THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL.. PORTLAND. SUNDAY HORNING, AUGUST 21. 1C2L
Fakers Posing
As Movie Stars
Big Annoyance
I OS ANGELES, Aug. 20. L N. &
JLl According to- reports which reach the
rreat motion picture studios her every
few days, a, mania, for the malicious lm
personation of persons of prominence tn
the film realm seems to have spread over
the United States, and even to some for
tlgn countries.
Stars in the ."movie" world point out
that for a hundred years traditions in
-theatrical history show It has been a
favorite pastime of a few Americans to
sometimes pass themselves off as celeb
, fities popular with the amusement lov
ing: public It has become a very eertotts
matter, however, to men and women who
have worked for years to -attain a posi
tion of prominence In films to nave some
one Impersonate them to their detriment
and great embarrassment.
One day last winter the correspondent
was watching some of the Chicago Na
tional league baseball club's pitchers and
catchers going through a light workout
at Avalon, Catalina island.
A well dressed young fellow earns
along and took a seat on the same bench.
- Ue struck up a conversation, . talked
knowingly of the baseball players and
other subjects and finally began talking
of "movie" stars. Then the correspond:
eat received a jolt, for the aewoomer in
formed him he was none ether than Har
old Lloyd, the widely known film come
dian. ' . . . ,-;,--
The '.- correspondent happens to knew
Lloyd very well. The ridiculous part of
it was . that the Impostor bore about as
much resemblance to Lloyd as Benny
- Leonard does to Jack Dempsey. Then
- it occurred tothe writer to pretend to
interview the faker.
This will make a dandy article," the
faker was told; "Why, X never expected
. to meet Harold Lloyd over here. - Come
on, I want you to meet Alexander and
Vaughn and Tyler, and the rest of the
' boys." . ' -r
The faker's knees began to sag. he
, turned, several colors and then began
sliding to the end of the bench.. In al
most the twinkling of an eye he started
to run, and away he -.went toward the
- interior of the island. . So far as la
known, he still la leaping from crag to
crag with WUllam Wrigley's goats.
'There are many instances of the mis-
- use of the names of persona prominent
.- in the ranks of producers, but one of the
most notable concerns Cecil B. de Mille
: and the reported "marriage of Mr. de
Mille to Mies Louise Glaum,' a widely
known star, in the South last winter.
According to an investigation mad tn
Mr. de Mille s behalf, someone at a wed
ding which really occurred In the South
, played a cruel "Joke", on a small-tows
reporter. Following the ceremony . it was
remarked to the budding Journalist that
the principals were Mr. de Mills and Miss
Ola'um and the report got Into print and
was extensively circulated. . - '
.The fact that Mr. de Mille had been
married for IS years and boasts of three
children, that he was living happily with
his family and working in Hollywood at
- the time of the reported "marriage," also
that he never even met Mies Glaum
made the story even more ridiculous.
On another occasion an Impostor used
Mr. de Mule's name, with dire results for
the faker. . In this instance a, man was
touring as a salesman for a worthless
' stock in a spurlaus motion picture eom
. pany. Reports on his activities - were
, sent to Mr. de Mille, and he was largely
responsible for the taiimssktng of the
criminal, and the letter's subsequent
commitment to the penitentiary.. -
In a recent instance- the name ' of
Thomas H. ince, one of 1 the ' most sue
cessful and most favorably known pro
ducers tn the world, was unfortunately
? confused with a film actor of a similar
v name. The impression ' was 'given,
through a printer's error, that the eele
. brated producer was associated tn the
presentation ox a nun wnicn is said to
capitalise the life history of a woman
who figured in a sensational murder
trial.
IF CLEOPATRA of old looked anything like this interpreta
tion by Miss Ida Rubinstein, the noted actress, no wonder
. poor Anthony lost, his head, his heart and his alL The
photograph was made recently when she appeared as Cleo
patra in a translation of the Shakespearean play by M. Andre
Gide, the well known French poet- --
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r, Mr. Ince's high Ideals and lofty stand
ards in the production of film nave long
been. known to patrons of the best class
.of motion picture theatres throughout
the nation.' In speaking of films baaed
on sensational trials, he said recently:
"X am firmly opposed to the use of the
American Ideas
OfBritishNobles
Provoke English
Forrest Theatre in
PhUadelphiaBotiglit
By Messrs. Schubert
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motion 'picture screen lor the portrayal
for commercial gain ; of a ' notoriously
misspent life, r Production and exhibition
of pictures of this character must be an
Influence for- bad and - tend to detract
from the appealing wholesomenesa of the
screen drama In general.
The list of victims of erroneous, re
ports, or, deliberate Impositions, is by no
means confined to men. Recently Bebe
Daniels was swindled out of about $75 by
some young women who ' posed as the
popular star and ran up a tarlcah bill tn
Los Angeles, ; ' . V -7 :. -' -:" y.
Wanda Hawley received a note from a
young, man in New Haven, Conn., tn
which he asked why she had not come
back to New Haven, as she was supposed
to-have promised. . The context Indicated
that a girl traveling with a fashion show
had given her name as Wanda Hawley
and made some engagement with the
man.v Evidently the pseudo "Wanda
was a great charmer, as the- letter waa
couched In terms of passionate endear
ment.
Not long ago PriselHa- Dean learned
that a girl dressed tn the height of fash
ton Impersonated her in the Middle West
city. 'The imposter rented a suite In the
best hotel in town, lived In luxury for a
week, and even talked the management
Into advancing her $200. Someone about
the hostelry then "woke up" to the ex
tent of making an Inauiry by wire to
Los Angeles, and he was informed the
real Priacula Dean had never been near
the hotel in Question- and waa at that
time hard at work on a picture here. -
The faker had departed, however, and
haa never been heard of since. . ... -
Picture Gets. Away.
By Charles XeCaaa :
London; Aug. ttwn. p.) England
i at present is the world's battleground
for movie magnates. : -
. So far, the United States pr saucer a
are easy Victor. But ever, since the
end . of the - war. European producers
have been hammering at the American
lines. Now, the British producers them
selves have entered the fie id strongly.
America's start In the picture Industry,
the amount of money spent on films
and the excellence of the photography
are .helping Americans to keep down
European competitors.
American moving picture directors,
however, despite - their lovely nam
pretty faces and flowing neckties, are
doing all . they can the crab the Ameri
can game. For year because - of the
lack of serious effort over here-to go
into -the movie-exporting game. British
movie patrons have squirmed as young
Lord Algie, clad tn a slightly too small
cinch-back Kute-Kut suit, bounced down
the ancestral, stairs and. a cigarette
danrrllnr lightly from his lips, blew
smoke in pater's face and. remarked
how btoomln ot It was.
The British movie patrons are stfil
squirming; tout they don't have to, and
if daily attacks in the newspapers on
this type of American film, ere an indi
cation, . they won't very long. Brit
ish. French. 'Italian and Scandinavian
end as soon as the slight remain
base of smoke from the late war blows
away, Germanfilm producers are try
ing to wean the British public Iran tne
American films. They haven't reached
the American standard of mechanical
nroduction. but they do know a lot of
thlnrs that will ; go far- to help them
In their firht.
They know , that young Lord Algie
doesn't , wear a Kute-Kut suit: that
neither his valet nor the man who
carta away' the family ashes would
wear one as a gift: that young Lord
Algie doesn't have his hair marcelled
or ep ring about the great hall among
the tons of furniture the British pub
lic would have bees taught, if it could
be, ere always tn great halls ; that
when he is talking to the girl among
the week-end party he doesn't always
stand with his hands In his coat
pockets . and his legs spread apart
that he doesn't tauc euner to men or
women with a cigarette or a-pipe-
in his ' mouth ; that h never sayi
"bloomin'. though he may get by with
an" or "Hell-: tnat ae aoesni
"pater"; and that there lent much. more
than one chance in a thousand that his
name win be Algie or Algernon.
Also British critics have pointed out
that Lord "Alfde'e father, the marquis.
isn't always-tall ana tnin ana aoesni
alwars wear monocle and If he does
wear one. doesn't always play with
when It isn't tn big eye.- He mar wear
a monocle and not play with It always
he may. and frequently doee detest mon
ocles; he may be abort and anaemle or
short and fat or tall and heavy. He
desnt even always have a hooked
nose.""'' " v ' " ' , ' -
Spurred by the pressure of eorapeti
tlon, several American companies have
invaded England In person, and are here
filming things aa tney re any are ; ex
cept that there are still eome Kute-Kut
suits. There Is no doubt that the films
will be popular here; the only fear the
magnates have la that if at home they
show Lord Algie aa he is. there wui go
no a hoarse cry of derision: "iie am
no lord." ;- - .. i --
Philadelphia, Aug; 20. The Mi
A J. J. Shubert announce that they
have acquired the Forrest theatre tn
Philadelphia for the use of Shubert vau
deville. This theatre, conceded to be en
of the handsomest and most richly "ap
pointed playhouses In this country . has
been managed and booked by Klaw
Erlanger since It waa built. By. reason-
of its large seating capacity and -central
location on Broad -etreet. it Is regarded
the most desirable playhouse In then
Quaker city. 1 - i- ., c
The Shuberts have taken ever the en
tire office building, which occupies the
whole block at Broad. Walnut, Samson
and Fifteenth streets. Ia addition to
the theatre the buildinr contains storee
on Broad and, Wabiut streets, and of-
Barney Is Certainly
Original Handy Man
When BIg John" Collins, Liberty the
atre doorman, left for hia annual vaca
tlon, he gave Harry Barney opportunity
to add still another to hia many ac
complishments. . During the time Barney
been with Jensen A Von Herberg
he has ruled the following positions
Priest at a local. Rueslan church, court
interpreter. . (and the standing Joke
around the Liberty Is to ask Barney
who interpreted what he Interpreted),
carpenter. Janitor," electrician, restaurant
owner, confidential secretary, and now.
doorman. Barney la used to doing night,
work, around the Liberty and coming on
shift to him at 11 a. m. reminds him of
his walldng-ln-hla-eleep experiences.
Wx H. B O YEl supervis
" or of music o Port-
land public schools,
who Eas issued a teachers
manual for primary grades.
5 Million lnstijance
Et on Zukor's Life
New York. Aug. 20. Adolph Zukor
haa been notified - be haa passed - the
physical examination necessary to the
issuance of a series of policies on his Ufa
arxrerating $5,000,000 in-favor of Fa
mous Players.
Film Director Is
AudienceRather
Than Boss Actor
fjTHE
By Jean Griffith Wray
film director nowadays la not a
man who stands "behind a camera
and shouts through a megaphone. He
must play; audience to hia actors. He
ia on the "set primarily to give them
their cues and character inotivation--not
to tin them how to act. o
He appeals strictly to their imagina
tion and - plays up to their individual
temperament. All actors must have
temperament-elee they are not good ac
tors who can easily assume moods. -
Women are natural actors who aban
don themselves under emotional strain.
Men tend to repress their emotion a- It
remains for the director to create the
emotional counterpart for the women
while he reaches the man through the
mind alone. - often by a mathematical
process of reasoning.
Often onesets this emotional response
through tricks. Ia one play, for 'In
stance, I wanted an actress to become
angry In a scene which she wouldn't
"get ever." - When" the camera started
and aha waa 'working X reached down
and grabbed her foot. It nearly upeet
her and she got furious, but this mood
fitted into the story.
Again, In - "Beau Revel"- X bad to get
Florence Vtdor to cry. X deliberately
faked a quarrel with her, criticised her
gown (no lady Che this), and wouldn't
let the company TO to lunch when they
were hungry. Miss TMor became so in
censed that she started to weep which
waa Juat what we wanted.
Motion pictures no longer can rely en
spectacular effects to make them a suc
cess. They must have human charac
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Picture Industry. Is . '
Rapidly Returning
: -Back to Normalcy
Motioa picture production la resum
ing its normal proportions through
out the Los Angeles studios. Both the
Lasky and Metro companies have cea- v
tered all activities en the Pacific coast ; t
five companies are at work at Realart;.
five at Robertson-Cole ; 12 at Fox four t
at Goldwyn and five at Yitagraph. There ,
win be 1 companies at work at Univer
sal City by September L
The slump In production - has existed -
for nearly a year. Actors salaries have
been greatly reduced and the entire ex
perience has been aa unprecedented one.
for the film makers. Now, however,
with the market for American films '
again at normalcy, production la con- ".
tinning on a greatly augmented scale. .
A number of prominent directors will -head
their own production units. Among
these ere Frank Borsage, famed pro
ducer of "Humoresque. and Lloyd In-.,
graham, oae of the veterans of film
production. R. A. Walsh Is making hia .
own productions . tn Loe Angeles, Reg-,
inald Barker has lust organised his ewa ,
company, end Victor L. Schertainger is
producing Independently.
. The strike of studio technical work
era, which haa been tn operation for the
past three -weeka. will likely be ended
within, another week by a compromise.
Several new stars have made their
appearance on the- cinematic h orison.
Among these are Mary Savage. - New
York musical comedy star; Jack Stan
ley, late of- the Gotham revue stage ;
Mary Phllhta and Gertrude Olmstead.
winners of Eastern beauty contests, and
Joseph -Moore, brother of the already
famous Matt. Tom and Owen Moore. All '
are heading .companies tn Lee Angeles.
t TWormi start American Motion
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rictures Aitraciing
Tourists' Attention
It is an exceptional picture that gets
by tiie censors these days- without soi
elimination. Therefore, it is considered
news that : Cecil B. DeMille's latest
Paramount picture, "The Affairs . of
Anatol.M baa Just seen approved In its
entirety by the. Chicago .. board ' of
This is the picture which has
IS stars In the east. "Wallace Beid. Gloria
Swanaon. Elliott Dexter. Bebe Daniels,
Monte Blue. Wanda Hawley. Theodore
Roberta. Agnes. Ayres, Theodore Kos-
loff. Follr Moran. Raymond Hatton
and Julie Faye. -
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few day only!.;;r ;": - rCL u .r , early and see it!
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Rio de Janeiro, Aug. 20.- TJ. P.) De
spite the tradition in South America that
Europe, especially the Latin countries of
Europe, contains all the delights attrac
tive to the tourist. North America Is be
ginning to attract attention among' the
South American travelers. .
It was recently reported from Argen
tina that a number of -Argentine tooHsts
win make a trip to the United States by
way of the western coast of South Amer
ica, through the Panama canal to Cuba,
and thence to New York. This party was
scheduled to leave Valparaiso, Chill, on
May 2. After landing tn New York It
waa planned for the Argentine tourists
to go by special train to various points of
interest throughout the united States.
It is pointed out that the American
moving picture industry, which has in
the recent years brought the many nat
ural beauty spots of North America, as
well aa the portrayal of American life
and Industry, loe fore the South American
public, is playing a "big part In causing
tne Latin American tourist to start traveling-
north to see things -of Interest
which before were only thought to be
had on the ether side of the Atlantic
eanFilmFIashes
1 London. Atog. sV (By MalD-John S.
Robertson, the American director, haa
been taking a flying trip to France to
select a suitable drcua for some of the
scenes in his latest Paramount picture.
"Love's Boomerang," adapted from Dion
Calthrop'a novel. "Perpetua." which will
be made. . at ' the Paramount London
studio.. Ann Forrest, who is to play
the part of ' "Perpetua," .ia expected to
arrive tn London the first . week tn
August. David Powell will appear la the
role of ther Bohemian artist, "Brian.,
The' I city fathers of Saln-Ktlenne,
France, have decided to introduce the
cinema aa a practical means of tnstruo
tion-in aQ the public schools. To this
end they have voted a preliminary sum
of 10,000 francs for the installation of
the necessary machines.'. .. -
The German papers are carrying on
a counter campaign against the French
on the subject of the action taken by the
French ambassador In Berlin, who -pro
tested against the two propaganda films,
"The Black: Shame and "The Adven
tures of a German Legionary. The
German charge- d'affaires at Paris is
called upon to protest against showing
of a so-called anti-German film1 which
ia being shown tn Paria theatres.
The trial of a new Instrument invent
ed by Pierre Chandy waa held at the
Theatre Dea Champs Elysees when a
film revue entitled "Asmodee a Paris"
waa presented on the screen." The object
of this new instrument, which la called
the viaiophone, ia to control . the pro
Jectloh of the film so that the pictures
will absolutely synchronize with the
music. The apparatus is placed In the
orchestra . with ' electric wires running
into the operator's booth. By means of
an electro-magnetic brake the speed of
the film is regulated. It is claimed that
the new Instrument prevents the nruaic
being ahead of the pictures and vice
versa, the eynchronlsm being controlled
by the conductor. " - ' - ,V
Paul -Powell, who . hae- been directing
at the Paramount London studio for the
last year, saSed for America August S.
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The story of a rich and beauti
ful society girl with nothing to
do. who undertakes to mingle
with and uncover a gang of
underworld crooks.
7' Miss ; McDonald is - ravish
ingly beautiful in four dif
ferent Toles, and ' Barry's
"Freckles" is better even than
his ''famous "DintyJ
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Disrction of Jensen and l!bn Herberg
He took: with him ths copy of hia latest
' picture, "Dantrerous (Lies.; "' ' -