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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: -PHOTO-PLAYS- FOR-OMAHA- seera o SDEUOTERS. STRAND BILL STRONG Bara appears in Tut‘l ll?rnal \:’pho. said to be the most thrilling and sen- PROGRAM THIS WEEK sational story in which this actress alle has ever appeared. In addition a cork- lhree exceptionally strong features . ing good Pathe weekly will be shown. are offered Strand patrons this week, |18 F BINE WeeR y s commencing today when the attrac tion is William Collier in "The No oty P o s v || LOTHROP THEATER appearance in a dranatic feature, his previous experiences in this line ha SUNDAY AND MONDAY ing been in Keystone comedie re ever was a film favorite in and every place for that mat wM s HART . ter, it is De as Fairbanks, and in his latest scre appearance, "“The . . In Good Bad Ma which, by the way was the feature chosen to open the [1] 7 - 77 new $1,000,000 Rialto theater in New e s Inges York. He plays the pert of "Passing I'hrough,” a smiling bundit who robs the rich and g in Mr. Fairban Love, so well know E CHARLIE CHAPLIN BACK LI L s WEEK‘Ftlmland Stars to Be Shown on the (Polce” the et produciion o Screens in Omaha During the Week arlie Chaplin, appears at the Emp- ress theater for four days beginning GENEV[EVE HM’IPER today. In this ~mr\»\_,( hlp‘]tl\ 18 a re- B leased convict hen the prison chaplain gives him his last piece of Rowerr advice he also relieves him of his §5 7 which the prison officials gave him While he is up against it, he meets up with an exconvict whom he knew in the prison, and together they proceed to rob a house. After much hard | work with a “jimmy,” Chaplin walks through the door which has been | FINDS LITERATURE lopen all the time. Chaplin himself | pronounces the play one of his great est ol ctiorts. IN TODAYS MOYIES‘ On the same bill with Chaplin is ‘Four Months,” a two-act drama, in | which a young man who has been Triangie presents I Also Keystone Players in the to the poor. Chief “VILLAGE BLACKSMITH." GAYETY Strand pa OMAHA’S FUN CENTER Phone Doug. 1506, . . old by 1 cians that he only trons just now English Novelist Disoovers That the :1!.1«‘ '-'”‘m ULl P il Pharies Muds b sasn b n Ban Motion Pictures Are the Real [ philanthropic work, In his labors he stone outhurst y that & most enjoyable program Vs in store Tue lay, Wednesday and T! 'y For Fridav and Saturday, Theda vers and Stories Themselves, runs into a den of white saves a young girl ARE NOT MERE ILLUSTRATIONS Two comedies, “Chinatown Vill ains” and “Jerry's Perfect Day,” with > SR Ly George Ovey, constitute the remaind- | THE TODAY AND TOMORROW i \':"'] “'I\ I;';“"r wh "'k“("':lk ‘;”]' er of the yvuuv,nn, with Mutual Sixtoonth Im STAR On Loswst World Film. Corpratien. Prosants § Anthony Hope as one of the few |Weekly No. 73 MOI.I.IE KIHG I i great English romantic novelists of I'he second half of the week, be THEATER n 0 the present generation, has rhscov-li{”"“nn nu;mlm offers * erwlk ELLA HALL and ROBERT LEONARD [1 a e w ered that the movies are liserature, |rama in which a young man makcs n s |7 My, Tracy serivel st this’ dlacoy a great sacrifice to save his father's “THE CRIPPLED HAND" i Ilu'(llll\~ and his mothers' happiness ery at a meeting with J. A. Berst, | “Politickers” and “Rival Rugm-s are vice president and general manager |the accompanying comedies. “Reel Also COMEDY Boomerang” n‘l clhr House m“! .n'hr As a r”“‘;‘l’n‘rf:mn‘ li:1|l|:”|‘h,.;":;1;;:y‘I:;:‘.,;.‘Hu:‘:::‘ Marmsvsrizs C/OUR'Z‘OZ' 2561 TUEsnAv,m\::Jfi-nnzsmv AND of this meeting Mr, Tracy is engagec » o | AT THE OMANA Rol“ FF J L. Li ? to_write the newest serial picture, | be shown. "It pictures some of the | - Leavenworth B B, P aleteatien Wi “The Grip of Evil,” in the $5,000,000 | wonders of nature. Things we see, yearly serial program of Pathe, | but rarely appreciate, “Seeing Amer- | “A fine mvoing picture does not il- | ica, No. 28 ""“V"“"‘ a fine bill, | lustrate a story—it is a story, and i | sometimes it is drama, not m('u'ly‘GAYETY THEATER OFFERS f the picturization of drama THREE BIG PHOTOPLAYS, These were among the first words | s 2l that Mr. Tracy heard in his talk with | Tpree big changes are on the Gayety | Mr, Berst, and they opened his eyes program for this week. Starting to-| and set him thinking. ., | day and continuing tomorrow William | But are pictures ever literature?” | A" grag presents Mollie King in! au!(’{d thr-_ English writer, “Fate’s Boomerang.” ! “That is the point; what do you| "Tyegday, Wednesday and Thurs- think?” questioned the moving pic- day Mae Murray, who made such a| ture man, hit in “To Have and to Hold,” is| Depends on Treatment. resented in “Sweet Kitty Bellairs,” | “That depends—on theme and on| The story is about Kitty Bellairs, who treatment of theme. The theme of |ruled the social and court life of Eng all great literary works, romantic or |land in the middle of the eighteenth | otherwise, musdt he such that it has|century. She was a great beauty and some application to human life in vi-|the plot revolves around her efforts | tal fashion, and the treatment of |to reconcile intimate and lifelong | uch a theme must always be such|married friends between whom a as to.give rise to thought as well as | break is imminent because of another to provoke enjoyment. Can anything |woman. 1In the working out of her| like this be transposed to moving|plan Kitty comes in contact with a| pictures?” dashing young licutenant. There is “And why not ?” said Mr. Berst,|action aplenty and some stirring sit- who knows literature and has often |uations. F ol transposed it to pictures in his long| Beginning Friday and continuing experience in penetrating the re- Saturday Peggy Hyland comes in a TODAY ONLY JOHN EMERSON IN “THE FLYING TORPEDO." Story of a possible Invasion in 1920, WEDNESDAY BESSIE BARRISCALE IN “BULLETS AND BROWN EYES" A romantic drama similar to Graustark, FRIDAY ROBERT B, MANTELL, in “A Wile's Sacrifica” MAE MURRAY In an olaborate plcturization of “Sweet Kitty Bellairs” “FRIDAY "AND sA'runDAv The Charmin PEGGY HYCAND in an absorbing picturization of the noted drama, [11 2 Saints and Sinners’ Daily Until Evtnlnn-——Onhu"l. lfll:l IAI: w 10c, PATRIOTIC APPEAL IN PICTURE AT THE ROHLFF A picture that appeals to the patriot ism of every American who sees it is ‘The Flying Torpedo,” a story of the possible invasion of this country by a foreign power in 1920, with John Fmerson in the leading role. Bessie | Love is also seen to splendid advan- | tage and the battle scenes are so real-, istic that you imagine the war is| really taking place before you ms!rad\ of merely being enacted for the cam- era. For the balance of the week of ‘ ferings are: Monday, “Iron (Iau. and Howard Esterbrook in “Dross and Diamonds;"” Tuesday, Crane Wil | {ber in "A Law Unto Himself;" Wednesday, Bessie Barriscale in | “Bullets and Brown Eyes;"” Thurs- day, Jane Grey and Triangle Kiddies | in “Let Katy Do It;" Frltla). Robert | [B. Mantell in “A Wife's Sacrifice;" | Saturday, Hank Mann in “The V'lla e‘ Blacksmith,” also Fred Mace in | Village Vampire.” . LN AT -THE EMPRAIS Program Week May 28th. SUNDAY AND MONDAY Wm. Collier in “The No The Monroe THE COMFY THEATER Where your dime works overtime. AT THE QAYETY What +a defference one short year has made in movie fashions. Twelve | sbutees of the streen -dsama, picturization of Henry Arthur Jones'| o sy months ago every good actor thought | FROM 1 TO 11 P. M. “Take the theme of the new serial| Saints and Sinners,” = The great that instead of having a weak heart|it beneath his dignity to put on a MU 4 motion picture we now have in|distinction gained by this play on all| he is perfectly normal. He ""llr '}""\ beard or moustache or to enact a 9 vl nlch a d | mind,” pursued Mr. Berst. “It is this | English speaking stages makes it a his predicament agd the gir or | character part. Now all the best oo " “an n is humanity in the grip of an evil |subject of extra interest in photoplay, whom he has agreed to die soon |actors welcome character leads, as sets about to fix the guilt where it|they are called, and the actor is com- | Al ' so Keystone, belongs and save the young man. ing into his own more and more. n 5 [She ‘accomplishes this and the blame | Bertram Grassby, the Universal actor, | TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY lis fixed on the insane doctor, leav- is one of the really big actors who AND THURf’DAY ing the young people to work out|has never objected to character U8 sl siee etimg o' such u state | studien; e tixes cem, in factFhs|l§ Douglas Fairbanks o affairs | week he is playing a capital light | B -n I | comedy part: a young English lord ; “THE CRIPPLED HAND” IS [ir™ il Bt in' lomotuts™ 1 e | Bl | The Good Mme. Petrova, the famous Polish AT THE ATTRACTION AT NEW STAR | nolds is the director and Myrtle Gon- | & Bad Man” ———————————— Must Be Interesting. star, will be seen at the Muse today Douf]gs]’;jrbazz}'; STRAND [zales has the principal woman's part, “No, Mr. Tracy, you will sce that|and Monday i “}’lai'mx with Fire" Today the New Star theater is|Grassby plays the —part “straight” as well as a Keystons, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY you are wrong. ~It'is true that this|In this play Mme. Petrova has the showing a Bluebird feature entitled | thereby enhancing its value as a char is philosophy, but motion pictures|role of a cameo cutter, who becomes | “THE CLOSED ROAD” IS “The Crippled Hand.” Unlike the|acter study. This is his way Theda Bara in “The Eternal force, or is there some power for|The pictorial possibilities are good good that, in the end, converts and. with Miss Hyland's charm and wrong into some better purpose? dramatic talent combined the picture Mr. Tracy became mlruscr inter- | has much to recommend it. ested, ‘it that is philosophy and, of|PETROVA AND BILLIE «m‘\xly’w‘ is beyond picturization.” BURKE COME TO MUSE Berst smiled and said medita- Alfred Vosburgh in a screen rendition of that beautiful drama of the stage, “Realization” TWO BIG COMEDIES TODAY YES—5¢—10¢—ALWAYS tively can bring home anything to the nnml‘!empumnly blind while making a title indicates, the picture is not al3g - = e i and to the heart of an audience, if | cameo of the daughter of a wealthy BILL AT FARNAM TODAY gruesome picturization, but is founded f' . This Is All Star Week t Omaha Theater 40th and Dodge Sts. Open Under New Management. the originator of pictures knows how [ man. He induces her to come to his 5 2 on the fairy tale, “Cinderella” It is to make pictures do it, and do it,| home until she recovers her eyesight,| ‘“The Closed Road” at the Farnam |3 pretty tale of a young girl with moreover, interestingly interest- | and while there he falls in love with | today tells the story of how a young | dreams of the great, beautiful world, AT THE ingly to the point of intensity. | her. Out of ur.mtudc she marries | man finding that he has but a short | and the unusual photography em ‘Suppose you take that theme and | him. While visiting artist friends in | time to live, is persuaded to take the | ployed in the production makes it a |} M U S E let it hecome human in the person or | the city she falls in love with the |place of another man and be adjudged | pleasant screen play Monday the man who doubts—doubts whether [ brother of her dearest girl friend and | guilty of murder Afterward he | Star shows Cleo M on in a Red COOLEST PLACE IN OMAHA. humanity is in the grip of evil or is|in a moment of weakness she suc- |finds that his doctor is insane .mrlil-rmur play, “Her Bitter Cup guided by a power higher and better | cumbs to his ardent advances. “The than evil. Suppose you permit this| Mishaps of Musty Suffer” is the | emb d theme to test his doubt by ‘(«unr.l) minglin h all the thousands upon Tuesday, Wrdnudav and Thursday | Secret Of the Submarlne MONDAY, MAY 29TH. Baby Marie Osborne in “Little Mary Sunshine.” TUESDAY, MAY 30TH. Darch of the N. W. War, (Red Seal.) TODAY AND MONDAY MME. PETROVA thousands of his kind the huma I'he Law Decid ith H Tl . “Wooing of Aunt Jemima,* ittt g Do 6in B oo st o B B Subject for Prize Essay Contest ' | “PLAYING WITH FIRE” . (Noatwr. Comety) Mr. Tracy's powers of creation|ing roles. The story tells of a “Mishaps of Musty Sulfer” “Mr. Fuller Pep." vere already at work, the story that|thwarted love that reflames with a I ge in pic-| fierce passion when the leading male was already fashioning itsell in | character discovers that the object of | mind | his affections, who has become the I have seen the light,” said the | wife other, ia thrown by chance \ into his company in an out-of-the-way | an; Hearst Weekly. WEDNESDAY, MAY 31S8T. Katherine Kaelred in“The Girl With the Green Eyes." le t m ¢ made to em Grand Theater 4 ! 16th and Binney Sts. ! TODAY THURSDAY, JUNE 15T, 1 to see it for us,” | hunting lodge. TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY AND | 3 ROBERT WARWICK Courtot [ t Friday and Saturday the star su-| THURSDAY “HUMAN DRIFTWOOD." “Feathertop.” Louis Tracy came | preme, Miss Billie Burke, in chapter A L ’ ( y of Ewil" forltwo f Gloria's romance, "“Caught fivie'® 3 ’ HARRY T' MOREY FRIDAY, JUNE. & ry that will be put)by the Seminales,” in addition to our \ HEIRES - - ' Rupert Julian this summer egular feature picture, Valli Valli in | , t o v DOROTHY KELLY in “Naked Heart" OMAHA THEATER OPENS Her Debt of Honor,"'a Metro Won. | 1 | HIPP 35thand Harney Animated Weekly er play “ " 4 i DAILY CHANGE OF PROGRAM SATURDAY, JUNE 3. WITH NEW MANAGEMENT “ " " L T"E LW nEclnEs i Come when you like, stay as long as “l:m..h ‘;l.mu u!l.‘v..- : " HART IN “HELL'S HINGES ; ] ! You ke “Double Treublesss ALWAYS 10¢ "The Unexpected.” i gl ik TODAY AT THE LOTHROP ed | M BILLIE BURKE - “Glorla’s Romance" | CHAPTER 1t ; ‘ Caught by the Seminoles " v : VALL! 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