I The Omaha Sunday . >ee I pH°T°pLay - ■■ ___ •_ * —t VOL. 53—NO. 49_OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY, 18, 1924. l_D FIVE CENTS . Old Time ; Ways Man toll Holds Fast to Tra ditions of Shakespeare as Firmly as to His Text \:/ At the Krandeis theater, Thursday right of this week. Robert B. Man tell supported by Genevieve Hamper nnd a capable company of players will commence a three night's engage ment In Shakespeare and classic plays. .During the engagement, the following plays will be presented. Thursday night, Rytton's historical drama. "Richelieu: ’ Friday night, "Macbeth." Saturday matinee, "As f oil hike It;" Saturday night, "Julius Caesa r.’* Robert Bruoe Mantell is the last of what the late fVilliam Winter termed "the royal line” of tragedians. It started with Richard Burbage In Shakespeare's own Eflzahethan com pany and continued through the gen erations of Betterton, Garrick, Kem ble, Kean, the Booths and Irving. Shakespeare, according to the meager traditiops, was his own stage man ager, and front hint Burbage received instructions as to how Rear and Mae •beth and Othello should no played. With the^triumph of the Puritans un ider Cromwell, the English theater was all bt3t suppressed, but fortunate ly the restoration came before the Elizabethan actors had all of them , passed away. From these veterans tha new generation received instruc tion, and thus, the Shakespearean ideas was re-established. From that day to this, two and a half centuries, ihere, has been no break in the suc cession and the "traditions'’ are pre served practically intact. In spite of revolutions, and with the sole ex ■ eption of Vihylock, the mighty men of Shakespeare are visualized by Man tell much as they were by Burbage,, and in accordance, therefore with Shakespeare's Ideas. The present gen eration has witnessed the same vio lent upheaval in the world of the theater as in other arts and Indus tries, an upheaval commensurate with the cubist painting. Traditions are no longer sacred, merely because they are traditions. Mr. Mantell, alone among present day actors has clung tenaciously to the old. and re fused to experiment with the more or less bizarre and fantastic theories of the so-called progressives. Almost It* might be termed a survival. Mean while, the Omaha lovers of fihake “pea re will have three day* of the art of festival spread In this genera Ron only by Robert Bruce Mantell. Someone Ou%ht to Tell Him a Good Story About a Boy v-:-^ K'l Blondell, who play* “The Lost Boy" at the World theater thla w^pek has the record of having played one comedy character aa long ae anyone in vaudeville Twenty-five years ago * Bhndell. weighing then as he doee nod. some 22» pounds, created the role of the country' youth who appar ently did not know enough to com* in when it rains. .1 list a simple trusting sort of a lad made Rlondell* impersonation one I hat caught on immediately. Tear after year vaudeville audiences In the east laughed at the antics of this mergro'wn kid. Whenever the actor tried to present a different playlet and do some other sort of character the theatrical men threw up their hands. , Wa want the boy" was their unanimous demand so Blondell has gone on year after year improving hia comedy touches no that, now his "Lost. Boy" fs Icioked upon as a gem In ths art of creating laughter. This Is the first time Blondell has played west of rhicsgo (n 1R yesrs .ytid sudiences on th* Pantsges cir cuit have given the comedian a rolls ing reception. "Kid" Burns and Mary Bach in Omaha A Rain \_/ “Forty-five Minutes From Broad way'* adapted from George M. Co ban s musical comedy is the attrac tion at he Empress theater this week. It marks the beginning of the 10th -onsecutive week for the Bert Smith 'omedy players in Omaha. Thla company of 2* entertainers have' firmly established themselves local ly and that certain guage, the box * office, acclaims them by far the most popular musical stock organization that has been offered 10 the city. “Forty-five Minutes From Broad way” staged by Joe Marlon serves to feature Billy Van Allen as "Kid Burnt” the ex prize fighter and VI Shaffer as "Mary” the demure house maid of the country home of the < ’astleton’s. Gems from the pen of the suthor will be introduced among the dozen song numbers. Strictly Cohan esq uo are “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” “Mary Ryan,” "G^e My Re ga*ds to Broadway.” ".\ftry Is A Grand Old Name," and "So Long Alary.” Among the specialties to he of fered are "Buy a Paper.” by Arlene Melvin; “Can't You Be Nice" by Mel vin and Curtis, and various numbers by VI Shaffer. Billy Van Allen. Cooper, Francis and Cooper and other principals. The ensemble num hers with the dozen chorus girls pro vids some spectacular effects / --N Laura La Planlr in “Excitement." v _ J A strong cast of well known screen players support Laura La Plante m her first, picture, “Excite went." the World photoplay offering Edward Hearn plays the male lead Margaret Cullington. eccentric conic rlien, known for years to the legjtl mate stage, and In recent years for her screen work: George Fisher. Wil liam Welsh. Fas Tincher. Frames Raymond, Rolfe Sedan. Lon Pr.ff Fred de Silva. Albeit Mart and nl hers Miss La Plante played cbsrmingh apposite Reginald Denny and Hoot Gibson hi many of their big prodiir t|on« As a result of her work, she ■was cast to star In "Excitement," a f«\v. who was the little girl in "Down to the Sea In Whips;” Osgood Perkins. Roland Voung, famous.star of many successes on the legitimate stage, Dor# Davidson, the "Papa” of "Hum oresque.” and Townsend Martin and Heienkn Adamowaka. Irene Rich came into the studio one morning to work on "Ltnretin Lombard” with a smile on her face. Listen.” she confided to Monte RJue, "! Just read in the papei that the world will he ruled h\ women in H77.” a* Must he somethina wrong with our calendar then. ' Mont# grinned, "for ft says this la only 1*2.1 ’ Wall, ma*ba Monts know a.' 1. c4{c>n(c1l AT THE BRANDS IS I. — Citerrs at the e*ap(?FSS - --- I "The h ooF' If ill Hay | Srtmdeis 7 heater I erv Soon v___y So great has been the demand from theater managers Influenced by the rails of their patrons for "The Wool" that he Selwyns hare hern re qulred to place seven companies on tour in Ibis greatest of all dramatic successes. Never before has a play been so enthusiastically received and endorsed by every class in every community where it has been seen, lawyers, business men, physicians, clergymen of every denomination, among them Presbyterians, Metho [ dlsts, Roman Catholics, Kplgco palians and Hebrews; club women, (business men's organizetldns, college professors and students, as well as labor leaders have seen the play, and all have come nut strong for it A play which has created so much in terest and discussion must have tin usual power to attract and fsacln ate ('banning Pollock, the author, has been called on to lecture on "The Fool" In the largest educational Instl tu t.lo’ne and In more than ?no churches of different denominations "The Ford" will l»e the attraction at the Braudels theater for three nights beginning Thursday. May 22 and a matinee on Saturday. r ' A Martha Mansfield f ilm at the Muse v___/ Tom Mix and Tony, his horse, in The Trouble Shooter" head the picture program at the Muse this week It's another of Tom's action [western stories with some new daring riding tricks. Monday and Tuesday there Is offered "A Women 1n Chains." starring R K. Lincoln end Martha Mansfield. The picture we made shortly before the accident dur ing the filming of n picture in Hotis ton, Tex., In which Mis* Mansfield was so severely burned that she died from the Injuries Charles .Jones In "Not a Drum Was ||ear»I." will he shown the following two days, cm of the best pictures In which Jones ever appeared. The final hooking for the w«*ek la "The Sheriff of *un Dog," 4 lively western with many a laugh. “Girl Shy” Proves Lloyd’s Versatility --J Variety is the spue of life, and it is also the secret of success In mak ing good motion pictures Many stars fa!! Into a rut because they Insist upon making the same line of pic turfs and using the same kinds of characterizations. They nevei change because they fee] the public is used to seefng them in s certain type of picture. Such is not the case, however, with llarold Lloyd, whose comedy. "Girl Shy." has opened for a two weeks' showing at tho Sun. Harold has fortunately discovered that "mixing them up a hit” is the secret of sue cess He has never made two comedies *\pn remotely alike, con sidering his tug hits. "Dr. .1 ok." "Safety l^ast.” Why Worry?" and now* "Girl Shi .” He has Jumped from small town situations to a South American revolution, from portraying a doctor to a tjbbon clerk Now he has again striven for something dif ferent from anything lie hay ever made, lie is seen in "f»irl Shy ' In au entirely novel rha rnrtcrlzatlon. hm * bashful sitihII town ho\ who is an apprentice to his uncle, a tailor lie makes a secret study of gills, a I though not a wry accurate one. and the nioie ho studies them, the mute he fears them. lie has tried in "Girl Sh\” to pry pent a character who will In tnutlv win the eympathv of his ♦udieiuo through his hunvinnrsr- A really dramatic story has been built around tills central figure ef the hnv and nothing has been sac rifled to make l lie picture true to life |n evei v small detail And It Is attention t«» del.nil that helps largely to make i he Lloyd Pathe remedies the hlg Inf* that they are The vast of “Girl Shy includes •Tohvna. Ralston, who plays opposite Lloyd. She made a big hit in her Initial appcarar.ee with the comedian In "Why Worry?" which resulted In her being sign'd b\ Llnvd to a long term contraei Her excellent work In "Cllrl Hhy" Is said to lie one of tin* contributing factors In Its • m Others In the n«i me Rich ml Daniels who plavs the mlo • f Lloyd* Uncle In the film, and Gordon Griffin plaiing the part of » wealthy young Idler Richard Rarthelmess Is tn Mail work on The Song and Dance Mai * Jottt ano (I foihleett Key AT THE MOON Jof/es at we muse r ~ . "" .. \ Simp Mar hot in Pnl/i's Vote Film v_; Slave markets of antiquity hav^ their counterparts In modern life gc cording to Dimitri Fuchowetzki. whose production. "Men," starring Pole Negri, contains an illustration of how women are bought and sold today. It is at the Strand today. Filmed by the Russian director a.s his first Amerioan-made picture "Men" contains the story nf the amazing adventures nf a French girl, "Clen," who begins life as a waitress in a cheap wine shop and rises to faro® as a dancer in Pans The role of "Cleo" 1a played hv Pols Negri. Surrounded by a ^yeet of men who strive to win her favor* by f-»ir meana or foul, sha finally promises to give the privilege of her company to the highest bidder. Handled by th* masterly direction of Dimitri Buchowetzkt. the scene which follows Is probably unsurpassed in the history of motion picture*. The camera moves from face to face where greed, passion, fear, avarice and desire are depicted upon each countenance Bidding, one against the other, these men plsv the modern equivalent of the slave merchants of ancient times Chosen to support Pols Negri are well-known players such as Robert W Frazer, Robert Fdeson Toaepli 1 Swlckard, Monti Collins. Olno Corrsdo ! and Edgar Norton. Among the original and beautiful j evening gowns prepared for tb« Polish star is one solidly embroidered with pearls and rhinestones with s panel train of shimmering silver, edged with ermine A fan of tnag nificent white aigrettes with a handle of pearls and rhinestones was spe rtally designed for the gown. Drop earrings of silver filigree with peat shaped pearls and square sapphires accompany the headdress \t Ilir* Rnulrvnnt. "The f»reat White Way." » no\rl wild new sort of picture, felling of the life of BroadwH- and introducing hi it many of the famous people of New York, such as fleorge McManus, author of 'Bringing I p Father;" Tex Rh karil. the promoter; Billy de Beck author of • Barney dongle," ami in fact most of the prominent writers and e.irtoonists of the day. will open the Boulevard program with a show ing today and Monday Richard Barthelmess and Dorothy M u kaill in "Twenty one," a story which brings hack the star to a mod ern day love story, will he shown Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday The closing program of the week will he the vaudeville offering and Kather Ine M« l*omld in "Refuge." a ro mantle melodrama of the supposed t < he kingdom of Moravia \t the 4rrand. Lilies of the Field." with f'orinne drifTUh and Conway Tearle in the leading roles, a story of modern life and the divorce problem opens the L'rund program tills neck with a thro*' day-*.' allowing Four shows will he given Sunday, starting at 1 o’clock Buck Jones is a tire laddie In a ro malice, ('lipid's Fireman," off*-red foi Wednesday and Thursday, with the additional feature of Jack Mulhall in < ha.ptfr A of "The Social Buccaneer." Rex Beach s "The .Spoilers will cIom the work MUton Hills and Anna Q Nilaaon, htvijfg thz leads t-----s Tom Mix and Tony in IS’ew Ventures v-J Of his many deads of daring, few equal in recklessness the latest per formance of Tom Mix In The Troit ble Shooter. ' now at the Moon. Mix. playing the role of a repair man. tides his remarkable little horse, Tony, across a narrow. sway ing trestle directly ahead of a speed ing train. The arena is one of the most thrilling Mix ever made and it was only after considerable persua sion that he urged Tony to the task. Again in a ride through a blind mg snowstorm. Mix ’earhe* the in domitable little hors# to wear snow shoes. Between the two of them, there a r# more unique St tin t s of novel daring than even Mix and Tony ever attempted before. In the cast with Mix are such notable player* as Kathleen Ke\ . Dolores Rouase, Mike Poulin, former big league hall player: diaries Me Hugh. Al Freernont. Frank Currier. F*rl Fox. T Gunnta Pavia and Howard Trusdale In the trestle scene Mix actually risked his own neok a« well a.« that of his beloved hor'-e The ties were far apart and Tony had difficulty in picking his was Moreover, the plucky littl# horse which fears noth tng it can see was unable to glance backward a? the approaching engine The sound nearls terrified Tony, but still he plac#d his eonfidenc# in the Mg man up in the saddle to whom be has entrusted his life so often in the past “I reckon it was about the tough est test Tv# gisen Tony sine# I broke him." said Mix e-> Mnnaiva Park If ill Open Season Mas 24 S. -J Manawa Park, "where xacation land steps up fn shake hands with the city” will open Its gates for the 1!*?4 season on next Saturday. May t. according to announcement of Kerris R Stewart, manager at the lake park during the last three sue cessful seasons, and who lias accept e«l the position for another yeai Vtnonjc the attractions t" attract crowds to Manawa this summer is s new- musical organisation, known a* Pat's Melodx Rove, who will plax in the lakeside dance pavilion The ot chestra Includes s^ven musician* each talented on two nV more lnstrtl m»nts In some numbers the seven men pia\ as tnanv as 1« different musical instruments This, added to the roomy pavilion floor, which is pronounced as one of the best In the middle west, has been further fnp proved by Interior redecorating with special stage settings fot the orches tra Free mo\ tea every exening pic nicking, boating and tlie games and other amusement attraction* will provide pastime for pleasure sock era at Manawa Park throughout the 14 week* of the season Manawa *a expansive flower beds have been made even larger tins xear. and this together xxith the out look oxer th# lake makes the outing place * scene of ben til > With the opening of th- pa'k the summer schedule of street , »i service w ill be inaugurated, xxith * peril x and direct service m ei the hue from nmah* to Manawa The road# to the lake have also been built up tin til thex are good in all kinds of weather Arrangements have tlao been made for convenient pinking of mtumobilM, - — Mat-old Cloyd an o Jobyna Ralston m Giiiu Shv" Mr rpe SUN e- ■ ■■ - -- ■ -- “Son of Sahara" Company Travels v_t One of the most ambition* motion picture ventures ever undertaken ended recently when. after five months spent in Algeria and France. Kdwin Care we and hi" company of American player* returned with the completed film of A Bon of the Sahara,’’ offered at the Rialto this week. Mr. Car* we* cast consisted of Bert Lytell, Claire Windsor, Rose mary The by. Walter McGraJl, Mon tague Love and Paul Panzer. The company spent the majority of it* time in Ziska. on the edge nf the Fahara. whore the exterior scenes were filmed in the actual lo cale of Louie Gerard * story. With the co-operation of th* French and native authorities main do«»ri scenes were obtained, which, it ia expected, will exceed in realism anything of the kind ever before screened. In sam® of the bigger scenes thou sand* of n»tl\e Arahs and a thou sand camejs were massed before the camera. One of the thrill* of the picture will be the* storming of a French outpost, defended by Suda nese troop« by a horde of desert Aral>* During the filming of ar^th*i scene, showing an ancient slave mar ket. an entire Algerian town was turned over to the American director and the entire populace lent atmos phere to the picturesque scene. Following the Algerian sequences, lavish interiors were filmed at the LclaJr studio in Paris With the completion of these scene* the com pany returned to America confident in the belief that they had helped to give the screen one of its moh inter ‘•ting offerings to dat* Mabel Normand Booked a* Sun iV&Qf / ^iorniaWCL 'laU’l Nnimand will *pt>e*r lhi> • limes a day In person at the Sun the ater starting the week of .tune 1. in ■ onneetton with the hooking their of her new picture "The Kxtra tilrl Miss Norman! has lv*»n making personal appearances throughout the country with her picture and ho e\ erywhere been accorded a heavy at tendance Fallowing the shooting .if fis> of last fall Miss N »rm*nd was censured by « nimilvr of organl?a tions and In tusking her personal ap pearanres she has a*k*d that she be given the benefit of being considered innocent until any wrong has been proven against her C*«nerallv her mlka from the stage hoe been well 1 ecel\ ed Vi llir 1 othrop. I.illian fJish in "The White Sister which opene.t \ester<1a> at toe l4oth iop remama for the t »<*t two days of this week. Miss <;mh h»s the gnat rst emotional role of hei career tn The White Ststei ml one recalls that the has appeared tn several of the greatest films ever made The picture was filmed in ltalv and at the ellmst there *r* scenes of the erup Uon of \#»uviu* U»t |Mr, Blah for Gotham Hotli Ways in “Plain .lane" I Attest Musical Comedy Atk ina Attention on Broad was• v_—J B.v PKK< \ HAMMOND. NEW YORK. May IT.—The young tenois and barytones who make puppy lo\o to gooey ingenues in musha) plays are subject to dis dain. Theirs is a feeble function, sug gesting prettifies* and a soft voice, and often they deport themselves too sweetly for words. Victims of their earland environment, they seem to (five off exotic cologne* and murmur ing* and to shrink from all form* of robustity. Thev are fragrant of the boudoir and reek with etiquette. Pink and melodious, they seem to be averse to anything that is rough and brutal izing. and when you se® one of them In tennis flannels or polo pants you suspect he is uncomfortable. AH of which Is by way of favorably introducing Mr. Jay Gould, the song fill and sentimental hero of “Plain Jan®.” the n®w opera at the New Amsterdam. Mr. Gould is cast as a rich, romantic young New Yorker, gifted at fisticuffs, an amateur box®r of much ability The plays fable thereto summons him in the second act to appear in the prize ring as a substitute pugilist, in order to succor the prima donna from poverty, or worse. The scene j* Madison Squaie Garden, illustrating the squared circle and bloodthirsty crowds of that notori ous cathedral of so called manly sports and pastimes Mr. Gould engage* himself in a bout with a minor N. Y. pug named Allie Nack. They go to It for thr®® rounds of ss vivacious a bout as T have ever witnessed. Thera Is little that »s spurious about it. they really heat each other tip. Tf you are fond of Illusion in the theater here 1s a scene that will convince you. •Horn* pared to if. the cheap wars in Shake speare's plays are mere spanking* Mr. Goulds prow®** 1n this battle mitigate* your aversion against Broadway’s demi barytones He hits and he I* hit. his footwork 1a goojj, he interprets perfectly the glassv and agonized solar plexus expressions; and so, T think, h® Is one of the 1* b®*t male artists in the Times Sous® dramS I have always hoped to se® * rnusnal comedy hero beaten up. but every time that Mr Gould was strlcv. *n upon his handsome iaw I was sorry . . . ."Plain Jane.” by th® way. is th® usual w*ax®n nosegay of musical comedy—blah music and blah comedy. Do you care to learn of the nlftje* that are pulled in "Plain Jane ' which is. presumably an urban. Broadway ®nt®rtainm®nt? 'Well, Mr. Joe Laurie jr . a* a tough little prize fighter p« rooter, sa' s such things ** th®*® ?•» ?h® v iliain of the exhibitfor "1*11 knock you *o flat that the .! , play you on a victrola’ . . .You’re mean enough to put a tack on an electric chair! and 'TH throw a mot i in your mustache! " When Plain Jar® was discourag®d and In te*r» h® said to her. Nix on th® Niagara Fall*, kid"’ and “Glam yourself ’ "I haver, been so proud." s^id he a litt « 1st® ••since 1 heid Dempsev** overcoat ** Ain't musical comedy wonderful? The week * necrology Include* T1 * T»ust Heap.” "Garden of Weeds and ' Catskill Dutch ’ All of these work* . died a hornin'. The first was abortr sex life in Alaska the second w-»« about s®x life in New York and th® third was about «e\ life in the Cx skills None of them was competent to amuse the knowing New Yorker and his hospitable host f^om out-of town The Ziegfeld Follies, also, have wrapped their gorgeous shrouds about them and have taken pa*'age the j Mack dory. The “Music Fox Revue has gone and so has th* cadaverous i Outward Bound' Leah Kleshna ! Mrs Fiske in Helena « Bovs ’ and other amusements .Her® Is one of the many mystifying things about th" drama ‘ Abie * Irish Rose, the worst of the American plays persists pros perouelv in Its second year, and so does “Rain the !>est of them! Hew They Started. The’ # ***# probably a lot nb » sweet little s hool ma'am* ara'tsred around here and there that would go to the movit* ,?n«i «•« 1,'.< Wilson and say to fliemsHve* <“>h if I could onlv lie like I^oie Ar-1 It * a fun v th g *~d we never knew it until her# th# other day hut l.ni* used to !>e a school ma’am her*#lf. It wa* down in Ala bama in a town t amed Morris, if m understood her t sht. And she used to go down every morning: and try to pound « little sen>e imp th* town a » curie hopefu ?. and go home right a just tired to death. And then one morning • ' village tiuatee, or whoever it was ram# around and told her she was fuel You are a hum leaches , ’ h# said or Mol'd# to that effect And poor little ' oia thought her hfa w *# plum ruin . and ao she came to Hollywood and became a movie star at a million dol lars or #o a week And it nov.t he that th*- ««: :hv ~ that * Ulld ' apiH'u to «. ; fdks ia vet fired l\v York. Mart waaamagel to find an tnebn ned gentleman on his hand# and knees, crawling in dustriouafy tier# and there shout th# I lobby "What a the matter demanded Matt I The intoxicated gent looked up briefly. "Juet louhta ik>ll«r " «m d be W here" asked M * * Iknvna atret-t s»*d * -e g* waving vaguely. Well. wh> woman ! M Matt *• • >ou hooking for it in here"*' Ha said th# gent blinking a blear' #\e, Uotoha that time’ V % *h d l look downs g*.eat w hen • di ms l.utu 41 tm.ec -^T-r--V