Stars of Past Years ^ Trying to “Come Back" ‘‘Comebacks” seem to be )n order in the picture world this season. Nav er has a year brought forth so many avowed intentions from one time favorites to reclaim their place in the sun. Francis Bushman and Beverly Bayne are hard at work on a new story. Theda Bara hopes to brush up on her vamping and J. War ren Kerrigan la to hold the center of the acreeu in a new super-special that may agalp mark him as a popu lar idol. No matter what the outcome of these stellar attempts to prove the fallacy of "the fickle mob,’* self con fidence appears to be the motive that inspired them. Whether popu larity is something that can be picked up just as it has been discarded will be an interesting issue. Perhaps the most courageous and certainly the most successful essay at •'coming back” is that nfb.de a few months ago by Prlscella Bonner who dates her first film fame back 15 years to stardom in the earliest two reelers. When she married she an pounced that she would retire. As the years passed old ambitions re vived and when she finally answered the call of the camera again she found that new players, new directors and changed methods of casting had altered the entire outlook. Just when the former leading lady was prepared to take the first open. Jng as an extra, B. p. Bohulbergt president of Preferred Pictures, gave lier a small role In “Shadows." The part was limited to merely a flash but in those few feet of film re ^iiewers and theatre-goers recognized ^The qualities that once had made Miss Bonner a favorite. Because of her enthusiastic reception she was giv en other roles, increasing In Import ance until, when the “all-Iriah-all afar” cast for Tom Forman's produc tion, ‘‘April Showers," was formed. Schulberg again engaged her—thie time not as an extra but ns a princi pal in the brilliant cast beaded by Kenneth Harlan and Colleen Moore. Old Fiddlers* Contest At Rialto Thursday “Old Melody Week” at the Rialto this week In conjunction with the showing of the picture founded on the power of music. "Mighty Bak A Rose” will be celebrated Thursday night with an old fiddlers' contest. Prizes will be offered for the three best entrants, $25 for first prize, $15 for second prize and $10 for third prize. “Does It Pay?” Completed. “Does It Pay?” has been completed with Hope Hampton as the featured player supported by a notable cast, and directed by Charles Horan. Youth, 20, Works for $18 a Week to Convince Pretty Young Bride He Is Worthy of Fortune Left by Uncle The story of the "poor little rich boy” who spent so much money that he had to bo put on an allowance, Is an old and hackneyed one. Here la the story of the "poor lit tle rich hoy" who Is a “rich little poor boy" because he wants to be. “I’ve made a fool of myself at times,” he frankly admits. *‘l spent money that could have been well saved. I’m going to' beat back now, and eave money that could be well spent. Watch me go!" His friends are watching him— and watching him with interest too. Because they think they know Vin cent J. Lamb and they are wonder ing If he can keep his resolution, j There is a girl in Hollywood j watching him too, however, and It is she that he is eager to please. “Needles and pins, needles and pins, when a man marries his trouble begins," is a rhyme of the ; ages. Lamb says It’s all wrong. "When a man marries his trouble ends." lie declares. "I'm going to prove It by my case." In 190S Joe Connor, a wealthy Omaha grain broker, died and left an \ (‘state valued at that time at $460,000. j fine of tlie five heirs was Mrs. Mary J. Lamb. But Mrs. Lamb, it happened, was 1 a very well-to-do woman on her own I account—silver and United States ■ government notes seeming to have a ! nay of running in the family. So she determined to leave the bequest ln lact and have it Invested in good, sound securities and placed in trust for her three sons, who were nephews of the grain broker. Mrs. Jamb was fortunate in her in vestments and the estate increased in mathematical progression as the years passed by. It is now valued at more than $1,000,000. But In the meantime the United States had become involved in a great war. and Mrs. Lamb sent her three sons, Including Vincent, into it. Only two of them came back, the third giving up his life in France. So now there are only two sons to share the | $1,000,000 estate, making $500,000 each. Sought Good Times. Back from the war Vincent Lamb felt the young man’s Inclination to | have a good time and he satisfied that inclination with every means at his command, which were many. His mother wanted him to go to I 'chool—gtvlng him the choice of sev I eral universities. He declined politely and said he wanted to go west, to 1 Hollywood. Mrs. Lamb went with I him, Vincent had good looks and the i clothes and manners of a gentleman anil found It easy to get a place in the pictures." Hut hta mother calmly pointed out to the producers that he still was a minor and than any con tract he might make would have to be signed hy her to complete Its validity. When a contract was signed Mrs. Vincent inserted a stipulation that the boy's salary should be paid to her. Cupid Takes a Hand. That Irked Vincent. He found him self back on the hated allowance plan and the money his mother allowed him as not at all sufficient to en able him to live ns He considered a Vincent J. I.amb showing how he is earning his $18 a week. * young man of his responsibilities and engagements should. Then to complicate matters, hs fell In love. It wasn’t at all like any of hts former "caRes” he assured his mother and friends. This was the real thing this time and marriage waa the object, not Just dance* and motor rides and bridge parties and the ac customed round of pleasure of the average wealthy young man and his best girl friend. •’Who is the girl?” his mother asked. •'Grace Ivers." replied the youth, whereupon the mother began to look up Miss Ivers. Her Investigation brought out facts that would have been satisfactory to the most particular parent. Miss TODAY SHOWS AT ALL WEEK Feature 30 Minute* Liter The Master Spectacle of Modern Life Cecil B. DeMilles Milton Sills— Elliott Dexter--Theo. Kojloff Anna Q. Nilsson-Pauline Garon A IN “Manslaugh 4 ter” you saw one side of the modern girl. Here’s the other. In novalty of thama and a t o r y, and In atranfth of laat "AdanTa Rib" atanda at tha top of 1923 plcturaa. A Paramount Picture Revealing the modern girl in her true colors. In a story crammed with action, De Mille interprets her impuls ive heart to all who wish to appreciate her for what she really is. M- orn rv>ir Surprising Scenes Include: Exciting Wheat Deals at the Chicago Board of Trade. The National History Museum filled with 30-foot skeletons of million-year-old monsters. “Vision” scenes showing the life of prehistoric man. And a ball that marks the ultimate in De Milletnagnificence. Spice, Snap, Color, Love, Thrills—They’re All Here. A Picture that was MADE to be talked about PRICES Night* and Sunday Matinaa Balcony.40# Main Floor.50# Strand Supreme Orchestra Harry H. Silverman, Director Offering the overture, PIQUE DAME Lyman Howea Laleat Lvrnla Hodge Podge in F'°* Newa PRICES W«*»k Dkr Matinrfi Until S o'clork All ..35* KIDS taimy« 10c Ivers was the daughter of a. Denver banker and had gone to Hollywood, because she had a pretty face and felt the call of a career. "Sho isn't like the other girls here," Vincent had told his mother proudly, have Just the one ambition—to make a name for herself on the screen. If she had a second guiding purpose In her life, it was to help along other young men and women who she was convinced, hail ambitions similar to Mars'. Grace IverJpfttrvp. fy and Mrs. Iamb found that h# spoka the truth. Mlsa Ivara had no "vamp lah” tendencies and paid no attention to InvItatlonH to the kind of parties and good times ths sensationalists Uks to writs shout. She seemed to I her own. A romance started and progressed nicely, but romance doesn't thrive on the kind of allowance Mrs Lamb gate her eon, so he returned to Chicago. “I'm tired of working for nothing in Holloywood," he announced. "I'm back here to make my fortune.” He found friends who were eager to play around with him, fair weather friends, many of thorn, who saw In the "poor little rich boy” an excellent oc cupant of that rather tiresome posl tion that It Ijnown aa the Chief Payer of Checks and of Grand Giver of Good Times. One night a particularly tricky party waa being "thrown” and Vincent ran out of funds. "Why not cash a check?" someone suggested. "Fine,” was the chorus of reply, and the person who had the bright Idea wrote out the check and Vincent endorsed it. Another check was float ed in the same manner. No difficulty was encountered because those who ( ashed the checks knew of the wealth and position of-the Umb family. But the check* came back and the receivers were stunned. Behind the Bars. “Not so good,’* they decided, and they had Vincent and his checkwrit ing friend arrested. The two spent a few hours in custody and then the 'Checks were paid and the affair set tled. But Vincent had learned'a les son. He went to a railroad atatlon, bought a ticket for Denver, where Miss Ivers ha/1 returned home, He arlved there last October and had a serious talk with his sweetheart. Her father waa consulted and there waa another talk. The wedding of Vln cent Iamb and Grace Ivers waa sol emnised on October 17. From that day on Vincent was a changed young man. He went back to Chicago alone, while his bride re turned to Hollywood and her screen work. Parties were proposed aa soon aa he folt the pavement of Michigan boulevard under hla feet, parties that probably would have had the same end as the old ones, rolllckers strolling through restaurant doora and piling laughingly into motor cars, while Vin cent stayed behind to pay the check. His Own Proposition. "Nothing stirring," he answered. "I’m going to work and I'm going to make good.' The old days are over " His first interview was with the trustees of the Connor eatats. "I want things to be arranged so that I can't get any of the money until I have earned 110,000 by my self." he told them. The trustees looked at him nar rowly. "Are you In earnest?" "Never more so.” "All right, we ll go through with It." So, with the consent of Vincent's mother, the arrangements were made. The next order of business for the now "rich little poor boy" was to find a Job Vincent went at that right h'artlly and found that the firm of B. L. Koppenhagen, brokers, with of needed a young man to take stock quotations as they came In over the ticker and write them on a black board. "Hyw much does It pay?" Vinoent asked. "Kighteen dollars a week,” he was told. "Nothing that you would touch." "Oh. wouldn't I?" he demanded, and snapped up the Job. And so He Tolls. He went to work immediately and has stuck hard hy the task ever since. For handicaps he has the knowledge that t'hicago Is doubting whether he will stick by the ship. For assets and an urge that drives him forward, he has Grace’s constant letters say ing that she knows he will make good and that she Is believing in him and pulling for him every minute. "I'm doing the best I know how and I want to put myself across without having anyone know I was different from the rest of these boys here In the office, or had any more money,” he said, "I haven't any more, ss far as that Is concerned, since it Is all up to me now and my IIS a week looks Just as big to me and Is Just as big as theira is to them " What is making you do all this?" he was asked. "It's my own Idea and it came to me because of her," he answered “I met Grace and wanted her and got her, and then knew It was up to me to cut out the old life and start all over again. « "You see. in the other days, T was living up to my Income and what I got from mother and no matter how high the total amount ran It never seemed enough. I suppose I would have gone along In the game way un til I got my money and then gone at It the same way If it hadn’t been for Grace. But she made it all different. She wouldn't want me If I didn't make good, even though she had faith enough irt me ta marry me without waiting for the test." No Saving Ilone Tel. "But how are you going to eave 110,000 on *18 a week?" “I'm not.” he answered, "That's redlculcus, but I'm going to work so hard for that 111 that they will have to increase my pay, and then I'll be on my way." Vincent is living In a furnished room for which he pays ft a week. His fr-od. he says, costs him about J13 a week. The other 83 go for In cldentals. carfare and the iffce. HI* clothes, he figures, will last him until that SIS is boosted. When Chicago first heard of It* "rich little poor boy" s<>m«* at rang* stories came out. They put the amount of the Connor legacy at |5. 000,000 Instead of the 1460.000 it really was and they change] the Joe Connor to Patrick O'Connor and made him president of the Omaha Board of Trade instead of a grain broker. But. Vincent Lamb, who la now Ji:»' 20 years old, Just laughed. And he laughed at those who doubted his sincerity. And best of all, for him, his employers laughed with him "He's delivering the good*," they say "He has prospects.” The girl out In Hollywood isn’t doubting either. "And my bosses and my wife aie all I care shout," says Vincent. Europe Sets Fashion Ideas in Our Films Instead of depending upon Europe, Europe Is depending up< America for'ld*as for women's f ashions accord ing to flare West, costume designer for Cecil B. DeMIlles Paramount pro ductions. "The American motion picture has become virtually the dictator of the worlds fashions," declares Miss West. Her Impressions are fresh, because she has Just returned from a trip to Europe for the purpose of getting Ideas and materials for Mr Ihe.Mille's next production, which Is to be based upon the 10 commandments. "Our designers, especially those whose work is reflected on our screen Miss We«t continued, "are months ahead of those of Parts and I^indon, and the Europeans very evi dently" realize It. Every advance trade showing of a big American pro duetion la a mecca for European designers, and it won't be long befors the leaders of the profession abroad will be sending their representatives h*re for our American premieres '' Miss West spent a month In London and Paris purchasing materials, cma men's and Jewelry. NEIGHBORHOOD THEATERS HAMILTON - - - 40th and Ham 11 tea FEATURE and COMEDY VICTORIA .... 24tb aad Fort CHARLES RAY la “GAS, OIL AND WATER" GRAND .... isth aad B in Bey LEWIS STONE la ’THE DANGEROUS AGE* THE STEPPIEST PEPPIEST MOST PULSE QUICKENING AND EYE FILLING STRIP of Celluloid Ever En* larged on the Screen. SHOWS PRICES DAILY Thi. W.ak Only ,, , _ d»**t m«‘» ■ 35£ 11, 1, O, Ereniafi and C 7 q Sunday Mat. * ' Childran THIS WEEK—LAST TIMES SATURDAY A CINEMA OF SYNCOPATION AND SPLENDOR Sun Comedy SNUB POLLARD In Two Reels of Laughs “NEWLY RICH” i Sun InUrnational Newt IWr.klr. _ toFm DAY “JAZZ-CONTEST” :~pv3rni: