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DRAMA, PHOTOPLAY
VAUDEVILLE
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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. ' '
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Shows Go On
Despite
Strike
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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.
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Mildred Harris (Mrs. Charlie Chap
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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;
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: 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.
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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.
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. 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
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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
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'The Gingham
Girl"
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