Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-11

and this falls in possession of a
German secret agent, who hides
within its hollow, plans of Turkish
Notifications. There is an upris-
ing against foreigners and the Ger
man intrusts the idol to Rev. Carew
with instructions to forward the
plans to Germany in the event of
his (the German's) death. The Ger
man is slain and Rev. Carew flees
to the United States with his wife
and daughter, Rue's playtl1ing dur
ing childhood is the image and her
favorite pastime is shooting at a
target. She meets Jim Neeland, son
of mill owner and they exchange
sketches of each other. Learning
that Neeland is to sail with the
plans for Europe, German agents
decide to sink the steamship by
means of a bomb which they plant
in Neeland's stateroom. They truss
up Neelnad and Rue and signalling
to German vessel make their es-
cape. Neeland manages to free
Rue's hands and taking his revolver,
she destroys the mechanism of the
bomb, then fires at a water pitcher
which collapses, the water extin-
gushing the suffering fuse.
Strand-"Nobody Home" with
Dorothy Gish, accompanied by a
green property mans conception of
a movie" blackjack. To expose a
secret of photoplay production, the
bottles, crockery and blackjacks
with which one actor strikes another
are usually made of some substance
less dangerous than it appears. Thus
the burglars billy" in Miss Gish's
picture was stuffed with cotton and
lusty blow could be delivered with
no serious results But when the
new property man got slightly rat
tied and brought the wrong one on
the "set" and the heavy" hit Miss
Gish on the head with tit was
found that something was wrong.
Luckily the results were not fatal,
but. after a rather heated interview
with Miss Dorothy, the property
man has decided to be more careful
in the future.
Moon-Mabel Normand in when
Doctors Disagree" Miss Normand
is Mile Martin, accompanying her
father on her first railroad jour-
ney. On the same train is worthy
young carpet layer who is fleeing
from an imaginary crime. Armed
with doctors pass, he pretends to
be a physician, but is terrified when
addressed as doctor" The ensu-
ing events are laughable in the ex-
IRENE, and Miles escape from the
knife is miraculous.
Sun-"The Westerners" is the
story of the pioneers in the Black
Hills gold stampede. Jim Buckley
incurred the enmity Of half-breed,
Michael LaFond, whom Buckley
has driven from the caravan because
of the half-breed's unwelcome at
tentions to the wife of college pro-
lessor who, with their little daugh-
ter, are members of the party. The
half-breed returns with a band of In
dams. They murder the child's
mother and kidnap the baby. Years
later LaFond returns to notorious
dance hall with the girl, now grown
into beautiful young woman. He
is bent on causing her ruin.
Brandeis-"Y ankee Doodle in Ber-
lin" is the feature photoplay that
Mack Sennett is presenting at the
Brandeis four times daily all this
week. This is five-part comedy
that took months to prepare and
upon which was spent a neat little
fortune. Following this short SEN
nett comedy is shown and immedi-
ately following the comedy the cur
tain rises on a group of real-honest-
to-goodness Senett dolls, seen in a
clever little offering entitled "We
Are the Mack Sennett Bathing
Girlies."
Something like 100000 loose
stamps are found annually in mail
boxes throughout the United States.