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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
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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-
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Jewel Carmen Albert Parker
AMERICAN ARISTOCRACY
HART'S BEST
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