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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAS PORTT;A.ND. MAT 21. 1922
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fascinations of Its "Monte Crieto"
type of story by the splendor and di
versity of Its scenic display most of
the exteriors faithfully presenting
Old World locations famous for their
grandeur and beauty. It is claimed
HOLUBAR CHOSEN TO DIRECT
PRIZE-WINNING PHOTODRAMA
Goldwyn Selects Independent Producer to Film $10,000 Contest
Picture; Carey Wilson to Write Continuity.
CHANEY ESSAYS DIFFERENT
ROLE IN MAJESTIC FEATURE
Noted Character Actor of "Crook" Types Tries Working Along New
Lines in Latest Release "The Trap."
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The Rembrandt of the Screen
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that never before, for example, has
far-famed Monte Carlo been pictured
from actuality, as it really is. In
that paradise of luxury and hotbed of
dissipation, within the actual Casino
where fortunes are won and lost in
an hour and tragedy so often lurks
in the shadows, the story of "The Isle
of Zorda" approaches Its thrilling cli
max. . .
At an actual Monte Carlo roulette
table the hero's arch enemy is seen
staking, and losing, the last remnant
of his great fortune. Like many
others whose tragedy has been re
corded In real life he wanders forth
seeking death from some Mediterra
nean cliff top. But here it is the
noble hero, Mathlas Sandorf, implaca
ble for justice, who is the avenger.
Swiftly, then, the story marches to
the Moroccan heroine's thrilling re
lease, and the drama's happy ending.
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f TRIBUTE IS PAID ALAS HOLUBAR FOR ARTISTIC SUCCESS 1ST SELECT
ING HIM TO PRODUCE FORTHCOMING BIG FEATURE.
ALLEN HOLUBAR will produce
for the Goldwyn Pictures cor
poration, according to an
nouncement Issued yesterday from
the home office of that company.
By special arrangement, Associated
F'rst National, for whom Mr. Holu
bar has been producing, releases him
Immediately that he may direct
'Broken Chains," the $10,000 prize
story in the Chicago Daily News sce
nario contest. The continuity for this
picture is now in preparation by
Carey Wilson and the production will
be made at the Goldwyn Studios in
Culver City. Following the comple
tion of "Broken Chains," Mr. Holubar
will resume as an independent pro
ducer. Mr. Holubar is the third big direc
tor recently engaged by Goldwyn.
Marshall Neilan's productions will be
made in conjunction with Goldwyn,
and Maurice Tourneur sailed for Eng
land on Saturday to direct a super
production of Hall Caine's "The Chris
tian." Mr. Holubar Is one of the most
prominent of Independent producers.
His repeated successes with big pic
tures led the Goldwyn executives to
select him as the ideal director to
handle "Broken Chain," and as a re
sult the negotiations terminating in
his engagement were started.
"After a number of years' experi
ence on the speaking stage, both as a
director and player, Mr. Holubar
turned to pictures and in a short time
his name became associated with big
productions. His first important work
was "Twenty Thousand Leagues Un
der the Sea," which was followed by
other notable successes, such as "The
Heart of Humanity," "The Right to
Happiness," "Once to Every Woman"
and "Man Woman Marriage."
The cast for "Broken Chains" will
be selected at once and Mr. Holubar
will complete this picture for release
in the early fall.
ERICH VON STROHEIM, MASTER
SCREEN VILLAIN, AIRS GRIEF
"Heavy" of "Foolish Wives' Describes Unfortunate Lot of Film Actor
Whose Infamy Is Too Realistic
BY ERICH VON STROHEIM.
1AM "The Beast!"
Sometimes I wonder whether to
laugh or cry.
The more people hate me, the more
money I make but I often question
whether the money's worth it. I think
I earn my money harder than any
other man; I capitalize public abhor
hence. When I came up In the elevator to
my suite of hotel rooms a woman
recognized me and ehranlc away.
She's only one it happens every day,
a dozen times. That's what I am get
ting paid for. They call me "the man
you'll love to hate."
I'm Just a simple, Inoffensive fel
low who tries conscientiously to do
his best in acting unpleasant parts.
Perhaps it's because I try to do it
with subtlety, and don't do it in an
artificial manner, that they confuse
the part I play with the man I am;
however that may be, they do It. I
don't mind being; hated on the screen,
but it's mighty tough to be hated off
it, after hours, when one longs for
human companionship and gets, in
stead, unadulterated, simon-pure hate
from practically all with whom one
comes in contact
What He Suffers.
Here are a few incidents a few out
of so many I can't remember them,
but only feel the sting of their accu
mulated venom.
One night during a trip to New
York I dined at the "L'Aiglon," a
popular French restaurant, with my
wife and several friends. At the next
table sat two couples, and presently
one of the girls recognized me. They
whispered together for a minute, then
one of them demanded, loudly enough
for my party to hear: "Do we have to
dine at the next table to that beast?"
They paid their bills and left their un
finished meal. Of course we were
terribly embarrassed.
One day I was riding in a streetcar
when a woman and small girl boarded
it and sat opposite. The little girl
looked at me for a moment. "Look,
mamma," she observed. "There's that
bad man that threw the baby out of
the window!" And I love children,
too.
A friend of mine was discussing me
with a woman friend once, and re
. marked that I went to her church.
"He goes there," she answered, "but
he doesn't belong there!"
They won't even let me go to their
churches, and if I didn't go to church
they'd lay that up against me, too.
Hope Not Abandoned.
I can't take off the uniform, cap,
word, monocle, perfume-behind-the-ears
and other accoutrements of war
fare, and be human, after the day's
' work is over. I'm still the beast not
fit to mingle with people or go to
their churches; not fit for the com
panionship of women or little chil
dren the loneliest man In the world.
Why?
Other vlllians of the screen don't
get the same treatment. When my
friend, Lon Chaney, enters a public
place, the people look at him with
respect. "There's Lon Chaney." "He's
a great actor and wonderful villain.
Remember him In 'The Penalty' or
The Mask'?"
But when I come in they say: "Here
comes Von Strohelm that beast!"
Even my family suffers from the
Film City Very Active and More
Units Are Being Added.
UNIVERSAL CITY is a "white
spot" on the motion picture map.
Production Is active and more units
are being added. ,
One Universal-Jewel spectacle, "Un
der Two Flags," is being filmed elab
orately under Tod Browning's direc
tion, with the vital Prlscilla Dean In
the starring role, while four Universal-Jewel
specials of an all-star char
acter, besides Von Strohelm's next
lavish effort, are in preparation.
Four Universal attractions are be
ing made. Jack Conway is directing
Herbert Rawlinson hi their mutual
success of four years ago, "Come
Through." Harry B. Harris is direct
ing Gladys Walton in a barn-storming
stage story,. "The Trouper." Hobart
Henley is finishing "Her Night of
Nights," starring Marie Prevost, while
Harry Pollard is guiding Hoot Gib
son in an Ozark mountain story,
"Trimmed and Burning."
Stuart Paton is supervising the cut
ting of Herbert Rawlinson's vehicle
Just completed under his direction,
"The Black Bag." He will start
shortly on another picture.
Douglas Fairbanks Writes
for Hardware Job.
Star Willing to Accept Modest
Salary of S5 a Week. .,
evil aura that has surrounded me.
My brother-in-law, a San Francisco
automobile man, was approached by a
friend the other day. "I am talking
to you as a friend," said this man.
"And because of all the gossip. Your
sister is the wife of this Von Stro
heim. All our friends say he is as
bad off the screen as on it. They say
he beats his wife and mistreats her
shamefully. Now, I know you
wouldn't let your sister be married
to that kind of a man and I want to
tell these people, from you, just what
he is."
I was buying an automobile, a
birthday gift for my wife, at the time.
My brother-in-law Introduced us.
New Development Involved.
But USUallv thfirA if tin hmfhef-ln-
law present to protect me. And the
more it piles up tne more money Im
worth and the harder it becomes to
earn it.
People see the man differently
irum me actor in otner cases why
I vv i mine: j. am just a quiet, ln-
Diiens ve nnan wnn trioa tn Ha v. (q
best by his family and do his best by
his employer. I play the part of a
villain someone has to but when I
end the day's work on the picture lot
the character of the play dies with
tne wnistie that blows "quitting
time." PeonlA herA dirin't haA ma in
the old days in San Francisco and
uaK.ia.nu, or wnen i was a guide on
Tamalpais, when they saw only Von
Stroheim. and nrtt th. narto Vi a Tine
since played. I was married there
ana i uvea among tne people just as
anyone else. I am no different now
from then.
Modern Frankenstein Is He.
Still now they hate me.
Men hate me more than women
perhaps because I am giving away
some of the pricks of the trade when
I play my villainous roles. Who
knows? It's male against male one
male resenting in the other whatever
attraction for the opposite sex that
the other may seem to exercise. They
see the Russian officer in his con
questsand they grit their teeth and
rage and forget that he's no real of
ficer and no real villain but only
poor old Erich von Stroheim, perspiring-
under Cooper Hewitt lights, to
make a living for himself and family.
There was a story once of a man
named Frankenstein, who reared a
monster that finally rose and de
stroyed him. I know how he felt. I
am Frankenstein of the films and
the monster is beyond my control.
Still I can't blame the people who
hate me they're my bread and
butter.
A WRITER in the "Hardware Age"
has exhumed a fragment of
Douglas Fairbanks' past from the
archives of the Russell & Erwin Man
ufacturing company, New York. An
employment card In that firm's files
bears the signature of Douglas Fair
banks, dated 1903, with the address
1919 West Ninety-fifth street. A let
ter to the screen star at Hollywood
brought a reply confirming that was
the same Fairbanks listed. It re
lates that Doug left his home in Den
ver before he was 20, playing in stock
in several cities, and then for two
seasons in the metropolis in rather
small parts and then decided to go
into business. After a brief experi
ence as clerk he returned to the stage
again nd began his really success
ful career as an actor "Mr. Fairbanks
wishes to thank you," concluded the
letter, "for your very kind inquiry
and says he is sure no one in your
organization would remember him if
it depended upon his ability along
hardware lines."
Doug's salary in the hardware line
was J5 a week. Now he is doing a
big picture in the hardware or chain
mail period of English feudal ro
mance in the role of Robin Hood."
"John Smith" is the tentative title
of Eugene O'Brien's last picture for
projection ". on the canvas screen.
In "Blue Blood," her latest Vita
graph production, Alice Calhoun dons
a blackfaoe makeup. Alice weighs ex
actly 113 pounds, and she had to trans
form herself into a portly negro man-of-all-work,
who tipped the scales at
somewhere around the 3O0-mark. It
can readily be seen that a great
amount of padding was required.
Corinne Griffith sailed last week
for Europe on the Aquitania and came
back to America all in one day. In
other words the geat ocean liner was
used as 'the background, for a num
ber of scenes in "Divorce Coupons,"
the star's latest production. Her di
rector was anxious to have the great
est realism in the scene where the
heroine sails for Europe and he ob
tained permission to use the Aquitania.
Story "Trimmed in Scarlet"
Bought for Dean.
PrisclIIa Will Have a Big New
Vehicle, According; to Producers.
Monte Carlo's Splendors
and Woes Filmed.
Far-Famed Place Plctnred From
Actuality First Time, It Is Said.
PATHE reports that the Louis Nal
pas production of Jules Verne's
heroic romance, "Mathias Sandorf,"
renamed "The Isle of Zorda," will
have the benefit of exceptional ex
ploitation by some of the best picture
theaters in the United States, and
that the general demand for it is re
markably active.
Interest in "The Isle of Zorda" Is
found to be stimulated beyond the
UNIVERSAL has brought a big
new vehicle for Prlscilla Dean.
"Trimmed in Scarlet." a thrilling
stage play of several years ago, has
been acquired by John C. Brownell,
Universal scenario chief, and will be
put Into continuity form so that Miss
Dean can use it for a screen drama
as soon as she has completed her
present picture, "Under Two Flags."
"Trimmed in Scarlet" is from the
pen of William Hurlbut, author of
"Lilies of the Field," a recent Broad
way success, and of "The Strange
Woman," an Elsie Ferguson stage ve
hicle of several years ago. "Trimmed
in Scarlet" first was produced in
England in 1919, where it played in
the Cort and in the Globe theaters for
!ong runs. It was produced in Amer
ica in 1920 in the Maxine Elliot thea
ter, with Miss Elliot in the star role.
Thomas H. Ince, the producer, at
tended the first big gathering ot
American motion picture producers in
convention at Washington to urge
"Truth In Advertising" for entire mo
tion picture industry.
That the screen has reached a point
where absolute truth concerning pic
tures from production to public show
ing, and every element of public in
terest connected with them is neces
sary to hold the following of pictures
as greatest of entertainment and edu
cational medium of all time, was the
declaration of the pioneer producer.
Unless organized industry insists that
all producers, distributors and ex
hibitors follow such a course, serious
loss of public confidence will result,
he declared.
Larry Semon has now become an
authority on the subject of torture.
In his latest comedy, the Vitagraph
funny man starts as a hobo and ends
as a king of an imaginary realm. But
before he becomes a king he has
numerous misadventures, including an
unpleasant session in the torture
chamber. Larry is put on the rack,
broken on the wheels given the bas
tinado, thrust in Iron Maiden and sub
jected to a hundred other ordeals
Sigrid Holmquist, who was Eugene
O'Brien's leading woman in "The
Prophet's Paradise," has gone back
to her native Sweden to become a
screen etar once again.
LOW CHANEY, WHO HAS RARE OPPORTUNITY TO DISPLAY ABILITY
GRIPPING STORY OF CANADIAN WOODS.
IN
DON CHANEY, noted character
actor, whose "crook" types have
been one of the outstanding fea
tures of American screen productions,
essays a new role in "The Trap," his
latest work booked for showing at
the Majestic theater soon.
Instead of the swaggering under
world denizen, Chaney is cast as the
simple son of the Canadian woods.
Loving and trusting everyone, the
idol of the children of the little vil
lage, he suddenly realizes he has been
robbed of property and fiancee by a
glib-tongued city man who visits the
little settlement.
The childlike backwoods youth is
suddenly metamorphorlzed into a
creature whose whole object in life
is revenge, and whose heart is filled
vith hate for the rest of mankind.
He accomplishes the ruin of his en
emy, then steals the latter's little boy
from a dying mother. With the
child, though, his real spirit breaks
out again and he reverts to the orig
inal type.
The story allows Mr. Chaney an
unlimited opportunity for the display
of his histrionic abilities. From the
standpoint of acting alone, "The
Trap" is a revelation.
"The Trap" was filmed in the beau
tiful Yosemite valley, and scores of
wonderful scenic effects were incor
porated in the film.
WILLIAM FOX IS TO PUT OUT
COLOR PRODUCTION OF 'SALOME'
Forthcoming Release Treated in Sequence of Tinted Film That Has
Cost Small Fortune. ' .
WILLIAM FOX announces the
forthcoming release of "Sa
lome," treated in a sequence of
tinted film upon which a small for
tune has been spent in the making.
According to the Fox offices, no
single picture of the length and mag
nitude of "Salome" nas ever been of
fered with sequences of scenes hand
painted. J. Gordon Edwards, director
of 45 pictures for Fox, including
"Cleopatra" anu "Queen of Sheba"
who, after finishing the great spec
tacle' "Nero" in Rome recently, is
now making "The Shepherd King"
abroad, spent monthj of careful prep
aration before turning a camera. The
actual filming of the production took
several months and In that time 5000
people were used in the various epi
sodes. Upon completion of the picture.
William Fox found that he had on
hand a production not only of ex
ceptional merit and compelling in
terest but a productitn of rare beauty.
But he saw a chance to add further
improvement. He decided that colo
was the one touch needed to make
"Salome" a wonder of the screen. A
corps of artists were engaged and
for several months they worked on
the film in color until upon its com
pletion, it stands out according to
the Fox offices, what it was intended
to be a wonderful story of love and
revenge with the pajreantry and spec
tacle finished in a series of delight
ful color sequences.
The story of "Salome," who con
ceived a violent passion for John the
Baptist and then a tremendous hatred
when he repulsed her. Is told in
series of startling and unusual epi
sodes. They are laii in an era when
tiassion, love and natred ran wild.
For this failure to succumb to her
charms, Salome, daughter of the wifo
of King Herod and the wickedest
vampire who ever . lured men, de
manded of the king the head of John
on a silver platter in return for danc
ing before Herod.
Loathing the deed, but in the spell
of the charmer, Herod gave Salome
her wish and from this was born the
"Dance of the Seven Veils," which
is one of the features of the picture.
In the preparation of this pictu-,
says the Fox announcement, gigantic
sets of great beauty were built as the
background to the dramatic action.
In addition to the cast of 500( per
sons and more than a score of prin
cipals, there were several caravans of
camels and dromedaries used, together
with 2200 horses, Bheep, oxen, goats
and other colorful atmosphere.
Little Richard Headrick, child actor
who was featured in "The Child Thou
Gavest Me," celebrated his fifth birth
day anniversary recently by giving
a violin recital at the Wilshire studlc
of Winnifred Ballard in Los Angelas.
Little Richard has been studying
under this teacher for one year but
because of his remarkable ability is
taking third-year work. At the re
cital he played "La Cinquintine."
Following the recital a surprise
party was tendered him by his little
friends. The guests included neigh
borhood playmates, child film play
ers and society youngsters who first
made his acquaintance through view
ing his pictures.
Today and Tomorrow COME !
The'Greatest Racetrack Story Ever
Filmed
"THUNDERCLAP"
A drama of fortunes won and lost
on the speed of a horse.
PATHE NEWS MUTT AND JEFF
PATHE REVUE
IndependentlT Operated
Independently Owned
OPETTS AT
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MORNING
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from the world famous American novel by
Vaughan Ke8ter with all-star cast, including
MACLYN ARBUCKLE and JEAN PAGE
(star of Black Beauty).
The wonderful tale of the lovable old repro
bate, Judge Slocum Pnce-Tuberville of a
pretty young wife who ran away of a child
of horse racing and-fights and duels of hate
and treachery and of a love and friendship like
that of Damon and Pythias.
Kinograms and 2-ReeI Educational Comedy, "Fair Enough"
BRITZ
and the big Popular Peoples Or
chestra in accompaniment and in
joncert tomorrow at 2:15 P. M.
PROGRAMME
Lustspiel, Overture.... Keler Bela
La Creole, Valse Filipucci
Gypsy Blues Sissler and Blake
Here is the only
picture that the
Columbia has said
was as good as
"HUMORESQUE"
I -.ftAyi today
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PROUHXER
Every element
that made "Hu
moresque" famous
is here -the same
cast, author and direc
tor the same quaint sub
titles, the same heart inter
est, the tear and the smile
YOU'LL FIND IT ALL IN
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with VERA GORDON DORE DAVIDSON
NOTE.
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have been uniformly good but we cannot re
frain from calling your attention to the current
comedy offering "Cold Feet." It is absolutely
"different" refined, clean, clever and uproar
iously funny a distinct departure in comedy,
and we'll guarantee you a "kick" out of it.
Don't Procrastinate
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