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8 TIIE OIIEGOXIAX, . SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1917. ous enough sickness to keep her from 1 playing in Paramount pictures. As matter of fact. Miss Huff does think that the playing of this so-called in strument is a disease and thinks her self fortunate that so far she has not caught it, but If it's contagious she ! will Toe in great danger as everyone I around the studio has it. Juliette Cay, who quit the stage to j appear in several Mutual pictures, la J doing a. novel "bit." She is sending, weekly letters and packages to six I soldiers. ' Theodore Kosloff, noted Russian 1 dancer and formerly of the Russian Imperial Ballet, supports Geraldine I Farrar in The Woman God Forgot." Pauline Curley Is Harold Lockwood'B ; new leading woman. - Virginia Valli, who supports Bryant Washburn in "The Fibbers." danced i her way into pictures. She was picked J up irom a Chicago theater to do a I dancing bit in an Essanay picture and photographed so well that the director realized that he had a "find." A tempt ing offer caused Miss Valli to desert interpretative dancing for the glare of! tne studio lamps. flfM IMluiii 'ill -s' -' '", fT - , j , s . ' V ' ..' ill s,.jsms)!hi J III II I il. il ii uwimiJ J us ssi ii J ii ii u i mi iji s I I nil I II I I i . un a. in a iigiPfPT I ,n li im m u I llipmwmi.1.. mill isjm I iai.ni inwiamim I I ii I mi jl -..i .. .. , ... .. - - -....... ...... ,..,..,1 f: U win. JPU.-y",1'UHJJI.liV!v.S'll.JM jJSHllW.JPW.'WJS-Wi 1 v N. 4f)i. A--::pr .v 4 a2 cJVd- Vrea-fa. j-. TODAY'S FILM FEATURES. Star Charlie Chaplin. "The Ad venturer"; "VVlllium Kussell, 'Sands of Sacrifice" Sunset "Les Miserablea." Majestic "Jack and the Bean stalk." Columbia Herbert Rawlinson, "Come ThrouKh." Liberty Belle Bennett. "The Devil's Decoy." Peoples Evelyn Nesblt, "Re demption." Circle Charlie Chaplin, "The Count." Majestic. S TACK AKD THE BEANSTALK' " I half-million-dollar William Fox visualization of the fairy tale Bo dear to the children, of the English speaking race, will be seen at the Majestic Theater, commencing today. Few photoplays have been so lav ishly sprinkled with superlatives as has "Jack and the Beanstalk" by East ern reviewers. It's a spectacle story, said to appeal alike to young and old. The first of the "Fox Kiddie Features," it has a cast of 1300 children, averag ing 5 years of age. and the leading roles are taken by two juvenile prodigies, Francis Carpenter as Jack and Vir ginia Corbln as the Princess. In contrast with these diminutive players is the Giant of the photoplay. J. M. Tarver. eight feet six inches tall and weighing 471 pounds, is said to be the biggest man in the world. They say that Tarver is so big that he frightened the children, and had to tell them stories of the giants and pigmies to get their confidence. Two hours of riotous fun, thrills and cobs is what Fox promises for those who witness this production. At 9 o'clock this morning Owner Manager J. J. Parker will be host to the children of the various orphanages and homes of the city at a special showing of "Jack and the Beanstalk." Peoples. "Redemption," the much-talked-of motion-picture production, presenting as its star Evelyn Nesbit and her son, Russell Tbaw, among the supporting players, commences an engagement this morning at the Peoples Theater. Miss Nesbit, who was In Portland at the Orpheum last season in a dancing act, has been highly commended for her acting in "Redemption," a story based, it is said, upon her own life. Her son and Clifford, her husband, are brought into the picture, while there SUNDAY" Is a suggestion of the Stanford White Harry Thaw affair. The story deals with a girl, once an actress, who, at the opening of the pic ture, is a happy wife and mother. A former admirer looms up, and meeting her again after a number of years, and in full knowledge of her domestic hap piness, persists in annoying her until she is compelled to have him arrested but to avoid publicity she does not. press the charge and he Is released. Shortly after this ber husband dies and she and her son are left penniless. After months of struggle she establishes her self in business and earns enough money to send her boy to college. Her redemption finally comes through his success. Asserting that C. Gardner Sullivan wrote "The Narrow Trail," the Bill Hart-Artcraft pictured storv. Trianele. through the New York Motion Picture Corporation, secured a temporary court oraer preventing the New Tork exhl- ! bltion of this picture. Triangle claims I mat bulllvan was under its contract when he wrote the story. CAMPAIGN TO BEGIN CLIMBING PERFORMANCE! FEATURE OF TODAY'S PROGRAMME. Plana Completed for Raisins; 25,O00 for Relief of Oresron Soldiers and Sailors. With, a big patriotic programme and a spectacular building-climbing per formance, the campaign to raise funds for the Oregon soldiers and sailors emergency fund will start at noon to day at Fifth and Morrison streets. Dur ing the performances and exercises Honor Guard Girls will sell tickets for the Auditorium performances next week. Robert L. Adams will be in charge of the exercises today. Edward Fraley, Frank Hilton, Charles Freeman and ex-Mayor Albee will be speakers. Leah Cohen will sing and the 14th Regiment band from Vancouver Barracks will play. At the close of the exercises, Charles Willis, known as the "Human Fly," will scale the wall of the 12-story Failing building at Fifth and Alder streets. Mr. Willis has contributed his services for the benefit of the campaign. Sale of ticket;, is reported to be meet ing with big success throughout the city. The performances will begin Mon day afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the Public Auditorium. At each performance there will be shown 8000 feet of thrilling war film furnished by the War Department. There also will be shown 200U feet of film taken especially for the occasion at the cantonment camp at American Lake, Washington. Every noon next week a special pro gramme will be carried out at P'ifth and Morrison streets to stir up interest in the Campaign to raise $25,000 for the relief of Oregon soldiers and sailors- in. all cases of need. BILL H ART in the great Ince feature. Narrow Trail ORGAN RECITAL SUNDAY NOON Star. "The Adventurer." that final Charlie Chaplin-Mutual comedy, which has been overdue many weeks, will be flashed on the Star Theater screen commencing today along with "bands of Sacrifice," a five-reel Mutual-American starring athletic Bill Russell. 'The Adventurer" Is a chase picture, with Chaplin wearing a convict garb during much of the action. Big Eric Campbell is again his rival for the af fections of the girl, Edna Purviance. They say there's more than the usual amount of hilarity in "The Adventur er." the struggle between Chaplin and Campbell, with the latter having the advantage because he recognizes in his rival the escaped convict, permitting of many new bits of comedy "business Charlie is a life-saver, a rescuer of femininity from a watery grave, then a suitor for the hand of the rescued one's daughter, and finally a successful evader of the minions of the law. Organ Recitals at Liberty. Commencing tomorrow the Liberty Theater management will inaugurate a special Sunday musical programme, with Albert Hay Malotte, one of the best-known young organists of the West, in a halt-hour recital on the big Wurlltzer Hope-Jones unit orches tral organ. The musical programme, which will have a programme of varied appeal, from classic to popular, starts at 12:30 o'clock and lasts until 1. Throughout the Winter these recitals are to be a regular weekly feature of Liberty entertainment. Screen Gossip. "Who Leads the National Army" is the title of "a series of one-reel pic tures to be shown throughout the country. These pictures give the pub lic an insignt into the life of the men at the various officers' training camps. When Mary Garden first invaded the motion picture studio she received this note from Oscar nammerstein, ner old director: My dear Miss Garden: Kere is to your first appearance la th new &nd s'-oriou world of lb screen. "When you sans 'Thais' first 11 was a lumu.t and a joyous scream. Your 'Tbsts on th acieen wlil bo memorial an ever'.tLstins dream." Both will nsver bo forgotten. your old director and admiring comrade, Oscar Hsmmmla. No claim is made for a niche for Hammerstein in the poet's hall of fame. Hamilton Revelle and Crauford Kent are among Miss Garden's supporting players in "Thais." a Olga Petrova says she dislikes the phrase "doing our bit" because too many people take It literally and do little when they ought to do a lot, Clifford Bruce, the well-known aster now with Metro was injured seriously recently when his automobile backed down an elevator shaft. The verdiot is at least two weeks in the hospital, a a Borne dyad-in-the-weol film fan, long on nerve and short or brains, heard that Louise Hoff had the ukelcle fava and wrote to her asking how she REVENUE LAW EXPLAINED Charles E. MeCulIoch Speaks at City Club Luncheon. "The War Revenue Measure of 191T" was the topic of an interesting address delivered by Charles E. McCuIloch. of the legal firm of Carey & Kerr, before the luncheon of the City Club yester day at the Hotel Benson. The measure discussed comprises 50 printed pages, replete with the edicts of wartime taxation. Mr. MeCulIoch gave a synopsis of the law and dis cussed the various provisions in de tail, giving examples. The war income tax, as distinct from the previous in come tax, and the war excess profits tax, were fully explained. "In certain Individual instances, the measure will cause a great deal of hardship," said Mr. MeCulIoch. "but in the main it ! very fair. People must 1 1 M 1M Hill .Hill !M mh-mSSS Thft hiVirPst man in the world. J. M. f t fv lit V a I I 1 A Fairy Village in the JY i K' Jrtl Cost $500,000.00 y!W i' 'T " "'1 "A '"hi aatr(f, 13. eP?r'jjr phenomenal I MP 10 BIG ACTS 10 . i-V' f ti lHgL Have You Bought Your Bonds? T-,-j!'-'--i''1" -'W'Ul-'y'-ffl'.'i'''-''T'i''m' W WMIJm..lMTUll..,'y" liaaaaaaassasyasaisjisjiJi 1U.IIISJLU; iu; IJSSJ.iJIISlsargsa-ssssa3SiJ l.ia mlljai jj.ii ii jussssssesassi I II Jl 1 1 UJ l.Tsssysassjt I IS SI a .jUSsjljj expect more drastic measures, for the yearly revenue of the measure is less than 30 per cent of the annual war budget." HOSPITAL UNIT GETS $400 Campaign for TnlTerslty of Oregon Contingent Extended. Four hundred dollars has been turned in to the committee in charge of the campaign for the mess fund of the University of Oregon base hospital, and considerable sums are still in the hands of collectors, it was announced last night. The fund will be used In ob taining delicacies for the patients in the hospital and In supplementing sup plies for the hospital staff. The campaign, which was to have closed October 15, has been extended until November 1. The change, the committee announced, was due to - a misunderstanding by which many pros pective donors refused to contribute because they believed the fund was for the. use of the hospital staff only. Fire on TJmpqua Mountains Report. GOLD HILL, Or., Oct. 19. (Special.) Deer hunters returning to Gold Hill from the headwaters of Evans Creek report a raging fire unobstructed, dev- r-A ' aimaauajalnWW InsWaaaa&ifaVir rsyWiir i W at 'aaTfr' H 31 -n :.-r - : .1 tVH.t anaasii. I (ijpmjwif ,y ''z:f.y,!rVJ-.. i"r 1 .'. anisaji.sm , i iui..isis im inui n i am is isi urn ,..iiiss.ssaTwi is iau if3 '..Siirl, : - .: - . . - " ias i'i' 3 P 1 1 y A r ;) AT THE . ; : Tinir-'" :-- ---'''vlfeii-firA""'-' iniiii-' iiirn-" irt- yt t -i j- -'"fJ l ' ' i ami si,j i.iii i. ii. i jm. Jjii!a,ji-ji mi(,hii Jtpuisjiii uasmuiii a11nja.sassssspsssra4.niJ mnniis; a i ' si J LI Beginning TODAY EVELYN NESBIT "Redemption" is the redemp tion of Evelyn Nesbit. She now tells her true story to the world. It is a picture you will remember as long as you live. A gigantic and stupendous story of a wom an's life. AND HER SON HP atasaW IN ELL AW Redemption astatlng the forests on the summit of the Umpqua Mountains from the head of Morrison Creek to the head of Graves Creek, a dista-nce of six miles to the west. The forest fires in the Elk Creek district on, the east have been occupying the attention of the fire authorities and men is employed. a large force of The leaves of the olive are not de ciduous. Those who see olives for the first time are disappointed by the dusty color of the foliaore. 13 - stavjsbsaa sssjasssi hmiiii isilij iri i aSnaal 11 !2 MS '4 0 I s 1 ' i U kfJ---m.lm,'m-m',''.,',.M W if "jaTiiin 'arii sin 1 wr fsvr ' rrsi. as i wnil a By Cyrus Townsend Brady Of an American who fought for France and Freedom. The most timely and exciting war story of the year. 3a 1 iihV tiiiaWll it COLUMBIA c SUNDAY NORMA TALMADGE in the romance of a moonlit car een one mgnt 01 madness six years of Borrow the drama de luxe COMEDY ALSO J POPPY 4 Phone Your Want Ads to THE OREGONIAN Main. 7070. 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