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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1923)
Pictures of the Week Feature Men'as Stars - ■ v Fairbanks, Chaney, Gibson, O’Brien and Denny Fig ure in the Bright Galaxy. Robin Hood Elaborate Production. Real Kentucky Derby Shown.. Where ere the ladles? Once again it seems to be men's week in the pic tures, for here is “Robin Ilood" at the Strand this week with Douglas Fairbanks, in the role of the famous outlaw and filling it inimitably. Maid Marian never was as thrilling as Bold Robin. And at the Rialto Ron Chaney, eharaeter actor, Is walking away with all the honors in “Shadows." The star of “The Kentucky Derby" is a strapping gentleman, Reginald Denny, and there is nothing ef feminate about Hoot Hibson, either. Flame llamnierstein makes Conway Tearle share the footaga(With her on the Sun sereen, hut Conway holds his own pretty well, while Herbert liaw linson abthe World Is headlined alone In “Aother Mann's Shoes.” The array of choices is interesting and it is difficult to decide which one to see first. • • • Robin Ilood Shows at Strand. Rong heralded ami eagerly looked forward to by the film publie, Doug Inn Fairbanks In "Robin Hood" opens a two weeks engagement at the Strand today. The production has re ceived the highest praise from critics liolli east and west According to Fair banks himself, this latest picture Is a combination of fact and fancy, a drama depicting (lie chivalrous and romantic spirit of the Twentieth cen tury, comprising an enchanting mix lure of tho fairy tale and the val orous deeds of eight hundred years ago, so that the people of today cas ily can grasp it. It is, in short, the presentation of an impression inspired by historical facts. The settings, of mediaeval castles, cavalcades of crusaders, and the pleas ant fields and forests of Nottingham are beautifully carried out. Enid Ben net has Maid Marian's role, and the part of Rohin Hood fits the dash ing Douglas to perfection. * * * Rialto Presents “Shadows. ’ “Shadows," Lon Chaney's new pic ture, in which he essays a Chinese role, comes with high recommenda tions. It is pictured from “Chinn riling Chinaman.” a story hy W. D. Steele, and teaches a lesson ot tol erance. Yen Sin comes to a Puritanical little New Kngland village where the townsfolk rise up against him be cause of his faith. In the midst of their tauntings and persecutions he vet shapfs the destinies of some of them. In a surprise climax the tale gains a tremendous dramatic force wherein the soul of the heathen shines forth as a symbol of Ooodness and Truth to enlighten those who have hated and reviled him. Imagine trying to steal the pearls of the fiercest man in the South Sea islands, who suspects your purpose in ndvatuM. That is what two human derelicts attempt to do in “Kbb Tide,” coming to the Rialto Thursday. The chief interest centers about t’.ie great struggle of a man on the hu man ebb tide for regeneration through i lie love of a woman, the roles being played respectively by James Kirk wood and Lila Lee. • « • Muse Features of ^ eek. n Fur Sunday only the Muse is show ing "One Week of Love, ’ wherein Klalne Hammerstein, as the flighty society heroine, succumbs to the cave man methods of a desperado of the Mexican border. Kugeno O'Brien as “John Smith plays Monday and Tuesday. , “John Smith” is the absorbing story of a Jail bird who made good. It car ries a mighty decent character through a series of absorbing adven tures and lands him on the top of the heap, thg girl lie loves in his arms. Florence Vidor comes to the Muse Wednesday and Thursday in “The Real Adventure.” playing the role of a young girl who finds romance be fore marriage ideal, reality after mar riage an ordeal and readjustment a miss-deal. The vivid, colorful, turbulent life of the Canadian northwest forms the background for the stilling action of “Man From Hell's River,” coming Friday and Saturday. It is the work ot James Oliver Curwood, and Rin Tin, the dog, has a leading part. Racing; Classic at Empress. "The Kentucky Derby” ts a photo play bringing to the Empress this week a story of Just what the title Indicates—the racing atmosphere of the Blue Crass state. Most of tlio characters in the story are aristocratic Kentuckians. Reginald Denny, former star of "The Leatherpushers.” Is the lead. It Js due to the southern Instinct of hospitality that two strangers, osten sibly brother and sister, are able to come into the borne of one of the Kentucky colonels In the story and form their way Into his heart—merely for a similarity in their names. The result Is the temporary breaking down of an old horn®—but hospitality IS the first duty of a Kentucky gentle man! "Burning Sands." featuring Milton Sills and Wanda Hawley will be at the Empress from Thursday to Sun day. As the title suggests It Is a picture of the desert. * * * Dual Personality at Worltl. Herbert Rawlinson Is the attrac tive leading man In "Another Man’s Shoes," at the World. Stuart Grange, a wealthy young business man In fear of assassination at tho hands of a foreign secret so ciety, induces a cousin, who bears a remarkable resemblance to him. to aa NEIGHBORHOOD THEATERS GRAND - - - - 16th and Binney ALICE TERRY i>\ "TURN TO THE RIGHT" HAMILTON • - 40th and Hamilton "BOB HAMPTON OF PLACER" with WESLEY BERRY 44 / ®-—— sume his Identity. Thu cousin, little realizing the danger, accepts. That same night the girl leader of the death band climbs In through his bed room window and attempts to shoot him, but ho is too quick for her. Granger's double, with his ready smile and gallant manner, wins over his would-be assassin and bit by bit learns what it is all about. There are sundry other complica tions before the commotion subsides. . * . Moon Brings “Rillin’ Wild.” The story of a boy who loved his mother with all his heart, but wlio was restrained by this very fact and by her whims from "being like the other fellows," In any way, is told in "Rld in' Wild,” the photoplay of a common human problem, coming to the Moon for four days. He breaks loose in time, but it re quires a greater cause than the satis faction of ills mother's whims to make i him do it. » Iloost Gibson Is the hero of this western. Frank Mayo, supported by a well balanced east, in a dramatic story, | comes to the Moon beginning Thurs day. The picture is "Fires of Hate,” For tlie role of the French heroine a girl was selected who is pretty and talented, but beyond that even, she is half French in blood and wholly French Is manner; Louise Lorraine. Dagniar Oodowsky plays the fem inine “heavy." * * • * Sun lias Love Drama. The Sun offers this week "One Week of I.ove,” starring Klaine Ham nierstein and Conway Tearle. The story concerns a society girl who suddenly tires of the earth and worldly pleasures and decides to take a jaunt in an aeroplane. Unfortunate ly. she flies in the same spirit that she dances; and when her plane acci dentally comes down to earth, a lot of her high falutin' notions come down with her. She lands right in a nest of outlaws, the chief of ^hom is a sort of Captain Kidd of the moun tains. From this point on the story is conclusively and totally absorbing so that one wishes for an extra eye to view all the goings-on, so it is sajd. The company was actually trans- | ported to the country portrayed to ; give added realism. * ' ‘stji'nc.d ' Je.fti/ aA ~ (PAane/ A?/SU.70 f iyiurl)t?nA:s - &rG4rio - O’Brien - Muse. - - Sun - ?onuJai/J<?<ir}<?l £/ai'ne MjmmersJetr _ Film Flashes Under the supervision of Thomas Geraghty ‘‘Darlc Secrets,” Dorothy Dalton's latest picture, and "The Leopardess.” with Alif-e Brady as the star, are being finally edited ' and prepared for the public. Antonio Moreno, who appears as leading man with Gloria Swanson in ''My American Wife” and is featured in support of Mary Miles Minter in "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine,” is to be costurred with Bebe Daniels in "The Kxeiters.” Cecil Be DeMille had an embarrass ing experience at (lie studio pecently. Lord Louis Mountbatten, cousin of the prince of Wales and his bride arrived during the making of "Adam's Rib” at just about the time he was staging a revolution which treated royalty very roughly. The visitors wanted to see the picture made and he wanted to show them, but he did not want to display anything un pleasant from their viewpoint. The Week's Attractions Strand—"Robin Hood." Sun—"One Week of Love," Rialto—"Shadows." Kuipress—"Kentucky Derby." World—"Another Man's Shoes.” Moon—Sunday to Thursday, "Ridin' Wild;” Thursday to Satur day, “Fires of Hate." Muse—Sunday, "One Week of Love;" Monday and Tuesday, "John Smith;” Wednesday and Thursday, "The Real Adventure;" Friday and Saturday, "Man From Hell's River.” New Pictures Planned. Twelve novels and stage plays j have been secured by the Warner Brothers for production during the 1 season of 1922-23. They include . ‘'Babbitt," by Sinclair Lewis, "Being I Respectable,” by Grace II. Flandrau, ] "Beau Brummell,” and "Lovers' Lane,” both by Clyde Fitch, “David i Copperfield,” by Charles Dickens, “How to Educate a Wife,” by Elinor Glyn, "Shadowed Lives,” by Justin Adams, “Tlie Age of Innocence," a novel by Edith Wharton, "Broadway After Dark,” by Owen Davis, "George j Washington Jr.," and - "Little John I ny Jones,” two George M. Cohan plays, and "Cornered,” the Broadway success of last season with Madge j Kennedy. Animal Stars Suffer ' | From Too Much Temperament “Sometimes animals go cuckoo!” Curley Stecker. the famous trainer of wild animals for the movies, slood in tho middle of the University City menagerie and rubbed his chin thoughtfully. In the distance tho ner vous clank, clankety clank of the extra chains tied to Charley, the ele phant, could he heard as that tem peramental animal restlessly swung himself from side to side. ”Yep, the old bull’s been on a bat again,” commented Stecker. "We'll have to put In a new ’stone floor in bis stable, because he’s ripped most of It out when lie set on his heels and Jerked up the half dozen stakes and chains that kept him anchored. He took what the French call “the key to the fields," which means that he ran very much A. W. O. L., I'll tell the world. We nearly had a couple of funerals. Must be the rest of the temperament left over from the actors and actresses that floats in the air, and the animals get It that way; sort of sniff it in. This here Charley is getting toward the foolish age for elephants—about 50. No. 1 said elephants. But, anyway, it's all the siime. They're apt to go bad around that age, and tills bore Charley, why ho headed right straight through his stable door as if it was paper. And then Fred McFarland— you know McFarland, the blacksmith. Well, he woke up from a nightmare and found it was the real thing. Charley chewing o(T the front of his house. Yell? You could have heard j him ’way down to the Amabaasador hotel In Los Angeles—McFarland, I mean. Then Charley trumpets his way toward the administration build ings in Universal City and the stars' bungalow, and believe me they would have been toothpicks, hut Just then they got me on the spot and I looked him in the eye.” “Looked him In the eye?" “Sure. You don't think I could handle him do you? Only he knows me and I know him. An elephant Is a one-man guy, and that's all right i too, as’ long as that one man is around. It he isn't—well, anyway, i 1 said to him: ’That’ll do, Charley. You've had yours. Now we'll pi home before there's any real trouble. And he did. Oh. that's all there is to it. You see, 1 was raised in the cir cus business, right among the cats and bulls, and they know when I say a thing l.mean'it.” "A-a-r-r-rumph!” agreed Charley from his pen. Nita Naldi, the statuesque screen l amp, is leading a strenuous life those days. She is working in two pictures. While finishing her role in Allan Dawn’s production of "The Glimpses of the Moon,” she began work in j George Melford’s production, “You Can't Fool'Your Wife," in which she will he featured with Leatrlce Joy and i Lewis Stone. Marilynn Keeps Jack Travelling When Jack Plckford. stepped off the train yesterday to start work In his next picture, tie calculated that he ha*l broken the world’s amateur travel record for a man of his age. He admitted that possibly a few railroad conductors, steamship pursers and ad venturers who plied back and forth on the Atlantic might have covered a larger mileage, hut these people fell into the professional class and were therefore disqualified. Jack has Just leturned from another visit with his newly married wife, Marrilynn Mil ler, whose performance In the title role of “Sally,” is now winning new laurels in Chicago. Since Mr. Piekford's marriage last summer to this popular musical comedy star, Ills life has been just one transcontinental journey after an other. The problem of attending to Ids work in Hollywood and getting occasional glimpses of his wife has been answerable In only one way, ami that has been by making his home In a Pullman car. “The only way out I can see,” re marked Jack on his arrival In Los Angeles. “Is either for me to go Into musical ' omedy with Marilynn or for her to go into the picture business with me. Then we can be together." The latter alternative, it is known, has been seriously considered, and it would occasion very little surprise it sometime in the not too distant future Miss Miller joined Jack Plckford pro. ductions and they worked together on the screen. Announcing a worthy addition to the “Sun Book ot Wonder Pictures” “QUINCY ADAMS SAWYER” From the Book by Charles Fenton Pidgin with a Remarkable Cast (Watch for List) STARTS NEXT SUNDAY SUN THEATRE TODAY I ONLY \/> Out of a clear sky, she | \ literally crashed into his | S life from a hurtlind airplane. | \ V v\W\\ V\ vVVVVV V V v. vVVvVv t/he story ofa foolish butterfly a, product ofsociety & hothouse,who has flitted here and there, tasting ait the sweets of tile without sharing its pains, sufferings or emotions. In a single night this pretty creature was stripped of her golden wings, /none night she knew the fdtt meaning of Fear, ffate-andlooe.lnstantty she became part of the big pulsating out side world-Magically'shebecame-adman. J? 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