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, , , Til, 111 T -j-r- SECTION t FIVE DRAMA, PHOTOPLAY VAUDEVILLE EIGHT PAGES THE REALM OP' MUSIC RING LARDNER S LTTKR 1": PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 18, 1920. SWEETLY CAPTIVATING NORA BAYES WHO may be temperamental for all we know. But if 'she is she has a good manager, be cause she's her own manager and owaeer, too, in her theatrical undertakings. Miss Bayes is recognized as one of America's most popular entertainers. She has a theatre of her own in New York city, and when George M.-Cohan wants a song "put over" in especially good shape, he Jet's Nora do it. "Over There," one of the song hits of the war, was thus introduced to the great American public. ' ' 1 1 Ar fJri I ,. i ........ -f i - "fytAfr-; I - j 4 , 4 C4tttgi,..i.....-...u f'f j ; 1 ," - I T . ' f- w s4-, f - , i ; - i i. .1 Shows Go On Despite Strike (B rnitd Nrwi EW YORK. April 17. Without walk ing the ties, the traveling ehciw troupes doing one night stands have been able to make their Jumps from town to town ever, since the railroad strike began. Only two exceptions so far have reported any mishap back to the Broad way base of supply. Robert Mantell played Julius Caesar In Philadelphia "Sunday night and was to have opened here on Monday, but had to call It off because his scenery had not arrived. William Gillette played in Newark in his street clothes on Mon day night amid makeshift scenery, the props of "Dear Brutus" having been sidetracked somewhere between Wash ington and Newark. But "Up in Mabel's Room." which to5k to the road Sunday. Plainfield. N. J.. Monday, Perth Amboy, Tuesday", and in Dover, Del., Wednesday, showed in Easton, Pa., Thursday, and in Allen town, Friday, making the entire trip by motor truck. "POTASH" ON ROAD Barney Bernard in "His Honor. Abe Potash," closed his New York run Sat urday night and promises to open in Washington Sunday, whethef the rail roads function or not. ; "Ben Hur," was fortunate enough to find a clear road from Toronto to Cleve land for its six cars of scenery, too much to be hauled over long jumps by motor truck. The George Arliss com pany managed to arrive in Philadelphia from Hamilton, Ont., on Jime, and "The Dictator" moved from -Cleveland to Philadelphia without mishap. One of .the longest legs traveled during the strike was from Atlantic City to Chicago by George M. Cohan's show, "Genfus and the Crowd." There have been several other long trips between eastern towns and Detroit, all accomplished by rail I without delay. MOVIES OX JOB The movies also have managed to get through America's amusement ration despite the embargo in some zones on express. Providentially for the motion picture industry, films were admitted some time ago to the mails as parcel post matter, and on this occasion the distributors have been taking full ad vantage of the privilege. The repre sentatives of the National Association of Motion Picture Industries had a meet ing here Monday, at which the trans portation problems were ironed out. It was learned that motor cars and motorcycles as well as the parcel post and individual messengers ware being used in some emergencies to get the films through in time to be shown as billed. Who's Who and What on Rialto ft ! . I P. K PI -UK Show Shoppers Are Kept Busy suggest that the new Portland house be called the "Broadway Yamhill." Are there any other suggestions? By Sam Tladdon Jr. THERE'S a uueBtlon whether Madam Olga Petrova raved more over the cenic grandeur of the Columbia river highway or over the treatment accorded Tier by Manager Frank McGettigau dur ing her recent local Orpheum engage ment. Petrova has been all over the world, so has "met up" with the best there. Is in the scenic line. Moreover, she has played in every Orpheum iliea- tre there 1h, and she knows all about j Al,ita Stewart, charming young A. C. Raleigh's new magazine ven ture, "Screenland," which he is editing and managing for.Jensen & Von Her bert, is going good and circulation is growing by the conventional "leaps and bounds." This week's cover page por them. And In neither instance, scen- Ically and theatrically speaking, so says the actress herself, has she ever been BO Impressed as she was in Portland. "Nothing to compare with it," was her comment on the highway. "I had to come to Portland to re ceive' the thoughtful consideration ac corded me by Manager McOettlgan," ..nhe said, concerning her visit at the theatre. Madame Petrovas dressing room ar the theatre was artistically draped and .decorated for her reception, and cut flowers brightened the place some more. As a memento of her appreciation of Mr. McGettigan's efforts to make her 'visit A pleasant one, Petrova, upon her departure, presented him with a gold pencil. - Orpheum business, by the way, hit the peason's high mark during the Petrqva show. I . Mildred Harris (Mrs. Charlie Chap lin ! 1'jOt.i iwas burn in uneyenne. She . "drifted into" the "yo... in woman," who plays at the Columbia in "In Old Kentucky" for the new week. Ed Rosenbaum Jr. of Los Angeles has been In town during the last week doing a little special exploitation to put this feature over "big." Ralph Winsor entertained at a spe cial pre-viewlng of Mack Sennetfs lat est comedy, "Down Qn the Farm," at the Liberty after hours Thursday night for the benefit of motion picture editors and a few other select souls. In the New York Times, Alexander Woollcott tells this story of the chorus girl bride whose style was superb, but whose small talk was poor: "Her hus band suggested that she take up Im proving ltterature and, when stumped for something to say, that she launch with seeming casttalness into a discus sion of whatever book Fhe had juat been reading. Hp sent her a 6 foot shelf. Next evening, during a painful lull in the chit-chat at a small dinner party through a visit with an aunt In N. Y. I Albert McGovern, leading man with " the Baker Stock company not long ago. .who (left Portland to head the Wood ; ward Players at Spokane, has given up his work there and has returned to his i hcm at Atlantic City. N., J. McGovern " told his Spokane friends and admirers . that two years in the West has filled Hhia blood with Western spirit and that ihe hopes to come back soon. Woodward I theatre audiences gave him an ovation ' I on the occasion of his last appearance l- there; ! i ... : Down in San Francieo, Martin Beck, during his recent visit in connection with plans for the new "Junior Orphe : urns," put the ban on smoking on the main floor, which has long been a pre- ogattve of Bay City Orpheum fans, and he also abolished the old custom of , allowing regular subscribers first choice i of seats. t Mr, Beck is expected in Portland with . in a i month or so to choose a site for the pew Junlor" -house In Portland. : It will b named', as is the ""State Lake" theatre- in ' Chicago, in honor of the " streets on which, it is located, so wa moviei .ne leaned forward nervously and be gan as follows : "Gee, wasn't it -fierce about Mary Queen of Scots !' " Sarah Bernhardt, now in her seventy sixth year, has cabled from Paris to the K'oith Hwkkincr (iffii in N'w York- her acceptance of a vaudeville engagement on our side, commencing in the fall. Madame Bernhardt has been continu ously appearing in London and Paris and apparently thinks nothing of mak ing another trip to America. Her en gagement opens on Octboer 18 and con tinues 20 weeks at a salary of $2500 a week. Which means, probably, that the great Bernhardt will be out this way again within the next year. . The most progressive state in the Union In regard to motion pictures in the public schools, according to the community motion picture bureau of New York, is Texas. Every new build ing that is put up must have a pro jecting machine. films are now being used in the extension work of the Uni versity of Texas. - . .' . Ed Greenway,: ahead of Nora Bayes. who comes to the Heillg Thursday night in "Ladies First." was in town during the week. He hated to leave. ... Portland playgoers are In line for something new next week. In the past we've had the same play at a local stock house on the spoken stage and on the screen at a motion picture thea tre, but when "Peg O' My Heart" comes a week from today, it . will come simul taneously at two "speaking theatres" the Baker and the Alcazar. Just -what the .Idea is can only be surmised, but it looks like a "fight" and fights are always more or less interesting. It seems that Manager C. V. Everett of the Alcazar theatre contracted for the stock rights to the play, in which Laur ette Taylor made a great success, early in 1919. He secured t5w rights from the Century Play company of New York. Soon afterward the play became involved in a legal squabble having to do with motion picfure rights between author and producer, .and this phase of the case has just been decided, releasing it for stock. Meanwhile, the Baker company se cured rights for local presentation, so It is underscored at both ' theatres. The regular Baker Stock company is sched uled to put the piece on, and Manager Everett will form his own company for the Alcazar's presentation. This com pany will include: Miss Verna Kelton. formerly of the Baker ; George Natan son, who was a member of the Alcazar Musical Comedy company, and other local players now at liberty. With the two companies to choose from, "fans" should certainly be able to find satisfaction. ... May Wallace, comedienne with the late Alcazar Musical Comedy company, is playing one of the leading roles in the Keefe comedies being made at the American Lifeograph studio. East. Thir ty-third at Halsey. "The Twilight Kiss" is the tentative title of the first of a series of two reel society comedies promised by the local company. ... Paul Noble, manager of the Liberty, is burning up some California highway this week in his- big automobile. ... - A local architect has the plans of i new motion picture theatre for Port' land all drawn, with beautiful front ele vations and everything, and we are in- formed that as soon as the site in sight is tied up, the story will be released and work on the new theatre will start. English Urged to Keep Stratford 'As Was' for 'Yankees1 London, April 17. (L N. S. "Strat ford-ort-Avon is the mecca of the Amer icaar tourist.. In order to attract visitors from the other side to England wa must keep the Shakespearean country Invio late. fa must not alter its ' character ROAD SHOW ALCAZAR Morrison at UleTenth. "Kanud Georgia Minstrels. 8 .20. MaQnee WednAu . ' VAUDEVILLE PANTAGE8 Broadway at Alder. Hich TaudeTille and photoplay features. Afterrn ana ermine, rrogram cnanges Monday after noon. DRAMATIC STOCK BAKER Broadway between Morrison and Aider The Baker Stock company in "I-ombardi. Ltd.", 8:20. Matinees Wednesday and Sat urday. 2:30. LOEW S HIPPODROME Broadway at Yam hill. Direction Ackerman & Harris. VfUde Tille and photoplay features. Afternoon and night MUSICAL FARCE LTRIC Fourth at Stark. Musical Farce, "The Bullfighters. Matinee daily at 2; nights, 7 and 9. PHOTO PLAY8 COLUMBIA Sixth at Stark. Anita Stewart in "In Old Kentucky." 11 a. m. to 11 p. m. LIBERTY Broadway at Stark. Wallace Reid in "Eicuse My Dust." 11 a. m. to 11 p. m. RIVOLI Washington at Park. PriseiUa Dean in "The Virgin of StambouL" 11 a. ra. to 11 p. m. MAJESTIC Washington at Park. Rex Beach's "The Silrer Horde." 11 a. m. to lip. m. PEOPLES West Park and Alder. Dustin Far- num in "The Corsican Brothers." 11 a. m. to 11 p. m. STAR Washington at Park. Robert Warwicklfe "In Old Mizzoura. " 1 1 a. m. to 1 1 p. m. CIRCLE Fourth at Washington. Gloria Swan- son in "Male and Female." 9 a. m. until 4 o'clock the following morning. Barrie Plays to Be Screened by American Producer Adolph Zukor is finding just as many newspaper reporters in London as in New York. He is daily visited by some representative of the London press who seeks to know all' about American films and the American way of making pic tures. A London paper has given the names of the Barrie stories that " Mr. Zukor contemplates putting on the screen within the next two years. In this list are "Peter Pan," "Dear Brutus," "A Kiss "or Cinderella" and "What Every Woman Knows," all of them plays with enviable stage records. "Peter Pan" has been the hope of every film producer's life. Barrie has been offered fabulous sums for the privilege of screening It, and even when the story of Sir James Barrle's affiliation with Famous Players-Lasky was made pub lic the rights to this play were In doubt. In the same article Zukor denied he had entered into any film association with Lord Beaverbrook. A rumor has been current both in England and in America that Famous Players-Lasky was considering an affiliation with the Provincial Cinematograph .company the Lord Beaverbrook company. istics any more than is absolutely nec essary." Sir Martin Conway, M. P., made' this appeal to the inhabitants of .the fa mous village where the . great "English poet was born. He declared that Amer ican tourists would, spend $650,000,000 in Britain and France this' summer and said that Stratford -on-A von was the keystone of the tourist industry. Proposals have been made by manu facturers to erect mills on the River Avon, , near the village. According to lovers of Shakespeare this would imme diately detract from the attractiveness of the town. Ratify Rate Raise . Hutchison. Kan., Apsil 17. (I. N. S.) This smacks of the Impossible, but it's all true. Following an announce ment by the local telephone compaqy at Nlckerson, near here, the other day that its rates had been raised, the townspeople held a mass meeting and voted by acclamation and' unanimously to ratify the rats boost , That's not all. 1 The state ' Industrial court now has before It a petition ; to that effect. MURTAGHS CONCERT "The Piak Lady" (selections) Cafyll Godard Stults . . . . . Murtagh Mascagnt "Berceuse" (Jocelyn) . . . , "Dance of the Birds" "Under Western Skies" . . . . "Cavalleria Rasticana" . . . . TODAY AT 12:30 He's in againl And in ahead! Same old T oodles W aid en of "The RoaringRoad' with the same old scorn of miles and motor ccps. Risking his neck for love, his son, and a "dare" in the wildest automobile race of speed devils ever shown on the screen. - -And that glorious fight when a ciooked rival wrecks Toadies' car and sends him sprawling. WOW I , See THE SILVER HORDE" MACK SENNETT COMEDY 1 'The Gingham Girl" 1 i NOW! PLAYING I
