TUP SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. PORTLAND. OCTOBER 30. 1921
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inite statement regarding the real
reason for the hurried trip to Europe,
his daughter Georgette (Mrs. William.
Souther) said her father was Inter
ested In the possibility of productions
now playing In Europe and had de
cided to look over the field.
"How about the reports of your
buying the Cincinnati Reds?" Mr.
Cohan was asked.
which Mr. Cohan Is the abbot, were
there to wiBh him a safe journey,
and former Police Lieutenant Steve
Rairden kept close to the diminutive
Irishman until he waa forced to go
aboard. It Is common talk along the
Rialto that Rairden is Cohan's per
sonal body guard and they are fast
friends.
If it is at all possible, Mr. Cohan
and his family are planning a motor
Jaunt through France. The former
producer expressed a wish to see the
battlefields before the reconstruction
now going on has advanced too far
and. business permitting, he will pur
chase a car In Paris to make the trip.
Elinor Glyn has written a four-act
play for little Miriam Battierta. the
child who was seen to advantage in
Fanny Hurst's "Humoresque." Just
before her departure for Europe. Miss
Glyn sent for Miriam and read the
play to her. It is called "Miriam."
CLARA HAMON SHOWS HOW
GHASTLY MOVIES MAY GET
Slayer of Oklahoma Oil King Appears in Picture Called "Fate." Film
Barred From Oregon by League. '
"Really, I'm not Interested In base
ball," he returned. "It's football sea
son now and besides I don't think I'd
be a success as a baseball magnate."
"Will you produce again?' the re
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porter questioned.
"Now, that would be telling, aaid
Cohan, "however, this much I will
say: I'm going over to London for a
rest and I won't be back until I feel
I've had enough of the other side.
One never knows just what the fu
ture will bring and I may or may not
enter the producing field. If I do It
will not be for some time."
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CLARA SMITH HAHOX.
THE motlon-plctura world owes a
frreat debt to Clara' Smith
Hamon.
After her sensational trial as the
slayer of Jake Hamon, Oklahoma oil
king, she fought her way Into the
movies against the protests of nearly
everyone in the industry. Jie made
a picture called "Fate," based on her
life with Jake Hamon.
"Fate" may not be the worst pic
ture ever made in America, but it Is
the worst one since the days when a
two-reeler started the neighborhood
quivering with excitement.
Clara Smith Hamon has heaped
coals of fire on the heads of film
men. After all the mean things they
said, she proceeded to show the
world, aa no other member of fllm
dom has ever done so successfully,
the amazfrtg progress of the motion
picture art.
In her picture she blended a hor
rible burlesque, all the elements of
SAN CARLOS OPERATIC SEASON
PROVES BIG GOTHAM TRIUMPH
Famous Organization Soon Will Begin Its Transcontinental Tour to
Pacific Coast With Galaxy of Stars..
BY EM1LIB FRANCES BAUER.
NEW YORK, Oct. 29. (Special.)
The first lap Is ending at the
Manhattan this week when
Fortune Gallo closes his San Carlo
opera season to begin his travels into
foreign parts, such as Philadelphia
and Boston. The rough edges should
be worn off, and the cities less fa
vored with millionaire opera than
New York should welcome Mr. Gallo's
organization with open arms. In
deed, in New York, even where the
opulence of the Metropolitan seems
to be the great attraction for the
populace, and where the houses are
no crowded that many who need and
want grand opera are shut out, there
should be room for an all-year com
pany like the San Carlo with some
improvements.
A masterful conductor would be the
first need. Then well, with a great
conductor every other need would be
supplied because automatically this
would bring proper rehearsals, more
careful stage direction and the op
portunity to give opera at the mini
mum without the great difficulties
encountered in short seasons. Mr,
Gallo's enterprise cannot be under
estimated, and for the greater part
he has known how to pick out the
real artists not now engaged, such as
Anna Fitziu. Eleanors de Cisneros,
Maria Rappold, Dora de Phlllippe,
who gave real distinction to the per
formances in which they appeared,
and when looking over the houses,
packed to the guards, every night
systematically, there is no room to
doubt what could be accomplished by
keeping such an attraction at the
Manhattan year In, year out. There
are many artists who would be glad
to follow where such artists as Fitziu
and Rappold have led, and there are
soma better artists available for gen
eral use than the San Carlo now in
cludes, and the opportunity which
such a company would offer the
younger aspirants to the operatic
game is beyond calculation.
With the' going of the San Carlo
Opera company will come the revised
organization headed by the incom
parable Pavlowa, who will open a
two weeks' engagement at the Man
hattan prior to a coast-to-coast toar
which will take her to noless than
100 cities. Four new ballets include
"Polish dances." which Mme. Pavlowa
says is a creation that was Inspired
by a scene she witnessed during the
time that Poland made Its declaration
of independence; "Fairy Tales." In
which Pavlowa has used thestorlesof
"Princess Glorina": "The Blue Bird."
"Cinderella." "little Red Riding
Hood." "Puss in Boots," and other de
lightful stories woven together by
music of Tschaikowsky; "A Norse
Idyll." which is built around a ship
wrecked fisherman brought to life by
a beautiful girl, music by Grieg, and a
striking innovation of Nicolas de
Llpsky. the famous Russian painter,
who effects a visual change from one
scene to another without lowering the
curtain or moving the scenery. This
Is named "Pionys'us," and Is said to
be accomplished by the reaction of
pnlnts, materials and colors on the
Ktaire to the lights thrown upon them.
This same remarkable metamorphosis
Is effected in the costumes. The
music for "Dlonysius" la by Tcherep
nln. Again Theodore Stler will have
charge of the orchestra and most of
correspondence - school photography,
weird staging and direction, dumbbell
subtitles, a theme that leaves a bad
taste In the mouth and acting that
makes a wooden Indian look like
David Warfield in comparison.
The first thought after seeing the
picture Is to tell the Ku Klux Klan
on Klara. On second thought, the
film fan becomes a booster for the
"star" of "Fate." She has demon
strated what a ghastly thing the
screen may become.
To one who has seenV'Fate," as the
writer did in San Franchoo, the crud
est slapstick comedy seems a work of
genius, and the most ordinary pro
gramme picture a creation to be men
tioned in hushed tones of reverence.
The Motion-Picture league of Ore
gon has barred the Hamon film from
the theaters of this atate. The crowds
that saw the picture In the College
theater of San Francisco could have
been taken home after the show, dizzy
and babbling, by a taxicab in one
trip.
the favorites, formerly In support of
Mme. Pavlowa, will return, although
It is understood that a war of words
may keep that extraordinary young
American, Hubert Stowitts, who be
came a craze in Paris, out of the or
ganization. Henry W. Savage explains intelli
gently and drastically the reason that
so many foreigners are given prefer
ence over our own people in musical
comedy, light and grand opera. Mr.
Savage himself had to face criticism
because of the large number of for
egn singers In his production of "The
Merry Widow" while so many Ameri
cans, and, be it told in whisper. Amer
icans who sing much better, have been
passed by. The well-known impre
sario and beyond doubt 100 per cent
American said:
"Leavng aside the matter of finan
cial demands which our own people
make and perhaps must make, we face
a crucial situation in the fact that
singers, very good ones, come for
leading roles who have never set foot
upon the stage. They are satisfied
with nothing short of prima donna
roles. If they should be fortunate
enough to get Into the Metropolitan
Opera company, and if I should offer
such fine singers as I have heard In
consequential parts they would never
forgive me. But the fact Is that sing
ing is only one side of a stage equip
ment and perliaps it is the less im
portant part, strange as that may
seem. If an aspirant for grand opera
or musical comedy cannot get into the
field of his or her choice the very
beat thing to do is to go Into straight
drama, in any kind of a part. It Is
stage business stage work that is
the great lack with our singers, and
that lack Is apparent even in concert,
for many truly fine singers do not
know how to coma on or off the stage
and never know what to do with
hands or feet. The stage life is in Its
Infancy for our own people and the
possibilities are beyond measure. We
have the finest voices In the world
and when students will begin to real
ize that a five-year course of vocal
study la utterly useless without the
stage experience, or study for the
stage during the greater part of this
time, our singers will be happier and
there will be more room for Ameri
cans and less for the foreigner. But
it is all up to the singer. Stage ex
perience is the sine qua non for me
and I know that every producer feels
exactly tna same way."
George M. Cohan Sayi Lit
tle About European Trip.
Blulral Comedy Prodnrer Departs
Wltfc Family for Vacatioa.
GEORGE M. COHAN departed for
London one day last week on the
Cunard liner Srrengeria. The big ship
i pulled out of her berth at the foot
of West Fourteenth street at 5:30
P. M. and the producer of many mu
sical comedies waved a cheerful good
bye to many friends assembled at the
pier.
With Mr. Cohan was Mrs. Cohan
and the three younger members of
the celebrated family. The "Little
Johnnie Jones" of other days said he
decided It was about time for a real
vacation, so he made up his mind to
visit London for a short stay. While
Mr. Cohan would not give out a def
"TALKING PICTURES" LATEST
IN EXPERIMENTS IN MOVIES
Film-Photophone Reel Is Run Off at Same Time and in Synchrony
With Film That Projects Pictures on Screen.
ALKINQ pictures" are the lat
est in the art of motion picture
play production. An invention for
"talking pictures" was recently dem
onstrated at Brelrk, an experimental
laboratory ten miles from Stockholm,
according to an article In the Bio
scope, published in London. Eng.
The Ilim-pnotopnone operator
up. In the nelghoornooa 01 nis actors,
a double camera, in which two reels
revolve on a common shaft.. Tha rec
ord of one camera Is tha original
cinematograph according to the Bio
scope, tha process being described as
follows: '
"Tha eye of the second camera is
not directed toward the act, but gazes
into a ray of light a ray aguatea
by the actor'a voice. How Is the ray
agitated? Across the end of a little
horn. like a telephone receiver
(which, in fact, it Is), stretcnes a
delicate diaphragm of rock crystal.
Upon the silvery back of this aia
phragm falls a slender shaft of light
from an electric bulb. The shaft of
light impinges on the diaphragm at
an agle. This Is reflected Into the
camera, which It enters through a
n..rrow upright silt. So long as tne
reflector Is at rest the ray of light
will be reflected at a single constant
angle, corresponding to the angle ox
its Incidence. But if the reflector be
agitated the ray will be reflected at
constantly changing angles. Were
the diaphragm at rest the reflected
ray would photograph itself aa a
straight band of .white along the bot
tom of the moving film. But as the
r.rw.tor vibrates the straight band
becomes a sllhouet of waves, of varied
contour. This is the pnoiograpn qi
the spoken words.
"But how reconvert at will, this
phono-photograph, into sound? How
Chicago Grand Opera Aims
to Please Common Folks.
Soft Shirt and Brews Derby Now
to lie Seen In Audiences.
CHICAGO grand opera la going
democratic.
It's going to pleaso the common
folk and not be an excuse for after
theater parties and the pleasure of
the rich alone.
The Boft-bolled ahlrt andi brown
derby hat of the promising ""n;
bookkeeper Is to lend distinguished
contrast to the "soup and fish' of the
upper crust dilettantes.
And little Maggie Murphy,' with her
last year's suit and department store
hat, is going to be as welcome as the
flowers in May right down among the
diamond tiaras and powdered shoul
ders of the excessively rich. '
All this, according to Mrs. Harold
F. MeCormlck, daughter of John V.
Rockefeller, and fairy godmother of
grand opera in Chicago.
Mrs. MeCormlck plans to take opera
out of the social register and put It in
the telephone book, Bhe told the Asso
ciation of Commerce in asking for 360
subscribers to a fund to perpotuate
opera here at $1000 the subscriber.
With her husband, from whom she
Is now separated. Mrs. McCormiok
has contributed $2,600,000 to opera in
ten years. . ,
Now lef all pay for it and make
- mattac BnH fl. CiVlC DTide.
-u. -Tn ilnlnsr this we Will bt
doing something never before accom
plished in America making opera
democratic. Chicago has more artists
on Its list than any other organiza
tion in the world."
She said 244 subscribers have al
ready given 11000 to the "telephone
book patron list."
Then came what the audience was
more interested in her opinion of
Mary Garden, the director-general,
with whom her husband, Harold F.
MeCormlck. planned the future of the
organization while Mrs. MeCormlck
was In Europe studying synthetic psy
chology. "I wish to take this occasion to ex
press my approval, unqualifiedly, of
Miss Mary Garden as director of the
Chicago Opera company," she said.
There was wild applause.
Jackie Coogan Will Produce
Another Juvenile Film.
Picture Just Completed Deals With
Life In Kew York City.
ALTHOUGH he is now enjoying a
vacation, which provides ample
opportunity for games of hide-and-seek,
bull-in-the-ring, and other
sports, Jackie Coogan is soon to be
busy on a new picture production. An
original story is under consideration.
Production wlU start on the new fea
ture probably in .the course of the
next two or three weeks.
His latest picture, "My Boy," has
just been completed. The final shots
were taken aboard a vessel at Los
Angeles harbor, the scenes showing '
Jackie as an immigrant, prior to his i
arrival in this country in the play.
In all, about six weeks were taken
up with the production of this fea
ture, which was written by Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Coogan. the parents of the
boy, and named by Sid Grauman.
Chiefly prominent in the cast sup-
porting Jackie are Claude GUIinwater,
who appeared In the stage play, (
"Three Wise Fools," and a prominent ;
role in "Little Lord Fauntleroy." Ma- j
thllde -Brundage also has a leading I
part, while Betty Frances Ellason, a
baby, is said to photograph very ti- '
fectively in some of the scenes. !
Two stages, each measuring in size 1
150x300 feet, were constantly filled
with the "My Boy" sets. A large space
of land was leased by the Jackie Coo-
gan company at Universal City, where j
many of the lower east side episodes j
of the feature were made.
There is little, if any. genuine slap-
stick injected into the episodes, and ,
although many hundreds of people j
were engaged and used In the various i
chapters of the story, when the film i
is out and exhibited only two para-
mount characters will stand out I
alone. These are the old sea captain, j
played by Claude Gillingwater, and
the little Immigrant orphan, por-!
trayed by Jackie Coogan.
June Mathis is at work on the con
tinuity of "The Hole in tha Wall," by
retransmogrlfy these pictured vibra
tions Into resonant vibrations? There
la a substance, an element, known as
selenium, which possesses the curious
property of resisting the passage of
electricity In proportion to the de
gree of light in which it is bathed.
Tha photophone invokea the aid of
this mineral. In an amalgam with
other substances, which render pos
sible practical utilization of Its cu
rious property, selenium Is made the
controlling feature of a device, in the
nature of a light-electrio-cell, which
augments or diminishes Its own re
sistance to an electric current In ac
curate response to the strength of
the light that falls upon It. It Is
upon this selenium cell, not upon a
screen, that the film of the voice is
projected. The electric current
emerges .frora the selenium cell, in
precise correspondence with the vi
brations of the light waves, and with
the sound waves of which they are
the reproduction.
"But this current is weak; it would
not operate the speaking diaphragm
of a telephone. Very well, say the
Inventors, It will be fortified by
'audlones' high-vacuum amplifiers.
Thus amplified. If desired, up to sev
eral thousand times its original
strength, the current now freighted
with the enriched vibrations of the
voice is conducted to the horn of a
loud-speaking telephone, and deliv
ered a reproduction, instantly recog
nized, of the utterance of the original
speaker. Delivered, too. In absolute
synchronism with the simultaneous
picture. The synchronism Is perfect,
because it is automatic; the picture
film and the sound-film were made
on, and are projected, from, reels
turning on the samj shaft and on
celluloid controlled bv . identical perforations."
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Fred Jackson. This picture will pre
sent Alice Lake as star, and be a
Maxwell Karger production.
Norma Talmadge has completed
work on "Smllin' Through," which
haa been plcturized from Allen Lang
don Martin's play of the same name,
and which .had a successful run on
Broadway, with Jane Cowl In the
leading role.
William Russell appears aa a scion
of an old southern family, jealous of
its traditions and involved In a feud
in a picture now under way. The
story is a screen adaptation of "The
Roof Tree." a popular novel by
Charles Neville Buck. Jack Dillon Is
directing the production.
Alice Brady, in her early youtn,
studied for grand opera.
Jimmy Aubrey was born In Liver
pool. . '
Blllie Burke was born In Wash
ington, D. C.
Lois Weber's studio in Hollywoed
Is "dark" for a season.
.Otis Skinner first saw the light of
day in Cambridge in 1858.
Russell Simpson at one time was
a Belasco actor In New York.
Orpheum Star Quits Stage
for Furniture Trade.
Julias Tannen Sectional Manager
of Ills; Indiana Company. ,,
JULIUS TAXNE.V. who has often
appeared in Portland at the Or
pheum, is one of the sectional man
agers of the Stout Furniture com
pany of Brazil, Ind. Mr. Tannen is
In charge of the metropolitan district
for the makers of bedroom furniture,
among other things manufactured by
It. With hla leap into commercial
life, Mr. Tannen deserted the stage.
He is much happier, -knows where he
is going to work every day, pays no
commissions, does not have to give up
to anyone, has the best boss in the
world, and all he must do to hold
his job Is to attend to business,
he
says. Tannen claims it is the first
real pleasurable and interesting work
he has undertaken since resigning,
when 18 years old, as private secre
tary to J. Ogden Armour. After that
resignation, Mr. Tannen took to the
stage, became a famed vaudeville
monologist and was in receipt of a
salary of $700 weekly for his theat
rical appearances, when the Stout
NOW
"Aft
A PARAMOUNT DE MILLE PRODUCTION, STAR
RING JACK HOLT, LILA LEE AND CHARLES OGLE
RIVOLI MUSIC
by the Big Rivoli Orchestra, acknowledged the
finest on the Pacific coast, under the direction of
Salvatore Santaella
CONCERT TODAY AT 12:30
1. "MARCHK SLAVE" P. Tschaikowsky
2. "A Hunting Scene" (Descriptive Piece) (Request)
P. BucaJossi
t. Selection, "The Fortune Teller" Victor Herbert
4. Violin solo by Miss TOSCA BERGER
Second Concerto (Re Mineur) ... .Henri Wieniawski
Romance
Allegro Con Fuoco
Allegro Moderato (A la Zlngara)
5. "Blue Danube" (Waltz) J. Btrauss
LIGHT CAVALRY (Overture) F. V. Suppe
DAILY CONCERT.
Selection from "The Fortune Teller" V. Herbert
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Independently Operated by Cus A. Metzger
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ONE ti TODAY! I
S-' ARABIAN f'i I 1 ll
j night . . . - m i- " I
A dazzling romance of the harem. u. ' ?km j
3 The photo marvel that has V- V . ((iM !
H amazed two continents. Eight " " V.J . j ... 'it
great reels and still not enough. f V s '1'. f ' I
KNOWLES PICTURE PLAYERS fV"? ' 'fr I
The orchestra that knows how vfrhV P : 'ityHV v:t f ' VrJ ' 4
I and does. f 30111 k'W
SCREENLAND NEWS K'? h ' '' W. i- ' J k
S .Portland's own h0m0,1 " ir- f
It'a a First National
s
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proposition appeared and appealed to
him. v
Mr. Tannen has had several pro
posals from both sides of the vaude
ville 'opposition this season, but pre
fers .to sell bedroom furniture. In
order to-"know what he was talking
about, Tannen spent some time at the
Brazil factory to familiarize himself
with the details. The Stout company's
faith in its new district manager was
so abundant it guaranteed Julius his
income for the first year as a furni
ture distributor should not be less
than his net stage earnings for an
equal period. Julius admits a $7 04
weekly vaudeville salary is not J700
net, by far, on the year around, 62
weeks or even less. Mr. Tannen left
vaudeville with some very decided
opinions about It. Soma day he may
write them.
Partizan Forces Seize Steamers.
VLADIVOSTOK. In addition to the
two large tugs seized by the partisan
forces and keot now at Olga bay, it
appears that two other steamers be
longing to the fishery Inspection
have been taken by the partizans.
These Include the Lieutenant Didi
moff. a crulserof the coast guard, and
the Mongugai, a coast guard steamer.
It is reported from Japanese sources
that 200 partizans landed at Impera
torskaya Gavan and arrested the local
authorities and people engaged in
forestry.
PLAYING!
er the Show"
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Isadora Duncan Has Become
Ardent Bolshevist.
American Dancer Finds Life Easy
Soviet Dancing Master.
FROM Moscow, Russia, comes news
through a correspondent that Isa
dora Duncan, pioneer of the modern
school of esthetic dancing, says she
has become an ardent bolshevik.
The American dancer, who went to
Moscow from Paris In July to start a
revolutionary school of dancing, at
the Invitation of the soviet govern
ment, is ensconced in a beautiful
house that was formerly the residence
of a member of the imperial ballet.
She Is directing its renovation pre
paratory to opening her school this
month. She will begin with 300 chil
dren and later will have a thousand.
After dancing before the world's
wealthiest upectfttors. Miss Duncan
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HIPPODROME
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rest of her life to working among the
proletariat and building up a new
school of dancing to prove that Rus
sia Is capable of some style beside the
ballet.
"The communist leaders are heroes;
tho hnlshevtKts have the most capable
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