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Show 1 1 Stage and Film Gossip j jj I AT THE ORACLE Tuesday and Wrdnrsday night.v al I the Oraclp will be- prosentod D. W. I Griffith's film masterpiece "The Es-capo." Es-capo." by Paul AriuMrong, in addition to its masterly production, rare acting and heart clutching iniorrst has a direct di-rect message to humanity. It deals with the vital subject of the duty we owe to children, and the care which should be given to developing their best, rather than their worse traits after af-ter birth. All this Is pointed out in the prologue, pro-logue, and thp story itself unfolds logically and intensely. It is the life-, labor and love story of two sisters of New York's East Side. There arp many thrilling and realistic scenes during the action of this great picture, pic-ture, one of which is the mid of the police on the den of thugs where the f UWlIS Gil' PICTURE OF BUffl COAST. AT ORPHEUM "Hell Morgan's Om. a vivid picture of the famous San Francisco Barbary Coast life and incidents of the terrible earthquake with a love story and a roan's redemption, will be the offering al the Orpbeum theater for Hie next three days, beginning Sunday night. The story Is full of excitement and thrills, with an exceptionally good fight and ought to prove a big drawing card. This is a story of two characters strangely drawn together by fate Hell Morgan runs a dance hall in San Fran- LYCEUM TODAY CHARLIE CHAPLIN in "The Rink" "Girl From Frisco" "Grant, Police Reporter" TOMORROW WILLIAM MONG in "The Son of a Rebel Chief" PAULINE BUSH in "AccusingEvidence" and A RURAL ROMANCE 2-reel Comedy. young mother is being detained, is one of the most exciting scenes ever put upon the screen. In these scenes the master mind of D. W. Griffith is found not wanting and with the atmosphere at-mosphere of the typical slums, the picture gives a splendid insight into actual conditions. Thp principal roles are played by Blanche Sweet, Mae Marsh, Donald Crisp. Owen Moore, F. A. Turner, Ralph Lewis, and Robert Jarren. whose acting is so simple, natural and convincing that they seem to really re-ally live as men and women. It is her that Griffith has found his great success if he believes power is found in sincerity and strength of character as it really exists in his assistant. Regular prices prevail. Advertisement. Cisco, and his daughter is a girl who longs for better circumstances and who aspires to a finer sort of life than she must lead because of her father't occupation. Roger Curwell has been disowned by his father for the reason the boy has an inclination to art, while his father wants him to become a business man. Young Curwell falls a victim to drink, and in the artists' quarters he meets Olga, a model, who falls in love with him. Going from bad to worse as the result of drink, Curwell makes his way to Hell Morgan's resort and secures a position as piano player. Just at this time Morgan has pur-1 pur-1 chased what he considers a work of art and hangs it over the bar. Curwell Cur-well challenges Morgan's judgment, and agrees to paint a real picture, using us-ing Morgan's daughter as his subject It Is not long before they fall in love. There is a politician named Sleter who covets Hell Morgan's daughter, but she disdains him. One night in a party of artists who are slumming Olga turns up at Hell Morgan's, sees Curwell Cur-well and sends for hira to join her party par-ty Hell Morgan's daughter is jealous and creates a scene, windinc up by telling Sleter that she will be his wife Morgan and Sleter quarrel, and Sleter Sle-ter is killed. This is the night of the great San Francisco fire. Among the refugees who occupy the public park Lola and Curwell strangely meet and are reconciled Advertisement rt r isram i.oi leagues in Manager Goss of the Orpheum theater the-ater announces as one of his most Important Im-portant bookings this season in the big pictures the famous under sea picture, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," filmed by the Williamson Broth rrs using their wonderful invention for taking pictures at the bottom of the ocean. They have used the Jules Verne story as a basis for a plot and have made a remarkuble picture. In this production you are taken on a ride in a submarine and through the window win-dow in the under-sea craft you visit the strange wonders of the ocean You see the sharks, the various thousands of fish, the gardens at the bottom of the ocean; you see a torpedo fired from the submarine and how it travels and finally reaches Its mark aud blows up a ship. You then take a walk with the divers along the bottom of the sea and meet all kinds of strange adventures, adven-tures, visiting old shipwrecks, hunt-ing hunt-ing for treasure and finally meet up v. 'h ;, shark and an octopus. The pictures pic-tures are thrilling and interesting and should be seen by all school children and their parents, as they are very instructive, in-structive, showing a spi cles of fish life never brought to light. They will be shown at the Orpheum for four days the first of April, Advertisement. ORPHEUM THEATRE, Mon. Mar. 26 Messrs. Shubert Presents The Joyous Viennese Operetta Gorgeous in Its Presentation Enchanting With Its Beautiful Music. , A SUPERB CAST OF 70 ARTISTS A Musical Festival Hear "Auf Weiedershen," "I Had a Dog," "One Step in Love," Win a Pretty Widow," "Here's to You," etc. PRICES 50c, 75c, $1.00, $1.50, $2.00. r I THE BLUE PARADISE." WONDEH. SHOW At the Orpheum theater on Monday night, Mareh 26. will be the Messrs. Shuhert production of "The Blue Paradise, Par-adise, " a musical comedy in a prolougi1 and two acts, which has been Americanized Ameri-canized by Edgar Smith from the original orig-inal Austrian book by Leo Stein. The play takes its title from an inn of the same name supposed to be located in Vienna, and although there are American Amer-ican characters in the operetta, all the scenes are laid in the Austrian capital cap-ital The slor deals with the son of a wealthy Austrian gentleman. Rudolph Ru-dolph Stefger, who Is overfond of conviviality con-viviality and a constant visitor to the BIup Paradise Inn, where he has fallen in love with Mizzi. a flower girl at that resort Rudolph's father decider that a change of scene will be well for his son and sends him to America to make his fortune. This is the prologue. The action of the play itself begins twenty-four years later, when Rudolph returns re-turns to the scenes of his youth, after having accomplished his mission In America, only to find that everything has changed and that the little flowr r girl who had promised to be true to him Is now the wife of one of his boon companions. Rudolph, however, does not allow this to weigh too heavily on him and turns to the widow of his late partner in America, who has followed him all the way from Chicago, and the curtain falls as she promises to marry him. The story of "The Blue Paradise" is full of life, color and youth, with no end of comedy situations. It has been beautifully set to music, with nothing but tuneful and melodious numbers in the whole score. The Messrs. Shu bert have provided an excellent company com-pany for "The Blue Paradise." and the principal members are well known here, as they are on Broadway. They are John E Young, Robert G. Pitkin, Shep Camp Fred Harm, (Jrorge Everett, Ever-ett, Sam Hearn, Madeline Nash, Helen Eley, Louise Kelley and others. A large chorus of beautiful young women and smartly dressed men add life and vim to the fanciful picture. It is a typical Tasino show, and ran at that, the greatest home of musical comedy in America, for a year and a half. Advertisement. Gil hippie PROGRAM SUNDAY Mary Pickford in "A Poor Little Rich Girl," The Rigo-letto Rigo-letto Quartette, Lonesome Lone-some Luke's First Two-Reel Two-Reel Comedy. Mary Pickford in "A Poor Little Rich Girl," th Rigoletto Quartette. "Ionesome Luke." first two reel com nflv. To term a current Mary Pickford picture "the best yet" is to defy superlatives super-latives of the past. Yet "A Poor Little Lit-tle Rich Girl" leads one to that conclusion, con-clusion, with no exceptions, buts or howevers. From first to last It Is excellent, ex-cellent, not only in point of allowing Miss Pickford the required number of chances which her popularity and ability abil-ity demand, but in presenting a story throbbing with drama, with reality, and with pathos of the purest ray One could become pitifully sentimental in attempting to describe the lessons of "A Poor Little Rich Girl," and In attempting at-tempting to enumerate the scenes that tug at the strings- of the heart. But one must needs be another Eleanor Gates to do full justice to those passages. pas-sages. Suffice that they are there. But there is much else beside the lesson and the tears to the picture In its first two or three reels it offers comedy of the most genuine -Jdnd. Frances Marlon put a number of touches touch-es in this half of the subject which Miss Gates could not allow on the stage. Miss Pickford and :a small army of boys indulge in a delightful mud-flinging contest that put all pie-heaving pie-heaving encounters to rout. When she places a plate of soft chocolate cakes on the identical spot where the little girl who has "a richer father and a richer mother" that her's Is about to sit, and when that little girl sits there is a hearty laugh. Her ep rienrf wiih the plumber and th organ-grinder are dellcrhtlul. It is gratifying to see the fine results re-sults of Maurice Tourneur's direction. To handle allegory is in nowise a task suited to other than a true master of pictorial technique. The allegories of "A Poor Little Rich Girl" are some of the most beautiful pictures ever cast on the screen. The manner in which they are joined to the real story is a tribute to both Mr. Tourneur and Miss Marion. And the allegories themselves, presenting as they do the child's dream, are both dreamy and childish to a perfect degree. They are framed in an arch and contain wonderful camera cam-era work besides. The production and the story have counted well in making the picture an unusual one. Miss Pickford does the rest. She plays a little girl, ten or eleven years old, and thre is never a false move or expression on her part to indlcato advanced years. As the much neglected Gweu of a far too fashionable fash-ionable household, she immediately catches the sympathy and holds It until un-til the end, wlu-n she is done with the reformation of er purents. There is a smile, a tear, a laugh or a pang of pity for her even,' move. Gwen is the great-Mt great-Mt acting part of her career. The supporting cast is capable In every respect Charles Wollesley and Madeline Traverse as the parents, Gladys Fairbanks as the horrible nurse, and Frank McGlynn as the plumber, create realistic characters, and the rest of the players are entirely competent, not forgetting Maxine Hicks as Susie May, the girl who sits on tho cakea. 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