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TODAY'S KTI.M FEATURES.
Columbia Charles Ray and Mar
gery Wilson, "The Honorable
AJgy.
Sunset Mary Miles Mlnter.
Kalth."
Sta r AI a b e 1 Taliaferro, "
Dawn of Love."
Peoples Marpuerite Clark,
George Washington."
Majestic June Caprice,
Mischief Maker."
Globe Geraldine O'Brien
Thurlow Bergen, "A Woman's
right"; "The Scarlet Runner."
According to the latest available sta
tistics there are approximately 200 mo
tion picture theaters in the Portland
territory. This means the district
served by Portland film exchanges,
distributing many reels of celluloid Joy
each week.
The number naturally fluctuates, for
each week there is a record of ex
hibitors retiring from the Held and
others entering it, but the film men
lix the theater roll at from 185 to 200.
The Portland territory, from a dis
tributing standpoint, includes South
western Washington, as far north as
Chehalis and Centralia, the Boise dis
trict in Idaho and as far into Califor
nia as Weed. Thus all of Oregon and
parts of three other states are tribu
tary to Portland in a Aim sense.
The Portland city territory, which
comprises Its environs, at one time
boasted of nearly 75 theaters, but this
number has been reduced to about 30.
Phis includes the so-called first-run
houses, the big downtown theaters,
which usually exhibit pictures never
before shown In the city, and the
neighborhood or community houses..
Practically all of the small-town the
aters, as well as the neighborhood
houses of Portland, are operated only
In the evening and usually on, Satur
day afternoon.
The average seating capacity of the
picture theaters throughout the state
Is about 300, ranging from the tiniest
home of the silent drama to Portland
bouses seating more than 1000 persons.
Film folk and tnat means many
fans as well as exhibitors and ex
change men are eagerly awaiting
Portland's first annual movie ball,
which will be the big social feature
of the motion picture season. ,
This ball will be staged on Wednes
day night. Thanksgiving eve, at Chrls
tensen's Hall, under the auspices of
,the Portland Screen Club.
Pred Slmonton, master of ceremo
nies, promises a number of novelties
on the programme. He Is heading a
large committee which is making all
arrangements for the affair.
No rumor of the past year in fllm
dom created a more profound impres
sion on the fans than that one connect
ing Marguerite Clark, in many sec
tions more popular than Mary Pick-
loro, with the musical comedy stage.
"Little Lady Eileen" was to be her
last picture and thereafter Miss Clark
was to appear on the stage under the
direction of Charles Dillingham, and
the screen was to see her no more.
There was much truth in that rumor.
Miss Clark fully intended to quit the
celluloid drama for the speaking stage.
But the lure of the film, meaning more
money and more followers, proved too
strong, and the daintiest little figure
In movieland signed a new contract
with the Famous. Players. She took
a. firm stand, for the new agreement
calls for two years of studio work.
Just after coming to terms with Fa
mous Players Miss Clark, who was of
fered $150,000 a year from a rival pro
ducing concern, said:
"No, there Is no truth in the rumor
that I am going to star in musical
comedy, though there came very near
being no film Margeurlte Clark. I did
consider signing a contract, but 1
changed my mind for several reasons.
"Though I thought I loved the stage
Infinitely more than I do the studio,
when it came right down to a matter
of forsaking the motion picture corn
era I suddenly learned I had uncon
sciously fallen under the spell of the
photoplay. Though I had lost the al
most direct personal contact with my
audience over the footlights and I
missed the thrill of applause. I found
I had won an incalculable host of per
sonal friends all over the country
people that I had never seen and who
had never seen me on the stage, but
who knew me only through my shadow
as it appeared on the screen.
"As the realization dawned upon me
that I would be forsaking a vast num
ber of friends in order to gratify mv
own desire to appear on the stage and
that I was in so doing renouncing the
many for the few, the futility of my
contemplated action impressed itself
upon me and I was inclined to doubt
the wisdom of such a step."
Mary Miles Minter, the youthful star
of American-Mutual Features, Is said
to receive the largest salary of any
person of her age in the whole world.
The other day, when she received her
check, which Is four figures to the left
of the decimal point, she lost it four
times through a hole In her . coat
pocket.
"They Just kept trailing along be
hind me all over the studio lot and
handing It hack." said the popular lit
tie star. "Mother will give me fits."
Then Mary started to hunt through
her pockets for the check again. She
unloaded letters from all over the
world, powder puff, keys and numerous
other girl necessities. Among them
was a twisted-up piece of blue paper,
flung down and brushed aside. That
was the check; and It was written out
for more than many a man earns in
year.
It'e becoming the custom with tie
Hg producers to announce productions
for many months in advance. William
A. Brady started the procession this
Fall with a list of plays and players
taking the fan up well into twe .Spring
of 1317. paramount now comes for
ward with Its schedule for the next
four months.
"Mies George Washington," "The
Heir Apparent" and the Tellow
Pawn' are the three next films to be
I Columbla-CharleB Ray 'and Mar- i I I - 11 X - - "V V
t II I I " - ' J ? t J I J A i m ' ' '.''-" ' the William Fox studios Is painting
III I ft , ' ' " ' 3 1 I V V Y V I Dresden china. The quantity of plates
ill 1? ' 7 ' f - III Y V J f r.-. ; -T which Miss Pearson has accumulated
Tno4 & ' , ill A ' " ' U in her dressinK-room and In her homes
- " ' - f 7 M ' ill I ' . on the Palisades and Riverside drive
r, . ivl f ' )" ' ' ' II I A : v. v would stock nocely any small-size art
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1 I If , S I I I I , ?S & J A ' s , tratlnfir fashion articles for the Louls-
i I ILi ' 1 " ' . , II I VJ - i 'fe;' ville. Ky, newspapers, and by con-
I Is-- . , , . ' 11 i A . i:!A4X- - V' tract, too.
Ifcr.- ? , J S -PZJPs- -K., All this was done after school hours.
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exhibited in Portland, with Marguerite
Clark, Mae Murray and Wallace Reid
and Cleo Ridgely, respectively. In the
leading roles.
The following Is a list of the suc
ceeding plays, with Oe stars:
Nov. 30, "Martyrdom of Philip
Strong," all-star cast; December 4,
"Princess Zim-Zim," Irene Fenwick and
Owen Moore; December 7. "The Koad
to Love." Lenore Ulrich; December 11,
"Oliver Twist," Marie Doro; December
14. "Victorin CroKs," Lou-Tellegen I.De
cember 18, "Traveling Salesman,"
Frank Mclntyre: December 21. "The
Right Direction." Vivian Martin; De
cember 25, "Snow White." Marguerite
Clark; December 28. "The Redeeming
Love," Kathlyn Williams; January 1,
"Betty to the Rescue." Fannie Ward;
January 4, "Th Evil Eye," Blanche
Sweet; January 8, "Great Expecta
tions," Jack Pickford-Louise Huff;
January 11, "The Deliverance," Mae
Murray; January 15, "Tlie Painted
Woman," Pauline Frederick; January
18, "The Happiness of Three Women,"
House Peters-Myrtle Stedman; January
22. "Lost and Won." Marie Doro; Jan
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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 26. 1916.
uary 23, "The Show Down." Cleo
Ridgely-Wallace Reld; January 29,
"His Sweetheart," George Beban; Feb
ruary 1, "The Turning Point," Irene
Fenwick-Owen Moore; February 5,
"The Conflict," Lenore Ulrich; Febru
ary 8, "Each to His Kind." Sessue
Hayakawa; February 12. "The Black
Wolf." Lou-Tellegen; February 15.
"The Wax Model," Vivian Martin: Feb
ruary 19. "Racketty Packetty Hoiwe,"
Marguerite Clark; February 22. "Win
ning of Sally Temple," Fannie Ward;
February 26, "The Consul," Theodore
Roberts.
A real railroad wreck one that hap
pened Instead of being planned enters
by chance into the production of "A
Lass of the Lumberlands," the serial
play which Helen Holmes company
made in Northern California for re
lease by Signal through the Mutual
Film Corporation.
It is an odd coincidence. Mi'-s Holmes'
company was at work at Vcriugo
Park, near Los Angeles, when a con
struction train on the Glendale t Mon
tros Railwny got away from the en
Matinees, 10c
Evenings, Sundays & Holidays 15c
Kiddies, Always 5c
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Coming Thursday
Frank Keenan & Enid Mar key
in "The Phantom"
gineer and plunged downgrade at 40
miles an hour and piled Into another
work train and a trolley trxln. The
two latter were telescoped. The crew
of the runaway train Jumped a moment
before the crash. The trolley train was
hurled nearly 400 feet along the right
of way.
The members of Mian Holmes' com
pany were in the middle of ono of the
"Lumberlands" scenes when the wreck
happened. The noise of the collision
startled them out of their acting. Paul
Hurst, who was directing, shouted to
the cameraman to drop the picture and
get thi! wreck as the trains came to
gether. The cameraman, acting by
inetinct. almost before the words were
out of Hurft's mouth, swung his lens
around and "caught" the train Just
as the smash came.
It was a long-range shot, but the
atmosphere was clear at the moment,
and the result is expected to be good.
If it is. the snapshot will b-s Incor
porated in a chapter of the serial.
Among the many elaDorate motion
picture plants in Los Angeles none
stands out more prominently as far as
the popularity of its film productions
4 Days
Today
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is concerned than docs that of the Key
stone Film Company. Thia company is
widely recognized as the producer of
a peerless standard of popular com
edy. The keynote for the world-wide
success of the Keystone comedy is the
genius of Mack Sennett. the potent in
fluence overshadowing all important
activities of the big plant.
Mr. Sennett brought his mall croup
of comedians to the Pacific Coast four
years ago and began work on the studio
of the Keystone Film Company In
Edendale. The plant has made rapid
and wonderful strides since then and
its various buildings and other im
provements represent an outlay of
nearly a million dollars. At its incep
tion the plant consisted of a small
frame building on a corner lot sur
rounded by a picket fence. The capital
then invested was a few hundred dol
lars. Today the Keystone Film Com
pany is one of the three units of the
Triangle Film Corporation, which In
cludes the Fine Arts, under D. W.
Griffith, and the New York Motion
Picture Company, under Thomas H.
I nee.
Virginia Pearson's chief diversion In
"RiT A
MILES
Supported by Her Sister,
In a New and Spectacular Six-Act Production Entitled
FAITH
Keystone Comedy The Janitor's Wife's Temptations
William (Bill) Russell, "the rough
neck star." as they call him in Los
Angeles, because he licked Al Kauf
man in a hard fight, has patented a
preparation for hardening the fore
fronts of aspiring pugilists. It sells
for 1 a bottle and Russell expects to
make money on the "dope."
"What's In It. Bill?" asked Charlie
Chaplin the other night. "1 used some
of the darned stuff on my foot and It
cost me $8 to have a chiropodist peel
the hide off, four treatments. $3 per."
"In It?" yelled Russell. "Why. it's
the leavings from dill pickle tubs. I
used to work In a pickle factory and
my hands got so tough from the brine
that I could have punched a hole in a
Harveylsed steel plate. That's what
gave me the idea."
"H'ra." grunted Chaplin: "1 11 send
a case of It In advance to every one of
these guys I have to kick. That's i
generous thought, what?"
The Mutual publicity dispenser de
poses as follows: "Late dispatches from
London state that the military fashion
of the moment is the Charlie Chaplin
mustache. For years the young men
about town had adopted the American
fashion of the clean-shaven upper lip.
When, therefore, these men enlisted in
thearmy and were, instructed that it
was necessary to wear a mustache,
they adopted the Chaplin mustache as
the nearest thing to none at all."
The above would bo Interesting if
true. Unfortunately, however. It hap
pens that no Instructions rendering
compulsory the flaunting of a hirsute
decoration on the uprter lip were ever
Issued or are ever likely to be issued
by the British War Office. On the
contrary, the members of the rank and
file of the English forces are all clean
shaven. Part of Tommy Atkins'
equipment Is a razor and its accesso
ries, and even in the trenches the men
find time to shava occasionally. Only
in the officers' mess can mustaches be
observed, and' they are for the most
part worn by the older men. Pome
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Margaret Miles Shelby,
London rotter must 'av ben a-spoof-lng
the Mutual press boys.
PATHOS XOTK
StTS'SET FILM
Mary Miles Ml titer Star in New Of
fering "Faith."
Mary Miles Mlnter. "Lovely Mary."
whose girlish charm and her remarka
ble ability to live delightful child sto
ries on the screen are proverbial, la
featured in "Faith." a six-part Mutual-
America., pnoto-drama to be presented
to Portland random at the Sunset
Theater today. Margaret Shelby, sister
of thj star, who until recently was in
Portland with the Baker Players, is
a prominent member of the cast, ap
pearing with Mary for the first time
in pictures.
A Keystone comedy. "A Janitor's
Wife's Mistake." with Fred Mace the
leader of a squad of merry Keystoners.
will bo another feature.
The play. "Faith." the biggest of
the Mary Miles Sinter Mutuals and
said to be by far her best, illustrates
a little foundling girl's faith in the
world's goodness and her own ultimate
redemption' from tho trials that besot
foundlings.
Faith is left nn infant on the
doorsteps of an orphanage, and after
sho reaches the age of usefulness Is
indentured to "a farmer. The girl
finally Is taken into the home of a
millionaire as a domestic servant. This
home is really that of her own grand
father, of which fact she is not aware.
The child's mother, having married
secretly. John Thorp, her father, in
sists that the child be sent to an
orphanage. Mrs. Stimson. familiar with
the story, succeeds in installing the
child In the house where she was born,
unknown either to the mother or hard
hearted grandparent.
In the same hoe is Laura, Thorp's
stepdaughter She becomes Involved In
a love affair and fears disgrace, as
well as being forced to raise money
for blackmailers. Money is stolen, and
Faith is suspected.
Mark Strong, a lawyer, is impressed
with the innocence of Faith and de
fends the girl. The courtroom scene, in
which he brings out the true story of
Faith's life and restores her to her
mother, is a strong climax to the
story.
PEOPLES HAS UNIQUE F1L31
Marguerite Clark Is Starring in
Miss George Washington."
Lies, like bricks, must be plied like
bricks, one upon the other, in order
THEATER
Broadway
and
Washington
The marvelous charm and
talent of this beautiful 17-year-old
wonder-girl are
creating a sensation in
filmdom, many claiming
her greater than Mary
Pickford. In her portrayal
of the leading role in
"Faith she has accom
plished a work which will
go down into history as
one of the landmarks of
the industry.
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