THE BEE: OMAHA, SUNDAY, JUNE 19, 1931.
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Hmerlcan Producer
V.ot Importation of
European Pictures
Th'ert is no found argument, eco
nomic, armtic or otherwise which
UTort a restrictive movement against
Mms made abroad." said Samuel
Goldwyn, motion picture producer.
upon his return from a three-months
tour of England, France Germany
ina Italy.
"We have nothing to fear from
Europe in the matter of competition,
we have already seen the cream of
the' German product in American
theaters. The average standard of
European pictures is far below ours.
And, even if Europe is to produce
great photoplays America wants to
ee them and to benefit by them. No
matter what countries in turope ex
srcise a restriction, we should keep
our Darner down. We do not restrict
books,' plays, operas or paintings
trom Europe, and there is less rea
son for us to restrict motion pic
tures. Perhaps on motion pictures
depends a greater world understand
sisr.
"in for Germany, it is not exag
geration to say that less than 2 per
cent ot the Uerman pictures will be
fit for presentation here. Italy is
the leading producer in Europe. The
nation that gave us 'Cabiria' and
Uuo Vadis has been busy in the art
of the screen, and if there is any
tremendous contribution to the pho
toplay to be made within the next
year it will come from the Italians.
Music Notes
Elnar Andreasen, organist, PlV'
mouth Con gregatlonal church,
Eighth and Emmet streets, will Rive
an organ recital Tuesday evening
next at 8:15. Besides the concert
overture by Faulkes Mr. Andreasen
will play two numbers by Cesar
Frank, a brilliant tocatta by Feder
lr in, and a group of shorter num
bers.
Plans are rapidly being carried
out to have a choral society in every
city of any else In the state. Albert
A. White, state organizer, reports
the best of result from all over the
state. Twenty cities are now ready
for organization, and many more
will be visited and added to the list.
Each society will be provided a
leader, and the year's work will be
closed next spring with a singing
festival at which all of the societies
will sing. At this meeting the best
artists will bo provided to inspire
the state choristers, and prizes will
be awarded to the best societies by
competent men. . This meeting will
be held in either Omaha or Lincoln.
Mr. White will visit Omaha again
to help in organizing the work here.
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Mrs. Bertha Codington, assisted
by A. J. Moeller, will present the
following pupils In recital at her
icsidence studio, 2450 Templeton
street, today at 2 p. m.: Ingebor
Kristianscn, Darllne Gehrke, Doro
thy Tenant, Helen Thompson, Lewis
Leeder, Nina Jones, Dorothy Boyer,
Alice Jones, t.ucile Looker, Jennie
SJepperson. Margaret Grldly, Irene
ifJouraae, Marie uouraae, vera n.m-
'ifnrvn Vow frnxvfnrd. Alvinn. Ma-
de, Walter Ottman, Fay Broderick,
ith Johnson, George Gregory, Ada
ell, Thelma McGeo, Alene McUee,
shall Johnson, Aimaa vvicaem.
n Wickertt, Ruth Hendersen,
Metcalfe, John Devereaux,
Fletcher. Marie Kedde,
t?eline Savard, Ruth Hamer,
ueorge 1V10K, jmsses mane
-y-A'Jce Britton, Vera Held, Mar
. ' f v Price, Gladys Hanson, Ruth
wVn.stk, Inez Slyter, Bessie and Mil-1
. i p Chambers, Mrs. Devereaux and
Lkv s. Johnson, Messrs. Genet Car
n, Gerald Clark.
' Pupils of Miss Jessie Cady
will fc. i piano recital at the North
Side Christian church. Twenty-second
and Lnthrop streets,; at 4 p. m.,
June 21. Those taking part are
Anna and Margaret Kingsbury, Nor
man Svoboda, Vivian Dooley, Flor
ence Emmett, Walter Marshall and
Hazel Nixon. Miss Cady will be as
sisted by Melba and Thomas How
ard and Kathryn Cady.
Miss' Margaret Liljenstolpe pre
sented Miss Olga Sorenson In piano
recital at the First Christian church
last Tuesday evening. .Miss Soren
son gave a program of much Inter
est, including a group of six num
I hers by Scandinavian composers.
Miss Soenson leaves soon for further
study in Europe.
The choir of Hanscom Park Meth
odist church, assisted by pupils of
Walter B. Graham, will give a con
cert at the church Wednesday eve
' ning.
The soloists are Mrs. Willard Sla-
baugh. Miss Ethel Woodbridge, Mary
Johnston, Peter Fisher and George
Saltzgiver. Mrs. Donald Smith, Miss
Helen Hoagland and Miss Mayme E.
Vroman, accompanists.
Chaplin Cuts Capers
With Cane on Screen
Quite A Difference
Betwen Incident
And Acident
There is really ' as much pathos
and deep-heart interest in "The Kid,"
Chaplin's premier production, as
there islap-stick comedy.
Chaplin has the same little bam
boo cane and heavy shoes that he
vsed to wear in old Keystone come
dies. Jackie Coogan plays the role
of "the kid" in the picture.
The picture will play a return en
gagement this week at the Rialto
theater in conjunction with the fea
ture, "Beau Revel."
Screen Plays
and Players
1 By KENNEBECK
A wonderful rose garden of typical
California profusion tells what Bessie
Love has been doing: in her spare
time. A while ago she bought a
mountain home and set about dec
orating the grounds. She planted
every rosebush and designed the
porch furniture.
The famous stage play, "The Girl
of. the. Golden West," will be Ethel
Clayton s next production. This is
the first time since she has been a
Lasky luminary that she has played
an out-of-doors part. .
An authentic series of colorful
Stories by Pauline Bush dealing with
contemporary Chinese life have been
accepted for publication by a mag
azine. Miss Bush, the former screen
star, is still in China, but will proceed
shortly to India, thence to England.
Una Trevelyan has given uo pic
ture work and is to become the lead
ing lady of the Alcazar theater in
San Francisco. -
Montague Love will play Colonel
Ibbetson, the role played by Lionel
Barrymore on the stage, in the screen
version of Du Maurier's "Peter
Ibbetson," in which Elsie Ferguson
and Wallace Reid are now being
co-starred. --f , ,
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Henry B. Walthall -and .Mary
Charleson, his wife, having toured
the country in a stage play, are re
turning to pictures for a time. Later
they plan again to become troupers.
Lillian Walker, the screen star
who has been offering a monologue
in vaudeville, has accepted a stock
engagement during the summer. She
intends to return to vaudeville in the
fall in a sketch.
Elsie Tanis, now appearing in Paris
in a revue, will sail tor this country
in August, according to a cable re-
reived in New York by Charles a.
Dillingham. v
Tom Santschi's oil interests are
bringing him in lucrative returns. So
much so that he is negotiating the
purchase of a ranch and an ocean
going motorboat. ; i
Divorce Always Wife's Fault
So Says Mary Murillo, Noted English Writer
"It's Woman's Duty to Keep Hubby in Honey
moon Frame of Mind," She Adds.
- Any woman who can win a man
can keep him if she tries, is the
astonishing declaration of Miss Mary
Murillo, an English woman writer
who is in this country, and who
views the American divorce with im
partial and very keen eyes.
"Man is such a creature of habit,"
explains Miss Murillo, "that once he
gives his affection to a' woman he
will continue to lavish his affection
upon her forever, unless she herself
repulses him. The big headlines in
the sensational papers in this coun
try, referring to the frequent cases
of alienation of affection are all bosh.
Nobody-can alienate a man's affec
tion from his wife except the wife
herself, by her deliberate conduct.
Hubbies LoyaL
"The American wife is so self
willed, selfish and spoiled that she
niks her husband completely. The
typical American husband is the
most loyal, generous and dutiful
creature alive. We Europeans view
him with something akin to be
wilderment, he is so willing to let his
women-folks do exactly as they
please, themselves, and 'boss' him
into the bargain.
"Of course I do not mean to imply
that all American wives are selfish
and extravagant, nor that all Ameri
can husbands are down-trodden
doormats. I know that there, are
thousands and tens of thousands of
happy, normal homes in this country,
homes where the husband and wife
are good comrades and where there
is no friction. But there are thou
sands of other homes where there is
friction and unhappiness, and . it is
of those homes that 1 say most em
phatically that: I believe the fault
usually, lies with the wife, not the
husband.
They Turn.
"True( husbands do sometimes
turn to 'the other woman.' But if
the facts were known I believe it
would usually be shown that each
husband did so only after his wife
had herself killed his love by her
nagging, her extravagance, her dis
content, her vain social ambitions, or
her lack of response. Too many
wives marry for what they can get
from a man, in the way of support
and ease, rather than for what they
can gjve to the man in sympathy,
co-operation in his success; care and
love.
"That is why my sympathies are
usuatly with the husband in the
American divorce case. The light
ness with which you marry and di
vorce over here is really interesting
to an outsider. I have recently made
a motion picture scenario from the
famous , dramatic satire, 'The New
York Idea,' which deals with the
problems of society divorce marry
for whim and leave the rest to Fate
and the divorce court. The light way
in which many society people change
partners in marriage as coolly as
they change dance partners is indeed
worthy of thought. Langdon
Mitchell's clever satire, with its
smart, up-to-date American ideas,
differs radically from the usual di
vorce story, and ought to make a big
hit with the American picture-play
public, just as it did with the theater
going public when it was presented
on the stage in New York several
seasons ago."
"The New York Idea," starring
Alice Brady, come to the Empress
theater the first four days of this
week.
Not infrequently, as players for
the screen will testify, an incident
hat a surprising way of converting
itself, speedily and abruptly, into an
accident.
Incidents, needless to say, are pre
arranged; scenario writers and cine
ma directors devise them.
Accidents, of course, are of an en
tirely different nature. They are not
foreseen.
Nevertheless, many an incident,
suddenly becomes an accident, finds
itseit recorded by the vigilant eye of
tne camera and, oy the same token
is transformed again into an inci
dent Dangerous.
Take a runaway scene as an ex
ample. Trained horses were used-
horses especially trained to run
without the directing hand of a
driver. At the final and crucial mo
ment, however, these ordinarily in
telligent and docile beasts forgot
their training. They reverted to the
primitive. The star, tied to the floor
of the wagon, suddenly realized with
horror that they were actually run
ning away. Fortunately for the
young star, when the team and the
vehicle rounded a sharp curve and
plunged over an embankment, the
helpless rider was uninjured. The
camera, situated to register an inci
dent, in reality photographed an ac
cident. And it was the accident, and
not the pre-arranged incident, that
finally formed a part of the thrilling
cinema tale.
Hanged or Lynched.
Recently, in one of his roles, Mon
roe Salisbury was to be hanged
lynched, perhaps, would be the more
correct term. His captors, the vil
lains of the plot, had rigged a device
which combined the process of hang
ing with the piratical harbarism of
walking the plank. Sandbags nicely
balanced one end of the plank Sal
isbury stood on the other. One by
one the sandbags were to be re
moved. All was in readiness; Salis
bury was in position; the noose was
adjusted about his neck. Suddenly,
the pile of sandbags overturned. The
long board, thus released, crashed
from under the actor's feet and fell
into a ravine. And Salisbury actu
ally was hanging! Only the quick
ness of director and cameraman
saved him from death."
At Universal City a thoroughly1
equipped hospital is maintained. It
is the product of demand, necessity
and experience. Though there is
but slight difference between the pre
fixes "in" and "ac," there is all the
difference in the world, as the cinema
player well knows, between incident
and accident. That hospital stands
between!
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petitor is due to his own fault. The
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Cupid in Hollywood J
Cupid it busy at the Fox Holly'
wood studios. Several weekt age
Jack Gilbert, then a Fox leadini
man, married Leatrice Joy, Gold
wyn leading woman, and now comes
word that Jack Dillon, director of
William Russell, has taken Edith
Hallor of the stage and screen, foi
his bride. According to resorts.
still another marriage is impending n
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Two weeks ago we completed the installa
tion of a Blizzard Cooling System, but so far
have not made much fuss about it
f In the past, amusement places have been
inclined to make far-fetched statements re
garding the possibilities of their cooling
devices. . -
( The Strand, however, following its conser
vative policy, has made a thorough tryout of
the Blizzard System, and basing this state
ment on the comments of its patrons, has no
hesitancy in styling itself
Omaha's Coolest Theater
Double Program
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unny Florence "Vidor
and Lewis Stone
One Woman He Could Not Win.
And His Rival was - - His Son!
A Powerful Picture With a Surprising Climax
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Return Engagement
of the qreaiesi Comedu, ever presented: on the Rialto screen
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This picture has set a New World's Record in the his
tory of theatricals, both of Motion Pictures and the
Legitimate Stage.
"The Kid" Hat Been Shown to 56,700,000
Persons in the United States in 12 Weeks.
RIALTO SYMPHONY
PLAYERS
Harry Brader, Director ,
Playing the , Overture
RIALTO NEWS EVENTS
KINOGRAMS
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Ay ah XvyjSv) ".v S,K
Ayr Week jJnwjXlHWliJ 7 and 9 M
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y& v lil'ttO Runs This IDorld Anp?aq7
Masterful man, of course! And woman well, "someone mutt
"feed the brute." Someone must smooth his mighty, care
worn brow.
But while man thinks he runs the world, the woman smiles, and
i what she knows about himt
MAUD Adams' Qreat Stage Success
The play that is a delicious joke on the whole male sex but one I x
I that the men will enjoy as much as the women. III
.J Sir James M. Barries Famous Plau
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Yb J Conrad Tlagel and Lois IDilson
li The Sphinx j ' ill And
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yv3: " I The Woman St """ Sphinx
2&!ti I Whispers &Y f" Smiles
JULIUS K. JOHNSON CV J ' jfifw
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