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Show "IE MMM" ST OBPHEIM EXT THREE DAYS "Tho Bondman," at the Orpheum Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Ono of the most skillful hits 0C acting act-ing ever seen in photoplay is done by William Farnum, who plays two separate sepa-rate parts In. "The Bondman," a William Fox production of Hall Gaine's celebrated novel, which plays the Orpheum three nights, beginning tomorrow. Mr. Farnum, who, while on the legitimate stage, appeared for I five solid years in "Ben Hur," plays j tho parts of Stephen Orry and Jason Orry, father and son. 1 Jason and Sunlocks, who, though half-brothers 'by different mothers, have never met, set out in search of each other. Jason's quest 1b ono of hate, for he has sworn to kill his half-brother. half-brother. Sunlocks' quest is one of loe a quest prompted by tho desire ! to know his own living Un. They meet in Iceland, each unaware of the oth-er's oth-er's identity, and during a political I j evolution are sentenced to the sulphur sul-phur mines, whero, bound together I hand and foot they drag out their existence. 1 There Is a mine explosion and Sun-locks Sun-locks Is blJnded. He is rescued by Jason, the very brother who has sworn to kill him. Jason, carrying Sun-locks Sun-locks with him, escapes from the mines and makes' his way to Relk-Javlc, Relk-Javlc, the capital, where, the AllhlnE is in session. There, before the Governor Gov-ernor and the populace, he pleads for the liberty of tho blinded Sunlocks. Greebo, daughter of tho Governor of the Isle of Man, breaks through the crowd and clasps the injured Sunlocks, Sun-locks, her sveet heart, to her bosom. Jason realizes for the first time that the man ho has rescued and the man lor whose liberation he is pleading is the very brother he has vowed- to 5 sa. In one of the scenes Jason rescues I Stephen, during a shipwreck and swims to shore with him. In view of I 'tho fact that Mr. Farnum plays both j parts, the scene constitutes one of the most remarkable photographic t achievements since (the advent of I photoplay. |