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THE SUNDAY - OREGONIAN, PORTLAND. - JULY 21, 1918. 3 If SMffipP ISP " :3 X- :iiirr v''''-'' ) ' . jh t S 'v'-i 5 V V,; 7 , a- VI " : i A7c& tavey in rIiolt Dexter j'n 'We CantJ3ue EveryCimp 3C -iecpes Lou he CJaum' Star of Shackled Hyescict JjckPickforJ rc Louise in 5antfi ' 3t Coumb'3 Muff v 7 5- ? 1 X1 u ' ' or -ft ? ' 'iii i ii'iif'iiTii"JMM 'in'The Clsus of the Nun' at Liberty . . . y. 4 . v.. .. r' -. ' t 7. TODAY'S FILM PEATl'RES. Star Priscilla Dean, "The Two Soul ,-Woman." Sunset Douglas Fairbanks, "American Aristocracy.": Will Ham S. Hart, "Hell's Hinges." Liberty Charles Ray. "The Claws of the Hun." Majestic Louise Glaum, "Shack led." Peoples R u p e r t Hughes' "We Can't Have Kverything." Columbia Jack Pickf ord."Sandy." Globe Marie Doro, "Heart's Desire." the T'M going to give my friends noth ing but happy-ending pictures. and my future stories are going have plenty of comedy in them." uch ia the promise Clara Kimball ung made to Portlanders when she s here last week on her Navv re- iltlng mission. 'There's too much adn i rid now, with men clawing or ier's throats and castisltv nt fin br columns of newspaper space. Sure. miasion or motion pictures in se days is to amuse provide lie-ht ertainment." tMiss Young made a most favorahi. pression while In Portland with luty, affability, magnetism, and the T c ot tnat stand-offishness led up stage." Those of ht- rers who privately "opined" from recent pictures that n.n bwlng traces of excess flesh grow- , . un maironiy in appearance re more man Dleased with uthfulness of their idoL 31ga Petrova, also a recent visitor '' miention or returning the stage this Fall and. asserted that ' miE"ht never return i .oiion picture life is much harder n that of the stage." said Petrova nera on ner war savina-o tomn npaign tour, "especially when nn. the financial head of her own com- ny. Then, too, I've been hiinri. ree times during the past year by aikuls. unless tnere Is a ong oemana lor more Petrova Die o j. may never again ha i mer pnotopiay." etrova denies that she looks down n pictures, that she ia cold. nr. it- ult to handle. One has one's own ideas of the ei- pssion of emotion. I am rv.d cold. Perhaps my early training much to do with this, but I have vays felt that emotions which are pest are usually expressed quietly. It has been said that I am difficult handle In a studio. In the early ys of my film experience they used a.sK. me to cumD out of windows, i do a lot of other spectacular things ich others do well, and which their otoplay friends expect them to do. t from me would appear foolish. py should I do such things indlffer- 'ly well when others do them so ich better, and there is a demand f the things I do best?" The First Motion Picture. ft has often 'been erroneously quoted it Thomas Edison mada the first pic- p-e before a motion picture camera. the September Motion Picture egazlne, but one Edward Muybridge, Inventive photographer in Califor- k really deserves cred:t for the first m made. Leland Starlord heard of iiybridge and offered him a large m of money if he could show a race rse in motion. On May 18, 1878, Muy idge made his first i ublic attempt photograph animate objects In con- hulty. He set up 24 cameras operated -strings which were broken by a rse's progress around the track, thus Etching successive exposures, a crude method, but destined to i:e tne mother of our great present-day inventions. There was a shed 120 feet long oppo site the cameras, painted black to serve as a sharp contrast to the horses' ap pearances. Later there was a motor and so revolutionary was the result of Muybridge's first work that the University of Pennsylvania donated J40.000 for experimentation. Still later. Mens. Marey took up the work in Paris, vising a sensitized film and single camera-Bill Lassos Rattlesnake. Lassoing rattlesnakes In the moun tains of California is the latest sport of William Farnum, the Willliam Fox star. Mr. Farnum was making one of the big scenes in Jane Grey's story, "The Rainbow Trail," in the San Fernando Valley recently when he spied a large rattlesnake. He was aoout to shoot tho snake, when Pedro, a cowboy. shouted a warning. Then Pedro quick ly pulled a couple of hairs from the tail of Mr. Farnum's horse, adjusted them to a pointed stick and handed it to the Fox star, with the advice to catch the snake alive. Meantime the rattler had gone Into a hole. Pedro dug into the ground about a foot, then told Mr. Famum to lasso the reptile. ' This Mr. Farnum did. winding the strong horsehair about the snake's neck. Mr. Farnum declares he will spend half ot his next vacation fishing on Catalina Island and the other half lassoing rattlesnakes in the San Fer nando Valley. Abont De Mllle. The name of Cecil B. De Mllle In connection with a special picture pro duction for Artcraft is recognized everywhere as a guarantee that in point of artistry and general excel lence it is of the highest attainable value. Mr. De Mllle has produced many of the most famous photoplays known In cinema history, including "Joan, the Woman," "The Woman God' Forgot," "The Whispering Chorus," "Old Wives for New." and his latest picture, ."We Can't Have Everything," is said to lack none of the elements that made . its predecessors so signally successful. Mr. De Mille's talents as producer manifested themselves years ago, when he acted on the stage In .child parts in his father's company and at 18 years, he wrote his first play. Then came "The Royal Mounted and "The Return of Peter Grimm," the latter having been written for David War- field. The motion picture field offered many opportunities to men of genius, and since Mr. De Mille's connection with the Industry as producer his strides have been upward and onward. the result being not only an enviable reputation for himself, but a distinct advancement of the art of which he is a brilliant representative. MacDowell With Kay. Melbourne MacDowell, veteran tra gedian and actor of the old school, who has "returned" In the films, via the Ince-Paramount route, is appear ing in a fine part in "The Claws of the Hun," a new Charles Ray picture. Mr. MacDowell is cast as a munition manufacturer and he looks the part. In fact, he Is the finest type In the world for millionaires, bank presidents and the like and then he can . turn about and be the most vindictive vil lain in the annals of the screen. . Melbourne MacDowell had his great est stage training with his late wife, Fanny Davenport. He has essayed many of the great tragedy roles and his portrayals were artistic Today he finds the screen a wonderful medium for his work. . Aviator With Plckford. George Beranger. who was formerly a D. W. Griffith player, and who was recently discharged from the Canadian Royal Flying Corps at Toronto on ac count of severe illness, recuperated in California before attempting to re enter the air service and he will be seen in the Jack Plckford and Louise Huff production of "Sandy." Mr. Be ranger was secured to play the role of Carter Nelson in the picture, which has been adapted for the screen by Miss Edith Kennedy, and which the Lasky Company produced under the direction of George H. Melford. Facta and Flsnires. Tom Moore, besides being an in veterate jokester, carries in his head a lot of facts, some of them irrelevant, all amusing. The other day. comlne suddenly upon Madge Kennedy eating ner usual simple Uoldwyn studio lunch eon of, home-made gingerbread and milk, Tom said; "When you are 75 years old ' you will have eaten 110 tons of food since you were born Madge Kennedy gasped. "And the single slWes of bacon you will have eaten, placed end on end, will extend four miles. That s not so! exclaimed Miss. Kennedy, with a grimace. "In the first place, I don't eat bacon at all, and in the second place it's too ex pensive for anyone but our soldiers to eat now. So there!" And she resumed nibbling her gingerbread. Tom laughed. "Ah. but think of the lake of milk Miss Kennedy." She choked, and Tom was satisfied. Dearaolt Stop Picture. Ashton Dearholt, the auto-racing driver, very nearly caused a long post ponement in the release date of The Two-Soul Woman" because he refused to let anything, on the road pass him. Dearholt, who was cast as the hero of the picture, makes his screen en trance via an automobile accident. Of course, the accident was to be properly staged. Just as everything was ready, Dearholt, at the wheel of the big car. heard the exhaust of a high-powered machine coming up the road. The old racing blood stirred in Dearholt. He jammed his foot on the starter and waited for the car to come up to him. Then he started -and the race was on. Dearholt declares he made the fellow in the other car quit, but at all events he did manage to smash up the com pany car about fifty miles from no where. In the meantime the rest of the com pany were on location waiting for Dearholt. A little affair like that didn't bother him. Fatty Born In Kanaaa. Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle saya he is getting tired of being accused of a different birthplace every time he picks up a newspaper or magazine. The various towns range from almost Greenland s icy mountains to India's coral strand." Once and for all. Fatty wants the whole wide world to know that he was born in Smith Center. Kan sas and proud of It. It is true that he departed with his family from that Kansas metropolis at an early age In fact, he was exactly one year old emigrating to Santa Ana, Cal., but the Jovial rotund comedian claims Smith Center for all time despite cyclones and such impediments. As to the data of his birth, the fat fun-maker has been exempted in the draft (cause obvious) and the curious can draw their own conclusions about his age. McKIm "reeved." Robert McKIm, the premier villain of the Thomas H. Ince studios, has a grievance. . o quote tne. vmamoun Robert: "Here am I. a villain by pro fession! In the old days, I was appre ciated: I knew each morning that be fore night I would have been thrown out of windows, kicked out of doors. punched on the Jaw. and left for dead. There was some zest In life then and I was happy. Now what have I to look forward to? Sometimes I go for days without even being kicked! "It's dis heartening! Why, the last picture I saw myself in the audience actually cheered. They mistook me for the hero! It's all wrong! Give me the good old times when villainy was always prop erly rewarded and appreciated." The Ince scenario department is to SUNDAY JULY 21 An Artcraft Picture MONDAY JULY 22 Douglas Fairbanks in the screaming comedy-drama success "IN AGAIN OUT AGAIN" CIRCLE THEATER 4th at Washington Admission to this Picture Adults 15c, Children 5c COME! Have a Hearty Laugh GLOBE Washington at Eleventh lOc iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiii Marie Doro in "Heart's Desire" iiiiimimiiiiiiimiiiimimiimiiimi 4 blame for some months they have re fused, or neglected, to give McKIm a real bad part. Wishywashy villains are not to his liking. Over McKim's dressing table, in big. black- letters, are the following words: . "I do the dirty work the 'nice, dan, dirty work; Behind tree and shrubbery, that's where I like to lurk; Ten. twenty, thirty work bad all through I create the hero by the dirty work I do." "That is or was my motto," said McKIm, sadly. "But now I'm a nice, clean villain, who wouldn't even harm a Hun, thanks to the overlords of the scenario department. It's all wrong!" Having unburdened himself, the "vil lainous" Robert bit savagely on the end of a black cigar, and flicked its ashes derisively on a scenario that lay before him. 'SIIACKLEIV MAJESTIC FEATURE Modern Society Urania Interesting Story, With Fine Acting. Louise Glaum vowed that she would make no more vampire pictures, so In her latest production. "Shackled." "tho Lady of the Peacocks" reaches the half- mwmmmmmmm imam iwpwwwwpii w v. .1 mi imrpv 111 M wmi w.w EVENINGS AND SUNDAY, 15 WEEKDAY 3IATS. 10 CHILDREN, 5 BIG MID-SUMMER DOUBLE ALL-STAR Si With Louise Glaum, Robert McKim in HELL'S HINGES BILL 4 Jewel Carmen Albert Parker AMERICAN ARISTOCRACY HART'S BEST DOUG'S BIGGEST
