THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, " SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 18, 1820
Film Men in
Support of
Schools
F. P.-L. to Go
Into Game
1 in India
M ISS MARTHA FLORINE enjoys a drink (soft) between
appearances in the Barnes circus, due for early showing
h in Portland, and in which she is one of a number of
chorus girls who are featured. ' i
LOCAL film men hare been lending
valuable aid to the campaign to put
over" the measures for the benefit of
higher and elementary education In Ore
gon at the election next Friday, and
In thanking the exhibitors for their aid,
IX A. Groat, superintendent of city
- schools, said : - " i ,
. "These two bills are essentially chil
dren's bills. They are fori the benefit
of the children of today and the citizens
of tomorrow. The theory of Insurance
.--i is protection against tne xuture, ana
these two bills are merely asking the
present ; citizens of Oregon to pay the
' premiums on their social Insurance. The
future of the republic depends on the
Intelligence of ' its voters, and If our
voters- have' not had proper opportunity
-to help themselves, our boasted demoe-
racy will tomorrow mean as little, as
Russia's democracy of today.
"Oregon does not levy anything as
a state for education as does our sister
state, Washington, ' which levies $20 a
' pupil. The state per cent limitation
prohibits the districts and counties upon
which the entire duties of education fall
from meeting the present situation.
Should these measures fail, .there will
not be enough money to meet current
expenses, to say nothing of building for
the future. In such a case salaries
would of necessity have to be lowered
and teachers would immediately seek
more attractive work and wages in other
fields. The children would then fall
to the cm of men and women inade
quately prepared and of a class and type
below the splendid body now giving its
service to education. Then again, the
school term would have to be cut down
from 10 months to 8 months each year.
There is no city of the size and stand
ing of Portland which has less than 10
months of school. Naturally, this would
again reflect on the teachers, who can
not afford to work eight months and
starve four."
Newspaper Man Is
Now at Head of the
Scenario Department
Lncien Hubbard, screen writer and a
former newspaper man, is now at the
head of the Universal scenario depart
ment at Universal City,' succeeding
Percy Heath, who resigned.
He began his literary career as a news
paper man in Cincinnati, later going to
New Orleans. After spending some time
In the South, Hubbard broke into the
journalistic big league In . New York.
He ultimately became city editor of the
New York Tribune.
Some five years ago he abandoned his
editor's desk and started writing for the
screen, then, after several years as a
free lance he became a member of the
Pathe scenario staff. He left .that com
pany to come to Universal and later
went with the Vita graph as associate
scenario editor, remaining In that posi
tion until be came to Universal City re
cently. One of the things Hubbard Intends to
stress is the Importance of the scenario
in the making of the picture, he stated
upon taking up his new duties.
"Many times a successful play , or
novel will be a failure as a picture if
filmed the way It was originally writ
ten," says Hubbard. "It is the scenario
writer's task to give the story the proper
drrmatic punch and the many little
st'de-Ughts that give a picture color and
finish. Without a good scenario the most
t -Iwtrd director Is greatly handicapped."
When last heard from Frank Borsage,
:he Cosmopolitan director, was in prison.
But paradoxical as it seems he was In
good company. With him at the famous
' irg Sing Institution in New York were
.Joseph Urban, stage artist, and Jack
Boyle, author of .the story Borzage is
filming. They were guests of Afajot
Uwt R. LawM, warden of the prison,
but their main object was to get local
color for some scenes that the director
is making for his feature.
Handling 30 genuine cowboys from the
plains hae been Director Clarence Bad
ger's task In the filming of the new Will
Rogers picture, "Alec Lloyd, Cow
puncher." These plainsmen are a wild
lot In their ordinary habitat, who follow
their own sweet will a-saddle, and Bad
ger has found it no easy work to bring
them into the .spirit of team work and
strict attention to duty necessary in film
production, j The cowboys regard their
" adventure as a great lark and for that
reason are doubly difficult to hold down;
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Another week's work wilt see the com
pletion or Harry Carey's current pro
duction, "Human Stuff.' which is being
directed by Reeves Bason. ' In the cast
re Mary Charleson. Rudolph Chris
tians, Ruth Fuller Golden.. Charles Le
Moyne, Fontaine LaRue, Joe Harris and
Bobby Hack. . $
f .
William J. Craft, pioneer In the pro
duction of western pictures, has com
pleted "The White Rider, with Eileen
Sedgwick and Joe Moore, f Others In the
cast are Robert Gray, Robert Kortman
and O. A. Williams. I
Hoot Gibson, directed by Mack Wright,
will continue to appear in acting west
erns. He has Just finished "Circumstan
tial Evidence" and is beginning the pro
duction of "The Bronco Kid," in. which
he is supported by Yvette Mitchell, Dave
Hendricks and" James Corey.
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Lynn Reynolds has begun production
of "The Red Lane, a story of the great
outdoors by Ilolman Pay, starring
Frank Mayo. The popular , Universal
.player is supported by Jean Hersholt,
Lillian Rich. James L. Mason, James
O'Neill. Karl Formes. Paul Weigel,
Frank Thorne and Harry ; Lamont
At the Rolin studios they are begin-
The title always depends upon whatever
clever "wheezes' may spring un in the
minds of Lloyd or his staff dujrhg the I
making' of the picture. Mild reef Davis. ;
who recently signed up for "another
year with Harold, will be his pretty foil
snd co-humorist- y
Within three weeks William Duncan
will have completed the production of
bis episode play, "The Silent Avenger."
Duncan has worked every day for the
past few months, with the exception of
Sundays, on this serial.'
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Alice Joyce is one of the few actresses
who insists on speaking her lines even
if it is before a camera. Her next pro
duction .will be "Dollars and The
Woman.'- i
; Corinne Griffith - and her supporting
comrany one to. S. AnprPtinc
rh , here .'.'i- exterior t".T,Ks V
ii.ui.e frler f-ftUcomius feature. "The I
A";
When national prohibition dimmed the
bright lights on New' York's Broadway,
many chorus girls found themselves out
of jobs. - ' - i - ' , -1
Al G. I Barnes, head of the big four
ring wild animal circus, 'coming to Port
land Monday and Tuesday, May 1? and
IS, gave 40 of them Jobs as chorus girls
on horseback, the only mounted chorus.
It Is Claimed, in the world, i In their new
act the girls do not have to trip the light
fantastic i any more. The horses are
trained to do that in their stead. :: The
girls Just sing. . . f
At first It was hard work for some
Of them, j Riding dancing horses is no
easy Job. Their notes got all -Jumbled
tip whenever they bounced In ths sad
dle, but after a white the New jTork
Broadway beauties finally were ready
for the road. They do not i take kindly
to circus life, however. Many of them
complain that the outdoor life spoils
their complexions. i j ' -i
Barnes has promised to buy, them new
ones when the circus reaches Portland.
Having completed ' "The Slim. Prin
cess, an oriental subject, Mabel Nor
mand will next film "Rosa Alvara, a
Spanish romance. (-'
ffiHB Famous Players-Lasky corpora
J tioa has formed a $3. 000,000 organisa
tion for the distribution and production
of motion- pictures In India. Adolpb
Zukor, in making this announcement in
New York, said the new company will
be known as the Indian Empire Famous
Players-Lasky corporation, and in or
ganizing It his company is acting in con
junction with British and Indian bank
ers, j' ." ' '
Plans for the building of a studio and
laboratory are now being made. Frank
Mayer, assistant secretary of Famous
Players-Lasky, and Tarkington Baker,
who only recently came into the fold as
a full-fled red producer, will build a
studio In Bombay. India. After the
organization of the producing plant a
stock company of well known American
film players will be sent to India, where,
in conjunction with native Indiana, they
will produce Paramount pictures in In
dian settings.
"la addition to producing pictures. In
India, said Zukor, "the new company
will also have a distributing organisa
tion patterned after the Famous Players
t jiir-r nphum svstem in this country.
American methods and equipment will
prevail throughout in the production and
distribution of the pictures. The pic
tures produced in India will, of course,
be available for exhibition in other coun
tries. I
When one realises that hi the Indian
omnlra mlant, there are 40.000.000 lnhaM
tants, one can get an idea of the vast
noMihilitiea which lie in the production
of pictures in India, Our pictures have
already been distributed in India, but
we wish to make films that will be closer
in th thourhf and lives of the Indian
people. It la virtually impossible to
nroduce clotures in this country that
will i anwrnnllih thin. It il BUT . OoliCV
to make pictures that will fit into the
lives of peoples of every country. This
is the! reason for establishing a produc
ing com nany in -England and a studio
. The first Picture Zukor hopes to have
completed in India by Christmas. The
possibilities for atmosphere, romance and
color in this Indian country is unlimited,
and we may expect to see some excep
tional pictures with the India trade
mark. "
An unusual feature of Harry T Mo
ray's . forthcoming Vltagraph feature,
"The Sea Rider," is that there are two
leading women in the cast, Alice Cal
houn and. Louiazita -Valentine. Neither
meets the other In the play, as Miss Cal
houn appears only in the first half and
Miss Valentine only in the latter part.
Nop ; pf : W T$ -
Cecil
Teague
at the
scores another triumph in
Will Payne's famous Saturday
Evening Post story i
'The Strange Boarder
Remember "Laughin BUI Hyde," and the
smile that made Rogers famous over
night? . : :V; i : . j, , .
Here he plays another equally remarkable
role as a rancher
abused by fortune
stranded in Chicago,
sin every possible way
except one. His i whimsical, lovable op
timism carries him through every trouble
with a smile. . !' ' M
T - A picture for every woman, man or. child,
1 IiriltZGr ' ut Particufcry recommended as a cure
! for pessimisxrL. r r , .
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THE FIFTH BIG COLUMBIA SPECIAL
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