Omaha daily bee., 1921-03-27
Sun Billions"


Cast of Characters.
Krakerfeller, mutimillionaire. ....,.....
owen Carey, poet ........ Charles Bryant
Frank Manners William j. Irving
Isaac Colben ............. John Stepping
Mrs. Colhen ......,...... Marian Skinner
Maize Colben .'.'.'.....''.;. Bonnie Hill
Nazimova in Billions" her new
est photoplay, is announced as the
feature attraction at the Sun theater
this week.
Advance reports credit this as be-
irg the most fascinating screen
drama that the incompatible Nazi-
nova has ever appeared in.
AS its title implies, Billions has
to do with wealthy people. 1t re.
lates the story of Russian princess
who comes into riches and of poet
who also inherts a furtune. They
have loved as the result of his verses,
but have never met until they both
journey to fashionable winter re-
sort in California and are introduced
Meanwhile frauds are endeavoring to
backmail the poet-millionairc. and
he is saved from scandal when the
princess, at the risk of her own rep
utation, gets into his bed in negligee
to thwaft the designs of the other
woman.
Many exhilarating scenes are
shown in Billions. 1t is an
adaptation of celebrated French
stage success. Charles Bryant wrote
the scenario and also plays the lead
ing male role opposite Nazimova.
Others in the supporting cast are
William J. Irving, Victor Potel, John
Stepping, Marian Skinner, Bonnie
Hill, Emmett King and Eugene H.
klum. Ray c. Smallwool directed
the production.
Strand-"The Price of Possession"
and Passion"
Pola Negri
1t is a name to tonjure with
Dazzling, superb, attractive, ap-
pealing!
Such is the spirit in which Pola
Negri, the remarkable Polish actress,
is acclaimed in America.
She makes her debut in this coun-
try in. Passion historical
spectacle.
The picture opens next Thursday
at the Strand theater for an engage
ment of 10 days.
1t unfolds thrilling story of the
rise of a humble French milliner 70
position where she is able to domi-
nate a king. She is character re-
plete, with strange mixture of
virtues and faults, but, above all, she
possesses irresistible wies and
smiles. such as easily ensnared men
OF the highest rank.
But her strange triumphs prove to
be her great undoing in the end ard
the sequence OF events combine to
make a really appealing story.
Ethel Clayton plays the leading
1ole in "The Price of Possession"
which plays at the Strand the first
iour days of this week.
The story revolves around two
nephews, one of whom steals a
birthright and flces to Australia.
The picture is not without a touch
OF romance.
Moon-"The Mark of Zorro"
Douglas Fairbanks takes the
screen at the Moon thcater this week
in The Mark of Zorro"
According to press reports, never
before has the celebrity injected
such appealing action In picture,
1t is a dual role that Fairbanks is
called upon to essay. AS Don Diego
Vega, the young man, he leads Sc
cluded life. He exhibits a fondness
for the companionship of books and
quietness and amiable in disposition
upon all occasions. Anything Of an
excitable nature was abhortent to
him and never was he found min
Cling with the populace in their va
rous festivities. But when he became
awakened to the oppression and per-
sccution without justification OF the
natives by those in power, he telt
that the time had already come to
act, Disguised as Senor Zorro, we
see him executing various exploits
practically unaided in the attempt to
free his people. from the despot's
yoke. He becomes transformed into
veritabc dynamo of boundless en-
rgy.
What a mass of new feats of skill
he performs. There is girl in the
story who really furnishes the strong
love interest.
With Noah Beery, Robert McKim,
Charles Hill Males and Marguerite
DeLaMotte, his leading lady, collect
cd in his cast, Fairbanks has lett
nothing undone to assure the pub lie
the best obtainable in motion pic
trrcs,
Billions" Lady Roses
Daughter" Restless Sex" and The
Jsilbird." I'D
Nazimova in "Billions" opens this
weeks cinema program at the Muse
theater today.
The picture will te shown today
crly at the Muse.
Lady Roses Daughter" which
plays tomorrow and Tuesday, re-
veals the love life of woman who
found that her blue blood" was red
and followed her heart to things not
blazoned on the coat of arms. Elsie
Ferguson has the leading role.
THE Restless Sex" featuring Mar
ion Davies. unfolds a romance around
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