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September 14, 1928 I Six More of Bellamy Players at Evanston in "Take ~ly Advice" With six more of the Bellamy Players making their bow to a north 'shor~ audience, Elliott Lester's "Tak~ My Advice" was presented at the New Evanston Monday night and continues there during the week. The initi~J offering of the Bellamy Players, "Abie's Irish Rose," promised much: although only the company'.~ leadinl! man and leading women had parts in it, and that promise is more than fulfilled in the play that is on the boards this week. The six members of the cast who appear for the first time this week give strong and competent support to the two leads, Ralph Bellamy and Frances M'o rris. Without exception they gave splendi!i interpretations of their parts on the opening night, capturing the interest and winning the approval of the audience within a very · few minutes. Dominates Every Scene Ralph Bellamy is a finished actor with. a remarkabl~ . personality, which he succeeds in getting across the footlights with every, word, every movement and every gesture. He dominates the action in a manner that not many actors who tread loop stages can equal. Cast in this play in the role of Prof. Bradley Clement, a young English professor w h o s e sagacity straightens out the tangle into which the affairs of the House of Weaver have become knotte.d, Bellamy's talents are allowed full sway. Miss Morris, as Ann \Veaver, has several chances during the course of the show to display her abilities and she takes full advantage of them. The company's comedian, William A. Lee, proves himself a laugh-getter in the role of Kerry Van Kind and Edwin V. McCarthy and Alice Delbridge, in villainous parts, maintain the high standard set by the. other members of t'he cast. Richard Weight as John \Veaver and Laurett ~Browne as Mrs. vVeaver are admirable, while Frank Dane in the role of Bud Weaver gives an almost perfect characterization of a 17year-old boy affli~ted with a bad case of puppy love. In this case his inarporata is Marella Scotte (Miss Delbridge), who is only eight years his senior. Hia Four Problems The young professor's problems are 'four, to-wit: To rescue Bud from the clutches of Marella, make him like it and make him return to prep school. To rescue Mr. Weaver from the clutches of a fake oil stock salesman. To make Mrs. Weaver give up an obsession for her ··science of numbers." To rescue Ann and Mr. Weaver from the clutches of another con man with a dramatic art school racket. He is a clever man and he succeeds -therein lies the play. ~ake . P lans· for Smith College Ball L-----------~---------------------------------- I ST. FRANCIS TO BUILD $500,000 NORTH WING Hospital to Increase Capacity to 300 Beds; Plana Model Children's Section ---- Photo by Toloff Among members of the Smith College club who are busy with plans for ARDEN REOPENS OCT~ 1· J Winter Camp Will Take ia nderfed Boya Forced to Leave School Preparations for the winter season at Arden Shore, haven for children and mothers in need of sunshine, got under way immediately after the closing of the summer camp two weeks ago and are being rushed for the opening of the winter camp around Oct. 1. Undernourished boys between 13 and .17 who have been forced to leave school and need work to help their families are given healthful days during the winter at Arden Shore. They are youngsters found by the board s of education when they request certificates permitting them to work, youngsters who are evidently physically unfit to do so. They are given days of outdoor play, balanced diets, rest, recreation and vacation at the camp to put them into fit condition to work. All the open-air shacks are being closed in, buildings are being repainted and the entire camp is being cleaned for the opening of the season. This year's charity ball which the Chicago Arden Shore committee gives each year will be held Nov. 30 at the Palmer house. Plans for the affair, C. V. K. which always draws a large patronage from Evanston, will be discussed Monday at a meeting in the Ambassador Alta Miller Returns · · hotel. Mrs. Richard Gambrill, Jr., From Circling Globe oublicity chairman, is one of the EvansMiss Alta Miller, instructor of voice ton sponsors of the camp who will at the Northwestern Wliversity music attend. school, has returned from a fifteen months' tour which encircled the world. FOLLIES LEAVE EARLY Accompanied by Miss Edith Brooks The Greenwich Village Follies are she left the United States a year ago last ] une and spent the summer tour- making a hasty departure. Plans to transfer the show to the Majestic on ing Europe. In September they took up residence September 16 have be.e n abandoned. At the same time the popularity of in Paris where Miss Miller studied 44 French and voice for three months, A Night in Spain," successful revue and titen resumed their way around of last season which has been brought the world. In December they were in back to Chicago, is again demonstratEgypt and the Holy Land and from ed. The present announcement is for ther·e their itinerary took them to the continuanc e of uA Night in Spain" Colombo, Ceylon, India-, where they in the Majestic until September 29, remained five weeks, and Sing- after which a new operetta, "The Retl apore, Java, Bankok, China, and Japan Robe," will be sung. where they stopped for a month. They Vilma Banky's next picture will be crossed the Pacific by way of Honolulu made in New York. and landed in San Francisco July 4. . Plans for the erection of a half million dollar addition to St. Francis hospital increasing its capacity by 50 per cent: were announced this week by Sister Superior M. Aedigna. Work on the excavation and foundation will begin next week, and it is· expected to have this part of the structure completed before snow. The old Ames S. Kirk farmhouse, one of the oldest residences . in Evanston. and the original home of the hospital, will be torn down to make room for the new structure. The hospital began twenty-seven years ago in this farm house, which in earlier years had been one of the show places of the north shore. The old farm, in part, became the hospital g=-ounds. Until recent years some of the farm outbuildings and farm equipment were still in use by the hospital. To Be Like South Wing The new wing, which is expected the annual Smith ball are Miss Martha Browne MacGuire, (left) president of to be ready for occupancy late next the club, and Miss Mary-Lois McMul- summer, will flank the central struclen, general chairman. The ball wil. ture on the north and will correspond take place Oct. 10 at the Evanston in position and architecture to the reCountry club. cently completed south wing. It will have a capacity of 100 beds, bringing the total to 300, and making "Good News" Still Good; St. Francis hospital one of the large Now in Its Ninth Month hospitals of the Chicago area. Included in the wing will be a chil"Good News," which has been so dren's department which, according to aptly desc ribed by the 'c ountless thou- present plans. will embody the most sa nds who have witnessed the per- recent ideas developed by hospitals in formance. as the snappiest. funniest, America and Europe. Under direction fastest and most tuneful musical of the Sisters of St. Francis, a study has been made of the best children's comedy seen in Chicago in twenty hospitals in this country, and advice years, has now entered the ninth has been sought from some of the month of its engagement at the leading hospitals in Europe. The remainder of the wing will be Selwyn theatre with no signs of abategiven to moderatelv priced single ment in its patronage. rooms and small wards . One of the many secrets of the To Add Two Operating Rooma phenomenal success of this joyous The increased capacity will make musical play can be partly.. attributed to possible the addition of two operating the fact that the same cast of players· rooms in the central unit of the hosare still contributing to the play's suc- pital. and the development of a much enlarged electrical and X-ray departcess by giving nightly the same perfect ment. performance as was enacted by them The sisters will be moved to the the opening night last February. present ch'ildrer£s ward from their The That irresistible comedian, Jack quarters on the fourth floor. Haley. as the boob football play- space thus vacated will become the er; Max Hoffman ] r., as the gridiron X -ray department, and the present hero, who falls in love with Betty X-ray rooms will be turned into operGallagher, the poor but altogether ating rooms. The south wi.Jg of the hospital has charming and demure coed; Dorothy McNulty as the effervescent cut-up; heen completed but two yean but it Peggy Bernier, who has so popularized is already filled to capacity, necessitatthose . two world-famous song and ing the new building program. dance numbers, The Varsity Drag" The construction work will be in and ··Good News"; Katherine Morris charge of Louis Lynk, engineer and as the campus belle; Dorothea ] ames, bpilding superintendent for the hoswhose nimble dancing and charming pital. personality fills its important niche; The next project after the wing is ] oseph Allen, the superstitious trainer completed will be the erection of a with his pessimistic views of life, and chapel and a home for the sisters. many others of the cast contribute to The old Kirk house has been used the success of the piece, to say nothing as living quarters for the female domof the forty Flapper Freshies who eitic help employed by the hospital. serve not only as a most charming They will be moved to the frame struc· background but a foreground of much ture which was once the nurses' home, prominence by their fast, clever and now in the rear of the hospital. The furious dancing. male help will be quartered in the The inimitable Abe Lyman and his huilding which was once the Rev. justly famous orchestra furnish the Msgr. Biermann's rectory. · music of "Good News," and you are advised that if you haven't seen it, you LAY LINOLEUM not only have not seen the best in Considerable interest has.. been manimusical comedy, but you are missing a number of floors which the fest in a rare entertainment. Flooroleum stores recently completed in several north shore homes. Stvle, Rudolph Schildkraut, character actor design and color all enter into the plan of stage and screen, will portray the of floor tr.eatment followed by this conrole of. the blind father of Janet Gay- cern. Modern linoleums add color and nor in her forthcoming starring pro- charm to any room. according to the duction. management. 44 + I ·