Till: JIKKj OMAHA. .SUNDAY. KUURUAKV 1W2.
Mabel Normand,Gish Girls and Tom Meighanon Omaha Screens
Griffith Play ;it
Itruiiilek 'Mollv-O'
Opens at Rialto
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linucs ut Smiii; "Prime There
Wa" lYuturnl at Strand;
loHi-r of hts North"
,d Moon 'Iliratrr.
KxccIJcnt cMiU'rtainment is
again provided by Omaha
photoplay houses this week.
Drama, corneily-drama nd a
little of the melodramatic I
offered the film fans. Some
of the plays have leading
favorites, while othcra make
their plea for attention on the
Ktrcnjcth of the utory filmed.
No city in the country is be
hiT provideil with any better
selection of cinematic enter
tainment than Omaha, ac
cording to advance informa
tion on bookings throughout;
the land. Local managers
are wide awake and seem to
stop at no expense in order
that the best may be offered
here as soon as any place in
the country.
So popular has been "A
Connecticut Yankee" at the
Sun theater during the past
week that the management is
holding the comedy over for
another seven days. The play
is adapted from Mark Twain's
masterpiece of the same
name.
Mabel Normand in "Molly
0," said to be one of the big
productions of the season
opens today at the Rialto
theater. David Wark Grif-
fith's "Orphans of the
Storm." adapted from "The
Two Orphans," opens today
for an unlimited engagement
at the Brandeis theater. Lil
lian, and Dorothy Gish have
the leading roles.
Thomas Meiehan is the
chief attraction at the Strand
theater this week in "A
Prince There Was," a story
of an unhappy young man
who finds View life among
children. "A Flower of the
North," a Curwood produc
tion, is the big attraction at
the Moon theater, the first
three days of this week
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"Molly-O."
Mabel Xofiiiand in all the
sapacity. niiscliief and cliarni of htr
personality is the chief attraction this
week at the Rialto theater- iu
"Molly-O," a story of a struggling
' pirl of the shims who finds the
crcatcst joy of life in youth and
iove. ' I
Thouch "Molly O," the principal
character in the story, struggled
fiercely against poverty, she was too
optimistic to repine and much too
merrv to mope. She made of life
v. hat the raisin does to the home
concoction.
', One of the high lights in "Molly-
( 0" is the little elfin's presence at a
r Brand ball. What she didn't do there
in the way of attracting the men to
her isn't worth mentioning i in a
'book: "How to Win a-Man."
Of course, the story ends with a
clever love twist. Jack . Mulhall
plays opposite Miss Normand in
"Molly-O."
"A Flower of the North."
"A Flower of the North" featur
ing Henry B. Walthall and I'auline
Starke at the Moon theater today
until Wednesday is regarded as one
of the biggest productions' to be
seen in this city this season. It is
a picture of love, adventure and
thrilling scenes, Indian fights, night
charges of the enraged redskins, a
helpless girl whirled into the rapids
as her canoe rushes on paddleless,
physical fights and moral struggles,
contrasted with a love of the last
century, the customs of the period
being maintained in the Fort o'
. God, where the heroine lives with
her father. It is a strange contrast
between the customs of today and
those of the past, and it lends a
touch of realism to the picture which
could not otherwise be obtained. -
"After Midnight," in which Con
way Tcarlc is the star, will be the
featured attraction at the Moon the
ter for three days, beginning Wed
nesday. The play is a production in
which the star is said to score one
of his best performances, and ac
cording to the, advance information
the story is unusually strong and ex
citing throughout.
Max Under, the famous comedian,
who has been busy soldiering in t!n
French army, returns to the screen
in "Sevqu Years Bad Luck." a
comedy which will be shown at the
Moon theater in conjunction with
"After Midnight
"A Prince There Was."
Docs wealth mean happiness?
Thii question is answered in Thom
as Meighau's new picture. "A Prince
There Was," from the George M.
Cohan success, which will be seen
at the Strand theater this week. - In
this picture the star plays the role
of a wealthy but unhappy young
in.m who believes intoxication to be
the only balm for his fretfulness.
But then he falls in love, finds a mo
tive in life, plays the prince and finds
real contentment, after a story that
is rich in romance, dramatic flavor
and human emotion. Mildred Har
ris. Charlotte Jackson, .'igel Barrie,
Sylvia Ashton and others are in the
cast. "
"Orphans of the Storm."
Lillian and Dorothy Gish have the
leading role' in "Orphans of the
Storm," a David Wark Griitjth pro
duction, which opens today I at the
Prof ram Summary.
Sun "A Connecticut Yankee."
Strand Thomas Mii;luii in
"A J'rincc There wm,"
Rilto Mabel Nriiuml 111
"MollyO.
Moon I'o'lav until Wednes
day. "A How it uf the North:"
beginning Wednesday, lonwav
Tcarlc in "Afttr Midnight."
Empress Today until Tliiirt,.
day. Conway 'lc,irlc in "ilie
Man of Stone;" latter half of
week. George Walsh in ".Sere
nade." Brandeii Lillian and Dorothv
Gish in CirifVith's "Orphans of the
Storm."
Muse-Today. "After Mid
night;" tomorrow and Tuesday,
Sessuc llayakawa in "Wher
Lights Are Low:" Wcdnedav.
Thursday and Fridav, "Tha
Great Moment;" Saturday. "Perjury.-
Brandeij theater. The picture' is
adapted from the noted play, "Thv!
Two Orphans."
Scenes arc laid in a Normandy
village. The story centers around
two orphans, Hcnricttc and Louise
Girard. One is blind and both arc
beautiful. Thcv go to Paris and be
come separated, where llcnriettc be
comes involved in a romance with
the Chevalier de Vaudrcy. The rct
of the play depicts the revels, of
Paris, with its sin, scandal and sen
sation. David Wark Griffith ha arranged
a remarkable cast, including Kate
Bruce, Creighton Hale, Sheldon
Lewis and Frank Losce, More than
12.000 persons supported the cast.
Hayakawa at Muse.
Sessue Hayakawa takes the screen
at the Muse theater tomorrow and
Tuesday in "Where Lights Are
Low. a love storv of a prince of
the far east who finds happiness in
America. The cast is strictly
oriental.
Conway Tcarle is the chief attrac
tion, at the Muse todav in Alter
Midnight," a drama. Gloria Swan-
son takes the screen at the Muse
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
in "The Great Moment," a human
interest drama that has its scenes
laid in England and the mountains
of the west. Milton Sills plays op
posite Miss Swanson.
"A Connecticut Yankee."
'Learn while vou laugh, and laugh
while you learn. '
X his might have been, the motto
that Mark Twain kept on his desk
pad while he wrote "A Connecticut
Yankee in King Arthur s Court,
which, in film form, is showing at
the Sun theater as a continued attraction.
But Mark Twain had no such idea.
"A Connecticut Yankee" was not
meant to be iiotrudive. It watj
meant to throw ridicule upon the j
idea that the middle age were a
better time than the present. Put
it teaclic in piic of itself. The-
:adienture of young Martin Caven-;
fili-.li among King Arthur' knight
and ludic tell, better than all the.
history book, just what life in the'
middle age vai like without
plumbing, without telephone, with-,
out good road.
"A Connecticut Yankee" i the
modern Don Quisotc. It ha done
more than any other. book or play
to prove that men are as chivalrou
todav as they were in the days "when
knights were bold."
"The Man of Stone."
The mysterious spirit of the east
come to the Empress theater for
four days beginning today, when
"The Man of Stone" opens with Con-
w a v, Tcarle playing the man.
the star has i-ddoui had a role
better suited to his versatile powers
than that of Capt. Neville Dccring.
D. S. C. British army. The roman
tic setting of this picture; the situa
tions that arise between the hero and
the two women so widely separated , 11 "
in their walks of life, who love him;,
llie opportunities lor trimiing muun
which bristle throughout the battles
across the Arabian desert, all give
Mr. Tcarle ample room to register
effectively. He is ably supported by
Betty Howe, in the character of the
native girl who finally wins the heart
and hand of Decring, and Martha
Mansfield, playing the distinguished
part ot the hancee, i-aay Mary t or
tescuc. who follows Decring to
Arabia and there dies accidentally
behind the firing line.
Beginning Thursday, George
Walsh takes the screen at the Em
press in "Serenade." a story of the
early Spanish missions.
Drive Garbage Element From Movies
Thus Does Theater Owners' Association Demand
That Industry He. Purged of Scandalous Con
ditions Which Now Exist.
Motiea Deserve
Place Among Arts,
Avers Director
Cinema Chatter
Bryant Washburn will return to
the screen in a special picture, "Hun
gry Hearts," which has a strong
cast. ... .. -
Hugo Ballin has completed "The
Luxury Tax," an original story by
Ethel Donohcr. Mabel Ballin, Ray
mond Bloomer and Craufurd Kent
are the principals.
"Pay Day" has been chosen by
Charlie Chaplin as the name of his
new comedy, which is in two reel.?.
After he makes one more short pic
ture for the first national, Chaplin
proposes to devote himself to feature-length
comedies for United
Artists.
"Skin Deep," featuring Milton
Sills and Florence Vidor, with an
all-star cast, has been completed at
the Thomas II. Ince studios. It was
directed by John Griffith Wray anj
is considered by Mr. Ince the high
water mark of his output.
Protesting the alleged scandalous
artioiii of certain movie star in
llolywood, the Motion Picture The
ater Owners' Association of Amer
ica, of which practically every ex
hibitor in Omaha is a member, has
isucd the following statement:
There should be some effective way
to remove the garbage element from
the producing end of the motion pic
ture busmen. The elimination of
the dirty bird who have befouled
the high positions into which the
theater owners and public boosted
them niut be accomplished in some
wav.
The odium of their maladorous
conduct falls on the theater owner
and this polluting group must no
he permitted to hang their
meared linen on the exlubitors
line. It must be made plait to 4hc
public that the theater owners are
not responsible for the conduct of
these human tilth gushers in die
industry, that we utterly repudiate
them and demand their removal
from every place where their fou!
presence tend to contaminate our
business.
Garbage Parade.
Look at this garbage parade.
There is a party at Wishawun. Cer
tain producers were there, while
cabaret girls prance, cavort and
waddle indecentlv. There is a threat
of exposure and a blackmail de
mand. Then $100,000 is paid to have
the lascivious thing hushed up. I his.
no doubt, was charged in as over
head exnenses or exploitation costs
and theater owners have paid it in
extra rental charges for pictures.
But there was an exposure. The
whole vile transaction was first-paRed-
in boxcar letters in the news
papers of the country. The names
of, these, prominent leaders in pic
ture production were heralded
broadcast and their sins made a lurid
scarlet.
Then tlicre is the Arbuckle case
with its two trials and another com
ing. Exagseratcd stories of "hop."
"cokq" and "booze" parties with
every specious of lascivious trim
ming and tainted adjuncts accom
pany each reference to the case in
the papers.
Taylor Murder.
Now we have the Taylor murder
with its divorce at'achmenf, alias
appendages, multipilicity of ac
tresses, jealousy and other scanda-
ous circumstances involving well-
known staVs. The possibility of a
well-known producer being mix in
confronts us and the wlnh, mass of
tragic obscenity is nauseating.
So much for the garbage gang.
The briicf in some miartcis that
the motion picture business is on
the one side festering with crass
immorality and on the other dis
tended with bulgy and bulky money
bags makes it very essential that
theater owners become alive to the
situation confronting them. It must
be emphasized that theater owners
arc not responsible for these con li-
tions and that they will keep faith
with the public, that no peison
tainted with scandal shall appeal in
actor guise or otherwise on our
screens.
Walthall Takes
Role of Hunter
On J
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Henry. B. Walthall of "Birth of a
Nation" fame rises to new heights
as Philip Whittemore in "Flower of
the North," which is the chief at
traction at the Moon theater. Walt
hall plays the role of a hunter in the
great north woods in this produc.
tion. Pauline Starke plays opposite
him. ,
Thirteen weeks have already been
spent by Monroe Salisbury on his
independent production, "The Great
Alone," at the San . Mateo studios,
and it is said that Salisbury is mak
ing it the greatest picture of his career.
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"Motion pictuir would !eerc a
pUcc among the art," y Robert
M. Hals, noted art director, "if it
wcie only for tl.eir close relation to
music, one of the greatest and hUst
of all arts.
"Those who scofl at the motion pic.
turc have hern accustomed for years
to applaud the clever way a 'theme
knits together the unrelated cres
cendo and diminuendo portions of a
musical composition; how a smash
ing bit of melody is pulled into the
whole by a return to theme, possibly
interpreted by a single instrument.
"What does one find in motion pic.
tures? A wonderfully colorful scene
ot lite in a big city; then a cut-back
to the mother and father lonely for
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tncir giri arniiuu mc oio lamiiy lire
side. Theme again.
"Then there's the old musical trick
of 'staccato' of accenting the action
strongly and then coming to a dend
stop, continuing on an entirely new
tack. How effectively this is used
in motion pictures!
" 'Tempo'? You find it in 'Madame
Butterfly' in the slow musical meas
ure of the pathetic scenes; the light,
quick touch of comedy; the deep,
heavy roll as the tragedy piles up and
in a picture like 'Bought and Paid
For' you'll find William de Millc.
for instance, utilizing his musical
training. The 'tempo' of the strong
dramatic sequence bctweeii husband
nd wife is far different than that
of the comedy relief furnished by
Walter Iliers.
"If you still believe of the motion
picture 'inartistic,' think of the next
photoplay you visit as a 'soundless
sonata' and you'll be better able to
understand how really artistic they
are when compared with their close
blood-brother, music.
Mr. Hass is particularly qualified
to draw such an analogy as before
becoming an art director he was a
successful violinist. He has designed
sets for such successful pictures as
"The Little Minister," "Dr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde," "A Prince There
Was," and "Sentimental Tommy."
Theodore Kosloff, famous axtist,
actor and dancer, head of the Im
perial Russian Ballet in Los An
geles, has a role in Wallace Reid's
newest picture, . "The Dictator,"
which should prove one of his best
to date.. Jt is that of Dr. Rivas, a
notorious "libcralist."
Dog Star, , ..
Now it's the sIji' pets vlu are
nuking their appearance in motion
picture. When a cat was required in
"The Ordeal," lit r Utrst picture.
Agnes Ayre volunteered the ue of
her own beautiful giay PerM.in
"Mr. lino." Later a dug "part"
fthowed up ami not to be outdone
Clarence Bui ton, playing the
"heavy," signed for the role hi Bos
ton bull, "Peter Niccohoy II."
DESDUNE'S BAND
and th St. John A. M. E. Choir
cf Its roifra will lv runfit t th
Auditorium Ftb. 37. 1922, P. M. It
ill tx rmr (rrat to hrsr Prtdun'
Hw) and this Choir in tht transcription
ot Netra Melodiri and bpiriluaU.
Admission, SOt and 7Se
Dorothy D-iIton' latest picture
which carried the working title of
"Tharon of Lost Valley" will be re
leased under the title of "The Crim
son Challenge Her next picture
will be called "The Woman That
Walked Alone" and not "The Cat
That Walked Alone." as announced.
First Showing in Omaha
One Day Only
Today, Continuous, 12:45 to 9t30
"AFTER
MIDNIGHT
(Zsloru of itustiC
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CONWAY
TEARLE
HsiriSc
Monday and Tuesday
Erening Only, 6:45-8:45
' Double Show
"Where
Lights
Are
Low"
Chapter 2
"With
Stanley
in
Africa"
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
GLORIA
SWANSON
in "The Great Moment"
fffft'iiWQ If I
JA PRINCE
THERE WAS
From. Geo. M.Cchaiis Fainoas piav
based on the novelEnolvantodHearts
Mildred Harris intliecasl
: The best in all the Meighan
roles embraced in one.
The story of a rich young idler, who looked on life as only.a Jiunting ground
for pleasure. . -
Till a careless, kindly act for ft struggling gtfl made him her hero rier
"Prince" and the man in him had to make good! y
The flash of life in New York's "Millionaires' How," and the shadows that
lie in her little side streets. . ; . ,
Remember VThe Prince Chap"? "A Prince There Was" is even better.
Ok Girls, Look Who's Here
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BEN
TURPIN
Conqueror of "the.
International Beauty Contest
looking-for a wife.
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