The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-29
Blind Hero
Romance Is
in Triangle
Milton Sills Leads Cast in
Rialto Film; Strand Offers
Thrilling Air Service
Melodrama.
Two Promising Pictures

An exciting melodrama, 1.-THE Ali
Mall" dealing with an up.to-the-min
ute subject from the pen of Byron
Morgan. author of Wallace Reds
automobile stories, and the screer
adaptation of a widely read novel
Il Want My Man" are the two lead
ing film attractions in Omaha this
week.
Morgan, author Of THE Air Mail,
showing at the Strand, is himself g
flying enthusiast. For more than two
Years he has owned and sailed a
ship and he figures no day com
plete without at least one trip to the
clouds. As the name suggests, "The
Air Mall Is tale of the u. s. ali
man service, with the motto "Nm
snow, nor rain, nor wind, nor night
can stay the pilot in his flight The
whole production smacks of the dar
ing, romance and faithfulness of the
gallant men who are daily facing un
told risks In the sky. Omaha being
one of the big stations along the. air
route, 1t will be of particular inter
est to Omahans.
Paramount Air Mail"
For six weeks the Paramount air
mail and passenger service operat
ed between Rhyolite, the famous de-
serted mining town in Nevada, and
Goldfield, so miles away. Only three
mail trains a week touch Beatty
the town nearest Rhyolite, and the
air mail service was instituted to
accommodate the large number OF
players who made their headquarters
in the deserted city during the film
ing Of the picture.
Warner Baxter, Billie Dove, Mary
Hrian and Douglas Fairbanks, jr.,
have the prominent roles in the film.
Milton Sills. star of Flowing
Gold" 1.-THE Sea IIawk," Madonna
OF the Streets" and AS Man De
sires." again comes to the Rialto In
Il Want My Man"
+. Sills. a former University Of Chi
cago instructor. took many a knock
from cold theater audiences that
made him regret, temporarily, his
abandonment of the college ciaAs-
room. But his heart was In the thea.
ter, and his feet always led him back
there to try again. Finally on Wash.
ineton's birthday, 1909. he opened in
New York in This Woman and This
Man. by Avery Hopwood. He scored
a big hit, Sills had found himself.
Playing opposite Sills in the film
is another who has risen to great
heights recently, Doris Kenyon. A
gust of girlish soprano, floating out
through the window of a Brooklyn
drawing room to sn1ite the ears Of a
famous music composer, was the
luckiest thing in the life of Miss
Kenyon. She was singing In the choir
of Methodist church while studying
for career as a pianist.
One day when she was doing a
finger exercise on the keyboard some
thing urged her to air her lungs and
she sent her voice as high as she
could. Victor Herbert CHANGED TO hear
her, and asked II she would not like
to go on the stage. II never had
dreamed of it," said Miss Kenyon
But before my first surprise was
ended he had offered me a role In his
operetta PRINCESS Pat. which he
was just starting In New York. II
was my high note that attracted his
attention, and IL is responsible for my
turning from music TO drama" Miss
Kenyon contends that the church and
theater. long separated by barriers
which a growing modern liberalism is
leveling, have for some time been
closer related than either could real
ize, "The church is one of the great
est contributors of players to the