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6 TOE SUNDAY' OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, JANUARY 16, 1916. FORMER PORTLAND GIRL, MOTION-PICTURE ACTRESS, WEDS LOS ANGELES FILM ACTOR I I j 4 "" I - 3BMMcmg" scoopTI iMMmmmmw&amuu&BB'' gaMB)mM r ( I have shown many great screen productions in my career as an exhibitorA and I give my personal guarantee that this is the greatest of them all. 1 Edwin t . James J Beginning Today! Miss Georgiiia Chapman, a former Portland girl, who recently made a success as a movie actress in Southern California, was married Jill New Year's day in Los Angeles to Freeman Smith, also of the movies. 'Hie couple will live in Los Angeles and will continue their work. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. J. A. Benson, of this city. She is a former member of the Portland Shakespeare Club, and hin her marriage. 152 (Continued From Page 5.) ; big feature films by the Premo Feature i'ilm Company. The story of the play, which deals mith artists and antique collectors, is as follows: Cornelius Sloane, an old retired an tique dealer, while playing chess one evening with Father Malone, the vil lage priest, is shocked to hear of the return to America of one Stuart Wat son, a millionaire art collector. Asked the reason for his feeling', he tells his story; His daughter, just graduated from college, through a patron of old Sloane, a Mr. Carson, meets Stuart Watson, who falls in love with her. Carson had prevailed upon the girl to pose for him. and it was through him that she became acquainted with the millionaire. I Th lnttpr had a most neeuliar Dower of hypnotism, and m this way compelled the girl to go through an imaginary marriage with him. Later, the father learned of the affair and swore ven geance on her betrayer. Sloane, when he learns of the home coming of the 'art collector, thinks the time has come for his vengeance. Ac- iXTSiiiisiy, ii- ia aiiuiiFcu i ecu uiui . and a friend that Watson be brought to his house. While there he Is told of the child born to Peggy Sloane, but he Is not - Impressed and tries hs hypnotic pow- iers on the old man. The latter, how ?ever. overcomes Watson by his stronger will and makes him subservient to his superior mental powers. He tells him -that every night at 11 o'clock a vision '.of the girl he wronged will appear to , him. This comes to pass and Watson ;is drives mad, killing himself some time later. The Animated Weekly and a comedy 'will complete a seven-reel picture pro , gramme, while the Imperial Four, the J quartet which has made such a hit with National patrons, will be held over for another week. '"KOSKMARY'1 IS AT J5CXSET Theater to Have Special Lighting vrf-( Wliilrt Plav Is On. Rosemary," the famous romantic drama in which John Drew starred on the speaking stage, has been picturized by the Quality Pictures Corporation and will be presented today as the headline offering at the Sunset Theater. Mar garet Know, the piquant and charming tar. assisted by Paul Gilmore, Frank Bacon. William Clifford, Maurice Cy tron, Virginia Kraft and George Her nandez are included in a noteworthy cast. The story of "Rosemary" is, briefly, as follows: lorothy Cruickshank elopes with Captain West wood, whom her parents have never seen. They are caught in a severe storm and their chaise over turned near the home of Sir Jasper, where they aptly for shelter and are taken iiy Dorothy parents pursue her, but ' they, too, have an accident and bring up at Sir Jasper's home. .Sir Jasper and Cruickshank sit up late, Cruickshank drinking heavily, and his host, learning who he is, as a joke, puts him to bed with Professor Jogram, with whom the old man has quarreled. Next morning Dorothy arises early, and while gathering flowers In the garden, encounters Sir Jasper. Sir Jas per admires her young loveliness, and gives her a bunch of rosemary, which she pins to her gown. At breakfast all are present save Dorothy, and Sir Jasper takes this opportunity to gain her parents' consent to her marriage with Captain West wood. A journey to London with a happy wedding is planned and the delighted Dorothy in cists upon Sir Jasper riding with her. Dorothy is trapped In the loft of a ft aMe and Sir Jasper, who has been showing her marked'attention, rescues her. He is badly burned, and dur ing the days that follow, Dorothy in sists on attending him. One day Westwood demands to see a page Dorothy has just written in her diary. She refuses, tears out the page and gives it to Sir Jasper. It is an a rtless confession of her high regard for Sir Jasper, and he is elated. Ha is on the point of admitting his love for her, when Professor Jogram halts him. Jogram tells him he is about to ruin the lives of two people he had never seen until a few days before. Realizing the truth of this. Sir Jasper places the diary page in a broken panel in the wall, buys the inn and woes away to leave the sweethearts in hap piness. New lighting effects will be intro duced at the theater this- week, the house will be decorated in keeping with the play, while the attaches will wear appropriate costumes. MODEKX CINDERELLA PICTURE Adventures in Mexico Are Shown in Play at Columbia. The adventures of a modern Cinder ella and her brood of seven adopted children in Mexico are pictured in "Let Katy Do It," a Triangle feature of ap peal to young and old which will be screened today at the Columbia Thea ter. Jane Grey as the lovely heroine, and Tully Marshall as the manly hero, divide honors with the Fine Arts chil dren in the play. The comedy offering will be "The Great Pearl Tangle," pre senting Sam Bernard in the mystery of a modiste shop. The heroine in Let KatyDo It" Is, by stress of circumstances, the foster mother of seven charming children. She responds to her uncle's offer of a home and takes the brood from Maine to Mexico, where her sweetheart is assisting the uncle in developing a mine. Bad Mexicans abound, the sweet heart rescuing the giri from a villain ous band, holding it back until cow boys effect a rescue. In the meantime the children are beset by Mexicans and protect themselves by employing the mine owner's method .of defense, firing a number of guns by pulling a lever and also discharging mines surround ing the house. The sweethearts, for getting their early differences, make a home for the children in the more peaceful States. In "The Great Pearl Tangle," where the latest in costumes are presented by bewitching mannikins, Sam Bernard is a designer. A string of pearls which his employer is trying to smuggle into the country is the center of attraction throughout the Keystone reels. Imlta tation pearls are palmed off on Grib bon, the boss, who gives the pearls to the designer's wife. She' pawns them for $2 and the designer comes into pos session ,of the real pearls, .pawned at the same shop, and gives them to a model he fancies, takings string of 10-cent beads home to his wife. At the trial of the crook who has originally stolen the pearls the hus band is exposed by the wife, who sees the pearls on the throat of the model. In turn, the designer has an opportu nity to gloat, for his wife is identU II IJ u. 'I 0 I The Most Spectacular and Sensational of All Photo Spectacles- See the Aeroplane Battle in Midair 30,000 Soldiers 27 Aeroplanes and Seaplanes Submarines, Battleships, Dreadnoughts, Machine Ciuns, Field Artillery and Cavalry. fnmp Fo-Lr! , JLtai 1 J i ' n j. ti j urtuit j. iiu.il II The Birth of a Nation What the Chicago Evening American Says a Chicago Audience Saw: They saw 16-inch shells crash into the heart of Man hattan, Island and They saw the American fleet destroyed by a fleet of twice its size and many times its power, and They saw a foreign foe, efficient, deadly march with brutal and amazing power through familiar streets, and They saw Americans lined against a wall like ten pins, they saw a swivel gun make its sickening "strike," and They saw the hand of the invading beast at the throats of women, and They hearkened to "the battle cry of peace." That was the name of the production "The Battle Cry of Peace." SCENES THAT THRILL: The city of New York is attacked by a powerful foreign foe. You are an eye-witness. You see the enemy approaching, the pow erlessness of the city, the inadequacy of its forts and defenses. You see the havoc wrought by the enemy's cruisers, its submarines, its airships by its shells, shrapnel, bombs. You see the most beautiful sky-line in the world in flames; the metropolis of the Western hemisphere devastated. You see New York fall into the hands of the enemy and the desecration that follows. You see Wall street in flames, Washington, D. C, destroyed. You see the vivid scenes of battle, a raid of aeroplanes, submarine torpedo attacks, battleships being sunk, and the invading hordes. Then you are shown the way that such a calamity can be avoided the one way. You are shown the way to peace the peace for which America so earnestly prays the peace with honor. A Tremendous Dramatic Offering With a Plot No Raise in Price. Shown in New York at $2.00, 1 ' I ' -rawe: dore J. Stuart Blakston. is replete with many thrilling incidents, chief of which are the defeat of the American battle- fleet by the great ocean mon sters of "Ruritania," the aerial bom bardment of New Tork, with death by bombs and fire, followed by panic, and the landing of the invaders. The first few reels of the produc tion are devoted to a pictured lecture of Hudson Maxim, from whose booK. ''Defenseless America, much of the matter for the film was gathered. The story of the play opens with the hero, who is ably portrayed by Charles Rich man, becoming a pre paredness enthusiast after listening to the Maxim lecture. His sweet heart's father, a money king, is not in harmony with this 'movement, be ing an actitve member of the peace propagandists and in the toils of for eign spies and plotters. A huge peace meeting is broken fled as the woman who pawned the smuggling and the quarrel in the Ber nard family is patched up. MAJESTIC FEATURES DEFENSE "Battle Cry of Peace" Will Be Pre sented Today. "The Battle Cry of Peace," the fa mous Vitagraph pictured sermon 'on National preparedness against a for eign foe. win be presented today at the Majestic Theater. This wonderful film, replete with telling arguments for a better-pre-parvd defense for the United States, has created a tremendous impression wherever shown and has resulted In increased militia enlistment, appro priation of funds for aerial defense in several cities and a general awak ening to the needs of the Govern ment's defense. Its screening is said to have influenced many votes for a bigger army, navy and aerial fleet, a matter which is now being agitated in Congress. j - The tUm, Vttagraphed by Commo- up by the news that the enemy, which has been on.he verge of rupture with the United States for months, has a fleet approaching New York. This is followed by a bombardment. Rich man flies to the home of his sweetheart and there ie captured by the enemy and charged with firing on their marching soldiery. Kichman and Intended father-in-law are lined up againset a building and a machine gun trained on them, both falling. Kichman, only stunned by a glancing ball, is rescued and the party at tempts to fly by automobile to the country, but are captured and all perish. MICE AD MEX" AT PEOPLES Second Chapter -olS'JThc JRoddess," With Anita Stewart, Is Added? " If you were taken out of.a foundling home by a man of culture and, through his untiring devotion and personal ef forts, were developed into a highly edu cated, charming society belle, and if, whea-0u had attained thu enviable j position, you were forced to choose be tween this man to whom you owed everything in the world except life itself and a dashing young army offi cer, which would you choose? That is the dilemma which Marguer ite Clark faces as Peggy in the Famous Players Film Company's adaptation of Madeline Lucette Ryley's celebrated theatrical success, "Mice and Men," which is the Paramount feature at the People's Theater today. The versatility of Marguerite Clark is well established in the minds of the thousands of the diminutive star's ad mirers, but even her most ardent pro tagonists will be surprised at the re remarkable work which she does in this play, tracing as it does the de velopment of an uneducated foundling into a society butterfly but not the brainless butterfly of the silly, simper ing variety. "Mice and Men," with the stage pro duction of which are associated such distinguished names as Annie Russell and Sir Johnston and Lady Gertrude Forbes-Robertson, is the story of a philosopher who decides that the wom en are not all they ought to be. He hits upon the scheme of adopting a child and training her up in the ways that he thinks she should go, with the idea ultimately of marrying her. Peggy is the name of the foundling which becomes the subject of his ex periment. She is reared in cultured surroundings and develops into a daz zling vision of feminine beauty. The man of thought loses his heart to his ward, but he has reckoned without youth, for there is a soldier nephew who is also 'very much alive to the charms of the vivacious Peggy.- Then it is that thegirl faces the problem of choosing between the men. An added feature on this high-class programme will be the second chapter of "The Goddess," a Vitagraph produc tion, with Anita Stewart and Earle 'Williams, which has already attracted a large following. "BLUE GRASS" IS AT PICKFORI) Thrilling Race Horse Story Is Told In Film 'With Tom Wise as Star. "Blue Grass." the popular Armstrong! play, has been plcturized by the Equit able Motion Picture Corporation, ana, with Tom Wise as the star and a race scene which is a "knockout," the film version of the stage success is a re markably convincing one. This feature will be exhibited commencing today at the Pickford Theater. The story of the play, with its race climax,' which brings one to his feet, follows: .At n rn Mv TJid o tiorse belonging to The Black Crook Is Coming! Always Good Pictures Uye ICRFORD WASHINGTON AT PARK STREET FOUR DAYS BEGINNING TODAY THE MOST BELOVED OF AMERICAN ACTORS THOMAS A, at? ' - j IN A PICTURIZATION OF PAUL ARMSTRONG'S AMERICAN PLAY 4 &s A Story of the Racetrack, Built Around a "southern trentieman ot tne uia scnooi Being an Unique Mixture of Comedy and Drama That Is Sure to Please all Lovers of the Silent Drama and One That Will Reach Your Heartstrings. This Picture Was Taken in Kentucky, the Land of Beautiful Women, Thoroughbred Horses and Daring Men Special Notice 1 We are inviting every day (except Sunday) some prominent Portlander who will be our guest for a loge party (eight people) at The Pickford. All that is required for the person invited is to present his or her card at the Box Office for the seats. Mr. M. F. Brady You and your friends are invited to be guests of The Pickford for a loge party (8 people), Monday, Jan. 17, 8 o'clock show. t! r-4