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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 25, 1920)
12 TJ THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: APRIL 25, 1920. Hal Roach Knew His Limit in Duck Shooting Hal E. Roach, producer'' of the Harold Lloyd comedies, believes that nan should know his limita tion line and stay within it. On the opening of the duck season Mr. Roach was at Big Bear lake, a fa mous resort in San Bernardino mountains. California. The veteran guide, Billy Knickerbocker," took it upon himself to explain his favorite sfcot. "They fly in pairs," he said, "and frequently they cross, that is one flies above the other. Then- is the time to shoot as you get both birds with one shot." v "Just a minute; you've made a mistake," the producer drawled. "What's wrong?" asked Billy. "You're talking to a one-duck man," was the grim answer. t B Extract Teeftlhi Without Pain This mean that there it no shock to th nervous lyttem and no feeling of after ickneia. Only the Best of materiali are ued in this office, and I do all work myself. Nothing i left to as sistants or inexperienced dentists not even the smallest detail. In This Office the First Cost Is the Only Cost You never will have the expense and trouble with bridge or plate that always follows so-called "cheap" dentistry. Good dentistry is real economy. ANY WORK LEAVING THIS OFFICE IS READY FOR " INSPECTION BY ANY STATE'S DENTAL BOARD UHi Ail. I VltVVkt BlockOmaha. Entrance on 16th Street Corner of Harney Office Hours 8:30 to 6; Sunday 9 to 1 Tyler 5117 wmmmmmmmtmMmtimmassmsss I On the Level With the Stars By Long- MOTION picture folks are de claring that Douglas Fair banks' hurried marriage to Mary Pickford through a fear that Mrs. Pickford,Mary's mother, might change her mind and forbid 4he banns, the impression being that even the redoubtable Douglas stood in awe of the woman who devoted her life to Mary's success. Mrs. Pickford is reported, at present, as well pleased with the match. ( Interest centered about Carpen tier, the French pugilist, at a ball given at the Biltmore hotel in New York City last week by the Motion picture Directors' association. Everybody admired his gentleman ly appearance and massive should ers.. As he stood talking to Ethel Barrymore, everybody also won dered if she were speaking French to him. At this same ball, Jtianita Hansen said she was unhappy be cause' everybody called her Miss Hansen instead of Juanita! Con stance Talmadge stopped in for just one dance and left her new sable coat on. Norma Talmadge will be filnisd at a future day in a remake of "The Garden of Allah." Scenes will be laid in Africa. The first picture is said to have failed because the "mm BllH scenes were so obviously taken in this country. Charles Ray has purchased four of James Whitcomb Riley's poems: "The 'Old Swimming Hole," "The Girl I Loved," "Home Again" and "Out to Old Aunt Mary's." Ticture people are watching with intcresf the experiment now being tried with Bessie Love that of giv ing the star the benefit of two di rectors. The directors are Ida May Tark and Joseph de Grasse. - Fontaine LaRue, formerly an art list's model in New York and Paris, nas been engaged for the feminine heavy role in "Human Stuff," star ring Harry Carey. Miss LaRuewill depict a fascinating half-breed vam pire. Ethel Clayton has renewed her contract to make Paramount-Art-craft pictures. Under its 'terms she will make two photoplays in Lou don. Listen to this one: Robert McKim, who puts his heart and soul into being a villain, recently received a remarkable seal ring and the follow ing note: "I am an old lady who gets more pleasure watching halid some villians on the screen than handsome heroes. As you are the worst and the handsomest of them all I hope you will accept this little present. It's the wickedest I could find." The ring- fs made of snake coils in green gold. T Great Singer is Down for Three Days at the Muse :"''J lfe'""S i-W.A fx i rj :. fv: . 9 Everybody Has His Tastes and So Producers Have Their Problems ATROPHECY that the motion picture of the future will be of I ". an entirely ditterent type irom ! that of today, and will play for ! weeks at small theaters in every city as legitimate stage and grand opera offerings do now, is credited to Benjamin B. Hampton, who is mak ing photoplays of the novels of Zane Grey, Winston Churchill, Em erson Hough, Stewart Edward White, Harry Leon Wilson, Vin cento Blasco-Ibanez and others. He says that the picture of today is intended to be a compromise be tween the'extremes of taste inaudi ences. to satisfy the greatest num ber of persons. ' "It is a matter of selection," said Mr. Hampton, "lastes differ so, greatly that literature, art, drama and music each have their little group of different schools. "There arc followers of 'jazz and fpllowcrs of grand opera. The au dience we try to please with one type of picture today is an audience of mixed . tastes. Persons who at tend grand opera and those who prefer burlesque have to take pot luck together on their evening's film entertainment. If a picture hap pens to have a peculiar quality that hits a universal taste it succeeds; if not,, it is merely another picture." Actual pictures of submarine war fare taken on board the German U-35, shown to the German war lords during the war to prove the efficacy of the work, and now re leased in the United States by per mission of the British admiralty to whom they were turned over at the signing of the armistice, will be shown all this week at the Sun the ater in connection with the .regular Edith Helena. Coming to the Muse for three days, Thursday, Friday and Satur day, April 29, 30-May 1, as an added attraction to the regualr program, is Miss Edith Helena, late star of the Aborn Opera companies, Park the ater and Century theater, New York City. Edith Helena is one of the few native singers to attain the title of diva. She has sung the prima donna roles in many operas here and . abroad and journeyed with Harry Lauder to Australia and South Africa as one of the all-star combination of international stars. Her late appearance in New York apd Chicago were veritable tri umphs. ' picture program. The pic'tures are horribly realistic. The U-25 was Sfavtinf 23533 IN Mrdiris Symphony - Orchestra. Sun Pipe Orfan. .... T- ' double Droaram worthy of your patronage I TT I W ' CUPOFFURY I II B H I I mi vDiTDifcr i U! J " ILfiS . Jf 'HUGHES or . a -lifMW immmm jl iron itTpr er"" a nm ib he?- 4, v Hi a u H Added Attraction. j . V I j-1 ' : snu s HI W i'lf. Wf !t i jS. Jit? iff W K I destruction atwhirh tnn Hpnrrfen m6 aunwwwar, mrarmici fturknew:sqlittlon account I riv I 1if4 ga?V - I' f MW9 wf -, if f w J?M in- n i Am Hed bv Lieutenant Com mander Arnauld de la Pericre, and had been equipped with a complete motion picture outfit to satisfy the German commanders that the work was actually progressing. The pic-...-. ir cnmi- of the most marvel- M,e vnmnlp of motion nicture pno tocranhv ever taken. At times the pictures are interrupted by the ap proach of enemy destroyers. It is rumored that Vincente Bel-asco-Ibanez will write a play around the colorful days of the Spanish con- , quest of Lalitornia as nis secona : production for Benjamin B. Hamp ton. Priscilla Dean, star in the photo play, "The Virgin of Stamboul. soon to be shown in Omaha, was formerly a Nebraska girl. She was born in Lincoln and attendc1 school for two years in Omaha. Benny Leonard, world's light weight boxing champion, says there are more reasons than one why he likes being a motion picture actor. The king-pin of the 133-pound box ers, now starring in "The Evil Eye," a 15-episode serial, points out the fact that he came west in a special car with a retinue of 16 actors and others as an argument in favor of the film game. A fashion show with living models will be given at the Strand theater for the next 10 days, beginning to daj Three shows daily will be shown with special matinee for ladies only at 3 p. m. Tuesday, Fri day and Thursday. One father is usually enough for any girl to handle, but Mabel Nor mand has five in her latest picture, "Pinto." They are five ranch own- . TT , , t .1 ers in wnosc care rinto s reai latner left her when he died years before. Each one of the ranch owners adores her and she rules them like a tyrant, listening to what each of them says and then doing exactly as she pleases. A 75-foot dive from the mast of a full-rigged schooner into the rather tempestutuous waters of the Pacific ocean off the coast of Balboa Beach, Cal., was the feature , of the final week of scene shooting for Annette Kellerman's new production. The title of Octavus Roy Cohen's first story written for the.Goldwyn Pictures corporation has been changed from "Two Cents Worth of Humaneness" to "Dollars and Sense. Madge Kennedy is starred in the picture. , Tom Moore's new picture is "The Great Accident," an adaptation of Constance Didn't Know She Was Making a New Star for Movies THERE was once upon a time some three or four months ago wh -n a scene in "Two Weeks" had to be taken "tout de suite," and Constance Talmadge didn't like the looks of the chauffeur. Necessity caused Miss Talmadge and her director to use Charlie property boy at the Talmadge" studio. It will he remembered how his particular part was to whistle and wink when he arid the audience catch sight of a certain slender ankle. Two weeks after the play was re leased, two men from New York ar rived at the Talmadge plant armed witn a contract and asked to see Charlie. i They were Walter J. Johnson and L. H. Hopkins of the Johnson and Hopkins corporation. "I'll go if you'll pay my dentist bill and buy mc some new clothes," temporized Charlie. And now he's in pictures. It's a Good Story and ' Therefore a Good Film "I like 'The Great Accident' be cause it s a good storv and I have fighting role in it." savs Tom Moore about his new Dlav. "The Great Accident," now being filmed. "It's the story of a youngster who gets a bad start in "life and is go ing a fast pace until he is finally brought to his senses by the acci dent, which is nothing more than political trick by means of which he is elected mayor of his home town without his knowing anything about it. After that he has to fight to resist the temptation of drink, to win back his sweetheart, to make a man out of himself, to live up to his big job and to make. his home town a real place to live in." Many of the Chinese names are of a "flowery" character. A com mon name for a little Chinese girl baby is "My Thousand Ounces of Gold." AGED OMAHAN CHOPS WOOD ON A 85TH BIRTHDAFl E. C. Erf ling Says He Feels as Young as at 30 and Ex pects to Live to Be 100. Ben Ames Williams' storv hv the same name which ran last year in i the Saturday evening Post. 'In addition to the regular motion picture program this week at the Moon theater, a musical act, "The Royal Italian Four," will be given. The three men of the act p!ay the harp, violin and cello. The young woman sings. Selections will be popular songs. Genuine Clean-Up OF ALL FLOOR SAMPLES Only One Piece or Suite at Advertised An event weSl worth a visit. Every piece ot furniture represents quality. We pay the freight for 100 miles. Liberty Bonds accepted. " .i Brass finish Beds $29.75 Library Table Mabosany $39 ' Vanity Dresser $96 Walnut Dining Room Suite William anil Mary style. In Jacobean oak. Buffet, table and six rhalis, only $168 Overstuffed Rocker Spanish or black Im itation leather $14.50 Dining Chair Genuine Spanish or black Spanish leather aeata, in golden or turned oak, $4.75 Fiber Mocker Frosted brown, uphol atered In (f 1 Q rnf' cretonne.. 1DX0.IW Buffet Golden oak; a bar gain, at $29.85 Dining Table Extension, In goldon or turned oak $19.75 Htuidrrda ot other Items will he foand on oar floors, each on wonderful bargain. E. C. Erfling, 3612 North l if teenth street, a resident of Omaha for 58 years, celebrated his 85th birthday at his ome yesterday by chopping wood and cleaning his yard. Erfling, after receiving congratu lations from several of his neigh bors, said he felt as he did when .50 years old, and expected to live to reach the century mark. The aged man resides with his sister-in-law who has been his housekeeper since the' death of his wife who died six years ago. She was 86 years old. About the only work he has to do around the house is feed his chickens and chop kin dling wood. Once Worth $100,000. At one time Erfling was reputed to be worth $100,000, but today he is penniless because of bad business deals and his own failure to sell property after the early booms which were followed by panics. Al though having no income, the aged man still smiles and says, "Whv worry, it don t get you anything. h-rtlmg started the first soda fa tory in this part of the counti' ne aiso mini me iirsi greennouse and took first prizes on fiowcrs and plants at the New Orleans exposi tion. At one time he had a cow on a pasture where the High school now stands which brought him first prize at the first state fair held after Nebraska was admitted to the union. He also helped to plat Han com park and Jefferson square and planted the first 700 evergreens in Hanscom park. When Erfling first came to Omaha in I860, there were 3,373 inhabitants. He says there were very few houses west of Six teenth street. Intimate with Old Settlers. When the Bee building was being built, Erfling said that Edward Rosewatcr, founder of The Bee, wanted him to buy half interest in the building, but he says he declined to, because he knew nothing of the publishing business. He' was very intimate with all the old settlers, in cluding William Paxton, William Toppleton, Count John A. Creigh ton and Fred Krug. At the primary election last Mon day, Erfling could not vote because he did not register. He said he never did register during the time he has been in Omaha and this was the .first time he was not given the privilege to vote. He said Ii would be sure to register so h could vote in November. Erfling came to the United States from Bremen, Germany. He first went to New Orleans. He did not like the southern climate so came north to Cincinnati then to St. Joseph, Mo. He made one visit to Omaha and was so impressed with the town that he decided to live here. Air Ministry Says No "Air Trust" Is Planned by Britain cm F wiire nau CORNIER 149 AMD DODGE STREETS . Opposite UP. Headquarters. OAAHA. A London, April 4. J lie repor which has been circulated here th an air trust has been organizei consisting of representatives of the leading aircraft manufacturers, is denied by the air ministry. The re port stated that the various firms in the combine had agreed to divide the work in such a manner that one group should have the sole rights to passenger traffic, another to mails, a third to "joy flights" and so on. By this means it was hoped to make civilian flying a financial success, in dependent of government subsidies. "Nothing has been doiTe in this w'ay," said an official of the air min istry. "For one thing, it must be clearly understood that nothing can be done in the flying line without the consent of the air ministry. We oversee everything in the flying line, and certainly will never agree to any monopoly of one branch of the work by an individual corporation." None of the concerns said to b affected would make any statement on the matter, and it is therefore thought that the proposition if ever suggested has received its deathblow from the authorities. Titled Actress Does Not Care to Ho Housework London, April 24. WasWg, dishes and other kitchen work makes no hit with Lady Forbes Robertson, more familiarly known as Gertrude Elliott. And she only plays at such work as cook in "Come Out of the Kitchen," which has just been pro duced here. "Wc women shall all be much hap pier when domestic service is done away with altogether," she declared. "I am for communal kitchens and communal house workers. If we must have domestics they should work in relays of two or three hours a shift. "I believe it would bp better to have a dozen happy workers cooking for 40 homes than to have 40 rnnk- working indifferently in individual homes. "Personally, of all branclirc. housework I should hate cooking most and love scrubbing best. "Of course, domestic work is hoa orable for a girl, and I think many girls would be happy to do it if only their employers would concede de cent conditions." r Got Whiff of Own Breath, Then He Pleaded Guilty Corning, N. Y., April 24 Arrested for intoxication. Mason Barney, 24, of Hammondsport, was in doubt whether to plead guilty or not when he appeared before' Judge Wheeler. "Well," said the judge, "by the smell of your breath I guess vou were pretty drunk." Barney placed his hands to his mouth and breathed out. He then put his hand to his nose. "Well, I guess I'm guilty, judge," he said. "Ten dollars fine," roared tin iudzc. Ml
