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a climax Of unusual power. Hughie MACK:
deeper love- full Of red FLOODED action and
who only weighs 367 pounds will show that
a fat man can move as fast as some that
are not so fat and will entertain you on
the same bill in 'Shanks and Chivalry.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-21
"The Crisis"

The Crisis following closely the
romance of civil war days in ST
Louis, by Winston Churchill, will be
presented in elaborate style at the
Brandeis theater for eight days be
ginning Sunday, January p, with two
performances daily,
Mr.. Churchilrs novel, published
more than a decade ago, has become
recognized as an American classic.
1t is written in spirit of fairness and
impartiality, unusual with stories deal
ing with the conflict of the sections,
The scene is laid in ST, Louis where
north and south met, where members
OF the same families were divided i'll
their allegiance to the respective
flags, and where both causes were
holly debated with all the facts I'M.
mediately at hand. Mr., Churchill put
himself in the attitude OF an impartial
magistrate, considered carefully both
sides. and set them forth without
prejudice for the public as jury,
In making the photoplay for the
Sherman-Elliott company, William n.
Selig followed exactly the threads of
Mr.. Churchilrs story. without any re-
arrangement or alteration SO common
with makers OF film dramas. The
story had already proven its dramatic
power in the minds Of more than a
million readers, and was found by
Mr. Selig's experts to be properly ar
ranged for screen reproduction. The
play works up to powerful climax i'll
the ssorming and taking of Vicksburg
The battle scenes have not heretofore
been equalled, it is said, in any photo
drama, A novelty is promised i'll a
Lincoln who is human, instead OF be
ing mere hgurehead as part OF a
historical background.
A special musical score is based on
romantic and patriotic airs of the
period and will be interpreted by a
full symphony orchestra.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-21

most exciting scene the wild plunge
of locomotive through a blazing
forest, "The Forest Fire" London
production, had long run in the halls
of the English metropolis, where it
was presented by the Sylvia Bidwell
company, who will be seen in it here
the heroine, a telephone operator,
being played by Sylvia BidweI1. One
of the other features is to be present
ed by Marie Fitzgibbon, billed as "the
great big story teller" Another will be
contributed by Harry Tate and COM
pany in sketch called Fishing"
John Geiger is an unique violinist.
John Geiger is an unique violinist. Such
a number of astounding tricks are to
be performed by "the clown seal" that
Ray F. Huling, who presents the ami
NAL, calls it the seal with the human
bran" Disturbing the Peace" a
comedy skit by Jupie McCree, will be
contributed by Bernard Riggs and
Myrtle Ryan. Rice, Elmer and Tom
are trio of trampoline and bar ex-
perts. Sugar culture in Java and the
hunting of monkeys will be shown
in the motion pictures of the Or
pheum Travel Weekly.
Jack Singers Behman Show, with
an entirely new book by JUNE Nc
Cree, and with multitude of other
features, will be seen at the popular
Gayety twice daily this week. Mar
telle, whose work with this organiza-
ton has always been one of its chief
delights, is playing an important part
that has been specially written for
him, in addition to which he will be
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tCoutinued from Page Eighty
a climax of unusual power Hughie Mack.
, deeper love, full Of red -blooded action ana
| who only weighs 367 pounds, will show that
fat man can move as fast as some that
are not so fat and will entertain you on
the same bill in '-shanks and Chivalry.'
Prineess-George Pearce in Brute
Force" will be shown at the Princess today
as Will Eddy and Lee Moran in comedy,
"A Macaroni Sleuth." Pauline Bush Will
also be seen in John Bates Secret" and
one Of those side-splitting L-ko comedies
up the FIue." Tomorrow the tenth chap
ter Of 'srhe Mysteries of Myra" and Violet
Mersereau in Souls United
Monroe-The Monroe theater has today
Robert Warwick In Friday, the 18TH from
the pen of Thomas W. Lawson. and ex-
presses graft as he sees it. Robert War
wick is said to execute some exceptional
work in this production. Tomorrow the at
traction will be Douglas Gerard and Ruth
Clifford in Polly Put the Kettle On
Observation-Disclosures Suratt in THE Straight
Way" Fox feature, will be the attraction
at the Diamond today and is story Of
Interested In seeing Miss Suratt and OBJ
serve the many gowns she wears. Tomor-
row the attraction will be Lillian West in
The Master of Her Soul" and general
program.
Apollo-David Beasco's war drama, THE
Warrens of Virginia., featuring Blanche
Sweet, will be the attraction today. 1t is a
Paramount production Charley Chaplin
will also be on the same bill in THE Rink"
Monday the attraction will be Lenore u
p;.4: In a story which has to do with the
working Of International spies, called THE
Intrigue"
observation-disclosures Ulrich in 1.-THE In
trigue," a Paramount photoplay, will be the
attraction at this theater today. 1t is an in
teresting story Of the workings Of interna-
tional spies and is laid around the present
European conflict Monday the attraction
will be Richard Travers who was in Omaha
at the movie ball. in THE Man Trail" a
story Of good for nothing" from the east
making good in lumber camp and exposing
the graft OF the boss of the camp.
Orpheum tSouth Side)-The usual big
show will be presented at this theater to-
day. including the serial Beatrice Fairfax
a side-splitting Keystone comedy, drama
and cartoon. Tomorrow and Tuesday the
attraction. will be Clara Kimball Young in
The Common Law screen version of
Robert w. Chambers book of the same
name. Although this picture is in eight
reels, the interest is sustained that one
does not realize that the story has taken
two hours in the telling.
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"ZKE EozESTK7E
N tie Or0heuM

The Blue Paradise" which will be
seen here at the Boyd next Thurs
day and Friday, with special matinee
Friday at popular prices, offers an
excellent illustration of what the pub
lie wants. Under the managerial d.
rection of the Messrs. Shubert this
most satisfying of recent Viennese
operettas has just concluded run
of ffty-two consecutive weeks IN New
York City at the Casino theater 1T
promises to rival all musical successes
of the past quarter Of century" was
the prophecy made by the critic of the
New York Herald" following the
sensation THE Blue Paradise" created
at its opening night and the crowded
houses that have so far greeted its
every presentation on tour leave no
doubt as to the prediction being full
filled. Paul Nicholson, Miss Norton,
Gustav Baci, Gypsy Dale, Charles
Powers, Juliette Lange, Robert Lee
Allen and Charles Derickson are in
cluded in the brilliant cast Of almost
100 persons the Messrs. Shubert will
present here in The Blue Paradise.
There is, of course, large chorus OF
Broadway beauties provided with am
pie opportunity for the display OF
their vocal and dancing abilities. The
lavish costuming and artistic manner
in which this musical entertainment
has been mounted is up to the high
standard that theatergoers have come
to expect from Shubert attractions
and there is special orchestra.
With the coming Of John Mason in
Common Clay" to the Brandeis
theater for an engagement of four
days, beginning Wednesday, January
81, playgoers of this city will have
an opportunity of seeing the popular
PLAYER in one of the most remark
able plays of recent years. drama
whose Astounding vitality afforded 1t
a season of FIVE months in Boston
and an entire year at the Republic
theater, New York Common Clay"
is the Harvard prize play by Cleves
Kinkead, young Harvard graduate.
1t is dramatic protest against the
social inequalities of our civilization:
No play is said to have ever handled
the eternal problems of sex and prop
erty with more frankness, originality
and vigor than the Kinkead drama. 1t
is the story of young girl who. in
seeking to escape from her depressing
environment, is betrayed on every
side; who, when driven to extreme,
fights desperately and unvailingly for
her inherent rights and who discovers
ultimately that she belongs to that
very caste that has scorned and de-
spised her. A. H. Woods, the pro-
Queer, will present Mr.. Mason with a
fine supporting company of Broad
way favorites, and with every, scenic
detail of the New York production.
-
THE Forest Fire" after FIVE months
of almost unprecedentedly big success
over the Orpheum circuit, comes to
the local Orpheum for the week, ex-
plotted as vaudeville's biggest sensa-
ton and scenic production. 1t is de-
scribed as a tense drama of the tim
beriands. The stage story has for its
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-21
The Great Secret" Appears
To Be a Great Serial

Have you wondered what had be-
come of Francis y. Bushman and
Beverly Baynco The truth OF the
matter is that they have been hard at
work on The Great Secret" the ser
ial tina, is being released on the Me
tro program AT private showing
at the sun thcatcr Tuesday morning
:, was shown that it comes up to II
not surprising the promises by the
Metro Film company. Mr.. Bushman
takes off his coat and works, In fact
he works harder and more than he
has ever worked before. This serial
has all of the elements that go to
make up successful serial-story, be-
ing interested logical and we'll di-
rected, settings and photography are
excellent. 1t is chock full OF thrills
and unusual situations and the story is
laid in society and the slums. 1t will
I've carnival of BuShman and Baync
Tor fifteen weeks
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-21

affinity habit, The play is written
IN a straightforward manner. with
many intense situations and gripping
scenes. The company is headed by
Helena Claire Benedict and an elab-
crate scenic equipment has been al
forded for the four acts of the play
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-21

seen i'll an entirely new speciality for
which an elaborate wardrobe and a
beautifully embroidered silk drop
have been provided. Ameta Pynes,
the graceful, classical dancer. also re-
mains feature of the show, and she
will also be seen to greater advan-
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-21

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Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-21

tage than heretofore, An important
new feature of the performance is
the Bud Snyder comedy bicycle act,
which includes Bluch Landolf, an
English pantomimist. Other princi-
pals in the organization are Wilbur
Doobs, comedian; John f. Cain and
Blanche Newcombe, Lucille Manion
and Victor Mcdonald Also there is
large chorus of male and female
voices and all unusually beautiful and
extensive scenic and costume investi-
ture Today's matinee starts at
o'clock. Ladies matinee daily all
week.
The Empress headliner ior this
week starting today is Ernest Evans
and company in sketch The So
ciety Circus" Media Keser a Bel
gian refugee, was known as THE
Belgian Nightingale" which title in
dicates that she is a real singer. Bert
and Harry Gordon present comedy
singing and talking act entitled
stop, You're Flat" Bowen and
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-21

For the next popular price attrac-
ton furnished by the International
circuit, the Boyd announces for four
days, beginning next Sunday do
mestic drama entitled That Other
Woman" written by Lem B. Parker,
which treats to some extent of the
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-21

Give your Want Ad chance to
make good. Run it in The Bee.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-21
Current Bills for Week

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himself or of his views on the subject
under consideration. Note, for example,
Franklin's religious beliefs, which are
taken up by Mr.. Bruce almost at the
beginning. Some, catching upon isolated
utterances and ignoring all others, have
made of Franklin an Atheist, others a
Deist, and yet others a Christian Be-
lever. Mr. Bruce cites the Confession
Of + aith which Franklin once composed.
in which belief is expressed In num-
Der of gods, one for each solar system
in the universe, of which system, in
deed, its particular god was the creator.
But again he cites him, more maturely
and persistently, as believing in one
God, Creator of the universe, who ought
to be worshipped; and as believing in
the personal and individual Immortality
of the human soul.
Obviously, both these declaratio Is
of belief, and all others, with their at
tendant circumstances, must be taken
into account before we can justly judge
what were Franklin's religious princi-
Piles. So with his attitude toward peace
and war He did indeed once write
that in his opinion "there never was a
good War or bad Peace" Yet IL was
not long afterward that he admonished
his countTymen against "a Neglect of
military Discipline" and a consequent
loss Of martial spirit. which would re-
duce them TO the oppressed condition
of the natives of Hindustan; for, he
added. there is much Truth in the
Italian saying. Make yourself Sheep,
and the Wolves will eat you" Wash
ington himself scarcely more directly
reminded Americans that the surest
way of preserving peace was in being
we'll prepared for war.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-01
Benjamin Franklin
His Character and Beliefs Self
Revealed in His Writings

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SELF REVEALED. By
William Cabcll Bruce. with portraits. Two
voumes Royal $40. pp ga 49, Il. /. Tut
mans Sons. .
There are two general methods OF
addressing ones self to the composition
of such a work as this. One, the method
unfortunately most frequently en-
ployed. is that of the special pleader, or
the propaganda, who sets out with a
preconceived notion OF what his subject
was, or with an already formed model
of what ne purposes to make his sub
iect appear. In such a work everything
is exploited that counts for the au-
thor's theory, and everything that is
contrary TO it is sighted or suppressed.
Such treatment is usually to be looked
for in works which purport to tell US
about "The Real Abanazar Pipkin" or
whoever the victim may be. From such,
Publishers Readers and Printers Dew
lis defend us!
The other method is that which holds
all personal prejudices and predilec-
tions in allegiance, and aims at nothing
but TO ascertain the truth and reveal
it; and that, we are glad 20 record, is
the method which Mr.. Bruce has adopt
ed in the handsome and scholarly vol
umes which are before us. Regarding
Franklin as a typical American, as a
true child of the eighteenth century
and as a citizen of the world, he fur
Their and truly conceives him as so
many-sided in his interests and so
varied in his activities as to be puz-
cling if not quite enigmatic TO the
average reader who has not oppor-
tunity to study him critically in all his
phases and to form a coherent and
illuminative composite of them all.
Mr. Bruce rightly holds that the most
authoritative way to arrive at correct
judgment of Franklin is by noting care.
fully all that Franklin himself said of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-01
"Baboushka'
The Little Grandmother OF the
Russian Revolution

THy LITTLE GRANDMOTHER OF THE RUS
sian ETVOIJ TON Bca.Discc1ccs sld lGters
q Catherine ilrC~lk lvsky. kditel ID Ahe
BiHckWcil With TJItraat $40. - go Aa'''''
Broen q Co
She was the daughter Of Russian anu
Polish aristocrats, nurtured in luxury
and educated in all the culture OF the
schools. In childhood she was shocked
by the suferings Of the seris and by
the callous despotism Of the landown,,
ing mobiles. In girlhood she determined
10 devote her talents and her lie 70
the redemption Of the Russian people.
In womanhood she labored greatly, ana
suffered unspeakable pains of imprison-
ment. outrage and torture with reso-
lutte serenity and unfailing confidence
in the ultimate triumph Of right. In
ace she saw the precipltat on oil the
revolution for which she had labored'
and sRe was brought home from exile
with the honors and pl'udits OF con-
quering hero.
Such, in briefest brief, is the story
Of Ekatcrina Constantinovna Breshko-
Breshkovskaya. Ii is told in this vol
ume from various sources, chiefly from
her own relations and from her letters.
II Is told simply. but with the irreSlst-
ible appeal TO interest which the SIM
ple relation Of truth must have when
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-01
News and Notes
About Varied Activities in the
World of Books

The J. B. Lippincott Company will
publish at the year-end Joseph Pen
nell's pictures of War Work in Amer
ica."
The Oxford University Press is pub
fishing "A Survey of international Re-
lations Between the United States and
Germany. 1914-1917," written by DR..
James Brown Scott, of Washington,
d. {. IL is complete account of the
controversy with Germany, based on
official documents. Two other volumes
edited by DR.. Scott will follow shortly,
viz: "The Diplomatic Correspondence
Between the United States and Ger
many, l914-19l7," and president Will
sons Foreign Policy, Collection Of
His Messages, Addresses and Papers,
Little, Brown e. Co. are publishing
the long-awaited Life and Letters of
Edward Everett Hale" In these vol
umes DR.. Hale reveals himself in the
selections from his many letters, jour
nails and notebooks. which his son. Ed
ward E., jr, professor Of English at
Union College, has carefully edited.
This is a two-volume biography. COM
prising 100000 words, making a total
of 500 pages. and illustrated with a
photogravure frontispiece and eight
halftone pictures in each volume.
1--WE of Italy" by Klyds Richardson
Steege, which +. P. Dutton & Co. will
publish shortly, will offer a glimpse
from the inside of Italy at war and
will show the spirit in which the whole
nation is carrying on her share Of the
conflict. For it is largely composed Of
letters from Italian soldiers at the
front-letters written from mountain
side trenches, on the march, from bat
tie fields, dictated in hospitals by the
wounded, sent to their loved ones at
home by peasants. artisans. working
men. clerks, business men, students.
the ignorant and the cultured, the rich
and the poor
Boni & Liveright announce for pub
LEGATION "The Great Modern French
Stories" BY Willard Huntington
Wright.
d. Appleton & Co. are publish
ing Percy Mackaye's new community
mssque for Christmas, THE Evergreen
Tree"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-01
A Master History
lanes F. Rhodes s New Volume
on the Civil War

HISTORY or THE CIVIL WAR. 1861 1865. by
james Ford Rhodes. La d. ID. Litt WIN
mapt $40. pp III. ~. The Macmillan TOM
psny.
This work. the author says in his
preface, is not an abridgment OF the
three volumes Of his History OF the
United States which deal directly with
the Civil War. Those volumes mp,
peared, respectively, in 1895, 1893 and
1904. Since 1904 much new original
material has been brought to light,
notably in he Diary of Gideon Welles,
the Letters and Diaries Of John Hay,
the "reminiscences and Letters OF Carl
Schurz, the Life and Letters of General
Meade (from which numerous quota
tions are made), Thayer's Life OF John
Hay and Livermore's Story of the Civil
War. The Official Records OF the
Union and Confederate Nayies have
also been published.
Mr.. Rhodes uses all these sources in
his new volume. Considering IT'S size
(onlv 45i octave pages) IL is marvel
of conden sa.ioI. We have no other
short history OF the war approaching
il in completeness, balance OF perspec-
tive. critical value and workmanlIke
finish. The author of the History OF
the United States aimed at impartiality
and accuracy. He was cautious in
statement ard sparing in critical analy-
sis. His method was objective rather
than subjective. In this latest work
he is more positive in the expression
Of opinions. He draws no full length
historical portraits. That is not his
idea of history But he strikes of
many more compressed and illumInat-
ing judgments on the great actors in
the war drama.
Lincoln is the most compelling figure
of them all. No Civil War historian
can ever reduce him TO a secondary
place. On the last page of his volume
Mr.. Rhodes says: "The great man OF
the Civil War was Lincoln. Lacking
him, the North would haze abandoned
the contest. His love of country anC
abnegation of self made him a worthy
leader. Other rulers of great power
have remorselessly crushed those who
stood in their way. He said, | am not
in favor Of crushing anybody out. Give
every man chance. We
speak of mighty Cesar, never of the
mighty Lincoln. But nobody speaks OF
honest julius. while Honest Old Abe
will live through the ages"
In a book of this size the military
aspect of the war necessarily over
shadows the political and economic as
pect. In the political field Lincoln''
mastery was unchallenegd. But in the
military field, where he was working
with strange tools, he failed continu
ally to secure results commensurate
with the North's military strength anC
resources. The story of the war or
the Union side for the first three years
is the story of Lincoln's pathetic
search for a successful general. WHY
was he doomed to draw so many
blanks. one after the other-McClellan
Pope. Buell.. Halleck, Burnside. Rose
Grams and Hooker? He himself ais
included Meade among the blanks