THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, MARCH 5, 1022
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for his "Orphans of the Storm" after
the produteion had its premier in
New York, has created a stir in pro
fessional circles. Usually after a pro
ducer has once launched a pictifre
AUTHORITY FOR SAKE OF ACCOMPLISHMENT,
NOT POWER, IS VIEWPOINT OF MARY GARDEN
General Director of Chicago Civic Opera Company Declares She- Is Against Individual Stars, but That
American Patrons Insist on Continuing System; Work, of .Discovering and Training Talent Fascinating.
there is no taking it back to amend.
The ordinary picture must go on with
its faults or its omissions. Griffith,
who controls his own product, all the
way from plot to public, by his initia
tive in retaking several scenes, has
added - telling power . to the story,
which now being sent to all the large
cities for exhibition.
Since Charles Ray has affiliated
himself with United Artists corpora
tion, much interest is expressed in his
first picture for distribution through
the new channel. He will not begin
on the produteion before May, and it
will be one of greater magnitude than
any he has made heretofore. It will
follow several which he has finished
under an old contract.
Newspaper Inserts Costly
Branch of Film Studio.
Expert Editors Are Employed to
Prepare TIHb Feature. .
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DID you ever stop to t-Wirnk who
writes th newspapers ' yyu see
'reproduced in motion- pictures?
There is scarcely a. film released
In wMch journalistic "inserts" of one
eont or anotner do not . make their
.ppara.nce. Perhaps the heroin
first learns of the hero"s- false arrt
through an excerpt flashed on the
screen or the character of a certain
role Js "ptanited" by a. magazine lay
out of the "prominent clubma.n" In
charaoteri-atio poses.
At any rate the modem motion, pic
ture etuddo fi'iwia It desira-ble to re
tain in its ta.ff of film editors sev
eral exnewspa-per edVitioirs particu
larly qualified to duplicate style of
newspaper "make up."
The Paramount west coast studio.
for Instance, has for thira type, of
work Frank X. F.innegan, formerly of
the Chicago News; .Alfred Hustwick,
Winnipeg Telegram and Victoria
Times; Lee Daugherty, Baltimore
American; Brown Holmes, and sev
eral others.
Besides this the studio printing de
partment carries a large and expen
sive supply of type, by which any
make-up can be"- duplicated, either
I American or foreign.
Instances galore will be recalled
of-the use of newspaper inserts. There
was a four-column newspaper "lay
out" of racing cars at 'the start of a
dash in "Too Much Speed'' a picture
where through a trick the cars were
made to eeem actually in motion on
the page of the paper.
In Across the Continent. an
other automobile picture, with Wal
lace Reid, a page "ad" is seen In a
nationally known magazine; an ad
designed and set up right in the
studio. Placing the star as a person j
of f uturiist "fads" was a two-ipage
magazine layout In Miiss. Hobbs.
And so it. goes. Newspaper or
magazine 'Inserts" vary from three
I to 50 in tihe average motion, picture
And so the vigilant producers have
experienced journalists right on
hand to write them.
Talmadge Pictures Are to
Be Calif ornia-Made.
BT HERMANN HOEXTEH.
MARY GARDEN, the super
woman of Hunecker's "Bed
ouins," impresario of the Chi
cago Opera company and the greatest
power and a hit of prophecy to her
utterances. ,
"You ask. me to tell you something
of my brief managerial experience.
Really" at this moment Miss Garden
Los Angeles Declared to He Best
Place for Movies.
of singing actresses, wishes to be re- became the dreamy Melissande
membered in history a9 the creative
and interpretative artist, first and
last; an artist who has constantly
sought to realize the glorious dreams
and inventions of the modern French,
German and Italian poets and Com
posers, particularly through those
masterpieces which present a new
problem, a new complex, a new phase
of the eternal feminine.
To those so fortunate as to be per
mitted to interview Miss Garden, who
have at some time seen her as Melis
sande, Flora, Carmen, Thais, Louise,
Monna Vanna, Jongieur, and even
Salome, there is a constant reminder
of now one, now another of these
feminine types in the dramatic in
flections of Miss Garden's voice, the
wonderful play of her sensitive hands,
the fascinating expression of her eyes
and the compelling charm of her at
tractive personality. Her mind
keen, alert, swift throws her speech
irts hi eft that i fnirlv hlihhloa
along, vital, exhilarating, lending!
really, I would rather not talk about
it. What I mean is that there is so
little that I can say. It is fas
ciating work when I consider the op
portunities the position brings with
it for discovering new talent and pre
paring this for the public. Nothing
gives me quite as much pleasure as
that thought of the future for which
I, as director, am planning and build
ing now. These two phases of my
managerial activities, combined . with
the co-operation of the board of di
rectors of the reorganized Chicago
Opera company, are sum and sub
stances of all that I can tell you.
"The new boaTd of directors who
created the Chicago Civic Opera com
pany"' 'Miss Garden spoke seriously
now "have elected' me general di
rector of the company for another
season. With this backing, an ele
ment so vital to success, I feel that I
could put into my work the same
high purposes and ideals which I have
always endeavored to demonstrate in
my work as an artist, planning not
for just this season and the next, but
for a permanent and brilliant future j
"Furthermore," Miss Garden went'
on to say, "I might as well be per
fectly frank and admit that I have
always accomplished what I have set
out to do, and I have always kept my
faith with the. public. The mere idea
of power has no appeal to me at all;
it is only when I realize what I can
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r,r t,,i tt, t Thanksgiving time last year some
tion of director entertains the least' doubt was expressed that they would
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HEN Norma and Constance Tal-
fascination -for me. . I would, if 1
could, as one of my 'Official acts, dp
away with the pernicious star system,
because to my -mind the minor roles
Are iust as important as the major
ones.
"But the American public will have
its favorites, and I suppose it wiil
continue to do so as long as people
will naturally show preferences. Be
cause there is no remedy for this and
a great many other things pne meets
with in the course of an operatic ex
perience like mine, I return to my
first premises building for the fu
ture.
"I (Miss Garden spoke dramatic
ally) have very definite ideas in this
direction; I see far ahead. It remains
to be seen if the public is as vitally
interested in the future of American
permanently remain in Los Angeles.
But all suoh rumors were dissipated
week when Joseph M. Sohenck
announced definitely that his future
pictures would be filmed in" Los An
geles, no matter what inducements
might be offered him elsewhere.
The way the erection of the giant
sets for "The Duchess of Langeais,'
Norma Talmadge's latest picture, wa
carried through, and the mechanical
precision with which 45 wardrobe
women, more than 1000 actors, a half
dozen cameramen, 35 electricians, 25
hairdressers and the gang of carpen
ters, plasterers, painters and property
men went about their work absolute
ly convinced me that ,Los Angeles is
the ideal place to make motion pic
tures. ,
I am absolutely certain that mo-
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NOTE: Knowles and
the Picture Players
have a splendid score
for this feature.
opera as I am. As far as Chicago is Mon pictures can be made more oheap-
concerned, I have no hesitancy in af
firming that the new organization will
bs firmly established and that the
sponsors will see to it that it be
comes a permanent institution."
America's Lead in Screen
World Is Problem.
Art Director Sassresta Sytem to
Perfect Production.
S AN effective step toward
American-made pictures that
Bill surpJIs any other country's
screen product and will re-establish
our own producers as world leaders,"
said Wilfred Buckland, art director,
at the Richard Walton Tully Holly
wood studios, "the functions of the
art director should be enlarged to in
clude some of those of the director
proper." Mr. Buckland. who was one
of the first art directors to be ap
pointed when that studio office was
originated some years ago, suggests
the title of art co-director, as con
veying the larger functions he advo
cates. . '
"The chief hindrance to effective
work on the part of the art director,'
said Mr. Buckland, who is busy upon
"The Masnuerader." which" is to be
released through. Associated First
National, with Guy Bates Post as the
star, "lies in a condition which is
forced upon him, and for which he is
not at all responsible. Studio neces
sities compel him :to supervise the
art work on a number of productions
at one time (in one year Mr. Buck
land supervised 54 pictures). As a
consequence the art director becomes
an architect or perhaps merely a
scenic artist, instead of the illus
trator of the dramatic story. As art
co-director he would be in a position
to give his fullest value to the film.
He should have to work on only one
picture at a time and should be able
to spend ample time"on the set while
the actual 'shooting Is taking place.
"More can be done with lighting
effects than with any one other me
dium of picturizing, and for this
work the art co-director must be on
the spot, to which the dramatic di
rector and the players under him.
Hb must follow the picture through
from the very inception of. its visuali
zation, leaving nothing- to chance.
"Much of the task of the art co
director lies, of course, in the . ad
vance preparations before the actual
fiimlng. An accurate foreknowledge
of th lines of shooting will enable
him to get the greatest effect out of
each scene, instead of forcing him
merely 'to build the particular set
and then to leave it to the dramatic
director and the camera man to study
out the best angles. He should not
leave a production until it is cut and
i. H n if u final fnrm. ThA art fo-
director, in short, should be with the
production from the moment the
scenario is being prepared until the
iim is all ready for distribution.
"His object is to strengthen the
dramatic effect of the photoplay's
story. This can be done only by pic
turizing it In the most vivid fashion,
paying personal attention to the
three factors that .make up a picture
from the art side composition, light
ing and background. He must assist
in the arrangement of the people in
the set for this he must have his
foreknowledge of the angles of the
shooting and some dramatic experi
ence of his own. Thus the director of
the picture can concentrate on the
dramatic aspects of the work, and
get far better results. Experiments
in lighting and backgrounds will
often result in novel shots that will
please and at the same time heighten
still further the dramatic value of
ly in Los Angeles than in New York
or Florida. And I have had proof
that they can be made better, too.
I saveed many, many thousands of
dollars by filming the big scenes of
The Duchess of Langcaiis in Los An-
the photoplay by forcing the atten- geles, an dthat's an argument which
tion of the audience on the high has a strong- appeal to a producer
lights of the story itself. when the respective merits of New
To sum it all up, the art director York and Los Angeles as producing
has suffered, like the actor and the centers are compared."
dramatic director, from the evils of A statement made by Mr. Schenck
overproduction. Let him handle one to Captain John D. Fredericks, preei-
picture at a time and give it all he dent of the Los Angeles Chamber of
has. Then you will see American- Commerce, who visited the studifl,
made pictures that will surpass' any
other country s product and will re
establish our own producers as world
leaders."
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The enterprise of D. W. Griffith in
filming additional and revised scenes
STAR IS FEATURED AS "THE WORLD'S CHAMPION."
emphasized the value of Los Angeles
as a motion ploture center.
I will make every one of my pic
tures here in tbe future," the producer
said . "I have been worrying about
this picture for some time. I know I
could never make it in New York, for
there was nothing for me there with
which to make this ballroom.
T could not have secured the period
furniture. There is not a stage in
New York big enough to erect suoh a
scene."
Larry Trimble Goes to
Northern Canada.
Canines and Wolves Sought
Use la Film.
for
LARRY TRIMBLE, the young pro
ducer, who introduced Strong
heart, the dog star, to New York at
the Capitol theater recently in "The
Silent Call," left Broadway this week
for northern Canada in quest of more
canines and a bunch of wolves which
he will convey to California for use
in a forthcoming screen production.
Probably no man in the movies, not
excepting Charlie Chaplin, himself,
knows a dog's life more intimately
than does Mr. Trimble, who, to use his
own words, "lived day and night with
Strongheart for a period of eight
months, never leaving the dog out of
his sight." Northern Ontario and the
region where landed the famous navy
balloon whose venture into the Cana
dian wilderness thrilled the country
some time ago, is the present objec
tive of Mr. Trimble. There he is to
pick up some 30 sled dogs which have
already been pre-empted, including
the team winners of the Hudson Bay
sweepstakes. Awaiting him, too, on
the northern ranges is a pack of 25
timber wolves collected for him since
last autumn. The wolves will be
transported to California in piano
cars and in like cars will travel
Trimble, his helper, camera man and
the sled dogs.
Arriving on the coast the animals,
wild and otherwise, will immediately
be taken up into the snow country of
the high Sierras to await the coming
of the company of actors that Mr.
Trimble will select for his next pic
ture in which Strongheart again will
be starred.
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Allen Holubar spent last week
shooting scenes for his latest produc
tion. "The Soul Seeker," in which
Dorothy Phillips is being starred.
McCulley Aids in Fairbanks'
New Production.
Story Will Be I'uhllnhrd Serinlly
In Popular Mnunlnr.
ntinuitj; of Marshall Neilan's
oduction, "Fools First," has
The co
next prod
been finished. Shooting began this
week. Meanwhile "Freckles" Barry
is touring the east with "Penrod.'
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ported Increasing.
Statistics Announced in Thomas 11.
Ince Survey.
WALLACE REID.
Wallace Reid as, a prize fighter, and a champion prize fighter at that, is
the startling role which America's matinee idol successfully carries out' in
"The World's Champion," which is to be shown at the Liberty theater soon
Wally, as the cast-off son of a rich English family, comes to America-
lays 'em low in various battles, then wrests the belt from the middleweie-ht
champion, goes back to England and both honors and disgraces his family
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tor the championship battle, which is shown in the film, the famous
Kid" McCoy, one-time middleweight champion of the world, was useH as
Reid's opponent. Wallace, being no slonch with the gloves, nut un a hitrhlv
realistic battle against the old ring master.
POPULARITY of the motion pic
tures is steadily on the increase
in all parts of the country, accord
ing to statistics developed by the
Thomas H. Ince world-wide survey of
the motion picture.
People attend movie theaters today
who never went before, regular pa
trons go more often and the scope
of picture exhibition is being broad
ened to use in schools, clubs and at
semi-private affairs, it is declared
m the 782 answers received to this
query sent ,newspaper and magazine
editors. '
Of the total number of replies, 522
stated that the popularity of the
films was on the increase, 152
thought it was on the wane and 108
declared either that it . was at a
standstill or were otherwise non
commital in their answers.
The . survey established the fact
that in many parts of the country,
although financial depression had
caused heavy losses in other lines of
business and prohibited the produc
tion of stage plays, the movies have
continued to draw crowds and those
who formerly sought their amuse
ment in other directions, now attend
the picture theaters where they are
afforded entertainment at a mini
mum cost.
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Clarence L. Brown, who has been
diecting Hope Hampton in her forth
coming feature, "The Light in the
Dark," is confined in his apartment
in the Commodore hotel. New York
city, with an attack of influenza, j
Shooting of the final scenes has con
tinued at the Paragon studio in Fort
Lee, N. J., under the direction of
"Jack" Hyland, assistant director, a
number of big sets having been com
pleted under his guidance. Miss
Hampton's next starring vehicle will
probably be "The Isle of Dead Ships."
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SINCE completing his new story,
temporarily titled "The Further
Adventures of Zorro," Johnston Mc
Culley, who wrote "The Mark of
Zorro" for Fairbanks, has been co
operating with Doug's scenario de
partment in the preparation of the
star's new vehicle which has been
given the working title of "The Spirit
of Chivalry."
The McCulley story, which fea
tures the further adventures of the
dashing character so strikingly pro
trayed by Doug in "The Mark of
Zorro," will be published serially by
one of the popular magazines, after
which Fairbanks plans to put it into
celluloid as a sequel to the first
Zorro film. By waiting until the
story appears in print, Doug will be
enabled to take full advantage of Die
advertising thus obtained mid can
also count on support from the reai
ing public for the film vernlon.
it will be nece.HHary to produce tl
second Zorro featuro at a time wl
the services of those players wl
took part in the firot fiicture can I
obtained. At prenent practically i
of these are under contract wi
other companies. No definite tin
can be announced for the start
production on the McCulley stoi
but it if believed now that it w
follow "The Virginian." which Doi
plans to do this summer wh'
weather comlltionn are favorable f
piuture-tukliur in the country whi'
Winter ul as the locale for I
famous book.
One of th. two dainty slipper I)
lieved to have been worn by Jin
.Marie Antoinette on the guillotine a
pears in a practical motion plctu
produced in the Chicago Kolhaek.
studion. This slipper, and other pric
less shoes, were borrowed from
famous Boston col!etclon. The moth
picture is for exhibition before scho
children. It Is a "history" of foo
wear, showing not only what curio
shoes people wore during dlffere
periods of history, but bIho nomethli
of customs nd mode of living
CECIL TEAGUE
At the Wurhtzer And in con
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Memories of Aula Scot
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