Club Orchestra
. Plays at Rialto
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Edwin Kahn's Field Club Or
chestra Featured in Program
of Modern Dance Music.
There are two kinds of modern
dance orchestras, those which pride
themselves as being “hot,’’ and those
which strive for symphonic effects.
Edwin M. Kahn and his Field Club
orchestra, which opened a week’s en
gagement at the Rialto theater Satur
day, is essentially a symphonic orches
tra, yet at its first performances at
the theater it also demonstrated an
ability to play Jazz in a most synco
pated manner.
The major dance organizations of
the country are no longer content to
play .the orchestrations furnished by
music houses. Special arrangements
are the thing, and Mr. Kahn has so
orchestrated several numbers that
they gain a distinction which regular
orchestrations do not afford. This
Is especially true of “June Night, ’
the opening number on his program.
Kahn’s orchestra is a 10-plece or
ganization. with the conventional in
strumentation. It plays with a bril
liance, however, which will attract
many lovers of modern syncopation
to the theater during the week.
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Netv Singing Actor
Makes Bow to Omaha
Tonight at Brandeis
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1 Joseph Regan, the new actor
singer, who opens a week's engage
ment at the Brandeis tonight in
“Heart O’ Mine," comes under the
direction of Augustus Pitou, and it
is interesting to state that he Is the
only singing actor under the Pitou
management.
"Heart O’ Mine," written by Harry
Chapman Ford, is a romantic come
dy-drama, with songs, in four acts,
and according to overland reviewers
it is a play with a story to tell and
the skill to make It alive, a drama of
real men and real women, told with
a swing and vigor of expression which
goes to the making of an appealing
play. Mr. Regan is said to have the
finest voice ever heard in romantic
drama, a glorious tenor voice of un
usual volume and extended range and
with all the sweetness of McCor
mack's. During the progress of the
play he will sing a number of songs,
included in the list are “The Nearest
Place to Heaven,’’ “Tinkle, Tinkle,
Bell,” “Heart O’ Mine’’ and “Love
Will Lead the Way.”
The Pitou name on an attraction
is a stamp of value and in “Heart O'
Mine” the Pitou standard is main
tained throughout. Mr. Regan’s sup
porting company is made up of play
ers of the very first magnitude. In
cluded in this admirable group are
Alberta Curliss, Maxine Flood, Mary
Wall, Charles Angelo, Byron Russell,
George H. Sinclair and George Pat
ton. There will be a popular matinee
on Wednesday.
Rudy Wintner Starts at
Empress Again This Week
Rudy Wintner, the "boy with the
smile," one of the best liked come
dians that have ever appeared at the
Empress, is back at that playhouse
beginning this week. Rudy Joins the i
Empress players to appear in comedy
and character roles.
In the current musical farce “This
Is the Life,” Wintner has a great role i
for the dispensing of fun. The show ,
Is lively In action, unique In plot and
filled with novel musical numbers.
Things happen with much rapidity. :
Little time is wasted In getting Into '
the story and once the var.ous char
acters are introduced laughter is the
monarch of the occasion.
Prominent in the cast of funmakers
is Olga Brooks, Helen Burke, Joe
Marion, Bobby Whalen, Mae Kennis, ,
Bert Evans and numerous others.
Amateurs, proving a novel diversion,
are an added feature Friday evening
following the conclusion of the first
performance.
This Is the beginning of the fourth
week for the Empress players. With
the addition of Rudy Wintner to the
cast it is believed the show will prove
more popular than ever.
May McAvoy Has Title
Role in “Tarnish” Film
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“Tarnish,” with May McAvoy In
the title role, Is the feature film com
ing to the Strand next Saturday. It
is an adaptation of the stage play by
the same name.
Besides Miss McAvoy, xvho, it is
said, rises to admirable emotional
heights as the heroine, the picture in
cludes Marie Prevost, Norman Kerry
and Albert Grau. The film is a
George Fltzmaurlce production.
Violinist of Note
Feature at Sun
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t rum tne plow to the concert stage
Is the history of Nebraska's farmer
violinist, Frank Hobza, who Is the
added attraction this week at the Sun
In conjunction with the photoplay
"Sinners In Silk.”
Hobza Is a young man with &
promising future. He has lived on
a farm eight miles from Schuyler,
Neb., and when a lad during his spare
time of helping his father on the farm
he practised on the violin. He studied
for a number of years with Otakar
Sevlch at the Busch Conservatory of
Music, Chicago.
Hobza was on* of the four out of
300 students selected by Sevlch as
pupils. Before going to Chicago to
study music, Hobza’s teacher was
Stechelberg of the Conservatory of
Music at the University of Nebraska.
His violin numbers at the Sun will
include “The nosary," "The Poem”
and “The Song of Love."
If REEL NEWS
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Filming of "ftaffles, the Amateur
! Cracksman,” the Homung novel and
play wolch made Kyrle Bellew fam
jous In this country, will start next
I Monday. Harvey Thew has made
II he adaptation from which King
Baggot expects to make a moat ap
propriate vehicle for House Peters.
An experiment la going to he at
tempted by Hoot Gibson and The
Country Gentleman. The experiment
comprises In releasing "Dark Rosa
leen,” by Max Brand, which Country
j Gentleman will print some time next
year as a serial story and which
| Universal will make as a feature plo
Iture, these two operations to come at
one and the same time. Gibson will
start on It as soon as he finishes
"Let 'Er Buck,” which he Is now
making at the Pendleton Round Up.
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WhatDoes“Feetof Clay” Mean? -
Cash Prize for the Best Answer
What does "Feet of Clay" mean'.'
We give it up.
Margaretta Tuttle wrote a book and
that's the name she gave it. Cecil De
Mille made the story into a motion
picture and decided to retain the title.
Book reviewers couldn't quite
figure out the connection after read
lag the story and screen critics Bre
in the dark after viewing it on the
silver sheet.
Here's your chance to enlighten the
world and perhaps win a cash prize.
The Omaha Bee is offering *10 in
cash for the best reason explaining
why the hook and screen story is
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called "Feet of Clay.” For the next
10 reason* will be given two tickets
each good for any coming attraction
at the Strand theater.
"Feet of Clay" is now on exhibition
at the Strand. See the picture and
then write out your opinion of why
Miss Tuttle named her story "Feet
of Clay.” Send It to the "Feet of
Clay” editor. The Omaha Bee. and
you may be the prize winner.
Out of courtesy to The Omaha Bee
Miss Tuttle has promised to give us
her reason for the title. The one
closest to her reason will be declar
ed the winner of first prize.
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Old Song Given New
Setting at the Gayety
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Songs of yesterday that are sung
today hold an abiding appeal with
theatergoers as witness the presenta
tion of "Wine. AVoman and Song” at
the Gayety theater where Gertrude
Ralston and Dotty Bates, as her
assistant In the scene, is staging one
of the most appealing compositions
the past two decades have produced.
"Play in Tour Own Back Yard” Is
the pathetic story of a pickaninny
that strayed a hit from her own cir
cles and was snubbed when she tried
to enter with the "white children,”
Into tha spirit and activities of their
game. The stage Is set for just the
right "atmoephere,” a cabin in the
background and a "mammy" seated
in the yard when the pickaninny
comes running i\i to tell her tale of
woe and sob upon the breast of her
mammy dear. Mammy, in the person
of Gertrude Ralston, takes the pick
aninny (Dotty Bates) Into her arms
and croon* the sweet and consoling
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At Boulevard.
The screen adaptation of Zane
Greyi’s "Wanderer of the Wasteland,"
with Jack Holt, starts off the week’s
program at the Baulevard. The pic
ture. which Is made In Its entirety by
the technicolor process, will be Bliown
! today and tomorrow. Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday, Gloria
j Swanson will be shown In her recent
| picture, "Manhandled." Tom Moore
1 is co-fentured In the film. Friday and
Saturday, Enid Bennett, Matt Moore
and Barbara La Marr will be seen In
"Strangers of the Night,” a screen
adaptation of Walter Hackett'g "Cap
tain Applejack.”
Features at Lothrop.
Today and tomorrow Madeleine
Brandels’ production, "Not One to
Spare," will bo the feature him at
the Lothrop. Tuesday and Wednes
day Rockcliffe Fellowes, May Allison
and Vera Reynolds will be seen In
"Flapper Wives.” Thursday the recent
Metro release, "Happiness,” with Lau
Betty Blythe Has Role
of Vampire in New Film
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Betty Blythe who hae appeared as
a seductive vampire In a score of big
productions, has a similar role In
Samuel Goldwyn’s “In Hollywood
With Potash and Perlrautter," which
will be the feature attraction at the
Rialto beginning next Saturday. This
picture shows the adventures of the
famous cloak and suit partners In
their* effort to become movie mag
nates and they naturally seledt Miss
Blythe for the vampire In their first
"million dollar" production. Part of
the picture Is a "photoplay within a
photoplay” and Is said to be one of
the most humorous the screen has
hold In many a month.
rette Taylor, will be the feature film,
and Friday and Saturday Mae Murray
will be shown In "Mademoiselle Mid
night," one of her best pictures.
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Gus Edwards comes to the Orpheum
this week with his new son* revue.
“The Fountain of Youth of 1924,'’!
saitt to be the most spectacular in
many seasons. This year's revue fea
tures a cast of 25 clever comedians,
youthful, pretty girls, dashing dancers
and new catchy tunes. The company
includes Sandy, the snappy little
Scotch comedian; George Douglas,
Doris Walker, Hazel Johnson, Peggy
Hoover, Helen Rynd, Margie Hooney,
Margery Ewing and Billy Bradford
and a bouquet of subdebs, Nancy
Hanks, Betty Friable, June Reed,
Mildred Rife, Jean Sullivan, Ruth1
Kaye and Edna Farrell.
Walter C. Kelly, "the Virginia
Judge,’’ has a new and colorful assort
ment of quips and stories for his
courthouse collection.
Vaudeville has secured Craig Camp
bell, distinguished American tenor,
who is playing a sflort vaudeville
engagement before the opening of the
opera season. Joe Keno and Rosie
Green, In "A Hilarious Hodge-Podge,"
present a mixture of farce, travesty,
burlesque and expert clowning with
every one having a good time, even
the performers themselves. It is just
one of those sessions without rhyme
or reason, but effective and laugh
creating. Two attractive young worn
en. Hazel Johnson and Doris Walker,
described as “Those Two Sweet
i'olced Girls," are sweet In appear
ance and charm, as well. Each has a
voice and the two blend perfectly.
Among other things they give an imi
tation of the Duncan Sisters. They
are “finds" of Gu* Edwards and are
being presented by him this season
in an act of their own. "Fun in a
Restaurant." as provided by the
Pickfords, In pretty hard on the res
taurant. The Pickfords are novelty
gymnasts. They offer an unusual j
Navarro Made Study
of Apaches in Paris
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Ing male role In “The Red LHy,” com
ing to the gun next Saturday, fully
realized the difficult task confronting
him In making liis characterization
of an Apache different from the
stereotyped Apaches of movie tradi
tion. so he undertook to study at first
hand the Apache environment of
Paris.
On evenings after the day's work
Navarro, instead of going in for the
pleasures of Paris night life, went I
info the Montmartre, not as a sight
seeing slummer, but as one of the
habitues of the famed quarter. The
film is a Fred Nlblo production.
routine of acrobatics and each feat
is well wrapped with a comedy cover.
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When the World theater plays th«
big musical attraction, ' Boheinp r
Nighta" neat week it will preaeuf a'
the leading artist of that organlzatlot
Peoma Jupraner, operatic tenor, ^P
Jupraner, who conduct# a school o
opera in New York city, Is In vaude
villa as nn interlude to hi* work o
teaching. During the week's engage
ment of "Bohemian Nights” at tin
World, he offers to hear Omaha sing
era on the World stage any morning
from 11 to 12. Monday to Friday in
elusive. Mr. Jupraner, at that time
will give, without charge, his opinion
on the vocal merits of those who an*
ambitious for a career in the singing
field, either operatic or musica
comedy.
The Jupraner family is noted ir
the operatic annals of Europe. The
father. Izra Jupraner. a Bohemian bj
birth, is still on the operatic stage in
Prague after 45 years before the pub
Uc appearing principally In the the#
tera of Warsaw, Vienna. Moscow
Rome and Pari*. A *l«er. P.osamond
is now' with the Leningrad Opera com
oany at the former Russian capital
which is still the artistic center of
Russia. Another sister Is Sonia
Jupraner, whose famous operatic
school survived the world war and it
located at Bad Nauheim.
Percy Marmont and Alma Ruber.'
have been engaged for the principa
roles in Clarence Buddington Ke!
land's novel, "Miracle." which i» run
nlng In the I>arties Home Journa'
Universal will he forced to change
the name of this Jewel picture for
obvious reasons. Edward T# Lowe.
ir., who wrote the continuity of
"The Hunchback of Notre Dame. ' l«
performing a like office for "Miracle
IFrom Cloaks and Suits in Stylish Mixtures
To Filming “Beauts” in Motion Pictures
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hearts—alone:
doomed, they thought, to
live and die
away from friends and
society;
The story was the story of life
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