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TODAY'S FILM FEATIHES.
Peoples rouplas Fairbanks,,-The
Knickerbocker Buckaroo."
Colvumbia William Desmond,
"The .Mints of Hell."
Majestic B easte Barriscale,
"Two-Gun Betty."
Star Pouslas Fairbanks. "The
Knickerbocker Buckaroo.
Liberty Blanche Sweet. "The
Unpardonable Hln.'
Sunset Geraldino Farrar, "The
Hell Cat."
Globe "Heel Life in China."
Circle William S. Hart, "Brand
ing Broadway."
RKX BEACH and Samuel Goldwyn
are organizers of a film concern
which promises much to the pub
He in the way of high-class motion
picture entertainment. It's called Em
inent Authors" Pictures, Inc.. and the
corporation has the picture righ for
a term of years to all the works of
Mary Roberts Rinehart, Basil King.
Rex Beach, Gouverneur Morris, Rupert
Hughes, Gertrude Atherton and Leroy
the publicity man with over-
enthusiasm and these paragraph ex
cerpts from the announcement presage
much splendid entertainment during
Che coming years:
"Mr. Rex Beach and Mr. Samuel Gold- !
wyn have organised a million-dollar
corporation to exploit on the motion
picture screen all the works of a se
lected group of the most famous writ
ers in the Knglish language.
"The organizers have searched the
English-speaking world for names that
have great meaning and significance to
the reading public
"The executives of the new corpora
tion believe they have selected from
among the greatest writers In the Eng
lish language those whose works are
best fitted for screen adaptation.
"The method of production will be
a radical departure from all previous
methods.
"The closest possible co-operation
will exist between the producers and
the authors.
"The adaptation and direction of
each, sanative tov the mouua picture
will be under the personal supervision
of the author.
"No time, money or attention will be
spared to make these pictures the most
imaginative and powerful screen rep
resentations ever undertaken.
Katty m Majsrician.
Few people who come in contact with
that polished and eminently respectable
film comedian. Fatty Arbuckle, would
ever suspect that he started his stage
career as a magician in a one-night
stand vaudeville organization. Yet it
is even so. Fatty tells about It some
times with delight not unmixed with
the gall of painful reminiscence.
"I figured out." said he, "that I could
get money much easier than by rivet
ing boilers, .which was my chosen vo
cation for a short period, so 1 began to
practice magic. I wanted to give a
vhole show made up of sleight-of-hand
and illusions, but unfortunately I
didn"t have enough cash to get any ap
paratus at all. I swiped two of my
brother's pet rabbits, my sister's gold
fish and some other stuff at home, but
the disappearing bird-cage and the cab
inet of illusions, with all the necessary
mirrors, I had to manufacture myself.
"I never will forget my first appear
ance. I walked on the stage in my
uncle Phil's 10-year-old dress euit and
I had no sooner begun to explain the
nature of my entertainment than a
rabbit stuck his head out of my Inside
pocket and a goldfish slipped out of
my pants leg. I turned it into a joke,
but it made me cut out two of my best
tricks. Then my home-made disappear
ing Dira-cage, which was supposed to
collapse and fly up my sleeve, forgot to
collapse at the psychological moment.
Instead of making it out of wood I had
used heavy telegraph wire, and my
thumb got stuck in it and it never did
go up my sleeve. I tried to push it up,
but it nearly took my thumb off.
'For a finish I told the audience I
would eat fire, but I never kept my
word. 1 got a mouth full of gasoline
and squirted it at a lighted candle, like
a Chinaman sprinkling clothes. The
explosion blew three of my teeth out
and my tongue never did get back, into
neutral.
"I went straight from the hospital
back to the boiler factory.
Harper & Brothers. The first of the
series deals with the peace conference,
and here are a few excerpts culled from
the galley proofs:
"Of course, this whole peace confer
ence talk started from the time Presi
dent Wilson said to Germany: 'We
won't deal with you as long as you
occupy invaded territory.' Well, the
Kaiser come right back at him and
said: - 'If you can show us. how we can
give It up any faster than we are I
wish you would do it.' "
The shorter white paper gets the
more careless these Pen Hounds get
with it."
Grammar and I get along like a
Russian and a bath tub."
I was going to write a book on the
war but I heard some fellow had al
ready done it."
There are co many books on the
war that no two. people will have to
read the same book."
The thing, that hurt the Kaiser
worse than losing the war was that in
11 the armistice terms they didn t even
mention his name."
'Everybody commenced talking about
the peace conference and who was to
go. Some republican senators went so
far as, to engage a lower berth.
"There was so much argument about
who was to go that President Wilson
says, I tell you what, we will split
60-50: I will go and you fellows can
stay.' "
Tinki Like Dong."
The A. E. F. ranked Douglas Fair
banks as its favorite actor, according
to Homer Croy of the Y. M. C. A. That
opinion would doubtless find consider
able backing among the folks who
stayed at home. Doug" is one of
America's favorites and everybody from
the president down likes his pictures.
When the history of the screen
America comes to be written, Fair
banks' name will loom large as one of
those whose personality not only helped
to bring the motion picture before the
publio, bait one of those who actually
changed the type of picture presented
to the public.
Mr. Fairbanks has brought to the
screen the gospel or gooa cneer, me
spirit of "Never-say-die," and the
breeziness of his own magnetic indi
viduality. Every one of his pictures is
a point against the Demon Grouch, and
every one carries a lesson in optimism,
none the less potent for its sugar
coating.
That was the eort of etuff that ap
pealed to the A- E. F., and that is the
sort of stuff that appeals to most
Americans. Never a Fairbanks picture
yet that sent an audience out sad-eyed
and sighing. .oDoay can go to a Fair
banks film and not be vitalized. Doug's
breeziness is infectious. And- "The
Knickerbocker Buckaroo," whose very
name is full of "pep." promises to be
one of the fastest bits of Falrbanks-
ianism yet shown. It's a swift story,
and Douglas, after spending five
months producing It, breaks all records,
taking every hill on high.
Blanche "Comes Hack.
Theatergoers everywhere will wel
come the return of Blanche Sweet to
the screen in the big Harry Garson
photoplay, "The Unpardonable Sin."
Miss Sweet nan won a nost of admirers
nd these admirers have missed her
for the past year or more. "Where has
she been?" and "What has she been do
ing?" will be questions asked in thous
ands of homes where her new picture
will be discussed. There Isn't so much
to say about where she has been and
what she has been doing Miss Sweet's
earlier work before the camera had
taken a rather heavy roll of her nerv
ous energy and when the t'me came
that she found it possible to take a
long and comfortable rest she wel
comed the opportunity to establish her
self in one of the real show places of
lower California and live the quiet.
peaceful life which she had been ad
vised would return her to active serv
ice better and more effective as a
able Sin" are unanimous in their opin
ion that, in none of her previous pro
ductions has Miss Sweet done more
artistic work. That she has staged a
"come-back" without the slightest slip
is conceded to be remarkable.
main in the north- and suffer an ampu
tation of several toes. The story is one
of James Oliver Curwood's outdoor
affairs.
Stars in Sennett Picture.
The phrase "all-star cast" has been
so overworked that it has come to be
the bunk" with a good share of the
public The term, however, will take
on a measure . of reality when Mack
Sennett's latest and largest farce pro
duction, "Yankee Doodle in Berlin," is
spread out ior the public gaze next
Saturday at the Majestic theater.
Charlie Murray plays an Irish sol
dier. Ford Sterling enacts the kaiser.
Chester Conklin and Ben Turpin, Marie
Prevost. and Eva Thatcher, are Ideally
cast, the Sennett Bathing Beauties
splash their way into consistent scenes
and Bothwell Browne, the noted male
actor of feminine rolen, was engaged
for what may be considered the pivotal
part that of an American aviator who.
disguise, as a gay "vamp, worms
his way into the imperial household
and learns both state and domestic
secrets of value to the U. S. government.
Of course the personal appearance of
the famous Mack Sennett bathing
beauties a bevy of 'em will be the big
feature of the presentation of the pic
ture. The girls will make at least two
appearances dally during the showing
of the picture, offering a musical com
edy tabloid affording every opportunity
to exploit those bizarre costumes which
adorn the Sennett nereids.
Rogera Write Book,
Inst comnleted arrangements for the I screen star than she had ever been.
publication, - ot , a- fiexiu ot trrt"1-t - hy Tlioao who have seen. "The Unpardon-
Hlrkmu Answers Critic
A dramatic critic, who apparently
can't see the moving pictures through
the Mount Wilson telescope, said re
cently that the claim or the moving
picture people that the camera went
everywhere was an exaggeration.
This yawp of the critic has called
forth a swift reply from Howard Hick
man, Bessie Barriscale's director, which
makes it plain that Mr. Hickman
"speaks as one having authority and
not as the scribes," Eet the critic make
note of this:
"Of course, the camera hasn't gone
every place. It hasn't gone to perdi
tion yet, notwithstanding our critic
would apparently like to send it there,
and I don't think there are any cameras
in heaven, but then the camera is com
paratively only a recent invention. Give
it a chance. It has. however, been at
the South Pole; almost at the North
Pole; at the bottom of the sea; in the
crater of more tha one volcano; in
the jungles of India, Africa and South
America; 3000 feet under ground in
the Calumet & Hecla mine: in balloons
and aeroplanes as high as 16,000 feet
above the earth; in the tombs of Egypt;
in the tundras of Siberia: in the un
charted regions of the upper Amazon;
in the front line trenches and under fire
of enemy guns; in the deserts of Sa
hara. America and Asia; on top of the
Himalayas and In the valley of the
Dead Sea; among the furnaces or the
steel mills and in the swamps of the
rice country; on battleships and rail
road trains, in palaces and in hovels,
among the cannibals of the Snuth Seaa
and in the vaults of the world's treas
uries; in factory and in school room, in
clinic and in lecture room.
"Where does our critic want the
camera to go? Where indeed?'
Far 3iorta with Camera.
The "farthest north" record for a
motion picture company engaged in the
filming of a production is held by Nell
Shipman'8 company of which Dave
Hartford is director. In search of an
unbroken vista of snow, the company
went by train and sled S00 miles north
of Calgary, Alberta, where they found
all the snow they needed and a tem
perature of 64 degrees below zero. The
cold was so severe mat tne negative tn
ATROCITIES THEME OF PLAY
"The Unpardonable Sin" at Liberty
Has Strong Appeal.
"The Unpardonable Sin" is one of
the year's greatest photoplays. This
powerful picturization of Rupert
Hughes' novel celebrates the return to
the screen of Blanche Sweet in the
great role of her career, elevates Mar
shall Neilan to rank among the three
or four greatest directors of the screen,
and provides the public with enter
tainment that will make an impression
not soon to be erased from memory.
. The Liberty theater was packed to
capacity yesterday with opening-day
crowds, the Portland reception of the
production equaling that accorded It in
Detroit. New York and other cities.
Taking the theme of German atroci
ties to women in Belgium, as he found
it in the Rupert Hughes novel. Neilan
has told the story with a restraint and
an absence of sensationalism that
makes the effect on an audience more
compelling than the frankest unveil
ing of actual horrors could have done.
Neilan's method is to show not what
occurred, but the unmistakable effects
of those occurrences. The audience
understands. The mere suggestion
holds the spectator in a state of shud
dering sympa'.hy.
In this manner Neilan "registers'
the martyrdom of Alice Parcot an 1
her mother at the hands of the Ger
mans, the searching of Dimny Parcot
by t.erman officers, and the final as
sault upon Alice in the abandoned
French house. The result of this
handling, keep'ng the Incidents in their
proper places as incidents of a grip
ping story, is a well-knit drama that
gathers power as it proceeds.
A great cast has been assembled for
"The Unpardonable S'n." Blanche
Sweet is splendid In the dual role of
Alice and Dimny. Mary Alden. as thi
mother, is excellent. Beery's imper
sonatlor of the German officer is one
of the best the screen has presente'..
Matt Moore makes a first-class hero,
KJwln Stevens is fine as the father,
and Wesley Karry, as George Wash
ington Sticker, is the center nZ a
comedy vein reminiscent of Neilan at
his best in Pickford productions.
jail, which is the last place in the
world the sheriff thinks to search.
In the Jail Teddy sees Mercedes Syl
vester, imprisoned on a trumped-up
smuggling charge. He promptly falls in
love wicn ner. hi attempts a rescue.
Miguel Carbolic, who forces his atten
tions on her. At the point of a gun
Betty brings him to the ranch and is so
unprepared to learn that he is the most
notorious of cattle thieves that she
faints. When she recovers she finds
DOCG. FAIKB.VXKS BACK AGAIN"
IWO-GUX BETTY' AT MAJESTIC
Picture Full or Action and 'With
Plenty of Fun.
Bessie Barriscale dons boy's clothes,
chaps, a big sombrero and a couple of
big Bill Hart six-guns in "Two-Gun
Betty." the comedy drama which stars
her at the Majestic theater. It's a pic
ture full of action, with plenty of fun.
Betty Craig makes a wager that she
can pass as a man on a western cattle
ranch belonging to her chum's brother.
whom she has never met. She is intro
duced to Jack Kennedy, the young
ranch owner, as Bob Craig; but the
former sees through her disguise, as
well as do all the other ranch hands.
They say nothing and Betty is jubilant
over the way she is fooling the men.
With the girl's arrival at the ranch
trouble commences. She is given an
improvised bunk in the harness room,
where in her solitude she is despond
ent. But she picks up sufficient cour
age to go through with her plans.
The boys at the-ranch plan a fete, in
which the joke is on Betty. Disguised
as "bad men," members of the ranch
hold up Betty and her party. The fol
lowing morning a hundred steers are
reported missing. Betty sees in it an
other joke.
While out riding she chances upon
Pathe Weekly, comedy and screen
magazine are other features.
DOUBLE BILL AT THE CIRCLE
is captured, thrown in Jail, effects an that her boy's wig has fallen off. Jack
escape and the plot goes on with Teddy ! confesses that he has always known
ever etiaeavoring to aid others, and that she was Betty Craig and that ne
j as uimn miming in nut. water, j loves ner.
tvery new move to help others results
in inconveniences often of the most
embarrassing sort to himself. In the
end he wins the girl and regains for
her and her brother a fortune the
crooked sheriff was trying to get his
hands on.
One of Doug's most exciting stunts
is climbing out of the window of a
speeding Pullman, continuing up to the
roor oi tne car, running along on top
or tne train, then jumping: to the
swinging arm of a water feeder and
leaping to the back of a horse. It's
the start of a thrilling chase in which
a hundred or more cowboys chase the
hero up into the hills. . Pretty Marjorie
Daw, Frank Campeu and other well
known players are in the cast. ,
Branding Broadway" and Charlie
Chaplin in "The Bank."
"Branding Broadway," that very
popular William S. Hart Artcraft pic
ture, and Charlie Chaplin, king or
comedy, in "The Bank, form the double
bill at the Circle theater for today and
tomorrow.
Hart, the man of the plains, lnvaaes
New York in "Branding Broadway." In
troducing wild west methods to the
Great White Way. He's assigned to
keep the son of a railway magnate out
of mischief and Bill succeeds, but not
before he has bumped, into more ad
ventures than befell his lot in the land
of the gun and lariat. There's a pretty
little romance involved, with Bill car
rying away a bride to the west.
"The Bank" is generally rated as one
of Chaplin's very funnieft comedies,
with Charlie a Janitor in a bank.
REEL LIFE IX CHINA' AT GLOBE
Wonders of Strange Country Vividly
Portrayed.
The wonders ot a strange country
are vividly portrayed in "Reel Life in
production which opened a special en
China." the splendid educational-travel
gagement yesterday at the Globe the
ater. This unusual picture is screened
In conjunction with a lecture by A.
Frsnklin Myrson.
Herman H. Barcley. traveler and
photographer, is given credit for the
amazing and highly entertaining
scenes of "Reel Life in China," The
author of the picture traveled for
five years through the celestial king
dom and covered many thousands ot
miles to secure views never before pre
sented to the public Educationally the
(Conr:udf,l on Pago 7.
Two Theaters Present "Old Doc
Cheerful" This Week.
Douglas Fairbanks, "Old Doc Cheer
ful." is back again, and this time it
takes two theaters to hold him in Port
land the Peoples and the Star. Man
ager John C. Stilie Is trying the unique
experiment of showing one picture in
two houses at the same time, and yes
terday's crowds Indicate that another
theater or two might be used to handle
"Doug's" admirers.
Seven reels Jammed with action and
thrills and romance that's "The Knick
erbocker Buckaroo." Narrow escapes
and daring escapades are as numerous
as the villain's cigarettes In the aver
age melodrama, with Fairbanks un
corking a lot of his old acrobatics and
some he has Just added to his reper
toire of strenuousness.
"Doing something for somebody" Is
the slogan adopted by Teddy Drake,
blase New Yorker who tires of the
old gang and the old sights and, as he
figures that the New Yorkers would
think he was playing a con game if he
tried to do something for them, he hits
out for the wild and woolly west.
Down in Sonora. Mexico. Teddy meets
Manuel Lopez, leader of an outlaw band.
who is pursued by the snerirr. Bcenting
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TODAY AND TOMORROW
Wm. S. Hart
Hventni-o with his sloaan ever in
the two cameras of which Dal Clawson I mind. Teddy changes clothing with the ! gj
was pilot froze several times and two bandit and leads the eniorcers oi law
members of the company sustained i and order on a merry chase, finally
frozen, feel, one of them bavins to re-' taking refuge on the roof of the county
"BRANDING BROADWAY"
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Big Bill la a Dress Suit.
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