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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 9, 1929)
PAGE TWO Tile Week's Events ItfiS m - -- " - - GUTHRIE BOOKS BIG HIT FEATURE Another big all-talking, picture booked by George B. Guthrie, owner and manager ot the Els!- note, under the recently-announced new policy of bigger and bet ter entertainment, is Richard Dix in his first all-talking picture. "Nothing But The Tmth." This production Is-announced as com ing to the Elsinore following the rua of "T e Rainbow Man," which is now current. ' "Nothing But The Truth," is i said to bo one of the bezt pic tures that Dick has had occasion to appear in. It also furnishes the popufar star with an excellent ov portunity to display is dramatic and comedy rersatfiitr. This picture Is that favorite of farce successes revamped for the screen, filled with the newer and better comedy situations and an adequate trimming of music, and dancing. Dix plays the Part of the young man who makes a wager that he can tell nothing but the truth for 24 consecutive hours. He wins the bet after going through a ver ltable circus of bizarre and up roariously amusing situations. The play Is full of rich bumor and does not lag for an instant. Helen Kane, famous phono graph artist, plays a stellar part In the picture, as her f.vi ous "baby talk" manner Is an agree able feature of the production. DESERT SOI' ID 11 The Desert Sotg." thriiliBg Riff operetta, will be at the Elsi nore on Thursday night, June 20. Produced for the coast by Lil lian Albertson. "The Desert Song" is repeating hare the success it won in the E?st and abroad. The composer !s Sigmund" Romberg, who wou all hearts witjh hU "Stu dent Prince" score, qscar Ham merstein II. Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel collaborated on the story. The production is altogtther in keeping with the romantic locale of "The Desert Song." far-off Morocco, both the desert tents and the spacious palace of the French gorernor. Cecil Stewart conducts an orchestra of 23. while a chorus of fully 40 male voices roars out the "Riff Riding Song." "Ro mance,' "Ifare "The Sabre Song." and three other Romberg songs that seldom fall to score a bit with "The Desert Song" audi- ences. NEW CAUSE FOR IDLENESS One of the causes for unem ployment in Europe is that our working tires hare been prolong ed, declares a statistician.' At one time, he say3, "too old at forty" as the cry throughout the world, but we have now found that we are not too old at CO or 65. Mora than JJ,00,00 sheep and lamb skins were tanned In this country last year. Thrills "1 1 i '"5 fwS- - Thix in pnrf( VnTlsut who nlm the part of. Asart .la the thrilling operetta, ' Tbe - Desert Sob" which comes to the Elsiaore oa wednetOay, June St. HI IS HEffilS (h; Joan, Doug, yW ' ',, ' t , tf', ''ill ' V '...'..:: . 'S-.V. 5 4 f ' A ? i - ' . ' "i I i , f 4 ' i r.W; w a - rr, vV V r ' ' i n ' -"Til r r . 4 j l - V1 ? ' r P rv, ! L J 1 ' " ' 1 1 f k ' ' ' 1 1 Kit ';.,::: No wonder the recent loTPmak'ng of Joaa Crawford and Dong Fairbaaks, JrM seenis ao real ia tbelr latest pictures. Were they nto just practicing for this fade-out after their marriage at New ork? Everything la hotsy-totsy Fairbaaks, Jr., admits she Is the FIVE ROOMS Elaborate Settings Are Used By Doug 'IRON MASK' DRAMATIC Five rooms were used for the storage of the properties for "The Iron Mask," Douglas Fairbanks' latest picture, which will be the attraction at the Bligh Capitol theater Sunday. The props ranged in size from the tiny poison ring worn by the mad twia of Louis XIV. to the thousand-gallon wine kegs in the ancient inn. They varied in kind from a life-like doll baby to the warm and practical food served in many scenes. The properties used In the pic ture were of tow kinds, those de signed and built especially for "The Iron Mask." and those rent ed or borrowed. The priceless an tiques and seventeenth century furniture were obtained from art collectors' galleries and museums. The other props were built by the Fairbanks technical department after the designs of M. Maurice Leloir, world famous authority on the seventeenth century. ' Carriages Blade By Hand Then carriages, varying in atyle from the ornate coach of the king to the Tough cart of the wine sel ler, were constructed and decor ated by hand. One property room was devoted solely to the trap pings ot the five hundred horses used in the picture. Two thou sand candles and six hundred torches were purchased and made by the property men. They con strncted three hundred medieval rifles and rifle rests and five hundred ancient pistols, all prac tical as well as authentic repro ductions of the firearms of that period. Fifty cases qf priceless Club Is Organized By Gervais Women GERVAIS, June 8. Ten past Noble Grands of the Rebekah or der, met at the home of Mrs. Mary Sawyer recently and organized Past Noble Grand, dab. The fol lowing officers were elected: Mrs. Minnie Moore, president; Mrs. Dolphlne. Harris, vice president; Mrs. Anna Dunlavy. secretary: and Mrs. Florence Shields, treas urer; Standing buying committee: Mrs. Jessie Ooomler and Mrs. Flo rence Shields. Refreshment com mittee, Mrs. Minnie Siegmund and Mrs. Minnie Moore. Refreshments were served by the hostess. , r Poresent were the. following eharter members ot the dub: Mrs. Florence ' , Shields.'. - Mra Ida Schwab, Mrs. Anna Dunlavy, Mrs. Minnie Moore, Mrs. Minnie Sieg mund. Mrs. Dolphlne Harris, Mrs. gladys Fitts, Mrs. Jessie Coom ler. Mrs. Minnie Alsup, and Mrs. Mary Sawyer ;- . . Mrs, Minnie Siegmund will en tertain the elnb at the next meeting- which wW be June 15. Plans are being made for sewing and .famishing tome supplies tor the Odd Fellows home at Portland. . Hie Jr. Knot Tied ;. :. . - - ' ti with them now and Kirs. Douglas happ'est girl la the world. FOR PROPS silver, crystal and china were stored la the property rooms and fifty feet of bins were filled with seventeenth century household equipment, brooms, buckets, lin ens, bedspreads and kitchen uten- S11S. Property Maa Famous Paul C. Roberts, who served as master of properties for "The Iron Mask." is famous in the cin ema realm where prop men are considered artists. At a moment's notice he produced from his store house anything from fresh roses for the Queen's bedroom to an cient fishing boats and nets. A catalogue ot "The Iron Mask" properties woud rival the lists of any mail order house in number and variety. Open Nowl At Regular Prices Four Big Days fl J JT 55 Added H 2 ri i j FANNIE WARD V ' V '!f Gleason V Daffy I . ' "" On Its Way to Blights Capitol! . Here Soon! .It OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, June 9. 1929 Ss5h The Elsinore Theatre started It's new era of bigger and better entertainment with a bang, and capacity crowds were swarming to that playhouse to view the current program. Eddie Dowling. considered one of Broadway's most popular mus ical comedy favorites, appears in his first all-talking, singing and dancing picture, entitled, "The Rainbow Man." which is the big pot on the bill. This picture, which glorifies the minstrel man. has romance, pathos, comedy and action all of which are Intelligently played and sung as part of the plot. Dwol- ing wrote the story, as well as the excellent lyres, which is one of the bright features in the pic ture. Marion Nixon, Sam Hardy, and Frankie Darro, furnish Dowl ing with admirable support. On the same bill for today only, will be an unusually fine Fanchon and Marco show, "Varieties." This show is an excellent stage per formance and is very 'entertain ing. ' L. Carlos Meier will offer an other of his Inimitable organ con certs, which are proving very popular with Salem theatre-goers. E TO URIMOE The senior class of Willamette university leaves as its gift a new concrete senior bench, it was re vealed Saturday afternoon at the class day exercises. Announce ment of the gift was made by Donald Grant, president of the class, and the acceptance was by Rev. M. A. Marcy of the board of trustees. This bench will replace a bench given by the class of 1913. The old bench has become cracked and broken by the growth of the maple tree around which it was cast. The senior class will was read by Lela Bell Sanders, class testa tor, and the class prophecy was revealed by Charles Kaufman and Carol Pratt. Athletic awards were presented by oCach Roy Keene for baseball, track and other spring sports. Forensic awards were pre sented by Professor Leland Cha pin and awards for work on the Willamette Collegian were pres ented by William Smullin, editor of the paper. ALARM AT WOODBURN WOODBURN, June 8. An ear ly morning alarm brought the de partment out to tht Leonard Fleishman place Thursday. The Fleishman place, located close be tween two other residences, was the scene ot quite a bit of excite ment. The volunteer firemen rushed to the call in hope of sav ing the other two houses only to find the alarm a false one. One ot the nighbors upon seeing the smoke pouring from the windows sent the alarm In and when the gallant heroes In red came and climbed In the upstairs window they found Mrs. Fleishman quite unaware of the excitement. The cause ot the whole thing which got the late risers in the com munity out ahead of schedule was the fumigation lamp burning downstairs. AL SINGER WINS VALPARISO, Ind., June (AP) Mrs. Catherine Cassler of Chicago was charged in a coron er's verdict announced here to night with having fatally shot Miss Cameola Soutar whvse body was found near Nebron, Ind,, Decora- tion day. HI C ffflllSTS 1'IILL HOLD SCHOOL HE Plans for the three weeks daily church school which will open Monday morning, June 10, at the Jason Lee Methodist charch are virtually completed. All children between the ages of five and 11 years are invited to attend, the committee announces. The school program will consist' of Bible and study classes, games, music and dramatization arranged for the three departments: kindergarten, primary nd junior. Registration will be held at 9 o'clock Monday morning. Instructors for the school are announced as follows: kindergar ten department Mrs. E. C. Mil ler, Miss Gwendolyn Hubbard, Barbara Barham and Hazel Ma son;; primary Miss Beulah Gra ham, Mariah Voth, Ruth Smith and Mrs. Maria Putnam; Junior department Miss Faith Friday, Mrs. E. J. Smith. Miss Eleanor Henderson .and Rev. and Mrs. Har ry Gardner. . Mrs. Edna euis wui be supervisor of the school and Miss Gladys Gilbert and Mrs. Clif ton Mudd will have charge or tne music. CHILDREN'S DAY TO BE Children's day will be observed today at the Calvary Baptist church, when the following pro gram will be given: Song, school; prayer by Rev. W. Earl Cochran, pastor; song by primary', and beginteNI depart ments; reading, "Children's Day" by Bobby King; exercise, "Rain bow Gleams" by seven boys; ex ercise. "Friends Across the Sea." by Elizabeth Welborn, Marie White and Helen Ralph; reading, "God's Promise" by Schuyler Gile; exercise. "Three Good Boys" by Dwayne Bingenhelmer, Dud ley Blatchley and Stanley Wel born. Exercise. "Message of the Flow- era," by six primary girls; song. "Night and Day," by primary and beginning pupils; salutes to Amer ican and Christian flags, junior GroUtst agrtgatUtt of arau talent eutr assmbtid! Ift so Dig it needs the sky for a root and alt ousdbors for astadi. Brilliant nreworKs Display! 00 03) 00 ft OBSERVED HERE - i DW1T TeOIISS 1 I - I V' ' IS ) " I The first of our new era of bigger, end better enter tansienL - Now 1 2 Eddie Dowling, 3fartoa Nixoa and production, "The Rainbow tan," a departments: exercise. "O u r Flags" by junior boys; song by the "joy class;" song, "God's Word in the Garden" by interme diate girls. Closing song by the school. Indian Chief Will Lecture At Store Chief Little Bison, full blooded Sioux Indian, will lecture on the various tribes that once inhabited the Willamette valley when he ap pears this week at Miller's store. The chief is widely known as an expert on Indian lore. He is de clared o hare considerable know ledge of the history and legends of western Oregon as well as other parts VT the northwest. A general invitation .lias been extended to the public to visit Miller's store and hear him lecture. ELSINORE THEATRE ONE NIGHT ONLY - WED., JUNE 26 THRILLING OPERETTA" Better than his "Student or "Blossom Time" : uear tne songs wnica Jbare encircled the globe l "One Alone" "Desert Love Song CHo!" "The Sabre Song,"' "One Flower In Your Garden," and a dozen others. OVER ONE YEAR IN LONDON, NEW YORK, CHICAGO. M WEEKS IN SAN FRANCISCO LOS AN SELES ALREADY IT HAS ENTHRALLED MILLIONS. Rousing male chorus, best outside grand opera. BeauUous houris who can sing as well as dance Cecil Stewart's Famous Symphony Orchestra. Prices Lower Floor and Mezzanine $3.00 BaL $1.00 - $2.00 - $2.50 Seats on Sale June 22. No Mail Orders Now! Not a Motion Picture CICJBTJE r? (xy if J) ( r r7 NOV PLAYING r : 7 MAAN NIXON FRANKIE; DARRO SAM HARDY UOYD IMGRAHAM A sono-Art production - furamoinu attheEIsinore i. 1 A! Frankie Darro ia the Sono-Art Paramo ant picture. Two In Physical Education Group Given Diplomas For the first time in the history of the physical education depart ment at Willamette university, two students are graduating this year with physical education ma jors. Heretofore, not enough courses in physical education had been offered to constitute a major. Next year, several women major ing in physical education will be graduated, as well as a larger number Kt men. R. S. Keene, phys ical director at the university, is head of the department. Twelve monkeys and a baby bear were recently taken by air from Amsterdam to London. Prince" 1S&Kk i- -:: 1 k I J . m awn a m - m m . a r a B HEAIT OIHI(S W All Galena ic Flbbhing to ucc It PATHE at SALEM'S ,J - """" - "Q'm vt wtlKt meson mmm iEffilESll BUM ALLY HUB in UIH, SEATTLE, June 8. (AP) Miraculously escaping death to day, more than 40 employee of the Harrison Dye works fought their way to the open air through lanes of burning clothes when an explosion of gas fumes turned the dry cleaning works into a seeth ing Inferno. E. A. Croucher, secretary of the company, who was standing a few feet from the huge wooden tum bler when it exploded, was knocked to the floor and badly stunned. He .groped his way to the street, where he recovered and returned, to the burning building to assist wome nworkers to safe ty. Mrs. Walter Lindberg, 25. was overcome by exhaustion and fright when she. reached the street and collapsed. She was recover ing at a. hospital. When firemen arrived, they found flames pouring out of the windows and through the roof from where it spread to a large frame apartment next door. The fire In both buildings was quickly extinguished, but not before the dye works had been damaged to the extent of 130,000. It Mhini But ssm 7 ii Che 11 ruth CL Qaramount Qicture FOLKS! I will he at the ELSINORE SOON In my first 100 all Talk ing Comedy Production . IT'S GREAT WATCH FOR IT! 100 per cent aU-talking, singing and dancing picture filled with sparkling ro mance, love, pathos and comedy. Also FANCHON AND MARCO'S GREATER "VARIETIES" Today Only) A stage show par excellence Eddie Clark 3Iabel and Marcla . Douglas Barley Santry and Xortoa and Othera SOUND TALKING NEWS L. CARLOS MEIER the melodious Warlitzer t GREATEST ENTERTAINMENT CX)3IE ALONG You'll Love T