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TODAY'S HLM FEATURES.
Peoples Elnlft Ferpuson, Lady
Rose'i Daughter."
Liberty Allan Dwan'a "The
Splendid Hazard."
Columbia Wsley Barry, "Don't
Ever Marry."
Rivoll E. K. Lincoln. "The
. Inner Voice."
Majestic Rex Beach's "Golna-
Some."
Star Edward Laemmle's "Ship
wrecked Among Cannibals."
Circle Eric Von Strohelm'e
"The Devil's Passkey."
Globe Clara Kimball Young:,
"The Better Half."
Todays Slaate Feature.
Rivoll Orchestra concert under
direction of Salvatore San-
taella a-t 12 o'clock.
Liberty Organ concert by
Henri Keates at 12 o'clock.
Majestic O r g a n concert by
Cecil Teagrue at 1:30 P. M.
HISTORY la being made this week
at the- Columbia theater so all
Us employes believer for its
great super-Hope-Jones orchestral
organ for which it has waited during
long weeks of purchasing, ordering,
building, transporting and installa
tion, Is now ready for use. Marshall
Nellan's first all comedy picture,
"Don't Ever Marry," is the rilm
chosen with which to "open" the
organ.
Ernest Nordstrom and Ralph Os
borne will preside at the organ which
represents an expenditure of $30,000
and a duplicate of the Liberty instru
ment in many respects, although be
cause of the smaller auditorium its
tones are more modulated. Nord
strom is a Portland boy who, after a
study In other cities and a brief
audevllle tour, returned to play in
hie home town. Incidentally his mu
sical career started under the fruid
tng hand of his sister. Mrs. Edith
Nordstrom Hobbs, one of the present
organists at the Liberty theater. Os
borne is a newcomer in this territory
although motion picture fans and mu
sic lovers of Denver and Butte know
him well. He went from the Rialto
theater In Butte to the largest theater
In Denver and from there to Seattle
where for a few weeks he played in
Jensen and Von Herberg theaters
untik he was transferred down here
Ha substituted for Henri Keates at
the Liberty and Cecil Teague at the
Majestic during their vacations.
"We are going to have real music
tn the Columbia theater," asserts
Manager ftaieign. with the accent on
the real. "Tf the film depicts a rain
storm in which thunder an lightning
are - evidently playing a prominent
part, we are still going to have real
music and never any noise. I be
lieve that music is a very essential
part of the motion picture programme
but It is a feature that should not be
accentuated to attract attention to it
self and away from the screen on
which i showing a film. Music in a
cinema should interpret. It does not
exist for Itself hut for the picture.
The more skillful the orgranists and
we have spent months looking for the
organists to take charge of our new
instrument the less conspicuous the
music will be during the feature
photoplay.
Twenty-two years cM. Salvatore
Santaella, the new conductor at the
Rlvoli theater, bails from Spain. He
left his birthplace. Barcelona, lone be
fore he was able to appreciate the
mantilaed beauties for which that
eity is famous and having begun the
study of the 'cello at 6 and of the
piano at 8. he went to St. Petersburg
to continue his musical education
under Sergi Rakamanninoff. He left
St. Petersburg while it was still con
sidered good form to call the Russian
capital -by-that name. As conductor
of the famous Russian ballet starring
Pavlowa, net-went to Paris directing
not only the ballet but also its or
chestra of SO pieces. In 1914 he came
to New York with the ballet. He was
16 years old then. Later he became
accompanist for the famous student
of the great Auer Max Rossen, and
for two years traveled through this
country with him. During these con
cert tours with Rossen, Santaella
played a solo number, usually a con
certo. He memorized for these oc
casions five concerts by the follow
ing masters. MendelBSOhn. Tschai
kowsky. Saint Saens, E. Lalo and
Cesar Frak and, it must be remem
bered, that concertos are seldom less
than BOO pages in length.
" In America it was that he first
met Mrs. Salvatore Santaella. Sn
was then Miss Billie Hansen, sister
of the motion picture star, Juanita
Hansen, and the pretty little toe
dancer who was featured in the
Passing Show which visited Port
land last May. Portlanders will
remember her In "A Pretty Girl Is
Like a Melody," which was written
specially for her. The Passing Show
will close tomorrow night in Chicago
and Mr. Santaella .will tell anyone
to the day, the hour and the second
just when his pretty wife will arrive
here in Portland.
Mr. Santaella is the composer of a
number of piano selections, one of
which is dedicated to his personal
friend. Cecil Chaminade. His com
positions, be admits slightly against
his will, include a few popular songs.
At the Rivoll he declares that each
Sunday's programme will include
various types of music In this way
he hopes to please everyone, he Bays.
symphony orchestra ior tt-s interpre
tation of screen productions and the
establishment and co-ordinating un
der one roof of both elements and the
diversified units which comprise their
entirety. . No element of commercial
lam will enter into the conduct of the
academy, and tt will be devoted whol
ly to the upbuilding and furtherance
of motion pictures as an art.
Mr., Eastman's gifts to the academy
and school of music, and their endow
ment, have totaled $4,520,000, and have
made possible not only the opportu
nity for artistic perfection, but the
surety of ultimate realization.
The structure Itself has been
planned, with the purpose of housing
the motion picture in a home that is
worthy and representative not only
of its new status and world-wide Im
port as an art industry, but of Its
future expansion and dignity as the
most universal of the fine arts. The
style of the building will be Italian
renaissance, and was designed
throughout by Mr. Eastman and Gor
don & Kaelber, architects, in associ
ation with McKim, Mead & White.
The building containing the motion
picture-symphony concert auditorium
will have a street frontage of 248
feet and a depth of 187 feet. The In
terior of the auditorium proper will
be 134 feet wide and the distance
from the rear wall to the stage 141
feet. The seating capacity will be
3300. as follows: Main floor, 1800;
mezzanine balcony, 350; great bal
cony, 1150. The balance of the floor
space on each level will be utilized i
to provide every known feature of
convenience for the use of the oublic
and managerial staff. One of the spe
cial features will be a great foyer
200 feet Ions and 22 feet wide that
will be located under the main bal
cony, designed for i promenade and
meetinc place as well as a waiting
place for overflow crowds. There
will be a smaller promenade and
lounge foyer back of the mezzanine
balcony. Both of these foyers will
be provided with comfortable seats
and the walls will be hung with
paintings and photographs. There
will be a large stage, 88x40 feet; 19
dressing rooms, orchestra quarters,
a large projection room, school of
music and hall, organ studios and
practice rooms. 17 piano practice
rooms. executive offices, faculty
rooms, lounging room, etc The
lighting scheme that is to be Installed
Is the result of long scientific exper
iment and is of such a nature that the
visibility of th picture is not harmed
in any way by illumination of such
volume as to enable the reading of
average newsprint. In addition, a
separate system of Illumination has
also been devised for the large lobby
which will enable the patron to pass
from the glare of the street to the
darker auditorium without the usual
visual shock caused by sudden change
from extreme degrees of light. The
pipe organ will be the first in point
of qtonal excellence and mechanical
perfection ever constructed in the
L. C. Meers is the latest Portland
film row acquisition. He is handl
ing the publicity of the Peoples
theater, of which A. A. Bruce is
manager. Mr. Meers comes to Port
land from Shreveport. La., where he
was with the Sangec Amusement
company.
News of "Babe" Ruth's defiance to
the motion motion-picture camera Is
particularly interesting this week, be
cause the Liberty theater is featuring
a slow picture of how he does it.
The application filed by " Babe
Ruth, the star homerun hitter of the
New York American League team and
star in the Kassell A Bauman fea
ture. "Headin" Home," to continue his
temporary injunction restraining the
exhibition of the films. "Over the
Fence" and " 'Babe' Ruth, How He
Makes His Home Runs," on the
ground that they have been produced
without his consent and that they
diminish the box-office value of his
name, was denied September 15 by
Supreme Court Justice Guy, who also
vacated the temporary writ Ruth ob
tained. The Educational Film corporation,
one of the defendants, sued Ruth re
cently for $250,000 damages.
Ruth contended that the films were
being exhibited for the purpose of
trade without his consent and based
his action on the civil rights law,
asking $1,000,000 damages. Justice
Guy said that the appellate division
has held that the civil rights law
does not apply to the publication of
a picture or name in a single set of
films of actual events issued for dis
tribution before different audience
as a matter of , news.
Justice Gay said: "Although It Is
alleged as to some of the films that
the pictures were taken some months
ago. it also appears that during the
continuing baseball season a large
number of people are anxiously
watching the contest for supremacy in
the dlfierent leagues, and at least ai
long as the season lasts the actlvl
ties of the plaintiff In his profession
as displayed by the pictures would
seem to be a matter of current in
terest.
That the motion picture has already
reached the stage where it has devel
oped Its own traditions and stability
is ably illustrated by the recent found
ing at Rochester, N. Y, of the Nation
ai Academy of Motion Pictures. Made
possible by George Eastman's desire
to promote motion pictures as an art
rather than an industry, it marks the
most important step In the establish
ment of the motion picture as a rec
ognized art form that has yet been
made. The objectives of the national
academy are the alliance of the high
est type of motion picture with the
best in music, the development of a
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RUTH ROLAND.
Star of "Ruth of the Rockies," a Pathe serial scheduled to open this
week at the Hippodrome theater, Miss Ruth Roland will arrive In Port
land today.
Miss Roland is a San Francisco girl and she has been on the stage or
before the camera since she was 3 years of age, first appearing in Edward
Holden's "Cinderella" company at the Columbia theater in her home city.
Her screen career started with Kalem. Among the serials in which she
has been starred are "Hands Up." "The Tigers Trail." "Price of Folly,
"Fringe of Society," "The Adventures of Ruth" and others. Reddish brown
hair and violet eyes will give her a charm to those Portlanders who meet
her in person today, to which tne screen has failed to pay homage. Her
height is 5 feet 4 inches and her weight 122 pounds or so declare the
all-knowing studio directories.
United States and will represent the
last word in console construction.
In the auditorium, by regular
weekly schedule, the very best of cur
rent motion pictures will be present
ed, and producers will have another
Incentive for the production of ar
tistic work, for a showing at the na
tional academy will be in the nature
of a seal of merit. Ground has al
ready been broken and the building
will be completed about October. 1921.
That date will mark the first definite
alliance of music and motion pictures
working and experimenting toward
the ultimate blending of the two
forms into an art medium as Impor
tant and far-reaching as the blending
of music and drama Into opera. In
the words of Dr. Rush Rhees, presi
dent of the University of Rochester,
in which the control of the enterprise
has been vested. "Grand opera demon
strates the value of music as an ally
of dramatic art: the Eastman gift
furnishes an opportunity to carry-to
Its fullest development the alliance
between music and motion pictures.
the possibilities of which have been
so clearly demonstrated by manarers
who have had the courage to maintain
orchestras for interpretation of their
picture offerings. Just as music
wedded to drama has made opera,
which Is probably one of the drama's
highest forms, the time may come
when the alliance of music and the
motion picture will carry In Us train
compositions to accompany certain
significant pictures, and pictures that
are adapted to certain musical com
positions. So there may come in the
development of motion pictures some
thing similar to the development of
opera. The Eastman school and the
ater would be the natural home for
such a development. Since the insti
tution will be ron-oommercial it may
be practicable to make In it experi
ments that a commercial theater
oouldi hot and would not under
take." As George Eastman. In a
recent interview, said, "The great
strides made in the motion picture
industry In the past decade have sur
prised beyond bounds its most opti
mistic supporters. Today is the day
of revelation for the motion picture.
Today It is being realized more and
more that the screen Is a better me
dium for the transmission of ideas
and thoughts than the printed book.
One can easily forget what one reads
in a book. A faulty imagination or
memory may lose entirely for a read
er the message conveyed by cold type.
But this is not so withie photoplay.
which, by appealing to the eye with
artistic photography and the soul
with music of the symphony or organ,
drives home inescapably great truths
and! ideas to an audience. People are
beginning to expect big things from
motion pictures. And they are not
being aisapHoln ted."
"The threatened strikes of musi
cians and motion picture operators In
various parts of the country have
failed, to halt exhibitions," says the
current issue or the Exhibitors'
Trade Review.
The strike of operators In the east
ern metropolitan district did not ma
terialize, settlement satisfactory to
au concerned having been made.
New England operators remained
on tne job. but Chicaero musicians
who have been at loggerheads with
exhibitors and other theater men for
eome time, enlisted the aid of etane
hands. This move, however, hit only
picture houses combining vaudeville
ana wnen the strike became effec
tive. the latter form of entertainment
was eliminated. Lower admission
prices are being charged at these
houses.
While the musicians have succeed
ed In Inducing the stage hands out.
tney nave not met with the same sue
cess in their efforts to enlist the aid
of the operators. Until Wednesday,
September 8, the musicians had every
hope that the operators would join
them,, but on that night the men
held a meeting and decided unanl
mously to remafn layal to the theater
owners and managers.
A strike in Philadelphia wa also
side-tracked by the consummation of
an agreement satisfactory to the men
and exhibitors.
This agreement was arranged at a
meeting of the Theatrical Managers'
association of Philadelphia and local
No. 807, I. A. T. S. E. M P. O.. in the
Quaker City and the following scale
of wages) for motion picture opera
tors became effective September 1:
-Vaudeville houses $40 per week,
picture houses giving continuous per
formances $40 per week; night house,
one matinee. $30 per week; shtft
house, first class, $40, and shift
house, second class. $37.50.
Reports circulated in New England
from Providence. R. I.. that the
threatened strike, if a higher wage
rate were not agreed upon, would de
velop ln-to a nation-wide strike
against several prominent distribut
ing companies If strikebreakers were
employed In local theaters using
their productions. New England la
bor leaders contended that this pro
cedure had been taken in a number of
cities in that district, but the man
agers denied that this was eo.
However, the stoike was avoided as
consequence of an agreement
drawn up between managers and op
erators representatives.
"At a conference of members of the
I. A. T. 8. E. M. P. O. from Providence,
Boston, Springfield. Worcester, Pltts-
field, Lynn. New Haven. Fall River,
New Bedford and Haverhill, Mass.. In
Boston formal notice was served on
three distributing corporations having
headquarters .In Boston, that strike
breakers must not be employed.
"Exhibitors In various cities in New
England visited by a representative
of Exhibitors' Trade Review on Sat
urday, Sunday and Monday, Septem
ber 4. 5 and 6, denied that they were
employing strikebreakers and a care
ful investigation by the present writer
bore out these statements.
"Tom Soriero, New England's lead
ing exhibitor, was among the exhib
itors who emphatically denied the
labor men's charges. Other denials
were made by Sol Braunlg of the Mod
ern theater. Martin Tuohey of the
Emery theater and William Mahoney
of the Rialto theater. Providence s
three leadlnr motion-picture theaters.
"The union men said that the ex
hibitors, anticipating a walkout of
operators on Labor day In the event
that their demands were not granted,
had taken sHeps to employ strike
breakers to fill - the places of the
strike. While the strike did not ma
terialize the exhibitors took excep
tions to the charges of the labor men
and lost no time in denying them.
"So far as the national headquar
ters of the operators' union had been
Informed virtually every dispute be
tween managers and operators had
been settled. Several strikes of minor
Importance were called, but they last
ed for but a short while.
The New York Telegraph evidently
does not know Portland unions and
exhibitors are at war, for in a recent
issue it carries the following dispatch
from Chicago:
"Peace has been declared. The
striking musicians and their sympa
thizing stagehands and the theater
men have settled their differences and
harmony reigns once more tn melody
and spirit insofar as the picture
houses are concerned. The end of the
battle came last Sunday night, after
a series of stormy conferences in
which participated business agents of
every union in the theatrical Industry
and representatives of the Allied
Amusement association
It was a tentative settlement only,
despite the fact that all disagree
ments were amicably adjusted. The
disputants agreed upon a 40 per cent
Increase and that all previous regula
tions governing hours of - service,
number of men employed In each the
ater, etc., to remain in force. But
this affected the outlying theaters
only.
The loop bouses, those devoted to
the "legitimate" drama, vaudeville
and burlesque, came to complete ac
cord with the musicians when the
latter threatened to leave them flat
on their backs. It was early in July
and the players demanded an increase
of 75 per cent. After some dallying,
the union officials agreed to accept a
tentative settlement of 50 per cent,
pending their negotiations with the
neighborhood houses and it was stip
ulated that the same terms agreed
upon subsequently between the outly
ing theaters and the union shall apply
to the loop as well.
So that, at the conclusion of the
argument this week, the union heads,
who had been fighting desperately
for a 60 per cent increase and at one
time were not sure thaa this raise was
sufficient, were placed in the position
of either forcing their men, who had
been working In the loop houses, to
return 10 per cent of their wages to
their employers or to getting the the
ater men to waive this portion of
their agreement. Following several
conferences the theater men, of audi
ble entertainment, consented to con
tinue the 50 per cent raise. And all
Is peaceful once more.
Without exception, the theater men
of this vicinity have decided to raise
the price of admission to meet the
new condition. The musicians' In
crease, the higher cost of films and
the increased cost of general oper
ating is making it necessary.
Mrs. H. Goodfellow, owner and
manager of the O. K. theater. Enter
prise, Or., was a visitor last week.
She will attend a luncheon of the
Oregon Motion Picture league Thurs
day as a special guest of honor. On
this occasion there will also appear
Miss Hawks, a violinist, who will give
a number of selections.
j. rs. Eparits oi onaon was in ino
city during the weeic and announced
that he had acquired the Lyric thea
ter at Prineville. Or., and will add
that to bis circuit.
Manager M. G. Winstock of the
local Pathe office received the film
yesterday of Geraldine Farrar in "The
Riddle Woman." "This Is the first
picture," said Mr. Winstock, "pro
duced by the associated exhibitors.
"We also received this week Stuart
Blackton's latest "Forbidden Valley,"
again introducing the co-stors, Bruce
Gordon and May McAvoy.
"Every effort Is being made to
place either "The House of the Toll
ing Bell" or "Forbidden Valley" at a
first-run house in Portland, coex
istent with the appearance here of
Mr. Gordon, one of the stars in both
of these pictures. He will be In
Portland In person on October 13."
Ruth Roland will make her appear
ance today at the Hippodrome theater
in the first episode of "Ruth of the
Rockies," a serial.
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Tom Williams of the firm of Will
iams & Donnellen. Liberty theater,
Roseburg. Or., was In the city during
the week and bought a number of
features at the Pathe exchange. Mr.
Williams reports entirely satisfactory
business at his new theater. He also
announced wh'le in the city that he
was negotiating for other houses In
southern Oregon, the Intent of the
firm being to establish a circuit of
motion picture theaters of Its own.
"June Madness." a new unit of Rolin
comedies, has been received and here
after the Rolin comedies will consist
of "Snub" Pollard and a Vanity Fair
Maids on alternate weeks.
NOTABLE STORY FOR RJTOLI
One of Tear's Triumphs Is 'Tri
Inner Toloe."
To a woman. Elaine Sterne, goes
the. honor of having written one of the
most .notable photoplays of the year.
In "The Inner Voice," which has as
its star E. K. Lincoln. Miss Sterne
has presented to the picture - loving
public of America a dramatic study
of a man who was crushed to destruc
tion by his enemies, only to rise up
again and vindicate himself before
the eyes of the world.
Miss Sterne, in the writing of "The
Inner Voice," which will be presented
for the first .time in Portland at the
Rivoll theater, evidently received her
Inspiration for the writing of this
remarkable photoplay from careful
observation of life. The technique
which she employed in building up
the dramatic situations of her story
Is aid by some to be almost flawless.
The story deals with what is per
haps the most difficult" of all themes,
that of a man's moral and spiritual
regeneration. Many playwrights, both
modern and those of the past years
have attempted to write upon this
theme and most'of them, with the ex
ception of Shakespeare, Cornellle, the
great French dramatist, and his con
temporary, Racine, have failed.
Among modern writers. It is appar
ently reserved for Miss Sterne to
write what is considered by the lead
ing critics of New York and other
large cities to bs the most successful
photo-drama of this type that has
ever been projected upon the screen.
The Rivoll theater orchestra, under
Salvatore Santaella, conductor, will
give the following programme this
noon :
Overture, "Orpheua," J. Offenbach:
Spanish Dances Nos. 1, 2, 3, P. Moss
kowsky; selection from "The Spring
Maid," H. Reinhardt; "Poem," Zdenko
Fiblch: cello solo by Christian Pool;
COME!
SUNDAY and
MONDAY
"The
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LARRY SEMON
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Open from 9 o'clock In tlto
noinJas until 4 o'clock
tbe following morning.
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VVanhingrton
GLOBE
The Better Wife
Clara Kimball
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