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Central Uriel to Leave 1 uesday for Annual Camp Aliout 500 of High School Hfj-iiurnt Will Go lo Vl Iy Visitor' Day June 15. CVniral High c.vlru entrain next Tuesday fr their annual en campment at Valley. The camp will last 10 days, during which time pro motions for next year will be an nounced. Winners in individual, company and batulion drills will be named. About 500 cadets will enjoy this short outing, where they will have regular army training. The camp will be under the direc tion of F. IC. Gulgard. commandant, former lieutenant in the United States aviation corj. K. K. McMillan, clean of boys at the hixh school, will assist Mr. Gulgard, with Fred Hill, who will be in charge of the engi neers in setting up the camp. Mr. J. C. Schmidt is to supervise recrea tion. Johnston In Command. Lieut. Col. (Icorge W. Johnston will be in active command, with with Majs. D. L. Dimond and Frank Man'tsas, second in command. While at camp the cadets get up at 6:45, followed immediately by set ting up exercises under the direction of the first sergeants of the six com panies in the various company streets. The exercises are the same as those civ-en in the regular army. Following breakfast, 15 minutes later, quarters are cleaned, ready for j the daily, inspection, after which the hoys have company and battalion drill. From 1 to 3 "in the afternoon is play time, which may be spent at the swimming hole under tne watcn tul eye of expert swimmers. Regimental parade takes place at 4 o'clock, when the orders for the fol lowing day are published and the winners in the various inspections announced. Movie: L". Evening. After the evening meal entertain ment is provided by the local Y. M. C. A. in the form of movies. The Y.. M. C. A. quarters are in charge of E. E. Micklewright of the boys' di vision, who makes the trip with the cadets each year. In the quarters may be found a phonograph, books, games of all sorts, writing material and a telephone, all furnished by the boys' division of the Omaha "Y." Micklewright will be assisted by Harold Stribling. Last Friday 15 cadets, under the supervision of Coach Fred Hill, went to the camp in order to have it ready for the arrival. Visitors' day, the biggest event of the encampment, . has been set for Thursday, June 15, when parents, friends and others are expected with full baskets of fried chicken, cake and other good things from home. A spe cial train will be provided for the vis itors, leaving the Union station at 9 o'clock and returning at 6 that eve- n'nS- . . For the benefit of the visitors the individual rifle competitive drill, the company and battalion competitive drills take place. A special train will carry the hoys to the camp and bring them back. Simple, Homely Plays Most Popular, States Director Some motion picture producers in Los Angeles have recently predicted that the film of the future is the i "big" production, made with large numbers and at heavy outlay. That not all the movie leaders think that way is shown by the expression of King Vidor. director of "The Turn in the Road," "The Jack-Knife Man" and other smaller successful pic tures. Said Vidor: "Those who express such sentiments wholly misread such signs as we have to guide us. They do not take into account the very important factor we call by the little word 'appeal.' "What has lived on the stage? Not the sumptuous, extravagant spec tacles. They have had their fleet ing moment and passed out of memory. What one can be men tioned with Joe Jefferson's simple comedy 'Rip Van Winkle,' with its record of nearly half a century?" Modest Pictures. To take a more modern instance, the outstanding piece of our national stage is "Lightnin'," Frank Bacon's simple, homely play of trivial pro duction cost. "The most popular film of recent years is 'The Miracle Man,' which was produced at modest cost, and others of great artistic and com mercial success which cost compara tivelv little could be cited. A modest picture with a beautitui dog as us star has broken all theater records in Los Angeles. "Some pictures costing not over $30,000 have swept large fortunes into the pockets of their makers. The big spectacle has its market, but the small picture with that elusive thing, appeal, will never be passe." Back to Normalcy The "Two Orphans" gown has come in. It was first displayed in a big department store window in Boston, and it follows exactly a very fetching design worn by the two orphans in D. W. Griffith's "Orphans of the Storm." The gown really is "twins," as its effectiveness is in pairing it, as in the film. The design chosen is that in which the Gish girls, otherwise Henriette and Louise Girard, leave their .Normandy nome on a trip to Paris and tremendous adventure. The gowns are a peas ant holidav type, light cream colored, ruffled neck, cut low, short puffed sleeves, tight bodices, very full, long plain skirts draped over paniers and decorated with a simple embroidered apron. With the costumes go wide brimmed straw hats with dark blue velvet band and braid of similar material on the brim. The "Two Orphans" gowns shown were of silk. Forrest Halsey. well known author and scenarist, who made the screen adaptation of "Disraeli" and "The Ruling Passion" for George Arliss, has completed another script for that star. "The Silent Voice." now in the process of production for United Ar tists release, at the Whitman-Bennett studios at Yonkers, X. Y. Ann Forrest is playing opposite the star. THEATI?Ei (ff p Wf "U S 1' - ( r I V -X. 1 What the Theaters Offer mHE HOTTENTOT" is I the g r e a t e s t horse-racing comedy that has been pro duced since the days of Thomas W. Ross. "Checkers." Unlike "Checkers" it is built for laughing purposes. Sam Harrington is a mild-man.nered chap from the west, falls in love with an eastern girl, who is passionately fond of horses. Sam never rode a horse in his life, has a hatred of them, but when the girl mistakes him for Sam Harrington, a professional jockey, and insists that he ride her horse, "The Hottentot," the most danger ous horse in the race that is to be ruji that day there is nothing for him to do but take his life in his hands and ride him. In the role created by William Collier Mr. Lyons will have a chance to prove his versatility to Omaha theater goers. He has played the part twice and just revels in it. It is what actors term one of the "fastest" comedy roles writ ten in years. At the end of the first act there is a scene where the girl describe a race she once saw the real "Sam Harrington" ride that is a gem for comedy. Mr. Vickery. the director, and Mr. DeRushia, the scenic artist, are getting together a splendid scenic production for this play. The Four Bards in a fast and sen sational routine of gymnastics are one of the featured attractions at the World theater this week. Hugh Skelly and Emma Heit, supported by a company of talented girls, present a snappy revue of song, dance and comedy, 20 minutes of diversified en tertainment. Elizabeth Nelson and the Barry boys sing, talk and dance themselves to an applause success. Late featured singer with the Ann ette Kellerman revue, Walter Has tings appears in a series oi popular comedy songs. Hazel Moran pre sents a routine of rope-spinning, em bellished with comedy chatter and dancing. Stanley and Caffrey, ec centric comics, offet amusing amus ing oddities. The feature picture is a lavishly mounted and intensely human story entitled "Other Women's Clothes." "June Jubilee" bill, an unusual dis play of vaudeville, is scheduled to start next Saturday at the World. The show features the famous thea trical star and author, Willard Mack, in his great comedy dramatic suc cess, "Kick In." Claire Hanson and Boys, a quartet of entertainers, are to appear at the Empress starting today, in "Her Birthday Party." The boys- start things with a rehearsal of the songs they intend to sing. Dancing nunv hers of the shoe variety are intro duced. The Florian Trio consists of Jule Lindrudd, contralto; Maud Brad ford, soprano, and Griff Gordon, bar itone. Mr. Gordon, besides being an accomplished singer, is a finished artist on the cornet, as well as the steel guitar. Maye Hunt, known as "The Orig inal Cheer Up Girl," has an unusual high developed sense of humor and a happy knack of singing songs so that their memory lingers. Complet ing the vaudeville pragram are the team of Hall and Burkett, who are to offer a brand new novelty in gym nastic feats. Mme. Sarah Adler, supported by her son and daughter, Luther and Julia Adler, and an excellent com pany of Yiddish actors, will open an engagement of two nights, in reper toire, in Yiddish, at the Brandeis theater, tomorrow night. The bill for the opening night, Monday, will be William Sigell's comedy, "The Green Bride." This comedy was written especially for Madame Adler. Jacob Gordon's great drama, "Mir clle Afres," will be the offering on Tuesday night and will give Jewish theater patrons an opportunity of seeing Mme. Lear. Not since the days of Mme. Lipsen has any. Jew ish actress essayed this emotional role, as it requires years of training to nresent the character. Alpheus Lincoln, popular stage and screen leading man, who recent ly completed the lead in the stage production, "The Gorilla," which will open on Broadway in the fall, is mak ig personal appearances in connec tion with the melodramatic film spec tacle, "Determination," in which he plays the featured male role. I I II .,;Z 5 , X r 1 i :A-'.v.S--Xsv Maye JFfutrf Impress. Popular Stories Under Production at L. A. Studios The following new pictures are in course of production at the motion picture studios: "Broken Chains," $10,000 prize scenario, by Goldwyn. "Uncle Tom's Cabin," by W. M. Smith company. "Tess," with Mary Pickford. "Flaming Hearts," with J. B. War ner. "The Malamute," with Johnny Walker and Ruth Clifford. "East Is West," with Constance Talmadge. "The Electric House," with Buster Keaton. "Alcatraz," with Tom Mix. "A Self-Made Man," with William Russell. "The Ladder Jinx," with Edward Horton. "White Shoulders," with Katherine MacDonald. "Pink Gods," with James Kirk wood and Bebe Daniels. "Manslaughter." C. B. dc Mille, all-star. "The Siren Call," with Dorothy Dalton. "Trooper O'Neill," with Buck Jones. "Wreckage," R.-C. all-star. "The Flirt," Universal all-star. "They're Off," with Marie Prevost. "The Sheriff of Seven Bar," with Hoot Gibson. "The Valley of Silent Men," Cos mopolitan all-star. "Under Two Flags," with Pris cilla Dean. "The Suburban," Universal all star. "When Knighthood Was in Flow er," with Marion Davies. "Top o' the Morn in'," with Gladys Walton. "The Old Homestead," with Theo dore Roberts. "A Previous Engagement," with Owen Moore. "The Ghost Breaker," with Wal lace Reid. "The Mirage," with Norma Tal 'padge. The Goldwyn company has im ported "A Daughter of Paris," said to be a historical spectacle of grand eur in 10 reels. It was filmed in Italy. Circus IT V V . I . -.1 -I . U CgOLgy Ticket on mU oh show day at Farnam street, at same price THE HEE: OMAHA. ZMme Sa.mh Tidier BXANDIS Stage Bidding Away Well-Known Screen Players Stage and screen are now illus trating the maxim that the pendu lum must swing as much one way s a tint her. The number of film eel hriiie who have recently returned to the footlights Ben Turpin, Char lie Murray, Doris Pawn, Robert Mc Kim. Mrs. Sidney Drew. Mildred Harris. Betty Ross Clarke, Mary MacLaren, to mention only a few is likely to be increased as time goes on. , , , .. One of the reasons for the shift is the sharp drop in the salaries paid to screen actors. In the period of partial idleness in the Hollywood studios during the past year the bid ding for actors that had previously raised their "value" to absurd fig ures ceased. ' Actors began to seek employment even some of the most famous instead of being sought. The law of supply and demand began to work in earnest. Salaries are n?w down to stay. There will never be so many bidders as formerly because produc tion is in fewer hands and the leaders in the industry have combined to prevent ruinous pay to actors. The result is that the stage is now able to bid for favorites on almost even terms with the studios. This is bound to mean a greater shift of personalities and an influx of many new faces to the screen in the next year or two. Another outcome will be that those who "survive" in either field will do so more out of merit than formerly. Both the stage and the screen therefore will benefit by the new state of flux that exists, and the public ought to see better acting than evet E. K. Lincoln, popular on the screen in leading and stellar roles, is putting in a fortnight with his be loved Chow Chows at his Greenacre kennels near Fairfield, Conn. Inci dentally, he is grooming his famous Chow msdal winner, Champion Greenacre Li Ping Tow, who was the sensation at every dog show where Chows were shown held in the east this season, for further requests. Lincoln's next film work was in the leadine role in "A Lady by Luck, with Florence Dixon, which Edward Dillon directed for Genius Film cor poration. EMPRESS SHOWING TODAY Big Time Vaudeville CLAIRE HANSON & BOYS Presenting "Her Birthday Party" MAYE HUNT The Original Cheer-Up Girl TrfREE SMILETTA . SISTERS in "Frolics" FLORIAN TRIO Presenting "From Syncopation to Grand Opera" 2Uisft: June 10 Myers - Dillon Drug Store, 1609 charged en how (round. SUNDAY. JUNE 4. 10J2. Drinkwater Saw Lincoln in Mind's Eye VAUIELL LINDSAY, the poet of Springfield, 111., entertained his brother poet, the dramatist olin Drinkwater. when the latter, as is first duty, journeyed immediate ly on arrival in America to the shrine of Lincoln. Writing of Drinkwater and his play, Mr. Lindsay says: J he heavy and continued attend ance at this play (in London) was correctly taken by Americans as a n'iiii of the new English feme of brotherhood, as well as a tribute to the high craftsmanship of the work. Mr. Drinkwater avowedly ued only one view of Lincoln, that of Lord C'harnwood and in this he snowed himself the essential artist. refusing to be clogged and tangled with any disputes or mixed perspect ives, or jangled choruses. However effective they may be for the his torian In the end, they are poor food for the artist. "When one realizes the years which John Drinkwater spent study ing William Morris and Swinburne, it is plain that he bespeaks of no nominal student of beauty and it is a rare combination of soul that can get the deeps of such decorators and at the same time understand the hero ic bronze of such a spirit as that of Lincoln. This combination of the Puritan soul with the cavalier mood, if one may put it so, is traceable, the soul in the body of the play, which is severe enough, and the mood in the interludes, whih are decorative and musical poetry. "John Drinkwater came to New York to put his play on Broadway. It has been heralded for months, and he came to Springfield before he knew a thing about America first hand. He was, in a literary sense, the guest of all the followers of Lin coln, and officially the guest of Springfield. It was indeed a pleasure to take such a man, under the cir cumstances, to the circuit of the Lin coln landmarks and help him on the beginning of a series of interviews with those who remember Lincoln personally. It is obvious to anyone who reads the play, in its original text, that he made several discoveries in a hurry in regard to what is caned local color, but it is also obvious that the essential texture and plot, and phraseology of the play needed no alteration for the American produc TWO NIGHTS ONLY Tomorrow and Tuesday, June 5-6 Mme. Sarah Adler Luther and Julia Adltr And company of Yiddish Player in repertoire, MONDAY EVENING "THE GREEN BRIDE" A New 4-Act Musical Comedy TUESDAY EVENING Jacob Gordon' Dramatic Maatarplec "MIRELE AFROS" Ticket 0c, 75c, $1.00 and $1.60 Plus Tax -iofv n on June B 41 Reserved Seats On Sale at Beaton Drug Company -:- Hotel Fontenelle 6 Races tion, it Uci' o tloe to the cen tal Liguawe ol Lincoln's imporuut meaKc. peeche , and pUns, There was ccruinly no LtiHlikh serving maid in the Lincoln residence. Alo no negro eer talked like the Kcd Indians in the school book, but thee characters are mliiirdm.itc Ajid need no change in the order or substance of their upecchrs to pleae an Amer ican audience; thry needed only a bit of chanise in phraseology which was promptly done. There was nothing in the pUy but what good American actor would Americanize instantly, and William Harris, jr. provided and has mafntiiined a care fully chosen company headed by Frank McGlynn. and had the atsist nnce of a set of advuors, historical piriod experts, etc. "All this John Drinkwater learned. His pilgrimage to Springfield was not for local color that others supply better. His vii.it to Springfield was a personal gratification to himself, a simple pilgrimage to the haunt of j the man he understands better than most of us do, since he has seen him so clearly from afar." Ray Saves Foot Charles Kay ha joined the acci dent brigade at Los Angeles, with the loss of a week at his work on "The Tailor Made Man." He came close to losing a foot by it. Kay made an 80-foot dive off a mast of the schooner Occanica Vance, and was picked up by a company motor boat. As he was dripping wet, he thought it a good idea to stand near the warm motor and ret nartiallv dry. Through a misstep, caused by tne movement ot the noat, his loot was pinched under the flywheel. A desperate wrench released Kay's font frenn his shoe, thus preventing seri ous injury. Only his foot was bruised. The high diving stuff, by the way, indicates that Ray is going to show a few thrills in "the Tailor Made Man." . Ben Turpin has tired of his fling in vaudeville and returned to the blar.k-and-blue film comedies with Sennett. The Only Play In the City THE ORPHEUM PLAYERS Ir IM I "T1X1E HdTTEMTOT"F! (The Hottentot Is the Name of This !$ the Greatest Horse Race The Fourth Big Week of This Splendid Company If You Don't Laugh at This Play You're Not Well AK-SAR-BEN FIELD OMAHA srionn 5 3d to June 17th inclusive $40,000 General Admission $1.00, plus tax Including Seat in Grand Stand Reserved Seat ........... .$1.50, plus tax Box Seat . $2.00, plus tax Including General Admission Each Day First Race, 2:30 Tool Fir," IMc-aiM Marshall Neilau's ncrl produc tion, "Fools hirst," featuring Claire Windsor, Kichard Dix and Claude liillingwairr, is scheduled for gen eral presentation in t lie principal cmrs of the United States this month. "Fool First" was suggested by Hukih McN'air Kahlcr's Saturday Evening Post story. The plot has to do with the regeneration of a young crook through the influence ol young lady, who, while appar NOW PLAYING Two Star Headlinen ELIZABETH NELSON BARRY BOYS "Medley of Variety Bit." Nights and Sunday Matin, SOe Children, 10c SKELLY-IIEIT REVUE Sn.ppy Sons DllfMlul De Convulsing Cemtdr SHOWS START I P. M. DAILY FOUR Creates! Act of It HAZEL MORAN "The Roping Girl" WALTER HASTINGS "Entertainer d luxe" ARTHUR HAYS Playing "Sapphire Sea" Photoplay Foatur "Other Women', Clothes" ORPHEUM THEATER Tonite and All This Week RACES in Purses Rai ain 7-C rntty woiking with him lit tihemc to make a big haul, is rally poking the way (or his reform Although the i'lr of the rot is bated on the Kahlrr t"i, Too! First" is practically an oi iitui.il iy by Mr, N'riUn, containing tanou novel situations which this producer ha hid in imnd iff some months. Prominent among these it the tcrne in which t drad nun pUyt at a mw of noker under the eye of the police I kecking evidence o( murder. ENDS FRI. NIGHT 29 Six Clever Acts in All STANLEY CAFFREY "That Different Duo" Daily Bargain Matin, 30 Children, 10c VODVIL TODAY ioa 4iZO 6 i4S ilS BARDS Kind in Vaudeville STARTS SATURDAY June 10th "JUNE JUBILEE" BILL SEASON'S BEST with the famous star, WILLARD MACK MATINEES: Tuesday Thursday' Saturday a Horse) Comedy in Years Shine or