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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1924)
f-N ■ Crime Is Art Nice Clean Murder Marks Epoch in Stage Crimes— Saddest Are the Sinless ___/ By PERCY HAMMOND. CNew York, October, 11. REDERICK LONSDALE’S "The Fake’’ boasts one of the proud est murders In all the history of assassination. Its setting Is lotoly—the living room of a hotel In rural Eng land—but Its manner Is distinguished if not magnlficlent. Geoffrey Sands (Mr. Godfrey Tearle) Is the perpetra tor of this lowly crime. A sane, mas terful, outdoor Englishman, he knows that he Is superior to some of the practices of a backward civilization i For instance, he feels sure that the earth would be Improved wrere it to be rid of so bad a man as Gerrard Pllloch. / Mr. Pllloch, though the son of an earl, la a complete dastard. He drinks heavily, he Is fond of morphia and is cruel to his wife. That patient woman (Miss Frieda Ifiescort) evokes the paternal sympathies of Geoffrey Sands. Why, he asks himself, should the villain be allowed to live and per secute the loveliest lady this side of heaven? Since there appears to be no legal way to exterminate the fellow. Mr. Sands decides to lure him to the suburbs and kill him. * He does It in a most deliberate and impersonal fashion. It Is after dinner in the forlorn tavern, and the ex ecutioner, in evening dress, sits by the fireside, camly reading a book. The night Is moonlit,, and the hollow moan .of the breakers is to be heard In the distance. No atmosphere of homicide can be detected, however. As Mr. Sands smokes his pipe and peruses his volume serenely his vic tim quarrels with the maid servant. While she Is absent, fetching another hottle of Scotch, Mr. Sands suggests that Mr. Pllloch frighten the menial by telling her that he is going to do away with himself. Which he does, thereby establishing what is known as the alibi. * So the vial of poison is emptied into the whisky glass with no risk whatever to him who thus empties it. Mr. Pllloch gulps It down and dies; and his princely assassin, after placidly removing the finger prints with a kerchief, lights his pipe, puts his book under his arm and saunters off to notify the coroner. It Is a rest ful murder, containing Justice, dig nity and repose. The author’s recom mendation that it is a good deed, well done. Is disputed by none who witness it. Perhaps it Is a hopeful omen that a large gathering of New York's most law-abiding first-nighters approve of It vehemently as a dra matic plea for more and better mur ders. "The Fake” is one of Mr. Lons dale’s expert and gentle thrillers, and It has been * prosperous entertain ment in London. Mr. Tearle, whose last visit to the U. S. A. was unhap py, is well disposed on this occasion —a quiet, handsome, superior player with a good sense of the theater. It should be reported that the Fake of Mr. Lonsdale's title Is neither the murderer nor his victim. The Fake is a pompous and snobbish M. P. who, for counterfeit reasons, sacrifice* his daughter in marriage to the drunkard son of a nobleman. In "The Far Off Cry" Mr. Arthur Richman makes us familiar with the bad habits of a certain class of Americans resident in foreign parts. They are the type of rich and over bred bougeolse who, hampered by • the annoying social conventions of New York City, board the Maure tania and seek the broader life of Paris and other European capitals. Unleashed in those voluptuous pas tures they go to the devil. Drink, adultery, idleness and kindred turpi tudes beset them until they become an abashment to their God-fearing and well-behaved countrymen. While the honest father of the family remains at home and makes the money, the handsome wife lolls among the fau bourgs with Basil, the amorous Eng lishman; and his pretty daughter (Miss Margalo Gilmore) does even worse. After picking up and discard ing a butterfly husband, she ab sconds to Florence with an American student of painting and lives there with him in shame and a villa. The play is an eloquent warning to wick ed excursionists—though, Indeed, the saddest people 1* it are those who do not sin. The naughty young girl and her dissipated artist bid fair at the end to become respectable and happy through marriage. You are not interested In rich young New Yorkers whose ambition to write great symphonies is thwarted by their vulgar parents? You will be less so after seeing what happens to the aspiring composer In Martin Brown’s large and hysterical circus, "Great Music." He (Tom Powers) was dis owned by his family, he eloped from Rome to Paris with a sinful married lady, he took to drugs, he murdered a sailor in a Port Said bagnio, he drifted to the South Sea Islands, he married a Polynesian Ingenue and he was seized by leprosy Just before the curtain fell. "Great Music” seemed to teach us that rich New York boys should not commit symphonies against their parents’ wishes. Jiggs and Maggie Come to Rrandeis i- -■-—--—* “"Bringing Up Father,” George Mc Manus’ world famed cartoon charac ters, will appear in person at the Brandels theatlfc' on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, October 19, 20, and 21. "Jiggs and Maggie” huve now be come a couple of Inveterate globe trotters, as well as society scions. "Bringing Up Father in Ireland Is the title of their latest exploit. Comedy, girls and music, with «npl® and sufficient scenic and electrical environment to make the entire Prn* •ntatlon pleasing to the eye as well as the ear, and sending you home with a good taste In your mouth, and a spark of hilarity in your nature. You don't yawn to keep awake after seeing "Bringing Up Father In Ire mad.” You go out whistling the tunes you have heard and with a feeling of "pep" sufficient to last all the next day. Bessie Love Stars in New Lloyd Film y| Sessie £>ove |[ Prank Lloyd, producer of "The Sea Hawk," which had such a successful run at the Rialto theater, has pro-* duced another picture which Is said to run It a close second. It Is "The Silent Watcher." The new play is an adaptation for the screen fr<#n Mary Roberts Rinehart's Saturday Evening Post story, "The Altar on the Hill." Mr. Lloyd selected Bessie Love, shown above, for the leading feminine role. Miss Love’s screen personality is universally known be cause of her numerous appearances on the silver shftet. Glenn Hunter and Hobart Bogworth have the two leading male roles. Vera Reynolds and Rod La Rocque who are featured together In "Feet of Clay,” will also have the leads In "The Golden Bed," soon to be produc ed by Cecil B. De Mille. Cyril Ring has been signed for a supporting role in Thomas Meighan's "Tongues of Flame.” This is the Peter Clark MacFarlane story which Joseph Henabery is to direct. Four girls, formerly in Ziegfeld's Follies, appear in a fashion review which is a part of "Worldly Goods,” a Paramount picture starring Agnes Ayres. They are Jocelyn Lee, Char lotte Morgan, Jean Laverty and Gwendolyn Lee. Sabatini s Story, “Captain Blood,’" Booked for Sun J. Warren Kerrigan Has Lead in Thrilling Tale of Piracy in West Indies. The management of the Run thea ter has anm»unced the booking of one of the biggest pictures of the present season, “Captain Blood,” arranged from the story by Rafael Sabatini, which ran in serial form In The Oma ha Bee. "Captain Blood” will b shown at the Sun for 10 days, start ing Wednesday, November 6. The motion picture is now playing Its 14th week on Broadway and its eighth week in Chicago. J. Warren ^ Kerrigan has the leading role ofj Captain Blood—the slave, doctor ami pirate. Others In the cast are Jean Page, James Morrlsson and Otis Bar j lan, and more than a thousand others. The story Is of a young Irish physi clan, Peter Blood, who because he gives medical aid to a follower of the Duke of Mammoth In his rebellion against King James, Is captured and sent away to a West Indies colony as a slave. When the Spaniards capture the town Blood and his fellow con victs capture the enemies’ ship and sail south on the high seas as pirates. Ills name becomes a terror to all who sail the West Indies seas, In his mad desire to avenge the wrong that King James had done to him. The play contains a fascinating love story of Captain Blood’s devotion to Arabella, the niece of the governor of the West Indies. Rosemary Theby and Phyllis Hav er, two leading exponents of "vamp” roles are the latest acquisitions to the now completed cast of Edna Fer ber'n “So Big.” Douglas Fairbanks, jr., has signed a long-term contract as an additional member of the Paramount Stock Com pany and will start work No vember 1. Ann Cornwall has been cast for the feminine lead in DouglA^ MacDean’s next picture, as yet untitled. A por tion of the story will be filmed In Paris. Glyn Story Coming to Sun Theaterj Another Elinor Glyn story Is soon to be shown In Omaha. Madam Glyn wrote "His Hour." In the pre war days, but she has succeeded, for the screen adaptation, will be shown at the Sun theater starting to date. A purely romantic story, the film opens In the land of harems. Then the scenes change to the winter palace of Prince Grlzko, a Russian nobleman of the old school, played by John Gilbert. Aileen Wlngle and Bertram Grassby have the other lead lng roles. John Bowers, hero of many screen fistic encounters In the past, la down on his knees digging potatoes. Bow ers is playing a Dutch farmer, hun band to Colleen Moore In "So Big,” the First National screen version of Edna Ferber's beet selling novel. Hector Samo, screen character man for 16 years, has Just had his first screeft kiss. Viola Dana was the vic tim—or was it the beneficiary. It hap pened in First National's "As Man Desires.” Hector is a Tahiti fisher man; Viola an Impish dancing girl. Kahn Orchestra Plays 2d Week Field Club Band's Success Prompts Rialto t^ Extend Engagement. Edwin M. Kahn and his orchestra will be at the Rialto theater for an other week. Manager Harry Watts made this announcement joyously, for the orchestra has literally played itself Into the hearts of the big audi ences during the last week and has prepared what Director Kahn be lieves is an even more satisfying program for the ensuing seven days. The orchestra, a 10-plece organiza tion. has almost over night gained much favor In Omaha. It delighted dancers at the Omaha Field club during the latter part of the club season, and at the close of the season there Immediately began rehearsals for the Rialto program. This program proved an extraordi nary success. Among the numbers to be used by Mr. Kahn and his orches tra during the ensuing week are "Someone Loves You After All,” the rain song from Kid Boots; "Little Old Clock on the Mantle,” "I Can't Get the One I Want” *nd "Chanson du Coeur Brise,” translated, "The Song of Songs.” Special arrangements add much to the effectiveness of these numbers. “Manutenetics” Is New Parlor Game Marie Prevost, who plays the role of a manicurist In the Samuel Gold wyn production, "Tarnish,” at the Strand this week, has discovered a new study. She has christened It "manutenetics.” "It comes from the Latin," explains Miss Prevost. “ 'Manus' is the Latin word for hand, and 'teneo' means I hold.’ And what 1s manicuring but the art of holding hands, developed to a higher degree? I’m 'afraid, though,” added the screen star with a smile, “that such a study would be entirely unnecessary In most of our schools and co-ed colleges." Bebe Daniels' first starring picture for Paramount, "Dangerous Money,” has been completed at the Long Is land studio and Is now being edited and titled by Julian Johnson. ‘J/ie^aifflsensaiio^ofUe^eiv’ j t I • J FROM CLOAKS AND SUITS j IN STYLISH MIXTURES I —T * f TO F I LM I Nl O *B EAUTS | J J If I | IN MOTION PICTURES! | ' I I II *||*||| Gee hxJc xoiill Lau^K **/He-rLyoa see | I I | |il|| | | NORMATALMADGE ana CONSTAMCE TALMADGE Jj'll I i (thema elves) vamp -these 50-50 P* ^ | >fBjSKi i M I 9 “Covered Wagon” to Be Returned to Omaha m—-■ ■-■■wirr n.vr- - Lois Wilson, who recently starred In "Another Scandal," at the Sun, will soon be seen again In -Oma,ha. However, this time It is a return en gagement of "The Covered Wagon,” In which she made her first big Hit. This Immortal story of pioneer days has by popular request been secured for a week's rpturn engagement starting October 18 at the Strand. Dorothy Walters, well known char acter on the stage and screen, has been given the role of the landlady In Richard Dlx's newest picture, "A Man Must Live.” '--- ' 1 Doesn't JT ant to Die Just Before Opera Is Ended ____' Miss Kathryn Hannon the soprano soloist of "Bohemian Nights" at the ft World wants an opera in which the heroine will not have to die In the last act. Miss Hannon, who has starred In an extensive repertoire of operas fc a student and pupil of Maestro Bet# of the Metropolitan school of opera In New York. Her favorite roles are Mini In "Ha Boheme" and Nedda in "Pagliacci." both of which she has sung with the Puccini opera com pany. So here's a chance, you young corn posers. Write an opera with a happy ending, and Miss Hannon will see that it is brought to the attention of the leading operatic impressarios of New York, and—an honor worth con sidering—she will sing the leading soprano role herself. " Two Talmadge Sisters Together in Eil/n Norma and Constance Talmadge. appear In two of the funniest ep isodes of "In Hollywood with Pot ash and Perlmutter." which is being shown this wek at the Rialto theater, claimed to be the laugh sensation of the year in films. They are seen applying to Potash and Perlmutter for a position in a new film which the 50 50 partners arc making, in which they need a "real" A No. 1 first-class fi!m# vampire (bring samples.)" Norma and Constance took part In the picture Just for a lark, and for 20 minutes each, they show their samples to those two funny partners and Incidentally furnish two of the most amusing episodes of the picture Hubby Loath Empress Fun Rare This Week j Story of a wild and reckless hus band whom everybody thought an anael la the baste theme of the muni eal romedy "Oh Papa" which the popular Empress Players are presej' ting this week. From the time th* curtain goes up until the final tag line there Is something doing. And n Is all laughable and snappy. • Otc funny situation follows another un»l! It seems that hubby Is caught In a net from which there Is no possible escape. How he gets away with 1 ^ would make the Sphinx smile ah' When ft Is known (hat Hudy Wlntnet plays the role of the model husband It is a certain sign that there will 1* laughter a plenty. Other featured members of the company Include Olga Brooks. Pert Evans and Helen Burke. Appearing In special musical numbers are Mayblee I-» Couver. Mae Kenris. Whttey Holtman, Rudy VVlntner. Bobby Whalen, the South ern Four, Helen Budke nnd other* Bobby Whalen, soloist with the or ganizatlon will sing any number re quested by his audiences. An elaborate western play, the big gest and most pretentious production vet offered by the Empress Player? is scheduled for next Saturday when "The Western Girl” is produced. NEIGHBORHOOD THEATER ' GRAND 16th »nd Blimey Viol. Dan. In “ T>riir Comedy. “Rough Sailing LOTHROP.24th .nd Lothrop Barbara La Marr and Ramon Nov.rro in “Thy Name I? Woman. Al» Comedy 7th Chap. “Th. F..t Expre.o BOULEVARD - - 33d and Le.v«wortl Buster Keaton in “Thr«e Af«»~ — f - fe ► I - - * ., 4 i * - ! ”—and y o u dared ask m* | to be your J wife with an other woman’s Ijy' kiss still warm on your lips?” MSjz' Cast Includes MAY McAVOY MARIE PREVOST HARRY MYERS RCNALD GDLMAN NORMAN KERRY Strand A REGULAR RIOT OF LAUGHTER Helen Hoagland orche.tra Neal Burns in “Court Plaster” At * Sutlon, Directing A Comedy to Patch Up Your Worrino Organ _ ____ __ - | --- ----- --- - STARTING NEXT SATURDAY Return Engagement by Popular Demand of tbe Picture that Hold* the World*# Attendance Record, ^ JUtl l LA5KV rMStNTI * JAMES CRUZF RIOPUCTYON ’’Cove red Wagon I Q (piinirtkMuil (^ictiuv ! ' '] il-1