New Faces Star on Screen
at Theaters Here This Week
Laurette Taylor, Making Debut in Movies in “Peg o’
My Heart,” Will Be Seen at Sun; Marguerite
de la Motte Shares Honors at Rialto.
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New faces ars starring on Omaha
screens this week and a wide variety
of entertainment is offered.
Lauretta Taylor In her initial
screen offering will be at the Sun all
week in "Peg O' My Heart.” and upon
the reception according it will depend
the future of Miss Taylor In motion
pictures.
At the Rialto, AIArguerlte de la
Motte, a featured player, is dividing
honor with Milton Sills and John
Rowers In a drama of modern life.
Of interest to many fans is the
icuniting of Norma Talmadge and
Kitgene O'Brien in "The Voice From
The Minaret'at the Strand this week.
Il has been years since this pair
of stars has played together and a
great, deal is expected of them to
gether again.
One of the season's greatest melo
dramas is Rt the Moon this week in
The Third Alarm,” n story of ths
life of a fireman, dedicated to the
fire chiefs of the United States.
Clara Kimball Young will be at the
Kmpress the first half of the week In
■her latest story "The Hands of Nara"
end at the World May Allison In a
new role for her, a dramatic part,
stars in "The Woman Who Fooled
Herself."
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Modern Drama Is Shoun
at the Rialto This If eek
Can a career ruin married life or
can married life ruin a career. Is the
paradoxical problem presented to the
audience In "What a Wife learned"
at. the Rialto today. Marguerite de la
-Motte plays the leading feminine role,
and John Rowers and Milton Sills
divide honors in the masculine parts.
The picture Is one of Thomas lnee's
modern dramas and is being given a
prerelease showing in Omaha. With a
cast of all featured players the ac
tion of the drama is portrayed with
the use of very few- subtitles.
ISorma Talmadge W ith
Eugene O'Brien at Strand
After a lapse of three years, Eu
gene O’Rrlen, one of the most popu
lar of male screen stars, again is
playing opposite Norma Talmadge in
"The Voice From the Minaret" at the
Strand this week. Frank Lloyd di
rected it from the novel by Robert
Hichens, In the cast are Edwin Ste
\ens, Winter Hall, Carl Gerard, Claire
J'u Brey, Lillian Lawrence and Albert
Fresco. *
"The Votes From the Minaret” is
a thrilling tale of romance and ad
venture, with the scenes shifting from
England to the desert and the orient.
It Is the most gripping novel ever
penned by Mr. Hichens, and Mr.
Lloyd has transferred it to the stiver
sheet with striking fidelity.
* Cast at Lady Adrienne, the perse
cuted wife of the governor of Bom
bay, Miss Talmadge has a very dra
matic role.
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May Allison Is Featured j
in Picture at the W orld
"The Woman Who Fooled Her
self,” announced as the feature at
traction at the World, claims many
interesting distinctions. In the first
place. It is the first of a series of
Pictures produced by Edward A. Mno
Manus from original stories by Charles
A. Logue.
Secondly, it co-features May Allison
for the first time with her husband,
Robert Ellis. Also, Miss Allison plays
her first heavy dramatic role. And
last, It was produced on the beauti
ful tropical Island of Porto Rico, which
is virgin soil for photoplay produc
tion.
Eva Lee, a vivacious chorus girl, is
‘ The Woman Who Fooled Herself,” a
(nnclusion she arrives at after play
ing with the heart of an enemy nnd
finding that she loves him.
Lauretta Taylor Plays
on Screen at the Sun
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“Peg O' My Heart." with Laurette
Taylor appearing in her famous role,
will be at the Sun all week. This
fascinating tale of J. Hartley Man
ners' conception, with Ireland and
England as the background, and the
elfin ways and humors and pathos of
the motherless little girl providing the
main theme, has had 6,608 stage per
formances in the United States,
fli.aurette Taylor created the role and
has been identified with It ever since.
It's a tale of an Irish father and an
English mother, of the Chlchesters
and Kingsworths, and of Sir Gerald
Adair, Peg's legal guardian: and of
the circumstances, amusing as well as
heart-stirring, that attend the young
girl when she leaves the little Irish
farmhouse where she was born and
venutres among strangers to whom
good form is the cardinal requirement.
As In the stage play. Miss Taylor
has the assistance of Michael, the fa
mous canine actress with the mascu
line name, Michael has been with
Miss Taylor in all her performances
of Peg.
The screen production of "Peg O’
My Heart" was directed by King
Vidor. Miss Taylor's supporting cast
includes such capable and popular
players as Mahlon Hamilton. Russfll
Simpson, Ethel Grey Terry, Nigel
Barrie. Lionel Belmore, Vera Lewis,
SIdna Beth Ivins, D. R. O. Hats well.
Aileen O'Malley and Fred Huntly.
Fire Laddies Are Stars
in Picture at the Moon
The entire workings of a big cijy
firs department, from the time the
first alarm Is sounded until the big
firs Is completely extinguished, la
graphically depicted In "The Third
Alarm," Emory Johnson's vital ro
manuce of a fire fighter s life, at the
- Moon.
m The sounding of the alwui. the
method of procedure when *he signal
is heard at headquarters of a firs
company, picturing the awakening of
the men from slumber, their light
nlngllke dressing and plunge down
ka oaroendtculax rod. the hitching
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cf the horse* to the equipment and
the mad dash out of the fire engine
house Is realistically portrayed.
The picture Is reported to be one
of the most realistic melodramas ever
offered on the screen.
Clara Kimball Young
Is Featured at Empress
"The Hands of Nara," In which
Clara Kimball Young stars, is at the
Empre. s the first half of this week
and it should prove one of the sea
son's most entertaining photoplays.
Richard Washburn Child, the pres
ent ambassador front the United
States to Italy, is the author of this
very successful novel.
The story has its setting first In
Russia, where several of Its most dra
matic scenes take place during the
revolution.
Miss Young plays the part of a
beautiful young Russian girl who es
capes the revolution and reaches New
York after many hardships.
Miss Young Is surrounded by a very
capable cast, headed by Elliot Dexter.
Others are Myrtle Steadman, Vernon
Steel, Margaret I.oomis, Count John
Orloff and John Milterne.
"To Have and To Hold," with Betty
Compson and Bert Lytell is booked
for a second downtown engagement
for the last half of the week. It is an
adaptation of the famous novel of tlia
same name by Mary Johnston and
makes a photoplay of stirring action
In its story of the Virginia colonies In
their earliest days.
Bobbie Wins Her
Grandmother by a
Clever Letter Ruse
Complete forgiveness for running
away from homo six years ugo to
adopt the stage as a career, has Just
been granted Bobby Folsom by her
grandmother, Mrs. Sarah J. Baldwin
of Joliet, III. Bobby Folsom is that
vivacious little miss at the Orpheum
theater this week with Jack Denny
and his Metropolitan band. Her
grandmother is president of the
W o m e n's Christian Temperance
union in the Illinois town.
Miss Folsom was quite happy about
it, judging from the way she visits
with fellow players on the Orpheum
bill and shows each the letter she
received from her grandmother.
"I telegraphed my folks arrd grand
ma, too, just now," she beamed. "Oh,
I’ve tried so long to convince granny
that I did the right thing by hiking
out and making a name for myself.
I tried every way to make her sec
as my folks did, but she would not.”
Then she confided. It was only by
a trick that she finally was success
ful. To prove her talents. Miss Fol
som repeatedly has mailed clippings
describing her stage triumphs to her
parents In Joliet, asking each timo
that these bo shown her grandmother.
Again and again, it is said, the elder
ly lady declined to notice these tri
butes to her granddaughter. So the
girl, two weeks ago, adopted the ruse
of pasting the clipping on prohibition
society stationery. These, when de
livered to Mrs. Baldwin, were read
with avidity, and the desired point
was scored.
The grandmother's letter expressed
high approval for Miss Folsom's ca
reer. and displayed an understanding
that tlie girl was by all means an
artist and was probably unjustly cen
sured.
"When I played at the State-Bake
theater in Chicago recently,” Miss
Folsom said, "grandmother emphatic
ally declined to come to the theater to
see me. She w'ould not receive me
at her home in Joliet, nor would she
answer my letters. From the tone of
the ono I just received I hope to
convert her to the vaudeville going
habit and I expect to take her to
Chicago to see me the next time I
play there."
!\otes from Hollyicood
Katherine MacDonald's next story
will be a tale of the stage and its
temptations, written by Ernest Pas
cal, under the title, "Chastity.’’
Edythe Chapman has been engaged
to play one of the chief roles In this
new drama.
Constance Talmadge has discarded
all the Chinese “atmosphere” into
which she plunged her Hollywood
home during the making of “East Is
West;’’ once more her home looks
like the beautiful American home
which it is. Her next picture will
show her as one of our own girls.
Edwin Carewe has Interrupted
studio preparations for “The Girl of
the Golden West," which he will pro
duce In Hollywood, to go off on a
three-day hunt for colorful locations
for this universally beloved story.
The Chinese settings in Larry Be
mon's newest comedy, "No Wedding
Bells,” will be built from intimate
photographs taken in San Francisctfa
Chinatown.
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Billy Tells the World
How Hood and How
Rich He Has Become
Billy Watson, who promises to pave
‘‘Krousemeyer’s Alley” with laughter
at the Gayety theater this week, Is
the richest man In burlesque—and ho
admits It. Watson is one of the most
unique characters in burlesque—star
of his own show for more than 20
years, loaded with money and still
unsatisfied.
‘‘Show business is ents and drinks
to me," said Watson. "I've been at it
so long I can’t quit. They are go
ing to make me mayor of Paterson
some day—they need a good ‘barrel’
in politics and I’ve got a dandy. Great
pity Paterson—my home town.
"I'm the richest man in the bur
lesque game today. I've been on the
boards 40 years and will continue
longer if everything is properly reg
ulated by congress. You see, if I'm
going to become a politician I’ve got
to believe in congress.
"I own two theaters in Paterson
in addition to other realty holdings.
In fact, I own half the town and have
a mortgage on the rest. My largest
present building is in the name of
my three daughters and not one of
them can spend the principal until
the youngest is 31 years of age.
Women are moving rapidly these
days.
"I also own a summer home In
Belmar, N. J., right where the ocean
is the widest as well as the thinnest—
along shore. I tried to buy the ocean
but when I found there was so much
oil floating around on Us surface. I
backed out. I'm one of a few million
more who never made any money In
oil.
"Listen: X can play all the ‘high
brow’ tinsel and fino stuff In bur
lesque if I want to, but take It from
me, I am standing In the middle of a
steady stream of gold In "ICrouse
meycr’s Alley," so why change? It’s
cream cheese, rich as butter.”
School Days Go
Right Along With
These Young Players
The well appointed stage of the
World theater is to be converted into
a schoolroom during the present week.
where the principal performers of
'•Youth.” one of the feature World
attractions, will be carefully taught
their lessons.
Maude Daniels, sponsor for the act,
carries with her an accredited school
teacher, whose duty It is to instruct
the bojs and girls in all branches of
rudimentary education. Classes are
divided Into various grades, with most
of tlie children taktng Instruction In
what corresponds to high school
classes.
A portion of every day pot spent In
travel is devoted to thlg educational
work and so proficient are the stu
dents that It Is claimed their educa
tion compares in every way with those
who receive their schooling in schools
of the best type. -
Another part of the day Is devoted
to recreation and outdoor exercise
and tho health of tha children is care
fully watched by a graduate nurse.
A portion of every child's weekly
salary Is placed by them in a savings
account so that when they decide to
go Into business for themselves, be it
theatrical or otherwise, they will all
have a substantial hank account.
Charlie Chaplin and Edna Purvlanee
are making •'Destiny.”
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“THE FOUR
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You will remember it long after
i you have forgotten most ^k^
other pictures. JjB
Much - \bused Camera Man IVIls
of His Adventures on Studio Lol
In many and many a movie thriller,
It Is the fellow you do not eee, the
one who stands behind the camera
and turns the crank who takes the
longest chance and gets the biggest
kick out of the shot. Fred Jeckman
chief cinematographer of the Sennett
studios, can tell you all about It. In
a recent Issue of the American Cine
matographer he writes:
“You have seen the typical plung
ing which horses which, hitched to s
fire engine tear down the street and
turn the corner perilously. Where
was the cinematographer? Wrhy. tied
with a rope to the top of the smoke
stack of ths fire engine so thaf he
could use both hands on the camera
cranks while the fire engine went
around the corner on two wheels.
Then you have seen the horses’ hoofs
pounding on the parement and Molly 1
O riding a bicycle before them. Where
was I—Juat under the apparatus, tied
again, and Just missing the bumps
and the top of the ground by Inches.
"You remember the freight train
which stalls on the crossing and the
collision which comes when the P«*
senger flyer crashes through it, fling
ing car wheels, air tanks, pieces of
iron and other debris in all directions
dVhere was the cinematographer?
Just about three inches to one side of
the path of the trucks of the boxcar
as they flew through the air and on
down the tracks.
"You have seen the scene In which
the man climbed down a rope ladder
which he had dropped out of the side
of a seaplane. Did you notice that the
scene was taken from some spot on
the Mine plane? Where was the ttne
matographer? Out on the • > "f a
wing with one hand on the pan or.ink,
the other on the camera oral'!., and
with a tope which, tied around los
angle, ran up to the top wing aunt
You may think thla wa* the kick,
but you're mistaken. Have you eve'
aoen a seaplane execute a landing s'
a 10 mile an hour clip and *e< n the
water hit that pontoon at the end o'
the wing dashing clear over the end
of the lower wing? Mill, that w««
the kick. Inasmuch as the clnem*
togrnpher whs on the lower wing.
"You have seen a row of horaes
come dashing down a field and Jus
as they were about to burst out of
the screen down on the audience, they
vaulted and seemed to fly over th*
top of the screen. What they did was
to leap over the head of the cinema
togrnpher who,was operating the
camera which he had set up In th*
ditch over which the horses had Jump
ed. The kick? Well, suppose a horae
should have stumbled?"
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