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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 3, 101G.
to as new productions are commenced.
A scene for a new Mack Sennett- '
Keystone comedy to be produced at an
early date under the direction of Will
iam Campbell requires some excep
tional dancing talent. To fill this want
a portion of the mammoth interior
Keystone studio has been slotted to a
dancing school. Miss Dot Hagars
Keystone comedienne, who was a
dancer of note before she went into
the movies, is in charge and she has
a number of promising pupils who ape
receiving daily lessons at the studio.
The terpsichorean exhibition is be
ing arranged for a scene which soon
will show an elaborate lawn fete and .
a number of pretty maids will partici
pate in the dances. Miss Hagar has
enrolled the following apt pupils to
date: Cecile Arnold. Marie Rae, Helen
Sunshine, Ethel Colwell and Vivian
Guild.
Paramount Pictographs in forthcom
ing issues will contain the exclusive
war pictures taken by Donald C.
Thompson in Europe.
Mr. Thompson went to the war cone
to take pictures for Paramount and a
well-known magazine and brought
back to America a few weeks ago the
greatest war picture yet received in
the United States.
After having finished his compila
tion and assembling of these pictures
for Paramount. Mr. Thompson decided
to take a rest for two weeks, and oa
November 30 sailed on the Empress of.
Russia for a trip around the world to
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TODAY'S KILM FEATURES. ..
Peoples Pauline Frederick and
Willard Mack, annette of the
"Wilds."
Majesti3 Theda Eara, "The "Vix
en." Columbia William S. Hart, "The
Devil's Double."
Sunset Kthel Clayton and Car-
lyle Blackwell, "His Brother's
Wife."
etai- Margarita Fischer, "The
Pearl of Paradise."
Globe Kathlyn Williams, "Into
the Primitive"; "The Scarlet
Runner."
r I i O Frank. Mclntyre
I quasi-distinction of
-a.
belongs the
being nearly
the last stage player of repute to
become a motion-picture star. John
Drew. Blanche Bates and Klsio Fergu
son are practically the sole survivors
of the stage-wide sweep of the motion
picture. ,
In signing an agreement to star in
an adaptation of "The Traveling Sales
man" for the Famous Players. Mr. Mc
lntyre became the 43d recognized
stage celebrity to be introduced upon
the. screen by that concern alone. The
first on the long list was. Sarah Bern
hardt, who consented to appear in an
adaptation of "Queen Elizabeth" in
1!U2, when the great majority of stage
players refused to appear . before tile
camera.
With the way paved by the Divine
Sarah. James K. Hackett, Mrs. FIske,
Henry Dixey, Lilly Langtry, James
O'Neill, Cecelia Loftus. John Barry
more and Cyril Scott followed In rapid
succession, giving the movement a
great impetus against which those few
who have already been named have
stood firm.
Doris Kenyon, who scored a success
In support of Eleanor Painter in
"Princess Pat," has been engaged to
support tr. Mclntyre in "The Travel
ing Salesman."
A writer in Motion Picture .News
makes the following amusing and
apropos comment:
Will some kind director please bury
forever the-pistol-ln-the-desk-drawer ?
It's really getting painful to see say
a broker wro has just lost his all in
the market stagger into his office or
his den. pent the drawer and. extract a
pistol therefrom without even looking
to see where it is. If a director who
thus exposed bis lack of originality
went to see his own picture shown to
the public, he would speedily reform.
for his mortification would be over
whelming as he staggered from the
theater, derisive laughter ruining the
dramatic effect of his scene.
"Just for the fun of It, the other day
we slowly opened our own desk drawer
and groped for the pistol. We almost
ruined one perfectly good hand on a
pair of scissors. Not contented, we
thought we'd try again when the boss
was out, and that time tackled his
desk drawer. But instead of a pistol
we came upon a cigar which may
still be there for all we know. Pretty
soon we're going to take a canvass,
sort of straw vote as it were, and find
out how many business men have made
all arrangements for easy suicide.
Ethel Clayton readily can be termed
a pioneer film player. She graduated
from the stage to the screen during
the period of the screen s evolution.
When Henry B. Harris was in the
height of his dramatic triumph, and
"The Lion and the Mouse," "The
Traveling Salesman," ".The Chorus
Lady" and "Children of Destiny" were
running on Broadway. Ethel Clayton
was creating her first Impression as a
dramatic actress in "The Lion and the
Mouse." Later Mr. Harris assigned
Miss Clayton to the principal role op
posite Wallace Eddinger in "The Mak
ing of Bobby Burnitt," and in which
she made an excellent personal hit, al
though the show itself was not a
financial success.
Later when "The Country Boy" was
produced. Miss Clayton was taken from
the cast of "Bobby Burnitt" by Mr.
Harris and Mr. Selwyn, the author, and
given one of the most important roles
In It. which proved to be one of the
biggest hits of the season.
It was while Miss Clayton was play-
frig in "The Country Boy" that she at
tracted the attention of the film mak
ers and a short while after "The Coun
try Boy" completed its engagement in
New York, Miss Clayton made her ap
pearance in ' the first three-reel pro
duction ever made, entitled, "When the
Earth Trembled." and which sold to
greater extent in point of prints used,
than any subject of similar length
since its creation.
Miss Clayton appeared In no less
than 18 features during the past three
years, the more Important ones of
which Include "The Lion and the
Mouse." "The Gamblers," "The House
Next Door," "The Fortune Hunter" and
"The Wolf." and completed her final
appearance for Lubin in "The Great
Divide." Miss Clayton left the screen
two years ago to play the leading role
in William A. Brady's production of
"The Brute." and returned to the
screen later, preferring the silent to
the spoken drama.
Margarita Fisher has taken "up arch
ery as a sport and one of the first man!
testations of her skill with the bow
was to put a steel-tipped arrow
through the interior economy of a tree
owl that had been annoying her at the
bungalow on Catalina Island for nearly
two weeks.
"I learned to be a pretty fair shot
with a bow," said Miss Fischer the
other day. 'but believe me. I'm not
boasting of my prowess because
killed the owl Mr. Pollard remarked
to me as he spotted the bird sitting in
a tree, that this was the same bird we
had been listening to night after night.
It was a perpetual 'Hoo! hoo! hoo.'
"Just for fun I fitted an arrow and
shot at the bird, which came down
fluttering mass of feathers. For a time
I tried to make Harry believe. I had
shot the owl with careful aim. but
actually it was the merest chance. The
really important thing about my arcn
ery is that it taught me I had some
thing the matter with one eye. I no
ticed whenever I aimed at anything I
had to shoot about a yard to the right
to come anywhere near my target.
One night at dinner in Avaiona x
was remarking about this to Dr. Cline
dlnst. of San Francisco, who was there
for the fishing. Clinedinst is the man
who grafted a rabbit's cornea onto a
negro boy's eye in San Francisco.
'Come in and let me look at your
eyes,' said the doctor. .
Well, after he had put all sorts ol
glasses on my eyes he said I had astig
matism and that the reason I had to
shoot to the right with my arrow was
that one of my eyes was shorter-sighted
than the other. For a few minutes
was terrified that I'd have to wear
glasses, but the doctor said the correc
tion was so slight I wouldn't need to.
Gosh! Wouldn't Ulita be a hit in
specs!"
The greatest actors and actresses
are those whose methods are the least
forced; those who act naturally." says
Bessie Barriscale, the Triangle-Ince
star. "To act naturally it is obvious
that an artist must know the part to
be played, must study it carefully and
must enter into the very spirit ot It.
"Nowadays an author has several
copies of his completed photoplay
script made, and a copy is given to
each principal to read and study. This,
to my mind, is absolutely necessary, in
order to allow one to 'get into his or
her role.
There still are some directors in the
business who alone know what is in
their scenarios. TheV contend that so
long as they know what they want, it
is not necessary for the artists to
bother their heads about anything. All
they have to do is to drees as they
are told and rehearse each scene as
they are directed.
Could anything be more foolish to
the thinking person, more insulting to
an intelligent actor? Naturalness un
der such conditions is impossible. Ar
tists under such directors are mere
puppets and grow careless. How could
It be otherwise?
I study every part I have to play
and visualize every scene, every ac
tion. My main thought is, 'How would
girl with such a temperament act?
What would she think? How would
she dress?' And I know that every
really successful actor or actress does
the same thing. Naturalness otherwise
wduld be Quite impossible.
To act naturally one must dress as
befits the part, or one will not be able
to make the role natural. It is neces
sary to try to think as such a person
woulri think, walk and move as such
a character would do, in real life.
Good Looks Help.
Good looks, grace and previous ex
perience are rare helps to an art'tt.
but they are not enough to insure
long professional career. Any student
of the screen will readily see that it
is the artist that thinks, the one that
lives in' the work, who takes a firm
hold on the public It is the artist that
studies the most who retains the a.f
lection of audiences and who can act
naturally.
Dramatic instinct and talent must
be there, of course, but to be entirely
successful. I repeat, an. artist must be
able to act in such a way that the
character, presented claims sympathy
py its naturalness.
Your son Iras fallen on the field
or Honor.
This is a sentence from an. official
letter of information received by Mrs.
Mary McGowan from the Intellis-enee
Office of the British government. It
came to her in her home in Australia.
She is a widow, and was the mother
of two sons now one. He is J. P.
McGowan, director of the comnanv in
which Helen Holmes is starring as the
nerome in me Mutual release. "A Lass
of the Lumberlands." The other son,
the one of whom the British govern
ment wrote, died in a charge against
the German lines, "somewhere in
France."
A fortnight after receiving the of
ficial notification from London. Mrs.
McGowan sailed from Melbourne to
join her other son in California. Eh
is with him now.
Theda Bara is now the proud pos-
take pictures especially for the Para
mount Pictographs.
These war pictures have made Mr.
Thompson the most talked-of photoer
rapher in the world. He took his life
In his hands often and the shell wound
he received on the top of his head while
obtaining his last reel nearly endra
his life. Fort Thompson, near Ant
werp, was named for him because of
his valor and the big things he did.
Of all the horde of adventurous
characters who were drawn to the
Continent on the outbreak of war as
Iron filings are attracted by a magnet,
it is certain that there is no more pic
turesque figure than Donald Thompson.
Paramount pnotograpner.
The publicity chief of the factory
that -produces Balboa feature films met
the other day in solemn conclave at
Long Beach, and passed the following
resolutions, which were engrossed and
sent to President Wilson:
"Whereas. You have been re-elected
to the Presidency for four more years,
and
"Whereas, The, moving picture in
dustry has grown to such stupendous
magnitude that it needs a special de-.
partment in the executive branch of
the Government, and
"Whereas, It is plain that a Cabinet
officer should be created to comport
with the dignity of the proposed de
partment, therefore, be it
"Resolved. That you embody in your
message to Congress the recmmenda
fions herein set forth and. when teie
necessary legislation has been pro
cured, that you proceed at once to ap
point to your Cabinet a Secretary of
the Screen and that secretary be
"US."
A forthcoming delight from the Vita
graph studio will be a comedy in which
Frank Daniels takes the stellar role.
He plays the shoemaker of Koepenick.
A dozen years ago the world rolled
in mirth at the joke of a shoemaker of
a small German village, who. dressing
himself ss an officer of the German
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The Film that all Portland
and the School Board has
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Made in Portland and played by a cast of
local High School'students, chosen by patrons
of this theater, including Ruth Rohlfing, Jean
McDonald, Robena Rhodes, Ernest La Pine,
Antone Sonnenberg, Scott Brown.
This is not tne name of a new auto
mobile. Neither is It the name of a
newly discovered animal
It's a hat and a bat with a history.
A shako is the headdress of the Black
Watch, the crack Scotch regiment, one
of the finest bodies of infantry in all
Europe.
The headdress came to the noted
William Fox star with a letter of Just
three lines which explained that the
writer had been incapacitated for fur-;
ther service in the war. and that he
was sending Ms own shako to "Theda
Bara, whom I consider the most re
markable womn, in the world."
Mme. Petrova. who appears exclu
sively in Metro features, has long been
known as "the best-dressed actress in
the world." An idea of the extent of
her wardrobe can be gained from the
fact that she wears no less than 16
gowns in any picture in which she ap
pears and baa worn as high as 28
gowns in a single production.
Mme. Petrova's wardrobe has grown
to such proportions that it has be
come necessary to enlarge her dress
ing-rooms at the Popular Plays and
Players studios in ordr to have space
to store her costly raiment, carpenters
began work recently In building an
addition to the star's dressing-room, to
be used for storing the clothes worn by
Mme. Petrova. The addition will be
divided in sections to contain her
gowns, hats. - aigrettes, shoes, furs and
other apparel, so that they may be
readily accessible when the occasion
demands.
At present there are more than 125
gowns of all periods and descriptions
and these are constantly being added
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