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THE . OREGON : SUNDAY ; JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1922. I FEATURES - & e& ) I 7 ft L t&J i yyjffl'fJFtr vK- A ilberL it idSr Fyr ' -'Ay j ,, ....ysj Tteie Crislo" Cl't: Tloetec , m Slue iAouSE? v V 1 hbili. Motion Picture Actprs Put Up tv i n i neai r ignting M OST motion picture actor aapired toe paglUatio bonors. V Ik S1: A. Photo Plays HB1LIQ In "Dusk to Dawn." Flor ence Vidor deserts newlj-weds and their problems, as in her two previous tarring vehicles for Associated Ex hibitors. ' Woman, Wake Up !" and "Th Real Adventure." At the. Hellisr theatre, wher "Dusk to Dawn" will be shown beginning Wednesday, she is seen as the patrician daughter of a wealthy, influential fam ily, who rushes to the defense of her brother, a bank teller, when he, un known to the parents. Is accused of a financial irregularity. The price which the bank president exacts for the boy's release is a heavy ,one. If the girl will break up the af fair between his son ana a dangerous an4 notorious woman, her brother will be spared prosecution. " But ar touch of the mystic interferes with her plana. This beautiful girl is subject to vividly realistic dreams In which she is another personality, tak ing up a continuation of another life. Thus the etsry, which is a dramatiza tion of Katharine Hill's novel, "The Shuttle Soul," Is given an unusual twist that enhances its entertainment appeal and gives opportunity for strik ingly beautiful scenic effects, as well as a-dual impersonation for Miss Vidor. "DIVOLI Motion picture fans who JH. look for exceptional photoplay cave an opportunity to Bee a picture which is one of the outstanding pro ductions of the year. It is "The Pris oner of Zenda" which opened at the Rivall Saturday. It Is a story teeming with dramatic action, full of intrigue, romance and excitement. . It concerns the adven tures of an English gentleman, one Rudolf Rassendyll, who. because of a remarkable likeness to the ruler of the mythical kingdom of Ruritania. be comes for a time its actual ruler and wins, the love of the Princess Flavia. "The Prisoner of Zenda" is the most popular romance of a generation. From the time when Anthony Hope, then more Interested In his political career in Kngland than in writing, composed it. the narrative of Rudolf Rassendyll's 1 IT 0 EES i - m m w sr a m w i W. VV. Ely, Resident Manager 5 Continuous Snow 1 to 11 P. M. The Great .JUSTINIAN! "World's Greatest JJlusionist" Jack Roshier's "CANINE NOVELTY" Lea & Perrin In Pep A Sancy Skit Lawrence Johnson "Ventriloquial Fan" The FivePrestons "Dance Reme" . "The Fight- ming Streak" AdultsWeekday Mats. 20c; Erening 33c. Children 10 at All Times reckless adventure has taken hold of the hearts of all who read. This was the first of the stories of romance in little kingdoms In Europe, and no bet ter indication can be had of its success than that it inspired hundreds of writ ers to imitate it. But none of the re sulting stories had the zest, the devil-may-care 6pirlt of the original, for that was written chiefly for the love of imagination the author had ; it was as glamorous to him as to his readers. "The Prisoner of Zenda" is a Rex Ingram production for Metro, adapted by Mary O'Hara from the Edward Roee st&se version of Anthony Hope's novel. It was photographed by John F. SeiU. A cast of unusual excellence has been assembled for the production. Lewis Stone, Alice Terry, Robert Edeson, Stuart Holmes, Ramon Navarro. Bar bara I -a Marr, Malcolm McGregor, Kd ward Connelly. Ixts Lee Play leading roles. The Rivoli News and a comedy are the other featers of the program. CIRCLE "Nanook of the North." the Pathe feature at the Circle, is the real, true story of a great Eskimo hunter and his family. The hug-'e and very dangerous wal rus, the polar bear and the seal Nanook catches in hand to hand encounters, killing with nothing more formidable than his harpoon on the end of a seal hide line. He fishes without halt, lur ing the fish within range of his spear with two small pieces of ivory dangling on seal-hide cords. His knife is of shining ivory from the tusks of the walrus. So as to cut more easily, nanook licks it and it is instantly glazed with ice. It Is his only tool used in the building of his winter dwelling his igloj of enow and ice. The household belongings of Na nook, his wife and three children con sist of a few robes of bear and deer skin, a stone pot and stone lamps. These he carries wherever the search for food takes him on riis dog-sledge, made of wood, .which is very precious to Nanook. He sometimes walks miles along the beach to find a log that has drifted, perhaps, from 'Winnipeg, a thousand miles way! For light he uses moss for wicking and seal oflwfor fuel. Yet. in spite of the hardships of life and its single purpose food tle Es kimo is the happiest, most content and kindliest creature in the world. DLUE MOUSE So great has been JJ the drawing power of "The Count of Monte Chrlsto" during the past week, that the Blue Mouse theatre has decided to hold over the attrac tion, which is headlined by Jack Gil bert, a former Portland boy. People who have witnessed the screen production of "The Count of Monte Chrlsto" seem to bo- a unit in acclaiming it superior to any adapta tion of a novel that has been attempt ed. The chief feature that appeals to those who have enjoyed the original Dumas novel is that it follows the text of the book in remarkable fashion, which is something that the stage ver sion tailed to do and which detracted materially from the enjoyment of the Irving Cobb Author Of 'Five Dollar Baby' Irving Cobb, one of America's fore most short story writers and nationally famous as a humorist, is the author of "The Five Dollar Baby which has been made into a six reel feature to be shown at the Rivoll theatre soon. Vi ola, Dana, is the star chosen to play the lead. ever The that sound of the gong has no bearing on their. live yet many of them jhave not no as pretty a fight as ever was staged in the roped arena. It is an American tradition every man should be able to protect himself and the "manly art of self-de fense" is not necessarily limited i prise ring. Very often a kid-gloved member of the aristocracy eurprlses his friends and enemies by "licking the stuffing" out of an opponent. Flstia prowess takes the place to day of the duello of olden times, ! when every gentleman was supposed to know how to use a rapier or foil. Thus the motion pictures demand that their male stars and leading men, and especially "'heavies" or villains, be able to put up a good fight. Of course, unless in isolated, instances where a private feud was thus worked out. the fighters of the screen are probably the best of friends. Yet for the purposes of illusion it is essential that they appear deadly enemies and many a real punch Is given and taken in the scrimmages that the script requires. Thomas Meighan, the Paramount star, isn't given to scrapping. He is the best natured, best-loved etfar of the screen probably. - But hi a number of his films he has had to put up a Scrimmage that would make the gladiators of the ring envious. He has had real-ex-pugillsts pitted against him and they have gone on recjord to state that Tommy has a wallop that is calculated to provide additional stars In the firmament. Jack Holt, another Paramount) lumi nary, packs a haymaker in either fist and what he has not done to some of the villians of the celluloid fiction isn't worth talking about. In "The Man Un conquerable," one of his lat.eet pictures, he had a terrific battle with Clarence Burton, a villain who has been kicked, punched, chewed, choked and other wise maltreated until one wonders that he is still alive to tell it. But he hasn't been hurt to speak of, and, be ing a singularly pleasant and well liked individual, everyone is glad around the studios. But if the fans were to be consulted right after hav ing eeen him doing some of hi9 worst "villaining" in a picture, theyj would probably feel that his punishment was not half as severe as it ehoulid be. Wallace Held is occasionally! called on to fight, and in one of hie older pictures, "Alias Mike Moran," he even fought himself by means of I double exposure. A man often has to battle with himself, mentally, but itlsn't often he has to in apparance at least knock himself down physically. Rodolph Valentino makes ai pretty neat scrapper and is always 14 train ing. He takes a boxing lesson every day and is fait becoming a good boxer. Milton Sills lias a wonderful bout in "Burning Sands," wherein he is featured with Wanda Hawley. The opponent is another of those much hated screen villains who Is in j private life a very charming chap-j-Robert Cain. But, oh, what a licking he appears to take in this picture. . He is attacking the heroine when the hero enters unexpectedly and Jumps Ion him. After lambasting the "tar" out of the villain. Sills calmly drops him out of a high window to the rocks beneath. So being a star or a villain j doesn't always mean sitting In upholstered chairs or making love to the leading lady, or conniving with miscreants for the downfall of the hero. Itj- means also the ability to scrap and scrap good and hard. wrought in her native Southland, Miss Hampton said : ; . "The day when the ' South wanted pure romance only Is over; Even pic tures glorifying the romance of ante bellum days are not In demand any more. For years the South cried for pictures that reeked with honeysuckle and moonlight, with chivalry and ro mance. Southern women clung to the Sir Walter Scott ideal of i story and demanded that moving pictures re flect it "But things have been moving fast in the South. "The big change Is In the Southern women. Stin cherishing many of their old ideals of conduct and social etiquet, they have, in the rush of this indus trialism nod, education from the North, lost many old prejudices. "The woman who works, the girl who fights her own battles, trains her mind and earns her way by her Brain, is the favorite heroine of Southern women nowadays. "Some day serious scholars will treat the subject of the effect of motion pic tures on civilisation far better than I can. treat it; I can only bring you news, not arguments or theories." Toy Dog Imagines He's Real Hound and Stalks Three Deer Alma Rubens owns a pocket edition Pekinese spaniel which rejoices in the name of Ching Ching and possesses a bark several times too big for him. Heretofore his excursions into the wil derness were limited to walks Irf Cen- j tral park, but when Miss Rubens went to jsantr in tne Canadian kockics, to play the heroine in Cosmopolitan's pic turization of James Oliver Curwood's "The Valley of Silent Men," she took Ching Ching along for company. The diminutive Peke made friends with the "huskies" of the dog team which Miss Rubens drove for pictorial purposes, and owing to his feather weight was able to travel on the crust of the deep enow. , One day Miss Rubens and her mother, both on snowshoes, took Ching Ching for a walk, when a surprising reversion to the primitive occurred. The ancestral instinct, suppressed for centuries, awoke in the tiny pet and he imagined that he was a hunting dog. Scurrying far ahead on the scent of his prey, Ching Ching surprised three deer in the edge of the forest. The surprise was mutual and the .deer took' to flight with Ching Ching in full chase. Miss Rubens started chasing Ching Ching and captured the tiny Peke just about the time the deer discovered what was chasing them and decided to turn the Joke. Mies Rubens and her mother had to run for it, and if her "huskies" had not come to the rescue it might have been serious. After ths.t Ching Ching was led on a leash. Miss Rubens declared that if the Peke had a body In proportion to his nerve he would make a Siberian wolfhound climb a tree. DramaLeague's Study Course I n Preparation CO -MUCH Interest was evinced by it etudy-KTOtma last year in the !lrama league's popular study course for clubs that the department Is pre paring a similar course for next year dealing with plays of 1921-1922, This will be more restricted this year as the season's output did sot equal In. vol ume and interest those of the preced ing season. The eourse will therefore not Include so many plays but will be arranged for 24 meetings with mark ings Ipr those desiring to meet only once monthly. The horary was so popular a feature of last year's course that patna are being made to supply a library this year. Reservation must be made in advance and must Include the entire library. As the dubs make their plans so Movies Influence Southern Women, Says Hope Hampton i Motion pictures are making over the South, infusing it with new Ideas and ideals. ' The biggest change is to be noted In the women, who have discarded the old-fashioned clinging vine type of heroine for the courageous and self reliant maid of today. These are conclusions reached by Hope Hampton, screen star, who has Just returned to New York from an extensive tour below the Ma'son and Dixon line, making many personal ap pearances and. incidentally, attending the opening of the Hope I theatre, named after her, in Dallas Texas, her home town. ! Commenting on the transformation Eaces Before Film Camera Eecall Old Turf Day Thrillers The famous Exposition Park race track of Los Angeles, once the scene of society's patronage, fevered betting and close finishes, but closed to meets of all kinds for years, awoke to a day of its old-time gaiety recently when John M. Stahl chose the historical site as the background for the thrilling race which is one of the features of his latest Louis B. Mayer-First Na tional attraction, "The Dangerous Age," With Lewis S. Stone. Ruth Clifford, Myrtle Stedman, Richard Tucker and several thousand extras as interested spectators, ten seasoned jockeys decked out in colors of vivid hues marched their horses up to the start ing tape and shifted about for advan tageous positions as anxiously as though it were the Kentucky Derby at hand. Getting away to a fair start, the horses ran as if for a $10,000 purse proving that a race is a race to a jockey, whether for a camera or the honors of the track. Had an old devotee of the eourse happened in at the neck-and-neck finish, he would have felt certain that Exposition Park had staged a very creditable come-back. Both the horses and jockeys were Imported from the racetrack at Tia Juana. Mexico, the season there having closed a week or two before. About a thousand of the extras were engaged at so much per day by the director, but the balance of the spectators over two thousand in number were Los Angeles residents and tourists who stormed the Park gate the day of the event, eager to view the races. "Training Down" to a Perfect" 3 2 -By Fay King- The following musical numbers for this week have been selected by Lloyd M. Coppen, leader of the Hippodrome orchestra: "Morning. i t Noon and Night. by Suppe, will be Piayea for ine overture. ir. coppen will feature "Soothing" and "Georgette" during the pictures. The selections played by the Hippodrome orchestra, are - phas ing the patrons of the' theatre. By Fay Slag AFTER watching the champs and near champs drop a dozen pounds a day with wild swings Into midair and shoulder shakings in their train ing quarters, I figured that if I pulled the same stunts I could train down to a trim 32. j The trouble with us dames that go in for exercises is that we toe the floor three mornings and then lay off the system for a week or so, or maybe forever, and anybody that knows will tell you that to get results you gotta stick to your schedule and let nothing Interfere. , I One man told me that 10 minutes exercise every morning would add 10 years to your life. Well, I started out with ai lineup of stuff that would limber up the pyra mids. I stole the setting up exercises from the army, a coupla twisters to take the kinks out of Joints from the acrobats and ballet dancers, road Work from the Jockeys and every shadow blow from champs. I The fact that I busted a coupla cut ghus vases and a bowl of i gold fish didn't dampen by enthusiasm any, j I stuck to training like a challenger that thinks he's got a chance. I even swung a bat like a bad play er, thinking it might give me a trim waist line. It's about time I got results. Strange as it may seem, I didn't lose any weight. I seemed to be gain ing. That was tough, so X worked all the harder. I could swing on a punch ing bag like the average dame does on a vanity case. But zvew I'm worse off than X was. All these stunts - have developed my shoulders until 1 look like a lady wrestler. Instead of getting slim and willowy I am getting tougher than nails.' . When I first started in to bend my bones cracked like a Spanish dancer snapping her fingers. After 10 min utes of exercising I was ready for a 10 months vacation, but X made up my mind, and once 1 make up my mind my face isn't in ft. But, alas, the results are far from favorable. , X usta could manage to Juggle a cup of chocolate around rather gracefully, but now X have to tie a dumbbell to my wrist or I'll spill ltl! I . v All my hemstitching Is riveted now! early In the season the department Is making an effort to have the current list ready earlier in . the ' season so that dubs may secure the material and the libraries by early October. This is difficult' because so many of the most desired plays, are not printed until the following year. The course has. however, been prepared with a view to having It printed and' ready for distribution by October.!. r V The course will, cover the' later" and more interesting plays of last season Insofar as not covered by course 24 (several plays held over) and obtain able in print. Several plays much de sired by the course are not available for reading; The plays Included' will be approx imately: "The Whiten eaded Boy." by Lennox Robinson ; The Detour." by Owen Davis : "The Circle," by Sora ersett Maugham; "The Straw," by Eugene O'Neil ; Aima Christie," ,by Eugene O'Neil ; "The Hairy Ape," by Eugene O'Neil; "The Silver Fox," by Cosmo Hamilton; "He Who." Gets Slapped," by Andreyev ; "Dulcy," by Kaufman and Connelly ; "A Bill of Di vorcement," . by Clemence-Dane ; "The Madras House." by Granville Barker; "Heartbreak House." by G. B. Shaw; "The - Bulldog Drummond," by! Cyril McXelle; "The Beggar's Opera," by Gay; "Title,"' by ' Arnold Bennett; "Back to AJethusaleh." by G. B. Shaw ; "Ambush." "Mr. Pim . Passes By," by , A. A. Milne; The First Fifty Tears." r Additions will be made later, depend- : ent upon recent publications. AI Woods Prepares To Desert America London, Sept. 9.- Reliable reports here Indicate that At Woods Is pre Tur ing toa bandon- his American interests and launch Into business in London. He Is already negotiating with several producers . with a view of acquiring connections here. - - Woods Is reported to have three stars with whom he will present new play a They are Peggy O'Neil, Pauline Fred erick 7 and Margaret Bannerman, the Canadian - girl -at present starring In Decameron Nights and who created a furore when she appeared nude ex cept 'for a long wig.' . -. It Is understood here that Woods has already disposed of hie Chicago . In terests to the Shuberts. EL WIN ARTIST SERIES ' SEASON 1922-23 HEAR THE WORLD'S GREATEST ARTISTS AT POPULAR" PRICES Save Over 200 by Baying Season Tickets and Assure Choice of Seats Prices Within the Reach of All MUNneiPAL AUDITORIUM Mrae. 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Monday March : 12 Monday f March 26 Order Your Season Tickets Now SEASON TICKET PRICES FLOOR .$7.00 and $5.00 BALCONY CENTER $7.00 and $5.00 ' BALCONY SIDES-..,$5XKWnd $20 Pln 1 Per Cent Government Tax MAIL ORDERS NOW BEING FILLED Owing to the remarkable list of artists off ered.'and the popular prices ef the season mail order reservations have been unusually heavy, and w .recommend those desiring tickets to send in their orders as soon aa possible In .order to assure choice of seats. ELWYN CONCERT BUREAU tickets, season 1017 Broadway Building r - Phone Main 5991 2T. B If you have not received your copy of the Elwyn Artist Series pros pectus, telephone us and one will be mailed to you. . niinonn3i Iff Ir il II SECOND WEEK I t - The thousands who have seen it are ' sending: thousands more to see it-. . WILLIAM FOX'S - f Dramatic Wonder Picture ALEXANDRE BUMS' World Renowned Novel ani Drama of the Same Name" ' "10M1E cmw Directed hy Eramett J. Flynn, -Director of "A . 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