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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1922)
TOE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND. AUGUST 13, 1923 ORIGINAL STORY DEFENDING FLAPPER OF TODAY WANTED Ann May. Recently Sn in The Half Breed," Gives Scenario Writers Excellent Hint and Chance to Get Busy. . . f I "v J1 V zr mix hours of frocks, wraps, ahoes and femlnln .trifles. Mrs. Miller was weakly cryinir for aid, but Patsy Ruth was still going strong. Her buying orgy resulted in soma mar velous new evening gowns that will grace her future pictures ojie of rose chiffon that will make ail her fan" admirers sigh with envy. And street suits! And shoes and shoes and shoes. Shoes are Patsy Ruth's hobby, and it's well that Richard Walton Tully has her employed in his production of "Omar the Tent maker for First National, otherwise she mightn't be able to Indulge her hobby so often. Hollywood is being besieged by a swarm of Persian runr peddlers; their number la as that of the locust plague and their persistence Is be yond description. It has been learned that the visitation is entire ly due to the fact that Guy Bates Post rlli soon start active filming on his "Omar the Tentmaker." to be produced by Richard Walton Tully. The Persian rug vendors argue that this picture will reawaken an Inter est la their commodity -a.lso. there Is always the chance, each of them figures, that he can get a part in this Persian film. And who of us doesn't crave a chance In the movies? LEATRICE JOY DOES BEST WORK IN LATEST PICTURE Finished Performance of Difficult Role Is Given in "Her Man," Which Is From Story by George Pattulo. Storms Come and Go, but "Old Homestead" Stands. Director Called 1m , Da Son Wrckln- la ew Picture. mm May. wfca ka aaa a His alt itll krat aarklnf alai AS - A TYP1CAI f!appr-vinp. Ann May hu mjil such a hit i-i t hrefd." which has Ju5t ttffn rrlnwd by Aio-iatd Kirn National I'i-'tur, that she ha iion.i of atardom If she can J;i find th pmpr vehicle. , She want to break new ground. IrtO. In digging; ur a ur.Jert which i cf lnlerei t.i miliinnA of others of the f!t'pr K. "So much futi and so much abuse ha been heaped on the heads of I he jrourg girl of today. that shs is the moyt tnixunderatood person in the world." said Mim May when recently interviewed. "Of course, girls are more Inde pendent than they used to be: so is all womankind, and the younger generation simply reacts to its environment. "If a sympathetio wrltrr were to conceive a play that woul.l do Jos tles to the young girl and her prob- a. a typical nji pacr-varna." a4 a ST that llae for oae (liar. em., I am sure it would not only be a, b!g success but would do lots of good The day of the Insipid bread and butter mi.-s is pari. No one really wants her. though our elders hold her up ss a praise worthy example of what we should do. and how we should act. "Nothing could be more effective in convincing our detractors that the frank, spirited and sport-loving gir is preferable to the otd- fah!oned ones (hey arc constantly digging up for approval, than a sharp contrast In the two char acters brought to life In a good, punchy picture of modern life. "I don't believe in extremes and I don't believe the average young girl does either. She simply Is filled with a spirit of revolt, and the more she Is reprimanded the more reckless she becomes. Entirely too much attention is paid to her. I know. More sympathy and less censure - Is what she requires." Gloria Swaiuon NamesTen "Greatest Women." Mather f Llaewla Dlarnat4 Be- Trlaatte. offerings always new and pleasurable." I ... Patsy Ruth Miller and her mother I went snooping the other da v. After STORMS may come and storm may go,- but the Old Homestead stands forever. This paraphrase In a sense Is the symbolic meaning of the climax of "The Old Homestead." a Paramount picture version of the great stage classic. The storm scene at the finish wrecks nearly every building in the village, -but leaves the Old Home ttesd intact. ' But while on the screen it will :eem that nature supplied all the elemental disturbances requisite to destroy the village, the work en- alled was enormous;. James Cruse, the director, planned the climax as provided in the rcenario and it was detailed to the various experts to arrange the ef fects. Wind machines, water sys tems, snow providers all had their part ' in the scenes of wreckage, which, it is claJmed. present a ic orial thrill never excelled by any thing that has been done on the screen. Theodore Roberts plays Uncle Joan and there is an all-star cast of film notables from the Paramount Stock company. . . .' The ftrmtnar'of "Row Wow." the) Mack Seonett cmedy featuring Teddy the wonder dog. has been ! completed. This laugh maker Is now , in the cutting room for editing and titling before being shipped to the distributing hands of First National. ' Roy Stone, the cutter who has been working in New lork city' with Thomas H. Ince on "The Hot- ; tentot" and "Lorna Doone." has re- : turned to the Ince Studos. Both of these films are being edited for fall release "The Hottentot." take) : from William Collier's tremendously , ucceanful play of the same name. Is ; the first big comedy apodal to be ! released under Trice's new producing programme. "Lorna Doone" is a screen version, produced tinder di rection of Maurice Tourneur, of the famous historical novel. This week will see the completion of the cutting and editing of the latest Allen Holubar production, "Hurricane's Gal." starring the pret ty Dorothy Phillips In the most emotional and melodramatic film of her career. I - n v c "J c t r if' evAtf.;. r Xr " f . 5 ' vWVi-,J',!-.1''llaa.-.v of the Sis Hopkins type, who came to the actress with her many trials and tribulations. In "Her . Man" Mlas Joy plays just such a slavey character and transforms her pretty self Into a homely little boarding- house drudge. In rehearsing herself for this char acter Miss Joy was reminded of her former acquaintance and mim icked the mannerism and general appearance of her little slavey friend, to whom she gives much credit for the success with which she handled the part. , The picture-going public has be come accustomed to seeing the young actress on 'the ecreen in rich velvets, silks and satins, -but it is promised an innovation when "Her Man" is released. In the greater part of the picture Miss Joy is seen as the little drudge in work-worn clothes. In the final scenes, however, she proves that study of the fashion books and use of borrowed finery can transform even a little boarding house slavey into an astonishingly attractive and graceful young person. Miss Joy states, however, it Is very doubtful that she would have been able to effect this transforma tion so successfully had she not been "on intimate terms with the genuine article. ' ' ... No sooner had Guy Bates Post and his supporting company returned from Catallna, whence they had gone for location scenes for Richard Walton Tully's "Omar the Tent maker" when they were whisked away to Santa Barbara by Director James Toung to film some ecenes in the Persian gardens of the San Markand hotel. The production will be. completed this week. DENNY, UNIVERSAL PLAYER, HAS INTERESTING CAREER "Leather Pushers' Fame, Comes From Long Line of English Actors of the Same Name. Tw. character studies of Learrlee Joy, who Is making her biggest hit in "Her Mia," a Marshall Kellan production. THE versatile motion picture act ress of today is in many re spects a modern Cinderella. One moment she is a forlorn and bedrag gled little boarding house slavey. Presto! the magic wand of screen makeup touches her, and, lo! the next moment she is a radiant and beautiful creature. Such a modern Cinderella is L'ea triee Joy in "Her Man," Marshall Nellan's latent picture for Asso ciated First National release." Miss Joy's newest s een .charac terization recalls to that; populasW at ucan caiiivr utt j a jii iter -career, when ehe found it no easy- matter to keep the weH-known' wolf from the vestibule. ; Back in New Tork . when -Miss Joy received an occasional "bit" in a picture she lived in a 'small boarding house on Eigmy-fifth street With her mother and little brother. Here she became a.tta.chp.d to a typical hoarding house slavey' BT PENEHTN STANLAWS. 1WAS In the days when I was financing and preparing to' build the Hotel des Artistes, New Tork, I was riding down Fifth avenue with the owner of the land on which the hotel now stands; we were on our way t the trust company, where I was to make a deposit of $12,600 on the lot. But I had only $10,000 to pay. As we rode, the owner and I ar gued about the payment that Iougjit to make. He wouldn't agree to less than $12,500 I claimed it should be less, though I was very careful not to let him know I didn't have this amonnt. Finally, I said: "Major, I'll make you a sporting proposition. We'll flip a coin whether it will be $10,000 or $16,000." He agreed; I tossed a half dollar and called heads. The sinking feel ing came while the coin whirled in the air; the thrill happened when I saw that it turned up heads, and knew that my $1,281,000 project had passed the first barrier. J Reginald, of i Reginald Denny, Universal featured player, soon, to be seen in "Tia Kentucky Derby," who has had varied experiences. ; REGINALD DENNY, . the new Universal star, who is fea tured in the "Leather Push ers," the series of two-reel red blooded fight pictures based on the stories of the same name by H. C. Wltwer, has completed a special feature for Universal, "The, Ken tucky Derby," and according to re ports from the West Coast he. will resume at once his work on the re maining six episodes of the W'twer tales. ' ' Denny comes from a long line of famous English actors of the same name. He was born in R'chmond, Surrey, EnglancL and in 1897, when he was six years old, he appeared in the cast of "A Royal Family," at the Sloane Square theater, Lon don. - From that time until he was 18 he went to school, graduating from St. Francis Xavier college in Sussex. Then Jie shipped as a deck hand on a Calcutta-bound windjam mer and arrived in India, where he again became an actor. As a mem ber of a stock company he tour id India, played before royalty and the viceregal embassy, and after marrying Irene Haisman, an accom plished ingenue in the same co.n pany, he appeared with his wife in "society entertainments." Mr. r.nd Mrs. Denny toured' the northern pro vinces of India, where they met R William Neill, now a famous Amert can director of motion pictures, with whom Denny has since often played, most recently in Rex Beach's "The Iron Trail." In 1913 the Dehnys reached 'Frisco, but the world war called Denny .the following year, and he served In the British royal ,atr forces, where he became a lieuten ant. , i Denny played with the Worild Film players, supporting Evelyn Greely in "Bringing Up Betty" and "The Oakdale Affair." Then ho played with Elsie Ferguson, Alice Brady,. Constance Blnney. George Arliss and other stage and screen stars. He also wrote and played in "Tropical Love," and besides bei$g an athlete and writer he enjoys his work before the camera. - . After all, Marlon. Davies Is not to return to the stage. A report was recently circulated along Broadway that Miss Daviea was to quit the eilver sheet and ap pear tnls fall In a stage play pro duced by Al Woods. Now it is learned that not only has the beau tiful blonde star decided against that, but she has just refused a $5000 a week offer to 'be the lead in next season's Greenwich Village Follies. ft - lifc1iTfeMl''flllli'iiiiilliiiifi RECENTLY Gloria Swanson. star In Paramount Pictures, was aaked to select thoee she considered th ten greatest women In hlntory !h asked for time and went home) and reviewed the history with which aha was familiar. She read widely and pondered and finally produced this list: Joan of Arc. Florence Nlarhtinerale, Harriet Reecher Slov. Bty Ross, Nancy Hanks Lincoln I mother of Abraham Llncolnl. Queen Klizaboth Susan B. Anthony. Mary Baker Eddy. Rosa Eonheur. Jenny I.tnd. And she detailed reasons for her selection. She, declared that Joan of Arc achieved the Impossible when tha fortunes of women were at their lowest ebb. and Is even today the inspiration of womn. Miss Night ingale, she said, went throueh un believable hard.hlp In the service of others through sheer nerve. Mrs. Sloven wrttlncs uplifted and In spired humanity. Mrs. Lincoln was rhosen because of her son's tribute: "Everything that 1 am and every thing that I expect to be I owe to my mother." Susan B. Anthony's name was placed on the list because Miss Swanson believes she was the first of her sax to remind women that they have definite responsibilities In seeing that our national, state and local governments are administered with justice and equity. Rupert Hughes, Play, wright, Turn Inventor. Vathar Perfects Clever Drvlec far Finder C'aaaeraa. RUPERT HCGHES. author, mo tion picture director and mu sician, has turned Inventor as well. With the technicians at the Gold wyn studio he has worked out the director's finder, which looks like a arna.'I telescope and which enables him to re exactly how a scene win look through the camera lens. I'nder the olj system the director tiad to squint through the finder on the camera, which shows the image up'idc down. Mr. Hughes' Instru ment. belWa saving much time and trouble, show the image right aide up. Blanche Bates. the noted stage star, visited MaJor'Hughes while he was directing Gimme" at the Gold . n studio.. He allowed her to look ih-oua;h the telescope. ""Wonderful '." she exclaimed. "I ran are Mara and it looks a though it were onJy two feet away." "It is indeed a wonderful lnven- f.ort." admitted Major Hughes as h f.icked the ashes from his cigar. which had ea doubling for the planet. a "What Is the dangerous age?" challenges Lewis t-tone. who heads the aJl-st.tr cast of Louis B, Mayer's "The Danrerous Age." Ruth Clifford, co-star, retorts: "There Is no dangerous age so long as one keeps spiritually young. This Is quite possible when one Is a true optimist seeing the happy aide of life and forgetting how to worry." Myrtle Stedman. another of the teliar circle, claimed: "The dan gerous are is not In the category of him who find youth an ever-absorbing quest lun: who thinks young thoughts and finds the world and Its ' I 11 j)lrecllo o'.lensen and un lirtrg' foi iM.miiifW" nrnr " X'V-e i.iiaw TODAY! an$1iile-lie otTiers Cancel slie decorated ilie wall Rupert Hughes, who wrote "The Old Nest" ana "Dangerous Curve Ahead," says' there are thousands of girls like Idalene Nobbin in his latest picture, "The Wall Flower." He -thinks that a girl need not be homely, friendless and unloved. And he has put his thoughts into a photoplay that is a gem of humor and observation. Colleen Moore, who plays the wall flower, gives one of the greatest individual perform ances jever seen upon the screen. . 7L written and. directed "ttj 3XJPERT HUGHES SriiU COLLEEN MOORE Pathe Weekly and ' Comedy A Bigger Sea Drama Than Ever Before im iiiiijui ii. i.i mi laMin mm i n m n,..in,. .n jmh a mem liitfiiTi iai nnna iiimui mni 11 1 n nirnirnii 111 1 rl 11 1 ri 11 1 .i.n im .. 1 !. ...it. r nwi THIS WEEK From Tropic . Isle to Underworld Ruler of wild men but not of her own wild heart! THAT'S Lola, girl captain of a smuggling schooner, who gives a- u 1 x j. :x v j xi,. .-x 1 Li xi: j; t.: xt. woman" who first won his knre shanghais her aboard the schooner and away on the broad Pacific battles it out. Destroyers, hydroplanes phantom ships and slinking smugglers all in a terrific play! Sensations; seascapes; wonderful snatches of life and strife where league long rollers swell! It makes thrills, thrill! A A First National Attraction KEATES' KONTEST AND KONCERT Today's Kontest is given in honor of Portland's "Old-Tim ers," and only those displaying a head of gray hair or past the fifty-year mark will be allowed to sing in the Kontest or com-- pete for a prize -$25.00 in cash. CONCERT Nov 1. Overture, Orpheus. J. Offenbach No. 2. Serenade......" Fr. Schubert No. 3. Lovable Eyes, Song. .Schwartz No.- 4. Keates' Kontest, Old-time Songs K No. 5. Medley of Remick Hits - arr. Henri A. Keates EIGHT GREAT REELS in cash. arr. Henri A. Keates SSNSSVV 0fSi'f y it-y m -t.v -y,; ,.. -. j to Borg's dream of a South Sea kingdom. 'Through days and nights she planned get the traitor. ! L. J H,.MIJ I
