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THE SUNDAY OREGOMAN, PORTLAND. DECEMBER 28, 1919.
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LOUISE GLAUM STARS AS
"VAMP" WITH MORAL
Full Luxuriance of Opulent Charms Revealed More and More as Career
in Moving Picture Productions Ever Attains Higher Levels.
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out" perha
"gone out."
Run for your lives, boys; it's Louise
Glaum who Is approaching- She testifies,
however, that she has quit "vairtplne" as
a regular business. What "vamp" stuff
-h pulls nowadays Is just for the moral
effect, as a foil to the retribution which
always follows. So after all maybe you
nerrin't run. Let's stay and find out more
about her. Listen!
By RAY W. FROHMAN
(Copyright. 1919. by Evening Herald
Publishing Company.)
they say. arc "going
taps have already
But Louise Glaum, credited with
being the original screen vampire,
hasn't.
Louise is "going full blast." blos
soming more andarnore in every pic
ture in the full luxuriance of her opu
lent charms.
But not as a "vamp," as the term
Is popularly used.
Louise is now a "vamp" with a
moral, as it were. On the screen she's
a misled woman who reforms in the
fifth reel, or Is hit between the eyes
by the retribution to which the
"vamp" in real life is heir.
Thus, she is no longer a "vamp."
but "a portrayer of emotional roles
true to life."
This Vamp Doesn't Wane.
Why Louise has not been snuffed
out, but continues to wax in reputa
tion while "vamps" wane; what she
herself thinks of "vamp" roles and
their passing; and her own explana
tion of regenerated vamphood, as
sketched above that you will learn
in the course of human events if you
read on.
Alone, with no protecting escort of
local Anti-"Vamp" leaguers, without
a special leased wire to the police
station, sans even a coat of armor, I
tracked the original "vamp" to her
lair! 'Twas at the Thomas H. Ince
studio at Culver City, where by spe
cial arrangement J. Parker Read, her
manager, is permitted to sick Louise
on handsome leading men.
I expected ponderous seductive
charms of the boaconstrietor type.
There are "vamps" and "vamps."
of course, but "BEE1" predominates
in the physique of most of the mod
ern successors of the singing sirens
who made Odysseus lash himself to
-the mast and stuff his sailors' ears
with wax to sail the gantlet at their
Isle.
Louise la and She lan't.
Instead, I found an attractive wo
man with an engaging manner posi
tively naive, a charming, unassuming
woman with a personality, a robust
young woman, not an ounce over
weight.
She was meekly sipping tea from
a thermos bottle, as the last reel of
a box lunch. In the seclusion of her
dressing room, far from the madding
and vampable crowd.
And she was "fussed" to death.
Honestly, she was twice as scared
as I was! Even if I do say It, as
shouldn't.
There was a hesitant little catch in
her voice, as, unaffectedly, she tried
her faltering, modest best to give her
testimony to her "life and works."
Her hands were clasped, -instead of
feeing outstretched for prey; and she
rubbed 'em together hard and often'
in a smiling effort to tell "the truth,
the whole truth, and nothing but the
truth."
But the poor girl the brazen hussy
who had "lured away" Charley Ray
and "Bill" Hart and goodness knows
how many more, many a time and
often, upon the screen was so
"fussed" that she didn't have a date
In her system! Of course, it is his
toric, personal dates to which I refer
She has beautiful features, dark
brown eyes to match her hair which
was blossoming in 999.999 little round
curl-lets rainbow-shaped eyelashes
and a dimple in her chin that would
have made St. Simon Stylltes climb
down off his pillar and "follow her
up."
Even if Sim hadn't felt like "step
ping out," I'm sure Louise would have
Glaumed him because of her costume
Tvro-Toned Gown Worn
It was a sheer chiffon house gown
in two tones, wine color and yellow
cut rather low.
That lure deadlier than T. N. T.. a
leopard skin girdle, was caught over
one perfect shoulder with a bejeweled
oriental chain
Slippers and stockings of gold made
her 100 per cent dangerous
I persuaded Miss Glaum to take me
out on her "set." We glimpsed an
JSOOO setting with period furniture
said to have been owned by a prin
cess, which Louise said she'd "like to
move Into." Beside the regulation
"vamp"' "prop." a gigantic polar bear
akin, stood a sedan chair which Louise
inhabits during her current picture;
and. gosh, it was dark! Facing the
"seta" real stairs and real banisters
down which eight ladies had slid dur
ing the making of a wild night scene
resulting from too " much clder
"hootch" Miss Glaum testified as
follows:
Moral Carried in Kolrs.
"C. Gardner Sullivan, who wrote the
story I am now doin, knows me, and
he writes my parts nowadays naughty
at first, but always punished later, or
teaching a moral. Such parts are
true to life, and I'm glad to do them.
"I have only done a few real vam
pire parts, according to the figura
tive definition: 'One who lives by
preying on others.' The term has
been so misused that any woman who
does anything a bit naughty" is now
called a 'vamp.'
"If 'Zaza,' 'Camille' and 'Sapho'
were done In pictures now, they'd call
'em 'vamp' plays; yet the greatest
actresses played them and they were
called immortal. They were true to
life.
"The women I now portray are bad
to start with, but they are always
that kind in real life people who
make a mistake, do wrong, but later
atone for it. They are not vampires
women entirely bad. If a woman
just makes a mistake unintentionally,
I don't believe she should be con
demned for it. That's what makes
life interesting people changing,
characters developing.
A Baa Le Vampire!
"The term 'vampire' may and should
die. but heavy emotional roles true
to life will never die just as little
curly-haired ingenues will never die.
"I'm not conceited enough to say I
originated the 'vamp' on the screen
it s nara to prove that anythlng's
111 ai.
"But about 1913, at Incevtlle in To
pango canyon, I first -vamped' and
first starred in my first five-reeler
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....... w,r-,ccicrB were new. it was
The Toast of Death,' Mr. Sullivan's
first story for Ince. They started it
as a two-reeler, then made it a five-reeler.
It was so successful that ihsv hnd
Mr. Sullivan write for me later Th
Wolf Woman,' since which I have al
ways starred.
Young Charley Raw who stnnui
at Inceville about the time I did. and
whom I had led astray in several pic
tures, looked so pitiful In Th Wr.i
Woman' when he killed himself sficr
I turned him out.'"
So! This "vamp" had a heart!
And no wonder thev starr-oH it
Glaum. Charley's so rood ii,w."
that anyone who could vamn him
even on the screen by that verv fact
w ould demonstrate herself tn h ih.
champion o sirens, the "vamn" of
'vamps" !
Peacock Called Woman.
"The first thing I knew about being
1 'vamp.'" Louise declare .,
when I Woke up one morninc- in r-crf
a newspaper notice calling m. -,
peacock woman' and a 'vampire.' The
term wasn't used in titles, sub-titles
or advertising, but was probably in
vented by eastern critics. I didn't
mind the 'peacock woman' tun if
as I wore the first peacock gown on
... tictn, 1 cnink, and I have one
in this picture, and love peacocks.
"My first big emotional role was in
a uiciure called something about
.snes. it cnanged mv wholo tvr
of acting. Mr. Ince saw the possibili
ties in me, realized that I was betfer
at that, and thereupon put me into
dramatic work. From then on I
played emotional roles or 'heavies.'
"I played a female 'Bill' Hart, with
two little pistols. In 'Golden Rule
Kate' before such roles were common
I played wicked dance hall girls, lead
ing 'Bill' Hart astray, when dance
hall girls were new. In 'The Aryan,'
with Hart for Ince, I was the bad
girl who pretended to be good, 'Bill'
found me out and dragged me by the
hair of my head."
For about a year and a half after
"The Toast of Death." which she said
she'd "love to do again and make a
big picture out of," and after which
she always "vamped," Miss Glaum
"alternated." That is, as Ince was
not yet prepared to make features
permanently, she played "heavies"
with Frank Keenan as well as Hart.
Twice, she said, she left Ince, but
has "never been a success except on
the Ince 'lot.' "
Three Pictarea Produced.
Her first three pictures produced
under her present three-year con
tract with J. Parker Read are "Sa
hara," by Sullivan; "The Lone Wolf's
Daughter," by Louis Joseph Vance,
and "Sex," by Sullivan.
Director Fred Nlblo, handsome,
curly-haired, pleasant, spruce, bowed
himself into the party at this Junc
ture. He's the hubby and director of
Enid Bennett, you know. Anyhow,
ne tore Miss Glaum away from me to
vamp pardon me, to "baby"
w 1111am LguKua w a scene before mj
very eyes and those of Conklin's
screen wife, pretty Myrtle Stedman.
And she certainly did It!
The seductive-looking Glaum, puff
ing at a cigarette, her mocking laugh
ter rising above the "soft music" of
a violin and portable organ, was al
luring as the deuce! That is stating
it mildly.
Ah! The enthusiastic Mr. Xlblo has
restored the lost Louise to give the
following resume of her earlier deeds:
"I went into pictures because 1
couldn't get a Job in stock here.
Mother didn't want me to return east,
where I'd been a stock ingenue, after
my little sister died. We lived on
Pico Heights. My home has been in
Los Angeles most of the time, though
I was born in the country near Bal
timore, Md., leaving there when I was
about 4.
"After making the rounds of the
studios for a few weeks hunting a
Job. I started at Universal at $35 a
week, as ingenue lead in one and two
reel comedy dramas, not 'slapstick.'
That was about a year and a half
before 'The Toast of Death.' I. played
opposite Eddie Lyons. Lee Moran
was working In those pictures.
"I know I wasn't very good at first,
but I seemed to get along all right,
staying six or seven months. I was
crazy to get into dramatic work, and
had applied to Intfe. When he offered
me a contract as ingenue at $50 a
week, I was the happiest woman in
the world. So many were anxious to
work at Inceville that I felt highly
honored.
"For about a year there I 'got by in
two-reel dramas not my real line of
work, though I didn't know it then.
For about $75 a week I went to the
Kalem company for four or five
months. In which I cried nights for
making such a mistake, being such a
fool as to leave Ince. A raise means
nothing unless you can progress ar
tistically. Star Goea Back to Ince.
"He took me back, very repentant.
I stayed with him during the time he
released through Triangle, and when
he built and went to the present
Goldwyn studio at Culver City. When
he went over to Paramount, I. re
mained with the new owners of his
studio, and later I pent a year on
the Brunton 'lot' or. the Hodklnson
programme.
Miss Glaum, who attended Berendo
street school on Pico Heights, said
that she never studied for the stage.
When about 16, she "left home" as
ingenue with a cheap little road show,
"Why Girls Leave Home." She got
the job through an employment
agency, without experience, and re
ceived $25 a week, furnishing her own
gowns, which she made.
Even now she designs her own un
usual gowns, spending a lar-jn part
of her salary for odd creations, in
cluding 20 changes in her current
picture.
After reaching her goal. Chicago.
Miss Glaum played ingenues in the
Imperial stock company there for a
year and a half, playing In "The Lion
and the Mouse" and "The Squaw
Man," among other plays.
r Itole Is Created.
Then, in a summer stock engage
ment in Toledo, she created the in
genue role in "Officer 666." Its au
thor, Augustin McHugh, her stage di
rector in Toledo, tried It out there be
fore New York ever saw that suc
cessful farce.
Miss Glaum's picture debut fol
lowed a few more months in stock In
Chicago.
"An odd personality, wonderfully
easy to get along with," is what her
manager calls the Glaum.
"In full 'vamp' regalia, wonderfully
hard to tear away from," I'll amend
his motion.
I didn't get away till Louise had
introduced me to and said a good
word for everybody on the set. includ
ing her permanent and "most wonder
ful" camera man, courteous Charlie
Stumar.
"Remember!" said the original ex
"vamp," "I'm not 'vamping' nowadays.
In the erroneous sense of the bad
'vamp.' I'm cold-blooded and selfish
on the screen, but retribution comes
and teaches a moral!"
Moral: Ain't retribut.on wonderful!
COUNTY AGENTS SOUGHT
Demand for Farm Experts in Ore
gon Causes Many Cluiugcs.
OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL
LEGE. Corvallis, Dec. 27. (Special.
County agricultural agents in Oregon
are much in demand. They are lured
by tempting offers to enter commer
cial or other fields or to accept bigger
positions in their chosen line of work.
Of 29 county agents who have re
signed since the establishment of the
present plan of agent work In Oregon
in 1913, four were on the job more
than three years, seven more than two
years and 12 less tiian one year. The
average length of service was only IS
months.
Ten left to accept higher salaries in
commercial positions, lour of these
becoming bank agriculturists. Five
were experiment station men giving
part time to county agent work, who
resigned to give way to full time
men. Three engaged in farming, three
remained in the service, but were pro
moted to higher positions, and one
was transferred to another state.
Agent work was discontinued in two
counties.
Twenty-three agents arc now em
ployed in as many counties. That the
work has been a success has been in
dicated by interest shown by other
counties. Lake and Malheur counties
will start county agricultural agent
work January L Polk and Harney
counties have included the necessary
items in their budgets.
OLD JINGLE ABOUT GIRLS,
SUGAR N SPICE UNPOPULAR
"We Demand Right to Be Naughty and Rebellious." Says Lillian Ross,
Who Plays "Jane" in "Seventeen," Which Will Appear at Heilig.
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1 there can be such a thing as
bad little girls is not an easy
task," says Lillian Ross, who plays
the part of Jane, the mischievous,
tantalizing sister of Willie Baxter, In
"Seventeen," which comes to the
Heilig for a three-day engagement
commencing wltn a matinee New
Tear's day, January 1. and which met
with the same cordial reception in
every city that has been accorded this
delightful comedy; in New York,
Boston. Chicago and Philadelphia.
"The majority of people." said Mies
Ross, "think that a little girl must
live up to the reputation bestowed
upon her. Do you know it? It be
gins: What are little girls made of?
Oh. sugar and spice and everything nice
That's what little girls are made of.
"Well, little girls are in revolt
we won't live up to thaf rhyme. We
demand the right to be naughty and
rebellious. Rights for little girls
'the right to get into scrapes.' Bad
boys are common enough, but little
girls of the country have had do
mesticity thrust upon them; they
grow up as "little helpers." The main
stay of sociables, of bazaars, of sew
ing circles, these little girls become
amiable, sweet young ladles. Not
since 'Joe,' in 'Little Women,' has a
mischievous. always - getting - into -trouble,
little girl been presented to
the public. But Mr. Tarkington knew
that all little girls were not monu
ments of angelic qualities and graces
and so Mr. Walker made her in the
play."
And in Jane in "Seventeen" Mr.
Walker created a little girl that de
lights Miss Ross, who plays her. quite
as much as the audience that listens
to her. For Jane Baxter is a young
demon of curiosity there is nothing
that Willie does or says that she isn't
interested in. She hears everything
and repeats it. She tells her father
that her mother said it was not proper
for him to gobble his food. She tells
Willie that he Is in love "wiv Miss
Pratt," that Miss Pratt wears false
curls, one of "em fell off; and the
Parchers are awful tired of her and
wiBh she'd go home, but they don't
like to tell her so; she tells'her moth
er that Mr. Parcher can't stand Wil
lie's love-sick talk, that he's awful
tired of his daughter's visitor. Miss
Pratt, and her dog. There is nothing
in the neighborhood that Jane does
not hear and repeat.
"And now that people see Jane on
the stage, they all remember that
they have known little girls just like
her," says Miss Ross.
HAWAIIAN, IN PERIL, REJECTS
OLD GODS FOR CHRISTIANS;
Elderly Boatman Drifts at Sea for 51 Days Rain Follows Prayers.
Improvised Hook Catches Fish Japanese Sampan Is Rescuer.
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MOST RAIN IS ON KAUAI
Hawaiian Island Has Annual Av
erage of 4 76 Inches.
HONOLULU. T. H., Dec. 15. (By
mail.) One locality in the Hawaiian
islands registers the greatest rain
fall in the world, while other places
almost rival the Sahara in dryness,
says L. V. Dalngerf ield, head of the
weather bureau here.
The rainfall on Mount Waialeale,
Island of Kauai, has averaged 476
inches a year for the past several
years, said Daingerf leld. A higher
record than this was established in
1918 at Puukukul, where there was a
precipitation of 562 Inches, while
eight and one-half miles away to the
south the rainfall in 1912 registered
only two and one-half Inches.
Heavy precipitation on the wind
ward sides of all the islands Is due,
said Dalngerf ield, to the warm mo't
iraae winas coonng as tney rush up
the steep slopes. This causes the
moisture in the air to condense and
when it reaches a sufficient altitude
to fall in a torrential downpour.
ROUBLE'S VALUE SMALL
Russian Business Men Quit Siberia
for Mexico.
HONOLULU, T. H., Dec. 15. (By
Mail.) An American dollar will buy
from loo to isu Kussian roubles, Kol
cnaK currency, in oiDeria toaay. ac
cording to a party of 25 Russian busi
ness men who recently passed through
here on tneir way to settle in Sali
Cruz, Mexico.
It is not difficult to make plenty
of money in Siberia, said the KOh-
sians. but the money is next to worth-
lees. They declared they had been
forced out of business in Siberia by
the conditions tnere, ana had chosen
Mexico as a promising field in which
to rebuild their fortunes.
H
ONOLULU, Dec. 27. (Special.)
Faith in the Almighty kept
alive the spark of hope in the
breast of J. Kalepa Kanahaku, a stal
wart 55-year-old Hawaiian, for 51
days while he drifted several hundred
miles from the island of Hawaii
northwest to Bird island in an open
power boat with but seven raw fish
for food. He was rescued by Japan
ese sampan nsnermen wno urougiu
him to Honolulu the next day.
Thorough Hawaiian that he is. the
man declares that when he was blown
out to sea in the helpless power boat
late in October, he did not pray to the
ods of his fathers, but placed his
trust in Uod of the Christians. lie
prayed for rain and it came, and he
prayed for succor and it cume 51
days after his craft had been driven
out of the tiny port of Mahukona, sit
uated on the northmost point of the
island of Hawaii.
Kanehaku. with his partner, oper
ated a 20-foot power boat between
Kawaihae and Mahukona. Witnin
half a mile of Mahukona, on Octo
ber 22. the engine stopped. Kaneha
ku's partner went in with the mail in
small row-boat, wnne tvanenaau
stayed to fix the engine. fifteen
minutes later, with the engine nxeu.
he looked up to find the boat miles
out from tlte snore ano .! r,
swiftly before the wind and wave.
He started the engine ana it ran
but a short time and stopped again.
The elderly seaman looked about. A
lance at the oil tank revealea 11
empty. With nothing to make saw,
the boat sped for the western horizon
moved by wind and current. Kane
haku settled down to his -ate.
That night, after having recaiiea
the cods of his fathers and decided
against them, he prayed to God of the
Christians. Five aays out 11 rain-su
and the man had his first water. He
caught the rain in a little paint can.
But for days he had no food. Finally
an improvised fish hook got him seven
raw fish. Then the nook was car
ried away. Thirty-eight days out he
sighted the tiny rock known as Bird
Island, situated 250 miles northwest
of Honolulu. The boat dirfted towards
the rocky shores and it looked as if
Kanehaku would meet his death, but
the undertow was strong and when
ever the boat got near to the walls of
the island it was pulled away by th
undertow.
Kanehaku declares It was God who
saved him. Round and round the
island drifted the derelict until the
morning that the chug-chug of a
sampan made Kanehaku shout for Joy.
He returned to his family at Ka
waiahae on Hawaii this week.
as
and China
handled,
of wine are
bound for England
rapidly as it can be
Interior reservoirs
being emptied and the wine trans
ferred here by rail. It is expected
that the entire supply will be sent
out of the country by January 16. the
date set for constitutional prohibi
tion to become effective.
Kcwpie boll Infringe Patent.
LOS ANGELES. Dec. 27. Los Ange
les homes offer no shelter for Japa
nese Kewpie dolls. Two 1000-uozen
lots imported from Japan were turned
back by local customs officers, who
said the rVtund little Imitations of the
American variety infringed patent
privileges granted a New York firm.
Dark Breakfast Desired.
"Mamma, I want a dark breakfast."
"Dark breakfast? What do you
mean, child?"
"Why, last night you told Mary to
give me a light supper, and I didn't
like it."
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WINE IS SENT ABROAD
California Is Emptying Reservoirs
Anticipating Prohibition.
SAX FRANCISCO, Dec. 27. Wine
haven, the big storage plant of the
California Wine association on an
arm of San Francisoo bay, is a scene
of great activity these days. Wins is
being barreled and loaded on ships
Tetrazzini
Singa for the Victor
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Her records are on sale here
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