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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (June 9, 1918)
THE SUNDAY OEEGONIAX, rOKTLAM). JTJNE 9, 1918. 0 n-mmmmmm TJ ,Wffe I : At-JiSirUW J Mm i 0m? ,jfiS' vv. 1 5 1 ujw i quintal mm i S fine at fhQ CcnfolG oCtho il ID 117 C D). i o0t color VnnimniiniiiiitiinnKnMimniitiaiurniiiiiniiniimmmiiniiinmninmtinin'? TT Is with the feeling that the J. City of Portland has at last joined hands with her greater g elsters of the East in the posses- eion of the Perfect Picture Play- house, that the. last touch toward I that perfection is completed in 1 the opening today of the masto- 1 don of music, the $50,000 AVur- 1 litzer Unit Orchestra. The Perfect Picture Playhouse means more than, the mere show- 1 ing of films on a blank screen; I that was accomplished years ago with the projection of the earliest efforts In photo - plays and was usually in either an old I hall or a remodeled store. With jj the arrival of the higher plane of 1 photo-play naturally came a bet- ter and more perfect playhouse, I and with it its allies, perfect serv- 1 ice, perfect view and acoustics I 1 and, at last, perfect music. 1 The Liberty, the Perfect 1 Photo- Playhouse, has linked i these allies into a chain, that is 1 extended from entrance to exit, 1 combined with a theme, the highest in development of the age in theatrical construction 1 and refinement and a screen on 1 which is projected none but the 1 clean, the wholesome,' the re- I fined in motion pictures. Of the Liberty Theater the . 1 people of Portland may well be I s proud, for it ranks shoulder to I shoulder with the Picture Pal- aces of the Bast and excels all others in its monster -organ, played for the first time today by 1 i the acknowledged premier of organists, Henri B. Murtagh. JEXSEN fc VON EERBERG. aiiimiiiinuiiitiiiiiinniiaitllUHitiiiiinijiiiiniiinmimnniiniinuiniltmiiniill Miirtagh's Dedication Concert 12:30 NOON At which time the first note will be struck which gives to the playgoers of Portland the greatest organ in the world. Excerpts from "Carmen". Bizet Serenade Schubert Artist Life Waltz. .......... .Strauss Love's Old Sweet Song. . . . . . .Malloy Stars and Stripes Forever Sousa Then to finish and consecrate this magnificent instrument to the cause of Liberty throughout the world, "The Star-Spangled Banner." V 1 X .he Uifcellever fairly teeming with vital sit uations, vivid in flashes of the greatest war of all ages, made doubly so by the fact that the U. S. Marines in France today, the very men who are conquering the Hun on the banks of the Marne, those fighting pets of Uncle Sam, took part in the picturization of this greatest of all stories of soul and honor of patriot ism and strength of the real Spirit of 76. 99 .The 100 American Drama of "Over There " Mm LJ LiLbLM I u Broadway at Stark Continuous, 11 to 11 Portland U. S. M. C. Wants 1000 Recruits by Saturday Next. Fall In I , m! Imp