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THE MORNING OltEGONIAN- WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1917.. mmmmmm mm t W1LLBRIDGE FIGHTS JITNEY FRANCHISE Phone Main 2 1 ' . NOW . PLAYING 11 A. M. to 11 P.M. Union Gives Inadequate Serv ' ice, Says Protest Filed With City Commissioners. MANY FORCED TO WALK -Others Walt One to Two Hours Be fore Able to Obtain Seats, De clare Petitioners Who Are Favorable to Sir. Foster. A vigorous protest against the grant ing of an exclusive jitney franchise over the Linnton run to the Jitney Drivers' Union, was filed yesterday with the City Council by 35 residents of "Wlllbridge and vicinity. It is com plained that the -union which is operat ing the service over the run now, is plvlng inadequate service, and that persons living along the line are re quired to stand by the hour waiting for Jitneys. "There are frequent Instances where. In leaving Portland, passengers, in or der to ride to their homes in prefernce to walking are compelled to stand on the Jitney steps with barely room to place their heads in the cars, their bodies exposed to the rain and cold," reads the complaint. "What we need, and need very badly. Is streetcar serv ice, but we realize that this is Impos sible as long as we are burdened with this Jitney menace." Carline Pnt Out of Business. Wlllbridge Is one of the stations for merly served by the electric cars of the United Railways Company, which line was pit'out of business some time R.SO as a result of the jitneys and the demands of the residents of Linnton that the company grant a B-cent fare. Instead of a fare of 10 cents. Since the car company went out the districts between Guild3 Lake anJ Linnton have been served by Jitneys at a 10-cent fare. The Council now has before it only one Jitney franchise application, that of the Jitney Drivers' Union. Up to a few days ago there was an application by W. M. Foster, who proposed to put in a system of large buses, but with drew his application after It had been approved by the Council, because of the delays experienced and also be cause of promises from the Jitney Driv ers' Union of more frequent servic with the present system of small ma chines. Mr. Foster had agreed to fur nish a bond of $10,000 for the protec tion of passengers in case of accident. The union has promised to furnish a bond of $7500 if one can be obtained. In their letter of protest the Will bridge people say in part: "We beg to avail ourselves of this opportunity as citizens of Willbridge to enter an earn est protest against granting an exclu sive franchise to the Jitney Drivers' Union for the following reasons: "The service as .at present conducted by the Jitney Drivers' Union to the people residing along the Linnton Road is so bad as to beggar comparison. Prospective Paueosen AValt. The cars usually get their capacity either at Linnton or Portland and when passing would-be fares along the road shivering In the cold and rain, they laueh and toot their horn and pass on. well content with their load filled up before starting. There are Incidents, too numerous to mention, where prospective passengers wait an hour and a half and even two hours, and women at that, and have then accepted the courtesies extenaea by the Portland Gas & Coke Company's drivers, and were glad of the chance to ride into the heart of the city on a briquette truck. Conditions of this character you must admit have gone past the limit In this day and, age of human endurance ana the iity iom mission is In a position now where they can give relief and we have a right to expect It of them. "If a Jitney franchise Is to be granted at all. the Foster offer is. In our opin ion, much more preferable. Inasmuch as he offers buses that will accommodate a much larger number of people, and unlike the Jitney Drivers' Union, will protect one in case of accident and will give greater recompense to the city for the privilege of operating. CHAIRS INSPIRE ORATORS Sir. Baker Unable to Claoose Make for New Auditorium. I - Pour representatives of opera chair manufacturing concerns are engaged In a battle royal at the City Kail in an effort to land the contract for 5500 peats for the public Auditorium, a con tract Involving $20,000. By reason of a flood of arguments by each concern. City Commissioner Baker has been un-' able to decide on a recommendation to make to the Council. It had been planned to have a rec- mmendation before the Council Mon day, but this was deferred until this morning. Last night Mr. Baker an nounced that he la still at sea on the proposition. Uewis County Woman Divorced. CHEHALIS, Wash.. Jan. 9. (Spe cial.) Ethel R. Longmire has obtained a divorce from Roy Longmire In the Lewis County Superior Court. She se cures the custody of a 6-year-old daughter. Their marriage took place in Pierce .County. Birdie M. Clevinger has sued Elmer C. Clevinger for di vorce. They were marrted in Toledo, Wash., in September, 1B12. It Is alleged that four months later Clevinger de eerted his wife in Portland. OTHERS! DAUGHTER Ton who' tire- easily; are pale, hag-v Bard and worn; nervous . o r irritable: who are sub ject to fits of melancholy or the --blues," pet your blood examined for Iron defici-. .fllCT. F. King; M.D. .iboh taken three times a : V after jimils will increaselyour strengwrdnd , Kjcwj-ance zoo per cent-in tweafjeeks' rSHn many cases. Fer din aiKing, fmerd. Ccf uwally otmt. tm-nMn tab. Y Id f rry . " , , pllllliliS , A -7T -1 j IT 9 e :: : .' Itej i 1 20,000 Leapes , A"0cmP$ i. Jlnder the 'Sea . f' - 11; J Tr til h j . Hifki '-r rr: r: ' ' ' Fl . : i Z4 ' SHOW STARTS ! If f iit' N 12:45 P.M. 6:00 P. k f . - 2:30 P. M. 1 1 TOD AIT'S FILM FEATURES. Broadway "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea." Peoples Clara Kimball Toung, "The Foolish Vlrin" Majestic William Farnum, "Tha Price of Silence." Columbia Mary Plckford, "The Pride of the Clan." Sunset Mary Plckford. "Hearts' Adrift." Star Pauline Frederick. "The Slave Market." Globe Maude Fealy, "The Bond man." ? is MUTUAB now bas four new fem inine stars for 1917. announcing the engagement of Gail Kane, ap pearing on Broadway In "The Harp of Life" and in World films, and Edna Goodrich, formerly of Morosco, who will soon conclude a New York vaudeville engagement. Marjorle Rambeau and Nance O'Neil are other luminaries com prising the quartet of new Mutual headliners. ' Miss Kane will be under the direction of the American Film Company at Santa Barbara, starting work Janu ary 23. Miss Kane's career was begun under Charles Frohman six years ago. She nrsc appeared under Mr. Frohman s management In "Decorating Clemen tine, appearing In the first production at the New Theater with Winthrop Ames. Later she was presented in "As Man Thinks," by Augustus Thomas. at the Thirty-ninth-Street Theater In New York. She was the young actress then picked by Mr. Thomas to star In his successful play "The Model." in her present engagement at the Globe Theater, New York, In "The Harp of Life," Miss Kane is enjoying a great success. She was booked for this engagement last year, after she had made a great triumph for herself in Augustus Thomas' famous plav. Arizona," in which Mr. Thomas him self Induced her to make her first ap pearance before the motion picture camera. Miss Goodrich is on of the best- known actresses of the world. A Chi cago girl, the daughter of A- S. Ste phens, of that city, she graduated from the Hyde Park School there and soon afterwards married Nat C. Goodwin, the marriage being later dissolved. The young artist's first theatrical appearance was as a member of the celebrated sextet in "Florodora," after a successful tour with which she Joined Anna Held s company and achieved fame as the highest salaried showgirl on the stage. It was during her en gagement with Miss Held that Miss Goodrich obtained her first opportunity to play an important part that of Madame Recamler in "Mam'selle Napo leon." Miss Goodrich was then engaged as understudy in "The Rollicking Girl," after a tour with which attraction she decided to enter the comedy field and purchased the rights to "The Genius and. the Model." producing the play herself .nd starring jointly with Harry Woodruff in the Autumn of 1905. In the Spring of 1906 Nat C. Goodwin bought the rights of this play and en gaged Miss Goodrich for her original role that of the artist's model. She continued as Goodwin's leading woman ror several seasons, appearing In 'The Genius and the Model," "When We Were Twenty-ne," and other plays In which Goodwin starred. Later on she appeared with Charles Cherry in "His reighbor s Wife." Barrymore Witli Brenon. John Barrymore ias signed a con tract to appear under the direction of Herbert Brenon In a photodramatic version of Louis Joseph Vance's popu lar novel. "The Lone Wolf." This will bei Brenon's next Selznlck-Pictures production following "The Eternal Sin," which Is now nearly ready for release, and which will introduce Flor ence Reed in the tragic role of Lucretla Borgia. Work on the Barrymore production will begin within the -next fortnight. This will be the first appearance of this popular star in moving pictures In nearly two years. His last season was devoted to the spoken drama, and his success as Falder in Galsworthy's "Justice" was one of the big theatral events of the year. Mr. Barrymore Wad been regarded previously as a light comedian, and the power he displayed In his interpretation of the role of the victim of the processes of law was a revelation to his admirers. In "The Lone Wolf he will have opportunity for demonstrating his talent In both the lighter and the heavier branches of his art, as the story, while of a dis tinctly serious nature, has many in cidents or a lyric sort. Another interesting point about this production will be its contrast with the previous Brenon productions since he Joined the Selznlck alliance Nazimova in "War Brides," Florence Feed In "The Eternal Sin" and John Barrymore In "The Lone Wolf." Mr. Brenon is tak ing no chance of allowing any critic to say there is a sameness about his pro ductions. "Patrla" Has Screening. The International's sew serial. "Pat' rla," a preparedness story presenting I Mxs, Vernon astl a & taj ceived a private screening at the Hip podrome Theater yesterday, more than 100 attending. The first three of the 15 episodes were exhibited, and in that lootage jvirs. castle was shown in nu merous smart costumes as well as in number of daring feats. Including a dive from a liner Into the bay. A wealthy heiress, Japanese and Mexican plotters against the United States, a government secret service official and $100,000,000, a secret preparedness fund, are the Ingredients for the thrilling film tale. To Handle War Pictures. A new motion picture company has Just been organized to be known as Official War Films. Inc.. with William K. Vanderbilt as president; Walter I Scott, vice-president; H. P. Davison, treasurer, and William DeForest Man ice, secretary. Other directors are I William Sloane, James Logie. Charles Urban, Henry D. Sleeper and G. McLeod Baynes, chairman of the board. The sole object of the company is to raise funds for the American Ambu- i lance Corps and general war relief. Its entire gross profits will be devoted to this work. The corporation has taken over the rights of the Patriot Film Company for the exhibition In the United States of the official war films of the British government, photographed as a part of the permanent records of the War Office. Those films include remarkable pictures 5f the great battle of the Somme. made on the firing lines and out between the opposing trenches, as well as pictures of the manufacture of munitions, the training of Britain's army of 6,000.000 men, the grand fleet in the North Sea. etc. The films also Include the wonder ful pictures of American boys at the front, shown on December 9 at the Strand Theater to the largest audience New York has seen in many years, and netting nearly $50,000 for war re lief work. These pictures show the fearless bravery of the American boys In the flying corps, with "close-up portraits of a number of these Intrepid young heroes who have given their lives for the allies. Another highly interesting feature or the films is the section showing the work of the American Ambulance Field Service In France. These pictures show the American contingent in action, am bulances dashing to the trenches, re moving wounded to field hospitals, etc. They are exhibited by authority of the Committee of the American Ambulance Corps, consisting of Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, Miss Anne Morgan. Miss Elizabeth Marbury. H. D. Sleeper and Joseph B. Thomas, chairman. Screen Gossip. Now It is said that Chaplin is going to make $1,000,000 a year. Rumor has it that be is going back to Is-essel ana Bauman, which would probably put hlra again under Mack Sennetf s direc tion and that under the arrangement he is to get salary and percentage which would equal the million referred to. Mack Sennett put Chajjlin on the man and he could do wonders with him again, but It seems unlikely that Mu tual would let him get away. Louise Glaum, formerly on the Tri angle programme, has signed a con tract to appear on the Paramount pro gramme. It is probable that she will work at the Lasky studios in Loa An geles. mm Anita Stewart lias signed a new con tract to appear on the Paramount pro gramme. It is probable that she will work at the Lasky studios in Los An geles. . Anita Stewart has signed a new con tract with Greater Vitagraph. Vita graph had an- option on her services for two 'yeans more, wnicn .Miss stew- art did not deem binding. A compro mise was arrived at by whicn she signed a new agreement for one year at an Increase of salary and a per centage. 9 m James P. McGowan. director of Helen Holmes' serial. "A Lass of the Lumber lands." walks five miles every morn ing. Tom Mix will be featured In two-reel slapstick comedies under the Fox ban ner. Victoria Forde will be his leading woman, while 'Slim'" FoteL who has been with Keystone recently, will be character comedian. . Sessue Hayakawa and a squad of Lasky players under Director Marshall Nellan, have departed for Honolulu to take ecenes for a play in which the Japanese Is to be starred. Another Lasky company is en route to Washington. D. C. where the lobby and dining-room of the Willard Hotel will be filmed, as well as other capital scenes. Maude Fealy and Theodore Roberts head this company. - "Rube" Miller, former star of Vogue comedies, has listened to the "call of Broadway," and ie on his way to "dicker" with a few of the producing companies who are anxious to secure his services. Jacksonville, Fla., Is fast becoming a rival of Southern California as a mo tion picture producing center. At the IGarTlolc atudlqs. alon ther axe quar PRICES: Lower Floor " C! and Balcony, Children , Loges 50 Boxes tered companies of the Famous Play ers, Vitagraph, Technicolor. Kjever Komedles. Amber, Regal and Regent companies. . ' Rumor has it that Virginia Plerson, the Fox star. Is soon to announce a new association at the head of he'r own producing company. With her will be her husband, Bheldon Lewis, remem bered from "The Iron Claw." Doll Boone, featured player with 1 World Film productions and Famous Players, Is at present on tour through the Southwest conducting -a series of benefits for the wounded French sol diers. Ormi Hawley, former Lubln and Fox star, is on an extended tour of personal appearances through Minnesota, Wis consin, North and South Dakota, ap pearing in connection with the present tation of the six-part photoplay extra ordinary, "Race Suicide." Records for attendance are being put up wherever this charming screen personality ap pears. Douglas Fairbanks 12 years ago was a stock 'runner for a New York Wall street house of brokers at a salary of $5 a week. Now he Indorses a salary check every week for more than $2000. "Doug" never took -much money from Wall street, but he surely la prevent ing some from getting down there now. Nlles Welch, the handsome leading man who appeared with Marguerite Clark Jn "Miss George Washington." employs three secretaries who do nothing but answer "admirers' corre spondence" and mail his photos to film fane. Niles has received as many as 706 such letter In one day. Anna Nilson, the star of "Who's Guilty," and her husband, Guy Coombs, are at present taking a tour In vaude ville. Their friends say it Is but a short vacation from the studio lights and whirr of the camera crank. Carl Metcalfe, former Lubln star and now appearing as lead in -the Mutual eerial. "Perils of Our Girl Reporters," has contracted to appear in the future In the new Van Dyke pictures under the banner of Art Dramas, Inc. Jacksonville,' Fla., In a recently con ducted popularity contest, voted Grace Darmond. the star of Pathe's "Shield ing Shadow," the most beautltful .girl in motion pictures and conferred upon her the title of "The Lillian Russell of the Screen." She was tendered a prize of a gold dinner service. Mme. Olga Petrova's new contract with Lasky is reported to be at a week ly salary of $4000 for the first year and $5000 a week for .the second year. She also will receive $o00 every month with which 'to enable her to keep her wardrobe up to fashion. .Therein may be an Indication that motion pictures, tending toward the nude are on the wane. Howard Estabrook will direct Vivian Martin in fier next Morosco picture. Edwin Carewe has left Metro and is now with A. H. Jacobs directing Jane Grey. Evelyn Greeley is now with World Film. So generally satisfactory was her work in "Tempest and Sunshine" and "Just a Song at Twilight" that she was selected by Williim A. Brady to play opposite Carlyle Blackwell in "Glass Houses." , m m m An alert proprietor of a noted Broad way cafe In Jlew York is offering pa trons as his "one best bet" Max Lin der cocktails. He guarantees they will tickle the ribs, warm the heart and cause a spirit of good humor to per vade the entire system. Aberdeen Chamber to Elect. ABERDEEN. Wash., Jan. 9. (Spe cial.) New officers and trustees will ha named for the Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce at its annual meeting Fri day night. The year has been active for the chamber, due to factory-getting developments, and a large attendance Is expected. i . . ,, r. ., , ,. ., ... . ,.. , i i.i i. mii M. 7:45 P. M. 9:30 P. M. Cemi-GL cHlb 5 :.$1.00 WOMEN MAKE PLANS PREPARATIONS TO BE MADE FOR ESTERTAIXINO EDUCATORS. ra. George W. MeMmth, President of Congress of Mothers and Parent Teachers, Is Chairman. At the board meeting of the Oregon Congress of Mothers and Parent- Teacher Associations, held in the Courthouse. Mrs. George W. McMath, president, was named chairman of the committee that will represent the or ganization in planning the details and assisting In the entertainment of the National Education Association con vention to meet In Portland next Summer. Mrs. Lou Harlow, of Troutdale, was named chairman of a committee that will assist Miss Harriet Wood in the "get - acquainted - with - your- library" movement to be initiated by the Mult nomah Parent-Teacher associations of this county outside of Portland. Mrs. A. F. Flegel was appointed chairman of a special committee to attend to the copyrighting of 'the score cards used In the baby tests. The state organization Is considering an amendment to the constitution to change the name to the Oregon Parent-Teacher Associations, a branch of the National Congress of Mothers. Mrs. C. W. Hayhurst and others, who went to Corvallis and assisted in the conferences there last week, gave re ports of that gathering. ATTORNEY IN HERO'S ROLE John ColUer Extinguishes Blazing Feather Boa on Woman. John Collier, Deputy District Attor ney, played fireman and hero yesterday. A woman wearing a feather boa was standing in close proximity to the cigar stand on the first floor of the Court- SUNSET Today MARY PICKFORD in HEARTS ADRIFT 3 Tomorrow H. B. WARNER in "SHELL 43" 2 SUNSET Film Achievement Accomplished Children's Matinee Saturday lO A. M. to 6 P. M. Broadway at Stark Street Your Last Chance Today: Clara Kimball Young in her newest, greatest success, "The Foolish Virgin" by Thomas Dixon. Is'ew Pictographs on same programme. PEOPLES Pauline Frederick with Thomas Mcighan. "The Slave Market" A fascinating tale of pirates and love an exquisite scenic, too. STAR Peoples tomorrow- house. A cigar lighter blazed merrily near by. Soon the blaze and the boa met. and a tongue of flame sprung up. Mr. Collier, standing near, made a leap later de scribed as "remarkably agile," and beat the blaze out with his bands before the woman comprehended why a strange man was slapping hr on the buck. mmimimimmiimuiiiummiiiimiiij: There's only one voice in the world like Richard J. E I Jose's and that is - RICHARD J. JOSE'S As an actor he plays the leading role in "Silver Threads Among the Gold" E In person h'e appears E E singing at every per- E E- formance. Commencing E on Sunday at the E SUNSET illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllfij v -Louise Huff and Jack Pickford in "Great Expectations" LAST DAY ! WILLIAM I I FARNUM I in the Price of Silence Starting Tomorrow I June Caprice l in a Modern Cinderella rTimiiimmimiimiiimti!miimimmii7 N w