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Stage and Screen, World of Pleasure. TUB THEATERS AXD 8TCDIOS. MTSIC, BONO AND DANCE. Vol XLLLL SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1924. WHAT TO SI PRINCE RIVAL COLLECTING LOCATIONS NEW VOCATION INSTITUTED BY PHOTOPLAY INDUSTRY ELTINGE WOULD BE BILL DALTON Famous Woman Im: ator Wants His Pvt.

FOR THE SHOW Rare Scenery Valuable to Cinema Companies, Which Devote Whole Departments to Search Every Foot of Country Where He Attends Gloria Goes Abroad to Play in "Sans Genen IDEAL TiACE. To Desert Stage for h. Business in South -p SHOOT AaJ Several New Hits on Manhattan Bills Plans Hotel in San Diego of SpanishType It -r ouiET FARM IT 6 BY GRACE KIXGSLEY Tou don't call him Julian Eltinge BY HELEN KIXMPH EXCLUSIVE DISPATCH NEW YORK, Sept 5. Marshall uxATr dvAir- 7WEfiw ''cw ACTING TAKES THE LEAD 'sBSBBOHHM Brunt Falls Heavily Upon Player's This Year in Sustaining SSA WW pp Many Mediocre Situations; the Advance I jS ttiK5 ACJicJ.fW i in Interpretations I ul uk l.Cw 3f- 1 BY EDWIN SCHAIXERT rp HE brunt cf sustaining pictures seems to be falling more heavily I even than usual on the players this season. I have looked at any number of productions In which their' work has been about the only salvation for situations that meant nothing, defied the logio of what had gone before, and generally possessed only the Neilan, completely disguised by waving mustache, slipped Into the port of New York this week accompanied by his wife, Blanche Sweet If the Prince of Wales had only had Mr.

Nellan for a director he might have averted all the crowds and publicity for which he has shown such a distaste since he arrived In New York. Incidentally, now that we have brought up the name of the young man who prefers to be known as Baron Renfrew, I think that he is to blame as much as the torrid weather for the almost complete lack of Interest shown In the pic ture theaters. Most of the thousands of amusement seekers seem to be attending only the races and polo games and other public entertainments where our British visitor may be seen. Capitalizing on this interest the Rlvoll Theater Is presenting the most vital and significant historical record I have ever seen. It pictures fragments from the reigns of Victoria, Edward VII, and the present George of England, and then gives appealing glimpses of the reckless young Prince who will risk his neck on the polo field.

The early pictures, of course, are Jerky; they date back to 1901, but they are interesting as an historical record. i Why doesn't some one piece together a few of the thousands of Interesting glimpses of the young Prince and make a short feature picture called "Prince Charming.1 Is ample material In the Pa the. Fox and other news film vaults and Judging by the popular Interest the young man it should be a huge success. Unfortunately the feature film which is shown at the Rivoll with 'the highly Interesting- historical film is Betty Compson In Female," It Is one of those things that only Its director could love. Miss Compson, worthy of better things, deserves sympathy and condolences.

Gloria Swanson has finished "The Wages of Virtue" and sailed for France, where she is to make "Madame Sans Gene." She Is traveling in the suite on. the Beren-garia which the Prince of Wales occupied on his trip to this country. Like him, she will occasionally dine 4n the public saloon, but she is retaining a private dining-room in which to entertain. She will not be outdone by royalty In displaying a democratic spirit. i Hugo and Mabel Ballin, here for a few days to greet the publication of his first novel, "Broken Toys," and arrange for the publication of the second, rushed (Continued on Page 14, Column 2) most meager ejements of continuity, drama and form.

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COOAnw FILM PRODUCERS ARE, SAiD TD Vfiy RAftEtV EMPt EVER. OM TU LOOKOUT" flOR PLACES TAKE MUMT C-Of-PooR. HAIL TO FANNY BRIGE -J- riCAMEAsiiy yKfP I EE. THAT IS A Lf A DANGEROUS LITTLE DEVIL IS CLARA, IMPISH, APPEALING, BUT OH, HOW SHE CAN ACT! If You Are Searching for Visit the Orpheurn any more not ana keep your health. He Is just plain Bill Dalton hollering for his pants! Never more, if he persiwts in this threat, will the beautiful Julian El-tinge strut his stuIT in feminine garments on the stage.

Julian Eltlnge is shortly to lie buried In a hundred feet of fluffy, frarrant memories. "The most beautiful woman in the world is a man," wrote Chan-nlng Pollock of Eitinge, in criticising one of his shows. Those words should be Julian's epitaph. Plain Bill Dalton is to become boniface, down In San Diego county, where he is to erect a large hotel on top of a hill overlooking Imperial Valley. "Say!" exclaimed Bill the other day, as we sat in the business of fice of Grauman's Metropolitan, "I want to quit the stage before they start saying.

'He used to be good. didnt Julian Eltlnge is a brilliant art ist. Bill Dalton is a shrewd, matter-of-fact business man. He is, in fact, a horny-handed son of toil, these days, for he has been work ing on his 160-acre ranch, where the hotel is to be built, out under the blistering sun, aiding in clear ing the land of underbrush and boulders, and his face Is blistered and brown, his nose rather red. his hands hairy.

If you would see Bill Dalton as Jane, now is your last chance. He Is to be at the Metropolitan this week. But after a season of several weeks In the larger picture houses of the country, he will park the depilatory and give his gleeful garments to the poor. You would never know him otr stage, this Bill Dalton person. la fact I've never become used to the complete difference between Julian Eitinge and Bill Dalton.

"I don't know," he eaid, "hon estly, how I'm going to camouflage my brown face and hands, gained from being a farmer in the great open spaces. But no more skirts for me forevermorei I want to let the hair grow on my arms and chest." And those marvelous feminine garments and those Jewels? What will Eitinge do with those? Borne of these. It seems, are to go to feminine relatives and friends. But as for the main wardrobe. Julian's manM" is to fall literally on two struggling young actresses, friends of his.

May that mantis bring them luck! "What will you do with all your time?" I asked Bill, who is a very energetto young man. "There will be enough abo't the building of that hotel and the improvement of those grounds to (Continued on Page 14. Column 1) WOTTAKER shown where he got oft. That 1 Clara's papa. A little man but never to be Ignored.

But Clara, listening. frowns slightly and whispers. "Well, he takes care of me in some ways, you know, but I take care of him In others," which may or may not refer to the fact that Clara's papa has already had a Hollywood romance of his own. In the meantime. Clara la revelling in her new life, her new opportunities, her new success, her new friends.

Her social decorum is of that natural, good-natured, pleasantly kind, very slightly disturbed by vague unknown spheres that she is on the qui vlv to meet with serene aplomb. She Is not going to be quite so happy in those Spheres when she reaches them unless she can manage to be comfortably unimpressed by them. It Is never going to suit Clara to aspire to social hauteur and cool condescensions. She 1 going to be happier ard lots more fun if she remain Clara Bow of Brooklyn and I should say she was th belle of Coney Island and a very superior little belle In that environment. Given the right sort of rol Clara is going to romp home to success.

She has been In thre pictures since "Black Oxen" and hopped off to Denver last week for another new production. VICTIMS OF VANITY She can act on or off the screen takes a Joyous delight in accepting a challenge to vamp any elected male the more unprom istng specimen the better. When the hapless victim Is scared into speechlessness she gurgles wttti naughty delight and tries another. Clara loves being interviewed. So far ehe can count the occasions on one hand, with a couple of fingers left over and she remember every word these curious writer people said about her.

Sh Just bubbles off a recital cf that film competition and the 10.009 competitors and the funny Judge and what her girl friends thovht about It and Just how everything happened and then looks at you triumphantly and says. "So that my story." She knows it Is almost like a fairytale and gosh, how surprised all the girls were school back in Brooklyn. Too lUtlo. wss she? Too fat. was she? Too young.

was ehe? She showed them But Clara can play el as impish, and then she looks almost refined and Infinitely wistful and aopeaWng. Dangerous little devil. Clara. Oh. I hope she won't ever try to be lady! JACKIE AS MOTHER Jacqueline Saunders ha one ef the most difficult acting roles cf her entire career as the vo'JDff mother in the new Thrma Inc nrrtH BY KATHEBIXE LIPKE If any of you "dear public" are longing tor an electric fan during this hot weather, please don't go to an electric store.

Go to the Orpheurn instead. The original electric "fan" is there and will -continue for another week. Fannie 'Brice is the best antidote for the power shortage I know. I talked with her- for an hour the other afternoon when she was In a so-called exhausted condition, and I am still run- On the surface this might seem to be a very disastrous condition for the advancement of the' film, And as a fact, it has some very detrimental because it Is sometimes difficult to descry when a player Is really, making much of little. The tendency to blame the performer for faults that lie rather In the character and in the plot.

There Is, however, a hopeful clr cumstance, too. Personality and acting ability, are really making headway and in so far as they are improving, this will mean much for the scope alloted to the scenarioist or the director when he really attempts to do more worth-while things. The costume features, for in stance, which for all their faults, were big undertakings, found many unprepared to meet their demands. Those costume films which have recently been ex hiblted, like "The Sea Hawk have shown a notable Improvement In acting, because the actors were more ready and experienced In the filling of such parts. If stories ever manage to get beneath the surface, or rise to some heights of imagination, In a Hot Weather Antidote and Hear Fanny me clared.

'Tm only unhappy when I'm neither happy nor sad. I can be rolling in heavy tragedy or sorrow and be perfectly happy, but deliver me from a calm placid existence. I've got to be perching on the top of the world or rolling down the oellar steps to the depths In order to be happy. But 'when life moves along like a there's an awful crash coming in my disposition. 1 simply wasn't built to stand the strain!" As I watched Fannie Briee dls- guise one of nature's smal' eruptions with a bit of mascaro until it looked like an intriguing beauty spot it dawned upon me that I wasn't running true to form at alL I hadn't asked her about her nose.

It was as bad a faux pas as to call on Mrs. Sm'th or Mrs. Jones and not ask how the children were. "The nos? Oh, it's doing nicely, thank vou," said the irrepressl. ble Fannie with a smile.

"It's acclimated now and quite at home. I'm sorry that Jack Dempsey went east before I could see his newly arranged nose. It makes -me feel well acquainted with him. We're both in the 'speaking of operations' class you see. However, I don't think mine looks much different than before.

You see It hung down a bit at the end, and so I sort of jerked the reins on it. that's all." About this time I realized that the electric Fan was slowing up a hit It was evident that the sleepless night and the strenuous work of the afternoon were reminding her of their existence. So I took pity on her and left But I've been feeling like a thief ever since. For I came away loaded up with pep to which I was quite a stranger, and I left her with her sleepless night collapsed in her dressing-room chair. But even at that she has the edge on me for I have run down already while the electric Fan has generated enough pep to keep Orpheurn going for another week.

COM.OXT RETURNS Mathilde Comont erstwhihs stage star of, Paris and London, has returned from Catalina, where she has been locationing with Jack Conway's Fox company now filming "Thorns of Passion." Miss stead of following along conven tional, bookish and footllghtlsh lines, why the chances are, they will gain tremendously by the progress which has taken place along the lines of mining, pan' tomime and other essential at tributes, especially screen inter' pretations. By the same token, the further away screen acting gets from stage acting, or you might say, acting of arty kind, the more It is going to approach something relating to art HE situation Unusual, to say the last that has brought the three brothers Ince together on the same lot Thomas is the producer and as such has had much to do with the making of screen history. And John and Ralph W. Ince are direc tors. Heretofore they have all three worked with separate organiza tions.

Most of the time Ralph Ince has been In the East but now, both he and John are associated with their brother in the making of features at the Ince Studio. SOME people must have received a terrible shock the other day wnen it was announced mat Gloria Swanson was suing Joseph M. Schenck for something less than This isn't at all in accordance with the Ideas that most people have as regards the valuations which stars set upon their money. Twenty-five hundred dollars Is after all relatively speak ing a pittance for Gloria, who re ceives something like $7000 per week, according to report. We sincerely trust that Gloria has not been getting poor since she moved to-New York, but no doubt the cause of the action which she has taken, harks back to that grand old maxim that it is the principle of the thing which counts.

-r WAS a pleasure to hear once again a concert the other evening given under the direction of Modest Altschuler, formerly conductor of the Russian Sym phony Orchestra ef New York, Altschuler was the leader of. a benefit the other evening at the Hollywood Bowl, and had an or chestra body under his baton com posed largely of the members of the Philharmonic and Bowl or- cnestras. us nas also decided, so I understand, to remain in California indefinitely, with the hope of being able to continue his mu sical career here. His talents are an undoubted acquisition, because he has a very rich background of experience. The Russian Symphony Orches tra, which he founded, was per haps not a great organization in the prominence of its personnel, but it was certainly a progressive and enterprising institution and fully lived up to its name of Russian.

Altschuler Introduced to America the beautiful compositions of his countrymen in vast number of Arensky, who was at one time his Instructor in orchestration, of Moussorgsky, Rlmsky-Korsakow, Scriaban and others, foremost exponents of the Slav tonal art Altschuler has also done some composing himself, which is filled with the spirit of novelty. He Is an enthusiastic and at times, inspired, conductor, and his concert the other evening afforded, despite the natural obstacles arising from a limited association with the musicians who were under his direction, plentiful proof of the appeal of his work. MARIAN DANCES Dainty Star on Location Write of Gala Event A huge street dance and carnival, participated in by fully 15,000 persons, has proven to be the most interesting thing seen by Marian Nixon, now on location with the Universal-Hoot Gibson company in Pendleton, Or. Miss Nixon says people from every part of the world, in Pendleton to attend the annual rodeo and round-up. took part In the Jubilee.

It was lighted by thousands of Japanese lanterns and was a rot-llcksome affair for all the members of th motion-picture troupe. I ay tn t. has REAL ESTXTE AQPOTS" TD 7rC USE TWFiR. Cu)M Staff Cartoonist Bob Day finds BY KENXETH TAYLOR HIS hobby of collecting has led mortal man into an infinite number of pursuits, predica ments, pleasures and businesses. Stamp collectors have specimens worth fortunes.

The same may be said of collectors of antiques. Jewelry, coins, rare cloths, autographs, photographs, cheeses and wines. For the most part this mania for collecting is evident only in one's spare time. Few persons make a living at it. But there are exceptions, and this article deals with the most exceptional of these.

In recent years the cinema Industry has given birth to one of the most unusual types of collectors ex tant. Material things do not interest him especially except, for refer-enoe only, photographs. He is the location man of the modern picture studio, whose work It is to have on file pictures or data indicating where any desired or conceivable scene, atmosphere, building, landscape, mansion, hovel, stream or lake may be found, quickly, cheaply and conveniently. A steel cabinet is his box of treasures, as dull and uninteresting from the outside as a cabinet of blueprints, but Inside containing facsimile samples of the nation's splendor and grandeur. WANTS SERVICE A director walks into the loca tion manager's office.

"i want last movm scream wun rocks on the left bank and a mead ow on the other," he says. HE GETS IT "You will have to go to Ventura county for that," says the location man, three and a quarter minutes after consulting his files. "It's so many miles north of Santa Barbara, and you ran fish there, but you can't swim. That, in enect, is tae way the system works. mom ex tna larger stuaioa nave ii, i ii i ii num a) ii i T-: A- BY ALMA We are going to hear a great deal more about this little person called Clara Bow and not Just because she ha a press agent, either.

The only thing that can ruin Clara's chances of fame and fortune in filmland is the possible danger that she will try to become a lady. I hope for her art's sake that her ambitions will tall short of that. At present Clara, who played the flapper In "Black Oxen" and is that engaging flapper in "Wine," whose innocence, violent sophistication and subsequent reform are largely expressed in hair styles the reform being Indicated by a chaste straight bob is a Jolly, natural, untutored. Impish Utile hoodlum, an engaging roughneck, one of those glowing creatures that rise up out of drab neighborhoods every so often to enchant the world. There is nothing highbrow about Clara and I suspect her of leaving school a year or two too soon.

She was, you know, a little school girl two years ago when she won that film competition in Brooklyn "for a combination of personality, brains and beauty" as she herself told me, with a Joyous giggle. CASSANDRAS CCOtPCTED 'They said I was too young and too fat and too all sorts of things." beams Clara, "but I won it and everything has happened from that. And to think poor mother died and never saw me in a picture." She can't be more than 17 or so no and she radiates sex appeal tempered with an Impish sense of humor. When I visited her in that Hollywood home with father and brother (eating spaghetti in comfortable unembarressment in the adjoining dining-room) she was all dressed for the motion-picture ball, with her wild hennaed hair in violent curls and her little feet restive in gorgeous slippers. She hennas her blonde hair so that It will photograoh dark In the pictures, but with it straight and blonde she looks much younger and much less mlnxlsh.

Father and brother are property Impressed with Clara's new importance and father in particular is naving tne time or his life. The cuspidor has not yet been banished from father's life, but I suspect It soon will be. In the meantime father is playing chaperone with fearful seat. He makes a point of answering the telephone himself and expresses the utmost suspicion at any male voice. His paternal vigilance bristles as he puts the voice through a stern cross-examination devoid of subtle diplomacy and leaving no doubt that Clara has a paternal guardian very much on the )b.

HIS PROrD RKCORD He proudly recorded some of these telephonic conversions for us in which the reckless tele- hnnap was vb vanmiien A m-mA Ding on the power she generated In I found her getting an alcohol rub from the hands of her maid at the end of her afternoon performance. Blushing modestly I stood in the doorway until she discovered me, "Hello, come in and sit down," she called. "And do breathe in this alcohol. Ain't it grand? But it seems a shame to waste it on my spinal chord when my tongue is hanging out!" I breathed a sigh of relief at her words for I had been warned that Fannie was too exhausted to talk. However, the electric fan was started and I knew I was going to have a nice breezy time.

"This is going to be an ttwf ul interview," she warned me. "Someone removed my backbone during the night and I am to all appearances perfectly dead. It was an awful night. I was so keyed up I couldn't sleep. Darned if I didn't cry when the eold gray dawn broke over my sleepless head.

I was that exhausted! "But oh, what a gorgeous idea eame out of my poor brain during the night 1 am going to do an aot next year in the Music Box Revue which will render row upon row of handkerchiefs in the audU ence absolutely unfit for further use. Got any imagination Well, tien listen to my tale. "I shall have the curtain rise on a courtroom. A voice oft stage will be heard saying, 'I pronounce this woman guilty. Woman, have you anything to And there I'll be, the condemned woman in the prisoner's box.

The scene itself will be the story of why the woman killed the man she loved. What do you think of it? It sort ef got me as I planned it out last night. That's one of the reasons I didn't sleep." Just about this time the electric fan seined to realize that she had breeze in one direction long enough so she gave a swish. "How do yva like my hair? Can't you thin. something poetic to say about (h beautiful golden lights in it? ought to, for it took a lot of pel tfxide to get 'em.

I was feeling so rotten this morning, an it wag 4 day, an' 1 couldn't tink any way to stir things up withoM landing In jail, so I put some peroxide in the water to brighten things up. And, oh, ray Of tmnvhln Inntr it iMn! 1 1 JuOGEMEAfT UWl TiCKiAlG Sites The Comic Angle much to be amused at in life work departments devoted exclusively to the searching out of new and novel locations. The smaller producers either obtain this service from the bigger organizations, if they happen to be on friendly terms, or else make the business manager of the company! do the work, now IT WORKS Both methods are employed at the Paramount studio here. A location department. In charge of Fred Harris, with Frank Kies ss his right-hand man, has a comprehensive list of all kinds of settings that may be called for.

It Includes everything under the sun Imagin able, from palatial yachts to gasoline stations, except, as Mr. Kies puts it with a sigh, the thing you are looking for. For ordinary productions, where most of the work Is to be done in the studio, this department functions In obtaining outside locations. They not only find the proper locale, but they make all arrangements, securing permission of the owner of the property and settle the rental rate. Sometimes, however, the picture to be made is almost exclusively an outdoor story.

This Is true with most westerns, from "The Covered Wagon" down. Ir this case, when it is necessary for je company to go far away for great lengths of time, a production superintendent Is appointed to care for all of these details and a lot more. He is in reality the manager of the troupe, making all business providing transportation and camping equipment doing everything, in fact, but make the picture. The first Job on the program, after being assigned to a company, la to go out with the director in search of locations. A Jaunt of this kind will sometimes take the two Into the wilderness for weeks, and they will uncover many unsuspected beauty spots.

Photograph are made of these la CXT SCEA of our studio location men. and turned over to the location de partment for future use. Many times a production manager has stumbled on something that looks interesting, but which he Is unable to use in the picture he Is then working upon. But with all the data filed away. It la possible to return to that spot at any time.

the production man-' ager will send these pictures hck to the studio at a time when the location department Is In search of Just such scenes. WTIO THEY ARE The production managers at the Lasky studio Include William Griffith, who has done much interest ing work of this kind; Frank Brandow; L. M. Goodstadt. who ranks officially as a production business manager, and Morton Whitehall, who serves as business manager to William De Mille.

Humanity benefits by this need of new locations on the part of the Industry through a bureau operated by the Assistance League of Southern California. There are frequent calls from the studios for large homes and estates with extensive grounds, swimming pools and other conveniences of the wealthy. Owners of these homes who are willing to have their es tates used for motion pictures list their property with the league. When a studio calls for a location of this kind the luague makes all arrangements, charges a nominal fee, and the money thus collected devoted to charity. CLOTHES A-PLENTY Raymond Hatton, one of the prominent character mn In motion pictures, is said to have the largest individual wardrobe in the business.

Because of his varied characterisations, Hatton must be well supplied with clothes of every type and period. He has three large dry goods boxes full of clothing bealdes two closets filled with hats, shoes, shirts and suits. i ,,11 eV.nComont whose most significant the fuzzy head." And Fannie gave1 cr'" characterization to date is her hair a swish -ith her fingers. the Persian Prince in 'The Thief It was as if she had said. "Get upl' expects to complete Dick." for it immediately got Fox portrayal this week, when and performed.

"Things have got wi Immediately undertake to happen in my life or I break prtnflpa, medy pat i a window or something." aha 1 forthcoming Hollywood photoplay..