The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, January 13, 1918, SECTION FOUR, Image 52

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Newspaper Page TextTHE SUXDAT OnEGOXIAN, PORTLAND, JANUARY 13, 1918. J i , ' J ' V -"' .-t '. .it ' V '. J JS'" i H..U1, ...run, i nriiiMiiin,irkWiawbii.iJi),irii.i r jjj ' - ' - v , r V . '' . si'fj ill ' 1 ; ; - 1 I : . , x - - '- . 1 1 j.tL--""'s-; '---lA lit , w i I ' ' fiiS' t-, ' ' " " ill Kansas atbletio 7cier TODIT1 fILM rEtTtRCS. fi)tlc Made Kennedy. "rly MmrrlML' Ppl PonKlas Falrbanki. "A Ptar "Th Submarln Eri" tunsl Slao Murray, Thl Mor mon Maid.1 Hbrty Taylor Holmes, "Uneaay Mony." Clob fmnae Hayakawa and VlTlinUtrtla. -Forbl Jden ratha." EVER inr Twnty Thooaand Leairuea Under the 8" wii pre aente4 to aa tmurd public there ha been much (peculation over the method employed In ub-a photog raphy. With the preeentatlon of anoth er aquatic production. "The Submarine Kye," by Williamson Brothers, interest la submarine f.lm producing; promlnes to become greater than erer, with the Inevitable query, -Mow do they do It?" on millions of tonaue The answer la "sea chamber and tube, with powerful batteries of electric 1'Cht op the floor of the sea." The sea chamber and tube Is a very Ingeni ous and at th same time a very simple apparatus. The tube, which la three fret In diameter. Is made of rlnced steel. Waterproof canvas Is stretched over this frame, forming a cylinder sufficiently strong; to rrslut the sea pressure at considerable depths. The diameter Is sufficient to allow the operator to communicate with the outer world. Throuza this submarln chimney, a It I called, the operator can descend hundreds of feet without any difficulty In breathlnf. The upper end of th tube opens on the deck of the ship and tn lower part has a cir cular compartment fire feet In diame ter with a funnel-shaped window. which forms a rentable observatory. This apparatus was orlclnally built by the Inventor, Captain Charles Will Umtoa, not for the purpose of taklns; movtac pictures, but to emplore the bot tom of the sea In search of sunken treasure, pearls and spona-es, or to re pair ships. However, bis elder son. Ernest, a cartoonist and photographer, saw at once th possibility of aiploy lac th apparatus to tak submarln photographs, and his Insenulty. un doubtedly Inherited, prompted him to devise tn photographic chamber above described. I'oder favorable condition It ts pos sible with th Williamson apparatus to obtain hctcraph at almost any depth. Many of th scene In Th Submarine Kye" wer photographed In 111 feet of water. Illsi AecMewta Ssswtwn. To see th handsome hero dashtnr up ts th sid of a atasreoarh and carry las; away th heroin on his horn woutd be quit th proper thins; In motion picture and was. But to s th beautiful heroine. Instead of land tnc In ta horseman's arms, do an un STracefut splash into a shallow river bed. micht bav been very amuslns;. spc!ai. If th action took pia la a e I particularly dramatic: portion of th plctur. Tet th latter la what hap I pens la a film which Cecil B. DeMllle I has esaemhleft Mnilitlns nf blta of un expected action, causrht by th motion plctur earners, when omatblns; want wronc. The reel of film comprises several sections, assorted from various pro ductions which have been directed by Mr E Mill and containing- th parts of th action which took plasa en tlrely by accident. Fannie Wfd Is observed walking; up to a bridg In Japanese garden, tripping along; In f 10.OOS opera cloak. Miss Ward tripped all right, th brldg gav way and th star and opera cloak landed In the pool below. Then came a bull fight frfom "Car men," la which th matador, tossed by th enraged bull, was unabl to escape ai.d no asslstanc could bs tendered him by his companions. Th bullfighter was seen lying perfectly motionless and apparently dead, whll th bull tossed him aside. After that th Span' lard walked away, unharmed, and th camera went on with th action that was supposed to t tn the plctur. Re tween scenes In "Th Virginian a man was kicked by the horse of th leading man. and Is seen limping out of th plctur with a broken leg. At another point In the picture Dustln Famum and Winifred Kingston ar seated by a roadway, when a rattlesnake bobs his head up behind them. A horseman rides Into the plctur and shoots off the head of th gnak before th lead Ing actors had time to realize that pos sible death was but a few Inches away. Another rtetar Flm. Every once in a while some am bitious girl Is struck by "cinema light nlng." The latest "accident" of this Sort is reported from the Thomas II. Inc Studios, tn Los Angeles, where Paramount pictures, (tarring Dorothy Dalton, Enid Bennett and Charles Ray, ar produced. Recently, when a girl of more than average beauty and Intelligence was needed In a. hurry, and when none an swerlng to the pulchrltudinous re quirements was available. Director Victor I, Sohertslnger recalled baring seen an attractive operator at th studio switchboard, lie sent a mes inter for the girl, gave her a few hurried Instructions about what he wantod her to do, and In lesa than 10 mlnutea Charlott Woods found her self somewhat of studio celebrity, be cause she proved to possess features that phototrraph "Ilk a million dol lars." to quote Mr. Inc. himself. Now Miss Woods Is In another Ray picture, and may be said to be well started on her way to screen fame. Madge Fowl Fans. Th day after Douglas Fairbanks registered his remarkable bit In "The Lamb" two years ago not an alert patron of the films passed him by without a look of recognition. The Fairbanks' of ths screen smile, shoul ders and walk la the Fairbanks of the flesh and hundreds of the pedestrians very day "(pot" th actor aa he walks th street. Perhaps he likes JU I'er- tur plus. The new pictures are wider haps he doesn't. able fact - Not so, however, with a certain young actress of comedy parts who also has sprung Into fame. Madge Kennedy doubtless rejoiced In the re views and the applause which followed the first showing of "Nearly Married. but anyone who knows the Goldwy atar knows that she must rejoice fa more that a certain accident makes It practically Impossible for her to be recognised In everyday life by persons who have seen her onlly on the screen. And jo she goes comfortably along th path of her dally routine whether 1 leads her to the studio In New Jerae or down Fifth avenue with the earn sublime confidence In her incognlt that she enjoyed before "Nearly Mar rled flashed Into popularity. The secret lies In the color of her hair and eyea and the accident is purel photographic. Look at Madge Kenned on the screen and yon find a sloe-eye beauty with the blackeat of hair. See her out shopping and you find eyea o richest brown and hair of auburn. I'ho tographlcally and physically she la a brunette; but there are brunettes and brunettes; and here Is one that th camera gives a disguise which Sherlock Uolanes himself might envy. Ilalaar for Prehlbltloa. Taylor Holmes, former famous Stag comedian, now making millions laugh In moving picture comedy-dramas, la a student of efficiency. On the speaking (tage dramatic erltlcs were especially commendatory of his portrayal of bibulous characters and being asked abont hla work the eccentric comedy star said that he had learned something about such char. actors by actual experience, but that he how la an enemy of the habit and an absolute tee-totaler that he la a student of efficiency and alcohol has no part In It that he bad made 219,000 waste motions In the ten years In which he used liquor and that he Is through with It alL Tea, I am a teetotaler not merely a never-against , (aid Mr. Holmes "becauae efficiency dictates that alco hot has nothing to do with the march of progress. "Men who accomplished things long ago realised the necessity for formu lating a plan of life tending toward a big realisation and booze has no part In ths plan It detracts and shunts a man off on a siding." Company Taken to Artsaaa. The disregard for expense shown by big motion picture producers Is well Illustrated In Douglas Fairbanks' lat est production for Artcraft. "A Mod ern Musketeer." The scenario called for scenes In the Grand Canyon of Ari zona and Fairbanks transported hla en tire company of 60 people there. The photoplay has an added value In pre senting backgrounds of scenlo splen dor, which have been wonderfully re produced by the camera. Fairbanks proudest boast Is that he has nevr faked a scene. "Patrons of moving ploture theaters have become too familiar with methods used In the past." be says, "and are quick to detect the genuine from the counterfeit. I never use a 'double.' for if I can't do it mvself It isn't shown at all. "In A Modern Musketeer one of the biggest scenes Is where we pursue the Navajo Indians who have kidnaped Marjorle Daw, and Tully Marshall and I descended thousands of feet on ropes thrown from ledge to ledge. It was mighty cold, and the wind swayed us uncomfortably." Bigger P let a res Cent lag The bigger motion picture, of a size and shape similar to the stags of the regular theater, has arrived at last. W. W. .Hodklnson. the man who founded the Paramount Pictures Corporation. announced here today that within six weeks he will have redy for exhlbl- lon the Bret photoplay of the class which he has called "the motion plc- and higher than the present standard and In them the actors will stand out In stereoscopic relief, something whlJi Inventors have been trying to achieve for a long time. . "The motion picture Is now SO years old. says Mr. Hodkinson, "and this is the first time that we have been abls to announce any advancement In ths picture-making process In all thai time. The only thing the matter with pictures today is that while we have Improved evereything actors, pho tography, setting, production and, moat of all, theaters we have gone on with the same old one-horse process that we started with. The times demand that we give something back to the motion picture, and this la what I ex pect th motion plctur plus to do." The new motion picture la twice as wide as the present picture is high and Its height Is equal to the. present width. In other words, the pictures are taken sideways on the standard film ribbon, which everyone has seen. and is exactly twice as big as the pres ent pictures now appear In the 01m. In making the motion picture plus the actors move on a stage nearly twice as wide aa is now used. This gives all the effect of the stage of i legitimate theater and gives full ad vantage to the costly settings which are now used. In addition It Js claimed that the actors can come Into the ptc ture naturally liestead of Jumping Into It suddenly or delaying the action by confusing "cut backs. Most Popular Photoplays. Motion Picture Magazine conducted a contest among Its readers to determine the most popular players of KIT. Hero are some of the figures: . Little American" (Mary Plckford) 225 Poor Llule Hlch Gin'' Mrv Plckford). H-0 "K-becca of Sunn' brook Farm" (alary ncKiorai ziv "Pown to Karth" (Douglas Fairbanks).. 13 'F ame of the Yukon" (Dorothy Dalton). 215 TotDy" (Norma TalmaSge) .......210 "Honor System'' (Milton Hills) 209 In Again, Out Again' (Douglas Fair banks 200 "Panthea" (Norma Talmsdge) 100 Amuoni" (Marguerite Clark) lJ The Ilnrrler" m 11)3 Intolerance" (Mae Marsh and Constance Talmadge) 188 Lone Wolf" (Hazel Dawn and Bert Ly- tU) ITS Miss George Washington'' (Marguerite C.ark) 18S "Joan the Woman" (Geraldina Farrar).. 150 Popularity Has Drawbacks. Popularity Indeed has its drawbacks. which fact is today better appreciated bv Mary Plckford than anyone else. Shortly after finishing "Stella Maria," her new Artcraft picture, said to be her best to date. Miss Plckford, accom panied by Director Marshall Neilan, Frances Marion and a company of 6. left Los Angelea to film the exterior scenes for her next film in San Fran cisco. The photoplay was to be staged on Telegraph Hill and the first day's activities of the film company here were made possibly only through the assistance of a large force of police. who kept the. crowds well In hand. On the second day, however, the crowd became so great that the police found their efforts entirely useless. Thousands wished to shake hands with 'Little Mary." Work was out of the question for th players and the .com pany left the location with the hopes of aklng up activities later. Several rips were made to Telegraph Hill, but he crowds were larger ana more eager. anything. After several unsuccess ful days In Frisco Director Neilan an nounced that it would be impossible to stage Miss Plckford'a new picture there nd. inasmuch as the story, written by Frances Marlon, Is a San Francisco ubject, the entire script will have to be changed, ao that some other location can be used. It Is expected that the company will go south to stage the production. Corlnae Get Chance. A short time ago Corlnne Griffith was sheltered little Southern girl and had ever seen the inside of a motion pic ture studio. But when a V ltagraph director, William Earle, saw "her at the Mardl Graa festival In New Orleans and aaid, "Don't you want to come North and work In pictures?" she dropped him a little old-fashioned curt sey and said, "Yes, thank you, kind sir," and came right along. Now she flirts with the camera every day and her Ufa Is series of surprises. She can't quite get "acclimated" to all the wonderful things that come about in the course of a day's work. It seems like maglo to her. That's why she makes such a charming Ingenue star for the screen. SEEX TN FTLM Submarine) Is Novelty Offering at Star Theater. "The Submarine Eye," the Star The ater's unusual film offering which opened an engagement yesterday, la not only a aclentlflo achievement, un folding wonders of the sea even more intimately than did "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," but la a pho toplay aa well, possessing a modern story which links together the drama pf today with the drama of the past aa represented by the man-made treas ures of the sea. Aside from the wonders of the deep, visualized by the camera In a manner which 'will earn for the picture the heartiest of publlo support, its story la fascinating and thrilling. The very first scene shows a fight between two divers upon the floor of the ocean. This, in Itself, la a novel way of In troducing the picture. "The Submarine Eye" is emphatically 'something different." It smacks of science, skillfully adapted for screen entertainment, of photography, marvel ous for its vivid revelation of the mysteries of the deep sea, of an artful concoction of the purely educational and strong dramatic action. The value of the picture la much en hanced by the addition of a well-selected cast. Barbara Tennant and Chester Barnett are featured in the story of the quest for treasure in the West Indies. Following the prologue, explaining how the treasure chest fjund a home at the bottom of the ocean, John Ful ton. Inventor of a new periscope, hears of the treasure and enlists the aid of Cyrus Morgan and his daughter, Doro thy, In a search for it. The chest is discovered, the diver refuses to go after It because of the depth, so Fulton goea down. When hla hand la caught In the lid of the cheat he Ms held prls oner until Dorothy persuades a colored pearl diver to rescue him. 'ITEARLT MARRIED RUN'S WKKK Comedy Billed fct Majestic Is De- ' clared Most Fascinating. "Nearly Married," an excellent plc tuiisation of Edgar Selwyn's comedy success, opened at the Majestic y ester day as the big feature of the double bill that will hold the- boards until Satur day. The comedy la' a most fascinating one, clean In every "respect and gets me laugns Dy means oi me runny sit uations In which the principals entagle themselves. Madge Kennedy, the girl with the big eyea and wealth of hair who made her screen debut in Portland a couple of months ago In "Baby Mine," is the star otm "Nearly Married." The young people are thoroughly married In the first reel, but have a row over the young- wife's pest of a brohter Imme diately after the ceremony. The wife decides to get a divorce and the brother, who has just been admitted to the bar, undertakes the job. He makes it a good one, too, for he has a clause inserted in the decree that the husband cannot marry again. The wife regrets that she started the divorce suit and the couple plan to elope. The pest of a brother manages to have the divorce granted. Then there Is a frantic search for the honey- mooners, so that a terrible scandal may be averted. How they try to get married by the local justice, of the peace, how the brotherly pest colls attention, to the n-ever-agaln marriage clause to the consternation of the bride, how the professional co-respondent that had previously manufactured th evidence in the case la found In the young man's room, makes eo implication that seem Impossible to untangle. But everything ends happily and the audience is kept In an uproar aa th story unwinds. Th other attraction la th fifth epi sode of the Battl of Arras pictures, four chapters of which have previously been shown. The new pictures show the progress of the battle, the tanks In action, the bombardment and the pris oners. The Hearst-Pa. the News Week ly completes the programme. FAIRBANKS HERE FOR SURE Delayed Picture, "A Kansas Mus keteer," Opens at Peoples Today. Douglas Fairbanks Is here again. Sure thing this time, for the picture scheduled for exhibition at the Peo ples Theater last Sunday arrived a day later. So, rain or snow, "A Musketeer," with sunshiny, "Doug," supported by pretty Marjorie Daw, lT-year-old protege of Geraldine Farrar, will open its delayed engage ment this morning. In "A Kansas Musketeer," Mlsa Daw la won as a bride by Fairbanks, who plays the part of Ned Thackei- a mod ern D'Artagnan after he has rescued her from a Navajo Indian chief. Thrill ing scenes are shown aa Falrbanka does some acrobatlo stunts on mountain peaka T000 feet above the sea level. Falrbanka enjoya the distinction of being the first motion picture pro ducer to be permitted by the United States Government to Invade the Nava jo Indian reservation, which is situat ed in the Canyon du Chelley, SO miles from Gallup, N. M. Indian Commission er Sella probably was influenced In his decision to Issue a permit In recogni tion of Falrbank's recent services in the liberty loan drive. Other acenea in thia picture were taken In the Grand Canyon of Arizona, where the Hopi In dians were photographed. The principal motive for the selec tion of the Canyon vlu Chelley by Fair banks and his director, Allan Dwan. was to obtain pictures of the cliff (Concluded on Page S. Column S.) .Miiimiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiii'i GLOBE! Washington at Eleventh E lOc iiiimiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiimiiiiimiiiimiif Sessue , J Hayakawa and ' E s Vivian Martin I 1 1; y - I! K 7"sw a m Fv rr-iswi ill . 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