6 THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JANUARY 7, 1917. FILM "INTOLERANCE" TELLS THE STORY OF BABYLON'S GLORY Orgies and Pomp, Ceremonies and Final Destruction Are Wonderfully Portrayed in Great Show at Eleventh-Street Theater. J I totw A (ft""-; ;;(iSU.: ' : . - ? f - ' t- u - - ', , I v;, . - , Jte1 k ' ' ' ' ' - " I f r- -r- : : f 4 '"A - - ' X ; 4 - "- lv I1 -yyAA -j cJC rzcuO wer?. W'ift Z . V. TOT since "The Birth of a Nation" " lJ startled the theater world has there been offered such a sensa- tion as is afforded by D. W. Griffith's "Intolerance." which will begin its - second week at the Eleventh-Street i Playhouse tomorrow. ; That Mr. Griffith has duplicated the ; popular success of "The Birth of a Na " tion" is now an established fact and ; the consensus of opinion is that this last is his greatest production. The marvels of Babylon, with its glitter and pomp, the ceremonies of the priests, the orgies of the courts and fin"ally the destruction of Belshaz lar's capital by the hosts of Cyrus, are not in the usual nature of motion, pic ' ture presentations at all, but more like the visualization of a. marvelous im ; agination. It is now known that the single set which disclosed a part of Babylon and which is a mile in length " cost $250,000 to erect. Not only in the magnificence of Its ' Bettings is this picture spectacle unique. It represents a new depart ure in the art of motion photography. AT THE MOVIE THEATERS (CONTINUED ' Morosco production, "His Sweetheart," to be released on the Paramount Pro ' gramme, the owner of the property . which happened to be in range of the . camera, though it was over 100 feet - beyond the actual scene of the action, rushed forth to demand $50 in com , pensatlora. The gentleman was treat ed to a fine line of Italian conversation '. by Beban. who was in costume. That, ; however, was all he got. - William Farnum, wtio appears in the super De Luxe production of "The Price of Silence," is a great disciple of Izaak Walton. - Give Mr. Farnum the -slightest ex cuse for fishing and he disappears' in the various beautiful byways of South ern California, either to angle for the ' elusive trout or a run down to Cata lina and play for the tuna fish. While working in various scenes in "The Priue of Silence" old Jupiter Plu- " vius started on a week's rampage and thereby giving the moving picture actors a rest. Nothing could suit Mr. . Farnum better than this downpour of incesant rain. "Don't come back until the weather is clear," said Director Frank Lloyd. Mr. Farnum obeyed instructions. : Digging out his slicker and fisherman's hat, reels and rod. he liied himself to Catalina and where, after a week's ; fishing, he came back with enough ; fish to give several fish dinners to the members of the Fox companies on the , Coast. ; BROADWAY HAS SEA STORY . "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under i i . - the Sea" Is Picturized. 1 A distinct film novelty, bordering on . A screen sensation, an eight-reel pic turization of the famous Jules Verne ctory, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Un der Sea," will be shown, commencing today, at the Broadway Theater. The production, from the Universal Com pany, and filmed for the most part in the West Indies by the aid of the new Williamson photographic process, is a submarine photodrama, relating th experiences of the Verne wizard, Cap tain Nemo. The film is a combination of under sea photography, the most amazing pic tures of the kind ever produced, a des ert island tangle with castaways from a Civil War balloon and a girl figuring prominently, and an Indian" angle, pre senting a native uprising. However, it is with the aquatic adventures of Cap tain remo and his submarine, the Nau tilus, that the picture has most to do. Captain Nemo is presented, the man who followed the path of vessels 20, 000 leagues on his voyage of vengeance. A torpedo is shown fired from the sub marine, photographed in the sea while ton a mission of destruction that blows j up a full-rigged ship. Through the t magic window of the Nautilus are seen , the amazing wonders of the deep, the ; gardens, coral, sponges, fish and the i eea-scavengers the sharks. Hunters de- - scend to the floor of the ocean among , man-eating sharks and hunt them with rifles discharged by compressed air. Century-old wrecks are found and searched for lost treasure.- j There is a combat fathoms deep be- ' tween Captain Nemo and an octopus, which is crushing a pearl diver in its monster tentacles. Then a glimpse is ; given of .Nemo's former home, far away in India, where he is a prince. There he. is robbed of his home and family . and forced to flee during an uprising, 5rS'fi ti's The ordinary and conventional meth ods of story telling on the stage have been abandoned completely. A new art form has been created. The pro auction tells four stories, each one a complete and historical narrative and none related to any other save in that spirit which in this spectacle makes war upon intolerance. The religious interest of the priests of Babylon brings the destruction of that magnificent city. The persecu tions and racial hatred which were en gendered in Judea and which have been centuries dying supply the second narrative. The persecutions of the Middle Ages provide the third story and the fourth shows the results of intolerance working In the present day These four stories are told simulta neously and the skill with which one episode is stopped at the moment of a climax and the vision is taken to an other epoch in history provides a new sensation of suspense in theatrical construction. A large symphony or chestra and hundreds of realistic ef fects are carried by the attraction. FROM PAGE: 4- As the story develops the maid of the mysterious island is recognized as his long-lost daughter. "HEARTS ADRIFT" OX TODAY Mary Pickford to Be Seen in Cast away Role at Sunset. "Hearts Adrift," that splendid Mary Pickford story of the sea, which. ranks among the best of all Pickford "films, will be. presented to Portland fandom at the Sunset Theater commencing to day. This is one of the earliest of the Pickford productions madeby Famous Players, and is one of the few films which have not occasioned the plaint. -wny don't they get the right sort of a picture for "Little Mary?" " In this five-reeler the beloved star plays the role of Nina, a little girl who is cast upon a desert island. Her experiences on the island, with the ap pearance or a strange man into the situation, furnish material for a story of unusual appeal. The stranger is first an enemy of the castaway girl, but finally they are drawn together by love. Miss Pickford is seen in the regula tion castaway costume of leaves and island vegetation, and uses the crude implements and weapons of a spot far from civilization. In recognition of the value of the picture, exhibited perhaps as often as any other photodrama. Famous Play ers have issued a new print of "Hearts Adrift. The star has strong support in the film, which is said to be par ticularly good in sea and island scenes. "His Feathered Nest." a two-reel Keystone comedy with an all-star cast. will be the laugh-provoking contribu tion to the bill. Paramount Pictographs. the maga zine of the screen, with . a pictured discussion of current events, will also be screened. FAMOUS NOVEL IS OX SCREEN" Thomas Dixon's "The Foolish Vir gin" Will Be at People's. The disillusionment of a ronfantic girl who comes face to face with the realtities of an uuromantic world is tne Oasis or the story of "The Foolish Virgin," the Thomas Dixon novel which has been screened for Miss Clara Kim balr'Young's second Selznick-Picture and which will be the attraction at the Peoples today. Mr. Dixon has international repute as the author of some of the most stirring novels in modern literature and is particularly well known to motion picture patrons as the author of GLOBE lOc Three Day. Beginning: TODAY, VIOLA DANA 'Children of Eve' COMIJfG Four Days. Wednesday. Jan. 10-13 MAUDE FEALY 'BONDWOMEN' "The Clansman." from which. "The Birth of a Nation" was made. The story, "The Foolish Virgin," has been recognized as one of his best and is particularly well adapted to Miss Young's requirements. The central role is an extremely sympathetic one and the . situations as they develop in the narrative are full of action and djamatic in tl extreme. "The Foolisff Virgin" was directed by AHert Capellani, the famous pro ducer who screened Miss Young's first Immensely successful production as a Selznick-Picture star, "The Common Law." Conway Tearle and Paul Capel lani, who played the most important male roles in "The Common Law," also head the cast of the new production. and among other well-known players who figure prominently in the photo drama are: Catherine Proctor, Sheri dan Tansey, the remarkably able boy actor, William Welsh, Marie Lines, Ag nes Mapes, Edward Elkas and little Jacqueline Morhange. PAULINE FREDERICK AT STAR With Thomas Meighaa She Will Ap pear ii "The Slave Market." Pauline Frederick, together with Thomas Meighan, are presented in the Famous Players- Paramount produc tion, "The Slave Market," by Frederic Arnold Kummer. which is the featured attraction at the Star Theater com mencing today. In this romantic story Miss Frederick is a Spanish beauty who falls into the hands of pirates and is nmuiy orrerea lor sale on me slave block. , Director Hugh Ford took his com pany to Cuba in order to obtain the best possible Spanish atmosphere. As some of the scenes transpire in the West Indies, the sending of the players to Cuba was an especially happy thought. Some of the most thrilflngly interesting incidents of the story -ans-pire on shipboard when the pirates at tack the vessel in which Ramonahas sailed from Spain to the West Indies. There are hand-to-hand encounters on the vessel as the pirates come swarm lng over the side after the ancient custom of all pirates since maritime pilfering became an institution. The fight on "the deck of Ramona's shiD Involves a new character In r a. mous Players annals in Thomas Meigh an, whose remarkably clever acting in Lasky productions has made him one of the screens most prominent figures. Mr. Meighan is. the hero f the tale and is thrown overboard by the pirates in his efforts to protect th lovely Ba- mona from the invading horde. Ramona is taken by the pirate chief tain to be his favorite, an action which, of course, earns the jealousy and ha tred of Anna, the deposed loved one. There is a buried treasure which lays an important part in tne taie, ior wnn it Ramona is bought from the pirates by the hero after she has been offered for sale in punishment for the killing of their chief. Thomas Meighan,; Wellington Play-J ter. Ruby Hoflman and Albert Hart are the principal players In support of Miss Frederick. MARY PIC1CFORD AT COLUMBIA Noted Actress Will Appear in "The Pride of the Clan." Mary Pickford's second Artcraft pic ture. "The Pride of the Clan," will open an engagement at the Columbia Theater today. It is asserted that "Little Mary's" presentation of the Scotch character, "Margaret MacTavish," in this photo play will prove her greatest portrayal of the screen. The role affords her particular opportunity to assert the "Pickford charm," which has evidenced in th.e past with such great success. The story offers a typical Pickford subject and weaves itself about the pretty' daughter of a Scotish chieftain, who at an early age is placed 'at the head jt her clan when a severe storm at sea results in the loss of her father and several other fishermen off the western coaet of Scotland. There is an indescribable pathos in the situation of the young girl living alone in a wretched hulk on the seashore ruling the rugged and untutored fishermen and their families. Although Marget is amongest them she is not of them, possessing a spirituality of soul and brightness of outldbk that stands out in contrast to the uncouth ways of the islanders. Her rule, however. Is of a light character and she is free to devote her self to her fiimpl courtship with Jamie sirjjjjtaj i ' ' . ": ."j"' ', ' rnlr""" "" " " m ' 1 1 jjj Iff 1 1 riir Washington at Park tj Pi I i lwvil M fySQj ALd Continuous 'k raMg : Vg-Jgf - j f'-NVg' 11 A. M. to 11 P. M. ' -A STARTING TODAY! World's Most Popular Actor In a Powerful Photodrama on the Subject of Child Labor n The CI P of Sil ence A truly remarkable play, which will be the salvation of the Nation's children. PATHE NEWS VITAGRAPH COMEDY Campbell, a young fisherman. On the eve of her bethrothal to Jamie. Marget is suddenly confronted with a situation that takes away her bonnie smile and throws a dark- cloud over her future happiness. Alone with a breaking heart, she sets out to sea in her old fishing hulk, which soon begins to founder. Within sight of land Marget is trapped miserably in her cabin but it is her tender care for animals that solves the suspense of these awful mo ments and restores her to thearma of her sweetheart. cuiLD slavery is film topic "The Price of Silence" Will Be At traction at Majestic. A stirring plea for the little slaves of the factory is the theme of "The Price of Silence," William Fox's new est photodrama, with William Farnum playing the leading role, to be ex hibited at the i Majestic Theater. Sup porting Mr. Farnum in this production aptly called "The Uncle Tom's Cabin" of today, are Vivian Rich, Charles Clary, Frank Clark, Brooklyn Kellar, Ray Hanford and- Gordon Griffith. 'The Price of Silence" is a story of love and renunciation, woven into a theme of great public interest child slavery. What "Uncle Tom's Cabin" did for the negro slaves William Fox's "The Price of Silence" is expected to do ' for the underfed, illy-nourished. hard-working little factory slaves. The story revolves around Senator Deering (William Farnum), who -has devoted his life to alleviate the misery caused by child labor. His- deauest friend. Judge Vernon (Frank Clark), has helped the Senator in his fight. Judge Vernon has a charming daughter, Grace (Vivian Rich), whom the StTiator loves. Later Senator Deering discovers that his friend. Judge Vernon has been bribed by Henry McCarthy (Charles Clary), to defeat child labor legislation. Mc Carthy demands the hand of Judge Vernon's daughter, Gracer The judge is stricken with heart disease, but be fore he dies he tells Deering of hi secret shame. To keen Vernon's name I unsullied, the .Senator makes a deal with McCarthy, and votes against the child labor bill, while the world knows nothing of the great sacrifice made by the Senator. A comedy and news weekly will com plete the bill. m.j . i c , . j , I AE MARSH'S new contract is said to call for $2000 a week for the first year and $3000 the second. Her first play will be "Polly of the Cir cus." This leaves just three actresses who have not been incorporated. Miss Marsh is the first star acquired by the new Goldwyn Company, composed of Samuel Goldfish and. the Selwyns, Ed gar and Margaret and Arthur Hopkins. James Young has denuded Hollywood of his debonair presence and is in stalled at Essanay's big studio in Chi cago a3 a feature director. He was engaged originally to direct Max Lin der, the French comedian, who decided to direct himself. Annette Kellerman recently was ad vertised to appear at a, special per- lormance of A Daughter or the Gods" for New York schoolteachers. Instead, she made her appearance fully clothed. Tne Country That God Forgot" was barred from Canada by the censors. Reason: God did not forget any coun try, so the title is misleading. "The Secret Kingdom," with Arline Pretty and Charles Richman, released by Vitagraph, is said to be one of the best serials released in a long time. Lewis J. Selznick, true to his stated policy of presenting only filmed ver sions of popular novels by the greatest modern authors of fiction, is ready to release Clara Kimball Young in "The Foolish Virgin," by Thomas ' Dixon, author of "The Birth of a Nation," and Robert Warwick in an adaptation of "The Argyle Case." In her newest Artcraft picture. "The Pride of the Clan." Mary Pickford has the noVelty of having her brother-in-law as a stage lover. In other words, the popular Matt Moore, brother of the equally popular Owen Moore, the hus band of Mary Pickford, has this part to play. Charlotte Walker also has gone back Film Flickers J . ' Xw - J V wl 1 1- - 11 . ...... ....... . v . .. . . - r .j to the footlights between films, her dramatic vehicle being a concoction of Eugene Walter, her husband, entitled "Pussyfoot Patricia." t Experience is not the teacher it is cracked up to be. At any rate,. Burr Mcintosh, who starred in "The Ad ventures of Wallingford" on the screen, recently filed a petition in bankruptcy. . Earle Williams, having completed "The Scarlet Runner." has taken unto himself a new leading woman in Ethel Grey Terry. Miss Terry is better known on the stage, although she was featured in "Bought." a World pro duction. She will appear with Mr. Williams in a number of Vitagraph five-reelers. Motion pictures were employed early in the Winter to promote the boycott on eggs in order to force down the prices established by the speculators in the fruit of the hen. It proved very effective in New York. Louise Fazenda sounds like the name ot a harem beauty, but as a matter of fact Miss Fazenda was born in Lafay ette. Ind., which is a long way from Constantinople. Her parents were Dutch and French, which probably ac counts for the temperament that makes their daughter a successful comedienne In Keystone plays. Of course, stage training in road companies helped. Miss Fazenda loves the outdoors and, although an ash blonde with hazel eyes, is unmarried. Jack Richardson, the motion picture star, who recently joined the Selig Company, was a medical student for two years. Frank Reicher, the Lasky director, succeeded so thoroughly in teaching a common, ordinary garden cow to act that she had Marie Doro up a tree in side five minutes. And there stayed the star until a small army of property men chased away the emotional bo vine. There is a novel twist to the story of sweetheart, in Which George Bahfln is to bA starred an, the Para mount Programme by the Oliver Mo rosco Photoplay Company, in that the innocuous golf ball is turned into deadly weapon by the Italian in his search for revenge. The familiar stil etto and the poison vial give way to a new method of extermination which is the invention of George Beban and Lawrence McClosky,. the authors of the story. Frank Losee has made another of those lightning changes for which he is celebrated. Having played an emi nently respectable and wealthy diplo mat in support of Marguerite Clark in "Miss George Washington." the Famous Players character actor discarded his plumage for the coarse garb of Provis, the escaped convict, in Dickens' "Great Expectations." Louise Huff and Jack Pickford are co-starring in the adap tation of the great novelists tale which will be released on the Para mount Programme. Ralph Lewis, the distinguished pho toplayer who has Just joined the Will lam Fox forces in the West, is a' grad uate of Northwestern University. He belongs to the Phi Delta Theta fra ternlty. Mr. Lewis is one of the few in the profession who does not aspire to direct a film. Florence Ashbrooke, now in Stuart Holmes' supporting cast, was once famous dancer. She was hailed abroad as "a daughter of Terpsichore" and won instant recognition when she made her debut in America. Alan Dale wrote of her that she was "the girl with a voice like a bird and a form divine." Prince Pierro Troubetkoy, the noted artist, has incited Viola Dana, the charming little Metro star, to pose for him for a portrait of herself as a ma donna. In the Metro-Columbia photoplay, "The Mortal Sin," on which she is now at work under the direction of John H. Collins, Miss Dana is shown in a num ber of scenes as a madonna. Miss Dana's youth, the clear-cut lines of her features and her spirituelle appear ance in the white robes worn for the picture, impressed everyone in the Co lumbia studio. In a recent issue of Paramount Prog ress the editor tells the experience, of . an exhibitor in a girls' college towij who failed to secure the patronage of 1 1 the students. The sales manager in vestigated and found that the young women were in the habit of spending their afternoons and small change in small chocolate shops on the same street. Now the exhibitor serves choco late and makes money. . If Joan of Arc should come to life to day and ride through the traffic on Fifth avenue. New York, she could not rouse more interest and discussion than the young woman who has been doing precisely this thing during the past week. Dally between 11 and 3 o'clock Miss Marie Ward, attired in a white and silver suit of armorr mount ed on a white horse with white and gold trappings, rode through the traf fic on Fifth avenue. Miss Ward has ridden winners of women's saddle classes at the national and other horse shows. She rode on Fifth ave nue in order to create interest in the exhibition in the Forty-fourth Street Theater of Cecil B. De Mille's photo play. "Joan The Woman." in which Geraldine Farrar appears as Joan of Arc. Thelma Salter, with whom Frank Keenan will soon be co-starred in the Triangle-Kay Bee production. "The Crab," is the youngest member of the Ince acting forces at Culver City, but is considered by many competent judges to possess more talent than many of her associates three or four times her age. It is expected that the general army of film fans will ac quiesce in this opinion when "The Crab" is released some time next month. With a German director, a Russian cameraman, an English assistant di rector and a French property man, strict neutrality had to be observed in the executive ranks during the making of the Triangle-Fine Arts Civil War drama. "The Little Yank." starring Dorothy Gisb, What has prown to be one of the biggest hits in the photoplay world during the latter part of 1916 has been the Famous Players production of "Miss George Washington," a Para mount Picture. The reports that have been received during the first five weeks of the showing of this picture give it a higher exhibitors' rating than any picture that Marguerite Clark has ever appeared in and there has been a clnmorinir among exhiWtors to have fey v r r : - Ttl Hunt 11 laTbi 11 1' - " ----- ' -- &K.ai Pauline Frederick,Who Has Wonderful Role in "The Slave Market" Today at The Star Positively Only Pour Days, Starting Today P auii Here is a photoplay entirely "different"; a brand new Paramount Picture out of the ordinary. Popular Thomas Meighan, whose last appear- ance was in "The Heir to the Hoorah," makes the most of a wonderful role. As jzzz the Spanish beauty, lovely Miss Fred erick dazzles. It is a richly romantic - story of the Spanish main, of -pirates, love, hate, revenge and :zzzz heroism, such as these two great players can imbue with life and thrills. Posi- zzzzzzzz: tively only4daysatthe Star Washington at Park JL Main 3452 this picture rebooked for extended pe riod s. In "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea." a dramatization ot Jules Verne's great novel of that name, all the famous characters of the novel are depicted orr the screen. Captain Nemo an tl, his submarine Nautilus are shown accomplishig many of the things that Jules Verne 40 years ago told about in fiction. Realism is said to be the keynote of the "Great Secret," the Metro-CJuality serial in 15 chapters. Francis X. Bush man and Beverly Bayne are the stars of this production which cost more than half a million dollars, and in which 6U0 people took part. It is said to be story of New lork life, powerfully told, and is really a motion picture novel that ranks with the best stories of Dumas.Gaburiau or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. m w w The exact status of David Ward Griffith with respect to his former af filiations is a thing of mystery. Since the premiere of "Intolerance." he has steadfastly reiterated that he has noth ing to do with Triangle. In effect, he has disowned all Fine Arts productions since the formation of that company. It is generally understood that he has broken with his former associates and it is rumored that fabulous offers have been made him by other concerns. W. Christy Cabanne, for several years the right-hand man and chief of staff to D. W. Griffith, is directing "The Great Secret." Mr. Cabanne is still on the sunny side of 30: yet he was Mr. Griffith's only assistant in the direc tion of "'The Birth of a Nation" and "Intolerance." Mr. Cabanne has di rected no fewer than 214 photoplays in the last three years at the Majestic-Reliance-Fine Arts studios and some how he found (or made) time to write more than 300 succesfully produced picture plots. Which perhaps explains why Mr. Cabanne is today the highest salaried director. Mr. Griffith alone ex cepted, in the world. Pearl White, the Pathe star, sprained her ankle the other day when she was alighting from her motorcar. "Wouldn't that irritate you?" she said. "Yesterday I jumped from a hijrn cliff into the Hudson River, and all I suffered was wet clothes. Now I take a 12-inch step and tret a bad ankle!" e Frederick With Thomas Meighan and other Famous Players in a rollicking, rattling, good, old- fashioned pirate story, crammed with thrilling ac- ZZZZ tion and romance "The Slave e- Market" Dy Frederick " Arnold tvummer