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BE AWAKE OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES, WARNS C. Noted Producer Reviews Findings - Following His Nation-wide . Idea Contest, Which Brought Him Many New Angles of Vision Through Which to Contemplate the Vast- . . oess of the Industry He Engages In. " By Ceeir B. Be Mill "You have wore ways of teaching our children than their teachers, be ware of you1; responsibilities ! - 'In your hands has been placed the most potent factor tn modern educa tion." "Have you given a thought to the million of heartaches you will cause If you select a piece of drivel for the first prixe in this contest?" - j What a challenge to a film pro ducer's sense of responsibility From Keiy Jersey. Arizona. South Dakota. New York. Iowa they came, these pointing fingers . of the public. " I have always taken motion pictures seriously. But what yesterday was a rduty is today sacred obligation. Thirty thousand voices from all America, - from Canada, from Mexico, France. England and Australia have spoken in my recent nationwide cinema contest for an idea. They have spoken with an intense admiration lor trie cinema in some cases, tn criticism in others, but above all, with a passionate plea that we give them something, bigger, finer. They have spoken In a , manner that mould scare if it did not inspire me to handle more constructively than ever before the tremendous force that has been placed in my hands, in the hands of all men who maek motion pictures. Here are some utterances of the voice of the public: We want stories of married life but don't give -us the 'eternal triangle." Give us something that will help the people who want to keep" their homes from Midnight Show Plans Reveal Floods of Fun IF THE roof isn't raised in Portland on New Tear's eve it will not be the fault of the j Portland showmen, who are bending every energy toward the success of the midnight matinees they have planned. The after-hour shows promise, startling originality and un , j,. limited fun, with every manager com- petlng against the other and the Amer ican Legion going rapidly forward on Its own account, - '---"-, " . - -Since last week the Blue Mouse the atre has promoted plans for its own midnight show, to be held on Sunday evening. Manager Fred Teufel has pre pared for an interesting program of films and other features, with the pres entation of Mary Pickford's "Tees of the Storm Country" as the most im portant part of the show. The ' house will be especially decorated and novelty ; features will be installed. A spectacu lar effect will usher in the new year and . push the old one out exactly at the stroke of 12 o'clock. Tuefel is not revealing the details of his scheme of entertainment. He announces that there will be no added admission fee. Most of the other midnight matinees, heralded last Sunday, are now ready for presentation. For the most part these matinees in honor of the passing year and in welcome to the new w-ill be held Sunday evening, starting from 11:30 o'clock until 12. At the Orpheum 'a great deal of in terest is manifested in the midnight show by patrons eager to assure ac comodations for themselves. The mati nee will offer a repetition of the regu lar performance, with such interest ing trimmings as the players will have to offer as an encouragement to the carnival atmosphere. Pantages theatre patrons will be treated to an after-hour show consist ing for the most part of the regular vaudeville bill, but again with trim mings designed for the occasion. Man ager J. A, Johnson reports Pan patrons as eager In their interest regarding the carnival program for the evening and eea,t sales promise to be heavy. . One club bought 200 reserved seat admissions for the Hippodrome mid night show last week. All Hip seats will-be reserved and thus far sale has been unexpectedly large. Since he first announced an unusual program of ama teur and profession!! acts for the show Manager W. W. Ely has arranged for a greased, pole climbing contest among news boys and a mysterious "society" singer, who will be masked. Other fea tures will be a boxing bout, society bathing costume review, a tug of war between teams of Portland police and firemen, hula hula dancers, jaw bands and the like. "Something new and novel. is Manager Ely's aim. - There is a strong probability that the T. M. A., for many years sponsor of a midnight show, wfll get Into the swim with an elaborate program at The Au ditorium on Sunday evening. .'. Plans are now being debated etrenously. The merican Legion's- big show, with ear nival spirit supreme and a collection . of entertainment . that would be hard to beat, will hold forth In The Audi torium Saturday night and promises to draw, as it did last year, huge pat ' ronage. The Legion boys have worked hard and faithfully, as have those who (Caaclnded on Pas Tan. Cokuaa Fin) ?rr555tr5T"2!fr EM I-ooard bidHwd. 2:39 p, m., p. m." daily M ewin ITOKTt chnw Monday after-toon. m&ZZl iTtf5fil " Tem. Moow nd te KirSd 'iBAdrA ""' Corned, company, tn H.V I. Aula." tM?ryTi,irt1J . 2BT'Wkro,d "Tw 8er- Ce- l!!IJJZ? at Stark. "Ma-lee Bellaaw in -LeVfkt Doom. 11 a - to 11 o. m. MAJESTIC Wajhiaitoa at Park, Harold l.loya. in "lir. Jac " i t to n H" "'-''tlriT r PMk C" B- Port "0lar tb. Twtmker.7 11 .. nClttL fl WukiB-t. Beciaald Dtnar'ia "Toe Kotacky Derby." CmrorSaV. ,?xto,, ,rt """ 1 - e'eloti' thi B.D'MILLE being wrecked, who have no Intention of being divorced if there is any possi ble way out of it- . v W don',t want crook plays or plays thatJ deal - merely with the superficial affections of a peppermint boy and a butterscotch girl We are Interested in stories of - young people . . Insofar- as they deal with the "problem of how .to keep the family together,how to han die the matter of children of divorced parents. "We want to see the Bible on the screen for Its literary value even more than its religious. The world's great est short stories are contained within the covers of the Book. The schools do not give us the Bible, the films must. "We want historical stories, but they must have humanity, must deal with outstanding personalities. Pure spec tacle alone is not sufficient to interest us. . ' - "We like business in our photo plays, but it must be business of more importance that the mere display of filing cases and a 'closeup of a man signing a thousand dollar check." This contest disclosed that followers Of motion pictures have grown 200 per cent In the past three years and that there has been - an increase of nearly 400 per cent amongst what are called the "educated and cultured. Doctors, lawyers, ministers write in that three years ago they scoffed at the movies. Then some show caught them and since then they've been fans. But they're critical fans, they oeraana - quality. But give them qual tty and they are firm adherents. Educationad Ideas came in profu sion from young people. Their let ters indicate that educational ideas they have secured from past motion pictures has whetted their appetites lor more rrom the same basket. Children are influenced by the drama in me lives or their parents. H's really staggering, the trust the public has in a motion nictur Hi rcrr Hundreds of strong, interested moral ana etntcal problems have been sent me. problems of the woman in modern business; of the right of a wife to go to WArk rf rnunAca t ..V. . - . . v..-.. wui, l n ftCT Ul life. No attempt is made to solve mem. iney quote, lor instance, my handling of divorce questions In plays like "Why Change Your Wife" and say, "We'd 'like to see how you'd answer mis proDiem. Suggestions of published works by vac uiousanai ntvA enmm in books, ; books, that have not been screened, nave been suggested to keep (Concluded on Pace Three, Column Four) Directors in Line to Keep Films Clean TT'RANK LLOYD, who directed Jackie JL Coogan in "Oliver Twist." and who is in New York to make some prelimin ary scenes for the new Norma Tal madge picture "Within the Law." be lieves in censorship, but, and this is important to the picture industry, he believes not In political censorship but in censorship within the industry. "I believe we are all trying to make pictures better," declared Lloyd. "I am not afraid of the political censorship that has been set up In different states but I am afraid of the censorship of the men. women and children who go to see pictures. I don't want to of fend them. Directors today who have in mind the good future of pictures are censoring their pictures in the making and they- are making the jobs of the political censors pretty hard be cause they leave nothing for those cen sors to do. "The trouble has been that 'fly-by-night' picture companies have put out pictures that offend public taste but I believe the public has censored these pictures by withdrawing its patrons from picture houses that show such pictures. "If state governments want to spend money on censorship boards to catch these "fly-by-night' pictures that's all right, but it is wrong to say that the entire motion picture Industry is re- SDOnsihlA for thfi ft1r nltiiraa T fklnlr exhibitors and the public will agree with me when I say that pictures to day are bigger and better than ever; that they offer greater entertainment: that they are more educational and more instructive. "I know that exhibitors have faith in "bigger and better" pictures because Wherever vou n vnu fin. "ki-.. better picture houses not rivalling but outstripping the legitimate stage. These are the results of fith in i rit,.r. and the future is bright if we keep the (juuiopiays noi only entertaining but clean." CUPID JXVADES COMPAKT Bandon, Dec. 23. Joseph - Porter Baird and llarramt I the Macy-Baird Comedy company, who are playing at the Dreamland, were married . here last Tuesday afternoon at me rume or wev. JS. E. McVicker. A MERRY" M VIITZI, charming "prima donna comedienne, 'who iViwearmg;a'-re robe that attired the; Countes of rl- Pardova-' 'The material for this' colorful, creatioa is of antiaue French stold and bronze brocade. The Paradova rope of pearls hangs around Mitzi neck, reaching to . her knees;' where; they - are' pendant with emeralds v Withal a seemly Christ mas vision; what? She'. looks, it Has been said, like Van Dyjck'had created her in his youth when he was full of energynd loved, life, and color, with which he expressed hismasterful imagination.! , Mitzi wears the gay gown in the closing scene of the first act of ?Lady Billy ' - : - x - V - -',-": . , '; ; ,; ; - i i . i . - i 3 i I Ik".- qfr- - Chicago Opera Weeds OutAll Obese Persons CHICAGO, Iec 23 ElderTy ; ladies and members of u-hat . used 7to ' be known on-' burlesque circuits , as. the "beef Jtrust" have been relegated t the fireside by the Chios eo Opera company. which, as a result of this iconoclastic moe, now boasts a chorus, rivaled in youth and beauty only musical, come dies. ' ..-.- r- - "No other OIra . mtnnanv In () world has jt choma composed of so' many pretty th-la. boast. Maestro Bernabini, chorus master. ""Y:-' 1 t Geor-fe Polacco, musiesr "director, is also croud that" Crhtaasroaiui.; mxvt longer suspect the opera, chorus Is 'se lected with especial care to' old age and wight. ' . ,.-..! .4 fa. "Chicafro la .now- the musical center of the world. reaMiarliaw-x"'r. girls come' here from; all, arts of the country to stuay. Jsaturally.they re anxious for operatic work, and there fore we have -th rrnm nf.ihi iinr. Ins world from which; t choose. - ; ab vuuaii oi.me company.-wno ad mitted that the policy-ftf -"weedlnK oat: the Jtraadmatherai aniffw fartu been followed, begged that his name be withheld.. wv i , . PORTLAND, r OREGON, -SUNDAY MORNINGS DECEMBER' CHRISTMAS1 WITH v -., By Earl C.BrowleeV "THE combined: realms of drama and J.,mu9ic- area;a)n to be delightfully invaded, according to promise,. and be ginning . next Sunday lafternoon.. by the , American Light Opera oompany. Jhese popular, and splendidly accom rlished. fingers- are - returning to Port-7 land for. eight nights and five .matinees and , ae bringing. Ia. response to' an overwhelming ; public deinandv "Robin Hood.-f which they elrg ;lth tespecUi charm. The 1 success . these singers achieved in the, Novemoer j engage meot. Is, assurance enough of a warm reception awaiting themj. Again : light opera will, be .presented at pular: prices.: which means J much to klovers of the drama and. of music when the names of Theo t Pennington. r-TaUla Ayersv Ed Andrews. Car! '. Bundachu. Marry PHei--and other principals are Rentioned,v- to-. say - nothing , of . the chorua, of 35 and the' large " orchestra.' Advance '.seat sale will open at the Sherman; & Clay- etOre. Wednesday morn tog. 'Mail orders, are now -beiatr rtceivetl. ".The repertoire tor the , en-- "Robin. -Hood"; ' Sunday.? night, - ? Mae Cfctte ; :Monday matinee. ' 'Pinafore'; Mcndayevening. -Mikado? Tuesday evening,, -Bohemian-Girl" r- WedneadevH man nee, iiaicow , weanesaay- ev- , i- i3- r ' ss - - ' - . I- -v mmmmm aw .W Jv ' s-SaaaWataSamaa n zr, :r- 'a i .J' 'tJ ;-.t.,,. , , . , I aaaV i- aafk - " - i j. aaaaak- aaaw . - i "e.a J ,f Ut T - t ,. - - - s News Xo&SHoWShops jLightQp FRILLS OF - GOLD. BROCADE iera.TfoudeReturns I f ' - ST"' ' . Ti I V . nihgf, "Chirnfs of Normandy": Thurs day evening. - "Robin Hood" ; Friday evening, "SliSado"-; Saturday evening "Pinafore ; ; Sunday ? evening "Robin -Hood." . ' - ( "Singed Wings,? ::an .unusually elab orate vehicle'. starfin-Bb&-rJajitri.L has been booked by .-Manager Concha,- ror snowing at the ieople theatre fol aowirig. the aeurrent attractionv The pic ture is said to bo based upon-an, in tensely appealing human interest story, which 'will hold special charms- for the womeafolk.i - r ; : iJttle Paul . Noble rIJr5 ' son.rof the manager of the "Liberty , theatre, -1 isto Ixs a proud and haughty young-ester on Christmas 'morning. - Papa Noble and Mrs.T Noble got their heads together and, decided upon . a whale of a . pres ent in the form of a? miniature auto mobile coup, with all the. fixings of .a real?, automobile." ' vThe little car 'in cludes electric lights, upholstered'" interior- regular steering wheel, pneu matic tires and-alt such.'- - . " - .Entries, in the $1000 song contest. to be , held soon -after,- the ' first of the newi-year; at- the .Blue Mouse - theatre have, deluged Manager ? F red 'Taufel iCoocluded ' oa - Ptw" Tvo.' Column' SlxJ 24,' .1922. 01V Is Valentino To See Finish In New Rival UT7ALENTINO'' Is the subject of V the chief topic of the. day in alt filmland, and tthe -arrival fin ; Los An geles of Charles De Roche, the hand sorne young French actor, whom Jesse L." Xasky- has imported from; Paris to take Rodolph'e- place ; in Paramount' stellar constellation. has tended to In tensify the interest being taken in the matter. V - , ' - The . great question involved in all the -discussion Is : "Does this mean the -finish of Valentino ; as a eereen star?" ;s It -is understood that his con tract is euch as-tor prevent him from playing for anyone elae excepting para mount, and now this .'company 'will have no- further , use for him with De Roche- on.: the job. Another very interesting angle -. to the situation - ia the , avidity with . which - various pro ducers' are now searching for Valentino-like stars,- -i . , t r-sOrlando Cortex, proclaimed by -many as the" moat t perfect double of , the Italian star;, has been pushed forward in the limelight as a bright possibility for - succession ; to . the cinema throne Valentino has Just" vacated. Cortex is 6X Spanish -descent, and la 'the eame type, of ' romantic actor as ia Kodolph. JOE WAS 'FETCHED9 UPINNEWARKjNOW HE IS GRAFT CURE Used to Dreanr . of Gold in Faraway Hil!sr but Seems to Have , ; Found It in Generous Quanti ties on Broadway Where, It Appears, He Is About to Dominate the Industry of " A . Scalping in, Metropolitan Theatre Tickets. - By Westbrook Pe-fler - " ' toiled Nwa.ttaf Corramondent -New Yorkt lec 23. Joe Leblanc was born on Broadway 46 years ag-o. and was fetched up to. think of . Newark, N. J., if he ever should think of New ark, as some place way west, where the wild fandanft stalks Its prey and men leave their whitened bones upon the desert. ' '. Joe's folks got across the idea to him that there might be gold In those far country hills, but , if so it would all come to Broadway In his time. - All he had to do was to stay on Ilia own street and take it as it came. Joe !blano is a Broadway boy who has Just popped op from nowhere. He stands a chance of winning an absolute monopoly on the theatre ticket: agency business for all of New York's theatres, and a royalty of one dime on ' every admission sold from his racks. . . .. ' It was'ttis idea which 'the producing managers' association adopted to elimi nate the speculator, who. In the Broad way gibberish "gifts it moider" in the matter of graft." nd the many legiti mate agencies which charge 60 cents above the 'face valne of a ticket - Joe leblanc proposed that they give him l he central agency - for all the shows on the same plan that the- government nsed in combining the railroad ticket offices. They adopted his plan, but Joe stNl has a fight before him to win the agency for himself, i " All this called attention to Joe and 10 years has made him not only a rich man. but a friend of the playgoer and his cut-rate agency, which in less than a potent medicine man for productions on the verge of flopping. Lebianc observed that the box office had absolutely estranged the .wage earning resident New Yorkers by sell ing off the first 15 row for weeks in advance to the speculators, a practice which still ' obtains, denials to the con trary notwithstanding. He got ' the privilege of Taking all left-over tickets an hour or so before the curtain, and selling them for half price, plus 10 cents. As half price was better than a dead loss the producers were very much obliged to trade at Joe's, place. . Lebi&nc then circularized Brooklyn, Harlem, Fordham and the - Bronx, reaching thousands of people, who had long ago given 4ip the theatre, because the transients and the - ready-money New .Yorkcra could outbuy them. He offered a membership plan; they paid him a dollar and received a card en titling them to buy tickets at . half price as often as they desired, over a period of months, without paying the 0 cents "loyalty- Some- people ay he Language of Wolf Is Real' ; Trimble Says THE language of the wolf to the av erage person Is a series of ugly growls, staccato barks or long and blood curdling howls and wails that strike terror to the heart. But those well versed on animal lore claims it is a regular language. - : j ' One of the strongest advocates of this'- theory ia Laurence Trimble. the. director.; who . used a whole pack of wolves in his ."Brawn of the North." In which Strongheaft, the wonder dog of the films, starred. . : Says Trimble : -"'.-. "When ' one remembers that : man through -civilization has advanced thousands of years beyond the wjjlf, we must be reminded that ours is a language built especially for our needs. The wolfs language was probably old when the cave man began to make himself understood in deep gutturals. "I have studied the wolf fighting and at play and have tried to interpret the meaning of the' various sounds which he makes and the significance of every move and gesture. - In the wolfs eye alone there is a range of expression as great aa that in the eye of human beings," Bald Movie Hero? Gadzooks Imagine Mary Minus Curls Imagine Mary Pickford without fcer curli, or Chaplin without his trick mus tache. Up White Plaira way thero lives a popular screen star whoa.? one time glory, like woman's crowning one, lay In bisa wonderfully jabunBant crop of hair. lIke Simson'a, it ': raa' lhi- strergtK, his "pull" with a orId of movl "fans." - - The glory is depaftted. Hermit-like, the star lives In the secluaion of the Westciietter countryside. Strange phe nomenon, ah actor -avoiding publicity! i- The ted truth is thic War of the sil ver sheet has lost-hia hair. f He is worth may thousaflSs of dol lars in his own right, know his Holly wood, has a summer home ia the Cali fornia mountains, yet Js virtually-; a reclnae In : the ? Bast, f With ail his wealth, the' hair ..specialists can do no more for him than for Ror-Jctfellcr.""; i Like Doug find Mary, he went Kaet to sea Nevi York and rr ate a new pic ture. Before ' he :-: could, get eveu- a glimpse of Manhattan's tights, pleasure and business had to be abandoned for involuntary seclusion. ' Sometimes even a movie star's path I not t: e rosy road It i aald tc be. , . , , -Imagine bald nwv! hero J .. - True, he is only a do-j.' Unlike most stars be cannot talk. - Sao t'tronghearfa story . was perforce gathered : from grow la, tliake. sisns anI m'.'nd reading. - "I hate to whine. tut ian't IhU. the toughest luck T growld Strongheart. as,- shaking aside what looked like a , moulted old dressing-- gown, he Indi cated the thin hair and bald patches; cot 100,000 members and $100,000 Just. bang ! like that. . .t -... - At first you couldn't buy sents more . thaa an hour in advance at Joe's place. But orettv soon the owners of flonninat plays, desperate to "make a run" on Broadway tor the ' good It would do them "on .'.the road." .were : ooming' to Joe Leblane for help.' fThey wanted to dump their tickets Into his racks for weeks in advance to' be cold ' at half price, v It is a common practice now. Dumping at Joe's du has saved the life of many a show which then went on tour and mopped upg on the strength! of that magic phrase "sixteen weeks on Broadway."- i;.-- M: Whether or not Leblano gets the con solidated agency, he is one man of tbo mllllnni rtn TtrAftitvavthat Rrfi Af w A V can't get along without, . , : : , ' '. He ia the friend of tne ordinary guyy handing over two tickets for the price of one to people who jcah't afford the drama at box office for. speculators prices.- Eliminate. , Joe leblano's cvt. rate dump and you divorce again those hundreds of thousand of people who turned away from the! boxoffice yctars atro. sore and susplcioaa,' .. . ,: A couple of years ' ago the lessee of the store wherein Joe had his dump told Joe he'd have to rt out, Joe said all right he'd see about it. A few days later he came back and said he guessed he'd stay right where he was .. "You can get out, tf you want to," Joe said, 'but I'm stlcfeing. "I've just bought the , building." (. Christmas Has Pleasant Tone For Show Folk AROUND the Christmas tree in the "front room" at home very few folk will give a thought to the lot of the vaudeville artist who is many miles rrom bis own fireside and. under ordinary circumstances might expect to enjoy anything but a happy holiday. So it behooves someone else to think of i these ' traveling entertainers, " who devote . themselves to the business of amusing the public aa an expected part of the Christmas festivities. lt? not that sway jour. sympathies, however, for, insofar as the actors vis. iting Portland during Chrirtrnas week are concerned, they are to have all the delights that U'ndly consideration and money can provide. . . . Manager Frank J.l McGettigan has arranged delightful Christmas night party of Orpheum players who will be at the Portland house over the holi day. A bountiful feast of turkey and trimmings will be spread at the Hotel Portland and following - the midnight repast, for the. partyl must follow the regular evening performance; the guests will enjoy a dancing party.. All visiting artists as well as the theatre staff, together with wives and sweet hearts, or husbands i and Sweethearts, as the case ' may be.'will make merry in one big company The feast will be presented on one great, long table piled high with all that goes to make a Christmas dinner complete. If any program 'is arranged aside from the dancing, it will be a' strictly informal affair. , ; For Hippodrome J artists and the, house staff Manager W. W. Ely has made similar plans. The Hippodrome family will gather at . the Portland following the- Monday evening show, to - feast and- make; merry.. Again mounds of turkeywill greet the partic- " 1 pants who will' be. grouped around a big Christmas tree set up as a table adornment. It ia probable, too, that . dancing will be a feature of the pro gram for the Hippodrome partj. . Pantages performers get their, due in connection with the New? Year's holiday. Manager J. A. Johnson is . preparing for a big dinner party on the stag to follow the midnight mat inee which the visitlnr; actors will pre sent on Sunday night next week. which everywhere marred tils once re rplendent coat. i - ' We otrreed that I certainly was. It oidn't take a Will liays or a New Jer sey ietectlve to seel that. ) "I came to see your New York A'.ghht, and tncideiitally to' etart a new pic ture and before I'd time, to take In a single world series game - "Or evea the V.'oolt orth " we tnter roptetL The word came like lighted match to gxaollne - tank. .'- , . ; , ; 'Wool, f ur, hair, call it what you like; it's literally worth everything to me." yapped Strongheart. . Unintentionally we had touched his ore spot. ' - .--. ';-.- t-"Speaklng of sight-.. I ever I'm seen ' looking the sight J avi n-v, my picture career's r.m dead as" the dodo, It' 'ill your New York climate," he growled re gretfully. "Y ur hot. hmvid weather did it I'm -uard to te mountaln-i ar.rl the cold, - Forty below when we filmcl The Fliiint Cakl. and crler still whin we autde 'Brawn of the North' " -v ."And the remedy?" ; ' , -. ""Watchful waiting or back ; to the " Rockies, ; But I 'must see Now York, and besides, there's tne , picture to make. They tell to you do have colder weather later. J l'lr-rvait for it.; then the hair will co:no back. Meantime, it' diet exercise and ' ruefully) seclu sion for mine and no Broadway. Tough, laii't Itr.. ; t f Again wei -agreed that It was. ," ' ;; Ftrongheart han "-.hed." r ';; :.. He must whine away the. time to the Great Cold, devouring 'the while, per chance. "TC Winter Cornea." ; e jL "'A--'-
