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Signs of the
Times
New Globes Glisten Along
Gay Rialto, Heralding An
other Season of Uncertainty
By PERCY HAMMOND.
NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—The an
nual midsummer lacunae along
Broadway is now at an end and
myriads of ferocious and incandes
cent bulbs are replacing the comfort
able gloom that for nigh a month
shrouded the desolate caverns of the
'Forties. The writing on the bill
boards reads doom to all who have
been wooing tlje sylvan terrains and
the bosky coverts, and there will be
no release henceforward. The esti
mators of the mimes nre in the same
mental orientation as the Senegam
bian in Jail who asked a newcomer
how long he was in for. “Sixty days,"
responded the newcomer. “Dat’s
nothin’," said the other, "Ah’m here
from—now—on."
New ventures are plotted by the
producers, and the doxology of the
press agent is heard in the land. The
list of enterprises in contemplation
for immediate serving is kilometers
long already, and includes the Scandi
navian, the Czech, the Neopolitan, the
Teutonic, the Anglo-Saxon, and Abys
sinian, the Muscovite, the Celtic, the
Gallic and the Yiddish, as well as
the merely local.
Already the temper of the new <jf
$ ferings is changing. The hurly-burly
is taking on weight, and the present
preponderance of sprightly carousals
Is shadowed by sterner stuff. The
comedies without music have begun
to arrive and soon the bus boys will
be staggering under ponderous reti
cules full of drama. The seer and yel
low is presaged.
With the years the routine doesn't
change, except to get a little slicker,
and there ^re annually a few more
theaters to be opened and shut. We
whirl around like squirrels in a re
volving wheel.
Perhaps the industrialists of the
drama are making up, in their pres
ent frenzy, for the slackness of July,
which, it was noted, did very bad
business following a rather lethargic
spring. As early as May there was
wailing and gnashing pf teeth, and
the chirurgeons had hardly time to
count out the flickering pulse of one
expiring opus before they were called
to the bedside of another. There
were demises on every street, and the
cadavers were shoveled into their
eternal homes with as little ceremony
as during the great plague year.
The rigors were traced to many
causes. The theory of heat prostra
tion held one school of diagnosticians.
The cinema took on its familiar as
pect of flaming eyes and claws and
other appurtenances of inimical and
fabulous beasts of prey. Astute med
icos pointed to the thin, miasmic
W wraith of the radio, which they aver
lulled 'ike mandragora the citizens in
their domestic cubicles and surfeited
them with the sicklsh plums of parsi
monious entertainment.
Many men held that It was not the
tropical ether that caused the inani
tion among the theaters, nor yet the
flickering celluloids, nor the drone of
the loud speaker. They said it was
the democrats.
Theatrically speaking, it is no
•ecret the late convention was a wish
Milton and Enid in “The Sea Hawk”
fficMilion (Sills AMO (Said. 'Bennett
Above are seen Milton Siiis and
Enid Bennett In one of the year's
best pictures, "The Sea Hawk,”
which comes to the Rialto theater
lor a mne-uay rur^August zt. me pic
ture cost nearly a million dollars to
produce and la elaborately staged and
costumed, the costumes alone having
cost over $85,000.
Anna Q. Nilsson Coming
to Strap A N |W polr
p '.li .
Anna (J. Nilsson does some good
acting in "The Side Show of Life,"
in which she co-stars with Ernest
Torrence. The picture comes to the
Strand next week for a seven day
run.
out. The party of Jefferson and Tag
gart established at least one record
for celerity when It closed 10 theaters
in a night. Chairman Walsh's notor
ious gavel crushed more than the mi
crophones In front of him. It crushed
ths heart's blood, so the Indignant
doctors assert, out of the show busi
ness. So inimical were the sentiments
of certain managers that even the
sobriquet of one divertissement—"So
This Is Politics!"—was instantly met
amorphosed into "Strange Bedfel
lows" ns soon as the embattled dele
gates quit town.
What, if any, then, will be the pos
sibilities, the managers complain, of
success at the polls for a party which
blights whatever It touches, as exem
plified by its effect on Broadway?
The democrats are almost as fatal as
the Equity, the promoters are assert
ing.
Mr. Morris Gilbert having succeed
ed the Messrs. Mencken and Nathan
in editing the "Smart Set," is perhaps
more able than I to estimate the veri
ties of "Dancing Mothers,” Mr. Sel
wyn’s new study (presumably) of dis
sipation among the recherche. His
opinions, therefore, are submitted as
those of an authority on subjects per
taining to the sad frivolities of the
world of fashion. Mr. Gilbert writes:
"Mrs. Westcourt, of Westbury, L.
I., as early as the first act of ‘Danc
ing Mothers,’ finds that her domestic
life is a mockery. Her husband de
ceives her maladroltly with a young
person, and her daughter gets Jingled
on cocktails in the apartment of a
man of evil repute. Instead of view
ing these habits as typical of life in
the Long Island comedy set, Mrs.
Westcourt takes a firm stand. She
resents her husband’s sententious ob
servation that ‘the woman of forty is
the high priestess of her sex,’ and at
the curtain of the last act she sets
forth briskly for Paris and a new life
following the commandments of her
heart. Her husband and her daughter
are left to whatever consolations they
can find. ’Dancing Mothers' has the
merit of an exceptionally happy end
ing.
"Throughout the four acts of the
play there is considerable debate on
the venerable topics of the double
standard, the younger generation, and
the moral code of the young-man
about-the-city. I distinguish nothing
of particular novelty in the themes
except the sweet reasonableness of
Mrs. Westcourt. The lady, whose
equipment of persuasions in the first
act was only a Gladstone bag of
wornout aphorisms, strapped on fin
ally a quiverful of fiery darts, and
did not hesitate to shoot them. All
•ho could tell her daughter at first
was that ‘You have a definite purpose
to perform.’ and she could merely ex
hort her to ’ask God to make you a
real woman.’ These remarks failed
to move Kittens, and it was Mrs.
Doesn’t Half
Describe It!
Fourteen big stars appear in
leading parts.
Three thousand extras were
employed.
An entire Moorish village was
constructed.
Four pirate ships were con
! structed at a cost of $275,
000.
Costume costs amount to
$85,000.
Now in its 4th capacity month
at the Astor Theater, New
York.
Five phenomenal weeks at the
I Roosevelt Theater, Chicago.
It is not “just a spectacle"
S —It's a fiery, rapid-ac
tion, interest-riveting ad
venture you'll never for
get.
The love story of a mighty m
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Westeourt’s realization that they
would fall again which caused her to
desert, with excellent courtesy andi
restrain, her hearthstone.
" 'Dancing Mothers,’ which is the
work of Edgar Selwyn and Edmund
doubling, has a good cast. The palm
goes to Mary Young, who presents a
neat and charming portrayal of Mrs.
Westcourt. Helen Hayes as ‘'Kittens’
carries a souse through two acts very
creditably and makes as appealing as
one could her slightly ungrateful role.
John Halllday and Henry Stephenson
are excellent as lover and father, and
Norman Mitchell and Elsie Lawson
more than meet the exigencies of
their parts.
“While there Is a very smart and
engrossing climax to tho third act, It
Is my duty to report that the first two
acts seemed Monday night a little
slow, and the play on the whole, un
like the reducing girdle advertised In
the program, didn’t appear to be
strong enough to really hold you In.”
This Week at Muse
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“The Hill Billy,” with Jack Plck-I
ford, which proved so popular at the!
Empress several weeks ago, will coma
to the Muse theater as a return enj
gagement for two days only—Monday
and Tuesday. This will enable movie
fans who were unfortunate In no|.
seoing the picture when here before
to see the film, which undoubtedly
is one of Jack’s best. Wednesday and
Thursday Florence Vidor will bo
shown in “Borrowed Husbands,” In
connection with the first story of
“The Fast Stepper series. Friday and
Saturday the film offering will be a
return engagement of "Daughters of
Today,” which will be shown In con
nection with “The Fast Express,”
No. 8.
Colleen Moore's newest film Is Edna
Ferber's story, “So Big.”
Jackie Coogan’s Second
Metro Picture Coming
With all uie »..,scme£ and pathos
of which Jackie Coogan Is capable,
he appears In his second Metro pic
ture “A Boy of Flanders.” based
on Oulda’s famous story. The film
comes to the Sun theater, August 23.
The picture was directed by Victor
Schertzinger under the personal
supervision of Jack Coogan, sr.
At Isrthrop.
Today and tomorrow, Betty Comp
son and Conway Tearle will be seen
in “The Rustle of Silk” at the Loth
rop theater. Tuesday and Wednes
day. Leatrice Joy and Owen Moore 111
"The Silent Partner,” will be the
feature film. Thursday, "Dark Se
crets” with Dorothy Dalton, will be
shown, with vaudeville In connection,
and Friday and Saturday, Marguerite
11 Picnics Will !
Be Held at Krug
Park Next Week
Kearney Reunion, Security
Benefit, National Refining
and Other Outinga
Scheduled.
A reunion -picnic of all former
Kearney (Neb.) residents now living
In Omaha will be held Sunday. For
mer Senator Norris Brown will speak.
The Columbian club of Sacred
Heart church will hold an outing
Monday. Officers and policy holders
of the Fraternal Aid union plclnlc
Tuesday, and bankers of Douglas and
Sarpy counties will hold their third
annual picnic and outing Wednesday
with a chicken dinner to be served
In the private grove.
The Latter Day church of which
the Rev. Mr. Melhus is pastor, will
picnic Wednesday.
Other picnics this week are:
National Refining company em
ployes, Thursday; Clifton Hill mar
chants’ and customers' picnic, Thurs
day; Ladles’ Aid society of the Lowe
Avenue Presbyterian church, Friday;
officers of th# Metropolitan Life In
surance company, Saturday; Western
Electric company employes, Saturday;
Ralston merchants’ and customers’
outing, Saturday; the Security Benefit
association, Sunday.
More than 6,000 members are ex
pected to attend the latter affair, ac
cording to C. W. Sllngerland, chair
man of the picnic committee.
Courtot and Lew Cody will be seen In
"Jacquellne.’’Ao8op's Fables complete
the program.
I PRICES
Night* and yl _
Sunday Mat.. . TsOC
Week Day Oft
Matinee . wUC
Children, 10<*
TODAY
Shows at 11, 1, 3, S, 7,
9 o’Clock
The dramatic fire
of P o 1 a Negri
flames to new
heights in “Lily
of the Dust”
Gowned in silks
and satins and
clad in rags, lov
ing, fighting,
hating — you’ve
never seen a Pola
Negri like this
one.
There’* a thrill, a laugh,
and a tear in this picture for
ji anyone who has ever loved.
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3 On tbi Stag*
George Getsey
and
; Jess Sutton
in |
• “A Little Revue
# M of Songs and
I*'1* Music”
“LILY of the DUST”
The story of a woman who gave—and had to fight for a fair exchange.
Flashing, vibrant, beautiful Pola Negri was never so wonderful as in “Lily
of the Dust"
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STRAND FOR THE LAUGHS STRAND I
ORCHESTRA THE MONKEY GANG IN “HE’S MY “PAL” NEWS
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Want a Real Outing? j
Hit Awaits You at
ANAWA
Park
A 45-minute street car ride from Omaha across the
newly built, double-tracked bridge, brings you to the
best lake park within hundreds of miles.
BA THING
Large sand beach, with roomy individual lockers in the bath
houso. Fresh suits, courteous attendants, all safety precautions.
DANCING
Pat's Melody Boys play tuneful hit* in the breety Ukesid*
pavilion, where gay crowds are to be found every evening. You
will like the music, the crowds, the floor, and the comfortable
surroundings.
AND ALSO
Free movies every evening, rides, games, hosting, and a beau- |||
tiful picnic grounds well provided with conveniences for a de
lightful outing.
* TRY IT TODAY7
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Gens Wright's adventerou* novel of
Indian army life, "Pandora l>a Croix,"
Is to be transferred to the screen by
First National. The photoplay will
ranch the screen under the super
vision of Earl Hudson, but as yet
no announcement Is forthcoming as
to director or cast.
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EDIES!
>d news—
— SUN THEATER
chool Opens
n for the youngsters
ps.
3ogan
—“Teddy”
NDERS”
u love him.
tBY PEGGY
“The Flower Girl”
NS OF SWAT'
ro Boys in a Regular
Prize Fight
It’. Kiddie.' Week”
:ng Next Saturday
CT THE I
PONY?
lie*' Week”
niiinTTffMir
16th Consecutive Season of Clean Columbia Burlesk
H| for you and your entire family starts
■to ay-eayety
jp,.|pli Matinee at 3:00—Night at 8:30
ill COLLINS & PILLARD
flU in the New Girl Show
■“Hollywood Follies”
Direct and Intact From Two Capacity Months at tho
Columbia Theater, New York.
Ifc-'jPj: READ WHAT NEW YORK DRAMATIC CRITICS SAID:
|j_ ^ ^ There ien't ■ dull epot in the Columbia's new show.—N. Y. "Sun."
One of the best burlesque ihowi we ever eaw. — N. Y. "World."
|! Ia’SSE Aa ja* nr, anappy ■ Revue ae is to be found on the Rialto.—N. Y.
"Bulletin.”
7 ' "'WT More speed and pep than we have seen et the Columbia in years.
PmwH N. Y. "American.”
24-Beautiful Hollywood fiirls From the Coast-24
Entire Er 50c—Ladies 25c
I Week Friday
A six-act vaudeville bill and exclusive photoplays
that afford most in entertainment
I Covey Sisters’ Revue
Six Girls In a Delightful Novelty
11 MORO & VACO I LA ROSARITA TRIO I
H Musical Comiques Dance Stars
Is® WALKER & GREEN BILLY PURCELLA
Omaha’s Own “Pep and Personality”
NOLAN LEARY & CO. I
in the Clever Comedy, "Yes Means No" «
with Helen Keith Johnston#
I A Screen Story of Matrimonial Mishap#
“WOMEN MEN MARRY”
JgjSj
A ROUND-UP
OF LAUGHS
Introducing that
SrAnrn BERT SMITH PLAYERS h
off*r th* rOU“n* iff
L> H O R U S musical play that will break
__all fun records—
“Bar Z Ranch”J
BILLY VAN ALLEN °
VI SHAFFER RUDY WINTNER
LILLIAN COLSON WARREN FABIAN 1
All the old favorites and some new ones.
SCREEN ATTRACTIONS INCLUDE
“Foolish Parents" |
And ninth story of the great senes*
^ “TELEPHONE GIRL" 1 |