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FACE SIX Local S " ? ft'", g ' r , ' r. l V '' A '"V: ''"-"tit " -Xit rv r--' . "Oh Sailor Behave" must be taken like all other free advice if its effect is as it appears on OLsen and and Johnson in the show beginning at Blighs Capitol Tuesday. Griffith Makes History As Talent Discoverer; Mary Pickford wa one (PWHtor's Note: tJiird of ; t! if tnrfes confmlntc ' I. W. Griffith written by Warrea Nolan. geaekU of the motion picture ra wrapped up In Griffith, the dis eOTerer of Mary Pickford, Lillian Olsh. Richard Barthelmess, Con etance Talmadse, Wallace Rofd. Rudolph Valentino, (who work ed for him in a prologue and played ' opposite Dorothy Gish long before 'The Four Horse men." Henry Walthall. Mae Marsh. Charles Km met t Mack, Neil Hamilton, Erich Von Stro betai, Raout Walsh, Colleen Moors, Blanche Sweet, Donald Crisp, Elmer Clifton, Doro,thy Giah Rabert Harron. Cheater Morris. Claudette Colbert, Una Merkel, j Bessie Love, Ralph Grares. Winifred Westorer and literally hundreds of others. It was .Griffith, meeting Doug- lai iiirviDnj ai io iew x otk The Call Board . By OLIVE M. DOAK BLIGH'S CAPlTtH Trfjr Erie Von Strohelm Thre Faces Kast." TnumdMif Ol3en Johnson lH''-Ob Sailor Behare. Iliurwlay Reginald Denay la "Tho Three French Girls." TimUy Robert Montgom ery in "Lot in the Roush." Monday . Buster Keaton In Douh Boys." Wednesday Clara Bow in "Her Wedding Night." THE GRAND Today Virienne Segal in "Brid of the Regiment." 1'rlday "Roaring Ranch," with Hoot Gibson. THE HOLLYWOOD Today Betty Compson in "Blaze b'Glory." Wednesday Wheeler and Woolsey in "Cuckoos." I-'riday Buster Keaton In "Dough Boys." All Riotous on the Keaton Front E tried to douse a. shell Inline ISfcSnsmi&IB a tin cup. It's like trying to stop laughing at this comedy of comedies!. IT'S A RIOT! I.EGIOV TICKKT ARB GOOD HERE (IS 33C3 Theatres Offer Special ArvnmUce premiere of "The Birth of a Na tion" at the Liberty theatre In March of If 15, who induced Fairbanks-to .tadca is fliw? at ihe nho Yls.wMoh dirt rt J in The- Lehib! a'picttir'p GHffitii superTised.' It was Griffith who tested Al Jol son. black and white face, silent ly, five or six years before. "The 3azz Singer"; today Griffith be lieves Jolson would have been preat in pictures even without his voice. Long before John Golden and Jed Harris gave her opportuni ties on the stage, something like ten years ago, when she was a very young child in her earliest teens, Griffith tested Una Mer kel. who now plays Ann Rut ledge in his "Abraham Lincoln," Most of the historic beginnings Tyere casual, aays Mr. Griffith; "Mary Pickford came and told me she wanted to pet in pictures. I gave her a test and said all right. The Gish girls came to the studio aod asked for her. Mary presented them, and I gave them i jobs." j Griffith, after two decades, thinks the motion picture form must always be pliable, that it will always be loose and indefin ite and changing. A film is more like a novel than a play, he does not be'ieve in time aift place and unity for the movies, he thinks character is the chief fo cal point of audience interest rather than plot situation, and that it is not necessary for the motion picture to be a short story in the sense of being a single incident or phase of a character, complete in itself. War as a theme has interest ed him more than anything else because he has loathed it and its essential stupidity since child hood; "It aolvea nothing." be says. But he has not been un mindful of war as a dramatic background, ' and he considers background vastly important. History has interested him for no other reaspn than that he likes it himself. No. he did not have in mind that a historical picture would have a longer com mercial life because it would not date like a contemporary film; he just felt that history and his torical characters were meaty en ough for a director to Sink his teeth . Into. Sam Houston. Gener al Grant and General Lee inter est him now, Lee because he nev er revealed himself, never talk ed, did not wish to bare his soul; MONDAY TUESDAY with war - the LausHoBuster ' Thm i ; w l Clara Bow as she appears in a scene from the picture "Her Wedding Night" which win show at Elsinore Wednesday. ,ReaL war Scenes, ai BligVs : "iy 'Capitol " -; Corporal EgglestW Billed for Armistice Day; "Three "Faces East" Today Manager Archie Holt announces that the Bligh'a Capitol will pre sent a double bill attraction for the Armistice day program. The feature picture is the new War ner Brothers success, "Oh Sailor Behave." featuring Olsen and Johnson. - Besides Olsen and Chic John son, America's funniest clowns, Irene Delroy and Charles King, help make the story one of ac tion and side-splitting comedy with the beautiful city ot Naples for a setting. On the same bill the Capitol will present on the stage Corp oral Bob Engleston and his pic ture, "America Under Fire.T This film which starts with the trans porting of the U. S. troops to France, carries the spectator through every phase of the war and closes with the reviewing of troops after the armistice has been signed. Far behind the lines of both opposing forces in the World War, men and women fought vehement ly for their countries, their one aim being to secure Information regarding the operations of the enemy. "Three Faces East," a mystery melodrama appearing at Bligh's capitol today, features Eric von Strohelm and Constance Bennett, and reveals for the first time on the talking screen the inner iwork Ings of the great spy systems of Benet's portrait of Lee In "John Brown's Body" seems to him per fect, j He has. frankly, romanticized his characters and his stories, al though he wrote a realistic play, "A Fool and a Girl," for James K. Hackett when a boy, and he filmed "The Escape." a realistic movie in which, for one thing, he showed microscopic life on the screen for the first time: some thing that General Electric has been doing for the colleges now, 18 years after Griffith. (To be continued.) HUML Vb 25c TAllbS TODAY and MONDAY Continuous Performance Sunday 2 to 11 P. M. First Showing In Salem , He's Back, Bigger Than Tbe "Rainbow Man" aT M I m mJLs a i . lll ll lll'y if I I r i Masic OREGON 6, t ; two countries engaged, in the World War. ; U .vij : : The THtfrsday bill' . at : Bligh's Capitol will ' be "Those Three French Girls," a farce in which Reginald Denny land Flfl Dorsay lead the laughs. Fill gets a chance to use the French which she did not learn In France but which is her natural expression because she is a French Canadian and was brought up to speak French. 'Love in the Bough" The Elsinore at 'Dough Boys' ' for Armistice BUI; Clara Bow in Com edy Later There will be no dull moments at the Elsinore theatre this week for each of the three bills to ap pear is an amusing one, construct ed to shift worries to the next morning and let the observing burden bearer laugh and be gay for a few minutes anyway. "Love in the Rough" Is the bill today, with Fanchon and Mar co in "On the !Set" idea, show ing the inside workings ot Holly wood they have been shown many times, but there is always something new. Monday will see the opening of Buster Keaton's "Dough Boys," reputed to be the funniest thing he has ever done. To add to the laughs. Cliff Edwards is also a part of the cast as well as Sally Eilers. It is difficult to Imagine how one could sit through this show without forgetting tbe gro cery bill and no overcoat at least while the show was going. To finish the good work Clara Bow comes along with all her jazz and pep and syncopates a wedding into something not familiar to our grandmothers. Skeeta Gallagher and Charlie Rusgles add to the foolishness and plot in such man ner it is said as to make a 11 rely bit of entertainment from this. There Is a bit of romance in it. Just to give Clara a chance the results make a fast action show so we are told. FOILED John Rutherford, who plays the heavy in "Whoopee," has es tablished a record In persistence r -rJI r?r u "ii ll iiiz-vL u i i With BETTY COMPSON H:.BY B WALTHALL FRANKER DARRO. AND A BIG CAST Broadway's Favorite Starr In an AJl-Talktagv Sin;, Dancing Drams Greater Than The Bain tow Man. 1 y 9 V. Hanley HAN, galea, Oregon Sunday Moralmr. Sally Eilers and Buster Keaton in a 'close np" In "Dough Boys" which will be at the P17tt8v3B8 (I -X , . - Conrad !Nager listening to some Lee in "Second Wife" at the "Bride of Regiment" The Grand at Nagel In "Second Wife" big Drama; Hoot Gibson Winds up Week The Grand will present "Bride ot the Regiment" In which Vir ienne Segal takes the lead with Allan Prior. The play l one con cerning a titled couple Jut mar ried and as they leave the church news comes of an Austrian up rising. The groom is an officer but he is induced to flee with his bride. A matter of pursuit, capture, intrigue and narrow es cape is given a new dress through the brilliant uniforms of soldiers, fighting, and grand old houses. Conrad Nagel and Lila Lee present a tense picture in "Sec ond Wife," in which Nagel really does some of the best acting of bis career. Not only does bis work interest one but it gives one something to think about. The place of the "second wife" is getting to be a real problem in the world and even though this is a play yet there is some food for thought in the story told. and hard luck. He went east to attend the New York premiere, but arrived a day too late. De termined to be present at one of the premieres, he started back to Los Angeles. In order to reach here In time ha had to take a plane at Kansas City. Bnt bad weather again intervened. The plane was forced to land short of here, and Rutherford ar rived at 4 a. m. on tbe morning after the premiere. mm - WHO WAS FRANCES HAWTREE ii -z. i lit V- With . COXSTAXCE BEXN'ETT and ERIO VON STROHEOI HERE TUESDAY, III1 i . i i .. 'iaKtBSaH lsaanasMRB1 1 -Added Armistice Attraction Tuesday-Wednesday Corp. Bob and his version of the Big Argument Official U. 3. War Pictures i "AMERICA UNDIHt FEIE- Nov enrJk-1930 f -V , X. 1 : . I isisinore monoay. -'v ?v . Mni-n a naff-"rfyi7irin determined advice -from Lfla Grand Wednesday. This shows at the Grand W-ed- nesaay. Hurrah for Friday and Satur day at the Grand when all the boys who live in the city can go to the show and see excitement as it could be If Hoot Gibson had the world to order. Horses and more horses, fights and what hare you. make this picture one to kill the deadly monotony of life as It Is lived in conventional circles. Stroheim Has Homecoming at Universal City Erich Von Strohelm' has had a real home coming celebration at Universal City. Sixteen years ago Von Stro helm came to America from Aus tria as an emigrant with ambi tion but no definite plan for es tablishing himself. In 1917. Carl Laemmle gave him a lead ing role In a war play, "The Hart of Humanity" and Von Strohelm became 'the man you love to hate.' Mr. Laemmle also gave the actor his first opportun ity to write and direct a picture and gave him to spend $1,500,- 000 on his second film drama. "Foolish Wives," a sensational epic. After free-lancing as a direc tor, and recently as an actor. Von Strohelm is back at Univer sal City following a trip to Eur ope, and will soon begin work on an original story, "Blind Hus bands." 13 TODAY and MONDAY ,w . -a .-.-jas ----. aV . Wke was iIms wenan af mysteryr War Narse er Spy? Hr sU. iTory fincen held the dciy ot a MtkMk .ad um f.t. mt tke nan she loved. EXTRA ATTRACTIONS ViUphone Acta -Talking Comedy Fox Movietonews and WEDNESDAY WW 71 tw . Insleaton , x 1 -2 Bay Eddy Dowling and Betty Compson in the picture "Blaze 0' Glory" which is now showing at the Hollywood. "Blaze o Glory" at the Hollywood ' First run Show; "Cuckoos" to Start Wednesday and Then "Dough l$oys" The Hollywood will start the week with a first run picture for Salem. "Blaze O'Glorv" atarrinr Betty Comnson and Eddie now. ling. This is a dramatic picture dealing With human emotion that lean and tear through the scenes of the play. Dowling, is .an actor who , peSore- the, ,war : comes. . He goes mio service and is wounded. The readjustment in civilian life com pletes the picture of strong emo- A r-. Of THfi RBSBfcafflJTT'. With YTVTENNE 8EGAL Walter Pidgeon, Alan Prior Louise Faaenda mm i4ILve Sua ttCne IIloIlasIb9, DID NOT COST I TO PRODUCE . It hasn't any War Scenes, or Airplanes, or Beer Barons, or Machine Gnns. Not even a Gangster's Gat. But it has a Grand Story. Rich . . . Honest to Goodness Comedy and what a Charming Cast. . '. "LOVE IN THE ROUGH" is the picture wth a Per sonality, the kind ot Movie you love to spend a few hours with. . . Here Is the Gay Country Club romance that presents the most endearing of all Screen Lov ers, Robert Montgomery and Dorothy Jordan. Not Colossal but Awfully Clever ... Peppery light drama, chock-full of chuckles and loaded with laughs . . . They thought he was a Millionaire, but all he had was Nerve, a Million Dollar Smile and a 300 yard driver on the golf course. . . On the stage "LOVE IN THE ROUGH" was a great Broadway Hit ... On the Screen it is a Nation-wide Triumph. . . In other words it's a Darn Swell Show. N THE 66on GDQQ SQl99 IIIiDEA 20 PEOPLE 20 Girls Comedy -- Color MICKEY MOUSE ggravn tlons. Wednesday will see the begin ning of a two day run of the laugh provoking. "Cuckoos" with Wheeler and Woolsey. There is no rhyme or reason In the story bnt It was made to be funny. That Is all the excuse needed for a things existence If It be real ly funny; j The much talked of , "Dough Boys' with Buster Keaton and Sally Eilers will be senn at the Hollywood Friday and Saturday. It too Is-recommended as '"all laughs." i . . i, i; 1 i 1 1 ,; v : iThe f Sim ( world. - moves i on heedless- of' old favorites. A well-known star of a few years back Is now serving as a day clerk In a Hollywood hotel. STAGE- TODAY ONLY r f i Y ' -'AM J L