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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1918)
r THE SIORXIXO OREGOXIAN. -TIIUR SD A Y MAKCI! 21, 1918. VOTE Bl SOLDIERS IN FRANCE OPPOSED : Moving Picture NtVsS :;li!i'M'!!!!l!tli!lii;!lilij!i!i!;:!.i!:llll!!IMIIIIm on the Bill Hart type of Western thrller. Arbuckle Is supported by Al St- John. Buster Keaton, Alice Lake and other funsters. Majestic. "The Heart of a Lion." the Bill Far- War Department Deems Task Would Be Too Great and Hamper Efficiency. DIFFICULTIES ARE MANY If Effort Mere Made to Let Each Stale' Troops Cast Ballot It W ould lie Xeccssary to Send 48 State Commissions Abroad. WASHIVOTOX. March ! A. formal recommendation avatnat any attempt to record the soldier rote In France for elections held during- the war has bn prepared by the War Department. AUer obtaining the opinions of General Fershtna and hl staff, department of ficials on this aide, it was learned to night, said the department has deter mined that no practical method of taking the Totes of members of expe ditionary forces can be devised. The subject was brought up recently by a Western state, which proposed scheme of its own for obtaining the vote of Its citizens In France. While It might b possible for a single state to accomplish this, the Army holds that extension of that privilege to all atates would Impose a hurden upon the mili tary forces at the front that would sertnu.lv Impair their efficiency. New York Mate obtained the Tote of strictly New York military units In France Isst Winter, sending a com- mlselon to Fiance for thai purpo It Is pointed out. howerer. that the troops then were In tralnlnc camps and not actually engaged at the front. The situation now Is wholly chanced. and the time Is not far distant when every actus division In France will be composed of men from many widely scattered states. In this situation should an attempt to poll the soldier Tote be made at National election. 4 stale commissions would have to visit every unit of the Army In France and determine the Usability of the men In each unit claiming residence In each state to Tote. According to War Department officiate it would he a hopeless under- taking, and since the Federal Govern- ment cannot Itself participate In the recording- of the vote which must, under the laws of each state, be taken by state officials, there Is no remedy. Rifting orders fully provide for the recordingeot votes of soldiers on, this siue. is ST; H , v" - lLaJfiaiaSf .sMMMe.eeWre illewetlMaH tllj aHla- " Hal - I '" "I .Jtax 3 BENTON DRIVE OUTLINED COfSTT I.EADF-RS It LOAX CAJs- FAJGJf HOLD MEET1.XC. n 1 1 i - nium 'i ii i i .il '.isssWl lT-e,ew--. . - - .s Plana Are) Cesspleted for Celtlas; Erery BrsMeat le Sakavrtsw fee tiev- ivsaeat Liberty Beads. n.(Ppe-l t Tortland. II of De- s of the I CORVA1XJ3. Or, March rial.) John K. Kollock. of chairman of the State Counci fense. addressed the members ftenton County liberty loan committees here todsy. The courtroom was full of committee members here from every school district In the county. Oreat enthuslssm was manifest and the farmer members especially showed an Intense Interest by akins; numerous pointed and pertinent questions. Father Kane, of Monroe, brought the crowd to a hitch pitch of patriotic fer vor by an eloquent addresa. In which he roundly denounced the liberty loan lacker. lie scored the axltators and "snap box radicals, who. he said, were always advocating something different from whatever exists, ftirrmg up strife. class hatre.l and unrest. lienton County Is completely orran- lied and already at work. The census has been taken, the central committee knows exactly what every clilxen hi sriven to previous drives and what he ha. subscribed to previous loans. Kvery ritixen Is card Indexed and what la ex pected of him this time Is on his card. TODAY'S FILM FEATIRE". Star Frank Keenan. "Loaded Dice": Dili Hart. The Come back." Sunset Pour las Fairbanks. "Habit of Happiness"; Fatty Arbuckle. "Out West." Liberty Sessue Hayakawa. "Hid den Pearls." Majestic William Farnura. "The Heart of a Lion." Peoples Mary Plckford. "Ama- rllly of Clothesline Alley." Columbia Olive Thomas, "Betty Takes a Hand." Globe Marguerite Clark. "Silks and Satins." Liberty. BEAUTIFUL Island settings In and about Honolulu are features of the latest Sessue Hayakawa photoplay. "Hidden Pearls." which Is the leading- film attraction at the Lib erty Theater today. Hidden Pearls" Is said to be as picturesque and novel In character as Twenty snt-akers have been encased I "The Bottle Imp." The film.ng of the to make a schoolhouee campaign, ac-1 picture took Hayakawa and his com- companled by an entertainment corn- pany to Hawaii, where they spent sev- ntlttee and by musicians, and the com-1 eral weeks on various Islands and in uittiecs are all Instructed to gvt their I the volcano xone. The cast of this new production Is unusually strong- one. Including Theodore l:obents. "a-rsnd old man of the screen": Margaret Loom Is, Jack Holt. James Cruxe and Florence Vldor. Its story has to do with intrigue and pearl hunting, wiqh an unususl love sffalr between a native girl and Haya kawa, himself a hklf-breed In the play. r copies. "Amarllly of Clothesline Alley" is laugh-hit. lfs one of the very fun- nle.t pictures In which Mary Pick ford has ever appeared and its pop ularity Is attested by crowds which grow larger daily at Use Peoples Theater. "Our Mary" la a little girl of the slums In this laughfest. and her ex periences are excruciatingly funny as portrayed by her and explained In laughable sub-titles. Mary is a scrub girl, her mother Is a washerwoman and her brothers are newsboys, the refuses a gilded society youth, and plans to wed a bartender. When the society youth falls In lov with Amarllly and she and her folks from the slums meet the "four hundred," extremely funny situations result. Columbia. Olive Thomas, one of the most bean- Itlful of screen stars and a vivacious ex-member of the famous Aegfeld Follies, who is attracting a large film fol. owing, will be todav'a Columbia fee demand for fit ladles, young or Theater headliner. Mix Thomas is el. I. Is etlll very Usht. The willowy featured In "Hetty Takes a Hand." a BlrU with the animated eye and straight I Triangle comedy-drama. front aspect, la, ho ever, much Inquired! -Hetty Takea a Hand" Is adapted after. I from the prlse-wlnntng story of the The ceaseless stream of Gibson and I same name, which recently appeared In Fisher Girl pictures, advertised by I Photoplay Magailne. Olive first ap- quotas with the motto. "Not how large ptth.crtnt low., but hw mint Better Health From Internal Baths Jf tea Frances Ilerrod writes Or. Cnaa. A. Terrell, of New York, as follows: "I am verv glad to tell you that I am mere than plra.wd with the re.ults ob tained frm the use of the J H. I- Css rl. and am In better health thaa 1 have been In years." This Is but one of thousands of the same kind of letters received by I'r. hs. A. Tvrreil. of New York, the In ventor of the "J. H. I- Cascade." Hr a rurelr natural process of pron- erlv u.t-ig warm iir. the "J. H. L. Cascade" removes all the poisonous wt frona the lower Intestine, which physicians agree la the cause OX .. &f all human ailments. WoH ird. CUrke Co- Portland. Or.. have fil'ieil an enormous demand for J. H. I Cascaues" In the past few years, and will show and explain It to you on request. A free and int.re.tlrg booklet on Internal liarhtrc "Why Man of To day Is only & KiTtctenl" can be ob tained at their etore free of any coaL Adv. faith In God or man. The circumstances which bring about htn. downfall und the realisation of his own impotence in a struKde apalnst divinity furnish ma terial for a picture that not only holds audiences during Its screening, but lin gers In their memory long afterwards. Sunset. "The Habit- of Happiness" and "Out West." pictures which star those popu lar screen chaps, Douglas Fairbanks and itoscoe Arbuckle, will be shown al the Sunset Theater until Saturday night, with one of the big Sunset events of the year coming Sunday in the showing of "The Birth of a Xatlon." Laughs, thrills, sound philosophy, a love tale and Fairbanks stunts are presented In "The Habit of Happiness." which deals with the efforts of the hero, first to bring light into the Uvea of the denixens of the slums, and then to cure an old millionaire grouch, who has a beautiful daughter sought by the "smile doctor." "Out West" Is sn iinroarous burlesque jnum photoplay which is proving such la drawing card at the Majestic Theater, will be shown until tomorrow night, with the Dorothy Phillips special, "The Grand Passion," following on Saturday. Ralph Connor's "The Doctor," a story of the Canadian Northwest, furnished the material for the Fox photoplay, "The Heart of a Lion." with Farnura, one of the screen's most virile actors as well as its champian fighter, in the role of a man who does big things In a manly way, despite the wilee of n ad verse fate. He has a splendid support ing cast. Including Wanda Petit, now Douglas Fairbanks' leading woman, and Mary Martin. Screen Gossip. OliTe TelL the charming heroine of "The Girl and the Judge," will soon be dofng her bit on Sundays by appear ing opposite William Courtney and Tom Wise in "General PoBt," before various cantonments. e e "I'm beginning to realize how much work there is for a movie star outside of the studio," said Barbara Castleton, upon being congratulated by us on her new World affiliation. "I am spending all my time at home being photo graphed in every conceivable position, reading, eating, dressing, telephoning. My apartment reeks of flashlight pow ders. . My curtains are torn. My rigs are piled up. My furniture pushed back. Pandemonium reigns supreme." e e Naomi Chllders has deserted the pic tures for the present and is appearing in Chicago on the legitimate stage op poslte H. B. Warner in "Among Those Present." e e "The Bushman Club," according to Beverly Bayne, has grown out of its small beginning as a "fan" club built around the personality of her co-star, Francis X. Bushman, Jnto a regular organisation with branches in every town. Its aim has expanded accord ingly and is now directed toward co operation with exhibitors for better. cleaner pictures. e e e Anna Luther, co-starring with John Mason In "Moral Suicide," is decidedly Billie Burkish in type. Anna used to be In Keystone comedies and also was' with Fox. e a Hazel Mills Adams, the "Supersti tious Girl" of James Montgomery Flagg, has stepped out of the ingenue class in "The Debt of Honor" and portrays the strong emotional role of the young wife. e Peggy Parr, erstwhile Peggy Sweeney, but rechristened last year (in St. Au gustine) by George Baker, whose es thetic sense was hurt by the original cognomen, pas a part in Jbmmy wen- len'a new. picture. e e Tou remember Lottie Briscoe? The former Lubrn star, whose team work with the late Arthur Johnson Is a de lightful memory to those who recall the good old days,", comes back in support of Emmy Wehlen in a Metro presentation of "The House of Mirth." from Edith Wharton's famous novel Miss Briscoe has just fully recovered from a serious illness and operation. see Hamilton Revelle, who plays opposite Rita Jolivet in the Metro screen spec tacle of international war events, "Lest We Forget," has previously appeared under the Metro banner in "The Price of Malice" and "An Enemy to Society" with Lois Meredith. Revelle is con ceded to be one of the best portrayers of romantic roles -on the. speaking stage. e e "Meet me at the Cow's Mouth." How would you like to get an Invitation like that? Antonio Moreno gets one and ac cepts it in the film version of Kipling's The Naulahka," which all reports states Is a picture of sensational pro portions. , m w w The production of "Sunshine Nan" is said to have proved a trying experience for Ann Pennington, who plays the title role in the Paramount picture re leased March 11. The strenuosity of the part and the cold weather prevail ing while the exteriors were being Aimed convinced the star that the path of the motion picture actress is not strewn with roses. So she hied her self to Palm Beach for a rest, but no sooner had she arrived there than she 9 joyfully hailed as a new recruit for Red Cross work by a prominent society leader of New York. ,r -etOW -1 V .Vi.rf4ir .x. - J - ... . .. MATRIMONIAL MARKET NEWS OF THE DAY t 2k. --."SV-Sr'ajB" NOTHING BUT FUN ALL LAUGHS DOUG, e-verv magailne rover, continues to per petuate this situation. Tiere Is only one chance for the fattlsh woman, and that la for her to reduce. 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The transformation worked by "fine feathers" In this pro duction Is not la keeping with the somewhat twisted adage "fine feathers don't make fine birds." The picture unfolds a story said to be rich In laughs and general enter tainment, with a few thrills. Including an automobile smash-up. Star. "Loaded Dice," the rlctura In which Frank Keenan. well-known dramatlo star. Is making his debut In Paths plays, and "The Comeback." a two-reel Bill Hart thriller, are proving an ex ceptional entertainment combination at tae star Theater. "Loaded Dire" la one of the most powerful pictures seen In Portland this season, and the wonderful acting ofj Keenan It's esslly the best of bis screen career Is a decided Its success. He portrays the unscrupulous man of the I.' i - in "THE HABIT OF HAPPINESS AND "FATTY" ARBUCKLE in C.KIDDIES J t ANYTIME "OUT WEST" f ."' . -t i WT- . . . A 4 factor In V. i i is role of an i i world, one I j . and hjia I. li V ? l.ll.ciA'ntT3 t A aV M-m W a V's.a -rigl. 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