oc-plain-dealer 1921-12-02

Marshall Neilan Finds Something New in Making Motion Pictures By Marjorie C. Driscoll in San Francisco "Chronicle" Marshall Neilan has found something new in motion pictures, and very shortly the public will have its first look at what he has found. There are several classes of people who should appreciate with particular keenness the Neilan discovery. Authors who write stories, very good, but very brief, too brief to last for five reels without padding. Theatregoers who are born unlucky about arriving at a theatre in the middle of a seven-reel story and having to wait through two comedies, an educational, a scenic, a news weekly, a concert, ten minutes or announcement slides and a prologue before they find out what the story is all about. Theatre managers who try to choose one picture that will please all of an assorted audience, possessing as many individual tastes as they paid war taxes. In the brief half-hour snatched for luncheon in the midst of a busy day "shooting Chinatown," Neilan talked about his plan. It is nothing more nor less than using in motion pictures the same idea that is back of a short-story magazine. One picture — six reels — four stories. In a trifle more detail, Neilan plans to produce a series of brief stories, one or two reels long, but real stories for all that. Enough of them will be put together to make an evening's feature, a full length film. They will be varied, just as the stories in a magazine are varied. One may be tragedy, another may be comedy, the third romance; the fourth, adventure; the fifth, something else. They need not be related, one to the other. Each will be complete in itself, with its own plot, its own cast, its own beginning and middle and end. Neilan, with Lon Chaney Teddy Sampson, Anna May Wong and a couple of regiments of cameramen, assistants, umbrella-holders and erand boys, came all the way from Los Angeles to take scenes for one of these stories. It was an enthusiastically hot day when we went scene-shooting in Chinatown. Miss Swampeon, Anna May Wong, who is a Chinese girl as dainty as a bit of porcelain, and Glaney sneaked speedily out of the Post street entrance to the St. Francis. They sneaked because they were in costume and make-up, and glithed the St. Francis is accustomed to almost anything, it might have registered a mild thrill if the shuffling sag-shouldered, impassive Chinaman that was Lon Chaney had gone out the front door. Probably, if he ever tried it, he would have been told to go around to the back door. Chinatown is fairly well habituated to movies by now, but the camera invariably draws a crowd, and so does the refugee boy young Chanor, startled intelligence May mined hip violence. One elbow fixed some the crowded him, but ter as if them. Get make-up, he is a C brook or him. Neilan quietly eclipses the scene called Lorne newering commonly word, exe Half a old quad key camera lies known stay care Before prove the To be so enough tinge of illusion v OPTOMETRY Glasses Fit Ten years a member of the North Daximners of optometry. Advanced optical knowledge together experience makes our name stand for SEE Using the Vertex Lenses for testing scientific instruments on the market. DR. WALTER R. BL OPTOMETRIST Office Over S. Q. R. Hours, Except Sunday 8 to 12—1 to 5:30 Mr. and Mrs. A. Chapman were surprised last evening when they received a telephone message stating that there was a box of geese at the express office. Yesterday was the birthday anniversary of Mrs. Chapman and this was in form of a present. Today she celebrated with a goose dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Shrode have returned from their honeymoon motor trip. Mrs. Shrode was formerly Miss Valentine Hays Pember and their marriage which occurred last Monday evening was an event of the social season. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Heying, Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Harrison and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J. Lake were Los Angeles visitors yesterday. Misses Ethel and Evelyn Pickard and Lenore Stewart and their young men friends were among the self-invited guests at a charivari in Placentia last evening. Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Thayer have as their guest, Mrs. Maybelle Langdon who arrived Sunday from Prescott Ariz., to pass the holidays. Oscar Lough who was called to Indian five weeks ago because of the illness of his mother has just returned home. He reports plenty of rain in that section of the country, and very cold weather. He left his mother in much improved condition. Mr. and Mrs. M. Terry and Miss Alleon were guests last evening of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Tower, in La Habra. C. Fender, F. A. Wilcox and Fritz Clodt have returned from a hunting trip at Marita Dam. They returned with 50 of the birds. Mr. and Mrs. John Hartung of Venice are spending several days with relatives in Anaheim. Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Summerville returned this morning over the Sou-Pacific lines from a seven-weeks' trip thru Arkansas, Colorado and Louisiana and other states. Mrs. David Grewco of Olinda is the week-end guest of her daughter, Mrs. Fred M. Zeppenfeld. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Omelia, have returned from a several weeks' visit in Assumption, Ill., with relatives. Mrs. Merle Allen, of Whittier, was in Anaheim today, calling upon the ladies of the Hacienda club and scattering golf enthusiasm among them. Mrs. E. M. Carver and Eugene Booth have gone to Santa Monica where they will visit several days with relatives. Miss Elizabeth Sexton who has advanced optical knowledge together experience makes our name stand for SEIU Using the Vertex Lenses for testing scientific instruments on the market. DR. WALTER R. BLACK OPTOMETRIST Office Over S. Q. R. Hours, Except Sunday 8 to 12—1 to 5:30 Mrs. David Grewco of Olinda is the week-end guest of her daughter, Mrs. Fred M. Zeppenfeld. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Omelia have returned from a several week visit in Assumption, Ill., with relatives. Mrs. Merle Allen, of Whittier, was in Anaheim today, calling upon the ladies of the Hacienda club and scattering golf enthusiasm among them. Mrs. E. M. Carver and Eugene Booth have gone to Santa Monica where they will visit several days with relatives. Miss Elizabeth Sexton, who has been the guest of her niece for several days, has returned to her home in Los Angeles. The Messrs Fred and George Hussell of Visalia, who were called here by the death of their mother, Mrs. Russell, have returned to their homes. Mrs. Russell had made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Allen Crowe, on Garden Grove-rd. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Russel were callers on their sister, Mrs. Allen Crowe this afternoon. Together they drove to Fullerton for a short visit. Miss Betty Behnke of Venice and Mrs. Gertrude Harris of Los Angeles will be the week-end guests of Mrs. Edith Taylor. Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Hayden are spending the week-end with Dr. and Mrs. Harold Carlin. Miss Irène Marsh was a Los Angeles visitor yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Dolan of Hollywood are spending the week-end with their son Wm. Dolan and family. C. Schof Iof Anaheim underwent an operation at the Anaheim sanitarium. CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our gratitude to our many friends who extended their kindness and sympathy during the sickness and death of our mother, also for the beautiful floral offerings. F. A. RUSSELL G. A. RUSSELL MRS. ALLEN CROW E. C. RUSSELL CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank the people of this vicinity for the kindness and sympathy shown during the illness and death of our beloved mother. Also for the beautiful flowers: ARTHUR HART MONT HART CHARLEY HART MRS. S. E. NEWTON MRS. FLOYD SHARP THE ORANGE COUNTY PLAIN D'EALER, ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA Pictures its own cast, middle and Shaney Teddy Wong and a cameramen, holders and erway from Los es for one of locally hot day hotting in ChiAnna May, girl as dainty and Shaney of the Post St. Francis, they were in and although animated to alt have registthe shuffling, ave Chinaman had gone out by, if he ever been told to door, well habituatit the camera owd, and so does the car in which the actors seek refuge between acts. A fringe of young China clusters about the motor, staring steadily and with round-eyed interest. Miss Sampson and Anna May Wong touch up their car-mined lips, quite oblivious of the audience. Shaney leans forward with one elbow on the open door, his gaze fixed somewhere over the heads of the crowd. No camera is trained on him, but he is as much in his character as if he were facing a battery of them. Get Lon Chaney in costume and make-up, and until he takes them off he is a Chinaman or an Italian or a brook or whatever the role will have him. Neilan is a very businesslike and quietly efficient director. To be sure, the scene scheduled for that day called for no very complicated maneuvering and no acting at all, in the commonly accepted sense of the word; except staying in character. Half a dozen men of the Chinatown squad kept the crowd back of the camera lines, although even the babee know what a camera means and stay carefully where they belong. Before long, Shaney began to prove the excellence of his makeup. To be sure if one looked closely enough to realize that the brown linge of his face was paint, the illusion vanished but across the street he melted into the crowd like any Chang Sing of the lot. Two of us supposed by reason of our business to be fairly well trained in the art of seeing things quickly and accurately, stood on a doorstep and watched a crowd of Chinese burry past toward a new vantage point. After they had gone we realized that Chaney had gone past with them, not more than ten feet from our eyes, but as completely lost in the crowd as if he had dropped through the sidewalk. Everything went beautifully until Nellan tried to get a perfectly simple little scene of Miss Sampson crossing the street. Right then everybody in the world became possessed to get into the picture. To make sure it would look like San Francisco wanted a cable car to play its stopping at the crossing while Sampson whaked across in front it. The cable cars played their pity beautifully, but everything from auto truck to an innocent pedestrian got into the picture. On the eighth shot, or thereabouts, he got what wanted. Once we were waiting for a saddle while the men with the big silver reflectors were being placed and cameras moved from the last tee-three actors were safely enconcerced their car with the inevitable sexy young China about them. OMETRIST classes Fitted member of the North Dakota state board of exery. local knowledge together with twenty-three years' our name stand for SERVICE. Tex Lenses for testing together with the most uts on the market. WALTER R. BLAKELY OPTOMETRIST Office Over S. Q. R. Store Special Appointment By Request Anaheim Polychrome Speci BOOK ENDS Regular $4.50 pair at $1.95 and $2.50 pair CANDLE STICKS Regular $4.00 and $5.00 values at. ELECTRIC BOUDOIR LAMPS Cord and socket complete $2.95 and $3.95 each A small deposit secures any Anaheim Mu Next to Fairyland Hugh Gibson WILL PREACH AT THE EMPLE, SUNDAY MORNING Secretary of the Sunday School Association. World Really Growing Better?" subject of the sermon at 7:30 p.m. GEISSINGER, the pastor, will be the preacher Christmas Gifts KODAKS Give her, or him, or them a Kodak and you can be assured that your gift will be instructive, enlightening, always enjoyable — a never-ending reminder in the Kodak pictures they can make. 101 Stores Good Bran, 80-lb. sack $1.00 Gold Buckle Flour 49-lb. sack $2.05 A-1 or Drifted Snow 49-lb. sack $2.10 Pure Strawberry Jam gallon cans $1.75 New Crop Almonds, lb. 25c New Crop Brazils, lb. 25c Spartan G.O. Carnation Borden's Alpine MILK Per Case Libby Milk, large c Nucoa, lb. Pure Lard, per po Bri Japan Tea, first pi at 60c. Special EIM PHARMACY ANAHEIM BASEBALL Aheim Elks STATE CHAMPIONS VS. G Beach Elks DECEMBER 4, AT 2.30 P.M. 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