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i ...... V - I ' .- I THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLA ND. SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 21. 1615. 3 Wo'P(?ys THROUGH a change in policy, tha . Htar" will beain today to exhibit nothing but blended bills, Instead of a feature tr.e first -of the week and snort reels the last half. Change In bills will be inade on Sunday and Wednes day. Today's program is topped by t?ianir?d -LIveB," a problem play, with Anna UttH'anl Herbert Hawlinson. It is Jii thri acts. Other, pictures are "Almost a Scndal." with BilUe Richie; "The Son of HI Father," a college story, with Hobart Henly; "Tha Phan tom Warning,'" featuring Dorothy Phil 1'ps, In an ini -stria! story with a The Peoples will now be the only Ikuf showing the Paramount releases. The attraction for today is Blanche fcwot, nukliis her first appearance as a Lanky slur in '"The Warrens of Vir ginia." Mis:. Swm-t 'b also the featured mein .ler in ihn Majetic' offering, "The Kii ape," wlilch was produced by Grif fith whllj slia 37hh still with the Mu tual force. It is a drama of eugenic M-lenee, and shows, many phases of life. (j lit: riiio has said that it Is a mors riquont lesso.i than the spoken drama i i tct ni'io jon zincing than a thousand ftnrioriK. The Vltagraph's bi feature produc tion of Ha.ll Caine'a famous novel, "The Christian," l tlie attraction at the Columbia for the entire week. Kdit'.i Storey will Ik; seen In the part of Gloria Quayle. whi'.e Karl William appears as John Storm. Two scenes thai are said to bo especially wonder ful are those of the great London dance halls and the mob that threatens Storm's cnurch. Evelyn Neshit Thaw will play a re tain celluloid engagement for today only at the National la the five purt teaturc, "Threads of Destiny." Her young son. Russell Thaw, also appears In the st-rv. The picture program will be completed with a Sydney Drew comedy, 'The Combination." Ttie Nashville Students are announced as a special attraction extraordinary. Eight negroes' compose the company that opns with a plantation minstrel number. All of the music and dancing will be strictly of the south. "Mr. Silent Hawkins," a splendid drama of tho big outdoors in two acts, leaturing William S. Hart and Rhea Mitchell, shares honors with "Saints and Sinners," a photoplay with a. strong moral lesson, on today's new till at the Sonnet. There will also be "Tha Happier Man," a comedy drama, another comedy and the Mutual Week ly. -The. Man at the Key" is tne Wednesday feature. "Fatty's and Mable's Simple Life," "Colonel Heeza Liar, Ghost Breaker," and Charles Chaplin in "Laughing Gas" make up the Circle's bill for today. The Monday feature is 'The 20,000,000 Mystery," "The Gentlemen Crooks and the Lady," and the Tuesday feature is "The? Old Fisherman's Story." IT is significant that motion pictures have found their way into , the Woman's Home Companion under a department head of "The Movement for Better Films." The Companion lays emphasis on the point that its campaign Is not one of criticism, even though it recognized that there are unquestionably bad films. The key note of the campaign for better films Is "A better educated public demand." Each month several hundred films will be submitted to the Companion in advance of their release to picture theatres, and from these the editors will select from 40 to 76 and run their title as Indication of specially com mendable productions. The Companion presents pictures in an interesting tight, when it says: . "Suppose In your city a grqup of - wealthy men should open a series of private schools to be free to the chil dren of the community. And suppose that the children of their own choice were to begin leaving the regular schools and attending the new schools until the attendance at the new out numbered the old. And suppose again, that during the progress of this revol utionary movement the parents of the city should show so little interest In the matter that not half of them ever took the trouble even to visit the new schools or to inquire what sort of instruction was offered to their chil dren there. "Absurd suppositions, you say, ut terly impossible; Of course! And yet think a minute. Within the last few years there have sprung up In your community branches of a new institution which 'draws to itself very week more young people than are in the churches on Sunday, more young people than are in the schools on week days; an institution whose in fluence on our young people, in tha judgment of educators, is second only to the influence of the family, the church and the schools, the Institution of the motion picture a permanent, potent factor in our Uvea" DO not waste your time sending scenarios to any of these com panies, for they are not in the market: All-star corporation, Albuquerque Film -Manufacturing company, William A. Brady Features, Bosworth Inc., Color ado Motion Picture company, Kinema color, George Kleine, Klaw and Erlan ger, Jesse . L. Lasky company. Pathe, Princess, Picture Playhouse Film com pany, Ramo, Solax, Shubert Features, Thanhouser, Union Features, Warner Features and Wharton, Inc. ikX-TTHEN the Mountain Calls." the W -picture of the climb of Mt. Adams, the wonderful ride down a timber flume and a score of other in teresting Oregon scenic industrial sub jects, shown some months ago at the Columbia, has begun aa engagement of seven weeks on Broadway in New Yorfc. The picture was one of excep tional beauty. It was the work of the Sill Picture company at Portland, and was one of the 'Top o' the World Ranch" series made for It. C. Bruce of White Salmon. PHILLIPS SMALLEY and LoU Weber haye severed their connec tions with the Bosworth company, and are resting at their pretty Hollywood home in California. After a motor trip to the expositions at San Diego and San Francisco they ' will resume their picture work, but with another organi sation. Judging from New York com ments "Hypocrites," which they did with the Bosworth company, is one of the really great pictures that will live. HAROLD LOCKWOOD, the matinee idol of the Famous Players com pany, has left that organization to work under the Mutual banner with the American company at Santa Bar iara. His first release with the Fly ing A people will be Harold MeGrath's r ."The Lure of the 'Mask'" produced in four parts by Thomas Ricketts. Elsie Jane Wilson will play opposite Mr. Lock wood. T YRQNE POWER, who is now X doing specials with the Selig com pany, predicts that the motion picture will be an essential adjunct to every theatre in America and that ministers will illustrate all of their discourses - with motion pictures in a few years. - BOY SCOUT TRAINING AND ITS EFFECT DEPICTED BY FEATURE FILM , 11 y CENTRAL AUSTRALIA BARREN REGION SAYS RETURNED TRAVELER Vast Section of Interior of Island Continent Is Desert Land; Water Rare Element VERY RICH IN MINERALS OpJ Gathering1 Ia Pursuit Followed by Oaring Traders Who Havs Eardi hood to Vi.it This Section. "The Adventures of a Boy Suouf is the tltl of a feature that hao ben prepared under the direction of the Na tional Council of Boy Scouts and thnt is being presented as a benefiXor the Boy Scouts of America. In every the atre where it is shown 25 per cent of the proceeds go to the Scouts. The story has been written by Campbell McDougall as an exposition of the Boy Scout movement, how it trains the boy and the effect of this training. President WMson appears in the Boy Scouts making camp. film while reviewing a parade of the Boy Scouts at the national capital. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt says of the film, "I regard it as one of the most important forces telling for the betterment of American citizenship in the future. I am extremely pleased that this picture drama Is to appear." Judge Ben B. Lindsey, the noted juvenile court authority, has. voiced his approval of the film in the fol lowing words: "'It is positively one of the greatest feature films yet produced In this countryjIt is not only a fine piece of work as a motion picture, but It is also a great production as a real con tribution to the cause of ajhildhood in this country As a beautiful story, wonderfully well acted, and as a pow erful lesson, not only as to what the Boy Scout movement had done, but Is capable of doing, it cannot be too highly recommended." The picture will probably be given a Portland showing at some future date. Moving Picture Stars Paid Handsome Salaries, and It Is Not Stage Money Sarah Bernhardt Pioneered List With $30,000 Paid Her by the Famous Players Company ; Mary Pickford in a Class by Herself. Stage salaries have always been more or less an Interesting subject of specu lation with exaggeration generally well to the fore in many of the tales of sums received. The same condition prevails in the picture world wh're ac tors recompense has grown In propor tion to the tremendous development of the industry. From recent figures that are declared to be accurate it is easy to account for the influx of dramatic stars in pictures. Sarah Bernhardt tops the list with the $30,000 paid her by the Famous Players oOmpany for about six weeks' work. But that was the price for the opening wedge, for Madame Bernhardt was the first great dramatic star to appasr in pictures. Mary Pickford, with her $3000 a week, is in a class by her self on the salary question. Five Thousand Collars Bom Paid. Five thousand dollars is the usual sum paid a dramatic star of estab lished reputation for a film requiring rive or six weeks time. TSome of the stars have been known to accept $4000, and even $3000, if times were espe cially lean for them. Mrs. Flske and Kthel Barrymore each received $12,500 for single pictures, and Lillian Russell received something under $10,000 and a percentage of the profits of "Wild fire." A number of the stars receive, in addition to a stated salary, a percent age of tha profits on the film above a certain number of feet issued which greatly, increases their net earnings. Some of the legitimate actors also have Interests in the films. May Irwin con- Admission to Big Film Production $2 The Birth of a STatlon Xs Subject of Play; More Than Eighteen Thousand Persons Are Employed In Making-, An American subject, "The Birth of a Nation," by an American producer, David Wark Griffith, is the first mo tion picture product, for which an ad mission of $2 Is to be charged. By an arrangement just completed between Mr. Griffith and Klaw & Erlanger. Mr. Griffith will take over the Liberty theatre on West Forty-second street. New York, the last of this month at the close of Otis Skinner's engage ment, and begin his picture engage ment. "The Birth of a Nation" is the com plete working out of all the contribu tory themes in American history upon which Thomas Dixon founded his fa mous novel, "The Clansman." More thap 18,000 persons are employed in the making of the spectacle, which Its producers claim is the most stupen dous undertaking of the kind in the picture world. A specially written score that elaborates the various themes of the story will be played by a symphony orchestra of 40 pieces. Students Offered Film Plot Prizes Production of a Two Seel Play Xs the Aim of Superintendent Warner of The Dallas. Gradually picture making is coming closer home, ftn evidenced by two new activities. In The Dalles Superintend ent Warner is to give a priae to the student of the high school, who sub mits the best plot. The plot will b put into scenario form and a cast, se lected from the school, will play the story before the camera. It Is planned to make it a two reel production. April is designa ted as the time when the Washington Film company of Se attle will begin production at its $30. 000 plant at Kirkland. now under con struction. J. L. Adams is president of the company, which has for its dlrecv, tor C. W. Peterson. A company of SO, with some Seattle talent, will begin with parlor comedies, and later do out door dramas, as well as scentcs and ed ucational. A Spanish syndicate is considering building a railroad across northern Af rica 1864 miles long. 4th at Wasa. CIRCLE THEATRE ; Now 5c Tlie Hons of Single Keel Pastures Hear the $10,000.00 orchestra every . . afternoon and evening. tracted for $7000, for appearing in "Mrs. Black Is Back," together with royalty. Marie Dresslf-r was to receive $10,000 and percentage for two pic tures with the Keystone company. "Ti life's Punctured Romance" was the only one made. Annette Kellermann was paid $600 a week while she played in "Neptune's Daughter." But she also had an interest In the picture which she later sold for $12,000. The highest salary paid a foreign dramatic actress to come here to play in pictures is the $1000 a week that goes to Betty Nansen. Gaby received $15,000 for "Her Triumph" with the Famous Players. Received taooo a Week. Pauline Frederick received $2000 a week and expenses for playing "The Eternal City" in Rome. Nearly a month was consumed in making the picture, and It required 10 days cross ing each way, so her compensation was great. John "Bunny was paid $600 a week and royalties, which brought his Income up to about $700. An actor of the recognized standard of George Fawcett received $2400 t go to Cali fornia to make one picture, while such people as Jane Cowl, William and -Dus-tin Farnum, John Barrymore, Macklyn Arbuckle, William Courtleigh, and many others receive less than $4000 a feature. Such film favorites as Mary Fuller, Clara Kimball Young, Florence Law rence, Ruth Stonehouse, Blanche Sweet, Norma Phillips and Anita Stewart are paid from $200 to $600 a week. J. Warren Kerrigan, Carlyle Blackwell, Francis X. Bushman, King Baggot, Ar. thur Johnson, Maurice Costello and film actors of equal popularity have salaries that range from $100 to $400. Another method of payment is used with legitimate stars of less magni tude who are paid by the day, with ex penses. Marguerite Leslie, for in stance, was paid $50 a day. At the present time the tendency is toward a cut in motion picture sal aries, and for a second picture a legit imate star is paid less than for the initial appearance on the screen. Latest Offering Is Study of Simplicity David Balasoo Swings Into STw zan of Extreme In Stage Pro ductions. David Belasco, who has led Ameri can producers In elaborateness of stage productions and minuteness of detail, has swung to the opposite ex treme and made his latest stage offer ing, "Marie-Odile," a study of sim plicity. And Belasco further asserts that this simplicity is to be a feature of the productions of the future. "I do not mean," explains Mr. Belasco, "that there will creep into our future productions an inadequacy of scenery or costume, but I am very sure that the tendency which has been growing upon us to an over-elaboration of exoteric detail as distinguished from esoteric essentials will be curbed and curtailed. 'Four bare boards and a passion' never again will satisfy a cultured .audience as it is said to have done In an earlier dra matic day, but we shall steadily make more demands for the "passion the grip, the clutch at the heart, in our plays, and we shall be wisely careful that nothing, in the external aspects of our productions interferes or con flicts with the drama. "Motion, piclurec plays have said the last word In scenic accessories by going straight to nature for thsir backgrounds and pictures. Jo theat rical painter can hope to compete suc cessfully with the unlimited possi bilities of the limitless out of doors, so the stage of the future will be forced and a Jolly good thing, too to depend upon the dramatic value of Its offerings and the dramatic art of the actors who Interpret them." Wanted s Girl, bat Got Three Boys Ebdensburg, P., Feb. 20. Squire A. S. Kirsch, of Nlcktown, was sure the stork, when it came along, would bring him a daughter, so he could point with pride to seven sons and seven daugh ters. But the stork has arrived with three boys, bringing the total number of Kirsch children to 16, 10 of whom arc boys. Kirsch is a progressive farmer, and says his apple orchard alone would rear and educate a family of twice that size. By Fred Lockley. L. Staff an has recently returned to Portland , fyom a trip to the Gibson Desert, in Central Australia. Some years ago Mr. Staffan wag in the au tonfobile business in Portland, and put in operation one of the first heavy trucks to be operated on Portland's streets. He has spent most of the past two years in Australia. He brought back with him from Australia a most unique and valuable collection of gems, consisting of more than 6000 stones. They are Australian opals, and their values .are from $1.50 to $25 per carat, though they will probably average around $5 per carat, Before the breaking out of the European war practically all of these stones were marketed In Germany, but the German gem market has shut down complete ly. The opals are in the matrix and are unpolished. When Mr. Staffan poured out several quarts of uncut opals on a cloth on the table it looked as though he had found the end of the rainbow. Wonderful greens, dark blues, glints of amber and flashes of fire radiated from the rough shaped opals on the table. "Before I went into the opal mining," said Mr. Staffan, "I worked for the Australian government in securing population for Australia. Australia is about the same size as the United States, yet Its populatibn is less than that of New York City. The gov ernment paid the steamship company the difference between the regular faro and the special rate enabling the steamship company to make a rate from Portland to Melbourne, Australia, first class, of $66.75, in place of the regular rate of $150, while the steer age rate was reduced to $36. As it takes 31 days to get to Melbourne, you can see the expense was approximate ly $1 a day for a ride of many thou sands of miles, with board and lodging on the way. On the breaking oit of the war last August this rate was abol ished, and the steamship company ad vanced the rate $25 over the old rate, on account of the extra risk. In Australian Desert. The central portion of Australia is a desert. Here and there explorers have found artesian water, but It has a brackish taste and is warm and salty. It Is about 2400 miles from Port Ad elaide on the north to Port Darwin on the south, and from each of these ports the settlement extends inward about 700 miles. It is estimated that in the interior it takes about 35 acres to sup port one sheep. In applying to the government .for a land grant you do not apply for go many acres; you apply for so many hundred square miles. .Armour & Co.. the American meat packers, recently were given a large grant by the Australian government. The government requires, in making a grant for stock raising purposes, that at least one beef creature shall be placed on every 10 square miles. This does not mean that it takes 10 square miles to support one steer, but it means that you cannot hold your grant un less you have that proportion of stock on your land. "In southern Australia the rainfall is more regular, and the rainfall is sup plemented by irrigation put in by the government. 1 "On my recent trip to Australia I . went from Sydney to Melbourne. From f Melbourne 1 went by train to the end t of the road, a little station called Oon- andetta, a distance of about 70t miles. From there I took the stage, following the old continental telegraph line to Gibson Desert, a distance of about 600 miles more. The government supports this line to the extent of putting in water stations where there are no wa ter holes. The water stations average from 35 to 40 miles apart. The stand ard fare at ail of the smaller eating stations In Australia is tea and bread and butter, with Jam or marmalade. I and for dinner roast beef or roast mut- !ton. The roast beef and mutton of Australia is probably the best in the world. The American government re cently bought 1100 hind quarters of beef for Honolulu. The Oceanic Steamship Co. delivers 1600 quarters of beef each, month at Honolulu, and also delivers' beef for the American govern ment at Manila. "I left the stage at a small mail sta tion called Wafrens, which is in the center of the black opal district. Opal miners start out on the desert with enough water to last three or four days, and if their water tank leaks and leaves them stranded on the des ert, they have to beat it back to the station as fast as they can go. The country around Warrens is very sim ilar to Death Valley, in our own coun try. The water In Gibson .Desert costs a shilling a gallon, or, to put it into American money, about 26 cents a gal Ion, The water Is hauled to Warrens station in metal tanks from a consider able distance. - "An interesting thing about this country Is the fact that the two larg est gold nuggets ever found were picked up Just west of the Gibson Des ert. The largest nugget was called the Welcome Stranger, and was worth $65, 000. while the other, the Welcome, was valued at $55,000. Both were surface nuggets, the Welcome Stranger being turned up by a cartwheel. It was in the form of a slab of gold nearly three feet long. Australia Is Gem Producer. "Australia is a remarkable country in that it produces every known gem. The finest emeralds, rubles, pearls and opals I have ever seen come from Aus tralia. It also has diamonds and gold and other valuable minerals. Wool ranks first, mining products next, and wheat third in the products of Austra lia. The annual mining output is val ued at $120,000,000. "From Warrens the opal hunters go out with their nati bush, boys and prospect for opals. They cannot go far on account of not being able to carry much water. The Australian opal is 91 per cent silica. It is the result of extreme heat and pressure. The gov ernment extends Its supervision over the opal fields, and will not allow the fields where opals are not sufficiently hard to be worked. The opals must have 93 per cent of silica or over. As you start out prospecting your first Indication of the opal Is a white sub stance, like chalk, that Is called pilk. It Is sometimes like the talc found in our mines here. The miner who has found bits of float goes down the THEATRE ALL THIS WEEKl Paul Armstrong's Great Play TlfflE CAFE OR CAST Blanche Sweet Mae Marsh Robert Harron Donald Crisp Owen Moore "Life as It Is ' Endorsed fay Press and Pulpit The whole marvelous picture thrills with one Vital Question to Parents: Produced by D. W. Griffith the World's Most Famous Director . Who Is the Man Your Daughter Is Going to Marry? "Do you judge him by his money, his earning capacity, or his character and fitness to 6e your daughter's husband?" Unanimously Passed by the Portland Board of Censors Shows Start 10 A. f M. Come Early. Admission 10c firntrm fflrmw. mrmfrra gram, f2rraxra rr amn rem r 1 1 1 i STARTING TODAY Three Days Only Mr. Silent Haskins A Delightful Two-Act Comedy-Drama of Picturesque Arizona, Featuring the Distinguished Actor. W. S. HART with RHEA MITCHELL, the Portland Girl. Saints and Sinners In Which the Country Town Black Sheep Is Not So Black as He's Painted The Happier Man He had to choose between gold and a girl. Mutual. Weekly Showing how" the great San Francisco Fair looks today, and all the latest' news. ALSO, a Screamingly Funny Coming Wednesday THE MAN AT THE KEY Greatest Railroad Drama Ever Produced Comedy of the usual high Sun set standard. 10c 11 A. M. TO 11 P. M. DAILY 10c The "Chrisltiae" Mammoth Film Production of HALL CAINE'S Great SOCIETY Drama, Featuring EDITH STOREY as Glory Quayle and EARLE WILLIAMS as John Storm A Play Depicting the Conflict of Love A Battle Between Good and Evil for the Soul of a Beautiful Woman ALL THIS WEEK ANY SEAT 10 c water course and begins dlg-gin a : trench, and If within a foot or two ha strikes what Is called cachalongr, an opal-like substance, he knows he will strike opals by groins a few feet deep er. Going deeper he strikes opals of a light blue, Which become darker and richer as he goes deeper. When the prospect hole Is 12 or 15 feet deep, he begins running into blazing reds and rich greens, i Sometimes the prospector strikes a bed of valuable opals with the first trench, and again he may dig a score of trenches, or spend all season at prospecting and not find valuable opals. The way I found my opals was that I had Inside Information, or I would not have made the trip into the Interior. . "The deepest mine In the Gibson Desert is 53. feet deep, and regular tunr nels and drifts are run following the veins of opal, Many of the opal min ers follow sheep shearing seven or eight months a year; and then spend all their earnings during the next three months hunting for opals. 8ometimes they strike it rich and make' a cleanup. The German buyers come to the . opal fields to buy the opals. Some of the opal miners prefer selling their opals in Sydney. In buying opals you must go by surface indications. Sometimes the lapldist will saw through an opal in the rough and ruin a wonderfully valuable stone. As Mr. Staffan talked he ran the opals through his hand. They glittered like a stream of liquid fire. Buffalo Berds on Melvttl Island. "Australia a wonderful country1," he continued.! "I stopped at Melville Island. The government gave this island as a landgrant to Captain Mel ville. It contains about 36.000 acres. Tears ago a small herd of buffalo from India were turned loose on Melville Island. They have Increased xrtvtil there are thousands there now. They are coal black, with fine shiny hair, and they have wide flat horns. Off the Gulf of Carpenteria, on the north eoast of Australia. Is a barren Island in the bay. Here the sea turtles sun themselves. At times there are liter ally acres and acres of these sea tur i ties, weighing from 260 to 800 pounds each. - "A friend of mine ln Sydney has visited 600 of the Islands off ahors from the Australian coast. "When you know that he has visited less -than 10 per cent of Australia's islands-you will realize that a man would have to start pretty young and keep busy during a long- llfs to visit all of them." President Wilson -Waited for Sister. New York, Feb. 10. Mrs. Oeorgs Howe, sister of President Wilson. ha caused many a chuckle among her friends by an accoynt'of an Incident that occurred at the White House dur ing a recent visit. Mrs. Howe was a little lato fT din ner one evening. Tha pompous old darky butler, who thinks the sun 1 regulated by White House rules, knocked at her door and said: ' "Madam, tho president. waits." "Tell him I'll be there is H moment,',' replied Mrs. Howe. - .. A few seconds passed, and again ; there was a knock on the door. "Madam, the president waits," ; "Go right down and tell' him that I have cooked his dinner many times and he has often kept ma waiting." The butler left, and Mrs. Howe and the president laughed over the Inci dent. . 1 J I 1VF8EE MS See Evelyn Net bit Thaw in "Threads of Des tiny" nd Nashville Stu dents" in Great Colored Min strel Feature Today. Kit, B533, A-8533. Today lOflO A. ft, to 11 y. M. XXTBAOBSXVAST 7KOOSAM TODAY ETEtTW VXSVXT THAW AJTS OH STJB8ETJU In return of great feature drama. "T KB BAD OT DSSTtBT" Great S-act masterpiece. Has caused more comment than any play of recent years. This will be shown TOSAT OXLT. ZTASKTZX.UB STUSEVTS Eight Southern Darkles in most spec tacular specialty ever seen on "movy" stage. Secured at g-reat' expense. Opens with old time Plantation Minstrel, Singing. Dancing. Instrumental selec tions, full Orchestra. O ABBEY AKD KB. IBOBAM Special selections on National Pipe Organ, 3 to 8:30. Ill BXDVZT BMW W "TO CO) 1-act comedy of delightful variety. IWATTOH" SEE MONDAY PAPERS FOR MONDAY ANNOUNCEMENT 7a o) rv 'dinar mm Four Days Beginning Today -11 A. M. to 11 P. M GREAT BLENDED BILL ueaogee juves Featuring handsome Herbert Rawllnson and lovely Anna Little. An absorbing story of a slavey who, through a strange trick of fate, dares to pose as an heiress to millions. With 'Scenes taken during the bom bardment of Antwerp. A three-act feature. Phantom Warning A startling picture of it vision which changed an industrial policy. Son of His Father Hobart Henley in one of ' tha fin est short plays he has ever played. BILUE RITCHIE ALMOST A SCANDAL One of the greatest comedies this man. who makes the whole world laugh, : has appeared in A Variety Show in Pictures The Star Leading Photo-Play Theatre- Wet Park and Alder Seven Days Only, Beginning Today lOc PARAMOUNT 11;30.Ato PICTURES -naoP-M. BLANCHE:. SWEET in the Famous WARRENS OF VIRGINIA Produced by David Belasco With All-Star Cast The Warreiu of Virginia" is the Greatest Civil War 1 A Drama Ever Written. PATHE WEEKLY, IN NOTED EVENTS OF THE DAY , - - r.