The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-23
FLAMES OF JOHANNES. AT R|ALT0 THEATRE WITH NANCE 0'NE|[
Miss Ethel Barrymore Also Booked at the RialtO in ''The Kiss of
 Hate'

At the Rialto theatre the week opens with 'The Wall Between,'' the fve-part film production of the military novel of Ralph D. Paine in which Francis x. Eastman and Beverly Bayne are the featured stars Several other well known features are also booked for this week.
 1.-THE FLAMES OF JOHANNES"
 Patrons of the screen drama who are on the alert for big productions will be grateful for the announcement of the first presentation at the Rialto theatre tomorrow and Tuesday of Herman Suder- mann's poignant play, ''The Flames of Johannis," converted into a powerful five-reel photoplay feature for the Lubin company by Edgar Lewis with Nance founding, and zirah, an old and dis solute gypsy. Miss O'Neil, the foremost American delineator of the tense emo tional type, has found in the dual role in "The Flames of Johannis' the oppor- tunity of her histrionic career for the full displayal of her chosen field of char acterizations in which she has no rival on either stage or screen
 bctW6eH Illc CudfdCbciS Ol l1dl rllo Zirah there is wide traverse. Each of them. however, demands powerful acting and emotional climax, and in each of them Miss ONeil reaches the supreme pinnacle of her great art. Those who are acquainted with her capabilities in emotional moments will anticipate her ar tistic triumph in one of the scenes; it is, as described by Sudermann, the free night"
 Tb;e ;. +l,as,a,yo. ne St. Iobn,s Tay opd according to the folklore legend on which "rhe Flames of Johannis" is founded, on the free night, lovers and their de- sires throw off the shackles of worldly convention. Marika is secretly in love with George, who, betrothed by Ger trude, whom he does not love. is un- aware of the passion that is hidden in Marika's heart On St. Johns eve fate arranges meeting in the fields between Marika and George. It is in this scene that the emotional genius of Nance O'Neil runs riot.
 "ARTTE, THE MILLIONAIRE KID"
 On Wednesday, and Thursday at the Rialto s'Artie the Millionaire Kid" a fantastic five-part Vitagraph feature. in which Ernest Truex and Dorothy Kelly are starred, will be shown. This picture provides welcome change from the us- udl DlOOO duQ tnulltttI uIdylIdti, anu lt lo bound to meet with popular approval from the children.
 Ethel Barrymore, who occupies place all her own on both the stage and screen, will be seen here in the five-part Nero wonder play, The Kiss of Hate.' at the Rialto theatre on Friday and Satur- day This production is & powerful doc ument of Russian life and presents a de- cidedly novel love story with a wealth of local color produced with remarkable fidelity
 The scenes made in the snowfelds are extraordinary and particularly the jour ney of a prison squad to Siberia. in which a thrilling escape is shown. The Cos sacks are seen prodding the poor un- fortunates along and driving them like a lot of cattle. There are scores of i'm tensely dramatic situations and many in teresting glimpses of the yellow jack cts" an infamous band Of uniformed cut-throats, The methods of torture that are employed by those. in power to gain their ends are presented in realistic manner. x M 4