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About The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 1920)
t - f ?. a THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL PORTLAND, SUNDAY : MORNING. OCTOBER 81, 1S20. K . T - - Mff- . M .- - " f ' 1 - - . ... . ' , . Baa Ti at tie StagGland TTEILIO PortUnd Is to the official war department motion pictures of the Northwest's Ninety-first division for their first run on the Pacific coait at a .benefit performance to be g-lven Thurs day, Friday and Saturday at the Hellig theatre, with a special price matinee Saturday afternoon. Seat sale opens Monday morning at Sherman & Clay's, and at the theatre. Tickets have also been placed at the leading cigar stores ftnd hotels. Tht official war department picture! how close-ups of the Ninety-first di vision, pride of the Northwest. And tn the 4000 feet of film to be shown here . aro many views of the fighting; of the vFortjr-second, Thirty-second and Sec ond division on the various fronts In Francs. The old cry that was heard around the World during; the hottest days of fight ing over there "Powder river; a mile wide and a foot deep," will be the pasr word at the Hellig theatre next week when the pictures will be shown for the . first time west of the Rocky mountains. In addition to pictures, the program will Include vaudeville acts from the leading theatres and muslo by the Fifth Oregon regimental band, under the di rection of Bandmaster Hicks. Arrangements for the benefit perform ance have been made by a committee from post 81 of Veterans of Foreign Wars, consisting of J. W. Jones, former commander of Portland post and now Junior vice commander of the national organisation ; oyd Braden and William Bqehler. TDAKBR At 60 miles jan hour "Mile-a-Mlnute Kendall" blew Into town in hii big racing car last night and he had Portland sitting up and taking notice Until he had explained that he would satisfy all comers at the Baker theatre this week, opening today with a mat inee. He also will be on hand tonight and especially will he mike things hum Monday night at the special bargain per formance he will give. Kendall is a rich man's son and grows Up at one does betimes with a big car, lota of money and alive with a love for adventure. When father finds, however, that his son Is spending too much money and not for his own good, he puts the clamp on the family coffers and he is told to shift alone. Kendall takes up with an adventuress but Love finds a way and Kendall sets his mind in order and begins work on an Invention which proves a great success. Then Kendall is glad he has been compelled ' to go it alone." Of course, there Is a reconcilia tion between father and son before the curtain falls on this product of, the mind and pen of Owen Davis, who probably has written more plays than any other American playwright. "Mlle-a-Mtnute Kendall" first was pro duced by Oliver Morosco at the latter's Burbank theatre In Los Angeles, where It had a most successful run and Morosco Immediately transplanted It to New York. There It did better and enjoyed a long run t then It went on the road and now It la released for stock. The show will continue through the Saturday evening performance. T LRIC "Frivolous Flo" Is the name of the show that opena at the Lyric the atre Sunday afternoon. It will continue all week, wtm violet Wood as the wife of Mike Dooley. The trouble starts while .ippoatQrtic, ANOTHER METRO MASTVR nOTURI liaiftS IN Tt WONDIRFUL VAUOCVILLI-PHOTOPLar SHOW THAT OPINl TOOAT MR. FRANK RICH IHIISgNTS "The District School" A ewwnf kl4 eC chrt Mtnatfy. rt hm , sett? ttrte ens to tmrrtly OIUfJHT'UI. TO TNI IVI AND IAR METRO rRt8iRT THI THIRD OP ITS ' MASTSH PIGTURIt "THE MISFIT WIFE' BTARRINO) . ALICE LAKE It It a tMJtam wtik pmi.w mnm f the sewerftil tfremsua Mtuatlom ever et.toee . TED McLEAN A CO. I "A SSODKRHJ DUMA" . LYNN, WESTON & LYNN OOMBDT aURPRISt; aPARK SINCLAIR A CRAY ;TV:y mtTTT HOVELTICt JACK POLK JUST POLK IN 0 ALOND AM AT TNI toURLITZIft i wixmui ranroNSJANOl today. Mrs. Dooley Is visiting friends in Arkansas. Lonely Mike (Ben Dillon) goes to see the show at the opera house. It is named "Frivolous Flo" in honor of the leading lady. Mike likes her very much, so when he meets her on hia way home he is very glad. Flo has lost her hand kerchief, so the gallant Mike, With his wife tn Arkansas, offers her his own. Dooley's mother-tn-law and her brother, Ike. are living with Mike. They rule things about the house while Vio let is away. A telegram from Boston ays Mike's niece, Daisy, is coming to live at the Dooley home. About this time Flo arrives, at the house to return the handkerchief. Flo is played by Miss Dorothy Raymond. Ike thinks Flo is Daisy and starts love making. Then real trouble begins and charming Mrs. Dooley arrives home In time to enjoy Ue fight. Vaudeville pWRPHEUM Two night shows will be presented by the Orpheum at the Iieilig Tuesday evening (election day), the first at 7 :30 o'clock and the second at 10 p. m. Election returns will be read at each night performance. The com plete Orpheum show will mark each performance and election returns will be read until after midnight. National and state returns will be re layed by messenger from the lobby, where the telegraph instrument will be installed, to the stage. The service will include returns of special interest in Oregon and the detailed count of the mayoralty contest In Portland will be given. . Evelyn and Gertrude Barr, headlmera of the new Orpheum show, are not only famous beauties in the stage world, but dancers who have won renown. Their act is called "A Riot of Color," thejcostum ing is gorgeous and the lighting effects are magnificent. They are assisted by Rube Beckwlth, a Pendleton boy, at the piano. "His Girl." a comedy conception with songs, is the offering of George Bobbe and Eddie Nelson, the second feature of the four-star show. Both these artists are standard entertainers - in big-time vaudeville. Another standard act is 'Chasing the Blues," as presented by Frank Kellam and Patricia O'Dare, the third feature. The fourth feature la "$6000 a Year," a novel comedy playlet. presented by Robert Hymsva and Vir ginia Mann. Remaining acts are Leon Varvara in evolution of a pianist; John and Nellie Olms, the watch wisards; Ed Lord and Margie Fuller In bits of this and that; Klnograms and Topics of the Day, ac companied by the Orpheum's exclusive views of Oregon scenery In color and the concert orchestra under direction of Oeorge E. Jeffery. Like the show of last week the new Orpheum bill has a bounteous supply of comedy and It is listed as one of the most popular of . the multi-star shows booked this season. PANTAGES Everything that goes to make first-class vaudeville is prom ised on the program at Pantages for the week commencing with the matinee Monday. Art Penny, the noted Jazi orchestra leader and composer, comes as the prin cipal attraction with his seven Synco Kntghts In one of the liveliest jazz of ferings that vaudeville has ever lis tened to. The selections are widely diversified and all have a wonderful appeal. Bobker's Six Harlequins, just over from long successes at the Follies Ber gere. Paris, will offer their cyclonic acrobatic and tumbling act in which they sustain their reputation of being the fastest moving group of people on the stage. The dancers supreme are offered in characteristic and . classical dances by M. Oolden, the noted Russian producer. Bonnie uaylord and Bertie - Herron bring their delightfully funny blackface offering in its latest version. The wlntergarden Four offer select harmony that will make the act one of the most popular on the bill. Lorenz and Wood have stopped the show, in the parlance of the theatre, wnerever uiey have appeared on their present tour, their songs and dances scoring heavily. Juanita Hansen continues as the hero ine in the eleventh episode of the thrill ing serial. "The Lost City." With the continuous performance to day, commencing at 1:30. the final ap pearance of Jarvla' Whirl of Mirth will be seen. HIPPODROME The Metro master picture at the Hippodrome this aft ernon takes up a new angle of the eter nal triangle. The photoplay is "Misfit Wife," with pretty and talented Alice Lake as the star, and Is a faithful screen version of Jules Verne's drama, "The Outsider." The angeU which la unasuaU is the clandestine love affair of the youthful mother of the aristocratic but dissolute husband of Katie MallOy, the manicurist Katie, thoroughly In love with her husband, would rather sacri fice the love of the young fellow than permit circumstances to destroy his re spect for his mother. In what they term a cycle of youth and novelty, Sinclair and Gray whose pictures show them to be a pair of girls mighty easy to look at, open an enter taining number with singing and danc ing of the routine order, changing latei to cycle riders costumes. .. Lynn, Weston and Lynn bring what I teputedto be an Interesting line of sing ing,, wftty patter, soma neat stepping and offerings on the piano. Their com edy surprise is said to be a very effec tive climax. Elsie Rldgeby, and two men. one of them Ted McLean the author of the skit "A Modern Diana" which they are pre senting, have a curious mixture of laughter and teara In their little of fering. The headline vaudeville attraction will be The District School" produced by a troupe of seven specialists who use the captioning to furnish a medium through which they find plausible reason to pre sent the different kinds of vaudeville for which each Is noted. Also "polking" along with this show will be James Polk, professional joy mixologist and fun dispenser, who will present a new monologue filled with a new line of chatter which he guarantees to be of the vintage of 1921. Return of Landis Demands Reception A reception was held at Los Angeles studios last week to celebrate the safo return of Cullen Landis, rising young film actor, who was lost last week for two days and one night In the Sierra Madre mountains without food. Landis started out from Little Lake, Cal., with a party of five friends m a deer hunt. He struck the trail of a deer and wan dered off from his companions. He lost all sense of direction and was soon wan dering aimlessly. Marguerite Clayton Gets Selznick Role Marguerite Clayton, one of the most beautiful and talented actresses on the screen, has been engaged by Myron Belsnlck, president of Selsnlck Pictures corporation, for an important" role in Elaine Hammersteln's forthcoming Sels nlck picture, "Pleaaure Seekers," which is now being made at the Selsnlck Fort Lee studios under the direction of Oeorge Archainbaud. "Pleasure Sekers" is from the story by John Lynch. The scenario Is by. Edward Montagne. Kismet's Creator Makes Movie Debut That seasoned craftsman of the stage. Edward Knoblock, Is turning his genius for play construction from the footlights to the kllegllghts. Not that the author of "Kismet" and "Tiger. Tiger" is through with the stage, but that he is Just taking an active interest In the screen. His first original photoplay, which he has called "Appearances." he completed last month just before sailing irom nis London home to America. Madge Is Offended Margaret Livingston, who has ap peared In a number of Thomas II. Ince productions, the latest of which is "The Magic Life," got a card off the bottom of Fate's pack. Miss Livingston recently purchased a shiny new Ford coupe, to carry her between home and the Inee studios, end two days after she had writ ten out the check. Henry knocked a cool 1150 and war tax from the price of Lizzie ! Handicaps Fail To Discourage Embryo Author ABERDEEN, Wash., Oct 30. Ex tremely modest about the success of her short stories Is Mrs. Annie Hath away of this city, who has had a story accepted by Scrlbners, several others by the OverlAnd Monthly and two" or more by Snappy Stories, with the prob ability of her latest one being accepted by the Atlantic Monthly. She lives with her husband and small daughter in a bungalow near the pump ing house where her husband la em ployed as an engineer and though with out neighbors she is quite content in her retreat with her family, books and lit erary work. The house is in a clearing of land around which are clumps of al der. Through a natural meadow a creek runs to a dam near the window where she writes. It is a place to en courage the muaea " Her first success, written while she lived on a tract of logged -off land, was 'They Called Her Annie Laurie." It was written for a prise contest, laid away and afterwards sent to a number of publications which rejected the manu script She sent it finally to Scrlbners and acceptance came with a check for $100. So much money for a single story was beyond her moat rosy hopes. ' The Story of "They Called Her Annie Lau rie" was woven .around the Stannard Rock light Lake Superior, where she lived with her father before her mir rlaae. Qui Oigiandet, a Frenchman by birth, was the lighthouse keeper. Mrs. Hathaway says ahe knew the lighthouse business well and her story la abso lutely true. Belasco Success Is Produced on Screen Ooldwyn announces that Its plcturiza tlon of "The Concert" Hermann Bahr comedy, in which Leo Ditrichsteln achieved hia great stage success under David Belasco, has just been completed Seherttlnger, who is director of Mabel Normand comedies, which Ooldwyn has produced, wae selected to direct Th. Concert" because of his musical attain' ments. Lewis Stone portrays the role of Augustus, the extremely susceptible musician of "The Concert" and Myrtle Stedman has the role of hia wife. Fitzgerald Expects To Be Galiforniah Dallas Fitzgerald, who gave up the joys of New York six months ago to s sume the duties of director at Metro's Hollywood studios, has joined the ranks of permanent Callfornlana. Fitzgerald has purchased a site for a new home In Beverly Hills and will begin construction work In the Immediate future. Slnoe going to the company's west coast stu dios he has directed Bert Lytetl in "The Price of Redemption" and Viola Dana In "Cinderella's Twin." SUNDAY COME! MONDAY "TERROR ISLAND" THRILLS by the artist who has the record of never haying faked the public-, HOUDINI STAR Arthur B. Reeves and John We Grey Authors , James Craze Director f THE HOUDIN I In, 'TERROR. rSLAND PARAMOUNT yCrWTPICTURE Open from 9 o'clock in the morning until 4 o'clock the following mornin f . J Dramatic Notes Just before starting on tour with the dramatic spectacle "Aphrodite," in which she plays the title role, Dorothy Dalton finished the last scene of her Paramount picture "In Men's Eyes along the Atlantic coast near Portland, Maine. Douglas MacLean has begun work at the Ince studios on "One A Minute," by Fred Jackson, author of "Officer ." In this forthcoming Paramount picture Marian jDeBeck will appear in the lead ing feminine role. William DeMllle has begun the film ingr of 'What Every Woman Knows." the play by Sir James M. Barrle in which Lois Wilson and Conrad Nagel will hart leading parts. Wallace Reld has just completed "Al ways Audacious," which is his most difficult photoplay, since he plays a dual role necessitating many carefully executed double exposures. Tom Oeraghty, who did the conti nuity for the Bryant Washburn Para mount picture "Burglar Proof and for "Always Audacious," the forthcoming Wallace Reld picture, has left the Lasky etudto in California to assume hia new duties as film editor, at the Famous Players studio in Long Island City, New York. Claims Camera Record Bert Cann, Thomas H. Ince pho tographer who cranks the camera for Douglas MacLean features, has estab lished what he claims to be a' world's record for multiple exposures. While photographing certain scenes from "Some Chickens," a, forthcoming MacLean re lease, Cann exposed the same reel, of film H times, making a total of 1)2 times that It passed through the camera. Movie Directors Always Think in Gigantic Figures By Certellas Vaaderbllt Jr. (Copyright. 1U0. by United Mews) CORONADO. Cel., Oct 10. These mo tion picture directors always talk in big figures. They talk that way because Uity think that way. They think In terms of thousands where the average man thinks In terms of single dollars. They think in millions of patrons, in stead Of hundred as does the legitimate theatrical magnate. That's because the scope of the business is so fan greater than that of any other amusement enter prise in the country. This led me to ask several film com pany directors the real "why" of the motion picture actor's big salary. The answers X received were varied, but back of it all was the thought of the Intensity of the business and the tre mendous flow of receipts which comes pouring In after the release of a new picture. HOJJLT LIFE, HE ATT PAT Some of them said that "an actor Is a direct portrayer of human nature." Others declared that "motion picture directors .-must hays the type of per sons who fit lntd certain situations Just as the .'real' person would have fitted in. Others gave as a reason that tne average screen actor or actress can re main In films only until the ag of 30 or eo short life but heavy say. But all of them agree that the thing back Of the big salaries lathe fact that the screen actor has the biggest pub licity of all; that he is playing to his LW TO TTP MUSICAL II JJxilivk COMEDY rmtamntntKWiiii fCE ATI NG A FLOOD, OxvnCTt,n,Mtn""t","in I ALL THIS WEEK r I 5 m I RffllKE and IKE Will Riot in I "Frivolous Flo" I i I I In which light opera will be featured. I Dorothy Raymond, Gay DuVall, Floy Ward and 1 1 Violet Wood. Every minute a great joy s LYRIC MATINEES ARE WONDERFUL I i BARGAINS one dime and two dimes per 1 i 1 I The Rosebud Chorus blooms at each show. Afternoons at 2. Evenings at 7 and 9. f I Tuesday night Country StoreFriday night i Chorus Girls' Contest IttMIIIHIUtlltMIMITllllnlUIMIMIMintnilltHIIItHtienlHIIttJIllWtfinilllWIIfMIMtlllllltlrtHlllilB,,, y W : ANTAGE rseeealed Y aaie Till e- Broadway al Alder Met lues Cany, tils Twlee Itlgktly, f aad t JPOFULAJt PSICES . WEEK COMMENCING TOMORROW MATINEE THE TATJOETILLE SEHSATIOIC OF THE TEAS ART PENNY & His Seven Synco Knights A CTCLONE OF STXCOFATED MELODIES Bobker's Six Harlequins Direct from the "Follies, Bergere, Paris Lorenz & Wood Comedians and Dancers The WintergarcJen Four A Treat in Harmony The Dancers Supreme In Classic and Characteristic Terpeichorean Novelties , Herron & Gaylord Two Corking Ulrls "The Lost City" With Joanlta Hansen Continuous Performance Today, Commencing at 1 &0 millions, and that he is exacting tribute rrom eacn one or those millions. FEWER WHO BE5EFIT Suppose we consider the motion pic ture business in the same light as a great manufacturing concern which It IS. Its output, its prejjduct. Is tremen dous. Its salary list, compared with that of a commercial concern turning out products of Vqual return value, is equally large, but it Is -split among a smaller number of participating em ployes. That Is all there Is to it. I am told that a motion picture firm is fortunate If it has not more than eight employes paid more than 125,000 a year. Moat of the bigger companies have at least 20 such men and three or four directors reaping- close to $100,000 a year apiece. The average screen actress not the star draws $10,000 a year, while the actor himself is paid around $S0OO. But it is the stars who draw down the big amounts. The top liners, the biggest of the celebrities, are handed from $700,000 to $1,000,000 apiece every 12 months, and many others share tn. the profits frofn the .pictures besides. v, BIO 05ES BEAP PLtMl I exorbitant figures, you ssv, at first But when you consider the revenues from the 1, 000,000 people who visit the movies every night of the year, amount ingat the average price of 10 oenie to iziooo.ooo a night, or 7io,ooo,ooo a year, you see where the money oamss from and get some Idea of the "why" of these big sals r lea Furthermore, It Is only the blf ones that get the plums. The minor laser, the labor that Is necessary but neverthe less stays in the background and never becomes known to the public, such teller is paid an averafe of fS a day whloh brings down the per capita waft lilt. George Arllss tn Pictures) George Arllss, famous stsge luminary, has at last heard the call of the silent drama, and he is to begin work early this fall In "The Devil." There will be only four members In a cast headed by Lucy Cotton, who is now completing "The Misleading Lady," for Metro. Stock company Town Talk Excellent Cm. oianug A Sunday Matinee . TODAY And All Week Greatest Com pany Since the Old Days 7 Oliver Morotco's Speed Limit Play MEJLE A MINUT1 KENDAL! See how a dissolute ybun Man after being disowned by Pa makes millionaires of those who stood by him and wins back the heart of the Girl of His Choice. Alao Matinee Wednesday, Saturday NEXT WEEK The Charming and Novel Comedy The Gipsy Trail Monday Bar gain Night Leas Than Half Hnrire EXTRA! TWO - ORPHEUM SHOWS ELECTION NIGHT L TUESDAY EXTRA! TWO Tvntl TUN UUfitKTiiW l SHOWS ;r5C0U0ir iTUESDAY -fclttS. SLtriTiiIV NIGHT wm oivr I NIGHT llii JOIHIW Mir