The Sunday Oregonian., June 17, 1917, SECTION FOUR, Page 4, Image 50

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TODAY'S FILM FEATURES.
Peoples Kitty Gordon. "Forget-Me-Not"
Star Charlie Chaplin,
migrrant.
Majestic EarlaWllllaras, "Apart
ment 29."
Columbia Sessue Hayakawa,
"The Jaguar's Claws."
Sunset Doug-las Fairbanks,
"IteRgrle Mixes In."
Hoilig "The Eyes of the World."
Globe Gladys Brockwell, "One
Touch of Sin."
Circle Mary Miles Mlnter, "The
Gentle Intruder."
ETHBX. CIiAYTON and Alice. Brady,
heading- World Film Corporation
producing- companies, axe to in
vade Oregon and the Northwest this
Summer to make a. series of photo
Play. How's that for Interesting motion
picture news?
J. A. Koerpel, Northwest manager
for World Film, who was a Portland
visitor during; the Rose Festival, Is au
thority for this information news
which means that the Columbia River
High-way, Crater Lake, Mount Hood
and the Oregon forests are to furnish
backgrounds for photoplays to be seen
in every town of the United States,
Canada and In many foreign countries.
I already have made tentative
transportation arrangements," said Mr.
Koerpel in answer to a smile of un
belief. "For months I have had loca
tion men out making 'stills' for the
home office, and I can announce posi
tively that this Summer, perhaps not
-until late August or early September,
two companies, one headed by Miss
Brady and Montagu Love and another
by Miss Clayton, will be in the North
west for three or four pictures."
Mr. Koerpel Is particularly enthusl
aatlo over the scenery of the North
west, declaring that Its beauties far
exceed anything California has to offer
the camera.
T had a location' man down at Cra
ter Lake and lie made 200 'stills (pho
tographs) that disclose the most mag
nificent scenery I ever saw," continued
the enthusiastic representative of Will
lam A- Brady, head of World Film Cor
porntion affairs, "The Columbia River
Highway offers photographic possibili
ties almost undreamed of. while the
forests and mills of Oregon will pro
vide the atmosphere for a couple of
wonderful pictures they have in re
serve back in New York and have been
longing for a chance to produce."
The presence of two Brady com
panies means that the party will be
composed of 30 film people, "extras"
to be picked up in Portland and va
rious other places near the filming
points.
Miss Clayton and Miss Brady, the
latter the daughter of William A.
Brady, are the two most popular femi
nine stars of the World programme and
have large followlngs throughout the
country.
The trip to Oregon and the North
west by two such promineirt players,
on a film-making mission, means that
the efforts to secure motion picture
recognition of Oregon and its scenery
is at last meeting with deserved suc
cess. Pimple, the film comedian, who Is al
most as well known to English chil
dren as Is Charlie Chaplin, has had a little lad, he used to get hold of any
an unfortunate accident which has put old pair of big shoes 10 do the splay
footed walk: tie had the small hat, the
him out of. the screen business. He I
was in the Army for 15 months with
out, receiving a scratch. Then, while
taking part in a comic boxing exhibi
tion, he got his knee all smashed up.
He spent seven months in the hospital,
and now he fears he will be more or
less of a cripple for the rest of his
life. As his knockabout acrobatics
were the chief feature of his films it
can be appreciated what such a dis
ablement means to him.
Pimple knows Charlie Chaplin Inti
mately. They were boys together, and
used on Sunday evenings to play
dramas of their own composition in
the paternal kitchen. According to
Pimple, Charlie was always funny and
would keep other lads in constant roars
of laughter. And his methods as a
small boy were precisely those by
which he subsequently gained fame.
"I would like to make it clear." said
Pimple, "that no matter what some
people say, Charlie Chaplin has copied
nobody. Twenty years ae-o, when quite
cane and a bit of black stuff for a mus
tache all of which he has since used
in his film work. They were his own
ideas entirely and I want to have that
known."
It was Pimple who urged Chaplin,
now appearing in "The Immigrant," to
go in for film acting, "When he came
back from America," said Pimple, "I
took him around to several English
producers and asked them to give him
a chance. Not one of them would look
at him." ;
Anita Stewart, the Greater Vitagraph
star, is In a sanitarium In Connecticut,
suffering from a temporary break
down, and probably will not be able to
resume her work for several weeks.
Her collapse is due. Indirectly, to an
attack of typhoid fever she suffered
last Summer, but Is the direct result
of overzealousness on the part of the
young actress.
Mips Stewart, against the edvlre of
the
the
her physician and the wishes of
Vitagraph Company, returned to
studio before she had recovered fully
her strength and insisted upon resum
ing her work. Since that time she has
done a number of pictures and on sev
eral occasions has been on the point
of collapse,
work.
In addition to her duties at the stu
dio. Miss Stewart was active in behalf
of the actors' fund and conducted a
booth at the fair, but when the great
benefit event closed she was forced
to give in. On the advice of her phy
sician she went to a sanitarium and
will remain there unyi she is tho
roughly rested and her health regained.
In addition to his other accomplish
ments, Douglas Fairbanks, the athletic
Artcraft screen star, is proving him
self to be a riding Instructor par excel
lence. His latest pupil, Eileen Percy,
readily will confirm Douglas ability
as a teacher of the equestrian art.
Miss Percy being a New York girl,
had never been on a horse, chiefly due
to the fact that during her nine years
in theatricals she found little time for
anything else. As leading lady to
Fairbanks in "Wild and Woolly." his
new Western picture for Artcraft, pretty
Eileen is compelled to display several
daring feats on a cow-pony before the
camera. Naturally the young lady from
the East became a bit scared at the
Idea, but under the capable instructions
of the genial Douglas, it was not long
before she became proficient.
"Really I was actually afraid of horses
before T started to work in motion pTe-
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tures for Mr. Fairbanks." ' said the
charming Miss Percy. "When I learned
that I was to do all sorts of tricks on
a spirited pony I almost fainted. But
Mr. Fairbanks took me in hand, and
really, I think he has some super-human
power over these animals. The
way they obeyed when he was near
was astonishing. I remember one ex
perience with a fiery steed of which
I found myseli astride one day with
out any signs of his displaying any
signs of living up to his reputation of
'kicking daylight' out of his riders.
Of course, this was some time after I
had been taking instructions in riding.
"Mr. Fairbanks spoke to the horse,
and before I knew it he was trottir.?
along as peaceful as a kitten. We were
about to take a scene for 'Wild and
Woolly,' when suddenly Mr. Fairbanks
was called away. Hardly was he out
of sight when my fiery friend pro
ceeded to dispose of my weight and it
didn't take him long to do it- After
that I never had the courage to ride
this particular steed unless my instruc
tor were near at hand."
Albert Capellanl, recognized as one
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