East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-08-17


Caprice Of the Mountains is a
William Fox photodrama with new
features, but true to the Fox type of
master film In II are featured June
Caprice, the new discovery in film
land, and Harry S. Hilliard, tho
handsome and talented leading man
Of other Fox films The charming
story OF Caprices film drama runs
as follows:
Caprice Talbert Miss Caprlce)
lives with her father. Dave Joel
Day }, a mountaineer, in a rough hut
on the mountain. Tim Baker (Rich-
ard Hale, youth, also of the noun
tains, Is in love with Caprice. Taking
for granted that his daughter win
marry Tim, Dave proposes to Tins
sister. Maria UIsle Leigh. shrew.
Nearby James Edmunds (Albert
Gram, venerable artist, has a
mountain retreat. lie has become
warm friend Of little Caprice ana
she goes to him as the only one who
understands her moods. Maria ana
Dave, Caprices father, are married
Within a few days after her installa-
tion In her new home Maria succeeds
in making Caprice utterly miserable
She also Is extremely jealous of the
love her father bears her After re-
peated ill-treatment, Caprice decides
TO run away from home,
On the road she meets a gay auto.
mobile party, engineered by young
Jack Edmunds (Mr. Hilliard).
grandson OF the artist, who is ac-
companied by several members Of
fast city set, They stop to ask di-
rections Of Caprice; the road they in
quire about she calls The Road to
Nowhere" which causes much merri-
ment. One Of the men named Deane
makes advances to her and is stopped
by Jack. Finding that the time has
flown so rapidly that 1t will be i'm
possible to stop at his grandfather
retreat, Jack gives Caprice a bundle
and asks her to deliver 1t to his grand
father with a message.
Caprice takes the package ia Ed
munds and in answer to his curious
questioning reveals the fact that sho
is about to run away on account Of
her step-mother's cruelty She has
always had fancy that wonders lie
beyond the mountains, TO dispel this
idea, Edmund tells her fairy story
which proves that just as great beau
ties lie at hand as In the distance. He
urges her to return home
Mrs. Moraine. a woman of forty,
makes play for Jack Disguised,
he decides to give up his old life for
the time and go to his grandfather's
mountain home for a hunting trip.
Tim, the coarse mountaineer tries
to force his attentions upon Caprice.
In this he is aided and abetted by
his step-mother Terrified, she at
tempts second escape ON the day
that Jack arrives at mis- grandfather's
home.
Pressure is brought to bear and
= hllltt is hhbub ~ bf lNlN'h llA' -
marriage with Tim, IN the mean
time she has been meeting Jack
whom she considers a fairy prince,
The night of the wedding arrives,
Her horror Of the man she is about
to marry becomes so intense that
while the wedding guests are assem-
bling down stairs, she slips out OF
the house and with her beloved doll
makes her way to Jacks, When she
is missed her father Immediately sus-
poets Jack with whom he has had
an alteration before. He and Tim,
together with many OF the men guests
go to the bungalow. where they find
Caprice asleep in the bed with her
doll A few minutes later. Jack
comes in to face the angry mob The
upshot of the matter is that her
father casts her Off and places her
in Jacks hands.
The next morning, early, Caprice