Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-15
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Charles Ray in Real
Life Mon of Grit and
Earnest in Work Of
World Outside Monies
HARLEs RAY. who is show, a,


play OF life in a small VILLAGE
a Nine O'Clock Town." has made
ms most successful photoplays de.
piehng the parts that are totally un.
like his personal character. His great.
est forte in the screen has been weak
ling characters.
Ray himself is a six-foot all.Ameri.
can young fellow. His face, which il
frankly boyish on the screen, il that
OF the real man inside OF him when
one meets him face TO face. He has
dark brown hair, deep.set brown ewes,
q. trm and we'll moulded chin, giving
his head q well shaped aspect. He
IS boxer OF ability, jumper. rover
base ball player and cxcels at all
games and sports. For his spare time
ne makes many electrical experiments,
Is student of French and Spanish
and has written several fiction stories
which have been published.
As boy he showed a doggedness
and perseverance in going on the
stage that he has portrayed in few
OF his screen characters. His father
was determined that Charlie should
go to business college, Charlie was
determined that he should be an &C.
tor. A compromise was effected by
winch the boy went 10 school first in
consideration that he be allowed A
triai on the stage afterwards. His
hrst stage appearance was so good
that his father said he could take A
real flyer at It and famed his start.
II was'a pretty good investment for
the boy of that day draws more
money than bank president.
And in his latest play RAY has a
perturbation Of life in a real 9 o'clock
village, place where the curfew,
which never rings, is nevertheless in
sistent at about that time and there
is no place to go but home.
H. B. Warner, who appears this
week in Gods Man." nine-reel pro-
duction at the Muse, has a play that
nc believes shows the real mission OF
the photoplay. although he doesn't
believe that Il is the food for the
public all of the time. II Is a story
which digs down into our modern
social structure and seeks for the
causes, which go to make lip the ne.
euliar organization Of our modern
life in which one man and his fam.
lily live unnaturaliy in the siums on
next to nothing, while his brother
man lives in just as unnatural a man
ner in richness and aflluence not more
than a mile or two away, under the
same sky and breathing the same kind
of air.
i is a highly dramatic production,
built upon the great city of New
York as background for the play.
with the underworld shown in giaring
relief to the palaces of the rich. Dra-
matte effects are obtained not only
through the efforts of the actor and
his company, but also through photo
graphic reproduction of the con-
trasts which one finds. II is a strong
arraignment of our modern life and
the play has been hailed everywhere
as a real classic of the screen.
To all who have seen the late
Blanche Walsh in her great Character
ization of katusha in Resurrection"
the stage version of Count Tolstoy's
immortal novel, the perturbation of
that story for Paramount, in which
Pauline Frederick is starred, will be
an attraction of more than passing
interest. Miss Frederick, whose dra-
matte powers are universally recog-
nized, will be seen as Katusha, a beau
tiful Russian girl who. after serving
as the plaything for dissolute prince,
becomes a social outcast. Many OF the
scenes of Resurrection" are on a pom
derous scale and they doubtless will
serve to make this picture one of the
greatest of its kind yet produced. In
this strong dramatic role, Miss Fred
erick will no doubt add to her laurels
as star, and increase the great num-
Der of her personal admirers. The
photoplay was picturized by Charles
Z. Whitaker and in the supporting
cast are included Robert Elliott, John
Sainpolis and Jere Austin.
D. w. Grifith's latest film master
piece, Hearts of the World" will b.
shown at the Brandeis theater begin
ming, Sunday, October 6.
Hearts of the World' require,
eighteen months in the making an,
many of the scenes were taken on IN,
actual battle6elds of France by Mr
Griffith, with the official aid and as
sistance of the British and the Frencl
governments. Mr.. Griffith, however
is anxious to remove any apprehen
sion that Hearts of the World
primarily a war picture. It is, h
announces, primarily q love story. /
which war figures as the grim bach
ground. The battle scenes shown ar
actual battle scenes taken right in tn
trenches during the death struggles q
the French and the Germans; only oc
casionally has it been found neces
sary to piece the story of the battle
together by means of acted scene,
Prominent in the cast of Hearts G
the World" are the beautiful CHS
sisters, Lillian and Dorothy, RobeI
Harron, George Fawcett, Georg
Seigman, and other weli-known play
erS