Omaha daily bee., 1922-06-04
Forthcoming Pictures Presage New Era in Cinema Industry
Fairbanks and
Ray Lead With
Clean Stories
Splendid Entertainment on
Omaha Screens This Week
Norma Talmadge at Sun
Bebe Daniels at Strand.
By JOHN E. KENNEBECk.

"Smilin' Through" the
sweetest cinema story ever
told, was the compass needle
that proclaimed an era OF
new pictures was at hand.
Norma Talmadge's master
piece presaged the renais-
sance of the films. Movie
producers and story writer's
saw the handwriting on the
wall and almost at once be-
gan the making of better
films-cinema stories that be-
spoke a moral and impressed,
a nation.
Will Hays new order of
things in the movie industry
was effective!
What the near future holds
for movie fans may be gath
cred from a glance over wire
reports from studios about
forthcoming pictures. Betty
Compton is making ITO Have
and to Hold" which really
should be an enjoyable fea-
ture; Rodolph Valentino is in
the midst of BLOOD and
Sand" said to be an adven-
turous and snappy picture:
"Borderland," a story of
spirits, is Agnes Ayres' pres
ent vehicle, which is sched-
uled for release this fall.
"Robinhood" is Douglas
Fairbanks next characterize
ton.
Then there's "The Old
Homestead" mice People,"
"Pink Gods" "The Bondboy,"
featuring Richard Barthel-
mess; Charles Ray in "A
Tailor Made Man." "Suzan-
ma" "Omar, the Tentmaker,"
besides numerous other pic
lures of the "better" type in
the making.
Offerings at Omaha movie
theaters this week are replete
with entertainment, fun and
drama.
Compson at Rialto.
., Betty Compson's beauty is dis
played in greater variety of cos
tunes in her most recent picture,
The Green Temptation" which
opens at the Rialto theater, than in
any picture she has ever done.
AS "Genelle," the Apache, she is
yivacious and daring.
Her "Columbine" in the panto-
mime dance with Theodore Kosloff,
is piquant and dainty.
As the Amazon warrior, in an
other striking dance, she is bold and
fierce.
In the costume of a Red Cross
nurse, she is quiet and sympathetic.
AS Paris most noted actress, she
is naughty and proud.
At mask ball given by one of
Long Islands social leaders, she is
the statuesque Grecian maiden.
1he dancing costumes are gor-
gcous and display Miss Compson's
beauty and talent as dancer to
marked degree. Theodore Kosloff,
Mahlon Hamilton, Mary Thurman
anG others are in the cast.
Norma at Sun.
Ethel M. Dell's novel, "The Safety
Curtain" dramatized by Sidney A.
Franklin and Paul West, will be
shown at the Sun theater the frs.
four days of this week, when Norma
Talmadge is featured with Eugene
OBrien appearing as her leading
man. This is revival of the photo
rlay that formed part of the series
CT pictures employed to bring Miss
Talmadge into stardom on the silver
sheet.
The story carries the observer in
swift scenes from the stage of a
London music hall into the swirl of
English army life in India.
If you want to be happy don't
quarrel over different makes of mo-
tor cars, especially when he happens
to know more about cars than YOU
Go. This is the decision arrived at
by Constance Talmadge, who is pre-
sented by Lewis ]. Selznick in "A
Pair Of Silk Stockings" which is to
open at the Sun theater next Thurs
day for three days.
Bebe Daniels at Strand.
That the screen public never tires
of tense, virile, out of doors drama
is shown in the presentation at the
Strand this week of North of the
Rio Grande," starring Jack Holt and
Bebe Daniels.
A we'll defined plot holds together
the units of the tale, novelty being
provided by the rather unusual dra-
matte devices of twin horses. And
when one speaks of the equine actors,
mention should be made OF the mar
ye1o,,s feots of Ioct HnIt's mount