THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 19. 1920.
Who's Who on Broadway-And Off
PAUL E. NOBLE, a Louisiana nightingale who sang his
way through college into a chemical laboratory and out
again, into minstrelsy and finally to the Portland motion
picture theatre of which he is the handsome,, artistic and business-building
manager.
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By E. C. B.
Here's a showman "what am."
He" started leaving the prints of his
long-toed shoes in the sands of time
down In t Louisiana about 33 years ago
and there, along about 1906, we pick up
the trail as he leaves Iouisiana Btato
university Hinging a Dixie melody to a
tsheetiskin that proclaims him a chemist.
We follow him into the scene of his
" greatest crime a chemical laboratory,
where, before he discovered the error
of his ways and quit chemistry forever,
he attempted to inflict upon an over
wrought world a cotton seed oil sub
stitute for honestiQld bacon grease.
Th footprints lead from chemistry,
where the outlook didn't indicate fabu
lous riches, into minstrelsy, where talent
received richer rewards. From min
strelsy the pathway leads through
music to. musical, comedy into adver
tising: and finally to motion picture thea
tre management, a realm, in which his
Initiative and artistic genius have ac
complished rtiany creditable things.
He Is Paul K. Noble," sweet singer of
Baton Rouge and manager of the Lib
erty theatre, Portland's largest motion
picture house.
While he was drawing salary as a
chemist at Gretna. I-a, and satisfaction
as a member of the vested choir of lotj
at the Cathedral of St Peter and St
PauJ at New Orleans. Noble was as
saulted by a contract from Bartons
minstrels, which offered twice as much
for a week of song as he was emlng
for a whole month of chemistry. There
upon Noble became a minstrel, "doubling
in brass" for the edification of parade
viewers.
The minstrel tour led to the forma
tion of the "Golden Gate Trio," of whjet
Noble was a member, and the trio
alligned with Al Field's minstrels for a
season. Another season with "The Girl
From Macey and the singers dls
banded to permit Noble to accept the
advertising managership of the Lc.ig
Beach, Cal., municipal band. Later He
became business manager of the orgaiF.
isation and, having done everything
but owning: the - outfit, he jumped bis
job.
It must have been about the time he
adopted horn-rimmed spectacles that he
saw the possibilities of motion picture
progress, and, with his hair, slicire'l back
in a neat pompadour, he Invaded Mon
tana. There, on behalf of the Montana
Amusement company, he managed Bine
theatres in different oarts of the state.
With the spectacles and the beauty of
the pompadour enhanced by a natty
mustache Noble came to Portland at
the call of the National theatre, later
the Strand and now the Rivoli, to sue
ceed Melvin G. Wlnstock In the manage
ment of that house and of the Alco Film
Exchange, a subsidiary.
Somewhere In Montana Noble had
called at his bank to request that checks
signed "Mrs." be honored and the extra
shoes were piled In the Noble wardrobe
when it was unpacked in Portland. Then,
five years ago, "th Portland rosebud"
arrived in the family. He's a husky lad,
too, and father vows he'll not be a chem
ist, even though the only slttsnativ is
the motion picture business.
Not so much to save fuel bills for a
redoubled family, but to see the country,
tht Nobles went to Honolulu after their
first brief season In Portland. Although
"atmosphere" has proved wonderful
stuff with which to build motion picture
prologues a healthy family couldn't get
fat at sightseeing in Hawaii, so. via
California, the Nobles returned to Butte,
where Jensen & Von Berbers, meanwhile,
had bought everything in sight '
.The company needed a live were man
ager for the- Columbia theatre in Port
land Just as this handsome youth from
Baton Rouge appeared on the barren
horlson of Butte and decided that he'd
better bring his Portland rosebud back
to this particular garden of promise.
That was three years ago. For a year
Noble managed the Columbia and had
charge of the advertising there and at
the Liberty theatre. Then he became
manager at the Liberty, where he hs
sine been, making himself one of the
most prominent picture house manager
in the -West and Hunting his chemistry
to the evolution of new methods of pack
ing the house for very show. .
FRANCES HANRAHAN,
15-year-old Portland girl
of whom much is expect
ed as a result of her success
as a dancer .C in "Mecca,
Broadway's big spectacle.
Hero Criminal's Day
Cut Short by State
Board of Censorship
Harrisburg, Pa, Deo. 18. (L N. S.)
The day of the' hero criminal in motion
pictures is over In Pennsylvania, accord
ing to a stand which has been takenj by
the state board of moving picture cen
sors. Letters. Bent out to producers and
distributors by Henry- Starr Richardson,
secretary of the board of censors, state
the objections of the Pennsylvania board
to any pictures where criminals are, held
up as heroes cf education and refinement
who live in luxury and outwit the au
thorities by. superior wit resources and
audacity.
"All that glorifies crime, or makes a
criminal career or adventure fascinating
or alluring," ' Secretary Richardson
writes, "is considered by the board to bo
highly undesirable."
The board also announced that here
after serial films will be considered only
in their entirety and that whole films
must be submitted for review and ap
proval before a single installment can be
released within the state.
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Agnes Johnston, writer of a number
of Charles Ray's more successful plays,
has been signed by Metro to write
stories for Viola Dana.
Cast as one of the premier dancers In
Morris Gest's Broadway spectacle
"Mecca,". 15-year-old Frances Hanrahan
has achieved wide note in New York, ac
cording to word received here by friends
of tha child's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
E. Hanrahan, -
Frances won distinction when ' she
made her professional debut on Broad
way, a rather unusual procedure in It
self, and, it is said, when she was ap
proached by other managers the now fa
mous Gest hurriedly eigned her on. a
three year contract It has been said
that Bhe will be cast as the leading
dancer in "Mecca" next season.
The child's success in "Mecca" is
founded upon hard work, marked by her
long study of dancing as well as of vio
lin, piano and vocal music. When the
Hanrahans removed from Portland to
Detrpit, where the head of the houae en
tered business, Frances was taken to
New York, there to study the art of
dancing under Adolph Bohn, who is said
to have endeavored to. sign her to a con
tract for a concert tour.
Mother Hanrahan Is quite overcome
with her daughter's success, and freely
predicts her continued professional suc
cess. Mrs. Hanrahan is constantly with
her daughter, and has established her
home in New York while Frances Is
engaged there.
M.P.L.toHave
Holiday Party
Thursday Noon
THE kiddies about the Christmas tree
on the eve of the holiday can't claim
greater delights than members of the
Motion Picture league of Oregon; who
made plans at their meeting Thursday
for their own brilliant commemoraUon
of the festtve holiday next Thursday,
Plans provide for a Christmas repast
in connection . with "the usual weekly
meeting, but with additional trimmings
In the way of a holitay high Jinks with
suitable entertainment and a Christmas
tree. - - "' .
To perfect the arrangements and pro
vide the tree and its burden, a commit
tee Including Ralph Winsor, manager of
the Star theatre ; H. J. Phillips, manager
of the Gay theatre, and Melvin O. Win
stock, branch manager for Paths, was
appointed. ; -.
. The party, at which all members of
the league promise attendance, will be
held in the Tyrolean room at the Benson.
New Year's Matinee
Will Be Gay Event
At Liberty Theatre
Professional vaudeville, th Pacific
coast premier of the ' screen offering,
"Love, Honr and Behave," and ama
teur acts constitute the three sections
Into which Paul E. Noble, manager of
the Liberty theatre, has divided the .mid
night frolic which annually ushers in
each new year at this house.
The New Year's matinee will start hot
later than '11 :30 p. m. December 31.
Promptly at 12 o'clock a special New
Year's prologue will be staged. This
prologue will not he held over. r
Of the professional 'acta already en
gaged, the most pretentious will be the
Columbia Ladies' Symphony orchestra of
30 pieces. This orcnestra nas Deen play
ing at the Multnomah and recently gave
a concert at The Auditorium prior to
going on tour, v
Serpentines, noise makers and sou
venirs for all the guests have already
been delivered "to the Liberty offices.
Ticket sale will start Christmas day. .
Edward llearn Hurt
While filming scenes for Ruth Ro
land's latest serial, Edward Hearn, her
leading man, was seriously injured by
falling from his horse.
; Weber Studio EnlargeC
Lets Weber, one of the most noted of
the women directors. Is spend half a
million dollars on studio enlargement in
Hollywood. i .
"Judging by present Indications," says
John W.. McKay, general manager of the
Mayflower corporation, "we may look
for some revolutionary methods of
photography next "year. In fact, if 1
may venture a prediction, the greatest
progress In ths picture field will prob
ably be made along this line. Inventors
and scientists have been actively pros
pecting the field of color photography
this year and very likely some startling
achievements will be announced in 1321
as a result ot thssa experiments."
Parrel Fobs, who lately joined the
Goldwyn players and Is now working in
"Noblesse Oblige." by Gertrude Ather
ton, was asked how ha happened, to be
an acton and he-answered; "One day I
was riding past ths old Kalem studio
and some on called me In. 1 went In
and sat down, and- I've been an actor
ever since. .
- Leatrlc Joy of the Goldwyn players.
believed she has lost ail trace of her
Southern accent Recently she was a
gue'st of the Commercial club . of Los
Angeles and had made a little speech of
thanks. She ended with? "Lawdy, you-
U don't know how happy X am and I
reckon I can't tell, you."
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."Why I it" asks Owen Moore, "that
a woman who feels old enough to cover
her face with, a veil when she goes out.
feels young enough not to cover her
shins with a skirt". -
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"The girl who waits for a rich hus
band until she has lost her good looks
and youth," remarks Elaln Hammer-
stein, "is a profiteer of love caught in
the falling market"
.
' "I see that an expert says it costs
more to travel than it did formerly,"
says Eugene O'Brien. "He mighjt also
have added that it costs more to stay at
home.'
"How many people work on your
stage?" queried the visitor to Vidor
Village. "At least two-thirds," answered
King Vidor absently.
"When I buy a glass of soda or a
theatre ticket" observes Martha Mans
field, "I often wonder just what war we
are paying for " ' j
, "I love children so much." says Zena
Keefe, "tWat I. .can almost forgive them
for growing up and becoming - fathers
ajid mothers." '
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"A lot of room at the top is made by
men who have gone to sleep there and
fallen off," remarks William Faversham.
McGettigjmAsks
Copyrights for
Oroscope' Idea
APPLICATION for copyright on the
"Oroscope," Frank J. McOettlgan'S
unusual and very interesting Innovation
as seen on the motion picture screen at
the Orpheum, is at Washington and its
acceptance Is expected here dally c
' The Oroscope is an Ingenious pre
sentation of stereoptlcon slides whereby
It is possible to completely cover ths
great Orpheum curtain with a color view
and at the same 'tima-UMth screen for
motion pictures or. addltldnal slides
without the one Interfering with ,we
other.- Likewise it la possible, by the
McGettigan's Han, to raise ths theatre
curtain so that, as it raises, the scene on
the screen unfolds to the audience w Kn
out reflecting on the curtain 1t;f.
McGettigan. who is ths Portland man
ager for the Orpheum. has so perfected
the presentation ot the novelty that In
stead of a life of 90 seconds a stereoptl
con slide has Indefinite usefulness and
becomes what Is said to be the largest
Indoor stereoptlcon view ever produced,
In spite of the faet that the slide used
Is just one half the size of the ordinary
slide.
First It ha apparently never heen
possible to produce Indoors a-steraopti-cow
reproduction more than' abOJt 24
feet square, whereas the Oroscope
throws a picture 31 feet I Inches by 36
feet completely covering the stage-!
screen from a slide 2 by 3 inches In slse.
When McGettigan conceived his Oro
scope idea, his stage manager told htm
such a thing was utterly Impossible,
but he failed to see th impossibility
and went ahead. He had to overcome
the fact that. ' under the intense heat
from . the light, the emulsion on th
average slide melts tirifr a minute i
exposure, and . after a minute and a
half- .the ' glass- craoks. Through the
addition of glass -ease of water,
equipped with faucet and drain for
prompt cooling, and through which the
projecting light must pass. McGettigan
eo prolonged the Jlfe of his .slides that
there is no limit to the time they may
be - continuously exposed. In spite of
the fact that most stereoptlcon .machines
are of only 20 amperes, and th Or
pheum machine is of 45 amperea
Then there appeared the aggravation
of either raising the curtain on a blank
screen, and thereafter throwing on the
picture, or of having th plctur re
fleet on the curtain as It went up. That
led to the invention of a blind, by the
use of which ,the picture follows the
curtain and is exposed a th ' curtain
Is raised, and obscured as the curtain
is lowered, without any reflection , of
the curtain. i i i
. Another unique feature of great Im
portance Is the possibility of! combining
th use of the stereoptlcon and the mo
tion picture camera without the one in
fringing , on the bther, Th Orcmeope
will, for example, show a "still" picture
of Washington street in colors and on :
that view wean be shown a (parade in
motion pictures. Or the Oroscope will
throw a background for-airy motion plo-:
ture and leave the usual space for tr.e
presentation of the picture a whit
blank. That is accomplished; by a little
flap this Inventive manager has cou- .
trived. . .. I i v i. . :
It is sold by authorities who have been
among the thousands who have seen th .'
practical display. of the Invention, that
it holds unlimited possibilities for th
improvement of motion picture presenta
tion, as, well as for other stereoptlcon
purposes. McGettigan has' proved his
plan to his own satisfaction ; within th
more than a year, he has had it work-
Ing, meanwhile showing a complete new '
set of slides each week1 hand colored
views of Oregon and Portland scenery.
Once copyrighted an thus secured, the
invention -will probably be1 marketed,
McGettigan declares.. ! i
Chautauqua 'folk Visit
Kelso, Wash., Dec. IS Captain and
Mrs. T. Dinsmore Upton visited In Kelso '
this week, on their way to New Zealand,
where they will 'be .with the KUison
White chautauqua. Mrs. Upton will he
a director for -Ellison-White; In which
capacity she ha been for several yea s.
She was formerly. Miss Hemic Kly of
this city. Captain Upton appears on the
circuit as a lecturer on community ai
tivitles and athletics. ! j
Opal's' Book Receive;
University of Oregon, Eugene, Dee.
IS. -The University of Oregon library
has just received tha first i circulation
copy of Opal Whlteley's book, "The
Story of Opal," which has! created so
much comment over the nation. The
fact that Miss Whlteley was formerly a
student in the university adds to this
interest i I
Ijoglon to Stage Show
Forest Grove, Dec. 18. Members of
the local post of the American Legion
have decided to 1 etage the old show,
"Slippery Gulch," on December 28, 29
and 30. . Pacific university has donated
the use of the gymnasium for those
dates. The proceeds of the entertain
ment will go toward furnishing the club
rooms for the local post
It Is reported that D. W. Griffith will'
use Dorothy Gish in 'a new series of five
reel comedies lit a more pretentious way
than ever before. Site has finished her
Paramount contract . !
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Christmas -Day,
December 25,
1920
RIVOU AUGMENTED ORCHESTRA
3ALVATORE SANTAELLA
Conductnr
SPECIAL COXCEKT 12; 10 HOOX TODAY
Overture, "II sarany" .,...C. Gomes
FoUsta Daaee , . KeUarwenka
SelertloB, " aeghty Marietta" ,
Victor Herbert
"Scenes pittoresases",, .4. Massaset
Malts IEfftadlastltia . Waldteufe!
March .MUltarie,,.., .f. Schsbert
COKCEKT ??UMBfeR DUBISfO
THIS WEEK
8eleetioa, "Mile. Modiste".. Victor Herbert
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merit, added to which is an extraor
dinary and daring theme of married
life, unusual plot cpostniftion, thrill
ing and surprising climax, and clever
nets and sympathy of action through
out of noteworthy quality.
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