The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, January 07, 1917, SECTION FOUR, Page 6, Image 54

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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.
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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
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' 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
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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,
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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.
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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
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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
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World's Most Popular Actor
In a Powerful Photodrama
on the Subject of Child
Labor
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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.
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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
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to the footlights between films, her
dramatic vehicle being a concoction of
Eugene Walter, her husband, entitled
"Pussyfoot Patricia."
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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
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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
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Pauline Frederick,Who Has Wonderful Role
in "The Slave Market" Today at The Star
Positively Only Pour Days, Starting Today
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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:
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Star
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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.
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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!"
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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
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Dy Frederick
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