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, . J THE SUNDAY OREGOXTAN. PORTLAND, DECEMBER 0, 1917. 5 PEARL, PULLED FROM PROPELLER PADDLE, CONFRONTS REVOLVER Fourteenth Episode of The Fatal King" Shows Escape of Heroine From One Predicament, hut Leaves-Her in Another Poor Girl! .. T HE fourteenth episode of "The i jc aiai itinff, tne rathe serial starring the stunt rirl. Pearl White, is a thriller. Here Is the synopsis, the story fol lowing the situation where a boat bearing Pearl and her friends Is being carried towards the revolving wheel of a. steamer: The small beat crashes, head on. In to the revolving wheel of the steamer. Pearl Is thrown Inside the paddlewheel, while Tom and the Spider are pitched Into the water. They swim up to the boat and shout to the people to have the boat stopped. Seeing that It does not stop, Tom and the Spider climb in to the boat and rush Into the engine room. Picking up a wrench, Tom strikes the safety valve. The revolving wheel, with Pearl inside, slows up and suddenly stops. Pearl Is removed by the patrol boat, which answered the call of emergency. The police question the Spider, who tells them of Casrlake's treachery. The captain gives orders and they immediately start after him. Richard Carslake, the cause of Pearl's predicament, is on his way to Arabia with the Violet Diamond in his pos session. Assured that Pearl Is out of his way for good, he gloats over his victory, but suddenly he Is told by the captain that the police boat Is follow ing them. The captain speaks: "I've got to save my bacon; so I'll give you up." Carslake Is enraged. He pleads with the captain, but to no avail. The captain orders four sailors to seixe him. Carslake throws his assailants off, leaps into the water and sinks. By fast speed the police boat comes to the. spot where Carslake sank. The NEWS OF THE PHOTO THEATERS Continued from Page 4. , , and an ambitious but nagging mother. Bhe is so beautiful that her parents determine to make capital of her beauty, and bring her up carefully, hoping to reap their reward in due time by marrying ber off to much money. . She meets the dissolute son of a millionaire and, according to the wishes of the family, marries him. It so hap pens, however, that the young man's father disinherits him In this stage of his life. Lorelei has a worthless brother, -who sees to it that she gets a fat part on the musical comedy stage, and she becomes the bright light of her set. Presently the action of her rascal brother in an attempted black mail, and a situation which thoroughly compromises her, leads her to an awakening and she deserts her hus band. This brings the young man to his senses and he begins a struggle against the evil which envelops him to win her back' again. The lead Is played by Ttubye De Remer. famous as one of the Ziegfeld Follies girls, and she is ably supported by Tom Powers, Walter Hitchcock and an all-star cast. Like "The Spoilers," "The Ne'er Do Well" and other Rex Beach productions, "The Auction Block" is In the superfeature class and Is in nine reels. "The Auction Block" will show at the Majestic until Friday night. BILL HART IS AT LIBERTY Film Favorite Will Be Seen, in "The Silent Man." "Big Bill" Hart is coming to town today. Not in person, of course, but in his latest Thomas H. Inee photoplay. "The Silent Man," at the Liberty Theater. The advent of a new Hart picture Is to many people very much like the visit of a three-ringed circus. It is an event of prime Importance. It catches the immediate attention of his host of followers, for they are assured of Just the kind of entertainment they most enjoy. Hart's newest work, "The Silent Man," is by Charles Kenyon, the well known playwright, whose "Kindling" was played with so much success by Margaret Illington. It is a story of the big Western country, providing Hart with the role of a miner who has orospected the vast desert spaces for years, finally discovering a rich gold deposit. He comes into a small Ari zona border town to enter toe location of his claim, but has his property taken from him by an unscrupulous gambler with the connivance of a Government agent. It is the effort of "Silent" Budd Marr, the role played by Hart, to re cover the gold mine that forms the basis of a story replete with thrills. In "The Silent Man" Hart has the support of a company that Includes such well-known players as Vola Vale, Robert McKim, J. P. Lockney, Harold Goodwin. George P. Nichols, Gertrude Claire, Milton Ross and Doreas Mat thews. "THE PLANTER" AT PEOPLES Spectacular Multiple-Reel Photoplay to Bo Given. "The Planter," the spectacular multiple-reel photoplay produced in Ne vada, Central America and Southern California at a cost said to be a quar ter of a million dollars, will be the un police search the captain but are nn- able to find the diamond. Pearl and the Spider take a, taxi and start for home. On the way the taxi skids over the pavement and breaks a wheel and as another taxi Is passing f eari tries to hall It. To her utter sur prise she sees Carslake In the machine. Hailing another machine, they follow. Carslake eludes them and they lose his track, coming back to where they started, .fean rinds the taxi Carslake was in and asks the driver where he went. She learns he went to Morton Levy, the most notorious fence In New York. Jumping Into & machine, they leave ror Levy'. At the shop. Pearl and the Spider alight from the taxi and stroll casually towards the win dow of Levy's pawnshop. The Spider climbs up to the transom and Is lifted through by Pearl. The Spider finally opens tne sale. He finds a box filled with Jewelry. Looking In the box, he discovers an envelope marked "Cars, lake Violet Diamond." Successful In their attempt. Pearl and Spider are about to leave, when Pearl gazes out the window to see If everytmng is clear for their escape. As they do, two police from behind grab them. They struggle. One of the policemen draws his gun and shoots the Spider, who falls. Pearl breaks away and rushes out. The po licemen follow and quickly overtake her. As there is an automobile at the urb. Pearl Is quickly rushed Into the car. One of the policemen Is Carslake, who with mock politeness raises his hat, smiles at her, and says: "I am afraid. Miss Standish, I will have to trouble you for the Violet Diamond." usual cinema attraction at the Peo ples Theater today. "The Planter" is a seven-part ad venture drama, featuring Tyrone Power, one of the foremost of Amer ican romantic actors. The new drama is a pictured version of the famous novel of the same name written by Herman Whitaker. It deals with conditions in the rubber planta tions of Southern Mexico. The novel ist personally supervised the picturlza tion. "The Planter" contains some of the most interesting scenes imaginable. Chief among these is the destruction of a native stockade village by Are af ter a revolt among the forced contract workers of the plantation. Natural scenery of the Jungle country, in which the greater part of the action takes place, is among the most attractive as pects of this production. Included In the cast with Tyrone Power, who was featured in "Where Are My Children?" and is one of the best known of Shakespearean actors, having been for many years with Sir Henry Irving's Lyceum Company, are Lucille King, known In every artist's studio in New York as a famous beauty; Louis Fltzroy, a distinguished charac ter actor; Mabel Wiles and Carmen Phillips, and Lamar Johnstone, who may be said to divide the lead with Mr. Power. A fascinating feature of the play is a beautiful young slave girl, who uses every artifice of her sex to overcome the hero's Northern scruples. There is a yellow fever outbreak In the native stockade and the slaves are shown in the wild exodus of a yellow fever panic. A tropical storm rages and the horrors of the stockade fire and the deadly tangle of a jungle for est are vividly pictured. STAR HAS "DOAVN TO EARTH" Fairbanks Picture Is of "Back to Nature Variety, It Is Announced. "Down to Earth," the highly success ful Douglas Fairbanks picture of the "back-to-nature" variety, will be the early-week screen entertainment at the Star Theater. In this film the energetic Douglas not only excels all his previous effortsvon the screen, but at the same time proves his ability as an author, in which re Bpect he is Just as distinctive as his acting. In fact this photoplay is "very much Fairbanks," so to speak, for he wrote it, enacted its principal charac ter and even directed several scenes himself when other duties in connec tion with the production of the film called Director John Emerson away. In addition to its other merits. "Down to Earth" is undoubtedly the most lav ishly staged photoplay in which the popular Fairbanks' has ever appeared. The film shows the many different lo cales visited by a happy young man whoso "wanderlust" and "close-to-nature" ideas not only afford him the real pleasures of life, but at the same time are the means of spreading health and sunshine wherever he goes. The theme Is typical of the true Fairbanks nature and in addition to its mirth-provoking qualities carries with It the well known optimism and philosophy of the famous screen star, proving in all one of the greatest screen tonics ever pre sented. Never before has this favorite actor been given a film vehicle that is more closely associated with his own smiling nature. Douglas Fairbanks knows himself better than any person living. In writing the story for his own characterization It is. therefore, naturally to be supposed that he gives himself the best vehicle to express his own ideas on life, such as, for instance, he has so effectively brought out In his recent book, "Laugh and Live." BIIXIE BURKE AT COLUMBIA Fascinating Star "Will Appear In "The Land ot Promise." "The Land of Promise," a plcturlza tion of the well-known stage play In which Blllie Burke scored a success, will be shown at the Columbia today with the fascinating BilLie in the stel lar role. The story Is full of human interest and is said to afford the star with a role ideally suited to her delightful qualities as an actress. 'Miss Burke is supported by Thomas Melghaa and a strong Paramount cast. Briefly, this is the plot of "The Land of Promise"; Norah Marsh, played by Miss Burke, is companion to an elderly woman in England and has wasted many years of her life In veritable bondage. The woman dies suddenly, and Nora finds to her surprise, when the will is read, that she has been left virtually penniless. Finally she de cides to use her small savings to go to her brother In Canada "the land of promise." Her brother Is a farmer In Manitoba, and has married a little waitress who makes him a faithful wife, but on the arrival of Norah her sister-in-law becomes jealous of her and she finds herself again unhappily situated. Her life becoming unbear able under these conditions she recalls hearing Frank Taylor, another farmer. declare that he Intends getting a wife to oo tne cnores. In her desperation she asks him If he will do, and upon receiving bis sur prised assent the two are immediately INCREASED ADMISSION PRICE TO SILENT DRAMA DEFENDED Hiram Abrams, President of Paramount Company, Says Margin of Profit in Many Cases Had Been Eliminated Before Managers Demanded Rights. Hs I RAM ABRAMS, president of Par amount Pictures Corporation, who n company with General Man ager B. P. Schulberg, Is touring the country, visiting exhibitors in impor tant cities and from them gaining new light on conditions dally, has presented his views regarding the admission price problem in a statement directed to the public, but which every exhib ltor may read with profit. Mr. Abrams believes that increased admissions for picture theaters are justifiable, and say 8: "Photoplay followers must pay more for their screen amusement if they want motion picture producers to con tinue making the best motion pictures that it is possible to create, and If they expect their favorite photoplay thea ters to continue in business and to pro vide a suitable setting for the picture. including appropriate music, etc. "We must realize that the entire eco nomic standard of the country has changed and that the dollar no longer represents ten dimes, but four quarters. It is war time. The dime has lost its buying power, and besides the cost of producing pictures has advanced In startling degree. As a matter of fact. from the beginning of the Industry the cost of producing has advanced stead ily. A casual mental comparison be tween the 'movies' of several years ago and the photoplay ot today will make tnis readily apparent. Coat Greatly Magnlfled. "Aside from the apparent Increase of the salaries of the players, the elabo rate staging of a production which the photoplay public has come to demand has raised the cost from 500 to 1000 per cent over the costs of a few years ago. "In spite of this, the motion picture exhibitor has been backward in raising his own prices to meet this-increased cost. This may be due, In a measure, to the fact that In the early stages of motion picture exhibiting there was a great margin of profit; the photoplay public of that day was content with a standard of production that would not be tolerated by the more discriminat ing patrons of the photoplay of today. Pictures like those released by Para mount and Artcraft, which meet the demands of the most fastidious, are justification for an Increased admission charge. "Having in many cases made for tunes in the pioneer days of the in dustry, the majorty of these exhibit ors were content to meet the Increased cost of production out of their own pockets, working on a smaller margin of profit, or no profit at all. Self-Preservatlon First Rule. "Naturally enough, a condition such as that cited above could not remain in force for any length of time. About the beginning of this year another de cided tendency toward increased ad mission prices was noted. The larger and better theaters Increased their prices to a scale of from 15 cents to 75 cents and even (1. The movement spread rapidly and of my own knowl edge hundreds of theaters raised the scale of admission prices by from 6 cents to 20 cents during the first half of the year, obeying the natural law of self-preservation in the face of con stantly increasing production and pre sentation costs. "At this point let me emphasize the fact that the Increased production cost is an effect and not a cause. It : STUDENTS OF PORTLAND MILITARY SCHOOL WHO LEFT FOR A VISIT . ft' tt... ' w ? - .. .'V- ' ; . -, ...'. .-. V .-...4 . V .-.V -- . . v ' ' ' 1 ' - s . " . V , . I; , j fettynflEfcii i m ivrmM mMjn, tvmm it i nfca rtrtrtn ijawaawa unlaw lanwiim "Wn' far? n n i iftwiwi 'i rwhmrwir- jfriiirniiiiiwriiW,"ifiiihMitf -n'rurrnifc m V . . J) GROUP OF CADETS OF HILL MILITARY ACADEMY AS THEY APPEARED WHEN STARTISg'fOR CAMP GREENE TUESDAY MORNING. - Jr,C!.BiV? u .boys. who are combining military training with their academic work an opportunity to see what ZV. Lvl'" CKmpS U lik'ie HiU M'l""y Academy sent a party of 31 of the older student, o" a trip m M The bys 8tarted Tuesday morning and will remain there until Saturday or Sunday. Arrange , X trlP,were mai at a reunion of alumni of the school at Tacoma recently. There are about 35 3 Snvm,e.aha11em5: among the officers wfto have received commissions. These men are anxious to haveTtha boys now at school get an Inside view of work and study at Camp Lewis. J. A. Hill accompanied the boys, olrt Oh-t,m OrtrC7 u& Id and Thomas Austin. Pasco; Richard Ball, Corvallls; Alfred Burklund. Portland; Har ? wmi'm Wash-: ?aL?ld Pa- Seattle; Irving Day, son of I. N. Day, of Portland; George Daughtrev Frw Fr l. ? HKht,rLy' Clty: Cecil Doan- Harney County; Wallace Duthle. son of J. F. Duthie. SeatUe ro,af- wfnf; sn.homsh; Gael Green. Sunnyside, Wash.; George Hartness, Portland; Wilbur Haines, Harney n'vYi r Hartman, McMinnvllle; Hugh Horton, Colvllle, Wash.; William Young, son of Battalion Fire Chief ?. Vernon Johnson, eon of Dr. A. M. Johnson. Seattle; Leroy Llvermore, Portland: Donald Misz. FoVeYt Grove Donald Monro, Pony, Mont.; Munor Man ning. Enumclaw, Wash.; Carson Niles. Everett. Wash.; Stanford Osmers eon of Mayor Osmers, of Lewlston: Russell Page, Sunnyside, Wash.; Dexter Packard, La Conner. Wash.; Robert Strick land, Oregon City; Graham Dlddock, Lewiston; W. Delbert, Freeburger. Canada: Alexander Berger, Alaska. """'.' married, going to Taylor's farm some distance away. Then follows the work ing out of a strange problem, which results finally in love entering what has been a loveless home, and Norah at last finds the real land of promise. "HOXOB STSTEM" AT SUNSET Great Fox Photoplay Will Be At traction, Today. "The Honor System," the William Fox photoplay which ranks as one of the greatest film achievements of the year, will be seen at the Sunset The ater today. Milton Sills. X A, Marcus, Miriam Cooper. Charles Clary, Gladys Brock well and George Walsh are among the players seen in this unusual human-interest production, the work of R. A. Walsh. The story Is laid among the timely scenes along the Mexican border.- The border foray is pictured in all of Its thrilling interests. The spectator can see the hordes of Villa sweeping down on helpless Columbus, the terrified cit izens, the hasty organization for de fense, the daring ride for assistance, the dash of the mounted reinforce ments, the fial repulse of the invading bandits. Minor thrills there are without number, each gripping in its intensity, but nothing equal to this "big thrill," for the very good reason that seldom has It been equaled on the screen. The round of characters includes many of the most interesting types of modern American life, the hero being an ambitious, honorable, cultivated youth who by means of the entangling web of circumstances is attacked by gigantic graft. His struggles with the serpentine, strangling evil constitute a thrilling nexus of action with which are contrasted the humors of life In the raw Southwest and the sentiment and pathos of the feminine element in the story. result of public demand for better. more elaborate and more spectacular photoplays. "With the advent of the war and the soaring prices of the material that en ters into the production cost of the films themselves and the machinery necessary for the operation of the the ater, the scale of prices heretofore In effect became Impossible. "Not only would the theater owner be required to waive the returns of his investments, but he would not be able to earn even a living from his labor. Ruin Faced by Many. "A continuance of the prices In vogue would mean that hundreds of motion picture theaters would have to close their doors, an event which can only be regarded with the utmost gravity in the present wartime condi tions, Vhere moderate-priced amuse ments for the people are an absolute necessity. "The motion picture industry is the last one to ask an increase for Its product; clothiers, shoe manufacturers, magazine publishers and food distrib utors have already obtained an increase in the purchase price from their con sumers, but the motion picture, which we Include among the necessities of life, has waited until It could wait no longer. Our industry is being hard hit by taxes and there are more to come. It is giving a good deal to the Gov ernment and it must receive something in return In order to advance with the same rapid strides that have charac terized its past progress. "I have not the slightest fear xt the Industry's ability to indicate Its Jus tification to the public for this increase in the price of admission. From what I have already seen on my trip through the country, exhibitors in all parts have already made the increase and are re ceiving the support of their patrons in the movement." Film Flickers.: WHEN Director Dawley filmed the theater scenes in "Bab's Matinee Idol" his most difficult task . was to keep the eyes of th extras who formed the "audience" fixed on the stage where a play was supposed to be in progress. They wanted to look at Mar guerite Clark, who graced a stage box. Every time Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. Paramount's heavyweight comedian, buys a package of "smokes" for him self, he buys another and drops it into one of the various receptacles about tne studio, to be sent to the boys at tne rront. Me says he doesn t know of any fairer arrangement than to treat some soldrer to a smoke every time he takes one himself. Dorothy Dalton, the ch'armlnar and gifted Thomas H. Ince star in Para mount pictures, is exceedingly versa tile. Besides acting she has written and produced sketches for-the speaking stage; has been leading woman of some of the best-known companies, and is now a favorite with screen patrons. She Is also one of the most beautifully gowned women in pictures. Roscoe Arbuckle thinks he'll do a Western comedy soon for Paramount 'one with wild riding and roping. Im- -KJSAL. SOLDIER LIFE. nll TA P 15c - II i I wi,rair)wij j Xi f I CHILDREN 1 ! imn i "4das iixiiiii m i ri I ' ONLY ' THE THEATER popular s s j ' j BEGINNING TODAY The Man Behind in Down to DOUG FAIRBANKS B REELS OF IMPOSSIBLE SITUA TIONS WRITTEN INTO A MIGHTY INTERESTING STORY. "VERY MUCH FAIRBANKS" IT'S A. LAUGH TONICt Also " CURRENT EVENTS COMING THURSDAY Mary Miles Minter "The Mate of the Sally Ann" aglne the unfortunate steed that is obliged to carry the heavyweight fun maker in pursuit of the untamed maverick. The death of Jack Standing recently in Los Angeles came at the end of a long Illness. He was born in London, the youngest of the seven aons all actors of Herbert Standing, the Eng lish player. Jack Standing's early edu cation had Its goal in the navy, but though he graduated from an English naval school and was appointed a Sec ond Lieutenant, the love of the theater was too strong an inheritance to be resisted. He left the navy and Joined the stage, playing a succession of en gagements in England, coming to America with Olga Nethersole. Some time later he joined the Lubln forces at Philadelphia, where he remained for five years. Standing was 31 years old, unmarried, and had played with nearly every company on the. Coast. They have put Vivian Martin In a veritable cage while' making her new picture for Paramount under Roland Sturgeon. High screens surround her. but not to prevent her fluttering away. It is just to keep a cat and five kittens used in the picture from escaping. This motherly tabby has cost a lot of money and time at the studio, because she has on various occasions become a victim of stage fright in the midst of a scene and left hastily. Then work was sua pended until she could be found and in duced to return to her offspring. Now she can't escape and things are going nappiiy. Commodore J. Stuart Blackton. pro ducer for Paramount of the novels of Sir Gilbert Parker, the first of which The Judgment House, went to the public November 19. is actively en gaged in his preparations to leave for California, where he will make "Wild louth" at the Laskv studios. borne one sent Marguerite Clark a tame fox as a present not long ago. with careful directions as to how it should be treated. Having closed her home at Rye, N. Y., for the Winter, she was at a loss what to do with Reynard until a friend agreed to keep him for her. "Mother" Mary Maurice. Vitagranh's beloved star with silver hair, cele brated her 73d birthday recently. In "Stolen Hours" the personage as sumed by Ethel Clayton is a gambler's daughter; in "A Soul Without Win dows" she was a sculptress who mar rled for money and regretted it: In The Dormant Power" she did the same TO AMERICAN LAKE TO STUDY the Smile Earth r thing from similar motives and with the same result; and In "The Woman Beneath" she also committed matri mony from mere dross and learned to love the man who had it. To have held the center of the Amer ican and English stage for years, to be crowned its most beautiful woman, and to have her own playhouse in New York, is the quite remarkable record of Maxlne Elliott. Her screen debut was recently made in "Fighting Odds." a colorful Goldwyn production. Sessue Hayakawa, star of many Par amount pictures, is a student of the art of acting and has carefully watched the work of American Thespians since taking up his residence in this coun try. He finds considerable dissimilar ity between the Occidental and Oriental forms of acting, and is becoming an authority on both. To "feel" a part is his idea of perfect rendition. Mary Garden came from Aberdeen, Scotland, to America, with her parents in 1SS1, settling in Milwaukee. She be gan violin lessons at the age of 8, and at 14 took up public singing in Chi cago. Miss Garden went to Paris in 1897, and three years later became a member of the Opera Comique as un derstudy to Mile. Rlotton. The star fell ill and Miss Garden became fa mous over night. The story of "Thais," one of her operatic triumphs, is the ve hicle of her first picture for Goldwyn. Vivian Martin was playing with Richard Mansfield in "Cyrano de Bergerac" at the age of 6. Later she played the title role in the well-known "Peter Pan." Thereafter she appeared in a number of successful plays, and finally attracted the attention of the World Company. Then she went to Fox, but her greatest popularity has come since her engagement with Pallas In Paramount pictures. Miss Martin is an expert cook, and some of her recipes have been syndicated. Owen Moore is the chief of the clan Mattowenmoore. the other ruddy haired and blue-eyed brothers being Thomas, Matthew and Joseph. Owen Moore's specialty ' Is leading man, at which he has no equal. In real life he Is leading man to Mary Plckford, and In screen life well, there are Flor ence. Lawrence, Virginia Pearson. Mary Plckford. Elsie Janis. Lots Meredith Marion Leonard, Frltzi Brunette, Ger trude Robinson, Dorothy Gish, Mabel Norm and. Marguerite Courtot and Irene Fenwick. That will be about all; Owen can t remember the rest. The King-Bee Films Corporation has taken out an insurance policy on Billy wests life for $50,000. The policy 1 to run five years, this being the length of Mr. West's contract with the com pany. Bryant Washburn is a native of Chi cago, where he was born April 28, 1889. His first dollar was earned as a farm hand during vacation. Later he be came head usher and then treasurer of the old Chicago Opera-house. After this he spent several years playing In stock and then came to recognition on Broadway. At the advice of Harry Mc Rae Webster he went into pictures with the Essanay Company. Here he stayed for six years until his recent engagement by Pathe. His greatest success has been the "skinner" series. A large part of Helen Holmes' spare time for the last few weeks haa been occupied In examining baby boys. Be cause Dorothy Holmes MacGowan, the pretty little 2-year-old adopted daugh ter, wants a brother. Miss Holmes says she shall have it. and announces that the baby boy must be between 1 and 8 years old, of honest parentage and sound health. NEWS OF THE THEATERS (Continued From Pae 2.) House and for more than a year at the Gaiety Theater, New York. To state that "Turn to the Right!" is the most sensational comedy success of history is to condense into one sen tence the combined praise, boxoffice records and widespread fame of this epochal play from the pens of Wtnchell Smith and John E. Hazzard. Even at the final performances of its long runs in New York and Chicago hundreds were turned away and In the few cities that have been played on tour the at tendance has been limited only by the capacity of the theaters. In the light of these facts, the local theater man agement urges patrons to obtain seats well in advance. Its basic themes of mother-love and old-fashioned morality have given Turn to the Right!" a more widespread appeal than any play since "The Old Homestead." while its brilliant comedy J f 1 V sir f w - I--." ,x ! '? m ( ' "I v r 1 1 7 entitles it to classification with Wln chell Smith's other notable successes. "The Boomerang," "The Fortune Hunter." "Polly of the Circus," "Brew ster's Millions" and others. The story is told in a prologue and three acts. The scenes are unusually beautiful, particularly that of the final act, showing a peach orchard in fuL bloom. Principals in the Chicago company, to be seen here, are Ralph Morgan, Barry McCormack, William Foran, James H. Huntley, Philip Bishop. Gene Lewis. j Charles W. Goodrich. Samuel Lowen- winn, jiaoei nert. Ruth Rose, Helen Collier, Dorothy Betts and Maude Fox. "TOO JUXY HUSBANDS" BILLED Another Mine of Lanshter Put On at Baker Theater. Lovers of comedies like "Too Many Cooks," which was recently presented by the Alcazar Players at the Baker, will And Just such another rich mini of laughter in Barry Conner's "Too Many Husbands," also entirely new to Portland, which will follow Sinners." opening next Sunday matinee. It tells a clean-cut story of a roman tic young girl, daughter of a wealthy father, but who cannot remember her mother. Peggy has been allowed much freedom and finally does a wild thing. She permits a flirtation in a motion picture show to carry her far beyond the realms of common sense and elopes, only to have her husband disappear al most before the wedding ceremony Is finished. From that time the mystery becomes a terrible burden to her and from that time on one thing after an other seems to happen to her, until she is enveloped In a maze of mixups that for rapidity of action, laughable sit uations and sudden climaxes makes on of the greatest farces of the day. There will be great roles for both Miss Gates and Mr. Horton. as well as nearly every other member of the company. Hidden Gold Revealed. DENTBA, Utah. Dec. 2. A message hidden in an old shoe by Charles R Hill, who took his life in Hills Valley, directed his sister to a spot at the base of a tree where 12400 In gold was found. Hill was an eccentric recluse who lived in the foothills named after him. He left an estate valued at about $50,000. Arrow Coet Father $2500. VIRGINIA. Minn.. Dec, 2. Twenty five hundred dollars was the amount awarded A. F. McDonald, of Eveleth. for injuries to his 7-year-old daughter, who a few years ago was shot in the eye by a dart from an arrow in the hands of Simon, the 4-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Sax, of Xfreleth. Tho plaintiff asked isnoo. raMimmiiimimimiiimmiiiiiiiiiiiiiitt THEATER 11th and "Washington Sts. 5 SESSUE I HAYAKAWA THE E j Jaguar's Claws 1 Also A Rib-Tickling: Comedy Sun., Moil, Tues., Wed. Coming 5 Thurs., Fri., Sat., Next. WHO IS NUMBER ONE? Kathleen Clifford
