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Page Eight THE EUQEXE fiDAED I 'J ! u 1 it. Week Brings Many of Season's Best Shows To Eugenes Patrons BILLS FOR NEXT WEEK ' Motion Plotures IIEIIilG Monday, "Broken Laws;" Tuesdaj, "The Range Terror;" Thursday, Friday and Saturday, "Th Dlxlo Handicap." . . HEX Monday and Tuesday, "The Silent Watcher;" Wed needay and Thuraday, "Born Rich;" Friday and Saturday, "Tha Tornado." Vaudeville HEILIG Wednesday, Wei tern circuit, featuring "The Five Sweethaerta." - 1 'plUS week has been exceptional In A L',ini thaatar MrriMi. Soma of ' " 1 n ; the beat productions, stage and screen, were here, and those who wished to see the better offerings were kent busy all week long. The Georgia Minstrels started the weak off at the Heillg. The old atandbva were better than ever, and all 40 of them helped to bring about the favorable comment they won. "Abraham Lincoln," beyond doubt one of the finest of all motion pic tures, was offered at the Kex. The ' vehicle drew so heavily that It was held over, and at Its last showings many people stood in line for hours to see It. It was a wonderfully fine nroductlon. Otis Skinner In his plaintive play "Bancho Pania" proved himself very lovable soul, and the ahowing here was voted one of the aelect of the season. Otis Skinner himself verj fine, and the whole play was one of the best. It will be long remem bered here. To bring the week to a successful close, the Heillg offered Mrs. Wallace Held in "Broken Laws." The picture will show again tonight. Tom Mix stars in the Bex picture, to be shown again tonight. The same of the production Is "Teeth.1 The coming week will bring mo tion pictures, with the one break on Wednesday evening, when Western Vaudeville cornea to the Heillg. "The Silent Watcher," featuring Glenn Hunter, who scored such tremendous success In "Merton of the MovleB," will be the Rex theater of fering for Monday. The picture will run for two days. Coupled with the announcement is another, that Hugh Winder and Miss Mildred Baldwin will sing in another . pretty prolog. "Moonlight Melodies is the name of their prolog, and they will feature "I'll Forget Xou," and "Suppose I Hadn't Met You." An organ prelude will also be given by Leltoy DeVaney, new Rex organist. "The Silent Watcher" Is from the Mnry Roberts Rinehart novel, "The Altar on the Hill." The Heillg offers on Monday the .Intent production of Mrsi Wallace lii-iil, "Broken Laws," which will be hold over from this week-end to meet the demnnds of those who have missed It so far. Western vaudeville will be at the Ilcilig on Wednesday. "The Five Sweethearts," a clever act, will head (lie bill. The Kex, on Wednesday and Thurs day, will offer Claire Windsor and Bort Lytell in "Born Rich." Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the Heillg will bring "The Dixie Handicap," one of the best race pic tures of late years, with a love plot running through the theme. Friday and Saturday at the Rex will see House Peters in "The Tor nado," a western story of the big timber. e e e Drawing a great deal of attention Is the Heillg announcement that the famoua team, Gallagher and Shenn, will be In Eugene next month. The songsters are known far and wide, and they are backed by an able cast, according to the advance notices. It will be the next big road show of the season. Johnny devotes his time to developing the colt. Because of Ill-treatment, Dixie la unuinnagable In her first race and stumbles over the barrier, pulling a tendon. When Johnny offers 80 -for the crippled horse, the offer ie accepted. Under the care of Johnny, Dixie re covers end just as Virginia conies home, runs in the great LatoniA sweepstakes. This situation Is led up to in interesting style, and the climax promises somo of the most exciting kind of screen entertainment- Thrilling Turf Story Coming to the Heilig WESTERN OFFERING 13 VARIED HOOT GIBSON FILM BILLED "The Riding Kid From Powder River" to Show Eastern Oregon, while It has not gstned the romantic fame as a cattle country that haa been gained by num erous western states, probably be cause the cattle Industry there beca ne established after the state had been settled to a great extent by agricul turists, has, however, produced many men who have become famous as bronco riders, ropers and other sporta of the cattle range. Among those who have gained such fame is Hoot Gibson, now widely known as a star In motion picture storlea of western life. Hoot's lat est starring vehicle Is 'The Rldin' Kid From Powder River," Unlversal Hoot Gibson production showing at ths Bell theater in Springfield Sun day. Hoot won much of his cowboy fame as a competitor in ths annual roundup, which held at Pendleton, has become one of the great exhibi tions of the sporta that are peculiar to the cattle country. RACING STORY IS PROMISED Interest for All Is Feature of "The Dixie Handloap" A racing story that has Interest for ' all Is the promise made for "The Dixie Handicap," Reginald Barker's newest Metro-Golrtwyn-Mayer pro duction, which Is coming to ths Heillg theater Thursday, Friday and Satur day. This picture is ssld to contain some of the most exciting horse race scenes ever filmed snd t the snme time tells a beautiful love story. "The Dixie Handicap" is a film ver sion of "Dlile," a story by Gsrald Beaumont and In tte screen form is reported to follow the orlglnsl Idea very olosely and add an extra thrill by presenting the racing arenas in tuth enttc locations. Johnny Sheridan Is saved from Im prisonment far stealing a meal by Judge Roberts, when tha latter learns he is a well-known horse trainer. Out of gratitude Johnny stays with the Judge through many bitter months of. poverty, caring for the Judge's fa-! vnrlts horse, Southern Melody. When Southern Melody la killed while pro--tin her filly, Dixie, from a cougar, ; "Five 8weethearta" Headline the Bill With Unique Aot. Headed by the "Five Sweethearts," the Heflix offers an nnuausllyattrac tlve bill for Wednesday night The Western Vaudeville circuit is coming to realise more and more that their excellent vaudeville offerings are find ing favor in the west, and they are keeping up the high quality. The Hel Sis; nine-piece orchestra will start the program as ususl with a popurtr con ceTt number, under the direction of Chsrles Runyan, conductor. . Ths Five Sweethearts have a diver elfied offering in which character de scriptive songs are rendered the way audiences like to hear tnem, while feat snappy national dances of the different rsces of people of the world affe portrayed In an entertaining man ner. Silken hangings and draperies of special make, together with novel lighting effects serve to high light the beautiful costumes worn by the dif ferent members of the quintette dur ing the time allotted to them on the program. Frank Wilbur snd Girlie do a novel Juggling and dance turn. The "Girlie' half of the firm also delivers her share of the entertainment with her clever dancing. . . George P. Wilson la a woman-hater and he voices bis trials snd tribula tions with the fair sex from the vau deville stage In a high-powered com edy monologue. 'Bits of Everything," the bluing of Hanry and Donnabelle Patrick, means well rendered program of tuneful melodies, all special, a violin aolo by the lovely Mlsa Patrick and some ex ceptional whistling by Harry. Bento Brothers, equilibrists de luxe, will offer a number which they title, "The Utmost in Bquilibrism." GLENN HUNTER AGAIN STARS "Tha Silent Ws'obar" Is Hit Latest Film Achievement. The atory of "Merton of the Mov ies" in a Mary Roberts Rinehart drama directed by the man who made The Sea Hawk," that'a "The Silent Watcher," featuring Glenn Hunter and Bessie Love and adapted to the screen from Mary Roberta Rinehart's "The Altar on the Hill," end an nounced as the next cinema attraction at the Rex theater, opening Monday and Tuesday. Frank Lloyd, producer-director of "The Sea Hawk," "Black Oxen" and other recent acreen aucceeses, baa transferred the Rinehart narrative to film. v The atory deals with the efforts a young eeoretary to a senatorial can didate to abow his appreciation of a promotion given him, by his loyalty, and many intensely interesting and ex citing developments arrivs simultan eously with the news that Lily Elliott, a show girl, with whom the candidate had been in close association, had been murdered. How the boy shields bis employer by assuming the blame forms a plot which brings about an unusual cltinax. ' Glenn Hunter plays the part of Joe Roberts, ths secretary, Bessie Love haa been cast as Mary Roberts, Joe's sweetheart. Hobart Bosworth plsys the character of Senator Steele and Alma Bennett, recently eeen in sup port of Corlnne Griffith in "Lilies of the Field," poreraya Lily Elliott, the show girl. Claire Windsor, as she appears in Reginald Barker's "The Dixie Handicap," which comes to the Heillg Thursday for a three-day run. make joint appearance in two scenes, -and on both occaiione the audience is loth to let them go. They first ap pear in the early part of the perform ance in the "Mr. Gallagher and Mr. $hean number, with the much heard of Nile setting. Their second appear ance Is in the Antes De La Corrida Toro scene when they present the bull fight chatter. Both Gallagher and She an take a prominent part in .other portions of the 24 scenes, particularly Shean, who Is on the stage several times. The bulk of the show is built upon the songs and the. dances, particularly the former. Moat of the musical num bers are of the fast-moving, modern type, yet a more sincere note is sounded in the "Beethoven Sonata" musical tableau, effectively handled f)y Lynn Cantor, Paul Mark man, Ar nold Gluck. Martin Griffith and Fred Cowhlck. All of the latterTare aUo prominent in other portions of the follies. The dances are, as a whole, well executed, with Genevieve McCormack and Betisie Calvin heading the terpich orean department in entirely differ ent, but remarkably interesting series of steps. dies,' will be presented both evenings at 7.25 and 9:30 just preceding the showing of the feature picture. SPECIAL PROLOG IS ARRANGED "BORN RICH" 13 ON ITS WAY Claire Windsor and Bert Lytell Star In Production. Claire Windsor and Bert Lytell have the leading roles in "Born Itich," First National picture, which is coming next week to the Kex theater. Wednesday and Thursday. In tins pic ture, thty have exceptionally ideal roles, being cast as a young married couple, "Jimmy" and "Chaddy" whose one purpose In life was to wring out, of It all the' pleasure they could. Uthirs In the cast of this picture, which is based on the novel by Hugh es Cornell, are Cullen Land is, Doris Kenyon, J. Barney ihtrry, Maude Turner Gordon, Frank Morgan and Jackie Ott, constituting ft group ol players of unusual talent. QALLAQHER SHEAN TO PLAY Famou Pair Will Appear In Program Soon. heillg After waiting a long time Ehigene and Mr, Gallagher and Mr. Shean are to meet at the Heillg next month, It tt announced by V. B. McDonald, manager. By this it Is meant Mr. Gal lagher and Mr. Shean as a combina tion and not indindually. Mr. Gnllaiher and Mr. Sheen are jnst ae theatergoers picture them, and there is not a dissenting vote that they are the stellar lights of the Greenwich village Follies." xney MASQUERADE OANCE VBNETA HALL BIO DANCE 8 AT. NIGHT Good Muelc Good Eate Good Time Everybody Come Beginners and Advanced Popular Songs Immediately WATERMAN METHOD WINNIE IRENE RUSSELL 244 7th Ave. E. Phone X9S7-J Mist Mildred Baldwin and Hugh Win. der Are to Sing. lleturning as a special feature of the latest Kex prolog, Mildred Bald win and Hugh Winder will again be beard in "Moonlight Melodies' in which the popular vocalists will ren dor two beautiful duets, Til Forget You" and "Suppose I Hadn't Met You," In anticipation of the Frank Lloyd production, "The Silent Watcn er," next Monday and Tuesday. Miss Baldwin and Mr. Winder scored heavily with Uex patrons sev eral weeks ago when two well known Eugene soloists were heard together for the first time, and from tihe :aany favorable comments of patrons and the numerous inquiriesas to the time of their next appearance, the Rex management is truly responding to poputsr demand in bringing the singers together again. Opening with nn organ prelude, "Broken Drenmn," an original com position by LeKoy DeVaney, newly introduced Hex WurllUer artist, the prolog will be staged in another spec ial setting with a new twist in light ing effects. In the belief that good music, both instrumental and vocal, is an aune dable feature of high class motion picture entertainment, the Hex should, indeed, be commended for its estab lished prolog policy with the first half of the week programs. A special musical setting has been prepared and will be played by Mr. DeVaney in 'accompaniment to "Tho Silent Watcher," n the big Rex Wur-j litser. The prolog, "Moonlight Molo- "THE TORNADO" IS THRILLER Scenes of TerrKlo Storms Are Shown In New Picture Big in its dramatic values, smash ing in its conception of the spectacu lar, "The Tornado," a Lincoln and Carter story b tar ring House Peters, will come Friday ai,d Saturday io the Rex. The picture is fine enter tainment in many ways, but probably its biggest appeal lies in the stupen dous scenes depicting the fury of na ture as emphasized in the resistless powers of storm and fluod. There are a number of these big scenes. The most 'thrilling and dar iug In conception are those resultant from a big log jam, which dams up a storm-swollen river until the flood waters threaten to sweep away a little settlement. At the same time there is an assault by hurricane, a veritable tornado that tears loose The uir is filled with debris: the other is the battering down of a bridge which collapses just as a train rs crossing, the whole being plunged into the river where the passengers and crew struggle for their lives. l'eters plnys the role of a man who seeks by the terrific endeavor conse quent upon a life in the logging camps to deaden the heart pain caused by what he believes to have been the infidelity of the woman who had promised to be his wife when he re turned from the great war. A stern, relentless, grim figure of a man, ue becot ne-B known as "The Tornado." Ruth Clifford playe the pnrt of the woman, and Richard Tucker plays her husband, who, it develops, was the false friend who came back .from France and told the woman the man she ihad promised to marry was dead. The couple come to the little settle ment where the "Tornado" drags out his existence and there meet. "The Snob" Coming A jazz New York cabaret and eight dusky. girl dancers form an interest ing -scene for "The Snob," Monta Bell's Metro'Goldwyn-Mayer produc tion coming soon to the Ilcilig the ater. The set is a reproduction of one of Kew York's many supper clubs, and as entertainers, Bell hired n high powered negro jazz band and the eight dancers, four of whom were with the famous "Shuffle Along' mu sical comedy revue. Blondes Nearly Extinct Blondes, you're facing extinction. What do yon say to that? At least George Fitzmaurice claims you are end he predicates his asser tion nn years of study of thousands of girls for his screen productions. Fitzmaurice recently had to select from six hundred Hollywood beauties for scenes in his new Goldwyn-Fitz-uiuurice National picture, "A Thief in Paradise." "But," he said, "while I found one hundred brunettes at once who could qualify as to beauty of form and face. ht wiis well-men impossiDie to uuu enough blondes to make up an oppos ing team of four." Doris Kenyon, Ronald Colman and Aileen Pringle are co-featured in this production, which la a screen version of Leonard Merrick's novel, "The Worldlings." It will be sttown at toe Rex theater soon. Glenn Hunter Stars in "The Silent Watcher" "Greed" to Show "Greed," hailed as one of the most realistic picture dramas ever produc ed, is coming to the Heilig In the near future. This is the great picture that tnnV two veara to make, and it is justly receiving the popularity it de serves. It is a tale of life, a clear cross section, that la gripping from the first to last. ComplloafJona Arise If you were supposed to be married and weren't and were occupying a drawing room with your fiancee on a train traveling across country and couldn't find a minister,, what would you do girls? Norma Shearer has such a situation to cope with in Ru pert Hughes' production of "Excuse .Me," which is coming to the Heilig Theater soon. i SP' " vraise of hi. Z. " "x here d.X" Glenn Hunter and Bessie Love, stars of "The Silent Watcher" are shown above. The picture comet to the Rex theater Monday for a Two-aay run. , Fight Is Staged Milton .Sills holds the record for pugilistic conquests in the movieB. Ex cept for "The Sea Hawk," he has staged furious fistio encounters in practically every picture in which he has been filmed, and not infrequently baB carried bruises end abrasions for days after, as a result. In "As. Man Deairea," in which Sills Is co-featured with Viola Dana, be engages in two battles. As British army captain in the Indian service, he battles hrs superior offi cer. Forced to flight to escape murder charge later, he appeara .as the captain of a pearl fiBhing schoon er and battles Tom Kennedy, one time heavyweight contender. She prize here is the love of Viola, who has the role of a dancing girl of the South Sea islands. 'As Man Desires" will be shown at the Rex theater. Seven Start Appear In one short series of scenes in "Inez from HoIIywood,,, the First National production to ne shown at the Rex theater appear no less than six b tsars, counting Anna Q. Nilsson, co-featured in the picture with Lewis S. Stone. The scene is one showing Holly wood's reigning "vampire" receiving fellow film folk In her dressing room, and her visitors are Antonio Moreno, Lloyd Hughes, Wallace Beery, Ben Lyon and Ford Sterling. Behind the Screen Hollywood JN RAYMOND SCHROCK, another ambitious young creative worker has sprung from the ranks to a posi tion of Importance In the movie world. Ray Schrock was, until Inst week, a scenario writer at Universal City. To day he is general manager of the Uni versal Film Studio, one of the most responsible positions in the movie business. Mr. Schrock Is the latest member of the group of young executives who have come Into prominence during the last few months, others being Benny Zeldman of Warner Brothers, Irving Thalberg of Metro-Gold wyn. and-John Consldine, Jr., general man ager for Joseph Schenck. , Al Green is directing "The Talker." Mr. Green owns and USES the largest megaphone in Hollywood! Charles Brahin, who directed "So Big," with Colleen Moore, Is at Uni versal City reading stories from which to select his first vehicle un der the Universal banner. Mrs. Bra bin, who is Theda Barn on the screen, Is preparing to make her first picture in several years for an independent company. Extras In comedy productions usu ally receive smaller pay than those working in dramatic pictures, where a modish wardrobe is nn essential. In Harold Lloyd's latest produc tion the entire supporting cast of men were scheduled to wear silk toppers, Held Over For r with PERCY MARMONT Even the large capacity of tha Helllo, has rut been ample to take ear of the Qrttt erowds who have tried to see this sensation, ae we will hold It over on Monday that veryona may have another opportunity. ' OLD WEST LIVES AGAIN IN PLAY "Thundering Herd" Described aa Eplo Pioneer Trlology Which Excels Ita Predecessors , By JACK JXJNGMETKR NEA Service Writer MEW YORK, March 21. In "The Thundering Herd, & stirring pic torial retrospect of the plains fron ,tier. Famous Players-Lasky completes an epic pioneer trilogy which Includes "The Covered Wagon" and "North of. So." . In some spectacular elements the filming of Zone Grey's story of the buffalo daya exceeds both its pre decessors. It has sweep and power and a sort of wild unrestraint be1 fitting the time it portrays. And for use of his chief characters, masses of people and backgrounds, Director Wm. K. Howard may -walk abreast of James Cruse and Irvin Willat in camera generalship. "The Thundering Herd" weaves a brusque melodrama about the pass ing of the buffalo, probably the great est slaughter in the history of ani mals, promoted by the three-dollars-per-hide bounty which sent cavalcades of hunters to the grazing grounds in the late '70's. The pathetic remnant of the once innumerable herd, now sheltered in Yellowstone National Park, is used for this picture a group of several hundred bison being made to look like thousands by adroit camera man ipulation. Indians in eagle bonnets, astride calico ponies, thumping the hide drums in final muster against tho invading whites, project another wraith of the vanished day. Among them are some of the best actors of the cast, adept in a pantomime which was venerable ages before the movie ; was born. I Thieving and ' murderous camp fol lowers of the hide hunters provide the' story'a menace, chiefly. They prey on the bloody industry of the others. One, the arch villi an iNonb Beery), holds in peril the girl (Loi , Wilson), whose welfare becomes the! main concern of the intimate drama. I To Jack Holt is assigned the role I of lover and rescuer. Raymond L'tit- ton is the pathfinder in the hero s I oft-interrupted quest a veteran plainsman. Beery's wife and partner V i Noah Beery in crime is as sombre a throat-splitting fury as has been seen on the screen, in the person of Eulalie Jen son. These principals, and many of those in the large supporting cast, are excellent. The story at times fumbles and sags badly. There is confusion of the lesser characters because of faulty introduction. But the onrush of action, the mass ing of buffalo, Indians, the protective circling of wagons, and finally the magnificent sweep of scores of these wagons upon and over the besieging redskins all this carries one across the thin Ice of technical fault with a galloping flourish. And at the end, where whirling conveyances, frenzied horses and bat tle-maddened humans pile up in a welter of passions, the scene in tro-1 mendous. ' Except for a reassuring footnote to the picture, the spectator wo,uld be lieve that many humans and be&ttH had been injured, at the least, in some of toe realistic melees. The note, inscribed by the secretary of Interior, testifies that the seeming cruelties in battle and stampede were not real. But the camera is a most convincing prevaricator. Th.r 8 that h. rr. Covered ef. rumhl 7t. A IHoWardS;T5..Tl Mt, claiui, th. J0 matured. U(rd," jj wept th. d.,1, ,lt! ft. Maine to Uregsa. "' fs population ol the., it ' " M li, ""til th. w. d.- And now they're "i;"" uee it? in, ,.:," t i J and see for yomMvt " tej Here's how. In the , Pussies are known word pus,, picture, .iU,i,'C of pusiutes. First th, es a huge puwl, Io fun begin.. 1 , ioJJ 4. ing" come, a subtitle th.n ,ttt11 of the holuonul .ectalV1' number of sauarn in w a few .econds tatTA" the letters sddm, i " " "H at a time. If rou. ST" the Jud.. i .!!" tmi u in store! if7ou h.-nr" lieve us, anyway, , w,',,,,'1 elaborate. "vuiuj Tennyrate, there's totoi mnrn thnn Ana M 1 . u. croM.wort after neit week's session it th, Itnl : Pon.il Su.1 , -u.ii .louog reuoUr Its. I oii.ioi UtlUr.aNitl PLAYS IRISH cniino Eddie Burke, that grand old IitJ iiiau. woo II toe nnnftoMAd l . ... bngplpes more than ?m ,1 - - --v jvau 0)C. gave namopnans a thrill from SUlki! WEB J. New York. nrhn fc. c . - r, ' , 7. " a mi mutt oi imn meiooici. For quality dgars, Prlaet Nn but the extras balked at providing these sartorial adornments without extra "extra" pay. In fact, it is whis pered that "the union" brought pres sure to bear and now all extras' con tracts read 'To Fatty Jones, $5.00 per day with stovepipe." Moral: Don't high-hat an extra. Arthur Edmund Carew Is a hermit in the most sociable community in the world Hollywood. There's a rea son not personal, but professional. Mr. Carew believes that after a hard day's work before the camera, in the creation of a characterisation, no player should permit himself diver sion that is alien to his immediate work. Carew, who has just finished two very different roles ns , the serio comic I'oulet In "The floomerang'' and The Persian iu "The Thantom of the Opera" claims thnt the actor, tn be true to himself, must be true ;o his character". "There is a difference," says Car ew, 'between characterisation nnH character acting: tho former is bring ing out the ultimate personality of the character, the latter Is a delineation of a character typified by certain ontstanding peculiarities." "The Remington of the Screen," That is the tribute paid William K. Howard, Paramount director, by Va riety 'a critic in reviewing "The Thun dering Herd," which Howard filmed BELL THEATRE SPRINGFIELD SUNDAY HOOT GIBSON in THE RIDIN' KID FROM POWDER RIVER Only a four-mile drive ind street car aervioe every hill hour. RIALTO THEATRE JUNCTION CITY SUNDAY VICTOR f ylW . FUMING 'V. DuuimccTioYt WAlUa BOXY WILIIAM COLilERjs. OAlktAMMS ERE'S A Combination That Spells E-N.f.E-R.T.A-1-NJvI-E-N.T That Can't Be Beaten THE STAR OF "MERTON OF THE MOVIES" IN A MARY ROBERTS RINEHART STORY, DIRECTED BY THE MAN WHO MADE "THE SEA HAWK" featuring Glenn Hunter BESSIE LOVE Hobart Bosworth "fS. I COMING I K MONDAY 1 WJ Th.f. 'Homs ot the Big Wsrlliref last time tonight TOM MIX in "TEETH" LeRoV DEVANE? Wurlititf
