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. THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN. PORTLAND, AUGUST 13, 1916. ' K BILLIE BURKE AS GLORIA HAS WONDERFUL GOWN Lucile Surpasses Herself in Design of Organdie and Ribbon Creation Worn by Stage Favorite in Film Play, and Noted for Style. PiCKFORMFEOPLES V V 45 V V ' 4 K. v. i ?-s2:c2 2c?Lz2z.sjcZ.. zLrz. "f-T is positively wonderful what a ere I ator of fashions like Lucile can do with a few yards of organdie and a bolt of' ribbon. Lucile has been so inspired by Billle Burke as Gloria, the heroine of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Hughes' motion picture novel, that Bhe has even-surpassed her self, and. the various gowns being worn by Billie Burke in this photoplay will long be remembered as the most stylish ever screened. Dresses of pink, of blue, of yellow, of green, In pastel shades, in crude gorgeous oriental colors, subdued, dar ing, of everything you can imagine and some that you never dreamed of, have been seen. But it remained for a white organdie gown to be perhaps the most effective of all. Anyone with an imagination less finely developed than Lucile would have trimmed, this exquisitely fine piece of organdie with lace or ruffles, or some thing, but not so Lucile. Appreciating the snowdrop-like delicacy of the fab ric. Lucile, with the appreciation of the true artiste, would have nothing to detract from its beauty in the way oi trimming, relying on her skill as a designer to supply the fine lines that would "make" the gown. As usual, Lucile was right. The skirt Is full and long and has two panels, one in front and the other at the back. These panels have hems about 15 inches deep. And every stitch is put In by hand, 6f course. The sides or this un usual skirt have a hem about Ave inches in depth only, but to make up for this apparent lack there is a cluster of four tucks about 10 inches above the hem. The waist is dignified in its simplic ity and sweetness. There is a little plain vestee, cut low and rounded. Down each side are repeated the clus ter of four tucks and once more the hemming is all done by hand and la a Joy to behold. The long sleeves are unique, inas much as they have long cavalier cuffs that reach nearly to the fair Billie'i dimpled elbow. This old-world note is repated in the long, rounded cavalier collar that extends nearly to the waist line in the back. A rose-dowered ribbon Is twined around the waist and ends in a pert little bow, as If to say, "It's not every ribbon that would be chosen to be the only note of color on a dress of such beauty as I possess." Chapter 14 of "Gloria's Romance." called "The Floating Trap." continues the adventures of Gloria Stafford In search of the murderer of her lover, Richard Freneau. Its name recalls the boathouse occupied by the mur derer, the man who killed the vicious Freneau to avenge the wrongs of his daughter. While preparing her trousseau for the ceremony which is to unite Gloria and Freneau the latter disappears, and his dead body is found floating in the river. Gloria was a witness to the murder, or at least saw Freneau struck down, and vows to And the man who has robbed her of a husband. Her fam ily, Judge Freeman, her father-in-law. and Dr. Royce. a friend and admirer, are anxious that the Incident be closed, for Freneau's many love affairs are known, as well as an intrigue being conducted between the man and Free man's daughter, married to, Gloria's brother. However, Gloria is not to be dissuaded and undertakes a single handed search for the murderer. She sees him while a visitor at the night court, but the man escapes. Gloria follows him to a Bowery saloon-dance-ball and there becomes Involved in a riot, from which Royce extricates her. AT THE MOVIE THEATERS (COSiTIXlTED FROM PAGE 4.) overpowers the proprietor and attempts to force Jil to accompany him on his Illght. Bruce arrives and a terrific struggle ensues. They roll down a flight of stairs and Bruce loosens his revolver bqum. retreating, fires at Bruce and wounds him In the shoulder. As Squid starts to fire again Jil trashes a chair over his head, sending him unconscious to the floor. The moonshiners are cap tured and Jil nurses Bruce until he Is sufficiently recovered to accompany her to a real parson.. 'VEDA THE VAMIUKE" IS OX Majestic Theater Presents Societj Four-Recler Today. "Veda the Vampire." the Portland so ciety four-reeler which has been the consuming center of interest for many of the belles and beaux of the city for weeks, receives its premier at the Ma jestic Theater today, where it is to be screened all week for the benefit of th People's Institute. That interest in the picture is keen was evidenced at the turnout to witness preliminary footage exhibited more than a week ago. The advance sale of seats has been heavy for Monday night, when society folk will attend in large num bers. Just what the story of "Veda, the Vampire" is no one seems to know out side of the small circle of the elect tha players. "She goes around making people Jealous." explained one of the etars of the production. However, a number of prominent people are in the cast, while the backgrounds for the action are furnished in and around the homes of the elite. A scenic reel, picked especially- for the programme, and the Pathe-Majestic news service of local and world-wide events, will comprise other numbers on xne programme. PAULINE FREDERICK AT SUNSET Famous Drama, "The Moment Be fore," to Be Shown. Pauline Frederick In a screen adapta tion of the famous Israel Zangwill drama, "The Moment Before," and Hank Mann and a corps of Keystone funsters In "The Village Blacksmith." comprise the Sunset Theater programme commencing today. A Bray cartoon comedy will be an added attraction on this well-balanced bill. Miss Frederick plays the role of a haughty gypsy girl in this Paramount feature, "The Moment Before." The story opens in England, with the Duke and Duchess of Maldon seen lavishing gifts upon the deserving poor. The duchess is horror-stricken when she hears church chimes tolling the noon hour, for gypsies had prophesied that the chimes at noon would forecast her death. The prophecy comes true, for the duchess dies In church at high noon, but before death the past looms up in her terrified mind. She sees herself as Madge, a sneering, flirting, gypsv maid. Her husband. John, is at her side as they wind their way through the forest. His brutality cowers her and she despises his very sight. Two game wardens and Harold, the second son of the Duke of Maldon, hear fhe shot as John fells a deer. Madge and Harold meet, as John' is apprehended; fascination seizes them both. Harold pardons John, and husband and wife de part. Harold meets Madge several times, both feeling more interested in each other at each meeting. They are caught while kissing by John. A fight is avoided only by her keen wits. At Harold's departure, however, she stabs John in the arm anj flees. Madge's steps take her to the mansion of Har old where she is given employment, much to the disapproval of Lionel, the heir to the dukedom. After a fight and flight In which Lionel Is killed, John and Madge take refuge in Australia, Harold, unknow ingly does likewise. They meet and John is killed at the hands of Madge. The two lovers then make their way to England where they reign Jointly over the late Cuke's vast territories. & BILL IS VARIED "A Woman's Way" Is Headliner; Billie Bnrko Appears, Too. Ethel Clayton and Carlyle Blackwell. one of the best teams of filmdom'i stars, who scored such a success in "His Brother's Wife." are -featured on the T & D programme today in "A Woman's Way." Billie Burke, in "The Float ing Trap." chapter 14 of "Gloria's Ro mance," and the International News Service complete the bill. "A Woman's Way," from the story by Thompson Buchanan, which formed H 11 H aroicl Lockwood and May Allison in 'The Masked Rider" ) ' " 1 ; - .. . ' . - 1l Here's a play that will keep you on edg from the first flash of the title until the last climax. Harold Lockwood is one of the idols of filmland and his art in this big, stirring story of the Ken tucky backwoods adds new laurels to his crowti. As a fighting par son he puts it over to a finish and you'll enjoy ever second it's on the screen. N Musty Suffer No. 2 "WhOe-YouWait" It's a Scream Paul me Fred ersck In Clyde Fitch's Celebrated Romantic Success "The. Woman in the Case" In the role of the self-sacrificing wife who pits herself against the woman in the struggle to save her husband, Miss Frederick wins not only the sympathy but the real love and admiration of everyone in the audience. It is thrillingly sensa tional throughout, with a climax that will make the most blase theatergoer sit up and take notice. Max Figman In Microbes" Today, Tomorrow Tuesday, Wednesday iv:' :vA t .? : .-r" - - WW f.1 i id n H in one of the successes of Grace George on the speaking stage, tells in a vivid manner the method adopted by a wom an to win back her husband's affec tions. Married to a young District At torney, the girl of the outdoors is taken to the city and there introduced into society. She soon tires of the life, de voting herself to other things, and the husband gradually drifts away from her, centering his attentions upon a woman of the world. The wife Is deeply in love with her husband and determines, to fight for his affection. She casts aside her indifference, and so outshines her rival that hubby's eyes are opened to her charm and a reconciliation is effected. "The Floating Trap," the current chapter of "Gloria's Romance," the Billie Burke film novel, will be screened all week at the T & D. This Instal ment of the popular story deals with the further adventures of Gloria, the petted child of a financier, in her role of amateur detective. She is seeking to bring to Justice the murderer of her lover, Richard Freneau. "Gloria's Romance" is especially In teresting to a number of Portland peo ple because the cast includes Jule Powers, who Is a Portland-born girl, and as Jewell Powers, sister of Johnny Powers, was a well-known member of the Baker Stock Company. Three years ago Miss Powers appeared at the Hel Iig Theater in "Mother," the Jules Kckert Goodman play. FILM STARS AT COLUMBIA "Honor Thy Name" Presents Three Great Movie Artists. Frank "Keenan. one of the screen's really great actors; Charles Ray, who has Jumped to the front for his char acterizations In "The Coward" and "The Deserter," and Louise Glaum, the Triangle vampire woman, all are pre sented in "Honor Thy Name," the five act feature of the Columbia Theater programme commencing today. A Mack Scnnett Keystone of surf and bathing girls, called "The Surf Girls," is the Summery comedy number. Keenan plays the role of a Southern Colonel, Kay his son, and Miss Glaum the butterfly, who inveigles the son into marrying her, in "Honor Thy Name." Colonel Slocum Castleton is an old Southern gentleman who is living quietly with his family on his broad Virginia acres. Now, his son Rodney is about to go North to the university, and the old LEADING PLAYER IN WESTERN SKETCH AT STRAND. i 22v i ' ' -i Yi " r 1 v ' - $' a ir ' L - - ,!?-- " - - .. f. 1 . j- - .,.. 1 4 , i ;j C: -; l I 'Ji . man feels that It will be a good thing if the boy will have his fling. Rodney does have his fling. He falls into the tolls of one Viola Bretagne, a cabaret dancer. Viola wants to get Rodney ro marry her because she knows he is wealthy, and In due course of time Rodney proposes to her and is ac cepted. When the Colonel received word that his son is going to "marry the sweetest girl in ail New York" he takes the next train North. There he finds Viola and exerts his own money and wiles to win her to him. She takes the bait quickly, and then the Colonel shows his son how worthless she is. But Viola has not givep up. She plies the boy with liquor and when he is very drunk she gets him to take her to a minister. Next morning he awakens and finds that he is married. She makes him take her to the father's home. Then the father takes matters Into his own hands and plays the trump card that furnishes a melodramatic "punch" to the picture. Screen Gossip Tes, Sidney Rankin Drew, the di rector at the Vltagraph studios, who is making "The Girl Phlllippa." Is a son of Sidney Drew who is starring in Metro-Drew comedies. Can you picture Dorothy Glsh in cute Holland attire, big wooden shoes, volu minous skirts, bodice and quaint Dutch cap? She appears in such raiment in the opening scenes of her new Triangle drams, the prologue of which Is laid in Holland. For these scenes a special and typical village "is being erected at the Fine Arts Studio in Hollywood. This production will be staged by co producers C. M. and S. .A. Franklin, who directed Dorothy in "The Little School ma'am," a rural drama. The story Is by Bernard McConville and deals principally with a gang of counter feiters, among whom Dorothy Gish dis tinguishes herself as a heroine. c In a scene from Will M. Rltchey's new play now being filmed by Balboa, Ruth Roland, in a tomboy part, puts on the five-ounce gloves with Eddla Peters, a Balboa Juvenile. In the mix- up i:uth roughs Eddie like a regular boxer and finally hands him a hay maker that puts him almost out. When the surprised onlookers Inquired how she did it. Ruth said she had taker, lessons from an Instructor several years ago, and that she regarded the training as a legitimate part of a girl's equip ment to "take care of herself." In the Jesse L.- Lasky production of "The Honorable Friend." in which Ses- sue Hayakawa ia to star, the cast Is all Japanese with the exception of Ray mond Hatton and Billy Elmer. Hatton Is to be seen as a wealthy Japanese curio dealer, and Elmer In the impor tant role of a policeman. Hayakawa has for his leading woman bts wife, Tsuri AokL David Powell Is being humorously called "The ghost which always walks" by his fellow players .in "Gloria's Ro mance." Following, his death in about chapter eight of the story, Powell, as1 Freneau, has appeared again and again on the screen as his own ghost, and as a result has had to undergo no little Joshing. 'At the Paths studios Norman Tharp has been acting in motion picture pro ductions under tha direction of George Fltzmaurlce. One day last week the players reached a scene where a dog belonging to the dead heroina climbs up on the casket containing her body and howls. The dog being used be longed to Tharp. The scene was rehearsed several times and once actually played before the camera, but in each Instance the dog refused to follow Instructions. Finally, in order to obtain the desired effect, the heroine was removed from the casket, and Tharp. the dug's mait cr. substituted. The onlookers out front will never know that the dog Is grieving over the wrong corpse. Cleo Rldgley. who Is playing oppo site Lou Tellrgen In the Lasky pro duction of their forthcoming Para mount picture, promises a real sensa tion, as she plays the role of the most famous dancer In Paris and Introduces several terpsichorean exhibitions that are spoken of with bated breath. m Ethel Clayton, at present working under the direction of Frank Crane In "The Scorching Way." has been en gaged by a New York modiste to create designs for evening gowns. Miss Clay tion has designed ail her own habila ment for several years and in several cases actually made a number of at tractive dresses herself. Kitty Gordon Is soon to start work In a film play of "Thais." which will be directed by Emile Chautard. and made entirely under the supervision of William A. Brady. In all probability, this will be a six or seven-reel play and no time nor money will be spared in making It a most artistic as well as dramatic, document. Miss Kitty Gordon is especially well cast In the title role of "Thais." and it can be expected that her work in this produc tion will by far excel any of her former features. Dorothy Dalton, the Trlangle-Tnce star, is receiving congratulations of her friends, this week, on winning second prize In the recent Automobile Fashion Parade at the Ascot Park motor carni val for the benefit of the Actors' fund. Miss Dalton made her appearance at the wheel of a beautiful Mercer tour ing car with a Victoria top. She was dressed in a suit of white flannel and wore a velvet "Tim" which threw ner brunette beauty in striking relief. .-- There Is no character actor on the screen today who has so rrt a fol lowing as Theodore Robins, the Lasky star in Paramount pictures, and It is with keen interest that photoplay lov ers are looking forward lo the coming of his characterization of "Anton the Terrible." in which he plays the mean est of mean parts, so mran In fact that in his fierce Cossack makeup even his own dog tried to bite him. Thirty aged men and women are shown In the forthcoming Metro-Rolfe production. "God's-Half Acre." starring Mabel Taliaferro, under the direction of Edwin Carewe. They take the parts of the inmates of Rainbow's End. & home for the aged, portrayed in the play. Put together, the age of those who are ranged around a dining table In the picture would aggregate al most 3000 years. The Round-up The Epic Drama of the West September 21, 22, 23, 1916 Pendleton, Oregon '. V lT?- . . , .... T, The Mark: of Mottea Picture Supremacy The Mark Motiea Picture Sapresaacy ONE WEEK COMMENCING TODAY WILLIAM A BRADY PRESENTS ETHEL CLAYTON Popular Star of "Dollars and the Woman," in A Woman's Way Marion, madly in love with her husband, determines that if any woman ia clever enough to take him away from her she will meet that woman on her own grounds. Then what is a Woman's Way? BILLIE BURKE in Chapter 14, "THE FLOATING TRAP" of "Gloria's Romance" ALBERT HAY MALOTTE is the genius who plays our new Wurlitzer Hope Jones Unit Orchestra A $25,000 instrument, combining the volume of the Cathedral pipe organ and the sweetness of a symphony orchestra en Bemble of forty musicians. THE GREATEST ORGAN AND THE ONLY INSTRUMENT OF ITS KIND IN THE CITY OF PORTLAND. YOU ARE IN VITED TO HEAR IT. SPECIAL RECITALS EVERY AFTERNOON AND EVEN TNG.
