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TIIE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, JUNE 13, 1920 i i a a . i 1 1 i it. tiik. it hi pi i ii vj t tvsi I v - d 1 fit IJ: -kHsYh Am lr rfc 1 11 O5 lit Yj zee t 2i v.y PI i'M .'V J - t Tf'iir'r i-ti nnr fini-rr.ihiflti'TpBiliiftiv.aW VlltiVft--iirrtirMi ,fi-ii-iTfi-1rmir --iivVil?ft7rTf- lr y -'v3 -- ' - j'c v- - " A lk.&i?S 4j. - iff V if "If A Mil, . i - II ST MMIII " i'JBl, k v.- U II , v 4. EXHIBITORS and producers will both remain in the Motion-Picture League of Oregon, which will continue to work for the benefit of the industry as a whole. This decision was made at the last meeting of the league Thursday noon, when it was decided to appoint an arbitration committee which should settle upon all matters occasioning more than usual argument between the wholesalers and retailers of the came. President Jensen appointed on this committee Melvin G. Winstock, representing the producers; S. rhil lips, representing the suburban houses, and I. 1 Cohen, representing downtown theaters. The question of I representation at the Cleveland con vention was finally dismissed with a telegram sent by the league stating the preferences of Portland film men on the subjects now under discus sion. One hundred dollars was voted by the league for the entertainment of the international Kiwanis convention, to be held in Portland next week. This is in addition to $500 pledged to the Kose Festival committee. Politics entered the discussion at Thursday's meeting, with the result that a star vote on the presidential election was taken. Johnson received 18 votes. Wood 12 and McAdoo, Pal mer, William Jennings Bryan and Lowden received a few scattering in dications of favor. When the vote was counted A. C. Raleigh, manager of the Columbia theater and a strong Wood man, rose in all his dignity. "1 6uggest we recount the votes and keep tb on how many were written In the same hand," he said. "It " seems to me more votes were account ed for than there are members here." Ralph Winsor, formerly assistant " manager of the Liberty, has been made a star In his own right. The Star theater, with its new policy of thowinir first-run western features and catering to business men of the citv. has been entrusted into his care. miniature reproductions of the Star stage. 30 by 40 inches in else, and representing the originality of Ralph Ruffner. who has under his charge the Star advertising, have been con structed. They will be placed in the lnhhiRH of the Peoples. Majestic and Lfberty theaters "a straight case of toe big fellows helping their little buddy out." according to air. tturr tier. Frank Talbert, the Portland boy who has been made manager of the Universal sales department. with h.nilnnarters In the New York office. will arrive this week. Miss Jennie VVltr. cashier of the- local exchange, v,o roHicrncd her position and is hastening preparations for the wed ilng which will probably take place this week. Mrs. J. C. Koerner. mother of C. W Koerner. local branch manager of the Universal exchange, arrived last week nd with her son has taken an apart ment at the Stelwyn. The local Universal boss now goes home via the markets and the bakery. Mrs. Koerner has been wintering In ljouisiana and Mississippi. Her home Is in Havre. Mont. Among the Portlanders who will travel to Vaklma for the opening of the new Liberty theater Tuesday, will te Mr. Koerner, who will meet there George Burke, Universal chief for the northwest, and bring him back to Portland. Mr. Burke has been in "Z. Seattle during the past week. Mr Koerner accompanied him north bu . returned Tuesday. . .1 .'-Manager Partridge of the firm of Partridge & Morrison, operators of the Glen theater. Tillamook, was in Thursday and F'riday conferring with Mr. Koerner. He was interested in the Universal strvr series which have been purchased" by the Astoria Amusement company. Liberty theater, St. Helens; Bligh theater. Salem; Na tional theater, Seaside; Arcade. Pen dleton: Emma, Payette; Grand. Ore gon City; Bungalow; North Powder; Liberty, North Bend: Rex, Mount Angel and Morrow, Morrow. Jysrjjs-y 5?5i tj Miss Hazel Benson left Thursday night for Takima. where she will or ganize the ushering force of the new Liberty theater to be opened Tuesday evening. The first National exhibit ors' attraction. "The River's End." which showed at the Portland Liberty several weeks ago, has been chosen as the opening picture- The theater has Just been constructed at the cost of $200,000. seven days was his record for last week. He says it is just as easy to pay $2 down and $2 a week for the rest of his life as to be paying half that much. Douglas Jarmuth has resigned as manager of the Peoples theater. His place will be taken by A. A. Bruce of Tacoma, who has been in the em ploy of Jensen & von Herberg for some time. When Ralph Ruffner left the management of the Rialto theater in Butte to come to the Columbia in Portland, Mr. Jensen appointed Bruce for the job. When Jensen & von Herberg took over the Tacoma motion pictures Bruce was assigned to the Victory. Shrine decorations were trp at the Liberty theater Friday night and early yesterday morning. The red. green and yellow are much in evi dence around the lobby of the thea ter, where also have been used large and massive reproductions of the Shrine symbol. Inside decorations have been started, but more elaborate tunts are planned by Paul Noble, manager. A midnight matinee will be given at the Liberty during the hnrine convention, which, according to the Liberty manager,- will be a compilation of everything jazz and nice. Albert Gillette, baritone, has been engaged by Mischa. Guterson. manag ng director of the Rivoli. for a mid night special performance to be given at that theater during the Shrine convention. Just how Gil Iette will participate in the pro gramme neither Guterson nor John Stille will say, other than he will be exceedingly devilish in the costume of Mephistopheles. a more elaborate part of its kind never before having been seen in Portland, they declare. High flying may literally be said of C. S. Jensen, now that he has pur chased a Lincoln bi-plane for his own personal use. During May he sent to Tacoma for a film which had missed connections and brought it here in record time. A week ago he wasted six hours bumping into Seat tle, tired, sooty and disgusted. A few nights later he repeated the per formance back to Portland. A few days still later he completed the deal for his own airplane so that future trips to Seattle, Butte and Takima may be made in short order and with none of the railroad disadvan tages. The plane cost $6200. Mr. Jensen has for his pilot a former American aviator who flew overseas. He hopes within a short time to be able to pilot the machine personally. Since the purchase of the plane Mr. Jensen has been discovering how many friends he has and how many of them have never yet had an airplane ride although they have many times wished for the experience. , The Columbia theater having had much publicity on new and lovely spring costumes, has now come ou In summer attire. Pretty white middy suits nattily trimmed with blue braid have been donned by the Columbi ushers, while Andrew, he of th smiles and kindly attentions, and th door man are wonderful to behold i white serge. None, however, can com pare with the glory of their lord Fire starting In the screen room at the Antlers theater, Roseburg, at 10 o'clock Monday night destroyed nine rolls of film and two moving picture machines valued at $1350. and severely burned the operator, Adrian j? isner. The film took fire as the last reel was being shown. Fisher attempted put out the blaze and had almost ucceeded when sparks dropped Into the film box and started another blaze among the reels that had been hown. Fisher then closed the openings in the steel-lined fllmroom, preventing the flames from spreading to the auditorium. Films burned are now being re placed by Manager Winstock of Port land, who wired to New York for duplicate prints of the serial being showed. The fight of the Dallas churches to close the moving-picture theaters in the city on Sunday was lost Wednes day, when the citizens of the town in a special election decided they want ed the Sunday evening shows by a vote of 407 to 260, ending a bitter fight. Church members appeared before the city council with a petition signed by several hundred people asking the council to close the Sunday shows, as they greatly interfered with their at tendance at church. The council re ferred the issue to the voters. Several years ago the same question was brought up and the council de cided to close the movies, but In a suit in the Polk county circuit court Judge Harry H. Belt decided that the shows had a. license to run on Sundays. A debate on the subject was held recently in the theater building by representatives or Dallas churches and the picture show interests. Rev. Clar ence True Wilson of Portland was one who spoke against the shows. The Seventh - Day Adventists took sides with the moving-picture houses. Mount Hood ror many of these scenes. "I am going to report to the inter ests representing all the motion-picture producing companies centered in Los Angeles that the scenery along the Columbia river and between here and Mount Hood is the most gorgeous I have seen in the west, from the standpoints of timber and river views. I feel confident Los Angeles producers will feel repaid in trans porting large companies to Portland after the rainy season." Mr. Silsby will take back with him descriptions, not only of country surrounding Portland, but of the Mc Kenzie river pass east of Eugene, which he plans to visit on his way south. He will leave Portland late tomorrow. Another side trip which he has taken was to Chemawa, where he endeavored to find Indians who will appear in Harry Carey's western pictures. In Los Angeles. Mr. Silsby declares, there Is an Indian shortage, Mexicans and other nationalities be ing substituted. "An art director does everything that a director does not," said Mr. Silsby. in describing his own work. "A director attends to the dramatic part of the film. Designing all of the sets and costumes ana supervising everything but the acting that ap- Wilson Silsby, said to be the high est salaried art director in the mov ing-picture industry, is in Portland on business. As designed for Mrs. D. W. (Linda) Griffith, Bebe Daniels Harold Lloyd. Rupert Julian and many of the best-known stars, Mr. Silsby has made a national reputa tion. "I am here to report on the advisability of bringing companies into Portland for location work In the mountains and along the Columbia river for the many large features which will be produced in Los An geles tnis coming year, liver since the release of "Jacques of the Sliver North" the Cyrus Williams-Bradbury feature, great interest has been taken in this part of the country. This fil in which Mitchell Lewis was the star, has made a fortune since its release, and has been pronounced a master piece to pictures. The - company ART DIRECTOR MAKES VISIT TO PORTLAND. nfr'ftit ft i (t tf Wilson SlUby. To investigate possible loca tions for film companies, Wil son Silsby. art director repre senting Los Angeles producers, spenet last week in and about Portland. He will leave tomor row night and expects to report . to the California producers that on- the Columbia river and in the country between' Portland and Mount Hood amazingly beautiful timber and river scenes may be found. He intends to recommend transporation of companies to Portland this summer and ex pects as a result of this report that any number of large com panies having as many as 40 persons each will be here dur ing ruly and August. Mr. Silsby was here with Mitchell Lewis last summer when scenes for "'Jacques of the North," filmed out of Portland. and master. Two new suits within worked out o Portland tut as pears on the screen belongs to the duties of the art director." Ernest Richardson, a Portland high school boy, has become known in Los Angeles as an artist. Much interest was taken in Richardson's work dur ing the Rose Festival of last year, at which time he assisted the commit tee and designed many of the most beautiful floats in the parade. Rich ardson started in the art field by making illustrations for the high school magazine. Last year a New York artist saw some of his sketches and persuaded him to go away and study. Since then he has been a pupil of J. Francis Smith, the Ameri can representative of the Academy uLian of Paris. He has just fin ished a portrait of Patricia Palmer J the Williams-Bradbury star, which is pronounced to be a masterpiece for a boy so young. Richardson is in fhe employ of the Los Angeles Times. He is saving his iney from this position and commissions which he has had to go to Paris and finish his education. He is the son of Mr. ana Mrs. leo Richardson. 248 East Twenty-eighth street. Portland. Doret Maupin, who attracted atten tion during her engagement at the Liberty theater in the prologue to The Idol Dancer," gave a programme of dance numbers for the American Legion banquet at the Hotel Multno mah last night. Miss Maupin will also be a special entertainment fea ture for T. P. A. and other coming festivities. Riders of the Dawn." the latest Zane Grey story, has been purchased by Jensen & Von Herberg for exploi tation in one of the Portland theaters. Among the visitors to the Pathe office during the past week were Jack Cooley of Silverton, J. T. Sparks of Condon. John C. Uglow of Dallas, Ross Nelson of Independence, J. P. Kiggens of the U. S. A. theater. Van couver, and Art Kolstad of Hood River. They all purchased material. Walter Wessling. western division manager for Pathe, arrivea in tne city Wednesday morning for a visit after spending a few days in the Seattle and Spokane offices. At Spo kane he bid temporary farewell to Pete Carroll, the Spokane manager, who has been called to spend a week at the home office in New York. Mr. Carroll has just Installed a "new branch at Butte. A lot of people around the Pathe Pertland office are happy because the home office In New lork has au thorlzed a substantial elevation in the salary checks. WAXJDA HAWJL.EY AT PEOPLES hater to her companions: "My dears, i you are well rid of the hateful brutes, j and now we shall be comfortable and happy and consider some worth-while careers." And over on the other side of the town, in the forlorn do'e-cote of the erstwhile happy newly-weds, the Jovial bachelor was cheering the flag ging spirits of the deserted males by calmly asserting that they needn't worry that women are easy to tame pooh Just make love to "em and they become docile at once. "But you don't know this reformer, this man-hater, this feminine disturb er of other people's love affairs." the deserted men assured the gay bache lor. ""Man-hater, is she?" scoffed the bachelor lmperturbably. "Pooh that kind is especially easy to tame. Why. 11 wager I can kiss her within a month." That, briefly sketched. Is the com edy situation of the Realart picture. Miss Hobbs," starring Miss wanaa Hawley, which will be featured this week at the Peoples theater. WALLACE REID AT LIBERTY Comedy Situations Are Shown In "Mlts Hobbs." Given: A group of men and a group of women, separately located at any two spots on the habitable globe. Problem: Keep them apart. The little feminine group was com posed of one reformer, one disillu sioned bride and one defiant fiancee. who has Just broken her engagemen and joined the Amalgamated Order of Man Haters. The men's group consisted of one forlorn and desertea bridegroom, one disconsolate and rejected fiance and one jovial ana extremely eiigibi bachelor whose senee of humor had thus far so filled his life with amus ing adventures that women bad failed to interest nlm. Said tne reformer and chief man The Dancln' Fool" Is Feature At traction for "Week. Wallace Reid, in a new screen com edy, "The Dancin" Fool," will be the attraction at the Liberty theater this week. The photoplay is said to pre sent the star in a role that is un usual and that ideally suits Mr. Reid's buoyant personality. Wallie is Sylvester Tibbie, lately arrived in New York from a country town to work for his Uncle Enoch in the iue business. The latter is a hidebound conservative, with the re suit that his profits have pretty well dwindled off Into space. Sylvester, known as Ves," shocks his uncle with the modern Innovations he in troduces and is In a continual row with him. In the meantime, "Ves1 meets Junie Budd. dancer In a cabaret In which he happens to drift. Tne rilscoverv that "Ves" is a cracker Jack dancer results in his becoming her partner at xne uaroen oi kobcb, a hizh-class cabaret. Thus he works by day at $8 a week and by night for $200. But srradualiy -ves tocuses nio attention on business, to the dismay of Junle. and goes on tne roaa tor his uncle with a big advertising scheme that is marveiousiy success fill He returns in time to rescue the big business and to claim Junie for his own. BeDe janieis pia.y io run, nf .Tnnie. and Raymond Hatton. Tully Marshall, and Lillian Leighton are also in the cast. The picture was (anted from a popular magazine inn bv Henry Payson Dowst. Sam Wood directed. son and leaves the father to his little parties and his clubs. When the years of old age begin to descend upon the father he longs for the com pany of Mary. But she is not willing to come to him, and her mother, for social reasons, will not bring her. Elbert Carstairs has only one method left to turn to. kidnaping. He induces his young ward, Varney. to do the kidnaping, with the aid of Peter Maginnis. They fit out the Carstairs yacht, Cypriani. and make elaborate preparations to slip into Hunston and lead little Mary away to her father. When the Cypriani pulls in along the shore of the Hudson town the kid napers trouble begins. i ney nave a varied and warm reception in which Peter must display to the local toughs that he can handle himself ery well In the pugilistic game. There was to be no force used in the kidnaping, eo all of the profes slonal rules must be abandoned. It is up to Varney and Peter to invent a way to get tke lady to accompany them back to New York on the yacht in a peacable and voluntary manner. Mary takes a hand m tne events herself. The kidnapers and she be come friends, on the surface, and before they know it deeper than the surface. She does some entertaining and they meddle in local politics. It seems that every time inai imngs are all planned for the final getaway something prevents. But finally Mary's way wins out. Her lamer wants her mother, too, so they con sent to really go to New York and live again in her father's house. CAPTIVATING XORMA HERE RIvoll Has Excellent Talmadge Romance Release. Norma Talmadge will be at the Rivoli this week in the leading role of the dramatization of Henry Sydno Harrison's novel. "Captivating Mary Carstairs." Norma Talmadge, in her lovable, winning way. plays the part of Mary Carstalrs as the daughter of Mr. an Mrs. Elbert Carstairs of New York The Carstairs family has been sepa rated for several years. The mother Jak.es Mary, to .Huns ton on toe iiud told with a cast which includes such names as Theodore Roberts, Monte Blue, Wanda Hawley, Clara Horton and Raymond Hatton, and who have (Concluded on Parte 8 COME! Sunday and Monday we offer Clara Kimball Young in Her Greatest Picture "Eyes of Youth" 'EVERY WOMAN ' IS KEPT Ik V - Feature Production at Columbia Held Over for AVcek. "Everywoman." the Violet Heming production which has been at the Columbia during the last week, has proved so popular that it will be re tained for another seven-day show ing. Capacity houses have failed to accommodate the patrons. A curious feature about the film Everywoman" is that its appeal has been universal and, from all com ments heard, it has proved entirely satisfying. Yet, if its story be analyzed, it will prove that "us girls" don't have such an easy time after all and that, possibly, the other sex Isn t much better off. It tells of a girl Just an ordinary. pretty girl who goes In search of love. She is told several ways to find it. but some of the methods being more delightful and easy than others, she tries them first. Finally, as a last resort, having found that flattery, wealth, passion and revelry have led her nowhere, she listens to the words of truth and forgets her search for love. And then, unsought love comes to her. When she starts her quest she is accompanied by beauty, youth and modesty. Modesty leaves her when, as the crowning success of herj etage career, wealth entertains lav ishly for her but refuses to have as his guest Modesty. Beauty during the wee sma" hours of that same revelry is stolen from her and held for ransom. Youth re mains with her somewhat longer, but when Beauty having deserted and Everywoman. penniless, most needs assistance, she. too. goes. Every woman's one faithful friend is her maid. Conscience, who, although sev eral times cast off. remains with her until the end and eventually saves her for Love, for whom she long has sought but failed to recognize. Such is the story of "Everywoman," The masterful way in which Miss VAiino- hnr(lin th. rnl.n nf u pli'h young woman, a grand opera star. dope fiend, will thrill you. Also a Comedy "All Dressed Up" THE Open from 9 oVlork In tfce noni InK until 4 o'clock the following-morning. F1,KVI!TH AD YVASHIAUTOW GLOBE Nazimova "The Heartof a Child" I
