TIIE SUT)AY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, MARCH 21, 1920 .
! First there Is Ray, the popular star f
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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
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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
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nice little yarn becomes a big drama
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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
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features Charlie ' Murray, Phyllis
Hammond, Marie Prevost, Ford Ster-
ine and others of the well-known
and popular funsters of the Sennett
studio. . ,
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William Colliers
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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
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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
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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.
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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..
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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-
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' 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?.
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"GOMEAD"
MINIATURE MUSICAL COMEDT
AND SONG REVUE
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(Whose last picture caused a cen
sorship row in Portland)
"THE ILLUSTRIOUS PRINCE"
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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
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A High-Class Seasoning of Mirth, Melody,
Nonsense and a Bevy of Pretty Chorus Girls
GIVES YOU PEP AND MAKES
YOU FORGET YOUR TROUBLES
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Tuesday:
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The World's Great
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Gazer. He Baffles
All Scientific Propa
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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
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