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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 15. 1821. A Paul -Noble Is Heir to Share ': Of Big Estate NOT only on th sliver screen does the hardworking-, unsuspecting hero ' tear open the Inevitable telegram and : ., there read he is heir to an Inheritance of . many thousands of dollars. Paul Emerson Noble, manager of the - Liberty theatre, returned to Portland -early in the month after a great, grand and glorious vacation which had lasted several weeks and which had left him as near broke as one can respectably be. Among the bills and other waiting mends he noticed a dust covered tele- gram, it read to this effect. "Tour Grandfather Noble died at his Tiome in Smlthfleld, Ohio, on December 10. leaving an estate of $140,000, plus -real estate and personal property. As one of his 11 grandchildren, his will provides that 'you share equally in the cash and securities which he left. Ap proximately 39W in cash and $8000 in securities are waiting ' you." ' Nlpw, the late father of the Liberty "manager quarreled with the "Grand father Noble" mentioned in the telegram . ' soma 20 years ago so word of the death '.en December 10 was news In Portland. A wire was immediately sent back to Smlthfield, asking -- attorneys . admin istrating the estate to communicate with .the First National bank of this city and place the newly acquired fund to the .credit of Paul Emerson.- But 'instead of complying another telegram was re ; -celved in Portland from an uncle from -.whom no word has been received In .years. ;: ; "As your grandfather had not seen you in more than 20 years be specially ' requested that you return to the old v Noble home fend personally receive your .Inheritance." The Liberty manager cogitated. He had Just stretched a 10-day vacation : into three weeks. A trip to Smithfiela, Ohio, would cost In the neighborhood of , 1600. The inheritance money had not yet arrived and he was broke as broke :'r as any man could. be who with his wife ' and kiddie had motored through South ern California, visiting Sunset Inn, ' Alexandria hotel and other amusement centers. And besides, he '"had not seen his grandfather or uncles ht 20 years because of this. quarrel a quarrel which had prevented these relatives from ever ; - replying to the telegram he had sent fol lowing his father's death, several years ago. , So he sent, one more telegram this one to an uncle in North Cumber land. W,Vt, a district judge, asking him how $18,000 would be obtained with - a transcontinental tour. And last week word came, that because his grand father's request was not made in the : will, Paul Emerson Noble would not be - forced -to call In person for bis in heritance. , "I've as good as got $12,000 and I'll tell the whole world that it's going Into , the bank and not 1 cent of It will seethe : pockets of an automobile salesman," said Noble as he received the last tele- gram from his Eastern relatives. , In vestigation of the $8000 securities has proved that they represent coal stock now quoted on the market at 12 per cent !, above par..- 'Eightnin' - May Be 4 Sent ta Chicago in Eate Summer Days lghtnln" the run marvel of Broad way, N. T., will probably be sent to Chi--, cago in the fall, according to report from , "the East It is virtually sure of "com pleting three -solid years at the Gaiety by remaining until August. . The only time missed since the opening was three and a, half weeks' darkness brought about by the actors' strike. - The man . sgement has been in a quandary over the policy of sending "Lightnto" on tour or making a try of It on Broadway for a i fourth season. " The expectation of Increased takings : tn Chicago over New Tork, however, and the fact that one company of the play ' has been on tour for a season, has prac--tically-settled. the matter. - It Is figured that "Llghtnin" with Frank Bacon can ' run a year In Chicago and play to $22,- POO weekly about $7000 mors than In New Tork where the Gaiety's capacity ' ' is limited. This would mean an item of -$350,00O additional gross over what a fpurth season iq New Tork would attain. r. Present plans call for the number one show to play Chicago, Boston and Phil adelphia. Soma of the city time for '. next season has already been booked for the Milton Notjles show, which this sea ' son toured the South and some of the -, Central West territory. Cottage Grove Club r Preparing Program f For Comic Operetta ' Cottage Grove, Or., May li. The Cot , tags Grove Derthick club, under the di . rectlon of Mrs. Leon Des Larses, is pre paring : to present the comic operetta BulBul." . . -3 Special characters are lamit, a well meaning but fussy little monarch : Leslie -Mull, basso; Bui Bui. the king's beautiful daughter, Hazel Loueka, soprano ; Cas , plan, an Amiable prince, N. J. Nelson, tenor; Ida, the court chaparone, Mrs. ' lima L. Beager, contralto: Llllia, a ' friend of BulfiuV Wss Lillian Lewis, xneczo soprano ; Alain, a friend of Cas pian, Miles Wicks, baritone j Dosay, - keeper, of the royal spectacles, : & L. Mackin. basso ; Justso, keeper of the noyal cash box, Jvah Sams, tenor ; maids ' ef honor. Misses Lillian Lewis, Lois Thomas, Grace Fullerton, Lucile David son, Grace Jones, Velma Hart, Edith Schols and Lenore Hubble. Peddlers Miles Wicks, Ralph . Chestnut, Glen Smith, Ralph Fnllerton. Fred Beidler, Jloy Leonard, Arils Wicks, Brighton ' Leonard. Chorus, Lords of the court and housemaids. T This operetta will be given May 19 and 20 In the high school auditorium and is ty far the most elaborate entertainment ; attempted In Cottage Grove. Ben Scovell Treats Bidgefield to a Pine Program of Readings , PJdgefield, Wash., May 14.-Ben Sco vell, nephew of the late Sir Henry Irv Jng, famous, actor and writer; imperson ator and humorist, gave an. elaborate entertainment at the Ridgfield high school auditorium Thursday night. , The following were included In the pVogram : Scenes frdm "The Music Mas ter," - "Richard III." "Real Life." "The Widder's Daughter" f Riley) ; "Me and Ker" (Mark Twain) ; ."Mother at the Club (Anon.) ; "Playing the Game" ; (Service) : ."The Coward" (Service) ; rTheir Honeymoon" (Cooke) ; andv "The , Toung Man Waited" (Lewis). Ruth Roland has resumed serial maki lng for Pathe. Under her, new contract, rather than maintain her own studio, iiiss Roland 13 at work at the Roach studios. . . ' I BEGGY COUDRAY, whose interesting life story reveals her thoughts about her life, in Portland, where she lived with ; her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. John K. Kollock. Miss Coudray left Portland to seek a stage career and has won suc cess and feme as a result. ill S"" I 111 J'':-Y J::r J 1 History Basis For Pageantry At Pacific U. TACJFIC UNIVERSITT, Forest Grove, May ; 14. Oregon history will be brought out in several of the 10 epi sodes of - the elaborate - May day pa geant, "The Progress of 'the Pilgrim Spirit," on May 20. The Champoeg in cident and the founding of the pro visional government of Oregon will be depicted, Among: the characters to be repre sented are Joe Meek and Rev. Harvev Clark. The founder of Pacific, Grand ma Brown, will be brought to life in the person of her great-granddaughter. Ernestine Brown of Forest Grove, and a sophomore at th university, "Rehearsals axe progressing rapidly and ail concerned axe taking an active interest, as is. shown in the manner which the Forest Grove people and the high and public school pupils who are assisting the university in the pageant are responding with earnest efforts," said Samuel EL '"'James, director of the pageant. "There are many busy nee dles about the campus these days, pre paring the costumes." IT. of 0. High School Pupils Prepare for . Two Plays May . 26 University of Oregon. Eugene. Mar 14. As one of the last events of a very successful year i for the university high school is the production of two plays, which will be given May 26, according to Miss Ethel' Wakefield, instructor j in dramatics and coach of the plays. - The auditorium of the new university high school makes the productions of good plays possible, according to Miss Wakefield, 'who has been handicapped up to this time by the lack of proper staging facilities. ) The two plays to be given are "Chinese, Dummy," a comedy. and "The- Maker of Dreams." COMING THREE CHARLIE I -'-3- v 'iVvs-rj ;J f ! .. ...7 .. : ) r :'. '!,. . a- ;, '...'....:....' Movieland Buzz i n g With Rumors About Film Stars Coming Since Priscllla Dean, : one of the screen's leading beauties and moBt charming actresses, has actually ar rived in Portland to start work on the big great picture of her career, filmland is buzzing with rumors of. impending visits from other motion picture notables. David Brill, man ager: of the Universal exchange here, and i responsible for bringing - Miss Dean's company to Portland, did splendid missionary work among film producers in connection with his re cent visit to Los Angeles. i ! f ' i On the heels of the Priscllla Dean' company cornea a rumor that Anita Stewart and a company of -players 'are coming to Portland within a fort night. The R. A. Walsh company, filming "Kindred of the Dust," ia re ported to be ready to Invade Coos Bay,; and three attempts have been made by Los Angeles producers to lease the American Lifeograph com pany studio here for the summer months. i .. ..j . Tjegkm Boys Present Play ? Kelso. Wash.. May 14. VThe Whirl o' th Town will be presented at the city auditorium Tuesday .night, under the auspices of Guy Rathbun post, American Legion. Harry Williams is directing the production for the Evans Producing company, and rehearsals' have been un der way for; several days. -About SO Kelso people will participate.' 7 '.4 : BUCK JONE IN UNSET SFAGtl WEDNESDAY DAYS ONLY CHAPLIN IN THE KID'-' Portland Girl Tells Story t K ' St ' - K f H ' St R m K K K Started Stage Portland will find much interest in the life story of Peggy Coudray; Port land girl and featured! player in "La dles Night" at the Eltinge theatre, New York, a - story of. rapid rise from her 'teen age days here to the electric lights on Broadway at 25 years. t, , Miss Coudray, daughter of a . once prominent New York j family, i grand daughter of Countess Secreto and Judge 'Frederick Sterling Massey of the New York supreme court, was Mignon crooK until she assumed her . present stage name. She has just turned 25 years, she . has been married four times and thrice divorced, according to the story she Is telling to readers of 52 it's weekly. Although born in Brooklyn, N. vY, March 17 1898, Miss Coudray came- to Portland a few days ! after .her tenth birthday and remained! here until she quitted the roof of local relatives and sought refuge on the stage, which she has graced ever since. She had left her mother in a New York hospital and never saw her again. Hers she became the ward of her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. John K. Kollock. j . . It was here, too, that Pesgy took up the stage career that bas proved so suc cessful and it was here that she met th first of four husbands credited to her account In the matrimonial register. He was Peter HorwltsJ Recalling her trip to Portland, the actress declares she made the trip alone, In spite of her years, and was met at the train by her aunt and uncle, well known Portland folk. The girl, whose mother was in straightened circumstances when the trip to Portflthd started, was garbed in her mother's clothing! and the sight of her set horror to the heart of the Port land aunt, she says. - 4 - - ' From the time of her arrival here. Peggy's imagination ran away with her, apparently, and she grossly enlarges on some of things she did and saw.- Soon after taking up her residence here, Peggy; was placed in a convent, where Bhe remained until, sne aeeiares. she paid an iceman $7 from her savings to aid her in escaping. When, she told the iceman her story he returned the money and put her on i. train bound for Olympia Shows WorkTokether To Draw Trade OLYMPIA, Wash., M4Y 14. E. A. Za bel, manager of the Ray theatre, finds with his policy of offering the best attractions, that special 1 inducements are not necessary to draw crowds. He employs a union operator,! Charles Al len, whose wife, Mrs; Clara Allen, plays the piano. M. Farrow and Oscar Nel son are the ushers antl Miss Mohler is the ticket seller. ; W. B. Bowman, manager of the Rex theatre, who cooperates with Zabel, makes a business trip I to Seattle every second week to secure films for the Ray and Rex theatres; -Business at the Rex is, also good in spite of the fact that Bowman finds that fitmis are now selling at peak prices. vB CJl Andrews is his machine operator and a member of the union. Mrs. Bowman Is the ticket seller and Dick Adams,-a hirh school boy, is the usher. I ' K. J. Williamson and his three sons continue to run the Strand theatre in a manner that is rapidly building up a fine clientele. Miles Williamson is daily Increasing his skill as an organist. Chaplin's exLSpouse To Enter Vaudeville Mildred Harris Chaplin, ex-wife of Charlie Chaplin, is to I make her entry into vaudeville with a ithree-people skit in September. The. act is scneauiea 10 De seen in the East in the Keith bouses early in the f all. - Moore Hone; n Ended After a four week: honeymoon in Honolulu.; Tom Moore aad his bride, Renee Adoree. are In Los Angeles again. Moore has air idy started work on Charles Kenyon's original story. Ti..tini- H name." under the direction of Victor Schertzinger. 1 ' . ; TODAY A Galloping Romance of the Golden West With a Riding, Shooting , Hero 3 H 1 1LJ , . III Career Here Portland. She arrived here,' she re members, at 11 o'clock one i night, and installed herself . in the , home of her absent aunt. " j " v Peggy apparently didn't like Portland, for she demanded that she be permitted to leave. She records that the1 aunt bought her a ticket to Seattle, where other relatives lived. ' It . appear that when Miss Coudray arrived in : Seattle she found there , our own George L. Baker and sought stage 'work: She worked in Seattle for seven weeks as Elisabeth Sterling. From Seattle the stock: company moved to Tacoma for a month, where Peggy again found Peter Horwltx. a young real estate man, who became her first husband. From Tacoma the com pany cam home to Portland and of that event Peggy says: -t , "I was there three weeks before, my aunt knew it Some kind soul called her on the telephone one morning and told her that her niece was playing with the stock company at the Baker theatre. She called upon me and begged me to give up the terrible life I was leading, but as we never did agree on anything, we did not agree on that. I left the com pany, however, and Mr. Baker secured me a place In the Derner-Fulton Stock company, rehearsing In Seattle for a tour through Canada." 'I With ! that the Portland chapter of Peggy's life was closed, but the local relatives, it is said, have closely fol lowed her stage success and long ago became reconciled to it, if, indeed, they did oppose it as the youthful mind of the now prominent actress thought. Miss Coudray, who first became Mrs. HorwiU, then Mrs. Ted Rich, Mrs. Luther Hibberd and finally Mrs. H. B. Harris, is the mother of two children, the oldest of which is nearly 11 years. Since she left Portland the actress has climbed steadily upward, and has played in some notable companies and in notable roles. . But the one -that made the greatest Impression was. the first part she ever played under George Baker at Seattle the role of Zats in "Sappho." Maybe it was that character ization that gave her the temperament that bas won her the : nickname of "Temperamental Mag." ' Peoples L-y- 1 . . . ' f, ) 1 . -:lUvlULDJJljJ 9ams k f i . iThe Season's Biggest ; Comedy ?Jr ' ; y tnd Most Spectacular . ) r I) 'r.v'Prbjuctibn--witK.afuII fr I All-Star cast . If J .... M immmr :; i ft . U'---?'' 13 ''IV- 1L'" -"oft I : s L v i niy -v A story of Ancient Rome and mod-r J ern New York of beautiful slave E V s girls and dancers of the "Follies." J - v A fascinating compound of spirit-! 1 . j i A story of Ancient Rome and mod ern New York- of beautiful slave girls and dancers A fascinating compound of spirit ual beauty and sensuous charm set ; in a wonderful background. It leaves you with the same feeling of i reverence as when you first saw 'Ben Hur" and critics call it "one of the rare examples that justify the art of photoplay production! West Park near Vashinrrton Coos Bay MaylSee Filming of Story - By Peter B. Kyne Marshfield. Or., " May! 14.-1 The making of Che film "Kindred of the Dust," which was started' on Coos Bay last year, is to be completed in June, when the .R. A- Wleh Film Productions will bring the company to this city again. Lastji yearj the company visited Coos Buy ' during the rainy season and thit .weather was so" unfavorable that tbe picture could not be completed, iij A repre sentative of the company; writing of the plans to 'return, states:; that Miss Mildred Cooper will play t;je leading part. The story is by Petetf B. Kyna. Local Youth Writes University Scenario ' , " 1 - , t , University of Oregon, Eugn. May 14. George Pasto of Portland Yjl respond ed to the call of the extension division and has written a scenario to be filmed during Junior week-end, showing all the events and places of interest on the cam pus in an .interesting wayj Th . film will be sent to th different pities in th state and friends of visiting "preppers" will be able to see them "ini action" on the Oregon campua ! Newport Show House Remodeled or Moved Newport, Or., May 14-C. jp. Froeland, owner of the Midway play house, has moved his building to th corner of Sixth and Huriburt streets. The entire house has been remodeled and wilt accommo date 250 people. - Mrs, C K Freeland assists her husband 4a the management of the show, fih ? lv an aocomplished musician ana an entertainment Is al ways assured under th JoUit manage ment. j May Buy Local Shaw Canby, May -A 14. Ed Blair, former theatre manager of Nwbrg! but now In the real estate business, visited Canby, en route to Portland to vutlt with his brother, W. H. ' Blair. H cantemplates buying . a thes.tr building her. , of the "Follies 31 States Win Fight Against Screen Censor FILM censorship legislation has ' been defeated in 31 statesdurlng the legis lative session sow drawing to a close. In the last week, five states repudiated censorship, including Ohio. Wisconsin, Michigan. Rhode Island and California. In each of these, drastic censorship bills had been Introduced and ; were backed principally by professional reformers, it was charged. v-- " In, Ohio, a measure known as the McCoy blil sought to prohibit the show, ing of alllctures depicting crime in any of' its phases. This legislation, had it become a law , would have been th means of I practically paralysing th pictur industry in that stata, its oppo nent said In Wisconsin th legislator voted unanimously against reporting th cnsorshlp bill, and in Michigan, follow ing a bitter, fight, th senate refused to take ; the bill from commltt, thus putting a oietus upon the censorship aglUtors ther for at least another year. " Other states in whlcb-ceneoTshlp meas ures were introduced, but tn which th legislators refused to censor th picture induttry ware i " Orf on, Colorado, Del, war, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Main, Min nesota, Missouri, '-Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Nw Jersey, New Mex ico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Okla homa, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tenness, Texas. Utah, Vermont, Wash ington and Wyoming . Censorship was also defeated la th plstrlef of Columbia. Ealeigh's,. Aid Back From Screen'Gapital Andrew Sasa he of th hug smlls and courteous deferwic. 1 back at th Co lumbia theatre as house superintendent and assistant to Manager R, C. Raleigh. Andrew is of Italian axtraction. Hi father at on time kept a stall in th public market and scores - of - Portland housewives ther bscarae aoquainted with Andrew's old world courtey. For several years Andrew worked at th Co lumbla and then last spring b left Port land for Los Angeles, where he planned to become art actor at. th pictur stu dios. His plana 414 toot materialis o last week h wa welcomed, back, by th atr employes and theatre patrons alike, Direction Jensen & Ton IIehbehc Students Foreseeing Success for Latest Campus 'Knockout University of Oregon, Eugene, May 14. "Real professional quality that is our goal,", said John Houston, rapid fire director of the senior play, who reports that by May 20. the time "Nothing but the Truth" will be staged, the produc tion will b a "regular knockout." Rehearsals are being held dally and those who hav been called in to criti cise th work report that the parts are shaping up unusually well. Marion Tay lor, who takes the lead, . is said to be surpassing her past efforts in her work. Those whooan Imagine Alex Brown as a bishop and Marlon Gllstrap as naughty, naughty chorus girl and a hff ' a dosen or mor prominent university students in clever parts, can get some idea of th way "Nothing but th Truth" I going to tak. "If you don't want to laugh,- stay away." This Is th motto Director Hous ton bas suggested for the advertising nd of the production. Lots of repartee Is going to keep the crowd laughing all th time. Lily Gish Returning To Legitimate Stage " Lillian Gish vlli co-star with Arnold Daly when the latter open his repertoire theatr at the Greenwich Vlllsge, New Tork, with 'The Children's Tragedy" by Carl Shoner. Lillian Gish' latest stage appearance was with Mary plckford in Belasco's "Good Little Devii." Her sister Dorothy, who has never been on the speaking stage, will try out a play In stock in Canada this summer, "playing ' opposite her husband, James tenner, now in "Spanish Love," Daly, who sailed last week for Eng land, will change his bill every month, beginning bis season -October 20, ICs player Include his daughter, Slythe Daly, Phillips Tead. Sydney Carlisle and Walter F. Scott : California Singer Booked Kelso, Wash., May 14. Th Univer sity of California Glee club will sing at the city auditorium, Thursday, May 19, under the auspices of th True Blue Boy of the Presbyterian church, who will use the proceeds for their summer camp.