1924 Announcements of Movie Houses Pleases Fans Followers of Pictures Who Are in the “Know” Will Appreciate Effort by Competitive Houses to Tempt Movie Appetite—Several Serial Stories of The Omaha Bee in January List Coincident with tlio announcement of programs to start the new year at Omaha photoplay houses, comes the news of the scheduling of a number of big pictures at these houses during the early months of 192-1. Among the announcements are the Initials showings of the picture ver sions of three of the serial stories which have been running in the Oma ha Bee during the past year. “The Silent Command,” which opened in the Omaha Bee onl ylast week, is at the Sun this week. “Black Oxen,” Is announced for the Hialto theater for the week of January 6th and "Mich ael O'Halloran” appear* on, the World screen the same week. The Rialto theater list of coming attractions after “Black Oxen," In cludes William S. Hart in “Wild Bill ^jllckok," his first picture after a long absence from the screen. It will be shown the week of January 13. Charles Ray's most ambitious picture, "The Courtship of Miles Standish,” opens January 20th: Colleen Moore in "The Swamp Angel," January 27, which may be released under the title of "Painted People,” and later there will be booked Hall Caine's "Name The Man,” from his story “Master of Man.” Two pictures that have long been awaited by the fans who “know their stuff,” follow “The Silent Command,” at the Sun theater. The first starting on January 6, is Elinor Glyn's sensa tional “Six Days," with Corrine Grif fith and Frank Mayo in the leads. It is booked for an indefinite length of time. Immediately following it will be Elmer Clifton's "Down to the Sea in Ships,” a love story of the whal ing days of 1840, and one of the talked of pictures of the present year. Mary Plckford's “Roeita” will prob ably be booked late In January or early in February. Among the announced list for 1924 from the Moon are Tom Mix's “Mile A Minute Romeo,” this week, fol lowed by “Pioneer Trails,” which its makers, the Vitagraph company, de clare Is greater than any pioneer story ever made. J. Stuart Blackton's return to the directing of pictures “On the Banks of the Wabash," Is booked for January 12th and “Thun dering Dawn,” on January 29. “The Virginian' Comes to Rialto Kvsry lover of the west has at one Hme or another read Owen Wlster's great story "The Virginian" and many of this generation have seen the stage play. Now it’s a motion picture with Kenneth Harlan In the role of “The Virginian,” Florence Vidor as "Molly” and Russell Simpson as the evil "Trampas.” It opens at the Rialto today for a week's show ing. "The Virginian” was made as one of the early films and before starting on the making of the new and great er version the producers purchased and burned up the $100,000 worth of prints of the original picture. A whole city of frontier days time was built up In the Sierras for filming the picture. The robber's roost which had Its part in the story was also constructed up In the mountains. The cowboys In the film were real ones and handled their herd of cattle In expert manner. The scope of the picture with the camera was far greater than has ever been possible on the stage. Grand Opens Year With Big Program Alma Rubens in "The Valley -of Si lent Men,” opens the week at the • Iranil today with Tom Mix in his comedy bit, “Soft Boiled,” booked for Monday and Tuesday. New Teat’s day there will be given a special ma tinee. Katherine McDonald In "The Woman Conquers.” Is scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday with the thirteenth chapter of “Days of Danjel Boone,” also on the bill. Friday and Saturday there Is offered “Burning Sands” with Milton Sills and Wanda Hawley. Sydney Chaplin Head. of Cast at Strand Sidney Chaplin, brother of the celebrated Charles Chaplin, returns to the screen to play a comedy role in “Her Temporary Husband,” a rib ticklirik farce at the Strand this week. It is a screen version of Edward Paulton's popular stage success of the same title. "Her Temporary Husband” is a humorous comedy, centering about a young girl, who, to win a fortune, is forced to marry within 24 hours. The girl, not wishing to burden herself with the troubles and tribulations of matrimony, yet wishing to win the legacy, goes to a sanitarium and chooses as a husband a decrepit old man with one foot in the grave and the other on a banana skin, to later wake up to the realization that the man she really married was a young admirer who had made up to repre sent the older man. Owen Moore plays the part of the disguised invalid. Sidney Chaplin enacts the role of ills valet, a lugubri ous individual w'ho has a peculiar faculty of always doing the right thing at the wrong time. Sidney is a member of an exception ally talented all-star cast, which In cludes Owen Moore, Sidney Chaplin, Sylvia Breamer, Chuck Reisner, Tully Marshall, Charles Gerrard, George Cooper and others. . Tom Mix in Thrills at Moon Today Defying death, by riding amidst a drove of wild horses, under the belly of Tony, his famous horse, to escape his pursuers, Tom Mix will hurst Into the Moon this week with ”J(ile-A Minute Romeo.” Demonstrating a decided penchant for thrills, this production Is pro nouneedly the only one in which Tom Mix exposes his entire bag of eques trian tricks. The story Is by Max Brand, an author who has been noted for ability In western drama*. It provides Mix with opportunity to display those tal ents by which he has become so widely recognized. An erring father, a daughter with romantic aspirations, two villains in stead of the customary one and Tom Mix, form the basis of this pro duction's merits. Comedy relief is provided in scenes showing a cross country run stageu by Tom Mix. Betty Jewel, J. Gordon Russel. James Mason, Duke I/ee and James Quinn are the principal players. The pioduction was directed by Ivtmbert Hillyer. “The Silent Command" Great Spy Story The relentless determination with which a band of International spies seek to gain possession of Important plans belonging to the United States government is one of the engrossing elements in the spectacular feature "The Silent Command,” which opens at the S^un. J. Gordon Edwards, who directed STARTING NEXT SUNDAY The story of love and pas sions that has set the world a-talking. ELINOR GLYN KNOWS MORE ABOUT LOVE THAN ANY LIVING PERSON. YOU’LL THINK SO, TOO, WHEN YOU SEE HER LATEST ROMANCE-THE DRAMA OP A BEAUTIFUL GIRL (played by Corinne Griffith) RESCUED FROM SOCIETY’S AUC TION BLOCK BY A MAN (played by Frank Mayo) WHO KNEW HOW TO DO IT. THEY MET ON THE DECK OF AN OCEAN LINER. THEIR ROMANCE FLOWERED TO GAY PAREE-AND THEN THEY WERE IMPRISONED UNDERGROUND BY AN EXPLOSION FOR SIX GLORIOUS DAYS. REMEMBER—There are only seven more days to Wait for "Six Days" -_-—---¥■ Oaleff Jfoort. in U)ilto« aho Jetty 'HrRTfMPORARv Cettatotf in The Nbar Husband" at tmf strand LA0Y/yiuAJeTHe GJetttt Hunter in’ Youthful* Cheaters * at THE EMPRESS r Hoot Gibson « . in'The Tmriu- | ) CHaser."a the WORLD Jottt >j(ix *NO A MtNOTf I” " Tell mo 6