Bring the children. Faith Thomas adapted the story to the screen and Earle Snell scenarized it while Fred Newmeyer directed. TELEPHONE UNIV. 8500 FOR SEATS NOW!

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