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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1927)
THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON, - TUESDAY MORNING, DE' CEMJ IER IS, 1927 Qslnoro Theater What ths- well dressed working Clrl should wear Is demonstrated tr Esther Balston la the Para mount picture. .Tinres Don't Lie which plays at the Elslaore today and Wednesday. What the discreet working; girl should not do is also demonstrat ed by Miss Ralston with the con Ylnclnf aid of Ford Sterling, who plays the part of aa aheent-mladed business man and Blanche Parson, who bas the role of a Jealous wire Itlchsrd Arlan demonstrates what the normal man will do when be falls In. lore with Miss Ralston He has the leading male role In the production. j uwail a, have to wear flashy clothes and chew runt in order to be true. to type. Simplicity is the key-note of the blonde star's charming bus iness costumes., : Simplicity and neat accessories so with the gowns. -Of course, ererr iMr(.tnr an be as charming as Miss Ralston. i-ernaps us a good thing. If they wcrw, mere wouia be a marked Blowing up In business. Pleasure doesn't always mix with business And it certainly la a pleasure to' look at Esther Ralston.-. It Is an open question whether or not Miss Ralston looks more charming hi the beach outfit than she doea in the smart but simple frocks she wears tn the business office where she attends to the af fairs of, "Howdy" i Jones (Ford Stirling)- and Innocently eontrires to make his wife Insanely jealous. The story, adapted from an or iginal script by .B. F. Zeldman, 1$ a new and clever treatment of the 'working girl" problem, s" In this Instance"!! is a case of the working girl protecting the business .man . through - the: medium of ; tying strings around his finger. At one or two stages loth the business man and, the working girl need protection from a . jealous wife. Richard Arlen, the breezy young sales manager, furnishes the pro tection on one occasion and wine himself a bride. i V . Edward Sutherland is the direc tor; B. P. Sehulberg, the associate producer and Louis D. Llghton, the editor-in-chief. - with an Iceberg and the passen gers take to the lifeboats. Heretofore Captain Graalfs has appeared In the role of rescuer. He was acclaimed a hero on February X; 1121, when he directed the res cue In a storm in mid-ocean of the Oaten freighter Alkaid's crew. At that time he was commanding the liner Westphalia. TWhen Mrs. Jamea Walker christened the New zorft. most modern of the Ham burg-American liners,. Captain uraaiis was. placed la command. rTo lend erismnitude to the scene aboard Ms new ship. Captain Otsalfs loaned. Director. Dwan the serrlces, of Second Officer Martin 7L Z , oa Vroym concluslre-lLInke warned the passengers, in cluding June Collyer, Holmes Her bert, John Mlltern and about 500 extras, to Uke to the boats;-: The action which followed was : most realistic i '-;' -1,1 Vr . V'--."v George O'Brien, who portrays the hero of I "East Side,' West Side," was 'on a bus drtrer's holi day. Although he was not includ ed In the action, O'Brien went down to the ship with Felix Rle enberg. author' of the norel on which the picture Is based, to watch Dwan directing the -scene. The scene Is one of the most thrlllfngly realistic shots erer pre sented on the screen. Sereral letters which Miss Wall declares were , written by : Thaw were filed with her complaint as exhibits In the case, '. '.' . HUGE FINANCIAL SCHEME j OF MISSOURI UMl HOAX that time, Connell wanted only to purchase a small fruit farm. It was lined np for him In Douglas county. Then his requests enlarg ed and suspicions were aroused. The climax earn when Connell wrote the Turner Lumber and In-1 reatment company in Kansas City that he had heard the Long-Bell company Interests ' a ' Longrtew; were for sale, and that he wished! to purchase them outright. The; inrestment ; company wired Mr. Bohrnstedt for his opinion of the man. This Inquiry and the latter; exaggerated demands caused Mr. Bohrnstedt to hare the man In Yesterday, word was receired that Connell was a cripple both in mind and body, and was penniless as far as could be determined. Mr. Bohrnstedt went to great expense to inrestlgate : possibili ties of options on the property out lined by connell. When he asked for money to close the deals, Con nell wrote: ."Eastern bankers do not want that -much money to go west, l am slow. I know, but I want to be sure I am right before going ahead." The state chamber indicated mat no charges would be made against the man and the matter would simply be dropped. BEXGIAX WIXS PRELIM rnnnvp LWODUIO KM AT ELS r ORE SOD I They Sell Tickets; Proceeds Jo Go For Newsies' Christmas Dinner The newsboys of 8alem, no mat ter what newspaper they sell or deflrer, will soon be selling tickets to a snow whleh.wiU be presented at the Elslnore theater December XI, Wednesday of next week. The boys shouldn't hare any trouble selling those tickets, for a large share of th proceeds will be devoted to providing a big Christmas dinner and other forms of Christmas ; festivity for the newsboys. ' That -is the plan that the Elsl nore management has announced, and the boys are entering into their part of It with enthusiasm. "Uncle Ixzy's Country Store" will be the special feature of the show on that data. SUE HARRY THAW FOR $100,000 JHEART BALM T. . , OoHaud from pmg 1) - - to ier home In Culver City and i MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, the man went to Pittsburgh where, INew York, Dec. 12. (AP) Ar tie Informed her, his mother was iuro bpeckels, Belgian welter- -Oregom Theater "The Print of Head waiters," a powerful comedy-drama of father- love and made by the director of "Flaming Youth." which starred Colleen, Moore, Is the feature pho toplay at the Oregon theater today and Wednesday. Featuring Lewis Stone, Priscilla Bonner,- -Lilyan ' Tashman. Ann .. Rork. Robert Agnew, E. J. Rat- ci'ffe and others, the. picture was adapted, from Garrett Fort's Lib erty, magazine story, called also "The Prince of Head-waiters." John Francis Dillon was the di rector, and Sam E. Rork, who pro duced "Ponjola," "Old Loves and New," 'The Blonde Saint," "The Notorious Lady" and other notable films, made . the photoplay for First National. Pictures.- . - Mr. Stone has the part of "the prince of headwalters," and most of the scenes are laid In the Rlts hotel in New York. . The story Involves the love of a ' father for his son, the love of a stern, father for his daughter and finally the ; unselfish love of a childhood sweetheart for the . youth. , , ; ' - Lilyan' Tashman 'has an out- - .standing part as the adventuress - and gold-digger, and Ann RoTk. remembered for her picture debut in "The, Blonde Saint" and rThe "Notorious Lady," has a big part . as Beth, the childhood sweetheart. .While no attempt has- been made to have. the usual fashion -show, there are two sequences In "The Prince of Headwalters" in wbich fashions of the day in mi lady's Xlnerlea are emphasized. -.. "... . - ; - - - Capitol Thr" While Allan Dwan directed an exciting "abandon ship" sequence aboard the liner "New York" for the Fox screen Tersion of Felix Rlesenbergs "East Side, West .Side, now showing at the Capitol theater, the ship's - captain. Karl 1 -Graalfs. was an Interested specta tor. In the scene that was being - -enacted, the ship has collided living and much troublefaced hlm.1 But for three -years, . she de-, cla'res, they corresponded and she received various small sume,. total ling about $500, . Sometime In May, 1926, 'the complaint avers, a letter came re questing the ; girl to come to Thaw's home, promising marriage. In a newspaper interview to night. Thaw was reported as say ing that . although -he never met Miss Wall, h ehad corresponded with her. ' "She wrote me once telling me of work she planned to do and I answered the letter," he said. "She later sent me a photograph for which I sent her $20. Pic tures cost money, you know, and it was a darn good picture. Don't want anyone ever to be out any money on my account so I paid for U. Vnnv 'Mrtf Vi In. tn that ItTrt a ! all. I guess I sent her about $40 with her." ' 1 He , said he . might not even answer the suit. weight, won a 10 round decision over Billy Leonard. , Syracuse, la a preliminary to the Tommy Longhran-Jimmy Slattery light heavyweight title match tonight Speekels weighed 146 i; Leon ard 145. TEXDLER WHIPS SPAXLUtD PHILADELPHIA, Dec; 12. (AP) Lew Tendler, veteran Philadelphia boxer, won the ref eree's- decision over Hilario Mar- tines, flashy Spanish fighteT, in a savage 10 round boat at the arena tongnt. Tne verdict was given after the Judges had dis agreed. Tendler weighed 147, Martines 140. ! Starts Sunday . fleer to save him, aald the witness, but the officer Ignored the appeal. Enroute to the square, the stu dents and their American captive passed three military guards who did not raise a hand to save Kel ler, the witness . said, despite his repeated pleas he-was not a Jew and not a Rumanian. 'Whan Keller and! his captors reached the Anglo-Rumanian bank they turned into a aide street, the students telling the American It was a short cut to the police s ta lon. As soon as they "were out of sight of the main street the Amer ican was attacked by at least 25 students armed with canes and stones. Keller received gashes In his head, a deep wound In the side of his face, and bruises all over his body. He attempted to escape by running away but when he reached the main street he was knocked unconscious by another group of students. I On regaining consciousness In a pool of blood the American no ticed the military guard were in RUMANIAN MOB ATTACKS UNITED STATES CITIZEN (Coatinnd from ptfe 1) manian government. This witness declares Keller was walking through a public square on the way to his home ten blocks away when he noticed he was be ing followed by a group of stu dents with a menacing attitude. He remonstrated with them, an nouncing he was an American cit izen. They ignored his plea, as serting he must go to the police station with them. .They took him by force back to the public square passing a Ru manian officer who knew him and who was aware be was an Ameri can. Keller pleaded with the of- the same position as when he ran toward them. Imploring assist ance. Unmoved by his pliable ap- iMiriBM. th Informant of the As sociated Press said, the Rumanian soldiers ordered Keller to get up and hurry away before he was at tacked again. vr ' :'r A sympathetic civilian observer tried to assist the American, but was ordered away by. the soldiers. Keller, then weakened and dazed, stumbled ten blocks to his home. For some time he was in an ex tremely critical condition and to night was still in bed swathed in; bandages. , - I ; Keller is In the automobile bus iness here and has been since Jan uary, 192$; He was born at Lln denhall in 1890, the son of John William Keller, also a native of the United States. He served lo tne American army m rauce. F LQ'.VER eitiEfie club is mm A club of srirls from the Leslie Junior high school has recently been formed combining the two nmUfta nt finver raxdenlng and fiAtnA Koa ri H f lA.t inn. Rtarttnar tbna aarlv. they hope tn iiTa imnlH time for sreparatlon for the carrying out of toe elab orate plans they have laid ior me imnrATinr o( their ssveral home grounds. . The officers elected are as follows: V President. Jessie Cooper; vice nMflMont. nnrothv Tucker: secre- t.r i rxtria McCalUster: treasurer, whoi wnii- club leader. H. C. Bate- V r " . hamThey meet regularly on me second Friday oi eacn This Wednesday 1 "EAST SIDE WEST SIDE" TODAY A story of Xew Yjrk today with i George O'Brien and Virgin ia ValU. Ii C t4 119 1 1 Nl! FlfKNITURE . 7 he Appreciated Lrtft J i K I Afternoon and Evening Return Engagement MAURICE GUNSKY (In Person) Victor Recording Artist and K. P. O. 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