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TODAY'S Frt,M FEATIRES.
Sunset "For the Freedom of the
World."
Liberty Mildred Harris, "For
Husbands Only."
Majestic William Farnum, "True
Blue."
Peoples Dolly Sisters, "The Million-Dollar
Dollies."
Columbia Dorothy Phillips, "A
Soul for Sale."
Star Mae Murray, "Her Body in
Bond."
Globe Kathlyn Williams, "Redeeming-
Love."
Circle "The Kaiser, Beast of
Berlin."
DO you want to be a "movie" star?
Tea but can you qualify?
Wouldn't you like to know the
real truth about the probabilities of
your really succeeding- before the cam
era? Did you ever write or read a let
ter like this, published in Photoplay
Magazine?
I know that if I ever sot the chance I
Ijeould make good as a motion picture actress.
I am is: people say I'm beautiful, and I
iav fluffy hair and nice eyes large, too.
I've had considerable experience In amateur
dramatic productions, taking- the leading
Prts In several, and the critics have al
ways praised me highly. I like tragedy best.
I can sing, dance, ride horseback, swim,
play tennis and drive an auto. What should
I do to gt a place as a film actress? Have
1 & chance V MILDRED. SS.. Omaha, Xeb.
Tes. you have a chance, but first
Ts your nose perfectly straight?
Tour eyes are large, you say, but are
they dark?
Have they any casts or defects. Is
Ihe pupil unusually large, are you just
wee bit cross-eyed, or do you wear
glasses at times?
Have your teeth any Kold fillings In
them that show? Gold, you know,
photographs black.
If not (for such fillings would bar
ou). are your teeth small and regular?
Are your ears small and set close to
your head?
Do you bite your fingernails? '
Are your neck and shoulders well de
veloped and filled out so that you wear
evening-gowns well?
now aoout your reet ana ankles are
they well shaped?
Are you bow-legged or knock-kneed?
Jf you are, how do you think you'd
look if you were cast for a short-skirt
part?
Tou say that people tell you that
you're beautiful. That' is likely to be
gainst you. rather than in your favor.
J-or the first thing the casting-director
looks to see is whether you have (1)
large. C) strong. t3) straight features,
a good nose, a good profile. An oval
lace, by the way, photographs best.
Occasionally, but not frequently, small
leatures take on a certain piquancy
and sauciness on the screen: and if
they do, they are valuable. Otherwise,
no!
AH these questions asked are checked
I gainst you by the casting-director to
whom you apply. If you pass the ap
pearance test, then is the time to prove
whether you have dramatic or comedy
H'l"ly. iou aian t Know that, did you?
About Those Dolly Sisters.
The Dolly Sisters, stars of Metro's
romantic fantasy, "The Million-Dollar
Dollies, were born for the screen. The
sprightly grace developed by their
wonderful dancing qualifies them as
exceptional performers for the Bilver
sheet. Director Leonce Perret saw
these Dancing Dollies at a prominent
vaudeville house in New Tork and his
trained eye was caught by their lithe-
lEomeness, their personalities, the ex-
cressiveness of their twinkling feet
I their nimble bodies, and their provoca-
Itlve faces. "Absolutely," he said to hlm-
Iself. "the Dolly fclsters are born for
the screen."
The Dolly twins, Roszika and Tancsi.
came to the United States at the age
of 11. They took their first dance steps
when they were 4 years old. and
have been loyal daughters of Terpsi
chore ever since. At the age of 13 they
made their stage debut, and a year
later made their first New Tork ap
pearance in the "Midnight Sons" with
Lew Fields. The following season they
played under the management of
Charles Dillingham, in the "Echo."
Next. Florenz Ziegfeld guided their
destinies.
For three years the Dancing Dollies
played under the management of the
Shuberts, appearing in "The Merry
Countess," "Miss Caprice," and at the
Winter Garden. The New York Roof
featured the Dolly Sisters as a premier
dancing attraction; then they Joined
the Ziegfeld "Midnight Frolic." Vau
deville soon captured the twins and
under the management of E. F. Albee
they played on the Keith Circuit, in
cluding the Palace Theater, New Tork.
with a record-breaking run of 12
weeks. The Dollies have each played
individually in one motion picture, pre
vious to their present twin appearance.
Roszika Dolly played in "The Lily and
the Rose" for Fine-Arts, and Yancsi
appeared in the Kalem feature, "The
Call of the Dance."
Roacoc With Famous Stars.
Albert Roscoe was selected to play
the leading role opposite Miss Dorothy
Phillips in the Jewel production, "A
Soul for Sale," and is with Mae Murray
in "Her Body in Bond." two Portland
film offerings of the week.
Roscoe is a finished actor who has
won enviable laurels both in the spok
en drama and in screendom. He began
his stage career 18 years ago, appear
ing as Little Lord Fauntleroy in New
York, making a distinct hit in that
characterization. Later on Roscoe
played as chief support to Bertha Ka
lich, Marie Doro, William Faversham
and Cyril Maude. He achieved, also,
marked success in "The Man on the
GLOBE
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Kathlyn
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Redeeming
Love"
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MACK SENNETT
COMEDY
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Box," "Daddy Long-Legs," "Under Cov
er" and "Kick In," In all of which he
was featured.
Roscoe's venture into the cinema is
comparatively of recent date. He had
been offered attractive roles with a
number of well-known screen artists,
but was reluctant to abandon his work
in the spoken drama. Finally, how
ever, he was induced to alter his deter
mination, and he accepted a position
with the Famous Players Company,
playing with Marie Doro. Some time
later he went to the Fox Company,
playing with Theda Bara. Only recent
ly he finished playing a leading role in
Lois Weber's production, "The Doctor
and the Woman."
Clara Adopts Soldiers.
Clara Kimball Young, who has given
a great deal of her time to war work,
does many a little thing in her own
sweet way. For instance, on her re
cent visit to San Francisco, where she
made two speeches on Market, street
in the interest of Navy recruiting, and
the Navy and Marine Auxiliary of the
Red Cross, it was brought to Miss
Young's attention that Company B.
24th Battalion of the Armed Guard, had
been in quarantine in the Presidio for
more than three months, and that none
of them could get leave of any kind on
July 4.
Miss Young ordered a plentiful sup
ply of cigars, cigarettes and chocolate
for each man and hied herself away
to the Presidio, where she dispensed her
good cheer. The company in return
elected her honorary captain, and she
was formally presented with the regu
lation insignia by Captain Morntford.
Then Miss Young did her usual stunt
of -surprise-springing by adopting the
entire company of 150 men for the
duration, of the war, assuring each man
that she would be a godmother to him
and keep him supplied with all needs
every two weeks.
The beautiful star is not boasting of
her deed, for this is the first time It hail
been related through printer's ink.
Firnnn Always Fla-httnar.
William Farnum is always fighting
on the films. If he was like that when
he was a boy it's a good bet that every
day at recess and after school the word
went 'round: "Bill Farnum is fighting
again" and the mollycoddles ran home
to tell Mamma, while the real kids
stood around and studied his action. So
it is In the picture theaters today.
When word is passed around that
William Farnum is appearing in a new
Fox film the "fight fans." both male
and female, flock to the lucky house
confident of witnessing a good scrap.
No battle-scarred veteran of the ring
has had half as many "rough-and-tumble,"
"knock-down-and-dragout"
contests with virile villains as Farnum.
But "Bill" Farnum always battles for
a good cause and usually wins. Some
times he is "badly disfigured, but still
in the ring," as the old sporting report
ers used to write still Right is always
triumphant in the end.
In his latest Fox picture with the at
tractive title. "True Blue." Farnum
fights for freedom, from the restric
tions of caste, the rule of privileged
classes and for independence, just as
our ancestors did.
Irrlararloa Maehlae for Trenches.
When "For the Freedom of the
World." the greatest motion picture
ever made with the world war as a
background, was filmed it was neces
sary to dig on short notice a trench
system approximating that of the en
tente allies on the western front. .
To have dug the trenches by hand
would have taken many days, so the
producers of the picture called into
service a newly- 'Improved .American
machine originally used for digging ir
rigation ditches in the Western states.
With It the trenches were gouged out
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ATTRACTION
EXTRAORDINARY
Today and Tomorrow
THE KAISER,
BEAST OF
BERLIN"
The Film
Sensation of
the Year
FOfRTH AT WASHIXfiTOV.
COMING
Tuesdar "The Price of a Good TlBse."
WedaeiMlay Harry Morey. MI Own People."
Thursday Madge Kennedy. "On Little Wife."
Krldar Allre Joyee. WmniMi,"
Saturday All-star BUI With Mara; Senuett Comedy.
Jars of fruit, berries and vegetables.
Sally Crute is a New Jersey commu
ter, and raises vegetables and chickens.
Emily Stevens is placing several
acres of her Adirondack estate under
cultivation, Beverly Hayne has a gar
den somewhere, while others are busy
in the movement for increased food
production.
Seek WIlKoa Stories.
Harry Leon Wilson, the humorist.
author of "His Majesty Bunker Bean,"
"Ruggles of Red Gap," the "Ma Pettin-
gtll" stories and innumerable others. Is
disposed to see the funny side of every
thing in the world, including himself,
thus disclosing himself as a rare bird.
Mr. Wilson, who lives in Monterey.
forty miles from a gin flxz. opened his
morn in ij mail to find an Invitation from
motion picture studio to suomlt
strongly dramatic plots, developing
consecutive Interest, their most impor
tant situations and their climaxes" for
a number of stars, and offering to
lavish one thousand dollars per plot
on him if the plots were acceptable.
Air. w llson. be it understood, is one
of the highest paid fiction writers in
the world, and I am not going past
facts when I say that he receives in
the neighborhood of two thousand five
hundred dollars for each short story
he turns out. and Heaven only knows
how much for serials. Therefore, a
thousand dollars per novel-length plot
did not excite him. And this was the
letter he dictated in reply:
"Let me recall your attention to the
very ancient story of the fastidious
diner in the cheap restaurant who gives
the waiter elaborate specifications for
the steak he wants. The waiter, when
the diner has finished his long direc
tions, says:
"'Mister, If there was a steak like
that in the place, the Boss would eat
It himself."
SISTERS
FILMS
of the face of the earth in 12 hours'
actual working time.
Devoted to Garden and Chlcka.
If the Metro press sgent is to be be
lieved, the various feminine stars of
that film constellation are devoting
most of their time to agricultural or
housewifely duties. Here's a list of
their doln's:
May Allison has an ranee grove in
California and her old "mammy Is
making marmalade, much of which
goes to soldiers, while May is preserv
ing watermelons.
Edith Storey has a truck farm at
Northport. Long Island, and is devoting
her time to bean culture.
Lucille Lee Stewart Is a Long Island
farmer, has a vegetable garden and
2O0 chicks. I.t year she canned 400
Dancers Change Costumes 48 Times
In People Theater Offering.
The famous Dolly Sisters. Yancsl
and Roszika. Broadway dancers, have
been lured Into pictures. They have
made a photoplay, a musical comedy,
frothy sort of affair titled "The Mil
lion Dollar Dollies." and in it will make
their film debut today at the Peoples
Theater.
The two girls, alike as the proverbial
peas. swim, dance, pose and otherwise
disport themselves in beautiful and
glittering apparel in their film phan
tasy. Someone has counted 48 com
plete changes of costume during the
play, and nearly all of the 48 gowns
worn by Tancsi are exactly like those
worn by Roszika. All of which sounds
like a fashion show for femininity.
The story deals with the love affair
of the sisters, who are besieged by
Jack Hobson and Tom Hylan. who de
mand immediate marriage. The girls
refuse until they have as much money
as their prospective bridegrooms. A
celebrated specialist offers them a half
million each if they will blindly fol
low his orders.
There is a Maharajah residing in
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10 A. M. to 11 P. Itf. hq ) . Wft 2
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1 The Final Summing Up of the World War
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Greatest and Most Timely of War Photoplays 1
' For wife, mother, sister, father, brother or sweetheart of the
boy in khaki.
1 A Stupendous War Spectacle of the Battlefields of France.
'"..'. and the struggle for the sanctity of womanhood.
ALICE HOWELL, funnier than ever in "My Unmarried Life"
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