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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 1,V 1D22 HELENE CHADWICK DISCARDS ALL TEMPERAMENTAL FADS Goldwyn Leading Woman Admits Indulging in All Sorts of Emotional Fits When -Youngster. , it & "" v,,rs s ' 4v '. ' ' ' 46' U s' ' "' Jt" 4',4 t 't "44 y y Jit i V J ''''& 4v a n, ' ,11? 'I XV r y I if 1 "J? fl 'I I 1 ' T- - ! it f - i I II", - , wf' , gene "V. Presbrey, noted Stage and screen playwright, who recently joined Mi&s Pickford's staff. While in the east Elmer Harris expects to visit his silver fox farm on Prince Edward island. Tarence Erickson, assistant to John Fairbanks, is hurrying to close up his activities at the Pickford Fairbanks studios so he can leave for New York. Following: the metropolitan pre mier of "Robin Hood" Erickson will conduct "a European road show tour of this picture. He will probably be accompanied as far as New York by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fairbanks, who will witness the opening. ; Novel Ordered Written From "Suzanna." PoKKtlily First Event of Kind in History of Motion Pictures. Helene ('liudtvick, popular Mcrren player, who Ih meeting with increasing favor with each wuccesBive production. OR the first time in the history of motion pictures a prominent publishing house has retained a well-known author to novelize a big film production. The play is Mack Sennett's "Suzanna," in which Mabel Normand is the star, and which will be reteased by Associated f irst National Pictures, Inc. After the filming of "Suzanna," the strength of the story spread Uirough the picture' colony " and thence to the east. The Macauley company, publishers in New York, sent a representative to see Mr. Sennet t and submitted to him a proposition to make a novel of the picture. "It is an unusual move," said the representative, "but our firm be lieves the sale of the book, in con junction with the showing of the picture, will produce big results." The outcome of the talk was-that Mr. Sennett signed an agreement by which the Macauley company was to retain R. E.- Drago, a prominent author ,to novelize the motion pic ture production. Heretofore stage plays have been novelizsd, but in motion pictures it has been the custom to build a pic ture from a novel. In the case of "Suzanna," however, the novel is to be built from the picture. All of which is taken as an indication of ai.other step forward in the artistic importance of motion picture plays. CULLEN LANDIS GOES FROM TRUCK DRIVER TO SCREEN Goldwyn Player Declares That Would Be Title of His Autobiography if He Gets to Stage Where One Is Acceptable. j BV T. S. EXGLER. i A a c'" confesses Helene Chadwiek, Goldwyn lead f Ing: woman, "I was a wild ly emotional youngster. I declare that I flew into rages, cried gallons of gigantic tears, ran away from home and even got temperamental jf it s over music. When I grew up X became more introspective; I be gan .to think more and express less. Not that I do not feel things as strongly but I find that by being rather placid in my daily existence I store up energy for emergencies, so when I have a strongly emo tional scene to do I have a reserve strength to draw on." N'ow, observing her at home or at the studio Miss Chadwick's person ality might be described as of the repressed variety except when she is acting before the camera. She rare ly shows emotion of any kind in her daily life beyond a never-failing sympathy for people in trouble. All f which goes to show that the talent within people is not always apparent from their demeanor, for Burely a more emotional person on the screen If would be hard to find witness "The Sin Flood," "The Oust I Flower" and "Brothers Under . the Skin," in which Miss Chadwiek por trayed the extremes of emotion. All this does not mean that Miss Chadwick's personality is of the negative kind. Far from that. Her very quietness is a welcome calm in the turbulent variety of artistic temperaments that is to be found in a motion picture studio. Her room Is a sort of resting place for knotted nerves and tired tongues. When Helene is interviewed by a newspaper writer she does not im mediately try to say , something witty or eccentric. She never, ap parently, attempts to make an in stantaneous and forced impression on her interviewer by bursting into rhapsodies over a recent picture or an anticipated one. It is usually "How do you do? You won't mind if I go right on making up, will you?" in a quiet, well-mannered tone. Sometimes, the journalist, accus tomed to a fusillade of information, is a bit nonplussed by he ensuing silence. Then the visitor responds unconsciously to the relaxing quiet of Helene's room and Helehe's per sonality and a comfortable, easy-going chat follows, during which ques tion's ars asked at will and a'clear. upiexaggerated story is told.' Screening "Java Head" Is Begun by Paramount. Coniilderablr Preliminary Work Is to Be Done nt Salem, JHaas. J ! 1 , Si Sr " ; M r 4 . if I J , r ; I I -1 " "4"" Jy . ' t i J - v it 1 - i 1 - i - S f J P 4" 4 I " " ' ,'S- tv f ' ' I I ' " ' " ; I' I ' ' ' " " ' I I M X - 1 - t l- ; I J I $ f I '1 i i 1 r ! Ei'SiiSi- V ...... . - & !ff::.:2 f , A if, " " " r ?P-5S? s , , i &44&S-VACkj4S?S4S4Sy'&,S444f4 I I Jerome Trevor. A unique feature of the picture is said to be the fine J character work of Paul Pantzer as . Giuseppi, the hunchback crook, and of Daddy Lewis as old Adam j Duncan. ! Helen Montrose in the role of j ''Hard-Boiled" Molly Malone. Anders 1 Randolph as ' "Bull" Morgan and j Harry Short as "Slippery Kddie" Foster are picturesque and convinc ing1 criminals. Consistently working- alone; under the supervision of Mack Sennett. the various departments on the blc com edy lot are functioning- to their utmost, preparing- for the promised increase in production activity to bepin shortly. The rumor has not beeft contra dicted that several new faces will be seen in future Sennett comedy casts, some of whose names are already well known to fans of the stae and screen. FILM SCRIPT GIRL BECOMES ESSENTIAL TO PRODUCERS Employe Must Be Behind Camera Every Tim With IMreelor Whether Shooting la in Studio or on Loci I ion. Soqiety "Extras" Find Film Work Hard. . Gone Are CherUhea IlluinnM itt Kane and A bn adapt Lelkre CHARLES RAY ILL PRODUCE CELEBRATED OLD COURTSHIP Romance of Miles Standish and Priscilla Mullens Will Be Screened With All Its Historical Color and Poetry. THE delightful romance of colo nial days, which Henry Wade ( worth Longfellow has preserved to all future generations in "The Courtship of Miles Standish," is to be reproduced in pictures by Charles Ray. Arthur S. Kane made an an nouncement to this effect this week, etating that Mr. Ray will begin pro duction work as soon as possible after the completion df James Whit comb Riley's "The Girl I Loved," on which he is now engaged. "The ;irl I Loved" will follow the cur rent offering, "A Tailor-Made Man." Preliminary to actual production, Mr. Ray and his associates expect to indulge in as much research work as is necessary to insure a picture which will be historically correct in every detail. It i the star's deter mination, said Mr. Kane, that the picture shall be of great educational value, while taking full advantage of the limitless opportunities for en tertainment that are offered. Every reader and every student of American history is familiar with the meeting between Priscilla and John Aiden, in which the Puritan maiden uttered her immortal "Why don't you speak for yourself, John?" as her answer to the love-smitten Alden's p,leas in behalf of his friend Standish. - For some time Mr. Ray, who is a close student of history as well as a lover of literature, has been mak ing a special study of the life and customs of the Massachusetts colo nists and their Indian neighbors, and the knowledge he has acquired, as well as that to be gained from the forthcoming researches, will be put to good stead in the preparations for the new picture. The production, it is announced, will be on an elaborate scale, in thorough keeping with the importance and magnitude of the subject. The cast is yet to be announced. SALON FOR EXHIBITION OF BIG PICTURES SUGGESTED . . . . Artistic Merits of Screen Productions May Be Judged With Same ' Discrimination as Bestowed on Painting and Stills. . tttHT not a motion - picture salon, .where the artistic merit of screen productions hi ay be judged with the same dis criminating care that is bestowed on paintings, still photographs, Sculptured subjects and pastels? The question is asked oy Karl Struss. cinematographer, who has just completed the Gasnier produc lion of "Thorns and Orange Blos Bome." a picture that he declares compares favorably with the mas terful "still" pictures that have won prizes for him in the exhibitions of the Royal Photo society of Eng land, the London salon and the ' NfcJaj.man prize competition. , Struss spent 15 years in the study f photography before he turned hie attention to the screen. During this period he won first prizes and rewards of lesser importance In practically every great exhibition Of photography held in this country, France and England. He invented the Struss pictorial lens and worked out numerous camera devices for the making of -better pictures. ; Then came his work for the screen and his affiliation with the fc. P. Schulberg organisation. Dur tnfr this time he has pictured many tig special productions, making use t all the devices of the artistic still operator and the added facili- i Jiey offered to the cinematographer. I t "jdui me worm nas not yet oeen taught to recognize the motion pic ture as an art." said he. "The man who creates a great picture through the use of any other mkedium is recognized by critics and rewarded according to his " deserts. So why iot have competitive exhibitions of aitlstfc films? Such exhibitions would offer an ' incentive for real creative photography on the, screen and the public, of course, would rofit by the plan." .. . . ' Tom Forman's long expected ex pedition to the North Woods began this week when the director, accom panied by the all-star cast that will be used in his Preferred Picture pro duction of "Are You a Failure?' left Los Angeles for a several weeks so journ in tents. The Larry Evans story that is be ing pictured with great fidelity will involve a stay at Eureka, California, near which a lumber camp will be used as a background for a part of the action, while the other scenes will be "shot on the other sid& of the Canadian border. The cast that has been organized by B. p. Schulberg for this produc tion includes Madge Bellamy, Lloyd Hughea, T o in Santschi. Hardee Kirk land, Jane Keckley and Myrtle Vane. Iw adidtion. an important role will b ptoyed by "Stub," a short-legged dog which, like Ben Turpin, has succeeded in capitaliz ing what to any bo-ay else would be considered a. misfortune. PRESENT activities and plans for even further extension of their scope is making the Long Island Paramount studio a busy place these days. Two new production units have arrived from the west' coast. Within a few days four companies will be working and a fifth will be started soon. George Melford has started- "Java Head," and Alfred Green has be gun the filming of "Back Home and Broke," a George Ade story starring Thomas Meighan, Within a few days Dorothy Dalton is scheduled to begin work in a story entitled "Black Fury," by Edmund Goulding, under the direction of! Victor Fleming. . . ! Much of the preliminary work on "Jayji Head" is to be done at Salem, Mass.. and the company will start soon for that town. Li la Lee has been selected as leading woman in "Back Home and Broke," but the other members of j the cast have not been chosen as yet. -1 Alice Brady has just completed Anna Ascends," and is scheduled to start in another picture soon. The name of this production has not been chosen as yet. . " The most perfect man of the stag will adorn future screen productions of the most beautiful woman in America, In other words,. Katherine Mac Donald, who has won a score of contests in which she was named as the most beautiful woman in Amer ica, will enjoy the support of Or ville Caldwell, declared by Elinor Glyn to be "the most physically per fect man on the American stage." Probably the most youthful player on the screen makes his camera debut in "Thorns and Orange Blos soms." the visualization of Bertha M, Clay's immortal love story, just completed at the B. P. Schulberg studios. Baby Adams, two weeks oM, and possessor of his final .name only, since his christening had not yet oc curred, was selected to play the part of the infant that succeeded in touching the heart of the Spanish songster. On the second day of the child's appearance Eve Unsell, sce nario chief at the B. P. Schulberg studios, officially took the infant under her wing. When Director Gasnier was ready to shoot he could find neither scenarioist nor Infant. "Boy, go find Adams and Eve," shouted the director. Whereupon a practical - minded call boy electrified visitors in the adjoining gardens by going about shouting. "Call for Adams and Eve! j Call for Adams and Eve!" Cullfn L an dis, popular rtcreea player, -who five yearn ago was driving a track for m. Long Beach studio Now a hit la pictures. iTJROM Truckdriver to Movie Star" would be a suitable title for "The Story of My Life," by Cul len Landis, if, he could find time to write such a book and what a won derful story it would be. Five years ago he was driving a truck for a Long Beach studio, run ning the telephone switchboard and doing other odd jobs during hie spare moments. Then he was pro moted to the position, of assistant property man and later was given charge of the property department. His efficient work along these lines prompted 'the "powers that be" to raise him still another notch to the rank of assistant director. This par ticular job he found too hard, so he bought a camera and spent more than six months taking pictures. learning everything possible along to California. this line, spending his eparo time doubling in pictures as "stunt man." Finally h-e was given a small part in a picture, and his work won him recognition as an actor. From then on his path to success became smoother, but it was his ex cellent work in the Goldwyn picture, "The Girl From Outside," which really carried him "over the top." Upon the completion of this picture he was offered a five-year contract to appear in Goldwyn pictures, which he accepted readily. Among the reecnt productions in which he has been seen are "Watch Your Step," "The Man With Two Moth ers," "Bunty Pulls the Strings" and "Snowblind." He had the juvenile lead in "Remembrance." Landis was born and educated In Nashville, Tenn., where he had con siderable experience before coming POWER OF EMOTION IN MUSIC THEME OF PICTURE Melodrama With. Interesting Plot Being Shot at Biograph Studios Under Working Title of "The Symphony of Life." AT THE Biosraph studios. New York. Edwin Carewe is en gaged " the hew picture he is producing for Associated First National release. The cast are now dividing their time between the studio, the Pennsylvania terminal station and the slums of the city, which constitute the principal set tings of the story. The story is a melodrama by Curtiss Benton, originally titled "The Symphony of Life." This, how ever, will not be th final title of the picture. The theme of the story is to show the power of music over the emo tions of mankind. A blind girl, frail, innocent and lovely, wanders into a band of robbers and is adopted by them. They plot to use her innocence and her power to play the violin in putting across a dar ing theft. But Jimmie Harrison, one of the band, still young in crime, hears the girl playing her violin and becomes disgusted with the hideous life he is living. He learns to love the girl and the beau- vliui Bins. Hue eAyicooeD uu uci P music. Leiermuiea lo lite in gin from the horrible trap she is in, he sacrifices himself to the police in order to save her. In the end the girl recovers her sight. James Rennie and the pretty little English actress, Dorothy Mackaill, are cast in .the leading roles, while Sam Hardy portrays the impresario. Stock company THERE are some society people in San Francisco who know Just what it is like to be a motion pic ture "extra." Gone are their cher ished illusions of the ease and abundant leisure supposed to be en joyed by the players. Hearing that Director Sam wood was about to film scenes in the Gloria Swanson picture, "The Im possible Mrs. Bellew," at a fashion able San Francisco country club. 30 of the members volunteered to act as "eatrask" "It will be hard work I have several big scenes," warned Director Wood. "That's all right with us," was the airy answer of the group, vls ionlng not more than 45 minutes ot an unusual experience. The next morning fog came in and it was nearly noon before Mr. Wood had finished his sea scenes and found it possible to use the so ciety players. From then until S o'clock the so ciety 30 moved hither and thither at the director's commands. They waited while lights were being fixed, they got up and sat down, they danced, they strolled on the porch, they did all the other things he asked them to do. The 45 minutes they had antic ipated developed into five hours. "Never again!", was the chorus of some of them. Antonio Moreno nas been slfned by Poramount to appear as leading man '.'or Gloria Swai son In her next picture, "My American Wife," which Monte M. Katterjohn has adapted from an original atory by Hector Turnbull. j Moreno's handsome Spanish type Is considered ideally suited for this picture, as all of the characters are Argentinians. Other members of the east will be Joseph Swlckard, Brie Mayne, Eugene Corey, Eileen Pringle, F. R. Butler, Jacques d'Auray. Loyal Underwood, Walter Long, Nadeen Paul and some not yet chosen. Mr. Moreno was born In Madrid and came to this country when he was 14. On completion of his edu cation he went on the stage with Wilton Lackaye, Mrs. Leslie Carter, Constance Collier and Tyrone Power. His first screen experience was with Vltagraph. Later he was starred In serials. More recently he has been featured by Goldwyn. In a banquet scene in the court of King James I of England which is a part of, the new Paramount pic ture produced by George Flts maurice, "To Have and to Hold." several historic personages have been reproduced. These are William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and the Duke of Buckingham. The cast In cludes Betty Compson. Bert Lytell, Theodore Kosloff, Walter Long and other members of the Paramount t r ft X f. 4 A i i uiminijilHillli i i in in ml :: "1"'"J Ml Kdlta Ulnbora, irka Is prvrlnc; that ltht "wrlM alrl- a pfe-tr tlnuity record serves as Mr. Sish! s aufde In the rutting and piecing to gether of the film. If It la necesnary to remake rrr tain parts of the photoplay, as same times happens, the scene are di rected from the "script alrl's" rec ords Instead of from the orislnsl scenario. As a rule, theee experts represent the graduating r.s of the etudlne office stenographers. Their princi. pal nuiillf lretlon ret on a gmrk and keen mentality ard a familiar ity with film production methods, and their salaries are proportion ately high. Without a "script girl" a picture company would be like a ship without a rudder. T THE Louis B. Mayer studio Edith Sanborn fills the post of "set stenographer" with the John M. Stahl company making "One Clear Call," First National at traction produced by this unit. Miss Sanborn's duties are manifold. She must be behind the camera every time Mr. Stahl directs a scene, whether the actJon transpires In the studio or on location. The details of every scene from the entrance of the first player to the fade-out on the last become a part of Miss Sanborn's records. She makes notes on the action of the scenes, step by step, and upon the completion of the picture her con- GIRL GOING TO NEW YORK TO BE GREETED AS STAR Helen Jerome Eddy to Make Visit to Birthplace and Will Find Her Name Blazing in Electric Lights. HOBNOBBING with New York city for the first time ought to offer thrills enough for any ordinary human being. But. add to this the fact that the visitor is a girl, that Manhattan was iier birthplace from which she was removed as a baby, and that the city will mark her return by placing her name in electric lights on Broad way, and you have the experience of the most fortunate star of all fiim dom Helen Jerome Eddy. For Miss Eddy will make her in itial bow as a full fledged star on the very day that she will make her very first visit to fhe city of her b'rth. And. stake It from Miss Eddy herself, she is looking forward to seeing New York with a fr keener Interest than to the usually nuiuli Ing grandeur of stardom. With the completion of her first Marring picture, "when Live t"ome." a Rav Carroll production for K. B. O., M'ss Eddy faced her first real vacation In years Heveral weeks will Intervene before the "shooting" of opening scenes for her rext picture. 'That mesne that f will have an opportunity to New York," said the youthful star. "And when 1 sv 'see' New York that Is exactly what I mean. I am going to do all the things that a small tomn visitor Is expected to do and I'm going to have the greatest fun of my lit .n nr t hem " NEXT TUESDAY 11 A.M. ,FOR LADIES ONLY Screen Author Goes East for Mary Pickford. Elmer Harris Writing Film Ver sion of Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall." E"1MER HARRIS, who is writing i Mary Pickford's screen version of "Dorothy Vernon . of Haddon Hall," is packing his grip and ward robe trunk once more for a quick skip to New York, where, tin addi tion to witnessing the metropolitan opening of "Robin Hood," he will confer with Miss Pickford regarding certain situations in the story. - It is possible that he will continue on to Cuba and Mexico with the Pick-ford-Fairbanks party, working out the story with Miss Pickford as they go. Research work for "Dorothy Ver non" is under the direction of Eu- A special production for ladies has been lavishly arranged by EDNA WALLACE HOPPER. You will see the wonder lady complete her morning routine her bath morning exer cises and dressed f or .the street. Doors Open 10:30 A. M. EMM n Admission 55 ...........80 Loges KWe-T...,;...!, ,,,,. ..nr nr ..- -, ,,. ... . ., nn . - i I Charles 1 D A Y I MEXICAN I 1 irat v,1 . TODAY IWMmJM ' Oil and . m:.m X" , -i f Urm I CECIL TEAGUE a wild We of the N i" - - at the wuriitzer in accom- Mexican border and H Lt?"ttS smugglers and motor. Mrsr?r r. - fx. .ft GrambiintTs." nd in con- cycles and senoritas ii It,' v - ' V i cert today at 1:30 P. M. J , ,. , , . . j k",:., ft and a fightm' fool 'f i t V A PROGRAMME . I4:' '" - J J U "zp" Hemid of a as Nation t Lv " " ' 4 V I lUL "La Paloma" Yradier tender. j Tp''" i J I . " Fantasie from "Fausf . s i f "Viirl Gounod 'i i . 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