Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-05
TIASHEy 7Hom FINLAND
PHOTO PLAY. OFFERlN0C. FOR. TO-DAY.

n OOKINGS at the many Omaha
II movie houses this week are
- far above the average. Man
ayers are taking keen delight in
seeing how big and how good pic
ture they can secure for their pat
rons rather than how much money
can they make if they show such
and such a picture That people
are approaching the pictures shown
is best evidenced by the fact, that
every house, practically every night,
| is showing to full capacity, while
many are turned away. The sew
eral managers claim their present
Screenings" are only the fore-run-
ner of still greater pictures soon
to come.
Moon-Louis Grantaire, who in
herited vast timber tract at the
death of his father, started out to
cleanup the bully-ridden lumber
camps. In the course of his cru
SADIE he found it necessary to wipe
up the snow with clique of DULLES,
but he met his Waterloo when he
tried to rule a girl. The story is
interestingly told at the Moon
theater for the last times today in
THE Brute Breaker" the photo
drama starring Frank Mayo and
Kathryn Adams.
Rialto-"Broken Blossoms" D.
w. Griffith's masterpiece, now at
the Rialto theater, is proclaimed by
those who have already seen the
picture to be the biggest, best, most
interesting and having by far the
most wonderful settings of any
photo picture ever shown in Omaha.
The picture has much to do with
children, and in China, (where the
scenes are laid, as in our own good
states, every one has kindly word
for the little ones.
In Hong Kong, where D. w.
Griffith studied the Chinese, there
are magnificent palaces built high
UP on the Peak The material for
these was, every bit of it, carried
up the steep incline by hand. And
the incline is so steep that no white
person living in Hong Kong ever
cares to walk it, but is carried up
in chairs. Every day there is a
steady procession of Chinese work
men carrying building material up
the hill. Across their shoulder
they balance bamboo pole, at
eaci, end of which is a basket
heavily laden with brick or sand.
F., 1t is not light thing that men
so heavily laden should be forced
to take single unnecessary step
and yet. grooming under their back
breaking loads, if little Chinese
child-or white child for that
mattcr-gets in the path of one OF
these men, he will step aside, load
and all. and if he greets the child
at all it will be with smile. In
London's East End, such children
could expect to hear nothing but
foul curses.
To understand something Of the
truth of such a contrast as this IS
necessary to comprehend at their
fullest artistic value the nuances OF
Broken Blossoms and the strik-
ing moral lessons this work of art
is intended to convey. And. the
inclusion of these scenes of Chinese
childhood with their subtle sug-
gesticns of Oriental happiness IS
only another proof of the keen
sense of artistic values that charac-
terizes this wonderful photo
drama. 1t will continue its run at
the Rialto the balance of the week..
Empress-Peggy Hyland will bid
farewell to her friends in this city
tonight when "A Girl in Bohemia
closes at the Empress theater. 1t
is a screen adaptation of the big
stage success and has enabled Miss
Hyland to add many friends to her
list of admirers here. The famous
section Of New Yosk known as
Greenwioh village, where artists and
near-artists of the great city conglre-
gate to lead so-called Bohemian
lives, is pictured on the screen. and
this expose of the life Of this So
called Bohemian set is fascinating IN
its interest.
Strand-Across the public square
shot a torn and bleeding man, with