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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (April 27, 1916)
8 TITIS TirOTTNTXtt OREGOXIAW, TnUItSDAT, APRIL 7 1016. Moving Picture :"-:,;: :'l!l:i!iill'Nl!!li!iiiii!lilii;!i!M:il!i!i!ilijiii!ji!!!ifiiili!i!,ijh MiiiiiBI ililil r yts ' : ll-',' , if Vi ) ' 1 - i Vv' y? Tf" -5., 1 -e' 'wu.a . . s.jfZZri . sS' ce ?3 - fro TODAV'S Klf.M FKATI HES. Tlckford "The Foundling:." Peoples "Molly Make-Believe." Majestic "The Man of Sorrow." Columbia "Sold for Marriage," "The Bathhouse Blunder." Sunset "Jess Willard," "What Doris Hid." .Circle "Matrimony." Majestic. "TTTIL.LIAM. FARXUM. portrayer ex V V traordinary of heroic roles of f ilm- dom. appeared to splendid advantage In "A llan of Sorrow," a. "William Fox vehi cle of the humble walks of life dealing with the havoc wrought by mistaken identity. Unlike "The Bondman," with it almost unbroken march of tragic events, concluding with the death of the hero, "A Man of Sorrow," while dramatically strong, is lightened 'by flashes of comedy and presents a more palatable, if more conventional, ending. Farnum is cast In the role of a young farmer who is slowly but surely falling victim to the drink, habit. In fact, the drama itself is a severe indictment of alcohol, for it is drink that" results in a man's desertion of his wife and infant daughter in the village, and an other desertion of wife and daughter m-Ae York. One daughter grows up in the home of a friend, while the ouier, a perfect double, becomes a gypsy. The farmer marries the coun try girl and thus incurs the enmity or her foster-brother. The drunken father reforms, goes West, amasses a fortune, and. nearing death, sets out to find his daughter. He falls into the hands of the foster-brother and is killed for his money. Mark, the mur derer, is repulsed by Nance, the wife, hut meets her sister, Jess, and, through hU scheming. Jack. the husband (Farnum). believes that Nance is' un true to him. He deserts his family. hut finally discovers the perfidy of Mark and the resemblance of the sis ters, and returns to his home. A Vogue - Mutual comedy, "Rube's Hotel Tangle." and the Majestic-Pathe News are other features on the bill. Heilig. The Heilig's 10 reels of feature film, comprising "The Chocolate Soldier" and "The Princess of India," wili continue throughout the week. Neither one of these photoplays ever have been presented on a Portland screen before. "The Chocolate Sol dier" is a picturlzation of the famous light opera, adapted from the Shaw story, "Arms and the Man,", and con tains a strong cast of Broadway play ers, headed by Alice Torke, Lucille Saunders and Tom Richards. "The Princess of India," in five parts, in a photo-drama of mysterious India, romance, treasure and tigers. An Eng lishman becomes involved in a plot to restore the health of a princess and loot the Rajah's treasury. He saves the girl and claims her as his bride. Pickford. ' Mary Pickford, filmdom's queen of queens, opens a three-day engagement at the Pickford Theater today in "The Foundling," one of the most notable of her many successes. As "The Found ling, or "Molly O," she is seen in one of her most sweetly pathetic character izations. Molly O. the heroine of the Pickford drama, is the daughter of a strug gling artist. So strong is his love for hi3 wife that when she dies he spurns the ehild. The infant is placed in the hands of a mothering heart, and, when she dies, the child goes to a foundling asylum. Molly O is taken out of the asylum, becomes a drudge and encoun ters many situations, exciting and pathetic, before her goodness has its reward in her restoration to the rather, who. conscience-smitten, under takes a search for the lost one. -"Hold Fast," a Musty Suffer comedy, is another biff feat-urn on the bin. thefe RED SPLOTCHES COVERED SCALP Scaly Mass. Hair Came OfT. Scalp Itched and Was Disfigured. Looked Badly. In One Month HEALED BYCUTICURA SOAP AND OINTMENT "When my baby was only a few days old her whole scalp became . irritated. It turned into a scaly mass and the hair would come off with the scales. Her scalp waa covered with large, red splotches, and her hair was thin. Her scalp Itched and that caused her to scratch her bead. Her scalp was 'disfigured and looked badly. "I sent for a free sample ef Cuticura Soap and Ointment and after wards bought a further supply. I used them steadily for just one month and her head Is as clean as her face, and her hair thick and beautiful." (Signed) Mrs. Charles Regele. Box 44, Santa Anita, CaL. July 19, 1915. Sample Each Free by Mail With 32-p. Skin Book on request. Ad dress posfe-eard "Cntirora, Dept. T, Boea -ton.? Sold throughout the world. . comedies from the Kleine factory scor ing heavily as one of the distinct suc cesses of the season. Columbia. One drama, two comedies and a Rose Festival feature are the attractions on thA Columbia Theater's week-end bill which opens today. The drama, a five- reeler bearing the title. "Sold for Mar rlnire" serves to re-present Lillian Gish: "A Bathhouse Blunder" Is a bathing-girl Keystoner, with Charles Mur ray and Mae Busch among those pres ent; Cecil Lean and Cleo Mayfield, at present playing Broadway leads In "The Blue Paradise," are featured in the second comedy; while Jewel Carroll, Rose Festival queen candidate repre senting the Knights and Ladies of Se curity, will appear at each perform ance, when special festival queen votes will be presented to the fans. "Sold for Marriage" deals with the methods of disposing of marriageable girls in Russia. Miss Gish is the girl In question, who espouses matrimony and Siberia In the Old World, only to be offered at auction for $1000 in Los Angeles. Her rescue and betrothal to a young Russian form a romantic part of the drama. Peoples. Marguerite Clark, whose popularity has increased of late with such tre mendous, strides that, in Portland at least, she has as many followers as Mary Pickford, will continue to charm audiences throughout the week at the People's Theater In "Molly Make-Be-lieve." This fantastic story of a little girl who conducts a correspondence school In sympathy through what she styles "The Serial Letter Company." serves as a splendid vehicle for the diffusion of the winsomeness of the dainty star. Molly, a country girl, takes her wee brother and dog to the city and there establishes herself as a dispenser of sympathy through the medium of letters. She falls in love with a "freight-car prince," and their romance culminates in an event which brings happiness to Molly,-the man and the audience. Screen Gossip. E. J. Myrick, manager of the Colum bia Theater, received a happy surprise yesterday when his mother, Mrs. J. M. Cox, arrived from Texas. Mrs. Cox was stricken with a sudden illness several months ago in her Virginia home, and for several weeks has been traveling In search of health. She will make her home with her son in Portland. Mae Murray, Blanche Sweet. Cleo Rldgley, Fannie Ward and Anita King and other Lasky-paramount stars are all suffering with writers' cramp, and there is not a drop of ink left in the Lasky studio. Each of these stars has had the pleasant Job of autographing 500 photographs to be sold for the benefit of the actors' fund. These photographs are to be sent to a Chi cago publication for distribution. Playing before the camera at the Balboa studio in Long Beach. CaL. is the great-grandniece of Edmund Keene. one of the most celebrated actors that ever trod the English-speaking stage. Her name fa Marie Empress. That she has inherited dramatic talent from, her illustrious forebear is proved by the notable engagements she has filled on both sides of the Atlantic. Miss Empress' real name is Marie Keene. She changed it when she first went on the stage, believing it would be well to strike out tor herself, since a big name is often a handicap to the beginner. At the suggestion of a friend who called her "Little Empress," she adopted that as an unusual cog nomen. Now, that she has arrived.' Miss Empress wishes she bad never switched. Athletics, portrait painting and the writing of scenarios are - the pursuits that are "Virginia Pearson's diversion while away from the William Fox studios. It la noteworthy that she has had several screen stories accepted and received many commissions for pic tures, her chief work being a portrait of Charlotte Walker. Horseback rid Ing, swimming, boating, and many of the less exacxing sports, keep her phy-i .-, . - . .. . ; .. .-. ".-'.:..- - , - ....... jf . . a ... MOL Wkmmmm Z x .: iv&z: Paramount IkmPl rSS " -Pictographs Another Triumph! -For the second time in two weeks we are forced by popular demand to show a picture a whole week! Today, Tomorrow, Saturday Only Tl n arcnera r sn m r - m sbsbm m -m r. . i ssr k i a .'v v Unequaled Music in the greatest achievement of her career TT TaZ TK II A HTT UTi TP1 IT TTTrTC TTT JL.ll IVIliJ From the delightful romance by Eleanor Hallowel Abbott Opening; Hours of Show, 11 A. M., 12:45, 2:30, 4:15, 6, 7:45 and 9:30 P. M. Please Come Early. sically fit and make of the popular screen star a happy, contented woman. When in Cornel University Harry D. Southard was a star athlete and orator. The combination is not often found. but he made good in both activities of brawn and brain. Now he's working in Balboa feature films. Prior to Joining the Horkheimer forces. South ard had extensive stage and studio ex perience elsewhere. Robert Warwick is engaged 20 hours a day. At nights and two afternoons a week he is playing the title role with Grace George in "Captain Brassbound's Conversion" at the Playhouse, and dur ing the remainder of the time, save the four hours he spends at his rooms in the Plaza Hotel, he is working under the guidance of Emile Chautard on Friday the" 13th," which was written from the Thomas W. Lawson book of the same name for him by Mr. Lawson himself. Roy Applegate, who plays the role of Goliath," the giant in "The Kiss of Hate," the newest Metro wonder play, in which Ethel Barrymore is starred, weighs 270 pounds and is six feet three inches in height. He was a court at tendant in San Francisco when a young man. Thomas J. Carrigan, leading man for little Mary Miles Minter in "Dimples," Lovely Mary" and other Metro pro- auctions, owns a third interest in a factory in Michigan that builds port able houses. This fact has led some of bis friends at the Lambs' Club to re mark that It is easy for Mr. Carrigan to "bring down the house." The Fine Arts subject, which fea tures Dorothy Giah as a reformer who was reformed, has been permanently named "Susan Rocks the Boat." This was written by Bernard McConville, and the direction was in charge of Paul Powell. Owen Moore appears in the leading male part, that of the true reformer who was successful in bring ing about a reform. Mary Moore, of the gifted Moore family, which includes Tom, Owen and Matt Moore, Mary Pickford, Alice Joyce and Jane Gall, has finished a new play for Francis X. Bushman, called "A Mil lion a Minute." FILM HAS STRIKING SCENES "Tlie Birtli of a XaUon" Will Open Run at Ilelllg Sunday. One of the most striking scenes of "The Birth of a Nation." which opens a limited engagement at the Hellig Theater Sunday, is the surrender of Lee at the historto McLean borne, in the vicinity of Appomatox Courthouse. Donald Crisp is cast for the role of General IT. B. Grant, while Lee is en acted by Howard Gaye. The members of the staffs of the Northern and South ern commanders are shown, and the tableaux presented when the scene opens as a reproduction of the familiar painting' of this occasion. It occurred April . lr.. r; i 1 , r-S2 4 S- Oil ) -i 4' '. V if . SCE3 FHO "THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIER," O.VK OK THE KIL3I FEATl'RES AT THE HEILIO THEATER THIS WEEK. . i- - - tr -- r v " 3 COMPANY IS FORMED Eastern Capital Backs $300, 000 Nitrate Project. PACIFIC CHEMICAL CO. NAME Corporation to Take Over State Lease From J. C- Moore on Royalty and Rental Basis, Erect Plant and Extract Sodium. Organization of a $300,000 corpora tion, backed by Eastern capital to take over the 40-year lease from the state held by Jason C- Moore, of flew York, on Summer and Abert lakes, in Lake County, for the extraction of potassium and sodium salts from the lake waters, was announced yesterday by C. A. Sheppard, attorney for Mr. Moore. Articles of incorporation for the Pa cifie Chemical Company, as the new company is named, were filed at Salem a few days ago with Mr. Sheppard, George Lovejoy and Frank E. Smith, all of Portland, as incorporators. Except that its purpose was stated to be the separating and refining of potassium and sodium contained in the lakes and the manufacture of nitrates for fertilizer and explosives, little was known of the organization at that time. Capital Stock Ik $300,000. At a meeting today, the organization of the company will be completed, Mr. Sheppard said.' He and Mr. Lovejoy and Mr. Smith will be elected directors and Mr. Sheppard will be elected presi dent of the company at this meeting. Names of the Eastern men who are to be on the board of directors have not been given out. Capital stock of the Paciffc Chemical Company will be $300,000. of which $200,000 will be common and $100,000 preferred stock. Mr. Sheppard said that the company is entirely financed and that no stock is on the market or will be put on the market. He already has an assignment of the lease from Mr. Moore to the new com pany and this assignment will be de livered at the meeting today. Mr. Sheppard said also that the $15,000 needed to complete the $25,000 deposit required from Mr. Moore by the state as an evidence of good faith, $10,000 of which has already been deposited would be here by Saturday. Project to Be Developed. "The Pacific Chemical Company will go ahead at once to develop the project on the lines originally laid out," said Mr. Sheppard. "Immediate construc tion of a email plant, with a capacity of 200 tons of sodium and 11 tons of potassium every 30 days, will be started. "This plant is only for the purpose of determining what can be done with the project, and of paying the carrying charges, including royalties to the state, pending legislation by Congress that will enable the company to get sufficient water power to carry out development on the scale originally planned. War Increase Demand. "The war has greatly Increased the demand for potassium, which is now worth $800 a ton. Sodium is also in demand, so that the prospects for com mercial development ofthe project are especially bright at this time," The 1915 Legislature ratified the lease of Sumner and jAbert lakes te Jason C. Moore. The terms of the lease had previously been arranged between Mr. Moore and the State Land Board, which insisted that the Legislature should finally pass on it. The lease guarantees to the state $25,000 for each of the 40 years that the lease runs, in addition to which the state is to be paid a royalty of 60 cents a ton for all potassium salts ex tracted, 25 cents a ton for all other salts except sodium chloride, and 10 cents a ton for that. Mr. Sheppard said that Mr. Moore is not -connected with the new company. Sreaking Dates Announced. GRESHAM, Or., April 26. (Special.) Principal E. S. McCormick, candidate for Republican nomination as County School Superintendent, has announced the following dates and "places for ad dresses: Thursday night before the Lincoln Republican ' Club in the Pub lic Library; Friday afternoon, at Fair view, before the Parent-Teachers' As sociation, and at night before the Kansas Society, Women of Woodcraft and Multnomah Camp W. O. W., all in Portland. Kelso Schools Hold Display. KELSO, Wash., April 26. (Special.) The Kelso schools are making their annual exhibit this week. ToUay the teachers and pupils of the Wallace School held open house and had one of the finest displays of primary and lower-grade work ever made in this county. The building contains only the five first grades, but the showing- of the departments was exceptionally good. Miss Ethel Goerig is primary teacher and principal. The other teach ers in the building are Miss Millie Alexander, Miss Nettie Moe and Miss Bessie lieall. The Catlin building will make its ex hibit tomorrow and the high school and Washington building will have theirs Friday afternoon. SUNSET THEATER "The Coiiest on the Coast," Broadway and Washington. TODAV OXLY WHAT DORIS DID," Three-Reel Thanhauser Drama, and CHAMPIO-X JESS WIIXAHD, In Training Camp and Ring, PREPAREDNESS! The stupes, dous patriotic picture, "The Bati tie Cry of Peace," coming for three days only, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, April- 30, May 1, 2. Matinee 5cf From 6l55 A, 31, to 6 P. 91. Friday and Saturday j FICKFOIRD ir IN A TENDER AND PATHETIC CHARACTERIZATION y A story of beautiful sentiments and tender appeal to 6S the finer senses, "The Foundling" epitomizes in a fSSS strongly dramatic manner the sufferings of a girl Px f-AZyi I Cctou uu.u mwj Laic wuuu wic jiawtu vj- ivi j i sjv'ij fM because her birth has caused the death ot tne wile tefrf 63 I he had loved and worshiped. B& 5r3sf i elll ' iri fZ tfWz M a x m " ft r' H rprv STte ALWAYS GOOD PICTURES Pickford . . MAIN 3452 WASHINGTON AT PARK -
