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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 5, 1920)
10 D THE Oil AH A SUNDAY L: hi ii 1 1 '4 New Bookings Bespeak Care in Choice of Plays and the Moon standard of pic a vast field," manager of the Coming attractions at the Sun and the Moon theaters give evidece of a new boking policy for the theatrical season. Few movie fans, while they are watching attractions, realize the extraordinary care and judgment ex ercised by the management in select ing photoplay entertainment. Pictures played at the Sun and the Moon theaters, the management de clares, are selected entirely from the open market. That is to say, the plays are not contracted for with i any individual producing company to show their entire output. "Our new booking policy gives us opportunity to otter to the pa trons of the Sun theaters a higher tures picked from Harry Goldbere, Sun theater, declares. A committee of four, 'two from each theater, personally review an average of 30 pictures a week. These plays are privately screened by Goldwyn, Metro, Realart, Select, Pathe, Republic. Vitagraph, Jewel de Luxe, Universal and United Artists producing companies. . Following each screening there is often discussion lasting for hours ss to the public viewpoint, the photo graphy, the direction and the cast. , Omaha newspaper critics are always invited to these private screenings and their opinions are considered of unusual value by the committee. It s tis not an unusual matter for the v Committee to become dead-locked - on the merits of pro and con of a ;' production, and considerable time ' pisses before the picture is accepted ? :, or rejected. Coming attractions- which have I been passed upon and which will be mown soon ai xne oun ineaier in clude ' Constance Binney in "39 East" 'Mary Miles Minter in "A Cumberland Romance," Alice Lake XI in ?The Misfit Wife," Vtola Dana in 4 "A Chorus Cirl's Romance." and Even Savage Women Spend Nine-Tenths of Time Fingering With Coiffures Curls and the Like Von Straheim's, "The Devil's Pass Key" Coming attractions at the Moon theater are Robert W. Service's "Law of the Yukon," Jack London's "Mutiny of the Elsinore," "Ihe "Vigilantes," Toni Mix in "Untamed," Th Revenge of Tarzan," Rex Beach's story, "Going Some," Wil liam Farnum in "The Scuttlers," and Tom Mix in "The Texan." "One Man in' a Million," took George Beban one year to complete and ne contends that he worked every one of those 365 days, includ ing daylight, which distinguishes him as fitting the title role admirably. v In many wayi, the Kia Kia women of Dutch New Guinea are like Broadway beauties. They paint their faces with all the care of a musical comedy queen, but with different effect. They are considered the most beautiful in the world by their husbands. The Kia Kia women are simple and unpretentious in their dress and are taught from early youth to protect themselves from enemies. For that reason, their hair is noth ing more than bamboo not grown to be sure, but wound and braided into their natural kinks until they have a regular doormat pf protection against sword cuts from behind. These strange wjtd creatures are shown in "Shipwrecked Among Cannibal," which opens at the Moon' theater this week. Cecil B. DeMille V ' ' Created Many Stars In Moving Pictures Cecil B. DeMille lias been aptly called the "maker of stars.", How truly this tith fits is proved by the subsequent success of the indi viduals who appear in the cast of "Old Wives for New" which will be shown at the Strand theater the last part of this week. The cast includes Elliott Dexter, vliia Acktnn KJrA T-Tsir1ir Theodore Roberts; Florence Vidor, "How Does He Get That Smile? Fans Are Asking; Naughty Scene Apparently Keeps Him Laughing . If you have ever peeked inside of that naughtiest of Parisian maga zines you may understand where "Fatty" Arbuckle is gleaning his cur rent chuckle. Having just finished his forthcoming production, "The Roundup," he is taking this opportunity to round up a few laughs, and you don't have to understand French to get a laugh out of "La Vie Parisian ne." Helen Jerome Eddy, Tully Marshall and other players. Since the initial success of "Old Wives for New" several of this num ber have achieved stardom and all have won high places in the realm of the silent drama. "Old W.-ves for New" marked the screen debut of Wanda Hawlcy. Her success in this and subsequent photo dramas earned for her star dom. Her initial starring vehicle will appear in the near future. El liott Dexter, who heads the mascu line portion of the cast, will shortly be seen in a forthcoming' DeMille production. Helen Jerome Eddy and Florence Vidor have won high rank among film actresses. Theodore Roberts, veteran character actor, continues to add laureh to his name. Song Stimulates -Gaiety in Film Stars on Duty One of the, principal difficulties in directing a farce for the .films, ac cording to Eddie Lyons and Lee Moran, Universal comedy stars, is to keep, the player "pepped up" to the proper tempo. For the comedy is not nearly as funny while it is being made as when it is shown on the screen. And nothing so takes the enthusiasm out of an actor as waiting around on a set until his turn comes to work for the camera. Having produced more comedies than any other co-stars on the screen, Lyons and Moran experienc ed all the difficulties incident to trying to keep an atmosphere of gaiety among a company of disin terested actors, waiting for their cue, or rather till they are called by the director and bored to death by the long time between scenes. Grad ually, they discovered a number of players who could be depended on to stimulate the spirit and gaiety even after waiting for two hours to do a three-minute bit before the ramera. " But quite by accident Eddie and Let discovered a sure cure for the listlessness of the players and a certain method of keeping them bright and snappy. During he time thev filmed "Evervthine But the Truth," a "song plugger" employed by a music publishing house asicea them to let him sing a few of the late numbers between scenes. Ed die and Lee gladly gave their per mission, with theiresult that all the players perked . tip and torgot tne monotony of wajchfuf - waiting. When they were , called upon the scene they displayed a treslmess and dash which registered' on the filrrt. since then Lyons and Moran have eneaned sineers and other enter tainers to keep the company interest ed between scenes and the, result was quite apparent in Lz J-u-clile." and in their recent production, "Once a Plumber" There Was Dirty Work Afoot! But Charles Ray, Alias Nick Carter, and His Sweetie Find a Clue Films Via Air Mail. The aviators who recently flew from San Francisco to Reno, Nev., with a print of Shore Acres, fea turing Alice Lake at the head of a Rotable cast, experienced .an excit ing return trip that in itself would have made excellent material for motion pictures. At an altitude of 12,000 feet on the homeward flight the airplane was lost in a blinding snowstorm, rag- Do They Actually Shed Tears Before the Camera Charles Ray and Winifred Westover, stars in "The Village Sleuth," at the Rialto theater the first four days this week, co-star remarkably well in a story of comedy, romance and mystery. Mits Westover ha been leading woman for Douglas Fairbanks, William S. Hart and in 'sev eral D. W. Griffith productions. She will play opposite Charles Ray in several more features. .- ing 'over the Sierra Nevada 'moun tains. The pilot discovered almost loo late that the compass was noti working, due to the fact that some miscreant had drajned the instru. ment of its alcohol. , After buffet ing the storm for three hours, the machine, made a successful landing1 under great difficulties ' in Sacra mento. At that time the supply of gasoline was about exhausted. The print of "Shore Acres" . was the first 'set of films ever sent out of a San Francisco exchange by air plane. It was delivered to EdwaVd Snell,x manager of the .Majestic theatre in Reno for a week's show ing there, on a rush order to F. W, Voigt, manager of Metro's San Francisco branch. The flight to tne city of divorces required a little! more than two hours and occasion ed a great amount of comment in, the Reno and San Francisco news-i papers. E. E. Manton was the pilotj and he carried Joe Durnam as a pasi 1 senger. A tremendous crowd greet ed their arival. The' prevailing opinion is that all "movie" tears come from Bermuda, or out of a bottle of glycerine and many of them do. All screen sorrow of liquid form is not faked, however, although some of it might just as well have its origin in the onion or come from the end of a fountain pen filler, so far as its reality is concerned. There are two kinds of real tears: the moist manifestation of, misery from the willing weeperwho can emit tears and muss up a handker chief by thinking of the last time the cat got the canary about as con vincing as looking at a lady with the hay fever and the real thing; tears that spring to the eves be cause the heart has been touched and the soul wade in tune with the part that is being played. Most tears are made with a dab of glycerine, but in close-ups some other method has to be used. And the delight of the director is the lead ing lady who can really feel and weep. But there are only a few actresses on the screen who can cry convinc ingly. Elaine Hammcrstein. Sel nick stir,' is one; Nazimova is an other. Mary Pickford always weeps real weeps andOlive Thomas, al though not called on to shed many 'tears in her pictures, can follow the quiver of her dehghttui moutn witn real drops from her beautiful eves, i So if you can cry at yourself for the imaginery hurts or wrongs that have bcn done to you, that's one point in your favor if you want to tie a motion picture actress. American Misses Get Favorite Styles From Shadowland "A few years ago," declares Fritzie Brunette, the , well . known Brunton star, whose innovations in gown modes and fashions have play ed a large part in her screen career, "the fashion book was a household necessity. In every town and ham let in the country and in a good many of the larger cities housewives subscribed to pattern books issued bv wholesale houses, mostly in New York. The result was a uniform, but horribly unattractive, line of standardized clothes. It was only into the largest cities on the east coast that Paris modes really pene trated 1 t , , , "But today the pattern book is al most a thinjr of the past. There seems to be no reason for it until one thinks of the motion picture. By a little tracing one soon dis covers that the wane ql the pat tern book commenced with the rise of the cinema. . "What docs that mean? To me it is a clear indication that it is from the fashions affected by the screen stars that the girl of today is tak ing her cue, and that a new era of women's dress is about to dawn on America. For" all of the great stars arc dressed by modistes who com mand breath-taking salaries, because they can always be counted upon to keep one step in advance of Paris. To imitate them means to be always on a par with the smartest leaders of the feminine world." Change of Text. Elaine Hammerstein, the Selznick star, is a stickler for the best rai ment, obtainable at a modiste's shop. 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