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It 4 I- I 1 t F tJ f W f f f I ry A aM r. r t t fT fW f i W I T The Leading Figure Figur in lea Ravished Armenia Tells a Story the Like of Which Never t Has Been Screened Before l Ji E By ETHEL E TH L TH THURSTON STON L 1 t. t t f LL tho world outside of ot Turkey has J L c.- c. z ALL ALL- thy th J and It has varying degrees of oC wrath for Cor forgone one of or the greatest crimes i in n hi history 5 tn- tn 0 r the torture and murder of hundreds of oC thousands of or Armenians yet et yet the tragedy Itself has remained remote To bring nearer a sense sens Its or horrors to arouse not merely Indignation on but active sympathy a girl suI came to America a 1 personification of oC the helpless M e f beauty and fn innocence upon which tho brutal Turk urk h has s been inflicting tho the most terrible indignities outrage c and suffering an anywhere recorded In hu human man annals Her Her Hr name naine Is Aurora l She is 15 one ot of the ChrIstian girls who survived the massacres of the Armenians I. I S Surely rely she sho Is the most pathetic ambassadress in This girl of 0 17 who plead pleads for a martyred people peo pea t pIe will wilt not go away empty handed A great move move- 1 merit has been organized Its benevolent activities will cover coer America No Ko drive e ever evor more mora thrillingly touched the tho heart strings and tho purse strings of or a n. nation Behind the American committee for Armenian and Syrian relief reIle which is conducting a n. nationwide nation wide wido movement to raise a great fund arc aro the names of or former Cormer President Taft Tart former Cormer Ambassador Ambas Amba- to Turkey ey Mor Charles E E. Hughes Cardinal Gibbons Bishop p Greer Rabbi Wise i U Cle Cleveland H Dod Dodge e and man many many- other prominent 1 I 1 Americans Jamos James L L. Barton Darton is chairman Tho The c committee and its 1 helpers are working In full tull realization reali reaIl of or th the stupendous calamity which has has occa occa I Its labors Jabors and the dread danger that lurks In the situation It seeks to meet 1 1 A new and startling method of or conveying the 4 message e of t Aurora has been taken by J the committee t. t A Great Screen Spectacle T N Auroras Aurora's story ana and that of or the Armenian mai- mai i r eA ros and deportations ch she witnessed cd have 1 i been elaborately filmed s and the tremendous screen r i spectacle will soon be bo presented in t the e leading dUes cities of ot country i r r. r It is the con complete story of oC Ravished Armenia Linking the scenes s of ot the stupendous i ration of oC a national tragedy Is the personal nar narra ra t H tive Uvo of JOC the tho girl whoso upon slender J it been thrust the tho tremendous shoulders has I f lab ing g millions of ot her people from responsibility starvation of oC save ear r. r Y dc death th and Aurora lived through three years years' Y- Y tf of oC Turkish c enslavement and enslavement and Buttered Buffered few Cow as wom en In the hIs history tor of or the world have over suffered t Death confronted her time and again and again and In a k dozen different forms Corms Only a miracle could s save a vo va i her And yet jet each time that miracle It seems as If was wrought ast some higher power had destined h her r to o live c BO so that she might come to America and ami r u make h her r remarkable appeal for tor he help P for Cor th the e pea peo i yI e of other her race f Ut r Aurora the only woman who ever er D escaped front from the clutches of or tho the Turks came to to 1 this country not for the selfish purpose I ose of oC e escaping further torture Her visit was a a. perhaps mission mission perhaps tho the most responsible a n woman over was asked to represent This frail delicate girl of 17 came a y i the tIie unofficial ambassadress of people eo j with this pathetic message ir 4 t Armenia needs your help i as never before i In n f all an It its tragic h history s to 1 t r rt 1 l I. I And then Aurora g to told t the he story ot of her life and life and tho story of ot Armenia the nation naHon 4 that knows no capi capital 11 that knows no flag that hat r J r t ft f. f J Knows no government otter man uta vi of Turkey b which for centuries has tried to efface Armenians from the earth The recital of Aurora of her own own frightful experiences of the pitiless massacres of Armenian men and boys of the ceremonies of apostasy by which the lust of Turkish Turkish- officiate officials was permitted to fasten itself upon the tho flower flower of Armenian womanhood of the slaughter traps set setIn setin In Devils Devil's Gorge ot of the tho human slave market of 5 7 4 y a i if f ail 7 1 1 U N h Z v t ftp v a ft jf C r r v L fi i jd r f y ift r fi A j jOne J H at t r r It p 4 fe t t r- r kV One of of the Eastern a a Typical Refugee Mother Nearly Half a Million Children Have Been Orphaned the tho pitiless plight of oC Armenian refu refugees ces lost In tho the trackless wastes of or the tho S Syrian desert desert all all has hag been chronicled In ill Ute the newspapers of oC this country countr Aurora Own Story W When en tho the final chapter of or the pitifully frank trank etory stocy of this beautiful little mUe Christian girl had hadeen l been een penned thousands of or Americans a awakened t tb the plight of or Armenia Arm insisted A Aurora rora l story should not die It tt ItIs Itis Is one that should live and bo be told In pictures The demand has been answered with Ravished Armenia Tho rho Story of Aurora a a masterpiece in ill film production It Is a photoplay that abounds with dramatic situations that flint pictures pic tures the Turks as the they neven before have o been pictured d that reacts acts their murderous d deeds eds that shows harem scenes that Aurora saw sat with her hel own eyes that shows slave slavo markets where here women are sold Hold Into slavery for tor sums frequently frequently fre fre- frequently far under one dollar Ravished Armenia Armenla- staged under the auspices of the American can COI Committee for Armenian and Syrian Syrian SyrIan Syr Syr- ian Relief will wilf soon make its appearance in all the principal cities clUes of or the United States Stales The showing of oC this marvelous film 1101 Is In connection connection con con- with the wort of oC the tho committee o and their attempt to save ave front from starvation tion the suffering suf sut suffering fering refugees hr in the Near ear East Enst It will win for tho the people of ot America the story tor of ot the tragic suffering of or the Ute people of or Armenia during these past years ears of oC tho the war wal The first release of ot the thu 1 r r If 1 r if t. o-t. I r 4 f J 11 fo F o r r. r f i 1 I L e W ost at eti l A r r i Ambassadress in 0 isto pOto r pO to Ii di Ll r Astonishing Story of Aurora r J 4 rr r rV V d J JR rl Who Comes to 1 R n America f r to o Plead for a Y F f v t f A h Tortured Ot People and Ho the Most Thrilling o oSceen of jl y Screen Plays is to o Help a a h rg ir 1 Great American Movement o em en Toward Practical jag tea Rescue r A r r 4 rl iS A l t h 1 F t f t i i I J fJ f f I II I CJ y I MJ lit J i io I W N r V Wm V fe J Yz t I iWI iW I t j f v 1 4 t l r. It 1 t F tJ f f r. r fW f i W t l Ji 4 r Dr tr irne a F Fy y i 1 I 5 5 c M t r VS r Tt v T ryr r y 9 pf i-f i i I If f v S C li liW toA 4 Ai j 4 j i r r 1 w r l Trey W s S r t r T TX X Deported Armenians on the March Into the Desert picture wI will bo be made In connection with the committees committee's committees committee's com com- drive for Cor Jan 1 12 to 19 Ravished Armenia is a 3 film play that was WM produced b by masters in the screen world from a scenario by Nora Wale Wain The fhe cast includes some of or the most famous stars The staging was perhaps perhaps per per- haps as elaborate as that of oC an any photoplay in recent recent re rc re- re cent years ears The rhe story of ot n Ravished l Armenia is built around tho the story of oC Aurora 1 who Plays a part part and and pla plays s 's it wonderfully well because her hel role 1010 in iii this pIa play is not acting it is vividly re living some of ot the tho tragic incidents of or her life The story has Its real opening In the little Armenian Armenian Ar Ar- Af town of oC Gedzak Gedzak where Aurora was born and where she Bhe spent tho the first 11 ii years of oC her life In comparative o happiness Her r father Cather was a prosperous merchant in the little lit tle c city tJ that had its origin SOO years ears before beCore tho Christian era I The Belle of the Village Aurora a remarkably pretty child blossomed early into girlhood and find at the age axe of or 14 was regarded regarded re reo re- re ar ed as s the belle of or the ilie village To o er every girt girl such a distinction usually brings happiness and amI admiration But to Aurora it brought misfortune and eventual suffering that almost beggar beggar beggar beg beg- gar description Pacha ruler of or Gedzak saw Aurora one ono da day in 1915 and 1915 and at once there came to him the tho desire to add this little Christian girl to his harem He lie went to tho the father Cathel of or Aurora and made known his base desire T The e father aghast refused I I want your daughter and daughter and I Ishall shall have bave her was tho the parting remark of oC Pacha Just about that time Ume the official Ottoman edict was published which ruled that every Armenian on Turkish soil should bo be deported It was an order that every ery minor Turkish official proceeded to obey with fiendish thoroughness It Ie meant that there thero had come to all of ot these officials governmental governmental govern govern- mental sanction to kill all nil Armenians loot their homes tomes ravage their towns and ravish their women And to no 1 Turkish official did dill the edict appeal as ns a a. greater source of oC joy joy- than to Pacha Pacha Ordering his hits soldiers to seize the father and the oJ oldest est brother of or Aurora this official at once ordered them taken a away wa The parting of ot the family forms one of oC the most pa pa- scenes in Ravished nn Armenia Th The father and amt his oldest son ruthlessly ruthless taken from Crom their C families families anti and the p parting perhaps f is lj It is moro mor than three years ars since this incident took place and Aurora has devoted e cr every possible l energy in an an effort to get bet et trace of DC her ber father and older brother fI r n iN i 1 tf r 4 J t l r r iv r i ll v 5 1 01 sY at I 4 1 r y k iV x r x dJ d J rl n f Irr t I S S y K Wf AURORA Go to America said Gen Andranik and tell them the th- you have suffered You among all aU the women of Arn Armei Arnie e destined to act as its savior r I IA A 1 hp J Xo No sooner had the father ot or Aurora Mardigan Mardigan- igan Ian lan beets been whisked away than she her mother her hr older sister and anti younger younger- brothers were seized and tl made a part of or Pacha's Pachas Pachas Pacha's band Tho The Turkish Turl leader leade- and his men after looting and pillaging Gedzak Gedzak murdered the men and many of ot the lie boys and boys and then marched awa away to loot and to tomase pillage mase other othor Armenian cities In the Clutches of the Turks And the they tooT took with wilh Aurora n. n her mother and sister and all the other women and girls of the flee village who were forced to sub l tuft H to unspeakable le horr horrors rs at the hands of oC Pass l. l Pacha and his favored lieutenants The women and nud the girls who refused were beaten and durin during that long march many of them died from front their wounds The wholesale deportations of 01 the Armenian Armenian Ar Ar- people are aro vividly shown The fhe scenes of or Ravished Armenia then carry the auditor along with Aurora an to various various vari yari- ous Armenian cities clUes gigantic massacres took look place Aurora was va forced to witness all aIt of oC these inhuman acts and was herself a victim of their cruelty Her cr very beauty Q ut made her hel the object of Turl Turkish ish passions and she was singled out to endure and suffer stiffer to tho tiro absolute limit of or human endurance For something like a year ear this frail flan girl rel remained a n captive and finally clad only in a few rags ras bruised and scarred palo pale and ami wan from Crom the privation that she had endured was auctioned auctioned off for far 35 cents Tho The scenes of or Ravished Armenia Armena then carry along the stor story of or the tho suffering Armenian people nn nud of oC Aurora to the time when she fell Into the hands of Effendi t told ld he her that he would marry her hel and make her a legitimate wife if it she would renounce th the Christian religion and nud adopt that of or Mohammed For a long time the girl deliberated before answering I I cannot decide until I have hn taU talked ed to my nay mother Bring her to me and let me tall talk to her herIt lie her If It she site tells teUs me It is all right to renounce the Christian religion I will do so If Jr she says say's no then I shall haU not renounce it and you on can n kill meus meIS me meus us IS you OU threaten The rho mother mothe- and amI the sister and the brothers ers of or Aurora with with the exception of or the tho older brother brother vero yero brought to the little town where Aurora was a captive The rho scene that depicts de de- de- de pct the temporary uniting of or this part bf of C the tho family is ono one tense terse with emotion When Aurora told her mother the proposition of the thc mother shrieked liar hor Xo No Xo No o Do not give up your our religion The words hardly had hind come from her mouth I 1 r when hen Turkish murderers acting und unde from from Effendi beat the mother before Auroras Aurora's Yer very eyes A younger oung ri Aurora uror witnessing witnessing- the scene and ancl made mado by y the horror of or it t started to run awa 1 with a Jon long bull bun whip swung it at tie the th merciless precision The huge hugo sharp las the head of the bo boy and fractured fracture 1 He ie tottered tottered and and then fell ten over dead dead 1 The older sister of or Aurora Mardi Mard the displeasure of ot tho the Turks Turks' thrown over a n cliff and impaled on bay bay was a a. form of oc torture Turks indulged in when handling stuben stub en a a bit of or fiendIshness that seen seem them extreme pleasure i iA i iA A Wanderer in the Des 4 4 Ravished Armenia Armenla then carries on ont when Aurora was placed A shepherd who came camo along discovered 1 and at t trio the ris risk of 0 his own life lite Tiber liber Freed at la Ja last t Aurora attempted to es' es esc to Turkey but where could she sho go The fhe cities were peopled by Turks Turk In the villages Turks lurs were er e the vast S Syrian rian desert And Aud into this this his little liUla Christian girl wandered th they for tor nearly a a. sustaining life b by eat shrubs and roots She walked more moro J miles in her wanderings w and when s 's sti sh emerged el from tho the desert fate fato ruled tb that t the be he at a point where an army of ot l. Russi were encamped r Practically naked emaciated and oil on of oC death from her suffering Aurora Mai us stumbled into the thc camp camp and and there fell tell e Kindly l Russians cared for Cor her and the co co of the bc army army- a member mcm cr of th the Imperial Imperial- Russia listened to her stor story Soon arrora aft ar r rora through the kindly Influence of th the was brought Into contact with Gen Gee And nd great rbt Armenian patriot When Gen Andranik ha had listened to vital cItal of or Aurora I anians anian's stor story he sa sai sa saiMy M My |