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THE SUNDAY OBEGOXIAX, PORTLAND, SEPTE3IBER 2, 1917. himself better than any person living. In writing the story for his own char acterization ' it is, therefore, naturally to be supposed that he gives himself the best vehicle to express his own idea3 on life, such as, for instance, he has so effectively brought out in his recent book, "Laugh and Live." EXID BEXXETT AT COLUMBIA NEGLECTED WIFE" COMES INTO HER OWN IN LAST CHAPTER Margaret Marries Norwood, Her Unselfish Suitor, While Kennedy, Suc cessful in Politics, Learns Value of Patient, Forgiving Spouse's Devotion. - ; SV5 V- : -v . S-. 'x. : - ' v (r X V sj- W ' piviV IU M'" " 7 lf ya " - ' rfii in THE 15th and last episode of Pathe's serial of domestic life, "The Neglected Wife," Is en titled "A Supreme Sacrifice" and brings the estranged hus band and wife together again, with Margaret, the "other woman," surren dering to Norwood, the editor who had wooed her with such unselfish devotion. Ituth Roland, Roland Bottomley, Co renne Grant. Neil Hardin and Phil Mc-Culloug-h are the principals in the many-chaptered tale. Mary Kennedy (Miss Grant), deter mined that she must save her husband's (Roland Bottomley) career, starts home. Doyle (Hardin), having learned that Kennedy is in search of Itargaret (Miss Roland), contrives that Margar et's address reaches Kennedy. Kennedy goes to visit her. He sees Norwood (McCullough) entering the building ahead of him and follows. Kennedy desperately starts to plead with Margaret to return to him, then changes his tactics, insinuating that JIargaret is now Norwood's mistress. Norwood flings himself at Kennedy. Wargaret keeps tho two apart. Norwood recovers his self-control, sends Mar Caret into the next room. Norwood an nounces his marriage to Margaret and warns Kennedy to keep hands off. Ken nedy, unbelieving, rushes Into the next room, where Margaret confirms Nor wood's statement. The shock of surprise, rage, disap pointment is great and Kennedy re turns home, to find Mary returned, having sacrificed her feelings to save his good name. He is conscious of a feeling of relief that his wife has not I H I sw V - r ? - . 5 k fl x ' fit V' . i NEWS OF THE PHOTO THEATERS (COXTIXIED FROM PAGE 4.) arrives home. But "Williari" Skin ner, Jr., is a girl. Honey and Skinner come to the conclusion that the first one should be a girl, anyway. Pathe News and comedy are other subjects oil the programme. COIIAX IS LIBERTY FEATURE Broadway Favorite and "Fatty" Ar- buckle to Entertain. At the Liberty Theater, commencing today, appear George M. Cohan and Itoscoe Arbuckle as photoplay enter tainers. Cohan, the "Yankee Doodle Boy," will be seen in his second motion picture, a filmation of his popular st,ageplay, ' "Seven Keys to Baldpate." Arbuckle, the rotund comedian who has made the world laugh, is sched uled for appearance in his latest Para mount Comedy. "His Wedding Night." One of Mr. Cohan's greatest Broad way sensations, "Seven Keys to Bald pate," adapted from the book of the came name by Earl Derr Biggers, ecored an emphatic hit all over the country several years ago. Aaiiounced as a "mystery farce," this picture is confidently expected to amaze and thrill to a much greater extent than even the original play. Several distinct twists to the story, which tells how a, ambitious author of hair-; raising literature won a wager to write a 10, 000-word story in 24 hours, are evinced with startling result. Many humorous situations are presented in typical Cohanesque style and a sur prising climax such as has never be fore been presented on the screen is suddenly displayed with telling effect. An exceptional supporting cast to the popular Broadway star oonsists of various well-known film artists, as well as several members of the original cast of the play, including Anna Q Nilsson, Mrs. De Wolf Hopper, popu pper, popu- . irry, Joseph Irene Uzzell, Macy, Erica larly known as Elda Fur Smiley, Russell Bassett. Co CI, Warren Cook. Carltoa deserted him. For the first time, he makes a slight recognition of Mary's devotion, but Mary shows no response in the way of forgiveness. She declares that she will do her duty, use every effort to help him win the election and save his good name, but after that she must go away to save her self-respect. Kennedy, Wary. Norwood and Mar garet are present at a campaign fete given for Kennedy. The veiled woman takes a last desperate chance to en snare Margaret and Kennedy, tries to kill Kennedy, is captured', the-veil torn from her face and her identity discov ered. Kennedy wins th- election by a close vote. Norwood goes to Kennedy, uses his privilege as an old friend of Mary's, to arraign Kennedy for his treatment of the self-sacrificing Mary and reveals to Kennedy the fact that Mary saved his fortune. Kennedy tries to be defiant, but there is humbleness and a great shame working in his soul. Returning home, Kennedy sees Mary preparing to go away. Kennedy pleads with Mary to return, as he needs her. strength, as he is weak. Mary is not to be won over so easily. Choking back her love, she declares that she is going on a long trip alone, that Kennedy in the meantime must prove that he is climb ing up the ladder again and that he really wants her love. When he has given this proof she will return. Margaret surrenders to Norwood's unselfish devotion and they are mar ried. Mary, on her trip, longs for Ken nedy, while he grimly works to regain his self-respect and wife. Hudson, Paul liverton, Frank Losee and Purnell Pratt. That the success of Mr. Cohan's sec ond photoplay will greatly increase his following among film patrons already established as a result of "Broadway Jones" is assured. FAIRBANKS COMES TO PEOPLES "Funniest or All" or Douglas' Films Product of His Own Pen. A special treat to photoplay follow ers comes to the-People's Theater to day when the exhibition of the latest Douglas Fairbanks production, "Down to Earth." will commence. This film is said to be the funniest of all Fairbanks pictures. The ener getic Douglas is said not only to excel all his previous efforts on the screen, but at the same time proves his abil ity as an author. In fact, this photo play is "very much Fairbanks." so to speak, for he wrote it,' enacted its principal character and even directed several scenes himself when other du ties in connection with the production of the film called Director John Emer son away. In addition to its other merits. "Down to Earth" is undoubtedly the most lavishly staged photoplay in which the popular Fairbanks has ever appeared. The film shows the many different locales visited by a happy young man whose- "wanderlust" and "close-to-nature" ideas not only af ford him the real pleasures of life, but at the same time are the means of spreading health and. sunshine wher ever he goes. The theme is typical of the true Fairbanks nature and in addi tion to its mirth-provoking qualities carries with it the well-known op timism and philosophy of the famous screen star, proving in all one of the greatest screen tonics ever presented. Never before has this favorite actor been given a film vehicle that is more closely associated with his own. smiling nature . Dousrias Fairbanks i.no wg Triangle Star Who Wants Release Is Star in Play of Soutli. Enid Bennett, the Australian beauty, who Is legally striving to terminate her contract with Triangle in order that she may rejoin Thomas H. Ince. her "discoverer," is the Columbia The ater headliner on the early-week bill. Miss Bennett appears in "They're Off." a comedy-drama of the racetrack and the old South.. With this will be shown a Mack Swain comedy, "Lost, a Cook," said to be the funniest thing that big Mack, or Ambrose, has ever perpe trated. In "They're Off" Miss Bennett . has the role of a young girl whose father has, by unscrupulous manipulation, gained possession of an old Southern mansion. Randolph Manners, the young owner, whose family has lived in the house for years, is ejected and takes temporary residence in the training quarters of the estate. There the girl meets him and learns of her father's methods. She is attracted by the dig nified attitude of the young South erner and determines to help. him out. By disguising herself in jockey at tire and riding in the most spectacu lar race ever witnessed in the country side, she achieves her purpose. The picture is said to have many humorous touches of Southern life, introducing a company of pickaninnies and their mammies. The racetrack episode has been so staged that it surpasses in thrilling suspense that of any similar action recently screened. Among the supporting players are Rowland Lee. Melbourne MacDowell, Walter Whitman and Samuel Lincoln. Roy Neil! directed the production. CHARLOTTE AVALIvER IS STAR Xoted Actress Makes Pathc Debut In "Mary Iiawson's Secret." "alary Lawson's Secret,", the story of a young 'girl, held for murder on cir cumstantial evidence, is the photoplay feature at the Star Theater today. The production serves to introduce Char lotte Walker, of "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" fame, as a Pathe play er. "Lonesome Luke's Wild Women," another of those Rolin comedies, fea turing Harold Lloyd, will be screened. Mary Lawson becomes the innocent victim Of tho intense rivalry existing between two doctors, the one an old practitioner of the town and the other a young man, a recent arrival. The younger man is found murdered and the girl, through circumstantial evidence, is convicted of the crime. She escapes while being taken to prison and begins life anew in a dis tant city. Here she falls in love with a young workman and marries "him, only to find later that he is wealthy and has been living incognito because of a wager. Settled happily in her new home, the specter of exposure and arrest haunts her through her chance discovery by the old doctor, now a drunkard and an outcast. From then on until the final smashing climax the play moves swift ly, without a false note or let-down in interest. It has been greeted as a strong, well acted and well-produced offering. The fine art of Charlotte Walker, the ex cellent support given by J. H. Gilmour and Robert Vaughn and the uniformly intelligent treatment of Director O'Brien make it an unusually worth while feature. Miss Walker is an artist in the front rank of her profession. Her latest starring engagement is in Eugene Walter's "The Small Town Girl." She began her theatrical career in Richard Mansfield's company. Later she' was James K. Hackett's leading woman for four years. "Mary Lawson's Secret," it is inter esting to note, was written by Lloyd Lonergan and produced at the Than houser studio under the direction of John B. O'Brien, well known as the producer of many of Mary Pickford's biggest successes. "PERFECT PICTURE" AT SUNSET "Tho Cheat," Sensational ' Xiasky Production, Stars Fannie Ward. "The Cheat." the sensational Lasky photoplay which has. been praised more highly than any other photodra matic offering, and thought so highly of that it is to be adapted for stage presentation, will be the stellar attrac tion at the Sunset Theater commencing today. In thi3 picture Sessue Hayakawa, the noted Japanese star, scored his first big hit. Fannie Ward, billed as the star of the production, performed so creditably that the picture ranks as her greatest screen effort. Jack Dean, Miss Ward's husband in private life, is another prominent member of the cast. "The Cheat," written by Hector Turnbull, tells a story which strikes at thousands of families. It is the story of an extravagant and unthink ing wife who compiomises herself through thoughtlessness. In the mo ment of her great peril the husband comes to her rescue, shoulders the blame for her pistol attack on a wealthy young Japanese, and stands trial for the assault. The verdict of the jury is that the husband is guilty. But the wife goes to the witness stand, tells the true story, shows the mark which the Japa nese made on her shoulder and wins the acquittal of her husband. Mean while the Japanese is nearly mobbed in court. The picture is full of dramatic mo ments and so skillfully has it been filmed that critics declare that it i perfect, a picture without a single flaw. A comedy and scenic vill be other subjects on the programme. Kwery Kolum. (Note All motion picture questions answered except those relative to the writing and marketing of scenarios. Please eign name to all communica tions and also give name or initials to which you wish answers addressed.) FRAN, Portland Moving Picture World and the monthly film maga zines conduct scenario departments, while there are a number of books written on, the subject. Bess M. Sally Crute's first picture experience was with Essanay, then with Edison. She is now with Metro. Miss Crute made her first stage hit in the Western company of "Within the Law." Later she was in "The Deep Purple" and "Officer 666." ... Frances B., Salem Valentine Gant was a singer before she went into pic tures, but it was church and concert not cabaret. Billie Burke's hair is nat urally wavy, so they say. Kitty Gor don was born in England. Norma Tal madge i3 married to Joseph Schenck. Bennie M. Johnny Hines was born in Colorado. He was eight years on the stage before he went into pictures, so you win the bet. Ht is 5 feet 9 inches high and weighs 150 pounds. Dunno. . Grace D. No, Grace, they did not "can" Kolb and Dill from pictures be cause they are Germans. Both were born in Cleveland and adopted bur lesque German, makeup lor cooieUy pur- t - THE Beginning ft The Star of "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" and Other Famous Productions. V 2 Reels of Real Comedy poses. Yes. William W. Jefferson is the son of the late Joseph Jefferson and began his stage career with his dad in "Rip Van Wiifkle." And then he became a comedian. . E. M. G. Raymond Hatton is a na tive of Red ,Oak, Iowa, and has been in the limelight since the tender age of 12 years. Charles Arling is with Fox. He is a Canadian" by birth, com ing from Toronto, the home of Mary Pickford. Harry Booker is not so old as you thought. He was born in Ken tucky in 1865,- unless he fibbed when he made out the records. 1 Inquisitive Crane Wilbur halls from ..Athens not Greece, New York. Lou Tellegen is the chap who was born in Greece. Crane was born in 1889. The R. in Earle R. Williams stands for Rafael. He was born in Sacramento, Cal., so the Rafael may have been stolen from the town name. San Rafaei Earle was Tiorn in 1880, so he's near- ing the 40 mark. Niles Welch is the young fellow you mean who was with Marguerite Clark in "Miss ' George V ashington. . Ed McO. Frederick Warde was born in England. In 1867 he started in his stage career as the second murderer in "Macbeth." His pictures have been with Thanhouser for Pathe distri bution. His son is a Thanhouser di rector. Harry B. Warner is likewise an Englishman, born in London in 1876. Alice M., Vancouver Conway Tearle was on the stage before entering pic fares. He has appeared with Ellen Terry, Billie Burke, Ethel Barrymore, Viola Dana and Grace George. He s New Yorker, born in 1880. Yes, he was with Clara Kimball Young in "The Common Law" and "The Foolish Vir gin." Aileen Paul Panzer was last In the limelight in the "Jimmie Dale" serial. Paul is a German by birth, but that is all. He was In the old Augustin Daly show, "Florodora." Film Flickers. Earle Foxe, who was with Norma Talmadge in several pictures and be fore that with Paramount, is to be leading man for Emily Stevens in her next Metro picture. William A Brady was re-elected president of the National Association of the Alotion Picture Industry the other day. At the meeting announce ment was made that film manufac turers and distributors will furnish motion picture entertainment to Ameri can soldiers in Europe. Lillian Walker is to be exploited in a "Dimple" song. She is known to many as "Dimples." ... H. O. Davis is another of those "the play's the thing" chaps. He announces that the story and not the star is to be featured in Triangle productions. - They say Goldwyn expended $250,000 in making "Polly of the Circus," its first Mae Marsh picture. Which sounds like a huge sum of money for a picture not labeled "stupendous spectacle." ... Dorothy Dalton is a golfer. She proved it on her recent three weeks' vacation, turning in a number of scores of 80. No mention is made of the number of holes played. ... Where Gerald ine Farrar goes to make pictures, there goes her portable dressing-room. It contains all the comforts of the diva's dressing-room at the studio, even to the telephone, which, on any location, is connected up so that Miss Farrar may talk with her friends by long distance in her leisure moments. ... Help! Kitty Gordon is a' mere stenog rapher in a World picture, "Her Hour," soon to be shown. ... Mary Miles Minter wrote part of "Charity Castle," an early Mutual re lease. Mary collaborated with C. Doty Hobart in writing the story. . And now they report that Pauline Frederick has bought another auto mobile. She needs a huge salary if she owns the motor flock credited to her. . Arthur Ashley. tar of . the World HOUSE OF HITS Today TnyTr nrr VALKER IN Lawson's Secret A Strong Drama, With Thrills, Mystery and a Famous Broadway. Star. v Film Company, is an active director. Playing and starring in World film features, he directs himself as well as other stars, devoting an average of 12 hours a day at the Peerless Studio. He is also appearing in "The Man Who Came Back" at the Playhouse in New York, making his day's work from 16 to 17 hours. Mr. Ashley will be starred in the Chicago run of "The Man Who Came Back," leaving pictures temporarily for a 'short season on the stage. . Some joKester started a run ' of be whiskered key merchants at the Art craft New York office last week. Within an hour five Hebraic street salesmen called to see George M. Cohan, who, some one had given them to understand, was seeking additional keys to Baldpate. George M.'s new photoplay "Seven Keys ' to Baldpate, no doubt proved an incentive for the guilty one to tip off 'every key man in the neighborhood and it proved no easy matter to explain to the '..persistent visitors that George M. Cohan's seven keys to Baldpate were all he required for the present. . .' . . S ' ... Following "The Utile- American," the great patriotic film. which has created a Nation-wide sensation, Mary.., Pick word will soon be seen on the screen in "Rebecca of : Sunnybrook Farm," adapted from the famous book and play of the same nafne." Thlp film has just been finished In . California and will be released within a month.. v, Harry McCoy, formerly a Keystone director under Mack Sennett and later with the Triangle-Keystone organiza tion at the Fine Arts studio, is no longer connected with the latter com pany. Tom Forman. the Lasky player who enlisted in the Coast Artillery, has been made a corporal. He is studying now for the next step and if the -war lasts long enough expects to return to the studio known all over the world as General "Fighting Tom" Forman. ' Billie Billings, for three years asso ciated with the Vitagraph productions. Is now with Goldwyn, where she hi playing opposite Jane Cowl in The Spreading Dawn." She has decided to rhanee her name to Florence B. Bill Ings. Miss Billings nas grown ureu ui having "Billie" either looked upon as a flnffv inirenue. which her latest pic ture, "Transgressors," with Earle Wil liams proves she is not, or of having her letters addressed to "Mr." One fact remains, whether "Billie" or " lorence, Miss Billings is a young comedienne of rare ability. Charles Clary, after playing In a long series of Fox pictures, among which were "The Honor System." "The Snv" and "The Conqueror," is enjoy ing a short vacation. It will be very short, though, for he is already Biaiea i annpir'in Theda Bara s next pic ture. This production, which will fol low "Cleopatra," is from a Btory oy Richard Ordynski. stage director of the rirnTinlitan Onera-Housc. Mr. Jr- dynskl will play opposite Miss Bara in his screen debut. Tni FnilAr. one of the funniest of Keystone ladies, this week auctioned off several Angora cats, which she raised from infancy. When not en-E-aired in cyclonic comedy Miss Fuller devotes her attention to her. feline farm." F,iii. T.vons. Lee Moran, Tlosemary Theby mirth-makers. That's the latest comDinaiion at u ni- versal Cltv ana tne " i v. li rft artists on the screen will be certain to approve en thusiastically or tneir association iui tlje purpose of photoplay fan-making. tr TITilUQma retnrnpi t rt the Vita- graph studio in Brooklyn last week after an absence of five weeks. Dur ing that time Mr. Williams was criti cally ill. suffering from an infection of the foot. He has-been in bed for the greater part of the, past few weeks while the wound healed. The next Olive Thomas picture, which 13 being directed by Lynn Reynolds, has a good idea to start with insofar s opportunities for real comedy inter mixed with the . proper amount or pathos are concerned. It deals with a Broadway star who, by failing health, ia exiled to Arizona for life. Not being K -.- able to return to Broadway she decides to" make a Great White Way of her own in Arizona. The play will be called "Broadway, Arizona." It's hard luck to have an admirer whose endearing " missives you can't even read, and both Phyllis Haver and Gloria Swanson, Paramount-Mack Sen nett comediennes, are thinking serious ly of learning, the intricate Japanese language so tfmt they may discover what their respective correspondents in the land of Nippon are talking about Inethc daintily scented missives re ceived. "Anyway," say the girls, "we're going to find out what 'Love' is in Japanese.' - ". ..' 'William Christy Cabanne, motion picture director, tried to enlist as a private in the United States Army recently, but was rejected as physical ly unfit. Mr. Cabanne thereupon an nounced he would direct most of his energy along the line of making patri otic feature films calculated to influ ence men to enlist in the fighting forces. His aim. he declares, is to in fluence 100.000 men and he confidently asserts he can do it. - . " Harry Morey got so interested read ing about other Roving picture folk having their own gardens and doing their "bit" that he determined to have a garden too. He explored the real estate in the rear of his house, but all he-could find was a plot about the size of a prayer rug. To make up for lack of room he planted everything to gether, i. e., radishes were mixed with tomatoes and the lettuce with the cucumbers, in fact he had a regular combination salad right under his win dow. The garden came and is still coming along finely and Morey wishes there was some way of standing his garden on end so he could plant both sides. Lule Warrenton. who has been pro ducing children's pictures Independent ly, has returned to the Universal studio after a year's absence. Some person or persbns in the West are trying to lure William Farnum back to California and the campaign has been worked out with a low cun ning which seems to smack of Ger man origin. But first let it be stated that Mr. Farnum will go almost any distance and sacrifice almost anything to catch Just one fish. And now for the plot. In his mail every morning, and at times In the evening, the Fox player receives an anonymous clipping to this effect: "The swordfish and tuna are running bigger and better than ever in the waters of Southern California." Writes a Kansas City colyum con ductor: "Theda Bara is about to por tray Cleopatra In the Alms. The ad vance photographs are black with thundercloud eyebrows and heavy with impossible trinkets and weird hiero CIRCLE The Bis Home Movie" Furtk at Washington. ADMISSION TODAY One Day Only Marjorie Rambeau m "The Debt" Monday Wednesday Friday Duptntton" chap- "TVe Jackaroo,'' one of Doa'tLouToarCoat," ter 14 of the Ruth the complete "Further Black Cat comedy Roland serial. T he Adrritnrn of Stlnga- drama: also Selig IWeacleeteil Wife"; also w" stories; also World drama, "Ilrr Salvation.'1 Sella: War Nerra and Library and Comedy. and Pokea antl Jaba Jerry Comedy. Comedy. Tuesday .AId?.L, Saturday "The Wonderful chapter 10 of Helen -Between Man and Kwal"! complete story Holmes' serial The ' Brant." new animal of the "Do J h I I d r en Itallroad Raiders") picture-drama: also Couatf series: Mutual Mutual Weekly and Reel l.lfe and comedv. Toura and Comedy. Uig V Comedy. "The Olrl In the Frame" -A. A Admission, 15c Children, 5c glyphics. This department wagers it job Mark Antony fell" for no such look ing lady. Eastman wasn't born when the Queen of the Nile thrived and there are. consequently, no half tones, but if she ran true to type. Cleopatra was t sunny-haired girl who pouted when her high priests revolted at tossins some unfortunate in the snake cage. And if the vampires of the films are a good picturization of the late Egyp tian royalty well, tastes have changed since the Punic wars and the type is an anachronism. -... Juliette Day. who has returned to Broadway to fill a stage engagement with Klaw & Erlanger. is original as well as generous. Prior to her depart ure from Santa Barbara. Miss Day do nated her car to the Red Cross to be disposed of at auction. The automo bile brought several times what it was actually worth, though of the high priced touring type. The purchaser was a wealthy mining man. ... Charles William Travis, one of the oldest character actocs on the screen, died at his home in Brooklyn last week after a- second attack of apoplexy. Travis had appeared before the foot lights and the camera for the last 35 years, supporting Fanny Davenport, James O'Neill and other stars. There are going to be some thrilling fight scenes in the William S. Hart first Artcraft production, providing the star isn't assassinated or slain in thti taking. Prior to his leaving for loca tion, the famous exponent of Western characters spent three days taking the fight scenes on the Artcraft stage. Ac cording to the number of battered heads and damaged hands, it would ap pear that the bad man of the movies has "whipped everyone in the studio. Mr. Hart himself was knocked down several times, but escaped with merely badly battered knuckles and a very sora chin. . Septemoer will mark the advent of Mary Roberts Rinehart upon the screen as an author, the adaptation of tho first of her "Sub-Deb" stories, starring Marguerite Clark, being scheduled for release in the latter part of the month. This production will be called "Bab's Burglar" and the titles of the other3 in the series will be announced later. ... J. Warren Kerrigan, who suffered a broken leg as the result of the falling of his horse at Santa Barbara recently, will be back on the Job again about the middle of September. ... Paul Scardon, Vitagraph director, submits the following as his morning exercise: Take a pack of playing cards, including the joker, throw them wild ly about the room and then pick them up one at a time. This means stopping 53 times. Foolish, isn't it? Nevertheless, it is a personally tried and recommend ed recipe. THEATER Week Day. A. M. to It P. M. Sundays, 1 P. 31. to 11 P. M. FIVE CENTS i