The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, January 07, 1917, SECTION FOUR, Page 4, Image 52

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4 TODAY'S FILM FEATURES. ApP rlS t ,M 4 rfiJ 3Cf Xk. V Vli ' s?aZ rr, A. Sr -' 4 i '
t Columbia-Mary Pickford. "Tha 1 s tffiZ, M , J.' daWrfV "COvSE .?y;.- ' - -I-
Pride of the Clan." I t ' ' J'OciartcSy. iCWM - t N----- . ' I
J Sunset Mary Pickford, "Hearta I JZO1 x Sn ? M rf"' " Vi 4 t . 1 , ," '
4 Adrift." C C - 1 Vf 1 V-":'- 7 i ..r .'.:.- vwr.t..ii , - J
4 Star Pauline Frederick and j . -'t,V 4 V W V ' ': If " t 1 v O.
t Thomas Melghan. "The Slave t ? - ? 7' fi I TJ -Cj ' " t:' ' Lj jf, ' X'
J Market." t ) ." , J I N M .S-f' a---- VV
T Broadway "Twenty Thousand I -, 'vcVi ' - I W -&r . . - . . . -Av" ' " .'
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f Peoples Clara Kimball ToungT. I W ' " ' K,. . A (SH&R yrt .- V1" V?etJ'i - V V
I "The Foolish Virgin." ( . f ff . v ' ' II lUV 7S . ' 'f V ' V -O. WVv 1
I Majestic William Farnum, The V . ? ' kXt ' - JS- I I ' V "T - v n V
I Price of Silence." t - i - , II 1 v ' .VV' "
4 Globe Viola Dana. "Children of I y x ' " TT mgw v. rl" II I ' T ? s 4 w- ".AX
HT not make
"Movie week'?
Never in the history of film
exhibition have the leading photoplay
theaters presented suqh a combination
of attractive programmes as those in
augurating screenings today.
The galaxy of stars on the various
bills include such players as Mary
Pickford, Clara Kimball Young, Pau
line Frederick, William Farnum, Viola
Dana. Thomas Meighan, Matt Moore,
and Conway Tearle.
But stars don't always mean high
class entertainment. So scan the list
"of photoplays more closely. 'That film
sensation of undersea photography,
"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the
6a," a submarine drama of Jules
Verne's Captain Nemo, Is the longest
and most ambitious of the offerings.
You have a choice of Mary Pickford in
"Hearts Adrift," that famous old suc
cess that ranks among her greatest
productions, or her new Artcraft pic
ture, "The Pride of the Clan." Clara
Kimball Young appears In a picturiza-
tion of Thomas Dixon's
The Foolish
Virgin." Pauline Frederick Is billed
In "The Slave Market." while William
Farnum is to greet his followers in
that much-heralded Fox child labor
ubject, "The Price of Silence."
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After more than a casual observa
tion It is not difficult to label this the
best combination programme in Port
land's history, a galaxy of features, if
that much-abused word may be used,
that merits an outpouring of fans to
celebrate a "Movie week."
Here Is a chronological list of a few
of the interesting film happenings of
1916:
January 8 Metro acquires services
of Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Drew.
January 12 Thomas H. Ince injured
In $250,000 fire at Inceville.
January 15 Mary Pickford-Famous
Players Corporation formed. N
January 17 Virginia Pearson signs
with Fox.
January 22 Death of Arthur' John
son, popular motion picture actor.
January 29 Formation of Clara
Kimball Young Film Corporation by
Lewi3 J. Selznick.
February 5 James Young sues Lewis
J. Selznick for $100.00, alleging alien-
Clara Kitnball Young.
February 17 E. H. Sothern. an
nounces intention of making pictures
for Vitagraph.
February 22 William Gillette signs
with Essanay.
March 4 Chaplin signs $870,000 con
tract with Mutual.
April 1 Pavlowa makes screen de
hut in "The Dumb Girl of Portlci." -
April 7 Williank A. Brady assumes
control of World Film Corporation.
April 15 Biograph closes Western
Studio.
April 24 Chaplin sues Essanay for
distributing "Burlesque on Carmen."
May 7 New Vitagraph formed, with
capital stock of $25,000,000.
May 21 Alice Joyce returns as Vita
graph star.
June 2 "Civilization" opens in New
York. .
June ,3 Governor Whitman, of New
York, vetoes censorship bill, i "
June 10 Mary Garden signs con
tract with Herbert Brenon.
June 22 Mry Pickford' Film Cor
poration formed.
June 22 Page Peters, Mbrosco play
er, drowned.
July 9 Motion picture theaters
closed to children in New York to check"!
epiaemic or lnrantile paralysis.
August 19 Essanay engages Max
Llnder. French comedian.
August 26 Thirty thousand photo
play fans of Portland sign petitions
asking for fairer censorship.
August 27 Henry Ford sued by Vita
f:raph for $1,000,000 for published
statements on "The Battle Cry of
.Peace."
August 27 Vitagraph absorbs V. L.
S. E.. buying Lubin and Essanay shares
in corporation.
September 2 Mrs. Vernon Castle
chosen for lead in International serial.
"Patria,"
September 7 Valkyrien sues Fox for
$25,000 for not starring her. .
September 12 Sidney Olcott. Famous
Players director, resigns.
September 16 Arthur Hoops. Metro
director-actor, dies of heart failure.
September 13 Lillian Walker ia
Juued in motor accident.
October 7 Lulu Warrenton. former
Universal director, forms company to
produce pictures for children.
October 11 Irene Fenwick Joins Fa
mous Players.
October 2f President Wilson against
legalized censorship.
October 31 Governor "Whitman stig
matizes censorship as abhorrent to
American spirit.
November 4 eorge M. Cohan an-
W "Movie week", X " ' f A f L f , ' J ! . ' t ... - A' 41
thl. Portland-si - X - J . .. 4 .17 V . - " . - ,V . A
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nounces entry in film field as producer
and player.
November 9 Max Under arrives
fronii Europe.
November 11 Ralph Ince leaves
Vitagraph to become Independent pro
ducer. .
December 7 Fox announces new pol
icy of big Farnum and Bira features.
December 8 Ethel Barrymore an
nounces permanent "retirement' from
stage for the screen.
Richard J. Jose, known the world
over as America's foremost contra-tenor,
who appears at the Sunset Theater
next Sunday in song and film, first
claimed attention when as a lad of 10
he was adopted by a burly miner of
the Nevada camp in which he lived, and
considered at that time the wildest
spot in America: thrown into a gam
bling hall and commanded by the hilari
ous gathering to sing.
The boy was cold, his sockless feet
were lacerated by his well-worn shoes
and hunger pains gnawed at his little
body as he sang in a sweet plaintive
tone, "Silver Threads Among the Gold."
The place was soon hushed in silence,
the roulette wheel stopped, the clink
ing of the chips and coins were silent
and from that gathering of fearless
gamblers not a sound came, while most
of them were actually crying.
When the song was finished and the
tension was at the breaking point,
someone said, "Do you know any more
songs. Bub?" Dick nodded and started
to sing "Nearer, My God, to Thee."
Men who had not seen the inside of a
.church for years removed their hats
and fell to their knees on the floor.
The boy was forced to sing this hymn
three times. All gambling was sus
pended for the night, and the boy'F
presence threatened to put the. place
out of business.
After the episode in the gambling
house, the news spread about the camp j
how the boy's singing stopped the game
and from , that moment the star of
Richard! J. Jose's career began its as
cendency. . - -
For 20 years 0r more, Mrl Jose has
been recognized as the world's great
est contra-tenor. .
In reviewlng'the events of the clos
ing year, the historian of the motion
picture industry must perforce yield a
position of first importance to the ad
vent and growth of Selznick Pictures.
When Lewis J. Selznick severed his
connection wifh the porgramme pro
ducers last February and announced
the organization of the Clara Kimball
Young Corporation, to present eight big
pictures a year on the open booking
market, the ever-ready critic wise
acres shook- their hoary locks and
mumbled prophecies of speedy disillu
sionment and failure.
Today Selznick Pictures include the
Clara Kimball Young productions, the
Herbert Brenon productions and the
productions of the new'Norma Tal
madge and Robert Warwick STilm Cor
porations. At least three other stars
of international prestige will Be on the
Selznick list before the end of Janu
ary.
- Mr. Selznick was the first producer
to recognize the value of the star sys
tem. ...
He was the first producer to give
fullest recognition to the great au
thors of the day and pay full value for
their work. .
He was the first to give the full
measure of credit to the geniuses of
photodramatlc direction.
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Here's a concoction the press agent
has provided eulogistic of one Captain
Nemo, the hero of Jules Verne's "Twen
ty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea":
The first man whose wealth was meas
ured in nine figures, the first billionaire
the Rockefeller of fiction his wealth drawn
from coral beds and lost treasure ships.
Invented the first self-contained diving
suits that required no air hose nor life
lines. .
Invented the electric light years before the
first incandescent bulb was shown at the
American Centennial Exposition.
Invented the first submarine 80 years be
fore an uadersea boat was made practicable.
Invented the storage battery for motors
years before electricity was ever used as a
motive power.
Invented the first tireless cooker.
Inveated undersea guns that first elec
trlcaHy charged bullets by compressed air.
The first man to harness static electricity
and convert it into an effective weapon of
defense by. charging the shell of bis sub
marine with the -deadly current.
The first man to terrorize the sea with
a submarine that sunk merchant ships.
The first man to cross an ocean In a
THE SUXDAT1' OBEGONUX, PORTLAND, JANUARY 7,. 1917.
submarine 42 years before the Deutschland.
The first -nan to overcome the crushing
water pressure in ocean depths, a feat that
science has not yet been able to duplicate.
The first man to fulfill the dream of
countloss Inventors and explore lost treasure
ships where they lie In the ocean's shadowy
depths, still untouched by tike band of xnsn.
The first man tofl take a huntlns; trip
along- the bottom of the ocean and slay
monsters of the deep la their native ele
ment. The first man to put a practical window
In
submarine.
The news that Mary, Pickford will
be seen on the screen in- the character
of a Highland lass in "The Pride of Pne
Clan," has created considerable inter
est among, officers and members of
Scottish societies throughout the coun
try. The fact that "America's Darling"
has selected a story of bonny Scotland
as her next vehicle is hailed with de
light among sons and daughters of the
heather In,, this country and many in
quiries concerning the coming photo
play have been received at the Artcraft
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Conway Tearle as Jim Anthony and Clara Kimball Young as Mary
"The Foolish Virgin" Peoples.
Come early if.yoa
can Come any
time-11 A. M. to
11 P. M.
offices as well as at the headquarters
of the Pickford Film Corporation.
"It is Indeed gratifying to learn' the
world's most popular girl will visualize
for all the charms of the Highland
lass." said Robert T. Ferguson, of the
Caledonian Society. "For a long time
I, as well as many of my friends, haye
longed to see 'Little Mary' in a Scotch
role and it is with great delight that
we hear she will shortly be seen in
"The Pride of the Clan," which I un
derstand, concerns the daughter of the
chief of a well-known Scottish clan. I
am sure that Miss Pickford. who is of
Celtic extraction and a native of
Canada, will prove most effective in her
characterization in the new photoplay
and we are planning to make her ap
pearance as a lass of Scotland a gala
occasion."
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Probably no development of recent
months In -the land-behlnd-the-screen
has occasioned such general regret as
the gradual disintegration of the Grif
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As much difference in cost and quality be
tween this NEW Clara Kimball Young pic
ture and the old as between a 1918 model
Lozier and an 1898 bicycle. Go today.
fith combination of players those who
have been with the) ;reat producer
since the early days of his ascendency.
Of those who twinkled faintly in the
Biograph days and burgeoned in the
Reliance-Majestic era to reach theix
climax in "The Birth of a Nation," few
remain. The last to go are the Gish
sisters, Lillian and Dorothy, following
closely on the departure of little Mae
Marsh. Walthall, the "Little Colo
nel," was the first to leave something
like a year and a half ago. Wally Reid
was next- Mary Alden and Ralph
Lewis, two other principals in "The
Birth." went next. Several of the old
Griffith directors, notably Christy Ca
banne, Allan Dwan and the Franklin
brothers, have departed for more lu
crative, spheres, Dwan accompanying
Norman Talmadge, Cabanne to direct
Bushman and the Franklins to pro
duce "kid plays" for Fox. With them
went roost of the Fine Arts Kiddles.
Dainty little Fay Tincher also depart
ed Fli Arts before the holidays, al-
She did not know the man
she married and then?
Starting this morning
Not an ancient, made-over picture, but direct jfrom the studio
America's supreme emotional favorite
YOU
In a lavish
By Thomas
Adams in
lowlng Douglas Fairbanks to monop
olize comedy honors for the "lot." for
a little while only, it is said. Well,
it was a great combination while it
lasted and made much film history.
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In the history of photoplays there Is
no more striking an instance of the
reward for painstaking effort backer!
by an exceptional talent for expressing
emotion and superlative physical beau
ty than in the career of Clara Kim
ball Young, the famous Selznlck-Pic-tures
star, now starring in "The Fool
ish Virgin."
Miss Young's entrance to picture
work was unexpected and sudden. She
was doing well on the stage, playing
with the Orpheum Stock Company in
Philadelphia until J. Stuart Blackton.
of the Vitagraph. happened to see her.
He sent for her and made herva small
offer. With the foresight that has
helped make her the great film star
she Is today. Miss Young recognized
the possibility of a brilliant future in
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picturization by her own
talented players of
e Foolish Virgin '
Dixon, author of "The Birth of a Nation"
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the "movies" and accepted the chaneei
at a quarter of the salary she was then
earning on the stage.
In a surprisingly short time she was
playlnjr leadv in dramatic and comedy
productions. Her early training in the
famous Vitagraph school she considers
mainly responsible for her more re
cent triumrhs.
Now the high cost of living ha
risen up to smite the hapless motion
picture directors in Los Angeles. No.
this is not a tale of eggs delivered in
Tiffany boxes at Tiffany prices. It Is
simply the recording of the fact that
the good citizens of Los Angeles, hav
ing discovered that their property Is
occasionally Valuable to the motion
picture people, have proceeded to de
mand exorbitant prices for the privi
lege of including their premises in th
offering of a scene. When Georg
Beban and Donald Crisp attempted to
take a scene in a quiet street for tha
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