THE OREGON SUNDAY JQUHNAU PORTLAND, fUNPAY MORNING, JULY 17. mi.
Brace's Beard
To Be Seen in
Local Scenics
ft. GALAXY of srirls. members of the chorus of the Graeorv
J Extravaganza company, who are spending die wiidpnmnwr
weeks entertaining patrons of the Oak Amusement park
auditorium.
ROBERT C. BRUCE, producer of
anile films extraordinary and guest
of Portland this summer, has developed
a beard. Bruoe is Biasing Portland his
headquarters for the summer while
snaking scenic pictures in the immediate
neighborhood. But that doesn't account
' for the beard. Bruce and a party of
slayers left Portland Wednesday night
for Montana.
The producer discovered on the eve of
an extended picture making trip into
.the interior country that one of the
players he had counted on to aid him
in presenting the little story he is weav
ing into the pictures would not be able
to accompany the party. Therefore, to
replace the man, Bruce determined to
jump into the role himself. But a heard
was demanded. Therefore he was con
spicuous for several days for the heavy
growth on his "chops and chin."
The picture taking trip will take Bruoe
and his company to Thompson Falls,
Mont., and from there on a somewhat
perilous canoe trip to the fork of the
the Columbia river and over to Lake
Pend O'Neill From there the group
will follow down the Columbia again to
Kettle Falls and into the Snake river.
The trip will require approximately four
weeks, Bruce expects.
Among those who are in. the Bruoe ex
pedition, which win offer the advantage
of a rigorous outing, are Joe Marda,
John LaMont and Dee Wright, packer,
all of whom are well known here. An
Eastern player is also a member of the
group.
Metzger Buys Local
Title to Important
Screen Productions
r .... All fQm productions of the noted Aa-
sociated Producers, Inc., will hereafter
get a first run showing in Portland as
result of the purchase contract signed
here last week by Gus A. Metzger, owner
2 Of the Rivoli theatre. Metzger has con
2 tr acted for all Associated releases,
which Include the film offerings of some
I of the best known American movie
makers.
One of the first Associated productions
5 to come here under the new contract
will be "Mother o" Mine," a Thomas H.
Ince offering that is receiving much fa
ll ' vorable advance attention, among film
followers. Betty Ross Clarke and Betty
j' Blythe are among its cast. "Mother o'
' Mine" will open the fall season at the
Rivoli in September.
The Associated Producer are spon
.. sors for the new series of Mack Sennett
5 ) eomedies, too. and for the productions
f Ince. Allan Dawn, Maurice Toumeur,
C. Gardner Sullivan. J. Parker Read, J.
- If. Frothlngham and others,
- Metzger has contracted also for the
exclusive first run showing of the new
- series of Prisma color scenics, the first
film picture to be photographed in
natural color. Prisma pictures are al-
ready showing at the Rivoli each week.
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TALEKTIITE HAS NEW PLAT
Rudolph Valentino has been engaged
to play the title role in "The Sheik"
which George Melford is producing. The
role is said to afford him as good an
opportunity as "The Four Horsemen
of the Apocalypse."
Local Exchange Has Hugh Thompson and
Oregon-Idaho Right , His 'Lady Luck' Are
To Be Luxe Holdings
An arrangement whereby the Equity
Distributing company oi Portland will
handle all the Oregon and Idaho terri
tory for the film possessions of the
De Luxe exchange at Seattle, and in
turn will release its own pictures in
Washington and Montana through De
Luxe, ha been completed between Gus
A. Metzger, president of Equity, and
Louis Rosenberg of the De Luxe organisation.
The distributing scheme confine ter
ritory to more accessible routes for sales
men and, in the long run, yields the
same results, it is said. The local ex
change company will get a number of
important film features, including James
Oliver Cur-wood stories, in exchange for
its own products, American, Clara Kim
ball Young and others. L. B. Metzger,
nephew of the president of Equity, is
manager of the local house.
Midgetg Wedded
Manchester, N. H.. Jul 16. (L N. S.)
A June wedding of unusual interest took
place here when Miss Margaret Lang
and John Bourassa were joined in mar
riage. Both are midgets and are raid
to be the smallest couple in the state.
The bride is 3 feet 9 inches and her hus
band but a few inches taller.
Decidedly at Outs
Speaking of hard luck, Hugh Thomp
son, a member of several important
picture casts, is one of the interna
tional champion. Before entering pic
tures he owned a mine in the Joplin
sine district, paying .him handsomely.
Then one fine day water rushed in.
Every effort was made to lower the
water, but without any effect Then it
was found that the flood was coming
in from a near-by river and that he
and his engineers had been trying to
pump the river dry.
Following this be went to Mexico.
I braving the revolutions to mine. He
was doing exceedingly well when a
drunken engineer filled the gasoline
engine with naphtha. That ended that
Trying Canada next, Thompson be
came a farmer, taking over 2000 acres
in Alberta. He sold the farm, but Just
then along , came the war, and so far
he is still waiting for the payments.
Then he went Into pictures, where luck
evidently changed, for it has been easy
sailing tor turn.
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Strong Summer Color
London, Ju7 IS. (L N. S.) "The
'summer color," says Dame Fashion,
"will be a soft shade of yellow, net un
like apricot, but more correctly described
a Spanish onion peel color."
ComedyNeeded,
Producers Say
To Playwright
GET out your bag of comedy trick if
you wat to write scenario.
The picture producers want plays that
BJ UweUew1 wfcey1 rells1 lag essrs wwvP J y
real money tor them.
There are something like 54.0 par
son trying to write stories far the
screen in other word, scenario Ac
cording to leading scenario editors and
film directors not more than 5 per eent
of the total product show a gleam of
humor.
Humor is the desirable factor nowa
day because the public shows an im
mense preference for plays which make
theaa laugh.
Proof of this is the fact that the Cap
Hoi theatre of New York recently ran
a it feature production a comedy In
which Harold Lloyd and Mildred Davis
were e-starred, and the leading theatres
SB Portland and elsewhere throughout
the country ere constantly requisitioning
film exchanges for comedies, comedy ro
mances and comedy drama.
"we who make pictures always bear
in mine the public sentiment as it comes
through the film exhibitor." said Henry
King, director, "and we find that there
is an overwhelming demand for plays
of humorous interest. It is the bulk of
testimony from audiences themselves
which makes the fun film the paramount
faetor nowaday.
The time has passed when picturegoer
wish to patronise heavy dramatic ma
terial, ttlng declares, and only piays oi
that type written by world-recognised
authors are making a success now.
All of which proves that the run
inspiring film la the coming fort of
original story writer. The market is
an open one. vuen stars as unanes
Ray, Harold Lloyd, Be be Daniel. Con
stance Talmadge, Bessie Love, Eileen
Percy and Gladys Walton are slated to
do dram i tic comedy and they need
vehicles.
Pearl White Admits
Divorce Gossip May
Be True; Can't Talk
Back from Paris, Pearl White, mov
ing picture actress, has confirmed the
story published some week ago that
she hag gone to France for the purpose
of obtaining a divorce from Major Wal
lace McCutcheon. When seen at New
York she said:
"These is more truth than fiction in
the report that I went to France to ob
tain divorce from my husband, Wal
lace McCutcheon.
"I should like to say more about my
affairs, but my attorneys have forbid
den me. No, I won't any anything about
any person whom I may name. I'd Uk
to, but I can't."
Miss White said she had heard about
her husband being arrested a month
or more ago in connection with the dis
play of a bottle of liquor at a Broadway
restaurant. She wonted to know what
the outcome of the affair was.
"I wish they would have fined him
a thpusand dollars ; yes, more."
BOBBIE FARRELL,
popular entertainer, who
ig at home for a vacation
iter long Haw York engagement
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obbie Farrell.
rived home last week to
night or so with her
Mary Haley. 1M Cook
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speed a fort
mother, Mr
e venue, after
concluding a long engagement on the
Strand Roof. New Yerk city. Mies Far-
rell mad her first professional appear
nee on the Lyric theatre stag here in
Portland and won a popularity that soon
sent her East and eventually, through
her ability as a performer and
contralto singer, placed her In the Strand
Roof company. With the Lyric cast here
seven years ago she was a popular mem
ber of the chorus.
D'MILLE ACCEPTS WAGER
"Someone offered to bet m a hat that
I couldn't complete a production In four
weeks," said Cecil B. Delft lie to Jess L.
Leaky the other day. '"I'll glv you a
hat the best In Los Angela If you do
it, sold Leaky. "It's a bet !" replied the
director.
"Freddie, asked Huskie Cameron of
his friend, Freddie Howard. "I've got a
plaster en my hln ; I ean't hey alcohol
to soak it off: hew will I remove itr
Raffie it off.-' flashed hack Freddia
Reformer Will
IJe Scorned on
Silver Screen
MARSHALL NEILAN will write and
produce a picture of the Public
Right League of America, presenting
screesj reply to the reformers and cen
sorship agitates, as soon a ni ssBpsai
film effort I completed, he premise
Although motion picture producers
hove used the public prints and ether
qMnnesj to fight censorship it t strong
to net that they have overlooked tnetr
own powerful medium of reaching the
gihtte. the screen.
Realisinr that the screen can serve as
important a purpose In fighting for its
own right as It did in What) of the
government during the war, Nei'n of
fered to men the first oirect ann-cen-
reels film for the Public Right
tgtr. ga organisation conoucting a ns-
ttoenid campaign against bluehe-
vtosp"
Tito glen he been welcomed by the
league gad hg received the indorsement
of qtotrtoutsrs of NaUea's product. Thus
the Koi an film will beeeme an imp-ri
ant faetor In this drive and plans ar
under wer to facilitate it preeeniauon
in some 1. too theatre throughout tae
country without charge to the exhibitor
it I said.
The film wlU he made so a to insure
entertainment, rather than dtostosiag It
these In the war of ore aeh meet, it
wlU nevertheless oarer eonvincin arge
mwu against the sensor ship of motion
nieturaa and the aaaaln ef "blue town."
The plot will T written by Mr. NHan
himself, who will personally direct ell
of it presentation An all-star
east will portray the different characters
and the negative win oe turns ever io
the league fire of st.
An tntereeitn item In connection with
Notion's Ptoa Is the fact that he hg
eves had a foot ef film cut out ef any
of hi own production by the censor
sine the rWtoslsj ef hi own company
two years age, hi friend say.
New Corvallis Show
Will Soon Be Ready
l-rwlh Julv ! Work la sSMSSBNk
lag on the building for the Blue Mouh
etoture theatre being erected by the
local Igdg of Odd Fellows. The lodge
plans to show the heat class of pictures.
CJM WW tJv.rtilln wmma am m
Cervalhs department store, is buataea
manga?.
Actress Delights
At Return of the
Famous Old Waltz
Wilton Lackaye Has
Mean Names for the
Blue Law Advocates
Bj Ease srMJ
I am delighted' to see that two of
America's nsoat prfoninent dancer are
Wading the fashion, write soon will re
instate the old step.
I here always loved, daaring. hare ap
peared professionally on I occa
sion, and waa always among the first
to introduce the newest steps. I never
hav crod particularly for the, end
regarded assay of them as no worthy
the name of danctng at all. But It waa
"the fashion." and by all mean I must
be In the fashion, 1 thought
However, many people have heard me
eahoei that, despite the modern coast
for syncopated movement, the waits.
hleh combine true poetry i:h genuine
grace, would triumph la the end Re
cently I have tuaurtotod la the rhythm
and beauty of It an oeveral mapl., I
the vast mu nsU Of to other guest
end the approval ef a few
And now gur erUSSHW' ha hoe ful
filled !
f New
of L Hua Huerhso and
h royal command danced for Queen
Mary end delighted that lady by inter
preting the eVd faahlswd wait ha
placed that danee at the head ef It Hat
of
g stir la
a. e tow
York.'rhag toltowtogA!eed
e Hughe and Maurtoo .who
Portland Players
In Bay Oity Oast
At 8avoy Theatre
Hariand Tucker, eon ef Circuit J edge
Robert Tucker, gad Well known to Port
land, his home town, fa a seem her f
"The Skirt- company, which I playing
limited engagement at the Savoy the
atre la Ban Fmilwi With Tucker I
hi wife. Marl Waieamp. motioe gtoture
aerial star, gad the seme company boast
the presence ef Qisrg Webster. Baker
steak .spgy actor, who U on hi va
cation in the Bay Cltgf.
"The Skirt" ig being presented by
Bessie B arris Is. who has such a good
opinion ef celluloid setobrtttos that oho
has surrounded herself with group ef
prominent picture players under the di
rection ef Howard H tehees Other
member of the east are Paul lUroogs
Frank Dart. Minnie Si a. Hsiao
Tegler. Jean Ivan. Merle Staatoa gad 44
We
are
crying for a censorship of the theatre
and the eaovios a a bigoted head who.
under the guts ef
(heir aim the destruction of si I
neni. w'.iien LAcsay created
an address at Washingtoa, B. I
agy ego.
The actor s vtteperatlvo
oemwg the blue law advoeatee earn
after Georgetown university had Cn
ferrod upon him the degree ef master of
ayto. a ea artist of the stage, the first
lime until the elevation of Mies Maud
Adas by Union eMee that the theatre
h to aoMptod eaadent eulty as of the
liberal arte,
la directing a verbal bombardment
Into 'he rank of tnoas who seek to
curtail amusement. Lackaye said in part :
A narrow bigotry, whose concept of
Qed the father is a being wh prescribe
foe hi son a world which is a vale of
tear la miserable preparation for on
eternity spent in aaeoieUen wit people
we refused to spook to in life this ts
the mod re Puritanism
"The reform bureau su-called has been
built upon the ashoo of- the Aati-geioon
league, which has had the hole Ig the
table the active kitty stepped by the
Volstead law. And he assured that a
the fetmti association. In the name of
nti sal, ha advanced to invasion of
the home and the curtailment ef private
conduct, the reformer crying for
censorship f the theatre and the movies
la the name ef morality, have as their
ultimate aim the destruens of U
amusement.
' A witty doaeendeat ef the Puritan
aid Of hi forebear : They abolish bear-
haltlng not because it hurt the boar, but
It amused the pepulaaa.' Spo-
rejdw effort to haeolie olreJe suf
ficiently under Method 1st end Presby
terian Ipflneese to regulate th length
ef skirt, the smshlag of cigarette, the
playing ef baseball on Sunday, motor
ing, golf gad the movie are nothing hut
the outer efjgtna of aarreu and mia-
of h
Of Ood!
tr frugal!!
and all t
to hat
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PEOPLES
Mareje Manon originated the fad cf
batik making in the film colony.
Mareia Manon ha gone In for eques
trian activities. Recently her huaggnd
presented ber with a saddle mount and
last week she was one of the honor
guests at a Southern California here
show.
E PALACE OF
-from the
novel by
Mary Hastings
Bradley.
The tale of
an American
girl's adventures-with
a rajah of
India.
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The Pint of the Wonderful
Vanderbergh Exploration Pictures
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rum tisj io
An
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VTays at Ufa yon waaM -never dream
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A Paramount Special
STAR STUDIES
Stories of the Screen Studios
At last has David Warfleld agreed to
enter the films. Metro, through Mtcue
Lioerw, ha secured his services for both
The Music Master" and "The Return
of Peter Grimm." He is scheduled to
work at the studio in Hollywood.
No logger will Ann Forrest be a Lasky
luminayy. Her contract ha expired and
she is fowling another producing Bran.
Her last Leaky work waa done with
James Kirkwood In "The Great Xm-personaUon."
IVresexvts today
The entire Plckford family I
enrolled in film making. Mary to work
ing in "Little Lord FaunUeroy," Jack Is
starting "A Tailor-Made Man" and Lot
tie ha a film called "She Must Pay,"
coming on the -market via Pa the release
Mildred Davis's first emotional scene
was made last week when she shed co
pious tears in a Harold Lloyd comedy.
"The Sky I tbe Limit.' Her film
tears were gotten without artificial aid.
it
On completion of several picture for
which ho Is contracted Tom Santocht ex
pects to make a trip to Alaska on
whaling expedition. A friend owgo a
whaling schooner and the star Is an in
vited guest on the all winter cruise this
year.
Filmland's latest rumor is that- Tom
Moore is leaving Goldwyn to accept an
other offer. "For oeveral week now he
has boon in New York with hi wife.
Rene Adoree. and on re turn in to the
coast ho is expected to announce his
Mahal Normand ha left on the Bret
top of trip she will make to London
and Paris. She has finished Molly-0."
in which she returned to the Sennett
fold after a long absence, and will be
back in grease-paint nt the famed com
edy studio by September 1.
Goidwyn is putting n number of com
panies to work. Both Frank Lloyd and
Wallace Worsley are to start new sto
ries, E. Meson Hopper is working on a
script and Paul Bern to now directing
"The Man With Two Mother, In which
Cullen Lanrtls ts featured. Stars are to
be eliminated from this company's pro
gram. It is declared.
Film celebrities in Los Angeles are
cooperating with Joan Griffith Wray in
the formation of a private theatrical
society, the Mlmss. to present a win
of artistic drama programs. Wray la
director and the players will contribute
their service in the interest of commu
nity art.
Henry King aad Richard Bathelmess.
whom ha to directing, are going to the
West Virginia mountains to approxi
mate location Of aoones to Bartheimeos s
story, Torhto David." King, a native
of the district, know exactly where to
All of the various Secmett
win park their he thing suits during the
summer and go to for more clothes and
heavier drama. Mildred June Is to play
Harriott Hammwad will" be with Leah
and Katharine MeOulro will play at
Metro.
Not only ha Harry Mysrs devoted
himself seriously to oslontlfl farm la
but to menagerie management as well.
A lixard. horned toad, two humming
birds aad a gopher Mask comprise the
soo which he assmtowd at the Uses he
bought a small fsjfcn aa the outskirts of
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