12 D THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: SEPTEMBER 5, 192Q. 11 lU. Screen Shapes Future Lives of ; w ' Young Girls Between the ages of 15 and 21 the , future character of young women is being moulded. It is also during this period in the life of the average American , girl that the motion pic ture occupies its most important place in her mind. ' v What, then, is the effect of motion pictures on young girls between 15 and 21? ' mTsJuU Xeilan, youthful clirec , in reply to this question, recently aid: "There is no doubt in my ind that to most girls between the xges of 15 and 21 there is no greater influence tending to affect their fu ture character than the motion pic lure. The greater percentage of mail coming from women and received by motion picture stars is sent by girls at these years. .'"An" example of how this effect on young ladies works out is disclosed in the discussion one hears on all sides concerning the clothes worn by the leading ladies. Another example is the wave of "Mary Pickford curls" that swept the country soon after Miss, Pickford became popular. Screen mannerisms in social de portment arc copied extensively throughout the country by young ladies budding into womanhood. From the dramas of life unfolded on the; screen before their eyes they form their own conceptions and ideals. . ' . , Morality of Screen. "This "brings up the question of the ' morality of the screen.' There has always been good and bad iii cvervthir.e and, perhaps, always will be. To sSy that motion .pictures are "A Lodger for ;the Night" By JAMES J. MONTAGUE. . Some people can run a car into a perfectly strange garage, pick out, a narrow space between two expen sive limousines, back into it, missing; each car by a hair and stoo. Somej people can't do anything like that at,' all. I'm one of the Jattcr kind. I'm always embarrassed in a I strange garage, anyway. I feel over awed in the presence of head waiters and hotel clerks, who merely glare at me with silent, subtile sneers. The country garage proprietor isn't silent, sneers. He says frankly what he thinks. And he always thinks unkindly, not j to say brutally. In fact country garage proprietors are the most bru tal thinkers who have lived in this ( world since the days ,of Captain' Kidd. They' can't make you walk the plank, of course, like Captain Kidd could. But they can scare vou just as much. I don't know why, but they can.. y Led by Phat Ads. I've just got back frem one of those little journeys that people take after they've been looking too long at automobile ads. Vou know the kind, the ones with pictures bf beau tiful new cars, bowling along over country roads, or stopping in front, of magnificent summer hotels. Just' look at dhat sort of picture steadily for a week, and you'll gp on a tour, too. Vou won't be able 'to help it. The journey ..itself was all right. It wasn't exactly what you'd call rest ful but it was generally satisfactory. Nobody ran into us, and we didn't run Into anybody on the hard high way at least. ""We didn't have to be. lo s.ly tliat motion pictures a, e Jn tMe rain am ,ch tireg aml the exception would be toohsh. lliere i oun Mldren 1)avc oi,g CPasc(i 'have b?en a few producers m the ,0 gjt on fnce aiu, jecr. "Get a past mat nave aiiempicu io L.niiuic.- jJOrse.. wjicn a raotonst stops to cialize sitggestiveness in pic"1"? I ctean the mud off his windshield. just as there have been publishers wlio have tried to do tue same in tne -way of books and stage producers who have tried it in the 'legitimate.' "I have always urged the guardians of young girls particularly to watch , "their girls' selection of motion pic ture entertainment , just as they should oversee the selection of their friends and the books they read. "The real answer to the question - . of the morality of the screen is an swered to, the type of pictures that have beeiii the greatest successes. "The Birth of a Nation," "Civiliza tion' "The , Miracle Man" and "Daddy Long Legs" are only a few of the most successful pictures. In these productions there is no trace of suggestiveness. Producers have come to realize that clean pictures pay and that the -biggest financial uccesses are clean pictures.. Thus from the. 'rnost mercenary' viewpoint . the producer realizes that it is to Jiis4 advantage to make clean pictures if he really wanjs - to achieve big success, i ,M j" JC.VU OKITCB. f'Of course, there are a few pro ' ducers, just as there are few pub lishers, who still have the feeling 'that the public wants entertainment - bordering on the semfoous and to a certain limited extent; fhey are right in their supposition. ' There is a '.lass of people that seeks such en tertainment. However, the returns on such an investment are so hm ;ted that even these producers are brginning to realize that , to get the most "but of a production t must have universal appeal, and to have universal appeal a picture must bj; dean. "The days of anyone who trie to' make pictures involving 'unclean I stories that have been published with a degree of success are num bered. There is always an clement that must be' convinced through sad experience, and this is coming to all who think that a stnsuous story can be successfully screened. "It is therefore through a natural evohttioa thatthe screen has been cleansed, v (To point to an occasional pictuat as. an example detrimental ' i, to allmotion pictures is foolis,h just j as it is to say uecausc a certain dook or article in a newspaper is sugges- tive, all ; publisher should be con demned. , ' 0 ' , . Fanatics in Cells. '. "The fanatics, who condemn mo tion pictures because they have once or twice seen pictures that do riot come up to their standards of mor ality should be placed in paddedcells where they can do no harm to. them selves; nor others. To say. all mo tion pictures should Ac seen by girls is just as foolish as to say.. that girls can safely -walk on the most exclus ively i esidential 'street in town with out hearing words that they should not hear. A girl's s,ta,te or mind h'as much to do with the impressions she gains from everything" in life," in cluding motion 'picture classics just as they wilL from works in otler arts. What might prove entirely in offensive and harmless, to 99. girls out ! 100, might have the opposite effect to the 10th. , , See Proper Plays. 1 . It therefore, behooves, as I have stated before, the guardian of every young girl to kaow first her state of mind and then encourage her in the right direction as far as motion pic tures are concerned and as far as anything else affecting her state of mind is concerned. "I do not want my opinions mis interpreted. " I would say the same things were I-in the publishing bus:-11 nes3. in aiy heyl ot art or in any, en terprise affecting the growing char acter of young ladies. , "The best way to select the proper, entertainment is to patronize the tlie - "slsr that shows the proper kind of entertainment. 'No established thea ter will ever show pictures that ar: anything but what their patrons de sire in the way' of clinl:ness.' You cannot go, wrong if you go to the right theater. - ' "Then again producers are known bv the type ti their works just as. I -. 1 1 14.. - f . AVinuis Kiiuvtu-' try die iju ui their books. No established pro . ducer will jeopardize his reputation, and those who have none to jeopard ize soon realize they will never gain success on any1 but the clean route." Chaplin's Troubles. Charlie Chaplin has sought refuge in Salt Lake City, Utah, from pro cess servers and newspapermen. He says he, will remain until b,e has sold his big picture. "The Kid." which his wife, Mildred Harris Chap lin, now suing for divorce in Los Angeles, seeks to restrain him from selling. ' . - A certain Utah law now protects Charlie from the process servers as long as he remains in the state. He is making his home in the Hotel Utah. Chaplain said that hr had pent two rears on "The Kid" and does not pfopost to' lose it. . ' , The trip, as a lijip. was all right. Even the hotels could have been worse. AVhat brought uie back with shattered nerves., and a predisposi tion toward violence, was the gar age proprietors. Yet they behaved toward me much the tame as they I had room. cio toward everybody. us their nature to behave that way. ft was apparently predestined from the be ginning of time that they should snarl at you and browbeat you and say all manner of evil against you falsely,' just' because you are the sort that gets nervous while trying -to back a car into one of the tin plated shacks that they call fireproof garages. However, let's go cm with the story. , 1 Follow the Signs. We followed the red posts and the hotel sign boards till wc got to the town where we meant to stop for the night. It was around 10 o'clock when we got there, and dark very dark. We petitioned several giy-agc pro prietors to let otiwcar abide with them for the night, but they saitl indignantly that their- accommoda tions were all taken, and wanted to know what the place of torment we meant by. coming into a "town at hat time of night. : 'The fifth place that we" applied to Tne boss was irritated I knew because the' boss told me so in set terms. . Turns Wrong. I backed to a post I felt to bo opposite the spot where I was to pocket my tar and started to turn to. the right. But I didn't. I turned to the wrong. "Here!" said the boss, "don't do that! You'll knock them cars all to " and he mentioned a destination I couldn't possibly have knocked them to even in my nervousness. I swung around the other way. "What the deuce are you goin THAT way for?" he inquired. "Haven't vou ever druv a car be fore?" I told him that I had, but not in that garage, and craning my neck backward discerned as I suposcd my error and tried to correct it. "No. No. Stop! Stop! I tell you." 1 stopped.- "Now go ahead." I went ahead. t j "Now around to the right. No, not that way, to the right. To my right, not yourn." , Goes to the Right. I went to his'- right. There was a to think that we needed shelter, but he agreed to provide us with it for wmAmg sound, followed by a rend $100. "And Jf you don't like the price," he said, "you can go on." We assured him that far from not liking the price we were positively fanatical about it. Wc felt, in fact, that he was practically forcing his roof on us. Two dollars for: 25 square feet of tspace for six hours seemed the merest trifle, t "All right," he said, "back her in, and be dern careful, for there's a lot of GOOD cars in here." Affecting not to be hurt by the emphasis on GOOD, I started to m..i. t'. back her in And right there is .where my em barrassment began to make trouble for me. The inside of the garage was utterly dark. ,, The rear .light supplied but little guidance. And the place the boss indicated was a mere, black crevass between two al most equally black masses, which I knew to be very high-priced cars. i ;np one. I clapped on 4ne drakes. I The boss however did not burst I into the mad fury I supposed he would. "Back her again." he commanded. "What did I do?" "You ripped off a mud guard on that post. But it ws on your car." Of course that was nothing to worry about. The mud guard was on my car. I proceeded to back her again. - This time there was an explosion a verbal explosion. "Don't do that, you dum idiot. You'll ram Doc Smither's Ford and he'll raise tunket around here. Stop!" I stopped. "Now back her again." I started to obey orders. But be fore I had gone six inches the boss leaped . on. the running board, wrested the wheel from my grasp and twisted it violently to the left. "Now, back her," he ordered. T backed her. He neglected to tell me when to stop, but I. found Melody of Life and Love, Intermingled With Laughter and Sobs, Depicted in "Humoresque" i A'-kS- 1 1 Booth Tarklngton Has Very Definite Ideas On Pictures Booth Tarkington, whf recently joined the ranks of out-and-oit play wrights for the screen when an nouncement was made that he was to write a number of feature plays, has some very definite ideas about pic tures as they are and as they will be. When asked for an interview k modestly said that as a newcomer his opinions could not be of value, adding that it was difficult for him to make statements after work and impossible before. Then he dis proved his own words by making some pertinent remarks. "I've, felt, with so many others," he said, "that the pictures are the possible means of a new art that's great and startling thing to see in one's own generation, under our very eyes. Those yivho work in pictures so far, rapid as advance has been, are the preprimitives. Mechanically, the great day of the new art will be very different from ' this day, of course. Color and stronger form will come; the flatness and grayness will be gone. But the more impor tant difference, naturally, will be in quality-rthe quality of the thought expressed. 1 I think that nowadays we are pretty crudely struggling to get a little upward in the new expression. In the nature of the- business the quality is still kept under; the neces sity of entertaining the stupidest parts of audiences tends toward tim idity. 'People hate to think.' it is said. But that isn't true. They do . - . ' 1 hate, anything they catch trying to without touching so much as a door make them think." Elements of human interett stand out strikinslv in "Humoreiaue." playing at the Strand thii week. It is story of human beings as Uiey are, their deep characteristics clearly drawn out by Farnie Hurst, well known woman writer. The parts played by Vera Gordon as Mama Kan tor and Bobby Connelly as Leon Kantor portray a silent drama of love and tear. out. The wall was there, and the law that no two bodies can occupy the same space at the same time has never been repealed. The damage wasn't much. The garage man said he could fix it all lip in a couple of days for $80 or $90. But he didn't. And the reason he didn't was that I stepped on the gas and drove right , out -of there. jamb when I Jctt. And for the rest of the trip I had no trouble with garage men at all. I always left the car out in a field over night. (Copyright, 19:4, Hell Syndicate, Inc.) The iron workers in Pennsylvania ate 80 per cent organized. . - Helen Raymond, English com edienne, who created the role of Signora Monti in the original Lon don production of "Twin Beds," also portrays it in the Carter De Haven celluloid version now being made under the direction of Lloyd Ingraham. ,. ' Omaha joins in the third annual drive for better motion pictures X7E prophesied, that 1920 would be the' vv Paramount has 104 e'ven finer pictures Jn store for you in the new season that opens on Septem ber 5th. . The theatres that will show these new Paramount Pictures 'in the twelve months o come are inviting you to join in the celebration. ? f 1 SEPTEMBER 1920 JMII XssmX l3iS& F Itwas-andis! iJlSSWnl !SriyIl!l-M I 1)1 uoPm Never before were there such pictures as: SSft' Bl T Vt nV " 1 1 IW&Skw Cecil B. DeMille's "Male and Female" and wv u i l i in tr 4 1 iirjr i . iuu. v iir.T-in t r i SSStRl YjS- rWfti. Sw'S 5!!! tlnlh,WiiSnthfttb hot weather!, JHW rf lOlT.lOD , over d, he h,!t.ho..ime of,., thesis 3 .i.'" Slfdal .THlll, I' lltSSSEW dWimmS. Hart in "Sand". here .gam. ... , . MtMI llflM - siAHLnii . m4 llT 2SVifT "'"s HH5 ,uu"i J"" M 8WU' i Pictures mis weeK. eieorate oy going: T V tneatre s tdi y At all these theaters, all this week Paramount Pictures will be shown OMAHA TVO PARAMOUNT REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD GO TO THB THIS WttEK AVIUA05JIEUTM' Nov t Vedneidsy Ooroily in MAUP AW HOUR Thofs: to Saturday SL'BUKBAK 1 Sept. 6 rh Girl Dodsrer" Ray Sept. '. S-T "Mors Deadly Than the Stain" Clayton Sept. Si-Venu In the East" Washburn Sept. 9-10 "23 Houra' Leave" ' Mckean and May Se 9-10 "His Last False Step" Bennett Comedv i Sfept. 11 -Th Source" RcJd CPAND j Pept. 6 'Easy to Get" Clark I Sept. -7 "Let's Be. Fashionable".... McLean ana May Sept. 8 ."Those Distant,- Couslna". .. . k 'Brtirgs Comedy Sept. 9-10 "The Life Line"-,..Tourneur ' Sept. 11 "Mrs. Temple's Telegram". . Washburn A POLLO Sept. 6 'Let's Be Fashionable"...... McLean and May Sept. 6-7 "The False Boad". .. .Bennett 8ept. S 'rMrs. Temple's Telegram"... Washburn Sept. 9-10 "The Dancln" Fool". ...Held 1 Sept. 11 "Easy to Jet" Clark MC8B Sept. -7 "Excuse My Dust" r.eld Sept. 8-9 "Away Goes Prudence"....- i Bufke Sept. 10-11 "Homer Comes Home".. r iy. .MAnYLAXD , : Sept. 6 "Hired Man" Kay Sept. "Ship-A-Hoy" i Al St. John Comedv . Rept. 6 "Rlmrock Jones" Held " Sept., 7-8-T-"Th Miracle Mau" , Special (.'ast Sept, 9 'Out of the Shadow" Frederick Sept, 10-1! "It Tays to Advertise"... Washburn i ' I BENSOX. BKNALTO-7 , . Theater. Plar Date. Subject. Star. Sept. S "Man From Funeral HaE;e" Held Sept. 7-4-"Th Hope Cltst"...D. ish Sett.-9-18 "Law of the North". ...Kay Sept -10 "The Cook" Arbuckle Sept. 11 "The Squaw Man". ... .DMllle DESSB SOrTH OMAHA Sept. 8. "Trearare Island".. .Toomror Sept. o- "Cleanlnir Ip" ! Al fit. John Cenirdy Kept. 1-8-J-"The Cost" V. Hrmlns; Spt. - 9 -Th Amutear Wife". . .i'astle ,Spt. 10 The Kalse Koad" DenneK 'Sept. 11 "Sheriff M's Taule"...k. ' . Sennet t .MAGIC OCTH OMAHA N -' Sept. 6 "Thinn We It" Weld Kept. ( "The t.rini (inme" Houdinj f Kept. 7-S "Jflmcle ot Lore" ., All Star t Rpt. 9 "Ploiinc the (ieme". . . .Ray Sept. 19-11 "Thou Art the Mun'f... nnrmcK ( OI NCIL BLl'FFS. IOWA. MAJESTIC ' Theater. 1 v Date. Sub.iect. Star. Sent, s-s-1;- "Sick Abed" Reid Sept. 5-B-7-8 Paramount Mataiinr Sept. 9-10-11 ".adder of Lies" C layton Sept. 9-10.11 "Sprins" DeHaven Comedy Sept. 8-10-11 "Tjavelorae" Burton Holmes AIROKA, NEBRASKA. MAZDA Theater. . PlaT Date. Sublect . Star. Sept. 0-7 "Hawthorne of U. 8. X."... Reld Sept. 8 "His Wife's Friend" .... Daltoa Sept. 9.10-11 "Male and Female"... , . . . . , DeMills FRE5IOXT. "EDRASKA. EMPRI3HS ' Sept. 6-7 "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" v J. Barrymore Sept. 8-9 "Let's Bo Fashionable".... McLean and May Sept. 10-11 "Sick Abed" Reid -NEBRASKA CITY, NEBRASKA. PARAMOUNT , Sept, 5 "Black Is White".. Dalton Sept. 6-7 "Mrs. Temple's Telegram" Washburn Sept. 6-7 "Tou Wouldn't Believe It" Sennett Comedy S"pt. 8-9 "Cinema Murder" Special Cast Sept. 10-11 "A Lady In Love". .Clavton AVBl'RN. NEBRASKA. IDEAL - Sept. 6-6 "Lottery Man" Sept. 7 "Stepping: Out" Sept. 8-9 "John Petticoats"... Sept. 10-11 "Crooked Straight' TEKAMAH, NEBRASKA LYRIC . Sent.- 6 "Partners Three" Sept.:' "His Parisian Wife". .FerrusoB sept, "Daughter or the Old South' '. Frederick Sept. 9 "For Better, For Worse".... , .! DeMllle 'Sept. 10 "Tho Sheriff's Son" Raj Si-PL 11 " Arizona" Fairbanks FALLS CITY, NEBRASKA. Sept 6-7 "Tho Dancln Fool" Held . pt. 8 "Remodeling; Her Husband" D. Gish Sept. 9-10 "Sand" Hart Sept. 11 "Guilty of Lore" Dalton PLATTSMOVTH, NEBRASKA. PARME1.LK Sept. f "City of Masks" Warwick Sept. 6-7 "MalA nd Female", .i ... . Special "Cast Sept. 8-9 "Hairpins" w Bennett Sept. 10.11 "On With tho Dance".... Special Oast Sept. 10-11 "Skinny School snil ' Scandal" Briggs TBCOISKH, NEBRASKA. WONDERLAND Sept. 6-7 "Roaring Road" Reid BeDt. 8-9 "Mlrnndr Smiles" Marttn Sept. 10-11 "The Girl Dodsrer" ... .Rat Reid .Bennett ....Hart ' . . . Ray Bennett COLVMBTCS, NEBRASKA. SWAN , . Theater. Play Date. Sub.iect. Star. sept. 6-6 "Egg Crate Wallop" Hay vi. iunj uur. or tne Kitchen" Clark pi. nny emita j.ett Home".... Washburn Sept. 10-11 "Valley of tho Giants".. Reid SCHUYLER, NEBRASKA. DOME Sept. 7 "Why Smith Left Home" . . . Wsshhurn Sept 8 "Told In tho Hills". . .Warwick repi. -Misleading widow"... Burke Sept. 10 "Stepping Out" Bennett svii. 41 iiiuu jiiai .......... Martin NORTH BEND.- NEBRASKA. lj I K1U Sent. 6 "Greased T.!rhtnlti" Sept. 7 "Homo Town Girl".. ) Sept, 8 "The Dub"., Sept. 9 "Putting It ...Ray Martin Reid Over". . .Washburn uept. 10 "True Heart Buale" ....D. W. Griffith Sept. 11 "Poppy Girl's Husband". .Hart Sept. 9 "Country Hero" Arbucklo WEEPING WATER, NEBKABiA. ELITE .i Sept. 6 "Turning th Tables' Kept. 8 "The Life Line".. Sept. (10-11 "Double Speed" LOGAN. IOWA. PASTIME Sept. 6 "Misleading WMow' Sept. 7 "In Missouri'." Sept. 8-8 "Widow by Proxy". oepc. lo-ii "Lottery Man' . . . D. Gish . .Tournwir Reid Burke . .Warwick .Clerk . . Reid SHENANDOAH. IOWA. ZENITH ' 1 Sept. 6-6 "A Lady In Lova".. Clavton Sept. 7-8 "Dark Minor" Daltou Wept. S-10 "Parla Green" Ray ' Sept. 7-8 "By Golly". Sennett Comedy , Sept. 11 "Wolves of tho Rail" Hart CLARINDA, IOWA. ARMORY Sept. e-7 "Llttlo Women" Special Onat Sept. 8 "You're Fired" Reid Sept. 9 "Tho Home Breaker". . .Dalton Sept. 10-11 "Greased Lightning". .Ray Sept. 10-11 "Tho Butcher, Boy".... Arbucklo RED OAK. IOWA. BEARDSLEY Sept. 6-7 "Counterfeit" Ferguson Sept. 1-9 "Bhlnd tho Door". .Bosworth tept. 8 "Clfy Dude".. ..BrlgRS, Comedy ept. 10-11 "Six Best Cellars". Washbutn COLLEGE SPRINGS, JOWA. . PARAMOUNT THEATER Sept 7 "Mystery Girl" IClavton Sept. 11 "Poor Boob" Wnsbburn VALLEY. JTEB. BYAR THEATER. BELDEN. NEB. PRINCESS THEATER. STEWART. NEB.-JIKM THEATER. NEWPORT. NEB.JftPERA HOI SE. MINUKN. IOWA RK.Y. THEATfR QvmmowlQfchin tf fAe y&ar io 6e shoun at ikf TODAY AMD ALL WEEK A real story boutreal people. Some of the coming PARAMOUNT PICTURES Listed Alphabetically Sivs this list and aik your theirre when Ithey will show thus pictures! Rucoe r Fatty") Arliocllt la "Tb. Round Up" v Enid Bennett in "HerHulnd'rrlefid" . Billis Bofle In " Ftiily M:i. JcliBwn" Ethel Omen ia ' "A City Spirrow" V Ethel Qivton In . " Sins of Rezsans" , ' A Cosmopolitan Trodurtion 1 "Humoretquc" A Cosmopolitan Production "The ReitleM Ss" Dorothy Djlron in "HalfAnHout" , Dorothy Dalton "A Romantic AdTentureM- ' Cecil B. DeMille'l Produrtion "Something To Think About Elais Ferguson in , "Ladj Rose's Datthie.-" George rit7maurice's Troductioa " Idols of Clay" George fit7mauriret Production "The Right To Lots" Dorothy Gish in "Little Miss Rebellion" William S. Hart io "The Cradle of Courage" 'Douglas McLean In "Thejailhird" Thomas Mrighan in "Civilian Clothes" George Melfbrd't Production "Behold My Wile!" A Paramount Special Prodocrloa "Held By the Enemy " , 'Charles Ray in "An Old Fashioned Vouog Man" 'Charles Ray In '' "The VilUge Sleath" Wallace Reid in "Always Audacious" Wallace Reid in " What's Yonf Harry I Maurice Toumeurs Production "Deep Waters" Bryans Washburn in "Burglar Proof Bryant Washhum Jn "A Full House" Thomts H. Ince Productions ' i - ) J i -I r A i . . . t mi ir