The Oregon statesman., May 13, 1928, Page 2, Image 2

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Good morning! Arep't 70a glad
you're not candidate for-some
thing this nice sarins weather!
"What," asked the newcomer.
f i9 this here JIggins runuin' lor?"
1 "Knrcise. Vtar I kin see." re
plied Jeff Teetera of Sycamore
i Crossing. " "
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FABLE ,
ft "I hope,' remarked Amos T.
T McSurcingle, - president" of the
foam Chicle Co "that.my wife
coraes down to toe office- today. 1
am anxloas for, her to meet my
new private secretary,' Hlsa Flossie
.Vere de Vere, whom I Jos hired
, In place of old George-Packing-
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The circus is coming. No. we
"mean Charlie Chaplin's circus.
!?"EXCUSE ME" at the Oregon
nBunday and Monday for mention
ling it.
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fv Gentlemen may prefer blondes.
But no gentleman will tell his
j dark-haired sweetie that such is
rthe case. Unless, he era res to get
'knocked for a' row of . Patent
leather kids. .
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" She looked blankly at a run in
her only , good silk hose. 'Could
. j.you darn It?" asked her dumb
i husband.-"No," she replied grim
; iy. "but I could d it."
"MAN MISSING THREE
WEEKS RETURNS." He told our
reporter that he had a hard time
matching the goods.
. - uie" Peabody, who comes to
the KIsinore in person today and
.tomorrow, is reputed the world's
1 champion banjo player. There is
a lot more besides "Eddie" with
Fanchon & Marco's show this
week, but according to all reports
Mister Peabody is a whole show
in himself. They say he was only
about as important as the boiler
on a steam engine at the Broad
way theater in Portland for four
months last year. :
. Boy! Does she step And How!
J 11st a sweet little manicurist who
likes pretty things the girl whoi
has "it" and red hair personality!
leading a host of admirers around
by their coat tails, and they like
it. Speed? The throttle's wide op
en. Anyway, all this and more is
; what we've heard about ' "Red
Hair," the Clara Bow comedy,
which is at the Elsinore today
and tomorrow with Fanchon &
Marco.
.' Other people's business ought
to flourish with all the attention
It gets.
Old Man Opportunity mav not
know that your Bell is out of Or
der. . Bootleggers don't do much cre
dit business. When a customer
ays, "I'll see you tomorrow." how
do they know he'll be able to see
anything tomorrow?
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' .YOU SHUT TP, WILLIE
Prepare to sound the wedding
i: bells
v For Ann and Mister Rah!;
for Ma has took the light bulb
; From the fixture in the hall
OUCHt
f I OJenn Singer, manager and
r 4 I "-aoing man or the Singer Stock
f ; 21 " teU" us eeTer new beau-
X '!e3 that he has coming with ins
& I.1DW Id Ihtf llrnvnn I
2 I morrow. Talented, too, he says
j N' beautiful but dumb stuff for
I S J Clenn. "Listen." he says. "I wrot
i I a girl once and told her she could
. report for work in the chorus,
j She wrote back that she couldn't
i come for two weeks that she
t hadn't anything to wear!"
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Oh And tne r9 a girl would
3 J rather win a baking contest than
k a beauty contest is because the
;i f - Mississippi river always dries un
& f along in Aorii rh vr
. Along with Eddie Peabody. at
wuuaiisu r layers, made a hole
1 But the way of the transgressor
is hard to follow on foot.
; "The Patent Leather Kid,"
which Is coming to the Elsinore
aoon, ran for If weeks on Broad
way at $2.20 per admission; sev
en weeks in Chicago at $l.C3,rand
lx weeks in Detroit at Sl.5.
There will be no Increased prices
at the Elsinore for the picture.
' "Gentlemen Prefer ' Blondes
Tuesday," read the ad. "Yes."
sneered Miss Cayenne, "they pre
fer blondes Tnendav
Wednesday, red heads Thursday.
iiuaj-, ana on tne other
days of the week whatever color
ed kind of flapper they can pick
Hp. But why do they call them
gentlemen?" GOSH!
!. Along with Eiddle Peabody at
the Elsinore today and tomorrow
hcre will be the Cook Sisters,
Maxwell and Lee. Yourley Yourlo,
and a chorus of six men who with
Miss Yourlo make up the Moscow
Ensemble. It's a real th1aii-
show, with an exceptional picture
Eor-gooa measure.
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j! Of GOLF NOTE -r
Chas: Canlkins, "heaTr" and
managing director of the Elsinore
Manhattaln Players, made a hole
In one at the- Oak Knoll coarse
Saturday. In one afternoon. '
Belle Bennett daughter or the
Original Billy Bennett will be at
ue uregon today and tomorrow i
"The. Devil's Trademark, said to
he one of her greatest pictures.
jueue siarrea in "Stella Dauaa."
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THE IDEA I
" We know a cock-eyed liar,
... Her nine is' Lena Deller;
She Bars she's never kissed
TOY. ' "
Except her regular feller!
CiniBLOX
G0II6T0T01
, Men of Salem had better keep
their hands on their pockethooka
next week.
XoreleL 4 champion gold-digger
of the axes., la coming to town!
Lorelei Is the widened, fluffy
little tiTwber whose inimitable
diary was opened for all to read
when Anita Loos wrote her how-
famous satire, "Gentlemen Prefer
HiMirtM So sensational were
the sales of the book and so loud
the guffaws of its readers that it
wa made into a stage- play wmcn
rinnilratfMt tile SUCCeSS Of the
book.
And now Paramount has made
it Into a motion picture comedy,
which will be the feature attrac
tion starting Tuesday at the Elsi
nore. In the picture, as In the
book and play, the career of the
dumb-looking (but not so dumb)
gold-digger provides one of the
funniest plots ever unwound in
movie celluloid.
Luretet s played by Ruth Tay
lor, former. Mack Senuett comedi
enne who was picked from hun
dreds of candidates, for one of
the biggest roles in ihe history of
the movies. -"She gives a remark
ably comic performance. " Other
great comedy players assembled in
a truly "all-star" cast are Alice
White, Ford Sterling, Trlxle Fri-
eanza. Chester Conklin, Holmes
Herbert, Emily Fitzroy. Mack
Swain and Blanche FridericL
Malcolm St. Clair, master of
drollery, directed the screen ver
sion of Miss Loos book, after she
had adapted it herself with the
assistance of John Emerson, noted
playwright who Is her co-worker.
The; picture traces Lorelei's
career from her early days in Ar
kansas, through Little Rock, Hol
lywood and New York, to Paris,
where she finally captures Amer
ica's richest bachelor, and brings
him back to the marriage altar in
New York. One of the high spots
of laughter Is the sequence in
hich Lorelei gets from a tight
listed old Englishman the money
with which to buy a diamond tiara
irom his own wife.
happy. He could wla applauae.
bat that didn't satisfy Mm. Ha
wanted to create laughter. Oh, If
he only could!
Glum and dispirited ha aat be
fore the mirror in his dressing
room la the Brooklyn theatre one
night whllo the old darkey dresser J
was laying out his things. Looting
up at the old man, he atghed.
-Why can't ? I make them
laugh?" came from him like a
moan.
rHah," amiled back the - old
man, "why don't you black up,
My. Al? We folks are taught to he
funny. Sure enough they'll think
von am fnnnv " . -.,
Jotaen grapsed the Idea. There
was still time to apply the burnt
cork for that night's performance
Nervously he faced the audience.
That night his act went like, the
proverbial house afire. The turn
ing point had come In the come
dian's career and since that night
America's foremost entertainer
has been known as a black-face
comedian.
Jolson's success has been laid to
his personality, his dynamic ener
gy and his voice. . More helpful
than any of these things, however
has been his sincerity. He loves
his audiences. This shows even on
the screen In Warner Bros.' pro
duction of "The Jazz Singer," in
which his charm is as potent as it
is when he faces an audience in
person on the legitimate stage
The screen has been enriched by
Jolson's appearance on It.
EDDIE PEABODY
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RECOMMENDS KID
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SUDDENLY TO STAR
"The Jazz Singer" Shows at
Capitol Theater With New
Vitaphone
. The luckiest break of his life
ame to Al Joison some years ago
while'playing a vaudeville engage
ment In Brooklyn: The comedian
was doing a white-face act con
sisting of patter, stories and songs.
He should have been - extremely
happy.. The ambition of his life
was to be a successful performer
and here he was with an act good
enough to get him fine bookings
which was proof that he was a
success. But Joison was far from by sending the front rank forward
Writing in the Portland Journal
last week when "The Patent
Leather Kid" opened In, the big
town. Grant ' Showerman. nard
boiled movie critic, said a number
of nice things about this spectacu
lar picture which comes to the
Elsinore next week, starting May
22. His article in part follows:
"If you have been spending 10
years or so trying to forget the
late war. don't ro to see "The Pa
tent Leather Kid." for It wll drag
you back into '17 and '18 by the
scruff of the neck; it will recall
faces you had almost forgotten
and you will be going about your
daily stunts as absent-mindedly
as a college professor meditating
upon the psychism of Psyche
"Richard Barthelmess as the
righting kid, brave with the gloves
but afraid of battle, gives pert
haps the best characterisation of
his career. This film should set
Molly O'Day flrmlr hpon the pedi
estal of dramatic stardom. Be
tween 'em they'll get you, unless
you're hardboiled clear to the
core.
"The film is long, sequences are
long, but you will hardly be
aware of it. It is a more faithful
picture of the war phases dealt
with than either "The Big-Parade",
or r" what Price Glory." In . the
writer's opinion. To the military
fan this' picture will be palatable:
Any military criticism of a techni
cal nature must be of such a min
or character as to be insignificant
Nowhere does a company deploy
TODAY - MONDAY
Laura La Plante in
'The Cat and the Canary"
The Great Mystery Picture
ADDED ATTRACTION SUNDAY
BABE RUTH IN
"BABE-COMES HOME ,
HOLLYWOOD THEATER
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Belle Bennett, who has the fea
tured role in "The Devil's Trade
Mark," an JV B. O. picture, which
will be seen today, and tomorrow
at the Oregon theatre, began her
stage career at the age of five
weeks, thus establishing a record;
for early beginning oehlng the
footlights. At that tender age
aha essayed the role of a prop
baby for her mother, who was al
the time playing the lead In her
father's company. She played with
her father Billy Bennett nntB
19 1 9 when ( she was engaged at
stock; f tar at tht Alcasar theatre
In Sah Francisco with Fred Bel
asco From that time until today
Miss Bennettvhas played only star
r6!esin pictures and on the stage.
WAR OFFICERS ASSISTED
Special Leglalatiornr For Part of
. United States Army
WASHINGTON. May 11 (AP)
The house late today passed
without a record vote the Tyson
Fitzgerald bill to retire with
three quarters pay emergency of
ficers who were 30 per cent dis
abled In the World war.
Eddie waa a riot at the 'Broadway theater in Portland for nearly
four months, and comes to the Elsinore with a big reputation all up
and down the .coast, He,is a part of the Fanchon & Marco "Ideas"
for this week. . ... . . t
with all the corporals, to be fol
lowed at stated distance 'by the
rear rank without . nonepms, as
was done in one film. No such
muddling as that in "The, Patent
Leather Kid.""" ' '
"The Patent Leather Kid"
COMING!
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sister to "The Big Parade" and
What Price Glory, and the battle
scenes and tanks in action leave
little to be desired in the way of
thrills.'
OREGON
TODAY TOMORROW
Singer Stock Co. in
"Excuse Me"
MILES OF SMILES
RAFTS OF LAUGHS
, SUNDAY, 35c & 10c
? Mon. Mat. 25c-10c
Eve. 35c-10c
On the Screen, Belle
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