THE BEEt OMAHA, SUNDAY, JUNE 26, 1921.
V A fieh
Program for
The Week
Moon "So Long Letty."
Cm of Charters.
Harry MIlleT....... ....... I. Rot Kuia
"!!ir JfcSSw m25
Tommy RobMoa... .... ...... WalUr Him
BatblDK Glrla Rampant.
Ftttli
Pep!
Sportl
All are contained In "So Long
Letty," comedy feature which openi
today at the Moon theater.
The picture if said to be a smash
ing hit that is rampant with bath
ing beauties.
The story deals with two newly
married couples who present a com
bination of vastly different person
alities. One husband, a gay bird, has
married a girl who doesn't care a
fig for purple and fine linen and de
votes most of her time to the prep
aration of excellently cooked meals
and the care of her home. The other
hubby, an honest-to-goodness home
loving chap, has placed the gold band
on the hand of a sweetie who is
strong for cabarets and the gay and
festive life and who can't boil water
without burnine it
The opening of the picture finds
the newlyweds at neighbors in a sun
ny California town. The difference
in dispositions soon brines dissatis
faction on all sides, with both hus
bands and wives striving to conceal
their real feelings. The gay dog
wants his wife to spruce up like the
wife of his neighbor while the neigh
bor wants his wife to don a ging
., ham gown and practice op in the old
fashioned culinary art
As far as the husbands are con
cerned, they decide, after a confer
ence, that a divorce is the only way
out of the mess. After the divorce,
each intends to marry the wife of the
other. The scheme is explained to
the wives who hold a conference of
their own and decide to swap hus
bands for a week before entering the
courts. Just what happens in the
week following is a knockout
Rialto "Scrap Iron." '
Oast of Character.
John Steel... ...... CHARLES BAT
John's Mother. Ijydta Knott
Mtdf Flannlran...-.........Vara 8t4man
Pill Outran.. Tom Wttaon
Battling Burka......... Tom O'Brien'
Blr Tim Riley,. ........... Stanton Heck
Matt Brady. .......... ..Charles Wheeloek
John's Chum ........... .Clauds Berkeley
Charles Ray in a role different
from anything he has ever done be
fore is the promise held out by the
announcement that "Scrap Iron" will
b.e the attraction at the .Rialto the
ater this week.
Tn triia firodueti'on the Ktar tvr- I
trays the role of a young railHund
.who goes through a series of heart-
stirring and dramatic incidents which
disclose him as an actor of high emo
tional talent. - . "
The story, written by Charles E.
Van Loan and published m the Sat
urday Evening . Post relates the
tr'mtf and tribulations of John Steel,
the character portrayed by Ray, In
trying to keep faith with his widowed
invalid mother. There is humor in
it in abundance, hut underlying the
whole story Js 'a deep Vein of pathos
that makes it absorbingly interesting
$d sympatic, r ':'-,'
tight scene in wnicn teei oners
I v mMe2i) as the sacrifice of a local '
IchampioiT furnishes the Mg thrill of
. the production and it is a fight that i
will stir the blood of anyone seeing
it.
He" must last, three touikU or
the money needed to keep his mother
provided with the necessities of life
will not be his, and for three rounds
he stalls and blocks - and takes a
terrific beating. -The fourth round is
another story, and as exciting a
Story as one could wish to see.
Strand "Two Weeks With Pay
andf "A Private Scandal. ;
Bebe Daniels, piquant film star,
win "be "seen in a dual role in -her
latest picture," "Two Weeks With
Pay." which opens today at the
Strand theater for a four days' en
gagement. -
s-The plot revolves around a case
of mistaken identity at a summer re
sort hotel: and Miss Daniels plays
both the shop girl who is en)oying
i short vacation, and a famous ac
tress whom she resembles.
The shop-girl insists that she is
not the actress, but the guests at the
fiotet prefer to believe that she really
they insist on showering attentions
on the dismayed gir! until the real
actress appears and the mystery is
cleared up, to everybody's complete
Satisfaction.
Beginning Thursday, May McAvoy
will take the screen at the strand
theater in "A . Private Scandal." The
star is called upon to portray a dif
ficult role, that of an innocent girl
upon whom suspicion rests, and who
keeps silent through loyalty to the
guilty woman who has been her
friend and benefactress.' '
k-Sun."DonVCaB Me Little Girl" and
fTbe Outside Woman. . .
You may call her "Mary" -Gr"Mary
Miles"
Or "Girlie."
"But dont call me 'little girl,"
says Mary Miles Minter in her latest
production which opens at the Sun
theater today for a four days' en
gagement. The star plays the rote of an in
corrigible sir of 1& who rebels at be
ing treated like a little girt by her
mother, a widow who is trying to ap
pear more youthful than she really is.
Poor Jerry, dreesed and treated like
aa bias tfcdkieg t tfciii urf mite
Tirana u
Here fs-the sttryf .
Dorothy was a dear Jittle bride,
but she had one fault; . she just
couldn't resist bargains. One day a
peddler sold her a lovely silk shawl
taking in exchange an ugly little idol
which Dorothy had -hated ever since
she found it among her new hus
band's possessions. Her maid tells
her later that the peddler has dis
posed of the idol to an artist who
lives in the apartment just overhead
So when Dorothy finds out that the
idol is worth thousands of dollars,
and doesnt belong to her husband,
but to one of his friends, -she thinks
the simplest thing to do is to slip
up the fire escape and get ft back.
Well say Dorothy slipped. That
poor little bride stirred up more
trouble in one evening than most
folks have in a lifetime.
Muse Don't Call Me Little
GirL
Dncks and Drakes." "The Fron
tier of the Stars" and 'Chickens."
For oictures that boast of the
weet fiirj of life, the spice- and i
P movies
y: , ;f f
deep human interest, this week's
cinema program at the Muse theater
is without peer.
Mary Miles Minter. oiauant star,
takes the screen today in t sweet
story of her own style, "Don't Call
Me Little GirL" The star plays the
role of an incorrigible girl of 18 who
just can t be good.
l he complications in Which a dar
rng young girl gets herself in by
inadvertantly getting into telephone
flirtations with several of her fiance's
fellow club members make uo i
jaizy story in "Ducks and Drakes,"
featuring Bebe Daniels at the Muse
tomorrow and Tuesday.
uangster, gunhghter and spawn of
great city's slums, he had sorung
from the gutter into the web of love.
This is the gist of the story con
tained in 'The Frontier of the
Stars," featuring Thomas Meighan
at the Muse theater next Wednesday
and Thursday.
Douglas MacLean offers no end
of comedy in "Chickens," t the
Muse next Friday and Saturday. If
you've ever tried to raise chickens,
YwH appreciate this story.
Empress -"The Plaything of Broad
way" and "The Chamber Mys
tery." ' .' '
Justine Johnstone has the leading
feminine role in "The Plaything of
Broadway," emenVa - attraction ' the
first four days of tWs week at the
Empress theater, r
- The 'star take the part . of Lola,
dancer and the pet of idle rich men.
She wins a wager by gaining the at
tention of a ma a said to be wholly
indifferent to woman's charms. She
falls in -love with the man, a bril
liant young doctor, and knows her
setf unworthy of a olaee in his clean.
purposeful life. How Lola threw off
the shackles of her old reckless life
and found love and , . regeneration,
forms the Dlot ci this drama.
- Starring in- "The Chamber of
Mystery" at the Empress the lat
ter half Of this week are Earl Met
calfe and Qaire Whitney, both well
knOwn film celebrities.
Did You Know That
Pauline Frederick has the largest
collection "of feather fans extant?
Nazimova gets an unusual photo
rgapihe effect for lier eyes' by using
belladonna before tnaking her close
ups? ,Tom Santschi once gained fame as
a pianist before entering films?
Bert Lyten has a 1,200-acre ranch
in northern California. .
Sessue Hayakawa and his wife,
Tsuru "Aoki, have a collection of
Japanese kimonos valued at $100,-
ooo? - - - ' '
Mildred Davis defied Quaker
ancestry when she joined the films?
Bessie Love lives in a house re
modeled from -a; former topular
California mountain resort?
Grace Darmohd is aft expert archi
tect? -
' John Griffith Wray i a play-,
wright arid owner of a" stock com
pany as well as a Thomas II. Ince
director? " T "
Henry King, Pauline Frederick's
director, was once" & matinee idol of
the screen?- :
Vivian Hasn't Deserted.
For the benefit of all those who
have been making inquiries be it
said that Vivian- Martin has not
permanently deserted the -screen for
her first love, the stage. Her ap
pearance as leading woman hi Just
Married" at the Shubert : theater,
New York, . Is just a between-pic-
t tires occupation. She may even,
she says, start -on her next picture
while. playing on the stage.
The second of Miss Martin's star-
rim oktwes for Messmore Kendall,
which Goldwyn is releasing, . has
only recently been completed it m
a comedy by Eawara vjiuos
penter vith the title "Pardon My
French," and is soon to be released.
Net Director for Dick
lnSSRaMJOO xnfKnreSa ISSla SO Ck
UM Burst KXMTO JJcVOiVHiafB
turf for release fry AsrteTatea
National. It will be a screen vi
of Joseph Hergesheimer's story,
Torble David," which deals with
life in the West Virginia mountains.
Mr. King, who is a native of the
Virginia mountains, has just com
pleted directing pictures starring
Pauline Frederick." He also directed
"23 1-2 Hours Leave,", and co-starred
in as well as directed the Botz Ma
rie Osborne pictures.
: Mildred to Be Star
The cinema fate of Mildred Davis
no longer is a Hollywood (Cal.) mys-
. . . i . .
tery. one nas signer a iong-ienn
contract with Hal Roach and will
appear as leading lady in a few
more comedies with Harold Lloyd.
Then she will be starred fa five-reel
dramatic productions sponsored by
Roach. .
Harry Carey Busy
Harry Carey, Universal star. It
now working on "Partners. It hai
the usual western kf
Downtown Programs
Sun Today until Thursday,
uon i van Me Little tiirl;" latter
half of week, "The Outside Woman."
Rialto Charles Ray in "Scrap
Iron." -,
Strand Todav nttl TimMi.w
"Two Weeks With Pay;? latter half
01 weeic, a rnvate Scandal.
Moon "So Long, Letty."
Mnse Todav. tw rtt v 1 1
tie Cirl,-" tomorrow and Tuesday,
"Ducks and Drakes;" Wednesday
and Thursday. "Thi- Frnnti r.f .
Stars;" Friday and Saturday, "Chick
ens. Empress Todav until Thumdav.
"The Plaything of Broadway;" lat
ter half of week, "The Chamber
Mystery." -
Suburban Programs
i GRAND.
Today Mildred Harris in "Habit"
Tomorrow and Tuesday Robert
Warwick in "The Fourteenth Man."
Wednesday Frank Mayo in "The
Fighting Lover," and first episode of
"The Avenging Arrow." ' . '
Tuesday and Friday "The Cour
age of Marge O'Doone."
HAMILTON. '
Today Earle Williams in "The
Purple Cipher."
tomorrow uiaays Walton in
"Desperate Youth."
Tuesday Mary Miles prater. In
"Eyes of the Heart."
Wednesday William Farnura in
"When a Man Sees Red." , '.
Thursday Tom Mix is Destrt
Love." . . . v . .
What Sennet Say
Mack Sennett says the motion pic
ture public isn't any respector oi
persons; that it looks for results.
"Give it what , it wants," he says,
"arid he public will find its way to
an isolated cinema theater to patron
ize its preferred pictures.- Offer it
what the public ooes not want and
it makes no difference who wrote,
who adapted and produced it, the
public will stay away. - It isn't like
the book-buying public, taking their
cue as to what to purchase from
the name of, ; the man who pro
vides it ,If Mr. Griffith undertook
"to create gay comedy the public
would reward him as liberally as it
would any other producer, provided
Mr. . Griffith made ' good comedies."
Henry Walthall Returns
Henry Walthall, who first achiev
ed screen, fame , in "The Birth of a
Nation," has returned to Los An
geles from a tour of the country in
stage plays, "Ghosts" and "Taken
In." His appearances included 121
one-night stands. He and his wife,
professionally known as Mary
Charleston, are preparing to re-enter-the
film 'game,. s
BowilBaffing Beauties Become Boisterous
' When They Romp About the Billowy Waves
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Beautiful girls in stunning bathing creations help make "So Long
Letty,". which is being shown this week at the Moon theater, an excep
tional picture. The story is a lively tale ot married life In the early stages.
The picture Is rampant with shapely girls.
THE COOLING SYSTEMS
VV-"'-;V of the
Sun"Moon Muse Theaters
Invite Comparison
Justivx
xsioviQ
Here's Chance To
Read Fight Dope
Of Screen Stars
This is what some of the "celebs"
have to say on the subject:
Mabel Normand: Carpentier, of
course. What's a few more pounds
and a heavier smash? Didn't I go
more than a Hundred reels with
Heavyweight Arbuckle? Tickle him,
Georges, tickle him I
Betty Blythe: Every woman fa
vors the rapier as against the mace
the medieval knight as against the
gentleman from the cave.. I shall play
the Acel
" Antonio Moreno; Carpentier would
make a wonderful bull-fighter, but
Jack isn't a bull by a long shot He's
a smart boy. Yet. there's something
about that Frenchman I'm giving
no odds!
Ruby de Reiner: Fn for Geo-ees
I've never won a bet yet I
volleen iMoore: Jack Dempsey is
the winner I mean m the fight.
Bui, oM isn't Georges handsome?
Louise far en da; Demosev will
wm. They say the Frenchman Is fast
en his feet, hut he can t get far on
account of the ropes I
' Betty Compson : Now, as a leading
man, I'd prefer but it isn't a beauty
contest, is it?. -
Bessie Love (briefly, but emphat
ically)! Leave it to Georges I
' Jame Kirkwood: I think Demp
sey will take the histrionic laurels
July 2, but I certainly have a lot of
regard lor the soeed of the French-
Roscoe. Arbuckle: Always bet on
the b iviest man, sir. Matter of loy
alty with me, sir. My money is on
Dempsey. ; ;
That's what they think! And it is
understood that Robertson Cole has
a five-year option on Georges Car
pentier's screen services in the event
the Frenchman winst : -
Big Girl Revue.
The Moon theater this week leads
in offering - a distinct novelty h
conjunction with Oliver Morosco's
"So Long ' Letty. Ten girls in
tastefully fitting bathing suits will
appear four times daily in a revue.
One of the featured numbers of the
act is an electric lighted runaway
which extends over the beads of
the audience.
Every member of the review is an
Omaha girl. Two Complete changes
of costume is given to every girl.
SrtM-tal srnrv has hn hitilr arm i
the song number "My Home Town !
Girl is elaborately staged. Miss
Dorothy DeVere of the La Vera
School of Dancing had charge of
the dance numbers. Walter Wheeler.
pianist of the Moon orchestra, com
posed , the catchy melodies. ; R. S.
Ballantyne, manager of the Moon,
staged the entire production.
xJohz
Mock Sennett Has
Cleaned House For
Serious Drama
Seismic changes are taking place
in the Mack Sennett studio organi
sation. Charlie Murray has terminat
ed his long period of service, the
reason assigned being that Sennett's
plans for big dramatic productions
leave no immediate uses to which
the talents of the genial Charlie can
be put The parting was reluctant
on both sides, though Mr. Murray's
announcement of several months ago
that he . contemplated a vaudeville
tour in the near future, rob the in
cident of the element of surprise.
In the disturbance that witnessed
the mutually deplored departure of
Mr. Murray following an eight-year
service undW the Sennett banner,
there is to be noted also the de
parture to other spheres of comedy
activity of James Finlaysoo aad Kalla
Pasha. Mr. Finlayson will be re
membered as the' Rab in Graham
Moffatt's "Bunty Pulls the Strings,
playing the role during the entire
Broadwav run of the auaint comedy
Kalla Pasha has been the recipient of
the knocks, bumps and wallops that
are some of the subtle manifestations
of a certain type of dramatic offer
ing in which Kalla Pasha's might
is a valuable asset
How seriously Mr. Sennett is con
templating his invasion of serious
drama may be inferred from the list
of recent departures from the Sen
nett lot First, Ford Sterling, then
Louise Fazenda, then John Henry,
jr, Teddy the great Dane, then Ma
rie Prevost and now Charlie Murray,
James Finlayson and Kalla Pasha.
In their places there have come
into the studio Ethel Grey Terry.
Herbert Standing, Noah Beery and
Ben Deely to participate in the mak
mur of serious oicture drama, and Ma
bel Normand, Jack Mulhall, Lowell
Sherman, Jacqueline Logan and oth
er notables to participate in the stel
lar vehicles of Miss Normand, be
ginning with "Molly O."
Mr. Sennett will not abandon the
comedv field, however. He has just
elevated Ben Turpin to starship and
Will produce a series of Ben Turpin
specials two-reel productions of
typical Sennett hilarity. Billy Bevan
will also be featured in comedy
roles. .
"My purpose," says Mack Sennett,
"in taking up the production of se
rious drama is to realize a long
cherished ambition which the success
of 'Heartbalm' justifies us in believ
ing we can Tender permanent Our
comedy activities will represent
about 50 per cent 'of the total of our
energies and the other half will he
devoted in time, money and equipment-to
make the best ilramatic pre
sentations that the best available tal
ent can provide."
Present American I
Stockholders Gain
Control of Patke
In one of the most Important mo
rion picture transactions in recent
years, the present American stock
holders and American management
of Pathe Exchange, Inc., a foremost
inrltnendent distributor of films in
the world, have just acquired controf
of the $7,aXJ0OT company icom
Pathe Cinema ttd. of Paris.
Announcement to' this effect is
made in' a cable from Paul Brunet,
president of Pathe, who has bejr.n in
Paris for several weeks arranging
the details jof the transaction with
the officials of Pathe Cinema, Ltd. ,
Charles Pathe, founder of the
worjd-wide organization bearing his
name, retains a . large share of the
stock in the American concern.
The transaction means that here
after the American stockholders of
Pathe Exchange, Inc. will direct the
nnlirle of th- organization. There
will be no change m the generaf
policy, but there is indicated a
broadening of its activities. The
tiolicv riradlv adhered to since its
inception of remaining put of the.
tielo pi tneaier ownersnip win con
tinue to be implicitly followed by
Pathe Exchange, Inc.
It is known that Mr. Brunet win
continue as president, a position he
has held for more than a year, prior
to which he was vice president and
genera! manager of the Pathe Amer-
ican mPany-
HAMILTON
Today at 3iO0, 430, SsOO, 7:30. :00
EARLE WILLIAMS
in "THE PURPLE CIPHER"
v a-4
Larry Samoa in
"Home Swt Horns"
GRAND 'SSWeT
TODAY
Mildred Harris
in "HABIT"
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SCRAP IRON"
Ra$ Made it
NOW
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Also Showing tfca Latest Pictures of
Carpentier and Dempsey
Training For Their
Big Fight
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Yep, They Lead Double Lives!
Glamor of Press Agents Covers Actual Happenings
In Lives of Famous Film. Stars, Says Buster
Keaton; It's All Fun In Pictures, But After
wards Oh My!
By BUSTER KEATON.
It is natural that the stage and the
screen, the, two places Where the
things of romance and illusion are
spun for , the delight of millions,
should "easily be transferred to the
principal characters themselves; that
the great public should think of the
stars as different beings, living dou
ble lives, able to do things that the
average, man or woman only dreams
of doing without hoping to achieve.
So many splurges of press-agent-ing.
so many sobstories. highly-col
ored and overcharged, have been per
petrated, that, the public supposes
every star when-off duty is surround'
ed by an atmosphere oi incense, sub
dued lights and luxury, reading the
reams of printed comment Or lolling
on a cushioned divan, ordering a
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A REFRESHING COMEDY-DRAMA IN OMAHA'S
MOST AIRY AND COMFORTABLE THEATER
BEBE DAIIELS
; (The Good little Bad Girl) . '
"Thjo IPeeks IDith Pauw
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(which is another way of saying vacation).
"Yoo-hoo,
Cmon Overt
Lots oi Fun"
Complete pictures of
the Grand Lodge Of
the Benevolent Pa
triotic Order of Does
Memorial Day ritiilistio
services at . Fprest
Lawn.
A KNOCK-OUT!
toy9
Drama and comedy and action such as
Charles Rajr has never shown yon before.
A treat, dean ring-battle that thrills from
the Tery first gong to the referee's count I
rt 1 rvtr
Rau Placed It
TILL SATURDAY
Flrt National Attraction
CLYDE COOK
la Hla Lataat Comady Scrum
"THE GUIDE'
valet to bring another glass of liquor
or a match to light a cigaret.
How Different
How different is the actuality, an
actuality drab, mayhap, but nearer
the truth! Take myself, for instance.
There's no incense, no wasting of
time over reading matter, no tolling
but hard work. Not the work of
acting before the camera, but the
far more difficult task of planning
unusually comic stunts and situa
tions for my next pictures. And it's
no pipe dream, either. Originality
doesn t come easily, and I've spent
many an hour worrying how to put
over something clever and odd.
When you see me doing something
in a picture that looks like a happy
accident or sheer spontaniety, de
pend on it a great deal of time has
been expended into thinking it out
vansT 0'DonneH, gam littl shop
girl, who goel to spend her racation at
a faibionablA hotel, begins her "two
weeks with pay" Tery auspiciously by
dropping into a wayside puddle at the
same time as a good-looking young mil
honaire. And when she reached the
Talrriew hotel she was at once haOed
as the famous Marie La Tour, "mermaid
of the screen," incognito.
It would have flabbergasted anyone ex
cept Pansy, but after the first gasp she
was right at home in the role until it
came to high diving, Marie's high card.
The complications which ensued and the
inimitable manner in which the "good
little bad girl" overcomes them makes
this beyond all doubt, the best comedy
Bebe Daniels has yet produced.
Adapted from the Saturday Erening
Post story by Nina Wilcox Putnam. "
Silverman's Orchestra Playing the Overtart .
"THE ONLY GIRL"-Eerbert
Pathe NewsCartoon Comedy Christie Comedy
Kemper Activities
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Agnes Ayres Is
Made a Star In
Paramount Plays
Because of the popularity she has
achieved as leading woman in a num
ber of pictures, notably "Forbidden
Fruit," Agnes Ayres is to be starred
in a series of productions next sea
son, it was announced this week by
Jesse L, Lasky, first 'vice president
of the Famous Player-Lasky cor
poration. Miss Ayres is now in New York,
where she is playing the feminine
lead opposite Thomas Meighan in
"Cappy Ricks." On the comnletidn
of this she will return to Holly
wood and begin work on her first
star picture. . ,fn
Miss Ayres'. rise to stardom is a
typical romance of motion pictures
the career that every American girl
has dreamed of at her own at some
time or another. Born near Chi
cago, she spent her girlhood in the
Windy City. One day she visited
the old Essanay studio and was of
fered a part as an extra. She ac
cepted, was found to screen remark
ably well, and was soon established
as a player of ability. Since then
her rise has been rapid.
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