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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 11, 1923)
| Do Omaha Patrons of Cinema Object to Advanced Prices, Poor Attendance at “Scara Tnouche” Would Indicate Some Such Objection— Flat Rate Favored. Do the movie patrons of Omaha object to advanced prices on motion pictures? So It would seem from the boxofflc* record of “Scara mouche,” one of the outstanding plo furea of the season, which did a very poor business at the Brandeii all last week, at a prica list topped at SI.BO. New York, Philadelphia and other eastern cities have been reporting record breaking houses at equal or even greater prices, but the attrac tion did not seem to appeal to Oma ha as being worth that much money. The picture Is. In fact, still running in New York and other eastern towns on extended time. Faced' with tha experience of “Scarnmouche” at an advanced price, the owners of big pictures are wondering whether or not to attempt to bring them here and show them at sny such admission price. The essential ■ difference between stage plays and pictures insofar as the policy of playing them. Is much more pronounced throughout the mid dlewest than In any other section of the country. Stage plays are priced at their value—a poor show goes •heaply and tickets for a hlg attrac tion demand a greater price. Most exhibitors of pictures in this section refuse under almost any circum stances to vary their admission 1 prices with the value of the attrac *• :ion. The charge at the ticket office \\ 'a the same for good, had and indif ferent. The different to the pro prietor Is that a cheaply bought pl^ titr# means a, hlg profit—an expen sive picture with an epual volume of business means almost no profit at all. The only reason a picture man under a Single price policy has had to purchase bigger pictures Is In the hope that he can pack his house and make out of the volume the ex tra price of his film attraction. The public one week may pet a picture barpaln—the next week a fair buy—and occasionally pets a dls I appointment. ^But with the prospect in sipht of a public refusal to pay any advanced admissions, the pamble is up to the exhibitor as to how many people he can attract with the worth of his product. - Maybe Film Didn’t Appeal. Does it mean that Omaha and mid dle west territory doesn't want pic tures so costly that admission prices must be $1.50 or so. or that pictures of the character of "Scaramouche” &o»offry 9*Jion at t»i ew\PAi*l' !®o.r© Wu tjfdckdih A AT THC world AT TM» MUSS tsy t&uth lAfilU+s AT TH» Moon ■ - ' - ■ AT THr STRAND <S/ittre *1 ri. >w A» thb. RIALTO don't appeal to Omaha? For "Scara mouche’’ was admittedly a costume middle ages romance, one of a num ber of fine period pictures of this year. “Ashes of Vengeance," which comes to the StranG this week, is another costume picture, as, to a, certain extent, Is “Rupert of Hent zau," at the Rialto, though both will hep layed at usual prices at these theaters. For that matter, almost all of the really big pictures of this season have been "costume,” In trade par lance. Few of them, have been pic tures with the characters dressed as are the men and women you meet on the streets, whether the period be of this last 100 years or back several centuries. Rialto Boasts Real All Star Cast Today Probably the most abused term used in connection with motion pic tures Is “all star.” Nine times out of ten It means "no star," but In the case of th« forthcoming pro duction of "Rupert of Henteau” this 1s by no means the case. It is really the first production in which all of the principals are either stars or else featured leading men and wo men, as a glance at the following names of the cast will prove: Elaine 1 Hammersteln, Bert Lytell, Lew Cody, Claire Windsor, Bryant Wash burn, Marjorie Daw, Mitchell Lewis, Hobart Bosworth, Josephine Crowell, Klmo Lincoln, Irving Cummings and Adolphe Menjou. "Rupert or Hentzau" Is a sequel to "The Prisoner of Zenda."both having l>een written by the same author, Anthony Hope. It deals with the ro mantic adventures of Rudolph Ras sendyl, a young Kngltshman whq Is almost a perfect double for the king of Rurltania, a mythical Kuropean principality. He Is In love with the king's wife, Queen Flavla, and she with him, and this fact, together with his striking resemblance, leads to many complications and adven tures. "Rupert of Hentzau” will be shown at the Rialto all this week. Norma Talmadge s New Film at Strand "Romance—magnified, glorified and entrancing.” The words are those of the dramatic critic of a New York newspaper in reviewing "Ashes of Vengeance,” starring Norma Tal madge, which opens a two weeks’ engagement at the Strand today The colorful atmosphere of France of 1572. Interior and exterior scenes of three different castles. The mas sive ballroom of the Palace of the IjOuvres, where, in euffused excite ment, 1,200 ladies and gentlemen of the court are dancing the minuet on the fateful eve of St. Bartholomew. Sword play ranging from single duels to the mighty clash of great contend ing forces. Brilliant cavalcades of gaily caparisoned horses and attend ing men-at-arms moving along the picturesque roads of France .a U few highlights, these, of the scores of features that make "Ashes of \ • n geance” the greatest picture of Nor ma Talmadge s career. But it is the drama itself, the romance of Yoeland de Breux and Rupert de Vrieac, which 1* the most appealing feature of theproductlon. These roles are played respectively by Norma Tal ni.idee and Conway Tearle. Twenty screen notables are In the east of principals In support of this twain, Including Wallace Beery, Courtenay Foote, Josephine Crowell, Betty Francisco, Claire McDowell, Andre de Beranger, Murdock MacQuarrle. Boyd Irwin, Carmen Phillips, Winter Hall. William Clifford. Hector V. Sarno, Earl Schenck, Jimmy Cooley, Eucy Beaumont, Forrest Hobinson, Mary McAllister, Kenneth Gibson, Howard Truesdell, Frank I<«lgh and little Jeanne Carpenter; and 4,000 ex tras are employed In the mob scenes. “The Fair Cheat" on Screen at World Theater Broadway and Its ahow girls ars again In the movies In "The Fair Cheat" dm the World screen this week. Dorothy Mackalll, pretty Englfsh girl, has the leading role In a light comedy drama of a daughter of ft millionaire, who undertakes to earn her own way In the world for a year in order to prove that she has a right to marry a poor man If she choosed. The father Is reported lost at se» while daughter Is earning dollars In a Broadway chorus and an untrust worthy secretary becomes the vllllan of the cast when he attotnpts to steal the fortune. ^ Miss Mackalll makes an Ideal repre sentation of the felever love strate gist. She Is supported by Wilfred Lytell and Edmund Breese. “// Winter Comes" Opens Today at Sun When A. S. M. Hutchinson wrote "If Winter Comes" he contributed to the world of fiction the literary sen sation of a decade. The Sun opens today a two weeks’ showing of the screen counterpart of this now famous novel which bids fair to be come the most talked of photoplay of the season. * ■» Photographed In England, In the TODAY ALLWEEK Elame , '' Hammerstem. i A MIGHTY FICTURIZATION OF SIR ANTHONY HOPES NOVEL OF LOVE AND DARING witti one of LKe most rema.rlc.cCble caste ever in one -pr ociuotioru \ T?ertlytell g Claire 7 Vindsor Bryant \\l Washburn^ A \3eq-uel to PRIZON ET^ OF? ZENDA A I Hobart jjjBosworth Extra Attraction WELSH MALE QUARTETTE presenting a program, of Vaudeville Concert and, Opera Selections AComed^ oF mix-ups anclTaughs CLIFF BOWES and. RUTH HIATT XTV SIMPLE SADIB I Gertrude 1 Aator^ Adolphe Menioii | *■ i Irving Cummings^ Latest Nevs Events by I<Q'no^rams | Mirrjorf® ill i llijfel da | Urullier Josephine ^ C rove 11 Rialto Symphony Orchestra playing a voncierf-ul program and the av/erture’PieTvzi' by Vagner 5% rv'i/ r7*retti4i.’‘ jk rp/’/vcA^nw actual acenea pictured by tha author, the photoplay la a fine, authentic achievement which has commanded the commendation of Mr. Hutchin son himself. Director Harry Mlllarde, with a company of screen artists headed by Percy Marmont, who playa Mark Babre, and Miss Ann Forrest, the Nona of the story, spent one year In England to complete the picture. Eight English towns were used to visualize “Tidborough." The entire ltoyal West Kent regi ment, known as the Buffs, was used in the military scenes. In the cast supporting Mr. Mar mont and Miss Forrest are Sidney Herbert as Twynlng, Arthur Metcalf as Hapgood, William Riley Hatch as Rev. Sebastian Fortune, Raymond Bloomer as Lord Tybar. Walter Kolb aa Harold Twynlng, Margaret Field ing as Mabel, Leslie King aa Mumpo, Gladys Leslie as Effle, Virginia Lee aa Miss Winifred, George Pelzer aa Old Bright, Doroth^ Allen as High Jinks, Eleanor Daniels as Low Jinks, James Ten Brook as the coroner, Eugenie Woodward aa Mrs. Perch, and Russell Sedgwick as Young Perch. Her Dad Made Her Fiddle Years Before She Was Born Miss Rachel Senior, this year vlplln soloist with Lieut. Com. John Philip Sousa and hi* hand, who play at the Auditorium Saturday, November 24. was attempting to play a violin at an age when most girls are quite contented with their dolls. Miss Senior was born in a house of vio lins, and the beautifully-toned Instru ment which eh* uses Is the handiwork of her father, Charles Senior, of Mason City, la., who all his Uf* has had violin making for a hobby, has found time to make in their en tirety more than 100 of the instru ments. Charles Senior was a business man with a love for music. H* used to direct the local orchestra, and then as a means of diversion he attempted to make himself a violin. He was suc cessful, so he made another, and by the time Rachel was old enough to take a violin into her hands at least fifty of the Instruments were in the home. Miss Senior eventually went to New York to study with Fran* Kneisel, a famous teacher of violin, and then to Leopold Auer, who has taught the greatest violinists of the world. Through Meredith Wilson, who had been a member of Sousa’s band, and who had lived in Mason City, Sousa heard of the girl whose father made violins. After Sousa had engaged Miss Senior, he became interested In the hobby of her father. H* asked Miss Senior to bring him on* of her father's violins, which sh* had In New York. Sousa played it and then it was passed around to several of his musical friends, all of whom were delighted with the instrument. So those who like a bit of sentiment will find it in the fact that Miss Senior, upon her first appearance with Sousa'* band, played an instrument which had been fashioned by her <Mtu '-Sackel [J father years before she was born and which for more than 20 year* had been mellowing and’sweetening and waiting for her. Wally Van Old Time Film Star How many of you rsihsmber Wally Van? Back In the days when moviea were Just becoming popular. Wally waa among the shining face# that peered out at the public, which waa •till dazed at eeeing pictures actual It moving, and along with John Bunny. Broncho Billy Anderson and Flora Finch, he built up syeh popu larity as a comedian that, It Is safe to say, le rivaled by no one today. Of course Wally waa Just a boy then and for that matter he attll Is, but • few years ago hs left the movies Cat, never to return. It'sJJke everything else, thle movie game, and "they" say, If you once get the eand in your shoes, you are b»und to go back, and so here Is an other case where "they" are right. Van’s first picture since his return is "The Drivin' Fool," now st the Moon. Thrills, suspence and romance are crammed Into this sw*ift moving comedy and gives Wally a great chance to display his happy-go lucky .ways. A strong supporting cast In cludes Patsy Ruth Miller, Alec B. Francis, Wilton Taylor, Ramsey Wal lace and others. “Dark Secrets” Action Role for Dnlton The part of Ruth Rutherford In “Dark Secrets,” which is Dorothy Dalton's role, coming to the Empress this week. Is one of ease and hard ship for this popular star. As the heroine of the story, Miss Dalton becomes partly paralyzed when thrown from a horse, and therefore many of her scenes are played with the star In a wheel chair. But Miss Dalton does some of the hardest work of her screen career In this picture. She rides a spirited horse in a hur dle race at a horse show, and her work generally Is strenuous. Robert Ellis is leading man, and heads an unusually strong supporting cast of players. TO-OAST Pei^brmanoea ofc 11—1— 3— 5—"7— 9 ^aada-re lOminu/es&der ll&kts £ Sunday Tflafc £0$ Veek. Day Itlafiuces 35$ Children AmjTi'melOr Her most majestic masterpiece in a slorv of hearts y conquered by love Ashes of \engeance" Conway Tearle heads the great supporting cast Ijere is romance magnified, <^loidPied and enirancm<(. Hu^e settings,massive scenes, moments of splendor and grandeur fleven- bef^^a^iciune like this andperliaps never again one Were it up to os t« dictate the pic tures one should aee and enjoy. "Ashe* of Vengeance” would head our list. —N. Y. Daily New*. "Ashes of Vegeance” I* the heat In everything the films to far have to offer. —N. Y. Evening World. “Ashes of Vengeance" is a master piece. Norma Talmadge is radiant in all her scenes and proves herself an actress with vim. —N. Y. Evening Journal. The merits of the picture are toonu merous to mention. It must be seen i to be appreciated. V —N. Y. Sun and Globe. Original HTusicat Score bt/t/ictorJ^.Scherhinyer InlerpreiccC At/ tA& strand Concert Orchestra Attend the Matinees or early shouis possible and avoid the crowds