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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 11, 1921)
6 M THE BEE: OMAHA, SUNDAY. DECEMBER 11, 1921. Chinese Costumes Are Cozy and Cute, Says Fay Balnter AT THE THEATERS "How would you like to be iome one elte for 1,000 timet? Do you think you would enjoy it? I have, for Ming Toy it the tnoit delight fully adaptable child. She (it in any mood and any situation. 1 could Just go on playing her forever," iay "ay Bainter, petite, brown-haired and brown-eyed roisi. Miti Bainter it dynamic; the movet swiftly and urely and with the grace of a bird. Meeting her, it it eaiy to under, tand the place the has won in the heart of the public. "And how would you like to wear a wig' 1,000 nights? That is what 1 have to do. In fact, it is more than 1,000 nights, for I wore one in 'The Willow Tree before Ming Toy was born. When 'East is West' is put away, as it must some time, 1 nev er want to see a wig again, 1 want to play an American girl and I want to play her with my own hair, so that my friends will know that my hair is really brown and not black and sleek. "Speaking cf American girls, I sec that some old grannies are worrying for fear they are going to the eter nal bow-wows. Trash and rubbi.-h. The American girl is too level hcad ed and too thoroughly human to da any such thing. The ways of yes terday are not the ways of today. What was considered immodest a few generations ago is perfectly proper now. Do you remember the row they made about the divided fckirts the girls wore when they rode bicycles? For the most part, people have had a glimmering or good sense about women's clothes, but if they were really wise, they would adopt the Chinese costume, for it is the most comfortable in the world. It is too bad the Chinese girls have abandoned it for the west ern mode. It can be so pretty and so varied in spite of the tact that it is always cut along . conventional lines." "I love pretty things and I love pretty clothes, and I think the most delightful thing in all the world, from the standpoint of a man, is a feminine girl. Femininity should al ways be retained, if we expect chiv alry from the opposite sex. A girl can be modern ultra-modern even, and retain her feminine charm. Now, Ming Toy is feminine to her finger tips, and she puts on the modern embellishments, too, as fast as she can. But she is quaint in doing it, and the girl we know who lives next door is not quaint, because she is like the other girl who lives down the street. Let the present genera tion work out its own destiny. There is an inheritance of good common sense in our people that is going tq keep it from going to those damna tion bow-wows, the old ladles prate about." O "Cake Eaters" Not ' Wanted in Films, Aver 8 Director "Handsome men are not wanted in moving pictures so much as men with kindly, gcod-natured faces, keen, sympathetic yet firm faces," says Harry Millarde, who made "Over the Hill" which will be shown at the Sun theater work in which picture brought stardom to Johnnie Walker and Edna Murphy. "Take the instance of Johnnie Walker. No one would call Johnnie handsome, yet there was never a young man who rose to stardom more quickly on the strength of his personal ap pearance. . A smart artist and an intelligent actor, he nevertheless owes much to his looks, for the world of women are attracted in stinctively to him once they see him on the screen. His smile is infec tious warm and sympathetic. He looks strong positive, yet tender, and every woman who sees him imagines him either as a locer or a son, largely because he never poses and keeps his characterizations sim pie and human, as he did in "Over the Hill." Pretty Neck Led Mary Into Films The city of Pittsburgh gets the credit of being the birth place of Mary. MacLaren. This interesting eventu took place January 19, 1900. She was educated at St. Josephs academy in Greensburg, Pa., and at the Convent of the Holy Angels in Fort Lee, N. J. "There was a motion picture studio . near this school," said Miss Mac Laren, "and we girls used to get quite thrilled at the occasional glimpses we got of picture making and of the players." Of course, at that time Mary Mac Donald had no thought of becoming Mary MacLaren, noted film star. In fact, she entered motion picture work in a quite unpremeditated fashion. It all happened because she paid a visit to Los Angeles, where she met a friend who had become a photo player. This resulted in a visit to a studio, where she met a well-known ' director who told her she had a neck like Marie Antoinette. "I've been trying to figure out ever since," she said, "whether that was a compliment." Miss MacLaren was. starred in a number of pictures and then took up art work, studying at the Art Students' league in New York. "Upon her return to Los Angeles, Miss MacLaren undertook her first legitimate stage work, appearing at the Ambassador theater in Hold-" brook Blinn's one-act play, "Fancy . Free." ! h . . I IIIW f Cotnittjft Sam Vernon -Empress Zlisa, Cnslnp-onpHEuM What Theaters Offer AX announe'ineiit of rnnaUlcmblv lin orUn' U th rumliiK of l'ay Uuln tor In Chln-M-Amariran comedy "East la Wrat" to the Kranilela theater for threa ilaya only alanine Monday, Da cnilir IS, ''Kant la West" had lla pre mier at Uio Aator theater. New York, anil remained Inert for two conaecutlva years. Kay Ilulnter. who wua cant for the leail hif role of Mine Toy, a little Chinese) aliiK-aonir girl, sprang Into Immediate prominence and la thla aeaaon -belnic rlnrrcd In her original role under the direction of William Harrla, Jr., who pro duced the play The atory of "Eait la West" conrerna'a young Chinese maiden who la soil by her father to a proaperoua Chines merchant of San Francisco, and the eventful atory of her Ufa thereafter forma a colorful and Interesting1 ale one that would b spolleit by the telling In ad vance, Aa on of th leading dramatic Prltlra of the ea"t put It "If you love to laugh; If you love to cry; If you want to he thrilled: In ahort, If you want a delightful avenlng'a entertainment don't mles aeeln Kay Bainter aa Ming Toy In "Kail la Wfit.'' B KOXI8LAW HUBKRMAX. the cele brated violinist, will ba here at the Brandela theater on next jiday af ternoon, December 18, in Jof recital with Irene Pavloska, mezzo soprano. Once, at a Dresden concert, Mr.- Huber tnin played, by popular vnte, three con certos out of a given list of twelve. The vote was caat by ballot, the ballot; be ing dropped Into a hox as the audience passed Into the auditorium. THU strUKgle of heredity against en vironment enters upon an absorbing; duel for the Integrity of the Inno cent daughter of an erring mother.. In the Zletfeld production. "The Black Pantlier'a Cub." which will be the at traction at the Brandela theater all thla week and In which Florence Reed, the stage and screen favorite, plays the dou ble role of the "Black Panther" and her 'Cub.'1 Florence Reed, In the final acene between mother and daughter, In which the mother dlea from a ahot intended for another, lifts the picture above the thrill of melodrama to the living tragedy of a life squandered past all reclaiming: The production la lavishly atnged. Kmlle rhautard, the director, ia a native of Paris, and has reproduced accurately the gnrbh splendor of night life on the Mnntmartre. TEX RICKARD, promoter of the Dempsey-Carpentler match at Jer sey City, will show every detail or Dempsey'a work through the medium Of the authentic ringside motion pictures at the Brandela theater during the week of December 25. Mr. Rlckard'8 pictures prove that Dempsey la the greater fight er, even though full credit must be giv en to Carpentler for hla fortitude In en during his opponent's terrific punishment for the better part of four rounds There are many who claim Dempaey could have settled the bout In the first round. The official pictures will enable the public to form Its own Judgment aa to- this. . CARLYLE BTjAOKWELT., I to b one of the stara at the Orpheum thin week. The other headline attraction will be the Cansinos. In film productions Mr. Blackwell hna been seen in an amass ing numher of photoplaya. He is as elo quent with hia voice as he ia in pantomime.. His offering la a one-act play called "Eight, Six and Four." The Canslnoa aa children were taught to trip gracefully in rhythm with the click of casteneta. They have created many newdanees. and these, handsomely mounted, are their particular delight. Jack Rose Is b'lled as a special ist for the blues. Bill Dooley and Helen Storey have a diverting skit, the chief elements of which are amusing talk, clever songs and agile dancing. "The Ani mated Toyshop" ia to be presented by Oautler brothera. Count Perrone, an Italian baritone, is to appear in a concert offering with Miss Trlx Oliver, the mea?.o soprano. Van Cello, one of the most ex pert foot Jugglers on the vaudeville stage, combines comedy with exceptional dex terity. Once again the comic cartoon, Aesop'a Fables, will be a screen offering, other films will be the Pathe Weekly and Topics of the Day. PATRONS of the Gayety theater are to have Lew Kelly, the greatest of all burlesque comedlana. In his own attrac tion, "The New Kelly Show." The show is divided Into two acta, compiled to fit the peculiar character Interpreted by Kel ly. They were written for fun purposes, the plot being a second consideration. There are several big scenes. The cos tumes are gema, and IS pretty girn who wear them make up one of the best sing ing aggregations on the burlesque stage. The all-star cast includes Art Harris, Al Harrison, Roslta and Louis. Kathrin Clair, Dolly Barrlnger. Robert Holden, Evelyn Hayn, Butler Mandeville and Sam Wilson. It la tha big surprise show of the sea son. Ladlea' matinee at 2.15 dally all week atartlng tomorrow. Today's matinee begins at 3. SJackMORPHZuri. Leu? Kelly cayejx Hubby Permits Wife! to Continue ' ' Career on Stage Lady Tsen Mei, the young Chi cago Chinese vaudeville artist, who recently left the stage long enough to star in "The Eyes of Truth" and "The "Lotus Blossom," has changed her pretty Chinese name to plain Mrs. M. Moore. Mr. Mocre is her manager now and the romance seems to have eventuated in a gen uine love match. She met Mr. MooUc just accidentally while shopping in New York one day and this young BLIND, deaf and formerly dumb, the most talked of woman In the world. Helen Keller, will be next week's chief attraction-at the Orpheum. She Is to be assisted in her performance by her teacher and lifelong friend, Anne Sulli van Macy. The only daughter of Cap tain and Mrs. Arthur E. Keller, she has Noble Spirit of Chinese Life to Be Picturized Chung Wah Motion Picture com pany is the title of a new corpora tion undfcr the laws of California to produce motion pictures for the pur pose of showing to the" world the noble and beautiful side,of the Chi nese character. The company is headed by James B. Leong, a native of China, educated and American ized in the United States, who will supervise all productions of the new company. A schedule of four fea tures a year has been adopted and the pictures will be made with both American and Chinese players about 70 per cent American until Chinese players can be developed. Mr. Leong produced the picture, "The Lotus Blossom," featuring Lady Tsen Mai, the famous Chinese opera singer, who was supported by the two cele brated American character actors. Tulbr MarsbaU and Noah Bcry, j $25.00 $15.00 $10.00 For the Three Best Essays on the Questions Are the Rick Ever Poor? Are the Poor Ever Rich? Based on the Theme of the Story m "Poverty of Riches" On Eatay Must Cover Both Questions Contest open to women only. Essays must not be over 200 words, and must reach the SUN Theater not later than Wednes day 12 o'clock (noon). Attend the Sun or Muse Thea ters today see this appealing picture and win one of these rash prizes. now reached her thirty-ninth year. Al though abaolutely. normal at birth, she was but a year and a half old when the ravages of a fever deprived her of sight, speech and hearing. By the time the child had reached her seventh year she had be come a petulant tyrant. What should be done with her. Neither the father nor the mother could tell.- It was upon the ad vice of Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the Bell telephone, that Miss Sullivan went to teach Helen. The teacher had formerly been blind. When her vision had been restored sh became a mission ary in the world or darkness; Since then she haa remained Mlas Keller'a instructor. Miss Keller learned lip-reading and finger-touch reading. In 1897 she became a student at Radcliffe and later graduated with honors from that college. THE new vaudeville show which opens at the Emprees today is to have two featured acta. One by Taylor, Macy and Hawks, the "Three Aces of Comedy and Song," can be relied upon to render the latest In popular song numbers with exqpisfte harmony. Van and Vernon, for mer musical comedy stars, are up-to-the-minute In talk that embodies practically all the noway toplca of the day. Songs of the popular variety but restricted to this duo are rendered. An Important at traction will be that offered by Don Al fonzo Zelaya, the Central American pia nist, conceded to be one of the greatest musical artists on the vaudeville stage. The Thomas trio who complete the vaude ville program offer a comedy gymnastic act original and exclusively thelrown. WHAT'S the number of your auto mobile? If It agrees with the car number printed In the Or Orpheum. in the three dally papers, then you are entitled . to a pair of free seats at that playhouse. Each day, beginning December 18, a car number i to be printed In the Orpheum ad. The free seats will be good for a Monday or Tues day night performance; or they will be Bood for any matinee from Monday to Frldav inclusive. In making application for aeata, bring your ear with number to the Orpheum. American never quit the pursuit un til she said yes. Like a sensible hus hand, Mr. Moore not only permitted his charming wife to continue her stage career, but he gave up his own business career to help her. She is now one of the highest headliners in vaudeville. For the first time in more than a out-of-doors to film a scene. It hap year, Williiam de Mille went pened in the making of "Miss Lulu Bett," Mr. DeMille's current produc tion which he is making at the Lasky studio. With Lois Wilson, Milton Sills and other members of the com pany, the porducer went to an exter ior location on the edge of Los An geles. The outside work lasted but a single day,- however, and the tollow ing morning he was back at the "OMAHA'S FUN CENTER" Mat. and Nile Today Good Res'v'd Seat 50c Jack Slaoer Pretests Burleik'i Moit Piiilir Eatertalasr in per- i riu 1 tri i v o. SON His Own Pick of Merrymakers t'. Mr. Kelly 1 Fuller Bull." every Mrfefai. anee. Tumi with brand sew "KELLYISMS." Ladies' Tickets, lSc-30c Every Week Day f new show today HI Films Yield Another Movie Star for the Orpheum Circuit Vaudeville agents, toiling with the mattock out in Southern Celluloidia have been exhuming a variety ol talent long buried in the films. The two Gordons, Kitty and Vera, un related, but wearing the auu' patronymic; Lew Cody, Lillian Walker, Walter Law, lune Elvidfce. Zena Krefc, Francis X. Bushman. Beverly Uayne and numerous more, great and small, finding protography aluling on them, have returned the human habit of speech, linking it with the gestures in which they are so well, not to say .almost exclusive ly, practiced. Who has not observed, now and again, the graceful behavior of Car lyle Blackwell, whose motions for the pictures oiten have proved, despite the Dulcytude, that motion pictures are somewhat past their infancy? All that he ever did within the camera's vision he will do next week at the Orpheum theater, adding words to gait, posture and gesture. lie will be the bill-topper, acting a short farce called "Eight, Six and Four," of which Mark Swan, deviser of a number of stage successes, is author. Do you fear that seasons of silence have stilled the voice of this original of the handsome photographs? Waste not your tears on that, for it is re liably reported that Mr. Black well's voice is even more musical than in the days of his pre-movie affiliations. The acting that goes with it is right tip with the best, and pictorial ly he is certainly one of the most famous items vaudeville has taken from the films. The Swan farce, in which Black well graduates from the two-dimensional pictures to the three-dimensional stage, is one of those nifties which frequently are encountered in the two-a-day. Mr. Blackwell plays a handsome brute of a nephew, who is m the way of bcinir disinherited because he prefers the life Bohemian to one commercial. 11' die an' 8 Favorite Plays Four Roles studio as usual, filming the Bett house, with its seven room3, front veranda and backyard with a vine trbor. This gives him seven or eight complete sets in one, and when the action calls for a transfer from one room to another, there is no delay beyond the setting up of the cameras W She is Miss Florence x.itd, shining light of Broadway's Gay White Way. In "The Black Panther's Cub," showing this week at the Brandeis theater, this starenacts the roles of "Faustine," the keeper of a notorious gambling palace in Paris; second, as "Faustine's" daughter; third as the daughter of wealthy English parents and lastly as "Faustine," the empress. At the suggestion of, Benjamin B. Hampton, a leading producer, the makers of motion pictures in Cal ifornia may unite to produce a series of films to promote the cause of peace and amity among nations Mrs. Titus Conies JWk. Lydia Veamans Titus, who is one of the most beloved character actresses on the screen, and who ap pears in support of 1'auline Fred erick in her forthcoming production, "Two Kinds of Women," is very proud of the (act that she was born on ait ocean steamer while en route from Sydney to Melbourne, Aus tralia. Mrs. Titus' mother was an old time circus performer and bare-back rider and her father was Edww4 Yeamans, famous Irh comedian. Mrs. Titus made her professional debut at the age of 6 months when she was carried on the stage by her father and she has not been idle t day since. During her 40 years a an actress she has toured the world four times and crossed the Atlantic 40 times. In England she is known as the original of "Sally in Our Alley." being the first to sing It on the stage. Week , Starting Sunday, December 11 Matinee Every Day, 2:15 Every Night, 8:15 CARLYLE BLACK " ELL In ' "EIGHT. SIX AND FOUR" By Mark Swan Eduardo Elisa THE CANSINOS Foremost SPANISH DANCERS GAUTIER BROTHERS ia "Tho Animated Toyshop" DOOLEY & STOREY Vaudeville la Cart COUNT PERRONE Baritone and MISS TRIX OLIVER Soprano VAN CELLO A MARY America's Own Exponent o( Pedalsgy In "FOOT FEATS" JACK ROSE "SPECIALIST FOR THE BLUES" Jimmy Steiger at the Piano Toplca of the Day I Aesop's Fables ! Pathe Weekly NEXT WEEK HELEN KELLER Matinee 15c to 50c; some at 75c and $1.00 Sat. and Sun. Nijhts 15c to fl.OO; some $1.25 Saturday and Sunday. Patrons Pay U. S. War Tax TAYLOR, MACY & HAWKS "Thru Aees si Comedy & Seas" VAN 4 VERNON la "A Ptach and a Slaw" THOMAS TRIO Comedy Gymaasta ZELAYA Preuotlag "Muilo 4 PhllOHshy" Photoplay Attractloa "AT THE END OF THE WORLD" Featurlni BETTY C0MPS0N mm yustie Ljaraen DANCE At Omaha's Big Amusement Palace Refreshment Music Entertainment Carl Lamp's Orchestra Admission 40c tax paid A Xmas Suggestion By the Strand Theater . A PPROPRIATELY designed main floor ad- , . xi. mission tickets have been printed in book form and would make an appreciated gift. Book of 10 tickets $4.00 Book of 5 tickets.... $2.00 These tickets are good anytime and do not have to be exchanged. -. . NOW ON SALE AT STRAND BOX OFFICE if A UVISH-SPECTAGIAR-SENSATIONAL- IF xStsN l pi Ijgffffi H (juarter-ot a -million -dollar V f . w E K NORMAN TREVOR Star tf'Enttr Moiamt' HENRY STEPHENSON MLLE. DAZIE ' TYRONE POWER EARLE FOXB WM. ROSELLB PAULA SHAY mud mams orAm AND EXTRAORDINARY CAST OF BROADWAY STARS No independent picture in the entire his tory of the screen drama boasts of such an assembly of brilliant stage stars as you will see in W. K. Ziegfeld's quarter of a million dollar spectacle "THE BLACK PANTH ER'S CUB." i Scenes of splendor, from the ancient arenas of Rome with their sensational glad iatoral combats to the quiet English country sides, the wild dances of the Apaches in Paris the lavish homes where wealth and love are chanced. all this and more you will see in a succession of startling scenes, all told in a gripping story of the .power of "ood over evil, i It's the photo drama in which the great Florence Reed plays four distinct roles, which the National Board of Review characterized as "Done in a man ner recalling the acting of a Sarah Bernhardt or a Modjeska." Four Shows Daily 1, 3, 7 and 9 P. M. Starting TH EAT RE P o p u L A R P R' I C E S AFTER NOON 25c EVENINGS 25c and 50c Including Tax r r-r. r rvi rkJPa H EATR International Concert Bureau Present Next Sunday Afternoon, Dec. 18th, at 3:30 P. M. BRONISLAIV IIUBERMAI1 v"""'st and IRENE PAVLOSKA -Mezzo-Soprano In Joint Recital PAUL FRENKEL AT THE PIANO Ticket on Sale Tomorrow, 10 A. M. 50c, $1.00, $1.50 and $2.00 COMING SOON Tex Rickard's Official Ringside Motion Pictures DEMPSEY-CARPENTIER WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING CONTEST THREE DAYS STARTING fufATOr MONDAY EVENINGS 8:20 MATINEE 2:30 MATINEE WEDNESDAY DEC. 19 I r. isv L IN mm THE PLAY THAT MADE NEW YORK LAUGH FOR 2 YEARS COMPLETE BROADWAY CAST AND PRODUCTION Evanints, $2JSO. $2. tl.50 $1. SOc. Wad. Mat, 2. $150. $1 SOe. Plus war lu Seats Tomorrow 10 A. M. Mail Orders Now Will Rocoivo Prompt AttcatKa. r