The Sunday Oregonian., June 18, 1916, SECTION FIVE, Page 4, Image 62

THE SUNDAY 0REG03OA5. POKTLAJTD. JUXE 18, 1916.
"VEDA THE VAMPIRE" HAS MONOPOLY ON LOCAL SOCIETY
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BY EDITH KNIGHT HOLMES. i
-F SOCIETY gets time for a little
grame of bridge or a smart tea be
tween now and July 1. it will be a
wonder. Everyone is movie mad. All
the real people of the social register
are dashing about in autos. posing in
the most astonishing scenes and work
ing strenuously every day.
What is it all about?
Surely you must know. They are pro
ducing a film to be known as "Veda the
Vampire."
Never before have there been such
exciting moments. The war, polities,
golf, scandals, gossip, dress every
thing else is forgotten. The whole
town is getting the movie craze. Those
who aren't "in it" crane their necks,
scamper from one street corner to an
other and madly seize passing jitneys
to follow the performers and get a
view of some thrilling scene.
Ideal Spota Abound.
In and about Portland there are so
many ideal spots for the camera man.
There are gardens that rival the at
tractive show places of Pasadena and
Los Angeles; there are rugged rocks,
trees, shrubs, roses and all sorts of
Jlowers in glorious profusion. There
are pretty girls galore. And the girls
can act. They have what is commonly
called "pep." They get the spirit of
the scenario. What more can the cam
era man demand?
If the producers of the South happen
to hear of this society movie they will
toe flocking here to stage some of their
big productions, and before we know
It we shall have studios established
Tight "in our midst."
To hold the interest and excite the
curiosity it is best that the story of
"Veda the Vampire" be kept a secret
to a certain extent, but suffice to say
there will be an abundance of love
scenes, thrilling episodes, some near
tragedies and much delightful, spar
kling comedy that will make the films
realistic, exciting, interesting.
If some of the members of the enst
fret the movie fever so badly that they
feel called to go into the business as a
regular, profession, they will go with
their eyes wide open. This initiation
they are getting is a strenuous one.
.Veda is a highflyer and they all have
to keep up a merry dance to be up
witn her."
MacMaaters Hone la Scene
' Ardgour," the beautiful country
home of the William MacMasters, is the
setting for several of the most attract'
ivo scenes. But to the movie actors it
is no longer Ardgour. They refer to it
as the "Morgan home." Veda was out
there yesterday and some of the most
startling pictures were filmed.
The golf links afford another place
that is a haven for the xnovieites.
There was a love scene there yester
day that will make the local censors
ponder. They will put on their eye
glasses and stare. But it is all harm
less. I assure you, and I hope they
won't cut It out. The lovers in the
canoe on the river give another note
of interest and the little children of
the Rivera school introduce irresist
ible babyhood and chubby kiddies that
will be a hit.
There are to be 200 pictures, so this
movie venture Is no joke. It is hard
work. The girls are using up scads
of grease paint and other make-up.
"We rarely get time to get it all off
for lunch," said one of the belles who
has a leading part. Miss Helen Ladd,
who Is the bride in the story, is truly
beautiful. She has many of the quaint
raannerisma that are a composite of
Scenea Here and There in the Society Movtei Left to Rllcnt D Mr. Hallett M. Maxwell. Mlaa Kancr Zan, Miaa Muraarrt Bates, Mine Helen
Sara McCullr. Mlaa Cornelia Cook (Seated). Mrs. Hurl Lltt. Mlaa Elizabeth Jacobs. Mlaa Clementine Lambert, Mlaa Mary Bromlic. Z AWi
Couple Snapped In "The Love Bird" Scene. 3 Ford Tarpley. Director, and .With Mr. Van Seoy. the Camera Man. Mrs. Kleanor Suuford Lrte
Mother of the Star, and Mlaa Helen Ladd. the Unhappy Bride. (5) Mlaa Antoinette Meara. Cord Torpley, With Spectators. A Group li
ping" Scene, Taken at Fifth and Morrlaoa Streets,
Mary Pickford and Billie Burke. She
is natural and original and both of
these attributes tell.
Some of the after-the-wedding
scenes have been made and have been
tried on the screen and they are a
success. Ford Tarpley, who is direct
ing the show, held, his breath in sus
pense as the machine started to work
and when the pictures came out on the
screen, clear, sharp, beautiful, Fofd
gave a sigh of relief. "They are mar
velous," he said. "Never saw better,"
commented Mr. Van Scoy, the tpovle
man.
The Henry Ladd Corbett country
place is no longer known by its "reg
ular" name. It is "Seeman Farm." It
is here that Mi. Seeman, a wealthy old
bachelor is supposed to live. - It is a
vast estate and the man is lonely. In
one scene he dashes off on horseback
to And the vampire, Veda. It is Veda
here and Veda there and Veda every
where. She grabs all the husbands and
starts breaking up all the homes.
Theda Bara isn't in it with our Port
land Veda, When the big local pic
tures are finished they will be shown
for the benefit of the People's Insti
tute. The theater managers are fight
ing fcr the right to show thorn. They
know that "Veda, the Vampire," will
be a gold mine.
Old Favorites to Be Rivaled. ' '
Clara" Kimball Your.g, Marguerite
Clark, our own Dorothy Bernard, Kit
tie Gordon and her back, Dorothy Gish,
Norma Talmage and all the other cele
brities who have made names in film
land will have to take a back seat in
Portland while Veda is the rage.
Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fair
banks with all their funny stunts and
the irresistible Francis X. Bushman
and Beverley Bayne, together with the
Farnums, will have their noses out of
joint. Society will have an offering
that will take the crowds.
Mrs. Helen Ladd Corbett's garden
and porch, the city park, Macleay park
and near-by places were used Friday
in making some inspiring scenes. A
race between a train and an auto will
be another to inspire awe. The villain
throwing a girl from a 100-foot cliff
and several encounters with Veda and
other desperate characters will be
staged soon. This week there will be
dance at Waverley Country Club
and a marriage scene that will bo
among the "real society" pictures.
Mrs. Fleanor Sanford Large is as
sisting Mr. Tarpley in directing some
of the dramatic stunts and she will
play the part of the bride's mother.
Among, the others in the "big show"
will be: Stanley Adams. Dorothy
Strowbridge, Mr. Clark, Miss Barbara
Bartlett, Miss Harriett Cumming. Mrs.
Donald Green, Miss Clementine Lewis,
Vernal Beach, Miss Shirley Eastham,
Lloyd Smith, Leland Smith. Miss Helen
Ladd, Miss Sara McCully, Miss Gene
vieve Butterfleld. Miss Louise Cas
well, Miss Cornelia Cook. Miss Alice
Oilman, Miss Jean Morrison. Miss An
toinette Mears, Miss Gretchen Kloster
man. Miss V'Ona Guthrie, Miss Leila
Guthrie, Miss Dorothy Sanford, Miss
Clementine Lambert. Miss Ivalou Shea,
Mrs. E. C. Mears. Miss Margaret Bates,
Mrs. Guy Standifer. Miss Sally Hart.
Kenneth Warren. Mra Maxwell Hal
lett. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs. Mrs. Hazel
Blumauer Litt Miss Mary Brownlie,
Miss Mary Stuart Smith, Miss Nancy
Zan, Ford Tarpley.
FEDERATION SESSIONS
SWEPT BY RURAL WAVE
Brain, Heart and Soul of American Femininity Represented at Women's
Gathering in .New York City.
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BY ANNE SHANNON MONROE.
EW YORK, June 17. (Special.)
The General Federation of Wom
en's Clubs recently in .session
was one of the headline attractions in
the city newspapers, and the Seventh
Regiment Armory was the "Verdun"
where onslaught after onslaught has
failed to bring surrender.
Nothing could have been lovelier
than the picture presented by the vast
Armory hell, decorated with a sky of
blue; flowers and vines draping every
mere utility, and beautiful young wom
en in filmy white gowns bearing staves
from which floated snowy ribbons, who
smilingly ushered delegates and visit
ing club women to their seats.
The greatest speakers in the East,
and many from Europe, were on the
programme. The weather was a bit
Aprilly, but soft and Summery in be
tween, and money flowed like water.
But still dissatisfaction reigned for,
largely, just one reason: the Armory
was intended as a drill floor, not as an
auditorium. The acoustics, well, they
simply do not exist. You couldn't hear
the announcement of the engagement
ol your best friend, or worst enemy, if
spoken from the Armory's platform.
Back to the speaker like an ocean
wave rolls all that he says, filling the
hall with a great volume of sound but
nothing else.
All Expedients Fall.
Every expedient "known to man was
tried, day after day. but still the
speeches could not be heard, and the
audiences dwindled from a mad crash
at the first sessions when, policemen
turned away literally thousands, to a
small handful of loyal delegates who
sat close to the platform and managed
to get the gist of the thing before the
speaker gave up.
It was whispered, when you can not
hear anyway you might as well whis
per, that the chairman of the decora
tions committee spent 6000 of her own
money besides the amount allotted, to
add beauty to the scene. But the beau
ty and the graciousness. the lavishness,
of New York entertainment cannot
make up for the acoustics. Many
smaller conferences were held at other
places. The Hotel Astor ball room was
accessible, and Carnegie Hall came to
the rescue, but so many meetings of so
many kinds are in progress all the
time in New York that the problem of
a large hall, steadily, when not engag
ed far in advance Is all but an un
solvable one.
I have heard enough though, to be
impressed with two truths. The club
women of America, numbering nearly
three million and composed of the al
lied brains and hearts and souls of
American femininity, form "the most
tremendous power at work today for
the race's betterment. And the biggest
thir g these wonderful women have
seen is that the health as well as the
wealth of a nation lies in its soil.
Rural Wave Reamarkabla.
The session given over to short re
ports from state presidents on the
most striking work of each state,
brought out the remarkable wave that
has swept the western world for better
rural conditions, better schools and
clubs, more intelligence in farming and
more Joy for the farmer. The reports
were limited to a few minutes so that
each speaker gave but one message.
Every message would be splendid
reading, so sincere and earnest and
thoughtful.
Montana is Intent on playgrounds
and vacant lot gardening. New Mex
ico, on amalgamating with the native
Mexican population, the grafted-on
Anglo-Saxon Utah, on extending the
agricultural college work. Nebraska,
rural schools: Texas, better rural
schools, homes, teachers and good roads
leading to them. The speaker forceful
ly put ,lt that "Texas women were
aroused 'to actual contest and victory
rather than stupid discontent."
That stupid discontent struck me as
a fine phrase, for discontent is stupid,
when not followed by activity. Louisi
ana, night schools and co-operation
between rural schools and clubs. The
Dakota s, Oklahoma, Minnesota. Ar
kansas, Missouri, every state, to be
brief, west of the Atlantio Coast,
sounded the same note, while the
Southern states reported work in
moonlight schools for mountaineers. If
this keeps on there won't be an Igno
ramus left in the Nation by a few more
biennials, and what then?
. Oregon System Beat,
Miss Ava B. Milam, head of the home
economics department of the Oregon
Agricultural College, attended the ses
sions, after having visited every Im
portant home economics department of
colleges and city schools in her trip
across the continent- Miss Milam aays
she finds one thing to be strikingly
evident by comparison in Oregon. No
other school in America gles the home
economics department such freedom
and latitude in going ahead and work
ing out new developments unrestrained
by red tape and no school la so abso
lutely backed up by its state.
In the hand-in-hand co-operation of
the Oregon college and the Oregon peo
ple, and the liberal administration of
the college president, lie the key to Its
success, and its reputation all over the
country.
At times. Miss Milam said. It was
difficult for her to get data on the
points she was seeking to observe In
the various schools, so eager were the
instructors in these schools to learn
from her how such things were done
in Oregon. And over snd over again
at the General Federation has she met
prominent educators who visited the
recent exhibit in San Francisco, at the
exposition, and who spoke as enthusi
astically of their impressions as if it
were but yesterday.
Mrs. C. H- Castner, of Hood River,
Oregon state president, made an excel
lent speech on "state presidents'"
night, and other Oregon women, among
them Mrs. Addlton, Mra Mlllican from
Central Oregon, and Mra Bertha Taylor
Voorborst got the full good of the bis
gathering.
In spite of "acoustics" these 10,000
women who came from every state In
the Union and from Alaska, Canada
and England, cannot have failed to
gain a tremendous inspiration to go
back home and do better work. Their
meeting with one another in the smal
ler conferences, their pleasant chats be
tween sessions in the many smaller
rooms of the Armory, the social affairs,
receptions and luncheons and dinners
in New York's great hostelrtes. tn
splendid lectures especially planned, am
well as the interesting events always
on tap in New York, are bound to have
made their Impression and passed the
time splendidly.
But may the next city to get the bi
ennial keep acoustics well In mind. Tire
regiment at the Seventh Armory may
find the great hall satisfactory, as
their business is to fight and not to
talk, but the Inability to talk on the
part of the women has all but provoked
a "fight."
Lire Is Saved by Wits.
PHILADELPHIA, June . George
Mears, 6628 Master street, saved his
life the other day by using his wits in
an emergency. He Is employed by the
International Motor Car Company, 2S0
Chestnut street, and stepped into an
elevator shaft, while the car was at the
floor above. As Mears started to drop
he grabbed the cable of the lift, and
slid to the ground floor. His leg was
fractured, but he escaped death.
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