Norma Talmadge and Thomas Meighan Seen at Omaha Movie Theaters
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Novel and|
Stage Play
Are Filmed
‘'The Lady” at Rialto and
“Coming Through” at
Strand Both Have
Wide Appeal.
Lila Lee Leading Woman
Two of filmdom's foremost players
occupy the silver sheets In Omaha's
two leading movie theaters this
week—Norma Talmadge and Thomas
Melghan, The former In the picturl
zation of a successful London and
New York stage play, the latter In
the screen adaptation of a novel.
Norma's latest starring effort, "The
Lady,” at the Rialto, is from the
stage play of the same name written
by Martin Brown. The story rovers
a period of 21 years, from the days of
the "leg of mutton” sleeves and
fluffy skirts, to the days of the world
war. The story starts out In Lon
don, but the locale Is quickly changed
to Monte Carlo, Marseilles and Havre,
France.
Norma seems to have a hankering
for French backgrounds, for if one
^^pnifmbfrH, in "The Only Woman,”
^*which was recently shown here,
Norma goes on a yachting trip
which tales her to France and
French Algeria. Her “Ashes of Ven
geance," had a setting which was
entirely French, the Frence of the
seventeenth century, and In "The
Kternal Flame,'1 Norma, as the
duchess of I.angeais, had another Pa
risian background for her photoplay.
French Algeria Scenery.
All of the action In "The Song of
Love” takes place In French Algeria.
However, in "The Lady” It is the
French underworld which forms the
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cf/iomas JCeiff/icn and 6da /See TgWX Jorma Cfa/madge and Brandon. ZTdurst
in Coming Through' AT the STRAND in The \jb-dsf at the RlALTO
basis of the plot. Marseilles, where
the dregs of every seafaring nation
in the world mingle in the dance halls,
oasts of all nations try to forget their
troubles In wild and never ending gay
ety, is reproduced as It appeared 20 or
so years ago.
Norma has two roles, one of a 1900
flapper—a pretty soulirette in a Lon
don theater—and the other a disil
lusioned expatriated mother maintain
ing a cafe just behind the battlefront
during the great war. Tragedy and
gayety, the wild life of the Monte
Carlo gaming tables, the hectic life
of theatrical London, and the seamy
side of the slums—all figure in the
picture. Miss Talmadge Introduce* a
brand new leading man in the film.
He I* Wallace McDonald, *tar of the
audible drama, it is hi* first appear
ance in a Talnmdge film, although he
has worked in others with great suc
cess.
‘‘Coming Through."
Thomas Meighan's latest picture,
"Coming Through," is an adaptation
of the novel, "Bed Rock,” by Jack
Bethea, and It features this popular
star in the kind of a role that his
admirers like him best, the he-man
type, in a story that has action,
thrills, love interest and humor In
goodly proportions. Tom and his
company went to Birmingham, Ala.,
Bethea's home town, and the scenes
were filmed at the same group of
mines that inspired Bethea'a story.
The background, therefore, is as ac
curate as it is possible to conceive.
On several occasions Edward Suth
erland, the director, called Bethea,
who was one of the interested spec
tators who watched the Melghan
company at work, into consultation
about details of the actions, and once
suggested to the author that he bake
the megaphone and direct a eoene.
Hethea was so surprised by the sug
gestion. having heard that authors
had long been considered excess bag
gage around a motion picture pro-1
duction that he nearly fainted.
Iala I.ee Itack. \
Melghan brings Lila Kee, now Mrs.
James Kirkwood In real life, back
again as liis leading woman. JJla re
turns to the screen after a year's
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ENDS FT^ITO/W0
SHOWS AT lW-3-5~7~9
.
I^he Screen's Favorite Pair
of Sweethearts Reunited
THOMAS
t MEIOUAN
AND
1 LILA LEE
I in the story oP a man
who marries an heiress
and then after being
given the -toughest
job a man ever faced,
fights for success,
honor and the girl's
love and comes through
with a smashing hit
Coming
through
^/d punch Pul story
of the picturesque
coal Fields of
struggle and pluck,
romance andre
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^Prrtliiy ^ A Mk li»! 11 iik ( omedv Fill I «»f I mi »nd At linn \ Strand Mews
Helen Hoi^^nd An Entirely New Croat.Word PusiU Film HCWSpSpCf PlJn
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absence, nn<1 it's like nbl times to
have her back with Meighan as she
appeared with Tom in a great many
of his earlier successes. Wallace
Beery of "The Sea Hawk" fame 1*
the villain in the picture. Ho is cast
in the role of a roughneck mine fore
man who does his best lo put Tom out
of the way for keeps. And talking
about Beery-—here's some inside dope:
He never uses any grease-paint or
powder for his makeup. But in order
to have the required number of
smudges on his face, the actor went
about the set mopping dust and grime
off the Klleg lights, diligently apply
ing it to his cheeks, forehead and chin
with a powder puff. Here then,
ladles, is a new use for powder puffs
—old ones make good dust clothes.
"Coming Through" is the photoplay
attraction at the Strand for the week.
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IS or m a Talmadge Takes
Unique Role in Film
Showing at Rialto
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"The Body,” the photoplay presen
tation at the Rialto this week, will
reveal Norma Talmadge In a new
guise—that of a pert, pretty and vi
carious souhrette of a musical show
of the Gibson Girl period. Norma
wears the typical soubrette costume,
short, fluffy skirts, tights, hare back,
al la Kitty Gordon, and a huge feath
er hat.
I.Ike so many soubrettes of old, she
struts saucily across the stage, does
a buck and wing, jauntily sings a
song as she tosses flowers to the
-lohrrnies In the first row, and takes
her exit "cartwheel" fashion Into the
wrings.
It's a new Norma who plumbs the
heights and depths of human happl
ness and despair. From being the
toast of the theatrical world, Norma
plunges from the heights of gay
Mnnte Carlo society Into the toughest
dives in Kurope, becomes a half-de
mented flower girl In the streets of
Isjndon after she has lost both hus
hand and baby, and finally ends as
the head of a cafe just back of the
world war front, where the soldiers
of all nations call her “the kittle
mother of all the world.**
In short, it is a story of a poor
English girl who, despite nil tempta
tions. constantly strove to be a lady.
Though forced by circumstances to
live amidst the most drab sort of sur
roundings, she, nevertheless, man
aged to live an irreproachable life
and to save her son from the knowl
edge of his mother’s tragic life. The
play is relieved by many comedy
touches and situations.
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Mciglian Fights II ay
in “Corning Through”
at Strand This Week
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Something different for Meighan.
That's what Paramount claims for
“Coming Through," the photoplay at
traction at the Strand theater this
week. The story is an adaptation of
Jack Bethea's novel "Bed Rock." I.i
la Lee Is the leading woman and Wal
lace Beery. Lauraneo Wheat, John
Mfltern and Prank Campeau are in
the supporting cast.
It is a tale of the Alabama coal
mines written for the screen by Paul
Schofield and directed by Edward
Sutherland. The star is cast in the
role of Tom Blackford, chief clerk of
a great steel corporation. He has
been promised promotion to the job
of superintendent of mines, but on
the eve of his appointment he learns
lhat he has been shelved to make
room for the treasurer's nephew. This
is not the first time ha ha» been de
nied advancement because some of
ficial's relative wanted the job. and
reflection on i\is thwarted ambition
makes him bitter at the president and
the whole system.
Then destiny plays swiftly into his
hands. He meets Alice Rand, daugh
ter of the president and wins her In
a whirlwind courtship. They are mar
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lied secretly. When Alice tells Rand
shout the wedding he is furious. He
accuses Blackford of being a fortune
hunter, of deliberately tricking the
girl Into marriage to further his own
ambitions.
When the girl asserts that they are
truly In love Hand offers t'> prove his
point. He hides Alice In an alcove,
sends for Blackford and trups him
into admitting his ulterior motive.
Heartbroken and disillusioned. Alice
'urns against her husband. Blackford
Is shipped to Colton, the toughest of
lough mining camps. Here, over*
nming olrstaele after obstacle, he
puts up ’he fight of his life to make
good and prove hlms> If worthy of the
girls love. Here's a real MHghan
picture.
When llinst Bubltsch started his
new Warner production, he had «
free hand to pick any players In
Hollywood he wanted. It is note
worthy that with the exception of
Clara Bow. he picked all member* of
the Warner Bros, stock company.
This picture is the first original to
lie done on the Warner Bros, lot In
sometime.
NEIGHBORHOOD THEATERS
BOULEVARD - - 33d and Uivenworth
Doris Kenyon and Romld Caiman
in "A Thief in ftatadi&e'*
HAMILTON - - - - 40tIt, and Hamilton
John Bowers and Marguerite de la
Molte in “When a Man’s a Man"
Also Comedy and Serial
GRAND ------- 161 h and Binney
Constance Talnmdffe
in “Her Night of Rcmanar"
Comedy “On the Job." Also News
LOTHROP.24th arid Lotfarop
D. W. Griffith's "Amer ica"
Comedy “Empty Head,” and News
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JACK HOLT. LOIS WILSON,
_NOAH BEERY RAYMOND HATTON
STARTING
NEXT SATURDAY
AT I M'3'5'7'9
EXTRA DELUXE S^OW
TODAY AT 5
Qtext/'T/orM. Says':- It rises head. and.
shoulders over anything that has been
shown on Broadway in a decade.
/ in the story of a
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u / who wanted to be a lady
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the best work. .
her career in this
picture. In Pact it
is difficult to con
ceive of any actress
on the stage or*
screen who couAdL
give a more marvel
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