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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING, MBER 5, 1920. Is Who's Who on Broadway And Off . JL L. RALEIGH, born at Helena, but escaped as soon as he fj could, has taken all this time to come to ' Portland to have his picture taken. Within hearing of the tinkle, of the cash register .he has here apparently attempted to assume a nonchalant air. 1 V,4" 4''. i'. S mm ' -V,'"' i- I r .A ' J! ,,4 A'i i - s '('.'s.-y.V!6. I 1 1 1; v ' - . By, E. C. B. Th one overwhelming desire In the weet younff life of A. C. Raleigh wu to be a locomotive engineer, notwith-, tandlng the (act that fatejby a euc ecsBlon of maneuvers, madei of him a" tapecoach bandit, cow. puncher, min ing engineer, national advertising agent, howman and, not last but most awful. newspaper artist and cartoonist In Portland Raleigh la nianag-er of the Columbia theatre and; editor of Bcreerdand In -which. It Is eald, he hag revealed the- terrible eecreta it his stagecoach robbing days boyhood days f hen, all togged up like western brl randa, he and hla school-kid friends employed father's idle stagecoaches for their crimes in the dooryard back home. Sometime or other be was educated In Virginia as a mining engineer, probably because no degree In locomotive engi neering was offered, and he found the Amalgamated Copper company and the famous Helnze, at different: times, pro ductive of pay for hla talents, India Ink reclaimed him from copper, however, and he became, upon a foun dation of natural ability, a cartoonist n one of Senator Clark's Montana news papers. It was early In the game that m. desire for further artistic knowledge . prompted Raleigh to enters New York for study. Study he did for two days, and then he quit .the grind to take a Job with the New York "World. There after he held pen and Ink positions with Chicago and Minneapolis newspapers, darling boy in all bis childhood beauty, The second time was last week when stood before The Journal camera Ms manly homeliness. Which Just goes to show that one never can tell what child Is corasng to by the curl it wears. And through it all Raleigh has smelled the powder of the fray and is probably in the. show . business to stay -at least until lie has used up an apparently In exhaustible supply of Ideal with which to spread upon the record of progress his ideals. . . . .. ,i sS Pantages Talks : Of Plans for a ."!. ....... . . . . -jt ... New House Here Pathe Officer To Visit Here In Few Weeks TLMER R. PEARSON, director of "Paths exchanges, is expected in Portland within the month, according to I way. and 'Alder street CINCH MARCUS LOEW and Martin Beck, heads, respectively, of the Hip podrome and Orpheum vaudeville clr cuita, have flatly failed Portland in con- nection with' their recent promises to come her from. San Francisco to pre sent plans for new theatrical ventures, Alexander Pantages and his alms have been brought into new prominence. Fortunately, Pantages has a trusted spokesman in Portland in the person of John A. Johnson, manager of his local affairs for 1 years. Johnson once be fore told Portland it was to have a new Pantages theatre and the promise re sulted in the present structure at Broad- others have recognized that the present home is all too Inadequate as to seating capacity. Crowds are turned away at almost every performance and there's strict business rule against that loss of revenue in the pantages booklet of reg ulations.'. ' "Pantages has not been here for sev eral years," Johnson said last week, "and I am expecting him most any time. As a matter of fact, I have selected sev eral sites that might be satisfactory for the new houee that we must have here if we are to receive the business that is coming our way, and I am in con stant communication with the chief with the idea of speeding up his trip so that wo can settle on one of these sites and get down to work." with. an occasional engineering Job in between. His illustrating got htm final ly into, national advertising, and he was at that for some time before a very natural and consistent step took him into the show business. There he got a running start with the Clemmer at Spokane and five years ago he stepped into the Jensen & Von Her bert organisation. He managed a house at Butte, Mont., before coming to" Port land, and he has been here a year and a half, proving up on a bunch of Ideas and ideals he has been carrying around promiscuously. He has a notion, in spite of his wild Western origin he was born at Helena, Mont. and In spite of the tendencies of the modern day ja?s and everything, that folk regular folk still have hearts and rolnds that love the beautiful; such folk would rather hear "Humoresque" than .. the "Humpty Dumpty Blues" rendered by St. Vitus Syncopated Jazzbo band. Raleigh keeps -his drawing tools lose at hand and when Tie has time does the art work for his local motion picture ad vertising, in some of which he has achieved widely welcomed results for the style and forcefulness of his con ceptions. Twice in Tiis life, he confesses, Raleigh has posed for bis picture once without his knowledge and the second time un willingly. The first "time he was about "so" big and had a cute little blond .curl traipsing back over the; spot that some day will be bald ; mother posed her Melvln O. Winstock. manager of the local exchange, and the promise Is for a warm welcome for the idol of the Pathe organization. - - Pearson Has Just been honored by the national organisation, which set aside November as Pearson month and set out to beat all sales and collection records In Pathe history, Tha"t success crowned the tribute is indicated by. Winstock, who declares that every one of the many Pathe branches more than doubled in November the j total business of any previous month, and that record is, ap plicable to the Portland branch. The personality of the man who was honored inspired the work of the month, for which 110,000 in prizes will be dis tributed to the exchanges with the best records. ! Locally the Pearson contest was di rected by Manager Winstock, who set a goal for sales and collection on No vember 1 and strove throughout the month to attain that goal. On Novem ber! 30 when the total was counted Win stock found himself $500 short of the goal ajnd he went out for thaf particular piece of bacon. ; He got it at the Rivoll theatre, to which he sold an H. B. Warner picture that will not fee released until Jan uary 28. It is something of an achieve ment to sell a picture 60 days in ad vance and collect for it that far ahead of time, but that is what Winstock Is credited with. ! Winstock Tuesday night sent to the home office a statement of November business, but will not be ad vised forsome time as to his fortunes in the prize money distribution. Tyrone Power Goes To Ziegfeld Fold ' . Tyrone Power, the eminent tragedian, has Just been signed by W.,K, Ziegfeld to appear in a forthcoming screen pro duction. This makes the tenth player of tage repute who has been" acquired by Ziegfeld within the last fortnight, and Is another indication' of the producer's Intention of adhering to his original pol icy of ngaging artists from the legiti mate field only. Now Johnson is in communication with Pantages regarding further conquests and is soliciting an official visit from the head of the circuit for the purpose of presenting for his inspection a number of likely Bites for new houses here. Along Broadway this talk is said to be the most seemly in a maze of chatter about new and bigger show houses for not only Johnson, but Pantages himself and Miss Bara Declares She Might Retire Word from Chicago has it that Theda Bara will withdraw from "The .Blue Flame" and may. retire, from profes sional life January 1. She may do a film version of the play, the rights to which she owns. But If her present attitude toward her acting continues, she will remain in private life and en joy the fortune he has accumulated.'1 it is said tnat miss Jtsara nas not oeen warmly received on the legitimate stage. South America Delighted With Yank Pictures (By TJalverael geniee) RIO DE JANIERO, Dec 4. The American movie has completely cap tivated South America. Carlitos, as Charlie Chaplin i called, and Weelyum Hart and Mary Peektord are household words, not to mention the vast number of other well-known stars, all of whom now - have a huge following in a land whose language they cannot speak, l Where once Italian, French and Ger man fibs dominated the screen, today American reels rule absolutely. It is estimated that more than 10 per cfmt of all the films shown are of American manufacture. . .". "-'' : r American screen favorites smile at one from full-page layouts of moving picture sections of the newspapers and from the same gaudy posters which blase at One from photoplay theatres in the Unilted States. Contests, the point of which is the choosing of one's favorite star, so worn out in the land of the film, are still popular in Latin America, and still arouse enthusiasm. e The fever for the screen stage among young men and women, and even among the old, la perhaps more pronounced here than at home. Many moving picture schools flourish here, and the list Of futile attempts to launch moving picture production -enterprises is pitifully long' in every South American country. 'Spanish Love' Said To Be Big Novelty New Tork, Deo. 4. The big theatrical novelty of the current season here is the Wagenhals and Kemper production of Spanish Love," by Avery Hopwood and Mary Roberts Rlnehart. Something new in the American theatre may-be seen in this play where the authors have so devised their story- as to permit the actors to use the aisles, the boxes and the rear of the theatre for their en trances and exits. This Innovation has the delightful effeot of making the audience an actual part of the drama so that they really feel themselves to be a part of the story that is being un- folded before them. Unusual Atmosphere Creates I Fire Scene Scenio affects accompanied jnly by the orchestral organ form the utiusual "atmosphere setting" for "Nomads of the North," this week's feature at the Liberty theatre, tn the 10 minutes al lotted to this part of the Liberty pro gram. Manager Noble will stage a for-, est fire, .'The curtain rises on a placid mountain scene, a moon Just setting be yond the giant firs in the foreground . and over the f distant range of i blue mountains at the back. After a moment's wait, a splash of red is seen. Then smoke rises. Later the crash of tim bers and the crackling and menace of . - huge forest conflagration may be seen and even heard, thanks to the organ accompaniments It Is the first prologue Noble hss arranged without the use of singers, dancers or personal entertain ers. .,:-."..;:,.-' . Japa to Invade Europe Paris, Deo. 4. A Japanese theatrical company is : coming to Europe next spring with one play composed of 94 tab. leaux lasting 11 hours. There will be silent , and " spoken scenes, revolving stages, tam-tams and a great number of authentic Geishas as chorus girls. Cribble Sells RljfliUi Harry Wagataff Gribble, author of "The Outrageous Mra Palmer," In which Mary Young iaj appearing at the Thiriy ninth Street theatre, has sold the novnl Isation rights of his play to a well known firm of publishers. TODAY THIS WEEK NOW Nephew of Former Premier Fred Malatesta, who plays the role of the South American profligate in "Risky Business," Universal feature, is a nephew of the former premier of Italy. Mala testa is well known In , the film world, having played in 'The Challenge of the Law" with Bill Russell, "Big Happiness" with Dustin Farnurn and the "Sins of Rosanne" with Ethel Clayton. He was born in Naples, educated there and in I Rome, and played on the stage in Italy I and South America. jlifeW ' ftkw. Now Playing- LJi mJU ft I I a Mean Loinette $ , - p onPooPonnie x r W huA I ADDED , ff lvpr W ATTRACTIONS f S " ! ' mh " Mutt & Jeff in "Farm rt f 1 S I Jtti Efficiency.. - h? U ( Bruce Wonder Scenic i I Si V k f "A Banana Special" "1! U. 1 PEOPLES NEW :m V ; ORCHESTRA ' Direction of Britz . t . . ,..- in iimii imiii iinnniii !, i i an mi mim m n n iniiniiniiiii i m miii uiii ir " j i i -iniiii ir 'tiT mmCykA fl CT? Cw3 O?oci 'W 1 Cr ) I i - p 4 U U U FAMOUS STAGE SUCCESS ! OLIVER: MOROSCa ' ' v rrr- s0 if;; -' A comedy-drami of two couples who, uIV. If' by mutual agreement, swapped their vljv ' ' ;'; - ' . regpective marital partners. 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