The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-10-08
THEATERS
Nazimova

NazimoVa
Nazimova, the famous Russian star
of the screen in a dramatic offering
entitled Stronger Than Death" In
this she has an emotional role that is
said to be one of the strongest she has
yet portrayed.
Stronger Than Death is the story
of a famous London dancer, Sigrid
Fersen, played by Nazimova, who en-
tiers the British colony in a barracks
town in India and Immediately divides
the community into factions-one hat
ing and the other adoring her. She
falls in love with an army physician,
who goes about curing the native at
the height of al epidemic of cholera.
To shield the doctor after he has
struck down the post commander,
Sigrid consents to wed one Barclay,
n bounder who threatens to accuse the
physician. But she becomes his wife
in name only.
There is al uprising of the natives,
melted by Vahana, high priest of the
temple, who seeks revenge on the
whites for the deflement by one of
them of the Bride of Vishnu, a native
girl. AS the revolt is nearing it's CHM
ak, Sigrid goes to dance in the moon
light on the temple steps. The Hin
dus mistake her for the goddess and
tarry to worship-long enough for the
British garrison to come to the aid of
the imperilled colony.
Douglas Fairbanks
Particular interest attaches to the
presentation of His Majesty, the Am
eriacn," the Douglas Fairbanks pic
ture, because it is the first Offering of
United Artists Corporation-the So
called big Four" Mary Pickford,
Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks
and d. w. Griffith, in January of 1919,
decided to enter the motion picture
field as Independent producers and dis
tributors, releasing their pictures di-
rect to the theaters of the country.
Fairbanks was the first to complete
a picture on the new basis and thus,
what will undoubtedly become the
biggest combination of screen artists,
was actually in operation less than a
year after its inception.
Theda Bara
Ultra-modern love making is done in
airplanes. when Men Desire" the
Theda Bara super-production, will
show just how it is done. This Will
lam Fox p%hotoplay is a film packed
with adventure, which ends in an
elopement via the c1I4ds.
Theda Bara plays the part of an
American woman who tries to escape
out of Ge1hany. But since she is of
German kcestry, the German govern
ment tries its best to make her escape
impossible. In addition, she %encount-
ers several very perilous situations be-
fore she is finally taken out OF the
country by the air line.
Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford as the lovable little
heroine of "Rebecca of Sunnybrook
Farm" has never had a better role
than that of the dainty New England
maiden, and the picture, which is an
elaborate and beautiful offering, pleas
ed old and young alike.
"Rebecca" brings to the fore again
Miss Pickford's inimitable excellence
in child roles. AS the little girl who
is sent from a farm to live with two
p%uritanical maiden aunts, she intro
duces in this staid environment q
series of exuberant pranks, such as
~scandalizing the school principal and
running a ~three-ring circus. Hell
guardians finally send her away tC
boarding school, whence she returns
after some jolly adventures, as quite
a young lady.
All that the photoplay public ha!
come to love in Mary Pickford is con
tanned in her irresistible characterize
ton of Kate Douglas Virgins heroine
In her checkered Bingham, absurd lit
tie hat, and her prim white gloves
Miss Pickford makes a very rea
young person of "the incest child il
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