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Newspaper Page TextTHE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. SUNDAY' MORNING, AUGUST ..21, 1821. Film Industry Adopts Rule of Strict Economy By Charles . Hrb . . T OS ANGELES, Aug. JO. L N. a Jlj a new era, Is dawning on the notion picture world. According to leading producers tie days of extravagant aalaiies and inef ficient methods are gone forever. "Cut the cost but keep the quality up." This Is the brder which has been given in every one of the big studios of Southenr California, and for several w eeks "a general retrenchment has been in progress. . ' ' , "The motion picture Industry has passed from a period of abnormal pros : perity." said Jesse L. Lasky, first vice president of the Famous PI ay era-Lasky corporation, in analyzing c resent conai Hons. "It behooves producers to face present critical conditions courageously . and to fight through the period of read' juBtment to the period of normalcy. "Extravagance must be replaced by economy. -The day of reckless expendi - ture, 1 feel certain, has gone' forever. ana economy is to be the watchword of the new era.-. 4 "Officials of oar organization were called upon each to do his share In put ' ting the corporation on an efficient, eco nomical basis. .. "Solely In the interest of economical production we closed our studio on Long f Island, N. and transferred. all pro- duction to'our studio in Hollywood. We are striving to eliminate all the old ex travagances of production and' aiming for the greatest, economy." .Samuel Goldwyn, president of the Gold, wyn Picture corporation, said : "We are now making pictures at i lower cost than formerly. Many items of expense which formerly were re garded as necessary are being eliminated. Salaries are -also being reduced and ex pendl tares watched with a. careful eye. This Js necessary in order that motion pictures .may remain a popular priced amusement." Irving G. Thalberg. general manager of the- Universal - Film Manufacturing i comnanv. said: -.' 'The man who makes motion pictures! knows he must make better , pictures .for less money and start making them now. The man who says that the motion pieture industry is in a splendid financial condition is just as' wrong as. the man who . says jt faces ruin. ;. .; , ; , .;-, . "The present unrest is the best thing that could have happened ,to the in-' ' dustry. No permanent peace , was ever achieved without revolution., - "When the stories that -are .now being filmed at a reasonable cost, can be re leased to ei&ibitors at a cost that will . enable them to exhibit them for what they are worth, make a- reasonable profit to' the producer and" give the purchaser his TOoney's worth of entertainment, the mbtjon picture industry will be properly on its, feet" , , t TOU have heard-of carrying coal to Newcastle. "The same Y would strike one as parallel to teaching D. Fairbanks x how to jump. Yet this is what Dick Landon did on a re cent visit which the crack Yale athlete made to Los Angeles 'Shuffle Along" Is a 'Lol' With N'awkAghast ; By Westbrook Fegler jynEW'TORK. Aug. 20. (tTnited News) X v In seasons to come, actors and man agers on Broadway will be telling about the time that two song and dance ne groes ran a frayed shoe-string - Into a whole wardrobe with high hats for lodge meetings and brocade spats for formal parties in the social whirl, of -the Har lem black belt These will have to say, further,- that' this was done while estab lished producers - with - years . of expe rience 'were starting out summer shows with full music and comedy regalia and closing with nothing left but the', hook and -L O., Us. - j of Lightning Effect in Filming of Picture Is Described The' making of lightning and electrt cas storm effects for scenes in motion pictures has Jong remained ones of the mysteries' of the - art. Sam Wood, who directed the Paramount picture, "Under the lash," starring GloriaSwanson, ex plains in: detail just how the- effect of lightning striking . a tree, which consti tutes a scene, in that' production,; was obtained.- ' y ' A sizeable charge of flash-light . pow der was-. made up into a small, package . and put into a little hole in ,the "tree, over which the bark was replaced. An , electric wire ran from the charge to a battery on the sidelines. ' The big electric search lights, the largest studio Illumi nators manufactured, were then con- . nected up with the portable, electric gen erator a few feet behind the camera atad f ocussed on the tree at the spot where the flashlight charge 'was placed. The night was pitch dark when the ; scene was taken. " The character in the scene Mahlon Hamilton, .who drove a team of horses by the tree was placed and the signal was given. ' The camera- , man started cranking. At a word from the director the - two big G. E). lights were suddenly flashed on and off again. lighting up the entire scene with a sud den, blinding flash of .light. Simultane ously with the flashing on of the big lights, the flashlight charge at -the tree was exploded, giving the effect of the bolt of lightning coming' in contact with the tree. Then all was darkness again. ' A few carefully placed scratches on .the . emulsion of ten film ahead of the scene eerved as perfect lightning streaks Just ahead of the big flash. ' This srummer has been just awfuL And yet, in a little meeting hall a mile from Times square a negro musical show is selling out mostly to white 'people who find it altogether too hot to spend the evening at one of the - regular attrac tions on Broadway. In the restrained and formal language of a rival producer as he riffled a deck of rent, bills, light mils, printing bills and pay . vouchers. Wednesday . afternoon, ."This Shuffle Along show is Just one of those things that happen it's a Vow and you can't stop it." . ,. ; "Shuffle Along" Is a musical comedy, written,- staged, composed and produced hi- negroes with financial .backing of Ji.35 and: a couple ... of chewing gum wrappers put up by a white manager who thought it might throw a natural and then again, might, roll ace-deuce, which' means no percentage at all. For weejcs "Shuffle. Alone" toured the- small-time, making one-ntght and two' night stands with no more scenery than you could pack into a taxicab. .No Broadway house would have it, although plenty of Broadway houses were dark ior weeKs ana .others, were stooping. to motion pictures." So when the time came for the New Tork run the backers, in desperation.- took a lease nn th Rwt-v. third street music hall, which hadn't even a stage, moved In their company and the few little props of scenery, passed out a few dodgers, rigged up a stage and some dressing rooms and let er go. It was two weeks before JJew Tork tum bled to what was going on In the outer darkness of Sixty-third street, but New Tork knows now. "Shuffle Along" stays until January, when It goes to London and two other negro shows' are' in re hearsal for real.. Broadway houses, one being called "Put and Take." - i Home Founded By Verdi Near Bankruptcy By Frank J. Oates I "MILAN, Italy. Aug. 20. (L N. & 1TX -The Isle of Love," by Marino Mor ettL is a romantic idyll of a woman who founded a home for others of , her sex. in life unloved, giving them therein the illusion of . being wooed, won and loved. This delightful story, rises before us as we leave that "horn for musicians." founded by the Maestro Verdi, a quiet i and handsome residence on the outskirts of Milan, away from all noise ana oust. ' shaded from the oppresive heat, adorned with leafy trees in a pleasing garden. - i His was also an ldyu. To give to those I in their old age. who had enjoyed passing glory, success, triumph or fame au too i fleeting, the illusion of ease and comfort in an atmosphere of harmony where dreams should make happy their closing years of life. . "Xessuzn magglore dolors" than to out live , applause' and popularity, his priv ileged guests should escape such bitter memories, for them, no dark exit from this earth s stage. . . i To this end Verdi forsook the beloved village homestead of his childhood, the quiet church, the ancient organ on the keys - of which his hands nervously sought new melodies to. sleep among his friends. . a tutelary spirit, dwelling In their midst and remembered. Bat musicians are no seers, and Verdi could - not' tell ' that the "untamable charger of war" should trample on con tinents, destroying empires and dynas-; tie. - .. k .. . So It happened that the few score dreamers . and Ulusioned' "maestri 6i canto o dl musica" gave temporary place to those heroes who had bled for their country. In whoso honor Verdi had com posed his most Inspired choruses and his grandest orchestrated pieces. . when the tempest passed and the former guests would return, ways of existence " had changed. Tbero was . money shortage. ' and tn vain they knocked at the silent portals. ' In- 1902- there was money and much charity. An Income of 60.000 lira yearly helped them to live. If not In luxury, in great ease. Tradesmen -were kind. Bread was not only sold half price, but with an extra . 10 per cent discount. Butchers supplied good meat at lire 1.40 per kilo. A firm of drapers clad the inmates with suits at S? lira each. Authors 'rights. 10 per cent on all the Maestro 's works previous to "LaForxa del Destlno," amounted then to 100,000 Bra. .,... ,'' The war spared none " and philan thropic Institutions suffered. Light and fuel, food and clothing would swallow up the Income. . It Is not easy -now to opea for-the number, reduced as It is to 55,-giving them' the 200 lire . due there by Verdi's will, with lodging, but exclusive of food, which they must pro euro for themselves. The youngest member-is 65 years old. and some few earn a little by giving lessons, copying music, or -tuning' instruments. To cook and serve food would be too costly, .and in the winter heating will be beyond their means, and winters tn 'Milan are long and often harsh. It Is, however, good to think . that these veterans wllj shortly have a roof and shelter. - .The composer's tomb . being In the building prevents Its sale and any trans ference to a -vill a In the country where life's needs coat loss. He spoke clearly: "I express , my deep wish to be buried with my wife in Milan, tn the oratory at the homo to be bunt by me." ' In order to cut expenses It is hoped that the government wm not insist oa taxation as carried out' heretofore. Taxes In im amouxted to' lire 40,000 Including those 'enforced on authors rights. - The firm of Ricordl pays 10 per cent en cer tain operas which swell the income. "La Traviata" and "Bigoletto" bring to some 100.000 lire. If they (Ricordi) could.' give 20 or SO per cent, the extra would help considerably., .but -with ' the - present gloomy theatrical crista upon ' as such generosity seems Utopian. " Yet, If. war destroys, Italian charity constructs, and a way will be found to house this handful of old musicians and keep them la happiness until their hour of departure arrives.' ' ' - Perhaps othecs' not Italian slight co operate? There are scores of students tn Milan at work with song or .instru ment who seek a home where they could live moderately and comfortably. Many Americana and British would rejoice, indeed. If a portion of this eommodiop house could be set apart for them where they could have their 'own rooms be sides common ones for food and recrea tion, .with simple good food... Their con tributions would go far to help the vet erans, and the atmosphere alone would be most beneficial to the students. Verdi would not oppose this plan. WILL film-"qrrxoTE" - - "Don Quixote- is to be filmed 'by French company under the .direction of Andre - Huron. ' According to reports more money Is to be expended on the production of Cervantes immortal work than haa ever been devoted to the mak ing of any French . picture. , Ellison-White Music Gatlogue Outlines Plans ACOMPREHENSTVS and attractive catalogue has Just been issued by the Ellison-White Conservatory of Music in which Is set forth the design of the school, it's location, the 'advantages of fered, the artistic aims of the school and the requirements : for admission. . Pic tures of faculty members and. . short sketches of their training and success as teachers and artists, . fill several pages. The course of study U also outlined, and a list of students, numbering more than 200, Is given, s . : The - faculty members ' are : " " David Campbell. - Edith Woodcock and - Flora Gray, piano: Viola Rldgway. Dunning system ; Erwtn Mutch, voice ; Susie' Fen ren Pipes. Margaret Tost, violin : Chris tine Pool, vlolinoello; Pauline Alderman, harmony ' and theory ; . Elizabeth M. Fames.-dramatic,- The officers of the conservatory are : ' President, J. R. Elli son ; vice president and business man ager. C K. White ; director, David Camp bell: registrar. AHeen Brong. - Registration day is Monday. 'Septem ber 12, and . the ' first term will open Tuesday, September 12. The catalogue says : . The EQison-Whlte Conservatory of Music, as Its hum Implies, is an in stitutlon for the serious study of music in Its various phases. . It's aim la to give superior advantages to music "students of the Northwest, through the opportunity of systematic course of Instruction near their homes under the . most capabU teachers to be had. :. "The school Is located at C54 Everett btreet.' While the conservatory is only Indirectly connected with the Chautau- " qua and Lyceum activities of the Ellison White firm. It is under the' same general management, and at stated intervals -students authorised by their Instructors will have the privilege of appearing be fore the managers of the various cir cuits." . - " V '-'''' - J.- " Mrs. T. J. Dorgan of this city is spend ing a few weeks at MansanitaV. She ex pects to return to Portland about Sep tember 1 and Immediately thereafter will , go to SC Vincents hospital for an opera- . Uon for tonsUitis. This will necessitate a considerable delay In the resumption of her piano classes. ' . - - - V Sandy. Aug.' 80. Albert Creita, first , violinist so long at the Rivoli theatre. and party, visited Sandy last week, after making an enjoyawe mountain irip. Crelts has been travelling In California for a month, but loves the mountains out , here and comes out nearly every season for a short stay. He will leave tor, Europe at once to study and play at Vienna and Parts, -s. - 32,000000 Kronen . -Received for Song Berlin. Aug. 20. Robert. Stols. a Vi- enna composer, has broken the world's . record for the Income received from a single piece of dance music, according to the Neue. Berliner. His -Salome Fox-; trot" has netted him 22.000,000 kronen In royalties. To figure out the wealth of the foxtrot millionaire In real money an Austrian'' krone is worth about one tenth of one cent. NOW PLAYING s - ANOTHER BIG SUCCESS 37 W 1 2 W 5 my ff r: ji r Ji What t&e- Stars Say Stories From Film Studios It r ar v -.V-- l-V '- .- Feery Hyiand Granville. - i Is married to Fred Douglas Fair- Charlie . Chaplin -, and banks are great pals. Alice Brady's husband Is James Crane, son of Dr. Frank Crane, 'r A M . Oareth Hughes Is not says he never will be. married. , He The historic San Fernando, CaL, Mis sion ' furnishes considerable atmosphere in Alice Lake's new film, "The Golden Gift."- . - V.- . - - mm the Sari Carroll theatre. New York; mow almost completed, where, she hopes to nead her own stock, company next winter. . Louise Fasenda, the eccentric' comedi-1 enne. Is temporarily deserting comedy to I go into serious drama with Cosmopolitan.! She has departed from the Pacific coast. Nobody Knows What Nobody Looks Like, Nobody Caiy Find Out "And Vnobody knows a darn thing about it Such is the "dernier cri of P. E, No ble, manager of the Liberty,' who .has found "the. photoplay, "Nobody,", booked for his house to follow Wallace Reid in "The Hell Digger", next week. The fall season has already started in 'Jensen A Von Herberg ; houses, which "have an nounced some of the biggest releases of the year, and finding among the list of booked productions the names of which have been known to film handlers for -months, the title of which nobody has before heard is unusual to say the least. . : , . "Nobody," Manager Noble discovered upon investigation, was booked upon the recommendation of J. G. Von Herberg, junior member -of Jensen tt Von Her berg, and is unseen as yet by any Ore gon exhibitor. The rule is and "No body" is the shining exception that all pictures -before purchase . must be pre viewed at .the 'nightly after . the show, gathering r of. managers. Even Charles H. Feldman, manager of the local First National ; exchange, . through' "which , the -picture will be released, has not seen the film and knows practically nothing about it as his "paper" for the produc tion' has not yet arrived. - So "Nobody" is well titled according li to local "X V. H." men. Flourney Miner and, Aubrey Hies are the old vaudeville comedians who got tne troupe together, - made . a musical comedy and took it around, to the white manager, saying "here's what we've got : give us a chance."; They have trained a chorus to dance , better than any other in New York and there isn't a girl In ine caste wno cart step out to the foot lights and put over a real number alone. ; After years of the Imitation. New York is vow learning for the first time Just what . color - of blue is the real neero oiue song.. "Shuffle Along Is a "loL" Evelyn. 'Nesbit and Clifford End Fight m Si Kathleen Key. a Los Angeles' school girl , playing a. principal role In The Rubaiyat" film production, is a gfeat I grandchild of Francis Scott Key, com poser of "The Star Spangled Bamf r." Having recovered from a minor opera tion undergone in a Los Angeles hospi tal Gloria Swan son .Is preparing to leave Hollywood for a short vacation trip to New York. : Charlotte Greenwood Is on her way to Los Angeles to be starred In the film version of "Linger Longer Letty." She created the Letty role in the stage presentation. two W 0 S x-.jfl'. Mi p W'm n$--.. mm Pauline Frederick has -Just returned from Cheyenne, Wjr, . where she was I honor, guest during the Frontier week celebration. She Immediately . started work In a picture directed by Colin Campbell. Max Linder, the spry- little .French comedy star, has signed a coon tract with' Goldwyn to release his future pictures, starting with "Be My Wife," which he I recently previewed in New York at Aeolian hall. el-' ' - Teter Ibbetson' Eenamed Torever' . By Film Producer At no time." In the writing of "Peter Ibbetson." from which "Forever" was adapted, is it likely that Du Maurier considered his characters from a scien tific angle.. With the author, the ex ploits of "Peter? and the "Duchess of Towers," doubtless, ' were a background for the expression of a fantastic idea; rather an attempt to stabilize a nebu lous theory by weighting it down with human impulses and inhibitions. At the time of the writing Dr. Freud of Vienna had yet to focus his searching ray upon, the inner consciousness and base his hypotheses on such a delicate foundation as a web of: dreams. Were "Peter, Ibbetson a product -of a writer of this decade It would be seised (.upon by the. followers -of Dr. Freud and the characters at least v the . central character dissected and cataloged. Peter, after he had explained the process of "dreaming true," would ibe pigeon holed in the compartment Freud reserves for members of class , he designates as hysterics. J U.: .';v; - .v :. x An hysteric, under- the Freud classifi cation, is the individual who dreams of a condition he wishes were true. ' In Par-amount's version of the Du Maurier story. Wallace Retd appears as Feter the dreamer. , ' Harry, Myers and Raymond Hatton I will - enact the . chief - character roles of the two crooks in the film version of "Turn to the Right". - Rex Ingram. producer of The Four Horsemen of I the Apocalypse", will direct and Jack Mulhall is to play the juvenile lead. Tom Santschi put up a wager with his director, Ronald Bradbury, that whoever bagged the first deer while on a loca tion trip would be entitled to all other venison shot on the Journey In addi tion, the-loser would be. penalised on fish diet -Ha New-'Yorltv AmK ,20. -An ' order baa be- signed this week; whereby Evelyn Neebltt (Montani) discontinued her re- evin suit against Jack Clifford (Mon- ani) of personal property housed. la their Adirondack. lodge. A private ar rangement between the principals takes care -of that phase of the series of suits still ; pending. ; starting with a divorce charge,' lodged, by " him, and a counter claim- to similar effect by her. Following that Miss, Neebltt sought to Impress in trust their Adirondack real estate, both I Jef Ihese 8Ults..ara sill-hacElns; fire.' , r J peryislon of. Manager Noblar First Electric Sign Boosts Exposition The first out-door' electric aign to be erected in the state boosting . the 1SJS exposition appeared, over i the Liberty theatre Wednesday Bhrht a few hours before Portland commenced its celebra tion occasioned by President Harding signing the bill which gives to the pro posed Oregon event, national approval. The sign is li feet high and 29 feet long. Huge nitrogen lamps outline the figures against a background of dark blue and black.. The sign, was made In tne Liberty, theatre chop under the bu- Two more girls Katherine Flynn and Gladys Davis- of the ensemble of "The Last Waltz" at the Century theatre, have " Joined the French and English courses .of the summer session of Co lumbia university. There are five girls of the Oscar Straus operetta now en rolled at Columbia. mm J. Maclyn. Arbuckle has been placed under contract by the Messrs. Lee V J. J. Sbubert. He win be starred In a new play to be' seen on Broadway on or about Labor day. Mr. Arbuckle last ap peared under the ' management of . the Messrs. Shubert In their production of "In the Night Watch" at -the Century The Laurel - Canyon, Cat, home of Bessie Love, was saved from destruction by fire by a . number of Boy Scouts. when 'a blase destroyed the residence im mediately adjoining, occupied by Dick Rosson, Fox director. Mr- Reason lost valuable possessions. .Miss Love haa not been occupying her home.! having taken a summer cottage at the seashore. "V. Ugliest Woman Fails ;As Theatre Director " Paris,- Aug.- Rk Polalre, "the ugliest woman in the world." she of the wasp waist., is bo success aa a director of her own theatre. V;i Seven moxtths ago Polaire aubsldlaed M. Marjal.to pen a theatre In Moat matre. She gave successively three plays. In an of which she played her self. Even her presence on the stage, however, failed to tear audiences away from their favorite "undresay! show a and now P.. L. Flers haa obtained the lease of & Marjal.theatra at a bargain. MM . ss v-.v ... v is- From Max Brand's Popular Novel ; Tate's Honeymoon" A smashing melodrama, threaded with a love interest that adds to rather than detracts from the dramatic strength of its situations. i$ "A Thousand To One." . "SHE SIGHE1 BY THE SEASIDE" A Two-Part Cocktail of Tun and Actioai ; PRIZMA RIVOUNEWS - . .., ..' .'. . . -- .. BESP05"DIf G TO POPULAR DEMAND we HATE E3TOAGED . TOSCA BERGER EMIXEIfT TI0LI5 SOLOIST for the resialadcrief this, her seeoad week. She wDI appear fear times sally. JLr Berger will also pretest aa especially sleeted program at today's boob coaeeru ... ' . - r ' v . - SIGNOR SALVATORE SANTAELLA Director of Music, will ronoW a Special Piano Solo at Do Laxe Performance . 12:30 NOON TODAY RIVOLI SUNDAY CONCERT J v r r v , ' " . 1-"' ?