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tjii ,.ikiftfeife-tei.- keV-v 1 1 " . TIIR OBEGGIfc STATESMAN,. SALEM.OREGQM - . . SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 27, JD23 I M ' 1 I. Hofltg-Jafkte Coogan in "Old .Tt'otm;V . I r" ' ; V ItfiglhlliphodTOme" vaudeville add pictures. '. w Oregon "A Kisa ifor Clntfer- Ha," by James M. Barry. starring .Betty Bronson. .V. mmmw vp'fver wen.t off Into. u ejaptr bar rel llghttr Wei t oat-a- pa'it filled With lotise f r'Sniicesciat'tered' to? the floor Max'i. head was enrel-; oped In a blanket and, a wind ma chine ble adfno im6nf"et. ! Up jumped be 'erstwhife' slum bering theptan and with a wild shriek for help dashed off the set. The; boys at. the,studio:.ar tar ing their money at long odd that Max will ileept" bo more on thj Coogan set i - Besides Jackie and Mai David son the rant of OId CTollies" in cludes Lillian Elliott. Joan Craw ford , Alan "Forrest. James Mason end Stanton Hee. , TTv story a '"The new national president ot tV AnieriPan Legion Auxiliary. Mrs. 'Eliza London Shepherd, was formerly a lawyer by profession and is now a ranch manager. She h the Mister f the hrt bPlorert author Jack London, and for 20 tyears has managed his raarh in ii k i r " r AJLi is ua fiantoa neeK. Try story wraa especially for- Jackie by ' Salerri Engament Breathing the Christmas air of- fairyland - and HpreadingC a yuleftlde message of faithand Us reward. "A Kiss for Cinderella," with -Betty Bronson to the title role, opens Its J&Iam engagement aC the Oregon iheaterthla after noon. ; ' V jfftr the children; of I course, there lis a' particular appeal to this sereen portrayal oi the - famous fanciful romance 'of thV legendary Cinderella, tut J.'lll. iBarfie In his picture interpretation of the fa mous myth .haa.alka dressed ;1t. in a garment of interest wliich calls strongly to the imagination of the grownups. All of the charm that ha endeared the tale to childhood of all generations is retained.. and that has been added a humorous twist 'that carries the audience into gales of laughter. v In the elaborate attention which was paid to detail in the filming of the production the producers -hare scored Achievement that will not "seen be forgotten, JKafr .there iss ah elaborate side to the' picture f that gives it rank among tfte films I classed as masterpieces - -if rthe k screen. The technical .iccoplish r. jnents incident to staging . some of the. Bettings are nothlnfc short of wonderful, and will rlie tiilly appreciated by those wnS )stndy 'pRjrures for this sort "of jthin. Supplying the glass stfnDers worn Jr.Mlss ; Bronson feal gCass wasi .a :-task that i'oull . hare Htuipped f any producer, conslder- mg-nnattney had" to be actually wtiniAnd, therefore, : hadf'to be substantiar as. well as dainty.. JnMiss v"Bronson was picked - to play-Cinderella chiefly becmise' of herremarkal)le success in por traying "Peter Pan" ta the ; mov ing; JietuVe patron.a; yearago. Supporting her in tie principal ,roles -are Tom Jttooro" and EstheT Kalslon. Oie famous nlaywricht, Wiliarrt MHk who fonceived Jackie's pre- vlons vehicle "The Rag Man." Jack Coogan, Sr., super vised the iUininr of the . production -aud FranJf B. Good ; officiated at the cameras WMi the ;iWbinen ni n m fmirmihii- ULU ILU nits rav iiltiitie Will Impound a Lake 100 Miles Long to Get Power "KASAS CITY, iIo.-.The thud of axes and fhe crash of O,0e trees on the banks of the Osage river near - BagnelL sMo., will herald fhe .dnsttf tfenonof . a ,dam" that will impound a lake more than 100 miles long and have 970 miles of shore ine. Through the sluices will rush the tawny waters of the Osage river to turn five turbines each generating- 25,000 horsepower of electricity, to vitalize factories. light towns and speed transporta tion in Missouri. The lake to be created'wilUiajre 1,880.000 acre-feet of scora-ge capacity, much more than the Elephant Butte reservoir. The turbines will produce almost as much primary power - as does Muscle Shoals. The Missouri Hydro Eleetric company, which willliuikl the dam also has purchased land for . the erection of two other power plants about 100 miles sonth on -the Cur rent river. These,, its offivers sat will produce 5S.000 horsepower.. Linked with the Osage river plant. 183,000 horsepower will be pro duced, if the projects are complet ed for transmission through Mi- soiiri. , , : , . ' Linn Creek, an old' Missouri town with an almost unchanging population of ab'out 500 persons. win be inundated fn the Osage reservoir. The -power . company expects to- build -a nrvf town for Linn ; "Greek's- people oaa nearby; hilL v ' $iJV":&Jh . ' The power.. plant indjtitoB wrUl be-built largely of local, materials., j Alargeeifts;oMMJ wfl-k used ht the concrete - with Mime- toccing- will le -use The dim jfrjll rest upoitmestoite'-wftfcn'ha been "drilled Z.4 . -feet' ' without pcr&ctration'. s. Jackie Coogan, Star; Dis Covers Way4o Keep-Actor From Sleeping t ;v . ..Max Davidson may not suffer frittinsjomnia, but heteaftef hTll . ' ' '.' . . . ... ' ' V,eareiui anoui iaumg asieepon J Jakle'Cqogan's- set f the Metro- fffx,U:who appears' in Xdckie'a n; fHnl. "Old Clothes,,, has tittWfjjf falling asleup on the fiet. Dlf Coogan,- and" director ddle Clin Jeel that" an- actor ca hot glve hin best ' work after vbing asoused from a slumber no mat- trVjfow light4 ' J " . During the filming of "Old Clpthes," now playingr at ihe: Jlej ;li.thiBatrp:.,came-tlie blow-off Tho actors were .told Cto-.take "-- thefr rUcefc, ;bul iTax "failed lo put'.in 1 Appearance,, and 'Jackie, dis- c-omr him dozing' peacefully," in : WfgMbrrtschatr..r,The.litU skar oacjHvedx a Bche'me. fa waken- JJax that ' Would"" have - done Justice' to the'V81 '. the, Kataen jammer :: K)rfh'.t Everyone n" the set 'jwas "pNied.1 ihto fcervibfe to carry icrut Jaf He's. idea. .:? .jtefil-ciatter--craBn! ;A :re- 1 r-r - y-.y , v. .:s i y l r - jr i ':(. Br. Lindsey' Blayney, president o( .'College ,of Industrial rArts, Denton. Te.wia. resisting efforts to l.f orce him ; to resign beeause, it Is said, he dances with "girl stu- SWIM 1 t 1 ill i : "'- in . JACKIE COOCAX URE and the mother of three children TraArecent f lectedthe most In- temgent co-ea in. the uaiversity In a audnt election... That inimitable little star, Jackie Coogaa. is featured In Heilig theater. It is one of the "Old Clothes" now playing at the best, if ntt the best pifure Jackie has made. California with the romantic name the "Valley of the Moon.' She was born in Iowa, sh says, but went to California to live when she was a. very young girl. "'Ever since I "Was 21 1 have been a practi4"ing Attorney with my husband," she says. ' It was al ways Shepard and Co., and I was tho Co." When Jack London bought the Valley of the Moon ranch Mrs. Shepard gave tip'hcrlaw practice to take care ef his holdings when he was away on cruises. "You pee there were seven or eight years between us fa that I was not only a big sister but had practically mothered him. We were strangely companionable and al ways had a complete understand ing." Mrs. Shepard ha six ranches now under her control and 1400 acres. She has had as many as tZ employes at one tiiae and spends her days , on the ranch, on horseback overseeing the various operations. She expects to go back to California after her term of of fice as Auxiliary president expires, and in the meantime her son is managing the properties. MtMro-Oo!diryn-fayer has" what Is known as the "Hopeful Depart ment." which dies nothing bnt answer letters from stage-struck youngsters and ojderfolk who want to enter th$ movies Some of the letter are humorous, but many are pathetic. Officials lay much of th -Uaimor the present movie nctihp cr,axe at the iloor.lof the utess ageiafs) Many of them have wrttte ic'ow J$gsl6ries about girls who -have became facbus over nighjUjA ; jesujt vle: studios are constantly . fledged' F4h hun dredsof pplicati6Sst Ift ordefo avoij f tfMeJTmpreisjsions :f tif In the movies' s-ed tb ase which jobs Lean heobufned, JMG.-M haveisittdetia 4der 'forbidding their .Jres agents,-to 'write a story whkfc. efnXey'anr4mprea8ion that accesf to movie fftme is fasy and starsjafe made ofer lights Ethics fit Caotiire of smugglers being i augni SPRlNRTIEt.D,Il1?--r:rh1ffs in ratchng bootleggers are being laiish eres-ii school for prohi- bhion agents. 4 s- ' i ;Recognf7ing-' thltt he crude tactics of agents -in enforcement work in some sections have brought both the officers and the la w in to tltsrepu t e th e go vernment established the school in an efrort to teach the dry agent "how to sain respect, not only for himself hut also the prohibition law. - Tha school i under the tutelage of Thomas Williamson. I'nited States-, attorney, and oJhn B. Mad den, .deputy prohibiton ndminis trator ;of IUinois r . . , . , ew' Athena-Kamela branch of the TV'&lla,,' Walla-Baker, toll tele phone,Hne wil Icost fS.fiOO. Curator, MaJ Have fund V - Site of Legendary Tribe - ..y '. ? . -r-'--J LINCOLN, i. Noh.-What , may EaVebeen. the habitat1 of the le gen darjr tost trfhe otChetoke. In dians tot which t tie famous Chief Sequoia lost hij? ljfMo the search leen4 nncovered in Kichardson, Coh nty, Nebraska, by &, ,E. . Blackman. curator-of the State historical 'society museu m. 1 Wack ni aii " lotrni.ere mains l ot ' an Sac-teat Indian ity. tegether with several pieces of pdftery and inany ''chipped? riiiit tools, different from those made by rrtbea hitherto; known to have Inhaofrettnar' reglohr: 5 Unearthed 'articles bear un mistakable signs Jot Cherokee origin, Mr. Blackman said. .This led him. to believe It possible, that the site" was-once the location of the lost tribe which leg-eads say spilt awar from the tribal home in southeastrn - rtilted .States and pushed across r -the ' --Mississippi never to return:. The migration in supposed o have taken place. be fore 'the. -whrte man came to Am erica. " ' . ' . ' . - ... IrGw,f'Pec.:30 The Outstanding: Success of Their Career. w. irv .1 L ' "" ' ''' '', GIRLS SONGS DANCES The Snappiest,! Most Tuneful Musical Comedy .or the Season ". .. with a brilliant cast and Cunningham's . -. - ' -" vJ4weet Sixteen" laiicinj Oirls -1- . 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