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:zzo:: cu:;dav jcltjiau- rc:rrL and, Sunday norNiNG, dug Laemnile Takes A Rap at!Plan I Director Sees OB COSGRIFF RcxTWiUiajmr miner. ukJ Edward Taylor a$ Let Gee in a scene from 4tOut of the Depths, Little Worth a toiy-scenk: of Oregon's mining industry just completed by tm frp 5?hii4in Trw- rf Portland for nation-wide showinar. III RllleS 1 1 The Portland company is entering a year bright with promise. Of First Run W ft.1.;,-.'.; V J : v -SW BW I . .- , ;s 3 ,s -u. mm V rncroa achebizinOEB. -wbo aas V directed many of Katharine Mac-j Avnald'a moat successrui mm na i tlonai pictures,' tavern the scrapplng- of an fixed rules of direction. - The oorapoeerdlrector. wao is aoonx to begin work e "Refuse" probably the stoat : remarkable, atorjr tn which the beautiful atar ever has been seen, is convinced that every picture, is I lew unto itself. I "dnm Afreetor eav tfiat we ahonld abolish close-ups. others that we should tmrau their number." Be expiamea. tVia ni-Anortlon the storT requires them. The trick, of course, wmt thla nmTMMrttloii. Tii ij rumiii a or sajss jucuvnuu pictures,- tor Instance, I happen to be wprldnr wlft tar who is declared fn ha Most.. Mtutirai woman Amftrlea. . Wouldn't it be little short of. 'criminal to throw such beauty .way by attemjrunr to wu my twu ww soots that leave much to the, imagina tion T Some stories aemana ew cjose j upo and practically all medium and kmc shots. Naturally, tno puouc isu greatly Interested -which , wo as xne ntn, la entertaining: and beautiful. Consequently. tts successful 1 director, ! nun wno mixes nis uiKrvaieuw to suit each situation j nu9i portant parts are portrayed 7 James Barrow, Warner Oland and ? Joseph powlln. . . h i miaCLXi Tho west Is paaslnr or has J: passed. There Js no question s.bout that. ; A- reiauvo quesnon, huwhicj, ft' Is, f with tho completion ox -uui oi po "What Is the scroan roing- to do about I Depths,, tho two-reel mining feature ttrr ' The TJnlTorsal picture in wmcn xi ward CHoot) Gibson will be seen at the circle -tneaire r . ' - t , I A tl.n T, l may oe xasen aa wi ; - nU41nT WUd.";.." ,;J v I - 'C , Glhson hiii leoii iioted chiefly as a tar of Western Action dramas. Tho effete Bast na riot Invaded his pior tures; vPCU SV."ii v '; i 'Now eotnes rRKUa' Wild." which Is laid In the West and I a Western picture. . yrom what Is fcnown of the story, which was written oy Boy. Myert a.hd directed by Kat Boos, 4 x-v 3f" 1 A - 4 KS' -r- - -rv . tVL- Lea 9 a&uSLm w ry w- - s-ibw attce c b-iiassrti v A I -.: !- " World war veteran against crushing Interests lu his native state, the fight centering around the possession ox the tainlly ranch which be linos ori hU return from overseas service, has all but fallen into the bands -of the enemy. f fa V trier thii atnrv filchlv dramatic is the fact that the father f the gtt whom the young man loves beads the opposing Interests. , ; .y. ' '..A,; There is also a gTeat problem tor the girl of deciding where she ousht to stand in -the fight between her father and her sweetheart. She loves both, and her novel way of meeting; the situation is thrilling. The nicture has an all-star cast and has been well produced by Frank Bor sage, who- directed "Humbresque." Forrest ' Stanley and Marjorio Daw have the featured roles, and other, lm filmed recently In tho mining district neat Canyonville,-Or the IClser Stu dios, Inc. of Portland have rounded but S. year of notable activity. The local 'picture makers have ' two art film features of tho Oregon Trail se ries now playing in the leading pic ture houses of the country, two others are shortly to be reeled, and these In turn wui be followed by other- re leases averaging one a month. All re leases are through Paths exchanges. , "On the whole wo are satisfied with ths year's work." said Fred H. Klser. 7 m nr. V.n-A - ,V v'- ' '1 ?' Ir y i' i J ll-A-: i V r-HA A-owc 9 The. Photo Plays RIVOL1 EJllnor Glyn's dramatic story of a film actress life is "Th World's a Stage. which is the New Tear's week screen feature at the ' Bivoli 'theatre. ' Ths World's a Stage gives an in sight Into a screen actress character. Jo Bishop, star of a cheap theatrical troupe with a repertoire of Shake spearian plays, little dreamed that when the company stranded in a little Western town that; she' would eventu ally find herself on the screen. But a .famous director and his friend, a , wealthy miner, noticed her perform ance as' Juliet,- and reauzlns; that the .silent drama needed new faces tho di rector offered her an engagement. ; From this point the story builds with ' interest. , The drama comes stalking across the life of Jo Bishop. She tell tn iove at first sight with a young . wastrel and married him. And though : she continued to register tho various emotions before the camera her Ulu - slons were shattered. Her home life was a biggsr drama than tho one. she ' Interpreted on the set of the studio. Thio Interesting feature will bo one ot tho chief offerings ia a fine pro gram tor the Now Tear's eve. midnight matinee, at tne juvou tonight. Ext added attractions have - been booked and a. carnival of fun Is promised . Bl- voli patrons. , ' . TEOPLES Another splendid cast has XT been --:' assembled i for "Singed Wings," Fenrhyn tanlaws new Para mount ' production in which , Bebs Danleis and Conrad Nagel are fea tured, and which is showing this week at the Peoples theatre. v Miss Daniels has the role of Bonita della Guerda, a, beautiful Spanish eafe dancer, while Nagel plays .the , laadlnfe , masculine part, that of Peter Gordon. ' Nagel if regarded as one of the screen's best young actors acd his ro';e--ii "Singed Wines' gtves him , ample .opportunity to display his talent .to the best ad " vantage. '.i ' ' ; - The heavy role is playedby JLdolphe lleajou, one of the best , players ot ballroom and' polished villain roles. Don Jose della Guerda, grandfather of Bonita. is played : by Robert Brower. An old man. hardly; able to walk with the aid of 'his cane and teased to ex asperation by Emllio, a simple minded clown. Brower has created a character of great strength," Ernest Torrence has ths part ot Emllio, one ot the strongest character isations in the picture. Emllio is a clown in the cafe at which Bonita dances. Ho is simple minded but cun ning nevertheless. - He . loves Bonita, who treats him . kindly and thereby provokes a' tragedy. The remaining role., that of Eve Gordon, tho neglected wife of Bliss Gordon, is played by Mabel TruuuelleV Finding herself los- mg we. iove ot ner nusnaaa, sne laces oeatn, ana u uuea, in an extort to regain that love. . ' i . pen in '"Ridln WUd tnlght. sans guns and chaos, happen In any Middle Western or Eastem yiUags. ; uiDson ig a pno-omo wocm vju"- pion COwboy, established as tnat in Pendleton several years "so- : " also a .registered A. A. A. auiomoDiie racing driver with a beary percentage of winnings to his credit ' These 1 acconpH3hbaentf and his clean-cut boyish personauty on tne screen seem to demand that be be put into stories that feature action. Jtui by seeing "RldW Wild"" ons' may see how Universal has Kept, nun in pwne? of the ;West and' yet not typical Western stories". . ; " , . The Carole will present a big- mid night matinee program, tonight. , , T"4.JESTIC -All announcements apd 1YX all expectations to the Contrary notwithstanding, the ittajestie tneaire has' been, compelled to hold over tot another week the slith consecutive week Harold Lloyd's , great comedy "Dr. Jack. Thereby does the Majes tic cement Its Claim o, a record-breaking run in Oresoh, and probably in the Northwest, k Seldom, - if sver. outsl4 ot, Lo Angeles, has a ; picture been good enough to run into such a season, and the previous. record here Was four weeks for Jlarold Lloyd's "Grandma's Boy, which showed ak the Hellig theatre, and was taken oft la ths face of continued blg-'busloess. Uoyd nver Bdade' a "better comedy than Dr. Jak. and Portland audiences have warmed o it. Patronage in the fifth wee of the run ?et new house records on Its own account and indications, are that Hbe sixth week win be equally success ful. The management naa announcea that the fifth week ' would pof itlveiy be the. last, but requests from fnany sources mads it necessary at the elev enth bout to hold the attraction over. have encountered tho. many heart' breaking, difficulties that are , always attendant upon the making of moYlng pictures; but we now enjoy, ths satis faction of bavins; surmounted most of these Obstacles, and having onquerea tho major, part of the difficulties. "Our program is chock full for 1983. Wo are looking forward keenly to the work wo have mapped out v Wo working on tho interiors of rThe Waltsing Mouse, a ColUer'a- Weekly story, written . by ; Herman Howard Matteson. our editor-in-chief, which ne has adapted to screen uses for ua. We are also staruna work on tne interiors of . The Story Basker ana .. crows Nest two original screen, stories writ ten for us by . Matteson. It is not imnrobabls wo shall soon start on ths inuriors of The Trap, a five-reel fea ture which, ws 'shall complete . next summer, and which is an adaptation of Matteoon's story published as a se rial in Sunset . Magastno and recently Issued in book form. .. . Ws are gradually adding to our staff. Whenever we can find tho tal ent that wo need, we are adding new blood and. fresh enthusiasm. Also we are making important additions to our material equipment both in the way of new cameras, electrical apparatus IN A . REMARKABT.W statement which attacks ono of tho oorner- . stones oa which moving- picturo dis trtoution is built up. Can lemml, president of ths Universal Pictures cerporatton. : fearleasly4 declare most - first runs are par bunk. "First runs, in tho parlance of the trade, are show- ; ings of pictures in the mora Important . theatres, one la each territory, which enable the extiihitor to say that ho has a picture never before shown on any stage. The gradations of showing follow this, first run. the rentals de pending en the length ot time the pic ture has been on the market "In the great majority of eases aow- dayw. the quality of - a picture . has precious little to do with the ease. If a company produces a picture and the same company owns or controls thea tres, it is going to run that picture in those theatres for the sake of the im pression It. will make upon"ytt t ; - There was a time, when first ran houses were really owned by individ uals, that the first run houses meant something-. In those days, if the man who owned the theatre and made his living- out of It picked oat a picture to exhibit It was a safe bet tor than to follow bis lead and book the) same picture. ' . " . - Theifre, X am spearmg as aw ex hibitor as wall as a producer when X say that In all except a mighty few -instances first runs are bunk. .They are the greatest menace to the business ' and they are a double menace to ex hibitors, because they not only com pote with exhibitors but they mislead them into booking pictures that they should not book. and,properties. Bocently, while fOm- tng Out of the-Depths at Canyoa- . vtlle, we purchased the old stage coach that ran- into, the "Southern Oregon . mining town 40 years ago. "As a last word,' saw Kiser. -our pictures are going splendidly. "The Price of Progress, our last release, an.. Oregon timber picture, is bow. playing . its eighth consecutive week at tne Mission theatre in Los Angeles. The same picture is in its fourth week in San Francisco. Several Jiastern pic ture houses have run it from two to six weeks. We are receiving all sorts of praise from critics and exhibitors alike, and feel tremendously encour- . aged. We have solved for ail tune in question - aa to whether superior. . dls tinctlve films may be mad in Ore gon." ' W:-.-- V- SECOND WEEK NOW SO WONDERFUL IT; DEFIES COMPARISON SO FLAWLESS IT BEGGARS DESCRIPTION Ask any of (he thousands wno hay seen it Wt feel ' this Photoplay is worth this message to you to your . ... family and your -friends It Beckons You With It$ Deeply Human tory and Its Matchless Art laugh every time he appears on the screen. Manager Paul Noble has' arranged one of . the most interesting ox au midnight matinee bills for the Liberty. The elaborate program win do present ed tonight as well as Monday night following the regular idneriy snow, and will be in no sense a screen pro gram. " j .. -k TLUE MOUSE Mary Plckford in ner Is Mn.a-.n th, stnrm Countrv." whioh hae been drawlnz unusual at- tendance to the Blue Mouse theatre, is now entered upon the second week of It Ideal run with every indication of its drawtaar nower increasing. There Is little doubt as to the wisdom and good Judgment of Miss Plckford in se- lectma , this trrompn ox ; me !. worthy material for the making- of ftlt nvnlw mm. . She has written an important crapter into screen history in the manner in which she has produced this picture for econd time in ner btuuto t if it la true she' essayea tnis re- with the idea of creating' a classic which would Uvs in posterity, tnere every indication Sh has insurea -jmw-mi aitjMinate auccess in the ambition. It is predicted by many enua tvu iei model of Tesa of the Storm Country" ia'lgolng: to be a popular at traction for many years no f generations are sure to cherish tne .mAv nt this ereat artist through Km etrTtnv histrionic work in. this one production, say its maaera. , u.nairar wred Teufel has ready prograra of great Interest for. the mid night matinee at. tne wu mew w mtrr, -featnrea.H Wlll- vie for interest with aoveitlee and spectacle of ferings, with a carnival tone, i "Tess of the Storm Country-s win be shown in its entirety at the arar-nour snow. LIBERTY The Utest big legitimate 1 stage Buccese to be adopted by the films is -The Hottentot" Willie Col lier's successful comedy that rooked the entire country for two years. This feature la showing at the Liberty tneatre. -f : - In the selection of a cast the same care was used to avoid disappointing a public already sold on the merits of the stage play. No bettor successor could have been found for - William Collier, who created the role of Sam Harrington in the original play than iLWugias aiacueaa. v. MacJean's com edy la finished J his love-making ro mantic ; aad when he finally rises to the occasion, overcomes his fear and rides in the frantic' steeplechase he carries the sympathy of everyone-with him. Madge Bellamy, fired by the work ot Frances Careoa,- whs played oppo site Cottier aa -Peggy "Fairfax,- pre sents one of the best characteriza- ttoas of her oareer in "The Hotten tot." She plays the part with an aban don and vivacity that would inspire anyone to deeds more darlag than rding the fiery 'brute which: Sam conquers, s . ; -"5 . - " - As Swift the eccentric butler of the starv. - oririoallv - nlaved br nomld UMkl. - Rlvmnnll H,ltnn mit-a iurl Tho le&dine r roleS some of the dmrut moudr of htxlUariorie Daw and Forrest Stanley. versatUe career and is good tr al The story taUs of the atrufs'e of a -nT.TTMBIA A virile story of Csli I . fornia. with a powerful theme, is -The Pride of palomar." a Cosmopoli tan Moduction from Peter B. Kyne's. noted novel of the same name, which is the attraction at the Columbia theatre. portray ea ny p,i .. - 11 .-. . ..,....;.-, ...,. - .. - II big : :. ; - ' . ' - " ; double bill - iewYear's Ji p - - TODAY ,' YiHJ 363 - AND J Days TOMORROW jf Before COME! & p, LYou Midnight Matinee I Will ' as Usual . S ' II 5?e ii x t nnv li i II FREE NOISE MAKERS l-ir II I Mary I . II oTr?nTirTVT.MI a.s- I II NoAdoanctmAdmuiuml, jlP.IVim. JIM All-'""" 'I I 'N M " III 1 jI U J ill V- J ll I 17 11 . . I H i fftt fVIUs-l -v 1111 1 ill y-n jyyiihiJ n I : III VJTT VI K r I J - LL Jin k I'vsLi v niVV ; ll , iadeaeetty Owed -'-a1 laeUseadeatty Opesnted 7 r ; j I j ' Ij II L .. J t-- k I .11 MINI -II I OFEXS AT ; v F - a aw TV CTA,KS AT I ' 111 - III! I I o'clock-T. nrnrv r 4 o'clock :i - I .7 I IN THE , U J J Jf, " FOLLOWINGl 1 I i . f lui-p; HI r u ll - A Chaperoa t'saer 'sasaS Always la Atteadaaee l I ! 1 II - - - " . Ill Li f f - " 1 PIGKFORD MARY. . with the sunny curls and tawdry tatters, the roguish smile, quaint impudence and splendid faith of the inimitable Tesa. " ; ; "TESS OF THE .- - - - - : STORM COUNTRY 99 It is m picture that fascinates by its simplicity, capthrates bj its beauty, enthralls by its countless marvels, a picture so gripping: that it hurts, so superb that it awes, so marvelous that it leaves one breathless. NOTE:-. By special arrancetaent with Mary Pickford CherselO we are ahowint this picture at our regular evening- prices. EVERT DAT AND ALL DAT ALL DAT ADULTS 50c CHILDREN 20c Shows 1 at : 11 A. M. 1 3 5 7 9 P. M. SMiai 1 OH aesWiarwtf sa3DljXt't? fla Tlirfsi . - 1 ..:. MIDNIGHT MATINEE TONIGHT Just a Bit Better Jiist a Bit Different Starts at 11:20 Pe M. Same Old Admission