The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, December 17, 1916, SECTION FOUR, Page 4, Image 56

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TODAY'S FILM FEATURES.
.Majestl: E.'H. Sothern and Edith
Storey. "An Enemy
King."
Columbia William Desmond and
Dorothy Dalton, "A Gamble in
Souls."
Sunset Alice Brady. "Then I'll
Come Back to You."
Star Audrey Munson, "Purity."
Peoples Marie Doro, Hobart Bos
worth and Tully Marshall, "Oli
ver Twist."
Globe Jeanne Eagels. "The
World and the Woman."
IN a photoplay the actor merely
makes motions. Everything 1s indi
cated by the player's movements.
This is pantomime.
And this pantomimlstic expression
must reflect an intelligence that will
grip the audience. Emotions must be
telegraphed through the eye to the
brain. The audience must "hear" the
story with the eyes.
The limitations of the photoplay make
motion picture acting the most difficult
art in the world. The player on the
stage has a big advantage over the
film actor in that he can thrill' his
audiences with his v'oice, while the
player on the screen cai only make mo
tions wiggle his hands, feet, body, eyes
and mouth.
These wiggles must be so expressive
that they actually talk. They must
neem natural; they must conduct
thought, plot and theme with the direct
ness of a high-tension wire carrying
current. These wiggles are the screen
artist's only means of conversation.
Every portion of the human form is
railed upon in making the body talk.
Perfect unison of body makes for per
fect pantomime. However, there are
times when one portion of the anatomy
will so overshadow all other parts that
they seem to have no function in reg
istering an emotion.
Take the work of the head. When
Borrow, pain or grief is expressed the
audience's attention is almost unfail
ingly directed to the face, especially if
the player is in tears. Yet every other
portion of the body has done its part
in directing the vision to the face. That
indicates mastery of pantomime.
The head must be considered from
two aspects face and hair. In the case
of a woman her coiffure is a roost lm-
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long way toward establishing charac
ter. Girlish simplicity or vampire so
phistication is revealed almost entirely
by hair dress.
But no part of the body is more in
teresting than the face. It figures in
the expression of every thought and
emotion. The eyes, the ears, the nose,
the mouth all play their individual
part. Two of them the eyes and the
mouth are too important to dismiss
in a paragraph. They will be consul
ered separately.
Sensitiveness is best expressed with
the nose. Delicate nostrils' always
convey refinement. Contempt cannot
be more fitly indicated than by rum
pling the nose. Pew players have made
a special study of the ears, but those
who have and can control them get
startling results.
The neck is effectively used by some
players. As it is held different sug
gestions are conveyed. However, mbst
people use it naturally, which means
limitedly.
But the screen player who must make
every little movement truly have a
meaning of its own studies all parts of
the body with the idea of making each
effective in lieu of words when he es
says to tell a story with fllm.
The student of pantomime makes
most rapid advance who works before
a mirror when practicing.
Few persons realize what the techni
cal director of a motion picture concern
is up against. When the director reads
his script over and visualizes fhe at
mosphere he desires for the story, he
generally jots that visualization down
on paper, hands it over to the technical
director and then forgets about it.
The big task., then, falls on the man
who is supposed to knew everything,
must have an extensive acquaintance
with persons in all branches of busi
ness, must know the country, and it is
essential, also, that he knows how the
sun sets on every location he picks out.
His duties are ever different. One
week he searches for timber lots, an
other week it is a railroad wreck he
must "set up." Still the director may
want to have a ship strike a reef in
the ocean and the technical director is
supposed to know where all the reefs
in the ocean are situated.
This from the Screamer, the Los An
geles film newspaper:
"There is one thing that the Scream
er will do if possible.
"Modern newspapers, which are sup
posed to tell things straight, come out
again and again with a heading telling
of some movie star's being in a wreck,
divorce, wild party, or in jail. The per.
son has at one time carried a bucket
in the background, and when arrested
prattles about being a picture player.
This funny Uttle paper is going to
place that story neatly under his heel
where the steel nails are, and grind
down on the said story until they stop
doing this.
"Because one street-sweeper gets on
a. little stew is no reason for saying
our municipal organization has gone to
the doga. Am ay bane right?"
"Thedabarismo" or Theda Baracitis."
It's quite the latest thing in South
America. In fact, it is sweeping right
up and down, back and forth, over our
? Dorothy Dalton, "A. Gamble in T tional than ever, II fZ- frf ' I If 1 ,i'.w:iii.-,Ay.. - v . v I I I -Using the two rear tires on each
Souls." t This is what the Revista d Semanan Y J: . " ; , tnarhine we will print Chaplin's name
I Sunset Alice Brady. -Then Til I (the Weekly Revfew) had to say con- WW11. rtf3' .1 J - f," II 31.698 times for every tire mile The
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neighboring Latin - American states.
The "408" of -Brazil have taken it up as
a fad and are decidedly keen about it.
What is it? It's Theda Bara. of
course. It simply means that the al
ready internationally famed William
Fox star is becoming more interna
tional than ever.
This is what the Revista de Semanan
(the Weekly Revfew) had to say con
cerning it a short time ago. (The Re
view is published in Rio de Janeiro by
Baron Toffe, who is well known in
banking circles in the United States.)
"Thedabarism is a new manifestation
recently introduced in South America,
which Gotuso, the famous physician
and psychologist of 'Topics,' will have
to examine in his laboratory.
"Thedabarism affects alike young
ladies, married women and widows. It
is a feminine sickness caught through
the eye. Often it brings extreme cases.
It lives and thrives in the darkened
rooms of the moving picture theaters.
"The germ of this perilously con
tagious sickness and epidemic is a
beautiful woman of about 26 years,
French, one time actress of the Odeon,
with magnificently luminous eyes.
"She is a moving picture heroine of
sensuality, but withal, she is a mar
velous Interpreter of luxury.
"Theda Bara, the introducer of The
dabarism, or Thedabaracitis, came to
Rio de Janeiro when she played the
role of the Sevillian cigarette girl in
'Carmen.
"Since her advent society has bowed
to the cult of this most fascinating
woman.
"The home of the cinema show is
converted into a school on the days
when her shadow is exhibited on the
screen to interpret any dramatic action.
"Tango mania, with which society is
now almost through, has been sup
planted by Thedabarism."
Great excitement prevailed at the
Mary Pickford studio recently when
George Cohan visited the Fort Lee film
plant to learn some of the fine points
of motion picture producing. Everyone
was prepared to give the Yankee Doo
dle boy from Broadway a grand recep
tion, and this caused enough excitement
in itself, but the incident that almost
put the studio in a state of panic
shortly after Mr. Cohan arrived was a
fight, between two of the players in
the new Plckf ord-Artcraf t picture, "The
SI a fad and are decidedly keen about it. I 1 Asljf f .-. .' L ? ' x. I I suKeations from advertising- folk for
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The
Metropolitan
recently
ran
"Then I'll Come
Back to You"
in
serial form.
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Z5 .. 4 X ' I Mr. "rRiilr- "I hav had all sorts of
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J-S WC ,1 "i I but here is a simple plan that has the
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G -hASl' j f ? v ". I I total painful to contemplate. At all
t,irft 1 S ' : .TV I I events. It's a plenty."
"Hxs ' -t ' - - . A I I I Th. mnnnfn.t.ircr nf ("Vianlln nnn.
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y.' ' , -c 4 ii I that Charlies footprints and his music
., II I name will put the makers on easy
g r' f - , ' ' ' : Sv I I I street forthwith.
Pride of the Clan." The combatants did
not waste much time arguing but
tackled each other with a will result
ing in many bruises and scratches be
fore they could be pulled apart by Mr.
Cohan himself.
The combatants in question were
Halda, the duck who swam all the way
from Chicago to New York in the basin
of a Pullman, compartment to appear In
"The Pride of the Clan." and Mamie,
the cat, who also appears in the Pick-ford-Artcraft
film.
It seems that Mamie had become jeal
ous of Hulda vhen the latter was
adopted by Miss Pickford as the per
manent studio mascot, while Mamie
was scheduled to go back to the cellar
of a nearby farmhouse.
'
There is nothing more pitiful than a
policeman who does not know when he
is well off unless it is three police
men, who are in the same sad plight.
There were three of these unhappy in
dividuals on the. Hollywood police force
recently. At least that is the only way
to explain the fact that they deliber
ately took their time while off duty
to play the parts of Spanish policemen
in Lou-Tellegen's picture, "The Black
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Remember! Sunset Pictures
Wolf." being produced at the Lasky
studio for the Paramount programme.
This particular trio had had the great
misfortune to arrest Lou-Tellegen for
speeding at one time or another and
the actor has a long memory. So when
they tried to arrest him in the pic
ture in which he plays a sort of Span
ish Robin Hood, and the director told
him to fight, he did. He waded into
these unsuspecting minions of the law
and murmured as he fought "revenge is
sweet." rolling his "r" after the most
approved manner of the romantic hero,
forgetting in his excitement that he
was not upon the stage.
Clara Williams is not an advocate
of the milk bath as a beautifier. and,
moreover, never has been, but she was
subjected to one recently, and since
then she has not been without material
tor an .occasional recitation of embar
rassing experiences. It happened dur
ing the production of "The Criminal,"
in which Miss Williams and William
Desmond are co-stars, and is now one
of the amusing stories being told at
the Culver City studios.
Miss Williams was enacting a scene,
in which she Is shown as the strug
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gling young Italian immigrant girl
keeping house for herself in a squalid
New York tenement. The action pre
scribed that she prepare some food and
seat herself at the table.
"When, you have everything ready,'
said Director Reginald Barker, "open
that little bottle of milk, and then
we'll cut the scene."
President John R. Freuler has issued
an order for the re-tiring of all motor
cars of the Mutual Film Corporation
with a specially-constructed nons&id
tire which will write the name of Char
lie Chaplin, the world's highest-priced
comedian, iu the dust of the road threi
times for each wheel revolution.
Between imprints of the name will be
footprints, unmistakably those of the
worlds champion foot-walker, these
being also on the tread of the new tirfe.
which is to hit the market as tht
"Charlie Chaplin Non-Skid Tire."
This order, involving expenditure ot
thousands of dollars for new tires and
the scrapping of many tons of live rub
par at the highest price ever paid for
tire material, is, up-to-date, the last
word in impressionistic advertising.
"I issued the order because it I
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Alice
Popular Star
of "The Woman
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Ballet Girl"
in
Miss Williams went at her task In
dustriously. She sliced some bread, re
moved the ton from a jar of jam. and.
adjusting the knife and fork, was about
to sit down, when, per her instructions,
she discovered the milk.
With the fork she attempted to lift
the pasteboard covering from the neck
of the bottle. It refused to budse. Film
was belnic exposed and Barker Was
getting impatient.
"Jab the fork into It," suggested the
director.
Miss Williams obeyed. And that is
how she received her milk bath. A
miniature geyser spurted into her face
and the camera registered it alL
Four years ago the Moving Picture
World had these film items of timely
interest:
William Fox Is going to enter the
film business, having decided to open
a studio in New York. He is to use
some pictures made by the Balboa Com
pany. Carl Laemmle Is at Los Angeles to
put a deal through whereby the Uni
versal will acquire a large tract of
land across the muntain ranae back of
Hollywood. An arena and large out
door stage will be erected next Spring.
Some of the best-known players of
the stage and screen are seen in Hork
heimer productions. Their casts are in
variably well balanced, and all parts,
from leads to "extras," are ably played.
Therein is the secret of satisfaction de
rived from seeing Balboa photoplays.
A permanent stock company of 75
(experienced people Is, maintained.
Among those included in it are Ruth
featuring
Bradv
this beautiful love-story of the great outdoors, which hag
met with such remarkable success in book form, has proved
an even greater triumph in photoplay. Miss Brady's work is
a revelation and combined with the picturesque backgrounds
of the lumber camp, the fight, the big lumber drive down
the river, makes a most unusual offering.
4 Days, Commencing Today at the
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Roland. Jackie Saunders. TTenry Kin?.
Roland Bottomley, Frank Mayo. Mollis
McConnell. Daniel Gilfether. Gloria,
Peyton. R. Henry Grey. Bruco Smith.
Claire Glen.- Charles Dudley. Nell Har
den, Edward Jobson. Eddie Peters, Lu
cille Pletz. Cullen Landts. Mignon Le-
Brun. Ruth Lackaye, Frank Erlanger.
Philo McCullough. Gordon Sackville.
etc
According to the work In hand, Bal
boa engages artists for special produc
tions when they are undertaken. In
this way. since its organization, som
of the biggest names in the amusement
world have been on the roster of the
Balboa Company. Among the notables
are William Elliott. Henry Walthall.
Lilian Lorraine. Lois Meredith. Paul
Gilmore, William Conklin. Lewis Cody.
William Jossey. E. J. Brady. William
Ump, Virginia Norden. William Court
leigh. Jr.. and Lillian West.
Alice Lake, who all of a sudden has
risen to stardom, playing leads-opposite
Roscoe Arbuckle in Keystone com
edies, entered upon her motion pic- "
ture career with the Vitagraph Com
pany in Brooklyn. For quite a time
the vivacious and rretty little actress
did small parts for this company, play
ing chiefly In comedies under the di
rection of Wally Van and Sidney Drew.
When Roscoe Arbuckle started pro
duction at Fort Lee. Jersey, last Sum
mer. Miss Lake applied for a position
and was accepted. The first Keystone
in which she appeared was "The Moon
shiners," and in two subsequent re
leases. "The Waiter's Ball." and "A
Reckless Romeo." she made decided
successful appearances.
When the time came for Arbuckle to
depart for Los Angeles, he was in need
of a leading lady and. with the consent
of Mack Sennett. Miss Lake went West.
FILM REPLETE WITH ACTIOS
"Then I'll Come Back to" You" Will
Be Shown at Sunset.
"Then I'll Come Back to You." a re
freshing film drama of the great out
doors, written by the rising yours
American author. Larry Evans, and of
fering as its star Alice Brady, will bo
screened at the Sunset Theater today.
"Madcap Ambrose." a Keystone com
edy with big Mack Swain as the bur
lesque hero, will be another feature.
A fistic combat in a lumber camp.
Vivid Best Seller
by Larry Evans
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