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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 9, 1926)
( P THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON SUNDAY MOHNING, MAY 9, 1926 v: ,t . ,t.,- I. - V COB OE HUE HUG "Mike," ; Featuring Sally O'Neill, Latest Neilan Humorous Melodrama Marshall Neilan pic ture. TMIke," will be the feature at the, Heliig theater today. Acordlag to report?. Neilan and Metro-Gold wyn-Mayer have added another success to their list in this photoplay,' which," Is described as a melodrama that has the added en tertainment Value of constant humor.' In fact It reajly is a hilar ious comedy that has an exciting Blory, 4 punctuated . with" many thrills?. . - There is an unusually strong cast in "Mike." The, roster of well known, names Includes Chas. Murray, Ford Sterling, , William j'laines, Muriel Fsancis JDana, Junior Coghlan. Frank ie Darro, Ned : Sparks and Bam : de Grasse, The title role Is played hy an utter newcomer to the screen,' Sally 0NeilT, ."who1 Is a Tecent 'discov- cty" of Neilan. It is said that in thkvher first picture. Miss O'Neil proves to be a real find. "Mike" Is a return by Neilan to the form of photoplay in which he excels. His quick wit, his delight ful comedy sense and his ability to devise and ; work -out naturally Lift Off-No Pairi! Doesn't hurt one hit! Drop a lit tle Freezone on an aching corn, instantly that corn stops hurting, then shortly you lift iKright off with fingers. A Your'xdruggist sell atfaiy lot tle of reetdne" rof affewcents; suf f ir!en U ter't'egioviy every hard coy Ajlt- edrn, or cot between ly ls,' and the foot calluses, 4t soreness or irritation. DECORATED FIBER FERWERIE Pedestal Style DECORATED FIBER FERNERIES In Blue and Gold Green and Gold French Brown Illustrated at right. Four-leg pedestal style fiber ferner ies, 14 inches in diameter and 30 inches highfitted with removable metal pans. Offered in three very decorative finishes. - ' ' ' ' ' , "N " "' '" ' . -' y ) $' :e':'"'- - Single Pedestal Style tk V i DECORATED In Blue and Gold-Green, and Gold Brown ...-";.- f, Very attractive numbers with heavy, hand i wo verr fiber base witti single festal, h hnnn rim hnwi . id inrhps in diameter, fitted with removable metal pan. Stand 13 30 inches high. i Charge ' No Interest i V J many-; extremely laughable situa tions is given full play in this pic ture. 7 The director; wrote the etorjr himself. ; Bat in. Injecting a running Are of comedy, into the picture Neilan has not neglected, to buildup the excitement and dra matic power of the engrossing plot, which deals with the life of a desert railroad section boss and his family, who live In a pualntly appointed boxcar. Nash Furniture - Co. takes ' the lead with low prices on chairs, rockers, tables, wood - and steel beds, springs: mattresses. Saves you 25. 219 N. Com'l. - () CALF CLUB FINDS ST Entries Closed April t5, New Communities Are Entered on Rolls : The Boys' apd Girls Calf club, conducted in connection with school work" In Marion county, now lists 32 members,, it was an nounced here yesterday.' Entries in the club closed on April 15, and many applications have been re ceived since that time, but neces sarily, were refused. New com munlties listed In the work- are Sclo, Woodburn, Mount Angel and St. Paul. Judging classes will be held in different localities, with general meetings to be announced In the near future. Between 75 and 100 persons, interested In the boys' and girls work, have attended similar meetings in the past. The work is sponsored by the Mount Angel Bank. Mrs. II. P. Stith, millinery. Most beautiful hats in Salem; all shapes and colors; full stock from -which to make fine selections. Best quality, 333 State St. () ?, -.,1 ii i. -j . ...... Boys Will Have Prominent Part in Y.M.C.A. Meeting NEW YORK In recognition of many changes in the habits of youth, boys from fifty-two coun tries are to be given an organized voice in the nineteenth world con ference of theYonng Men's Chris tian , Association at Helsingfors, Finland, August 1-6. Of the 1500 delegates, 200 will be boys under twenty years of age. The conference will be the first world-wide meeting of the organ ization since 1913. . , Mil Boost for Salem, the City BeuiJ.twne oould naka her. tif ul, f Ee fjjariosg eanAfjjt impressions are tue ones tat4ast. Drive slowfy past children. Over I 7,000 little tots were1 -killed by I automobiles in 1925. " . NOW! --- A SALE Two Fern Style FIBEJf FERNERIES p.75 In Colors of Blue and Gold Green and Gold French Brown . . Hand-woven Fiber Ferneries ( (illusr trated at left) of very good proportions, . i 26 inches long", 10 inches wide and 30 inches high, fitted with, removable pans. i Very well made -finished in gold and ! blue, green and gold and French brown. Unusual values. ' FIBER FERNERIES $0,50. GIESE-POWERS furniture rr Company By m ' - ',k " If Girls Will ' "What dq, you tbink ;of wome who imitate men?'' asked Mrs. , Brown of Mrs.' Jones. f t - i -. y "They, are fools," replies' Mr. Jones. "No, I really do-not believe they imitate them to that extent!" sar castically declares the lady. This Is just a little joke, but it furnishes us with a question we hereupon open for discussion. Just how far awar from femin inity will the feminist go? The other day in one of those sanctum sanctorums; where the theater's guests retire-to pat their hair and powder their noses we overheard the following colloquy, and repeat it word for word, as nearly as we can remember; "It's a good show, isn't it, Bet ty? But it would be lots more fun if we were together. I feel queer sitting all by. myself." . "So do t. Say, Jess, you could have knocked me for a goal when the usher sent ; you . down one Isle and me down another. That's the first I knew I'd made a mis take. I paid my money and took what the box office man game me. But Til never walk, off with any more tickets without looking . at them. The house Is crowded, too -worse luck! No chance of get ting seats together. Noticing no body was with the man sitting next to me; -I asked him if he would change places with you, explaining that you and I would have been , together if I .had not been so stupid as to buy mis mated tickets. He took a look at me, and then what do you think he said? " Tm sorry to hear it miss. But I guess If it's all the same to you 1 11 stay right. where I am. I can see better: here than I could over there, and I want to get my money's worth! V" "Good gracious, what a boor!" cried Jess. Said Betty ''Can you beat it?" These remarks were not with out humor, and. curious, we turn ed to look at the speakers. Jess was of a mould with a thousand other sw"eet young things, but Betty well, Betty had apparently made an effort to, be different. Close cropped little head as sleek as a certain much-advertised hair balm could make it, high, white starchy stiff collar a girl become as fine a specimen of the typical American boy as shears and cos- Som mej$!gfir-ti3 said; i he, praSlaif 'AanawMl age. aepena , Tnore ' than We are aware of, or are willing to allow, on the conduct of the woman. This is one of the nrincinal things OF Use Your Credit J M 1. V-JULlvUJ viKiCtr e"ni in i - K f .!vt ' L-s. Be Boys V ' on" ; which . the great machine of human society turns." - - ? Now, we do not know but";we suspect, that, the Man-Who-Stuck-to-His-Seat may have thought that a girl who looked like a boy and spoke as a boy might consistently expect to be treated like a boy.' : Mark Spot Where Priests' , Taught God to Indians TALLAHASSEE. Fla (Associat ed' Press) A bronze tablet now marks the spot where nearly 300 years ago Franciscan priests taught the word of God among warring Indians. It is located near New Smyrna, Fla. There priests taught Indian boys and girls their Catechism, baptized them, received their con fessions, married them and offic iated at the last rites for the dead. An old Spanish document, found some time ago, revealed a com munication from the Franciscans to the king of Spain, asking for certain implements. Hoes,, par ticularly, were sought, "which," the letter read, "are most essen tial for the many 'entradas which have to be made, and the erection of houses and temples in the In dian villages." Coffin of Marble Was Declined by Jackson NEW YORK (Associated Press) Andrew Jackson's letter declining to accept the sarcophagus of the Roman Emperor, Alexander Sev- erus, for his depository is believed by students of Americana to be one of the finest communications he wrote. The letter was in the collection of the late William Green Shilla- - Aslc ''Ahotfjifo 5otei:WG!eini Mil 426 State St, ber, of Boston, which recently was sold by the American Art Galler ies. Numerous other documents relating to Jackson's life as sol dier, president and private citi zen were auctioned at the same time. . Stiortly before his death, the former president, was tendered the marble, coffin, by Commodore-1-llott, famous In the War; of 1812, on behalf, of the National Insti tute. Elliott' had just returned from .Palestine on the Constitu tion, which now Is being rebuilt for preservation. . ' , Lamprecht's Golf Career a Gamble With Insurance NEW ORLEANS (Associated Press) Fred Lamprecht, national Intercollegiate golf champion, eel-J ebrated completion of his course at Tulane University by winning the Gulf States championship for the fourth time. He Immediately entered business at New Orleans, becoming manager of an insurance company. The intercollegiate title holder announced that he expected to de fend his title at the national in tercollegiate championship and al so enter the Southern intercolleg iate. However, an "if" enters in to his calculations. "Pooley" Hubert, famed Ala bama football player works for the. same insurance company Lam precht has joined and the golf champion, who was fullback on Tulane's football team, has an un derwriting contest on with Hu bert. If he wins that he says he will seek more golf worlds to con quer. Old Oregon Trail Fading Before -Nature in Wyoming KEMMERER, Wyo Nature with her marks of time is erasing from southwestern Wyoming the Old Oregon Trail that road, which meant the building of a Western empire, with, its many tales of heroism against the red skinned foe the-tragedy of lost For This E W. W. EMMONS When the early days of the Hma are discussed, someone brings '.The Birth of A Nation" into the conversation; Griffith's master piece Is still remembered where hundreds of other pretentious ef forts have been forgotten! 7' , , Yet . how many, of you readers cau recall the names of those who appeared, in the picture? Names didn't mean, much to screen audiences then and most of the- actors were- newcomers in the field. " 1 ' - ' At the outset of the Industry producers didn't believe in. dis- closing the. names of their stars. The following, .is Quoted from an advertisement "in the "Dramatic Mirror," July 2. 1910. "There's a dlfferene of opinion between, manufacturers as to the policy, of publishing the names of players in the pictures. ..The. Bio graph Company holds that no good canr come of it and the names of their players are strictly withheld. Other companies are commencing to pursue a different policy, al though to a very limited extent." Quite different from these days lives of pioneers and the Indom itable courage of the early set tlers of the west. The Old Oregon Trail extended across southwestern Wyoming for 100 miles from the Big Sandy riv er at Pacific Springs to Cokevllle on the Bear river on the Idaho boundary. . But the Old Trail is passing. Now sagebrush covers the old roads which once rumbled with the wheels of the covered wagon. In many places the barbed wire fences of the ranchers have brok en across the trail and in the space left unbroken .only an occasional sheep, rancher's wagon travels. J Memory of the trail is to be pre- DAY Made To easiare 150 patterns of new Spring and Summer Woolens compming almost every weave and combi i ' ' nation. See Our Windows SALE NOW ON Order Now Prompt Delivery, or Will Deliver at any Date r Servico y -4 i'l VU when - press, agents tna ' rampant, isn't it? i '". ." .r- ; ; To return to "The Birth, of a Nation.1 let's recall the names of some of the players and Bee what has become of them.' 7' - Henry B." Walthall, rho will al ways be remembered as the Little Colonel, ta now doing character parts. S . -; f 7 7 Mae Marsh, young sister of the Little Colonel, whose death led to the formation of the Ku KIux Klan is still a . favorite, v .; ; Spottlswood Aitken, now a char acter actoi was Dr. Cameron, the father. .J........ :.. .:;V' Ralph Lewis, , recently starred in "The f'hird Alarm." was the' crippled politician, stoneman. " Lillian Gish, now at the top of the ladder:, was his daughter.4 " Mary Alden, now identified with "mother" jroles was the mulattb" housekeeper. - The multatto protege of the pol itician . wis George Seigelman, present dar heavy. . , Three members of the cast are npw directors. Elmer Clifton, Jo seph Herineberry and Donald Crisp. ' j served by k highway, to be known as the "Old Oregon TraiL" across Wyoming frdm Granger to. Coke vllle, and then to Portland, Ore., but the new road does not follow the original path of the "covered wagon" cafavans. i , Stage Beheadings Lend Spice! to Japan's Drama TOKYO-Lproblem plays, Green wich Village motifs and the Inevi table happjt ending may tickle the palates of Western theater patrons but they break no box office rec ords In Japan. The Nipponese like their drama raw the rawer the better. Ana to Suit Ektra CKariie . i PB7 r ' Salem I . r.. the Theatres"' Oregon Reginald . Denny in -Skinner k Dress Salt." from Hen ry, Irving ! Dodge.'!; famQuslCatic day Evening Post storiessupporw La Plante. . ed by Laura v - t - "Mike,"l with. :alley 0NleL . BIlgl f-5 acta vaudeville .and pictures. a play in which there are not sev- eral the beheadlnga Is ' considered ; in Pollyanna class fit only for' immature and the weakheart-- the ed. '-. The most popular atage. off e.r- ing in Tokyo i a fire-art histori-.-cal drama, ''The Death . of Prime ' Minister LL" The Imperial thea-- r ter, where this play opened. March. 1; is the largest In the capital and. the S. R. b. sign was hung out for weeks after the first night. - Notwithstanding the numerous decapitations in the course of this simple little . of f erlng it run from . 4. to 10 p. m.--tW play ia of particular .interest to . Americans-because It Is based bn the. opening f Japan to foreign Ut tercoursej through the - direct In fluence qf the United. States.. Russian Student Fund Gives Aim fo American 'Training NEW YORK Organization by a pennll ;ss young , Russian fitn dent In 1919. he Russian Stu dent Fur d Is now advancing aid tq ISO Rns dan men and women in 50 Amer can colleges to fit them selves for future partlclpatloiji Russian ; "econatructldn. .7 The' organization bperaie'a on a plan ..whereby, money loaned to students is repaid after 'gradua tion and already- 116,000 - in re payment! has been received, offi cers of tie fund have announced. The. stut ents are studying , busi ness, architecture, civil, electrical. cnemicai ana mecnanicai engineer - i . . ing, jnedlclne and applied agricul ture, The fund was started in 1919 when Alexis R. ."VViren, just grad uated, from . Boston tech. inter ested, prqmlnent persons in aiding bis youtjg compatriots. and PMORROW n STARTING (TUESDAY At IBM I.I 1 HI