Colonial Theater to Close and Demolish for New Temple
In Wilmette life notes the Colonial theater ends May 17 after twenty two years opening as the Troquois in 1902 and the Iroquois fire disaster year, with demolition on May 26 to make way for the United Masonic Temple. The venue hosted musicals and the Follies era.
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Colonial Theater
United Masonic Temple
Powers
Sherman House
Colonial
Troquois
Winnetka
The Breaking Point in a New Screen Drama
A review of Paramount's The Breaking Point says the Mary Roberts Rinehart story follows the amnesia plot with Matt Moore as the memory shifting hero and Patsy Ruth Miller as his fiancée. Despite fine acting and photography, the reviewer finds the drama often implausible and largely boring.
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
Matt Moore
Patsy Ruth Miller
Cytherea at the Chicago Theater
A First National release based on Joseph Hergesheimer explores married life and desire. Lewis Stone Irene Rich Alma Rubens star with Constance Bennett as a modern flapper. The reviewer notes familiar couples and clever screen work but suggests the plot ends differently from the book.
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Cytherea
Joseph Hergesheimer
Cytheren
Savina Grove
Lewis Stone
Irene Rich
Alma Rubens
Salina
Constance Bennett
Sherlock, Jr. and Buster Keaton double feature comedy
The sober faced Buster Keaton delivers a solid two reel comedy about a movie projectionist who dozes off during a film and dreams he is a detective recovering the heroine's lost pearls. The escapade yields loud laughs and solid diversion value.
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Buster Keaton
Buster
Captain Blood to Be Pictured This Season at Vitagraph
Preparations for the Vitagraph production of Rafael Sabatini’s Captain Blood are completed in Hollywood. David Smith will direct after acquiring world rights in London. Casting begins as research for seventeenth century buccaneer ships continues with a port town site near southern California.
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Captain Blood
Rafael Sabatini
Vitagraph Studios
Hollywood
Albert E. Smith
David Smith
Mr. Smith
London
America
George H. Smith
Vitagraph
Foreign Organization
Port Royal
Sabatini
California
Scouts Hike Overnight From Kenilworth Troop I
Several Kenilworth Boy Scouts of Troop I began an overnight hike this afternoon and will not return until Sunday morning. Twenty five or more boys joined the trip. Scoutmaster Townley says patrols will compete in games and tests as part of the outing.
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Kenilworth
Boy Scouts
Troop I
Townley
Boys Camp Offers Indian Experience in Wisconsin
Illinois boys will join two Chicago Y M C A camps at Crooked Lake in Lac du Flambeau Wisconsin. Camp Nawakwa will host rugged outdoor life guided by Fenner E. King with Chippewa chiefs sharing legends. Additional camps at Hastings Lake Lake Villa Illinois Pinewood Muskegon Camp Duncan Fish Lake Yalo and Channing Kankakee river along with Camp Roosevelt provide recreation and religious activities.
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Illinois
Crooked Lake
Lac du Flambeau
Wisconsin
Chicago Y. M. C. A
A. E.ross
Penn and Explorer
Nawakwa
Hastings Lake
Lake Villa
Chicago Association
Pinewood
Muskegon
Mich
Duncan
Fish Lake
Yalo
Ilinois
Channing
Kankakee
Camp Roosevelt
Follies Boosts Library Fund At Kenilworth School
The Follies staged by Joseph Sears sixth graders on the north shore last Thursday raised thirty dollars for the school library fund. The one night stand entertained the balance of the school and proved a decided hit, enabling the class to complete its quota of oaks assigned at the year’s start.
Real Countess Makes Screen Debut in Janice Meridian
Countess Marie Anne de Tiesenhausen, daughter of the late Count Paul de Tiesenhausen and former Russian vice counsel in New York, will debut on screen in Cosmopolitan Pictures picturizing Paul Leicester Ford’s Janice Meredith with Marion Davies starring after Yo Landa. Her father was a Russian nobleman and diplomat, noted in U S and Russian circles, and served as a colonel in the Turko-Russian war.
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Marie Anne de Tiesenhausen
Paul de Tiesenhausen
New York City
Cosmopolitan
Paul Leicester Ford
Janice Meredith
Marion Davies
Count de Tiesenhausen
Russia
Nicholas
Kenilworth Indoor Team Falls 1 10 In Practice Game
The Kenilworth gymnasium indoor team lost to a New Trier advisory room squad 1 to 10 in a Tuesday practice. They plan to face Evanston teams in the near future.
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Kenilworth Gymnasium
New Trier
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Paramount Picture Mevickers Theater
First National Picture
Chicago Theater
Sherlock, JR
Big Chiefs
Fenner E. King
Chicago
Howard
N. W
Mary Carr
Adelphi
North Clark St
Lorett Taylor
Hapkines
Pola Negri
Tuseday Jacquelin Logan
North Shore
Quinlan & Tyson, Inc
Fountain Square
Evanston
Library Plaza
Owrington Avenue
Church Street
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