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SECTION FOUR VOL. XLI ft , - " 1 4 A. s- w 4 1 BY HAMILTON WAYNE. ATTENTION is called to the photograph ot Charles Ray tn 'Smudge" in the "lay-out" on this page, supposedly the current at traction at the Peoples theater- That leature, however, has been set back for another week as the run of ' W hen Knighthood Was in Flower" has been extended ot that theater. This announcement was made by the 'management of tie Peoples after the ' layout'- had been sent through. Many of the photoplay writers and critics who have witnessed this splendid 'production inevitably re called Charles Major, the author of the stirring novel from which the picture was made. He was an ob scure lawyer, practicing in Shelby vllle. Indiana. When his novel was published he leaped into national fame. Mr. Major had a keen pen chant for the members of the writ ing fraternity, all of whom are ex pressing keen regret now that he could not have lived to see the ex cellent picture that has been made from his novel. Paul Noble, manager of the Lib erty, is also offering a particularly fine attraction in Jackie Coogan in "Oliver Twist." As I wrote previ ously, some may wish that this or that particular portion of the famous Dickens novel had been used by Frank Lloyd. But it must be admit ted that this capable director has "Wisely selected ' the portions that would lend themselves most suitably to screen production "Looks as if Harold Lloyd had moved into the Majestic for the winter," remarked Frank Lacey, the manager, yesterday. "Dr. J a c k," with his sunshine methods and the ridiculously funny situations in that feature, is continuing to hang up a record at the Majestic. The fame of Marie Corelli's novel "Thelma," read by millions through out the world, has made the screen version of that book one of the most widely Interesting of the season, and Fred Teufel, manager of the Blue Mouse, where it is being shown, is tremendously enthusiastic about this . production in which Jane Novak is starred. The picturization has ad hered to the original narrative with surprising fidelity. Gus Metzger, general manaier of the Rivoli, is offering a rollicking story of humor and rare charm In "Rags to Riches." in which the 13-year-old boy star, Wesley Barry, Is 1 the underscored player. Thematical ly, this deals with the facts that to the blind sight is riches; to homely women beauty is riches; to those in poverty shelter is riches, but to wealthy people what are riches? Clarence L. Brown, director for Hope Hampton production, has se !1. V4. . iUVi 1 PA ii sin "vxl ilfl" til tt - n 1 lected a particularly strong cast to support the star In "The Light in the Dark." which is the current attrac tion at the Columbia theater. Not ably prominent members of the cast include. Lon Chaney. E. K Lincoln and Dore Davidson, the last of whom is very favorably remembered for his excellent work in "Humoresque" and ' The Good Provider." The Hippodrome is offering as its picture attraction this week Tom Mix in his latest snappy release entitled "Up and Going." It is a suitable title. The star is up and going every foot of the five reels. This is about the best feature that this popular star has produced. "A Fool There Was" is the attrac tion at the Circle theater. Lewis Stone and Estelle Taylor are the co--featured players. And when it comes to subtle vamping. Miss Taylor in this production places herself in a class all her own. Her work in this singularly strong picture leaves nothing to be desired. Gus A. Metzger and John C. Stille, of the Rivoli theater, will celebrate the passing of the old year with patrons of the Rivoli theater in the regulation Rivdii manner, according to present - plans. A programme is being made up now of which spicy music by the Rivoli orchestra, con ducted by Salvatore Santaella, will be a feature. Noise-making ap paratus savoring of the carnival spirit, including thousands of toy t aloons to be released by the au dience, are already being delivered to the theater, giving the office of Mr. Stille the appearance of the ht adquarters for some carnival company. Saturday night, December 30, has been definitely set as the date to celebrate the coming of the new year. This date has been chosen instead of Sunday, the last day of the year, as a policy to please the majority of the Rivoli patrons. m m "The Birth of Aviation" that is the title of an. extraordinary film being shown in leading "movie" houses by Universal. To say the least these pictures are most remarkable ! Few realize the terrific obstacles encountered by the Wright brothers and other pioneers of the air, but this film, which shows the first air plane flight in history not only fraphically illustrates how these difficulties were met with and over come, but also brings home a real ization of the great genius of these early flyers. Production of "The Glimpses of the Moon," Edith Wharton's popu lar novel, which is being trans lated to the screen by Allen Dwan, was started at the' Paramount Long ft "75 i ft Wm n I HI f ' 3 "saa. island studio; this week. The open lnj setting for this Paramount pic ture was a fashionable modiste shop in New York in which Bebe Daniels and Nita Naldi, the featured actresses, get an opportunity to wear the smartest hats and gowns and lingerie that were obtainable on BMfth avenue. In addition to Miss Daniels and Miss Naldi, the cast includes such well-known players as David Pow ell, Maurice Costello and Charles Gerrard. Parker J. McConnell, who plays a part in the Warner Brothers' film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, "The Beautifful and Damned," sends out an S. O. S. call for finan cial aid to start a drug company. McConnell has been working in rain scenes for a week clothed only in a ballet dress, and he claims to have enough bottles of liniment and other pharmaceutical accessories in his dressing room to make any drug company envious. For the first time In her screen career Helen Ferguson was called upon to portray the tender charac ter of a young mother in Harry Rapf's production of "Brass," which Sidney Franklin is directing for the Warner Brothers. "I felt as though I was out in the middle of the ocean all alone," explained Miss Ferguson, "and I did not know what to do with the baby until it looked up into, my eyes and put its arms around my neck. Then, well, I just naturally was the OREGONIAN-RIVOLI THEATER POETRY WRITING CONTEST ON "OMAR" NOW BEGINS Seventy-five Dollars in Cash and Must Be in Before Conclusion HARKEN ye poets! Here is a contest worthy of your pens! Very soon there is coming to the Rivoli theater the super-production of Richard Walton Tully's "Omar the Tentmaker" with Guy Bates Post in the titular role. Gus Metzger, general manager of the Rivoli, is so tremendously enthusi astic about the merits of the forth coming attraction that he is going to scatter some prizes. ' As the read er unquestionably knows, "Omar the Tentmaker" is based upon the life and times of Omar Khayyam, the Persian poet of the 11th century. Not many things are known con cerning Omar's life, but using the facts that were obtainable for a basis Mr. Tully has elaborated and PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY Ji :f - V if . kJW i -4 ri - if ?yyf7-f TODAY'S FILM FEATURES. Liberty Jackie Coogan in "Oliver Twist." Majestic Harold Lloyd in "Dr. Jack." Third week. Blut Mouse Jane Novak in "Thelma." R'voh Wesjey Barry in "Rags to Riches." Peoples "When Knighthood Was in Flower." Third week. Columbia "The Light in the Dark." Hippodrome Tom Mix in "Up and Going." Circle "A Fool There Was." mother of that kiddie for the rest of the day." " Once a landlady In the films, al ways a landlady. Dorothy Walters, plump and of Irish countenance, has been trying for ten years to get away from landlady parts without success. She has just finished work as a landlady in Elsie Ferguson's new Paramount picture, "Outcast," at the company's Long Island studio. "Sometimes I get a slight change from landlady parts and then I'm a cook," sighed Miss Walters as she closed her eyes to visions of grand dames in silks and satins. "Once you get identified with certain types on the screen it is impossible to 20 Pairs of Passes Will Be Awarded to the Winners kAll Poems of Bun of "Omar the Tentmaker," December 29 Rules Published. rounded out a thrilling story. Omar Khayyam was many things other than a famous poet. He - was an astronomer of note and made altera tions ' in the calender existing at that time; he was a fighter and a tavern roysterer, a loyal friend and a great lover. Omar's poetry was , written en tirely in a four-line form known as the quatrain, each line consisting of ten syllables, every other one of which is accented, while the final syllables of the first, second, third and fourth lines rhyme. . In this quatrain writing contest a poem of only four -lines is required, a quatrain in the form utilized by Edward Fitzgerald in his version of the Rubaiyat oOmar Khayyam. The MORNING, DECEMBER wm yfcrxArr. convince a director that you can do other things. . "I feel like the Shakespearean actor who yearns to play comedy and the comedian who cherishes the hope that some day he may do a tragic role just to show that he can do it. I am continually haunted by gingham dresses, a high knot of hair on my head and sleeves rolled up to my elbows. ,' Oh!. Walt till- I get a chance to put on I pretty clothes, and then I'll show some of these people just what a landlady can do with a new set of scenery." Bebe Daniels, who is to be fea tured with Nita Naldi in Allan Dwan's Paramount picture, "The prizes will be awarded to the poets who submit the best quatrains based on the following translation by Jus-, tin McCarthy from the original Per sian of Omar Khayyam": ."Though heaven and earth were blent together, though all the Luster of the stars went out, X would wait Id your path, O Beloved, and ask of you why you have . taken away zny life." The task set for the readers of The Oregonian is to render the above prose translation into a single quatrain after the manner used by Edward Fitzgerald. In order that every reader of The Oregonian may have an exact idea of the Fitzgerald .verses, two of the most poular and most perfect of the Fitzgerald qua- Concluded an Fags i.) 1 71. (i y 10, 1922 IIS IP53" Glimpses of the Moon," which has just been put into production in the 'Long Island iftudio, is ill at her home in New York from effects of the axtraction of two wisdom teeth, Suppose you have light hair would you consider it an insult if someone called you a "back-lighting blonder You shouldn't, for this is a term coined by Glenn' Kershner, Goldwyn cameraman, to describe a pretty girl "u" BO" 01 Iluy ana smning pale golden hair which lends itself particularly well to halo -effects, so highly esteemed on the screen. : To produce these, a, strong light is thrown; ftom the rear, near the floor, oc j- . , . . .t. ' so as not to shine directly into the lens, TCnd the resulting picture best exemplifies the hair as "woman's crowning glory." - . - Not "One Week of Love," or "One Merry Month," working Year.' That is Harrison Ford's title for the 13 months that have passed since he arrived in Los Angeles the last time. In that period he has done leading roles in seven pic- tures, leading up to his present en- gagement as George Qsborn in "Vanity Fair," which is being made at the Goldwyn studios with Mabel Ballln starred as "Becky Sharpe." This is the first time that Mr. Ford, who has been playing op- poslte such stars as Constance Tal- madge and Gloria Swanson, will have played in a Goldwyn picture. " Labeling the raging forest fire in Reginald Barker's "Hearts Aflame," as "the -real . thing," County For- ester Stuari -J. Flintham - of Los Angeles Is high in his praise of the roaring spectacle in this forthcom- ing Louis B. Mayer offering. "The forest fire . in "Hearts Aflame' is the first one I have ever S 7ssr yfs- 7,vf,1SlS. I If j , 'jt V l?l enjoyed," said Mr. Flintham after viewing the picture. "The rest have kept me up all night. But serl- ously, the conflagration is the real thing. I have attended hundreds of forest fires, some were Just scrub stuff burninfr and others 8Wept 10- ... f timhAr a,m., ao I can say without ego that I' know the forest fire catastrophe in all of, its stages. Air. Barker is to be com plimented v on . his handling of the forest gcenefi ,n Hearts Aflame. ,it, vt h got something tat is well worth seeing." "A Blind Bargain," featuring Lon Chaney in a dual role, is toased on : , , The Octave of Claudius," zine etory by Barry Pain. Harry Northrup, who has an im- portant part in the production of - but "One Hard- he christian, piayea tne role 01 ..Lord Robert Ure, in the Kngllsh Production of the picture some years ago. olz Negri's latest foreign-made Picture, a film version of "Sapho." by Alphonse Daudet, will be released in this country by Goldwyn. .." Speaking of stars of the future, there are plenty of predictions of the advent of a new premier come- dian. He is already a star with a world-wide fame, , but he seems headed for a position of vantage where he will be able to crowd Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd. the two acknowledged present-day leaders, for top honors. This pros- pective top-llner is none other than Monty Banks,; who is now in the midst of his third annual contract with Federated and who is already assured graduation into the full- length comedy field before the year of 1923 has flown. The Jsecret ot Dramatic, Photoplays and Real Estate News NO. 50 5n. r 0 a? Monty's success is his devotion to hard, constant work. He is. In fact, one of the hardest workers in film dom and he is living proof that it pays to work hard. . . Unusual events of vital impor tance marked the past week as one of the most' fruitful in the annals of filmland. Mighty magnates and cardinal captains of the motion-picture, industry, attracted by mo mentous conventions, have crowded Hollywood, the world's center of the producing of photoplays, and big problems have been solved by them, while simultaneously big plans have been made for the immediate future. Boiled down, the total results mean that picture making will get ac tually on its basis of normalcy early in the forthcoming new year. Paramount announces an appro priation increased by several mil lions of dollars, First National issues a statement replete with bright prospects and several of the inde pendent groups of film makers are lining up to contribute prodigious ly to the hum of the whole indus try. Much new capital is assured. A higher degree of cinema art is likewise assured. In short, every indication is a source for renewed optimism of general influence, since it is an optimism born of bet "ter general conditions obtaining throughout the United States. Hugo Ballin's knowledge and ex perience as artist helps him In his search at original sources for ma terial for ""Vanity Fair," in which Mabel Ballin will play Becky Sharpe. The paintings of Sir Thomas Law rence are rich in suggestions for the costume plates. Mr. Ballln even pro cured copies of '"The Comic Alma nack," published in England between 1835 and 1845, to study the drawings of : Cruikshank, which Illustrated Thackeray's writings for the period ical. ' Mary Pickford and Douglas Fair banks are back in Hollywood after an absence of two months, during which time they attended the open ings of both their latest productions -in New fork and Chicago. Mary says she is ' elated over Doug's "Robin Hood," and Doug says he is equally as elated over Mary's new "Tess of the Storm Country." And, having exchanged felicitations, this distinguished duo is now proceeding to settle down to work on 'their next pictures. Mary will film "Dor othy of Haddon Hall" and Doug will do a pirate story, yet untitled. ' "Yale's a good place to come from if a fellow wants to get in moving pictures, and I've found my being a former collegian helps me re markably in my attempted conauest of the screen," comments Murray Spencer, who arrived In Hollywood tptally unknown about a year, ago and is now numbered among the busiest actors in the film colony. There is a pointer in his experience, a pointer of value to other aspirants to cinema honors, namely, go to Yale first. - Not the least important member of the cast of "The Strangers' Banj . . . . . (Concluded on Fag 2. V