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THE OREGON ? SUNDAY JOURNAL PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 21. 1915. 3 , PftptopayA POPULAR PHOTOPLAYERS P ESTINY." or "The Soul of a LJ woman" open today at the Na- iional ineaire neaaea oy jnisn mhjij Steven- The story opens with thit eight of a lovinc couple and tneir first born. A picture wherein mother a-nd son are the subject Is to be shown to" the public by the father who Is an artist A chanca remark by a wealthy and wordly wise con noiseur, "That model was once my mistress," turns the world upside down." The mother Is cast aside Into the streets, without chance for ex planation or reason. Unable to pro vide for both boy and herself, he Is left upon the steps of a monastery, . and the mother seems to disappear from the face of the earth. Grown up I ho youth In atout to take the vows. of the church, when an impulse de rides him to see and feel and know life. Tentptutlon assails him in the outside world. Avarice and pasnlon Ifjul him toward the downward path. I'liiully h!s full is about to be com-, plt;il In a glided palace of shame. , H".cln. after many years of separa tion th mother and son comes, in a Hreat drnoument. lie, as the youth, i fn-sh and Innocent she as the keep- ' ci of the house -Hin bespattered end world wary. It Is here that the , "nul of a woman" In shewn. Its : depths are found when this mother! meets 'her boy. Charlie Chaplin in hlr new com edy "A Klyht in the Show," will con tinue another week at the Sunset the atre. The other big feature will be the BIk 4 musterpiece "The Jugger naut." hilled as the "Colossus of Mod ern railroad dramas." Those popular stars Anita Btewart and Earle Wil liams are the principals In this big play. The "Broken Law," featuring Doro thy Bernard and William Farnum, will open at the Majestic today. Ksmorid. a novelist, decides to write a book ahout the Romanies, a band of gypMes camping on his estate. On the death of his father he learns that he hns a half sister who Is a member of an unknown gypsy elan. Jlo makes a futile search for her and finally joins a gypsy band In order to prosecute his quest. In the course of lils wanderjngs he rescues Isobel from drowning;, and later discovers that a mutual passion has developed between them. Isobel, however, has been promised in marriage to Iord Duncan, a debuuche, whose fortunes are on the wane. Ksmond finally becomes chief of the clan, mtKnot until he has vanquished his rlvaO Caspar. Peeking revenge. ' - j - , irsj r-m 1 p Axe- ji'VJft i-fev - I llmS' '" f "ft0i'$t ; ea' A Y - v,y f.s -ay 1 1 , c iif ; ,v I f V ' ; V . :7fjjrY U-r , Left to right Emily Stevens, emotional actress, appearing in "Des tiny"; William Farnum in "The Broken Law"; a William Fox production, in which he l supported by Dorothy Bernard. Oaspar accuses Esmond of seducing Ursula, a gypsy girl, who has really been wronged by Lord Duncan. Es mond and Ursula are branded and whipped from the camp. Rather than marry Lord Duncan, Isobel fleos from home and goes to the gypsy camp. Bhe is captured, is taken to the church to be married to Lord Duncan. In addition there will be a film showing the 191& world series of base ball. a Two complete Triangle changes a week will he the feature at the Colum bia starting today. For the first four days Frank Keenan. the great charac ter actor who starred with Blanche Bates in the "Girl of the Oolden West." will play the lead in Thomas H. Ince's second Triangle production, "The Cow ard." Critics have written in the high est terms of Keenan's impersonation of the old confederate, a veteran of the Mexican war, who finds that his son Is a craven and a weakling. Though long past the age of service, he goes to the front In the boy's stead. Later he unwittingly shoots the lad, who had forgotten his earlier timidity and has achieved an act of reckless heroism in behalf of the Confederate cause. The scenes where the parent and the wounded son are brought together are said to be among the most poignan'. and powerful ever shown in any kind of drama, whether film drama or stage drama. Mr. Keenan Is aided by young Charles Ray's sincere and forceful por trayal of the boy. The Keenan charac terization, however, is tremendous and Is unforgettable. It Is not by accident that actors do great things, Keenan haa been achiev ing Important successes on the stage for 87 years. Ths second feature on the bill is Roscoe. (Fatty) Artuckle In "Fickle Fatty's Fall." Trlangls-Ksystone. Ar buckis disproves ths theory that no body loves a fat man for hs is ons of the most popular motion picture come dians. Starting Thursday. "Old Heidelberg will hold the screen. This is a plsy that should show to great advantage in motion pictures. Dainty Dorothy Gish will make her first Triangle ap pearance In this play. The comedy end will be a Triangle-Keystone featuring Eddie Foy in. "A Favorite Fool." "Today in my studies I find it im possible to- produce under 1X00.000 a film that will obtain any pronounced degree of public support. The set alone for a single picture In course of prepa ration at our plant near Santa Monica, Cal.. has cost $60,00. Blllle Burke i to get 140.000 besides that for appear ing in the start part. We employ regularly "00 people, among whom are a number of principals dYawing up ward of $1000 a week." The money is well spent. e The Portland offices of Grorcbacher and Bailey, who were ths distributers o' the Metro program In Oregon, Wash ington, Idaho and Montana, have been taken over by the Metro Pictures cor poration of New York. H. J. Cohen, special representative, has transferred the local office to 72 Broadway and has 1 natal led P. E. Noble as local manager. The Seattle office, while in the same location, la now in charge of J. C. Kerr, formerly with the Mutual In Portland. Before leaving for Cali fornia Mr. Cohen spoke very encourag ingly of the business prospects in the northwest, and of the exhibitors he met during Ms sojourn here. Artificial Limb for Famous Stage .Star New York, Nov. 20. Mme. Sarah Bernhardt' 8 newest leg she has 25 in her wardrobe is an American model of 191B. according to the cir cumstantial account of its architect John R. CUrke, who has Just returned from Paris, where he has an atelier for artificial limbs. Mr. Clarke is an artist. He has tem perament, and when he speaks of his wcrk his face bringtens. He has but one leg of Jt lesh arid bone, and is fit ted by experience for his vocation. With the members created from fab rics brought from this country and modeled by American craftsmen, the distinguished ectress will be able to walk easily through "Camille," except In the last aet; that is, as Mr. Clark i said yesterday, if she but practices sufficiently. U us l3 Beginning Today For One Week Only Beginning Today We Are Permitted to Exhibit or "The Soul of a Woman" Men Bring your wives, that many things which passeth un derstanding be ex plained. This terrible ex pose of the "thread of life" permitted to play many weeks to record-breaking houses in all of the great cities owing to the lesson it carries. There la a potare thai la being shenTln this olty at this time at one of the Motion Ploture Theatres that should be aeen by every adult la the olty. It la the picture called "Destiny" or "The Soul of a Wonan". Iron tha artist's standpoint of rlev It haa been veil done Troa tbe rellgoua worker's standpoint. It la cer tainly full of lesson tor everyone. Ho aad It made me hena sveeV a&d tender ooan vas deceived by a rutaleeaman! Bow Indignant X res to see another nan, who bad takes her for nts wife and promised be fore God to lev her and to cherish her, drive her and her babe f roa hla house and she all Innocent ef any vrongl How sad X was to aeo tbe picture of this world, ao eold at heart, (a true ploture) asking It hard for a wovan to live right, and easy to live wrong I Bow sweet her lnstinot to save her boy to the right path of life, even though ehe go astray herself 1 Bow even clear down to the4 end of her Ufa as at dlfflrent periods In her career ahe comes In contact with hla this instinct of saving hla la over t oreaoet t What a aoaent, when not knowing who It le, but that only It la a young nan, a representative of Youth, ahe declares In tha nreeenoe of the throng about her In her ova palaoe of eln that Youth shall not bo led astray la a plaoe belonging to horl What a aubllae aoaent when at last, hawing found that she has aaved her bey, aha declares to then all thai aba frea that aeaent will turn her baok on alat and geea out literally to becoao beggar of the atreot rather 'than eontloua such a life I . ' X do not beliowo all that the ploture shows ae There are few ploturee la vhleh X do believe all, but hero la a picture that haa raona for aid and young, foy rich and for poor and all who are old enough to grasp the argument for It should aeo it. X aa using aany pictures hero In y church, la illustration of sera ons. Ths length of thlo picture and the tact that 1 aa appealing to aany children are the only reasons that X should not use tha picture in ay church serrloes. aSQRGK CAROL KUJO. raster Queen-Anno Methodist SpiseopaT Chureh Seattle Washington, Ootober 28, 1919. Women Bring your hus bands, that they, may learn the great depths to a woman's souL How. many men really know a wom an? How many wom en understand fully the yawning chasm stretching across the path of man? LORD and Lady Aberdeen will ap pear Manrinv nlrht at h. VTolliir theatre in a joint lecture. "Brewster's Millions," over whieh thousands of people have laughed when reading the book or witnessing the play, is the off jring at the Baker theatre opening this afternoon. The matter of spending a million dollars in a single year under certain condi tions, as a means of acquiring several more millions, Is tha problem con fronting Monty, the hero or the storjr. The way he accomplishes this feat is the means of bringing about situations that are replete with fascination and plenty of thrills. There" will be a special bargain matinee Thanksgiving day. Indians Engaged In Movies Strike Tearful Tht th Soda Are Displeased, Oklahoma Bed Ken Quit Their Jobs for Prayer. Los Angeles, Cal., Nov. 20. (P. N. 9.) Convinced, because the snow deity has sent them no white blan kets this winter, that the gods are uipleastd at something, 100 Indians recently imported from Qklahoma by a local motion, picture company today went on strike. They repaired to the mountains, where they knelt In prayer, seeking forgiveness. Did QJiaplin Once Have Counterpart? Clowns and Cut Ups of Older Says Created Comic Characters Just aa Inimitable MovU Comedian Kas Wow. Is Charlie Chaplin really "high brow" after all? Are his hat and his trous ers, and his stick and his moustache, all his bag tricks. Just a moderniza tion of the famous art-comedy of Renaissance Italy, the Commedia dell'Arte? There were clowns in those days that created comic characters which others accepted, clothes and all anj which became permanent figures In the Improvised art Of the drama that then flourished. H. C, Chatfield-Taylor, biographer of Molien, has linked up the movies with the Commedia dell'Arte in a discussion in the Chicago Dial. A distinctive ele ment of the Commedia dell'Arte was characterization, as exemplified by Pantalone. Arlecchino. Brighelle, Pul oinella, Searamuocia and their merry mates, eaob Picturing the local char acteristics Of some Italian city. These were' aet characters, one or more of whom appeared in every comedy, tbe plots being constructed around these known and popular rolea. . Although the movies -have not ac cepted this plan of construction in Its entirety, it nevertheless obtains. Ser ies of plays hv been constructed around popular characters, such as Bronco Billy; while John Bunny and Charley Chaplin might with consider able verisimilitude be dubbed the Pan talone and Arlecchino of the movie, the parts-they have Invariably filled being certainly similar conception to those that bore these names in the Italian improvised comedy. I 1 1 7 lit f.' JE'f ;;.M I Tiufai J. JW-;A.: ? Y 4 "TXX.I. MX TXS TOUTS.' COMMENCING TODAY The Magnetic, Fascinating Screen Star PAULINE FREDERIC In a Thrilling Picture of Egyptian Desert Life BELLA DONNA A Striking Combination of Intense Tragedy and Exquisite Oriental Settings Mist Frederick in this picture eclipses all previous stellar per formances with her powerful personal magnetism---elusive, indescribable. mv Pathe News Paramount Travelogue Juu Continuous From 11 to 11 "No Better Show in Portland" You Can't Resist That Little Twist Metro Pfctares mm Of METRO'S Superior Quality PRESENTING The Great Emotional Actress MISS IMILY STEVENS A Metro Wonder-Play r'm n "Let Those Among You Who Are Without Sin Cast the First Stone at Her," Coat Puritanism m4 the Narrow View of lifm aiide and view this wonderful production as a moral lesson -NOT SIMPLY AS A SENSATION. Let it teach not simply arouse a storm of protest. That it is directly to the point makes the lesson more powerful. This production carries with it a wonderful pipe organ accompaniment. There will be comedies , and scenics shown also. Doors Open 11 a. m., Close 11 p.m. iration has assumed control of the territory formerly conducted by Grombacher & Bailey and wishes to extend greetings to the exhibitors of Oregon. Washington and Idaho. A All the Big Houses in the North west Are Now Using METRO Why Not You? No feature Company in the World Can Show as Many Big Pictures as METRO. The N ATI0MA If You Are Not Using METRO SERVICE You Are Missing Some' Very GREAT Money - Getters. Drop Us a Card and One of Our Repre sentatives Will Call Upon You. 11 W U A P ff Portland, 1L Ji ILLUm 11 LVIU Oregon Has Endorsed METRO PICTURES to the (2 Each Week 2) Extent of Using Them Exclusively (2 Each Week 2) COMING ATTRACTIONS Nov. 21-22-23-24-25-26-27, "Destiny" or 'The Soul of a Woman"; Nov. 28-29-30, Dec. 1, "Her Reckoning"; Dec. 2-3-4, "Marsa .Covington"; Dec. 5-S-7-8, "Pennington's Choice." withFrancis X, Bushman and Jas. J, Jeffries. IF YOU WANT THE BEST- GET METRO PictaresGdro 72 Broadway, Portland, Oregon Metro -1 1 1 . 1 H -V -1 , '
