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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTL AND, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 19, 1920. PHOTODRAMA NEWy 8'': v 1 ,. I .4 '. Mc Donald m -aiihe.' Liberty Photo Plays LIBERTY At the Liberty theatre Katnerlne MacDonald, tn her latest photoplay, "Curtain !" is the attraction for the present week. "Curtain 1" is a story of stage life and it Is a picturlsa - tion of Rita Wieman's delightful Satur day Evening Port story. It is a First National attraction. In "Carta in !-" 'Miss MacDonald plays the part of an actress who achieves a tremendous success as the star of a new play. She is wooed by a millionaire bachelor through a whirlwind courtship and finally marries him and gives up the st a ire. Lo.ter after she has become the mother of a boy, she discovers her hus band is untrue to her he having: gone to Tia, Jnana with the actress who has taken her place as star. She returns to the tgev getting back her old place, and scores a trtmendous hit. Later, she finds real happiness, but how is a secret, the telling of Which would spoil your enjoy ment of the picture. Manager Paul Nobel has arranged an especially elaborate prologue for the week and Henri Keates at the Liberty organ -will have a group of special num . hers. . RIVOLI In "The Double Standard." the RobertsonCole special picture, which is being shown at the Rivoll the atre is shown a thrilling runaway through a quaint English village. This rapid bit of action paves the way for one of the greatest scenes in- this start ling study of married life. Frank; Leroux has come home for the first time, in five years. At the railroad station he takes a carriage for his home. The horse becomes frightened, runs away and Leroux is thrown out and fatally, hurt. Lying semi-conscious, 'at tended by his old friend. Dr. . Sylvester 5 ' ' A. Abitof drama, ftom'The Ucorble V 7 JMl CrTlP in P Wal the ? VC flUJK - I 1 fs"' : 1A j c- if J J i 2 S'hiTlcy Mason in ir. J . - 4 t t. peoples. 41 - JII1E III Jill 1 I If. 1 , vS? u n ny ' 'll"Sia n.l. -..1 -Mr.' . Jl . kuuctl xvaTwici as seen at Uie Circle- i Lanyon (11. B. Warner) the dying man reveals the secret of his love affair with the doctor's wife, Beveral years before. . The doctor always had considered his wife, now dead, almost a saint,- and this conviction from tllfe lips of the dying man causes him months of misery, which are only ended by the most unusual and surprising climax. "The Double Stands ard" is based on the novel, "The White Dove," by William J. Locke, - and was directed by Henry King at the Jesse D. Hampton studios. A comedy, "Twelve P. M." and the Fox News reel complete the RJvoll program. MAJESTIC "Number, Please.", a"Har old Lloyd comedy, said to be packed with laughs, combines with the Goldwyn screen drama, "Honest Hutch" to com plete a double cue program at the Ma jestic this week. Ort Hutchins, known to Willow Bend as '.'Honest Hutch," thought he had found $100,000 and im mediately began to act that way. Where he had been a worthless town loafer he became in his own mind a plutocrat, and consequently in the minds of His fellows also. . How "Honest Hutch" makes a man 'of Jiimself, and uplifts his family through his effort to convince his neighbors that he had been saving money, so that he could spend that which he had found without causing amazing questions pro vides an absorbing story.. In the end "Honest Hutch" burns the $100,000, and when a delegation calls to proclaim him candidate for the legislature because fie, is "honest, truthful, , free and above board," Hutch looks straight out of his eyes and answers, "Yep I allers. made it a rule ter be !". ' COLUMBIA Allan Dwan's widely heralded production, "The Scoffer," described as intensive film drama, made by the Mayflower Photoplay corporation and released . by 1 Associated First Na tional, is showing at the Columbia the atre. The story- is an unusual one in many respects, say those who have seen the picture. The cast which Dwan has selected to portray the various interesting charac ters in the thrilling story is unusual for the fact that all are prominently identi fied as leading exponents of the cinema art. The cast includes such well known players as Mary Thurman of Mack Sen nett fame. James Kirkwood, . Bernard Durning, the latter both famed as direc tors as well as being recognised among the foremost actors ; Philo McCulIough, Rhea v Mitchell, former vaudeville star; Noah Beery, one of the most admired of screen character men ; Ward Crane, rap idly rising to stardom ; John Burton, Kutrenie Besserer and Georgie Stone. The Columbia Picture Players, this theatre's highly popular orchestra, will have a program for the week' entirely suited to the action of the picture. ' HIPPODROME A notable play with a notable cast will be offered as the motion picture feature of the Hippo drome's new bill the fore part of this week, beginning this afternoon. The play will be the English melodrama, "The Hope," which held the boards in London for an extended run before the great war. The cast will be headed by Jack Mulhall and co-starring will be Frank Elliott, who took the hero part throughout the original London pres entation, Ruth Stonehouse, who has rapidly been gaining fame as a picture star, and the French danseuse. Mar guerite de ia Motte, who is a rather re cent acquisition to screendom. The story is by Cecil Raleigh and Harry Hamilton, playwrights with a long string of successful melodramas. It reveals the plot of an impecunious and unscrupulous English army officer to marry the daughter - of a notorious money lender. The officer finds it neces sary in order to accomplish this to Plan to Bring Film Industry 6 . City Would Be Screen Center THAT Portland may become ere long the film producing center of the United States is the hope of local exhibitors, who are doing some official thinking on the subject as members of the Motion Picture League of Oregon. And they have found their thoughts augmented by the interest of business men and the Chamber of Commerce. Dissatisfaction with the out-of-doors available to the camera in Southern Cal ifornia is growing apace, and as it grows attention turns northward, where the only objection producers can find is a lit-, tie rain now and then. I That plaint is rapidly beiKff Bet aside, however, iy the dear public, Portland exhibitors say, for the public " is -increasing the fervor of its demand for studio pictures that Is, subjects filmed within the studio. However, good pic tures in scenic, settings continue to charm, and for scenic settings, it is pointed out, no spot on the face of the nation's map offers such variety as doea Portland. Louis J. Moomaw of the American Lifeograph, company, one of the success ful motion picture producing companies already here,, declares that the advant ages of Oregon and Portland aa a pro ducing center far offset any disadvant age there may be in the winter rainfall. The American company's first biff film, "The Golden Trail," was filmed entirely THE ROMANCE OF A GIRL FROM NOWHERE NOW SHOWING fit JLf SHIRLEY MASON v ; . , ; 1 3f ; I ; . I m '',y"''','J"tl -jag-' ' il mi iwiniina ii i - mi i- in l. WM DIRECTION xJ&TslSJZT VON HERBEHO "THE LITTLE WANDERER" Comedy, 'Broken Bubbles' Pathe Review PEOPLES ORCHESTRA Direction John Britz 'I.) Next Attraction "MILESTONES" 17 V-f, V v v- r I "t y;:-N-xi5i---' . . J;:f if Vv-M 1 v , break up a love affair between the girl and her 'sweetheart and to break away from a young peeress1 who is in ' love with him. "The Hope" is located in Great- Brit ain, India and Italy and the Metro company which produced it as one of its master picture series apparently left no effort unspent to bring out all Its scenic possibilities. The culminating feature is an earthquake which is said to be real istic in the extreme. STAR Yendys, a Chinese impersonator and comedian, is being featured at the Star theatre this week. "Yendys is Australian, his stage name being that of his birthplace, Sydney, spelled backward. Although for over 30 years he has been doing vaureville en gagements featured as a Chinese imper sonator, he has never yet visited the Celestial land. Hia knowledge of Orien tals has been gained through association with them in the Chinatowns of San Francisco and Portland, which he de clares far outrank the famed Chinatown of New York. Yendys does a 15 minute act in which numerous sleight of hand tricks characteristic of eastern magic are performed as he keeps up a continuous comedy chatter in eastern dialect. Ralph Winsor, manager of the Star, has. built an ambitious lobby which exploits both the Chinese funster and his screen feature which is of an entirely different nature, being a western ro mance entitled "The Lone Hand." - He claims that the lobby is the meeting place of the east and west . to which Killing refers in "The Gypsy Trail," re fusing to remember that author's pcern in which it is declared that "never the twain shall meet." PEOPLES Shirley Mason, dainty feminine star, is a welcome visitor at the Peoples theatre, -where she is pre sented by William For in a photoplay by Denison Clift, entitled, "The Little Wan derer." The story is of a poor girl whd, to escape from intolerable conditions, dons a disguise and, as a boy, boards a coal train bound for the city. Her ex periences in the crowded town are many and varied, and the clouds which hover over her are flret pierced by the sun light of unselfish friendship and finally dispelled by the gentle breezes of love. It is a story abounding in good comedy situations. , . Raymond McKee appears as Miss. Ma son's leading man. The picture was di rected by Howard M. Mitchell. - CIRCLE Robert Warwick has the role of a romantic adventurer in "The Fourteenth Man," the picture in which he is being featured at the Circle theatre today and Monday. He is a twentieth century knight of th old school who will fight from the drop of the hat' for a fair lady or an underdog who 'appears to be getting the . worst of it. - According to the story, the hero, who is a captain in a Highland regiment, gets himself into difficulties with hia superior officer .through his impetuous qualities . and is forced to depart hur riedly for America. In this country also, he encounters further adventures in the bohemian ; Quarters ,of New York and, later, in the prize ring. A pretty lady is involved, and the story finally ends happily. ' "The Fourteenth Man" was adapted from "The Man From Blankley," the stage play in which the famous Eng lish , actor, Charles Hawtrey, starred with great success for several seasons. Bebe Daniels, Sylvia Ashton, and Wal ter Hiera are included in the cast sur rounding Robert Warwick. -r. Joseph Henabery directed the picture, which is a Paramount Artcraft release. In and arouhd Portland and photograph ically there is nothing much superior. It was a thorough test of local uosmbili- ties and a proof of such possibilities. While exhibitors declare therA la n growing demand for the studio picture. uii uita nui uit-an inai me om-or-doors is not essential, for a continuous, display of all-studio products would only cause a reflex demand for the out-of-doors. Therefore, those interested say. Portland must be aonralsed from th nil.arniind viewpoint of the big producer. Whereas producers' in Southern Cali- available locations thereabouts, the field tor new scenes in ana near .Portland practically unlimited. Whereas, South ern California producers must and do travel far and wide In search of "loca tions," often going hundreds of miles from the studia for a few "shots," every possible ejement of scenic setting is available within a few hours of Portland. Even' in Southern California tropical settings are studio products, so that is eliminated. But much time and expense is spent in reaching snow fields avail able to Southern California producers, while within easy reach of Portland are the vast snow fields of Mount Hood, employed to splendid advantage In "The Golden Trail." The mountain and meadow settings are nowhere in greater wealth than in the Willamette valley. Two great rivers are available to the cameramen a feature .that California cannot boast, and the ocean is within a few hours hardly a greater distance than from Los Angeles. What more romantic or beautiful set ting for a picture than Tillamook light station of the coast of Oregon a rocky little bead on the surface of the ocean, about which could be woven a thousand stories? "It is unfortunate," said one Interested exhibitor, "that the one or.Jtwo picture producers who have come into Oregon on 'location' tave picked the' wrong sea son for out-of-door work. Marshall Nei lan'a company was disappointed here, but he might likewise, have been thwart' ed by nature anywhere else in the world. "It must be admitted that throughout the year pictures cannot be made in Ore gon, but for film companies that would locate studios here and work as they work elsewhere, with a combination of studio and out-of-door ' photography, there is no better site in the world. "Portland affords a greater variety of natural setting for. motion pictures thaa California ever dreamed, and there is not a chance in the world that a dozen film companies could picture all the possible beautiful background in a quarter cen tury. - . . "Where in the world can be found such a wealth of "scenic background for his torlc, dramatic or melodramatic pictures as the Columbia river highway, the Mount Hood country, the Pacific coast of Oregon, the Columbia and Willamette rivers?" No concerted action In attracting film producing money to . Portland has been made, but such action will probably soon be organized 'under the direction of the Motion Picture league, aided by th Chamber of .Commerce, members of the league have' said. President C; fw Jen: sen of the league and head of the largest exhibiting corporation in the Northwest who makes his (personal and business headquarters In Portland, is thoroughly interested in the plan and declares thatf the field of possibility here far outstrips the possibility of any j other locality ha can call to mind. . -f Thus far local companies hava proved Unquestionably the advantages of Port land and the Oregon country from a pro ducers' standpoint, not only by picturing drama of the intensive sort, including, out-of-door and studio sets, but In com edy work. When studios of tha sc.opa of some of the California' stfidioa are erect ed in Portland, nothing can stop this section in its ambition to become the film center of the West, authorities de clare. . i; 4 I ". ' ! ' Such a studio, built! as a rental prop-, ositlon and available to any legltimato producer, has been talked of for somi tlma by the Chamber of Commcrae, whlclr would erect the plant with local funds, i , "Dong" Has New Lead Douglas Fairbanks, who has hitherto changed his leading lady frequently, has signed Marguerits da la Motte for a j-ear. 9 r IS M WWWW www W WW WM p r :;!. I viae fi - " r " i i Cx3J-- now playing. ' ,. f: SiJ A picture that has everything one, ' " f expects in a really big drama- j I jtiJi men who are men men who are not j AJ -jr VtV ' ' women wonderful in their love and 5l V'f women pitiable in their frailty. hSS I Iff Y COLUMBIA PICTURE PLAYERS P I h V. C Knowles ....... .Director JJ I .: - -, .-. v ;