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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 6, 1916)
THE 3IORXIXG OREGOXIA?!', WEDNESDAY, DECE3IBER 6, 1916. ..V -. i ' .1 t -r, BUK OF SYMPATHY lunm n cm i cthpi ULLLU1UUU HUULU Portland Public Asked to Aid With Money Campaign to ' Help Needy Families. $25,000 FUND IS DESIRED Public Welfare Bureau Flans to Bring Effort to Climax on De cember 1 6 Boy Scouts Are to Assist in Work. f What does it mean when yo-a are offered stock In the Bank of Sympathy of the Public Welfare Bureau? This question will- be asked probably many thousand times in the present week, for the stock in the Bank of Sympathy is going- on the market One answer that the Public Welfare Bureau has to make is that those who are buying stock in the Bank of Sym pathy are making an investment that is guaranteed to return 200 per-cent. "Listen," the broker who is offering you the stock, will say in answer to your questions, and then perhaps he will explain it this way: Tale of Need Told. "There is a family living- in a miser able shack here in Portland, so close to starvation that every night when they go to bed they can hear the wolf wnuff le-snuffling at the crack of the front door. a "The father was a hard worker and industrious, but conditions made it im possible for him to lay anything aside for a rainy day. "Last September he was striick by a railway train and died. "His children are 1, 3 and 6 years ,old not an age when they are an as set to the family as bread winners, even a cynic would admit. The mother is not in condition such that she is able to work, and cannot well care for her children and attend to the house even. "From hand to mouth they must live, never knowing ahead from where clothing or fuel is coming. "And every night you can fancy the mother hearing in the dark the wolf going snuffle-snuffle at the crack of the door, and you can fancy her lying there, and wondering how many days before his thick paw will come through the panel and his shaggy head and his gaunt fore quarters and then "The widow's pension is out of the question, for she was not here long enough to have a legal residence. "So. until arrangements frr her and her small family can be completed, the Public Welfare Bureau must extend re lief from day to day and try to figure out some plan to provide for perma nent care." Case Cited bnt Instance. When the stockbroker for the Bank of Sympathy has got this far in his explanation you might say: "Well, well! I'll Just do something right now!" and perhaps you might send out some sup plies and call the account square with your heart. But that isn't why the story was told. It was told as a single example of cases that the Public Welfare Bureau must take care of month in and month ou all the year round. It will take more than just one burst of sympathy from you to meet the full demand. The sum of $25,000 is what the Public Wel fare Bureau has been obliged to raise in the past to conduct its work all the year round, and this is the amount it is raising now. The money for the stocic in the Bank of Sympathy goes into this great fund. So to speak, the Public Welfare Bu reau is made a great resorvoir for hu man sympathy that is brimming up and running over at this season a reser voir from which will come a steady flow of relief for the poor through all the months of the year. "Investment in stock in the Bank of Sympathy is a 200 per cent investment," said A. P. Gephart, secretary, "because we guarantee to our stockholders . 100 per cent more happiness and enjoy ment during the Christmas holidays, and we guarantee 100 per cent of re lief for the suffering poor on the amount they invest in the relief fund." Boy Scoots Co-operating. The Sympathy Saturday committee will meet this afternoon at 3 o'clock and prepare to put the stock on the market. The campaign will culminate in a big throwing of stock into the open market on December 16. The Boy Scouts are co-operating In the movement and will distribute in 15,000 homes cards for subscription to the Bank of Sympathy. And when the stockbrokers of the bank come to you, the Public Welfare Bureau Just asks you to remember the woman who wakes in the night and hears the wolf pawing at the panel of the door, and to think of scores or men and women in the city who must .wake in the night this Winter and shudder to hear the same thing in their fancy and then take as big a block of the stock as you can carry. Body Taken to South Dakota. The funeral services of Rebecca J. McVay . were held at Finley's chapel yesterday afternoon. Rev. L. R. Dyott officiating. The body was taken to Yankton, S. IX. where interment will be made. 1 I " - - - I- j-i v i - 'J i . - " - I f- a W F i ; I - k - . - 1 TODAY'S FILM FEATURES. Colum.bla William S. Hart, "The Devil's Double"; "Alice in So ciety." Sunset "When Friends Marry Twins," "His Brother's Wife," "My Valet." Star Margarita Fischer, "Tropic Love"; "Bridget's Mistake." Peoples Cleo Ridgeley and Wal lace Reid, "The Yellow Pawn." Majestic Theda Bara. "The Vix en." Globe Bryant' Washburn, "The Breaker." MARGARITA FISCHER, who Is a native daughter of Eastern Ore gon and is now the featured star in "Tropic Love" or "The Pearl of Paradise," at the Star Theater, has had an interesting career. She made her beginning in Oregon in little amateur and home-talent affairs and graduated thence into the Pollard Or era Com pany, which a decade ago was so popu lar throughout the Northwest and in the Intermountain states. The "Lilliputians,"' as they were known, were all child-actors and ac tresses, who gave light nnerpj and oth er attractions. Margarita Fischer was one of the leading players and Harry Pollard was another child-wonder with the organization. When they became of age they were married, and Mar garita Is now the wife of Harry Pol lard. Mr. Pollard recently heard the call of the photoplay and organized a company to make pictures at San Diego. The first of these unusually fine fea tures is "The Pearl of Paradise," and others are to be released from time to time on the Mutual programme. Mr. Pollard, who bears a striking re semblance to William Farnum, plays a leading role in "The Pearl of Paradise," besides directing the picture, and there are a number of other players in the cast who are now grown but were for merly stars of the famous Lilliputians. Fox Makes Announcement. "Theda Bara and William Farnum on the regular programme and each in eight or ten special pictures costing from $100,000 to $300,000 each andpre sentiag new photoplay, scenic loca tions and advanced stage settings that will make cinema history," is the Will lam Fox promise for 1917, according to telegraphic communications scat tered broadcast over the country yes terday. "The Fox policy for 1917 consists In keeping faith with the public, which has made Fox stars," declares this pro ducer. In addition to these ambitious plans ior cara ana farnum, fox further an nounces that, commencing on January 1, two-reel comedies will be released at the rate of one comedy feature a week. These will not be on the regu lar programme, but available to any exhibitor. Fifteen two-reelers have been com pleted thus far. The comedy directors include Charles Parrott, . Walter C. Reed and Harry Edwards. In the list of players -e such comedians as Hank Mann. Charles Arling, Martin Kinney, Frank Alexander, Joe Lee, Lee Morris, Harry M. O'Connor, William Hauber, "Smiling Billy" Mason, Anna Luther, Carmen Phillips. Amy Jerome, Annette De Foe, Caroline Rankin and Elsie Greeson. The first release will be "Social Pirates." Fox is said to have more than half a million dollars already invested in the comedy department of his organization. Peoples. Cleo RIdgley and Wallace Reid, the splendid young Lasky stars, who have appeared together so frequently and with such great success, will be seen at the Peoples Theater today in "The Yel low Pawn," an unusual society drama. Miss Ridgley and Mr. Reid first stepped into prominence by their splen did performance in the Lasky produc tion of "The Golden Chance." Since then they have appeared together with the same degree-of success in a number of other productions among them be ing "The Selfish Woman" and "The House With the. Golden Windows." The new vehicle has to do with artist life in the fashionable Bohemian set in New York and deals with the love af fair between the wife of a district at torney and a famous painter. Selig-Tribune news weekly and a cartoon comedy will also be screened. . Another Fisher Maid. You wouldn't think, when you see her emoting on the .screen opposite "Bill" S. Hart or some other star you wouldn't think, then, that Margery wiison, or UTiangle-liay Bee nictures. is a fishing fan.- She is." thoneh. nii she can exhibit blisters on her hands to prove it. Moreover, she is the very embodiment of enthusiasm when she discusses the pastime. Let her director notify her at 2 P. M. that he needs her no lonerer that dav. and it's a ten-to-one shot tnat vou'll find her an hour later waiting eagerly to haul in a black bass or a mackerel. Not long ago the Ince stars ar.d di rectors were the guests of a well known clubman, E. A. Featherstone, aboard his private yacht. They went to Catalina Island and, en route, every body was cavorting about the craft everyDoay except Miss Wilson. She ensconced herself on a stool- at the stern or tne yacht and trawled all the way over. What she caught was suffi cient ior tne nearty meal that was en joyed by the hungry player-folk upon their arrival at the Tuna Club on the island. ! iney promptly dubbed her -Deep-sea Margery." making of finished soldiers and sailors and show important scenes In the oper ation of the Navy. David Vorhees, 81 Inches tall and as lean as the beanpole of fable fame, is soon to cavort in comedies. "Lucretia Borgia," the Victor Hugo drama, is the first Florence Reed pic ture Selznlck will release. Miss Reed will be remembered as the star of "At Bay" and "New York." . King Baggot has bought "Absinthe," an early Universal success, changed sub-titles, and taken a number of new scenes, including war action, and will tour the country with it, appearing in person at the various theaters. The picture was produced under the direc tion of Herbert Brenon and Leah Baird, co-stars with Baggot.. - Mae Marsh plays the parr of a. bare footed boy in her next photoplay, "The Wharf Rat." They say, down at the Triangle-Kay TJee studio, that Dorothy Dalton should command as much attention as a maker of cakes -as she does by her dramatic portrayals for the screen. " Metro will release Its 14-episode se rial, "The Great Secret," for Christmas. This is the Bushman-Bayne film story you have heard so much about. "Snow White," the Grimm fairy tale, is to be released for the Christmas sea son by two concerns. Paramount will present Marguerite Clarltln this story, while a little girl who resembles- Mar guerite, Almee' Eflich; will star in a production made by Educational Films. The players' are all . children, 200 in number. . . ' Rose Talpey, of Vitagraph, is' to be traveling representative of that com pany, touring the country and appear ing before women's clubs and societies with a film showing the making of pictures. The first installment, of the remark able war pictures secured by Donald C. Thompson, pictorial war correspond ent for Paramount Plctographs and Leslie's Weekly, will be shown within few weeks. . Universal has entered into an agree ment with George Bronson Howard for the filming of many of his stories. Earle Williams' newest leading wom an at Vitagraph Is Ethel Gray Terry. Ene is tne daughter or Lillian Law rence, famous actress now aDDearing in "Bunker Bean." Thomas H. Ince, producer of "Civil ization," is at work on a new spectacle. t is unnamed ai. yet and t:.re is no information available as to the theme. . Samuel Goldfish, M. M. and E. Sel- wyn are at the head of a new $3,000,000 film corporation . to be known as the Goldwyri Pictures Corporation. m Down at Santa Barbara the American Film Company is operating only three companies, -against nine a few months ago. George Elwell, a young actor of the Trlangle-Ince forces, .fell dead during aance at i,os Angeles recently. An other case of heart failure. r Mrs. William C. DeMIlle. wife of the Lasky director, is a daughter of Henry ueorge, tne great slngle-taxer. Owing to ill-health Cleo Rldgely. has been given a vacation at the Lasky tudio And will not return to work un til early, in 1917. James Campbell, known throughbut the West for his expert horsemanship, has joined the Signal studio, where they make Helen Holmes features. Jack Dean, the husband of Fannie Ward, was her star for many years on the speaking stage. He was the only American in the first 'company she brought over from London. Screen Gossip. Frank Mclntyre, who will head cast in "The Traveling Salesman" Famous Players, weighs 300 pounds. the for In a coming World picture Robert Warwick delivers a fervid but word less open-air plea for prohibition. Miss Cora Beach, sister of Rex Beach, the novelist, is now in pictures. She is with the Regent Photo Players at jacKsonviiie, la. Mutual is to release an interesting series of six single-reel films dealing wiin uncie cams aerenaers. The pic tures will enow all the steps In th. - in i-ftntnTiiirilliMifl-" rViir ft n All rre w comedies made under the $S70,00Q-a-year contract by New Chaplin Comedies Only at THE STAR Will Be Shown in This City Only at Tile -Star' WASHINGTON AT PARK 'The Rink," his latest Next Sunday Today at the Star, See Margarita ' Fischer in "Tropic Love" The Star New Chaplin Comedies Only - at THE STAR f - ... v -W W -i f f a ,w , v fA FOUR DAYS, STARTING TODAY "The Yellow Cleo IMilg-ely and Wallace Retd 1m "Tie "YelloYT Pawn," Peoples tomorrow Life is a game of chess; people are only "pawns" to be moved at will such is the theme of the new Lasky drama which brings together again on the screen those popular favorites Cleo Ridgely-Wallace Reid n !!! n Tim wnTi hir - r ': -1 JUL,' ViJpP t GENERAL BEEBE PRESIDENT Reorganized Company K, First In fantry, Elects Officers, Company K. First Infantry, Oregon National Guard, at one time one of the most active military . organizations in Portland, and reorganized by Its old members, held a meeting in the gray parlors of the Multnomah Hotel Mon day night to elect officers and complete the organization of their Veteran As sociation. General Charles F. Beebe was elected president; John H. Hall, first vice-president; C. J. Wheeler, sec ond vice-president, and A. B. Mason, secretary and treasurer. It was decided at this meeting that the Veteran Association of Company K ft tiop Easy It's too late to "shop early," but you can "shop easy" here's the way: Fight your way through throngs of Christmas shoppers for an hour, then break away and spend a happy, pleas ant hour or so at The Peoples. You'll find yourself greatly refreshed and ready to enter the fray again with a smile. And those wonderfully pleasing, al ways "clean" shows at this theater cost only a dime in the afternoons. There's a comfy rest room and a maid to care for the kiddies good music, too. 11 A. M. toll P. M. 1 iiniU'i Tl'mir M1" y J A stirring photo-drama which relentlessly ex poses the merciless methods of the third degree, combined with a sweet and tender love story a baffling, complex mystery tale, dealing with modern life and the misery of a marriage for money. A paramount photo-play today at no advance in prices of course, at Portland's larg est photoplay house. LD eo ALDER STREET AT WEST PARK Coming Sunday Lenore Ulrich in "THE ROAD TO LOVE" would co-operate in every way with the regimental Veteran Association which has been formed by the members of the old First Regiment. It was also decided to observe the 31st anniversary of the formation of the Company on April 6, 1917, by a banquet on that date. $7192 ; PAID FOR RELIEF Firemen's Aid and Pension Fund Now Contains $109,140. There was paid out of the firemen' relief and pension fund during the fiscal year ended December 1 a total of $7192.36 In sick and disability claims and pensions, according to the annual statement issued yesterday by City Auditor Barbur. The expenditures amounted to $1907.41 more than the firemen contributed to the fund through the assessment plan.- There were 33 claims paid on ac count of sickness aggregating $2103.51; 25 claims paid for accidental injury amounting to $2706.69; four pensions were paid during the year aggregating $2182.16 and $200 was expended for fu nerals. The fund received in addition to the fees paid in by the firemen a total of $28,222.27 from' taxation and $492.02 in delinquent taxes. These amounts with other receipts increased the balance in the fund to $109,140.81, this including amounts carried forward from other years. - ii AS ' Just One More Day! Local High School Picture "WHEN FRIENDS MARRY TWINS" Mabel Normand and Raymond Hitchcock in "My Valet" , O T T7VTO ITT "His Brothel J J jH, 1 mi 3 .. sr.- TOMORROW CHARLES RAY IN "THE DESERTER' I . ' ' F X : 11 I . y - ' i yy 1 H . , 1 h . :-y i -: k i . yy .JLs .1 CHRISTOPHEIV RACE must earn his own living for a year in order to inherit his uncle's fortune. All he has is good 'intentions and his big motor car, The Scarlet Runner. So he bev comes a chauffeur and has many amazing adventures. C. N. and A. M. Williamson have novelized them into a series of stories called "The Scarlet Runner. A new chapter appears each week in the , - SUNDAY OREGONIAN The stories are dramatized into splendid motion pic-" tures with Earle Williams as "Christopher." - They are shown at the best theatres in your city. The next is calledJ'The Red Bearded Man.' Don't miss it. Produced by th Greater Vitagraph WITH rt - V y i 5 I - : 1 1 1 rx-y, ,w 1 I I 'V ' ' J EARLE .WEILL f ' . - - ",. K -." - I, . 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