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SECTION FIVE THE THEATRE FOUR PAGES THE PHOTOPLAY PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1922. SCRAPBOOK BRINGS MEMORIES OF STAGE NOTABLES WEEK'S SHOWS 2V NEW YORK HAVE LITTLE OF MERIT Peglerays It Is a Case of Taking a Smash First at One and A BLUE STREAK OF VAUDEVILLE IS WHAT SHE IS ROMPING through ragtime and ever-changing moods! of rcomedy, Rae Samuels has won the plaudits of the; multitude which has 'seen her and laughed, and the hearts of the fewer who know her off the stage as a bright and entertaining woman. Miss Samuels is in Portland with an array of new exclusive songs written for her by Bert Tracey and Halsey Mohr. She brings back with her,, however, all of the same old personality that she has had on all the visits which she has made to Portlaadin the past ! "Maurice Barrymore" Smith, T reasurer of Cordras, Grand anji' urpheum, Kept Mementos in tne bnape ot urograms, Passes and Items Concerning Many Then Famous. Then Another Alt Up and Down the Liner With "Molly Darling" as a Conspicuous Exception. ; Mitt t w w Y i . r .. i .-. .... - v.-.-a- - ..... ..... . . v. -. - :- .. ... NOW and then the past yields up out of Its half forgotten recesses some jnlghty interesting- reminiscences and lately one of these, the scrap book of "Maurice Barrymore" Smith who up to a few years ago when he "died was successively treasvjPrer . of Cordray. Sullivan & Considine's "Grand and the Orpheu'm theatre came to light. ; Smith waa himself a character. He was probably known to more Portland people even than b"f Fangle and he had a good word every person who carrie by either jie box office window or the door of the theatre. That he was the kind of man who would keep souvenirs, is a surprise. Yet he lefi behind a bookful. which from the time ' that he came to Portland in the late '80s until his death is a curious record of Portland's theatrical and entertain ment world. One of the "first things that greets the eyes is a yellow pass Issued by Frank W. Bacon. The date was Febru ary 22, but the year is not stated. Nei ther is the name of the play. When- CooperationNot Regulation Is Need of Movies iXVT V needs is co-operation and not regulation, -s says Norma Talmadge. famous First National star. "ItJmay be true, as Kipling tells us in his 'Gunga Din' that 'when it comes time to slaughter you wiU "do your work on the water.' but it is no less true that when it comes to living you will live your life bn emotion. "This thought came to me one day while I was looking over letters from people who felt impelled to write and say how much this or that picture meant to them. Mothers, fathers, sons and daughters, have felt this urge to tell the motion picture star how her or his work in pictures has changed their lives and affairs. "just one touch of nature makes the whole world kin, we have been told. Who can measure the energy of emotions? "The enemies of the motion picture Industry never give this phase of the subject a single thought. This star or that director has been accused of such arid eo, therefore, let us condemn the screen, seems to be their philoso phy. 'There is one scene in a certain pic ture that does not appeal to my rooted ideas on the subject and that proves the movies are a bad Influence' t!fey shout. "Were It possible." Miss Talmadge continued." to harness every heart with a meter aniV count the heart beats that mark the flashing of some pictures- on the screen, and extract from those beats the inspirations, cour age, regrets and the thousand and one shades of emotion that go to make up our inner lives, what a wonderful story would be tmfolded. "1-et us not throw a wet blanket on genuine feeling even if we have to disappoint maligners of the motion picture." Turning to the salacious picture. Miss Talmadge said : "The producers do not Uke salacious pictures. The stars do not like them. True; occasionally some one produces a picture in which sentimentality supplants sentiment and things that are artificial are put Into the place of real art. But that picture is not typical of the industry. The star knows it's wrong. The pro ducer knows it's wrong, arid the public will not be long in finding out it is not the picture it" wants. "Again I say. what the industry needs is co-operation and not regula tion." ' Buster Keaton Goes Hunting for Ducks; Kills Them Asleep Buster Keaton and members -of his company have returned from' San Francisco, where they spent several days filming scenes for his latest First National comedy, .-'Day Dreams.' While in the northern California city Buster was invited to go duck hunting. He was escorted to an ex clusive gun club oy a prominent San Franciscan. Arising early the first morning he secured a boat and was on his way. On the pond were many ducks, sleep ing, as he later explained. He was complimenting himself on his luck and at the same time was giving the game both barrels as quickly as he could fire and reload. Running out of am munition, hejdecidid to wait until dawn before collecting the, game. Visions of a duck dinner for his en tire company were before him.. When, dawn came he started for the scene of his conquest and peached the first dark. What a shock he discovered that he had been shooting decoys? VAUDEVILLE ORPHEUM Bnndwij at Taylor. Vaudeville, wiU Ka Samufli headlining. 8 p. m daiij. PANTAaiS Broadway at Aider. Hifh-claas noderU and photoplay features. Afteraoon and OTtnicc. Procram chance Monday afternoon. HIPPODROME Broadway at Yamhill. Vaoderille and Tom Mix ia "The Fufhtiaj Straak." and picture. Continuous. Ha.rn. toHp. m. PHOTOPLAY RIVOll Waahinctnn at Park. Rex Inrram's "PrUoner of Zends." BLUE BJOUSF Elemth at WaahiactoD. to 11 p. m. HEILIS Broadway at Taylor. Becinirina Wednesday, 11 a. Florence Tidor, in "Daak to Dawn." COLUMBIA Sixth at Stark. Wallace, Reid aodBeb Daaiata 'in People." 11 a. m to 11 p. b. LIBERTY Broadway at Stark. Betty Compaon. la "The Bonded Woman." 11 a. m. tOllP.K . , MAJIITtO Waahiactoa at Park. Alma Babes and Lew Cody. In The Valley of Silent Men."- 11 a. m. te 11 p. nv CIRCLE Fourth near Weatunctoo. "Nanook of the North." 9 a. a until 4 o'clock the nest mornmc i . V- -- ever it was, it was long years before Bacon made the spectacular successes that he -did with his "Lightnin' ". Inci dentally Joe Mullers name Is also on the card as "representative" of the F. W. Bacon company. Muller Is now the manager of the Palace-Hip at Seattle. There are lots of Portland people who remember Cordray's Musee and Theatre which held forth first on First street next door to where the Portland Railway Light & Power Co.'s depot is and later on the corner now occupied by Powers furniture store. One of the mementos is a souvenir pro gram of "My Gerald ine" for Sunday, September 15, 1889, just a third of a century ago. It was in honor of the farewell appearance of Miss Bssi Tittell. Also In the cast "was her sister Minnie. Both of these girls won con siderable fame in after years. Near the Tittell program are several articles relating to the death of James H. Lrickson, the manager of the Or pheum theatre in Portland, thirteen years ago next November. The death of Mabel Hite, noted vaudeville per former, a decade ago Is also chronicled. Jake Kilrain who fought John L. Sullivan the champion's hardest bat- tie was in Portland in 1899 and h: issued Maurice liarrymore a pass signed "Always Yours Truly." Under the rather odd heading "Exchange of (."curtesies there is a pass Issued by Milton ?oles who with his wife Dolly Nobles was annually an appreciated visitor to Portland's stage. "John Robinson & Franklin Broth' ers' Enormous shows combined" bring back memories or a once famous cir cus in the shape of a special pass good wnen signed by Clay Lambert. Richards and Pringle's famous Geor gia Minstrels, which were in a class by themselves in their day. are repre sented in the shape of a pass and so are Lineoin J. Carter's "Fast Mail, The Tornado," and "Heart of Chi cago. In his day Carter presented melodrama of the most blood curdling Kind. There is a memento of Steve Brodie "the bridge jumper" who appeared at the, Marquam Grand Opera House Oct. 18. 1896, and a door check to one oi Roland Reed's shows. The items mentioned in this article are only a few highlights of the scrap book -which, besides theatrical matters, records a fund of events that took place In the part of Smith's life that he lived in Portland. Just one other clipping that slipped nnpasted as the book was closed a picture of members of the Cordray. stock company George Allison, Elsie Esmond. Frank Sheridan, Guy Stand ing, Mlna Crolius Gleason, and Wil liam (Billie) Bernard, who for years were with this house and with the Baker Stock company. U. S. Movies Getting Firm Hold Abroad LOS ANGELES. Sept. 9 (TJ. P.) "American pictures are popular and are growing more so all over Eu rope," declares Jesse L. Lasky, promi nent film producer, who has Just re turned from a tour of Europe in the in terests of his company. The tastes of European produc ers." he said, "lean to heaviness and sombreness or to huge historical spectacles, which fait to attract the public in Europe as American pictures do." Lasky 'said that his company, how ever. wa planning to bring to this country an increased number of Eu ropean types to give an international quality to productions, and that bu reaus for contracting for the works of famous European writers have been established in London, Paris, Madrid, Budapest and BerHn. "Many works unknown to American audiences will be produced in the near future," he said. Ben Turpin Comedy Will Be Bracer for Tired Business Men Tired Business men, take heed, for once more you are to come Into your own. About a year ago Mack Sennett an nounced to the world that no longer would his comedy pictures be crammed with dashing, beautiful and winsome maidens clad only in the briefest of bathing habits. But with the absence of musical comedies during the past 13 months, due to thin box office receipts and heivy travelling expense, the comedy king now announces that with the re lease of the next Ben Turpin comedy, "The Sheik of Araoy." he will endeavor to once more establish himself as the supreme judge of feminine pulchritude and talent. 3 P- 11 am. to 11 Joha Gilbert, ia "Mont Crista.' U a. m. andtimere tilth "WrlZZ?, ' - w v4 - I ( W.VAR uaitt-i v j. . X-XV"-, " C -? " , -- - 'ev t -; r --- -4 , ',;.jV''-' - r '---v y S 'f -t ,:-a; iiv t v ' HyU r:;: j : : J tV. -v;' af5. v , - vv-V. v - Jxr -; V"." "' ' 11 '.J. " . 11 iiji-'ui I'..'..., ' mm ,ii in i. ..nr . r ; - . - ' - ', - -U " 1 , . -. ; A Team of Portland Performers Will Go on Keith Circuit Van Horn and Inez, popular skating team, known to C Portland friends as Mr. and Mrs. Earl Van Horn, former residents and high school students here, left Portland Tuesday morning for New York city, where they will open at the Palace theatre. The vaudeville players have been resting in Portland for 10 weeks, visit ing relatives and friends. They have contracted to appear In Keith houses in and just out of New York for the entire winter season. They will be remembered by many for the originality of their skating act presented at the Orpheum theatre last summer. v r Mrs. Van Horn was formerly Inex Sibley, student . In Washington . high school. " " . . " ' The title of Marshall Nellan's forth coming release has been changed from "Her Man" to "Minnie." "Minnie" was suggested by a. story from the pen of George Pattulo, . called "Her Man." The beautiful flapperiah Fairs "Bln ney will portray a reel flapper . In Pyramid's all-star prod action, "flap per Love," adapted from Eugene Wal ler's "The! Flapper."' Miss Blrmey will undoubtedly be- acclaimed as America's Happiest Capper. ; - ' 'Boston Blackie' a Real Man s t st " s, r. ' a i s- r. Author Tells of Disicovery Few readers of Jack Boyle's "Bos ton Blackie" stories, which "have be come equally popular on thei screen through their picturiration by Cosmo politan, realize that the protagonist in these tales of adventure is not a creature of fiction, but a breathing human being' livingi Blackie Dawson" is not the name by which he is known to the police as the cleverest cracksmen in this country.. He is a professional bank robber, and one of the few who can open any safe, not time locked, by his delicate sense of touch. . . "It- was four days after tJie San Francisco earthquake of .April 118, .193s. The fierce fires which followed the quake had driven 130.000 people from their homes, with only what they could carry In their arms. "I was a reporter on the Examiner, and I went out to the park with my camera to photograph some of : the odd and characteristic scenes. Before a flimsy shelter which be had rigged up with l piece of tarpaulin and -some blankets, I . obaerreel a man: sitting cross-legged and very busily occupied ia .making a rag doll for a ltttle girl about 3 years old who stood by his side. , 2iexby a little boy of about 5 was playing with a wooden soldier, which had been whittled out of a piece of pine, evidently by the same hands. "The man glanced up at me with a smile as I stood watching: 'Some Job for a man," said he ; but the , little girl thought It was great. I asked permission to take a picture of his j cruiCLren. xxiey aren i mine, euaia ne. 'I Just found them wandering around, all alone and crying, so I fixed up this camp here and am taking care of them until their parents come along and claim ithem. 'And what if nobody comes to claim them?' I asked. 'Well, then I guess we'll stick together eh, little pais?' " ' " That- appeal brought two trusting little children to his knee, and I have since learned that their trust was not misplaced. For these two orphans of the great earthquake owe their upbring ing and education to "Boston Blackie,' the bank burglar. "It was months later when William Pinkerton was showing me the pho tographs of some suspects In a big smelter, robbery that I recognised the picture of "Boston Blackie.' and ldenti- fled him as the maker of ras dolls. Landladies Barred Gilbert Because of Bad Guitar Playing In the year 1914, among the pro grammed play!rs of the Baker Stock company of Portland, Or., was John Gilbert, then a youngster. He had the role of the youthful guitar player in the then popular -play "Broadway Jones," but Knew little about playing such an instrument. Mr. Gilbert, who has the stellar role In the William Fox special production, "Monte Crista," which is being held over at the Blue Mouse theatre, relates with smiles his experiences In learning how to thrum the .Instrument In order to enact-his role convincingly. His first boarding house landlady ejected him on the eve of his Initial occupancy of one of her rooms. Had she - known he was a poor musician, she-told him, he never would - have - : fl in Jr Place- Undaunted, he sought another rooming house. Ilia first night in the new place , was un eventful, as was his second night. But the third day he moved again, the boarders had gone In a body' to the landlady and asked that the guitar- thrumming person be asked, to leave. Luckily for Mr. Gilbert, by this time h . became sufficiently familiar with the instrument to take his rola, Br Westterook ; Pegler mi tod News SUff Corresponaent KV YORK. Sept, 9. in batue roTal a boy ahouldn't try to box. The thing to do is to smash away. Reviewing this weeK s tneairicai events .is a battle royal. You smasn away the nearest production a.nd then swing- at the next one. This is not the 'week to fight "em clever. Therefore, smash. "The Endless Chain." . This is about a stupid and. pretty young wife who applied herself . to the vamping oi a wealthy Westerner in a New York hotel to the end that her husband might prosper. In this play., by James Forbes. A. I Erlanger la presenting Mtss Margaret Lawrence as a iew and fully qualified star Of the nightly more numerous firmament. She plays the part of Amy Reeves, the culpably bone headed young thing. f If such "there breathes in real life the authorities should mark her well to spare her the distressing complexi ties which make the latter part of "The Endless Chain" so unhappy for Amy Reeves. Smash ! "So This Is London" is a production of last week not covered in these hreathiess tf ' by no means deathless letters. It.is3 George M. Cohan, again in his later and now characteristic mood of satire, which has largely suc ceeded the flag waving ebullition of v.i vnntVi althoueh lie reserved the rieht to eo off in one of those bois terous musical tantrums any moment any season and probably will from time to time. t . Arthur Goodrich wrote "So This Is teflon." but the Cohan -touch is mere. They have an extremely American and an unremittingly English family which naturally despises all things American and still things of this country in terms nf nickerm' first impressions. The American has a son and the English man baa a daughter, and what more wniiM vou. Brock Pemberton, wbo comes irom Kansas, went: to Italy for the manu ,.rir, of "The Plot Thickens," a com edy by Lulgi Barslni and Arnaldo Fraccoli, whicn was aaapieu aT.i-nainted with American slang hu Thomas Beer. Another recent procueuon wmcii. re mniiv Y,ast rllcarded the novitiate's cap r hnmiiitv for the laurel crown of aoorobation is a comedy called "Th Tan-h ivarersr by George1 Kelly. vaudevtlllan. In'-ibis gay amusement, a loaded harpoon is tossed "4nto the titVa - .-mrf fiBlve amateur theatrical body to explode in the living flesh and tear 1t apart, without, however, caus ing the victim any pain for the barb U lathered with anesthetic subtlety. Which is to say that the audience fully appreciates and shares the autnor s ae- rision of the soui-searcners wu Doctor Tells Actors How to Act Crazy Role BERLIN. Sept. 9. How to act the part of a lunatic on the stage was the unusual topic of a lecture held by Professor Alfred Strohmayr. one of Oermany's leading psychiatrists, .be fore an audience of actors. He ana lyzed from a psychologic point of view the characters of Ophelia and King Lear According to the professor. Ophelia shows a typical case of lunacy. She walks about in a hysterical, semi conscious state until, unintentionally and unconsciously, she becomes a vic tim of the waves. King Lear s is a cae of senile imbecility Which leads te hsllucinations. The professor concluded with the as sertion that the object of the play wright ought not to be to- give a mi nute and medically true picture of a lunatic, but he is entitled to make use of the principle of "poetic license" and form his characters from an artistic end not from a medical angle. rr Strohmayr referred to Ibsen's characterization of Oswald Alving, the hero of "Ghosts." and pointed out that the author's artistic taste saw to it that the hero should behave auite nor mally and reasonably - throughout the play and that his lunacy should break out only at the very end of the trag edy. Toin Mix Starred in Thrilling Feature Tom Mix. In his most recent picture is seen at the Hippodrome theatre this week. This picture "The Fighting Streak." combines a rare old art with a goodly number of thrills. The art is hlacksmithing, .and one of the big thrills Is the rescue of a pretty girl from a careening buckboard in a runa way. Theatre patrons already know Mix can furnish sensational effects, and In this picture be will show his audiences, how he does these things. Being Editor s ft ft?, ft? . Reid Tells of By Wallace Betd , 1 BELIEVE the toughest job of "all my professional career was as as sistant editor, of., Motor ' Magazine, which position I held 'for some time before getting deep into' motion picture work. - " - il had one year with Sellg as an ac tor when I took ' this dive into liter ary work. I spent a good many hours out of the dally twenty-four - at the desk and was swamped , with routine work. We made our' own half-tones out of line drawings and did our own airbrush work and; turned the cuts out by the hundreds. " . become an excrescence upon the worthy little theatre movement while the seri ous thinkers- themselves won i Know they have been hit. . , . And smash, bang, sock! ' -"MoUv Iarllne is a lively musical comedy, a pretty production with good songs and better dancer. - "Sally, Irene and Mary" is a musical comedy - whose authors have trankty abducted the heroines from those three wetl known and successful plays and worked - them together Into another piece wherein three pretty characters come up together from tenement pov erty to affluence, adulation and the atrical eminence and eventually marry the respective 'TLjoy friends of their earlier obscurity, s. "Hunky -ory, a comedy or tne Scottish lowlands wltli a Scottish cast, came here after a successful run in London and was received with cordiality. :. , Dancer to Go On African Hunt to Forget Rebuff By C. J. BerJeUl rnireral Serriro 8taff Correspondent Venice, Sept. 9. In an effort to for get- the heartless rebuff administered by Gabriel TAnnunzlo . recently. Ida Rubenstein, the famous snd wealthy dancer, is now in Venice en route tor Brindisl, whence she will sail to hunt lions in Darkest ' Africa. - ..: Mile. Rubenstein, called the "only woman who ever Jilted d'Annunxlo." was denied admittance to the former . Flume dictator's villa at Garda, whither she had gone to nurse the poet, following his accident. Ever sines she rejected Italy's great romantic fig ure, the beautiful . dancer has suf fered remorse and has mads several attempts to win back -her former loverJS" Since her arrival In Venice, Ida has ransacked the stores to buy ample equipment for " the expedition, which . will contain not only customary boots and breeches for the -hunter, but also several- evening gowns of latest Paris design, i,- .Must, because It is the heart of Africa that' Is ' no reason hy I . (shouldn't dress: for dinner," Mile. Rubenstein explained to friends who commented on the unusual outfit. ; Included In the entourage will be a French chef and a Swiss waiter, who will serve the culinary masterpieces in , Ida's Jungle. ' Pending the departure of the expedi- ' tion.XMUe. . Rubenstein ; Is one of the most prominent glrls figures on Lido's beach near , Venice, which has now, since the Deauvllle season Is over, be come society's most fashionable resort. She is contesting honors with the best- swimmers In Italy and together with Frances Alda. wife of Gattt Ca sazza, whose famous figure is en veloped in magnificent coiorea Darning suits, attracts crowds .every morning on the beach. . The leaders of FariVand Rome so ciety are indulging In a perfect orgy ; of entertainment among the most i prominent hosts being -Duke d'AbruszL , former suitor of Katharine Elklns. who recently gave a reception to the Duke and Duchess of Alba, ths, latter pair having achieved the distinction of being married In the shortest royal wedding on record. ' " Mrs." William Corey, formerly Mabel Oilman, arrived at St. Moritx, wnereN she spent July sand August climbing the Engardine peaks with a party In cluding Marie Jonesco, daughter of the Rumanian premier. Artnur vemxeios, son of the former premier of Greece, and Leo Tecktonius, well known Amer ican pianist. !. ' Mrs. Corey was the only Woman this year to attain -the summit of the fam ous Bernlna, mountain, the sec ond highest in Switzerland. Other Ameri cans, arriving at Lido from St. Morit are staying at the Excelsior hotel. - J. S. McGroarty to Head Governors of Pioneer Day Fiesta Los Angeles, Sept 9 U. P.) John Steven McGroarty, author of the Mis sion play, will head the board of gov ernors which- will manage the Pioneer Days fiesta to be held In Los Angeles for 10 days, beginning. September 25, it was announced today, v The fiesta will be held under the auspices of ' Victory post, American Legion, for the benefit of the crippled children of the Orthopedic hospital school. .. - Other , members of the board, which is not -yet completed. . are ; Mr. and Mrs. -William Gibbs McAdoo. Douglas Fairbanks. Mayor George W. Cryer and Marco H. Ilellman. . ' - Is Hard Work t , Toughest Job It was while I was holding down that Job that my father,-Hal Reid, started writing Ths .. Confession." I would go home, every lunch hour 'and when 1 finished at night and collabo rate with him in writing the play. At last it was finished and I bid adieu to the strenuous 'work of being' an as sistant editor and Joined my father In producing the play. ' We produced it and then took it to Montreal where it made a. tremendous hit with every body After that we brought it back to New York and ran it at the old Bijou Theatre. A