LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 19k.
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For The
Liberal patronage which we have received this year and at the
same time wish to assure you of the same courteous attention
and an assortment of merchandise which will far surpass our prev
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of your continued patronage, which it has been our duty and
pleasure to merit.
WE WISH YOU A VEEY PROSPEROUS NEW YEAE.
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A. T.Hill V.J.Bolton W.S. Parker
Old Maid Let Griffith Know
World Would "Love Mary
'introduces the girl as his daughter,
j feeling that he can give her better
! protection. They are eagerly wel-
corned in the town, where he is taken
ifor a professor of Shakespeare. For
j the first time in the girl's life she is
u.
W. Griffith
(Special Correspondence)
Los Angeles, Dec. 29. Motion pic
ture men agree thmat D. W. Griffith,
producer of "Intolerance1 and other
great gilms, is the biggest man who
ever has participated in the land of
movies.
A writer recently discussing Grif
fith declared that in his opinion Grif
fith's great power came from a mind
"tuned to unusual depths of sympa
thetic appreciation."
That this may be so could be glean
ed from Griffith's own recital of how
Mary Pickford broke into the game."
It seoms that in the early days of
the films the Biograph studio em
ployed a very cross old maid who
acted as stenographer, secretary and
general buffer for the establishment.
It was up to her to see that no one
got by her.
Griffith said he was coming down
stairs when he happened to hear ths
stenographer call some one "dearie."
lie was so astonished that he near
ly fell over the banisters in his excite
ment to see who could have dragged
out a "dearie" from that sour old
maid. What he saw was the cutest
little girl in the world. She was argu
ing the matter.
"But," said the stenographer,
"dearie, I can't let you see Mr. Grif
fith if he doesn't know who you arc."
"If I can't get a chance to see him,
j how is he ever oing to know who I
jam?" said the little girl. She was
iso sweet and winning, yet so insist
icnt aljout it, that Griffith said he de
termined then and there to employ
her.
He knew if that old maid called her D Wolf Hopper, Triangle.
dearie everybody else in the world , in a peaceful, happy environment. The
would love her. ' young chap who keeps the hotel falls
The stenographer hesitated. "Well, in love with her, and during the prog
what Bhall I tell him?" she said du- ress of the Shakespearian theatricals
biously. ! they become engaged.
"You tell him that Mary Pickford I About this time Stoner comes into
wants to see him, and if he doesn't town, selling soap on the street cor
know who Mary Pickford is I will ners. He sees the prosperity of his
come up and tell him." ! old associates and goes to Ulysses, de-
And that was the way Mary Pick-' manding that he be "let in." Ulvsses
ford started. : begs him to get out of town and leave
: him ana tne girl in peace. Then Ston-
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PRODUCTION, "STRANDED"
II. Ulysses Watts, the part played
by De 'Wolf Hopper in "Stranded," the
new Triangle play in which he is
starred at the Arcade Sunday, is a
gentleman and an actor of the old
school, who has outgrown his time
and finds that the managers are not
looking for "actors" any more. He is
finally driven to taking a position
with the Parisian Belles Variety Com
pany, doing characterizations from
Shakespeare. In all the company he
has no friend, except for one little girl,
an acrobat. The manager of the com
pany, Stoner, has taken a fancy to
the girl and has decided to take the
night's receipts at a certain town and
flee, taking the girl with him. She
refuses to go. He runs away alone, I
leaving the company stranded.
A nearby town is giving a Shako
spearian "revival." Ulysses takes the
girl with him to the town to see if
they can pick up a living there. Ho
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or shows some photographs that he
has of the girl dressed in tights, per
forming on a trapeze. He asks what
the townspeople would think of her as
a wife for one of their prominent citi
zens. Ulysses keeps Stoner out of
the way until the day of the wedding,
when he comes back and threatens to
break up the wedding with the pic
tures. The wedding guests are waiting.
Ulysses turns to enter the church.
Stoner pulls a gun and fires, the shot
hitting Ulysses. The groom does not
see that the shot has struck him, and
his fight with Stoner goes on. The
guests inside the church all run for
the door to see what has happened.
Ulysses, wounded to death, bears up
bravely, bursts in the door and savs.
"It is nothing a tire blew out. The
groom will be in immediately." Then
to keep them quiet, he says, "I will
recite to you the death of Julius Cae
sar." This piece of acting is the
greatest the old actor has ever done.
The crowd listens breathless. The
groom, outside, knocks Stoner into un
consciousness and takes away the pic
tures or the girl.
And m the finish Honncr nrovps
himself a real dramatic actor as well
as a capable comedian.
The play offers her the rare oppoi
tunity to show what a capable ac
tress she is. However, few of her
friends will appreciate the enormity
of her task. So worn out was she
when the last foot of film was taken
that she was forced to go immediately
on a two weeks' vacation to recuper
ate. "A double exposure film tires an
actress as does nothing else in pic
tures," suys Miss La Badie.
For instance, in one of the scenes
in "The Fear of Poverty," the mother
enters and discovers that her daughter
has suffered a rude awakening. She
had to rehearse the scene many, many
times, keying the action to the count
of the camera man. The mother was
to speak on the count of nine, the
daughter would respond on the count
of twelve, and so forth.
"You see, I had to play both parts
and converse with myself. 'While the
camera man counted, I played the
mother's part in the scene, then I
changed my entire costume and make
up, returned and played the daughter.
It was very difficult to shift from
one part to another, and yet play each
perfectly. And then if the count went
wrong, and when the film was de
veloped it showed the mother and
daughter talking at the same time,
we had to take it all over again."
Frederick Sullivan was the director
in charge of this picture.
In Memory of Henderson Clark
"I can not say and I will not say,
That he is deod-f-he is just away.
With a cherry smile and a wave of the
hand,
He has wandered into an Unknown
land.
And left us dreaming how very fair,
It needs must be, since he lingers
there.
Think of him still as the same, I say:
He is not dead he is just awav."
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Denver, Colo., Dec. 30. "You can't
kill the old scout," was the greeting
given newspaper men by Colonel W.
F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) today in re
sponse to inquiries as to his condition.
Colonel Cody, who has been serious
ly ill at the home of his sister, Mrs.
May Cody Decker, here, for a week,
yesterday was sufficiently improved to
take an automobile ride through he
city.
Dr. East, Colonel Cody's physician,
stated that the colonel is improving
satisfactorily.
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Florence La Badie Plays Four Parts
in "Fear of Poverty."
In "The Fear of Poverty," the Pathe
Gold Rooster play produced by Than
houser, which will be shown at the
Sherry theatre today only, Florence
La Badie plays a double role amount
ing, in fact, to four distinct char
acterizations. She is a poor woman
who suffers in poverty out becomes
rich. She is also this same woman
years later and her daughter who
knows nothing of poverty, frivolous
girl, spoiled by luxury who does not
appreciate the seriousness of life un
til she marries a man she does not
love, and finds that she wants the
love of another man.
Miss La Badic'a many admirers will
be delighted by her splendid portrayil
of these widely different characters.
Directors of training tables through
out the country, and dieticians gen
erally, will be interested in what is
possibly the solution just revealed
of the unusual physical endurance of
the Greek athletes of ancient times
during the period of Hellenic athletic
supremacy.
A few days ago Sidney Hatch, a na
tionally known Marathon runner, un
covered a new set of rules for nour
ishment during his all-night, record
breaking road run from Milwaukee tc
Chicago.
The only nourishment, either liquid
or solid, taken by Hatch during 14
hours and 50 minutes of running, in
which he covered 95.7 miles, was or
ange juice and hot lemonade. He ate
nothing solid between 6 o'clock in the
evening when he took three pieces of
toast before his start which he mane
at 8 o'clock and at noon the next
day, when he ate a chicken dinner. Ha
made only three stops, totalling alto
gether 20 1-2 minutes, while cover
ing the distance, and each time drank
either hot lemonade or orange juice.
The Greeks, we know, grew oranges
and lemons and used them freely, and
there seems no doubt that these fruits
played an important part in the phys
ical excellence and remarkable feats
of strength known to have been per
formed by their athletes. No nation
since that time has evolved such a
large proportion of genuine athletes.
The recent run by Sidney Hatch
most certainly has a message for the
average man or woman, as well as our
athletes both professional and ama
teur, whose activities require endur
ance and strengtn. Orange juice ha3,
of course, been longer used as an
easily digested liquid food for babies
and convalescents. Now it takes rank
ing with, and supercedes in this ca;;e,
the old established liquid beef drink'!,
so long used as endurance builders and
quick strengtheners.
Hot lemonade, aside from being a
dependable cold preventative of real
merit is shown to be a nourishing
drink without a reaction. Hatch ran
against a brisk autumn wind ofLaka
Michigan, and doubtless the hot lem
onade acted as a guard against pos
sible sudden chilling and as an easily
digested thirst quencher.
The automobiles which accompanied
him on his run carried coffee also, a?
it was thought possible he would need
some mild stimulant; but the records
show that he did not call for a drink
of it during any of his three brief
stops. Hatch broke all previous rec
ords for the distance.
cost of production amounted to up
wards of $250,000. Not even in the
lavish stage productions made by such
Irving and Richard Mansfield has such
magnificence been dreamed of, much
less attempted. The costumes alone
cost $35,000, and the reproduction of
the market-place of mediaeval Verona
with its eighteen buildings, meant an
outlay of $25,000 more.
Shakespeare's matchless story of
love and tragedy scarcely needs to be
refreshed in the minds of the public,
since the tale has always been a favor
ite one. Romeo and Juliet, who fall
in love with each other at their first
glance, are members of the two great
noble families of Verona, the Monta
gues and Capulcts, who have for years
been at enmity with each other. That
their meetings and their marriage
must be in secret is responsible for
Juliet's being urged by her parents to
marry Count Paris, and for her taking
a potion that feigns death by the ad
vice of Friar Laurence, so that Ro
meo may claim her unharmed in the
tomb. But the letter, telling Romeo
of the plan, miscarries. He supposes
her really dead, and after he has kill
ed hiself beside her, she wakens and,
pressing his dagger to her heart, fol
lows his spirit in death.
Full advantage has been taken of
the fact that Romeo and Juliet be
longed to noble and wealthy families.
The appointments of the two house
holds are superb, the furnishings mag
nificent beyond any in the history of
the stage. Scenes of pomp and cere
money are shown, both civic and re
ligious ceremonies and processions be-1
mg included. These are all provided
for in Shakespeare's taxt, but the lim
itations of the dramatic stage have";
heretofore made it impossible to pre-1
ent them. The Bushman and Bayne
production of "Romeo and Juliet"
shows the great play as Shakespeare
would have written it if motion pic
tures had been invented in his time
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