The Ottawa Journal from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • Page 37

Saturdoy, December 7, 1968 Saturday Section The Ottawa Journal iiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiriiiitiiiiiitiiiiiiJiiiiaitiiiitititJiitiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiHiiitiiiitiiiiiriiiiiiiiiiiiit itiijtiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiJif itiiiiiitiriiiiitiiiitiiiiiiiiitiiijiiiii tiiiifritnit tiiiuiiriittiiimiiutit ifiidiii tiiiitKiiinitiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiMiurif iitiiKitirMiitiiiiiiiini iiiiiiiijiiiiiittiiiiiiin tin She BOHEMIAN JOHN BIRD As winter draws in, most of us are looking for spots where we can be sure of seeing interesting birds fairly handily. It is particularly good to learn for example, that eight Bohemian Waxwlngs were at the crabapple trees in the central circle of the Arboretum, Monday, along with oodles of Pine Grosbeaks. They were reported by Dan Brunton and Don There have been more re- ports of Bohemians than of Cedar Waxwings lately. For example, Stephen Wood had six at Aylmer, Saturday, feeding on mountain ash berries. But the Experimental Farm's 'Arboretum is the most convenient place they could be, for in-town birdwatchers.

The Brunton team, including La Fortune. Jim Mc-Cuaig and Dick Brunton, also found a heavily barred Snowy Owl in the classical place for Snowies during recent years. This is the radio transmitting station on Greenbank Road, just north of the Fallowfield road intersection. People repeatedly ask me where to find a Snowy. Well, this has hitherto been as good a place as any to begin looking for one.

Most winters, there has been at least one "old faithful" thereabouts. Colin Barnard reports a barred Snowy last week at Baseline Road and David Drive, opposite the old Ryan farm. He also found a Screech Owl, dead, on Highway 16. Mrs. L.

Shaw, Pleasant Park Road, still has a Brown Thrasher at her feeding station, quite perky. She is having a time finding what to feed 'it, and trying hamburger and raisins. Canned dog food might be cheaper than hamburger and just as satisfactory, if the bird will take it. Anyway, it is good to know that Mrs. Shaw is experimenting.

Delightful letter from Dr. E. D. Bateman, Cornwall, telling mc that Cardinals are "old hat" in his city but going on to say: "We seem to have some special status with these birds they are around our yard summer and winter." Now this is the whole point of the excitement here. Cardinals are indeed established at various points south of Ottawa and breed there.

We are green eyed with envy at Cornwall, but it has no status" in keeping them summer and winter. nals are NOT migratory, but have been inching northward so steadily that we have strong hopes of having them naturalized here soon. Meanwhile the male Cardinal 'at Jessie Farquharson's feeder on Shortly Road, Lucerne, has obligingly stayed put. The Alta Vista male was "seen by rare glimpses," if at all, last week and the skittish female which was there earl- Peregrine Falcon Find of the Week fNalkmat WuMum PklureJ WAXWINGS (From "National ier has gone a-roving. Meanwhile there are good reports of one frequenting Britannia and another at Grenfell Glen.

The Baltimore Oriole at Lucerne disappeared last week. Probably could not take the winter. Perhaps the find of the week in my book, was a Peregrine Falcon seen by Dan Brunton at Britannia on Monday. These glorious birds, fastest sky divers in the world when they swoop, are on the list of species in danger of extinction here. As already remarked in this column, it is an unusually good winter for Hoary Redpolls, to be looked for among flocks of their Common cousins.

Pittaway reports seing four Hoarics among three flocks of Common Redpolls and offers an illuminating observation. In each case, recently, he has found ffte Hoarics either feeding on the ground or much closer to it than most of the Common Rs, which were pecking at weed tops. What is the experience of other observers? Monty Brigham and Ron Pittaway observed a Canada Jay at a feeder in Wych-wood; a Birred Owl; and an Iceland Gull at Remic rapids. (Now's the time to look for these, and also the big Glaucous Gulls.) Michael Southam reports a Red breasted Merganser on the Ottawa River below the National Research Council. Delighted to hear from John Kelly that the few observers who turned out for a Field Naturalists trip last Saturday, Grey Cup day, relaxed pleas-antly -inside -the house of Georgina Hart, Harwood Plains, and watched a fine succession of birds at her feeding station but still got home in time for the football game.

This shows a sense of proportion. In a year when Hairy Woodpeckers are not too abundant, they saw no fewer than four Hairies at this feeder. It is still a good year for Snow Buntings. Earl Godfrey had a fine flock near the Carp airport last Sunday. He reports also a Sparrow Hawk and one Roughlegged Hawk.

This is nothing like such a season for Roughlegs as we had a year ago when they were ten a penny. Godfrey searched' the Ramsayville area where Snowy Owls were so plentiful last winter, but found none. Darryl Merritt, who runs a farm five miles from Osgoode, wants advice on how best to set up a feeding station. Birders living nearby or members of the Ottawa Field Naturalists club who make the' rounds in that area might look in on him at Dalmeny Farm, phone 826-2998. The Ottawa Christmas bird census has been definitely set for Sunday, Dec.

22, May I repeat last week's suggestion that bird feedjng operators, particularly those who have rarities feeding at their stations, should communic ate with Monty Brigham, 605 Redwood Place, telephone after 9.30 p.m., 728-0855 ahead of the census date, so that census teams may know where to look. Graham Barkley writes that his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Barkley, living on their farm near Chesterville, have oodles of Evening Grosbeaks at their feeder and to their great joy a fine male Cardinal. This is firsf year they have had one.

Mrs. J. P. Thomas, Mano-. reports a good list of birds at her feeding station including a male Cowblrd and one male and one female Redwlnged-Blackbird.

"Je veux parler a Monsieur Thomson." "Je veux parler a -Monsieur Thomson." "Murdoch MacAinsh here. I evidently brought some excitement into that girl's dull round, with my few shattering words. I hear her shrieking all through your office: 'Mr. Thomson, Mr. Thomson, there's someone on the line and he's speaking in French." "Fine thanks.

Just got back from my three weeks, partial immersion." "No, I can't say I am partial to it. Three weeks of speaking, thiriking and dreaming in French, to say nothing of playing bridge and making love, can seem a very long time." "There wasn't exactly a welcoming committee. My coffee mug had been swiped and my desk had turned into a stand for the office African violets: other than that I don't think anyone noticed I had been away, let alone come back." "Oh, the Chief is as pleased as a dog with two tails. He feels his own status has gone up, having me officially bilingual. Said I might become ninniii miium uM The Da In 1921 Ottawa was bitten by the movie bug.

On Aug. 6 to be exact, for that Saturday's Journal carried a story on a new film that was to be produced almost immediately in Otfawa under the auspices of Loew's Theatre (now the Capitol). Will McLaughlin noted in his column: "All the scenes will be filmed locally. Exteriors have already been selected. Interiors will be shot on Loew's stage, in the lobby, and on the mezzanine floor for the outdoor action." As the cast for this film was to be made up entirely of Ottawans, Loew's asked those interested to apply; more than 2,000 would-be "stars" turned up at the theatre for preliminary interviews and, for the lucky few, screen-tests.

LATE IN AUGUST director Frank Badgley took the cast to the Experimental Farm, where the outdoor scenes were shot; through the month of September the interiors were filmed at the theatre. The cast included Helen -Johns, Mrs. -Emma Cape. -Mrs. Emily Shipley, G.

H. Cole, J. G. Harte. Chester Frost and Russell Smith.

They were present when the film was shown for one week at Loew's Theatre beginning Oct. 15. A Hollywood item with Richard Barthelmess was the main attraction, but the home-town product untitled was the supporting feature on this "double-bill." A cash prize was offered for the best title for the new production. That same week "The Sky Pilot" was at the Centre (now the Mall) Theatre This film, said to nave been shot in part in' Calgary by King Vidor, was produced by Ernest Shipman. He appeared in Ottawa in the spring of 1922 with camera, crew, and cast, and set the populace agog as he went about making two films "The Man From Glengarry," and "Glengarry School Days," based on the famous Ralph Connor novels.

TO MAKE THE films, a local company was formed Ottawa Film Productions Limited. The Investment house of Pringle and Perley underwrote and financed the productions. Senator E. L. Girroir was president of the new company.

Director Henry MacRae later famous at Universal Studios as the "King of the Serials" booked into the Chateau Laurier with his "stars" and got down to work. Work on the films got under way without delay. The Manufacturers Building at the Exhibition Grounds served as a temporary "studio" for routine interior "shots." The ballroom of the Chateau Laurier and the Senate Chamber in the Parliament Buildings were used where more lavish backgrounds were called for, and as The Journal noted, "a This advertisement at Journal on Saturday, Dec. By Pauline Hornby an assistant deputy in 15 years' time, though the raise I've been expecting for three years would be more to the point. (He makes me feel I've been immersed in holy water instead of in French." "I'm trying, but I've had a couple of setbacks and rather lost my nerve.

The second day I thought I'd have a stab at dictating a few letters in French, so I went to the typing pool and said you'll hardly credit anyone could be so dumb I said 'Je desire une Well that just about broke them up, the girls as well as the French." "What did I do then? Exactly what you would nave done. Took refuge in the washroom for half an hour, that's what." "In 'the afternoon I still couldn't face the girls, so I put six or so letters on tape in French and handed it to one of the bilingual s. I thought everything was chugging along but at 4.30 she brought the tape back and said, she hadn't been able to understand a single word. Then she gave the 'knife a twist iiiimiiiiiiiiiim iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiii They number of Ottawa's most prominent citizens acted the roles of the senators" Shrewdly getting everyone into the act, and so later into the theatre, the director filmed a picnic sequence at Rock-cliffe for School Days," with "hundreds of Ottawa school children taking part." A bear fight was also filmed at Rockcliffe, though the details of this footage are tan-talizingly brief. There were also exteriors at Britannia.

MOST OF THE "Shooting," for "The Man from Glengarry," however, was done up the Ottawa River near Mattawa, for this was a film of lumber-jacks, log-jams and life in the camps and on the river. Archie McKishnie, of Mac-Lean's Magazine, spent two weeks with the company on location in the early summer of 1922 and his graphic account of this pioneer piece of movie-malting was carried in part in The Journal. "I was curious to see how close to realism studio actors could get and I'll admit that I was frankly' skeptical that any could be found daring enough to undertake the part of Lenoir 'one of de bes dam fightin' men on de Hottawa." "It's a far cry from comfortable pullman-sleeper to the rough trail through wooded waste but not one complaint did I hear. Cheerfully accepting conditions as they found them, director and actors fought their way through the bush from railway station to camp, a good 10-mile hike. At the camp the company met those lean, log-drivers of the Ottawa who had been told by the lumber-king J.

R. Booth that Ferguson Camp was to be at the disposal of the movie-people. "Anybody could see these river-men were excited, curious, eager. As was perhaps natural, it was the leading lady, pretty, vivacious, Pauline Garon, from Montreal, who won over the river-boys. "Black eyes gleamed, and white teeth flashed.

'Sure ting. We mak de beeg drive and have fight on raf." Bagosh, dat fine, you bet. ON DECEMBER 1922. a 'full double-page advertisement announced the "world premiere" of "The Man from Glengarry" at the. Imperial Theatre on Bank Street.

The film duly opened on Monday, Dec. II, with the Governor-General and Lady Byng in attendance. The Journal review called the film "a welcome relief because it shows Canada not as a land of perpetual snow and ice but as a land that possesses limitless possibilities for those who are brave enough and strong enough to do and dare." The film, a great success locally, ran for two weeks at the Imperial, an unusually long run at that time. "Foolish Wives," with Erich Von Stroheim ran for only three days during the same period at the Francais Theatre on right' appeared in the 9, 1922. and said very sweetly that if I wanted to dictate in English she would gladly translate into French as she went along." "Yes, that was one god awful day." "Oh, I'm still trying, because I don't want to forget what I've learnt.

I thought the market would be a good place to practise, but when I point- ed to some vegetables and asked 'Les carottes sont The woman answered 'Fifty-five and when I patted a cauliflower and murmured 'C'est bon ca' the woman shot back 'You've got a good one there, "It certainly is discouraging. If someone would reply in French just once I'd be happy." "Just Mr. Duclos who runs the elevator, and one young fellow, in the office. It's a bit tricky getting a conversation going with the elevator man because I'm on the third floor, and as soon as we've had our daily exchange of 'Comment ca and 'Tres bien merci et it's time for me to get out. But one of these days I will because he's got nine children, I hear, and it would be fascinating to find out how he manages." mil I mmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiii Shot The Man A Flashback Dalhousie Street; it is still in circulation.

The second Ottawa area feature also played the Imperial Theatre. This was "Glengrary School Days." It with less fanfare, on Feb. 19. 1923, and ran for one week. Pauline Garon was again the heroine and she pleased not only the local public but also C.

B. DeMille. A Hollywood contract with Paramount Pictures was the result and DeMille used her in 1923 in his film "Adam's Rib," a comedy drama of high society and smart fashion far removed from the back country of the upper Ottawa. OTTAWA FILM Production sold the American rights to their two films to W. W.

Hod-kinson, an independent producer who at that time released his films' through Universal Pictures. They appeared on the American market in March and May of 1923. The trade press reviewed the films favorably. Film Daily called The Man from Glengarry "a thoroughly satis The First Made-in-Ottawa Production "The Man From Glengarry" By Ralph Connor (Rev. Dr.

Gordon) with Pauline Garon, William Colvin, Warner Richmond Marion Swayne, Anders Randolf, Harlan Knight, E. L. Fernandez and many Ottawa Citizens. OCT I The on the logs, the thrilling rjr.r. daring at the which No Advance In Prices! XutwithnUndinir the trinicniliius price we paid for it, being almost three time as much i wc cvtr paid for a production, ami tint a rumor lias Wen circulated that this picture would show in Ottawa at $1.00, we will Mick to our policy of "Ni incrrav in prir" and will hmv it at mir regular prices.

Mat. 13c and 30c; Eve. 25c and MATINEES 1.30 and ATTEND 'Just got "Financially, you clot." "Believe it or not, the other French speaking fellow in the office is called Macintosh." "Yes, -weird, and what a handicap for him to go through life with. The Scottish grandfather has. a lot to answer for besides the name.

Poor Macintosh has sandy hair and freckles and can't seem to get married because at parties all the girls he is introduced to are of the wrong religion. He's one of these lonely Quebec-ers you hear about that can't find any rapport in Ottawa, so un iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiin iiiiniiiiiiiim by Eric Mint on fying production that should please the majority. The scenes of the river, and the lumber-jacks at work furnish a realistic idea of life in a lumber camp." The second film was re-titled "The Critical Age." This was the comment: "James Garrison is a likeable hero who would make a lot belter impression if they didn't dress him like a hick with a collar several sizes too large1. But the flapper crowd will 'be interested in Pauline Garon." THE PLAYS and the players are long-gone but recently the Canadian Film Institute discovered, and now carefully preserve, two scenes from "The Man from Glengarry," the river rescue, and the ballroom scene at the Chateau Laurier. Were you on the dance floor when they shot that Chateau scene back in 1922, the year that Hollywood was on the Ottawa? Or.

were you at the children's picnic at Rockcliffe Park? ride down the river on the barn dance, the end of Big go to make this made-in-Ottawa production long to be 4.15. 18c and 20c. THE MATINEES AND back from my three weeks I thought he'd be falling all over himself to speak a bit of French with me. But no." "Come on. My accent's not that bad.

he's more determined to learn English than I am to speak French, I guess, and after six words with him I find we're back speaking English, and I'm correcting his pronunciation on words like 'peripatetic' that I'm not too sure of myself." "I don't think it is kindness on his part speaking English. My private theory is that French grammar is so diffi mill I iiiiiimmiiiniiiiiiiiii Minim i linn Milium From 9 cult that lots of French-Canadians speak English because it's easier, or because they aren't sure of the subjunctive and don't want to be caught-out." "Anyone who voluntarily tackles the subjunctive is plainly masochistic, old boy." "Well thanks. If you see Mr. Trudeau. With or without his charisma, tell him that up on the third floor of the Cartier Building, Duclos.

Mackintosh and MacAinsh areTfcarrying on the crusade to keep Canada united." Of the barn dance, the jlengarrv i (J PAULINE GARON came from Montreal, but she went on to Hollywood after appearing in "The Man From Glengarry" filmed in Ottawa back In 1922. (Canodian Film Institute) "1 THE JAADAHEATREAJJTIFULl! ALL NEXT WEEK AND THE WEEK AFTER 1 sounder th diitisguifhed pfttronie and honored ptMonc ot Their Zxoellenciei Lord and Lady Brng of Vimy. reacue from the rapids, logs, the ball at the Chateau Mack, and many other thrilling acones all of Special Showing For School Children Ko that every school boy and girl may sea thin Made in Ottawa production, it will not (tart (ill 4.15 the second afternoon ahow. We guarantee that this pnulucli'in v. not appear in any other theatre in Ottawa or or i( it does, uot.lor at ltait three month.

and Avoid disappointment rf Laurier. the fight rememtered. 8.00. $5c and 35c. 3 b-.