Laws of Perspective Aid Camera to Fool the Eye What Is Small Looks Large and What Is Large Looks Small When Viewed by Lens, So What Is the Public Going to Do About It All? When a castle battlemented and turreted, flashes upon the silver screen the movie goer frequently gasps and says, “Do you suppose they built that just for this picture?” Per haps a wise companion speaks up disdainfully, “Oh, that’s just a miniature.” But how to explain it when you get, a closeup of the castle In its entirety [ and the drawbridge descends and the turo comes dashing out on his charg- | er. There is nothing miniature about them. The explanation is this. A minia ture castle, perfect in every detail, is constructed Then a castle wall and gate, say 12 feet high, is made and that exact portion of the miniature is, cut away. Taking advantage of the laws of perspective, which make a nearby object look as large as a much , bigger oblcct 200 feet away, the cam era mar. suspends the miniature on a frame. Just in front of his camera so ihat the bottom of the miniature fits with absolute precision over the ac tually constructed walls of the castle —to the human eye. When properly adjusted the lens of the camera can not register any break whatever in the vertical lines of the structure, not even a fraction of an inch, nor the smallest crack, and the guards can let I the portcullis fall or the hero can dash out whenever he likes. “Minnie” at Rialto. "Minnie" stmts today for a week's run at the Rialto and is said to he really funny ail the way through. 1,eatrice Joy is in the title role. It is a story about a household drudge who is so homely that no one hesi tates to tell her so. Her father owns the hotel in the to.wn, but he is so 1 interested in a radio invention that Minnie does all the work. Rut Min- ! nie has ideas and she uses them to the discomfort of everybody, includ ing herself. For tho first time in his screen career Matt Moore steps out of "straight" roles to do a character part. lie's the inquisitive but for getful reporter. Aijd Minnie doesn't stay homely forever. • • • Immigrant Tale at Sun. "Hungry Hearts." which started Saturday at the Sun. deals with tho coming of a Russian family to Amer- : tea. tha land of promise, where j money and freedom and Justice, they 1 think, may be had for the asking. | The family endures much suffering and disillusionment before finally finding that Justice which they dreamed would meet them here. Tho ! author, Anzla Yezierska, has said 1 that the picture Is as good as tho [ book and that the reason Is that each player lived hls part. The Russian houses, streeta and types seen In the first reel are so realistic that Clare Sheridan, the sculptress, who has just come out of Russia, upon being taken on the set while the picture was being filmed, said she had the feeling of being back in Russia. Rose Rosanova plays the part of the im migrant mother, and Helen Ferguson and Bryant Washburn have the lead- 1 ing roles. ' Comedy at World. The World in “According to Hoyle” is. presenting to movie audi ences a comedy drama, featuring Helen Ferguson and David Butler. The latter, discouraged with life, while tramping the country as a hobo, flints by the roadside a sheet from ft correspondence school detail ing the rules for success. His inter est in life is reawakened by the face of a pretty girl, and he sets out to apply these rules, with laughable but effective results. • • • Heart Throbs at Empress, j “Forget-Me-Not.” at the Empress, is a love story, but It is more than that. It is the life story of two foundlings who find in their devotiitn for each other some compensation for the unkind fate which hus de prived them of home and the affec tion of parents. But eveu this con- I solution is denied them, for Jimmy j is adopted by a rich woman and j passes out of Ann's life to reappear under conditions that seem at the time to shatter her faith in humanity for a time. But only temporarily. “Broad Daylight” refers to the par ticularly glaring day that breaks for [ a young bum when ho wakes up and finds that while drunk the night be fore he was married to a beautiful girl. He was framed by a gang of crooks who thought he was a mil lionaire. What he does and what the girl docs forms the rest of the story. I.ols Wilson, Jack Mulhall and Ralph Lewis are the leading actors. • * • Moon Shows Talmadges. “The Forbidden Cit?,” at the Moon, while a revival of an old pic- ; ture, contains two screen favorites, Norma Talmadge and Thomas Meigh nn. It Is one of Miss Talmadge's ear lier films, but It is full of oriental color. Miss Talmadge has the role - of San San. daughter of a Chinese mandarin. She marries an Ameri- I can consulate officer, and when the emperor learns of it he orders her death. San San's baby. Toy. is allowed to live. When slie grows to womanhood she makes her escape to Manila and becomes a Red Cross nurse. For the second halt of the week the Moon shows another revival, this time with Constance Talmadge the featured player, and she appears In one of her vehicles which won popu larity at an earlier date, “Happiness a la Mode.” As a young wife whoso husband tires of her and wishes a divorce, Connie starts out to win him back. Harrison Ford plays the supporting role. • • • Strand Presents Meighau. Wholesome, humorous and spark ling is Thomas Meighan’s new pic ture, "Back Home and Broke," which Is the feature at the Strand. George Ade. the humorist, whose fables have made him one of the best known and most popular of American writers, is the author. The story tells of a young man who leaves his home town to win success in the great west. lie and hia mother are in distress, his father, supposedly wealthy, having died, and left him penniless. Snubbed by former ac quaintances, he goes away, and upon returning a few years later an ap parent failure, ridicule is heaped upon him. Then a novel Ade twist to the eternal story is introduced with interesting results. With Tom my is pretty little Lila Lee. 39 New Pictures Arc Announced by _Paramount Company i The Famous PlaversLasky cor poration have announced the Hat of the 39 pictures which they will re lease in the next six months begin ning with February. They are "Dark Secrets,” starring Dorothy Dalton; ] "My American Wife.” starring Gloria ; Swanson;, "Adam's Rib.” a Cecil B. j DeMIUe production: "Drums of Fate,” starring Mary Miles Minter: "No | body's Money,” starring Jack Holt. March: "Java Head,” a George Mel , ford production; "The Whito Flower,’ 'starring Betty Compson; “Adam and j Eva.” starring Marion Davies; "Racing 1 Hearts,” starring Agnes Ayres; "The Covered Wagon,” a James Orifee production; “The Nth Com mandment.” a Cosmopolitan produc (tion: "The Ne’er Do Well,” star ; ring Thomas Meighan; “The Leopar dess.” starring Alice Brady. April: “Belle Donna” with Pola Negri; “Grumpy," a William de Mille production; “The Go-Getter;” “You Can't Fool Tour Wife;” “Prodigal Daughters.” starring Gloria Swanson; “The Glimpses of the Moon," featur ing Belie Daniels and Nlta Naldi; “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine,” starry Mary Miles Minter, with Antonio Moreno In a featured role; "The Law of the Lawless.” starring Dorothy Dalton, with Charles de Roche featured. May: “The Tiger's Claw.” starring Jack Holt; "Mr. Billings Spends His Dime,” starring Walter Hlers, with Jacqueline Iaigan featured; “The Rustle of Silk,” featuring Betty Comp son and Conway Tearle; "Declasse,” starring Pola Negri; "Hollywood,” a James Cruze production with a cast including Cecil B. DeMIlle, Pola Negri, Gloria Swanson, Thomas Meighan, Wallace Reid. Bebe Daniels. Agnes Ayres. Jack Holt, Betty Compson, May McAvoy, Leatrlce Joy, Wanda Hawley, Lila Lee. Theodore Roberts, Conrad Nagel, Lois Wilson, Theodore Kosloff, George Fawcett, Charles i Ogle, Walter Biers, Jacueline Logan ! and others: “Vendetta,” with Lionel j Barrymore and Alma Rubens. June: “White Heat,” starring; Thomas Meighan; “Contraband,” star ring Agnes Ayres; "The Woman With Four Faces,” starring Betty Compson; "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife,” starring Gloria Swanson; “Only 38,” a William ile Mille production; “The Exciters," costarring Bebe Daniels and Bert Lytell. July: A Gentleman of Leisure,” starring Wallace Rekl: "Children of Jazz.” featuring Nita Naldl, Jacque line Logan. Conrad Nagel and Robert Gain. "Fog Bound,” starring Dorothy Dalton: “The Snow Bride,” starring Alice Brady: "The Light to Leeward,” i starring Jack Holt. Agnes Ayres Guest of Auto Racers Agnes Ayres was the guest of hon- ! or of the automobile racing drivers , who participated in the Beverly Hills classic at a banquet. The affair took place at the Palais Hoyale. The invitation was tendered Miss Ayres by the pilots as a body and was sponsored by Jimmy Murphy, j Joe Thomas, Eddie Hearne and 1 other famous drivers, who, in addi- j tlon to taking part in the Beverly races, also appeared In "Racing j Hearts,” in which Miss Ayres stars, j and In which they took part In a stir- i ring climax on the racetrack. NEIGHBORHOOD THEATERS HAMILTON - - 40th and Hamilton JOHNNY WALKER In "MV DAD VICTORIA .... 24th and Fort MARY ALDEN lo "THE HIDDEN WOMAN GRAND - - - - 16th and Binney Rudolph Valentino and Alice Terry In ' THE CONQUERINC POWER ANNOUNCEMENT Strictly Kosher Home Cooked Meals Every Day. 1*19 Burt Street. AT. 9440. i "■ ■ — ■ . GRACE ABBOT'S recital “KIDNIGHT FOLLIES OF 1923” BRANDEIS THEATER, Dec. 28th—Mat. Jan. 19th—Evening ADULTS, $1.00—CHILDREN, BOc Omaha’s cleverest children, who appeared at the Sub last season. 7/ko?nas‘.S&*$''aK - STK/ino ?//)i.TO eaSrtcc: cJo/ (jareS/i /tisyAc>s-£MPk'£Sf Cons/ance Jh/frioa'o' pounds Maurice Tourneur commanded him to lose when ho took the role of the ascetic John Storm in "The Christian.’' "Yes, I've gained,” said the other. "What are you going to do,” pur sued Richard, "play characters?” "No; tennis.” The continuity for "The Snow Bride,’ 'in which Alice Brady is to be starred next year, is being completed by Sonya Lcvien. To Claire Windsor l have seen a young tire in the spring, Bending its slender body to the wind. Shaking from its blond hair rhythms of light— Young tree, if you will rise from your knees, and walk. Symbol of grace moving down the street. Then I shall see her whom I have dreamed. Wesley Barry's managers have se cured two of George M. Cohan's stage successes and one of Picken s novels as vehicles for the boy star. He will play in David Copperfleld, in "Little Johnny Jones," and- "George Wash ington, Jr.” “The Season's Greetings to You and Yours' NOBMA “TWO BIG STARS” ^Today tofljT'V1 W'~V Three^ Mon. u I • | i 1 Days Tues. '^V-ni18 More Presents a Brilliant Revival of a Success “THE FORBIDDEN CITY” The mystery of the Far East, the popularity of the two stars, makes this photoplay delightful entertainment. Wednesday—Thursday—Friday CONSTANCE TALMADGE SUPPORTED BY HARRISON FORD —in— “HAPPINESS A LA MODE” --- . I ’ THOMAS An Actor’s Christmas According to the Way Frank Finney Tells It Actors, despite the general Impres sion. eat and their favorite meal is Christmas dinner. Hut In the very nature of their work Christmas s’l dotn finds them at home. To make the holiday festivities complete for their more fortunate fellow beings the actor must give two shows on Christmas and take his Christmas dinner as he finds it. So it is that Christmas is a day es pecially dear to an aetnr's heart be cause of his forced self denial: the memories of home come sweeper to hint as he recalls the few occasions when kindly fate had allowed hint to eat at his own table—and so it is that fried eggs will never be accepted ns an actor's Christmas feast, no mat ter what the circumstances may he. Take Frank Finney's word for it. Ho has been a star in Columbia bur lesque while 20 Christmases have passed and never once .has he spent that holiday at liis home in far away Spokane. Finney has been soon Ibis season at the Uayety and his follow ers among local playgoers now have from Finney's own typewriter this story in proof that eggs cannot make a Christmas meal. •'Eighteen Christmases ago." ^writes Finney. "I was playing the old Gayety theater in Albany. N. V.. with Robie's knickerbockers, one of the or. iginal Columbia wheel shows. In the company was Jack Reid and his wlfo and we were stopping in a littio hoarding house, where actors seldom found shelter, full of human, kindness, and she promised us a real, old fash ioned home cooked Christmas dinner with all the fixlns'. ‘‘There is always a fly in the oint ment. hut we did not know it when ntir landlady pictured to us in glow ing terms the dinner she was to set for ns between the matinee nnd niglvl show on Christmas. Subsequently it developed that the husband of our benefactress was forever disagreeing with her about one thing and another, quite frequently enlivening their dis cussions will) things we read about iu reports of prize fights—right to the jawr, and live like of that. •'Christmas morning we ale very little breakfast, pointing our appetites toward the good things lo come. All through the matinee we would think of that dinner, pass snappy remarks about it and ‘ail lib' turkey talk on live stage at every opportunity. Every time we thought of the feast to eonve a glad little chuckle would tickle the pit of our stomachs. "After the matinee we could not get tlvo makeup off quick enough and hurrying over Vo Vive boarding house. Jack Reid and his Wife, my wile awl myself and four members rf the chorus sat down at the dinner table and waited. We drank a lot of lee Water and waited. 1 thought of Jack i Reid's mother and her table where 1 I had sat and surrounded many a glorious meat. How she would stack our plates up so high with regular food that vve would have to stand up to eat down from the top of the pile and hear her say in her musical brogue: Ate all that or you'll get no pie.’ As we drank more water and waited, 1 thought of other Christmas dinners I had been blessed will) until finally my reverie was interrupted by our landlady entering with a tray stacked with dishes. Her eyes were red and swollen from crying, her hair was disheveled and her general ap pearance was that of a lady who had spent 15 minutes in the path of a cy clone. "Sobbingly she passed around be- I hind our chairs, placing before each of us a pinto and on each plate was two fried eggsl My two eggs looked up at me with two bleary, yellow eyes, star ing out of the dead, white face of some monster that had died grinning at my disappointment. 1 looked at my wife. There were tears in her eyes. 1 looked over toward Jack Reid and Ills face was dead blank—blank as the face of a Chinaman who has been ac cused of murder. It you know what f mean, that's some blank. Then the landlady began to explain and apolo gize. Hhe said she had 'fussed' with her husband ami ho had thrown the Christmas dinner into the yard. "We pulled ourselves together, ate the eggs to stay our hunger and then vowed wo would have a Christmas dinner in spite of fate. We distributed what money wo had so everyone In our party would have some cash and then started out to seek Christmas fodder. Everything was closed, of course, but for my part I found a. combination grocery and meat shop, kicked on the door until the boss a®'' the place thought there was a fire and opened to let mo in. I bought the biggest turkey in the shop. It was tlie biggest because it was the only one left in the shop. "Everybody came track loaded with whatever they could find that even lot 'id'll tiko Christmas provender and we locked everything in one of our rooms so that the one man tyrecking crew could not f« ;l us again. After the night show Mrs Einney anil Mrs. Keid took charge of the kitchen—and shortly after midnight we all sat down to a jolly actors’ feast.” / The story of "An OKI Sweetheart of Mine” Ims been adapted front the famous poem by James Whitcomb Kilty, and is a sweet, whnlosom© story of tho people whom Kilty so loved to fiortrny. for Christmas Dinner or a Delightful Sunday Dinner Hotel JTOjtTENELLE Christmas Come down Sunday or Christ mas Day for a pood old-fash ioned Christmas dinner second < nly to the one Mother used to fix. You’ll enjoy the ”Chri»tmas-y" atmosphere, the handsome Yule 1ree and fix ings. the special Christmas ! musical programs and the | Christmas morning carols. Special Indian Room Dinner, $1.50 The Christmas Menu 12 to 3 $2 6 to 9 Yuleticle Cup Grapefruit RethUbrm j Clue Point Cocktail Christ mu Melon Supreme Cream of Chicken, Pa VaUiere Consomme with Royal of Almond* Radishes Celery Mixed Olives St. Nicholas Sherbet Mountan Trout. Smite Perml Frit French Kndive Salad M gnon of Perf Tenderloin, .laequart j Timbale of Cauliflower Roast Pron e Turkey. Hickory l Nut Stuffing Cranberries j Candied Yams. Florida I Snowflake Potatoes Golden llnnlam Corn. Saute with Green and Rod Pepper* Reindeer Salad 1 Kris Kringle Dressing j Cup Clo Clo with Petit Fours Mince Pie. Hot or Cold Plum Pudding. Hard Sauce } Santa Claus Ice Cream with Old Fashioned Tound Fruit Cake j A'-orted Cheese Trsy Toasted Hard and Soft Cracker* Coffee Hotel PoNteNelle * for New Year’s Eve A Clie-ojrTixl Jo^otxs CHRISTMAS PROGRAM A Bi^ Comedy Drama racy with wholesome American Fun llfriden. direcAA/ /or £/ie screen, Joy GE ORGE AIDE Americas Foremost Humorist BACK HOME AN »BROKE (7/you want io discover wAoyour fr/enJsX ( are, £e/7£Ae wor/dyou're AroAe '■'-—._. I V. ' Georye t/£de ) TOM MEIOiIM As ike lovable «(o-^ettee who cornea back and. a hows up Ills home folic s LILA. LEE As the ^irl wlio believed, in Inin C/( 9?