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THE OREGON ! EGON, SUNDAY MORNINGkOVEMBER 20, 1927 em OF YOUTH JH WEST Thrilling Scenes Depicted In Open Range" At E1-; J sinore Thursday 1 - - -r- , who la this Lan ChandlMt mat s tne- question the public will be asking after seeing Zane Grey's new Paramount "picture "Open Range" at the - Elsinore Thursday. Friday and Saturday. Lane Chandler has the roU a" oiunu, strapping cow do v o tthe old west. In this thrilling pic- turlzation of the popular novel: It Is his first leading role, although Paramount officials declare he performs fully as well as veteran players In the cast 'which includes Betty Bronson, the "Peter Pan" girl, as Lucy Blake, and Fred Kohler. the "wolf of the screen" as the half-breed', villain. Sam Zlardman. INTENSE GRIPPING jANL A ? iAUTIFUE PRODUCTION OPENS TODAY IVAN V Fv PETQOVlCh WE GARDEN OF ALLAH ALICE TEDDY in THE GAQDEN OF, ALLAH' -J THE OF MiAtr i:T&B Wi"" K. Marco, an early cattle settle ynent Is celebratlns its silrer an- niversary. Tex Smith, a handsome strapping cowboy, intrigued by a poster portrait of Lucy. Blake, hostess of the celebration,, de - clares point-blank that she is to be his future wife. j i From a nearby mountain top. Bra re Bear, an Indian chief, bit-i ter at the encroaching whites; Earn Hardman, his half-breed ac complice and RardBu&'s men. watch - the celebration . Their - scheme - of holding the rodeo so that they can steal the town's cattle, is working, hardraan or ders Red., his lieutenant, to round up the cattle. The rustlers over power the lone guard. Tex comes riding along at the- same time and drives a few errant animals back Into the herd. The wounded guard sees Tex. The latter dis- overs whom he has been helping ust in time to escape- a" rain of9 ullets. Once again Tex rides along, singing happily, when he comes upon Hard man and the girl of the poster. Lucyls amazed at his boldness but she likes him. At the rodeo, he tries to impress her by riding a bucking broncho. Lu , -cy enters the Ladies', buggy race. 6he wins, but after;, the contest, loses control of the liorsesV Tex follows her, and as he rides off the cowboy guard recognises him as "the supposed horse thief. After ..." being 'dragged beneath the runa 1'y wagon, Tex saves Lucy. He HeSHihe mien coming andt evades , 'them, .'not knowing why" they are j Jfter him. - t Jim, Blake, Lucy's father, and lhe posse, overtake : Tex. VHe Is --ut in Jail . while. 'Bfajc 'investi ; tales his plea, ot innocence!.. At lawn th ranchers set "out, to find ; Ihe stolen herd in acordance with ;. rex's directions. However, the lignal fires and beating tom-tims wnd them rushing back to fortify Use town against attack. Lucy and her lather take ref uge in a house. When the jailer Is shot. Tex releases himself. He has an inspiration to" stampede the cattle and drive the Indians out. Fighting his way through the atackers, he start3 for the can yon with another man. With the battle waging, Hardman and Red re starting to make way with the cattle as Tex approaches. Tex ropes Red and starts for Hardman as the half-breed stumbles and falls on his own knife. ' ' . Tex and his companion , stam GARDEN OF ALLAH AT ELSlKORE TODAY ramous Robert Hlchens Novef Staged In North Africa; Scenic Beauty Four beautiful African gardens have been used for backgrounds of Rex Ingram's ; production of "The Garden of Allah." made a broad for Metro-Goldwyn. with Alice Terry and Ivan Petrovich in the -leading : roles. They are the original Garden of Allah owned by Count Landon of Biskra. Algiers, the de Roths child tropical garden at Grasse, France, the Bardo garden at Al giers, and the Arthur garden., al so in Algiers. They can be seen as backgrounds in the current at traction at the Elsinore Theatre. The Biskra garden Is the-one so minutely described. sby Robert Hichens in the famous desert ro mance -from which Willis Gold- beck's scenario was adapted. . It supplied most of the garden scenes in the Ingram production. ;- Because the growth is so thick, however, in the Landon gardens, shots from other famous gardens supplemented it. After location hunting over all Algeria and France, 4the three previously, men tioned were chosen. ' The Bardo was supposedly built In the seventeenth century by, the Bey of Algiers on being paid, a vis it by the Prince of Tunis. It is also called the, villa Had! Omar. There is one almost precisely like it in Tunis. It is full of oriental splendor. . The French Government bought it for 11,000,000 with the hope of turning it into a great museum on the celebration in 1930 of the cen tenary of the French posession of Algeria.' f . The Madame Arthur garden is more modern and nearly as beau tiful as the Bardo. - The. de' Rothschild garden at Grasse has every authenie feature of the African gardens and. better lighting for certain views demand ed by the script. . All , four . gardens supply' the richest possible backgrund, for this latest' Ingram picture to be made abroad. World's Largest Set ; Used In "Garden of Allah" Tha. biggest outdoor l"set" in the world the Sahara desert is an important background at "The Garden of Allah." Rex Ingram's new picture which was filmed en tirely abroad for Metro-Goldwyn with Alice Terry and Ivan Petro vich in the leading roles, which is now playing at the Elsinore Theatre. - i j Camel Caravans, miles long, 2,- 000-Arabs at prayer, a sandstorm and other highlights of the fam ous desert romance which Willis Goldbeck adapted ' from . Robert Hichens' story are filmed with the Sahara, one of nature's wonders, as a background.'' : Father Adrten took a tow of silence, constant prayer and chas tity on his entrance Into the Trap pist Monastery of Notre Dame d Afriruei In Algeria. Through his fa'th, devotion and docility to the rules of the order he haa been giv en the secret of the famous liquor manufactured by the monks. Only one monk- in each generation is entrusted with the formula of the drink. . Now, Father Adrlen Is chopping a tree that has fallen and blocked a broken place in the monastery wall. Beneath his powerful blows the tree is quickly demolished. He does not notice that, in falling, the trunk has knocked a young, girl senseless. When he does perceive the young ' woman's plight he bathes her face with water. When she regains consciousness, in a AtVXEL VlBEQTin &&DEN QFALLAtr- mood .of mischief, ehe intrigues him into an embrace. The peep ing Simon of the monastery sees this and reports Father Adrlen's sin to the Perre, Abbe. The of fending monk Is imprisoned In, hig cell and forced to undergo the most excruciating penance. But the memory of the woman and the beauty of the world as he had seen it through the gap in the wall are memories that cannot be banished and in the end , Father Adrieh breaks his vows and escapes into the desert, resuming his secular name, Androvsky. On the way to the oasis of Beni Mora he encounters Domini En filden, who despite her bringing up In an atheistic household, has a deep belief in God and the Catholic faith. In Beni-Mora An drovsky rescues Domini from a ? -nr. ,--Jw. m - - sw m. a bv-. a w m JXHBA fiV SA1AH GtuALU MtLL r. THE GAQDtzN OF ALLAtf- 77iE GABDEN Or ALLvi Bejoum riot, and she finds her-.llttle village also warns her against self attracted to the strange mant Androvsky, but in the face of all who, she quickly notices, has an'the portents and warnings against ft. Domini marr-es Androvsky and the two set forth into the de sert together. . ' " ' Several weeks pass and Do mini's only enhappiness is" the fear and Androvsky's behavior: Finally heibMd. f desert does not make him happy. One day An- appalling fear , of the cross. At a party in -the gardens of count Anteoni, a half-Arab nobleman, this fear of the cross and of priests and of all things connected with the church constantly crops up in breaks away from the party, frightened by revelations of the past and future promised by a sand-diviner. A few weeks later Domini plans to leave on an expedition into the desert. Before leaving her, An teoni, himself off on an expedi tion, warns her against Androvsky, and . tells her that only people of faith can go into the desert, "The Garden of Allah," as it is called by the Arabs. ' The priest of the teonf comes to the little oasis where they are encamped and tells her that he has embraced the faith of her mother's people, that even now he is on his way to kiss the Prophet's stone in Mecca! Anteoni remembers having seen An drovsky before, and mention the tact, but the former monk quickly denies it. Not a moment later the Arab guide brings in a bottle of the vinous liquor of the Trappist monks. - Anteoni's Identification of Androvsky is complete. An drovsky begs the Count to keep his secret, and Anteoni promises, eaylng ' that he does ; not wish to se the horror that it will call into Domini's eyes. That evening a terrific sand storm drives the party into th shelter of a ruined tower. ; An drovsky, however, caught os the desert and cruelly mangled by the wind-blown sand. When he is finally rescued by Domini he confessea that he has broken his vows as a monk. The storm, he thinks, is a visitation from God, and both he and Domini decide that it Is best thafhe return and do penance for his sins at Notre Dame d'Afrique. Together they go to the monastery.- At the door Domini bids him goodby. When it cloaes behind him and she hears the heavy bolt ball Into place, she knows that be is forever dead to her and to the world and to all except God and Faith." ' Years later. Ln the desert. In the gardens of Count Anteoni, Domini sings' to her son, Androvsky' child, the words of a song eung by the Freed Slaves of the Bed ouins, "Only God and I know w-hat is in my heart," Men of ancient Tartary believed that knowledge could be acquired by. eating books and some were sufficiently zealous for an educa tion to actually attempt the literal., consumption of the written page. The .Menjtor Magazine. ,;: COMEDY i AT OREGON TODAY I IK a . 11 Vi- Mil III I A levy of approximately 10.28 mills, to yield a toUl of $13, 714.09 on the basis of the : last valuation, . will be collected from Forest Grqve property owners for 1928 .i.! ... J pede the cattle ahead of them. The Indians Bcatter before the crazed, crushing herd. Tex saves Lucy and her father from their burning shelter.'? ? What a. relief from viewing, hand they compete is played ex ceedingly well by Myrtle Stedman, COMING TO ELSINORE SOON "heavy drammer" of the screen is afforded by "The Life of Riley1 the feature-length comedy at the Oregon Theatre today! It is. like a light, frosty dessert, f ' r George Sidney and Charlie Mur ray, co-featured in this film which E. M. Asher produced! for First National Pictures, certainly prove the contention. that comedy teams are natural mirth-making mater ial for the screen. Each of these comedians has been famous sing ly and in combination with "foils" on the stage and in celluloid. Their work together in "The Life of Riley," however, reaches newheighth in mirth-making for Sidney and Murray, individually and as a team. Excellent charac terizations provided in this orig inal story by Mann Page assist the comics in topping their own records. Sidney is Chief of Police in a rural town, and Murray is Fire Chief. ; Sidney is iceman on - the side; Murray is keeper of the gen eral store. The widow for whose and Sam Hardy, Inimitable com edy villain, is a "city slicker." An unusual feature of "The Life of Riley" is a charmingly naive and" wistful Junior love af-ful convulsions. fair enacted by June Marlowe and Stephen Carr. It is straight ro mance rather than .comedy, al though well-woven into the rlct- ons, rapid-fire mirth sequences. Plot, too, 'enters into the story, through the efforts of Riley, the Fire Chief, to sell his fire-extin guisher Invention, and the villain's almost sucessf ul attempts to foil him. - S 'afforded by rustle Tillage atmos tphere are enhanced by the arrival of a big Circus in town, and other events that afford contrast and I color. William Beandine. who di rected the picture, and his comedy i constructor. Jack Mintsr have tak en advantage of every opportunity to intensify the fun: Excellent characterizations are contributed by Edward Davis and Bert Woodruff, - while feminine pulchritude is supplied not only by Misses ' Stedman and Marlowe, but also by various circus and side show girls, and the Justly-famous buxom rustic beanties. All in all, "The Life of Riley" is an excellent comedy dish for those who like to smile, giggle, chuckle or howl. Our advice is to loosen your belt before the pic ture starts and. prepare for mirth In H f II X ' ' II yi- LLCfl) (0) n 7k Ue Chandler and : Fred Kohler in. lane Grey FOR STATESMAN AT YOUR DOOR TUESDAY 'A In any line of commercial endea vor there is one individual, pr one i..nywho by the excellence of froductVetablishes a standard 4 for comparison. : i , V : ; .Which is simply by way of say ing tbat the author-producer com bination of Zane Grey and Para mount is the -standard by which JlWesteni ecreen entertainment la !iuieasured. .- "Open Range- which opens at the Elsinore Thursday for a three day run is the latest" production to prove the supremacy, of the Zane Grey stories as. scenario ''ma terial. 'As adapted by John .Stone and J. Walter Ruben, this ' new picture 'of romance and adventure in the menacing dangers of the old .west TOpen -'Range? ; Is wor thy successor to : the long series which intrudes 'Wanderer of the Wasteland." "The Vanishing Am erican." 'Forlorn River," "Drams of the Destert" and many others. Clifford Smith has directed in a vigorous style in keeping with the virility of the story. 'Briefly, it recount the adven ture in love of one Tex Smith, a cowboy who was good and knew it. He sees a ' picture of Lucy Blake. -falls in love with the sub ject and 'determines to win her as his wife.- But It proves a harder task than he imagines, for it leads hint into intrigue,' danger and dis grace. With an almost overwhelm tag accusation . of eattle-ruatling lodged against him.he is able "to square himself only by saving the girls Tillage from an Indian attack by stampeding a cattle herd Into it. It: is the most thrilling climax ever seen in a Western 'picture by this writer. :: ''-'''- The" cast Is intereatlng. not only because It offers new faces for 2"n'e Grey t f aiisi. 'ne'Chandler, newest of the screen "discoveries" Is the handsome, up-standing hero. Betty r Bronson.- the ; "Peter Pan" girl, Is the heroine in thfa. her first Western. And Fred Kohler. known as the "wolf of the screen" plays a half-breed with convincing menace. ' ' ACROBATS PLVi BIB IBILl FOR PEOPLE Double Sommersatilt From Low Altitude Appears Easy For Some "When Afmand A Perer, prehab ly the greatest pair of acrobats on t V) A vattHavlllA . ttsva rA a "nut their act", together,' liey ' wanted T to be sure to get as many thrills;, (for the audience) in it as pollible.j That they succeeded will 'be amply proved when they come to the Elsinore Theater jToday and Monday ln ' Fan ch on ' Marco's rollicking "CoHegiate Idea." : Looking around for one tremen dous "punch" as one; of their stunts, they decided to perform the most difficult feat possible one that dally entails a risk of . their own safety, or at least would In volve the safety of any less skilled artists. ! i : .. They decided to. do , a double, eommersault and land sitting in a chair placed on the shoulders of ' one. One - of the j pair stands on a , table. .The otter Is ; on a "teeter-totter." The jone on the table with the chair on his should ers fthen Jumps ontot the teeter totter, throwing the jother up -in the air. . While inl the air he turns two complete revolutions In the landing squarlely in the chair. It never fails to take the breath of the audience away. , ; r iThese experienced in stagecraft marvel at their ekilL ; ' ' The "Collegiate Idea Is one of;! . . . , . 'tf tne most enjoyaoie oi in f ancuonju &3farco revues.t The spirit of tbeic campus is kept faitnrany tnrougn-; out. Even Armona & Jferes wear college jciothes. . '- j - A long list of "specialties' Is included in the act ranging fromir narmony singing to aaagic aanc-; ing with Feature picture "Garden! of Allah." ': ? " 4 TODAY AND. MONDAY CONTINUOUS SHOW TODAY 2 TILL 11 P. M. -. ON THE STAGE Fanchon .:!&iMiircb Idea 66f "nil $r 29 FEATURING 4 ARMOND and PEREZ 99 Dorothy Lee" John & Harriet GriIJith,, "Huff and Hunt 99 "THE THREE GIRL FRIENDS" r LENORE and MICKEY" "BOB and HELEN DEFOREST" "PRESS WATKINS" AND HIS ELSINORE ORCHESTRA Admission Till 5 o'clock 50c . After 5 , Floor 60c "Balcony 50c Children 25c ON THE SCREEN OREGON TODAY AND MONDAY : i HELP! FIRE! POLICE! A RIOT CALL FOR FUN , Ereninz 35c '-Vir That . Funny Pair r.nfiifr- t i f t f j Sunday Monday Tuesday Wedneday "3 Ml 1 1 iOU LL IJUGII TILL YOU SCREAM! (iP ' ALICE TERRY and nK IVAN PETROVICH H - the FAMOUS ,kj Cs) The world- ft sJlVk rj V 'a0"8 TO If 'W ASj 1 X J r . : mance. actn- L -"Sswr , ally filmed In A 1 L ) V - BUY ' Lw..viuj viveOU. &ctujr -