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Liberty Norma Talmadge, "The
Branded Woman."
Columbia George Melford'a
'.Behold My Wife!"
Rlvoll Annette Kellerman,
"What Women Love."
Majestic Hobart Bosworth,
"His Own Law.".
Peoples Charles Ray, "An Old
Fashioned Boy."
Star Mitchell Lewis, "King:
Spruce."
Circle Hobart Bosworth, "Be
low the Surface."
Globe Jack London's "Mutiny
of the Elslnore."
Today's Mnalc Featnrea.
Rivoli Orchestra concert under
direction of Salvatore Santa
ella at 12:30 P. M.
Liberty Organ concert by Hen
ri Keates at 12:3(1 P. M.
Majestic Organ concert by Ce
cil Teague at 1:30 P. M.
PORTLAND girls will waltz with
Bert Lytell. Harry Carey and
other film stars, and .lucky gal
lants of the town will escort Nazl
mova, Viola Dana, Ethel Lake and
other screen beauties In the grand
march next month if the plans of cer
tain ambitious members of the Mo-1
tion Picture League o( Oregon are
carried out.
; Headed by A. C. Raleigh of the Co
lumbia theater, a group of prominent
film and theatrical men are making
tentative arrangements for a Christ
mas movie ball, to be held about De
cember 15. at the auditorium. . And
they are striving to make the event
the biggest thing of Its kind this
eity or any other community of the
northwest has ever seen.
Invitations to take part In the ball
will be telegraphed this week to a
long list of famouj film celebrities
asking them to appear in Portland
for at least one evening. Local so
ciety people and prominent business
and professional men will be invited
-to participate in the affair.
The , programme will include a
dance with two Belected orchestras
furnishing the music. Then there
will be an entertainment furnished by
performers from local theaters, and a
series of speeches from the visiting
movie heroes and heroines. And there
will be plenty of side attractions and
surprises. A portion of the proceeds
- of course, will be donated to Portland
charities.
If nothing intervenes to spoil the
plan, it should be a big thing for the
city, and in many cases, the answer
to a motion picture fan's prayer.
An Important announcement that
opens a new field in motion picture
. production was made recently by di
rectors of Famous Players-Lasky
corporation.
Instead of featuring a single star
m a picture, tney plan to concentrate
. a number of stars and directors on
the making of a photoplay and to
make the play itself, rather than
ome leading figure in the cast, the
Dig tning in a release.
All the present leading men and
women or tne company will be
mergeo. into an an-star stock company
for each picture. "In the near fu
ture." said Jesse L Lasky, vice-pres-.
ident in charge of production, "it is
probable that motion picture fans
.will see three or more stars such as
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- Ferguson. Wallace Reid. rinmih.
Dalton, Mae Murray and Ethel ,Clay-
,.ion piaying togemer in big produc
Hons."
Manager wlnstock of the local
bailie exchange has returned from
trip to Weiser. Baker, La Grande, The
,Talles, Pendleton and Hood River
and reports the film business thriving
ail along the line.
'". Pictures of Portland events, to be
' shown on local screens from. time, to
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time, are being taken by Pathe as a
part of the celebration of the tenth
anniversary of -the . founding of the
Pathe news weekly.
The average motion picture fan. ab
sorbed In watching a favorite star on
the screen, has no realization ' of the
amount of preparation which the
composition of the musical pro
gramme has entailed or the Important
part St plays in the enjoyment of the
picture.
As an example of the . work neces
sary to provide a suitable musical ac
companiment for a film, ; the weekly
routine of Salvatore Santaella, leader
of the Rivoli orchestra, may be cited.
Mr. Santaella, spends many hours
choosing. rejecting and - selecting
again the proper compositions to go
with a change of. progrrmme. There
is a large library of music located
underneath the stage where thou
sands of numbers are filed. The
leader first views a picture to obtain
a line on the scenes, and then It Is
run over again, and he makes notes
of the musical numbers that seem
most fitting -for each scene.
Music properly selected helps to put
over a picture, and It also is the opin
ion of managers that careless selec
tion detracts from the best pictures.
Well-chosen -music Is an important
factor in helping the theater patron
fully to enjoy a good picture, al
though few of them realize that the
organ or orchestra, means as much
as it does.
J. G. von Herberg of the firm of
Jensen & von Herberg, spent Thurs
day in Portland visiting the Pacific
International Livestock exposition.
Mr. von Herberg, who owns a large
farm a few miles from Seattle, is an
enthusiastic stock fancier. - He has
Just returned from New Tork, where
he attended a meeting of the board of
directors of the Associated Wrst Na
tional Pictures, Inc., of which his
firm is a stockholder.
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War time brought meatless, sugar
less and tutterless days. The recent
strike settlement has now brought
"orchestraless" days. Monday at the
Columbia and Wednesday at the Peo
ples will be days on which organ mu
sic alone will be featured. Before
the recent strike nwisicians worked on
either a five or six-hour schedule each
day of the week. The peace pact
signed at Seattle provides for one full
day off every week. Orchestras will
start at 1 P. M. and will play through
the greater portion of both evening
shows, the total working day being
six hours.
Cecil Teague, organist of the Majes
tic theater, will play the following
selections at the' Sunday concert to
day, starting at 1:80 P. M.: "Father
oVictory".tGanne, "O .Promise Me"
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(DeKoven), "Jigs and Reels From All
Nations," "Gold and Silver Waltz"
(Lahar). "Rlgoletto" (Verdi).
One of the most prominent motion
picture directors in the country start
ed a wide discussion among film peo
ple and screen patrons recently when
he declared in a magazine article that
"the public has the mind of a 9-year-old
child."
This director Is one of the most
experienced men in the film industry,
and his conclusions are entitled to
respect, - however radical they may
be. Taking the opposite view, Lloyd
Ingraham, a noted picture director
with a record for "sure-fire" produc-1
tions, disputes the statement.
: "It is much more likely to be the
case," said Ingraham, "that a director
who forms such an opinion of audi
ences has believed himself to have
created some particularly subtle or
clever film and has simply missed
fire.
"It Is a very human thing to place
a high estimate on our efforts, per
haps, and deprecate the seeming in
ability of the public to appreciate
them. But that is a very bad attitude
for any artist Jto fall into, either in
our line or any other.
"Nothing is more apparent to me
than that the pictures have brought
the masses up with them and thart
they are constantly demanding
higher quality. It Is true that hu-
.Allan 1 wan, director, who
champions west as Betting; for
pictures.
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inanity remains elemental and juvenile
in many ways. 'The colonel's lady
and Judy O'Grafly' are the same under
the skin. And instead of being a
fault it is rather a virtue for adults
to have 'nine-year-old minds.' It is
the child mind that is receptive to the
emotional appeal of the drama. Long
mav it orevail.
"Clever photoplays -with clever sub
titles will take like wildfire, and
those with subtleties in them will be
astonishingly appreciated in most
cases. The greatest mistake a direct
or can make is to underestimate the
Intelligence of his audience. It will
put a stop to his own progress and
kill his enthusiasm.
. The Rivoli orchestra, under the di
rection- of Salvatore Santaella, will
play the- following programme at the
regular Sunday concert at 12:30 P. M.
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Selection; "The Firefly" (R. Frlml),
request; "The Rosary" (E. Nevin), as
arranged by Mr. Santaella; "American
Patrol" (F. Meacham), "Canzonetta'
(E. Waldteufel),- overture, "Zampa'
(F. Herold). -
Henry B. Walthall, .famous as a
screen star, will arrive In Portland
today at the head of his own company
for a performance of "Ghosts," an
Ibsen drama, at the auditorium this
evening. Mr. Walthall became known
as a film star of the first magnitude
by his portrayal of the part of the-
little Southern colonel in xne iiirtn
of a Nation." He is now making
tour of the country with his present
vehicle.
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L.' C. Mearsi former manager of
the Peoples theater, is now with the
local Universal branch exchange. He
left for a road trip during the week.
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O.' M. 'Whltlngton, " who wons the
Liberty and Grand theaters of Bend,
Or., spent several days in Portland
last week buying films for his houses.
Other visitors at the exchanges
were John Silva, omfner of the Peoples
theater of Clatskanie, and C. F. Hill,,
who has two motion picture houses in
Albany. .
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V. M. Schubach passed through the
city Thursday on his way to San
Francisco, where he will become man
ager of the Universal film exchange.
He has been manager of the Seattle
branch exchange of the company. His
brother, Ed Schubach, was at one
time manager of the New Grand
theater of Portland.
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M. H. Milo. leader of the minstrel
act now at the- Star, received an
abrupt reception upon his arrival in
Portland to open his engagement.
Driving into the city for the first
time, he clashed with another auto
mobile at Broadway and Washington
streets... Hia first. impressions of the
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city have been marred By strenuous
efforts to smooth things over with
the owner of the badl-battered ma
chine that received him.
Edward Armstrong, district mana
ger here for the Universal exchange,
left Thursday night for San Francisco
for an Important conference. Before
leaving he entertained about 20 ex
hibitors with some new releases in
his projection room.
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F. W. Tuefil, former majiager ot
the Rialto theater 'of Butte, Mont.,
assumed activn direction of the
Peoples here last week.
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Sam Sax owner of the New Grand,
tried the uncertain experiment the
other day of trying to emulate some
of the feats of Barney Oldfleld and
Ralph de Palma on a - slippery
pavement. His car turned turtle, but
no one was injured. While about a
dozen pedestrians hoisted the machine
back to normal, Mr. Sax telephoned
to his office to. make sure that his
accident insurance nolicy was paid up.
The ' Columbia theater's new or
chestra, under the direction of Vin
cent Knowles, will start its engage
ment Tuesday. -
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FOPFLAR ORCHESTRA LEAD- '
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Wlth the signing of the peace
pact between the firm of Jensen
& Von Herberg and the musi
sicians' union, a new 13-piece
' orchestra becomes a feature of
the Peoples theater. The leader
of this .orchestra is John Brita.
well known in Portland musical
circles.
Mr.- Britz came here last sea
son from New York to take
charge of the Alcazar theater
orchestra. He received his train
ing In "playing" pictures al the
Strand theater, one of the larg
est motion-picture houses of
New York city, and was a mem
ber of road companies of Klaw
& Erlanger, H. W. Savage and
John Cort. He is a skilled per
former on the violin, cello and
piano. .
Mr.. Britz opened his engage-
. ment at the Peoples yesterday.
He announced recently that be
would use both popular and
classical numbers in his first
programmes, but later, if public
taste warranted, would depend
on classical selections entirely.
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No less a personage tnan the great
D. W. Griffith "started something" in
New York the other day. He declared
In the presence of a large group of
picture folk, representing all branches
of the trade, that the west, as envi
ronment for pictures, was dead. All
the good locations had been "shot,"
he said, and of course the eastern pro
ducers applauded him. loudly because
much - good money has been taken
from the east to be 6pent on the coast
in studios and other locations.
In the audience was Allan Dwan,
who is spending a few weeks in New
York, and he took exception to Mr.
Griffith's remarks.
"There are plenty of wonderful lo-.
cations all through the west with
which the average picturegoer is un
familiar,' he said. '"Then. too. the
ideal climatic conditions give almost
a year-round of picture-taking. Every
kind of eetting can be found in the
west, from tropical scenes to deep
drifts of snow. I am here not seek
ing eastern location, but just for a
brief vacation, and w'll go back to
make pictures on the co&st. thorough
ly satisfied with the environment It
provides." ,
Later Mr. Dwan was asked about
Portland as a natural eetting for pic
tures. "
"Some time when it is not the rainy
season, I am going up there to get
some pictures. I have a story in mind
right now and you need not be sur
prised if you hear that I am on the
spot," he said.
He commented upon the Dig spread
advertisements of picture theaters so
common in the west. .This type of ad
vertising Is almost unknown in this
part of the country, though It is grad
ually being employed by a few of the
progressive exhibitors. '
"This method. Mr. Dwan said, is
vastly superior to anything in the
east and the box office returns prove
that it Is really worth while. Eastern
exhibitors will, sooner or later, rec
ognize its value and Imitate their
western friends in the film business.
The west usually starts things first
and then the more conservative east,
having witnessed . the good results,
takes the idea as something new and
good.".
Mr.' Dwan came east really to at
tend the big football game between
his alma mater and West Point, and
brought Notre Dame good luck. He
used to play on tne team in nis coi
lege days and tries to see as many
games as possible. He has a lot of
college friends in the northwest, as
well as relatives in both Portland
and Seattle, and in northwestern
Canada, where he was born, not to
mention the screen followers who like
his pictures.
But the west is grateful to him for
taking up her part In the east-west
moving picture location controversy.
Doubtless other folk will express
themselves on the subject, too. For
what would the west be without its
picture centers?
KKLLER.MAN GETS STAR. CAST
Well-Known Artists Support Div
ing Venns at Rivoli. -
Annette Kellerman was given an
all-star cast in her first modern com
edy-drama, "What Women Love,'
which s at the Rivoli theater this
week.
After the story was purchased from
Bernard McConville, the famous
screen scribe, for ?10,000. Sol Lesser
instructed Harry . Caulf ield, his pro
duction manager, to spare no expense
in securing the best available talent
for Miss Kellerman's support. ,
Wheeler Oakman, who played the
masculine lead in "The Spoilers," "The
Ne'er-Do-Well," "Mickey." "The Vir
gin of Stamboul," and other successes,
was chosen to play opposite "the div
ine Venus."
Walter Long, who has been chosen
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as the ideal heavy by D. W. Griffith,
ever since Long played the part of
the negro Gus in "The Birth of a Na
tion," was picked for the part of the
villainous Larson.
Ralph Lewis, the veteran character
actor; Bull Montana, who is now be
ing featured by Marshall Neilan, and a
host of other well known players com
plete the cast.
"A Seminary Scandal," a two-reel
comedy, and a Fox news reel are other
features of the new Rivoli bill.
SCENES IX HADES FAXCTFTDX
Elaborate Sets Feature Picture
Starring Xorma Talmadge.
Scenes in Hades, said to rival even
the most fanciful of Dore's ' famous
draw'ngs, have been reproduced on
the screen in Norma Talmadge's lat
est First National starring vehicle,
"The Branded Woman," which is be
ing shown at the Liberty theater.
Because of the elaborate nature of
the sets called for in this motion pic
ture, which was adopted bv Anita
Loos and Albert Parker from Oliver
D. Bailey'3 well-known stago play.
cranaen, Hugo Banin was engaged
to design them. The result has been
an artistic triumph.
In addition to beautiful interiors
for a private house in Paris and the
Ritz hotel, a fashionable boarding
school for girls up the Hudson, the
library and other rooms of a wealthy
New Yorker's home, are some re
markable scenes in India.
But most remarkable of all are the
allegorical scenes in Hades. One of
these sets, which represents a dream
of Norma's, wherein she imagines
herself dragged down by society into
a niaeous whirlpool of slime and
filth, from which she is rescued by
tne man sne loves, was filmed in
huge pool discolored and apparently
ruiea witn norrmie creeping creatures
like the "slimy things that crawl with
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The crew in a sunken sub
marine fighting death from
suffocation.
Bosworth's plunge to the
depths, where he saves the
joy-crazed seamen.
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wings" in "The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner."
"The Race of the Age," ah exclusive
picture of the recent meeting of Man
o" War and Sir Barton on the Windsor
racetrack, is also on the Liberty bill..
Ida Lldyard returns in a singing
number.
CHARLES RAY AT PEOPLES
"An Old-Fashioned Boy", Sees Ac
tor in Favorite Role. ..
Charles Ray Invariably Is artistic
in his country boy impersonations,
and in "An Old-Fashloned Boy," JUs
latest production at the Peoples this
week, he does not violate the stand
ard he has fixed for himself. 1
Mr. Ray has a typical role In "An
Old-Fashioned Boy," of which- he
makes the most. As David Warring
ton, a bashful suitor for the hand of
a rather snobbish girl, he displays
all those mannerisms which have con
tributed to make him famous in his
especial field of entertainment. His
trials when a trio of boisterous chll- '
dren are placed in his care and when
to amuse them he engages in a sort
of taffy-pulling contest with more or
less direful results provoke many a
laugh. ' How he finally wins the love
of the girl he woos makes a worth
while picture. ..'
Ethel Shannon, as the girl. Is ex
cellent. The support was clever -and
the work of the three juvenile play-,
ers was effective. Jerome Storm di
rected the picture, of which Agnes
Christine Johnston is the author.. .
MAJESTIC
PLOT
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Hobart BoswortU Production' De
clared Among Best ot Season,
A striking plot Is developed in' "His
Own Law," which comes to the Ma
jestic this week.
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Want to See:
The boy's rash dive to tlve
wreck in which he lost his
wife and see what he saw
through the porthole. . ",
A great love story of the
sea. ..v
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