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The next of Tom SanUchl'a out
door storirt will be one written bv
himself. During a recent lapse be-
tween cictures Santschi cot am
bitious and wrote himself three
tcenarios. One U a sea story.
Henry King made a flying trip
from New York to Los Angeles to
tlose his home. He is hurrying
back now to start direction of
Richard Barthelmess. It is rumored
that the second Barthelmess starring
picture may be made in California.
Frank Borzage has bought a beau
tiful home on Long Island Sound,
jlus a sea-going yacht. The time be
:ween his productions for Cosmo
politan will be spent on ocean voy
iges, when he will work on the
preparation of new stories.
The wife and daughter of Eddy
Tolo have started on a globe-trot-ing
tour of Europe, Egypt and
Africa. The daughter is Valvine
Polo, who has recently come into
screen fame In "Foolish Wives."
Viola Dana is temporarily quitting
her picture work to be queen of a
rodeo in Reno. Nev. She is the
guest there of the Chamber of Com
merce. A new home in Hollywood hat
been purchased by Mildred Davis.
She presented it to her parents as a
wedding anniversary gift. She is
again in her make-up and playing in
a new Harold Lloyd comedy.
Carmel Myers' contract with Uni
versal has expired and she is ex
pected shortly to affiliate with an-
other concern. The same is true of
S Edith Roberts and her contract
Tom Mix has another new gun.
This makes Tom's gun total about
59. The latest acquisition was pre
sented to him by a contingent of
Boy Scouts.
To further the visualization of the
title role in . "The Half Breed,"
Wheeler Oakman dyed his hair
shiny black. In "Slippy McGee," his
next Oliver Morosco picture, the au
thor has made the character red
haired. Will Oakman go that far
Jor art's sake? !
Two new stars have been signed
by William Fox. They are Jack
Gilbert, formerly Maurice Tourneur's
assistant director and scenario writ
er, and Eva Novak, sister of
Jane, who has just finished five pic
ture! for Universal.
Tom Santschi has' a pair of much
worn moccasins once used by the
famous scout, Kit Carson. The
donor is a New Mexico cattleman
who came into possession of the
relics at an auction. Santschi has
nearly completed the first produc
tion of his second series for Pathe.
The bctween-pictures vacation of
John Griffith Wray will be spent in
the eference room of a library
gathering data ior hi new picture
to be produced for Thomas H. Jnce,
which dials with phases of the' im-,
migration problem. Mr. Wray is
personally doing . his own soci
ological research."
Black coffee fs becoming the solace
of screen actresses called on for sus
tained emotional acting. Irene Rich,
leading woman in "A Voice in the
Dark," fortified herself with four
steaming cups before she began work
on the big murder scene of the play.
Women who' use perfume, sayj
Helene Chadwick, noted actress,
should make a study of the art. One
rule that should always be observed,
she contends, is that exotic fra
grances are not for blondes, and that
sweet ones like lily of the valley and
violet are not for brunettes.
David Winter, who has been cast
for an important role in "Poverty of
Riches," now in the making, recently
forsook a prosperous business enter
prise in Los Angeles to become a
motion picture actor. Mr. Winter's
family name is Dyas.
Will Rogers suggests the following
simple method of cutting the num
ber of murders in half: Instead of
running a murderer's picture on the
front page, with a two-column story,
give him an agate notice down in the
corner of an inside page.
As his fellow players in "The Pov
erty of Riches'' are well aware, John
Bowers is an accomplished musician,
his favorite instrument being the
guitar. Between scenes, they say, he
plays continuously.
Helene Chadwick recently received
a pair of slippers from an admirer in
China. She admired them and sent
, an appreciative note of thanks to the
donor, but when she came to put
them on she said she felt like Cin
derella's step-sister. They were about
a size one.
Hot Role for "Bull" Montana
There is strong possibility that
Mr. "Bull" Montana will shortly be
seen in one of the hottest roles of
his screen career. Reference is made
to the part of "Paprika" in David
Butler's new feature, "Bing-Bang-Boom."
According to Fred J. But
ler, father and director of the star,
this role should suit Mr. Montana's
screen talents to perfection and his
decision is awaited with much
anxiety.
A- Pertinent Question
If foreign governments won't pay
us their war debts or the interest on
them, why not get some of the bils
lions of dollars back we loaned them
by imposing a duty on foreign films
equal to the difference in the cost of
production in America and abroad,
and that will leave a reasonable pro
fit to the American producer?
Minter to Europe -Mary
Miles Minter leaves the
coast on Wednesday of this week
for the east She is planning for a
two months' trip through Europe,
during which she will visit England,
Beleium. France Italv and Soain.
HavT She ill sail from New York abroad
me viympic.
Caimel Myers Quits Universal
Carmel Myers is sayiog good-bye
to UaiversaL Her coitract has ex
pired and she does not intend to re
new it Her last picture. "The Black
Cap," fn will go to the screen.
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Until He Met the Sweet Girl of His Dreams
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Reared In an orphan asylum Peep O'Day, a small town character
played by Will Rogeri in "Boys Will Be Boys," grew to a ragged drab
manhood befo.e he felt the thrill of real love.
Then, unexpectedly, he falls heir to a fortune in far-away Ireland.
Pretty Irene Rich plays the role of the heroine in the story.
Heart Secrets of
A Fortune Teller
By RACHEL MACK.
Silks, Satins and Limousines.
I was standing at a ribbon counter
today wilting for my change and,
incidentally watchin' the driftin'
feminine population in search of
vanity, when a tall brunette floats
un and starts lookin languidly over
the stock. After a casual glance or
two around, she orders a clippm ot
five yards of an oriental pattern in
purple and gold, on sale for $6.50
perl Just like that.
Her blase manner interests me, so
does the rather familiar look about
her figure and walk, and I begin to
examine riDDons near ner witn me
intention of stealin' a good look at
her features. And sure enough I
recoimize her! But of course that
doesn't completely satisfy me, so I
continue . to stand around long
enough to hear the name and ad
dress given for the charge. If I
mentioned the name you'd probably
be just about as surprised as I was
when I heard the news, for, it seems,
she's no other than the wife of one
of the stoniest old skin-flints that
ever cornered a copper market! I
was some interested when she spilled
that name and address over the
counter 1
After she had gone I began to
stir up my memory a bit, and to
piece two and two together. I re
membered reading the announce
ment of old Skinflint's marriage to
his secretary, some eight months
ago, which was unusually quiet con
siderin' the wealth of the gentleman
In question and the obscurity of the
bride. The only sensational dope to
the whole story was a rumor of a
legal marriage contract settling sev
eral millions on the bride outright
and a codicil to old Skinflint's will
leavin' lier a lion's slice of the estate
in case of his death.
And when I read the announce
ment of the wedding eight months
ago I didn't realize the bride was
the girl who had once sat in my
studio and asked me to point her
the road to wealth ! But maybe you'd
be interested in that interview?
She was four years younger then,
and poor. As poor as a chaurch
mouse compared to her present state,
but the superb beauty of her face
and figure were just as striking then
as they were today. She had' the
looks you couldn't hide tinder a
bushel, if you know what I mean.
Adorn her in sables and a Maison
Rence hat like she had on today, or
a thirty-nine-fifty blue serge and a
straw sailor like she was wearin the
day of her visit four years ago, and
the dash was there, just the same.
She was a stenographer in a
down-town law office makin' $30 a
week, she explained the day she
opened up her heart to me and con
fessed her life's ambition. She want
ed money! She wanted it more
than she wanted anything else on
earth. She wanted it to buy jewels
and limousines and clothes. She
wanted it to buy ease and luxury
and a firm social position on the top
rung of the ladder. She was abso
lutely in earnest about it, and I soon
saw that it wasn't any passing girl
ish whim with her. It was her life's
ambition, and she'd never be cured
of it Love in a modest Love Nest
with a Mission suite in the living
room and a patent clothes line in the
rear had about as much attraction tor
her as a yellow flag has for a sight
seeein' tourist in the tropics! She
Speed Is Wallace
Reid's Middle Name
Proving himself dare-devil
driver, Wallace Reid, noted film
star, has a strong role in his latest
vehicle. "Too Much Speed," which
plays this week at the Strand theater.
In one scene, Reid is shown driv
ing car 100 miles an hour. Hoop-la!
Agnes Ayres and Theodore Rob
erts share the honors with the star.
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hated poverty in any form, and the
star she had hitched her wagon to
was money.
"Girlie," I says, "you ask me if
you'll ever ever realize your dream,
and I answer 'yes' without hesitation.
You'll realize it because you're willin'
to pay any price for it, and because
you've got beauty and youth to spend
without stint. Gettin' your goal in
this world, girlie, is just a question
of wantin' that goal with a con
sumin' desire and then payin' the
price I And when it comes to buyin'
jewels and furs and French motors,
girlie well, some women pay the
price with their souls. Others get
off easier. It's your own bargain.
That was the sum and substance
of our interview, and I'd never seen
her since until today at the ribbon
counter.
Did she look satisfied? Perfectly!
She had realized her life's ambition
to the letter! But thank Heaven, I
say, for the world full of the other
kind of women those that wouldn't
exchange the love nest with the
patent clothes-line for all the jewels
and limousines old Skinflint could
buy. Thank Heaven, I repeat, that
they're in the majority!
Did They Burn?
Marie Prevost, former bathing girl
star, made a farewell appearance in
an "Annette Kellerman" last Sunday
at Coney Island, New York. To add
solemnity to the occasion she burned
all her photographs which showed
her in scanty attire, several thousand
feet of film of herself in bathing
scenes, and a perfectly good one
piece bathing suit.
Miss Prevost has recently signed
a contract to be starred in five-reel
emotional roles for Universal and
wished to bury her past career lest
people who remember her as a bath
ing beauty would not take her se
riously in her new roles. Her first
picture will portray society life in a
fashionable summer resort
Buck Jones at Moon
Buck Jones, who comes to the
Moon theater next Friday and Sat
urday in "Get Your Man," has one
of the hardest battles in a storm
scene yet placed on the screen. It
is understood this scene was taken
during an actual storm instead of a
storm created by motion picture me
chanical devices.
Omaha's Coolest Theater
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You who saw Dorothy Dalton in "The Flame of the Yukon,"
know what to expect in "The Idol of the North."
Cbrieti Comedy,
"A Southern Exposure"
With Nel Burnt and
Vara Staadman
THE BEE: OMAHA, SUNDAY, JULY 3. 1921.
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A PIANOFORTE recital was
given at the Library auditori
um, Twenty-third and M
streets, by pupils of Edward Dewar
Challinor, at 7 and 8:30 o'clock. Mr.
Challinor is leaving Omaha for Mon
treal, Canada on July 5, and sail
ing from there on the S. S. Min
nesota for Liverpool, England, to
spend the summer with his mother
at "Moorfields," Leek, Staffordshire,
England. Those taking part in the
recital were:
At T O'clock Innli Dunfora. Dorli
Root. Elinor Hflincr, Roy Glbaon, Hel
en Frlnv Allen Meltien. llin Loll
Wrenn, Bylvl HlavKn, Erneit Btthune,
Joseph Lawrence. Margaret Coulter, Alice
Myeri. Winnie Rune. Mlu Rom Lee Riley.
At S:S0 O'clock Mlea Lyrtla Ilcnnl,
Slue Clare, Hennl, Mr. Robert Hennl, Ileesle
Laurlteon, Minnie Winter. Ann Wyman,
Ronnie Ruf. Mri. John McTagsart, Kalie
Harm. Edythe AnAereon, Marvin Free
man, Miae Lola Wrenn.
Piano ouoils of E. M. Jones ap
peared in two recitals on Wednes-i
aay ana lmirsaay evenings at nis
home, 3848 Hamilton street Those
taking part Wednesday evening
were: Virginia Hunt, Anna Lins
rr.an, Isadore Bender, Anna Bender,
Dorothy Kemp, Jeanette Driebus,
Philip Schultz, Lea Rosenblatt,
Elba Rominger, Ida Minkin, Doro
thy Dawson, Eileen Dreibus, Lillian
Simon, Morris Goldenberg. Flor
ence Mulfinger, Donald Carlson,
Rose Reif, Ted Sherdeman, Bssie
Horwidi, Irene Munson,' Mary
Stejskal, Arthjr Goldstein, Dorothy
Long, Georgia Nelson, Evelyn
Lundgren, Rex Carden.
Those taking part Thursday eve
ning were: Louise Phillippi, Min
nie Taylor, Rosemond Kinkenon,
Miss Munger, Helen Bonorden, Vic
toria KuncI, Miss Jensen, Miss
Crunwald, Eulala Carden, Maida
Shallcross, Mr. Hoffman, Helen
Graham, De Ette Smith, Miss Lind
berg, Miss Gillette, Mary Inez Phil
lippi, Miss Weston, Miss Hoden,
Miss Bergstrom, Mrs. Soule, Miss.
Breckenridge of Tekamah; Miss An
derson of Essex, la.; Miss Tauchen,
Corinne Jones.
Mrs. Ray J. Abbott will give a
music program for the liberty chap
ter of the Eastern Star at the Field
club at 2:30 o'clock, July 7.
Mrs. Harry MacCormick will
sing a soprano solo; Miss Frances
Pope, contralto: Kathryn Benson,
dance; Mrs. G. W. Shields, musical
reading; Mrs. Florence Stewnender,
whistling solo and bird imitations,
the Rev. A. H. Marsden, bass solo.
Stanley Letovskey, an Omaha boy
who' won success in Europe as pi
anist, composer and conductor, and
who conducted last in Vienna after
a complete rest with his parents in
Omaha, has decided to open a studio
here early in the fall. Mr. Letov
skey will also give a piano recital
in the fall, which will be his first
recital in Omaha for 14 years.
Miss Mary Jordan, who recenty
sang in Omaha under the auspices
of the local post of the American
Legion, is one of the possibilities for
the big national convention of the
American Legion, which will be held
in Kansas City, October 31. After
this she may give another concert
in Omaha under the auspices of the
recital in Omaha for 14 years.
New Star for Neilan
Rockcliffe Fellowes, famous for
the finesse with which he portrays
the Cro-Magnon possibilities of the
tailormade hero just as the heroine
refuses to be rescued and made
"happy ever afterward" will be seen
in the leading role of the new Mar
shall Neilan production nearing com
pletion under the tentative title,
"Some People." .
Chaney With Neilan
Lon Chaney will appear in Mar
shall Neilan's next screen thriHer,
"Bits of Life." His role will be that
of a Chanese, one of the most im
portant roles in the picture. Six
months will be required to produce
"Bits of Life." The script will take
Mr. Neilan and his company to Can
ada and New York.
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Another Victim!
Alluring Colette's chief joy in life was
to "trim" tne men who couldn't resist her
charms. And she found this lonesome
miners' town easy picking. Till one day
her methods failed to work! And the rest
is love and a heart-stirring battle to make
two lives worth while.
RIALTO SYMPHONY PLAYERS
Harry B radar, Director
Overture "Summer Night's Dream"
Julius K. Johnson at the Organ.
Well Known Film Man
Touring Middle West
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It is well to examine the con
science of one's business world dur
ing a slack season, they say.
So while the time is ripe, Thomas
E. Delaney. manager of Vitagraph
in Omaha, bade Omaha farewell for
several weeks as he stepped on the
throttle of his big motor greyhound
last Thursday bound for a tour of
Iowa, Illinois and Indiana, the lat
ter his home state.
"Just taking a rest from the cares
and worries of the film game," he
said.
His wife and two children are ac
companying him.
Lewis With Griffith
Sheldon Lewis, who has been ap
pearing in- vaudeville with his wife,
Virginia Pearson, has signed a con
tract with D. V. Griffith to play the
part of Jacques in the forthcoming
production, "The Two Orphans."
This ends a search of six weeks
which the Griffith staff has been
making for a suitable player for the
role. Perhaps never before have so
many persons been "tried out" for a
part, the score being over 60 at the
end of the third week.
To enable him to accept the con
tract, it was necessary for Lewis to
cancel his booking over the vaude
ville circuit, where it was recognized
as one of the highest-paid acts.
Doraldina's Plans
Doraldina, the celebrated dancer
and motion picture star, who recent-
ly'insured her lambent limbs for the
record sum of $125,000 and who has
been making a whirlwind trip
through the south and central west
cm states making personal appear
ances in conjunction with the show
ings of her latest picture, Passion
Fruit," is expected to makean im
Mortant announcement regarding her
future plans on her return east at
the close of her tour. It is said that
her next picture, which will be
made by her own company, will be a
massive historical spectacle of classi
cal character and that it will be made
abroad, either in France or Italy.
Shakespeare and Rogers
The announcement that Will Rog
ers has decided to give Bacon part
credit for the plays which bear
Shakespeare's name is expected to
stir up a tempest in academic cir
cles, where the question of author
ship of the immortal dramas is al
ways open for debate. In "Doub
ling for Romeo," the picture Rog
crs just completed, Shakepeare and
Bacon are jointly credited for the
ancient sub-titles but the star defies
anyone to separate them. Rogers
himself takes credit for the modern
sub-titles which of course are the
best, he adds modestly.
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Rialto New Events
Almond-Eyed Folk
Laugh At Some Of
America's Films
American and British residents in
China and Japan "guy" a lot of the
American movies and laugh uproar
iously when some of them try to be
melodramatically impressive. This is
the statement of Pauline Bush, for
mer motion picture star, in a letter
to friends from Shanghai. Miss Bush
is still in China on her round-the-world
tour in search of new story
material. She has given up acting
to devote her talents in future to
writing for the screen.
In explaining what 6he says of
the oriental attitude toward our
films, Miss Bush says they display
such an ignorance of far eastern cus
toms and thought that even Occi
dentals who have learned at first
hand are moved to actual hilarity.
It is an anomaly that pictures com
ing from such a great country should
be so provincial and superficial. They
present the surface of American but
terfly existence and forget that the
big world outside looks on it much
as the prattle of strange children.
In illustration Miss Bush mentions
seme of the most pretentious Amcre
ican productions.
"Americans and British here,"
says Miss Bush, "want life, life, life
something approximating their
own experiences, not endless drama
tizations of patent-leather, powder
puff inanities. The natives, too, re
sent a note of patronage toward
them which runs through American
books and plays."
Miss Bush says she has written
her first story. It deals with an Oc
cidental's advent into Oriental life
from the moment of landing, and
she believes it is colorful and "dif
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Rosemary Engaged
Beautiful Rosemary Theby has
been engaged to play the feminine
lead in a special production Emmett
T. Flynn is making in Hollywood for
William Fox. Miss Theby made a
big hit as the wicked Queen Morgan
Lc Fay in "A Connecticut Yankee
in King Arthur's Court." She also
appears as the Weaver of Dreams in
"Shame," which William Fox will
soon show on Broadway. Both are
Flynn productions.
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ADDED ATTRACTION
Appearing Daily at the Sun 2, 4,8, 10 o' Clock
Lyric Quartette
Kingi of Harmony in Snappy, Jazzy Songs
TO OUR PATRONS: '
"We bare gone to considerable trouble and expense to hear quartettes in other cities in
hopes that we could find one that we could feel sure would be out of the ordinary and would
please our patrons. The Lyric Quartette is in m y opinion one of the best harmony quartettes
that I have ever heard and I am sure they will meet with approval."
HARRY GOLDBERG, Mgr. Sun Theater
Tom Mix Makes Self
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In "The Big Town Round-up,"
chief cinema attraction at the Moon
theater this week, Tom Mix appears
as a young ranchman of Arizona who
falls in love with a society belle
and of course wins her.
But he wins only after a series of
stirring adventures and narrow es
capes that are said to hold the spec
tator spell-bound throughout.
He Leaped Too Soon
Larry Scmon was laid up in a Los
Angeles hospital for two days last
week as a result of minor injuries
sustained in filming a scene for his
newest comedy, "The Fall Guy."
He was a fraction of a second late in
leaping from the top of a garage
which, in a comedy scene, was being
carried over a cliff. He saved him
self from serious injury, but another
fraction of a second might have told
an entirely different story. The
mind of the Vitagraph comedy king
seems particularly alert when he is
confined to the hospital, for he put
his previous cartooning talent to
work while he was bed-ridden and
drew a model of a comedy airplane
which he will have built for use in
his next comedy.
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Fawcett, A Man
With a Hundred
Faces, On Screen
A man of 100 faces is George Faw
cett, veteran of stage and screen,
who, with the filming of "Peter lb
betson," adds to his long list ol
characterizations that of Major Du
quesnois.
A life time of playing widely dif
fercnt and difficult character roles
has given Fawcett a polish and ver
satility achieved by few actors, but
he himself says his features ara
largely responsible for the success
that accompanied his earlier efforts.
Still George Fawcett is not a hand
some man.
The fact that none of his fea
tures, either eyes, nose, mouth or
ears are of marked prominence, al
though all are well defined, makes
it possible for him to step into near
ly any character, except that of a
young man, which his age now for
bids.
He has run the gamut of character
parts, portraying men of every race
seen on the stage or screen. In
John Robertson's "Sentimental
Tommy," he was an aged and crusty
Scotchman. A month later he ap
peared as a baron of finance, and
before another month had passed he
was seen as a Sicilian. But he never
has done the handsome hero. His
stocky build always forbade such
a role, and it was one of this fine
actor's secret regrets that he never
was chosen for youthful lovers in
his early days on the stage.
He never has been seen to bet
ter advantage than as Duquesnois,
the soft-hearted old fire-eater of LV
Maurier's story. . ,
Eclipse Filmed.
The eclipse of the moon which re
cently attracted the attention of as-l
tronomers throughout the world was
photographed by Norman Dawn for,
coming Edith. Roberts feature.
Dawn was an expert cameraman be
fore he was commissioned a director
by Carl Laemmle, president of Unw
versal.
The lunar phenomena was record
ed to furnish atmospheric kick and
will enhance the dramatic value of
the story, which deals with a hith
erto unknown phase of life in the
South Seas.
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