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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 3, lttl. wma the trail- tag Noma's Breaker for rlECIL TEAGUE. who! whole family. Back In Ritchey Finds Rich and the old Vltagranh days, after Norma I M. keeps a vast amount of 1 took the initiative and brake In then went ahead through hard James E.

Hackett Is First of His Tribe In Legion of Honor I Wonders As He Girls Appraise One Anothei at at Talmadges Tell Film Tales Friends Organize a Plan to Aid Kiddies and Kept graduating to better tor parts, she need to take i on great organ keyboard. sometimes, to book up her dresses, or be generally nauful I always say the first Looks to 1950 by Irene Rich. K. Hackett the icaa a little clique of fflrn persona, Will Rogers, star: Charles playwright Rupert Hughes. Jo urn lag still better pictures as help us to ve the who well of Legion novelist Clarence Badger, director.

a erred anon aim COi Vera Pavlowa, Anna's Sister, Is Seamstress pmCAOO. July Pavlowa, iiSI Ann' fnmous Russian found here in ywtr here in a hoepital at $40 Five years ago she lived in Moscow and her position waa apparently secure She had but one step more before star dancer of the Moscow Imperial ballet. She was a member of tne family of Count Golltiin, a political power. Then came the revolution. Anna is the only relative Who Is still living.

Her parents, five brothers and her husband were killed in the fighting. Her 3-year-old son died of typhua She was held captive in a prison at Odessa for at the Ministry of others, are negotiating for the of a huge tract of farm land a bank. CaX, upon which It la Fine AO He will be the to rear orphan children of Los sefesei BK sse saw sew lish-apeakfng actor Aooordtag to present plane, 400 Tf7lLL M. KTTCHBY. film producer.

projecting has vision yeT hence, forecasts astonishing triumphs tor the moviea Supposedly writing a hie tory of the movies ha 19M, he nays. In part: "to those days (IMS) the pictures were etm in their swaddllag clothes. A few great names stood out tike beacon Hghts in the darkness, and a few great pictures had been made, but upon the whole the Industry was going through evolutionary changes end did not even fore-east la the slightest degree the great role I ever played was that of a maid! "Well In time, she managed to work me in as aa extra, and so the way was paved for me. whereas she had had all the Initial hard work. "In later years.

It was again Norma who interested the president of her company, Joseph "Schenck. to also become president of my company, so it is no wonder if I always regard her aa my guiding star. That sounds like a pun. doesn't it? "Even today we always see each other's picture and criticise oaa another's work unmercifully, or, that Is. Norma criticizes mine! I seldom have occasion to find any fault with hers, because Id spite of her being my sister.

I cant help thinking she is the most emotional actress on the screen today." win be cared for. and It Is hoped to Norma and Constance Talmadge have assumed new positions in the world of silent drama. Heretofore, each has concentrated her efforts jan turning out highly entertaining productions. Now, each has become a critic to the other. VA critic in whoa Judgment they can $aes reliance is of great value to any theatrical luminary.

No players, either for the 'screen, the spoken stage, vaudeville or any other division of the amusement business, can see themselves as they appear to an audience, although there is hardly one who would not give large the esetabbahment as soon as its to receive the distinction. It has been beate ami on the Russian singer. M. Chailaprne. and on M.

Murrain, the Italian tragedian. CtiaJtutitTia mmd The plan was conceived and partly worked out by Miss Rich before la tor tod her friends. She beli that the farm is" the beat place for coil- that have a i the decoration prior I "in Wm -ay she has already carried the a writer could sit at bis henoetheropto- to tne worm war, proposed experiment a year of his life in exchange for the ability to do so. graph and transfer a picture story direct to the film as he constructed It In mind, doing away with the entire parapherna tog oar young proteges on farms Lea Ingslos It hi her belief Sunday Screen Show Meanwhile Constance has cast a glance at her own and person and Just tar the sake of spt sailing the opinion among her friends she writes under the bead of "What I Think About Myself." aa follows: "What I think about myself depends upon my mood! If the day la sunny and the oowatiy green and the sky bine and the daisies beckoning, I hate myself because I am a motion picture actress and cannot run away and lie under a tree all day and dig my heels in the sod. Then again, when I am feeing pappy, fmMMmi and energetic I love to shake off my ov personality and become someone alee and go about the studio doing all the amusing and amaaing things that happen In comedy picture.

"This really sounds more like "What I Think About My Work than What I Think About But. you see, with me, my work and myself are one. When It comes right down to cold facta I would not have chosen any other profession forranything in the world. And If there are momenta when I am terribly tired and seized with the desire to chuck It all and go to parties and dine, I suppose that is Just the natural reaction of youth and health. Therefore, it is highly Important that orphans, above all.

lia of the old time stedlo aad utirnung players only to assist tat making clearer work in the open air and a chance Restored in Tiffin monina Hers Is one of the stories of the vtcts- ttuden of wan which is almost without parallel. "After the revolution Odessa appeared I safe and I went she said in re-1 iating her story. "One night after my dancing as I neared my home the lights grow op into some branch or mental pictures of the character; Or Genius Has Found a Financial Angel to Help Film Los Angeles, July 2 Genius has found who would have beDeved that pictures could be transmitted 1 all artists who wish to advance in pub-He favor have their performances critically scrutinized by some person who has the necessary technical knowledge to detect and correct faulty make-up, gestures, color effects and the thousand and one other details that combine to either make or mar a production. Few persona though, are qualified to do so in sufficient degree to be of value I less aa easily aa letters of a telegraph Tiffin, Ohio, July a N. aim las are an1iig back here after ductlve aiestniii The farm will be managed by capable aad kindly men and women who will act as Instructors, and the film folk themselves win watch proceedings keenly to, make sure that none of the evils of many such Institutions obtain to their establishment.

The children wfll be taught an branches of agriculture, theoretical and practical. Special provlstona tor their amusement, such aa a swim two months of bine Sundays. But only "But even In IMo they were educational pictures wtn be permitted. JJSr under a ruling of Prosecuting Attorney 1 1 an "angel." The mental endowment, peculiar to the i to an artist and the Talmadge girls are Lott, who launched many prospective producers of Industry. By 1M0 the stories is not to be lost to picture of say five to 10 reels, that fi me nouse ana tne moving forms in the windows warned me the worst had happened.

Odessa, too, was about to be swept by the revolution. Already the marauding bands of hoodlums were busy looting the "My parents were murdered that night. The house was ransacked. I fainted and awoke in prison. For five months I was In Jail.

I was ill and the wound of a knife that one of the men thrust in my back bothered me constantly. "Than came the allied troops and I was released. I had heard of Chicago because my sister used to like to dance Sunday movies last February. Tne county prosecutor held that movies which are reproductions of dramatic, or required four to 12 weeks to film, was being completed in one of" two days of through the absence of financial support, for Los Angeles bankers have come to the aid of the producing genius. It is to be a paternal and guiding ming pool, gymnasium, baseball ground aad tennis courts will be made on the "I most enjoy playing songs of the people songs that everyone knows.

The biggest symphonies are baaed on folk melodies. I get more' pie lire out of playing 'Swanee River' than in playing the great classical masterpieces." farm. "There la a wild, primitive some- theatrical, performances are Blags 1 Cartoon coraedies and animal or nature studies are permissible. hand, however, that Is to foster thine In me somewhere that makes me nPndnr4ns- and tha hanker ant each unusually fortunate in having a sister who can exercise that function for her, a fact which they- greatly appreciate. "I am really very lucky in having a sister who Is also in the same business," said Miss Norma, "for" she is of the greatest assistance to me hi the many situations where I need a friendly but merciless commentator upon my work.

"Ton see, her style of work and mine are of a different type, which gives each of us a clear viewpoint when it comes to suggestions about the work of the want to caper in the woods, climb trees, nQt trusting to their own knowledge of Photoplay in Color 1 So says Cecil Teague. master organist and let out yens like an Australian Her Name actual and that meant trial the picture was practically assembled and edited ready for screening, the subtitles being incorporated aa the. action was photographed. 'This an. was accomplished by perfect organisation, elimination of the cumbersome lighting system of the the use Of two directors oae to handle the premier player aad one to handle the scenes to which the premier player did not appear), and Intensive preparation before shooting.

One Is Promise of Big American Producer Bushman. I love to scream. It gives me a thrill that I can't quite explain. Once I thought Id cultivate artistic temperament, and when something went wrong at the studio, I let oat a war-whoop, but no one took me seriously. The director and the players Just howled Ruth Mao Miller, the pretty and clever St, Louis girl who is rapidly wending her way to big things in the movies, baa decided that henceforth her atiasn name will be Patsy Ruth Miller.

The world will please N. B. that Patsy Rath makes the change because there la another I etlM ttmkmw Hii(K'a other. My sister is developing a deft. pictures.

Headed by Tbomaa H. lnoe as the producing authority, a committee Including a distributor of nsttonsl prominence and a financial authority will pass on production problems before financial support is given to a prospoc-tive producer. The dream and creation of genius is to be bridged over the financial gap between Its inception and the time St assumes shape in film form without great financial sacrifles on the part of the producer or worry during the early stages of production. This is the plan of the Los Angeles financial group according to light comedy touch, while my endeavors with mirth, and said approvingly wonders why the producers of those days 'Connie la In good spirits I here. I came here.

But I was still sick. My wound did not heaL Anna has given me some money, but I am now destitute, except for the $40 a month I make sewing. "But money doesn't mean much to me. I have had it and I have spent it. A thousand dollars tonight and nothing In the morning.

That is why my sister has made it so I get only a little money at a time. detest sewing. Think of me sewing long hoars on a machine making sheets and towels I who was once a dancer with the Moscow ballet! Think of It!" are directed more toward dramatic In luiui mmj next release wtB be in the Rockett com- did not go a step further learn to pany's latest picture, "Handle With London. July (U. The first photoplay to be made In color, representing a great advance in toe science of motion photography, is to be produced Immediately la England by Stewart Black ton, according to bis announcement today.

This means that research aad experi Care." at the Majestic theater, who recently signed a contract with bis management that will keep him at his present post another year at least. He came here Just two years ago. Teague boasts of starting a new school of organists. Ten years ago he deserted the concert field to preside at the first pipe organ Installed in a motion picture theater in New York or in the world as far as Is known. This was at the old Regent theater, which had Just been constructed by a "crasy real estate man who liked pipe organ music." Daniel Frohman.

then head of the Famous Players corporation, was a personal friend of Teague's, having met him when the who had Just come to America from his home hi London to do concert work and had gone to his Actors' home on Staten Island to play for theater folk, called his attention to the Recent theater organ. Prior to this film a picture play la the same time It took to play a drama on the stage two sad a half to three hours as they actually did In the late thirties. one. tooking backward, contemplates the giant strides of the 'motion "Sign on the Door" to guess I am pretty good-natured on the whole. I cannot help seeing the funny side of everything, and it is impossible for me to -stay angry very long at a tune.

I think it is because I love and life, and love, and music, and laughter, and Jokes, and peace, and good will that I prefer to play comedies. Serious pictures have never appealed to me very much, although I Norma Talmadge'a August release will announcement made bare by John E. mental work carried on far' many Barber, of the First National bank of be "The Sign On the Door." Charming terpretation. Outside of our work, however, we are sisters, and, of course, have known each other so long and so Intimately that we are thoroughly familiar with the characteristics of each other, which often enables one or the other of us to make a suggestion that a director had not thought of before, or aid him in solving a problem. "Constance has developed an unusual eye for detail, both aa to my Individual work, the work of the rest and the production as a whole.

That is enough, I tn picture in the comparatively short period nth, tn the Prisma laboratories 1D lm iMMntllM tk, )lAUht Mtlth I t. inniM Pollock's popular mystery play. In New York tn behalf of Blackton re- Sign On the Door," Lew and Its ally Impels that the wonders of suited in the perfection of a All that is to he required now of a producing genius to that he satisfy Ince future are almost unimaginable." recognise the highly emotional photo- which a toll length photoplay curately and artistically be may ac done a drama as a greater art. But If I only 1 and his assoftatod authorities that he Omar Khayyam to Be Done Into Pictures, Charles RJefaman frill be seen with Norma for the first tone. Herbert Brecon directed, and Mary Murrtllo made the picture adaptation from the stage play.

like comedies, I am very particular about the definite kind of comedies I A Pupil of Modjeska Landers Stevens, one of the premier players of the two Rockett features. has a screen story qf nferit, that he has a good cast for it, ample studio facilities and an able director. It all the requirements are not met, financial support la withheld and the producer has been Troiv "Di-V-! n-rrrrt music which accompanied pictures had J6SPlb6 i rOIlL iloWS been extremely pedantic, noisy and un- natural colors throughout. Special Interest attaches to this pro duction. not only because It will be the first photoplay la color but also because It will mark the screen debut of Lady Diana Manners, daughter of the.

daks and dachsos of Rutland, noted rM woman, aooualn- "Keeping Up With Ussle" and "Handle sometimes feel, to make her almost want. They have to be comedies of competent to direct a production -herself modern social life and customs with a If she really had to. She baa unusual dash of subtlety not the old slapstick ability in this direction. variety. "Saw a toe witn uare, learnen us in i saved from grief and picture fans are tances of mine, embracing fondly the other narht." says Peart- White, "and tutolace of no less a master than A Too r1iA urh h(Vail the possWUity of viewing spared And I try.

laughed Miss Talmadge. Page the famous "loaf of bread, Jug I iiv, skilled training and in Modjeska Mr. Stevens Is a brother of Aeh ton Stevens, the dramatic critic. "to be Just as hard en her as she is on "One thing I surely do think about screen story that is sadly lacking they have been married 10 years but not to each other." of wine and thou," for the oft-quoted English beauty and society colossal memory, was In a position to me, which effort, I feel and hope, will myself fat that I am darn lucky In be- some essential. THIS WEEK SPEND YOUR and misquoted lines of- the Persian poet have felt the call of the silversheet, and Omar Khayyam, himself, who, if alive today, would be the legitimate prey of all prohibition enforcement officers, is to become a hero of the cinema.

"The Beloved Romance of the Grape," or "Persia's Prettiest Pets," are titles the ultra commercial distributing organisations might like to wish on the big new spectacle which has Just been launched, but Ferdinand Ear le, who is the guiding genius in the production of tite world's most widely read proaodlc paean has put his foot down and says it will be known purely aa "The Rubai-yat of 9mar Khayyam." A CAT I accompany photoplays In a new way. So successful was Teague during the two years at the Regent that when later the Strand was built and an organ installed In it, Teague was moved down there by his manager, Samuel Rotha-pfel. Rothapfel also changed to toe Strand. Today he is manager of New York'fl Rival! Rial to and Capitol theatres. In i9xs the San Diego exposition brought Teague to the Pacific coast to play on its instrument, the largest outdoor organ In the world.

He went from there to the theatre In Oakland and the California in San Francisco, both of which houses contain huge orchestral organs. Portland and the Ma-jestic came next in his career. Teague cornea from a musical family, his father being organist at one of the largest cathedrals in the Shoho district of London. When 9 years old young STAR STUDIES Stories of the Screen Studios Cecil was nlavina on toe Utile pipe organ Dramas of "mother love" are the ores- which was installed in his father's home. en fad in picturedom.

Now John The requirements of tne motion picture organist can be grasped to some extent when ItMs known that league estimates that he has about 6000 selections memorised and at his finger' fipa. Each photoplay, each news reel and each scenic demand different aad varied scores. And it will be remembered that motion picture houses change programs once or twice each week and sometimes more often. YOU NEED A VACATION, LITTLE oIRL Pansy O'Donnell didn't need to be told this fact more Stahl is producing one with Nanine Wright, Gaston Glass and Grace Dar-mond, and Ince Is Just releasing "Mother o' Mine," which features Lloyd Hughes, Claire MacDowell, Betty Blythe and Betty Ross Clark. Henry King made a flying trip from New York to Los Angeles to close his home.

He is hurrying back now to start direction of Richard Bsrthelmess. It Is rumored that the second Barthelmess starring picture may be made in California. Eric Von Stroheim has no intention of going to Germany to make films. He is reading a new story preparatory to starting another production. "Foolish than once.

And so, with a trunk- ink ful of beautiful gowns which she was to display for her employer, she Hoot Gibson, Roundup Winner, Tells of His Advent in Movieland By Ed (Hoot) Gibson I made my debut in 1910 under the SeUg banner at Los Angeles. a. m.mhr of Dick Stanley's congress departed for the big summer hotel on her "two weeks with pay." What happened to her there, where she was mistaken for a famous movie actress, makes a comedy drama that will keep yotietaughing for a solid hour. You need a vacation, -and here it Is of rough riders 1 was doing a riding act with a lot of other cow punchers In the old Los Angeles ball park. The show "SNEAKERS HUBBY AND WIFE LL SUPPLY THE LAUGHS BABE AND DOG BRING THE HEARTTHROBS Wives," which actually cost nearly one million dollars, baa been completed.

Selig has brought Do re Davidson from New, York to California to play In "The Rosary." As the old father in Frank Borzage's "Humoresque," Davidson gave one of the memorable screen performances of last season. The Los Angeles premiere of the famous stage play "Rip Van Winkle," in which Frank Keen an is starring, saw the majority of filmland's most celebrated starsSn the pit. Keen an Is taking tbe play on tour. He has deserted the screen tor a while. A aeries of Greek plays, enacted by some of filmland's finest luminaries, is to be sponsored by Noah Beery in the outdoor amphitheatre of his Hollywood home.

Beery will both act and direct. As a private event It will be unique in Western theatrical annala A summer course at a Los Angeles university will claim Bessie Love's tention this year. She has enrolled and vrill atody drama, English literature and PRIZMA went so well we were inoucea to remain another week. Tbe Sellg Polyscope company arranged to have the entird show participate in "The Rustlers," one of the first five-reel pictures made. It's rather a coincidence that the first picture in which I appeared was filmed in toe San.

Fernando valley, where Universal City, my present home, now stands. We worked five days for Sellg and then five of us were employed by David Wark Griffith to appear to a Blograph feature, "The Two Brothers," tn which Henry B. Walthal and other celebrities appeared. That engagement lasted about five days. When It was over rejoined my show and tourned with It for a year and a half.

I had been bitten by the movie bag. Entitle "WHERE POPPIES BLOOM" A Scenic Beautiful WA anew i sw ma FJbbI eft, I 12:30 NOON TODAY FOX NEWS EVERYTHING FROM EVERYWHERE however, and couldn't get away from the silver screen after that I returned to Los Angeles and. was taken on as a rider by Selig. Later I Joined up with Universal and have been with them ever since with the exception of a short trip to Pendleton, in 1912, where I won their Round-Up and world's championship On returning to Universal City I was attached to Harry Carey's band of rough riders. Later they promoted me to juvenile roles in support of Carey.

After a while they gave me feature parte in two-reel "Westerns" and as a Christmas present Lae ramie decided to let me try my skill as a star la five-reel pictures. SUNDAY CONCERT DIRECTION SALVAT0RE SANTAELLA PROGRAM psychology. A couple of years ago she distinguished herself, by returning to high school to be graduated. Owing to their success in recent productions. Ague Ayres and Jack Holt have been signed as stars by Lasky.

Who will replace Miss Ayres as B. de Mine's leading! woman la not yet decided. "A loaf of bread, a Jug of wine and thou" In other words, Omar Khayyam's "The Rubaiyat" la at last a screen reality. Ferdinand Pinney Earie Is producing the famous threnody in films as an Illustrated poem. Back to Los Angeles after a half year's stay In New York with.

D. W. Laigini Non Troppo E. Weill i Pill Spirit'' "Yoa're in Love" R. Friml V.

Herbert H. I.jtolff Griffith is Edward Pell, noted character actor. He played the role of the Chinese In Dream Street." As a token of appreciation for valued advice in an advertising campaign, a I new limousine was presented to John Griffith Wray by an automobile manufacturing concern. After completing a tour of the West on tbe legitimate stage in various Ibsen dramas, Harry Meats yer has proceeded to New York to be featured there to pictures and a new play. Warner Ethel Clayton's leading man, says the first tone he went on the stage he was so excited he lined his eyes with red grease paint instead of black.

Both Louise Lovely and Boy Stuart WEEKDAY CONCERT "You're in Low" Selection. R. Friatl Ventilating Plant Undergoes Changes With the ability to change 11.000 cubic feet of air each minute, the ventilating plant at the Peoples theater will at the end of the present renovations be greatly improved. The new registers and huge exhaust fans being Installed will perfect the ventilation under the balcony, the difficult point In all theaters to get an adequate change of air. Under present plans new air will be brought Into the theater by huge registers over the stage and In the center ceiling and win be taken out by fans at various places so that the entire auditorium has an equal ventilation.

Aa elaborate ventilation plant was Installed In the Peoples when It was remodeled lees than one year ago and these changes are la addition. Colonel and Mra H. G. Wlnaor of Ta- NOW PLAYING NOW PLAYING are filming a series of Canadian North coma, parents of Ralph Wlnaor, manager west mounted police stories to San Francisco, sponsored by Harry Revier. Gladys BroekweB Is being featured by the Novo Film corporation.

She gained fame aa a Fox luminary. of the. Star theater, spent the inner part of the week with their son after motoring down from the Paget sound city. I i. 'j'Sk'-..