T - THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: SEPTEMBER 19, 1920. 7 . Scfence to Play tixl In Productions into the mys Jfrooks witho lur:tten and V manifesting hires' of psyc V Three Men and a Grl On "Ship of Blood" - -y flay a Hard Game Against Cut-Throat Crew Interest in peychio. nd psycho logical problems today has reached the point where all the world is de bating various angles of the many questions. Scientific. , investigators of world-wide reputation are delving into the mysteries of the after-life. out number .ate Being millions of ueoole are g Tceen interest along all Jji'cs of psychical resear. i No other art in the world is as keenly sensitive to thetmind of the people as the, art of the;motion p.ic ture. Because of , the far-reaching effects of the motion picture and its close relationship to the daily life of its millions of adherents, if isJ safe to say that the, world-wide in terest m psychic and psychological matters will be reflected in the type of photoplay which the, near future will bring into existence. What will be the effect of this vorld mental state upon the motion picture? ' -. 'M ': ' Cecil B. DeMifle, admittedly one of the most far-sighted producers in tlje field today, believe that it wljl have a two-fold temporary effect and amgle great ettect upon potn , Th Jack toadon of rte hi h sea8 b p0rtrayed wlth the living repto. ohotodramas and the people. ti,. m,,.:.. . .u. n.: believes that the future w 1I see itpve, hate, fear and heroic endeavor with a fighting girl predominating great argument for and plover a blood-thirsty crew, make up the thrills of the plot. J ' v .? fought out in the motion picture. Be lievers will make use of the motion picture to carry their propaganda; m vlX. ittf sx ill Salesman Rfakes Good as Director s. y Of Screen Plays iai.Ji-..i..J....A.W., ntSjf imiXti i'i iidiVm-""-fti i' nfti n)n votke'r I have J -a Vf resc scoffers will be no less quick, to use the photoplay for their own uses. In other, words, we will see both extremes of the problem threshd out on the screen. And ultimately he beliaves that the truth on these aiestions will suri(3ve,xnot onlv as a wr powertul element m Bnoiouramic construction but as a vital force-in the lives of the. people. "Whenever a great problem arises wt find people takig sides and go frz to extremes in defence of their , I .ewpoints." says Mr. De Mille. "The 1 .. f;rama, both. of the-atage and of the orten, always -refleqts the will' aMd the ideas of the people." , . "This beirtg true, it is.saie 10 pre dict that the present eep interest in all things psychic will make iself felt in the field of the motion pic tures. , . 'V1 'ur -. ; "We will have, both sides .of spir itualism, of scientific thinking- ana ptfce'r psychological problems pre- ted on the screen.1. Ana we win tfi. extremes 'In Jibth cases.1 Chaniipions of psychic power will resent radical arguments lavoring their beliefs. Doubters will swing to tlje other extreme and attempt to ridicule the belief ot their oponents. 1 Some of lje,greatesf film dramas of he past year have been founded on the doctrin eof faith healing, one angle of the present day interest in i' .psychic matters. Not only will we .Jsee more of this same type of theme but we will have many other angles of the same great problem presented in the affirmative or negative. "Eventually, I believe that 'we shall achieve the truth on many of these points," continues the director general of the Famous Players Lasky corporation. "When that day arrives, all of the'untrqjjis will pass into dramatic oblivion. T"he drama is always sensitive to the beliefs of the public and the achievement of thetruth bv th? oeople will see a corresponding reflection on the art the stage and the screen. "What will all of this argument mean to average theater-goer? Just this: Whether the individual is in terested in the problems before the psyscho-analysis or not, he or she will see interesting presentations of vital ideas done in an. entertaining and artistic way., The public is, as sured of real entertainment the producers will see to that plus, iff many casc, interesting presentations ( of themes vital to the wprld." Good Photoplays Cannot be Greater 1 Than Their Themes No photoplay .can be gVeater than its iheme. . In the age-old discussion as to the comparative merits of story, acting and direction, the story, has won Jts rightful hrst place, but the time has come when we are thinking back of the story oi beyond it, as you choos. "Theme does not mean "sermon." Dramas primarily intended as ethical lessons usually fail, as tliev should.- Unless an artistic work in trigues the senses to put it more plainly, unless it entertains-t is not an artistic work at all. The themes of the photoplay that have been memorable, from "Stella Maris" to "The Miracle Man," from "Ihe Birth of a Nation" to "Madame X, have been based on tne aeep-aown things which ' are every man's inhe"ritance: the simple things which it takes neither book- learning nor artttjl accomplishment to nppreciate and aomprehend. i , American life, we adroit, was once lived too: easily, too superficially. But we arel'no longer a childishly happy, siyigly contented nation; we are a nation in manhood as resofute as it is' restless, bearing our share of the world's burdens and sorrows, as well as partaking of its fruits , of victory. The day is past when we can con sidffr as "good stories" many of the mechanical contractions of youns wove, hero and villain, small compli cation, easy rtmph and happiness forever, which were, quite honestly, "gocd stories" fes'.erday. We have, as we said, gone beyond childish things, and as men and women reaching maturity we see that the fundamentals, the great- ( X wh Fake Snow Storm Is Too Much for Trained Dog Sled Team of North Gettinsr together in the north coun try a team of dogs that will work to gether on a sled in harness is no joke in the first- place, but to get the team, . .... J A. '.I J a.ttA ...At?IM get ine aogs imiucu u nuinui nicely and then.to ft'ave them blown away byia fakSrtowstorm is scarce- ; ly aifurftiy incident in the life. of aj motion picture director although it might strike the average movie fan where his giggle starts. Such was the experience ot Kaipn Ince who directed and co-starred with Zena Keefe in "Out of the Snows.' which was mostly stagefd around Lake Placid. One scene in this picture required a sribw storm, to drive the dog team through. Mr. Ince held his company in readiness ; for several days awaiting the storm which didn t-tome. ijiere . wai lenty of snow at Placid at the time d it lay light and feathery so that the only prooiem was a winusiorm. As tne wind didn't come along either, Mr. Ince finally created his ownetorm by, taking the wings off a big airplane, tieing the plane down and starting the motor.1 The fans started the finest snow storm any one could wish. v Then came the taking of the great storm scene. Miss Keefe was bun dled into a great sled, such as is used in the Arctic regions, Mr. Ince gathered the rawhide reins control ling the dogs and they were off. The scene had been staged near a small lake for scenic effect. 'The ice on the lake was like glass. When the dogs got into the snow storm the whirling of the great motor fright ened them; they took things in their own hands, tipped Miss Keefe out and got away from their driver. In trying to turn around to get away from the noise and commotion of the speeding motor fan,s the dogs got too near the seat of action and with wild yelps and howls of fear the entire team, sled and blankets were swept out and onto tho, ice with a velocity of 175 mile an hour gale. ine dogs were blown way across :ie lake where several of the team itlimerliatelv HisenontTerl tfiemelv from' their trappings and motion pictures at the same, time and went,! speedily away from there. Mr, Ince had to break in, a new team and another scene was taken later which was very satisfactory.". ... nesses of life, are always simple, old while we kicked them aside in our search for new sensations. . The trust of A child, the devotion of 4 niother the faith of a wife, the grim determination of honest ambi tion these are things that have been with us always, even among the foundation stones of humanity, which endure unchanged from age to age," whil." the shallow 'waves of society, luxury and fashion advance and recede, and the clamor of war dies and cqnie again and dies once more. ' - Women Permitted to , Smoke in Chicago Jail Chicago, 111., Sept. 18. Captain George F. Lee, warden of Chicago's famous Cook county ail, has sanc tioned smoking' by women inmates of the Jail, Captain Lee says: ' "The women prisoners are citizens just like the men. I won't discrimi nate. Just so long as the women fol low -the army system of returning their burned match ends -to their match boxes and don't thDw then! on the floor- they are welcome to enjoy a nice little smoke like, the men prisoners. 'We are living in an age f 'women's rights,' and what's good for the men must be good for the women." George Marshall, co-director with Ruth Roland of "Ruth of the Rock ies." the Patbe serial which ill be released soon, owes his present suc cess to his own patience. At thf kmc of his father's death, Marshall, Ine son of the well known Chicago jeweler, took a trip, for the bene fit of his mother's health, with 'her to California. He had no difficulty in obtaining an excellent position in one of the city's leading jewelry stores. An old friend called on Marshall and invited him to accom pany him to the motion picture studio where he was employed. A cordingly Marshall, on his first holi day, accompanied his friend. With a group of extras, Marshall watched his friend' working in an Al Christie serial at Universal City. A casting director walked up to hfm and said abruptly "you. .work tomor row 8":30 for Christie. Name and addaess?" and before Marshall could recover from hi Jurprise, the cast-1 ing director had walked away. After that the jewelry store was no longer graced by Marshall s presence. .His rise came rapidly. After a Icyf weeks as an "extra". he was made assistant Ifor McRaej at the expiration of three.months with Mc Rfe young Marshall was given the directorship ot Harry Carey, who Vas the first ma to star at Uni jysal , City. Marshall directed a number of the Helen Gibson rail road pictures and also co-directed with facques Jackard on "Liberty" with Marie Wakamp and Jack Holt. Mr. Marshall ' not only directed but wrote a numberwof his produc tion for Carey and Miss Gibson. Entertaining a HanHy Man V Vv "What Undertaker?" Wally 'Asks Operator Smith College Girl on Her Way For Chinese Service Boston. Sent. 18. Miss Bernice Wheeler of Hudson, Sirrlth college graduate and former assistant teach er at Simmons college, is today on her way to Nanking, China, after having been officially adopted by1 the ferment Methodist fepiscopal con ference. As a ward of the confer ence, she will spend a-yearin the study of the several characters of the Chinese language, and will then become a teacher in the Girls' High school at Nanking. By JAMES J. MONTAGUE. We've just had a visit frpm' a handy man you "know the kind. They understand all about plumb ing, and furnaces, and locks, and gas stoves And .they are pained beyond expression to discover that ycu let these things get out of Re pair and don t do anythuig about It. ., k s He spent a hapov week fixmsr up all the delinquent domestic machine ery a happy week for him, that is. He complained, a good deal because we" bad so few tools, and kept them in such bad condition. But being a . handy man 'he knew liow to fix the tools, too. He had them in good working order in s Sew days,and began -on his help ful tack of making" our .household what it ought to be. He did it, too. We would have been betteroff if we had moved out in tie meantime. In fact when he was fixing jhe bathroom ' hot Water faucet, without ' shutting off ine water, we suggested it DUt ne wbuldn t hear of it. "What's a -little falling plasfer," ne saia-caimiy as' rne cook in .tne pantry below raised a wild yell of despair. "I'll put it all back onthe ceiling; and when it's done it will stay there. I'll make it waterproof. Jtiis tirst shock, as he went over the house, was caused by a smoking chimney. When he spoke aboujt it we toll him we had sent for a; chimney sweep, who would be around in a few days. your money on j "Don't fool away yi ' ''You've been dead ao long, thought I'd have ya buried," Wal lace Reid tells the motionless and un emotionless "Central" when he'a in a hurry, in "What's Your Hurry?" at the Strand theater this week. To. overcome delays in wire com munication Paraguay has arranged for radio service to outside countries through stations in Argentina. chimney sweeps," he said. "They don t know their business, anyway. I'll attend to that In jig. time:" He did. He got a ladder- out of the cellar, lashed several scattlings together as the handle for a swab, tied a bunch of rags around one end, and proceeded to climb to the roof Hauling the swab up after him he br&ke a couple of windows, but" he said that could be easily fixed Afterwards. ' , Plenty of Thrills. THe family went, into the back yard to" watch his operations. Sev-, eral tiirfes, we suffered from heart failure jjhen his feet slipped on the stefp roof. But all the damage was done to the shingles. The handy man wasn't even disturbed" . It was .quite a juggling feat to get' the swab handle, which was 30 or 40 feet long; nicely poised over the chimney. But he managed it at last, after several failures, each rstJ which precipitated the thing to the, ground. , i Then bracing' his feef on either side of the chimney, he shot it down: ward, while a-clotlid of soot soared ,into the air and quite, shut, him off, from our -vision. When the handle dame out again there N was no swab on the end of it. " "Stuck some ple," he called to us cheerfully. "But never miyd, I'll burn it . out. The chimney's good and clean anyway." . So he went into the tellar. and built a roaring fire in the furnace. The reuTt was somewhat startling.- Thick, black smoke. tJoured' tout of-11 the windows. . Passers by rusnea up tne street ana caner. tne fire department. When it arrived we had to use all .the firmness at son our command to keep them from rushing into the house and flooding it with water. - ... - But the scheme- worked eventu ally. -All his schemes worked, after the harmihad been done. The rae burned , out, and . the -ehimnev was clean. So was the house after we '-had spent three days getting the smoke out of it, and the handy man had fe- kalsomtned all the ceilings on the lower floor. ' ' , This triumph achieved, he found that the front door refused to lock. "That's a little job," he said, "notht! ing messy auoui mat. uet me a screw driver." We fot the screw driver and he Went to -work eagerly. In a few minutes the lock was in 80 cr 90 pieces and he was explaining why t didn t work. ,: v "Rust.- full of it. I'll out a little oil in it, put it together aEain. and you'll have no more daiiger from burglars." , ! We were all going out that even ing, so we were glad -to have the lock fixed. The bolt 'clicked - into place as we slammed the door.'and we had serise of securitv that had beet? lackitsince the rust had don? its evil work. No Fear of Burglars.' We returned that nieht in a -oour- ing rain and quickly slipped th? key into th lock. But it-wouldn't turn. ihe handy man seemed elated," "When I fix a lock he -said," ''it stays iixed." ' But how are we going to get into the house?" ; "Oh I'll take it down again. . "But you can't take- it down again. You're on the wrong side of the door." , . ' That 'daunted him- for, the time being. But he stoon cheered up. I'll go in through one ot fthe windows, he said.v He might have' done, so except for the -fact that he had previously been over the windows and fixed all the catches fixed them securely, too. We got in eventually with an ax. It idn't do the door any good, but he said he would build another olie in a couple of tiays. 4"V- He'd have done it, too he coufd do anything." But ?that nigTit he caught a bad cold and w sent him to a 'hospital. And we never in our lives sent anybody .to a hospital with such cheerfulness. ' Copyright, 1920, by IhS Bell Syndicate, Inc. Are Alterations s 7 Of Classics for , Screen Justified? ' "Much criticism and rebuke have been. poured upon the heads qf di rectors and producers," says Joseph de Grasse, director for Charles .Ray, "who have taken famous classics of FnclisVi , literature and in the Droo ess of filming have changed them so materially .that the original theme has been largely dissipated. . "A recent stunning example of. this practice was evident in the film version , of a famous' English play. It pleased in America, but in Eng land H called down upon itself the execration of almost every critic and newspaper. It seemed a viola tion of the work of one of their most beloved authors. , . "Another example is the screen mous books, in which the leading ing of one of Stevenson's most fa chpracter was changed from a man of 50 odd years to a young Adpnis ip, his. twenties, ah d the element of romantic love, entirely .absent in the criminal, was miroaucu. "Can these changes be justified? I think in a way that they can. Irt the first place one must consider the type ofemind of the average fan, the .person whose attendance makes thej Trade Review of Photoplays Big Event in London An event of unusual importance in the lives of hundreds of British ex hibitors is the weekly trade show of Paramount-Artcraft pictures held at the Shaftesbury pavilion m Lon don. This, in brief, is the opinion entertained by Bioscope, one of the leatiing trade journals of Great Brit ain. Under the heading "Are You Feeling Run Down?" a recent edi torial note in Bioscope has the fol lowing to say about these show ings: Every Tuesday Famous-Lasky give a trade show at the Shaftesbury pavilion, and every Tuesday Famous-Lasky go one better. Ex hibitors, film. markers, reviewers and all those people whose business it is Jo see films (hundreds of them irrthe course of a year) have coma to regard the. Famous-Lasky trade show as a known quantity, and a tonic to jaded film nerves. 'It is the one trade show about which there, is no element of doubt what ever.' The'' films are certain to be good. It's always on the cards thpt they'll be 'splendid.' Take ' next Tuesday two pictures, a Paramount and a Paramount-Artcraft. The first1, entitled 'Sadie Love,',, is a witty and altogether delightful vehicle for the charming appearance and sur passing ability of Billie Burke. The second, 'The Knock-out Blow' (The Egg Crate Wallop,) a thrilling story leading to a fine ring contest featur ing Charles Ray. Could you wish for anything better?" HOOVER ELECTRIC i V th tvo-Platoon System h aougni oy oosion riremen Roston.-ySept. 18. Boston firemen ill again ask the voters to accept the two-platoon lystem at the com ing election, despite opposition by Mayor Peters,-the Finance commis sion and the defeat of the plan, last year by a majority oX 5,399 voies, : v Gleans Everywherer-fholoughiy v . 1 , . that's the beauty or the Hoover Electric Suction Sweeper. , It gets into the corners under the f urni- ' 1 ' . , ture and beds behind the chairs all with hardly anj; effort on your part. ' ." .. - - ' - ; , i V And wherever it reaches it cleans 'thoroughly. , V ," ? ; . "V All embedded particles of dirt and lint are drawn into ' ; t v 7 - the airtight bag none escapesinto the air. " y -When your, rugs and carpets are. cjeaned with a : - 1 . - Hoover they take on a new, freshened appearance -, . v ' their rich colorings are restored they are given new , f - , life anct vitality. " , ' ' ' ; " Hoo ver E lec tr i c Sucti on Sweeper $ ii i - $0.oo p own Month Have V Making ihe ownership' of a Hoover easy for everyone. :N '-J You Enrolled in the $100.00 Cash Contest? Phone the Electric Shop about this Cash Offer. - - - . In the Smashing Saturday Evening Post Story, " The Hippopotamus Parade' 'by Byron Morgan if':- 1 Nebraskafi Power Go L , , f famam at FiftecntK Farnam at Fifteenth YOUR ELECTRIC X1 Ahother sizzling auto thriller! By the author tof Wal lace Reid's biggest hits, "The Roaring Road'! and "Ex cuse My Dust',' - , . f ' A romance of lave, business and whizzing racers. And of lumbering,' motor trucks that helped make a speed-demon human. See' the hair-raising motor race that opened the new Los Angeles Speedway. See the battle ii men with a raging storm to save a sleeping valley from' death! . y - ' 11 V See the breaking ofhe great Cabrillfi dam! Then see an unforgettable climax that called for a MAN and found him on the job! . " A picture that fairly bursts with power and excitement ! "SeveiuBald ates," 2-Reel Christie Comedy of Merit JfatheJNews V Mr. and Mrs. Andy Gump ; ;,,mc, c-,ugiJ. rvsi I,. week mcnwofAHBtmj week -. : - H -I.''..... V "'' ' :''t: ''''' '- J jli ii ij i 'u i'i i i 'i immmmssmmjui J..BJ..-MI.W."" ' . ' . V i ' .' . ' . - -v -. r . . r - x - k'.,'v ' '', ' I - "' ' ' .- . - i'-.M ' t- " I' upkeep of the motion picture mdus try possible. He or . she is not4 gen erally well read or well educated, and forsuch the movies are essen tially recreation. Therefore to suc cessfully present classics, which in their original form would never be read by many fans, one must sugar coat them, so to speak, -with -a bit of love interest, just enough to get those who have not had educational advantages "over the deepest places without destroying their interest.. "It is unfortunate that this is so, but truth, cannot be dodged. When the public demands unadulterated literature they will get it., But so long as they continue to prefer the diluted forms no producer is going, to risk heavy investments to please a few critics." 1 ..... 4 3t r ' v -A ... t r - -4 ?