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THE BEE: OMAHA, SUNDAY, JUNE 12. 1021.
Program for
The Week
KIALTO
Movies
Strtnd "The City of Silent Men."
Cast of Character.
Jim Vnntromary Thorn Mlhn
Molly Bryant Loll Wliton
lira. Montcomarj... Kata Bruca
Old Bill , Paul Evarton
Mlka K.nrney Ooorga MacQuarrl
Mr. Bryant.. Guy Ollvar
Should an innocent man who his
been gent to prison on circumstantial
evidence seek escape or should he re
sign himself to fate and serve the
term?, That is the question which
confronts Thomas Meighan, in his
latest picture, "The City of Silent
Men," which will be shown at the
Strand theater this week.
Jim Montgomery might have
chosen the latter alternative, had it
not been for the fact that his mother
was dying from grief. He makes his
escape, but arrives home just in time
to see his mother's funeral cortege
leaving the home. He goes west,
and in a new land, builds his life
anew, fie is traced by a detective
and be knows that he can be identi
fied by his finger prints.
How docs he win his freedom?
The answer is one of the strongest
and most sensational climaxes ever
viewed on the screen. Lois, Wilson
is the leading woman, and Kate
Hrucc, Taul F.vcrton. George Mac
Uuarrie and Guy Oliver round out
the cast.
Moon "Kazan."
1'rlnelpal Character.
Joan RadlaHon Tana Novak
,lim Thnrp- Ben Peelcy
Pierre Radlsaon. . . . William Uyno
Frank IlaillBSon Ben Haggnrty
"Black" Mcc'ready Edwin Wallock
"KHzan" By Himself
What is declared to be one of the
ijiost remarkable photoplays of the
season will be shown at the Moou
theater, when "Kazan," adapted from
James Oliver Curwood's thrilling
narrative of the same name, opens
today.
Jane Novak has the leading role,
supported by Hen Dceley, William
Ryno, Ben Haggcrty and Edwin
Wallock.
' The story was adapted for the
screen and directed by Bertram
Bracken. It is a gripping tale of a
great malcniute dog named "Kazan,'
who becomes a killer following the
murder of his master. He is the en
emy of all mankind until he comes
into contact with beautiful , Joan
Radisson, who befriends him and
sets him free from his brutal sur
roundings. He joins a wolf pack,
becomes its leader and has an op
portunity while leading the pack to
show his appreciation to the one who
befriended him when the wolves
swoop down on the girl and a man
trekking through the wilds of the
great snow country. He fights off
the pack in what is said to be one of
the most thrilling scenes ever pic
turized. Twice jnore he saves this same
girl, but on these occasions it is from
a human wolf. He also visits a ter
rible revenge upon the slayer of his
master. In his faithfulness to his
own mate Kazan sets an example for
a man and a girl to follow. The
stdry. which ran in the Cosmopol
itan Magazine, is one of the most
charming and popular of James
Oliver Curwood's works.
Sun "The Little Pirate."
Cant of Characters.
Arcllts Tarnam Viola Pana
Toby Morcland .lack Mulhall
1'nrlt .lohn Farnam Edward Jobson
Ivan Nevkova Edward Cecil
'The Little Pirate," starring ador
able Viola Dana, comes as the fea
i turrattraction at the Sun theater.
! Opinion in 'Other cities where this
picture has been seen pronounces it
; a wonderfully acted, convincing bit
of Ivork. This is due both to the
1 skill put into its production and to
the fact that it is an adaptation from
a Saturday Evening Post story by
j the well known fiction writer, F.
', Scott Fitzgerald.
j "Jhe Little Pirate" is the story of
i . group of people who adopt des
; pcrate measures to save Ardita Far
;nam, an heiress, from the wiles of a
scheming Kussian who is after her
S money, riratical tactics in Aroita s
i spruce yacht bring about a series of
j tnrming escapaaes, cnning in a rc
Iversal of the intriguer's hopes and
thp"ushenng in of new ones.
Miss Dana is supported by an able
cast, including Jack Mulhall, Ed
ward Jobson and Edward Cecil.
Rialto "Sacred and Profane
i Love" and "Now or Never."
Probably the most entertaining
j summer program that can be offered
j in the cinema is booked at the Rialto
theater this week with Elsie Fergu
son and Harold Lloyd in respective
features. -
In "Sacred and Profane Love,
starring Elsie Ferguson, a story of a
5 soul's awakening is told. The star
" has- the role of a prudishly reared
'country girl who has an affair with
:,a. celebrated pianist and who after
many harrowing experiences, finds
her pianist an absinthe fiend. How.
jshCcures him and reaches the pinnacle-ot
happiness makes up the plot of
j the story.
! Conrad Nagcl plays opposite Miss
! Ferguson.
la "ow or A ever, corncay, nar
bldu Lloyd takes advantage of the
fumtv situations which a Pullman
ji car- affords.
Muse "The Little Pirate," "The
r Bait," "The Snob" and "The
I Ghost in the Garret."
; Some highly entertaining features
'are listed on this week's program at
sthft'Muse theater.
;i Viola Dana, Hope Hampton,
Wanda Hawlcy and Dorothy Gish.
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GRAND -'SSiS?
TODAY
BERT LYTELL
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The Price of Redemption
Matinee at 3 p. m.
HAMILTON
40th and
Hamilton
TODAY AND MONDAY
The Super-Special
"THE COURAGE OF
MARGE O'DOONE"
And Two-Reel Cemedy
in respective attractions, ofler ap
pealing pictures to Muse patrons.
"The Little Pirate," cinema at
traction today, is a light comedy
drama featuring V lola Dana.
"The Bait," featuring Hope Hamp
ton tomorrow and Tuesday at the
Muse, tells a tale of a crook who
fished for money with the charms of
a beautiful girl. It is a melodrama
tic bombshell of romance and
mvstcry.
Wanda Hawlev has the title role
in "The Snob," which plays Wednes
day and Thursday at the Muse. The
pictures tells a story of college life.
"The Ghost in the Garret," chief
cinema attraction next Friday and
Saturday at the Muse, offers
Dorothy Gish one of the best pic
tures of her career, press sheets re
port. The story deals with a girl
who foils the efforts of a band of
crooks to escape with a pearl neck
lace which they have stolen. How
she recovers the necklace with the
help of a bull dog offers the comedy
in the story.
Empress "The Mother Heart" and
"Extravagance."
Shirley Mason and May Allison
take the screen successively at the
Empress theater, this week.
In "The Mother Heart," cinema
attraction the first four days of this
week at the Empress, Shirley Mason
plays the role of a young girl who
mothers a little baby after her father
had been sent to prison. How she
undertakes the task against handi
caps makes up the heart interest.
Raymond McKee plays opposite
Miss Mason.
May Allison has the title role in
Jane 7vbva& (moon )
"Extravagance" the latter half of
this week.
Miss Allison has the role of Nancy
Brown, daughter of a' wealthy man,
who marries Dick Vane, a young
lawyer. Her society ambitions ne
cessitate a severe dent into the hus
band's income, and in a mad desire
to hold his wife's love, Dick forges
a check on his father. It is when
jail faces him and his wife is given
the chance to save her husband by
leaving him forever that the great
understanding leading to the new life
comes.
Ah, Mere Man Meets
His Waterloo When
Star Rules Him Out
Griffith 'Discovered' This Star
Davjd Butler was offered his first
screen role bv no less a personage
than-David Wark Griffith. Mr. But
ler was appearing in a Los Angeles
stock company when the famous di
rector first saw him. Since then,
David Butler has worked in seven
Griffith productions and is now mak
ing pictures independently. "Bing-Bang-Booin"
is the latest production
in which Butler will shine. Fred J.
Butler, father of the star, is in charge
of direction and the subjects are in
full five-red comedy-drama form.
According to reliable authority,
Madame Alia Nazimova, famous
star of the stage and screen, has ac
cepted for production a play in
which all the characters are women.
Further interest attaches to the an
nouncement by the news that Nazi
mova will engage a woman director
to stage the play and engage an all
women .staff in every department.
Merc Tnan will have about as much
to do with the play as William J.
Rryan has with drinking booze.
Aside from such occupations as may
come under the head of "back stage
help," including stage hands and
heads of the mechanical depart
ments, men will be as scarce around
the Nazimova production as Irish
men at a German barbecue.
Roscoc Arbucke lias returned to
Los Angeles from New York and
is now busy filming George Pattul
lc's "Gasoline Bus."
Mary Pick ford to
Give Up Her Curls
In Coming Play
"I'm thinking of playing a picture
practically all in character," ex
plained Mary Pickford, "without
curls, without straight makeup and
in shabby clothes. It will be a char
acter on the order of Unity Blake in
Stella Maris," but totally different."
"To create a character like that
and sustain it through an entire pic
ture is much more difficult than play
ing oneself. Although in real life
and when I was a little girl I never
did the things I did in 'Daddy Long
Legs' or "Polyanna.' I never played
w'ith boys or was the least bit boist
erous. Perhaps one reason was be
cause I have been working since I
was 5 years eld and didn't have
the time.
To Appear Homely.
"I love to be a little'girl and have
great fun playing those roles, but it
is the pretty girlj who have it easy
in the world everyone is always
nice to a beautiful child or to a
pretty woman. It is the homely,
drab, colorless girl that has the
dramas -and tragedies in her life. A
pretty girl can generally feel sure
that she will be able to find a man
and get married, but what about the
poor, little creatures, both in un
happy environments and doomed to
drudgery all their lives? They see
the favors bestowed upon their good
looking companions, they see them
marry and move to better things,
while they are passed by without a
glance and have no happy future
ahead of them.
"Then again," the star continued,
"the beautiful girl is in the minority
in the world. The world is com
posed mostly of just average people
and it is the life of the average per
son I like to portray. Shakespeare's
remark that the stage but holds a
mirror up to nature is true and the
screen must do the same thing.
"But how about 'The Hoodlum?' "
she fas asked. " ou were so ex
ceedingly hoodlumish in that."
Quite Different.
"Several people criticised me for
being such a rowdy in that story,
but remember I was a girl from
Fifth avenue trying to act a tough
I could not play it as if I was
brought up a hoyden, for persons
when they go from their own walk
of life into a totally different walk
and try to be like their surroundings
always overdo it that is why I
played 'The Hoodlum' that way.
"Personally, I think the public
wants a change now and then so that
is why I do these character parts.
I never want my friends to say, 'Oh,
Mary Pickford is always the same.'
I like to surprise them with different
characters, and when I make those
characters lifelike I have the per
sonal satisfaction of having accom
plished something for the advance
ment of my own art.
"Certainly, a person feels one's
characters," explained Miss Pickford
in answer to a question. "All through
'Pollyanna' I felt not a bit older
than my leading man, who was 15,
and, strange as it may seem, when
I would do my hair up in the eve
ning to go home I had the same
feeling of uppishness as I had when
as a little girl I did my hair up and
paraded around in one 'of mother's
skirts."
Buster Keaton and his bride, Na
talie Talmadge, are spending their
honeymoon .-motoring from New
York to Los Angeles.
EATTY'S
Today and All Week
N presenting "The City of Silent Men," we sincerely
J- believe it to be one of the most exceptional produc
tions the screen has yet produced.
The Strand has never been reckless in its statements to
. the public, believing that confidence in the Strand is our
greatest asset. We seldom enthuse in print regarding
our attractions, but this photoplay is so exceptional we
just can't help it.
STRAND THEATER
Thomas Meighan
Has His Qreatest Role in
"The Cit-y o;
Herd Men"
Blizzari
Cooling
System
Assures
Comfort
A Paramount Picture
This photoplay is an adaptation of
the much - discussed book, "The
Quarry," by John A. Morosco, consid
ered one of the most human stories
ever written.
Without the question of a doubt,
Thomas Meighan's greatest role since
his never-forgettable performance in
"The Miracle Man."
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Downtown Programs
Sun Viola Dana in "The Little
Pirate."
Strand Thomas, Meighan in "The
City of Silent Men."
Rialto Elsie Ferguson in "Sacred
and Profane Love," and Harold
Lloyd in "Now or Never,"
Moon Jane Novak in "Kazan."
Empress Today until Thursday,
"The Mother Heart; latter half of
week, "Extravagance."
Muse Today, "The Little Tirate;"
tomorrow and Tuesday, "The
Bait;" Wednesday and Thursday,
"The Snob;" Friday and Saturday,
"The Ghost in the Garret."
Omaha Woman.
It may not be known to the many
friends and admirers of Mabel Ju
lienne Scott, now playing the role
of "Fanny Herself," that tlic actress
created tlje principal feminine role
in "Welcome Stranger," one of the
biggest New York dramatic suc
cesses of the past few years.
' Miss Scott, who had returned to
the stage after playing the principal
role in the Rex Beach picture, "The
Barrier," was engaged by George M.
Cohan to play the lead in "Welcome
Stranger." When it opened in At
lantic City two ' years ago Jesse
Lasky saw Miss Scott's performance
and offered her a long contract to
appear in pictures. She accepted and
has remained on the screen ever
since, while "Welcome Stranger" has
played for the last two years in New
York and Chicago only.
Viola Dana Plays I
Engrossing Kole
Suburban Programs
Delightful Viola Dana, the effer
vescent little actress, will be seen
this week at the Sun theater in "The
Little Pirate," a whimsical story of
the sea.
The star plays the part of a capri
cious young heiress who is bored to
death with a host of suitors.
The story deals with the efforts
of her friends to shield her from an
intriguing foreigner.
Hamilton.
Today and Tomorrow "The
Courage of Marge O'Doone."
Tuesday Kva Novak in "Wolves
of the North."
Wednesday Robert Warwick in
"Told in the Hills."
Thursday and Friday Douglas
MacLean in "What's Your Husband
Doing?"
to Saturday Tom Mix in "Desert
Love."
Grand.
Today Bert Lytcll in "The Trice
of Redemption."
Tomorrow and Tuesday Mar
guerite De La Motte in "The Hope."
Wednesday Carmel Myers in
"Cheated Love."
Thursday and Friday William
Farnuin in "The Greatest Sacrifice."
Saturday J. Warren Kerrigan in
"The Coast of Opportunity."
Give Him a Key.
rViscilla Dean, while making a
personal appearance visit in Port
land, was given the key to the city.
"Shucks," drawled Will Rogers, when
he heard about it, "I'd Mart niakin'
pers'nal appearances if they'd start
givin' keys to their cellars." Inci
dentally the famous gum-chewing
eppigramniing star (referring to
Rogers, of course) is going to head
his own company plans are - now
being made for independent produc
tions. One of the bestpknown- pro
ducers in the country will be asso
ciated with Rogers.
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dozen years the call of an old
memory had reached her and
! she cam to him, forgetting her
new love forgetting every -thing
except tfrat he needed
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you see this novel production.
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