- THE SUNDAY OKEGONIAX, PORTLAND, MAItCTI 26, 1916. -
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THE ROMANCE OF
BILLY BUH.KE
WHAT did Billie Burke tell me?
The story of her romance
the romance that. ended in her
becoming Mrs. Florence Ziegfeld.
(H-ere. sez Miss Tinny, is where they
all sit up and take notice!) That's what
she told me. as, curled up comfortably
In the gray upholstered depths of her
big limousine, we rolled along from
the studio, which Is in the Bronx, to
my hotel, situated in the heart of New
York, City. Miss Burke looked rather
like a pretty boy in her simple, blue
MS
Especially did I notice anil admire his
hands.
suit, with lt broad white collar and
her blonde hair tucked under her hat.
Since we had left the studio she had,
more or less after the. manner of all
brides, been speaking of "Flo." How
dear and considerate he was. How com
fortable to have about.. How rather
misunderstood by most people, who
thought of him only as living, breath
ing and having his being around the
white lights, the bright lights, the
night lights.
"When, aa a matter of fact, Flo Is
the most domestic man In the world."
averred little BilUe Burke Ziegfeld.
"You see, before he met me It was Just
not his fortune to fall In with a woman
domestically inclined and, I too, am
that way. Love my home. Love my
garden. Love my pets.
"Why, the other night we were sit
ting in a cafe. Everything was lovely
and. the entertainment was the best.
Flo and I, though. Just looked at each
other, and he said:
" 'Billie, I don't see how I ever stood
this kind of thing the way I did, do
your"
"Isn't that lovely!" I enthused. "Love
ly, I mean, to thinlc that you ever met.
How did you meet, anyway If you
dont' mind telling me?"
Mrs. Billie Burke Ziegfeld smiled and '
wriggled Into a more comfortable po
sition. "Dear me, no; I don't mind!" she
he was so awfully nice up to the time
I turned my ankle andgave It a hor
rid wrench."
"Wasn't he nice after that?" I in
quired indignantly. (Could It have been
'at a naughty, howwid man was bad
to yitte Billie? Slushslush!) This mon
eyed mite of the movies, also Mrs. Flo
Ziegfeld. also Miss Billie Burke, said
rather haughtily:
"O, nicer than ever! He waa-perfect-ly
adorable. So sympathetic and dear!
I loved him though, at the time, I
didn't exactly realize it.
J'He did, though. That is. he says he
knew from the minute I hurt myself
that there was nobody in the world
just like me. From that time on we
began going about together. He .sked
me to marry , him." Again the happily
reminiscent pause.
"And you said "Yes"?" I ventured.
(Naturally she would have said "Yes,"
seeing that she was married to him.
Miss Billie Burke, though small, is not
one of those poor benighted females
you could Imagine being dragged to
any altar whatsoever.)
She chuckled. She has a provoca
tive, delicious little chuckle that fairly
gurgles with mischievous enjoyment.
"I did not say 'Yes,' " she informed
me "I said a large and most emphatic
No'!"
"No!" I exclaimed.
"Yes, no!" she answered.
I looked at her severely.
"That," I said, "was no nice thing
for you to do, seeing that you were in
love with him and meant to marry him
all the time."
"In love with him. yes mean to
I turned nay anKie ana wave It a bard
vrreach.
I said a large and moat mpbttlc"So!
said. "I like to talk about it. It was
like this:
"I went to a dance 1 love to dance.
you know. It was one of those. Paul
Jones things where you -all whirl,
around and bring up suddenly when the
music stops, in front of somebody
anybody then when it starts again
you dance with whoever your opposite
happens to me.
"Well," she paused and took a deep
breath, for she had been talking rap
Idly, "from the minute I'd entered the
room I had noticed one chap, tall, slen
der, distinguished. I said to myself that
he looked like a foreigner an English
man. Especially did I notice and admire
his hands long, slender, good looking.
(I'm rather a crank on hands, you
know.)
"Suddenly, -.as we were danclntr, I
heard someone address him as 'Flo.'
"'Good heavens!" I said, "Is that Flo
Zlegfeldr
"It was. And fate figured it out so
that we had quite a number of dances
together. And the more I danced with
him the more I liked him. By the time
the evening was over I'm afraid I
thought he was pretty nice."
She smiled remlnlscently and fell into
a reverie, from which I was reluctant
ly compelled to rouse her. You see. I
was afraid we'd reach the end of the
Journey before she had reached the end
of her story.
"Yes." 1 said, "and then "
She came out of it.
"Then.;' she resumed the thread of
her narrative, "the next week I gave a
dance. I invited him. He came. And
VOTE FOR THE PICTURE OS
.Ol'H FAVORITE PLAYER.
Duncan McRae received the
highest number of votes last
week. "HJs picture, therefore,
will appear in the Frame of Pub
lic Favor next Sunday. Of' the
other players voted upon the fol
lowing six are the leaders:
Beatrix Mlchelena, Donald Hall, (
Bobby Connelly, Darwin Kan,
Mary Miles II i n t e r and O 1 g a
Petrova.
THE BALLOT.
marry him, no," Miss Burke told roe.
"I didn't mean to marry anybody
ever. You know when I came over
here from England I promised on my
word of honor not to marry for five
years. Well. I kept my promise. You
know Mr. Frohman thought he should
be allowed to control my private as
well as mjr public life. That's the
way he looked after hiB stars. He
wanted to have the absoltue say-so
about "em. However, after the five years
were up I wasn't going to make any
more promises. I didn't. I did think,
though, that I'd use common sense and
stay single.
"Well, I went away. Mr. Ziegfeld
kept the mails and wires hot. I an
swered every message with letters tell
ing I couldn't and why I couldn't and
begging him not to muss up my life
when everything was going so nicely.
He says he still has those little notes.
Again the reminiscent pause. We were
In Fifth avnue by that time, however,
and I knew that time was fleeting. I
prompted:
"Then V
"O I held out as long as I could."
Mrs. Ziegfeld said, prettily petulant,
"then I gaven."
"But you're not sorry?"
' "Sorry7" She rHffled her feathers like
an angry little hen. "I'm the happiest
woman you know!"
"Well," I said, as we drew up at the
curb, "I sure am glad to know it and
I do thank you for telling me all about
it."
Miss Burke leaned out and spoke into
my ear.
"Wasn't I telling you," she said Irish
ly. "that I Hked to be talking about
it?"
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THE last time Marguerite Snow's
picture appeared in the Frame of
Public Favor she was appearing
with the Thanhouser Company in "The
Million Dollar Mystery." Since that
time she has changed her place of oc
cupatibn and is now one of the Metro's
most boasted stars. Miss Snow, who In
private life is Mrs. James Cruze, known
to her Intimates as "Peggy," was born
in Savannah, Ga.. in 1892, on the 9th
day of September. She is five feet four
and one-half Inches tall, has big brown
eyes, dark brown hair, and a skin as
clear as a baby'3 Just out of its bath.
Sle weighs only 107 ' pounds. ; Before
going into motion pictures Miss Snow
was on the "legitimate" stage for five
years. During that time she appeared
in "Old" Heidelberg." "The College
Widow," "Peter Pan," and many others.
To her belongs the distinction of hav
ing been the only brunette to have
played the leading role in "The Col
lege Widow." This- she did under
Henry W. Savage's management. Per
haps the hobby the possession of which
Mrs. Cruze makes the' most of is little
Julley her 3-year-old . baby daughter.
She is a devoted mother and leaves
nothing undone to see that her child
is as happy and well cared for-as any
other child in the universe. A nice,
nice "Peggy." We all like her.
TOPIC OF INTEREST ', TO
MOVING. PICTURE FANS
TWENTY-EIGHT years ago Maclyn
Arbuckle, then a young lawyer and
embryo politician in Texarkana.
Bowie County, Texas, conducted a vig
orous election campaign for the office
of Justice of the Peace and was de
feated because his opponent was a
butcher who promised his constituents
fat meat and lots of credit, while all
Arbuckle could promise was justice.
According to the custom of that part
of the country, on losing his right
to place "Judge" before his name, he
acquired the title od "Jedge," with
which he has been identified now for
over a quarter of a century. But no
longer. His recent return to Texar
kana resulted in an unexpected change,
in titles, and now the well-known actor
of the screen and stage Justly claims
the right to have his calling cards
.read "Judge Maclyn Arbuckle."
.On arriving at the station in Tex
arkana, Mr. Arbuckle was surprised to
be greeted by a somber official of the
law, who haled him to court. The
courtroom was crowded with lawyers.
Judges, Sheriffs and other prominent
personages of the locality. The court
explained to Mr? Arbuckle that, due to
the non-appearance of the regular
Judge (Mr. Arbuckle having been duly
admitted to the bar in the dim past).
It was acting within its rights In de
manding that he take the place on the
bench. The trial of a case was pend
ing, and as Mr. Arbuckle looked around
and met the stern glances of all pres
ent he realized that he had to be on
his mettle in order to foil what he
fully realized to be a trick to amuse
the many lawsharks present at his
expense. -
' The case taken upwas that of a
negro accused of stealing one rooster
and five hens. He lost the rooster
ana hens in a game of coon-can before
fhe got home and stood before the Judge
for sentence. The trial lasted about
an hour, but in place of catching the
Judge napping as far .as knowledge of
law and the procedure of a case was
concerned, the many prominent citizens -were
surprised at the apparently seri
ous and able procedure on the part of
their victim. In fact, Mr. Arbuckle
became so serious that the negro be
ing tried became alarmed and slid out
of-the witness chair in an attempt to
run away. Then the Judge injected an"
abundance of dry humor into his in
quiry which soon had the entire court
laughing WITH him Instead of at him.
Never a smile from the lips of the
stern man on the bench, despite the
humor of his remarks, and when, after
he had summed up the case by review
ing the testimony and following a few
moments of quiet reflection, decided
that the defendant was entitled to his
"brlndle mule," the court was in an
uproar and gave due credit to the
erstwhile Judge, who now enjoys the
title of Judge. His long delayed ac
quisition to the title, however", will not
affect the future screen and theatrical
career of Maclyn Arbuckle, as his suc
cess in Pallas-Paramount photoplays
and on the speaking stare in ."The New
Henrietta" would hardly make it ad
visable for him to discontinue his pres
ent vocation.
"Some of the stars wno have been
the greatest favorites on the stage
may fail entirely when put into film,"
said Oliver Morosco when interviewed
recently. "No matter how popular a
star may have been on the stage, nor
how great her success, she may be a
flat failure in motion pictures. We
may put her into one picture, believing
that her stage popularity will remain
with her to the end; but as soon as that
picture is released, we may learn, to
our sorrow and heavy financial loss,
through the efficiency of the criticism
blank system with which the Para
mount Pictures Corporation obtain
through their exhibitors the opinions
of the picture-going public, that this
star will not do for motion pictures.
"On the other hand, some girl may
come along who never has had any
stage or screen experience whatever,
but who has a pleasing personality and
a natural aptitude for acting. She
may score in a picture from the very
first and spring Into National popular
ity within a year. Such a girl we call
a decided find."
"Doesn't this apply to the men stars
as well?" said the novice, who was rap
idly acquiring Information.
"Not to th same extent," he re
plied. "As you know, there are far
more popular women on the stage and
- screen than there are men. There are
a few men who may class as 'matinee
idols,' but for the greater part popu
larity cliDgs to the women performed..
Only occasionally does a man get into
motion pictures who ranks high as a
favorite. Dustln Farnum is one of the
very few. That is why so many of the
plays are built around women stars.
"In my own work, of course, I ex
pect that every picture will be better
than the picture preceding, and my
hope for this year, is to make such
pictures as will make the name of
Morosco stand out conspicuously, in
the minds of picture vpatrons. as a
producer. Hence, my ardent hope that
I may secure such stars as will assist
me in doing this."
burn's "Town Topics," and Robert
Leonard, Eddie Lyons, Douglas Ger
rard, William Worthington, Hobart
Bosworth, Phillips Smalley, Hobart
Henley. Francis Ford. Victor Potel,
Harry D. Carey, Paul Bourgeois, Ar
thur Shirley. Herbert Kelsey, Herbert
Rawlinson, Sydney Ayres, Rupert Ju
lian, Lee Moran, Sherman Bainbridge.
Murdock McQuarrles and Billie Ritchie.
The actresses who have signed for
the 1816 banner year include Lois Web- .
er, Cleo Madison. Mme. Bourgeois, Edna "
Maison, Agnes Vernon, Marie Walcamp,
Billie Rhodes, Edith Sterling. Adele
Farrington, Gale Henry, Effie Shannon. '
Grace Cunard and Myrtle Gonzales
Wigmakers reaped a harvest when -the
movies first became a popular form
of entertainment, and they believed that
this new amusement augured con-
tinued prosperity.
This prediction was warranted per
haps when moving pictures were ttrst
introduced. In the early days the slap
stick comedy which introduced hideous
and impossible characters met with
popular approval. It was in such pro
ductions that the man with the funny
hair and the impossible whiskers cor
nered all the laughs. There was no
opportunity for the people to see any
thing more elevating.
But with strides which were swift
and sure the moving picture show de
veloped. The producers found that the
public wanted reality more than bur
lesque. Then came the photoplay with
its consistent story and real flesh and
blood characters. The public showed its
appreciation by sincere attention and
support. Even the slightest touch of
the unnatural in these true-to-life
stories proved to be a Jarring note.
This brought the demand for types
'
Frances Marion, editor of the World
Film Corporation's scenario depart
ment, is at present working on no
less than six original photoplay pro
ductions. Miss Marion recently com
pleted "The Feast of Life," for Clara
Kimball Young, and "Love's Heaven
and Hell," in which Holbrook Blinn
is to co-star with Frances Nelson. She
is writing "The Eternal Sacrifice." in
which Alice Brady will appear, follow
ing the completion of "I'll Come Back
to You," in which she Is now working
under the direction of the Frohman
.Amusement Corporation. Miss Marion
is also working on "The Heart of a
Savage" and "The Eyes of the Soul"
for Miss Young. Early in April this
energetic writer will commence an
elaborate film play for Gail Kane.
Miss Marlon began her film career
as an extra girl in Mary Pickford's
company when Miss Pickford was work
ing on the Coast, and she and Miss
Pickford became great friends. Her
first scenario was a story In which
Miss Pickford played under the direc
tion of the Famous Players Film Com
pany. She later wrote several scenarios
in which both Miss Pickford and Pau
line Frederick were featured, and had
a hand in many of the productions
from the Peerless studio.
At present Miss Marion is adapting
and originating stories for the World
Film Corporation exclusively, and is in
full charge of the scenario department
of that concern. She has been granted
a four weeks' leave of absence, begin
ning April 1. when she will Journey to
Curacao, Willemsted, a small port in
the Caribbean Sea. During the journey
she will construct the scenario contem
plated for Gall Kane's third picture on
the Equitable programme.
Miss Marion is about 23 years of
age, and previous to assuming photo
play work was a newspaper illustrator
and special writer.
Thirty-five of the leading players" of
the studios of the Universal Film Man
ufacturing Company have signed con
tracts calling for their services during
the year of 1916.
King Baggot, Ben Wilson, Paul Pan
zer, Matt Moore and Harry Benham will
continue to be the male Btars attached
to the Eastern studios, while Mary Ful
ler, Jane Gail, Dorothy Phillips, Flor
ence Lawrence. Violet Merseareau and
Edna Hunter will be featured as the"
star actresses of the Imp studios.
At Universal Clty the list includes
Stafford Pemberton, late of New Way-
fits Staffs
J VI.-.
requests the pleasure
"of seeing
the photograph of
appear
In the Frame of
Publle Favor
One Week from next Sunday.
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Ylf "ASK ArT
FAnrS
Hi
ASK AAJEL!
RUTH O.: "The Ragamuffin" was
produced by the Lasky Company.
f Here is the cast: Bob Van Dyke,
Tom Forman; Beth, his sister, Mlnnette
. Barrett; Jenny, Blanche Sweet; Mary,
the Van Dyke housekeeper, Mrs. Lewis
McCord; Jack Dexter, Beth's sweet
heart. Park Jones; a broker, James
Neill; Kelly, a crook, William Elmer.
No trouble at all. Write again some
time.
PAULINE: Instead of wasting your
time, dear lady, worrying about being
too thin to become a motion-picture
actress, cut out the worry and things
that have vinegar in them, grow placid
and fatten up, then there will be hope
for you. The only chance of a terribly
thin motion-picture star is when that
vtar Is funny as well as thin. Art fun
nah? .
H. C. J.! No, little Billy Jackbos Is
not the child of Ford Sterling. Jack
Pickford. is about SO and Lottie Is
about 21.
Mary Jane: Lucky for you I am good
natured. You'd better send to me for
. an article which explains the doubling
process. I am aure you will be Inter
ested in H. Send a stamp and self
addressed, envelope with your request.
No; Crane Wilbur doesn't play with
Pauline Bush. They are with differ- I
ent companies. Pearl White Is with
the Path Company. I don't know what
.SHE OJlD A BiAUTEOOS STARES3 BE.I
you mean regarding the plays you men
tion. Yes, I answer correspondence by
mall whan a stamped, self -addressed
envelope is enclosed.
D. B.: In "The Birth of a Nation"
Henry Walthall was Colonel Ben Cam
eron, Miriam Cooper was Margaret
Cameron, the elder sister; Mae Marsh
was Flora, the pet sister; Mammy, the
faithful servant, was Jennie Lee. Lil
lian Gish took the part of Elsie Stone
man.' Elmer Clifton and Robert Har
ron were her brothers. Thank you for
your words of appreciation. ' Write
again any time you think I can be of
service to you.
V, M. : "His Inspiration" was pro
duced by the Kalem Company. Here is
the cast: Franz, a composer, Tom
Moore; Anna his wife, Clara Blandick;
Vera, an actress, Gertrude Barnes, and
Mayfleld, Robert Ellis. Y'wekkum.
E. P.: A letter addressed to Mary
Pickford will reach her if you send it
to the, Famous Player Company, 218
West Twenty-sixth street. New York.
Y'wekkum.
Owen Moore Fan: What do I mean
when I say that Pearl White has greenish-yellow
eyes? Listen, now, and dqn't
tell anybody. I mean, that her eyes
are greenish-yellow. That's Just be
tween you and me, the gate post, arid
the mud fence, o, Francis X. Bush
man's wife is not an actress. I don't
know anything about William Dang,
man. Comical is no word for it. He
is thimply excruciatingly funny. I
don't think they are conceited.
Alice P.: Here's how you address
'em: Crane Wilbur, Mutual Company,
Los Angeles, Cal.; Pearl White, in cars
of Pathe" Freres Company, 1 Congress
street, Jersey City Heights, N. J.;
James Cruze, in care of the Lasky Com
pany, Los Angeles, Cal.; Edna Mayo,
in care of the Essanay Company, 13S3
Argyle street, Chicago. Little Julie
Cruze is about 3 years old. Why didn't
you go ahead and ask the rest of the
questions you wanted to? My business
is .to answer them, you know. You
should help me hold my Job.
Mrs. G. A. M. : No, Flora Finch was
never married to John Bunny. He is
dead, you know. Hotel business?.
Search me!
' M. O. V.: I am happy to know that
you are so happy at seeing a picture of
y6ur favorite in the "Frame." I can
not tell ypu whether or not it was your '
wmh.
M
r t Turtra-Ti-" iiiThf h i r.af- n him n r j j
IHIS TSjTljL. MAK. SOME bLALE.'
votes that put the picture in the
' "Frame." The votes are counted every
week. Yours helped.
Harry G.: Yes, I have eome printed
material on scenario writing and a list
of firms that accept scenarios, and I
shall be glad to send it to you If you
will send me a stamped, self-addressed
envelope. The description of the dou
bling process is much too long to print
in this space, but I will gladly send it
to you upon receipt of the stamped,
self-addressed envelope.
Gretchen: I certainly am honored to
think that you preserve the Right Off
the Reel page long enough for father
to make a fire with it Monday morn
ing. Theda Bara's picture was t the
Frame, March 5. 'My dear .Gretchen,
though a movie actress, there is no
doubt that Clara Kimball Young could
be visited by afflictions of the flesh
Just like we, who are not.
Interested: Francis X. Bushman's
wife is Mrs. Francis X. Bushman.
Y'wekkum.
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HELEN HOLMES.
GEMINI winked-jn the 19th of June,
when Helen Holmes came into the
world. Being indebted to this planet.
Miss Holmes should, by rights
a e restless,
changeable, viva
cious, nervous and
anxious. Burr-r-r!
Be vur intent on
whatever she's en
gaged in.
Be usually right
and able to prove
that she's right by
a mode of argu
ment too clear to SfcNTiMt ntallv iut.L
be gainsaid. nO oajSSLV woeuxV
Be industriously aspiring and ener
getic. y
Refuse to stay In bed unless absolute
ly unable to put foot to the ground.
Have such fear of illness that in
order to prevent it she takes extra
ordinary care of her body. .
Be a funny mixture of the senti
mentally ideal and grossly worldly.
Have an intellectual forehead and
cold but restless expression of the
If she wants sym
pathy, choose
friends among those
eyes. (Not this,
Helen, dear, we're
sure.)
Take up nfw
fads readily and
drop them almost
instantly.
Wear an anf.
m uj.fc aa lt ia ner birth
TO JUDOMtIT stone,
born between June 21 and February is
and between September 24 and October
23.
CHARLES MURRAY.
Charles Murray entered this vale of
tears on the 22d day of June. He,
therefore, lives and hi. has being under
the sign of Cancer.
We, therefore, take
Mr. Murray to be:
Sympathetic.
Emotional.
A model husband,
fls he married ?
Ask him! Ask him!)
Industrious.
Provident.
Plodding.
Saving. (Did 'em
have a little bank?)
Discerning.
Stubborn.
Literary.
Reserved and dignlf'ed. (O. Mr.
Murray, went back
on your sign that
time!)
Vurr fond of the
company of the op
posite sex.
Entitled to sym
pathy from people
born between Feb
ruary 20 and March
21 and between, Oc
tober 24 and No
vember 22.
ruby this la his
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.IS STUBdOOM
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- Should wear
birthstone.