THE SUNDAY HEE: OMAHA, OCTOI.EB 1. 1922.
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Big Themes and Settings to
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Predominate in Photoplays
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whuh is hrtng piudib'nl in thai routt
try, aiwf.lmg ti t-able alvire rv4
iiu tha WiMiain fua oftli-ra here. An-
iy t h.pui i4i. Maa-frr, .., and I nelaii.t Admits Mar.
uny ixhrr fj tonus Mntmwta.
A Uiiwl'T and a i-.t h mA
rtigluh Immigratuxi
"Lorna Doone1 Oliver Twist," "Robin Hood" Soon
to Be Released as the Attractive Features of
Season; Hope Ahead for More Appeal
ing PJays, Say Producers.
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IG picture !" is the slogan of film producers this sea-
son.
"Pictures biir in theme, biff in cast and liir in
drawing power are what the public have a right to demand,"
explains one noted producer in a recent interview.
It has been said with authority that movies, on an aver
age, have been lower in quality this year than at any time
since 1918. So let the big stuff come. It will be as welcome
as inspiration.
"Hie in theme" covers a multitude of offenses in the
movie game. There have been too many pictures presaged
as "wonderful, lavish and appealing that have lacked plot
tnd conhihtent action.
11 us consider rraumi of thla
yenr'a productlone to dute: Take
"lHMd and Sand," .'Ttd'ahUi David,"
"(irumlma, a Hoy," '"The Kternul
Flame," and M.Miintaught-r. They
ere liut own In a dull ami arll U t
art. Tha fniura ta hoi-fuI. Wi may
wkII look forward to tlia vleuallzatlon
of "Loma JJoune." Jack Is Coogan In
"Oliver Twist," Iwuglaa Fairbanks In
"ICudln Hood," iNjugla Maclean In
'Tha Hottentot," HarthHmess In
Tha Tlon1 Hoy," "Mnnu Crlsto."
"Nero," "The Christian." and "Hkln
I)mp." Then again, we may wonder
at lb irHiHnl aurrese J'oln Negri
ln.p for In forthcoming pictures for
paramount.
t'nleaa tha public show their writ I
merit for or against pictures that ara
thrown at them, tha movie Industry
will Just aall along homo. It hna well
been attlrf: "Tha kind of a Jackass who
llkba movies as they are la Ilia per
on who keepa thwti what they are."
Thla wrk'i array of cinema art
along theater row In Omaha ahould
bo appealing to niovlft fan. "Man
slaughter," featuring Tom Meighan
and leatrice Joy at tha Strand
ahould draw well; "Tha Wlent Call."
tarring Htrongheart, a German po
lira dog, lm a atrong plot, while Jin k
Holt in "When Katan Blorpa" at the
Klnlto may Interest tha large army
of movie patrons,
Jack Holt at Klalto
Jack Holt hue tha unusual rolo of
a Kightlng raraon In his latest Para
mount picture, "While Batan Kl.-eps,"
which opena today at the Klnlto thea
ter. He la not actually a parson in
the story, for he only assumes that dis
guise In order to safely apy out a
lltllA tow.j which he and hla pat plan
to rob. Cut even at that, there la no
disguise in tha way he fights, especi
ally when a dying girl ahowa him the
error of hla waya and another beau
tiful girl proves to him that ahe loves
him for tha man he appeara to he.
Thn he fights not only hla enemies,
but wage a terrllle battle for tha re
generation of hla own aoul. Which In
all by way of Baying that the picture
la one long punch from beginning to
end, and that it teema with heart In
terest. Fltzl Brunette plays opposite
the atar.
Downtown Programs
Nun "The fillent Call."
Strand "Manslaughter."
Klalto "While Halan Sleeps."
World "Too Much Huaineaa."
MiMin Toduy until Thursday,
"J'ha Kightlng American;" be
lling Thursday, "The Cava Cilrl."
Km press "They Like 'Km
Hough;" opening Thuradny, "Any
Wife."
Muse Today. Homeapun Folka;"
tomorrow and Tuesday, "Ttie Sav
age Woman:" Wedneeday and
Thuraduy. "The Tied Peacock;"
Friday and Buturday. "The Code
of the Yukon."
Days of Home!
There were no photographers to re
cord the dress and cuatoms of the day
when the barbarians overthrew
ancient Rome. Nevertheless, Cecil B.
DeMllle la aald to have produced an
historically faithful reproduction of
thla for hla latest picture 'Manslaugh
ter," now current at the Strand
theater.
The episode In question la a hist
orical cutback, which vividly deplete
the descent of the barbarian hordes
upon Rome. Weeka of research work
on the part of the director, scenarist,
and art director, proceeded the filming
of the scenes.
Leatrice Joy, who ia one of the
principals of the modern portion of
the story, is the hostess at a lavishly
beautiful Roman bacchanal which Is
interrupted by Thomaa Meighan In
the role of the leader of the Goths.
Lola Wilson, John Miltern and Cas
on Ferguson are the other members
of the notable cast who appear In this
sequence.
A strikingly realiatio Gladiatorial
combat is one of th many interesting
features of the bacchanalian enter
tainment. Although this episode re
quired more than a week to film and
kept nearly a thousand people em
ployed, It will occupy the screen for
only a few minutes. It is used to
point a powerful lesson and aerves to
draw an Interesting comparison be
tween ancient Rome and modern
America.
Tola Negri at Muse.
Pota Negri, European film star, la
featured In "The Red Peacock" at the
Muse theater next Wednesduy and
Thursday. The picture teela the atory
of a struggling girl of the alums,
caught by fate and flung In the lap
f riches and adulation.
"Homeapun Falka." a human In
terest atory. Is he feature attraction
at the Muse theater today. Lloyd
lKighes and Cladya Ueorge are co
starreH. Clara Kimball Young will flash
acrosa the screen at the Muse tomor
row and Tuesday In "The Bavage
Woman," a tory that runs from the
Interior of African Junglee to Tari-
slan dance halls.
Mitchell Lewie la starred In "The
Codo of the Yukon," a drama of the
northwoode which takes the screen nt
the Muse theater next Friday and
Haturday.
"Too Murh UuHlneHB."
One of the biggest copper smnlters
of the west ia ahown In "Too Much
I'.UKlneaa,'' a seven reel comedy, which
will be ahown at the World theater
this week. It is baaed upon Karl
lierr lugger's story "John Henry and
tha Restless Sex," which appeared In
the Rnturday Evening Post, and la a
Jess Robblns production.
Tha earlier sequences show a mod
ern business, with all the rush and
bustle and hurry of working hours.
It was necessary for one of the se
quences to show the scenes of Cam
by'a factory, and for this purpose Mr.
Robblns obtained the use of a large
smeltery for several acenea.
The story shifts from the business
to the day nursery, where the hero
seeks to double his salary taking care
of chlluY?n.
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Dog Stars at Sun.
The story of the High Sierras with
all the grandeur and primitive emo
tlons of that region, "The Silent
Call," has been announced as the fea
ture attraction at the Sun theater
this week.
One of the features of Interest Is
the fart that the cast of principals
consists of seven men, one girl, and
Leatrice Joy and
Meighan Co-Star
Strongheart, the moat Intelligent po
lice dog In the entire world, whose
performance In this photoplay will
doubtleaa make him the must beloved
animal on the screen or atage.
Throughout the dnimattn Incidents
of the plot that Involve the human
characters of the story, runs the
thread of the life of Strongheart; the
cross pull between the wolf and the
dog natures In him, his finul must cry
of the former and hla vindication in
the eyes of all, because of his heroism
lu rescuing the hero and the heroine
from the teal danger that confronts
them. It is the dog who first realizes
the love between Moran and Hetty
Houston, played respectively by John
Rowers and Kathryn MoXiulre, and
who wreaks gengeanre on the vil
lain, Rrent, portrayed by William
Dyer. It fa Strongheart, too, who
finally brings the parted lovers to
gether to happiness.
( lair Adams at Moon.
The story of "The Fighting Amer
ican," which opens today at the
Moon theater, concerns the daughter
of a Spanish mother and an Ameri
can father In the mythical Spanish
state of Chlnora, who falls in love
with Sandy Buchanan, the American
engineer in charge of the oil wells
on the MacDonald estate. Her aunt,
Countess de Klberca, has other plana
Ufor her. She wants Mercedes to
marry the young Duke or CKhomo,
whose fortunes are at a very low
ebb, and who ia wanted in Spain for
offenses against the government
The duke and hla uncle, Don Felipe
de Cristobal, plot to kill Buchanan,
but with the aid of an American
circus troupe he routs his enemies
end wins the girl.
Claire Adams and Carl Gantwoort
are starred.
Encounters with huge mountain
Hons, flirting with death on the ice
coated brink of a waterfall, excur-
Jtk
urn
a'ons through . snow drifts IS feet
high are some of the perils that met
the cast of "The Cave Girl," the fea
ture picture to be shown at the Moon
theater beginning next Thursday.
VloU Dm,.. t, Empress.
"They Like 'Km Rough," Miss
Dana's newest photopluy, which is to
be seen the first four d'iys of this
week at the Empress theater, has to
do with a girl whose chief attribute
Is perversity. She makes a point of
going ugalnst authority, especially
that of her aunt and uncle, In regard
to the man she would marry. When
she discovers that they Jiave tricked
her into an engagement with one of
those nice young men - with smooth
hair and a smooth line, she forthwith
leaves the house and puts into prac
t'ce a sudden determination to marry
the first man she met outside. And
then the action begins.
A photoplay that may he com
mended to the favorable attention of
all plcturegoers npd especially to all
women Is "Any Wife," which opena
next Thursday at the Empress, with
the popular Pearl White as the star.
It presents, in acutely dramatic form,
the penalty which attends the sur
render to a spirit of discontent by a
wife who possesses all those things
which ahould mean happiness to a
right-minded woman.
Films of Musicians.
Musicians will soon have a motion
picture company they can call their
own. Arthur Zlnkln of the Zlnkln
Productions is about to make a aerlea
of films founded on biographies of
of great musical composeis, and a
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Master ( CjffiQlJ? Hi H H.?T?V Wbucr
What a great temptation it is to "step on . - jy fA
pas" and spin alomj. A ,4li;i, V
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run over a ptrson Regardless of who or what y' 'Mjfni '4'tf f h. PtC I
you ara you would be guilty of . - (, I
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Enlarged Orchestra
Silverman Directing
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As district attorney, Thomaa Mei
ghan prosecutive Leatrice Joy for man
slaughter In the current picture at
the Strand theater thla week. The
production, "Manslaughter" Is said to
be one of the big pictures of tha aea
son. Cecil B. De Mills directed It.
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Announcmq
Richard 13arihelmess
in the greatest role o his career
The Bond Boij
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