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THE- OREGON
SUNDAY
JOURNAL; 'PORTLAND,; ; SUNDAY
MORNING,- MARCH . 58, 1918;
I N . PpTOPLY-:'KARTHA'S.VINDICATION"
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STYLE- s Show- with ,i lirlng "models
screen. stars in dram and comedy
i una Metcalfe in organ interpretation
f for rood mtuuv is the bill of the
Columbia - starting' today. "Martha's
j .Vindication,- an exceptionally atrong
drama, s feature four motion . picture
1 artists who have won much iavor with
the ; Portland puouo. . .Norma, xai
madge, Seena Owen, Ralph .Lewis, and
Tully Marshall, ' -
la "Martha's Vindication.': ' Martha
.sacrifices her good name for her is-'
ters sake, but finally : wins fit back.
Martha MKorma .Talmadge), assists
her slater, Dorothea (Seena Owen, to
conceal her natural child. When Mar-
,tha is later, accused of belnr the moth
er of tbe child, Dorothea refuses to
clear her 'name. - Deacon Hunt (Ralph
Lewis), who has married Dorothea,
leads the deacons of , tbe church in
the attack upon Martha, One night
the council meets in fhe- church and
the loyal Martha. i nnable to dls
dProve the charge of being" the mother
f of an illegitimate child. Sell Schowen
1 4(Tully Marshall);' a shell game artls.
; who has Joined the church for the pur
' jpoee of blackmail,, appears In the role
.of . accuser against - Martha., Dorothea
I has sent for hep baby which ahe wish
es, jo see before sending It, far away
, for safety. The auto with the child"'
j The nurse runs into the church, Doao
i thea impelled by mother's love hastens
! to take the injured child, and Martha
Is ' cleared of suspicion. The- story
: ends, happily with the forgiveness of
Dorothea arid the marriage of Martha
j and sweetheart, John (Edwin Ha r ley.)
"The Judge." the comedy feature,- is
a anappy Keystone, wiOj Charles Mui
i ray, playing lead. -In itbO .fashion
' .- 8how, Manager Myricfc' -has prepared
I a seasonable novelty in keeping, with
-Style Week. The costumes were
; supplied by the Eastern Outfitting
-company, and are even more elaborate
and modish than the display made by
'tbis company at the late chamber of
commerce fashion' ah w, which created
such .favorable. vemmeri C ' f; :j i . ;
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"Except for the finger prints I. can
-find: In. Mew York-the 'double of any
;,Tnan: lrw 4be - worldV This statement
Vof, Judge ."Allison is one of the twa
rpremlses of the powerful photoplay,
-j-rne woman's Aw," which will open
itoday at tbe Majestic, with : Florence
5teed in the lead. The dramatisation
'4a of the successful novel of the same
iame by Maravene -Thompson. Tbe
deals-with tbe intensity of moth-
-er, love and the almost limitless-.; ex
treme that a mother, -can .be driven
rW -shield her young. The" selfc aac
rlOce and self abnegation of the 'too th-
jer In the play-offer Miss Reed won
, lerf ul opportunities to display- her
S wonderful dramatic attainment;
''It In "The Woman's sIaw," George1 Or-
fyutt . (Duncan McRae), a dissolute
rjoung New York millionaire has .for
; 'felted his wife's respect and Affection
ilby his notorious Infidelities. Oall Or
iftfutt, his wife; centers her attention
J Ism, her young i son. ". Vance. ' and "with
fiflraws from society in a senso . of
I fshame -for her husband's misconduct.
1 tOreatt. continuing bis wildlife, slays
ta friend in a Quarrel ovel1;,' young
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Xett txright Norm Talmadge and .Seen Pwen, appearing In "ilaiqtWg ;;yindlctton,V
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Vernon 'Castle, 'rwllT be shown. The
photoplay uses a large cast, and of
necessity the photography is of par
ticularly careful .workmanship. The
distinction if having "put ihe oun
try. on its. toes, so'to speak, is ac
knowledged to Mr. and Mrs. Castle end
hortjy before Mr.- Castle 'sailed for
Europe to enter the jsvar as an aviator
they -perpetuated their dancing artis
try in Thft Whirl of Life." The Cort
Filmcompany engaged them and a
pretty -atory was builb around their
careeers, - whleb in 1 itself . la , ati; . In
teresting story inasmuch f; asr'.thei two
Castles rose from obscurity to "an on
viable position both in society and on
the stage. ' They were cabaret dancers
When-they started, but their artis-
rtry was bo dignified, so exact and ap
pealing-that society in tbe east tooK
them up nd today Mr. and Mrs. Cas
tle are fadoepted" everywhere. - More
than that, they are much sought.
..The-.Whirl. of Life" is in reality
a aerio-comedy drajna, for while the
plot-Is saturated with seriousness and
' tan attempt to save him. starts for. the
tniv vi ucf ineuu, vinini:v Allurnvy
t3ohn Kent. On the way she comes up
tn the living double Of her husband,
Im. stranger, sitting on . park bencn,
jia mind stunned by a terrific abode
5Jhe takes the unresisting man to her
gtome, and, telling her husband to flee,
lubstitute the stranger .for her hus--band
to the district attorney. -The
)nan is committed to an asylum, from
which, later, he is released; and goes
Flo live at the Orcutt borne, r He cannot
remember who be is, and takes it
for granted that he is- George Orcutt,
fcVhat he cannet understand is his
2Twife's',eyident coolness toward him.
pi -reporter stumbles on the truth and
ttetfs Hhe 'police. Meanwhile, tbe real
Sieorge Orcutt, returning borne for
Snoney. is mistaken by the butler for a
burglar and shot dead. '
p i.Gail then confesses tbe part she has
Splayed, and from tbe papers found in
4he pockets of the clothes tbe stranger
"wore wbeji:Gatt found him, his true
(identity '. Is learned. - Tha reporter
ragrees to suppress" his sfpry and the
district attorney seeing that substan-
jy:ial justice has been done-Hhings end
S ery - happily for Gall, the stranger
and -for Vance. --''rNr'-.
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Devotees of dancing and motion plc
rtur fans' will have a joint Attraction
rat - the Hellig for the week beginning
t.this afternoon at 1 o'clock when -"The
tWhirt of Ldfe. featuring Mr. and Mr a.
frwoman. a With the fear of the law oa-pMr thrilling episodes hot the action,
j fbini, he tells his wife all andMihe. : lirf Jit9t-ii "coatlelXe 119 deHci?Ua
photoplay digresses only sufficiently
to allow, the Castles to give soma ex
hibition of their famous steps. '
,The photoplay -will ! show continu
ously froml-toll p. m.
''NtimberM 3 Westbound the fea
ture' offering beginning today at the
Sunset, is a gripping; etory of rulroaa
life, produced by Frank Beat, from the
story written by Elliott Flower.
. Although Kathlyb Williams has per
formed almost every hazardous feat in
order to provide thrills for motto pic
ture patrons; yet "Number IS, West
bound." Is the first story of the rail
road that this grat actress has ap
peared in. She is supported , by an
exceptional cast of -players, including
Guy Oliver and Lillian Hayward. . .
How the girl stops the flyer just in
time -to save the lives of many people,
and wins the love of Orson Kimball
composes an unusual and spectacular
drama. This railroad story ,1s of the
Unusual - type, and there 1 a great
deal . of roedy relief - Introduced
there!. :. fa ' - .-'''
other-anaid fllmf.wlll be Tas
sIon'svUTe,'! it which" Vivian Rich
la featured. - A notable -comedy film
will complete the regular bilk It is
Rose Melville, the original Sis Hopkins,
in "A Leap-Year .Wooing." i This U
Miss Melville debut in pnoto ccmedy.
. - Monday evening, under direction -of
Blanche Sweet Eehearsed:Her First Str
Part Awake, Asleep and All theTime
Actress Told Director She Was No Bernhardt, But Thought She
Was Pretty Good ; Arthur John's First, MoviclIdoL
."Not many months after I bad start
ed in the motion picture buainess,' said
Blanche Sweet, in reminiscencing about
eariy days In her expeilence, ."the news
came that the company; was going-to
move to' California to take pictures.
One day; shortly altter that, the direc
tor sent for met! -I. had been late, and
thought he was going to fine me, r
"Do tou think you can act 7 de
manded Mr. Powell - '.- -
"I admitted: I thought i couia. j. ex
plained : that I was not Bernhardt but
still I thought I wa pretty good, con
sidering the; little experience . I bad
had. . ' , " - - -
"Well, you are to play tha lead In
"A Han With Tbie Wives,' he
snapped. Yoa had better make good;
Now go and see the wardrobe woman
about flrour tsostume. : ?! C
. -I know I -must have gazed at him
Open-mouthed, - " ' .
ntn alone sand he. And. as I
I turned. 'You Aad better push yor eyes
bach -where- they belong, or some w
will Irnnrlr t4iem ofT - V - - w.T. 1
)"Hoir I did work over that part.' f
would lie awake at night ana pian
what I would do in the mornipg. I re
hearsed so much around the house that
my deart grandmother -was "drljen to
FAIRKATHLYNIWILLIAMS
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Wanted 4 y6ung woman-to play Agatha
XXTm mm . t . .fr itJ
-sesee11 B, DeMUle. the- director' area-
eral of the JLasky company, was Tery
partloular about the selection. .. The
story , of the Warren 1 i reaJly ; the
story of the Xperienfce sof the - De
MM family at Fairfax. Va, during
rxne tavii war. The 'Ue Torsion.
which was produced by David Belasco,
Wa written by William De MlUe. the
noted dramatist. Cecil's brother.'''
tTho-offer'from the Laaky company
wag s6; flattering; and I vir promised
sTf-roany spiehdid parts, that I accept
ed. Since then I have appeared in The
Captive.' Tbe Clue, 'The Secret Or-
caard.'. The-NCase of Becky,V The-Se
cret Sin; Th Ragamuffin' and others.
Most of them have made me proud to
oe a motion picture actress." :
)'. - rs Worle Idol. i
Blanche" Sweet's reminiscences have
brought to mind those early Blograph
aay, wnen Florence l-awrence, Owen
Moore and Arthur Johnson ..6tarrl
wJtfrMary Mckford." Arthur Johnson,
wnese passing; out at tbe early age of
89 years filled so many lover of the
client drama with grief;, was the first
movie picture idoL Before any of the
later day heroes of the. screen were
even thought of ArthutTJohnson played
distraction. . - - 1. " "-- ;Heamdiejited a "plafce'tor' himself
saaay vuwr mmi - H-mJir w u woo aw -nun in
lead.inJu-J iinna.-iJt. :- - - ; .
Tjif I.tni riven tho
dith Of Bethulia,' The . Escape.- ana
many other film - produced bj David
W. Griffith. . ' v -
"Shortly after the production or ie
Escape I received an ,off er trom me
Jesse L. Lasky Feature FUm company
t6 appear 1 n' Paramount piciurea tuw
tho Cnlve'tsftyof rjRnois AJtimni asso
ciation of Portland, thovMinncsota-
Illinois looiDaii game) ui - "
be reproduced In notion picture, at
the Sunset theatre. Neither team was
defeated during the season, tnis same
having, resulted in a tie score. .
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TUlie' Punctured Romance - wilt
be presented today and tomorrow at
th: circle . Fourth -t at wasmagton
stteets.;wlth. Marie1 pressjer supported
by . Cnarie cnapnn ana ; Aioei ixpn
mandJi.Itls a : ret-re-pu--m
Keystone 'comedy. It IsJteported tia
this is the runniest Keystone? comeay
ever produced and with the greatest
comedy; star ever assembled. There
is one uproarious roar of laughter
from -the beginning of the show until
the drop at the ' end of the" final act
"New 'Tork' will , be presented- to
day only-tat the Globe, -Eleventh and
Washington K streets, with r Florence
Reed in the title cast : In, the cast
is also Fanla Marlnoff who does ex
ceptional Lwork as - Bona Macey, the
chorus girl, whose downfall originates
la tbe necessity or supporting a arunx
en mother. The fall which Kdna Ma
cey takes from the top of a restaurant
stairway - to the bottom where she
meets her death ts one ,of ; the b ig
scenes of tbe picture..-. , - .- v.
Heine and Louise eccentric corned-
ions are to be seen in "In - Soft- in i
Studio," andChnrles Ora'e new, ran si
cat comedy company '.will furnish the
vaudevtUe i .vw-W.' -f-Mi
Tomorrow v th-i Glob' Shows - The
House of . Tears,'1' wltlf Emily fSteven
as tne star.- v.'-irH. :-m'' .'V i'i
Soiaier;Asked to See
Movie of His Insides
-: An Irishman who had bee a regular
movie-goer In Dublin before he went
into the trenches in France, say Pho
toplay magazine, was wounded by tbe
bursting ft a German abeli. He was
broughf tb. the main hospital in Paris,
where experts took a number of' X-ray
photograph "of tho wounds (a his chest
: - The first xational word ; that Pat
spoke td tho nurse, after -recovering
from, the delirium "which followed his
operations were: yt i 'S'ijiXlt
"Where bo they goin to how thim
movin plchersJ they look. av ;; m; in-.
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Pbbtoplay Piwntiitiorjrat
Vour;FaVbr i t e Theatre
VICTORlATnEATRE1
and
ltth
Albert
eentifnlMA (JTJX-?rrB CloJUT la
..... . nr. a Enri tZ3H2t
Wednesdav and Thursday Usie Janls
hanter . oi i
CALENDAR OF THIS
WEEK'S ATTRACTIONS
m HEl UOr-Brodway at Tay-.
.lor. Photoplay i'The Whirl of "
Life," featuring Mf . and. Mrs. .
, Vernon v Cistle.' ... Continuous,
': daily all week. -- ' . v
'! HIPPODROMK . ( Formerly M
t v Baker) Broadway, near Mot- .
m rlson. y Baker - players In "The
Man from Home." .V
ORFHEUM Jlroadway, at . m
Yamhill, -vaudeville, . ,
PANT AGES Broadway at
Alder. Feature, musical com
edy: -The Dream pirates. with
Bammy Wrenn and Viola Wil
son. ' v - K .
1 EMPRESS Broadway at
Stark, Vaudeville. Feature :
drama: "The 'War Child." with
Miss- An Hamilton. '; "
STRAND Park at' Starlet
Photoville. Feature. "Five
Foolish; Fellows." Comedians
r dancers and vocalists.':
m ' LTR1C Fourth at Static
Musical comedy. s
COLUMBIA Sixth, --between
m Washington ana Stark. Motion
VjF ' picture.- v' f v -' : . v -.
MAJESTICWashlngton and
Park. ' Motion picture. . . . -
m SUNSET, Washington and
Broadway. . Motion pictures.
ULOBhi - Washington ' at
. Eleventh Motion pictures. - '
CIRCLE Kourth at -Wash-
Ingtop, Motion pictures.
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Actress Can Speak; ; :
in Seven Languages
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Bartha ' Zallch, Tamous v Tra-edienne
.Worked Kar Way, to .Star ta Bnch
areetJ Amerloaws BClsue Theatre.
Bertha ' Kaiicb. the" famous ' trage
dienne, who has Just begun for Will
iam fox, what he anounceg as one of
tho greatest picture be ha ever pro
duced, ' has appeared in- 'the - spoken
drama In seven languages,' and one ad
ditional dialect .which in- itself: consti
tutes an eighth. tongue. This wonder
ful Galioian woman, bom in Lemberg,
appeared when a mere slip of a girl In
Bucharest and there, in the Rounianlan
tongue, worked her wajrto the position
of sUr..Iv-f A'kHfe l.-:.
She has appeared as a star in plays
In the .Hungarian " tongue; tn Polish,
Russian, Italian. -German, English and
in - the Yiddish theatre - on the New
York: East Side, where she , made her
first American appearances. i ; t
a. The great. crime of the American
public against both the stage and the
motion picture,, says Jdme. Kilich, "is
that it ha gone into the theatres sim
ply to be amused, t There should bo
omethlngdeper- in the theatres and
In the picture places' than mere frivol
ity. ; We- in our country go tor the the
atre as to a great cathedral. Art with
us, both of those who act and, those
who. watch the acting, is a kind of a
religion, we give in iresv uw-. -
us and take the best away." . . r , .
Newly Weds Have '
5 : , Odd -Difficulties
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-Marie Doro and Elliott Dexter faced
some peculiar"" and' to them humorous
difficulties In tho film presentation-of
Sardou'a .'Diplomacy? which Is soon,
to make its appearance. Both appear
in tho same' roles on the screen that
they did when tho drama was revived
at the Empire theata-e last season with
Blanche Bates and William QlUett as
co-stars with Miss Doro.---i ' v-.- "
. 3A a result the first' difficulty en
countered' was they bad hard work to
refrain trom . lapsing into the line of
tho play when enacting, such bits as
the accusation : cenaVv Farthermoro,
Miss - Doro- and : M-c Dexter have not
been married so .long -that they are
immune from the - self-consolousness
of newly-weds. So when they came- to
the climax : of the -whole dt-ama in
which the young husband tragically
accuses his wife- of having stolen the
plans of Gibraltar from, him, they
both burst out laughing. V i 2.-
"The Earth" Latest :
r Of Newspaper Plays'
The latest play, to bring forth the
drama that lurks behind the door of.. -a
newspaper office and place' it square- .
ly voir-the stage." says the Fourth E-
tate. Is "The Earth" by James Bernard,
Fagan, in which Grace George has "Just
opened at the Playhouse In New York . -a
the fourth of her series of, plays. m
This one is different from otfber new-' ' .
paper plays In that it deals with amis,
who has a chain of papers and; uses s
them. or his own personal ends.
"The Earth", is essenttally a saUre.
and It must be taken In that spirit to
be appreciated. "You see the ruthless ,
publicist at -work," write Alexander -IL,
Woollcott, critic of The Times, "you
see the operation Of a newspaper trust,' y
hear tile comio orders for high moral- ' '
Uy In the leaders and anything- save
dullness in tbe news, and note at last '
the projection of an Infants' encyclo-
pedia, done all - in picture with cap
tions in five languages, planned . for .
that 'bedrock, of education --vthe
baby.' . That part is - ably played
by Louie Calvert, who, for the good 6f ,
the story,' makes JaaSon a unsympa- -
thetio as posslble.' - iiy i
PoorJohn'HeHad
vNb: More Clarinets
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. -k-'f tV'-ff I WSiill i US' ' '
"professor" Peter - Oeal :. wno 4 "Wig
. Wagged'' for Joseph Jeff ersoa, Telia
l of Amu si ng ineideat of Sarly Say.
H An amusing incident is often related
by Peter OehL better known a "the
professor,:, who. in he' balmy TO's,
travoloa ; with Jo' Jefferson, and Nat
Goodwin .gwagging; the batdivJsaya
tho Motion Picture Weekly'. ; X . ,
To facilitate one-night stand orcbes-
f ca rehearsals3he music was marked
in section by letters A. BTC tCjl
Often this plan -.saved going-back
over a whole movement, the conductor
simply saying: start at letter ivetc.
It happened that in Wahoo. Neb.r an
Italian clarinet player. John rStam
forza, '-, had been imported . from A-tbe
Rovar Venetian band and at that, time
(aa. Jfthn -afterward " explained)' Pro
feasor. Oehl'sv system of lettering bad
not been adopted In Italy. ,- :.
."The" rehearsal ; started. Comtnx - to
ietter.A. John. racefuys lifted thAt
clarinet to his lips and softlyoom
men'oed to gurgle; at letter B ho gently
extracted, the B" clafHnat and con
ftinued to warble; at letter C the same
operation waa repeated, but at D.c he
looked up and said; "Maestro, I gotta
no mora clarinets." ,
Sothern'to Appear
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r in inree f notoDiays
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Arthur Johnson's kindness tn begin
ners is still talked of in the Lubin stu
dios. Even when he reached the high.
est pinnacle of fame in pictureland, he
jsoatrary o General Xmpresstoa'TsToted
acwr. wu( aoi sf iea w Bnares-
-perean Boles. ' , ..
rE. H. Sothorn. one of the foremost
actors on the American stage, who to
cently signed a contract with -the VltaA
graph company to appear in motion
pictures, will appear in three feature
films, to be announced latere s Con
trary to .popular f expectation,;1 Mr,
Sothern" will not be shown in jaay of
his Shakespearean roles. This is doe
to ' tbe fact that Shakespearean pro
ductions depend largely-on the im
mortal llnea-of tho Bant of "Avon,
which would' prove unwleldly from a
rmotion 'picture standpoint. :t Tbey
woutd'requiro so many subtitle that
the action. of the plays would-bo re
tarded.; - r '1 .--v
Anita Stewart will support the vet
eran actor in a romantic drama, .Lil
lian Walker will appear In a multiple-
brother player, and was : always ready
to help those less fortunate than -him
self.
never forgot tbe struggling sister orj reel comedy production. Edith Storeyi
of 'The Island of. Regeneration," 5Tice
for Folly," "Dust of Egypt." fame, will
act In a thrilling drama with Sothern.
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HoW D'ye Do!- - Look Who's, HereJ ,
Chariie Cliapliri; the $670,000 Per Ywtr Come
ari at theXircle Today and Tomorrow.
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MARIE DRESSLER V CHAS. CHAPLIN MABEL NORMAND
IN A SIX-REEL SIDESPLITTING
KEYSTONE COMEDY .
Featuring MARIE DRESSLER in
TULilLiIIE9
Supported by CHAS. CHAPLIN and MABEL NORMAND
TWO DAYS ONLY TODAY, TOMORROW
-v.'V SIX REELS OF PURE FUN .
COME, LAUGH, AND FORGET YOUR TROUBLES :
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Evenings, Sundavg, Holiday, 10c
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