Valdez daily prospector., 1916-01-27
MARY PICKFORD IN
 1.-THE EAGLES MATE


 the Paramount feature "The Eagles Mate," vitally gripping drama of the mountain country, abounding in honest, exquisite and poignant thrills, written by Anna Alice Chaplin, Mary Pickford portrays the delightfully."- fascinating character of little Ane- none, a dainty slip of beauty, ador- ably girlish, tantelizingly wilful, gloriously feminine. From her peace full little valley home, Anemone rises to great heights, and in the stress of that mounting, realizes the earnest self-sacrifice for love, that later re- suits in the full accomplishment of her womanhood.
 The Mornes of Virginia are law less mountain clan, strong, fierce folk, scornful of any law save that writ large in their own hearts. They dwell on a nearly inaccessible peak, called the Eagles Eyrie, and because of their crasgy abode and fierce nat ures, are called the Eagles" Lancer, son of the leader, has been sent to college by Anemone's aunt, Mrs.
 Breckenridge, who is Morne her self, though Anemone, her petted and cherished niece, is ignorant of this
 fact, as are the rest of the towns people. Lancer's father is arrested for moonshining, and Lancer shakes off the shackles of civilization and
 leads the clan to the rescue of his father, joining the Mornes in their
 lawless life in the Eyrie. Fisher Morne, the brutal and uncouth cousin of Lancer, falls in love with Anemone, and being repulsed by her, abducts her and carries her off to the Eagles
 Eyrie. Lancer and Anemone have met and have felt an irresistible attrac- ltion for each other. When Anemone finds Lancer at the Eyrie, she begs him to save her and send her hack to the valley. But with the wild daring of his clan, Lancer tells her that he intends to have her for himself, fights Fsher for her, and conquers. Ane- none marries Lancer to save her aunt from paying the immense ransome Fisher would exact from her return, but tells Lancer she hates him-and finally convinces him that she does. In anger, Lancer replies that he will never speak word of love to her until she asks him to, and they live in the Eyrie as strangers. Fisher shoots Lancer and lays the crime on Anemone. The wounded Lancer de- mands that Anemone return in safety Ito her aunt, declaring she Is innocent. Anemone learns that the sheriff Is leading a posse up to the Eyrie to attack the Mornes, who have been betrayed by the traitor, Fisher, and |she returns to lead the clan against the representative of the law, for she has learned to love Lancer and now longs to be herself considered an Eagle. She reaches the clan in time to warn them, and the baffled posse returns. Anemone's aunt, at the crucial moment, loyal to the Mornes. comes to the Eyrie. shows them thru the action of tho traitor, Fisher, the folly of outlawry and its inevitable end. Lancer, now the acknowledged
 leader, through the sweet influence of the noble little Anemone, recog- nizes the truth of his aunt's words. The Mornes promise no longer to re- bel against the state. Lancer and his bride begin their honeymoon in the Eyrie and Anemone is at last truly happy as the Eagles mate. !,
 At the Empress theatre tonight, Friday night. and Saturday night. oabsssiss for the Prospsesos.