THK BEE: OMAHA. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1921.
Colleges Might
Preserve Motion
Pictures of Plays
A college play in- motion picture,
tlit acenario written and the play
directed by one of the nuni of i con
servative girla college and the play
ataged and acted by convent-bred
girli ta aomething new under the
un.
Now that beginning hat been
made a number of college will prob
ably follow the example of the Dra
matic Association of the College ,of
St. Elizabeth, Convent Station, N. J.,
which presented the three-reel pic
ture, "Classified," in the spring of VHl
instead of the annual college ptay.
"Classified", shows college scenes
and activities, but it also ha a plo!.
The atory. ccnteri around Betty
Joyce, a senior of charitable intent,
who, having made a New Year reso
lution to be kind to everybody, goes
out of her way to be nice to Rosalia
Judd, an unclassified student who,!
though in the college, is not of it.'
Things happen that make Betty anj
her friends think Rosalia is a sncbi
and no one in that college likes a'
snob! But the misunderstanding is
cleared up and all ends happily.
It isn't so much the story that
matters; pretty little college play
that it is, but the thing for which it
stands. It is a pioneer I The usual
college play is an ephemeral thing,
enjoyed today, forgotten tomorrow
by all but a few. But the college
motion picture play is something
ncwl It can be kept as an histor
ical record, -v shown to succeeding
classes and to other colleges where
it may serve as an incentive for the
writing and production of more and
better college plays.
Long Time to Find Man
To Play lilackie Daw
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After a long and faithful search for
a typical BlackJe Daw for the pic
ture "The Son of Wallingford,"
which opens today at the Sun theater,
George Randolph Chester,' the
author, engaged George Webb for
the role. Mr. Webb is considered
one of the most versatile screen play
ers on the west coast. He isTiere
seen consoling J. Rufus Wallingford
and suggesting a new get-rich-quick
scheme. .."'.: ,
Many Schools to
Use Educational
Films for Pupils
The day of 'the motion picture in
education isn't coming. Its already
Mere.
In fully 15 of the leading cities
of the country and in 15,000 school
and churches, films will be used the
coming year as a means of instruc
tion, to teach a lesson, to point a
moral or to bring a menage, accord
ins to estimates made by visual ed
ucation experts. In addition, many
county agents, federal workers, a
large number of clubs, charitable,
fraternal and philanthropic organ
izations, and mothers' associations
are using Motion pictures to instruct,
and entertain. ,
As an example of the eagerness of
schools for the films adapted pri
marily for" school use, a noted ex
change manager states that requests
hare come to him from the schools
for a series of 12 pictures on world
geography in 'the Peters' text-film
series; the Detroit schools want the
Parks' popular science series and
IndianapoliH the rctcrs' text-films.
The New York "public schools arc
planning to use' biological series, ge
ography series and popular science
scries. . And these are only a few
of. the requests for films suitable
for class room use,
Chicago In Lead,
The Atlanta board of education
has just appropriated $5,000 to put
visual education into the schools the
coming year. Chicago, long a be
liever in visuai education,- is to use
motion picture, films this year in all
jts public schools,. 50 projection ma
chines being in . operation at the
opening: ot (schools, , ivitn every
graminrr and high school to have its
own projecting machine as soon a
it can be installed. Kantias City,
Lleve and. Milwaukee, ban 1 ran-
risco, Berkeley, Raleigh are only a
few of the progressive cities where
visual education has become a part
of school work.
In the past 12 months more than
900,000 person witnessed showing
of the Department o( Agriculture
films, according to estimates of its
motion picture section, 1 lie uni
versity of Iowa estimates that over
JOO.fKK) saw the films shown by its
vlsiual instruction department the
vast war. Multiply this by 48 state
universities and the number of per-
sons viewing iniormauonaw turns
reaches un into the millions. .-
The educational film is here to
stay! '
Son of a Pioneer
Tame O. Barrows, who portray
one of the leading roles in "Silent
Years," a new K-C picture, is trie
tnn nf ninner narents who crossed
the vast wilderness that lay between
New York and California in the
days of '49 in a prairie schooner. He
was born in a small mining village
and at the aire of 10 waa taken to
San Francisco and there, during his
school days, tormed ms lite-long
friendship with uaviu Jfeiasco.
Thpv were together for a few vears
and used to delight in staging "Wild
West Shows lor the neighborhood
children, little dreaming that those
"spectacles were deciding tor them
thir lutures.
Marion Davies is fond of the
French language and reads many of
the French classics in the original.
Her favorite authors . are Mohere,
Racine, Gautier and Rostand.
A'o Short Skirts
Or Bobbed Hair
' For Marion Davies
"The two most important que
tions in a woman's life liiese day
are not how she shall cast her vote
or whether she should go in for
matrimony or a professional career
not at all. The two paramount
issues of today are these: Shall 1
or shall I not have my hair bobbed
and do I or do I not like the longer
skirts that are so quickly covering
the knees and ankles that had such
a long and successful run? !
Thia is what the witty young
Marion , Davies, film .star, announced
recently to a group of friends who
were discussing all seriously the sev
eral fates of nations,
."Personally," , she . added, , "I like
the bobbed head, although I never
had my own hair cut as I ant likely
to need it long in so many pictures.
But I am in favor of the lengthened
(ikirt. On nine women out of 10, .'n
my opinion, it is more becoming.
The stout woman runs too great a
change of looking ugly in the knee
length and the slim one often looks
too thin, The new length is a nice
compromise and more suitable to
everyone.
Miss Davies' next starring picture
Is ' t.nchautmcnt, soon to be re
leased. It is a story of a delightful
and spoiled "flapper who think that
Cleopatra waa a Salvation Army
miss in comparison to herself and
thft harms she wields on men. It
is from the story, "Manhandling
fcthel, written by frank K. Adams.
' ' ' Gilding the Lily
, Even Jlowers used in p,c'ures
sometimes wear paint! This was true
in "The Octave of Claudius," at least
It seem. the studio gardens contained
nothing but white flowers when the
gardener, sought decorations .for the
set. Blue blosscms photograph bet
ter than white one, so. nothinu
daunted, he stuck them in blue dye
for three hours and, presto, . they
had changed their color. '
Cleopatra Walked
On Wooden Clogs,
Declares Norma
By NORMA TALMADGE.
My wardrobe mistress tell me
that Cleopatra walked on clog on
little wooden shoes with a frame
work beneath them high enough to
lifo her, as she walked, almost a
full head above the multitude.
In that respect, at least, Cleopat
ra had the right idea. She lifted
herself above the crowd, though she
did it only in a purely physical fash
ion. But the idea was excellent. I
' It's commonplace to repeat that
the person who stands head and
shoulders above the mob is the per-
ton who gets ahead, Lvcryone
knows it's the person who stands
out, who lifts himself above the av
erage, by his attitude, his intelli
gence, his willingness to work, his
eagerness, to set some place.
1 had a property boy once. 11
haven't got hint nuw. Some nna
else is paving him to be a director,
He had hi head above the othri
property boy in the studio, watched
lor hi chance, plugged along, and
rose with that miraculous speed
which usually attends the unusual
person's success.
He stood on Cleopatra's clogs,
His head was above the crowd.
If you haven't got a pair of Cleo
fatras clogs sitting in your closer,
may I suggest you get a pair?
They'll wear splendidly.
To Appear in England.
Elliott Dexter and Dorothv dim
ming, film players, have gone to Eng
land to appear in some of the nroduc-
lions to be made at the London studio
ol Paramount British Producers,
Ltd. Miss dimming, who was seen
in support nf Mae Murray in the
George Fitmaurice production,
"Idols of Clay," and recently com
pleted work in "Don't Tell Every
thing," has been specially engaged
to appear in productions made by
Mr. Fitziuaurice on the other side.
Ckaracter that kave been tiie houseKolct vordifor nearly tveaty years :
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THREE VV5TS
The -boy ko Tories kis epr :
thrpTjK. college on a milk cart.
The boy vk6 finds himself kopelessly
in love vith airl yho thinls him a quitter.
And the- boy vko comes back -with a rust
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Sensational rescue of pair from. LaJce oV burnlncr nYe cme. nC
the. most tkriCUcg scenes ever wifKes&eeC. Over 5.000 qaltons LV
rowboat. ku( pools Qffire te&p tuxctrecCs of feet Otto the. air.
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MERE WE ARE ON THE SAME PROGRAM
Ais lrs picture for irs6 yta&onaZ .
Busters -Ike vkole show and ikat no kidL.Jle
the orchestra, ilue minstrels, the lead, the cuties
in, ike- chorus, "the monlcey -ye-ah and the -vkolo
audience to boot, nothing funnier on the boards
jfjtaiz!re. jAiK tou.'16 taxtai aitat yrousa; you're
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