THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING,
MBER 5, 1920.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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