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nlav Evening, April 11, 1925 THE EUGENE GUAED Tage Seven QFSYAND EVA BUY OUT SIMON LEGREE ,ry of Events Leading up to Acquirement by Duncan Sisters of Musical "Uncle Tom's Cabin Show." ' y I M . o Rosetta Duncan (left) and Vivian Duncan, and below, Rosetta as "Tops both of them wrote the songs. They opened in Snn Francisco, and the show was a "wow." Then their man ager discharged the sreters. The show promptly "flopped." He hired the Duncans again, and "Topsy and y and Kva, in partnership, have out Simon I-pgree. ; doesn't mean anything unless rend "t'nele Tom's C'ubin," sj what happened: in and Itosetta Iuncan. ning nd dancers, turned . Jlarriet r Ktowe's masterpiece into a I show, Vivian played Kva jva made a new record for attend ance in Chicago and Rosetta, inci dentally, secured a lot (if publicity setta the coal-black Topsy, and 1 when a policeman in a Chicago sub urb broke her nose for talking back to him. They came to Broadway.' The man ager, still playing the overseer in business life, didn't : get along well with his stars. So now they've in corporated, bought half the. show with the agreement that they're to run it themselves, and are the only two aet-ros-owners-marmgers in New York today. T PLAY TAKES BROWN DERBY icoming Pulitzer Award Prompts Talk on Seasons Best Theatrical Offerings HE NEA PLAY JURY'S TEN BEST PLAYS ' ilida. English, liart to Know. Full 'in v. Firebrand. (ianrdsinnn. ' , Slinw-Uff. Wild Duck. : Knew What They Wanted, it Price Ulury. liv the XK.V IMay Jury) iUUK, April 11. They'll bo limine tip the change and pass Hie lioiMpiets for the present nl Ke:imn in a few more weeks, Pulitzer prise of $100(1, ir -i ed. will lie awarded on April his jury nominates "Thy hut They Wanted" for the with ."Wiint Price Glory" a eciuul nml receiving execed inorahle mention, ''ulitzer offer is "for the orig eriean piny performed in New hirh shall best represent the mnl vnlne ami power of Hie i raising the standard of good good ia(e and good man' award will depend this year an f- r a lung lime past upon initi'in nf morals, taste and Kaih of the two plays men reek with profanity nnd 111 ' girl is ii"t onhodoxly "good." ?y ooml)ine more than any lie qualities uf power, sincer tnith. and they win this vote, what piny actually will got 1 "f the prize jury? There's )R. The prize might even go f the two favorite's here nom It might go to "The Kail shrewd and gripping comedy American vernacular bv the lames (ileasnn and George 1 Ti:ere are ali-o "Mre Pari-1 resents" and the departc 1 " euity admissible as to nior- and manners and possessed in power. Juries differently d might pick "Dancing " or the O'Neill tragedy 'I U'T the Kim." n noteworthy plays are il lain not to receive the prize, the? is "Processional." ilte tr"lv attacked and the ui't sticMIy praised of them nil. My acmnite satire, some I'ipht we the greatest .infl-i-the standard of good There is "The Dove," i!ie h" .pan-fl melodramas, nnd rehrand." a comedy of infi v 'n American autiior usui 1 141 ft8 rzz." v . 1 I J J f . frankly obscene for the sake of the fun it pn give. The rast ts thorough ly coiiippti-nt. Among them are siidi Provinceton players as Krigar Stehli. Walter Abel. Adrienne .Morrison and Helen Freeman. The new play. "Ostriches." is in the hands of a good conipanv which includes Katherine Alexander. Jan,. Heecher, Amelia Itingham and Mrrin Johnson. Miss Alexander in particu lr is excellent as a flapper daughter. The story might have been borrowed from the French stage. voung woman falls in lore with the elderly man who is the lover of her mother. The two deride they wish to he mar ried. At the end the girl suddenly reverses, decides (lie man is repulshv and everything concludes for the best. The earlier situation is not convinc ing and the solution appears to result from the author's whim rather than "is logic. Dutch bob will be clipped. From then on he will have to depend upon 1 his abilities as an actor, on bis in t dividual merits, rather than upon j cuiiuivn cuarm. auii ior mm rwu nis roles during tue next tew yearn will have to be very carefully selected. At present there seems to be some debate' on the part of bis producers whether to direct bis appeal to child ren or to adults, primarily. Occasionally a story can be found which makes the unirersai appeal, which enthralls young and old alike. but they are rare, and Jackie baa had only one or two of these. First showing of hia latest, 'The Kag Man," have been keenly enjoyed by adults, but haven't been so en thusiastically received by youngsters. Men and women catch its fine shad ings of pathos and humor. For boys and girls there is lack of grip to the story, containing inonj elements of little concern to childish imagina tion. In this respect, "The Hag Man" just reverses "Little Kobinson Crusoe," which fairly made young sters crawl with thrills and dreads and; conquests. Coogan is quite capable of either role one offering mischief and ten derness for the tearful chuckles , of oldsters, or one providing " mischiev ous heroics for those of his own age. But to carry the bruut f a story as a star, and to entertain young and old alike, is perhaps asking too much of Jackie, even though he is a prodigy. On the other hand, children alone do not come in paying crowds to the movie houses. They are brought by parents, and parents want some entertainment, too. So Coogan's screen job is to send the kiddies into transport.? of delight, to hold sus pense and illusion, and at the same time to bring to their escorts quieter and retrospective delights. The golden age, financially, for Jackie's promoters is probably past, at least on the wane. Jt is unlikely that the boy will be given another contract of quite so fabulous figure as his last with Metro. Producer:! do not seem to be so eager to bank on the next few yeara of this young genius life. And here, it seems to mo, produc ers are underestimating the singular ability and personality of the little star. They seem merely to consider him a winsome child instead of one of the finest actors, irrespective or age, on the screen." In "The flag Man" he gives a moving account of these talents a performance baseil on art rather than mere childish im pulses and a .director's coaching. It is Jackie Coogan the actor that pro ducers will have to consider jn future contracts. Ben Turpin Quits Motion Pictures LOS ANGELES, April 11. Ben Turpin. motion picture comedian an nounced that he has decided to quit the screen. His retirement was made imperative, he explained, by the ser ious illness of his wife, who recently suffered two strokes of appoplexy. According to friends of the come dian, Turpin is doing his own house work to he near his pick wife, who cannot, stand his absence and bcromoi, irritated at the servants. A pair of beauties on Broadway; Above, Vivlenne Segaf, "Follies"; below, Jo Wallace, "Is Zat'So?" mediaeval Italian material in the French manner, Foj-ejgn authors ineligible "for the prize have helped brighten the New York season. Thee authors intitule Shaw. Ibsen. Molnnr and Galsworthy. .Last year, it may be recalled, the prize jury selected "The Show-Off" receive the prize, but the advisory Imnrd reversed them and gave it to "Hell Bent Fer Heaven." "The Show Off." incidentally, still is prospering here, while the winner departed hug since. And last year, beyond the pah; of eligibility, were such imposing pro ductions as "The Miracle," "Cyrano de Bergerac." "Saint Joan" and "Out ward Bound." Coiigreve's "Love for Lore.' nnex purgaterl and rohirstiously laughable, lias been revived at the Greenwich Village theater. It is the second phy nf this master ft Itestnration comedy to be given here this year. It U Play Is Resumed After Two Years Will Jackie Still be Star Of. Films? : Critical Growlng-up Period at Hand For Him By JACK jrXGMKYEIl NEA Si-i virc Writer XE,V YORK, April ll-.A rriticl poriod in tho profossioun life of Jarkie C'onsnn is at .hand that un-ri-rtain timo hctwocn bnb.vho.nl anil adolescence which has eliminated many promising juveniles froIn tl(, screen. There is no doubt about Coocnn's survival. But soon he will be Jack instead of Jackie. And . soon his LONDON, April 1 1. (A) r.ad.v Eurnival, whose iteeriiae in her own j riuht is one of the oldest in existence, ! dnting back to J2fl". decided recently I to take up her acting for the film. where she left off two years njto, witn a play never" completed because of mechanical difficulties. I.ndy. Fiirnival is the wife of Com mander A. W. Asar, of the Brilitli navy, who was awarded the Victoria cross for hit) attack on the bolshevik warships at Kronatadt during tl'ic Russian revolution. Lady Furnival is fairly tall, has light brown hair nnd features which managers consider particularly adaptable for .screen work. "INTRODUCE ME" STARTS STRONG BUT GOES INTO EXTRAVAGANCE Too Bad Hannibal Didn't Own This. Comments Reviewer on Spectacular Stunt To me this was the most effective novelty in the picture, an unusual element in film fun, checking laugh ter for a moment, only to provoke it the more after the impressive contrast. The custom of lifting the bride over the threshold of her husband's home originated in Scotland, where it was believed some mishap would befall her if she stepped pn the stoop. TULIPS ARE BLOOMING Order Bulbs .Now From Fred C. Montgomery Oarden nn E. at. Bet. TthSth BULB GROWER Springfield, Ore. Cut flowera in season. FILMS DEVELOPED AND PRINTED "THE WAY YOU LIKK Til KM " at Baker -Button's KODAK SHOP 7 West 7th Eugene, Ore. "Everything Fotographlc" Eotnf, Leading "Kodak" Store for" 10 Years 3f HAVE THOSE OLD FURS REMODELED We do all kinds of fine work Re modeling and new work. Bring in your raw furs and have them tanned and made up. We can save you money. E. C. Eckert TAXIDERMIST AND FURRIER 832 Olive St. Pin. 'iTSS?!' llfVA-iiti.:ijiiiitOTwqafc'... Mary Pickford for The Modern Girl (Continued from page six) ventures of the girl are followed from initial employment in a r-aud-10-reiit store to eventual business success. Hokum (most debated and debat able phase of current picture-making i will be absent. Little Annie will depend on human qualities. Reasons for Miss l'ickford's return to American modern girl parts are two: firt, to please her fans, and, "ecoud. to please herself. Dress-Up Parts Hated "You know I detest dress-up parts," she says. "Picture-production periods are iny playtimes. When 1 can be myself, or true to myself, 1 can have a ( regular romp. That's the kind of picture this will be. Hig names (other than that nf .Mary) and' spectacular scenic effects are no part of the program of Littlo Annie. The story will present itself for judgment without other claim than its intrinsic merit. Nor is .Miss Pickford the only one whose early ambitions will be near ing fulfillment as I jttte Annie is transferred to film. William Bou dine, .the director, is the other. Property Boy Makes Good Hack in the way earlv days when films flickered and accompaniment was a tinny one-pianist orchestra, Humlinc was an assistant property boy at the Kiograph. On the same lot. earning $o a day. was a little unknown named Mary Pickford. Some times she played leads, and some times '"bits" for such was Uie sys tem of that day. Itoiifliiie, ambitious then for ft fu ture directorship, predicted that he would some day direct Mary in one of bis pictures. A long time from then to now, but Boudine doesn't neglect to say, "Ah, I told you so." Douglas MacLean and Anne Cornwall Iy JACK JIWGMEYEU (NKA Service Writer) NKW YOKK, April 11 Had Hong las MacI.ean sustained throughout the picture the high level of polite comedy achieved in the early reels of his lat est, "Introduce Me," it would rate among the best pieces of screen fun ever done. Miit in the end the plausibility of situation, which gave it rfality and suspense threc-uuartcrs of the way, veers so sharply into wildest extrava gance that the spell ia broken and a fine effort aomewhat mangled. And it seemed to me, quite needlessly because of over-importance attached to the presumptive value of novelty "gags." In this case the two final "gags,' no doubt the pride of tho producer. Arthur K Kane, and the story au thors, show MacI.ean masquerading as America's greatest mountain climber, hurtling down a fnmnus Kwi!K peak encased in a huge snow ball, breaking trees and bouncing off cliffs in a many-thousand-foot plunge, to emerge unharmed beside his sweetheart as the snowball encases her and breaks to bits. A very funny situation that, Jn itself, hut not in tone with the rest of "Introduce Me." , Despite the in congruity, however, the picture is still one of the season's best highly entertaining. MacLean as "Jimmy. Clark." a reti cent young American impelled by sud den love for "Petty Perry" (Anne Cornwall), allows himself to become tho victim of mistaken identity. This forces him to reveal tho masquerade and presumably lose the girl, or en ter a hazardous- mountain-climbing contest in the Alps. The real moun taineer is orf hand to see that he does not fake the climb. Love im pells him; danger appalls him. And the rirt'n fmhue i .1 liut,.i;rfn i stirred to rage by many unintentional oitenses. is a further burden upon the timid young American. Faint with terror, the boy who has never even climbed a hill, essays the ascent of the Malterhorn in a race with noted Alpinists. Pursuit by a bear the more imminent of two evils forces him up the peak in rec ord time, and the nforeinentioneil snowball, formed by his rolling fall, brings him down even faster. At this point, where the bear en ters the scene, "Kxcnsn Me" becomes artificial, broad comedy. Instead of showing the bear and the youth in a pt.Piide although hnzatdous climb, the camera is tilted at an angle to make the violation of gravity plainly evident. nla'ncing this fault in rtireeHni is a scene of high pathos which is a stroke of genius. It comes mi "Jimmy" is on the moonlit veranda of an Alpine inn, asking the girl to marry him. Together they arn glanc ing aloft at. the towering Matterhorn, beautifully presented by the camera, where on the morrow the boy feels he is to lose his Ijfo in payment for his love. Here is the sublime, mystic, eter nal pate of the great Alp looking down upon the puny human comedy, love and fear, enacted as in this movie, over and over again nt its base. Some such feeling moves one as this scene flashes on, and there is nn laughter at Jimmy's ludicrous plight. Perhapa, one is nudged to think, from that altitude all our fun is tragic, and all out tragedy comic New Shipment of Floor Coverings You can replace that old faded rug or. piece of linoleum this ' spring at little cost. Get our prices on floor covering. We can save you money. . ' WE BUY AND SELL FOR CASH AND SELL TOR LESS Johnson Furniture Co. 625 Willamette Phone 1 1 88 - d Know Where Your Bread Is Made SANITARY INSPECTION REPORT , office of tho Oregon Dairy and Food Commissioner PORTLAND, OREGON J. D. 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