Omaha daily bee., 1919-06-01
NOT A VAMP
THEDA EXPOSED
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"HEDA BARA, the noted mo-
ton picture star. seated at her
desk in her New York home
recently, had been talking of some
OF her peculiar experiences.
THAT reminds me- she said.
Two young women called upon me
at the studio today. One of them
announced that her home was in
Gloversville, N. Y. and reminded
me that she was the author of doz-
ems of letters sent to me.
She had been desperately in love
with young man, and had agreed
to marry him. Two weeks after the
engagement was announced the
young man deserted her for another
girl and was constantly Haunting be-
fore her his affection for his new
flame.
This girl appealed to me to out
line for her vampire role so that
she could bring the young man back,
groveling at her feet.
~ know you can do it, Miss
Bara,' she pleaded. Please tell me
how | can hunliliate this beast who
has broken My heart" and she
grasped me about the shoulders,
sobbing pathetically.
Realizing the intensity of the
girls feeling, | quietly appealed to
her finer sense of womanhood adj
vised her to go home to her moth
err. unfold her heart as she had to
me, and take her mothers advice
rather than any | might be able to
give. Twas speaking from my heart
to this girl, when suddenly her
friend interrupted me by taking the
girl by the arm, with the remark,
oh, come on, Alice. You told Inc
this woman was vampire. Say
she's no vampire; she's Sunday
school teacher And Alice was for
chilly dragged to the elevator"
Miss Bara was, at the time of the
incident she related, in the midst OF
Timing scene in "A Woman There
Was" which is to be shown at the
Sun theater the last of this week..
The position of the man who
stayed at home during the war, be-
cause he felt he would be of more
use to his country here than in the
trenches, is problem which will
within a short time engross the
uation. Cecil B. DeMille;; whose
For Better. For Worse" is present
cd at the Rialto today, has forseen
what is to come, and has, perhaps,
precipitated the discussion Of the
problem in his picture. In discuss
ing the theme of this production.
Mr.. DeMille said: .
"One of the biggest problems of
the day, and one which must be
solved in the very near future, is the
status of the man who stayed at
home during the war The two mil
lion men who sacrificed everything
and endured hell in the trenches, are
now returning. They will come back
with a truly national spirit, which
perhaps many of them did not have
before. They will come back to a
realization of the importance of the
individual in national life, and we
may be sure that they are not going
to lose interest in the nation whose
freedom they have secured.
"On, the other hand, we have the
vast horde of men who stayed at
home during the war. Many who
stayed we're too old to fight, to be
sure. But there is great number
Of those of military age. who were
not slackers, who were patriotic to
the final extreme, but who realized
that their duty lay at home.
Granting that the motives which
withheld them from battle were the
highest motives of service, granting
that they realized their duty was to
to do the work demanded here in
America, rather than that demanded
in France. we're they patriots or
slackers? That is the question which
promises to engross the entire world
in the near future.
Mae Murray, the star of THE
I Delicious Little Devil" showing at
the Muse this week, is an airplane
enthusiast. While working at Uni
versal City she made number of
flights, dropping literature for the
various Liberty Loans, the United
War Work campaign and other pa
triotic movements.
So rapidly did she acquire the
rudiments of aeronautic science that
for brief period on one flight her
pilot permitted her to manipulate
the levers and guide the machine,
which she did without tremor.
"She thinks all airplane is an auto
mobile" commented the pilot, after
the fight.
D. Anthony Tauszky, the portrait
artist engaged by Maxwell karger to
paint interpretative titles for Metro
productions, has completed set of
p oil studies for False Evidence"
the drama of the California red