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1"" t t n - i- ! - 2 THE OIIEGON STATESMAN. SALEM. OBEGON T FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 31, 192G KVtlnore Theater - Thrilling battle scenes employ ing .the vast sea fighting " para phernalia o the World War; are ( realistically portrayed" lnV"rWe,re 5 In tie Nary Now,; Paramount startlingly ' funny" version of the Navy'a participation in the. late conflict.-which nas ita first show ing at the Elsluore theater tonight Just before Jl o'clock in conjunc tion with Faocbon .Sc Marco's titage..-presentation if, entitled " A Night in the.Oiient. and five acts of Association vaudeville! ' , This large, tripje bill will usher lit the new year at the, Elsinore's mid-night' matinee program. -'; An army transport- carrying thousands of , troops; through , a mine and submarine Infested zone during the height of battle. Is the locale tor most -of - the- action In -.We're, la the Nary Now.7. An encounter between he transport's conroy and - enemy battle-ships, destroyers,- submarines; and. air planes, affords, one of the most thrllljng.. hilarious highlights of the production:" . The picture has been called by those - who- hare already seen tt. the most engaging, entertaining reproduction of tho Navy's part in the rWbrldr "War. Wallace Beery and Raymond' Hatton are. starred. Chester, Conklln and Tom Ken nedy have featured, roles in Ed ward SAherland's latest produc tion. v- "No sir! This makes it much more colorful! .A hurry call I for umbrellas reached the Property Department. The crowd, brilliantly "dressed, was then filmed, shown arriving at the opera In the midst of a realistic rain. -"The Cat's Pajamas" is playing last times today at the Oregon theater Theodore Roberts' and Arlette Marchal are featured. KALICH IN CHORUS DKVKLOP DIKI.IKK FO STAGE . UNLESS BRLOXGING THKRE pipit ol Theater , If, there's anything gayer than a Viennese waits, it is "The Walts Dream." - playing at - the Capitol theater last times today. Out of those same UFA Studios whence emerged, the powerful-"Variety" comes this charming little tale of a worried ypung -princess and her homesick prince consort. - "The Walts .Dream" Is enough to make any one homesick for Vienna,, whether he has ever been there or not.- With the strains of "Th$ Blue Danube and the com edy, of one royal romance on the screen, makes, Vienna the most delightful "city; in'the world. If that' city "has any. desire for a few more , hundred thousand tourists next .summer all it need do is show a few. more; "Walts Dreaina" in America. ., The story is as light as the-spirits of a Viennese youth. , Thanks to .delightful cast and amusing, direction. "The Walts Dream" offers a pleasant hour or so at the Capitol.; ; " '- r- r -' , An entirely new ' program of popular vaudeville numbers with special settings and.4 novel - ideas will be seen at RHghs Capitol 1 theatre. today only. The bill is headed by Redlong & Vivian in "Two Shooting Stars' who are ot the best caliber in marksmanship. Miss Vivian has a world wider reputation and has many surprises' to offer. , Barney & Lane, in "You'll Soon Find Out are very clever - character delineators, punsters and vocal- Ists. Dancing Moments, in "Grace v.nd Rhythm, is an odd but clev erly arranged" dancing program presented by four artists with ex ceptional talents. Williams and Louise, the per sonality girls, form a combination of a sister team which Is a bit out of the-ordinary. . Jt la a com edy classic . presented to please vaudeville patrons in every way. Torbay in "Studies-In, Black and White!' holds the distinction of being, the cleverest shadowgraph 1st in vaudeville. The offering is cheerful and entertaining to both kiddies and grownups. In the minds of the unthinking the -chorus girl job is a carefree and its holder pappably committed to the rollicking Bohemlanism that is held to be the chief -lure of the stage. Of course, numbers of successful men and women are successful chorus , graduates, but it has been some time since any one has emphasized the opportun ity for real apprenticeship, that the chorus holds in the way that Bertha Kalich, star of "Magda" emphasizes tit.- Mme. Kalich began in the chor us of the Skarbuck theater in Ijemhf-rg. Hear Iter vital observations: "Of course, we didn't have the modern musical comedy then for tne reason that It bad not yet been developed, but we did. have the light operas of Strauss, and Of fen bach' whihe offer practically the same possiblities for the exercise of those esential qualities without which no actress may consider herself well-tralne'd. ' I refer to the free and unrestricted expres sion of highly vitalized youth an expression which is best accom plished by the combined exercise of the arts of singing and dancing. To sidg and dance simultaneously, under careful, artistic 'direction, is to absorb, unconsciously the very spirit of the drama. "Now. when I say - sing and dance' I mean, of course, to sing and dance with the ideal of beau ty constantly in the mind- an ideal which once confined strictly to opera and operetta, is being more and more recognized by the producers ' of popular ; musical comedy, the chorus of which today offers golden opportunity for any young actress with brains n and cleverness enough to take advan tage of it. . T i-'v. i "In the chorus of a high class musical comedy, such a young wo man will be able to learn,, what I learned during my apprenticeship at the Skarbek theater that is, poise, freedom, stage presence, perspective. She will get used to her arms and legs. No matter how skilled a dancer she may be when she goes upon the stage she will learn something the first time she lifts her foot to the mus ic behind the footlights with a score or more 01 otner girls dressed Just like herself,' she will be strangely conscious of each foot as she puts it forward. "And as with the foot, so with the entire organism. No matter what her poise her wonted lack of semiconsciousness off stage or in regular drama, when she finds herself. in a crowd of girls, with a sea of faces beyond the foot lights, she is conscious of her own personality. -' She. is an indi vidual, an entity. , In other words, she is out of perspective. "Recognizing this fact, either of two things will happen if she is of the elect, if she has in her the true artist spirit. She will" understand that self-consciousness has no place in dramatic art; that if she is conscious of a neatly, slip pered foot, or a shapely, beauti ful manicured hand, there Is something radically wrong, and that it is a most important thing for her to exercise the offending sensation. For of all things that the drama can least afford is the appearance of any alley of self consciousness. If such a girl, so cognizant of her shortcomings, is wise, she will stick to the chorus until she has conquered at least modicum of this self-consciousness.. And It she Is an actress born, and not a mere philanderer with the art, she will very quickly overcome her difficulty and be eternally grateful to the chorus for setting her right. "On the other hand. If she doesn't truly belong on the stage, she will hate the chorus with fiber of her being spark. I hold that it is impossible for the born Actress not to enjoy the sheer abandon, mental, physi cal, spiritual, which participation tn the chorus should and does and will give her if she approaches her work therin with the proper atti tude of. heart and mind. As for myself I am eternally gratful for fts. teachings, for what-1 learned there as a young girl, a mere child, . of the basic principles of an art which after all is said and done, is .an art which can be learned but not taught. PUBGHflSE INTEREST 1 WER COIf II Report Capitalization of Lo- cal Organization to Be Increased BILL PROPOSES COURT CHANGE IN SOME CASES Centlsard from page 1) cate of this change. During the growth of court custom by' deci sions which have ripened into pro- procedure firmly fixed and change able only by law, it has become court custom to consider the crim inal at trial to be presumed en tirely innocent until proved guilty. The prisoner . cannot now be made to testify against himself. Unless he elects to he cannot be made to explain the reason for his act. nor can the jury be instructed to hold against him refusal to ex plain. The defense now has the right to 12 challenges against prospec tive jurors that need not be found ed on any reason. The prosecu tion has only six. It is proposed to equalize this. The reason for setting up these uneaual advantages favoring the defense no longer exists. Several hundred years ago in England when men could be charged with crime for their religious and po litical beliefs these judicial cus toms protecting the prisoner were founded on iust attitudes. The presumption of innocence as now used has clogged the course' of justice, it Is held. For this reason PORTLAND. Dec. 30. (AP) Purchase of an interest in the Rodgers Paper company of Salem by the Blake. Moffitt & Towne wholesale paper house of Port land, formerly the Blake-McFall company, was announced today. The Rodgers Paper company, or ganized about 30 years ago, car ries printing and wrapping paper and serves the Salem territory. Capitalization will be increased, it was also announced, to, permit the carrying of a larger stock. There will be no change in - the personnel of the Rodgers Paper company except that O. W. Mielke, president of the Blake, Moffitt & Towne company, will become first vice president. Fred D. Thielsen and Arthur J. Rahn are the officers and mana gers and principal stockholders of the Rodgers Pappr company which, under their efficient management, has been doing a very successful and a growing business. TIMBER DEAL REPORTED CHRIST3IAS PROGRAM f GIVES ; BROOKS. Dec 30. (Special.) -On Sunday evening the metho dist Sunday school gave a" very interesting Christmas program and tree. . Mr. Eppley, Mrs. Ash baugh, and Marie Dunlavy from the Evangelical Sunday school, gave vocal selections. Mrs. Heck er and Ernest Scott a duet, and readings - were given oy Con stance Buchanan. Miss Coyler, Earl and Leo Ramp, Frank Riggi, Utm Harris. Creta Ashbaugh, j Albert Harris, Gordon Tomkin, I and a song by two little girls, Rachel Whitney and Elva Horn ing. A treat of nuts and candy was given to every body present. J. w. u ney and E. B. Connors, near Parral, Chihuahua. Tuesdnv The Americans, whose home towns in the cnJiea states are not known, are being held prisoners for 10,000 pesos ransom. The American embassy learnet of the kidnaping today and imnieJ diately sent a note to the Mexican! foreign office making urgent rep resentations to the Mexican gov-fl Aim nni - na Tk ! v. a u uiv v a vs nit; "'iVclIK . adeauate fyunh.li- pnioners ? r,nbassy outrage. . . ' ' j TonAit liW IIS u.i - .. w -. onir three in l v ii c z h in r fplace the iamoer i ryuV.-." ""V WINDS SWEEP LA GRANDE Wanner Weather Ctases Foot of Snow to Start Melting LA GRANDE, Ore , Dec. 30.- (AP) One of the worst winds of the year swept over La Grande this morning. Gusts -were severe enough to cause some damage. A large plate glass window in a laundry was blown in and reports told of brick chimneys being blown over. The weather Is warmer here and the foot of snow that piled up during the last two weeks is beginning to melt. Two Billion Feet pf Fir Involved . in West port Deal ASTORIA. Dec. 30 (AP) Re ports emanating from Westport sources were received here today to the effect that a big timber deal had been closed recently removing objectionable points from the procedure law existing only in custom to the statute law. Another legal twist would be straightened out, Mr. Van Winkle declared members of the supreme court agree, if the present law Fre- wuld provide for appeal in cases quently she will honestly believe 1, There ,g prQ. that it is this thing or that she I Tigion for appeal now in special doesn't like, but the real reason J statute violations unless the eta is that she herseJf lacks the divine tute specifically grants it. it is proposed to change the crim-jfir timber in the Nehalem valley, inal procedure in some ways by near Jewel, had been purchased every by the Knappton Mills .company and the Westport Lumber com pany. The holdings are said to have formerly been the property of J. J. Rupp, the Nehalem Invest ment company, and the "Wright Blodgett company. The report could not be con firmed here and no report was received as to the price other than it was a stumpage basis, per thou sand feet, to be paid as the timber is cut. BANDITS KIDNAP MINERS Immediate Release of Prisoners Demanded by Government MEXICO CITY, Dec. 30 (AP Federal troops have been 'or dered by the Mexican government to pursue the bandits who kid naped two American mining men, 10:4." TONITE BIG MONSTROUS MIDNIGHT FROLIC No Raiso In Prices 50c HUGH'S CAPITOL or thriikise.at e.ui. ; rm m , rm Your leatre - I J.J DAY, THURS1 JANUARY 6 Hie Worlds Greatest Actress ' . Kl ft Dramatic 7 1 i mm itr i ' in hi n , ; : . . , , Herman Sudttmann's Greatest Drama - f First 7 rows $2.20, next 10 rows $2.75, next 8 rows $1.6. Mezzanine first 3 rows 'S 2.75, next 2 rows .$2.20, Balcony, first 2 rows 2.20, next 8 rows $1.10, last 7 rows 75c , Reservations now. Send self-addressed stamped envelope ' Oregon Theater f MR4in.ra'ln. gbTaway. : Come again some other day. Retnember : that 'old - rhyme? ! ' Well, althongh rain usually Inter feres With" motlbn ' picture work, there's one case on record where the - director - actually thanked Jupiter PIutIus -tof his wet "oon- tribQUoa. -. i-.;?. v;' ':; t; - William Wellman was directing a scene for "The Cat's Pajamas" in which theoatslde of an opera house - is depicted. The set ' was erected 'on'airopen atage at Para- mount's' West Coast Studio and, except for the . entrance,- was en tirely covered with canvas. ' More than & hundred people, in ' eluding. Betty Bronson and Riear do Cortex the stars; were gath ered for the.sceneu A clock rang out eight times Vhen light rain started to make itself felt. . r1s - ths 'show - off,iChief V one 1 of his aides asked Wellman. . too PEPPER heat; I l-STDPSllCHEi The heafe of red MDPers takes the "ouch' front's sore, lame back. It can not hurt too, and 'it certainly' cads' the torture at osce. Whea vou are suffertaf o you can hardly gpt srotiBd. just try Red. Pep Mr fttih.- - mnd tdu will have the ouickert reUef . knows , Xothinff has such concentrated, penetrating heat as rra pfpcr. -: .'"."V Jtrit -as ooa as vou anply Red Pepper lub you will feel tho tingling heaC- In thrWtninates it warms the core spot through and thxout , , Fain -'nd soreness are one. Ask sy drns-iat. for Jar? of Rowies Eel Pepper Rub Bs snrs to get the genuine, with the name Eowlst YOUR THEATRE 66 PUN FIT FOR A KING" AT MIDNITE SHO 1 1 P. M vmucEmw-nmMno Bye Bye 1926 Carnival of Fun and Every Minute a Laugh Welcome 127 EDWARD J Ji SUTHERLAND "fsZ PRODUCTION Jr" A&Qi 'k. CHESTZKCOXKLW SS TOM KENNEDYS s W7r J$ 3 66 'kmmm Bia i TJ1T the dek, mates ! They're in again! . This time as the two most gullible "gobs.that ever trod a poop deck! A comedy of the high seas, with apprize ring for'd and aft, and intrigue, love and v the: colorful ; life iof 'the world war gob tangled amidships! Rise arid shine, sailor! Also FIVE ACTS Of 1 lh 1 ooddillo yGRANDIN - -""At the -i Wurlitzer Starring RENIE RIANO Also FRANK STEVER With Jack Melford and Lanore Delara Myra Kinclv Dorothy Fisher and Marion Dabney And Tae Harem Beauties r I i K: f - v' ; it p ; : 7 I If 1 I -KHz ' i - i ' ; FRIDAY NIGHT AT 1 1 P. M. STARTS Tfc BRING THE BUNCH BUT GET YOUR TI G TIME; sowr Ilcscrvcd Scats Now Sening $1.10' Balcony 75c SeUins $1.10 .! V Balcony .. 75c I ii" - ...... . 4- - w '.,-'' -- j s -I 0! mm PU, i -I ca cn pscsas. : r.l