THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JANUARY 19, 1919. " 3 ACTRESS KICKS, WALKS, RUNS TWO MILES IN PERFORMANCE Charlotte Greenwood, in "So Long Letty," Crosses and Recrosses Stage 100 Times "Pep" Preached and Practiced. lr ; -; V "r ' - i PRESS agents have a habit, more or less, of foisting statistics off upon the unsuspecting, but occasionally these figures are interesting. For in stance, a discussion of just how much frround Charlotte Greenwood covers in "So Long, Letty," which comes to the Ileilig next Thursday, Friday and Sat urday. Miss Greenwood is never still be hind the footlights and continually flits from point to point. The actress explains this restiveness by calling at tention to the fact that the stage folk who display "pep" are far more inter esting than the pondero.ua, slow-moving individual. When Miss Greenwood was asked how much distance she covered during: each, performance, ehe replied: "Of course I can't .give th exact figures, for I really have given very little thought to it until now. How ever, I do try to 'fill the stage' when ever possible, for I know that the au dience is relieved by a change of back ground, as well as by come signs of life on the part of the player. In the two acta of "So Long, Letty" I cross and recross the stage about 100 tVmes. Computed into lineal distance, this ground would be about a mile. With the distance of my high kicks, to and from the dressing-room at each cue, and otherwise, I believe I must kick, walk, run or Jump at least two miles a performance." NEWS OF THE PHOTO THEATERS (Continued from Page 2.) tablished himself. The incidents lead ing up to Fatty's escape from home, and the mixups following his discovery by his wife, provide material for what is said to be one of the very funniest pictures the rotund comedian has ever made. "Borrowed Clothes" tells the appeal ing story of a young girl's willingness to sacrifice her own happiness in order that the ambitions of her sister and parents for wealth and social promi nence may be gratified. The girl. Mary Kirk, is to wed George Weston, a rich merchant. Circumstance takes her to a bathing resort, where he loses, her clothes in a fire. Rescued by Stuart Furth, she is taken to his home and clothed in a gown he has provided for another woman. The girl is suspected by her family of wrong doing. She is discarded by Weston, .who is ready to wed Louise, her sister, when the house of wealth collapses and Mary, finally scheduled to wed Weston any way, is saved for the man she really loves. men's sons who previously spent their time in hotel lobbies, cafes and cab arets His plan ia successful and he soon has a thriving establishment. When the war breaks out he hies him self to a recruiting station at the head of his charges, ready and fit for mili tary duty. 'STRING BEANS' COLUMBIA HIT Charles Ray, in Robe Character, Turns Hearts of Audience. From boob to hero, a transition Charles Ray has etfected so success fully in photoplays heretofore, is the role the popular young chap has in his latest picture, "String Beans," which opened yesterday at the Columbia Theater. Charlie has another rube role, but in addition to being a farm drudge he's a budding young poet, the kind, who after a day of toil on the farm, locks himself up in his room and from be xieath his mattress pulls forth a mail order printed fortune titled: "What Ji.very Young Poet Ought to Know' There's a bit of pathos, some exceed ingly clever comedy, with a rough-and- tumble scrap to prove that Ray is no weaKimg. it s a picture that . will please Ray's friends, and they're a host, the funniest bit being the situation where the hero tries to make a speech in order to spoil the plans of a crook who is trying to get a string bean fac lory and can't utter a wo-d. Toby, the drudge on his uncle's 20 acre patch of black mud entirely sur rounded by mortgages tires of his mis treatment, runs away and gets a job on a country newspaper. He meets the daughter of the mayor (Jane Novak) falls in love with her, and she recipro cates. He saves her from the danger ous attack of a man he afterwards proves to be a crook, reconciles her father with the editor, and in the end sets the girl. A new James Montgomery Flagg comedy and Paramount pictographs are mer leatures or tne bill. STAB, BILL FULL OF COMEDY Three X Gordon" Gives Interest ing Story of Everj-Iay Life. "Three X Gordon" is not a photo-tale , of the wild and woolly West, as the title might indicate, but this new J, Warren Kerrigan picture, the latest attraction at the Star Theater, is comedy with plenty of action, plus the personality of J. iWarren and the beauty of Lois WTlson, his leading woman. It's being shown together with a Fatty Arbuckle comedy, "Fatty's Joy Kide." "Three X Gordon" is the story of a young millionaire who has wasted his time and money on fast living. When his father refuses further funds, when he is forbidden to see the girl he loves, and when his favorite club closes ltB doors to him. Harold Chester Winthrop Gordon Is obliged to search for em ployment. Being a wise young fellow when he takes the trouble to think the first thing he undertakes is to rid himself of his superfluous names. He x's out the first three, and thereafter makes it known that he wishes to be called Three X Gordon. With another young fellow from his eet Three X secures work on a farm and gradually learns to know wha work and the joy of it means. Later he conceives the idea of establishing a- farm, for the making over of rich SUNSET HAS JUNGLE PICTURE Tarzan of the Apes" Teems With Adventure and Human Interest. "Tarzan of the Apes," the jungle melodrama of Robinson Crusoe setting, opened an engagement at the Sunset Theater yesterday. The story follows the adventure of a youth, who, when a baby, is stolen from his mother by a hute an and brought up in the latter's native haunts. The boy is really th son of a noble man in England, and a faithful servant who has escaped from a band of Arab slavers, returns to England and .en deavors to restore him to his rightful position as peer or a wealthy estate. He is foiled at every turn by the son of a barmaid, the false heir to the title. wno is finally reduced to defeat. Meanwhile the real heir is still in the jungle, where he spends his time getting the rescuing parties, sent for hia benefit, out of their difficulties. In one of these fights with the entire jungle he saves a beautiful maiden from a ferocious lion, and a charming jungle romance quickly develops. The last reel closes with a sentimental fade-out in which the unwitting heir finds that ignorance is bliss and that there are many other compensations for a title and estate in England, Elmo Lincoln made a strikingly ef fective Tarzan, and Enid Markey as the heroine did one of the best character izations of her screen career. GLOBE HAS THREE ' FEATURES Mary Pickford, Fatty Arbuckle and War Pictures Combine. Mary Pickford, in "Caprice": Fatty Arbuckle, in "A Reckless Romeo," and the second of the U. S. Government pic tures, "The Making of a Sailor," com prise the new photoplay programme at the Globe Theater. ' Little Mary appears as a diamond in the rough and later as a polished young woman in "Caprice." She's first a girl of the mountains, rough and uncouth. but with a big heart. She weds a so ciety man, finds herself woefully out of place, returns to her home, and then, through education, finally again finds her place by his side. court awarded Mrs. Wilkennlng 10 per cent and costs, or 9108.338.07. . Do the Los Angeles courts have time to try anything except picture squab bles and actorlal love stories that missed fire? Add civil actions James Young's s-uit for $15,000 against C. R. McCauley, the N'ew York cartoonist and film promoter. Cause of war, a propa ganda picture Mr. Young alleges he was engaged to direct. Kenneth Harlan, former Universal and Triangle leading man. ia with th HJfl neia Artillery, and is in France, or was until a week or so ago. Irene Castle is in England. She went across to enterUun soldiers at the rest camps. Mabel BalHn, wife of Hugo Ballin. art director of Goldwyn, is playing the lead m Maurice Tourneurs "The Whits Heather." The production la being made in Southern California, Louise Huff is one of the latest of the film stars to be retired from the studio because of influenza. Muriel Ostriche, World star, la de voting much of her time to the re employment of returning soldiers. First National will distribute 'The Fighting Roosevelts," the Theodore Roosevelt production mads by Fred erick L. Collins. It's said that all rec ords for advance payments were broken when the picture was taken over for the theaters. Select announces that it will fight the breaking of Clara Kimball Young's contract, which does not expire until August 31, 1921. . Tbeda Bara is spending the Winter making pictures at Miami, Fla. Horrors! It is reported that Bessie Barriscale will wear tights in her next picture. Virginia Pearson Is to use the Than- bouser studio at New Rochelle. N. Y, to make her first independent picture. Yes, Mollis King is still in pictures. She's being starred by Frank HalL Her latest is titled "Suspense." Griffith has another super-enectacle called "The Fall of Babylon." Reminds one of "Intolerance," at least in title. Norma Talmadge has bought the pic- ure rights to the successful Eugene Walter play, "Nancy Lee." Nancy was played by Charlotte Walker on the stage. Fox has bought "Cowardice Court," the George Barr McCutcheon story, for Peggy Hyland. Shirley Mason says the keynote of good acting is B Natural. Acme Pictures Corporation is the firm style of the concern which will pro duce "The Thirteenth Chair." starring Yvonne Delva. Leonce Perret is di recting the production at -he old Pathe studio in New York. In the cast are Creighton Hale, Marc McDermott. Marie Shotwell, Walter Law and Christine Mayo. There remains considerable mystery as to who Yvonne Delva is. A Los Angeles newspaper says: "It s rumored Mr. Griffith is shortly to go to Europe to make a picture based on reconstruction and the present plight of nations, with, mayhap, an interna tional love story. One can imagine the tremendous human appeal the world s master-director would put into such a tale. On this, however, Mr. Griffith re fused to commit himself." 1 Oh, I may go some fine," he thus evaded." The admirers of J. Warren Kerrigan will find much to delight them when they contemplate their favorite screen star in his newest picture, "Three X Gordon," in the garb of a farm laborer, steering a plow through acre after acre of Jersey soiL Perhaps there may be some captious critics who may know more about the technique of han dling a plow than does Kerrigan, but they will appreciate the spectacle of this clever young film luminary hard at it, and giving every evidence of enjoying his work. "MIDNIGHT PATROL" AT CIRCLE Spectacular Inco Production, Chock Fnll of Rapid Actio. . -"The Midnight Patrol," the spectacu lar Thomas H. Ince photoplay special is the Circle Theater attraction for to day and tomorrow. A "Lonesome Luke1 comedy, cartoon comedy and animal picture are also to be shown. . The detective, or ordinary plain clothes man of the police force, is the hero of "The Midnight Patrol," which depicts life in the underworld. Chinese onium dens, nolice raids, running hnt ties between crooks and the police, etc. Film Flickers. Notwithstanding her auspicious be ginning as an independent producer, last month was rather distressing for the celebrated little Pickford. In the first place her sister Lottie's near fatal illness distracted the family and caused all -its members save Jack to rush frantically back and forth across the continent. Then, before Lottie was fully convalescent, came the suit of on Cora Wllkening, an agent, in New York Mrs. Wilkening alleged that she was the broker whereby Mary had received a contract giving her Jl, 080, 000 in th last two years, and that for this ehe had received no remuneration, The He was rendered unconscious. When ne regained nis senses ne staggered to prisoners by this time had had nearly an nour start. The prisoners when they escaped were in fatigue uniform, blue blouses and overalls. MOUNTED POLICE TO STAY Canada's Scarlet Riders to Reor ganize on Pre-War Basis. RZGIN'A, Sask. Canada's Scarlet Ri ders, the Royal Northwest Mounted Po lice, who left the Dominion to further distinguish themselves on the battle fields of France, are to be reorganized on a pre-war basis, according to an an nouncement by government officials. Squadrons of the famous riders who for years have patrolled the prairies, mountains, forests and Arctic wastes of Canada, will be returned from over seas and permitted to rejoin their old force, which wfll be recruited to a strength of 1200 men. Regina will continue to be general headquarters and the territory policed will extend from Port Arthur to Brit ish Columbia and far into the vast stretches of the No Man's Land of the North. District headquarters will be re-established at Winnipeg. Regina, Prince Albert, Lethbridge. Edmonton, Vancouver and Dawson. Outposts will be established at Macleod. Battleford, Maple Creek and Peace River. As the war progressed, members of the famous band who had faced death innumerable times by daring dashes into the wilderness after criminals, one by one, dropped out to join the over seas forces until the organisation bad all but disbanded. Official reports have shown that they continued their in trepid exploits in the war zone. Government officials have said that the history of the Scarlet Riders is also the history of law and order in the Canadian Northwest. The proud claim is made that the horsemen have never failed to account for a criminal after once taking the trail. It has not al ways been possible to bring back th man alive, however, and in each of these cases a formal notation is made telling where the body is buried. The records at headquarters, which teem with thrilling adventures, show that on more than one occasion a sin gle officer rode into the Northern wil derness, used dog teams to penetrate still farther, and then "mushed" (walked) to his destination to arrest an Indian or Eskimo who had killed a white man or tribesman. Now and then a fugitive shot first and with true aim. But official records show that no criminal who murdered an officer ever escaped vengeance of that officer's comrades. REGAL WELCOME PLANNED Santa Barbara County to Honor Sol diers and Sailors. SANTA BARBARA, Cal. Young men of Santa Barbara County who served in the Army or Navy are to be ac corded a regal welcome home, whether they come in groups, by pairs or singly, according to an announcement made after a conference of civic leaders held recently when plans for the home-coming receptions were arranged. The affairs, it is planned, will be held every three months and will be in the nature of a grand ball, with en tertainment features. Every returning man will be presented with a medal of honor, according to tentative arrange ments. The first of the affairs is scheduled to be held on Washington's birthday, February 22. at Recreation Center. A permanent canteen will be main tained at the railroad station here to provide returning BOldiers and sailors with food, cigarettes and candy. When ever a large enough group returns at a time to make the plan practical they wilt be met by a band and -reception committee of city officials. "Q" SHIP SEEN IN LONDON Frowsy Old Tub Represents Devel opment of Naval Warfare. LONDON.- (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) A "Q"s hip has come to London. She is a gray, dingy, ondescript kid of ship, perhaps a col lier or a coastal tramp; but all London is flocking to St. Katherine's dock to see her, for the frowsy old tub repre sents a development of naval warfare whihe produced some of the finest he roism in the history of sea fighting. According to Sir Eric Geddes. First Lord of the British Admiralty, nothing could be more inspiring than the con duct of the officers and men on the "Q" ships "those mystery ships, where for hours the men lay and were shelled and killed and lay untended until the opportunity came to sink the enemy." This Q ship is certainly not what she seems. At a signal her hatchways can disclose glistening 4-Inch guns, and her harmless-looking stays rap out wireless messages. For more than two years her skipper, .Lieutenant-Commander Auten, V. C, and her crew, all of whom remain with her, have been hunting U-boats.. Gunner Cunningham, wearing a Dis tinguished Service Medal, shows visi tors to the ship how they tackled sub marines. Leading the way to the fore castle, he points to a hawser-reel lying on the deck. "That's a dummy," he says. "It's the skipper's lookout when submarine is sighted. This little smokestack is also a dummy It hides a periscope. The skipper from his look out would give the range to the hidden gun crews. "No sign of life was to be seen on the ship after a 'panic party' had put off in an open boat until the order came 'Fire." Then this forehatch flew open and the sides of that dummy cabin fell outward, and the two 4-inch guns got to work. We settled one U-boat with 12 hits out of 14 from one gun and seven out or eignt rrom tne otner. The crew of this decoy ship hunted submarines in an old steamer called the Stock Force until the forepart of that vessel was blown away by a tor pedo. It was on the Stock Force that Lieutenant-Commander Auten won. the Vitcoria Cross. Surrender to Be Pictured. LONDON. The British will perpetu ate the scene in the cabin of the dreadnought Queen Elizabeth when Admiral Beatty told Admiral Meurer. of the German "navy, how the allies desired the German navy to surrender. In the uniform of a naval officer sit ting at the table that separated the British from the Germans was Sir John Lavry. a naval artist. The notes on the conversation he was supposed to be taking were in reaitly sketches or the scene from which he will produce a picture. Argentina has spiders which spin webs on telephone and telegraph wires heavy enough, when wet with dew, to cause short circuits. THREE PRISONERS ESCAPE Men. Beat Sentry and Leave Camp Fremont Stockade. OAKLAND, Cal. Provost guards and police are watching in Oakland, Ala meda and Berkeley as well as in San Francisco today for three military prisoners who escaped from the stock ade at Camp Fremont after beating a sentry, Harry Van Meter, into insensi bility and eluding a cordon of infantry men thrown about the camp when news of the escape was issued. Soldiers scoured the San Mateo hills last night, but found no trace of the prisoners. They may have crossed the bay in a boat, say officers, in sending the alarm to Oakland. The escaped prisoners are William Shy. R. N. Curry and a Mexican, all Infantry privates. The Mexican, whose name is withheld by the military au thorities, was waiting courtmartial on a charge of participating in a recent holdup across the bay. 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