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UN0iV MOnNINO, VUNt 1S, 11(1. THE FORT WAYNE JOURNALGAZETTE i ni kutioN roUR Wonderful Film at the Orpheum Todayi Aurora Mardiganian, Lone Survivor Of Attrocitic, in "Auction of Souls" K2V. "unrlvw to a mleolon Khool which la taught by Mlaa Graham, a pretty lEnaliah elrl Whan aoldlere eurround i urriTur ai Armfiln elrls. vlotlm. iMin iuh ma murderous pro It la an nwwh Mr, xnnuoni nim on facta mora as tonlshlns; than the area test creations of fiction Ne ether person allre to day can claim a quarter of tha vivid aiperlencee this a trl haa survfvsd with mind capabla of rerountlnf Auction In Boula" prsaents facta cor roborated hf Henry Morgan than, American ambassador to Turker and uTi 1Z.T.

i roi younr shepherd who haa bean at J17 2P ll11 vouchf! 'traetod by tha beauty of Aurora protents In tha i lav Har onlv in 1 tha drat; nc away of her Armanlan ftirla by tha Turktah eoldlere. who trample har flag Determined to ra main with tha lrla and do aa much a possible for them, Mlis Graham dlaffulaea herself as an Armanlan and foe with them Into the desert. Tha Deaarl Their Oeitlnatlen They are followed by And ran Ik a younr ahaphard who has been at for through the offloial records of, in cruemaa perpetrated on tha Armenian people. Tha atory of tha lone aurrlvor and which has been filmed aa auch la si follows Aurora, Msrdlganian a youn and beautiful Armenian tlrl. Uvea will.

from this time several times ma when aha Is In rrave atratta Auroras parents are killed by the Turksi Like hundreds of thouaanda of ot here, aha Mlaa Oraham and har later are forced on Into tha burning desert, their feat bllaterad from tha hot her parent In tha Turktah city of wind a and their Upa knowing; nsltbar Harpout. Tha Mardi.ren.an like tha, nor water other hundreds of thousands of Ar Other refugees toll them fearful tans Uy.I1 har. wit hit h'StOriee Of tAWm What th. Annml.na eldest Christie. nation For cent uriei tha Arminiu a life of terror and constant fear i lived because of tha murderous attacks of tha fanatical Turks.

iim wore mi opening; or tne story how over tha Turks had been utet Aurora family had boon craving pnmpvrous. ana ner rather was pre paring; to sand her wast to ba adu tated But Into thla aerena ereepa aaat tht nana 01 war wnicn had beg un to de vattata Europe Matters reached tha peas where the Turks openly tall tha American ambassador In Conatan tlnople, Hanry Mora enthau. that tha Armenia na ware riving secret sup port to Russia, the enemy of Germany ana urney Consequently his plea falls to ore veti! the ream nee of mtt order fit nunorea ot thousands of Armenian! must ba moved southward from their fruitful homeland Into the desert The Turks know thla virtually meant Of the province, cornea to tha homa of Auroras father and demands tht hand of Aurora in marriage The father remind! him that his tar does not wish to give up Christianity aa ahs would have to do eo to marry him. and the Turk leaves In ang er Brutal Deportations Bag Than goea forth the order that all Armenians shall prepare to march, Tha men are separated from tht Women. Soldiers in the Armenian uniform are forced to disarm.

and dig a trench, whereupon Turkish soldiers shoot them down Mothers are torn from their children, and fathera from their families. All are marched away Into the desert, where famine thirst, fierce heat by day and worss terror! fay night for the young; girls stalk, seeing; the Turk In all his Infamy Only thoae who are burled In tha aanda by the older women sscape mis use by their brutal captors Ravfahed by Desert Band 'to. At last, aided by the watching young ahaphard Miss Oraham and Auroa sscape For a tims they travel on by ntsht, tryinr to sscape not only the Turks, but the 'even more savage Kurds, who lids tha desert knowing; no law It Is Inevitable that the girls are captured by thea fierce horsemen who recomlie In them after they have themselves taken ad vantage rich prises for tha harem of a notorious Mohammedan chleftan Bo the airla ars sold snd become Inmates rtf a haremr Here they etiHtv indignities sufficient to bresk the hearts of western women Hut again they manage to escape, snd become fugitives of the desert world After a time they are recaptured and sent to ina slave market, where thinly draped thsy are offered for sale. In disguise Andranlk buys Aurora and utos uraham, each for eighty five cent a They start north once more) That night they get three steeds from a Turkish camp witn tna Turka at their heels thsy take refuge In an ancient monastery on a mountain Folio wins them the Turkish forces arrlvs before tha mon eatery Refused en trance by the holy men they break their way Into the monastery and take tM girls captive Then once mora, their original cloth ing; In pathetic rasa their hearta filled with terror at the prospect of new trials and ths hope of ever getting; back to their peopla again banished the (iris ars rlddsn madly away on horseback at prisoners And aa iney cross tne desert the Turks point out to them aa a solemn warning against future attempts to escape a supreme horror The Cult of ths Germane nothing less than a long line of girls naked on croseea, nails through their hands and fest and vultures perched above croak ng gainst tha time whan thsy shall Aurora Msrdlganian But she and Mlaa Ore nam. ones mora with ths aid of Andranlk, sscape and matte their way at is si to an American mission.

Not Yst a Woman. Mlaa afardlg anian ts an Armenian girl not yet arrived at tha age of womannood who was tne daughter of a prosperous Armenian, living In a ramie vauey not rar rrom hi Ararat at tha time the Turks decided to steal the lands and property of ths Armenians by using tha pretext mat tney wars under Russian protection. Miss Msrdlganian a vary pretty srlrl had been eyed for soma ttms bv a Turk who wished to marry har xnia man orrerea protection to ner family If her father would turn her over to him The father refuted. and waa killed before the eyea of his daughter Her brothers and erg also were killed, and Miss Mardlgmn mn vii nrivvn irora ins 0117 wnn thouaanda of wretched, terrified refugees who ware forced Into tha desert unprepared for the long tor tuous trip which followed Eighteen Mentha of Tarrsr. In tha coarse of the next eighteen months every sort of lndlsulty and cruelty was visited upon ths Armen Ian girl f.nd her faithful friend, Miss Graham, a soung Engllah mission fortunes with them when unable to How thefehmanlans died of thirst I In ths desert ware struck down by brutal officers, were forced to awlm rivers, and to throw away their chll dren to tighten boats, how tha girls were hunted of nights by tha drunken Turka how they were sold In tha Slavs market and forced Into tha harsms of Turkish chiefs, all Is shown in ths picture, which Is a real latlC and aetomehingr eaeese e.

Turk lsn brutality Every detail of It la true It pic turea tha atory of Mlaa Mardlgsnlan, and upon ths report which was mads to th allied governments by Viscount Jameu Brycs tha Englishman who waa aced at tha head of tha com mission to Investigate Miss Mar dlgmnlang charges of Armenian atrooltlea Never haa It been tha fortune of a grlrl to serve her own people as Aurora Msrdlganian has dons For ones ahs told her atory hare to In fluentlal people Its greet lesson was seen, snd she was urged to do every thing In her power to Impress tha American mind with Its seriousness. Bo, In addition to writing about her experiences, and speaking of them, she went before the motion picture camera and acted them once again that tne aympatoy ot tna nunarea million people in America might go out to tha greateat aufferers In human history Iu 'aBBBnaBnaBnasncrjBasaKiirin I fMasssssassassmwljIBBsni W1 ffefnnaBnaBnawflaTaaw BiSslaasaasP5ffi3 PKslaslasrJym BaarsT.ssT.ssnaaM rrM asnasnl saTsTsTsTsTsTMsavf Sf ISfissTsTsTsTsf sssasaWsBSsassaV ISsbbssssW sasssassasVi F'Tr vrvVM asanasssnanam I tffk'i rSs HBnaansunsB 1 iJP iVVXsrk XLsnasnaw r2TWaWll VsssnamJ iMIwBn ij Aurora SlMWW 1 Mard an nci jc hx my nuttw ur OOUS Ul 1 FILM COMMENT The women who squandsr tha gold of Ufa do not oars to think of tha day of reckoning aays Virginia Pearson star of The Bishop Em eralds And aha adda "But tha prodigal, though ahs be pennllsss nevertheless must pay That la the law But who In tha gay carnival of llfa thinks of ths lawr" Fannie Ward tha atar of 'Common Clay tha film vsrslon of tha great Harvard prlis play of modern Ufa, has been presented by an unknown I admirer with an exqulalttly modeled oust or ner seir in tna part ahs plays. Baby Marls Osborne, who had pro vloualy lived In a detaohtd home on enjoying her first experience In living a city block, thus described It In a letter to another cht This Is a very queer place Next door ga fastened on our house" Kuth Roland, the famous Paths aerial star la doing Broadway for a few daya and divided her time be twaen the Fifth avonua thopa and tha Pa the offices Miss Roland has Just finished Tha Tiger's Trail and la getting ready for her ntxt Pat ie ae rial which will be from a acenaiio worked out by the atar herself She leavea for loa Angeles this week to start work on the new aerial. SUVE MARKET EXPOSED IN GREAT FILM DRAMA Never In the history of Christian persecutions haa there been one which approached th torture and virtual murder of iOO 000 followers of Christ on the burning plains south of Armenia during me two years fol lowing a fateful day In 11 Never did a Christian people, tried by a ghastly ordeal of fire, thirst, hunger fatigue and worse horrora conceived in the devilish brain of tha inremoue Turk go more unflinching ly to mset He Maker Ths bloody arena of Nero, the Balnful wander ings of the Pilgrims, the terrors of the Spanish Inquisition history most poignant examples of staunch martyrdom for tha causs of the cross sinK to significance beside this persecution of Christianity aa forth In "Auction of Souls" Here was half a million neonla. within th shadow of Mt Ararat, la boring peacefully following fervent ly and with devout reverence the teachings of tha Bible Thev were tha oldest Christian nation, altuatad not many miles from tha snoient vil lsgo In which tha Savior waa born They were contented Industrious, thrifty and devout.

Tha church was their shrine, and all ths acta of their Ufa were done In tha grace of Ood Then into this heaven upon earth crept the alnlster fanatically pagan finger of the Turk Afire with tha hatred of Christianity which had bean burning for centuries Inspired by a mad religion baaed on crualt and lust, he needed only tha suppert of ine unprincipled nun to loose nis long pent barbaric animalism Never In ths middle sges did ths Mohammedan sweep ylown upon tha Chrla tlan with more abandon. Never did the pagans of western Europe descend upon the followers of the cross more fiercely Girls were torn from their mothers. Ths dsflltng Turkish fingers upon their trembling flesh they were aakfL "JrViii you renounce Chris tianltyT Will you accept Mo nammea Eyes turned thsy answered, "Nol and were daahsd to the ground, sentencsd to Infamise which cannot ba spoken, to the out rages of the harem to ths burning shame of the slave market. Babies, baptised In Jesus, too young to comprehend tha fanatical There la no Ood but Allah, and Mohammad Is his prophet wars hurled against trees or walla, killed before tha eyea of their fainting mothers Wives united by tha writ of Ood to Christian men were dragged away offered the Mohammedan faith, and given to the lust of ths conqueror or to his swora ae tisy answerea, rxoi" Ordained ministers of Jesus Christ were stood up In publlo places "Re peat There Is no God but Allah!" they were told "There is one uoa. and his eon la Jesus Christ, my Savior! came tha steadfast answers.

Their finger nails Gives Graphic Recital of Suffering And Escape From Ravished Armenia Aurora Msrdlganian herself In the screen 1 most powerful eplo drama "Auction of Souls," Is the appealing; frank ttory of this Armenian glri unspeakabls advanturea and escape after two years of frlghtfulnssa among roving bands of Kurds and In Turkish hareme it Is a film, which once wen you win never rora at There are 6 000 oeonls and el htr three principals in the cast, and the picture rest a half million dollars Mardlgantan la tha sola sur vlvor of half a million Christian girls who were driven from their homes snd rorrsd into slavery at ths out bresk of the world conflict In 19M "Auction of Souls la a tn thful pic int Brycs th British ambaeedor America, who made an ezhauattva Inveatiaation and by Henry Morgan thau ths American ambasssdor to Turkey who was In Constantinople In 111 and who tried desperately to prevent, by diplomacy ths barbarous ambitions of the Turks to 'massacre until not a Christiana heart was found to beat." Out of ths quiet and veace of her homa nestling In ths ominous shadow of Mount Ararat. Aurora Mard Iranian with htr parents, a brother and sister were driven forth by Turkish bayonets and atarted with thousands of others on ths long tortorous march acroat Mesopotamia and Into the dee art The daya were filled with cries for food and water tha nlghta echoed tha aoreams of tha terror stricken girls who fell lctlms to ths lust of their uniformed guards. Enver Pasha, Turkish minister of war Talatt Bey minister of the in terlor and Count von Waa enheim. German ambasssdor to Turksy ex of ths desert atrocities ulted over ths reports from tha body wracked caravan of deported souls Turkey waa content. At leak ihv could ravish Armenia without fear of consequence Germany protected them And so to tha Huns waa given tha Turkish allegiance for Its shelter art Inst the nations in the unlicensed cruelties they worked on a defense lens people Miss Graham, teacher In an English mission at Harpout, joined ths Mar dlganlan family hoping that her statue as a British subject would command protection She was Mi culed and ultimately Was sold ftntet slavery with Aurora for eighty asven cents.

At tha desert a edge tha man i were separatea irom the girls and women They ware naver aeen agsln A smouldering ruin where. In the morning had stood a barn, was their two daya of wicrrr tg an lOas Turks, and Aurora, her sister and miss uranam were captured Kurds, roving desert bandits rhey Warn takan tft tha iWmn Vfiiaa Uav Kurdish chleftan cruel beyond belief. I no sow tnem to Kenmei Errendi. a. Turkish chief Thla waa tha beginning of tortures and terrors arrester tha A any bat Auroa Mardlaanlan waa bartered an it sold shs psssed from harem to harem, cringing beaten, taunted to freniy while round her by the thouaanda died girls whose minds snapped unocr ins isan or TurKisn cruelty At laat a ahadow of her lUmt aelf and tha sols survivor of iOO glrla who had entered the deswtJ miraculous sscape and reached air American consulate.

From her Una cams ths world first real knowledge Wero torn from their hands nno so 11 conunuea, ver ine Turkish damand that Allah be oepted In ths place of Ood that Mo hammed supercede Christ And. as often, ths Armenian refusal to yield a Chriitlsn souL Girls wsra ravished. branded whipped sold as slaves, even crucified Mothers were torn from their children, their blood spilled upon ths burnlna desert. Fathers were brutally bereft of their families, burntd, dismembered And all for the aaks of Christianity against tha peakabia religion with which tha Hun had allied himself Verity the ravishment of Armenia has been tha aupreme tr al of vll Christianity Consequently a motion picture inepireu with tna nign pur pose of recording exactly and rev erently th a startling crime agatnat the church and against the Christian world must have a place of first la terest In the minds of Intelligent and progressive Christian 0NE.0I. HARQLDL There was one Instance of comedy routlns when Harold Lloyd was willing to admit that he dldn even ge doing "location work In a email southern California hamlet called El Monte In an Idle moment Mr Lloyd tried his hand at "kidding one of that natives who was sitting on the town hitching rack apparently greatly Interested In tha work of tha camera.

squad. I vs heard that tha cllmat nut healthful down thla way" said the noun star Don yoa believe any auch thin aald the stolid cltlssn. Lok at me; wnen 1 nrsc cams here 1 dldn have) teeth and no hair and couldn I lift own weight look me over Viow 'How Ions hava vou lived he asked the awed leading man. 1 waa Dorn nere, said tha native hi The Only Picture Ever Shown For $10.00 a Seat in America. EXCLUSIVE SHOWING AT THE ORPHEUM A liberal perccnUfa of tha receipt of thu picture will go to the relief of tuBamg Armenia, this percentage to increase with the Increate in attendance.

Daara will epan at 12 Shaw at 1i00, 4l30, 6 15, SlM, t.45. Admittano not aarmlttad la ny uwdaf js yaan a 0a PRCE Ma. Muaia by tha Orphaum Canaait Orohactra Plokatt, Dlraatar Tlad ta tha heraaa at night ta pravant thalp aaapa Turka bartaHng thai, aoaaaaaien. ORPHEUM Pram Har Baok, "RavUhed Armenia" BSBBBBBBB SBBBBBBBsf mlttBBBBl BBBBb SSBBBBBBBBM 'W wSaSBBSJ SBBBBBBBBBbW1 a2aBBV' sVH, SSBBBBBBBBBstL sV BBBBBbV Jfc BTCTJl SSBBBBBBBBBaaTl mMFfc sbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbki e4)ssy) asssssKanejH i bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbK SBBBBBBBBBBBafllaaBBBl isWbHIsI i 1 IMwliWi If 1 jufanl mfl IsSBBBBBBBBBBBaBBBSSBBBBBBBBBBBB rBaaiBBBBBBailHsaeHw 'aBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBkJlli! 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i II 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 mSSptaiaSdsaaLZS BBsdSSSBaHlBBCla9aHBW ajsSBsBr'eBBBBBBBBSi 4ssflKiklLBrfBBaBBBBar BBBBBSaSsSCTVBBBBBBBBBBnWlBaBBBBn ALL WEEK Eight Additional Fan Installed to Add to the Comfort of Our Patron AURORA MARDIGANIAN Aurora and her Engv Itsh eampanlen Miss Oraham Both girls ware aald Inta Turkish harems herself nw' 'SafvidS BSJk yfSil2BBBBBBBBBBBBB. InaBBSSaiSrifaBBBBBW.

JaBBBBBBBBSaKL'' I SBBBBBBSBw, Im DBTaSVBaaaaaSVW jptjsct' vSSfM aV aVlflfr SSF fm rSSTTal t. fSST vsmbvv 9 of SOULS" The Picture That Will Make the Blood of Christian Americana Boil Indorsed bu Cardinal Gibbons and five State Governors end by Thousands of American Women as a Picture Every Man and Woman Should See Mlaa Mardla anlan la tha sol. aurvlvor sf ha.lt a million ChrtatUn Armanlan (Irla Thla (lira aho, tru hfully and without auccaratlon. what aha ana har eomnnlona andurrt durln twe yaara In Turklah hanmi. In tha handa ot Turklah aoldlara and rovlna ol Kurd, bafora ah.

aacaiwd to America, avary Incident vouchad (or by th. Hiitlah lnvllator, Vlacount Bryea and tha American amhaaaador Hanry Morganthau Excerpts from interviews with General Manager Mason after a private showing of Auction of Souls" Every person tntereited in the Armenian race should witne aa tha moving picture. "The Auction of Souls. I The almost unbelievable brutality of the Turks and Kurd toward these peaceful people is portrayed upon th screen in such forcible manner that the sympathies and aid of a Christian nation cannot help but be extended to this abused and outraged race W. S.

CUTSHALL, Mayor. Aa a picture, ttion of Souls mvee one a Wonderful view ot Orients) lif and dress, but the facta of the representation are so amazing that on loei much of the interesting detail. If this were a picture of the ravages of past war it wejH be unnecessary, but th Turk i still wsging his barbarian war ars. He is still filling Ms hareme, and sheltered America o. to be etrong enough to ait in comfortable sest for an hour to se what haa been happening for centuries, Aad th marvel it to think that on may become a part of acruaade atainat the Turk by going to a movie MRS.

A. J. DETZER. Kary adult tn Fort Wayne should sea this remarkable picture "Auction tt loule hava all rid about these Inf.moua outratea but vlauallMtion en th. makes on.

nd.r.iand mere Cully Iba horror or tha persecutions ot lbe Arm.ntane by tha Turk, and or th.ir dlrs need a immediate r.11,1 MRS NOBLE.