THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: APRIL 11, 1020.
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Close Ups and Cut Outs
OR a new First National oic
ture, Marshall Neilan recently
staged one Of the most hair
raising 'thrills ever screened. The
stunt consists of a man dropping
from an aeroplane to the roof ot
a ruiiman train going 7s miles an
nour. Later a scene was taken show
ItlC the man reiurnino- tn hi nlanni
from the top of a train by leaping
into the air and catching a rope
lauuer irom me plane, lo get these
scenes a cameraman was strapped
to the wing of the areoplane and
two others were stationed on the
top of the train, where a special
piauorm naa been built
Lovers of the plays of two or
tnree decades ago will be interested
in the news that James A. Heme's
"Shores Aacres" is being filmed at
the Metro California studios.
Hope Hampton has refused a five
year contract offered by the Cines
Film of Rome, Italy. Miss Hamp
ton's first picture as a star was
"A Modern Salome."
"Three Gobs," a recent release,
shows the remarkable accomplish
ments of the navy during the late
war, and shows how deep sea div
ers, torpedo experts and aviators
are produced in the training school
of the navy.
Charles Hutchison, who plays the
leading role in the IS-reel serial,
"The Whirlwind," is a Pennsylvania
man. educated at the University of
Pennsylvania.
We will soon have the privilege
of seeing "Jiggs" and "Maggie" in
motion pictures. These pictures are
taken from the George McManus
cartoons as they appear daily in
The Omaha Bee.
When Mrs.' Jack London, widow
of the famous author, arrives this
month from Honolulu, where she
has been wintering, a print of her
husband's story, "Burning Day
light," will be awaiting her inspec
tion. "Burning Daylight" is the
first of the London series to be
made by C. E. Shurtleff, (Inc.) un
der the direction of Edward Sloman.
the reels are to be taken to Glen
Ellen, the London estate, and spe
cial projection machines set up.
-By Baker-
'Don't Ever Marry"
To Help Mary and
Doug Tie the Knot
A STRANGE coincidence in con
nection with the marriage of
n.,ni.. c:t 1.. 1 1
Pickford in Los Aneeles recent
ly was disclosed when the
bridesmaid, Marjorie Daw, the
young movie star, told her friends
of the title of the picture she had
just finished a few hours before.
Jn order to finish the final scene
for "Don't Ever Marry," so that the
film could be shinned east in time
for release, Miss Daw had to work
it the studio Sundav niornintr. a
tew nours betore she stood before
the altar- with Doug and Mary and
helped tie the knot..
Miss Daw is 18 years old and has
appeared in pictures with both Miss
rickford and Douglas Fairbanks
acting' as leading lady for the lat
ter.
and I ruined pair after pair of stock
ings by not wearing rubbers, I meant
to invest in rubbers. Last week I
did. They were all new and shiny.
And they still are: and now the
weather man says the ramV season's
over, so I suppose I'll have to put
them in some garage until next
winter.
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During a recent visit made by
Bessie .Love at Lincoln, where she
was the guest of Mrs. McKelvie,
wife of Nebraska's governor, the
film star in getting into a motor
car accidently bumped the execu
tive. Governor McKelvie promptly
created a precedent that was with
out doubt -the speediest pardon ever
given in the world in a case of les
pardoned the offender and thereby
majeste.',
In his initial First National Ex
hibitor's picture, "45 Minutes from
Broadway," Charles Rav will have
the support of Ann May, Harry
Meyers, Lincoln Frcedman, Lyia
Knott and Walter Perkins.
Charles Miller is assembling "The
Law of the Yukon." a Mayflower
photoplay to be released by Real
art Pictures corporation. It is said
that it will eclipse Mavnowers first
big special, "The Miracle Man."
Edward Earle, June Elvidge and
Nancy Deayer will be seen in the
cast.
Harry Morey has completed "The
Sea Rider." ,
Alice Tovce and her supporting
company are well into the produc
tion of the big special feature, "Dol
lars and the Woman." Robert Gor
don is leading man for Miss Joyce
in this production.
The film production of James
Oliver Curwood s recent novel,
"The Courage oj Marge O'Doone."
is now oractically completed. A
few scenes are being taken under the
direction of David Smith before
the film is to be shipped east from
Hollywood. This picture is said to
contain the most realistic bear fight
ever screened.
Mme. Schuman-Heink during a
recent visit to Universal City was
amused ' at an incident related by
Garret Graham, assistant to Chas.
L. Hertzman of the publicity de
partment. Graham during the war
was stationed at .in army camp near
San Diego and heard Mme. Schuman
Heink sing for the soldiers. She
sang several simple songs, not wish
ing to have the music "go over the
heads" of her audience, and then
asked for "requests" from the sol
diers. Two rural recruits on the
edge of the crowd who had expected
a cabaret performance called for
"Over There." She laughingly ex
plained she had never learned "Over
There," declaring there were ' so
many-words in it she couldn't pro
nounce them all. The pair turned
away in disgust. Afterward they said
to a companion: "The show was the
Sunk. She didn t know a single new
song. Everybody's heard 'The Ros
ary and 'The End of a Perfect
Day.' "
May Allison, Metro star, now en
gaged in work before the camera
for "The Cheater," from Henry
Arthur Jones' drama, "Judah," as
serts that the California weather man
qualifies better for the title of. cheater
than anyone she knows exists. She
said: j - (
"All season long while it rained
With the anouncement that he
will make no more program pictures.
comes the statement from Sessue
Hayakawa, Japanese film star, that
he is severing his present connections
with Haworth to produce on his own
right four stories a year by his own
company.
His new company, capitalized at
$1,500,000, by Los Angeles business
interests, is to be known as the Ses-i
sue Hayakawa Feature Play com
pany. Hayakawa will probably pro
duce at the Haworth studio, his pres
ent location. Production is to start
June 1, after Hayakawa has complet
ed his current play, and one more
story slated on Ins present contract.
Ralph Bushman, eldest son of
rrancis A. Bushman, at one time
the most popular idol of the screen,
is to become a screen player, mak
ing his debut under the tutelage of
AI Christie.
Young Bushman arrived in Los
Angeles several weeks ago with the
determination to enter pictures and
make good so that he could send
for his mother, to whom he is very
devoted. He hopes to have her here
by summer, together with his three
sisters and a brother, the latter the
baby of the family,.
Ralph is not yet 18. but is two
inches over six feet in height, and a
very handsorrie boy. He is much
taller than his father, and a decided
blonde, much on the order of mascu
line youth made famous by the draw
ings of Charles Dana Gibson.
Young Bushman is just out of
school, having spent three years at
the Staunton (Va.) Military acade
my. He is no stranger before the
camera, as he played numerous "kid"
roles during the old Essanay days
when his father was the adored of
the feminine film fans.
Encouraged by the fact that many
communities have increased teach
ers salaries: the enthusiastic au
diences of the Nation, the Literary
Digest "Topics of the Day" has ex
tended its Better Pav for leach
ers" movement fo? four weeks, from
April 3, the original closing date.
Miss Anna van Noorden, 1069 Lin-
coln avenue, Toledo, O., a teacher
in the Lincoln school, is the winner
of the fifth weekly prize of $50. Her
prize reason why teachers should
receive better salaries thrills with
the spirit of Americanism, as fol
lows:
WAKE UP AMERICA!
Sleep on, America! and your enemy,
ignorance, will steal upon
vou.
Dream on, America! and ignorance
and bolshevism will strike, you
down.
Wake tip,. America! Don't let your
children be a party to your
downfall. 1
Stamp out ignorance! Your strongest
weapon of extermination is
education.
Olive Thomas has returned from
Lake Palcid, where she was making
scenes for "The Flapper," and is
about to take a trip south to com
plete exteriors.
George Randolph Chester, editor-in-chief
of Vitagraph's scenario der
partment, has completed 24 chapters
of a new novel entitled, the son
of Wallineford." This will be trans
lated soon into a feature produc
tion, to appear while the novel is
running serially in a magazine.
Apparnetly some screen aspirants
have odd ideas as to just what quali
ties go toward making success on
the screen. A girl, writing to a
pictures corporation, states she is
sure she will make good upon the
screen giving her qualifications: l
am the same height as Mary Fick
ford and am an expert ukalehe play
er. Another girls teeis sure tnat
success awaits her on the silent
drama because she,has red hair, a
high school 'education and has sung
for two years in the choir.
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Clara Kimball Young Head
Of Restoration Committee
CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG has
been selected to head the
restoration committee in Cali
fornia's great campaign to restore
its famous old missions.
This movement was officially
launched at a meeting between the
San Francisco missions restoration
committee and the San Francisco
Advertising club, held at- the St.
Francis hotel, San Francisco, March
31. Clara Kimball Young, guest of
honor, gave a talk on the subject,
"Mission Restoration." The chair
man of the day was Archbishop
Hanna.
The selection of Miss Young as
one of the leaders in this big move
ment to preserve and protect the
famous old missions that have at
tracted the interest of the tourists
from all over the world, was decided
upon because of the fact that Miss
Young is just completing a picture
dealing with the history of Cali
fornia. "For the Soul of Rafael" is the ti
tle of the new production and it is
from the book of the same name, by
Marah Ellis Ryan. It will depict in
detail the life and customs of the
people of California during the
period between 1840 and 1850. .
For the screen production many
of the scenes were taken in the ex
act locations and exact buildings de
scribed in the book. In order to do
this, Miss Young and her company
were compelled to cover practically
the entire southern portion of the
state of California, and in one in
stance a trip of more than 300 miles
through a blinding storm was
made in order that the particular
scene might be correct.
Worries and Joys of a
Director
By EDWIN JUSTUS MAYER.
NOBODY loves a fat man and
few people love a director,"
-said Al Green. Mr. Green
"ought to know," because he is a
director of long standing, associated
in the past with stars of such differ
ent .temperamental capacities as
Mary Pickford, Blanche Sweet, Elsie
Ferguson, Marguerite- Clarke,
George M. Cohan, William Farnum
and others. Despite this awe-in-Spiring
record, he is only 27 years
old. Today he finds himself direct
ing Jack Pickford at the Goldwyn
studios at Culver City, Cal., in "A
Double-Dyed Deceiver."
"There is very little that is more
trying to the body and soul than
handling an army of extras. Also,
there is little more beneficial to jov .
than watching your picture, when all
the work is over, and seeing beyond
all the flaws and imperfections, the
structure which you built floor bv
floor, scene by scene, unroll in con
tinuity until 'the end' flashes befor
your eyes. The creative impulse is,
after all, dominant when the directoi
works assuming that he has spirit
and sincerity, alid you can't remain
a director for any length of time il
you fail to have these things. There
is always a joy in creation, even
when it leads through the travail o!
shaping unformed things.
"And that is precisely what oiu
does when one begins directing a
picture. It is true that vou have a
script in your hand, describing cer- '
tain characters and the situations in
which they found themselves. Hut
it remains with you to srive the
touch of hitman interpretation to
the mere words of the scenario."
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Bills for the Current Week
Sun Louise Glaum, the famous emo
tional artiste. In "The Lon Wolf's Daugh
ter." from the pen of Louis Joseph Vance,
I the attraction at the Sun theater, begin
ning; today. Louise Olaum plays the role
of Sonia, a beautiful girl, reared tn ig
norance ot the fact that the Is the daugh
ter of the Lone Wolf, and now the victim
ot the scheming Prince Victor, leader- of
a band of desperate plunderers, because
of an ancient feud between the prince and
the Lone Wolf, her mother, one-time wife
of the prince. At the prince's home she
finds a good friend In Roger Karslake,
posing as a secretary but In reality a Scot
land Yard man seeking to trat the bandit
chieftain and bis followers. Karslake had
brought Sonia to the home of the prince,
who claims to be her father In his scheme
to ensnare Lone Wolf. Through the aid of
Karslake, who has grown to love Sonla,
the prince's crafty enemy Is Installed Id
Victor's home as the butler.
Strand Seven days, starting; today, "In
Search of a Sinner," Constance Talmadge's
latest picture. The main action of the plav
revolve around Georgian Chadbourne, a
widow of SO. who baa been "bored to
death by three years of living with a
"perfectly good man." Bent on hunting
wickedness she turns her steps New York
ward, and visits her brother-in-law. Jeffry
and his wife. Despite advice to "be care
ful" Oeorgiana throws away her mourn
ing veils and ambles to Central park,
where she Is gratified to see a passing
Norseman flirt with her.
Moon Starting today, "Should a Hus
band Forgive?" No matter how little a
person may be affected personally hy
this question, tho tendency to imagine
one's self a the central figure of a dra
fciatic situation makes iho question m
of universal Interest. The Moon will also
feature a musical vaudeville act, "The
Melody Garden," which Is heralded as a
performance of exceptional merit.
Rlalto Starting today, Mildred Harris
Chaplain In "The Weaker Sex," a picture
dealing with love, the courting days, the
honeymoon, wedded life, flirtations,
divorce, deceit, faith and honor. In fact
all the real, throbbing problems of love
affairs of real people of today woven
Into a romance, beautiful, fascinating and
thrilling, with a most surprising climax.
Mildred Harris Chaplain Is not only known
for her screen accomplishments, buf her
name has been flashed across the con
tinent recently in the news dispatches.
"A Manhattan Knight," founded on the
successful novel by Gelett Burgess, "Find
the Woman." and adapted to the screen by
Paul H. Sloane. will provide the feature
photoplay at the Empress for four daya
starting today. The star of this fast-moving
sry of New York life . Is George
Walsh, the smiling athlete who la rapidly
winning the millions of motion picture
fans throughout the country. A fine cast
will be seen In support of the athletla
star. New York life In varying phases are
pictured with remarkable attention to de
tail. Commencing Thursday the spectac
ular and dramatic plcturtzatlon of Samuel
Merwin's novel, "The Honev Bee," directed
by Rupert Julian, will provide the stellar
photoplay at the Empress. Madame Mar
guerita Sylva heads a "banner cast. Two
leading men, Thomas Holding and Nigel
tarrle. three brilliant comedians Albert
Ray. George Hernandez and Harvey Clark,
a professional boxer. "Kid" McCoy, appear
ing by speelal arrangement, are seen In
support of Iho dlvo
ME. MARGUERITA SYLVA,
operatic star of international
fame, makes h er screpn rlphtit
The Honev Bee." from Samuel
Merwin's oonular novel, whirh will
be shown at the Empress for three
days starting Thursday. The all-star
cast assembled to work with Mme.
Sylva includes Thomas Holding,
Nigel Barrie, Albert Ray and
ueorge riemandez. Kupert Julian,
noted director of "The Beast of
Berlin," "The Fire-Flingers" and
other successes, directed the produc
tion. In "The Honey Bee" Mme. Sylva
has the emotional role of a woman
whom circumstances have forced to
renounce her love, to forego mar
riage and children. Devoting herself
tirelessly to business she has
climbed high upon the ladder of suc
cess. She dresses wonderfully; she
makes money, she is personally at
tractive, everywhere she is respect
ed and admired. But something is
lacking to her happiness. Revolting
against the destiny which is making
ner noming out a numan honey bee
like one of those unsexed females
of the hive that just work and work
until they die a day comes when a
new lover, a virile young prize fight
er, enters her life and another wom
an s baby with soft fingers releases
the flood of mother-yearning. And
then fate brings the old lover once
more upon the scene.
A special musical nrogram is be
ing arranged bv Manaeer Ledoux in
honor of Mme. Sylva's position in
me world ot rausic.
Geraldine Farrar in "The Woman
and the Puppet," a Reginald Barker
production from the play by Pierre
Louys and Pierre Frondaie. has the
type of colorful' character that she
knows so well how to portray with
striking effect. Lavish sets, con
structed at the Goldwyn studios sup
ply a picturesque background for the
stirring tale of love, hate and
jealousy. The famous French au
triors remained true to Spanish tra
ditions in unfolding the story of the
apanisn cigarette girl who fascinates
the aristocratic Don Mateo. The
incidents are intensely emotional as
acted by Miss tarrar, Lou Tellegen,
uorotny Cunimines. Bertram Brass-
by, Macey Harlam and others in a
tinely balanced cast. ,
Chicago JVIan Has Bought
Entire Mountain Town
Cascade. Col.. Arnil 10. This
Colorado mountain twon. located in
Ute Pass, 7.000 odd feet above sea
level, in the shadows, of Pike s
Peak, with a normal population of
nearly 200, is now the sole property
of Thomas Cusack. Chicaeo "bill
board king."
the entire town. "lock, stock and
barrel," has been purchased by Cu
sack, who plans to make Cascade
one of the most famous mountain
resorts in the world.
The unique deal, wherebv an Indi
vidual purchaser secures possession
of an incorporated town, was con
summated by the payment of a sum
said to be in excess of $100,000. It
turns over Cascade's homes, side
walks, hotels light plant, water
rights and the town "calaboose."
Cascade was incorporated in 1890.
It is 12 miles west of -Colorado
Springs, and its population ranges
as high as 1,500 during the tourist
season. J here are anoroximatelv
500 acres in the townsite.
Paper ' mill workers in Holvoke.
Mass.. have voted to accent a 12'A
per cent increase in wages. i