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TIIE SUT)AY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, MARCH 21, 1920 . ! First there Is Ray, the popular star f i! A WILLIAM COLLIER AGAIN ON BROADWAY IN NOTABLE BILL Appearance of The Hottentot" Among Big Events of Week and Actor, Who Is Liar for Third Time in Play, Is as Delightful as Ever. oi toaay. ana then there Is "The EgS Crate Wallop," which has won him more friends than any pictures he has put out qf late. ' Showing- with "The Egg Crate "Wal lap"' to make it a real comedy bill, i the Sunset has a Mack Sennett super- YOUNG AMERICAN SINGER DISCOVERED BY MELBA Carolyn Thompson, Prima Donna of Playtime," Coming to Heilig Theater Next Thursday. Week Starting MONDAY, MARCH. 22 Farewell Attraction March 31st r. comedy, "A Ladies Tailor." "The Egg Crate Wallop" has all the surpassing merits of a Charles Ray hit and something- more. The story opens in the kind of atmosphere the youthful star can make live before your eyes the little country town. Ray is the assistant express agent, in love with Kitty, his boss daugh ter. Then Fate, in the shape of a theft of $2000 from the express office, dashes him out of his rural surroundings and into the "studio" of a prize fight pro t x MABEL WIEBER AND THE ALCAZAR MUSICAL PLAYERS ? , Jf !, I l moter. And right here what was a nice little yarn becomes a big drama r -r V. full of surprises and thrills .and cheers. .. The Mack Sennett super-comedy, "A Ladies' Tailor," bas a bevy of Mack Sennett's shapely bathing beauties and r features Charlie ' Murray, Phyllis Hammond, Marie Prevost, Ford Ster- ine and others of the well-known and popular funsters of the Sennett studio. . , : -f 5 lx v ifV .ft, ' - t-,.n- f .21 Will ism Collier Ann ybXcoft 272 "Tu Jfofe2f?f ' v. . . -v L. St i. 'Jisrry Jferes ford and ..-tlSi-T. K Jfenry PlHler snd PZandhe ttfss 212 " Tfie Ihmozts Br ELIZABETH LOXERUAX. '. tW YORK, March 20 William Colliers ' ' ' Broadway in a nci iiW YORK, March 20. (Special.) return to ay in a new play was . ' naturally the big event of the past '"' week. "The Hottentot" may not be as good as "Nothing But the Truth," ; but Collier is as delightful as ever. Western folks do not associate him " with "Nothing But the Truth" as i Max Figman played it on the coast, but it was William Collier for whom : the play was written and who created the original role on Broadway. His play last season, "Nothing But Lies," was on a similar theme, and the folks who saw the first play were lrf doubt which was the better. , "The Hottentot" is a race-horse play and the story revolves about a great ', race, with the hero "from the Tai-ific ' coast" riding to fame and fortune ' and winning the hand of a fair maiden in the last act. Mr. Collier is a liar for the third time in this play but along different lines. He just cannot help boast ' Ir.g about his skill as a rider and is ' forced into a race to make good his f bluff. The humor is different from 2 that of the two other plays, but fast and furious just the same. Victor . j Mapes and Mr. Collier wrote the new j piece together and it seems destined for a long and successful stay at the George M. Cohan theater. It is Sam Harris' second independent pro duction since the Cohan & Harris firm was dissolved. 1 "Georice Washington" Staged. Now that "Abraham Lincoln" has ; been stagred. following its great suc 1 cess in London, along comes "George Washington" with Walter Hampden I in the title role. Percy Mackaye i wrote the play, which is in pageant ' form and extremely Interesting. J- Whether it will rival "Abraham Lin coin" remains to be seen. Washing- ton is descr bed as a hopeful, quiet i and strangely Inactive person and the play does not contain the dra matic incidents of its rival. The settings are beautiful and the cos NEWS OF THE MOVIE THEATERS (Continued From Page 4.) bachelor, who, by the way. has the delightful name of Patrick Murphy, to bring her back at all costs. Pat- rick, however, captures the wrong . ; girl and brings her to his friend's country house. While he is having trouble making peace with the girl i two second-story men make their ap pearance. Then. Instead of lessening 1 complications, two policemen arrive V and later these are followed by two inquisitive neighbors and in time by the owuer of the house. The final J climax !. when the missing wife ap- V pears. How Patrick learns that he Is " not iramunels tho final touch of the r; story. j FAMOCS yOVEL SOW FILMED ':i "The Lone Wotrs ' Daughter" at j The Peoples This Week. 'i Prominent among the many novel situations and photographic achlwre- 4 ments that stamp J. Parker Read Jr.' j new production, "The Lone Wolf's ,1 Daughter," as distinctly different from the usual run of photo-dramas, is the use of a telautograph, an in strument for the reproduction of mes sages by telegraph. I - The telautograpn plays an import- S . t- .A a T.niila Tn.anh Vannm ant jjaiv t """'u wwswjh story and the famous novelist worked for several days with the producer to make perfect its operation in "The Lone Wolf's Daughter." a W. W. Hod kinson release, combining the famous characters of 'The Lone Wolf" and1 AnJrfVss an, t7n 4 " F 1 A-5r Zillzan Kofft x'n Jffjiry I . r -i tumes of the revolutionary period present a gay spectacle. The company is headed by George Marlon and Includes Gerald Hamer, Beatrice Reinhordt, Maxwell Ryder, William Sauter and Paul Leyssac. As predicted in this column a week or tw ago, these plays are the first of a series of dramas about figures of history. The great money-maker that William Harris Jr. brought from London will have many imitators. "Look Who's Here" Is the title of Cecil Lean's new show with Cleo Mayfield playing opposite him- Frank Mandel and Edward Paulton have written a funny story and there are a lot of clever travesty bits. The bedroom farce comes in for its share of ridicule and also the elopement theme that is so popular this year. Novelist Grin Mixed I' p. Lean is a novelist who gets mixed up and in a fit of artistic tempera ment imagines that he has married three wives. He tries to get away from them and finally "wishes" them on a diminutive young man, who has the borrowing 'habit. He has bor rowed almost everything else, so It is quite natural that in time he should borrow the novelist's name to get married and then the fun be gins. Madge Rush has some pretty dances, the McCarthy sisters sing, John Morrissey, Louise Kelley and Dave Quixano are also with the show. Florence Moore. Mr. Lean's former partner. Is belngr starred by Mr. Woods in "Breakfast in Bed." This ts her third or fourth season under his management. She and Cecil Lean first came into prominence at the La Salle theater, Chicago, where they appeared in a number of musical shows. Later they came to New York, but the combination did not last many seasons and then came their separate paths. Miss Mayfield Is not a comedienne but an attractive young woman who knows how to wear un usual clothes and who sings and dances fairly well. Miss Moore is in a class by herself as a comedienne: none else can play her parts; she is a riot whenever she appears. "False Faces," which comes to the Peoples theater this week. Mr. Vance also lent a helping hand In perfecting tne code used on the contrivance in Chinese script, the telautograph or ratner, two of them, being employed In the luxurious home of the leader of a desperate band of London crim inals and In a Limehouse den where the plunderers hold council. The use of the instrument permits me unuerworid Dana to continue its daily killings and robberies with lm puuu. xi remains lor L,oulse Ulaum as Sonla to succeed where the sleuths nave iaiiea. Held as a captive in the home of the bandit chieftain, Sonia's curiosity Is aroused by his irequent maneuverings at a. secret cabinet, whence strange sounds eman ated. In his absence Sonia discovers the "open sesame" to the cabinet and pulls a sheet of paper from the in strument hidden there. A Chinese maid deciphers the message for Sonla Gripped by Its import, she turns It over to the sleuths and the band is rounded up after a. thrilling gun fight in the smashing climax. "The Lone Wolf's Daughter" was produced un der the personal supervision of J Parker Read Jr. at the Thomas Ince studios. SCXSET SHOW ALL COMEDY 0 Charles Ray's "Egg Crate Wallop" Has Surpassing Merit. Charles Ray, In "The Egg- Crate Wallop," is the passing show at the Sunset tneater until Wednesday.. 4 CIRCLE PRESENTS FEATHRli "When Bearcat Went Dry" Made Into Photoplay. One of the big- outstanding feature pictures of the year is 'When Bearcat Went ljry," which will be the attrac tion at the Circle theater today and tomorrow. The bill will be supple mented by a "Fatty" Arbuckle pic ture. The famous and widely read novel of Charles Neville Buck, of the same title, has been made Into a photoplay that teems with dramatic intensity and suspense. Tho characters of the picture are thpse hardy mountaineers of eastern Kentucky who, from time immemo rial, have shown slight regard for man-made laws. They are the de scendants of the hardy pioneers who blazed a trail from the shores of Vir ginia through the mountains of that state and Kentucky. They fought the treacherous savage and Bettled the "Blue Grass state." They made It possible for an empire to be founded that pives to us and our children that follow a land that knows no counter part for riches. It is of such kind of men and women that "When Bearcat Went Dry" has to do. and needless to say a picture-play of unlimited entertain ment qualities is provided. Film Flickers. 0' RSON PRATT, great-grandfather of little Charles Meakin Jr., who plays "Curly" in Shakespeare's "Ham let," the second of the "Edgar" pic tures by Booth Tarklngton. had the distinction of being the first white ;.an to enter Utah. He planted the American flag on the site where the Mormon temple now stands. . Charles received his education in the public schools of Salt Lake City. His father was Charles Meakin. well-known stage niKti, who managed such actors as Louis James. . Kathryn Kidder, Fred Warde and others. -So it is quite seemly that Charles should take the part of "Ophelia" In the show put on by Edgar and his pals in the second of the delightful child series written by Booth Tarklngton. It was a dubious lot of mothers who accompanied their children to the dim hayloft where the second of the "Ed gar" pictures "Shakespeare's Hamlet" was filmed. Dark corners and dusty rafters looked like very good hiding places for mice. Mothers felt it a duty to their children to remain near them while they worked in the pic ture, but they felt like martyrs too, as they tried to curl their feet up on thetr chairs. Once a stage hand yelled "Mouse" and every mother was up on her chair in a second. In this picture Edgar and his churns stage "Hamlet" up in the hayloft. Edgar is Hamlet and his chum Freddy plays the king, while Rubeenious, a colored boy, is the ghost and: Curley, another pal, is Ophelia. Grown-ups as well as children will enjoy this Booth Tark lngton story written for the Goldwyn Pictures corporation of New- York. The longest dinner on record four I days for the cocktail course alone was held recently In Culver City. It was during the filming of the picture "Earth Bound" and the guests were Flora Revalles, Wyndham Standing and Mahlon Hamilton. Crab cocktails, a la Goldwyn chef, are well worth lingering over, but think of the mis ery of Jhe director, T. Hays Hunter, and his corps of assistants, who had to stand hungrily on the sidelines for four davs without being invited to draw up chairs and partake. Anita Stewart's next film will be "The Fighting Shepherdess," a pic- turization of Caroline Lockhart's famous novel of the same name. California critics who have seen the picture In a partially fashioned state declare that It Is comparable in its bigness with "In Old Kentucky," the big melodrama in which the star is being seen all over the country. Supporting Anita Stewart the cast includes Wallace MacDonald, Noah Beery, Walter Long, Eugenie Besser er, Gibson Gowland, Ben Lewis, Cal vert Carter, Maude Wayne and other players of proven "ability on the screen. Tony Gaudio vas the camera man. PORTI'AXI) GIRL TO JOI.V VAIUEVILI.I3 CO.IIJ'A.W. ! 1 f ".rJk - .i!Si- S W.t .-v Miss Jennette Christensen. Miss Jennette Christensen, who recently returned from California, where she partici pated in numerous musical and dancing features, has left for Oklahoma City, Ok la., where she will join the Joan Hardcas tle company in vaudeville. Thia company, which former ly, composed a special dancing act, under the supervision of Joan Hardcastle, well-known Portland dancer and Instructor, is to be enlarged and will in clude singing as weU as dancing-. , Miss Christensen, who pos sesses a contralto voice, will take the leading vocal parts In the' revised feature. Ml S . I THERE is usually plenty of action In the stage career of a very pretty girl, but the swift course of Miss Carolyn Thomson, the prima donna of "May time." coming to the Heilig theater next Thursday, has been actually breathless in Its leaps and bounds not to say meteoric. Less than four-years ago she was soprano in the church choir of a Pres byterian church in Minneapolis. For some local charity a small amateur production was staged. Miss Carolyn was gien the leading part. Fortune smiled on the little singer the night of their one performance, for Nellie Melba happened to,be in the audi ence. Melba was so impressed at the quality of the little girls voice that she asked Miss Carolyn to call upon her next day at her hotel. Mme. Melba told her that she had a voice of rare quality and should make it the means of her life career. This was the beginning. The daughter of a wealthy lumber merchant, he objected to her becom ing a professional singer, but pater nal pride finally overcame the ob jections ana ftiiss Caroiyn went to New York with her mother to Beek her first engagement on the stage. She had a letter of introduction to Henry W. Savage, who evinced great interest in her voice and personality, but had nothing for her. He gave her, however, a note to Mr. Bickerton, the producer of "Adele," who, on hearing her sing, abruptly said: "How soon can you sailT" "Sail? Good heavens! where?" "London, of course. We open there in three weeks at the Gaiety." And, to chop a long story short, TEACHER IN FRANCE USES U. S. ARMY CALISTHENICS Attitude of People Toward Americans Also Discussed in Remarkable Letter to Reed College Student Who Served Overseas. rrHE attitude of the French people toi ru toward America, picture of ral life after the war - and a remarkable message showing the character and sj-mpathles of the writer are contained in a letter from a young French woman school teacher to William Purdum, a sopho more at Reed, who was overseas with the first division. The letter gives an intimate insight Into the trials of the little school teacher as she tries to cope with the after-effects of a devastating war. In spite of many harshlps she seems to' be able to smile and hope for the best. Her description of the way she administered American calisthenics to her French tots is highly entertain ing. Her methods of teaching the youngsters might well be copied any where. She writes: "First, to give you some personal news. I am in a very small vil lage. Until today my class num bered five pupils. This village has not more than 85; yes, not 85,000, but 85 inhabitants. If it was on the front It could r.ot seem more dismal. The buildings are falling down, and the few that are standing are small, dirty, and sad looklnir. ft took me iANTAG TTneqnaled Vanderflle Broadway mi Alder. Matinee Daily, 2:30, Twice Kijrhtly, 7 and 9. Popular Prices Boxes and Logea Reserved. WEEK COMMENCING TOMORROW MATINEE THE SENSATION St i ma GreatLeoD it s fa y AID HIS COMPANY OF WONDER WORKERS, WITH EDITH PACKARD. TIIE ORIGINAL "IT'S ME AGAIN" GIRL, IJf A SERIES OF SPECTACULAR ILLUSIONS. Neil McKinley The Lorner Girls The Original Nut A Blend of Melody and Motion The Four of Us Allen, Lindsey & Co. The Quartet of Distinction In "A Bucket of Laughter" Tom & Vera Patts . Jack Dempsey A 'Triumph of Aerial Artistry In "'Daredevil Jack" Continuous Performance Today Beginning 1:30 P. M. i M III 1 - f $ x Carolyn Thomson, American girl, aged 19, having never stepped on a stage before, made her operatic debut in the English metropolis and scored a genuine triumph. William Korns, who, with Melvin Stokes, is a co-star with Miss Thom son, is a favorite of the American stage. He is widely known as a com edian and created the role that he has in "Maytime," in the original New York production. la long time to accustom myself to It. merchant not even a baker. "But I am quite busy, as I have work to do in the 'Maine.' The records of births and deaths, the de liberations of the village fathers, the decrees of the prefect, the laws, elec tions, the petitions of the villagers all these pass through my hands. "Yesterday. I had quite a scare. Our town council did not agree over which roads they should close or open, and as their voices became louder, and their gestures more force ful, I almost left the room. But it all ended peacefully. Fondness Felt for School. "I am growing very fond of my" school. I feel that I must bring: up these young Frenchmen in the culti vation of goodness, of honor, of. patrio tism, and of virtue. I "A good heart they most always have. Bnt how difficult It is to pre serve it unspotted. By -boastfulness one loses one's goodness of heart. They wish to be men, but they do not know how. The boys hit the girjs pull their hair. The large ones im pose upon the small. However, with OF THE) SEASON Jacques Thibaud Greatest of French Violinists HEILIG THEATER M A II. onrin-m will now be filled In the order of their receipt before the regu lar seat sale opens. If accom panied by check and self - ad dressed envelope sent to Ellison-White Musical Bureau. 654 Everett St.. Portland, Or. PRICES Lower Floor, $2.20; Bal cony, (2.20. f 1.65; Gallery, tic, 60c Western Tour Direction of Elli son-White Musical Bureau. a little attention, these bad habits do not take deep root. I am quite sure that my efforts are not in vain. They are all persuaded that their own mind is the law which they must follow. For my part, personally. I lay great stress on this kind-heartedness, and I believe that many human and social problems are checked by it. "Goodness and sensitiveness of conscience, these are what I place above all. But I do not mean to make 'milk sops.' I like physics beauty, a quality which I think is distinctly American. Something which I have always admired In you Amer icans is that suppleness of muscle, that' ease in your movements, which we lack and which has caused us to be called "frogs," by your country men. "I remember your calisthenics In the yard with the doctor. You would laugh if you could see me take the part of the major. Y'ou see we have calisthenics one hour a day. But in what a manner the little girls are wrapped in" a first neckerchief, and In a secondhand third. Each of the boys are provided with at least two scarfs. And they all have on enor mous wooden shoes. How free we are to make quick and snappy move ments! But remove their wraps, and they all think they are going to die. and the Imprecations of the families render me responsible for the imagi nary throat trouble of the children. ' Exercises Are Prescribed. "However, these physical exercises are prescribed to us by our superiors. The military Inspectors travel in a circuit to Inspect physical training in the schools. We are a little mill- IE s-v It ! Mr 4 Percy GRAINGER ' PIAXIST COMPOSEn Heilig Theater, April 7 Prices: Floor. 2; Balcony, $2, $1.50, $1, 75c; Gallery, res., 75c, Gallery adm., 60c. Plus 10 per cent war tax. MAIL ORDERS NOW Orders will be filed in order of their receipt and filled before the regular box office sale opens, if accompanied by check and self addressed, stamped envelope sent to Steers & Coman, Columbia bid?. E SUN., MON., TUES., WED. "GOMEAD" MINIATURE MUSICAL COMEDT AND SONG REVUE fcl Btl SESSUE HAYAKAWA (Whose last picture caused a cen sorship row in Portland) "THE ILLUSTRIOUS PRINCE" HI El ROSE GARDEN Character Sing ing and Comedy. LOCKH ART MALONEY AND ROGERS A Seashore Flirtation ' B :e E HOTTACH AND MILLER Comedy Singing1 Talking R C AND LADDIE The Original Breakneck K B Bi And ' GltlKT, KKAEJIER AND GRIET In a Novel Funfeat "A CIRCUS DAY IN GEORGIA" r. lis sfH - f4 "w i LN TIIE ENGLISn lUSICAL COMEDY "THE QUAKER GIRL m 3 Reception on the Stage r''. . tarlzed. But we school teachers should be very broad. We have to develop all kinds of men farmers, mechanics, intellectuals. All pass through our hands. Above all we have to raise these French boys for France, and particularly should we cultivate in tli em the memory of our dead. Our ancestors made us what we are. To have a common purpose In the pres ent, to have done great things to gether in the past, and to wish to do them In the future that is the es sential condition to make a nation. It was a great Frenchman (Kenan) who thus expressed himself. 1 be lieve this and I try in my little school to bring up the children with the memory of our forefathers. "Our dead! Tours with ours we do not forget them. On November 1 there was a large ceremony in the military cemetery. The civil auth orities rendered homage to the sol diers fallen In the resr. victims of a Famous BAKER Coinpz The Cosy Playhouse 19TH ANNUAL SEASON Week Beginnipg Sunday Malinec, March 21 First Time in the West in Stock REMNANT A Clever Comedy on the Order of "TIIE BRAT" By Dario Niccodemi and Michael Morton As Played in New York hy Florence Nash An International Success 14 Months at The Gaiety Theater, Paris 7 Months at The Royalty Theater, London MATINEES SUNDAY, WED., SATURDAY WEEK vrairivu laQinmaaiizDiBBBEDn LYR IBllllIBBia 1 Matinee Daily at 2 at 84 Week Starting Sunday Matinee, March 21 MIKE and IKE Ben Dillon TIIE Al Franks USTA KING A High-Class Seasoning of Mirth, Melody, Nonsense and a Bevy of Pretty Chorus Girls GIVES YOU PEP AND MAKES YOU FORGET YOUR TROUBLES 2 Special Feature Nights 2 Tuesday: Country Store MBaiaBHUUBatttHafaiiBHBaiBHai.aBaiiBiiisixabi After Each Performance Coming Mon., Mar. 29 KHAYM THE MYSTERY MAN OF INDIA The World's Great est Seer and Crystal Gazer. He Baffles All Scientific Propa ganda. THE SUPREME OCCULT PHENOMENON treacherous malady at the horpltal of Bourbon aa. The (amt ceremonlej took place In the turrounuine dis tricts."" SPAIN GETS GUM HABIT Society Girls and Youths of Ma drid Take to Clirwlnff. MAPKTP. Tho young society girls and youths of Madrid have taken to. the American habit of chewing gum, and their elders have hern much ex ercised as a result. That staid con servative Journal, the A. H. C, do voted a column to this new practice which It denounced In strong terms. According to the writer of thin article, gum chewing ts the result of reading articles by Spanish writers who have recently vltiited America and to the American pictures produced In the- Spnnlfh rlnemii tlintrs. O Stock )any of Perfect Acoustics Maude Fulton's latest maijr IB m H a m C MUSICAL COMEDY KEATING A: FLOOD, Ulsitets, IIIBIQIIIII 41 J Evenings at 7 and 9 ii m hi a Friday: Chorus Girls' Contest ii RD L ' t m t- : r r
