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Raluqvii.Lldjl'lu11 to Fill out a Very Excellent Pro- WILMETTE LIFE. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1924 31 :::::::: feet .a second, and if seen, ts a quarter of will reach the eros! AND THERE ON STAGE AND. SCREEN.. een s~ond s . A heav ~ ty mtles an hour tak{ in which to top, ~ High", "A~J p lesauce" , "The Outsider" I her wistful romance with Tim Sullivan. iels' so much that he sactiftces his own 0 Reviews of the Week a_nd Jane Cowl in "Who Knows" con- , a quarter of a mile." So when fate tumbled a huge for­ hope for an early wedding so that she h~ue to attrac~ large audiences. At The Howard can travel and get a glimpse of Old Raymond H1tchcock is in his last tune into her lap she whisked out of we saw a small boy By Thespian the squalid Brooklyn neighborhood World culture in Italy. ,ycle under. the crossing week at. the Great Northern, which ·---::===::::=:::-~--.1 house w1ll probaly o~ !ark for a week where she had known so much of hard Then there is William Powell, the fall off bestde a passing following h~s leave-taking. work and privation, off to a fashion­ suave and ophist:cated Prince Amolfo, called the attention of SCREEN The Mus1c Box Revue will occupy l ble boarding school up the Hudson, and Dolores Cassinelli as the scheming hence to a beautiful villa in the !italian g man to the bov. He ··. tRGENTINB LOVE" the Illinois beginning December 22 mistress of the boarding school. Mary McVickers Theatre and the Dolly Sisters will probably Alps. · Foy, Edward O"Connor, · Peter Lang, "They do that ·dozens Om· intagines that "Argentine Love" enter the Garrick the same week. Along came a Prince. Fate dealt a Charles Slattery and Diana Kane, who very day." 113 ~ wri tten for the particular benefit "The Show-Off," which has had few cards off the bottom of the deck is in real life a sister of Lois Wit on, running across the track of Rir hard Cortez that he might such a remarkable run in New York .and the first thing she knew, Adele was complete the line-up of players. North Shore limited is dra w a ce rtain portion of the "Valen­ is slated for Cohan's Grand following 1 Pr.ncess. tricked into marriage by a ··Dangerous Money," directed by tino '" fa ns. Mr. Cortez looks like "Seventh H eaven". The London com­ schcm:ng band of social conspirators. Frank Tuttle as his first production for' mon sight. \"a lent ino. acts like him and is given pany is said to be the one which will Some picture for Debe Daniels' debut Paramount. was adaptt 1 to the :screen t time you are about to ma terial t? work with which has many be seen here. ..t s a full-fledged Paramount star I by Julie Herne from tlte story by John racks be£ ore a train em- oi the thmgs frequently found in his lt all comes about at the Adelphi Russell, which, in turn, is based on the yourself the fact that pictu re" . · hcatre on Wednesday, December 17, novel, "Clark's Field," by Roberti Her­ Th t· story has to do with the affairs where "Dangerous Money'' will hold rick. ~aching you at the rate oi an Argentine beauty who has been Neig hborlng Theate1"1 :orth for two days. The story is said to be fast-moving ~ ight feet a second. pron\i,;e d flt marriage to a young The cast includes Tom Moore, as Tim and colorful romatic-drama with beauti­ man of the same country but who Sullivan, who loves Adele (Miss Dan- ful Bebe at her best. ha:< made up her own mind to marry HOWARD , the Want-Ad, 311 .-\nll'r ican engineer who is building Cl :re \Vindsor, who has the leading hridge... But Juan is no quitter and feminine role in "Born Rich," a First NEWELL . & RETCHIN ha unt in g her every step and threaten­ National picture, directed by Will Nigh Pol.\. Ne2ri in g dire things should she not live up for Garrick Pictures Corporation, which In the Ernst Lutitsifl Pmdt~:t~ca to the original bargain. he makes pos­ will be at the Howard Friday and Sat-· •Forbidden Paradise • sihle a rather interesting last half of urday, December 19 and 20, relates an A P.ramount Picture HOW'AraRD ADELPHI the pict ure. interesting story of how she started her Th t' "cenes are South American in film career. as the human pawn. who is used by the Contlnuou• Matinee• t<.;very Day-%:16 to ll :U 8aturdaya, Sundaya, Holiday• · ry detail, the direction is excellent Five years ago she was a struggling hu band in daring exploit to keep his most of the cast is about right. little extra girl. It was not that she wife from making a fool of herself. N. W . "L'. Staboa at How ani 7074 Nort h . Clarla St. arc\ Cortez is a good actor even felt the call to act nor that she could Movieitcs will have an opportunity of t• v do make him imitate Valen­ make Mrs. Fiske or Mary Pickford r.e- see ing "The Fast Set'' when it plays at !i:unol a)'. lUm1d ay, T u ••d•T Sn nda)·, :)l uad a,-. T • •IMI• l' Rehe Daniels is better than in 'ire in despair when she started in . Her the Howard next week \Vednesday and Dt'l'f'Dibt'r 14-t :S-liJ n~• h•" 1.4-u~- • • an y of her recent attempts and James appearance in a picture studio was due Thursday, December li, and 18. Also Pola Ne1ri Gloria Swanaon Rennie . as the American engineer is to the somewhat unromantic necessity of the Gumps will be seen in "'Andy's Hat." "The F ~rbidden Paradise" m·ep table. -In- money making. Pola 'cgri has not forgotten the days AI. St. John li 10u have not seen "Sainted " I have a little boy, you know,'' she when she was a strap-hanger in Berlin "Never Again" On il'' yo u will probably consider this said. ··and I felt that I must do some- :• ml rode to the studio every morning Wages of Virtue () 11C of the best of the South Amer­ \\.l"ol n••d ny nnol T hur•d n)· ican pic tures. If you have seen it you thing to make a living for myself and in a street car crowded with working 11ill ma ke a comparison not so favor­ baby. We were slaying with my mother people and extras going to the lot. She Betty Comp•on al>l<' to "Argentine Love." in Hollywood. and one day the daughter was reminiscing at the Paramount studio o f the woman who ran the apartment in Hollywood with Ernst Lubitsch who "The- F·· aat­ Set" Bebe Daniela house where we lived told us she had directed her in "Forbidden Paradise,'' 'l'ak•aa frODI t h t' Mt&M;t' MU4.'('t'88 ·· Tiff] ONLY WOMAN" ... Sp rln lf ( "II"IIDIDIJ.. -ln- Chicogo Theat1·e made quite a tidy income in the pic- the picture which reunited their profes­ w ith ~ or m a Talmadge and Eugene turcs. She urged me to try my luck. sional efforts in America and which is Adolphe Menjou (Yil rien is the combination here. They "I went to a photographer and left due next Sunday. Dcccmher 14, at the a a d Dangerous Money Elliott Dexter make a pretty good job of things with my pictures at the various studios. The Howard. •cne Go-Getter" •unw o nt s tan<lin~ help from Edward very next day I was engaged as an "lt was an' hour and a half's ride," The Gumpa in Da1 i, as the father. extra girl. I worked at this for three she said . ''Nearly all the time I had "Andy'a Hat" It is not the newest story in the months when Allan Dwan saw me and to stand. hanging to a strap. People 11n~ ld hut the author manages to put .tvld me he thought I had a future on walked all over my feet and I usually F riday ancl Saturday Constance Talmadire a tc w new twists on things which the screen. Then came four months of arrived at the studio adiing with bruises <.tare W indaor, Bert Lytell p np interest most of the time. <mall parts and fin ally my big chance and tired before I started th e day's work. "Bom Rich Harrington is a successful busi­ with Lois Weber." "After I played in one or two pic- Sat u r tlay mathlt'f' oaly In a thll­ -··- man who drives a hard bargain At the Saturday matinee only, in ad- tures which were successful, I went up tlun tn th• r e~r ula r a llo w . Her Night of RomaDce is usually on top after each cliti on to the regular show, "The Saw- in the scale of importance and after "The Sawdutt Trail" when tic: . He has a son, not of much dust Trail'' will be shown. that the studio used to send a car for accou 11t as is usuallv the case at least Go to your rival for the best advice me in the morning. The same car in pic tures. But his affection for the on how to win hack your wife! 1£ you picked up the important players in the y4l ung drunkard is sincere. He knows can·t steal hi s thunder, ask him to loan picture.
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