PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 7. 1919.
OH BE JOYFUL, AND SMILE WITH US
JUST a pair of happy sunshine girls whose names never get into print, but who nevertheless are representative of a small army
of players who,' by looks and form and costume, add not a little to the pleasures and entertainment of cinema patrons through
out the land. They are not chorus girls, exactly, because they do not pretend to sing. All they have to do is to do as they are
told while a picture is being made to smile and be happy. And they are ambitious to become stars.
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Helen Keller
Heroine of
New Film
Life of Wonderful Woman
sented on Screen in
. Well Acted Story.
Pre-
KELLER, wlm tlioticu deaf
and Wind Jias made her.se'f a per
bojj of international fame, in the "heroine"
of a photo-drama which depicts her- life
utrucRlC The play, which will he seen
In Portland in due time. Is entitled "Pe
Hverance." and Is reviewed hy I.ouella
, O. Parsons In the New York Telegraph,
as follown :
"Thia picture, with Helen Keller as its
herolni its keynote and Its reason for
exiatinfft can scarcely be judped as an !
ordinary film. Matters of incorrect pro-I
duction are of small moment compared ;
, with thS Inspiration and the motive un- '
derlyine the picture. Quite apart from :
i the historical and educHtlonal value of
Deliverance," it has moments of real i
screen trart. i More are some, excep
tlonally artistic sceiies. though the pro
duction relies more on the popular an- I
peal of the story than oh any film tech
nique.
'"Thor are three parts childhood.
maidenhood and womanhood presented
'on the screen in three acts. The first
act holds out an appeal by reason of the
'.children, and the tender associations of
childhood. The child Etna Rogers, the
little blind Helen, is one of the best
"things in. the entire picture.
ACTING IS N ATI" R AL
"She never pives the "mpression" of act-1 formng a new production each succes
ing. but plays the difficult role of a blind. ;,jve Week.
. oea ana uumo cniia wir,n a cnaracteriza
tion which a grown person might be
proud to give. Edith Lyle, as Ann Sul
livan, and Jenny Lind. a black picaninny,
are other players who impress them
selves upon the audience as giving
something more than a stereotyped mo
tion picture performance.
Ann Mason plays the Heln Keller in
Maidenhood, and she has a difficult po
sition to keep up the pace pet by little
Etna Ross. She Is very sweet and pretty
however and at all times convincing.
. real Helen Keller, the real Ann
Sttlll'-an. her teacher, to whom she says
shfl f w-es everything, her mother, Mrs.
Kate Keller. app?ar in Womanhood, the
last act. After having the struggle of
penetrating the darkness visualized, Mtss
Keller was received with applause by
the audience, some of them who perhaps
appreciated for the first time what pa
tience, perseverance and untiring cour
age was necessary for this woman to
find the light.
KNEW MARK TiVAIX
Her life and her association with such
mea as Mark Twain. Joseph Jefferson.
Alexander Graham Bell are a bright
light in the stony patli and an uphill
climb necessary to gain her degree of
bachelor of arts at Radoliff. Mark
Twain said of her:
"There are two treat characters in the
. Vilneteenth centry. Napoleon Bonaparte
and Helen Keller ; Bnaparte set out to
conquer the world with an army and
failed. Helen Keller set out to conquer
the world with the power of mind and
won."
The picture Is a trifle long, but all
things pale into mstgt if icar.ee compared
'.with, the tremendously vital story told.
"Deliverance'' may well serve as a. bea
con light for parents whose children are
.horn with any of the afflictions which
I Helen Keller eonqueredv ' Wonderful
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Bertha Kalich
Will Traill Her
Whptbpr rr net
Mi Kli'
iiirluri ,
"st-v-k" companies in hr rcnrJusion
).rr,-.l m iiw inmwim. .s nm .itar. ....... (
dot i.
rRlanil tl.-atre-iOers will rronapiy aia - i
with her Kri j
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atr-e
Bj Zajda tilover.
New York. :.it. 6, Bertha K:il,',h. ve
think along broad lines, has evolved a
new idp;i. She will try it out on hrr
f'.Ttho-jm'.nK tour of (the iunt:- v ith
her production of "The Riddle: Woman."
The plan alms at the training of the
young aciurs iinu .niia '
pany. The scheme Is not only murine in
HClOrS .Ilia .l l " .
theatrical nistor. out u. " .
is a SUCCeSS it Will lO.Iline.u ...-ci i". I
irener.il adoption by thns? managers
who. . like Mme. Kalun. nae oeen
searching for a solution for the ever
perplexing repertoire problem.
Herself a product of the Continental
stape, with a technique learned in the
leadinK reportoire theatres of Austria
Hungarv and her own native Poland.
Mme. Kalich has alw;-ys been a firm
Mrfvnnnt of that form of training as
the best and only thorough training for I
the drama. In the repertoire theatre.
and there alone
can the young actor or
talent find adequate opportunity for his
hest develonment. The matter, accord
ing to the star of "The Riddle :
Woman" is not open to argument.
There might be developed a method
equally good. Mme. - Kalich concedes,
there might even be a better method,
but thus far nobody has discovered
any substitute for the hard,' nerverack-
ing. highly intensive training accruni.
as it were automatically, from
the
fnyart noisitv of rehparshiff and ner-
A THING OF THE PAST
But the repertoire theatre, insofar as
concerns America, is, according to Mme.
Kalich, a thing of the past. Save 'for
a few Isolated examples, notably those
of the summer stock companies operat
ing in our smaller urban communities,
the repertoire theatre is moribund.
The repertoire theatre cannot be re
stored, declares Mme. Kalich. because
the need for such an institution no long
er exists. The standards of public taste
due to the progress of general education
and culture have become so high that
it is only the unsophisticated audience
that is satisfied today with the neces
sarily inadequate productions of the re
pertoire theatre. For that Institution
while it was an excellent training school
for players, left, at the best, much to
be desired by the discriminating. And
with, good reason. .
Naturally no company can, with six
days" rehearsal, give such a good per
formance of any given piece as that
woman that she Is, her life might al-
most be a text book for other unfor-
tintMtnatn!v nnrt tn thu -oaf th
motion picture has established itself as
being the completed "ehapter of that text
book. '
Proprietor Held
' For Theft of Film
New York, Sept. 6. Louis . Savine.
proprietor of the moving picture house
at One Hundred and Forty-thirrt street
and Lenox avenue, was arraigned before
Judge William H. Wadhams, in general
sessions, on an Indictment charging him
with Criminally receiving stolen goods.
Has An Idea
Own Company
s;'me company could
render after four
intensive and ex-
to ix weeks of the
.,.,... f,-ai,i,,- ,, i vre under
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the ni'dern system, hrso : the .best of
venei toire .-iii'in.'r.ie to-.h-v must muUe
it p-.( ,. fho-vlrii. Indeed asiinst the aver-
;e i -oduction of the resular theatre.
rilU.IC Pi-: MA MIS THK BEST
Kurtliermore, thanks to the infinite
multiplication of theatres in our I'rcre
cities and the hlsrhly or-ranized system
of di.stiibutiun perfected by the book
ing office by which the finest and best
nf mptrnnnliian nrort t i r.r, r p .rriH
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nt-ct to the most remote centers of i
population the
public, demanding the
best and prowins ever more exacting
in its tastes, cannot and will not supprt i
anything but the thoroughly finished ,
i'nd carefully produced attraction.
i
But. though the need for the repre
toire theatre, per so. I. us ci-ased to exist
as an institution for public entertain- i
ment. the need of it as a training j
frround for vnnnp ntavers has ini'raucH .
a thourandfold. With its threatened ex- j
tiiH't:-M drarnc.tic art faces a serious;
problem. For in the absence of such
few repertoire theatres as now remain I
t,0 us how will it be possible for the !
rising generation of players to g:-t the ,
equivalent of its hard and exacting
training.
i ne answer to tins important ques
tion ; s voiced by Mme. Kalich is that
each individual manager established his
own repertoire training school for the
benefit of his own particular players. '
and in an effort to prove the practic-'
ability of her idea, "The Riddle
Woman" company is shortly to enter
upon an interesting and novel experi
ment. NEW DRAMA EACH WEEK
It is Mme. Kalich's plan to have
her company trained and rehearsed in
a new drama each week they are on
tour. The morning of each week day
is to be devoted to rehearsal of a new
nipPA anil con). Ct.niov u A i .
iormai proauction or the same insofar
as is possible without requisite seen-j
ery. costumes, etc. !
While it is not a part of
Mme.
Kclich s plan to give any public per
formances of the repertoire thus re
hearsed in those cities where "The Rid
dle : Woman" plays for only one week,
she announces her intention of doing
so in all "stands" of two weeks or more
so that Philadelphia. Boston, San Fran
cisco, and later New York, will all have !
an opportunity of seeing her idea put
to a practical test, which test will be in
the nature of a series of invitation mat
inees to members of the profession,
students of dramatic schools, and such
others generally as may be interested
in the development of her experiment
: He was held in $2500 bail for trial,
i .aTr-a ,ha, . i. j
ts cnarSed at, the defendant had
in
' his Possession 13,000 feet of film, stolen
from the Famous Players-Lasky cor-
porauon. irom universal Film company
! and from the Jester Comedies.
Thousands of dollars' worth ct films
have been stolen in the last year, ac
j cording to Assistant District Attorney
! Alfred J. Talley, and shipped to Central
and South America and to the Orient.
'Sari-' Next Week
Mitzi Hojos' sparkling operetta
"Sari." will be presented at the Alcwzar
for one week, starting Monday, Sep
tember 15. "Sari" is the operetta se
lected for the ' benefit for devastated
France. ' ' --.-. , -
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'Soldiers of Fortune
A Davis Novel, jnow
Being Photographed
Arthur S. Karie. president of Realart
Pictures corporation, announces thut
Hichard Harding l'avis' ptirring ro
mance. "Soldier:! of fortune." is now
being filmed for release this fall. The
p'eture is beln,.; made in California for
the Mayflower lo;iiay cr rporation.
The director is Alan Dawn, wUo has
sup"rvise:l the production of 1 no. t of
the recent Dousing Fairbanks tucccs?es
and other pictures.
"Soldiers of Fortune." probably tne
most popular cf "ii hard Harding; Davi3'
novels, was written about -0 years aso.
and atc idine to the publishers has been
in constant demand ever since. The
stage play based on the novel ha" b?en
j.hown in practically every city of the
,,;,.-.- and still is a standard produc
tion of most of the best stock companies.
The book was dramatized by Aig:ustus
Thomas and the play had its New York
Premier
theatre
at Charles Frohman s Savoy
on March 17. 1902, under . the
management of Henry B. Harris. It
waj in "Soldiers of .Fortune" that Hob-
eft Kdeson made his first appearance as
a stage star, inner members or tne
original cast who are now well known
re Dorothy Donnelly. Macey Ilarlam
I Thomas W. Ross. Guy Bates Post,
Byron Ongley and Wallace Kddinger.
Four .Books for
One Photoplay
For the first time, it is said, in the
history of photoplay, four books have
been purchased on which to base the
story for one picture. Realart Pictures !
corporation has bought the "Anne" books
hy L. M. Montgomery to provide Mary
Miles Minter with a suitable story.
The four. books are "Anne of Green
Gables." "Anne of Avonlea," "Chron-
of Avonlea." and "Anne of the
Island." "Anne of Green Gables" will
be the title of the photoplay and the
stories told in the series have been
J r. T.rl n crl Intr. r.na ntr t i mil Iv hv
Frances Marion.
Connecticut. Yankee
Is to Be Filmed
The film rights of Mark Twain's satire,
"A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's
Court," has just been purchased by the
Fox Film corporation. The chief role Is
to be taken -by Tom Mix and the techni
cal and art departments . of the Fox
studios are already gathering mem
oranda and period data fn an endeavor
to make this production one of the most
accurate productions ever filmed. "A
Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's
Court" tells of the romantic and ad
venturous Yankee who awakes to find
himself transported back 13 centuries
and surrounded by King Arthur and his
farrfous "knights of the round table.
M.s. Rinehart in South
Mary. Roberts Rinehart is , now In
California at the , headquarters of the
Eminent Authors'. Pictures. Inc. Mrs.
Rinehart is -there to consult Rex Beach.
who with Samuel Goldwln directs the
corporation, about the filming of novels.
"The Amasing : Interlude" will be the
first novel --of Mrs. Rinehart's to be
filmed by the new concern. !" T
MURTAGH'S CONCERT
ON OUR GIANT
$50,000 WURLITZER ORGAN
MURTAGH'S CDXCERT PROGRAM.
"WAVES OK THE DANUBE" (Waltz) ..Ivanovlct
"SERENADE" (Fantasia ) . Moore
"IRISH DIAMONDS'" (Fantasia)... .Moore
"The Minftrel Boy"
"Killarney"
"Come Back to Krin"
"Garry Owen"
''ALABAMA l.ULLABV De Veil
MARCH FROM "TANNHAUSER " Wagner
J2:30 TODAY
A LLOYD COMEDY
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la We if V-- . sV'asC ,.
In f
STARTING SATURDAY CHAS. RAY
THE FAVORITE OF ALL DRAMATIC STARS IN
EUGENE WALTERS' PLAY OF PICTURESQUE
TYPES AND SHARP CONTRASTS
SMILES AND FEARS MAKE WOMAN'S YEARS
STARTING TODAY
AND NEARLY ALL OF THIS WEEK
STOPPING FRIDAY AT MIDNIGHT
IN "BILL HENRY"
A
KINOGRAMS
A REAL LAUGH