THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING. JULY IT. 1L Oregon Writer Types Scenario of His Life at t at at at at at at at at at at at Roseburg Native Is Noted Filmland Figure Julien Josephson Writes Interest ingly, Exclusively fpr The Jour. naJ Amusement Section, of His Adventures in the Celluloid World, Where He Is Prominent for His Many Good Works; (Editors Note Julien Josephson, sttrta of Roseburg. who was recently made associate editor of the Goldwyn studio scenario department, has risen to that roeratiTS position after career mora markable than any story he arcr wrote. Up to four yean aco nis faUnre was tragic He couldn't realize a penny en bit hard-won educa tion. Many a loafer did batter than he to business. He drifted to Colrer City. CaL. with bis illusions shattered, bat with a determination to ret into the new art of ptotoptey writing. Ha wrote some of Charles Ray s greatest successes. J By Julien Josephson I was born in Roseburg. Or., the exact date being a detail which you must par don the sensitive author for not wish ing to reveal, but it was something less than a century ago. The three man still alive who remember the Important natal event unite In declaring that It was fur t her impressed on their Joint and several memories by the peculiar circumstances that the old clock in the tower of the Odd' Fellows hall, after a silence of seven years and a half struck 13 times. How ever, as I am not superstitious, I pass this weird happening without comment. My early life was largely spent behind the counter of a small-town general mer chandise store -where everything was old, from a box of hairpins to a bale of hay, and where the destinies of "the na tion were settled around the big barrel stove by the local cut-plug marksmen. Here I witnessed some of the worst sr gumen ta and the beat marksmanship of my career. For a number of years 'I held down the Job of rough-and-ready sales manthereby gaining an intimate and sympathetic understanding of these sim ple small-town and country folk, with their eccentricities, their odd views. and their native honesty, shrewdness am goodness of heart From this source gleaned a wealth of material that afterward to be invaluable as story and picture atmosphere; but I didn't glean any other kind of wealth, I might add. e Parading that I wanted a college edu cation, I attended Stanford university; took all the useless; and ornamental courses, and was graduated by the akin of my teeth possessed of a confused mess of half-baked erudition. Back to the little old home town I betook my self, bent on showing 'em how to run a mercantile establishment accord! n- to big-time methods. With my Greek, Latin and other ancient and deceased culture and with a streak of impractical energy about a yard wide in my make-up. ran the business according to the best classical authors and went broke like gentleman emerging from the financial wreckage with $21 In real money in my J pocket and a balance of 33 cents in the bank. (Note I never drew out the 33 cents.) Kindly but misguided friends poured into my discouraged and therefore ready ear the honeyed suggestion that I enter polities. They induced me to run for Justice of the peace, assuring me that my training, education and calm, Judi cial mind fitted me admirably for the exalted post. I ran like a lame snail with bunions on one foot and a ball, and chain on the other, and went down to utter defeat. Even at this remote date. I shudder to think that I might have been elected ! . Finding nothing to do in the old home town and preferring to starve in some other place, I betook me to San Fran cisco. Here I took a fall out of about every kind of human endeavor permitted i by the common law and the statutes. I coached students in Greek and Latin, and when this played out, I became a special policeman ; then I whlled away some weeks in the strenuous vocation Of in serting woman's size 6-EE feet into sine 4-AA shoes. (To this experience I owe the almost superhuman strength of the thtfmb and forefinger of both hands.) I have sold everything from a diamond ring to a correspondence course on "How to Become a Great Violinist Without Losing a Day From Your Regular Work." I have toyed with a pick an r'lovel in the interest of better roads ; I have writ ten stories for magazines that is, , in tended for magazines. Arid it was this wild idea that may be I could learn to write photoplay stories that led me, somewhat less than four years ago, to do a deed of transcendent . rashness. At that time, upon a fateful day. I decided to escape from the bee hive of retail barter where I had been incarcerated for some months. Though appreciating that my sudden departure I m,- Km Swan! bbVS SR Wm a I'y's $Mk0$H IMF Hr: ;aS wBBa! BwK WL SH w? - 'BSSSwB Hal sawsnflsK borrowed half a dollar from my admir able landlady, boarded a train far Cul ver City, aad after a considerable and very anxious wait was Inducted into the The interview was brief but resultful. Mr. Ince first informed me that while my story was probably not the H nates piece of screen literature ever written. It was possibly, on the other hand, not the worst. He explained that, in the skillful hands of his staff writers It could be mauled into usable shape ; and that he would therefore buy ft. He named a liberal price, which I hastily accepted. He then advised me that ha would give me a month's try-out an the staff and that if I delivered the merchandise the position would be a permanent one. My office was a dressing room at the extreme and of the lot and here I had plenty of privacy to ponder on the im mensity of Koaoe and the scareltv ef ideas. However, I worked bard, hardf 1 hard. I wrote, and rewrote, and then destroyed and wrote again. I infested the sets where pictures were being "shot" and gained an idea of the work of the director and the camera man. I hark ened attentively to the words of advice vouchsafed me by the seasoned crafts men of the department and I tried to profit thereby. That was nearly four years ago aad as I have recently become associate edi tor of the Goldwyn scenario department under the supervision of "Jack" Hawkes. under whom I had my early training, I feel that my work has been, in a mod est degree at least, successful aad sat tafactory. I came to the film colony un known, broke and without even a shred of literary reputation or a straw of personal "pull" to get me a hearing. made good by working hard, earnestly, conscientiously just sa anybody else can do if he brings to the task enthusiasm. determination aad hard, hard work. Julien Josephson would be a crippling blow to the insti tution, and though vrned by several of my fellow slaves that the last man who quit his Job here came tottering back In the final stages of starvation, I boldly, though regretfully, informed the manager of his impending misfortune. Startled for . a moment into a human being, he offered me a raise of 15 a month, but I merely poured forth my profound thanks and remained firm in my decision to retire from the commer cial world. a .1 sold my typewriter and my overcoat ; deposited my watch and chain as secur ity for - all I could get on it from, a skeptical and unfeeling Israelite ; nego tiated small loans wherever I could, took the boat trip because it was cheaper, and arrived in Los Angeles with some $12.65 in my pocket and eager hopeful ness in my heart. I went to several studios but was Informed that they were full -up on writers. Between the cafe terias and the carfare my operating cap ital ' dwindled steadily while the good ship JOB failed utterly to appear on the horizon. Finally, acting on purely a hunch and this being the last trip I could take until I replenished my finances by some lucrative form of menial labor I went out to the Culver City studio of the New York Motion Picture company, whose presiding genius at that time i Thomas H. Ince aad whoee galaxy of writers included such magic names C. Gardner Sullivan, "Jack" Hawkes and John Lynch. As I entered the waiting room, delicately known as the "bull pen. I stated my business to the efficient. curt individual I . the counter and cheered and surprised to find that be was human the first one of the species I had yet found in this particular posi tion. He took my card and my message to Mr. ince. At that time I did not know how busy a man Mr. Ince was or how appropriate the term "waiting room" sometimes la Well, I waited from 9 In the morning tin 4 in the afternoon! Mr. Ince was engaged in important conferences and, naturally, had no time for the unknown species of insect that crouched in the outer office, awaiting recognition by the chair. About half past four the great Ince himself emerged from his office. He was attired for the motor and the com mon "Home, James," was written large upon his determined countenance. Knowing that this was my last chance I timidly yet determinedly grasped the great film potentate by the lapel of his motor coat, and like the Ancient Mariner I held him with my "glittering eye" a by the coat. After deciding that I wasn't going to assassinate him or tell him how to make a million dollars by putting an electrically heated earmuff on the mar ket at 33.95 a pair, he gave me one of his quick once-overs. Without waiting for him to ask me to unhand him and state my business, I did both. He listened as I bravely narrated my story. I told him that I had come all the way from San Francisco and that is going to bust into the phtotoplay writing game if I had to resort to sabot age or Bolshevism. The great man smiled whether pityingly or Indulgently I was never quite able to decide. Then he said : "Write a story for any of my stars. When it is finished bring It to me and I will read it If it is good I will buy it and give you a month's try-out on the staff besides." Those were sweet yet fearsome words! I mumbled my thanks but he was gone before I recovered, coherence or entire nity. I turned on my heel or maybe it was the sole of my foot and hurried out. Simple Life a Happy One for Portland Girl JEWEL CARMEN. Port, land girl, who started in teresting career here, tells of possibility and value of liv ing the "simple life." urtaxlonrloo, Hewrrar, an sure Is her power ef maoJuj that It to a ssi.i isofiii vary night. didn't ilk. le ss retires at 11 o'clock aad "Ton Can't Get Away With It- is no nason way sere should grow old la thotr TAN a motion picture Most persons would answer this ques tion in the negative, for they have gained such a fined opinion that stage folk, when not working; engage la a con tinuous round of gayety that It waulS require considerable evidence to con vinos them they are wrong. Novelists may be responsible for this belief, or it may be due to isolated stories m the news gos sip; nevertheless. It la strongly entrenched. But there Is one actress who Is aa ad vocate of the simple life. aad. what is more, realty Uvea it. And the rapidity with which aha has climbed the ladder of fame attests the value of her theory. Thai actress Is Jewel Carmen. Port land girl, former pupil at St. Marys academy here and wife of Roland West, head of the film company that produces her pictures. Many a housewife who thinks her round of existence is dull aad routine really has more exciting times than this winsome cinema actress. Mais Carmen liogsn her stage career whoa only 10 years old, fan Portland. During the heart breaking days as aa extra In the stu dios she was perforce compelled to live the simple life, aad finding It so valu able in conserving her strength aad beauty, she has adopted It as a regular habit. I Here are some of the reasons why the pss oar asf face Dowoor. Its suck or that boost? TBSss knows nractieaUy Mi I 1- I I IS.t Stew - t,aw4nar New York's two largest hotels only once Aad she makes her own dresses an frequently bar own hats and rules give You will agree that her authority to speak simplicity of living. During the SMssrssf months Mass roeo Osaka bar hoses With her prod husband. Roland West, on Agnes, in the bay off Pert WaM lag-ton. Long Island, but Ufa on board Is more issBssttc than aautteaL trays those little feminine hands can Portland girl U artltta: She doesn't drink, ins i It bar Stoat. Aad yet, la her new picture. -Nobody." abe I oaataaUed to which only machine, on which aha clothing. Is one feature ef the yacht, and she run It sklUfwlly. She I Just a proficient with the raAgee fa tie snnsy. aad toeaatlng are the dishes she prepare there. Miss Carmen hcn her serosa rr as aa extra at the old Triangle studio. Her sue eiss la miaor rota led to her being given more fJBYBOrtaat porta, aao one day she found borsolf loading woman for Pougls Pali ban, appearing op posit him In -Manhattan Madness" aad -The Half Broad." The pubU harass! atoly was oaptivatod by her. aad she woo gives a jtr6t by the Fox Fttm Corporation, appearing as leading woman for William Fa mum k "Lee Miserable," "A TaJ Of Two ClttoS" aad "The Conqueror." aad wo after that In The Right to Love. The Ctrl With the youth M easy. The sot lota of fresh air. aad to load the sample life. I night." act nlno Newsboys' Program In Liberty Contest Holds Much Mere. Portland newsboys had ferenoos with Henri master organist, before they the five number for the noon which they will sponsor la the U1r ISO musk: contest today. Their program will TJorOoweUa" (Black); lat "CavaUarta Ruatloanna" ; "Trick of tao Trade." arranged by Henri Keatea (haw ttatioa of all musical instruments) ; minstrel, (a) t rem tin a aad Swat by Al aad Joe Zohn ; b. trio. Jack Kama, T. Iliad ir sun aad M Nayloa; "School Days" aad ether snags la which the public can Jain, aad sotontlon from Mile. Modiste (Herbert). -Seotry- Cohan and Jo Barrio the iaiilllii appointed to prograsn- Tommy Lake and Swivel headed the oammltto of moa which agreed to help the entry la the contest, to oooapete for tao ISO arte offered the otvto organisation the largest tlnao at in of U aad l a. as. Ralph I la 1 There isn't a great deal more to tell. I borrowed a typewriter ; persuaded a trustful landlady to trust me for a cou ple of week's provender, and agreed to spade up the garden, clean out the back yard, wipe the dishes and shingle the front lawn until such time as I could compensate her for my board and lodg ing with coin. I settled down to work on that story and Lord, how I did work! I put into it my heart, soul and everything else I could part with and still breathe. For two solid weeks I dreamed and slaved over It; writing and rewriting; testing and rejecting ; building and intensifying J contriving effective bibs of business; working out good Una for substitutes ; trying to make the whole strong, well-knit and throbbing with the rod blood of real ity. When I had dons my dardnest, J took the story to Mr. Ince. He said he would read it and let me know. For a week I waited, anxiously and hopefully ; my landlady also waited anx iously and dubiously. If the story wai rejected, I knew that a long career of spading, dish-washing and general house work awaited me in settlement of my unpaid obligation. But at last my land lady called ne to the telephone and stood near while I took the message. It wai from Mr. Ince' secretary and it said "My Ince will see you at S o'clock." On the strength of this heartening news Exhibitors to Ask Widespread Fair Campaign EVERY motion picture theatre to the United State will advertise the 1925 exposition to be held In Portland, If plans outlined and approved Thursday at the weekly meeting of the Motion Picture Exhibitors League of Oregon carry through. The league repeated Its pledge to aid the fair commission in every possible way and adopted a plan to undertake to interest all similar organizations to the nation In furthering the fame of the fair. Exhibitors everywhere will be asked to screen slides advertising the fair and to promote efforts to win state representations at the exposition. Throughout Oregon the league members will exhibit special film trailers herald lng the fair, the wonders of Oregon scenery and novelty advertising stunts. together with a continued projection of slides from now on until the date of the big show. That was the big business of Thurs day's meeting at the Imperial hotel. The other matter that occupied the attention of members was the presence of C. S. Jensen, president of the league. Jensen's arrival was announced by a chorus of acclaim that he construed to be an en thusiastic tribute until someone, when the introduction of visitors was called for, presented him as a visitor and de manded that his presence as such be spread upon the minutes, inasmuch as hp has missed a rood man v recent mwt- Uiga To retaliate against his feUow show men, Jensen wielded a wicked gavel and rudely halted the weekly spoon tossing contest sponsored by Ous Metzger. All extra spoons (those not stuck up in cof fee cups) were confiscated until the meeting was adjourned. BULGER'S Animal -A Today Am Wk "and AA AHWeck W dm f bt sea sssaaA aaa aaaaaoj iB aV-aor 1 aaaaafeaaaam " I aalfiawSal M W ataW W eYaw Foal Bauraaaaaaay aa - $ sb k . : JOwjH Wg- m zSSm mMmt W fi awlSMas1 BaaaHSaBnaaaaal LaaV 'vj&iHIaaaaaa! aaaV ' Circus A 3-RING CIRCUS of the World's Greatest Trained Animals f I gence To The I IS PRICES Ms1M) faSt-sa. I0fl9a BSi 1 1 IIS .BSSSSi SHI .BSSSffBSSBFIBSi BSftaai -ssaaaaaWiPH Dogs, Ponies, Monkeys in amazing feats of cleverness and in tell i- A whirlwind show of fun for young and old. Also BE5SIE BARRISCALE m Breaking Point Leon Errol, Once a Portland Player, Is Busier Than a Bee Ever since' that night last winter when Ziegfeld's record-breaking "Sally- opened in New York, Leon Errol, former Portland player, has been the busiest being on three continents. In such de mand has he been for attendance at public functions and celebrations that he 'threatens the established long-dis tance dining and speaking records hens up by such veterans as Chauncey M. De pew. Patrick Francis Murphy and Irvtn Cobb. The full count show he has been bidden to 27 public and private banquets. 19 of which he attended. At six of them he was the honest-to goodness guest of honor, and at the others he was either the toastmaster or chief wit. But even that is more incident in hi merry round of diversions, a check-up of which reveal that ho ha staged and personally rehearsed four big musical shows, including "Snapshots of 1921"; conceived and produced six vandeville acts and sketches for artists on the "big time" ; taken port in four Lambs Gambols, being the Collie of one; aided in producing and appeared in, the two spectacular Actors' Equity benefits at the Metropolitan opera bouse; with stood the pointed personalities of M newspaper interviewers; smiled at 11 cartoonists as they maligned him to his face; mads requested contributions to 18 magazines ; sat five times to promi nent painter for his portrait, aa na tural and otherwise; posed once for his clay counterfeit before a noted sculptor and been photographed si time. And all this, while devoting nearly four hours every night aad two after noons each week ' o total of 12 hours weekly to his performances of "Sally" in the New Amsterdam theatre. Even this does not include such minor social activities between performances aa breaking -In a brand new automobile ; making two aerial flights; playing golf on every course within 100 miles of his dressing room and the pleasure of twice being confined to his bed, ail within the same period. One of the most difficult orders he has been called upon to fill, necessitat ed hi leaving New York for two suc cessive nights after the play, to 'proceed to Stamford, Conn., there to conduct all-night rehearsal of a now successful musical show then preparing for Its Metropolitan premier. But aside from this Errol has been bored with hflmes when not playing pieces tor 10 wegrwa. FATTT5 A BUSY MAJT A trip half way acre the continent just for "local color" win be the record set Roecoe (Fatty) Arbuckle In his new est picture, "Via Fast Freight.'' The company, under the lrlershlx of James Cruse, director, will go to Chicago for a number of the big scenes, including streets, department stores, freight yards. etc Upon their completion the company will Journey back to Hollywood to make the interior STAB'S SEW PICTURE Ethel Clayton aao completed her cur rent picture, "Her Own Money which she aao been """-a under the direction of Joseph Henabery- She ts scheduled to start work in "Exit the Vamp," an orig inal story by Clara Be ranger. Frank Croon, who mad Wallace Bold last saaaaaaaV mam Hawk i M Wrk W M mm. mmm aaaaaaataaaaaaal aaa aaaaaW aaaa ; Law . T WM I I :'t'i7 "303 I I ' f mw Hi BaaP aassaasB aaaaW H wM II I S-feYataKflrcfiH 1 XmmmmmifekLmtm. W saaaaal uF SaaaW" taVSBkmt &CmwEmmwm mmmMm I Vai aaafc OB xt-asSTs'" i' story toot is a THE "SKYLARKER" AN AERIAL COMEDY "IF' A PR1ZMA SCENIC FOX NEWS NO. 79 RIVOLI AUGMENTED ORCHESTRA SALVATORE SANTA ELLA CONDUCTOR AND PIANIST SUNDAY CONCERT 12:30 Noon Today "Norma" Overtax V. Bellini "Sin li V Arsoouw" F. Von Bln "High Jinks" SaisctJsi Rudolf FrimJ TWe of the CaaonW Er Wotf-Forrari "Vake D Flour." P. TsohsOurwsky Fantasia" Tnoo M. Tob-ni THIS WEEK PI LULUD 11 TTMlFr NOW PLAYING - saaattMi