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THE OREGON ' SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING JUNE 26, 1921. JB. Spdrks Is New Owner of Bend Theatre BEND, June 25. The Sparks Amuse ment company, operator a number of theatres in Central Oregon, has pur chased the- Llherty and Grand theatres of Bend from O. M. Whlttlnxton, who has been muuger for two years. The consideration, was over $20,000. ! The transfer becomes 'effective July 1. J. B. Sparks, of the purchasing com pany, will move to Bend and personally direct the affairs of the theatres. He has been in the moving: picture business .for many years, feeing- a. charter member "of the Moving Picture Operators union, organized In Portland. He was operator at the Star theatre in Portland when It was one of only two film houses there. Sparks plans to, install a large organ in the Liberty theatre, and make many other .improvements. WhltUngrton and his family ; will go to New York city, and will reenter the picture house busi ness In the Bast. . . A TRIO of maids coming to the Oaks amusement park in! A the chorus of the Gregory 'Extravaganza company, pre-) sentung "Parisian Follies." The company of 50 persons will open its engagement July 3. ' w "Who can wonder that the press agent, as a class. Is in poor grace with the truth-loTing newspaper man? For Instance. Priscilla iSean's press agent ! ; Prisdlla was in Portland a few weeks ago remember? By the way, he and her company promised, to.be back within 30 e&ys and that length of time seems long since to have passed. Left here, they said, because the sun wasn't shining and went right Into one of the worst storms Los Angeles ever had. The day they left the sun started shining here and continued to do so for ome six weeks, hand running. But about press agents. Prisdlla was prevented by the clouds, it is said, from making a picture here. Therefore she became the object of much attention at pink teas, public receptions and the like, which caused her no moment of ex posure. Otherwise she was engaged in wholesome rest. in luxuriant apartments. Her only migration into the "tall uncut" was one short tour over the Columbia, river highway.. She was pampered and eared -for like a yearling eugenic con - test winner. Tet here's what her press agent sent us the other day: "Priscilla Dean has recovered - from the heavy - cold - which she contracted while on location in the damp Oregon woods and resumed work on her cur rent feature, being directed by Stuart Paton." : "The only reason hah- dressers are not as talkative as barbers, observes Shir ley Mason, "is because hair dressers customers can hold their own." . v 4 - i "Chicago judge - decided ' it was not illegal for a man to steal from his wife," says . Clyde Cook. "It is not Illegal it is Impossible' ' "Many a man has slipped on a wed ding ring, slipped on it is' right," says William RusselL' - - . . . ."One thing that always helps a woman to make up her mind," says Estelle Taylor, "is the privilege of changing it." rrr-jr- T ' -' ; - i u ' , .:::,?? .. If ' 'J - lj - C- c...f " -'.r, Jackie Googan Returned Home, Is Triumphant AMID blare of brass bands and the &imm Illy at ) TrtttnAm mAmKvavm S-year-old Jackie Coogan and his "dad dy dear" and "mumsy" returned to Los Angeles last week. -"Gee, I'm awfully glad to get home again," said Jackie- as he put his arms about 4-year-old Patsy Marks, his girl playmate, and posed for the battery of cameras. - - f . "New Tork? Oh, I think New Tork la wonderful, but I missed my home and my dog. Besides, X want to make some more pictures." -;; With ' the child celebrity's home-coming comes the Important news that he is not going to accept all of those fabu lous offers from vaudeville managers. Nor is he going to make pictures for the big film corporations as was announced recently. - Neither is the New York 'Hip podrome going to claim him as its stellar attractiton. Jackie is to make a series of five feature photoplays produced inde pendently by his father. Jack Coogan. The pictures wilt be produced in Holly wood pending the erection of a special studio for the child's own' use. Arrangements have been consummated whereby a big organization will finance the entire series of Jackie Coogan films. Work on - the i initial film will start July 15. - !.?",.: It is hard to determine just how much money this S-year-old -boy is going to make during the coming year, it is said. His success in "Peck's Bad Boy." which came near eclipsing "The Kid" records throughout the country, places him in the . Chaplain-Fairbanks-Pickford class with little difficulty. v-'v With all the popularity thrust at his feet, receiving the highest salary of any child artist with all of this, Jackie Coogan is the same natural unassuming little ; chap he I was the first day he clasped Charlie ' Chaplain's, 'hand and said "pleased to meet you, sir," "Nothing Is harder on a woman's repu tation than two women," Pearl White rises to remark. i - Lila Lee Says Her Career in Movies Unique By Lila Iee A WAT. I suppose my experience In motion pictures has been unique, for I have virtually grown up In j pictures, though the I process has taken only a matter of a couple of years. Tou see, I was just a child -when I came to work at the liasky studio and It seems that I've crossed the stream and become a young lady In the Interim. Not that I j believe I feel so much older," but some-i how I seem to have gained . a : stronger hold upon my work and to have learned a tremenedous lot since the first day I came on the lot. That is inevitable, X suppose, for these are impressionable years,' and one does : see and i hear so much In a studio, that tends to educate and develop one's mentality. M t Really, a studio is a wonderful place. X wish I could take all. my. friends who have been so kind to me, around the big plant with me and tell them what all the things are for. the queer settings, the strange machinery, the big lights, the odd looking cameras on powerful legs they always remind me of those Martian creatures that H. G. Wells wrote about in "The War of the Worlds." And I could Initiate them into the art of make up, the mystery of acting for the screen, which is so very different from that of the stage. Tou know; I had j a lot of vaudeville experience wnen i was uttie eight years, in fact, as "Cuddles." But It is not the same as appearing before the camera. Oh, I love picture work. There is a constant variety and change and everyone has been so sweet to me that I cannot help being happy. And every day Is added educatioa in the art of screen actings I'm learning . all the timer that's why I say I'm growing up with pictures. i f But I'm not grown up enough, yet to settle down as a matron, although mis chievous ' friends : or malicious enemies have been marrying me off to a Captain Collins a person, by the way, whom I do not Know, and who may j not even exist..: .- e t-t f.;s-- f ' s(wismifj Issbb sasBss J r-B0TTc iTfT) ATTTTT TTTX H 1 I ll Vv : From the famous play "IRIS" . by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero America's foremost , emotional actress, supported by asj great a cast as was ever assembled .in any motion picture. A beautiful woman, carried by her love of luxury to the brink of ruin, battles -. for simpler happier days -through scenes of tremendous force , -scenes ' which give the screen a new Frederick rising gloriously o all past achievements. 1 above all past achievements. f yCiX PLAYING NOWrV j I 3 ::- With Comedy, Kinograms ' yYtT ' -rr 1 I -T l p and BRITZ with his big lYi 17 " ( M i Usual Type of Ray Film Will Be Maintained TJVDR a number of months the critics and public have been asking Charles Ray to play, roles other than his estab lished type of the old-fashioned boy.! Now that Ray Is an lndependant producer he can choose his own plays and. In accord ance with public wishes, he has recently made several productions wherein lie Is not a country youth. ;s r - V-S ';:-.K ;S In "Scrap Iron." wherein he made his debut , as a director, Ray is seen as a millwright, a fighter. In "The Barn stormer he essays a young, small-time actor of the old school, and In his new est production, "Two Minutes TO Go," he is a. dapper collegian. ..;--'- :'--' T have not, however, given up my or iginal roles," he declared. "But I do not. on the other hand, wish to be known only as a type actor and naturally I have ambitions to play "-other kinds of parts. : - ' .' " - ' . . "Experience teaches every picture pro ducer to give the public acting. No mat ter how widely a star is advertised he cannot retain his popularity if he allows his work to lag. -i "The manner in which "Scrap Iron" has been received by the press and peo ple alike proves to. me that I can play roles other than the type X have been as sociated with. I shall not swing entirely away from my former characterization. Rather, I shall try to vary it with other types of young' men X may be suited to portray." t Ray is directing all his own produc tions. ; He is a true producer, selecting his own stories, casting them, directing them and acting in them. When he started to produce he announced his in tention of appearing in 'clean pictures only and, to date, none of his produc tions has suffered cutting by the censor. Desert Rats Lost When Swimmingls Their Final Hope Fred LeRoy Gran vule recently loon twenty desert rata on location at Balboa Beach as - carpenters. The men were required to build thatched roof cottages at low tide for a South Seas picture. The men worked a little too long their backs were to . the sea so they could watch . Granville direct his company on the beach and found themselves ma rooned., r : Hey, ain't you got no water wings T" bellowed a big fellow who stood on the roof and surveyed the swirling sea be neath him with blanched countenance "none of us can swim," he added pa thetically. - "How come not one of you can swim?" Granville asked. "I was. born in Bull Frog, Nevada. explained the ring leader, "and the town gets Its name from the only bullfrog in the entire state he's ten years old and can't swim a stroke. I didn't hire out for no darn mermaid, anyhow." Business Men Take . Over Amity Theatre Amity. June 25 The Palace theatre has changed management and Is now In charge of the business men of the city, who have placed.it on a non-profit basis, so that the patrons will get the best of pictures at very moderate prices. Any profit realized will be turned back Into the enterprise. . Plays Wrong; Piece When Will Rogers appeared at the Actors' Fund Festival recently he says he r requested - the - orchestra to play "Jubilo," his favorite tune. He now charges it with having player 'Asleep in the Deep," -and demands an explana tion. Rogers received a big ovation. Mary Wants to Play Grown-Up Picture Roles TITART ; FICKFORD, most of whose -- fame la based on her delineation of child and juvenile life on the . screen, has just sounded to her friends her de sire to do up her curled hair and be a grown up 'film person. "Not that I am dissatisfied with my child roles,- said Miss Plckford, "for X love them dearly, but X feef that as a celluloid kiddle I am somewhat bound down by limitations. Of course, there is nothing finer than Interpreting child life. It is a field rich In heart Interest and human appeal. And at the same time it is the kind of work that is clean and wholesome and satisfying. But all my life X have wanted to do something equally as good Jn a grown-up part." Ever since she began her career as an actress. Mary Plckford has been east as a kiddie or at least as a girl in her early 'teens. The public has coma to regard her as the eternal little girl of the screen, for she never seems to grow a day older despite the fact that she has been appearing in child parts for almost 12 years, v. .-. "If X play these roles wen. said "Ut tie Mary." "It is probably because never had a childhood of my own. ' Tou might say that I was grown up at the age of five, for that was when I first went on the stage, Aa a child actress X appeared in road shows, travelling about the country almost constantly. I couldn't play on trains because X had to study, and I couldn't play In hotels or theatres because It made too much noise. So X take great delight in enjoying my childhood . now, . In my work before the camera. "An affinity Is one who will cook your goose, but not your dinner," remarks Tom Mix. . . . Guy Bates Post; to Assay Hamlet Role Guy Bates Post is to do "Hamlet" He has arrived in Loe Angeles to appear in the film version of "Omar, the Tent maker," and states that when be returns to the stage It will be as the Prince of Denmark In the Shakespearean tragedy. The production. Post says. Is already built and In . a New : Tork storehouse awaiting his return. ; ' " ' ParKsond Resorts rpHE - OAKS Gregory's Extravaganza X company, presenting' "Parisian Fol lies." scheduled to begin a limited en gagement at the Oaks amusement park, July 3. has arrived In Portland with a company of 60 people, including a 12-plece orchestra. Pretty girls, , cos tumes, stage settings and electrical ef fects, vocal trios and sextets and a repertoire of unusual variety and originality are the outstanding features of the attraction. i - The company' will begin i rehearsals Monday and the first play will be "Venice by Moonlight," a sentimental story having to do with the obstacles placed In the path of young love by a misguided father. The story . Is told In pantomime and song.' with Venice as a background. . .. ; ' Some SO Singing and dancing girls and a male trio are features of this first offering. It is said the scenery, lighting effects and costumes will be the most elaborate ever presented at the Oaks. Miss -Eva Gregory,' owner and producer, is In charge. Fred Cutter, late of the Boston Opera company, looks after the details of . production.- Miss Marie Celeatein is mistress of the ballet. This week Is the last opportunity to hear the Royal Hawaiian Troubadours. These musicians have proved a popular attraction at the Oaks. Madrid Showmen in Quandary Over New , Segregation Rules -i .-' . Madrid. June 25. (I. N. S.) There's no rest for the movies in Madrid. The new prefect of police here, who re cently. Issued an order that the sexes should be separated in the audiences at movie theatres, has now amended the order as follows: Two fifths of the space a variable for the audience will be reserved for women and children ; one half of the remaining three fifths' will be tor both sexes. Red lights must be kept on at all times in this latest section. The order goes on: Anyone over 10 years of age who is found in a part of the house where he does not belong will be liable to a fine of not less than $10. There is considerable consternation among the j courting couples In the city. The newspapers humorously declare that cinema proprietors will be obliged to take a course of higher mathematics in order to make sure what Is the half of three fifths. Although; the new regulation has been the subject of many humorous para graphs. It is generally agreed that dras tic restraint was needed, since the be havior of a section of the public at cinemas has been a cause of scandal. 'Abraham Lincoln' to Be Brought to Coast William Harris Jr. win send John Drink water's "Abraham Lincoln" on tour again next season, opening the pro duction in ! early September. The tour will 'include a journey to the Paclfle coast. Harris will continue In the play the company which enacted It last sea son. 1 W wTTjwyyMw .-. ' 'mmmm m. mr a PLAYING NOW .L,: - jf QG3 00 (T JUL5 l5 lMl mr ,-.ar . WE ARE PLEASED TO OFFER AGAIN LON CHANEY THE ONLY ONE OF ITS KIND FAMOUS FOR HIS REMARKABLE PERFORMANCES IN "THE PENALTY" AND "OUTSIDE THE LAW." 17 Jf .;:.::::;:-::::.:: v.,;- V rr -' V( V ! sin- ' v (SiSiDiuT: v. vW7, u A ms7 rhere's iriore truth tHan poetry In the statement when we say you will have the time of your life at THE HOUSE THAT JAZZ BUILT. 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