Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-17
DROPS KHAKI
DORIS BLUE


was with the American expedition,
airy forces, and has since been pro-
lmoted as major in the United States
army reserve. Major Warwick
plays the leading role of Secret
Service" William Gillette's great
war play, which has been picturized
rs Paramount Aircraft special and
which is to be shown at the Rialto
today.
Major Warwick was at the front
tor more than year, and he has
brought back an imposing array of
war trophies-trench helmets,
dress" helmets, battered by hard
y service; rifles and revolvers the Ger
I mans used. He was in all the big
shows fights, this time-dur-
ing his term of frontier service be-
tore he was transferred back to this
country for some special work in
May. Going over, ship in front OF
his transport was sunk by German
submarine, and coming back his own
vessel sank a U-boat. He was on
the general staff for a long term
of work. He hadn't missed thing
he ereported gayly, when he got back
a Il want to say" Major Warwick
went on, that the bravery of the
motion picture cameraman was a
credit to the movies. Those boys
stuck to their cameras through the
worst of it, just as if they were
4 back at the studio filming staged
battle scene. Many brave grind
crs' will never turn camera crank
again. One boy was found drag
ging himself through No-man's-
land and several hours after a big
show had ended, tugging his cam
era.. which contained some great
shots, and faint from the loss OF
blood in his three wounds"
"Secret Service" is not war play
in the strict sense of the word.
There are no pitched battles, no
booming of cannon and bursting of
shrapnel. The tremendous drama
of the play is laid largely in the
Narney home in Richmond, at a
time when the southern capital was
besieged by the federal forces.
The Omaha Bees Universal
Screen Magazine No. u, which
starts at the Muse theater today,
contains series of eight interest
ing items.
IA Moment With an Old "In-
Jun" Fighter. Remember those old
hair-raising tales of your kid days
when in fond dreams you lived and
fought redskins with Daniel Boone?
Did You Know-Uncle Sam
Pays Woman to Conduct Board
ing House" for Bugs and Microbes ?
She is Miss Agnes Quirk, bureau of
plant pathology, U. S. Department
. Of Agriculture and this is her
Kitchen"
3-The Sea Horse. There are
more than 80 kinds OF sea horses.
They are commonly found in all
tropical and temperate seas and
were known to the ancients.
1.-The Near Great. The man
who makes the Charlie Chaplin
shoes.
5-The Correct Form for the En-
gagged. by Dame Curtsy Court
ship should be dignified, sensible and
private"
6-How the Cricket "Serenades"
His Lady Love. The male gryllus
campestris Cor common ground
cricket) makes a sound pleasant to
the female.
II Use Your Hands to Charm, by
Lillian Russell. There can be grace
and beauty in raising teacup,"
S-Futurist Movies. Introducing
loe Cannon, one of Americas states
men.
To recover from the wounds OF
the Hunnish bullets and the nause-
ating Teuton gasses only to become
prisoner for life through the darts
OF one Dan Cupid, was the expert
ence of Fed Brooks, a daring cow
boy, who supports Harry Carey.
In the early days of the war
Brooks enlisted with the Canadian
forces and within a few weeks saw
Vimy Ridge. There he fell a vic
tim of German sniper. He was
sent back to a Canadian hospital
and was tenderly nursed back to
health by Miss Ethel Morrison. an
.hlaskan girl. who volunteered as a
Red Cross nurse.
Last week Miss Morrison arrived
dt Universal City after completing
long journey from the cold north
many miles of WHICH was covered
BY dog teams.
The life knot was tied and as a
Wedding present Harry Carey pre-
sented the couple with a plot of
ground on his ranch as home site,
and Ted's cowboy pals. not to be
outdcne, punched together and in
single day built modest home
tar the happy couple.
William S. Hart has completed
his last production for Paramount
Artcraft on his present contract,
which has been in effect during the
ast two years. The title of his lat
est creation is John Petticoats," a
weird subject that takes Hart from
the backwoods OF Oregon to New
Orleans French quarter. Hart will
shortly announce his future plans,
and it is understood that he has def
iaitely decided not to retire, as was
4 reported several months ago.
Announcement of coming attrac-
tions in Omaha include Cecil B.
deMille's The Admirable Critchton -
\ with Thomas Meighan, Glovia
Swanson, Lila Lee and Theodore
Roberts in the cast
Bryant Washburn will be seen in
Love Insurance" and there is COM
ing 'Huckleberry Finn, a screen
! story of Mark Twain's great book
peg O. My Heart" the famous
sfage play. will star Wanda Hawley.